68 - Ordinances of the Church, Part 2 | Correct mode of Baptism | Lord's Table

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So we are in our lesson this week of lesson number four the ordinances of church.

I should have fixed that slide should say ordinances of church not church government.

Yeah, would've been helpful if I fixed it from last week.

All right.

Yeah, my bad.

I forgot.

Yeah.

All right.

So we looked at what the definition of an ordinance was and in that we mentioned that an ordinance is a is commanded

by God it is Something that we see it presents a salvation truth.

It is something that was practiced by the early church and it was confirmed by in the epistles.

And so we started to look at those and we looked at the first one, which was baptism and we looked at

baptism.

And we talked about the fact that it was mandated.

We see it commanded it by Christ Matthew 28 19 we saw that it symbolized

the salvation.

Romans 6 1 through 6 we saw that it was practiced in the early church a whole lot of verses

there.

And we talked about the fact that it's confirmed in the epistles and we started to get into the

incorrect views of Baptism now I mentioned about a couple

of them one being a sacrament being the Roman Catholic Church's view that it removes original sin

and so we said that was incorrect, but there's also the Sacrament that we said

that is you know, we understand and is not a wrong one so when if you think that

the sacrament erases original sin and adds grace as far as meriting favor.

Okay, that's different than what the Reformed churches do where they say it's a sacrament adding grace in

other words part of our sanctification process and so They would see that as a

grace that's added but not the grace that's meriting salvation and that's the difference

between the Roman Catholic view and the Reformed view.

We said there's some churches like Church of Christ that teach that it's washes away sin.

They said that wouldn't be appropriate either.

The baptism doesn't actually wash away the sin because baptism is something that is done.

After a person becomes a believer and therefore baptism doesn't save it doesn't regenerate us

there are some people that that try to teach that and we went into in the last class the importance of why is

it that baptism was so Important and people read the New Testament outside of its historical

context and tend to think that Baptism is synonymous with salvation and therefore you must be

baptized to be saved.

That's a mistake.

Baptism is synonymous very often in the New Testament with Salvation in the

early part of the early church.

We don't see that so much later in the later writings.

Why what makes the difference what made the difference?

Was that in the first century when a Jewish person got baptized it was a major issue and because it was such a

big deal.

They ended up See, you know, they ended up seeing that

Baptism was a great way of seeing if someone really was saved.

I mean they had to count the cost before him being baptized.

Then it's lost that Incentive now, so we also talked about it being you know.

An incorrect view is when people see it necessary for salvation and I understand and it

Shouldn't be denied that in the first century baptism was a major thing and you see it being very

significant.

Very significant with the teaching as far as salvation.

So the issue becomes one that we have to realize as we're discussing baptism.

That the issue of baptism was important because it was a great measure to see whether

someone is Regenerate to see whether actually in the faith.

They weren't willing to get baptized if they weren't really Christians.

That's you know.

When it carries a death toll or a heavy price people will wait will wait until they're

really back.

To really sure, you know, so they really regenerate then they'll get baptized.

They won't do it if they're a fake convert, you know, usually if it has a heavy consequence to it.

So those are the incorrect ways.

So let's get to the correct ways.

So the correct model.

Is that you know now I'm differing from our reformed brothers who would say that they can

in the covenantal churches or Reformed churches where they're gonna see baptism as a

sacrament not and okay.

And I'm trying to clarify not adding grace that saves but they believe that it adds grace in the

sanctification process very different but I Believe and so I've you know, if

there's the reformed brethren that believe that that's fine I just I believe that it was a symbol.

I believe that is why I believe it's an ordinance and not a sacrament.

I think it's an a symbol and of.

That's best pictured by immersion, okay.

So one reason why I think it's immersion and so now my Presbyterian friends and others are going

wait a minute.

Let's listen to it and hear it through.

Okay, so the word baptism.

Oh means.

Well, we're gonna get into that actually we're gonna get into the mood.

So let's just look at what it pictures Romans 6 3 and so you'll see why I say immersion,

you know that that this truth.

We're baptized first into the body of Christ and we see this I think best pictured in immersion.

But if you look at it.

Do you not know that all of us that have been baptized into Christ were baptized into his death?

So I think immersion shows that the best when you're laying down fully underwater is the picture of death

we were.

Then you see in.

Well, this is a better one part of yes, thank you three and four.

So we're if you look in verse four, we were Romans 3 4 we were buried therefore

with him by baptism into death in order that just as

Christ was raised from the dead in By the glory of the Father we too might walk in

news of life.

