WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.600 What we're going to do here, we're going to be taking communion this morning. 00:05.500 --> 00:12.580 And I want to tie it back into something that we have been dealing with. 00:12.860 --> 00:13.700 I'm going to switch mics. 00:16.160 --> 00:20.240 I want to tie it back into covenant. 00:20.660 --> 00:24.680 So if you could bring that slide up, I want to explain this briefly. 00:24.920 --> 00:26.060 You can be seated if you want. 00:28.380 --> 00:35.220 We have been studying on tithing and how that it goes back into covenant, specifically Abraham's covenant. 00:37.460 --> 00:40.800 So whatever that is, if you could deal with that. 00:41.880 --> 00:43.940 That's the wrong one. I want the other one. 00:44.820 --> 00:46.720 Number 14 out of today's PowerPoint. 00:48.640 --> 00:52.740 I want to point something out to you concerning communion. 00:53.980 --> 00:56.820 And what we are actually remembering. 00:57.100 --> 01:03.520 The reason we were able to pray for Sam and believe that he is whole. 01:04.660 --> 01:07.060 Goes back to Abraham's covenant. 01:07.900 --> 01:13.360 Remember Jesus came to make a new covenant. 01:13.700 --> 01:18.200 And it's a continuation of Abraham's covenant. 01:18.900 --> 01:27.060 The law was added on top of Abraham's covenant because the people weren't getting it and they were messing things up. 01:28.320 --> 01:32.180 So I'm going to read some scriptures out of Galatians 3. 01:37.180 --> 01:38.980 Just to show this to you. 01:40.700 --> 01:43.760 Galatians 3. Let's start at verse 13. 01:44.660 --> 01:46.380 I'm in the New King James Version. 01:46.760 --> 01:49.540 And if you could bring these scriptures up on the screen, that would be great. 01:49.540 --> 01:52.680 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. 01:53.520 --> 02:02.280 See, that's what was added on top of Abraham's covenant was the law which was the revelation of blessings and curses. 02:03.160 --> 02:05.540 And Jesus came when he died. 02:06.260 --> 02:10.380 He redeemed us from the curses so the blessing of Abraham could come on us. 02:10.520 --> 02:11.100 Watch it here. 02:11.880 --> 02:13.460 Have him become a curse for us. 02:13.520 --> 02:15.920 For it's written, cursed is everyone that hangs on the tree. 02:17.220 --> 02:19.500 Jesus became a curse for us. 02:19.640 --> 02:28.100 That the blessing of Abraham, verse 14, might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus. 02:29.240 --> 02:32.920 God told Abraham, all the nations of the earth will be blessed through you. 02:34.460 --> 02:36.000 That's how we get in. 02:37.080 --> 02:37.860 Through Christ. 02:38.800 --> 02:39.580 It's an extension. 02:39.580 --> 02:41.520 Jesus was, well, let's just read on. 02:42.180 --> 02:45.480 That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus. 02:46.380 --> 02:50.180 That we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 02:50.420 --> 02:55.100 Do you realize that we would not even have the baptism in the Holy Spirit if it wasn't for Abraham's covenant? 02:56.820 --> 02:58.860 That's what it said right there in verse 14. 03:00.680 --> 03:04.680 The baptism in the Holy Spirit goes back to Abraham's covenant. 03:06.700 --> 03:12.800 Because the baptism in the Holy Spirit is absolutely nothing but a blessing to us. 03:15.680 --> 03:21.580 So verse 15, Brethren, I speak in the manner of man, though it's only a man's covenant confirmed. 03:21.820 --> 03:23.440 He goes on, talks about the law. 03:23.820 --> 03:27.960 Verse 16, now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made. 03:29.280 --> 03:35.420 He does not say, and to seeds multiple, as of many. 03:36.840 --> 03:42.020 But he said, seed, but as of one, to your seed, who is Christ. 03:42.280 --> 03:48.260 So when God made the promise to Abraham and said, I make the promise to you and your seed, 03:48.580 --> 03:52.100 he was speaking exclusively to Abraham and Jesus. 