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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You may be weak financially, you may be weak emotionally,
you may be weak circumstantially, but.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You are weak.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Nevertheless, doctor Tony Evans says, we don't have to stay
that way.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The purpose of the Lord's Table is to counteract Satan's
attempt to make your life weak, sick, and dead.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Doctor Evans says
something many Christians take for granted could be the key
to unlocking victory in our lives. Let's join him as
he explains.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The most important part of our service is the part
that's least understood and most underutilized, and it is communion.
Most people don't understand it. They take away for they
take a cup, and there's maybe this general atmospheric understanding
(01:00):
of it. But if we really understood the Lord's Table,
the Lord's Supper as it is called in scripture, communion,
the Eucharist, it would be a transforming experience in our lives.
(01:21):
You see, many of us came in here with things
sermons can't fix. Many of us have come in here
so broken that inspiration can't last. Because you're going right
back to the situation. You need something bigger and better
and deeper that will infact and affect whatever it is
(01:46):
that has engulfed you. So important is the subject that
it is found in each of the gospels. Each of
the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John discussed Jesus's last
supper with his disciples, and in First Corinthians chapter eleven,
(02:07):
Paul gives his extended version of its symbolism, significance, and
its meaning. That's what I want to instruct us on today.
He says, I received from the Lord that which I
delivered to you. God told me to tell you this.
I received from God what I'm telling you about now.
(02:30):
When Jesus was betrayed, he took the bread, he gave thanks, Eucharist,
he gave thanks, he broke it. This is my body,
which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
This is the cup Verse twenty five. This cup is
the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often
as you drink it in remembrance of me. He says,
(02:53):
Do this because this.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is for you. It's for you.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Raises the question, but in what way is it for me?
Jesus has died. Now Jesus is gone, he's left, and
now Paul is writing the church as to how they functioned.
And he says, this bread, this cup, this cross is
for you. The cross has already happened. The cross is
(03:20):
in the past. And yet he says, you are to
do this. And then he says, and as often as
you do it, so evidently it was real important to
make it often and not irregular.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There must be something about this thing.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That he encourages often nest and not occasional usage. He says,
this is the cup, this is the bread, This is
the new covenant. It is through this arrangement that he
and it is just to his people and his word
(04:03):
I could use ful them for life. As often as
you go to the filling station, you receive what is
needed in order for the car to function and arrive
at the destination. And extended time of driving without refueling
(04:25):
will make you stuck. What he is saying is that
the new arrangement that I have with you must be fueled.
He goes on verse twenty seven. Therefore, whoever eats the
bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an
unworthy manner shall be guilty. Of the body and blood
(04:45):
of the Lord. So now he introduces communion and taking
it in an unworthy manner. Please don't misunderstand that he's
not saying that the person is unworthy. He says the
manner is unworthy. That's different. None of us, in and
(05:07):
of ourselves, are worthy in our own struggles, our own sins,
own failures, our own idiosyncrasies. No, we're not where he's
talking about the manna how it is done. The concept
of unworthy means legitimate versus illegitimate. It meant to treat
(05:29):
something sacred as common, to treat it as every day,
to cause it to lose its solemn significance, to just
do it because it's communion. Time to lose its worth,
Let's put it that way, to lose its substance. You see,
(05:52):
when Jesus died on the cross, that wasn't a casual moment.
It wasn't like he had nothing else to do today.
Let me go for the sins of the world. That
was not a casual moment. That was a substantive moment.
That wasn't a eternal moment. When Jesus said, my God,
my God, why has thou forsaken me?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That was a moment that mattered. One of the worst
things you can do.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Is make ritual what is supposed to be sacred, to
eat in an unworthy manner meant to lessen it. That's
why he condemns them in the way they were handling this.
They didn't They lost the significance Verse thirty three. So then,
my brother, when you come together to eat, wait for
one another. If anyone is hung, we let him eat
(06:41):
it home, so that you will not come together for judgment.