And so you see here the idea that we have is is the the death and the burial and the resurrection.

Pictured in the baptism by being laid under the water.

That's the burial right being resurrected.

So, you know, that's the picture of the old life being buried being dead being buried

being rose risen again into new life.

Verse 5 of that same passage Romans 6 5 says for we have been united to him by death.

That we should certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his so there what I'm

seeing is that we see that the Resurrection, it's symbolized.

So you see that in this we see the death the burial the resurrection being similar

symbolized in Baptism and I think what best pictures that like I said is immersion.

I'm gonna get into different modes and why I say that a little bit stronger.

Shall we say but I'm also gonna explain where some of the other views why they came up with that and things like that.

So hold off on on some of that and we'll get to it the identification.

In the early church to be baptized by immersion was an act of identification.

With the person of Jesus Christ into a Jewish culture.

That's an issue to a Gentile culture.

It wasn't as much until Nero when it became illegal.

So if Christianity is illegal then it counts again, right it being makes it more important.

That's why I say it's it's an important issue in the in the Middle East today.

Where people in the Middle East are losing their lives because of the fact that they're being baptized.

So, let's look at the mode, okay.

When we look at the mode, this is where I was saying as far as the differences we see.

Some differing views and I'm saying they're erroneous.

Sorry, but if you disagree with me, then maybe you think my view is erroneous and that's fine.

I'm okay with that, right?

So we have differing views.

So the the two that come up is that first and foremost is sprinkling and pouring.

Now in the first century, we actually don't see Sprinkling and pouring we see it's

by immersion.

Except according to the didachae the didachae was an ancient document that we have was kind of like an instruction manual

for the church how to run church and in the didachae it seems to make exception in desert areas

for pouring and.

And so people would pour if they didn't have enough water and that would you know.

They would they would accept that in those areas.

But the really it seems that the goal was to do it by immersion now the issue being

Baptism was done for believers and by the way to my Baptist friends that

would argue that Presbyterians don't believe in believers baptism you're

wrong.

Okay Presbyterians believe that when an adult gets baptized.

Adult becomes a believer in Christ.

They should be baptized.

Okay, they believe in a believers baptism.

Yes, they will still sprinkle.

And there's a different idea there of what the baptism symbolizes.

So remember I'm saying it's an ordinance.

So it's going to symbolize the death burial and resurrection.

Others are going to sprinkle.

Because it's going to symbolize the washing away of sin.

So based on that picture where I just said that it's a symbol of Beth death burial resurrection based in

Romans 6.

That's why I think Immersion is the best picture of it.

If you're a Presbyterian you're gonna have a different view of what it's symbolizing.

So it's if it's gonna symbolize and it's symbolizing.

It's not actually washing away the sin.

It's symbolizing the washing away of sin.

Then sprinkling becomes the example because that would symbolize what would happen in the Old

Testament with the offering of the sprinkling of blood as As this sacrifice so you see

there's it's it comes down to what is it going to symbolize?

So this is a thing that some of the my Baptist friends need to realize is.

They're gonna argue That the Presbyterians have it

wrong.

Because sprinkling doesn't represent what we read in Romans 6, but that's okay.

That's not what they were trying to represent.

Okay, they're representing the washing away of sin now notice I'm

saying it's symbolizing that right because we already said that baptism doesn't actually wash

away sin because You first have to be a believer and you say but wait a minute.

What about those children that Get there's sprinkled and they're baptized as

infants and this is where it came out.

As the Roman Catholic Church had to you know started up went after Constantine said, okay.

We're all we're all Christian and He just made it part of the Roman Empire.

And now you start seeing this this Basically unbelievers who are now part of the church.

Okay and it became very profitable to be in the church leadership and so it became because the

Emperor was helping to fund it and giving you a nice salary and therefore a lot of people who

were unbelievers Decided it would be a nice cushy way of making a living.

So what did they do they got into the church and so they weren't looking to handle it always the best.

Okay, so we just have to be aware of that.

There were there were genuine believers as well, but We see hierarchy structures start.

We see doctrines start forming.

One of the doctrines that formed was that they saw circumcision in the Old Testament.

They saw the baptism as the New Testament sign and circumcision was for children of eight days old.

Maybe circumcision, you know.

Baptism should be the same and over time it started to teach they started teaching that baptism would

wash away sin.

Original sin and so with that it went from washing away sins to washing away original sin.

Well, if you're gonna do that, you should do it as early as possible.

