Revelation 3:20 Dining With Jesus Revelation 3:20

All right, good morning. Good morning, Recast. Hey, I'm Rob Knold, an elder here. And I'll be just doing some introductory announcements this morning in Don's absence. Don is not with us today, obviously.

Glad to see you this morning on this Memorial Day weekend. Hope you guys are enjoying the nice weather we had yesterday. And boy, there's been a lot of graduates lately. In fact, many from this church.

So congratulations to all those graduates. And I hope you guys enjoy the graduation parties and all the festivities. This morning, I just, as far as announcements, I just want to point out a couple of things.

First of all, you should have received this worship folder on the way in today. And inside this worship folder, you have announcements, just a few. So please take a look at those. Secondly, there's a connection card.

And if you fill out this connection card, it's a good way to get involved and connected here at Recast. So there's a few check boxes, and there's also a place for prayer requests. And we do read those every week and pray for those.

I'd encourage you to put down any prayer requests that you have this morning. And last but not least, there's a giving envelope. We don't pass a plate here at Recast, but we just encourage you to give as the Lord leads you.

You can put the money in that envelope, and it goes in the black box in the back right corner. So that's it for announcements this morning. I do want to introduce Bill Smith. He's a member of our church and also a missionary with Youth for Christ here in Kalamazoo.

He works with the youth for many, many years. And I'm just really excited to hear from Bill Smith this morning as he preaches. So he'll be introducing his sermon next. Thank you, Rob.

Hungering for a Deeper Relationship With God

Good morning. I'm really excited and nervous. I'm excited about what God has given me to share. This morning, I've been praying about it for several months, and God made it clear what I'm supposed to speak on.

And I know from firsthand experience, what a huge impact it's had in my own life. It's life-giving. So I just want to start with a question to you all this morning. Is anybody hungry? If you are, raise your hand.

Okay. A few of you missed your breakfast. Okay. Let me put it in a different way. Is anyone hungry for deeper meaning in your life? Is anyone hungry for a deeper purpose in your life? Is anyone hungry for more hope in your life, for more love in your life?

Is anyone hungry for a deeper relationship with God? Anybody hungry? All right. Amen. Amen. I want to share with you this morning about a spiritual feast. Okay. I want to share with you about the blessing of the bread of life.

You know, before I kind of dive into my introduction, though, I just want to say thank you to Recast. You are one of my supporting churches. As a missionary, I raise support so that I can serve full-time at Youth for Christ, reaching out to troubled, hurting, lost kids.

And I want to tell you about a spiritual meal that I have every Monday with a group of boys in what we call A-Pod in the juvenile home. So I get to oversee all the ministries in our county juvenile home.

So that would include Thursday night chapel, Sunday morning chapel, and Monday night Bible studies in the pods. So we have A-Pod, B-Pod, C-Pod, and D-Pod. And I have a group of awesome, dedicated leaders who help teach the word of God in each of those pods on Mondays, and I get to do A-Pod.

And so I get to sit down every Monday afternoon with a group of young men, and we get to break the word of God together, the word of life. I want to tell you about two of the boys in this group. Tomorrow marks Memorial Day, of course, but it also marks a tragic event in our city.

I don't know if you remember, but a year ago tomorrow, Michael Day was shot and killed on the south side of Kalamazoo. A young teenage boy. He was part of a gang called the Washington Street Boys, and one of his rival gang members from a gang called Trap Money, both on the south side, shot and killed Michael Day.

When I heard this in the news, I knew that they would catch the young man who did it, and I knew that I would be ministering to him in the juvenile home. And Victor has been in the juvenile home for almost a year now.

So it wasn't long after the shooting that they arrested Victor. Ended up in the juvenile home, 15 years old, looking at murder. And I immediately went in to meet him. He had never been in the juvenile home before.

And it wasn't quite what I expected. You know, you're thinking some hardened, you know, criminal. Although I know the reality because I work with these kids every week. Well, Victor, of course, you know, was facing, you know, murder charges.

And we just began to pray for Victor and minister the word to him. And it wasn't long after he was in there that he opened his heart to Jesus. And he, I had been ministering to him for almost a year now.

