November 8th 2009 Sunday Message Summary

Scriptures: Matthew 26:26-29

Today’s main scripture explains well about the Holy Communion. In the time of Jesus, they had the sin of ignorance that caused them to crucify the Lord. You incur losses when you are ignorant. People must know how severe their sin of ignorance is. Education and prayer and even your own realizations are so critical as a way for God to teach you. If you don’t know, you go to eternal hell, but if you know you to the eternal kingdom of Heaven. In ignorance, you cannot do what you must do.

Jesus had no other choice but to take the path that would save everyone. The scriptures don’t say that he was predestined to die on the cross like it was a script for Jesus to follow. If people accepted the Lord as the Messiah and believed in him, why would he have to die for them? It is because people did not believe that Jesus had to die.

For those who received Jesus and didn’t doubt, Jesus appears as the Lord of glory, but if you doubt and turn your back, then you receive the Lord as the Lord of affliction. This is how the Bible prophesied about the different ways the Lord would come; either the Lord of glory or the Lord of affliction. It all depends on how we receive him.

The Lord bore the cross for the sake of the disbelievers. The Lord became the Lord of suffering to those who didn’t believe. In this time period too, the Lord has come to proclaim new words, and he has to endure once again through the man of mission to see if people would accept his words. We must receive the Lord with love.

“I died for you, why don’t you know my heart?” Jesus asks. If Jesus was really predestined to die, then Jesus would tell everyone that it was a good thing that he died, and we should rejoice over it. If you love someone then you must know their heart. Why are we so saddened when we see the Lord crucified? It is because it was not God’s original will but because of men’s failure to fulfill their responsibility that the Messiah was treated so wickedly.

We must do what we must do quickly and prepare what we must do to be ready. The present is the most important time, because if you didn’t do things in the past, you can make up for it in the present. With the present, you can also prepare for the future. Balance yourself. When it comes to time, keep your balance. When it comes to the present, it is the balance of the past and the future. In the present, you need to not only focus on the present, but you need to examine the past and look towards the future.

We must not look at just one part and take it as the center. The balance of the whole must be kept in light of the whole. The Lord is ultimately the core and the center. Whatever we do in the present, we must think of the Lord as the center. We must do everything while asking Jesus and getting his permission always. It is a sin for us to do things without asking the Lord.

“Be my body and be my blood.” Do what Jesus could not do on his behalf, with his mentality. This is why Jesus told us to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and this is why we take communion, because in doing so, we are now his and we can represent his body.

The Communion was a commemoration of the fact that Jesus bought his disciples’ bodies with his blood and so that the disciples would not lose strength and leave when Jesus died. In this way, the Lord and the disciples became one and became like lovers. They preached the gospel until the last day of their lives and performed the communion once or twice a year to commemorate their time with the Lord.

If you repent for your sins and believe and love the Lord and follow him, you will be forgiven. Whatever sins that you may have, whatever form of evil that you might have, repent for all your sins and never sin again, in order for the Lord to be taken down from the cross. Even today, the Lord is on the cross. A person who keeps sinning is a person who nails the Lord to the cross still. When people sin, they quickly sin because they like it, but when they repent, the Lord bears the price in order for them to be forgiven.

You must believe and testify with knowledge. We must receive the Holy Spirit and testify for the truth. The initial plan did not go as planned, so we must suffer and endure for the sake of the wicked so that people can be saved. We must fully understand the communion ritual and carry it out in a sacred and holy manner.

At this time, we must love the Lord properly so that he will not have a crush/one sided love for us. We must relieve his crush and his aching heart by loving him more than we love anyone else. Love Jesus to the extreme and obey his words.

The Lord watches us from a distance but he is not satisfied, so he comes closer to us because he loves us so much. We must believe this, don’t doubt. If we doubt, the Lord leaves us. The Lord is right next to us and misses us and loves us so much.