Pastor Loran Livingston 🔥A Great Separation Is Coming to the Church—Many Will Not Be Ready

Boy, this is a happy crowd today. Are you happy? >> Why wouldn't we be any moment now?

We could see Jesus. Hallelujah. I love the music this morning.

I these great musicians over here, you ought to give them a hand. And over here, [applause] we're just a blessed church. As you know, you have your elements with you there.

Today is communion Sunday. I prayed and asked the Lord not to let [music] any of us, including the preacher, just go through the motions. I want to be reminded deeply what that bread means, what that little cup of juice represents.

I want it to move my heart. I want to be reminded of the price [music] he paid so that you and I could stand here today and call him savior. >> So Lord, as we go through the word, through the message, through the remainder of this service, I ask that you will do a supernatural thing in us.

Well, Lord, that's all you do anyway. You're not natural. [music] Everything you do is supernatural.

Do a work, Holy Spirit, in every one of us. I pray for the people who are saved and they know it and they're glad about it that [music] they will enjoy their salvation. I pray for the people who are on the fence that they will realize they don't have much time and there's no life like the life of Christ.

I pray for those people who are struggling with past sins. May they hear me, may they hear you today say, "When we confess our sins, you are faithful and just to cleanse us along with that forgiveness from all unrighteousness. [music] >> It's gone in Jesus' name." and we praise [music] you for it.

And the whole church said, "Amen." >> Amen. >> God bless you. You can be seated.

Yesterday, I was reminded of what a fallen and dark world we live in. I didn't have to go to New Orleans and see the debauchery there or Las Vegas or anywhere in California. Didn't have to go to New York.

I just looked out my front door. And right across the street, my neighbors had erected skeletons, built a graveyard, spiderw webs, ghosts blowing in the trees. That's what I got to see this morning when I woke up.

Yesterday, Sandra and I went somewhere and on the way back, she said, "Let's just drive through the neighborhood. Let's see what our neighbors are doing. Wow.

We do not have a Christian neighborhood besides all the Jewish people. I I saw ghosts and goblins, skeletons, uh, witches, warlocks. At one house where I think it must have taken this guy two days to decorate, he capped it all off with a big satanic symbol on his tree.

That's in my neighborhood. This is not our world. >> No Christian does that stuff.

>> That celebrates the morbid. It exalts death and destruction. Uh blood is as common as water, but to God, life is in the blood.

And it just reminded me again, we're on a journey in a foreign land. And this land is hostile to us and the message we bring. Christianity is being targeted more, questioned more.

Christians are being persecuted more. Oh, all over the world, folks. They're killing Christians in other countries.

If Jesus doesn't come, we're going to have to suffer a lot of this stuff. And I will tell you that I'm not going to take any of it lying down. If you think I'm loud now, I saw these three beautiful young ladies on the stage.

First song this morning, and I was reminded that each one of them is wanted by hell. Satan has already designed a plan to drag them down. Today is First Family Sunday.

We have lots of young people in with us that aren't normally with us. And I want to tell you young people, we are entering a day where you cannot be passive. Your faith cannot be an ambiguous faith.

You're going to have to stand strong and speak up. Um, you are, especially when you go into public school, you're going into enemy territory. It's as dark as it can get in public school, but you go.

And I'm going to gently, like a dad, well, actually, like a granddad, remind you of something. You cannot be popular with this world and with Christ at the same time. >> We've come to a day you got to make a decision.

Do you want lots of friends? No matter what they believe, you just want to be popular. You want to fit in?

Or do you want to protect your heart even if it means being lonely? Do you want your friends to be Christian? because that's all that matters.

You are not strong enough to live for Jesus if you have bad friends. >> There's a little phrase in the Bible that says bad company corrupts good manners. That's the old King James way of saying it.

What what the Bible is saying is hanging around the wrong people will infect you. >> You ain't strong enough. You can't fight it.

The best thing you can do is come out of it. >> That's what we teach in the Bible. And people have accused us of being uh high-minded or maybe even holier than thou.

But the Bible tells God's people, you come out of that group. Come out of the world. Be separate.

Don't touch it. Don't deal with it. Don't indulge in it.

If you do that, I'll be your father and I will reward you. There's another verse that Paul uses that says, um, come on now, I can do it. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.

That's sin. Have no fellowship with sin. For it is a shame to even speak of the things that they do in secret.