We should wash away the sins of children.

Well now you're gonna want to not be baptizing them by immersion because well, that wouldn't be good.

So what do you do?

Well, you'd start sprinkling and and so over time.

I think this is how some of these things developed so now if you

baptize by sprinkling.

Does that mean your baptism doesn't count?

No, I'm not saying that.

Okay, I believe that the best and proper mode of baptism would be by immersion.

That's what the word mean baptismal means to dip or to plunge.

I would go to where John the Baptist was baptizing and others and they needed much water.

Why would they need much water if they're just pouring you don't?

And so I think that what you see is the idea that You have

to ask the question.

What is it representing?

Okay.

Now I'm basing it on a text of Scripture and that's Romans 6 and

that's why I lean toward the way that I do it is Incorrect to attack the

Presbyterians based on an incorrect view of their view

of what baptism Symbolizes they have a different thing.

It's symbolizing and in that is the difference now they're gonna get into seeing that the covenant

is.

That's a covenantal sign and therefore they would baptize children because they're bringing them into the

family covenant.

Okay, I I true.

I believe that from the Old Testament Jeremiah 31 is equal 2526 that the New Covenant was

individual and not to the family and therefore It was this Holy the sign of the believer in the

New Covenant is the Holy Spirit indwelling a person.

All right a third view I won't get to this one this one's not as popular.

So but I do want to mention an in and does it and this I'd have a stronger issue.

Maybe with an incorrect view or an incorrect mode of baptism.

That is the triune immersion the this is

so why this type of Immersion I think is incorrect is because this

Incorrectly pit has an incorrect picture of the Trinity what they do and try in a it's basically Immerse

you three times.

This would be a Church of Christ that would do this and they had immersed you three times once for the Father once for the Son

once for the Holy Spirit and That's a incorrect view of the the Trinity being that there are three

separate gods or it's three separate.

You know, there are three persons, but it's one God were baptized into the name Father Son Holy Spirit not

names father son Holy Spirit you see a difference.

So we get baptized once in in do we have a Matthew 28 19?

Yes, let's bring that up.

So you can see here that we go therefore and make disciples of all nations Baptizing them in the

name singular the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

That name is singular.

So we would say that they get baptized once.

All right, I think it incorrectly Incorrectly picture.

It's an a by the way if I didn't say the incorrect picture of the Trinity is your first blank Trinity second blank

incorrectly pictures the Or forementioned truths.

Okay, so it incorrectly pictures.

That's your next blank.

So first is pictures of Trinity second is the picture of the truth that we mentioned above.

It's not picturing the Beth death burial resurrection with Jesus and it's not picturing the washing

away of sin.

Okay, so it doesn't have the picture there.

So what is the correct view in my opinion?

All right is Baptismo as I mentioned means to dip plunge or immerse.

That's your blank there.

I know I know.

It is Christina and Christine's probably having a hard time writing that word immerse in the blank there, isn't she you Presbyterians?

I know I know but look we got to be honest with what the word means.

Why do why do we have the word baptism?

I believe when the translators were translating into English the Anglican Church

would Would sprinkle and not immerse and because of that I think they created a new word for a very simple

reason.

If they translated it to dip or plunge people would say well, then why don't we dip or plunge?

I Think that's why and so I think that there was argument over the the mode and because of that

They created a new English word baptism, oh we do have and or baptism.

We do have an English word for baptism.

Oh, which is to dip or plunge or immerse.

I think if we did that it would save some of the Confusion when it comes to the what we call the baptism of Holy Spirit that were

plunged into the Holy Spirit.

We wouldn't have the issues there.

But I think it's the best one that pictures salvation remember as an ordinance.

That's what I'm saying.

It would be and it is the mode most often used in the first century.

Okay, when we see in the first century acts 8 for example 38 and he commanded the chariot to stop

and when they both went down into the water Philip And the eunuch and he

baptized him.

So what you see there is you see that both of them were involved in going into the water if it was

sprinkling.

He wouldn't have needed to do that.

He just needed to get some water.

And so the thing is I think this is what was practiced and I believe it's what is Symbolized in where

John the Baptist would have gotten his baptism.

His baptism was different because it was before Christ.

So his baptism was actually a Jewish ritual where they would immerse a person into baptism.

That was a Gentile that became a Jew.

So because they were they were becoming Jewish.

They would have this ritual washing and that's what I think John the Baptist was doing.

And so I think that that is a continuation of it.

