Matthew 5:5-16 - Skip Heitzig

[Music] welcome to expound our weekly worship and verse by verse study of the Bible our goal is to expand your knowledge of the truth of God by explaining the Word of God in a way that is interactive enjoyable and congregational we call this a textual community let's rejoice and learn God's Word in an interactive and enjoyable new way I was gonna say opening your Bibles to the Sermon on the Mount but it's pretty dark except lights in a few places so we're gonna put the scriptures this week up on the screen so that you can follow along and that is Matthew chapter 5 and we call it the Sermon on the Mount and if you were with us a couple weeks ago I explained to you that it's called the Sermon on the Mount because it was preached by Jesus on a rolling Hill by the shores of the Sea of Galilee on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee near Capernaum where Jesus had his headquarters is this beautiful you can see it today if you come with us to Israel in the spring we'll show it to you and we'll actually go over the Sermon on the Mount there but it's really not a Mount it's just a little hill and I never liked the title the Sermon on the Mount because there's no information in that it's like me saying my message title today is sermon from the pulpit it doesn't really tell you anything about it and so I don't like the title the Sermon on the Mount it's much more than that this is a mountain of a sermon you might say this is the sermon of the monarch this is king jesus telling us about the kingdom of heaven how to enter it and what life is like in it so this is the kingdom manifesto and one of the things you notice as you go through this sermon right off the bat is how often it talks about blessed that's the word blessed blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are those who mourn blessed are the meek blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness and essentially the word means happy or happiness or blue full or contented I read an article from Reuters news that said Americans today claim to be less happy than they were 30 years ago and that's because long hours at work less satisfying interpersonal relationships make people less happy now I think I can speak for you at least I hope I can and say that that is not the case with you that you aren't less happy today that you're happier today and that doesn't mean you have to be giddy and crazy about everything that's not the happiness I'm speaking about the idea is in an inner steady blissful contentedness now I realize that the word blessed that's a that's a kind of a stuffy sounding word but the word blessed speaks of as I mentioned an inward contentedness the amplified bible renders it this way blessed happy to be envied and spiritually prosperous everyone has some idea of what happiness is everybody in the world if you were to say what would it take to make you happy in fact you may want to ask people that you know that very question hey what would it take to make you happy you'll probably have answers like well I would be happy if I made this much money or I would be happy if I owned something I've really wanted for a long time or I would be happy if I could only marry that person if I was married to that person some others might say if I wasn't married to that person you know the Bible has a lot to say about true happiness I discovered that 56 times in the Bible the word joy and God are coupled together or joy and the Lord are coupled together and essentially you know I'm not being glib but essentially from the Bible's perspective the way to happiness is holiness true happiness comes from holiness now I know that's another Bible word like blessed you go yeah great holiness yeah so does this sort of sounds like cod liver oil to pee okay I know I got to take it and I'd really don't like it but it'll make me feel better and that's how people feel about holiness I really don't like it I know I should do it you have no clue then what holiness is if that's what you think Jesus is speaking about the the state he's making a declaration about the inward spiritually prosperous joyful contented state of those who are in the kingdom of God and it's best summed up by the word blessed so when chapter 5 verse 1 and seeing the multitudes and we only made it a couple verses in this chapter last time and we're not going to make it through the chapter tonight because we're gonna take the Lord's Supper we're just gonna read down to about verse 16 Lord willing and seeing the multitudes he went up on to a mountain and when he was seated his disciples came to him and he opened his mouth and he taught them saying blessed are the poor in spirit theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted and on and on it goes 9 times 9 sayings of blessing something that I want you to mark in your minds these are proclamations of the Lord these aren't feelings these aren't emotions the idea is and I I really feel blessed it's not the idea whether you feel blessed or not Jesus is making a proclamation that you are if these things are part of your life these aren't surface emotions these are proclamations the second thing to note about all of these nine proclamations is they're all paradoxical they don't make sense let's see the happy person is the poor in spirit the one who mourns over a sin the one who is meek the one who gets persecuted excuse me but that does not sound like the recipe for happiness at least from a worldly perspective would you agree that sort of sounds like to a worldly person that sounds like misery under another name that's not the stuff that makes for happiness most people think if the world were to write these they would say blessed are the wealthy blessed are the healthy blessed are the beautiful blessed are they always tanned so these are proclamations these are also paradoxical here's something else to note these are progressive one