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Now I want you to pay attention. It wasn't anything in Israel wasn't their military size.
We're gonna be in 1st Corinthians chapter 11. 1st Corinthians Chapter 11 and I won't take too much of your time. I won't take too much of your time this morning because we are doing the Lord's Supper today now.
For some of you you have no idea what that means. You don't have any idea what that means and I'm just gonna take a second to kind of explain it to you Dalty these much more. Because God gave a warning about it and I would not be doing my job if I didn't pass that on to you.
It's important because a lot of folks Take this as a church medium. It's a Ordinance of the church guys. This ain't no ordinance. All right. This is something holy and sacred and set apart and Understand what holiness means now y 'all listen up understand what holiness means holiness is simply a Separation.
The Greek word agadizo Means something specifically set apart for a specific service in other words like some of you chicks are wearing dresses today. You can wear that dress that pretty dress you got on you can wear that dress to work.
Couldn't you do you could you could wear it out to eat with a husband or a boyfriend? Which one you got? You got both. Let's me and you talk. We're gonna need a chat. Is that it baby you you get better.
You can get better. You got you can wear a dress to a lot of different places. But if I said a wedding dress, it's still a dress, but it's a dress for a specific thing. When we are born again as children of God, we are holy.
It doesn't mean we're perfect. I don't know about you, but I still struggle with a lot of things. It means that I have been separated from a lost and dying world. Into the child and the kingdom of God to serve and that's something churches forgot today.
Now for you godless heathens out there for you atheists or you people that don't believe in Jesus. If you'll give me just a second to talk to my brothers and sisters and I'll get right back to you. Okay, I'll get right back to you.
But I want to talk to you people who are Christians this morning just for a second just for a second. Guys We have. Over the years over the centuries we have done really good in some things and we've done really bad.
And God has called us to task several times in history through his Spankings and his actually some of his butt kickings to get us back right with God. And I want to talk to you about a few things now in the passages.
I'm reading from and good hermeneutics. It's perfect because Paul is addressing to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He is addressing the whole idea of Lord's Supper. But it is a culminating event in which he is taking the church to task.
Before and as they're doing the Lord's Supper. So if you read with me 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verse 17. But in the following instructions, I do not commend you. Smile. Jesus loves you. What would Jesus do and all that other church bull is not found in Scripture.
But how we need to examines ourselves is because when you come together it is not for the better. But for the worst for in the first place when you come together as a church I hear that there are divisions among you and I believe it in part for there must be Factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.
When you come together It is not the Lord's Supper that you eat for in eating each one goes ahead with his own meal. While one goes hungry and another one gets drunk. What do you not have houses to eat and drink in or do you despise the Church of God and?
Humiliate those who have nothing. What shall I say to you? I shall not commend you in this. No, I will not am I ask you to skip to verse 27. Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks a cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner Will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.
Let a person examine himself and then so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For if anyone eats or drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment to himself. That is why so many of you are weak and ill and some of you have died.
But if we judged ourselves truly we would not be judged. Guys. Don't you hate those fags. Seriously, I mean don't you hate them those transvestite. No not true. What are they called? Transsexuals don't you hate them.
Don't you hate them. Don't you hate them? You shouldn't. Guys here's the first thing you need to remember. If you are going to come to the Lord's table this morning. And you have a brother and sister in Christ who is doing something that you don't like.
You need to make sure you have a humble attitude. And you don't have a division if you come to this table this table this morning, and you say well I don't cuss. I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't have tattoos which around here.
We got about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of ink in this room, but I Don't cuss smoke or drink, and I don't have tattoos, so I'm good to go. I gave money to the church I showed up for Sunday school.
I'm a really good person you are the individual that scripture is addressing this morning, and I tell you that not to be. Fussing at you. I'm telling you that as a warning because you're drinking and eating unto yourself.
Condemnation and men listen to me. Oh by the way happy Father's Day, but men listen to me listen to me on this. How you go will be how your family follows, okay? When you back it up a trailer are you moving a trailer don't blame the trailer when you'd pop the curve.
It's because you didn't turn right that trailer will follow the prime mover and husbands and for you liberal women in here I'm sorry this is gonna hurt your feelings. But according to God's Word the husband is the head of the house and where you go that trailer will follow.