In other words, they were very cavaliah because they lost
the significance of it. The significance of Chameleon is tied
to the significance of the Cross, and the significance of
the Cross was the defeat of Satan, the forgiveness of sin,
(07:04):
the transformation of life, and the flow of blessing. All
of that's in the New Covenant, and this flow of
blessing is called grace. It is like pulling up your
car and having the fuel pumped into your tank. It
is a flow of provision because you're at the place
(07:25):
of feeding, that is, you're at the gas tank and
it is flowing to you from underneath the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The fuel needed for you to keep going. What chammunion is.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Designed to do is to flow or fuel your spirit
with the life of Christ. It is not common, that
is to be looked at or viewed commonly. So to
eat or drink unworthily is to eat or drink illegitimately,
(07:59):
or to treat as its common. What God calls sacred,
it is the manner in which it's done. It's not
suggesting you have to be perfect before you come to communion,
then you never take it. No, it's designed that you
see the seriousness of it when you take it. And
(08:19):
how often do you take it? As often as you
need it, as often as you need it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He goes on.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But a man must examine himself, and in so doing
he is to eat the bread and drink of the cup.
What's the examination. The examination is to determine am I
taking this in a manner that recognizes what it's for,
(08:49):
that recognizes what it's for? That's the question, Do I
really recognize.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
What this thing is for?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
This thing, this unique thing, this special thing, this sacred thing,
this one of a kind thing that no sermon can
duplicate and no song can never compete with. This thing
is actually the way God is gonna transfer the victory
of cavalry into my life?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Am I examining that that I understand? And that's what
this is about.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
God is gonna take a two thousand year old event
and transfer it to me in my life and in
my circumstances. For he who eats and drinks eats and
drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the
body rightly, he says.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
If this examination doesn't allow you, doesn't cause you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
To understand and to see the seriousness of the moment,
the thing designed to help you can wind up hurting you.
For this reason, many among you are weak, are sick,
and a number have died early sleep For this reason,
many talking to Christians are weak. Now the opposite of
(10:11):
week is strong. So instead of being strong, you're weak.
Instead of being on top of life, light's on top
of you. Instead of being victorious, you're living in defeat.
Instead of winning, you're losing. And weakness can show up
(10:32):
in a whole bunch of areas, he says.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But some of you are weak.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You may be weak financially, you may be weak emotionally,
you may be weak circumstantially. But you are weak for
this reason, and This reason had nothing to do with
the sermon, didn't have anything to do with the song.
This reason had to do with the table, he says.
For this reason, many are sick. Health issues that are
not overcome, physical problems that not being fixed. They go
(11:02):
on moment by moment, week by week, year by year, says.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Many are sick for this reason. Some are in the grave.
This is.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Not comfortable, it's not fun, But I think you would
want to know it. If there was a way to
go from weak to strong, sick, the healthy, and did
to alive, I think you want to.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Know that, he says. For this reason, some have died
before their time.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's a powerful statement and it raises some troubling questions.
Doctor Evans will return to address them in just a moment. First, though,
with Easter just around the corner, you've likely seen store
mailers filled with springtime images of flowers, candies, bunnies, and
decorated eggs, and well, there's nothing wrong with those traditions.
(12:01):
They don't present the true story of Easter and its
life changing impact for us today. That's why doctor Evans
wrote the book The Power of the Cross. It'll show
you why, truly understanding and appreciating the purpose of the
Cross is the only thing that can turn empty, meaningless
religion into something vibrant and alive. Learn how to access
(12:23):
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(12:47):
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for you after part two of today's message, here's doctor Evans.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The Bible makes it clear that Satan's goal is to steal, kill,
and destroy. That is his goal. His middle name is
a devolution.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He wants to deteriorate things, destroy things, that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That's what he does.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Now, let me make a proviso here. Every sickness isn't
because the devil got you sick. You know, every time
somebody dies, it doesn't mean because you know they did
something wrong, obviously, because it's the point that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The man wants to die.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He's talking about a certain kind of weakness, and he's
talking about a certain kind of sickness. He's talking about
a certain kind of death, and he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
A weakness or sickness or death.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That is because the proper examination didn't take place. Now,
I can hear what some of you are saying now
because I know what you're thinking. You're saying, well, I
know how to fix that. I ain't gonna take communion.