He's in my APOD group. Okay, remember, he's from the gang Trap Money. Now I want to introduce you to another boy. His name is Dominique. Dominique was a member of Washington Street Boys and a leader in that gang.

In and out of trouble, I knew Dominique. He's been in and out of the juvenile home. Hearing the word of God every time he came, listening, but never opening his heart. Well, he stole a car. I don't know, this was probably 10 months ago.

He stole a car. The police were chasing him. He was out trying to outrun them. He flipped the car and rolled it. They came rushing up, arrested him. He had a handgun on him. He's 16 years old, facing adult charges.

And he came into the juvenile home, got locked up, started coming to our chapel services, hearing the word of God. And this time he realized his need and he opened his heart to Jesus. And we've been ministering the word to Dominique for 10 months now.

Dominique and Victor sit next to each other in Bible study. This could have never happened without the reality of Jesus. In fact, the juvenile home would never have allowed them to be in the same pod together because they don't let rival gang members be in the same pod.

But because they had seen the change and transformation in Dominique and in Victor, they knew that they were brothers in Christ and that they would be okay together. We pray around the table right before every Bible study, every boy prays.

Victor prays, Dominique prays. And then we open the word of God and we have a meal together feasting in the word. Victor, since he's been in, has probably memorized over 50 scriptures because those guys memorize the scripture that I give them every week and they always get it.

So, and Dominique, say a prayer for him. He's preaching next Sunday morning in our chapel service in the juvenile home. So, I'm really, really excited about that. He asked me if he could break the word, if he could share the word.

So, pray for Dominique. He's getting close. He's been doing really well. He's in a special program. He found mercy in the eyes of the court and he should be getting out soon on what they call his 75 day pass.

And he wants to become a minister with us at Youth for Christ. So, I'm just really excited about what God is doing in Dominique's life. So, with all that, I just wanted you to see that when you support our ministry, what you're helping be able to happen.

And so, I just thank you so much for your prayers and your support for the ministry of Youth for Christ. So, I just wanna pray and then I want to introduce the message for this morning, okay? So, let's pray.

Father, what a privilege to come before your throne of grace. That you love us with a perfect love. That you long for us to come to you. You long for us to spend time with you. And you want to do great things in our hearts, in our inner lives, Father.

And I pray that you would show us what this could mean in our lives. I pray that you would help us to take an honest look this morning about our walk with you, our relationship with you. And I pray that your Spirit would just stir us to go deeper.

And I pray that you would, from your Word, show us practical ways that we can connect with you on a deeper level. And just thank you because you're the perfect Father. You love each of your children with a perfect love and you long for each of us to spend time with you.

You long to just wrap your arms around us and speak words of comfort and hope on a daily basis. Help us to see that today. And bless our time, our worship time. We love you, we praise you, in Jesus' name.

Amen. All right, so go ahead and open up your Bibles to Revelation chapter three, verse 20. If you don't have a Bible, raise your hand and Mike and the guys would be glad to bring you one. I'm gonna look at a lot of scripture today.

I'm just gonna let the Word speak. I love the way Pastor Don teaches that it's always the Word and that's what you're gonna get. But we're gonna flip around a lot today. So that's a little different. But Revelation 3 .20, I want you to see some words that Jesus spoke.

Look at verse 20 of Revelation chapter three. This is Jesus speaking to the church, okay? Look at verse 14. And to the angel of the church in Laodicea, write the words of the amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.

And so He has a message for the church. So that would be us. Jump down to verse 20. Jesus says, behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him and he with me.

Jesus is inviting us to dinner. How about that? Okay, gotta love technology. Am I coming through now? Okay. I'll just keep going even if this thing doesn't work. So you don't have to interrupt me. I'll just keep going.

He's inviting us to come to a meal, okay? How many of you ever been invited over to somebody's house for dinner, for supper, for a meal? Okay, should be every one of us, okay? So when someone invites you over for dinner, does that mean to just come over and have some food?

Come and eat at my house. It means a little bit more than that, doesn't it, okay? So Jesus is saying, I wanna eat with you, I wanna share a meal with you. And it means so much more than just, because right now, you guys are spiritual, so you're thinking, oh, he's talking about the word, the food, the word is the food.

But there's so much more to a good dining experience than just the food, right? Okay? I wanna propose to you that there's four things that make a good dining experience, all right? Number one is good company.