leads to the other if you're poor in spirit you will mourn if you're poor in spirit and you mourn you will be meek if you're poor in spirit you mourn and you're meek you will hunger and thirst after righteousness etc etc they all lead to another now the first two Beatitudes they're called because of the word blessed the first two Beatitudes speak about entering the kingdom blessed are the poor in spirit the word we noted last time means poverty-stricken destitute I see God and I see myself and I recognize I'm spiritually bankrupt that leads to the second beatitude I'm mourn over that condition and both of these speak of true repentance that feeling of sorrow that I have failed God and I want to do something about it and now we come to verse 5 the third beatitude blessed oh how happy to be envied spiritually prosperous are the meek for they shall inherit the earth ok when you hear the word meek probably not the right definition comes to your mind a lot of people hear the word meek and they think it means gutless spiritually flabby as if Jesus is saying happy are the spineless they will be doormats for God that's not what the term meek means here's what it means it means power that is harnessed think of a horse that is extremely powerful but that horse is put under a harness it's got a lot of power but it's under control and that's the idea of meekness it's power that is under control you might say it this way blessed are gods gentlemen or blessed are God's gentle women they have power but they choose to be very careful about exercising their power it is power that is under God's control listen uncontrolled power doesn't do anybody any good you ever feel like exploding at someone they make you so angry and some people that don't just feel like exploding they explode they just the atom bomb goes off the relationship is devastated because of it so to be meek is to have power but to say I'm gonna I'm gonna be very careful here I'm not gonna blow up it's one person put it this way it's when you idle your motor when you feel like stripping the gears you're just gonna let that Eider idle motor idle a little bit and you're not gonna get too carried away that's the idea of being meek there was a little girl who wrote an essay for her class at school and she said this the Quakers are very meek people they never fight they never yell my mother is a Quaker my father is not here's another way you could look at it you could take the word meek and cut it in two and you will get a suitable definition me and I say it's a suitable definition because when you look at yourself after realizing you're poor in spirit and you mourn over your condition now you look at yourself in that condition and you don't want to dominate and so instead of domineering you let yourself be controlled by God me yeah me out of the way God is in control then Jesus says in verse 6 blessed oh how happy to be envied spiritually prosperous are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled now stop for a moment and consider the flow of the passage if you recognize that you are poverty-stricken in God's presence that you have no hope of your own no claim of your own no righteousness of your own it causes you to mourn over your condition that's true repentance that brings a meekness where you are surrendered to God's control and then you start developing a hunger new appetites you crave something different now than you craved before hey you know what the difference is between spiritual immaturity and spiritual maturity one word appetite appetite what are you hungry for a lot of times we ask people dude what's your passion in life what's your passion let me ask you a question what's your spiritual passion like what do you crave what do you want what drives you that's the idea blessed are those who hunger and thirst those are drives but notice it says hunger and thirst for righteousness do you hunger and thirst for righteousness notice it doesn't say blessed are those who casually snack after righteousness you know when you snack it's evening dinner's over but hey there's food lying around you know I would be kind of nice to snack and I really don't want to eat too many of those chips but a handful would be cool okay that's a casual snack that's different than saying I haven't eaten all day and I'm starving I'm really hungry that's an intense spiritual passion we continue verse seven blessed oh how happy to be envied spiritually prosperous are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy now one of the notable characteristics of our world is that it is mercy less it doesn't have much mercy for people and we're in a political season and one hand I enjoy watching it on the other hand I wince every time I watch it because it seems that candidates even on the same team in the same political party aren't very merciful toward one another they take slap shots and pot shots because what they want people to realize is that I'm a better candidate than that guy so unfortunately what happens is people in the back rooms the spin doctors the strategize errs come up with information about the opponent to put him down to put her down to slur them so that whenever someone comes along who is filled with mercy they are in stark contrast to everything people have seen that this world has to offer including politics when true mercy is seen it's absolutely marvelous and here is Jesus saying those who are a part of my kingdom are not to be condemned errs but givers of mercy no we should condemn sin and we should speak up against it that's not what it's saying but our general take on life should be that of mercy because God is merciful so you get the flow so far I realize I'm poverty straw before God I'm worn over that condition I become me god I want him controlling my life I started hunkering and thirsting after righteousness and I become like God I'm growing now and God is merciful and so I take on those