(14:30):
I ain't gonna bother with it. Then if there's that
risk of negative, illegitimate repercussions, I'll just skip it. Well
this so you know, remember that's going back up as
often as you take it. To not take it is
to not receive the blessing that flows from it. To
(14:50):
not take it is not to receive what God wants
to deliver to you. To not take it is to
not benefit from it. Purpose of the Lord's table. Wat's
This is to counteract Satan's attempt to make your life weak, sick,
(15:11):
and dead.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That is the purpose of the.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Table, because he defeated him on the cross, and you
have to understand he is the only one who's defeated him.
Nobody else defeated him, including you. So if you're going
to defeat him, you need the cross, because that's the
only thing that defeated him. Says, you need the cross.
(15:35):
You need a way to make that two thousand year
only that relevant to you today. God says, well, I
have a way to make two thousand years ago work
for you today is at the table. Because when you
eat this bread and drink this cup understanding giving it
worth the value that it deserves. Then it becomes an
(15:57):
imparter of life. Imparts strength where there was weakness. It
imparts health where there was sickness. It imparts life where
death is on the way. And it does that because
it deals with the demonic reasons for why you're weak,
the demonic reasons for why you're sick, and the demonic reasons.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
For why you are dying. It deals with the.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Spiritual cause for the physical, psychological, social, financial, whatever It
is reasons for it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
If those are the reasons for it. Now, don't get
me wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Every weakness is not because the devil is in charge,
or every sickness is not because of Joe got sick,
and the Bible says he was a righteous man. So
don't misunderstand me. That's the health wealth gospel that you know.
That that you know spiritual people never get sick.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's not true. That's why spiritual people die. But what
he is talking about those.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That are caused by the spiritual realm, the evil spiritual realm,
which the Lord's Table and only the.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Lord's Table can address. Nothing else can address it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
He says, for this one reason many are weak and
sick in a number of sleep just one reason.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And that is not approaching the table. For what the
table is for.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The goal of chamunion, the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist. The
Lord's Table is to bring wholeness of life where sin,
satan demons are bringing the disruption to your life. It
is designed to give you a physical expression of feeding
a spiritual reality.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, I know there's a fair question that you could
ask here, and it is a fair question. How does
a simple eating do all this? Watch just man. The
same way a simple eating.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Plunged the whole world in the sin. In Genesis three,
they bit a piece of fruit. Death King, They bit
a piece of fruit. Marriage, conflict King. They been a
piece of fruit, and now death reigned from Adam. They
been a piece of fruit, and now man must work
by the sweat of his brow, and would no longer
enjoy his labor. Or because somebody bit a piece of fruit,
(18:30):
they got devilish consequences because they were eating at the
devil's table. Well, now, if the devil can have a
piece of fruit that plunges the world in sin simply
by taking one bite, how much more the eternal son
of God can deliver to his people life, restoration, recovery,
(18:55):
blessing by eating his meal, not just chewing away for
and drinking a cup. It is drawing down a life
and the repercussions. Did you know there are two trees
in the God and treading. Now it's good and evil.
You can't eat it. But the tree of life. That
was the tree they did not bite, and that was
(19:15):
the tree that would give them life. What Jesus Christ
is saying is at on the cross, on another tree,
I have offered life, eat from it. Communion is God's
ordained channel for spiritual wellbeing. Satan wants to keep God's
people from the table. If he wants to render it
(19:37):
as insignificant, it's mina well, the worship really hadn't begun yet,
they hadn't begun singing. He wants to keep you from
the table because he's not threatened by a song, and
he's not threatened by a sermon. He's threatened by the cross.