Because I'm guessing maybe you've been invited to somebody's house before you really weren't too excited about going. Maybe, you know, even family, like, oh, I really don't wanna go. Good company is key to a good dining experience.

Of course, good food, right? Come on, you know, we want some good grub. Good conversation and a good atmosphere. So I wanna take those four things and use them to help us see how we can connect with God in a meaningful, quiet time on a daily basis.

That we would sit down with Jesus and have a meal every day, feasting in his word, enjoying his company, and letting him minister and speak into our lives. You know, I asked you at the beginning, do you hunger for deeper meaning in your life?

Do you hunger for more of a purpose in your life? Do you hunger for hope? Then come and dine with Jesus. Do you hunger for love? Come and dine with Jesus. Do you hunger for a deeper relationship with God?

Come and dine with Jesus. He is inviting us to a feast, to a daily feast. You know, we've used this verse for salvation. You know, he stands at the door, knock if you open up, he'll come in and save you.

But this isn't a salvation verse. This is a verse to the church. And it's interesting, he says, I stand at the door and knock. Like he's saying, please let me in. Please give me some time. I plead with you.

I want to meet with you. I want to sit down with you. I want to feed you the goodness of my word. I want to help you grow healthy and strong in the spirit. Will you open and let me in? Will you give me time?

Father, just please bring that home to us this morning. Please speak to us. Father, you know that each of us really is desperate for you. We may not know that, but we are. Lord, we need you so much. And you invite us to come.

Thank you for that. I pray that we could come to you now in worship and that this would be meaningful and that your spirit would give us understanding. We love you and praise you and thank you that we can gather together this morning in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, guys. That was beautiful. Beautiful. So I don't want to leave you hanging about what's going on with Victor. I told you a little bit of his story that he has come to Christ.

I have seen him grow and change. And he knows that his future isn't the brightest. He was found guilty of murder, homicide. And he has been waiting for his sentencing. And at first they tried to declare a mistrial and that wasn't accepted.

And he was supposed to go in for sentencing over a month ago, at least. And so I don't know what's going on with him. He's definitely going to prison. But he knows that he is a son of God. And he has hope because of that, regardless of what he did in his past and what he's facing.

He knows that he has hope. So pray for him. I mean, you know, he got caught up in that gang life and, you know, these kids with guns, you know. They don't think that, you know, they can kill somebody, but.

Good Company: Jesus Invites Us to Dinner

Let's open back up to Revelation 3 .20. Father, just pray that you would speak to us through your word, that your Holy Spirit would be our teacher, and that you would do something in our hearts and our lives that would spur us on to seek you, Father, in deeper ways.

And so I pray that you would encourage us and speak to us this morning. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, so let's read this verse once more, okay? So the first thing that I said that makes for a good dining experience, of course, is good company, right?

Very unlikely you're gonna go to somebody's house for dinner who you do not like, or they're a mean person, or, I mean, they probably wouldn't invite you anyway, right? Okay. But I'm gonna guess maybe you've been invited at one time to someone's place and you really weren't too excited about it.

Maybe you went. You probably didn't flat out and say, "'No, I don't like you. "'I don't wanna come.'". You know, you're probably like, "'Oh, let me check the calendar. "'I'll get back with you on that, right?'.

And then all of a sudden you realize, "'Oh, yeah, we were gonna do something on that day.'". And then all of a sudden you have a new plan of what you're gonna do on that day. But I want you to think about who is inviting you to this meal.

That it's Jesus. He says this, "'Behold,' that's a word to get our attention. "'It's like, check this out. "'Listen. "'I stand at the door and knock. "'If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, "'I will come in and eat with him "'and he with me.'".

He's knocking and wanting to come in and share this meal. This is Jesus. He is some good company. This is Jesus, the Prince of Peace, inviting us to come and dine with Him. This is Jesus, the good, tender Shepherd, wanting us to come and lie down in those green pastures and to walk along those still waters.

This is Jesus, the King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Imagine this, you know, that your phone rings and, you know, I love caller ID because, you know, now we don't have to always pick it up. Right? So usually if it's a number out of state that I don't recognize, you know, oh, they're selling something.