All right, so I'm saying all that to say that I believe that the right mode or proper mode would be by immersion.

Do I am I gonna make an issue over this?

No, I'm not.

I mean I do realize that many of Our brethren died centuries ago over this

issue.

They died because they were Anna Baptist.

They were re baptizers.

They got baptized after being sprinkled because they wanted to get baptized in the proper mode if people want to do that, that's

fine.

You May have in in a church.

I know I've been part of some churches that say if you're a Presbyterian and You come into the church and you are

baptized as a Presbyterian you had to get re baptized and they would do that to say okay, you

were re baptized because of the fact that you were.

You were baptized now as a You know as a

believer by immersion because it's that's the only way to do it.

I don't make that big of a deal.

I think that if someone is baptized by sprinkling because of what it's symbolizing.

That's that's okay.

They fulfilled the the obedience of it now the difference I would make is I would say they need they should be baptized

as a believer so I recommend people to get re baptized if they were

not baptized as Believers and that would be the difference I would make but I'm not a covenant list.

So I don't believe that baptism is the sign of the Covenant and that's why I would not hold to that I believe the

indwelling Holy Spirit is the sign of the Covenant.

All right, so let's move on to the next ordinance last week I told you that we were gonna look at baptism and We

mentioned the other ordinance was the Lord's Supper.

We said there's some people who make a third ordinance and that third ordinance that they make is Foot

-washing and I don't believe that foot -washing is an ordinance.

I mentioned that last week.

So with that Lord's Supper, why is that?

Why do we look at this one?

Well, let's look at how it was instituted.

It was commanded by Christ.

We see that in Matthew 26 verses 26 and

29 so we see this in Matthew 26

we'll start with verse 26 now as They were eating Jesus

took bread and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples and said take eat.

This is my body.

Okay, so you see there he's commanding them in the future that they should be doing this.

We also see in verse 29 the same chapter.

I tell you I Will not drink again of this fruit of the wine until that day.

When I drink it anew with you in my father's house in the kingdom.

So you see that it was commanded by Christ so that was the first thing right we said an ordinance has to be commanded by

Christ.

Okay.

We see the command.

Well the second thing we said with an ordinance is that it has to Teach or symbolize

a spiritual truth.

Does it do that?

Well again Matthew 26 This is 26 through 28 so we really verse 27 is the

one that we want to focus on and he took up the cup and he He had given thanks and gave it to him

saying drink of it all of you.

So That's not what it really It's.

Well, it's this whole thing.

You know where it's in verse 28 that this is this is my blood for you of a new covenant which is

poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins so the cup of the the

blood the body of Christ is To symbolize that his body was broken on the cross

for us his blood in the wine symbolizes the blood Shed for us for

the forgiveness of sins.

So that's the idea of it now the Here again, we get

into the question.

Is this a sacrament?

Is it an ordinance as a symbol?

I'm saying it's it's an ordinance that only symbolizes Salvation.

Again, we get into the differences with a sacrament the Catholic Church thinking It's a sacrament is adding grace that

merits favor for regeneration.

Okay.

We disagree with that but our reformed brethren will say it's a sacrament.

Meaning in the same way of his baptism that it is not just symbolizing salvation.

But it is adding a grace in your sanctification process.

Okay, so as you partake of the Lord's Supper.

It is something that is adding grace or a work that you're doing to make you more like

Christ.

And and we're gonna get into the fact that there was self -examination that was tied with it.

And therefore it does serve that benefit of people recognizing their sin their need for

forgiveness and and that God forgave them at the cross and Therefore seeing in

a time of reflection remembering back to their salvation.

So baptism you get saved.

It's a one -time thing you get that washing sort of like.

Sort of like in the in the picture that Jesus says with John in John 17 where he says hey I'm gonna wash your

feet and they're like no don't wash my feces.

But if you don't wash you have no part of me.

He's like wash my whole body.

Well, the idea being you wash the whole body and your whole body is that's the baptism sort of like you get saved.

You get that baptism as the picture that you're in our watch, but you need those daily Reminder of what

happened at salvation and that's what I think the Lord's Supper sometimes does so we see that was commanded by Christ.

We see that it was symbolizes a truth of salvation.

Next we see that it was practiced in the early church.

We see this in Acts 2.

We'll see it also in in first Corinthians 11, but let's look at this one here Acts 2 will look just right

now at verse 2 verses 42 to 46 acts 2 verse

42 to 46 and They devoted themselves to the Apostles

teaching and to the fellowship to the breaking of bread and the prayers

and all came upon every soul.