Okay, don't quit blaming the world. For the failures of your children men if your influence is so weak on the spiritual level. That eight hours at school overrides your one hour at home. You're doing something wrong.
It ain't Madonna's fault or drugs fault or whoever I just aged myself didn't I. It ain't them people's fault it falls on you. So happy Father's Day and get to work and start being one yeah. Listen to what it says there are divisions among you.
How many you in here UT fans? Huh come on. Tammy Tammy come on raise a hand girl come on. She comes to me all the time singing rocky top. Don't let her lie to you. That's stupid easy right. I mean that's stupid II that ain't a big thing.
But how many of you sit there and go? Can y 'all think of a person in this church? That's hard to love. I can I. Can they're hard to love you know what I mean? They don't have what we like to call the social skills, okay?
That's me. I don't. I don't have them not that much anyways, but there are people that just get on your last nerve. Here's what there's one. Listen to me. Here's God's command for you. You are to love them as you love yourself.
Anything less you're in sin. Oh. Well, she's an adulterer. She's a prostitute or a crack-smoking whore or something else. Okay. You're in as bad a sin as anybody else. I Don't care if you're in this room today.
It's Witten will always be a place where everyone's welcome. I don't care if you're a homosexual. I don't care if you're a trans whatever. They're called. I don't care about that what. I don't care if you're black white.
We even take Mexicans in this joint. The Guada the Guadalajara, what are you? Guatemalans we even take them. Someone's got to do the hard work guys. Everyone is welcome in this place, and I'm gonna tell you why.
I'm gonna tell you why. Because I am a licensed ordained senior pastor of 30-something years and the same Spirit of God is in me. It's the same Spirit of God's in every other person, and I don't care how you faltered.
I don't care how you failed. You are my brother and sister in Christ, and it is my job to help you move forward, okay? I ain't no better than you and you ain't no worse than me. Especially if you choose you take all right, so no divisions.
Here's the second thing selfishness. Listen to verse 21. For in eating each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry and another is drunk. Church Christians you know you got all the Bible verses up on the wall, but you don't know none of them.
Okay. I'm talking to you. Okay. You care more about you and the people in your concentric circle than you do anybody else. I Hate selfishness when my five I had five kids and when they were growing up I trained if you go to McDonald's and get something to eat you better bring something for everybody else.
You better bring because if you sitting there eating your McDonald's french fries and your brother sitting there going I want some. I'm gonna smack him up out of your hand. I Trained my kids boys when your sister your wife comes to the dinner table man.
You're to stand up you think of yourself less. Boys don't put a bite of food in your mouth until your mama has taken a bite. You see what we have failed to do the entitlement that is permeating our culture.
Which the culture is permeating the church? There's no difference between us anymore. Oh, we'll sing a couple of praise songs glory hallelujah.
But we act like godless heathens and wonder why the world calls us hypocrites. We earned it.
We earned it by the way if you don't go to church because the hypocrites come on one more won't matter. Alright come on one more won't matter. We can absorb your butt. Listen to me. Selfishness is Disgusting.
And when you have a spoiled child that thinks of themselves. Only they didn't learn it from school. Mom and dad guess where they learned it from. You know I've actually had parents. I asked him how did your kid learn to talk and they say they learned at school.
Really your kid didn't talk to the first Grade. Now they learned it from you. They learned it from you guys. Don't be selfish. Here's the next thing there. Look at verse. Look at verse 22. It says this.
Do you not have houses to eat and drink or do you despise listen to this word? Do you despise the church of God and Humiliate those that have nothing by the way how many churches in the world are there?
Right how many races of people are there that's right. German Shepherd and poodle they're both dogs, right? There is only in the Bible Ecclesia. There's only one church. It has many local bodies, but there's only one church.
God ain't coming back for the Baptists. Okay, some of y 'all gonna have to stress about that. God ain't coming back from the Pentecostals. God ain't coming back for the cares. He coming back for his people's.
Right now listen. It says do you despise the Church of God? How do you despise the Church of God not by smoking a joint last night? You despise the Church of God by humiliating your brother and sister in Christ.
How do we humiliate people right. I'd be like you know my wife has a shirt just like that. You know I could say that. I could say you know Artie and Jerry at the deer hunting club. You know I wake up.