Just let it go into, you know, voicemail. If it's important, I'll leave a message. But you look and it's like District of Columbia, Pennsylvania Avenue or whatever the address of the White House is. And you're like, wow, this is weird.

And you're like, hello? And there's this voice on the line that you recognize because you've heard it on television. It's the President of the United States of America. And he's like, Bill, this is President Obama.

Just wondering if you would like to come over to my house and have supper. Like, well, President, President of the United... Yes, this is the President. Will you come and dine with me? Now, I'd be a little excited about that.

You know, regardless of your political leanings, okay? To be invited to come and have supper with the President of the United States, that'd be kind of cool, wouldn't it? Go to the White House. You know, maybe you could share some things with President Obama on your heart.

I don't know, but it would be an honor. Let's put it that way, right? Okay? To be invited, well, who is Jesus? He is the King of the universe. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And he is inviting us to come and dine with him.

This is Jesus, the fountain of living waters. This is the Alpha and Omega, the A through Z. This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. This is Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

This is Jesus, the resurrection and the life. This is Jesus, our all in all. This is Jesus, the God of all comfort and the God of all hope. And he's saying, will you let me in? Will you sit down with me and share a meal with me?

Jesus is calling us to come and dine with him. He'll be all these things in our lives if we'll let him. So let's break this verse down just a little bit, okay? So when he says, eat with me and he with me, I almost entitled this message, Sup with Jesus from the King James, because he says, you know, sup and I will sup with him and he with me.

Okay, sup is short for supper, right? Sup with Jesus. But I thought, we'll call it dining with Jesus. That's actually the New King James version uses, and I will dine with him and he with me, which is really a good translation because I looked this word up in the Greek language and it said that this is the principal meal of the day or the evening meal, okay?

So it's the big meal of the day. He's saying, come and have dinner with me. That's kind of cool. And we're gonna break that down and look at that a little bit, what that means. The MacArthur New Testament commentary says this, sharing a meal in ancient times symbolized the union of people in loving fellowship.

Jesus is saying, come and have loving fellowship with me. The pulpit commentary said to take food with someone is an outward sign of brotherly love and reconciliation. So, you know, even in our culture, we don't just invite anybody over for dinner, right?

We invite people that we want to get to know. We invite people that we want to have a friendship with. And this was true in Jesus' day. And he's saying, I want to have friendship with you. And then what is this door?

He says, I stand at the door and knock. So we got invited to someone's house for dinner. This was many years ago. And they had that painting of Jesus where he's knocking on the door. Anybody seen that before?

Okay. In their living room. And so, you know, Jesus, you know, I got to check this out. You know, I've seen that before, but I never took a close look at it. So I'm standing right in front of it. And the host says, do you see anything unusual about that painting?

And so I took a closer look. You know, there's something unusual about it, right? Okay. And I start looking at the door and I noticed there's no doorknob. There's no door handle. That's unusual for a door, right?

Okay. So I said, there's no doorknob. There's no door handle. And he said, yeah, that's because that door represents our heart. It can only be opened from the inside. He doesn't just open up and come in and start doing incredible things in our hearts.

We have to be intentional. We have to open this door on a daily basis. We have to come and invite him to meet with us. He has this meal and he's bringing it, but we have to let him in to share this meal.

I love Matthew Henry commentary. I don't know if anybody's ever read them before, but he's like from hundreds of years ago, but he said this. He said, Christ is graciously pleased by his word and spirit to come to the door of the heart of sinners.

He draws near to them in the way of mercy, ready to make a kind visit. Those who open to him shall enjoy his presence to their great comfort and advantage. Jesus wants to meet with us on a daily basis.

He wants to sit with us in one-on-one friendship. He wants us to feast with him in his word. Some would refer to this as the quiet time. I remember when it used to be called devotions. You don't hear that very many anymore.

You know, how's your devotions? You know, I like quiet time because you're sitting down one-on-one with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And he wants to speak to you. Good company, number one. Secondly, good food, right?

The Bread of Life, Living Waters, and the Word That Satisfies

Okay. If you're anything like me, when you get invited to go to somebody's house for supper, I always ask this question to myself. I wonder what they're having, right? Okay. Cheryl's mom used to invite us over quite often, and I'd always ask her, I'd ask Cheryl, what's she having?