That's the only thing that threatens him. So he wants
(19:57):
to keep you from the cross. I've watched all of
the Indiana Jones movies. I Love Me some Indie Harrison
Ford had that had that character down. The one I
loved best was when he was in search of the
Holy Grail. He was in search of the Cup of Blessing.
(20:23):
As he is in search of the Holy Grail, there
are enemies that don't want him to get it. They
don't want they don't want him to get there, fighting him,
they're doing everything. Finally, they shoot his father. His father
lay dying and there was no way to save his
(20:43):
life unless he could get to the cup. Now he
must do some things to get to this cup because
the thing's trying to chop his head off. He's got
to exercise his great faith and step out. He's got
to be able to spell the name Jehovah right in
(21:05):
all of those with death traps to keep him from
the cup. He finally crosses over to the area that
has all these cups. He needs this cup because death
is in his family. His father's dying and there's nothing
(21:27):
on earth that can save him. There is a guardian
of the grail, the guardian of the Grail.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
And then he says something to Indiana Jones. He says,
choose wisely, Choose wisely.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Behind him rushes in the enemy. The enemy picks up
a cup and drinks from the cup and turns into
this monster and disintegrates. And the guardian of the Grail
said he did not choose wisely. Andanna Jones is looking
(22:16):
at all these cups up there, and he doesn't want
to make a mistake.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
He wants to get the right thing. He wants to
get the right thing. He's not just getting the cup
to get the cup. He's getting the cup to get
the life. You see.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
He's getting that cup for the life it offers, not
for the refreshments. He's not getting it to quench his thirst.
He's getting it for life. And he peruses it, and
he says, which one, which one?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Which one? Which one is? Who all these cups of me?
Which one? Which one?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And then he remembers Jesus was a cuppet. He worked
with wood. There was only one wooden cup.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He dipped it. He took it back to his father
and gave it to his father, and death turned into life.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Doctor Tony Evans talking about how our remembrance of the
Cross can replace our weakness with strength, part of his
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(23:39):
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(24:23):
When Jesus told us to take up our cross, he
wasn't talking about hanging a piece of jewelry around our neck. Tomorrow,
doctor Evans will take a look at what it means
to merge with the Cross. I hope you'll join us
for that
You may be weak financially, you may be weak emotionally,
you may be weak circumstantially, but.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You are weak.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Nevertheless, doctor Tony Evans says, we don't have to stay
that way.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The purpose of the Lord's Table is to counteract Satan's
attempt to make your life weak, sick, and dead.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Doctor Evans says
something many Christians take for granted could be the key
to unlocking victory in our lives. Let's join him as
he explains.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
The most important part of our service is the part
that's least understood and most underutilized, and it is communion.
Most people don't understand it. They take away for they
take a cup, and there's maybe this general atmospheric understanding
(01:00):
of it. But if we really understood the Lord's Table,
the Lord's Supper as it is called in scripture, communion,
the Eucharist, it would be a transforming experience in our lives.
(01:21):
You see, many of us came in here with things
sermons can't fix. Many of us have come in here
so broken that inspiration can't last. Because you're going right
back to the situation. You need something bigger and better
and deeper that will infact and affect whatever it is
(01:46):
that has engulfed you. So important is the subject that
it is found in each of the gospels. Each of
the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John discussed Jesus's last
supper with his disciples, and in First Corinthians chapter eleven,
(02:07):
Paul gives his extended version of its symbolism, significance, and
its meaning. That's what I want to instruct us on today.
He says, I received from the Lord that which I
delivered to you. God told me to tell you this.
I received from God what I'm telling you about now.
(02:30):
When Jesus was betrayed, he took the bread, he gave thanks, Eucharist,
he gave thanks, he broke it. This is my body,
which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
This is the cup Verse twenty five. This cup is
the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often
as you drink it in remembrance of me. He says,
(02:53):
Do this because this.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is for you. It's for you.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Raises the question, but in what way is it for me?
Jesus has died. Now Jesus is gone, he's left, and
now Paul is writing the church as to how they functioned.