03:53.900 --> 03:55.440 We were not included. 03:57.500 --> 03:59.300 Exclusively Abraham and Jesus. 04:00.440 --> 04:05.440 And then he goes on and says some things about the law, verse 17, jump to verse 18. 04:06.300 --> 04:10.140 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer a promise. 04:10.720 --> 04:13.320 But God gave it to Abraham by promise. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.340 Verse 19, what is the purpose of the law then? 04:17.160 --> 04:18.180 It was added. 04:19.080 --> 04:20.080 Added to what? 04:20.280 --> 04:22.000 Added to Abraham's covenant. 04:22.000 --> 04:27.620 Why? Because the people were getting so deep into sin because of transgressions. 04:28.300 --> 04:30.600 How long was it added for? 04:31.040 --> 04:36.140 Till the seed should come whom the promise was made. 04:36.820 --> 04:38.180 The seed is Jesus. 04:38.780 --> 04:44.180 So the law had a specific length of time it was added on top of Abraham's covenant 04:44.180 --> 04:48.960 until Jesus would come and change everything with his covenant. 04:51.240 --> 04:55.760 Verse 21 is the law then against the promises of God, certainly not. 04:57.220 --> 05:01.500 Verse 22, but the Scripture has confined all under sin. 05:01.700 --> 05:03.140 Everybody became a sinner. 05:04.280 --> 05:06.540 Why? Why would the law do that? 05:07.200 --> 05:14.980 That the promise given to Abraham by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to us who believe or by faith. 05:17.100 --> 05:19.100 Jump down to verse 26. 05:20.400 --> 05:24.800 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 05:27.520 --> 05:28.120 Huh? 05:29.920 --> 05:33.240 Verse 28, there is neither Jew nor Greek. 05:33.400 --> 05:34.820 There is neither slave nor free. 05:35.180 --> 05:36.760 There is neither male nor female. 05:37.280 --> 05:39.200 For you are all one in Christ Jesus. 05:39.740 --> 05:43.080 And if you are Christ, if we're in that covenant, 05:43.600 --> 05:46.940 then you are Abraham's seed. 05:48.040 --> 05:54.080 And you are Abraham's heirs according to the promise. 05:58.100 --> 06:01.740 And somebody is going to ask this question anyway, so jump to chapter 4 verse 7. 06:01.920 --> 06:04.560 Well, if we're Abraham's heirs does that mean we're not God's heirs? 06:05.240 --> 06:06.880 Well, verse 7 of chapter 4, 06:06.980 --> 06:08.920 therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, 06:09.020 --> 06:11.320 and if a son then you are an heir of God through Christ. 06:12.440 --> 06:15.180 Well, how can you be Abraham's heirs and God's heirs? 06:15.180 --> 06:18.240 Because what God did through Abraham, 06:18.480 --> 06:21.040 we're able to tie into and it goes back to God. 06:22.400 --> 06:25.480 So we're heirs of Abraham, we're heirs of God, 06:26.000 --> 06:29.520 and the whole purpose was to bring the blessing. 06:31.420 --> 06:32.660 That's the whole purpose. 06:34.020 --> 06:39.500 So when you read the law, it was added because the people weren't seeing it. 06:39.640 --> 06:40.460 They weren't getting it. 06:40.620 --> 06:41.680 So the law was added, 06:41.680 --> 06:44.840 and there is a whole list of blessings, 06:45.400 --> 06:47.980 and there's a whole list of curses. 06:50.900 --> 06:54.200 The law was trying to show us 06:54.200 --> 06:56.780 if you're not in Abraham's blessing, 06:57.280 --> 06:58.720 this is what you're in. 06:59.740 --> 07:00.780 All these curses. 07:01.840 --> 07:06.300 Jesus came and did away with all the curses. 07:08.060 --> 07:09.700 He became a curse. 07:10.200 --> 07:12.600 He did away with all the curses. 