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Pastor Rick's Daily Hope | Praying in Five Dimensions Part 3 | May 15, 2022
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- Pastor Rick Warren: When you start being honest to God, it
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- takes you to a whole new level of intimacy.
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- Everybody craves intimacy, whether they know it or not.
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- Everybody craves it.
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- They want it.
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- But the only way you get intimacy is by being willing to
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- open up.
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- And so, what you do is you invite God into what you think
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- about you.
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- He already knows, it's no surprise.
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- You see, there are levels of intimacy.
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- Sharing our frustration is one level.
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- You can share that in a small group.
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- Share your fears.
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- That's a deeper level of intimacy.
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- Share what you don't like about you, that's an even deeper.
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- And only as you go through the tunnel of conflict do you come
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- out to deeper intimacy.
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- You spell intimacy, I just thought this up this week,
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- somebody should tweet this.
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- Here's how you spell intimacy, into me see.
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- That's how you get intimacy.
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- When you invite somebody into your life and you say okay,
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- warts and all, good and bad, into me see.
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- When you let somebody into your heart that deeply, now into me
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- see becomes intimacy.
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- Most people will never learn what I just told you.
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- Where do you start?
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- In this third dimension of I pray and I ask God for helping
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- me as I look within, where do you start?
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- Well, you might start with the fruit of the spirit.
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- Galatians 5:22 and 23, that's a good verse to write down.
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- Galatians 5:22 and 23 are called the nine fruit of the Spirit.
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- And it says the fruit of the spirit are these things, love,
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- joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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- meekness, self-control.
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- I'd like all those things in my life.
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- I'd like to be more loving, more joyful, more peaceful,
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- more patient.
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- I'd like to be more self-controlled.
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- There's not a thing on that list I don't want.
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- What is that?
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- It's a perfect picture of Jesus.
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- And so you say, "Jesus, you're in me, show me what needs to
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- change and start producing some fruit in my life today."
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- How many of you want to be little bit more loving today, a
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- little more joyful today, a little more at peace, a little
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- more patient?
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- And every day that could be a godly checklist, because it's
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- just a picture of Jesus.
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- Jesus, produce some fruit in me today.
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- Okay, number four, I did a backward look at the cross, I
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- did an upward look at the Father's face, I do an inward
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- look at Christ in me, then number four, fourth dimension, I
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- look around and I ask the Holy Spirit to use me.
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- This is the fourth dimension of prayer.
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- And I like to do this, I just gotta say you've heard me say
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- this many times, that the most dangerous prayer you can pray is
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- just two words, use me.
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- I dare you to pray that prayer and mean it, because if you get
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- usable, God will wear you out.
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- The world is waiting.
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- So, you just take the fourth look, you look around, and you
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- look at the world around you, and you say, "Holy Spirit, show
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- me where you want to use me today."
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- And instead of criticizing the world, or complaining about the
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- world, or judging the world, that doesn't work, or whining
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- about the world, or for heaven's sake, blogging about what's
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- wrong with the world, why don't you just say Holy Spirit, show
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- me what's wrong, and show me how I can make a difference?
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- Use me, I dare you to pray that prayer.
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- That's the fourth dimension of prayer.
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- Romans 6 verse 13, "Give yourself completely to God,
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- every part of you, since you've been given a new life and you
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- want to be used."
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- There's nothing like it.
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- "You want to be used as a tool in the hands of God, used for
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- his good purposes."
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- That's a purpose-driven life right there.
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- God says I want to use you for my purposes.
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- And there's nothing, friends, if you've never felt what it feels
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- like to be used by God, I pity you.
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- It's better than sex.
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- It's better than food.
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- It's better than anything.
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- When you know I am doing exactly what God made me to do, I'm in
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- my niche, my niche, I'm doin' what God made me to do.
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- This is why I was born.
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- I was made for this.
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- That's the fourth kind of prayer.
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- God, use me the way you want to use me.
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- Use me any way you want to use me.
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- I don't know who I'm supposed to say this to, but somebody here
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- listening, the world is waiting for your contribution.
