A Different Take on the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Paris / Mockery of the Last Supper

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Hello, just wanted to do one more video about the Paris Olympics and how they mocked the

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Last Supper. Of course, you know that the Last Supper is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, but it does reflect or, you know, it's based on a biblical event where Jesus and his disciples, they sat down to eat the

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Passover and that's when Jesus in the Gospels, he changed the Passover meal to the

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Lord's Supper. In 1 Corinthians 11, the Apostle Paul says that this is a time where Christians are to examine themselves and then they are to partake.

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So the word communion, because we call the Lord's Supper, we also call it communion.

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Communion means fellowship. This is a time to come together as a church. Okay, that's where you take communion as a church.

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We come together and we have, we celebrate and enjoy our fellowship with God and with one another.

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That's what the Lord's Supper is all about. So here's the thing. I just want to flip the script a little bit.

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Okay. There's a lot of believers, a lot of professing Christians that are upset at what happened in Paris and rightfully so.

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It's true. The heathen, the pagans, they don't care about the Lord's Supper. They can mock it all day long.

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They did mock it. Okay. They don't care about that. But my question is, how much do we care about the

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Lord's Supper as believers? I would just ask this, when is the last time you've taken the

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Lord's Supper? And I don't mean this as a rebuke, although if the shoe fits, wear it,

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I suppose. But a lot of Christians, a lot of professing believers out there, I mean, first of all, of all the professing

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Christians in America, a lot of people don't even go to church. So if you're not going to church, you're not partaking in the

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Lord's Supper because it's an ordinance of the church. An ordinance is something that Jesus Christ ordained.

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He said to his followers, do this, do it. It's like a commandment. Do this in remembrance of me.

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So if people aren't even going to church, then they're obviously not partaking in the Lord's Supper because it's an ordinance of the church.

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But even if people do go to church, some churches have communion once a week, once a month, once every other month, once a quarter, some once a year.

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If your church does it once in a while and you miss that Sunday, I suspect there's a lot of people watching, you can't even remember the last time that you've partaken of the

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Lord's Supper. So what I'm saying is, instead of being so upset about the pagans and what they're doing, we should examine ourselves.

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This is what communion is all about. We should examine ourselves in our practice and say, do

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I care about the Lord's Supper? See, when the Apostle Paul wrote, because we always, when we celebrate the

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Lord's Supper, which we're doing that this Sunday at Moores Corner Church. So I'd say be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

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Be in church on Sunday. It's the first Sunday of the month. There's a good chance your local church is going to be celebrating the

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Lord's Supper this Sunday. So be there, be a blessing, partake. Show the world that you actually care about this.

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You're not just upset at what they did in Paris. You care yourself, so you're going to be there and partake.

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That'd be the best thing to do. The best way to counter a pagan culture is with a strong church.

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So be there, but yeah, show people that you care. But Paul wrote in 1

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Corinthians 11, this is the passage we always use when we do communion. He wrote to the church and told them how to approach it, what the

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Lord's Supper is all about, examine yourselves, all the rest. And it just dawned on me with the letter to the

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Corinthians, Paul is really not rebuking the pagan culture in Corinth. He's not rebuking the

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Corinthians. He's not admonishing the unbelievers in society because they're doing all this evil stuff.

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He wasn't happy about it, but I mean, unbelievers do what unbelievers do. Paul is writing to admonish the church because they were not really valuing communion.

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It's supposed to be a time where believers come together in unity and the Corinthian church was divided and they had this, it was basically a hypocritical act to come together supposedly in unity when they were all fighting with one another.

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So he was admonishing the church. So if that's a way to look at this video as, you know,

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I did the last video rebuking what they did in Paris and it needs to be rebuked, absolutely.

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But this is more admonishing the church. We can be upset that they mocked the

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Lord's Supper and we should be. I think we should be, but let's show that we actually care about the

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Lord's Supper. So again, this Sunday, probably your church is going to be holding a communion this

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Sunday. So be there. Be a blessing. Again, the best way to counter a pagan culture is with a strong church.