Is so vile to God, you shouldn't even talk about it. So have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove it. Call it out, say it's wrong, you'll lose your friends.

I'm talking to everybody now. Uh you'll lose, they're not your friends. No, you have a friend in Jesus.

>> And your friends will be those who have the same faith you do. So, I'm warning you as a pastor, a dad, and a pawpaw or a poppy. I'm warning you.

The devil is trying to get you. And he already knows your weakness. And I almost, pardon my English, busted a gasket when I heard that the stupid NFL had invited this transvestite anti-American sleas bucket to be the halftime performance at the Super Bowl.

I wish we all had the guts not to watch another stinking game. But it's not just football. They have gay pride day in the in the baseball parks.

It's not just baseball. It's basketball. It's every group.

And see, we depend on this so much for entertainment that we're not willing to make them pay a price. >> Therefore, we somehow contribute. We continue to pay and give and support and they continue to make their mark on us and our children.

Now, let's go ahead and bite the bullet. And be reminded that time is running out. We're in a squeeze.

The devil senses senses that uh Jesus is coming to get his church, the rapture. It it tears him up to see us having this much fun on Sunday morning. The devil that is.

He can't do a thing about it. So he is tightening the noose and he's narrowing um the gate and trying to make people feel pressure and it's coming down to simple things. It's not complicated.

In fact, in fact, it's just this simple. Jesus came into the region of Cesaria Philippi and he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?" That's a simple question. [clears throat] What are they saying about me?

When you walk around, guys, what are you hearing? What do men say about me? So they said, "Some say you are John the Baptist.

Some say you are Elijah. [clears throat] Others are saying that you're Jeremiah or just one of the prophets." So you got to understand men are saying thing about things about Jesus >> even today. I want you to hear me.

MEN ARE STILL saying things about Jesus and it matters what they say. Now I know and you know what Islam says about Jesus. Islam says he's a kind of a weak um bluecollar prophet but he's not God.

And you know what Judaism says about Jesus? They rejected him 2,000 years ago. To this day, they say he was an illegitimate child born to a woman of illreute.

He is not the son of God. That's what those men are saying about Jesus. Now, the Mormon says that Christ is the spirit child of one of the mothers that God the Father has.

God the Father has a number of wives and so Jesus is a product of one of those wives that that relationship. Now folks, this is the tip of the iceberg. Mormons say that Jesus is the brother of Lucifer.

So you haven't googled any of this? The Jehovah's Witness says, of course, they reject the Trinity. So when you reject the Trinity, you reject the true and living God.

But they say Jesus is Michael the Archangel. He is a created being. He is not God.

That's what men are saying about Jesus. The Catholic Church says Jesus is the son of God. However, what he did on the cross was not sufficient to provide eternal life and wash away my sins.

Therefore, I have to do many works and do many, many things to earn my way into heaven. That's what men are saying about the sacrifice of Jesus. You got the new age and that is so subtle today.

They say Jesus was an enlightened teacher who helps us realize our own divine nature. And I could go on and you could pull it up on your phone or your device. You can see 50 different cults or a hundred different groups that say something about Jesus and they're all wrong.

>> The only correct, shall I say it this way, group is the church of the living God >> of which we are a part. >> But pastor, don't you want to get along? No, I do not.

All right. >> And I will tell you something. Listen very carefully.

All of these peacemakers who have no spine and they are not willing to stand up for Christ will not quote the verse that Jesus spoke when he said, "Don't you dare think that I've come to bring peace to the earth. I didn't come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword." That's what Jesus said.

But he's the peacemaker. And if you get Jesus, you get peace. And that's not going to happen till he comes and rules and reigns on this earth.

But right now, Jesus is a divider. He is uh he is tearing families apart. He is tearing nations apart because of his truth.

He is truth. >> So this week after last week's message, my sister, raise your hand, Janice. I want everybody to know who you are.

So when you call and you deal with Janice then that don't you laugh at my family. >> All right. >> She's she's running interference for me.

So someone called last week who had only been watching three or four weeks and they LOVED IT. THEY LOVED it until last week's message and they said, "The kind of language that I use is the kind of language that incites hatred in our nation." Well, the kind of language I used was scripture. >> All right?

>> I may have yelled it, >> but it was scripture. So, we're coming to that time when people are screaming for leniency and for cooperation in every group except us, except our group, except Christianity. We're the bad guys.

We are the one using hate speech. We are the one putting down transgenders and LTQ L that group. Yeah.