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- I don't know what it is, but we live in a world that desperately
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- needs your help, and the world is waiting for you.
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- I'm makin' my contribution, are you?
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- You were made for more.
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- You were made for more, and you need to pray the
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- fourth-dimension prayer.
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- God, use me.
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- I don't even know where, but look around.
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- When you find a need, and you have an interest, or you got an
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- ability, guess what?
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- Those things fit.
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- Backwards to the cross, upwards to the Father, inward for
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- examination and to communicate with Christ in me, and then
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- around me at the world, and go, "Lord, where can you use
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- me today?"
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- Stop trying to do something great.
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- Stop trying to do something great with your life, just do
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- normal things with a great amount of love, and God will
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- bless that.
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- By the way, I didn't think that on up, that's from
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- Mother Teresa.
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- Don't, you know, stop trying to find some significant place
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- to serve.
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- Make what you're doing significant because you're
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- pouring your heart into it, and God will notice.
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- That's the fourth dimension.
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- The world's waiting for your contribution.
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- The world needs your help.
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- And by the way, the best launchpad is your church family.
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- Finally, there's the fifth dimension, and it is this.
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- I look forward.
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- I look forward to my future in faith.
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- And now in my prayer, I've looked at the past, I've looked
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- up, I've looked within, I've looked around, and now I'm
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- lookin' forward.
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- Now's the time to talk to God about my schedule today, this
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- week, this month, this year, the next ten years, my 20-year plan,
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- my life goal.
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- Talk to God, Abba, Daddy, Papa, this is stuff God wants you to
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- talk about.
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- Any parent loves to hear their child talk about their dreams,
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- any good parent.
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- God wants to hear your plans, your thoughts, your ideas,
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- your dreams.
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- You talk to your Father about the day ahead of you, and you'll
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- say some stuff like, Father, Abba, would you help
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- me prioritize?
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- I've got 19 things to do today and I'm not gonna get 'em
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- all done.
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- Help me to prioritize.
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- Show me what matters most.
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- Father, help me to make the right decisions in the
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- right way.
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- Father, help me to have the energy.
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- Help me to know who I should contact, who's got the wisdom
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- that can help me pull this off.
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- Lord, I'm goin' into a meeting, what should I say?
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- Father, help me to have a tough skin and a tender heart.
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- Help me to be tender without surrender.
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- You know, you can read a lot of self-help books that talk
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- about--one of the common suggestions for people in
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- personal development is you should build a mastermind
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- counsel, a personal mastermind counsel to coach your life.
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- Well, that's not a bad idea, I'm not against that, but can I
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- recommend some members?
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- How about the Trinity?
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- Put the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit on your mastermind
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- counsel, you'll make a whole lot fewer mistakes.
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- You say, "Come on, Rick, how do they coach?"
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- Oh, they have an incredible fool-proof manual, and it's all
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- been written out, you just have to read it.
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- The more you use this book, the more confident you're going to
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- be in life.
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- Besides, ultimately as God's child, your Father has already
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- rigged the system.
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- Did you know this?
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- You're not gonna get everything you want in life, I'm not
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- telling you that at all.
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- I'm telling you this, what God wired you for, and made you for,
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- and wants you to accomplish, what he wants you to be in your
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- life, it's already been wired.
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- Look at this next verse, Philippians 1:6, "I am confident
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- of this, that God who began a good work in you will continue
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- to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus."
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- You can go to the bank with that one, folks.
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- "I am confident of this, that God who began a good work in
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- you," just started a little tiny bit, "He will continue to
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- complete it."
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- It's not dependent upon you, he will continue to complete it.
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- He will be faithful to complete it until the day of
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- Jesus Christ, why?
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- Because God does not sponsor flops.
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- Now this, five-dimensional praying, it's just another way.
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- I'm just giving you another way to freshen up your prayer life.
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- But you know that the five things I just shared with you
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- are all brought to us in remembrance in communion.
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- female announcer: We all experience disappointments,
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- obstacles, and seemingly impossible circumstances in
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- our lives.
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- Maybe you need a breakthrough in your marriage, your finances,
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- relationships, or with habits and painful memories that have
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- held you back.