Many wonders and signs were being done through the Apostles and they believed and they who?

They and all who believed were together and Had all things in common

and they were selling their possessions and belongings distributing to the proceeds to all

as had need and Day by day attending the temple together and breaking bread in

their homes.

They received the food generously with their hearts and so some will see this when you see

in in verse 42 and 46 and 42.

It says that they the Apostle the Apostles teaching and the fellowship to the breaking of bread and

prayers in them 46.

It mentions the breaking of bread.

So is our is that the Lord's Supper?

I actually believe in 42 that speaking of the Lord's Supper in 46.

I think it's fellowship.

Breaking a bread was a phrase to basically mean to eat together.

Okay, you'd break bread you'd eat a meal together.

And so with that, I think that what you see is the first one because it's tied to the teaching.

It's tied to things that would go on within the church service.

I think that was the Lord's Supper where the second is a fellowship time.

We also see us in Acts 20 Acts 20 Verses 7 to

11 on the first day of the week when they would gather together to break bread.

So we'll just I'll just stop there.

That points so they'd meet the first day of the week.

This is the church service.

So they're meeting on the week.

They're meeting when they're having church.

And what are they doing there?

They're In their church service.

They're breaking bread now.

They did it every week according to that text and There are some churches that would do that.

They would have Church Lord's Supper every week.

There's some that do it once a month lots of different ways of doing it.

Some do it house to house.

Because they think in verse 46 of Acts 2 that we looked at that they felt that that was the breaking of bread was the Lord's Supper

so I know some churches that do it house to house.

They go to people's homes have have Bible study and then have a Lord's Supper different ways of

doing it.

But you see there that it has all that.

So it it it was commanded by Christ.

It symbolizes salvation.

It was practiced in the first century.

Then we see it was confirmed in the epistles we see this in 1st Corinthians 11, this is a rather lengthy passage.

But If you look at the at the passage, this is um basically

1st Corinthians 11 23 to 34 so 1st

Corinthians 23 to 34 and we're gonna want

to focus in on this because this gives the instruction That we have for the Lord's Supper.

So As we look at this it says For I received from the Lord what

I what also was delivered to you.

That the Lord Jesus on the night that he was betrayed took bread and he took He

had given thanks and broke it and said this is my body which I do for you.

Do this in remembrance of me in the same way.

He took the cup After supper saying this is the cup of the New Covenant in my blood.

Do this in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you

Proclaim the Lord's death until he comes whoever therefore eats the bread

Or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner.

He will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord let a person examine himself

then so that And so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body Eats and

drinks judgment on himself.

That is why so many of you are weak and ill and some have died but

if we judge ourselves truly we may not We

may.

Truly we would not Be judged, but when we are

judged by the Lord we are Disciplined so that we may not be

condemned along with the world.

So then my brothers when you come together to eat Wait for one another

if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home.

So when you come together It would not be for judgment about the other

things.

I will give directions when I come and so what you see there is instruction for the Lord's Supper.

But we do see the importance here when you get into those different elements are in there, but you see here is that it was

Confirmed by the Epistles.

All right.

So what's the meaning of the Lord's Supper?

Well some erroneous meanings first.

That we see again, sorry, but we're gonna pick on the Catholic Church is Transubstantiation

big word.

Transubstantiation is a view of the Roman Catholic Church that the bread and drink

Actually become the body and blood of Christ.

Okay, they base this on first Peter 318 which says for Christ suffered once

for sorry.

Not that they say it for this but this is the contrary to it.

It says for Christ suffered once for sins.

The righteous for the unrighteous and he became to us being put to death the flesh

made alive.

So see that it says there once Christ suffered once for sin.

This is why we bring that passage up with the Roman Catholic Church argues is that every time?

That they actually do they do this prayer and this Becomes literally

the body and blood of Jesus Christ and when it becomes the body and blood of Christ, they are Resacrificing him.

Well Peter says you don't resacrifice him.

He was sacrificed once for sins not over and over again.

Okay, so this is the idea Transubstantiation is the idea that it transforms the

substance.

Transforms it goes through a metamorphosis and through the prayers of the priest it actually becomes the body and blood of

Christ.

We would disagree with that now there's the second one, which is Consubstantiation

and this view is held by the some reformers specifically the Lutherans.

Is very similar in some ways to transubstantiation?

But the elements become the Spiritual that's your blank.

There's a spiritual body and blood of Christ.

So Consubstantiation is with the substance.