characteristics you take on those characteristics you're now becoming more mature because as you've hungered and thirsted for God's righteousness and to be holy and to be like him you do become like him and one of the things he is is merciful Jesus continues in verse 8 blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God now I'd like to explain to you what is from the Bible's point of view the definition of the heart and I think we need to do that because here in the United States in Western culture we have unfortunately pitted the heart against the mind we do it even in church we say things like dude it's not about head knowledge we need heart knowledge you can you can know things in your head but not in your heart I see Christians do that all the time they talk about the heart versus the head as if to say how you feel is more important than what you know it's not about the mind it's about the heart did you know that from the Bible's perspective the heart is the mind it's not the emotion the heart isn't the emotion in the Bible only in Western civilization like here now in the Bible the heart is where you think it's where you develop your motivations it's the seat of your will it might include some emotions but the Bible doesn't talk about the emotions is coming from the heart by the way does anybody know where the Bible speaks about the emotions coming from anybody no shout it out if you know the bowels who said that do you really believe that the bowels that's its Ken Castel he believes that he's been around a long time yeah the Bible speaks about your emotions coming from your gut your bowels your intestines in the King James the Bible says have bowels of tender mercies when is the last time your bowels were merciful and tender now that's very close to what we consider to be the heart when Jesus says blessed are the pure in heart he's speaking about your thought processes let me give you an example of that just so you think I don't know if that's true or not in proverbs 23 the Bible says as a man thinks in his heart so is he when Solomon wrote to his son in chapter 1 2 and 3 he said my son write these truths on the tablet of your heart in other words remember them and the metaphor he used is write them on the tablet like you would write something down on paper the tablet of your heart remember them Jesus Christ said from the heart come evil thoughts and adultery's etc so it's where we think so here's Jesus saying blessed oh how happy to be envied spiritually prosperous are the pure in heart the seed of your will the seed of your thought processes notice he does not say blessed are the pure in action blessed are the pure in vocabulary the blessed are the pure in heart you know why if God has your heart he has everything else if he begins with the core the inner you the outer you will typically follow keep your heart with all diligence for out of it precede the issues of life my translation watch your thoughts your thoughts form the blueprints for everything else in life what you do and what you say now the word pure blessed are the pure in heart is a Greek word catharsis we get the term catharsis it means to cleanse something or to clean something up by removing the dirt when it's applied to the heart it speaks of an inward purity before God number one an inward purity before God and number two unmixed sincerity before men inward purity with God unmixed sincerity before people in fact one translation of the Bible puts it this way oh how happy are those who are utterly sincere another translation I like better happy is the one who can live life out in the open pure before God utterly sincere before people blessed are the pure in heart they shall see God verse 9 blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God now when we deal with this verse blessed are the peacemakers we're now stepping into mission now that God is changing our lives we're becoming like him we have that deep spiritual hunger and thirst we're now stepping into other people's lives look at it this way we become like a bridge making access for two parties to meet each other now this is our calling as Christians did you know that you are to be a peace maker you say well skip how can I do that what do you mean exactly a peace maker well let me give you four quick categories category number one you make peace with God yourself you make sure that that everything's clear between you and God that's salvation now I take that most all of you have done that you've made your peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ number two you help other people make peace with God now that's evangelism when you help people get right with God you are now sharing the gospel of grace helping them to do that so number one you get right with God that salvation you help people get right with that's evangelism here's a third way to do it you become a peacemaker by making sure you're right with other people you make peace with other people maybe something isn't right between you and a brother or a sister you do whatever you can Matthew chapter 18 to reconcile so the first is salvation the second is evangelism the third is reconciliation with people that you've offended or who have offended you do the best you can and the Bible says this way as much as lies in you be at peace with all men I'm glad it said as much as lies in you because sometimes you can do everything you can do you try and you try to make peace with people they just won't have it but at least try put out the effort and number four help other people be at peace with other people see those are the four categories when you enter into that now you're a mediator you're the bridge you're helping one person who's offended at another person come together and by your mediatorial words and actions you bring peace between them so peace with God helping other people get peace with God yourself peace with people and helping