We're We're the bad guys. And so you go ahead and tighten your belt and get ready for it. You You cannot be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

>> [applause] >> And if you want to know what real closmindedness is, let me read to you what Paul said to the Galatians about every other religion in the world except Christianity. I marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel. >> I don't know what it is about us Christians.

If we don't stay on our knees and stay in the book and go to church, >> we begin to drift. We begin to be tolerant of sin. We get very lenient with our sinful selves and with a sincursed world.

Let me read it again. I marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel which is not another. But there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

But even if we or an angel from heaven, did you get that? Paul said, "EVEN IF I preach something different than what I preach, OR IF AN ANGEL preaches something than than what I preached, let him be cursed." That's pretty close-minded. And then he repeats it.

As I've said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be cursed. Paul was not into how can we all get along. He was into the faith of Jesus Christ.

What is that faith? That there is only one body and one spirit. Even as you've been called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all who is in you all, one, one, one, one, one.

And Christianity is the one. There is no other religion. This is not a religion.

This is a faith. This is a lifestyle. This is a walk in the spirit.

So Paul says to the Colossians, can I preach a little while this morning? It may be my last message. I'm I don't know what's going to happen here.

says this, "By him were all things created that are in heaven, on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

And in him dwells all the fullness of the godhead in a body. That's Colossians uh 1 and 10. You are complete in him.

Did anybody hear that? >> You need nothing >> but Jesus Christ. So now the question is posed.

We know what men are saying. WHAT DO MEN SAY ABOUT ME? WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM?

They told him, he said, "All right, who do you say that I am?" >> And you cannot just glibly say, "Oh, he's Jesus, son of God." Although he is. There should be a conviction. Something should stir inside of you.

You are the Christ. WHO DO MEN SAY THAT I AM NOW? You who call me Lord, I love you.

I called you. Who do you say that I am? And the Bible says that Peter spoke up and said, "You are the Christ." The son of the living God.

>> What a turse statement. You are the Christ. You are the anointed.

You are the one. You are the chosen. There's nobody else.

You are the one sent from heaven down to earth. You are the one about whom God the Father said, "Today you are my son. >> You are the Christ.

You had no beginning. You have no end. You are eternal.

You're almighty. You're all powerful. You're omnisient.

Yes, >> there is no one to compare to you except your father and the holy spirit. You inhabit the heavens. You made the heavens.

There was nothing made that you didn't make. >> You made it all with the breath of your mouth. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shines in the darkness, BUT THE DARKNESS COULD NOT OVERCOME IT.

HE IS THE ANOINTED. HE IS THE SON OF THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD. There is no other.

[applause] I'm going I'm going to preach too long and I know it. HE'S NOT MICHAEL'S BROTHER. HE'S NOT LUCIFER'S BROTHER.

HE'S NOT A CONCOCTION OF THE MIND. HE WAS NOT CREATED. HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE.

EVERYTHING ELSE WAS MADE BUT CHRIST JESUS THE LORD. [applause] >> HALLELUJAH. Jesus Christ is hidden in the crowd on the side of the River Jordan while John the Baptist is baptizing hundreds and thousands.

And Jesus begins to make his way down towards the water. And John looked up and was shocked and said to those around him, "Behold the lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world." And Jesus moved right on down into the water to be baptized by John. And John said, "Oh, I shouldn't be baptizing you.

You should be baptizing me." Jesus said, "No, let's get on with it." Because the scriptures must be fulfilled. All that I do, I do according to scripture. I do nothing outside of scripture.

I do nothing on my own. I say nothing on my own. All that the father tells me to say, I say it.

All that the father has given me to do, I do it. And the father said, I need to be baptized just like everybody else so I can identify with mankind. So, cousin John, take me down.

And when cousin John said, "All right." And he took him down. And then when he RAISED HIM UP AND the water began to cascade off his hair and off his beard and OFF HIS GARMENTS, JOHN WAS IN AWE BECAUSE A VOICE from heaven SPOKE AND SAID, "THIS IS MY BELOVED SON in whom I AM WELL PLEASED. HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.

And the spirit descended in the form of a dove. It was not a dove. In the form of a dove.

And so you have Jesus the son being baptized. God the father speaking and the holy spirit descending and resting on Jesus. Father, son, holy spirit.

To deny that is to deny truth. >> Then Jesus later stood on what we call the mount of transfiguration. He Peter, James and John, he always took them with him and they went up on the mountain and suddenly Jesus lit up.