What's she having? That's a good question, right? We want some good food now, right? Come on, okay? Well, I want to show you what this good food is, so turn to Isaiah 55 with me. Isaiah 55, starting in verse one.

Quotation marks, this is God speaking through the prophet Isaiah. Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. And he who has no money, come and buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money, without price.

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread? And you labor for that which does not satisfy. Listen diligent to me and eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich food. Sounds like he's inviting us to dinner again, right?

To a meal, so let's look at this meal a little bit, okay? So you might not get so excited if somebody said, hey, come over for dinner, man, we're gonna have some good water, right? Okay, it's like, okay, well, must be some special water.

He says, you who are thirst, come to the waters. Makes me think of Jeremiah chapter two, verse 13. He calls himself the fountain of living waters in that verse. That's one of the names for God, the fountain of living waters.

You know, it makes me think of the fountain of youth or something, you know, okay? He says living waters, these are life giving waters. I mean, absolutely, we need water to stay alive. You know, you can only live a few days without it.

I mean, it's essential to life, but this is special water. This gives life spiritually. You think of water, what water does for you? It's refreshing. Plunge into a nice cool pool on a hot, humid day. Refreshment.

Come in from working in the yard and you're all dusty and itchy and you let that water cleanse you. It's refreshing, right? If you're anything like me, you get weary. You get tired because life is not easy.

And we live in a crazy world. We really do. Things are not as they should be. And we get wore out and Jesus says come and I will refresh you with these life giving waters. The second thing that he mentions in verse one is wine.

Okay, Jesus has got wine at this spiritual dinner? Now we know he's not, you were gonna sit down and magically a wine glass appears and there's some wine, right? We know that, okay? Well, when you look at how wine is used in the Bible at times, for example, in Psalm 104 verse 15, it's talking about how God takes care of the earth and how he causes the vegetables to grow for the nourishment of the human race.

And then he makes this statement and wine to gladden the heart of man. That's there for a purpose, okay? He's not encouraging us to stop on the way home from church and get a bottle of wine. That's not what this is about.

It's a symbol of spiritual joy. It's a symbol of celebration. That this wine that he has to offer you and young people, you don't have to be 21 to partake of this, okay? This is the good stuff. This is the spiritual wine of the word.

It's altering. You know, I think of where in Ephesians 5 .18, he says, don't be drunk with wine, but be filled with the Spirit, okay? Alcohol alters something in you, okay? The Spirit and the word of God alters something in us if we approach it with a genuine, humble heart, seeking God to speak to us through it.

It's transforming. I can't tell you how many times I've sat down through the years like depressed and just like cried out to God and got real with Him and opened His Word. And something started shifting inside of me.

And I went from being depressed to having joy. That's the power of the spiritual wine that he has in this feast. Now he talks about milk too. You know, that should be familiar from 1 Peter 2. Long for the pure milk of the word that by it you may grow.

This is talking about the nourishment that the word of God brings to us. You know, you think of a little baby and that milk, it's all they need, you know, at that stage in their life. And it helps them grow.

It has all the nutrients in it. And you talk about some good, wholesome milk right here. This word of God, it is powerful. What else is involved in this feast? Look at verse two. Toward the end, he says this, he says, eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich food.

This is talking about the good stuff, okay? Rich food, I don't know what you think of. I think of some lobster. That's kind of rich, right? Maybe some really, really good steak. You know, some meat. Hebrews talks about the meat of the word.

You know, he wants to bring forth something substantial to us from the word. It's the good stuff. I wanna show you a few verses. So we're gonna flip around quickly here for a minute. Let's go to Psalm 119.

You can keep your finger here if you want, cause we're gonna flip back. But turn to Psalm 119, 103 with me, would you? I wanna show you how God talks about his word. Psalm 119, verse 103. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.

Huh, some dessert in this meal, right? Okay, it's sweet. Now they didn't have candy back in David's day that I know of. Maybe, you know, I don't know. They didn't go to the candy store, I know that. And so, you know, what they had was honey.

Now, I don't know about you, but honey is amazing. How many think honey is amazing? Anybody? Okay. All right, so I have some honey here, right? All right. Is there anybody with us this morning who has never tasted honey?