other people have peace with people that's what it means to be a peacemaker blessed are the peacemakers they shall be called sons of God now notice it says they shall be called sons of God it doesn't say they shall become sons of God this is not a means to go to heaven this is not a way to get saved or to be right with God it says people who live like this will be called sons of God in other words if you really live like this if I really live like this people are gonna look at your life and go you you must be related to God by the by the way you act in making peace toward other people okay so let's put it all together before we get to the next beatitude you start out humbly poor in spirit you mourn over your spiritual condition asking God for forgiveness you become meek you surrender your power to God's control instead of being out of control meekness is God's power under his control your power under God's control then you start developing a new appetite for spiritual things you hunger and you thirst after righteousness and when you do that you become like God merciful you become pure and heart living life out in the open utterly truly sincere before men and before God and you help people make peace with one another and with God and when you live that way people go you must be a son of God you must be a daughter of God so look at that beatitude again blessed are the peacemakers they shall be called sons of God okay so here's the deal Jesus is describing life in the kingdom here's the king speaking about you and I subjects in the kingdom and he's describing us describing the characteristics of those who live in the kingdom and he's saying a couple of things number one if you live this way heaven will notice heaven will notice that's the word bless it you'll be blessed heaven will notice number two people will notice they will call you sons and daughters of God number three if you live like this he'll will notice not just heaven not just other people hell will take notice and that brings us to our next beatitude blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are you when they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake rejoice and be exceedingly glad for great is your reward in heaven for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you see when you live the way Jesus just described the world is going to notice they're not going to like it and you're going to get persecution one leads to an other here is the progression of all that has gone before now persecution is the inevitable clash between two irreconcilable value systems let me say that again persecution is the inevitable clash between two irreconcilable value systems the value system of the kingdom of God that's what we live in the value system of the world those two will clash or you might say that persecution is the natural consequence from living a supernatural kind of a life or having a supernatural focus do you remember what Paul said to Timothy all those who live godly in Christ Jesus finish it up all those who live godly in Christ Jesus come on do you does anybody know that verse all those who live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted will suffer persecution if you live godly in Christ Jesus you will be not might be you will be persecuted and so Jesus says blessed are those who are persecuted he assumes that you will be for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are you when not if when they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my name's sake now there's a qualifying phrase here you have to be persecuted for what righteousness sake and then in verse 11 Jesus said for my name's sake Jesus does not say blessed are the persecuted period there's no blessing and being persecuted and some people are just weird and obnoxious and in-your-face and then people go dude you're weird you're obnoxious you're in my face get out of here and then that person might walk away going oh I persecuted for righteousness sake no you were persecuted for weirdness sake for obnoxiousness sake for being in your face sake years ago I remember growing up there was this guy in Huntington Beach California on the pier who used to yell at people going you're going to hell I never noticed that people were attracted to him he was even known for grabbing people by their coat grabbing him in the come here it didn't work that way and that's not righteousness sake and that's not for the cause or sake of Jesus that's just for being nuts bad approach listen God wants sharpshooters not machine gunners he wants you to aim for the heart aim for the life aim for change get to know that person find out what you're aiming at before you pull the gospel trigger there's something else Jesus says in verse 12 about that he declares you blessed that's the Proclamation but he says here's our part here's the hard part here's the toughest part of this he says rejoice rejoice and be exceedingly glad I'm not going to ask you when but I wonder the last time somebody persecuted you yelled at you called you a Jesus Freak laughed at you because of your faith in Christ if you went away going yes awesome in Luke's Gospel when Jesus gives the Beatitudes he says this rejoice and leap for joy excuse me yeah get really happy why that's the question I want to ask why two reasons he gives look-ahead jesus' for great is your reward in heaven if you're persecuted because you love Jesus and you're living the way it's described here for Jesus and they persecute you for that you have a reward coming in heaven well you just have to wait to find out how great it is but it's great jesus said it's not small it's great and there's the second reason you should rejoice not only do you have a great reward but you're in great company he said for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you you know they persecuted Jeremiah and they persecuted Daniel and they persecuted Hosea and Habakkuk