He began to glow with a shakina. It it was a different light than fire light or electric light or light bulb. It was a divine glowing and his clothes were as white as snow.

Uh the writer said whiter than any fuller's soap. That was a strong kind of soap that they got stains out of stuff with. His face was glowing and his clothes were also.

And suddenly appeared Moses and Elijah. And the Bible says that Peter, James, and John saw them talking. Jesus was having a conversation with Moses and Elijah.

Wouldn't you like to know what they were talking about? Well, I'm going to tell you because a few verses later, it said they were discussing what he would accomplish in Jerusalem. They were talking about his crucifixion.

Moses was telling him, "Yes, I spoke of you thousands of years ago. I told the Jews someone just like me is going to rise up one day and you will hear what he says." And Elijah spoke up and said, "Yes, I've been prophesying and all of us prophets have been prophesying a day when you would be raised from the dead and glorified and would sit on a throne in Jerusalem and reign for a thousand years." And all of that must be accomplished in Jerusalem on AN OLD RUGGED CROSS. And there they stood and Jesus was glowing.

And Moses and Elijah were discussing it. And Peter AND JAMES AND JOHN WERE in utter awe. AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DISCUSSION, THAT VOICE BOOMS OUT AGAIN.

THIS IS MY BELOVED SON. HEAR EVERYTHING HE HAS TO SAY. >> [applause] >> Romans 1 verse4 says he was declared to be the son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead.

Did you get that? The fact that Jesus walked out of the tomb on the third day meant that the son of God had the right and the authority. Oh yes.

And the privilege to rise to heaven and sit down at the right hand of the father. And may I just ask you, what do you think he's been doing for 2,000 years? >> First of all, he's been waiting.

He's been waiting on the father to make his enemies his foottool. And the father just keeps saying, "It's not time yet. You wait, just wait." But in the meantime, Jesus has been praying for every one of us.

He ever lives to make intercession for the saints. Don't you dare think that Christ is just sitting there in a big armed golden chair surrounded by heavenly beings listening to angels cry, "Holy, holy, holy." No. Jesus is leaning over to the father saying, "Father, uh, Joe down there, see him?

He's in trouble. He needs help. I've been there.

I know what he's going through. Father, he needs this. You see Sally down there?

Father, she needs strength. I I've been human. Thank you for letting me become one of them.

Now I can pray on their behalf to you. AND FOR 2,000 YEARS, I'M GOING TO YELL. I CANNOT HELP IT.

2,000 YEARS, 20 CENTURIES, Jesus Christ, the son of God, HAS BEEN SITTING ON A THRONE, CALLING [screaming] YOUR NAME TO THE FATHER IN PRAYER ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU BRING TO HIM. SOMEBODY PRAISE GOD THIS MORNING. [applause] AH, so now we come to what communion is all about.

Jesus sat with his disciples that night in the upper room. And as he broke bread and prepared to drink the wine, he said, "This," meaning the wine and the bread, "This is the new covenant in my blood." Whoa. This is the new covenant in my blood.

Do you know what he just said? Every Jewish thing is now obsolete. Every sacrifice obsolete.

Every feast, every festival, every holy day, all the keeping of the rules no longer in force. It's over. It's done.

>> Because now Christ is our Passover. >> Yes, he >> Passover to the Jews was an annual event, something you go to, something you do. But Passover to the believer is Jesus.

>> The living bread, the living water, the new wine. It's all in Jesus. So, let me just be a little obnoxious for a moment.

For some of you who you just want to be a Jew, you've searched all your genealogical records. You just believe with all your heart you're going to find a Goldstein somewhere in your past. I remember one time I was in Israel and the guide was saying, "You know, you could I'm not going to try the accent.

You could be Jewish." I said, "How so?" Lorraine Levenstein. I said, "Now you you're stretching it just a little bit. It's living stun, not Levvenstein." But you'd be amazed at how many people just want to be Jewish.

Can I ask you a question? Why? Why do you want to be a Jew?

We've had people, listen to me, leave this church. And this woman sat on the third row right there. She was all into everything.

But one day, she thought she might be Jewish. She dug into her records and found some some semblance of Jewishness. So she left this church and went and joined the temple down the road there.

She converted to Judaism. She fell from grace. She's lost in her sins.

She went back to what was dead and could not give life. Some of you folks, you just go, you you're just so fascinated with being Jewish. You went and bought a big old chauffear.