Anybody? I figured everybody tasted honey. Now, this is some good honey. Who would come up to me this morning and sample some of this good honey? All right, come on now. Can't leave me hanging out here.

You know, somebody be brave. I have a very clean spoon, trust me. I put it in the bag. The honey is very clean. I'm not gonna play a trick on you. Come on up. All right. Hi, you gonna taste some honey?

Okay. Now, doesn't that look good? You've had honey before? Okay. So I want you to pretend that you live like 2 ,500 years ago and there's no candy stores, okay? You've been having a lot of bread and oats and things like that.

Maybe a little lamb meat, but no candy, okay? So all of a sudden, go ahead and taste that. Turn around so everybody can see how it's gonna. Go ahead, take it all. Did you hear that? Is that good? Isn't that amazing, okay?

Bugs can be good, right? Because bugs made that. Thank you so much for tasting that. I love that. I like to eat honey by the spoonful. I just like to put it on a spoon and put it in my mouth and just like, wow, Lord, you are amazing.

You are amazing. So what did the Psalms just say? What did it just say? It said that his word, his word is better than honey. It's sweeter than honey. It's the good stuff. When I ran cross country in high school, just about everybody on my cross country team had one of these little honeybears and we would literally drink some honey before the race, thinking it would give us a boost of energy, right?

You know, when the troops were starving and Saul said, you can't eat, you gotta fast until we defeat this enemy, Armony, and Jonathan didn't hear that and they're walking through the woods and he finds some honey.

Everybody else is just like totally wore out and drooping and he finds this honey and he tastes it and it says that it revived him. That's what the word of God can do for us. It can revive us. It's so, it can be sweet.

Now, the reality is is that there's been times when you've opened it and you didn't get anything from it. It seemed boring or it seemed hard to understand. And there's a reason for that when that happens.

And we'll talk a little bit about that. I wish I had like another hour. I do this every time. I always plan way too much. Turn to Psalm 36, but I promise we'll get you out of here, normal time. Psalm 36, verses seven and eight.

Psalm 36, seven and eight. How precious is your steadfast love, O God? The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house and you give them drink from the rivers of your delight.

For with you is the fountain of life. They feast on the abundance of your house. Look at Psalm 63, verse five. My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips.

Fat and rich food. Now there's a steak for sure, right? You gotta have a little fat in with a steak. I don't know about you, but it just, mm, okay? That's the lobster, that's the meat. He wants to give us a substantial spiritual meal.

He wants us to experience a meaningful, quiet time. Look at Psalm 23, the shepherd's psalm. Psalm 23, verse five. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.

So he says in the presence of his enemy. Like that's extreme, right? Enemies are facing him. And God says, I still have a table for you. You know, you're going through a crisis in life. God says, come to my table.

Even in the presence of your enemies, the table is set. I want you to feast with me. I want to nourish your soul. I want to nourish your spirit. I want to speak into your life. I want to renew you. I want to bring transformation to you.

This meal does have a cost though. There is an investment that we have to make. Turn back to Isaiah 55 with me, if you would. Isaiah 55, starting in verse one again. Come everyone who thirsts, come to the waters.

And he who has no money, come buy and eat. Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. That's kind of weird. He says, come and buy, but not with money. He's saying there's an investment that we have to make.

Look at verse one. He says, come everyone, come to the waters. Come buy and eat. Come buy. Four times in one verse, he says, come. That's the investment. It's an investment of time. You have to be intentional about this.

You have to make the time. There's an investment in listening. Okay, look at verse two. He says, listen diligently to me. Verse three, incline your ear. Give me your heart. Give me your mind. Give me your focus.

So there's an investment. If we don't make this investment, this is not gonna happen. If we don't take the time and intentionally meet with him one-on-one, this is not gonna happen. So what enhances a meal?

Number one, come hungry. You know, don't go to somebody's house full, right? You ever play the two Thanksgiving dinner thing? You know, both parents live in town. You go to one family and you have Thanksgiving dinner and then two hours later, you're supposed to eat another Thanksgiving dinner.

The first one, you're holding back a little bit because you don't wanna get too full, but it doesn't work because you get to the second one and it just doesn't taste as good. You gotta come hungry. In Matthew five, Jesus said, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for I will fill them.