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- You'll get a breakthrough in your life when you seek one, and
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- the way you do that is through prayer.
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- That's way Pastor Rick created the "40 Days of Prayer"
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- study kit.
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- Pastor Rick: The first question I want to ask is what is
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- the purpose?
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- You know about communion if you've grown up in a church, or
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- you've ever been to a church.
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- You know people take the symbols of wine and bread, or juice and
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- bread as the symbols of the body and blood of Christ.
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- When Jesus transformed the Passover into the Lord's Supper,
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- he announced the reason, the purpose for it.
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- Twice he says, "Do this to remember me."
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- This is a reminder.
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- What specifically are we to remember?
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- Well, in 1 Corinthians 11, Paul explains that communion teaches
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- us five very important truths.
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- Guess which one they are.
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- I just taught 'em to you.
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- First he says communion reminds us to check our hearts.
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- That's the third dimension of prayer.
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- Notice there, that verse, 1 Corinthians 11, Paul is talking
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- to the people in Corinth, the church of Corinth, and he's
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- talking about the Lord's Supper, and he says this, pay attention.
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- "If anyone eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in
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- an unworthy manner, that person is guilty of sinning against the
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- body and blood of the Lord."
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- That's a big deal.
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- "This is why," notice, "You should examine yourself before
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- eating the bread and drinking from the cup," third dimension,
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- we just talked about that.
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- You should examine yourself.
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- "For if you eat the bread or drink the cup without
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- recognizing," in other words, "Committing to the body of
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- Christ, you are eating and drinking God's judgment
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- on yourself."
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- Whoa, this is not something light.
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- That's why many of you are weak or sick, and some even died, so
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- there are consequences.
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- "But if we examine," "If we examine and judge ourselves,"
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- into me see.
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- If we examine and judge ourselves, we're not gonna be
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- judged by God, good news.
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- Now, this says we are not to take the Lord's Supper in an
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- unworthy manner.
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- We're not, none of us are worthy of the Lord's Supper, it's all
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- by God's grace.
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- But he's saying it's only for those who have accepted the gift
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- of Christ's salvation.
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- If you haven't accepted Christ in your life, please do not take
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- the Lord's Supper, 'cause it's worse off for you, not better.
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- Has no meaning, has no power.
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- In fact, it's wrong for you to take the symbols of Jesus dying
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- for you and then rejecting Jesus dying for you.
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- You say, "Well, I'm not sure if I've ever really accepted."
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- Then we will confirm that in just a second.
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- Alright, he says examine ourselves and judge ourselves,
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- then we won't be judged but God.
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- Let me give you a chip.
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- Memorize Psalm 139:23-24, so that in the Lord's Supper, or on
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- a daily basis, you can pray this prayer.
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- Look up here on the screen, here's what it is.
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- "Search me, O God, and know my heart.
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- Test me and know my anxious thoughts.
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- See if there's any offensive way in me, and lead me in
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- the way everlasting."
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- I quote that every time I come to the third dimension
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- in prayer.
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- Search me, O God, know my heart.
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- Test me, try me, and know my thoughts, anxious thoughts.
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- See if there's anything offensive in my life.
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- Show It to me and lead me in the way everlasting.
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- If you'll pray that prayer, memorize that.
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- That's like a soap-bar verse.
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- Every Christian should memorize that verse so you can use it
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- in prayer.
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- Search me God, know my heart.
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- Into me see, intimacy.
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- So first, communion reminds us to check our hearts.
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- We're gonna do that in just a second.
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- But then communion reminds us of the five transforming truths we
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- just talked about.
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- So, fill us in.
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- I'm not gonna teach on this, but I will read the verses.
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- Number one, five great truths that we learn from communion.
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- No one loves me more.
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- No one loves us more than our Father, our heavenly Father.
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- We just talked about that in detail.
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- Nobody loves us more than our Father in heaven, and the cross
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- proves it.
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- Paul says, "For I received from the Lord what I passed on
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- to you.
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- The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and
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- when he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, 'This is
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- my body which is for you.