Oh, and you went and bought a yarmaka cuz and then a prayer shaw. You just walk around in your prayer shaw all the time with your yarmaka on. What are you doing?

What are you doing? That's Jewish stuff. It's dead.

It's meaningless. It's cultural stuff. And it's got nothing to do with Jesus Christ.

Oh, over the years, especially on Sunday nights around here, uh, when we had services, we'd have people come in. I remember one night right up in there, lady with her her prayer shaw on just stood up with one of the biggest chauffars I'd ever seen. Choir was singing.

Dennis, he was, you know, doing what he does. HE JUST SAID, "HOLD IT. [screaming] [laughter] I don't know who you are, but all the instruments are on the stage down here.

Stop it." And I totally agree with that. You don't go to somebody's church and start blowing a ram's horn. You don't go to somebody's church and try to push Judaism on it on them.

Why would you want to be JEWISH WHEN YOU COULD BE SAVED? >> You mean aren't saved you? Of course.

Anybody who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is born again Jew or Gentile. >> But I'm telling you, whether you are Jew or Gentile, when Jesus saves you, you realize you don't need to try to keep the law. You don't need to blow horns.

You don't need to keep the Sabbath. You don't need to do any of that stuff because Jesus Christ completed it all in his body. HE IS OUR PASSOVER.

HE'S OUR PENTECOST. HE'S OUR TRUMPET. HE'S OUR ATONEMENT.

HE'S EVERYTHING. IT'S ALL IN JESUS CHRIST. WHY WOULD YOU NOT PRAISE HIM THIS MORNING for that?

[applause] >> [applause] >> Don't mean to be ugly, but if you try to go back to the law, you have fallen from grace. You have backsliden. You are no longer saved.

Because you see, the law was what God gave. That's what he demanded and told people, "Keep this or you'll die. and he knew nobody could.

It's that's why it's called the ministry of death. Why don't I just read it to you? I believe that would be second Corinthians.

I You got time? >> I don't want to bother you. I know you got lunch plans and all of that.

>> Listen to these words. But if the ministry of death, this is Paul talking about the law, ministry of death. Why is there a ministry of death?

Because the law says, "Keep this or die." And nobody could keep it. >> The ministry of death written and engraved on stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away. In other words, if the children of Israel couldn't even bear to look at Moses, he'd been with God on the mountain.

His face was on fire. They couldn't even bear to look at it and it was already passing away. THEN HOW WILL the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious?

>> Because that glowing powerful ministry will never go away. And it doesn't require that you keep laws to go to heaven. It requires that you believe in Jesus to go to heaven.

He kept the laws for you. For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect because of the glory that is coming.

For if what is passing away was glorious, that's the law, what remains is much more glorious. Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech. That's why I yell.

I want you to hear me. That's why I'm bold. Cuz I'm telling the truth.

>> I'm not ashamed. I'm not intimidated. I won't back up.

I WON'T BE QUIET. I WON'T BE SILENT. I WON'T DO anything that does not lift high the bloodstained banner of the Lord Jesus Christ and SAY THAT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD is yours through him.

Unlike Moses who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded. For until this day, the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament.

They don't get it. There's a veil over their face because the veil is taken away in Christ. >> Once you come to Jesus, everything makes sense.

>> My my my >> Once you come to Jesus, the Old Testament makes sense. >> Let me read. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now, the Lord is the spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Hallelujah.

Nobody bound up with laws and rules and regulation. We're free. FREE.

WHOM THE SON SETS FREE IS FREE INDEED. But we all with unveiled face behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord. And we're being transformed into the same image from glory to glory by the spirit of the Lord.

Folks, that's dynamite. >> Every day of your life in Christ, you are growing in glory. >> Did you hear me?

See, when you looked in the mirror this morning, you didn't see what an angel sees. You didn't see what God sees. You saw I'm going to come down.

I like to do that. See, even now as we sit in the building here, we look at each other, we see a bald head. I don't know if that was by choice or what.

smiling people, happy people, dressed up people, people with hearing aids, people with gray hair. That's what we see. But if you were an angel and they are in this building right now, Lord, help me right now.

Angels are in this building. >> They're up and down these aisles. There's one sitting between you guys.

>> They're not limited by space. Eddie, your angel's right there. Did you know when you were born, God assigned an angel to you?