And he says, this bread, this cup, this cross is
for you. The cross has already happened. The cross is
(03:20):
in the past. And yet he says, you are to
do this. And then he says, and as often as
you do it, so evidently it was real important to
make it often and not irregular.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
There must be something about this thing.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That he encourages often nest and not occasional usage. He says,
this is the cup, this is the bread, This is
the new covenant. It is through this arrangement that he
and it is just to his people and his word
(04:03):
I could use ful them for life. As often as
you go to the filling station, you receive what is
needed in order for the car to function and arrive
at the destination. And extended time of driving without refueling
(04:25):
will make you stuck. What he is saying is that
the new arrangement that I have with you must be fueled.
He goes on verse twenty seven. Therefore, whoever eats the
bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an
unworthy manner shall be guilty. Of the body and blood
(04:45):
of the Lord. So now he introduces communion and taking
it in an unworthy manner. Please don't misunderstand that he's
not saying that the person is unworthy. He says the
manner is unworthy. That's different. None of us, in and
(05:07):
of ourselves, are worthy in our own struggles, our own sins,
own failures, our own idiosyncrasies. No, we're not where he's
talking about the manna how it is done. The concept
of unworthy means legitimate versus illegitimate. It meant to treat
(05:29):
something sacred as common, to treat it as every day,
to cause it to lose its solemn significance, to just
do it because it's communion. Time to lose its worth,
Let's put it that way, to lose its substance. You see,
(05:52):
when Jesus died on the cross, that wasn't a casual moment.
It wasn't like he had nothing else to do today.
Let me go for the sins of the world. That
was not a casual moment. That was a substantive moment.
That wasn't a eternal moment. When Jesus said, my God,
my God, why has thou forsaken me?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
That was a moment that mattered. One of the worst
things you can do.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Is make ritual what is supposed to be sacred, to
eat in an unworthy manner meant to lessen it. That's
why he condemns them in the way they were handling this.
They didn't They lost the significance Verse thirty three. So then,
my brother, when you come together to eat, wait for
one another. If anyone is hung, we let him eat
(06:41):
it home, so that you will not come together for judgment.
In other words, they were very cavaliah because they lost
the significance of it. The significance of Chameleon is tied
to the significance of the Cross, and the significance of
the Cross was the defeat of Satan, the forgiveness of sin,
(07:04):
the transformation of life, and the flow of blessing. All
of that's in the New Covenant, and this flow of
blessing is called grace. It is like pulling up your
car and having the fuel pumped into your tank. It
is a flow of provision because you're at the place
(07:25):
of feeding, that is, you're at the gas tank and
it is flowing to you from underneath the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The fuel needed for you to keep going. What chammunion is.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Designed to do is to flow or fuel your spirit
with the life of Christ. It is not common, that
is to be looked at or viewed commonly. So to
eat or drink unworthily is to eat or drink illegitimately,
(07:59):
or to treat as its common. What God calls sacred,
it is the manner in which it's done. It's not
suggesting you have to be perfect before you come to communion,
then you never take it. No, it's designed that you
see the seriousness of it when you take it. And
(08:19):
how often do you take it? As often as you
need it, as often as you need it.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He goes on.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
But a man must examine himself, and in so doing
he is to eat the bread and drink of the cup.
What's the examination. The examination is to determine am I
taking this in a manner that recognizes what it's for,
(08:49):
that recognizes what it's for? That's the question, Do I
really recognize.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
What this thing is for?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
This thing, this unique thing, this special thing, this sacred thing,
this one of a kind thing that no sermon can
duplicate and no song can never compete with. This thing
is actually the way God is gonna transfer the victory
of cavalry into my life?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Am I examining that that I understand? And that's what
this is about.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
God is gonna take a two thousand year old event
and transfer it to me in my life and in
my circumstances. For he who eats and drinks eats and
drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the
body rightly, he says.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
If this examination doesn't allow you, doesn't cause you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
To understand and to see the seriousness of the moment,
the thing designed to help you can wind up hurting you.
