Victory Life KY

Communion

Episode Summary

Here’s the thing, the longer we reason against what God’s word says, the more comfortable we get with that lifestyle. So today, as we gather around the Lord’s table, let Jesus’ words settle into your thinking.

Episode Notes

• At what point does what God say become the standard we use to evaluate our born again lives?

• Here’s the thing, the longer we reason against what God’s word says, the more comfortable we get with that lifestyle.

• So today, as we gather around the Lord’s table, let Jesus’ words settle into your thinking.

• John 14:1,NKJV- Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
• v.27, Jesus repeats His point, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

• There’s no better way to leave whatever’s been harassing you than gathering around the Lord’s table, and walking away with a renewed trust in Jesus.

• Remember last week we talked about how in Christ we are victorious overcomers in this world.

• 1 Corinthians 15:57,AMP- But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory  making us conquerors through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Seriously, if God, my Heavenly Father tells me I’m victorious, forgiven, blessed, prosperous, favored, healed, why wouldn’t I accept what He says as truth? Why shouldn’t I say what my Father says about me?

• Psalm 34:8,AMP- O taste and see that the Lord our God is good; How blessed, fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God is the man who takes refuge in Him.

• Unfortunately, human nature has made it very clear that as long as we can live without more of God, we will.

• Whether you’ve walked with Jesus most of your life, or you’re just starting your journey, 

• Because of human nature, because we have an enemy, there will be times when we question God, our relationship with Him, His promises, our failures, things we don’t understand, etc...

• And it’s in those times that being able to come to the Lord’s table, free of all sin, made completely righteous by His sacrifice, can be an absolute life changer for us.

• Something every Christian needs reminded of from time to time is that communion is one of the most spiritual realities we can participate in.

• It’s a divinely inspired place of revelation from the Father. Allowing us to see that Jesus alone made us worthy to stand in His presence. 

• He actually made us heirs to the Kingdom through what He suffered.

• Today as we gather around the Lords table, let the Holy Spirit help you see His crucifixion, His sacrifice as so much more than just our passage to Heaven.

• May the eyes of our understanding be enlightened, that we can embrace the hope of His calling, so that we can walk in the exceeding greatness of His power.

• John 6:51,NKJV- “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever...”

• John 10:10,(paraphrase), I came from Heaven to give you a rich and satisfying life. A better life than you've ever dreamed of. A life to enjoy in abundance, to the full, till it overflows.

• Communion isn’t just acknowledging Jesus’ sacrifice, it’s embracing and reverencing the fact that Jesus actually restored us to our rightful place with God.

• Today as we honor and reverence our King’s sacrifice, let His Spirit minister to you, embrace what Jesus did, what He said, and embrace who you are because of Him.

• This is why having moments like this, around the Lord’s table allow us the privilege of drawing closer to Him.

• Remember, Jesus has already made us alive together with Him and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Him.

• Understand, we’re not just citizens of Heaven, we’re heirs to the Kingdom, appointed ambassadors of our King, assigned here to establish His kingdom. 

• And there is no better place to be reminded, no better place for fresh perspective, no better place to draw closer to Jesus than around the Lord’s table.

• In Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Corinthians we receive the very same revelation from Jesus concerning communion.

• The bread is His broken body and the cup is the blood of His new covenant.

• Regardless of what you may be facing, let today's communion encourage you that you are made whole in God’s sight by Jesus' sacrifice.

• That His broken body and shed blood are still declaring, "It is finished."

• As we worship Jesus today with communion, as we draw closer to Him, may our spirits see Jesus and all that He accomplished for us clearer than ever before.

• My prayer today is that everyone of us  see Jesus with a fresh perspective as we partake of the cup and the bread.

• 1 Corinthians 10:16,NLT- When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? 
• And when we break the bread, aren’t we sharing in the body of Christ?

• Let today’s talk helps us discern in a little more depth that there is a significant difference in the blood and the bread.

• 1 Corinthians 11:30,NKJV- For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
• v.29, For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

• MSG, If you give no thought (or worse, don’t care) about the broken body of the Master when you eat and drink, you’re running the risk of serious consequences. That’s why so many of you even now are listless and sick, and others have gone to an early grave. 

• By faith, acknowledge Jesus’ body being broken so that yours can be whole.

• Matthew 8:16-17,NLT- That evening many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and He healed all the sick. 
• This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.

• Today, let’s come to the Lord’s table with a fresh understanding that Jesus’ broken body and shed blood provide deliverance for us, spirit, soul, and body.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:23,MSG- May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master.

• When Jesus told us in John that He came to gives us live, He literally meant, wholeness to our spirit, soul, and body.

• Let today’s communion help you see Jesus with a fresh perspective as we partake of the cup and the bread.