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- Do this in remembrance of me.'"
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- In other words, it's a memory tool.
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- "And the same way after the supper he took the cup, saying,
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- 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
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- Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me.'"
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- And I've written a couple of questions I want you to consider
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- later on this week.
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- When, in other words, the time, or the day, or the situation,
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- when am I most likely to forget how much my heavenly Father
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- loves me?
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- You need to know.
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- Is it Friday nights?
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- Is it Monday morning?
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- Is it in a certain tempting situation?
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- When am I most likely to forget how much my heavenly Father
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- loves me?
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- How about this question, what sin or sins do I habitually fall
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- into when I forget God's love for me?
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- You realize that's the source of everything that happens wrong in
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- your life.
- 00:17:45.646 --> 00:17:47.014
- We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love.
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- And he says God loves you.
- 00:17:49.984 --> 00:17:54.355
- Now, there's a second great truth, and it's this.
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- We belong to each other in God's family.
- 00:17:57.291 --> 00:18:01.395
- Communion says not only does God love me more than I will ever
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- understand, that's the cross, but we belong to each other in
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- God's family, that's why we take communion.
- 00:18:10.037 --> 00:18:14.308
- Now, in Corinth there were three big problems in that church, and
- 00:18:14.308 --> 00:18:18.646
- it was ruining the Lord's Supper.
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- And when Paul is writing this to these people, he says you got
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- three problems, guys.
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- Number one, you got members in your church with unresolved
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- conflict and you're not right with each other.
- 00:18:27.855 --> 00:18:32.260
- How can you have a happy church, how can you have a harmonious
- 00:18:32.260 --> 00:18:35.563
- family, how can you have unity and harmony when you have people
- 00:18:35.563 --> 00:18:39.133
- in the church arguing with each other?
- 00:18:39.133 --> 00:18:42.236
- They're disagreeing, they're taking sides, they're even
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- fighting with each other, that's a problem.
- 00:18:43.938 --> 00:18:45.506
- He said the second problem you've got is you're acting like
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- the Lord's Supper is just for individuals.
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- Everybody, please look up here.
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- The Lord's Supper is not for individuals.
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- Not once in Scripture does it ever say take the Lord's Supper
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- on your own, not once.
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- Why do you think they call it communion?
- 00:19:05.893 --> 00:19:09.564
- It's communal, its community, it is only to be taken with
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- other people.
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- Never in Scripture are you ever, ever commanded to take the
- 00:19:17.038 --> 00:19:21.275
- Lord's Supper on your own.
- 00:19:21.275 --> 00:19:22.610
- How can you have communion by yourself?
- 00:19:22.610 --> 00:19:26.247
- It is the symbol that we're part of the body of Christ.
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- You can take it in a small group.
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- The Bible says where two or three people are,
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- that's community.
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- But nowhere in Scriptures it says take the Lord's Supper on
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- your own, not once.
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- There may be people who do it, but it's not in the Bible.
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- In this church, we teach what the Bible says.
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- They're acting like the Lord's Supper was for individuals, and
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- it's not.
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- Shocking to you, not a single time in the Bible does it say
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- take communion on your own.
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- You're part of a body.
- 00:19:54.508 --> 00:19:55.843
- And communion actually says you're part of the body, that's
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- why we take it with each other.
- 00:19:58.879 --> 00:20:00.648
- The third problem in this church was that they were oblivious to
- 00:20:00.648 --> 00:20:03.284
- the needs of other people in their own family, and there was
- 00:20:03.284 --> 00:20:05.253
- some really rich people and some really poor people, and they
- 00:20:05.253 --> 00:20:07.922
- weren't taking care of each other.
- 00:20:07.922 --> 00:20:09.690
- And there were some people who were coming and eating, and
- 00:20:09.690 --> 00:20:11.659
- other people were hungry.
- 00:20:11.659 --> 00:20:13.594
- Here's what he says, 1 Corinthians 11.
- 00:20:13.594 --> 00:20:17.131
- "I hear that there are divisions among you when you meet as
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- a church.