etc so you're in great company and you have a great reward there for Jesus says rejoice so to sum up this portion how our kingdom dwellers to live in a word different different we're different than the world were countercultural to the world we are contra mundum against the world different from they are now the last few verses that we want to look at tonight down to verse 16 the next three or four verses for Jesus goes from what this person is like to the kind of influence they're going to have and he says this you are the salt of the earth but if the salt loses its flavor how shall it be seasoned it is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men you are the light of the world a city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand and it gives light to all who are in the house let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven I wonder if you were asked to describe your world your state your city your environment I wonder what words you would choose I asked you that because here Jesus describes the world in effect by using a metaphor for us he says you are the salt of the earth you are the light of the world now since salt 2,000 years ago was primarily used to stop decay before the days of freezers and refrigerators they would take their meat and they would salt it because salt stops corruption stops decay when I was a kid I worked in a place called Hugo's Italian delicatessen and I was the guy who stocked the shelves and I was learning how to cut the meat and I remember a couple of times meat that was left in a place too long and maybe covered up by some boxes and nobody knew after a while it started reeking it was just like what is that smell that smell is rotting corrupting decaying flesh and in the old days they used to rub salt in it to prevent that so for Jesus to say you're the salt of the earth implies that the world is decaying and corrupt and rotting and then he says you are the light of the world and since light was used to dispel darkness he's implying that the world is dark so here is Jesus saying the world is rotting decaying corrupt and dark tell us how you really feel Jesus but here's our influence we're salt here's our influence we are the light of the world something else about salt salt adds flavor sometimes food is pretty dull and tasteless flat insipid but if you sprinkle a little bit of salt they say it brings out the flavor now I've always thought that chilli does that but people outside of New Mexico don't quite get that they own own own oh no no no that sort of ruins the taste no no it accentuates the taste makes it even better but in those days salt brought out the flavor this world this world have you discovered is pretty flat and dull your to add flavor to it people are to see your life as the salt something that that attracts them toward the meal because you're bringing out the real flavor in the Christian life and and something still else about salt salt creates thirst if salt is doing its job people get thirsty several years ago when I was younger and more pernicious to my close friends I would play tricks on them when we go out to eat in a one particular occasion he was a close friend and so he sort of picked it up but it took him a while he left the table and I put some salt in his coke and he came back to the table he started drinking his coke and he and he didn't say anything he just tasted it and he kind of looked a little bit funny but then he's got really thirsty after I go I'm really thirsty today and so he drank more and more which made him thirst year-in thirsty and finally I said you know what I don't want you to drink the whole thing let me tell you what I did I put salt in your coke let me get you water the meals on me the next cokes on me but and you know he said par for the course but if salt is doing its job it creates a thirst this world lives in spiritual dehydration we come along and hopefully are creating a thirst for people to want to know who God is and live the kind of a life that we profess so to sum it all up tonight in our study and expound exposed the Gospel of Matthew first of all were to be different all of the things outlined in the Beatitudes show that it's different from the value system of this world and the fact that we're salt in a decaying place and light in a dark place shows that we're different number two were to be noticed Jesus said when you put light up on a mountain everybody sees it ass it said upon a hill cannot be hidden so you're different you're noticed number three you're responsible the salt Jesus said must keep its flavor its savour otherwise it's really not fulfilling its purpose it's not really good for much if it's not doing its job so we have a responsibility if we are salt to create a thirst if we are light to lead people out of darkness which leads us to the fourth and final thing we are we are necessary we are needed we are here on this earth for a very very important mission when Jesus said to his disciples you are the salt you are the light in Greek it's in the emphatic plural and permit me to translate that in its best form you and you alone are the light of this world you and you alone are the salt of the earth in other words no one else in this world has what you has have no one else in this world can do what you can do if people don't see Christ through our lives guess what they won't see Christ we are living ambassadors we are very necessary and we are dwelling in the kingdom of God someday soon the Lord is going to return and he will establish a literal kingdom not just a kingdom in our hearts not just a kingdom of Brotherhood and allegiance to Christ but a literal worldwide Kingdom on this earth and you will be rewarded and you will have a position in that Kingdom pause with me before we take communion in the communion board we'll get ready to distribute let's bow our heads and just in thought in our hearts in our minds consider