For this reason, many among you are weak, are sick,
and a number have died early sleep For this reason,
many talking to Christians are weak. Now the opposite of
(10:11):
week is strong. So instead of being strong, you're weak.
Instead of being on top of life, light's on top
of you. Instead of being victorious, you're living in defeat.
Instead of winning, you're losing. And weakness can show up
(10:32):
in a whole bunch of areas, he says.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But some of you are weak.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You may be weak financially, you may be weak emotionally,
you may be weak circumstantially. But you are weak for
this reason, and This reason had nothing to do with
the sermon, didn't have anything to do with the song.
This reason had to do with the table, he says.
For this reason, many are sick. Health issues that are
not overcome, physical problems that not being fixed. They go
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on moment by moment, week by week, year by year, says.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Many are sick for this reason. Some are in the grave.
This is.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Not comfortable, it's not fun, But I think you would
want to know it. If there was a way to
go from weak to strong, sick, the healthy, and did
to alive, I think you want to.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Know that, he says. For this reason, some have died
before their time.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's a powerful statement and it raises some troubling questions.
Doctor Evans will return to address them in just a moment. First, though,
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They don't present the true story of Easter and its
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you why, truly understanding and appreciating the purpose of the
Cross is the only thing that can turn empty, meaningless
religion into something vibrant and alive. Learn how to access
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for you after part two of today's message, here's doctor Evans.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The Bible makes it clear that Satan's goal is to steal, kill,
and destroy. That is his goal. His middle name is
a devolution.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He wants to deteriorate things, destroy things, that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
That's what he does.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Now, let me make a proviso here. Every sickness isn't
because the devil got you sick. You know, every time
somebody dies, it doesn't mean because you know they did
something wrong, obviously, because it's the point that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
The man wants to die.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
He's talking about a certain kind of weakness, and he's
talking about a certain kind of sickness. He's talking about
a certain kind of death, and he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
A weakness or sickness or death.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That is because the proper examination didn't take place. Now,
I can hear what some of you are saying now
because I know what you're thinking. You're saying, well, I
know how to fix that. I ain't gonna take communion.
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I ain't gonna bother with it. Then if there's that
risk of negative, illegitimate repercussions, I'll just skip it. Well
this so you know, remember that's going back up as
often as you take it. To not take it is
to not receive the blessing that flows from it. To
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not take it is not to receive what God wants
to deliver to you. To not take it is to
not benefit from it. Purpose of the Lord's table. Wat's
This is to counteract Satan's attempt to make your life weak, sick,
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and dead.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That is the purpose of the.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Table, because he defeated him on the cross, and you
have to understand he is the only one who's defeated him.
Nobody else defeated him, including you. So if you're going
to defeat him, you need the cross, because that's the
only thing that defeated him. Says, you need the cross.
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You need a way to make that two thousand year
only that relevant to you today. God says, well, I
have a way to make two thousand years ago work
for you today is at the table. Because when you
eat this bread and drink this cup understanding giving it
worth the value that it deserves. Then it becomes an
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imparter of life. Imparts strength where there was weakness. It
imparts health where there was sickness. It imparts life where
death is on the way. And it does that because
it deals with the demonic reasons for why you're weak,
the demonic reasons for why you're sick, and the demonic reasons.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
For why you are dying. It deals with the.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Spiritual cause for the physical, psychological, social, financial, whatever It
is reasons for it.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
If those are the reasons for it. Now, don't get
me wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Every weakness is not because the devil is in charge,
or every sickness is not because of Joe got sick,
and the Bible says he was a righteous man. So
don't misunderstand me. That's the health wealth gospel that you know.