Find them snuggling together because it's called. I could say that but I'm not going to because I don't want to embarrass Jerry. I Could say a lot of things to humiliate you. But the thing that God is specifically talking about here is when you humiliate Someone else as a brother and sister in Christ to make them feel less than.
Make them feel less than how many look look at this boy over here, man. He got like braids in his hair in my day. The only people who wore braids were women right. This boy over here got braids in his head.
So I saw one of the black guys a minute ago look like a dead tarantula was on his head. Got the little Little whatever those things are called that that's not what it's talking about. Here's what it's talking about listen to me church.
I'm so much of a better Christian than you. I Am so perfect and you are so pathetic. You are not worthy to stand in my presence. That's the humiliation. It's talking about it's talking about looking at people like this pretty girl.
I ain't gonna say nothing about you because you too cute, but I'm gonna say something about thuglicious right here, man. He got tattoos on his arm. He thuglicious man look at him. Me making him feel less than because of how he looks or how he acts.
Instead of loving him for where he's at and showing him the same grace that God saved you is a humiliation that makes you unworthy. To take this table. Now Christian listen to me it ain't talked about whether you had a beer last night.
It didn't talk about whether you had your quiet time or your devotion this morning with your little Baptist folding pin. You know with your coffee cup says smile. I loved it ain't talking about that. It's talking about how you treat your family is how you despise the Church of God last one watch this last one verse 29.
For if anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on themself. Sooner come I it means five times to come together. It just hit me right now come together, right? Come together five times in those four verses.
I just read it says come together the definitive action of a church. Is that we love God and do we love each other? Every Jesus said everything is wrapped up into those two things. Well pastor. I'm not doing this right and pastor.
I'm not doing this right, so I'm unworthy. Do you love God with all your heart with all you saw you all your mind? And do you love please sign your fellow brother and sister in Christ? Do you love them as yourself?
Yeah, I'm on the struggle bus. That's my grandson. That's a boy. How you gonna be a DN right there? I truly love my brother and sister in Christ, then you are worthy. Then you are worthy now listen you say well pastor.
I'm a drug addict. Okay. Repented that didn't take the Lord's Supper well pastor. How do I do that make up your decision in your mind to stop it? Stop it, okay pastor. I Was thinking something bad about Mary this morning.
She was mean to me, and I got some then before you take the Lord's Supper. Walk your little Baptist rear end up to Mary and let's do something different. Let's humble ourselves ask for her forgiveness get in a right relationship.
Then go take the table say the altar here usually is for people who need Jesus. News flash for you church. You're one of them. When's the last time you went to the altar now? I know some of you visitors in here going good.
God. This is weird, right? It's cause it's called truth and too many people are staying smile Jesus love you like Joel Osteen or and them other folks to try to get money. I don't want your money. I don't want your church membership.
I don't really care if I ever see you again, right? Here's what I want. I want to stand before God one day and him go well done now good and faithful Servant you did what you were supposed to do. I'm here to please God not man, okay?
So let me ask you a question. Are you ready to take the Lord's Supper now? We're gonna have an invitation time. Okay, and what that means is you need to get right husband's wives. Especially you church people if you were in the car coming here this morning and y 'all were arguing like two drunks at three o 'clock in The morning in a bar and then you got out the car like hey smile.
Jesus loves you. I'm so good to see you. I'm pray for you all that other church garbage. You two need to get right before you take the Lord's Supper to table. You know why it's so awkward to pray with your wife at night.
You know why it's so awkward to read the Bible because you live in a veneer lifestyle of Christianity and God is calling you to true holiness and it can start today. Well pastor, I prayed the prayer pastor.
I've tried pastor. I've done this great man up realize. You got a spine in your back and try again. Failure doesn't mean you have faltered failure means you stop trying. Man up and get it done now for you people that aren't Christians in here.
First of all, I want to address the intellectual elites in here. If you're one of those keyboard warriors, you know Christians are so stupid, you know because we were all evolved. I Got a bet for you.
Okay, bring your little skippy butt to my office. I'll have a thousand dollars in cash and if you can prove to me, there is no God. I will give you that thousand dollars. I will burn that Bible. I'll never enter this place again.
Come on and bring your lunch. Okay. You say well and guys, I'm a high school dropout. I'm a high school dropout. I have no education right. Bring it. Okay, bring it. Number two if you're one of those people that you have the desire to have the desire because you know, you're missing something.