these things Lord Justin going over some of the things we have heard tonight as you described the Blessed man or the Blessed woman the happy life the life that is to be envied you described it as someone who is humble lowly in recognizing how great you are and that we have nothing to offer it causes us to realize our poverty and to mourn over our spiritual condition and to ask Jesus to be our righteousness for his blood to cover our sins we rely upon that finished work in so doing Lord we find that our lives are changed instead of seeking our own agenda in trying to promote our own power scheme or power base we submit ourselves to your power our power under your control and then Lord we discover that our appetites change accordingly we're not hungry for the same things we used to be hungry for we we really crave spiritual growth and your righteousness and then we find ourselves becoming like you merciful sincere before man pure before God pure and heart and living that way Lord we incur the wrath of the world around us persecuted Lord I pray that you would encourage the persecuted church around the world we just in thinking of this word and thinking of them just now we know that we have brothers and sisters around the globe like we heard tonight from slavi and Macedonia in the Balkans and all over the world who are suffering greatly simply because they go to church and they love Jesus and they worship Him and in some places like the pastor who faced a death penalty in Iran they pay the ultimate price we pray you'd encourage them and we pray Lord that you would help us when somebody laughs at us or scorns us or marginalizes us to get so excited because that's what happened to all of the Saints throughout history we're in good company and one day you're gonna say to us well done good and faithful servant and we're gonna enter into the joy of our Lord and you're gonna give us and lavish upon us great reward to strengthen us and strengthen your people people in your kingdom around the globe Lord we also pray for anyone tonight who doesn't know Jesus here personally they've been struggling with this they've heard the gospel they've come to church and over and over again they just said no they put it off they put it off or I pray they would put it off no longer I pray that tonight in this place they would say yes to Jesus if that describes you if your heart is crying out to be forgiven by a holy and perfect God who will take your sin and erase it because he'll put your sin on the Lord Jesus Christ who took your sin and look and took your punishment once and for all if you want to know what it's like to be forgiven you just right where you're seated pray in your heart these things Lord I know that I am a sinner I recognize that I'm sorry for my sin I pray you'll forgive me I believe that Jesus shed his blood for me on the cross and that he died and was buried and rose from the grave I turned my life to you I turn from the past I turned from my sin I give you my life I want my life under your control help me Lord give me fill me with your Holy Spirit and give me your power to live a life that pleases you from this night on word in Jesus name Amen we're gonna pass out the communion elements there are little flip-top containers you might say little pull-tabs we're gonna just let you take one and then we're gonna pray and we're gonna take these elements together so just wait till we all have it will continue in worship in this place beautiful night worship God from your heart let the spirit bring things to your remembrance just now that we're said tonight or other things he's been speaking to you about and just use it to worship and commune with the Lord and then we'll all take the elements for communion together [Music] if you would take your peel top communion elements and just peel the first layer off the translucent white layer and you'll get to the bread and we're gonna pray for the bread and then for the juice separately like Jesus did the night that he was betrayed and his disciples were in that upper room I bet a couple of different people to UM pray for these elements tonight and these are people that are content to serve behind the scenes they're not people who are out in front we have so many volunteers at this church like thousands of people who serve behind the scenes but we have a couple guys that are at every service and one is Dave Durrell he's in our video department and the other is Jay Fisher he's in our audio department and they're mixing sound and they're making the pictures go on the internet and recording him etc but and they're happy to be behind the scenes there they're not too stoked about being out in public like this but every now and then I think it's good to let the Wizard of Oz come from behind the curtain and so we have Dave doral he's uh runs our video department and Jay fish are audio apartment they're going to pray for these elements tonight let's pray for the bread Heavenly Father you are the bread of life and we thank you that you've given your body on our behalf Lord you are unashamed to hang on that tree and have your body broken so that ours does not have to be we take this bread together in celebration of the fact that you love us more than anyone else in Jesus name Amen if you take the second tab and peel it back a little bit not too quickly you don't want it to get all over you or your friend next to you just peel that back and you'll get to the juice underneath the fruit of the vine father as you put your son on that cross for us and as his blood flowed to cover everything that any of us have ever done in our lives in all of our sins we take this in remembrance of that we want to give you praise for sending your son for us and for him dying for us and for his blood washing us clean let's drink thank you thank you guys for serving us

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Published: Wed Jul 11 2018