That that you know spiritual people never get sick.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's not true. That's why spiritual people die. But what
he is talking about those.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That are caused by the spiritual realm, the evil spiritual realm,
which the Lord's Table and only the.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Lord's Table can address. Nothing else can address it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
He says, for this one reason many are weak and
sick in a number of sleep just one reason.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And that is not approaching the table. For what the
table is for.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The goal of chamunion, the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist. The
Lord's Table is to bring wholeness of life where sin,
satan demons are bringing the disruption to your life. It
is designed to give you a physical expression of feeding
a spiritual reality.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, I know there's a fair question that you could
ask here, and it is a fair question. How does
a simple eating do all this? Watch just man. The
same way a simple eating.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Plunged the whole world in the sin. In Genesis three,
they bit a piece of fruit. Death King, They bit
a piece of fruit. Marriage, conflict King. They been a
piece of fruit, and now death reigned from Adam. They
been a piece of fruit, and now man must work
by the sweat of his brow, and would no longer
enjoy his labor. Or because somebody bit a piece of fruit,
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they got devilish consequences because they were eating at the
devil's table. Well, now, if the devil can have a
piece of fruit that plunges the world in sin simply
by taking one bite, how much more the eternal son
of God can deliver to his people life, restoration, recovery,
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blessing by eating his meal, not just chewing away for
and drinking a cup. It is drawing down a life
and the repercussions. Did you know there are two trees
in the God and treading. Now it's good and evil.
You can't eat it. But the tree of life. That
was the tree they did not bite, and that was
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the tree that would give them life. What Jesus Christ
is saying is at on the cross, on another tree,
I have offered life, eat from it. Communion is God's
ordained channel for spiritual wellbeing. Satan wants to keep God's
people from the table. If he wants to render it
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as insignificant, it's mina well, the worship really hadn't begun yet,
they hadn't begun singing. He wants to keep you from
the table because he's not threatened by a song, and
he's not threatened by a sermon. He's threatened by the cross.
That's the only thing that threatens him. So he wants
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to keep you from the cross. I've watched all of
the Indiana Jones movies. I Love Me some Indie Harrison
Ford had that had that character down. The one I
loved best was when he was in search of the
Holy Grail. He was in search of the Cup of Blessing.
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As he is in search of the Holy Grail, there
are enemies that don't want him to get it. They
don't want they don't want him to get there, fighting him,
they're doing everything. Finally, they shoot his father. His father
lay dying and there was no way to save his
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life unless he could get to the cup. Now he
must do some things to get to this cup because
the thing's trying to chop his head off. He's got
to exercise his great faith and step out. He's got
to be able to spell the name Jehovah right in
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all of those with death traps to keep him from
the cup. He finally crosses over to the area that
has all these cups. He needs this cup because death
is in his family. His father's dying and there's nothing
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on earth that can save him. There is a guardian
of the grail, the guardian of the Grail.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
And then he says something to Indiana Jones. He says,
choose wisely, Choose wisely.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Behind him rushes in the enemy. The enemy picks up
a cup and drinks from the cup and turns into
this monster and disintegrates. And the guardian of the Grail
said he did not choose wisely. Andanna Jones is looking
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at all these cups up there, and he doesn't want
to make a mistake.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
He wants to get the right thing. He wants to
get the right thing. He's not just getting the cup
to get the cup. He's getting the cup to get
the life. You see.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
He's getting that cup for the life it offers, not
for the refreshments. He's not getting it to quench his thirst.
He's getting it for life. And he peruses it, and
he says, which one, which one?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Which one? Which one is? Who all these cups of me?
Which one? Which one?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And then he remembers Jesus was a cuppet. He worked
with wood. There was only one wooden cup.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He dipped it. He took it back to his father
and gave it to his father, and death turned into life.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Doctor Tony Evans talking about how our remembrance of the
Cross can replace our weakness with strength, part of his
two volume fourteen lesson series Returning to the Cross. This
teaching collection contains a lot of bonus material we haven't
had time to present here on the broadcast, so I
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When Jesus told us to take up our cross, he
wasn't talking about hanging a piece of jewelry around our neck. Tomorrow,
doctor Evans will take a look at what it means
to merge with the Cross. I hope you'll join us
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