That angel, at least one, has been with you ever since you took your first breath. That angel was assigned to walk with you and protect you until the Holy Spirit could regenerate you. When your time came that somehow you ended up at an altar and you knelt at the foot of the old rugged cross, I just believe, my imagination's big.

I believe your angel said, "He's here. >> I got him here." And Jesus said, "Thank you. I save him by grace.

I give him my mercy. I wash his sins away. But you still got to walk with him.

I want you to walk with him till I bring him home." See, if you were an angel and walked in here, you wouldn't see what I'm looking at right now. You would see glowing faces. The glory of God is upon every one of his children.

You're glowing like Moses did. That's what angels see. You're glowing the way Jesus glowed.

That's what angels see. And the Bible says when you look into a mirror, you don't see the glowing. You don't even see the glory.

But God sees it. And every time, every day, he moves you from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord. Oh, right now we're looking at flesh and suits and all kinds of temporary stuff, but one of these days, not only we going to lose these suits, this flesh is going to be glorified.

And only in a glorified body will we be able to look at >> look at one another. Else we would fall dead. Ladies and gentlemen, when John saw Jesus on the aisle of Patmas, he when he saw him in his glory, he fell at his feet as dead.

He couldn't handle it. When Paul saw Jesus on the road to Damascus, he fell down like a dead man and was blind for three days. That's the glory.

And that glory is on you and me. I don't know how you can sit there. It's on you and me right now.

These old eyes, these carnal worldly eyes can only see this. But the eyes of the Holy Spirit see a people being prepared for the coming of the Lord JESUS CHRIST BEING PROMOTED AND ADVANCED AND GROWING TILL THE TRUMPET SOUND. CAN SOMEBODY SAY AMEN?

>> NOW, HOW ABOUT THIS? HOW MANY OF YOU GLAD ABOUT IT? >> ARE YOU GLAD THAT THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS all over you?

[applause] PRAISE THE LORD. If you'll take your elements. Yes, sir.

Thank you. Thank you so much. I suppose in some churches that do this every Sunday, it's it's really out of habit.

Oh, I don't want it to be that way this morning. Church, what Jesus did for us is represented by this and this. This bread represents his body that was beaten and broken, tortured, crucified, but now it represents the body we belong to.

You are the body of Christ. Hallelujah. And this represents his blood that ran down his body and splattered on Calvar's dirt and paid for every sin I've ever committed in my life.

May I come down again? I just feel like saying this. There are probably people here today, you asked Jesus to save you and he did.

gloriously, wonderfully, but in your life, you still have that one big sin, you just can't get it off your mind. Uh the others you believe the Lord took care of, but this one, this was the big one. How could God forgive me?

How could it just be gone? Only you know what it is. But I came to tell you this morning by holding these that big sin that haunts you and hinders you is gone.

>> I don't care what it is. You can't name a sin that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot wash away. Listen to me.

I can't see you very well in the balcony because of those lights. I know somebody's up there. If you're one of those persons that you've been dragging this one thing around your whole life, [snorts] today let Jesus sever it from your ankle and may you walk free from now on.

The blood, listen, of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Hallelujah. All unrighteousness.

Some in here are what could be termed carnal Christian. You're not walking real close to the Lord, but the Lord knows them that are his >> and he's got a way of getting you back close to him. Some of you feel like that you're just not worthy enough.

Hey, neither was I. Neither was you. And you nobody's worthy.

It's a gift. Wasn't the first time Jesus broke bread. You know, he broke bread one day and fed 5,000 people.

He broke that bread to satisfy their natural hunger. But on this night, he broke bread to forever satisfy your spiritual hunger. >> Yes, Lord.

>> And now you are complete in him. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> Hallelujah.

Father, >> we thank you, Father. So, I hold this little chip of bread in my hand, a Lord, and I'm just reminded how you're holding me in your hand. And I am thankful for the beating you took and the torture you endured so that I could stand here and call [music] you my savior.

Even since I've been saved, Lord, I've I've done some things that broke your heart. I knew better, but I did it anyway. But because of this and this, you forgave [music] me and cleansed me from all unrighteousness.

So, we sit as a church right now, Lord. We're [music] we're humbled in your presence, sitting at your table, and we say to you, "Thank you [music] for your bread. We eat it.

And we hold this little uh glass of juice knowing that gallons of blood was shed that day. Just about half an ounce of juice today. But it represents all that you gave and what it can do for us.

We praise you. If you want to stand, I'm sure David will let you sing with him.