07:13.120 --> 07:13.600 Why? 07:14.120 --> 07:18.720 So the blessing promised to Abraham could come on us. 07:20.900 --> 07:22.740 So even in Deuteronomy, you know, 07:22.780 --> 07:25.060 when you read Deuteronomy 28, 29, 30, 07:25.200 --> 07:27.200 and it's got all those lists and so forth, 07:27.720 --> 07:31.200 even back there, listen to what it says in verse 19 and 20, 07:31.940 --> 07:34.740 I call heaven and earth as a witness today against you 07:34.740 --> 07:37.260 that I have set before you life and death, 07:37.260 --> 07:39.300 blessing and cursing. 07:41.280 --> 07:42.840 Therefore choose life. 07:44.080 --> 07:45.280 Choose the blessing. 07:47.860 --> 07:48.660 Choose it. 07:49.200 --> 07:51.100 That's what we're going to do this morning in communion. 07:52.260 --> 07:56.400 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, 07:57.520 --> 08:00.180 you are showing the Lord's death till he comes. 08:00.280 --> 08:01.520 That's 1 Corinthians 11. 08:03.260 --> 08:06.160 What are we showing of the Lord's death? 08:06.160 --> 08:12.580 That Jesus fulfilled what God started through Abraham 08:12.580 --> 08:14.220 and the exchange of sons, 08:14.660 --> 08:17.360 and now we have been brought into the position 08:17.360 --> 08:21.000 we don't have to live by a curse. 08:21.480 --> 08:26.440 We can live by blessings because Jesus destroyed 08:26.440 --> 08:31.760 all the curse for those who are Abraham's children 08:31.760 --> 08:32.920 and in the blessing. 08:32.920 --> 08:37.100 If you are not saved, the curse will get on you 08:37.100 --> 08:39.820 because the curse comes from sin. 08:41.780 --> 08:44.180 It's not a blanket thing for all humanity. 08:44.640 --> 08:47.400 It's for Abraham's seed. 08:48.540 --> 08:51.280 And we were included into that through Jesus. 08:51.760 --> 08:55.000 Now we have inherited Abraham's blessing. 08:58.820 --> 09:02.440 Now if we want the curse, we can have it. 09:04.480 --> 09:05.840 Now personally, I don't want it. 09:09.480 --> 09:11.520 Jesus became the curse to stop it, 09:11.560 --> 09:13.320 so we don't have to live under it. 09:14.240 --> 09:17.820 But if you want to live under it, you can. 09:20.160 --> 09:21.540 It's not God's will for you. 09:21.620 --> 09:22.820 It's not what God wants for you. 09:25.100 --> 09:26.740 All you have to do is choose death. 09:28.500 --> 09:29.660 You say, how do you do that? 09:29.760 --> 09:31.080 Well, the wage is a sin is death. 09:31.900 --> 09:34.460 He was not writing that to unsaved. 09:34.540 --> 09:35.840 He was writing that to Christians. 09:37.260 --> 09:39.060 The wages of sin is death. 09:40.000 --> 09:41.740 You want to get back under a curse 09:41.740 --> 09:43.400 and open the door to the demonic realm? 09:43.640 --> 09:46.080 Just go habitually, start getting involved in sin. 09:46.540 --> 09:48.560 You know better. You shouldn't be doing it. 09:48.720 --> 09:50.140 You know you shouldn't be doing it. 09:50.340 --> 09:52.820 And you're going to make the choice to choose death. 09:53.280 --> 09:54.540 The wages of sin is death. 09:54.880 --> 09:57.220 You're choosing the sin. You're choosing death. 09:57.640 --> 10:00.560 You will allow open doors for curse to get on you. 10:01.800 --> 10:02.840 Just that easy. 10:03.760 --> 10:05.900 So even back here he said, choose life. 10:07.280 --> 10:09.600 So that both you and your descendants may live. 10:10.700 --> 10:12.500 That you may love the Lord your God. 10:12.640 --> 10:14.260 That you may obey his voice. 10:14.440 --> 10:17.320 And that you may cling to him. 10:18.340 --> 10:22.240 For he is your life and the length of your days. 10:26.720 --> 10:27.240 Wow. 10:31.670 --> 10:33.270 So the blessing, 10:37.750 --> 10:41.810 as we celebrate what Jesus did for us, 10:42.210 --> 10:45.410 we're actually celebrating the blessing 10:45.410 --> 10:49.370 that was brought to us through Abraham's covenant. 10:53.550 --> 10:54.470 What is blessing? 10:54.650 --> 10:55.730 The empowerment to prosper 10:55.730 --> 10:59.390 and have success down the road in every area of life. 11:02.650 --> 11:04.670 So he says, choose life. Choose blessing. 