March 31, 2010 Holy Communion

"I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and welcome to Salvation Wednesday, served up in the name of Jesus with Holy Communion. Let's dig into this right away by going to God Our Father in Heaven, through Jesus, His one and only Son. An invite to come to services at The Bridges.

Maundy Thursday, 6:30 PM, Holy Communion will be served. Good Friday, 2:00 PM, Gospel Concert with Carry The Light. Easter Sunday Morning... 10:00 AM Message "He's Alive".
All services will be in the Pennsylvania Room on the second floor... and YOU are welcome.

Dear Father in Heaven, please today forgive us of our sins, we do indeed want to walk with You and we want to do it clean. Today please bless the communion elements that people bring forth for communion this day. Bless the Bread to be the Body of Jesus and the Grape Juice to be the blood. Clean us not just for this communion today but to get us ready for the day You send Jesus back for us. In the name of Jesus we pray together, knowing that we must each ask for our own self to be forgiven. Clean us, Father, in the name of Jesus I ask this... Amen.

Holy Communion and Salvation Through Jesus: Luke 22:14 - When the hour came, Jesus and His apostles reclined at the table. 15 And He said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God." (NIV)

Today I want to review a few steps about our Salvation through our Lord Jesus, with the steps that must be taken by us as individuals. I want to of course not just tell you about it, I want to back it up with scriptures. First of all, why did God send His One and only Son to do this for us?

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. 18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son." (NIV)

Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. (NIV)

Romans 10: 9/10 - That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth you confess and are saved. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, our Lord Jesus took our sins with Him to the cross, not one sin or a few sins but all of them, if we just confess our love over to Him we can get rid of our sins and get ready to face Jesus. We also, folks, must repent, we must repent. Do you remember these passages from our Bible...

Matthew 3:3 - "A voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him'". (NIV) That was John The Baptist.

Matthew 4:17 - From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." (NIV)

Then, folks, we must go to work for our Lord Jesus. We cannot work our way into heaven, but faith without the works is dead... See Ephesians 2:1/10.

Are we ready now for online communion? Tomorrow we will be going to Gethsemane with Jesus and on Friday we are going to the cross... and yes, there will be a Easter Sunday Morning message.

Are you ready now with your bread and juice, or wine if you choose? We will use the service from Luke...

Luke 22:19 - And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying. "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." (NIV)

Please take now your bread which is the body of Jesus, and break it apart and join me... This is the body of our Lord Jesus and, my dear brothers and sisters, it is broken for us, you and me... take and eat now...

Luke 22:20 - In the same way, after the supper He took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you." (NIV)

Now take your juice/wine which is the blood of Jesus, which was given up by Jesus while He was on the cross... Brothers and sisters, this blood of our Lord is still flowing today... Take now and drink, for this is the blood of Jesus, the blood of the New Covenant, it is shed for us, you and me...

Still pouring out today... for that let's look at one last scripture today...

Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." (NIV)

And all God's people said... AMEN.

Are you taking this communion in your office, why not share it with someone? Is there a better blessing to share than the body and blood of Jesus? Love ya, Pastor Dan.

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