- 00:20:21.836 --> 00:20:23.371
- So when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper you're
- 00:20:23.371 --> 00:20:27.441
- eating, because as you eat it, each one of you goes ahead
- 00:20:27.441 --> 00:20:30.244
- without waitin' on anybody else."
- 00:20:30.244 --> 00:20:32.680
- And then he says here, "One member goes hungry while another
- 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:35.182
- gets drunk."
- 00:20:35.182 --> 00:20:37.084
- By the way, notice somethin' here.
- 00:20:37.084 --> 00:20:38.419
- It says, "When you meet as a church," circle the word "meet."
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- And it says when you come together, you can't have church
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- without meeting.
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- You can't have church without coming together.
- 00:20:47.161 --> 00:20:49.697
- You say, "Well, I'm a part of the church," where do you meet?
- 00:20:49.697 --> 00:20:51.465
- "I don't meet anywhere."
- 00:20:51.465 --> 00:20:52.800
- Where do you come together?
- 00:20:52.800 --> 00:20:54.135
- "I don't," then you're not a part of a church.
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- Church means you have to come together.
- 00:20:56.804 --> 00:20:58.372
- You have to meet.
- 00:20:58.372 --> 00:20:59.940
- You meet as a church and you come together.
- 00:20:59.940 --> 00:21:03.210
- It says not the Lord's Supper, it says--so here's some
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- questions to ask yourself.
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- What issue or issues have I made more important than being in
- 00:21:08.616 --> 00:21:12.820
- harmony and unity with my brothers and sisters in
- 00:21:12.820 --> 00:21:14.889
- God's family?
- 00:21:14.889 --> 00:21:18.025
- When you come to church, it should be harmony and unity, not
- 00:21:18.025 --> 00:21:24.298
- politics which divides, not a lot of other stuff
- 00:21:24.298 --> 00:21:29.837
- which divides.
- 00:21:29.837 --> 00:21:31.205
- What issue has become more important to me than my
- 00:21:31.205 --> 00:21:33.674
- fellow Christians?
- 00:21:33.674 --> 00:21:35.543
- Only God can tell you that.
- 00:21:35.543 --> 00:21:36.877
- Would God be pleased where your loyalty has been?
- 00:21:36.877 --> 00:21:40.815
- First Corinthians 11:33, "So dear brothers and sisters, when
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- you gather at the Lord's Supper, wait for each other."
- 00:21:43.551 --> 00:21:47.421
- Now, there's a larger principle here.
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- He says the church should be the one place where we put each
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- other's needs ahead of our own.
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- Can I give you an example where I've put the needs of my
- 00:21:55.029 --> 00:21:57.264
- brothers and sisters and my Church family ahead of my own?
- 00:21:57.264 --> 00:22:00.134
- Can I give you an example?
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- Do I know of anybody in our church in need?
- 00:22:02.770 --> 00:22:04.705
- You say, "Well, I don't know anybody."
- 00:22:04.705 --> 00:22:06.073
- Well, talk to me.
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- The third great truth, the Lord's Supper teaches us God
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- loves me completely, we belong to each other in God's family,
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- and the third thing is that the Spirit of Jesus lives inside
- 00:22:16.684 --> 00:22:19.220
- of me.
- 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:22.256
- The Spirit of Jesus lives inside of me, that's what
- 00:22:22.256 --> 00:22:24.425
- communion says.
- 00:22:24.425 --> 00:22:27.161
- In John 6:56-57, "Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live
- 00:22:27.161 --> 00:22:33.334
- in me and I live in them."
- 00:22:33.334 --> 00:22:37.471
- Remember, it's a symbol, "In remembrance of me."
- 00:22:37.471 --> 00:22:39.673
- "The Living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so
- 00:22:39.673 --> 00:22:43.043
- whoever eats me will live because of me."
- 00:22:43.043 --> 00:22:46.614
- Question, what happens when I forget this fact, and I forget
- 00:22:46.614 --> 00:22:49.850
- that Christ lives in me?
- 00:22:49.850 --> 00:22:51.852
- Number four, fourth big truth.
- 00:22:51.852 --> 00:22:54.922
- There are five dimensions.