11:04.830 --> 11:06.510 Well, that's what we're going to do this morning with communion. 11:11.190 --> 11:13.110 And we're going to start by saying, Lord, 11:13.230 --> 11:16.730 if there's any area in us where we are perpetually, 11:18.590 --> 11:22.070 consistently choosing to live in disobedience to you, 11:24.610 --> 11:28.370 bring it up right now to every one of us individually. 11:28.790 --> 11:30.410 Bring it up right now. 11:32.730 --> 11:36.450 And I pray the decision is made right now to choose life. 11:39.190 --> 11:41.650 Not to get obstinate and say, well, I like that. 11:41.750 --> 11:42.910 I want to continue doing that. 11:43.030 --> 11:44.070 I don't want to give that up. 11:44.930 --> 11:47.130 If he's talking to you about something 11:47.130 --> 11:48.650 that needs to change in your life, 11:48.650 --> 11:50.190 because he's not pleased with it, 11:50.610 --> 11:52.230 choose life right now. 11:52.970 --> 11:55.190 Choose blessing right now. 11:56.190 --> 11:57.150 Repent of it. 11:57.470 --> 11:58.870 Ask him to forgive you. 11:59.510 --> 12:00.290 Repent of it. 12:00.290 --> 12:02.650 Get a change of mind, a change of heart and say, 12:02.690 --> 12:04.910 no, that's not any longer going to be part of me 12:04.910 --> 12:05.830 from this day forward. 12:05.970 --> 12:08.830 I am going to move forward and get that out of my life. 12:10.410 --> 12:12.770 See, that's part of choosing blessing. 12:14.630 --> 12:16.530 And that's why the law was added. 12:17.730 --> 12:19.650 Because people were not choosing blessing. 12:19.850 --> 12:20.790 They were choosing death. 12:21.470 --> 12:22.430 And they didn't know it. 12:22.530 --> 12:24.110 So God said, well, let me point it out to you. 12:24.210 --> 12:26.750 Well, for us, we already have it pointed out to us. 12:26.750 --> 12:30.750 The Holy Spirit is faithful to speak to us 12:30.750 --> 12:34.010 and say, you need to deal with this area in your life. 12:35.450 --> 12:37.050 Choose life. 12:38.490 --> 12:40.110 Repent, ask forgiveness. 12:41.070 --> 12:45.130 Now we're ready to go back into Jesus covenant 12:46.070 --> 12:51.070 and say, I am choosing blessing and blessing only. 12:55.330 --> 12:58.950 I am choosing life and life only. 13:00.390 --> 13:03.470 Any demonic thing that has grasped 13:03.470 --> 13:06.010 or trying to get grasped on me or my family. 13:06.690 --> 13:08.930 Remember what it said in Deuteronomy 30, 13:09.150 --> 13:12.390 that you and your descendants may live. 13:13.070 --> 13:16.070 Anything that's trying to get grasped on me or my lineage, 13:16.690 --> 13:18.830 we cut that off today. 13:20.470 --> 13:23.370 Any generational thing, sins of the ancestors, 13:23.770 --> 13:26.810 sins of the fathers, we cut that off today. 13:27.170 --> 13:28.870 We choose life. 13:29.210 --> 13:30.950 We choose against you. 13:31.390 --> 13:36.550 We will have nothing to do with you in Jesus name. 13:37.930 --> 13:40.230 That's what communion is about this morning 13:40.230 --> 13:41.850 and that's what we're going to do. 13:44.050 --> 13:45.570 It's for you. 13:45.790 --> 13:47.350 It's for you. 13:52.540 --> 13:54.060 It's for you. 13:54.360 --> 13:55.760 It's for you. 13:56.260 --> 13:57.560 It's for you. 14:28.880 --> 14:30.000 Amen. Thank you, Lord. 14:31.300 --> 14:32.800 That is what we choose. 14:33.100 --> 14:33.620 The blessing. 14:34.700 --> 14:36.180 That is what we choose. 14:37.020 --> 14:39.280 I'm going to let you go to your seats 14:39.280 --> 14:41.760 and that way you can take communion with us. 14:42.340 --> 14:43.680 Grab your emblems on the way by. 14:44.800 --> 14:45.800 Stand with me. 14:45.920 --> 14:47.520 We're going to honor this as a holy moment. 