But you don't understand what it really is. You're missing but the whole church thing is weak making you weird and you can't figure it out. It's cool, it's cool same grace that saved me is the same grace.
He'll save you. Okay, Jesus Christ is right here in this room and I ain't talking about some ethereal plane like Casper the ghost I'm talking about in real life. Quit taking a blue pill take a red one and figure out that God does love you and he wants to save you.
For those of you in this room that you've done this three o 'clock at night. Preachers on the TV. Sit there and gone. Oh god, that's me. And he says right now. Hey, bye bow your head. Close your eyes and pray this prayer.
There days is coming my heart and save me and you've prayed that prayer 437 times. Okay, because you cannot believe that God can actually save you. Because you are so less than how many times you pray Jesus Christ in your heart.
Thousand here's why you have to keep doing it because you're listening to religion rather than Scripture. Religion nowhere in Scripture. Does it say to pray Jesus Christ into your heart? Nowhere. Doesn't say it anywhere.
Nowhere in Scripture. Does it say like Jesus some little Labrador puppy? Come on come into my heart and save me. Doesn't say that it says repent. Now here's the bad news for you. Are you willing to give up everything in your life and follow Christ now pastor?
I'm not then you ain't ready yet. Now I know that sounds weird coming from a preacher because they just want everybody to come. I don't I ain't a salesman. I ain't here to talk you into heaven. I'm here to share the Word of God with you.
First word out of Jesus mouth was repent for the kingdom of God is at hand if you're in this room this morning. And you are not willing to give it up for Jesus Christ. You are not ready to be a Christian well pastor when I was in youth camp.
There was you know some hippie dude and sandals singing a song and I was crying everybody was crying. And I gave my life to Jesus, and I think I do anything change. The anything change well no 2nd Corinthians 5 17 if any man be in Christ.
He is a New old things that passed away behold all become new. You want to know what your salvation is quit listening to your feelings because let me tell you as a pastor. There are days. I don't feel like a Christian.
Okay. You know what I'm saying my wife is all up in my ear, right? She's on the phone. She has one question for me 45 minutes later. As I'm driving down Germantown Road in rush hour Christian right that was my wife by the way.
Go made me a sandwich. Yes. I don't feel like a Christian right. But I am not because of what I have done. But because what he has done and because of my submission to that we have made Christianity way too complicated.
It's real simple. I Choose to now die so that Christ becomes my Lord if you want to be a Christian. This is not a church. It's a freaking gymnasium. This is the church if you as a person what I need to know that I'm going to heaven.
I Can't save you a church can't save you all religion all of it including Baptist is bullcrap. Forget it all this Romans 10 17 for faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. It is the Word of God.
It'll set you free. Everything else uses guilt and God does not use guilt. He uses conviction. If you need to be set free from that religious guilt or if you need to be set free from your power of the sin.
Over you I'm gonna ask you to come down here. And we got some pastors that love to show you in the word. Where you can be set free if you're in this room, and you're a believer. But you need to get your heart right before we do this come on.
Let me pray with you if you need to make it right with someone else gone to them before you come down here. In other words, let's do this for the next five minutes. All right. Let's get our hearts and minds right with God and with each other.
Then we're gonna be able to do this without with God's blessing on us, okay? So wherever you are today, wherever you are today, I ask you to do something different than you've been doing. Reverence is not still in silence.
No time in Scripture. Do you ever see the reverence of God celebrated with nothing? Pure reverence and obedience to God is Submission which takes movement. Where are you today Christians? When's the last time you've been down to the altar?
When's the last time you grabbed someone said come pray with me. I'm struggling with pornography. I'm struggling with this. I'm struggling with that. When's the last time guys if you're an addict in here.
I got about 40 of them in here in recovery. Okay, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an ex something in here. All right now listen if you're struggling with something and you need some help with that.
We got people we got people to help you with pornography if your marriage is a jacked up. We got folks for that. I don't care if you're a. What's the politically homosexual if you're one of them we got people for that.
Okay, I bust them in. Artie is sitting right over there. And so Wherever you're at today, you're welcome. Let's do some work for God. I'm gonna ask whoever has to do this up here to come do this. There's she here miss Carla.
I want you people to stand and let's go to work. Let's get right with God before we do this Lord's Supper. Let's go.