- 00:22:54.922 --> 00:22:56.257
- This life is not the end of the story.
- 00:22:56.257 --> 00:23:00.928
- Did you know that communion teaches that?
- 00:23:00.928 --> 00:23:02.963
- This life is not the end of the story.
- 00:23:02.963 --> 00:23:07.902
- John 6, Jesus said, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man
- 00:23:07.902 --> 00:23:13.541
- and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.
- 00:23:13.541 --> 00:23:18.212
- But those who do eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal
- 00:23:18.212 --> 00:23:20.948
- life, and I will raise them up at the last day."
- 00:23:20.948 --> 00:23:24.685
- This is not the end of the story.
- 00:23:24.685 --> 00:23:26.754
- There's more to life than just here and now.
- 00:23:26.754 --> 00:23:28.923
- So, am I using my time, am I using my money as if that's all
- 00:23:28.923 --> 00:23:33.994
- that matters is this life?
- 00:23:33.994 --> 00:23:35.896
- Am I investing anything in the next life where I'm going to
- 00:23:35.896 --> 00:23:39.266
- spend eternity?
- 00:23:39.266 --> 00:23:41.869
- What would I change if I kept reminding myself to ask how long
- 00:23:41.869 --> 00:23:45.105
- is this going to last?
- 00:23:45.105 --> 00:23:47.408
- Friends, I'm givin' you some really tough questions, and I
- 00:23:47.408 --> 00:23:50.077
- hope you're not gonna throw 'em away.
- 00:23:50.077 --> 00:23:52.446
- I hope you're not gonna lay 'em aside.
- 00:23:52.446 --> 00:23:53.914
- I hope you'll ask yourself these in your prayer time.
- 00:23:53.914 --> 00:23:57.885
- The fifth thing we get from the Lord's Supper is this, Jesus is
- 00:23:57.885 --> 00:24:01.655
- coming back one day to judge and reward.
- 00:24:01.655 --> 00:24:07.394
- Jesus is going to come back one day to judge and reward, and
- 00:24:07.394 --> 00:24:13.000
- Paul tells us in verse 26, "Every time you eat this bread
- 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:16.337
- and you drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord's death,"
- 00:24:16.337 --> 00:24:20.541
- that's the past, "Until he comes again," that's in the future.
- 00:24:20.541 --> 00:24:24.645
- There's a past look, there's a present look, and there's a
- 00:24:24.645 --> 00:24:27.448
- forward look in communion, what's that called?
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- Multidimensional, let's bow our heads for prayer.
- 00:24:29.450 --> 00:24:35.756
- If you've never opened your life to Jesus Christ, he loves you so
- 00:24:35.756 --> 00:24:40.661
- much it hurts.
- 00:24:40.661 --> 00:24:42.730
- He paid the ultimate sacrifice for you.
- 00:24:42.730 --> 00:24:44.431
- Would you accept that right now?
- 00:24:44.431 --> 00:24:46.367
- Would you say, "Jesus Christ, I don't understand it all, but as
- 00:24:46.367 --> 00:24:51.438
- much as I know how, I surrender my life to you."
- 00:24:51.438 --> 00:24:56.377
- Just say that in your heart.
- 00:24:56.377 --> 00:24:57.745
- Jesus Christ, I don't understand it all, but as much as I know
- 00:24:57.745 --> 00:25:01.515
- how, I surrender my life to you.
- 00:25:01.515 --> 00:25:07.187
- I want to know the purpose you made me for.
- 00:25:07.187 --> 00:25:12.860
- I want to live the kind of life you made possible.
- 00:25:12.860 --> 00:25:19.099
- I want my past to be forgiven, and I ask you to give me a
- 00:25:19.099 --> 00:25:24.171
- purpose for living, and I ask you to accept me into a home
- 00:25:24.171 --> 00:25:30.878
- in heaven.
- 00:25:30.878 --> 00:25:33.714
- I do this knowing that I have nothing to offer.
- 00:25:33.714 --> 00:25:40.487
- I throw myself on your grace.
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- In your name I pray.
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