14:51.730 --> 14:53.490 1 Corinthians 11 says, 14:53.830 --> 14:55.710 the night the Lord was betrayed, 14:56.210 --> 14:58.590 he took bread, he broke it and gave thanks 14:58.590 --> 14:59.710 and said, take and eat. 14:59.830 --> 15:02.410 This is my body, which is broken for you. 15:02.790 --> 15:04.750 Do this in remembrance of me. 15:05.450 --> 15:07.890 After supper, he took the cup in the same manner, 15:07.990 --> 15:10.370 saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. 15:12.130 --> 15:14.190 Do this in remembrance of me. 15:14.190 --> 15:16.030 For as often as you eat this bread 15:16.030 --> 15:17.590 and drink this cup, 15:18.830 --> 15:20.770 you show the Lord's death 15:20.770 --> 15:22.450 till he comes. 15:24.190 --> 15:25.750 Lord, through your death, 15:25.890 --> 15:28.050 you established the new covenant 15:28.050 --> 15:29.790 that you announced to the disciples. 15:30.850 --> 15:32.310 You established it. 15:33.450 --> 15:35.350 It was the fulfillment 15:35.350 --> 15:38.010 of what God promised Abraham 15:38.010 --> 15:39.050 as the seed. 15:39.410 --> 15:41.890 When the seed comes, 15:43.210 --> 15:46.010 when Jesus comes, 15:49.210 --> 15:51.050 everything changes. 15:52.710 --> 15:54.550 Everything changes. 15:55.070 --> 15:57.390 And we reach back into 15:57.390 --> 15:59.350 your covenant, Jesus, 15:59.630 --> 16:01.130 which is tied directly 16:01.470 --> 16:02.910 into Abraham's covenant. 16:03.290 --> 16:06.210 And today, we choose life. 16:06.570 --> 16:07.970 We choose blessing 16:07.970 --> 16:10.250 for our finances, 16:10.250 --> 16:12.010 for our relationships, 16:12.690 --> 16:13.590 for our marriages, 16:13.910 --> 16:14.850 for our families, 16:15.230 --> 16:16.370 for our health, 16:16.690 --> 16:18.130 for our future. 16:18.790 --> 16:19.790 We choose life. 16:21.390 --> 16:21.790 Life. 16:22.850 --> 16:24.650 We refuse and want 16:24.650 --> 16:26.270 nothing to do with death. 16:28.970 --> 16:30.310 We forbid it 16:30.310 --> 16:32.210 from being part of our life. 16:32.630 --> 16:34.610 We serve the king of kings, 16:35.030 --> 16:36.130 the great I am, 16:36.510 --> 16:38.110 the alpha, the omega, 16:38.110 --> 16:39.950 the beginning and the end. 16:40.210 --> 16:42.350 There is none like him. 16:42.930 --> 16:44.650 Why would we want 16:44.650 --> 16:46.830 anything other than 16:46.830 --> 16:48.890 I am the way, 16:49.310 --> 16:50.190 the truth, 16:50.370 --> 16:52.590 and the life, Jesus said. 16:52.930 --> 16:54.350 We choose you, Jesus. 16:55.570 --> 16:57.150 And we resist 16:57.150 --> 16:59.270 and come against anything 17:00.850 --> 17:02.450 that is not of you. 17:03.250 --> 17:05.070 And we stand 17:05.070 --> 17:06.870 not on our righteousness. 17:06.870 --> 17:08.390 We stand 17:08.390 --> 17:10.010 not on our ability. 17:10.310 --> 17:12.410 We stand on the covenant 17:12.410 --> 17:13.570 that was cut 17:14.570 --> 17:16.050 between God the Father 17:16.050 --> 17:17.750 and God the Son. 17:18.010 --> 17:20.270 When Abraham was put to sleep 17:20.590 --> 17:22.610 and reestablished 17:22.610 --> 17:24.150 and completed 17:24.730 --> 17:26.570 when you hung on the cross, Jesus. 17:29.370 --> 17:30.750 Unless there is 17:30.750 --> 17:32.850 the death of the testator, 17:32.990 --> 17:33.750 your word says 17:33.750 --> 17:35.530 there cannot be a 17:35.530 --> 17:38.090 new testament or a new covenant. 17:38.870 --> 17:40.310 Jesus, when you died 17:40.310 --> 17:42.170 we honor that death 17:42.170 --> 17:43.890 for as often as you do this 17:43.890 --> 17:45.310 do it in remembrance 17:50.330 --> 17:51.410 the death. 17:53.290 --> 17:55.370 Do it in remembrance of the death 17:55.370 --> 17:56.390 and what happened there 17:56.390 --> 17:57.510 until I come. 17:58.290 --> 18:00.690 So we've made our choices. We stand on covenant. 18:00.830 --> 18:02.630 We receive these emblems 18:02.630 --> 18:04.670 to solidify and bring this 18:04.670 --> 18:06.390 thing into place in Jesus' name. 18:07.430 --> 18:07.650 Amen. 18:08.230 --> 18:09.690 Amen. Receive with me.