And so the idea being is that now it doesn't actually transform and become the body of blood of Christ.

But it's with the body of blood of Christ.

And so this is the idea that it's a spiritually the body and blood of Christ.

I Would disagree with that and I would say that it is that the correct view is that it's a symbol.

Why because I'm not holding it as a sacrament.

I'm holding it as an ordinance see the difference there.

Because it's what it's gonna symbolize and things like that so I'm gonna see this the Lord's Supper has a

Symbolic of the expression that Jesus used to portray his offering of his broken body and his blood.

This was part of the Passover meal that he did this and it was a thing with that the

Jews would have understood the New Covenant the the cup of wine that would have symbolized the New Covenant and

so I think that it's symbolic of Both the what he did at

salvation, but I think as a church doing it together it also symbolizes The

unity of the body of Christ and that's why I think it should be done as a body of Christ.

Okay.

With that I think that it's not just a symbol but it's a memorial.

We are to we are told by Jesus to celebrate the Lord's Supper in

Remembrance of Jesus.

That's your blank there remembrance.

It's a memorial.

We do it to remember Christ.

We Remember what he did for us on that cross.

We think about it.

We meditate on it we consider the cross and what's happening there and we we

Meditate on those things and think on those things and so it is a remembrance.

Let a memorial there and then it's also a reminder since we are told to

Participate in the Lord's Supper until he comes again.

We should remember that is he's coming again He's coming soon.

And so I think there though.

We also have the remembrance of our examination, right?

Which leads us the next part is that we are to participants when we look at the participants of Lord's Supper

only believers.

There was a warning in that passage in 1st Corinthians 11 that we need to heed and that warning talks about

the fact that There is a notion that we have to be aware in verses

27 to 28 of 1st Corinthians 11 that we need to Examine ourselves.

So it's only for believers.

Why because an unbeliever is going to bring judgment upon themselves is why I believe that whenever the Lord's Supper is given There

should also be a warning given to those who are unbelievers to let the elements pass by don't bring a

judgment upon yourself.

So only believers who come with clean and obedient heart So I take

Matthew 5 and I say if you know that your brother has something against you Maybe you shouldn't partake of the Lord's Supper.

Let the elements pass and go get right with your brother or sister.

Okay, that's what you as best as you can.

So I use the Lord's Supper as a time to remind us that we need to reconcile with one another.

I think that we there should be a warning to examine ourselves to see whether we need to get our hearts, right?

Go reconcile with someone before partaking of the Lord's Supper.

And so there's that self -examination.

Not only to examine what Christ did on our behalf.

But to examine whether there's things that we need to get right for this.

They are to examine that's your next blank examine themselves, right?

So this examination is something we should be doing because we recognize the need to get right with

God.

We need to Thinking of what God did for us and because of that

we need to think like is there something I need to get right with us so when I do administer the Lord's table I

Give some warnings to the unbelievers first that if you don't know Jesus Christ.

You should not partake of the table.

Let the elements pass if you're in sin.

Unrepentant sin.

Don't bring judgment on yourself.

Don't take of the Lord's Supper when you know that you're an unrepentant sin repent of that and then you could

partake.

And so a third thing is if you know that someone has ought against you or you are holding grudges against someone that

would be Romans 18 and Romans 5 looking at those passages.

You should go and reconcile with someone.

Don't go holding grudges to the Lord's Supper and don't go when you know Someone's holding a grudge against you if you at

all can seek reconciliation.

If you sought reconciliation, you have a clear conscience.

Then you could partake of the Lord's Supper.

It is a reminder of us.

So that we are constantly going back and as 1st John says in verse 5 is that we're

numbers of chapter 5.

Actually, no chapter 2 sorry that we're to go and ask forgiveness of sin.

Right.

We we know we're gonna sin.

We need to keep coming back asking forgiveness and and that Examination helps in that

process it helps us to look at our life and compare ourselves to Christ and what he did for us

and Examine ourselves to know whether we have things we need to seek

forgiveness for.

All right, so that is the ordinances of the church next class.

Lesson 5 we are gonna start in the doctrine of end times.

Yes I know some of you Joe Conkle have been waiting a very long time for that and thought I would never

get here that maybe the rapture would come.

Oh, did I mention a rapture?

Oh, that's an end times discussion.

See what I did there you like it.

So some of you thought the rapture would come before I would get there.

No, I said, hold on.

We'll eventually get there that day is coming and that will be next class when we will talk about

the doctrine of end times.

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