Michigan Camp Meeting 2018: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Come to the Table

Andrea Walechka

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Heavenly Father, we thank you that we can be here.

We pray that you will join us, that you will teach us, myself included, that we'll be blessed, that we'll understand communion in a way that will draw us closer to Jesus' heart.

And may we be melted in more surrender than before.

Alrighty, we are coming to the table and we are now at the Bread of Life to give some of you a review.

We have a couple of them that are here for the first time.

We've been talking about the foot washing aspect of communion.

And then we got into the covenants of communion, which necessitated the need for the foot washing when you get into the covenant, because you have to be at peace with each other and the foot washing washes our sin away so that creates the peace that we need to have between us and Christ.

And now we're moving into the bread of life and It's a very simple article of food.

I mean, how many of you had bread at breakfast or at lunch today?

It's on most everybody's table, most every meal.

Especially, I had a pastor from Bulgaria, and the concept was, if you had bread, you could live.

If you did not have bread, life was over.

But basically all bread is is ground up grain, some sugar and water, and a regular loaf would have yeast in it.

In the farmer world, if you have bread, life is good.

So anyways, it is a really huge staple, And because it is such a common thing, Jesus used it as an object lesson so that whenever you're eating a meal, you're going to be thinking the bread of life.

You notice he used parables and he used objects and there was a purpose behind that because He wanted us to, every time we're going through our life and we look at something that He talked about, we'll instantly connect it to Him.

So when you have a regular lunch or breakfast or meal, it's a mini communion meal.

Not with all the sacredness per se attached to it like at church, but because you have your meal in front of you and you have your liquid and you have your bread, you will instantly be thinking the bread of life and the water of life.

I never realized that until after I got studying into this, how a regular meal really is a reminder of communion.

So then we can be thinking about Jesus all the time.

When you're sitting down, when you're rising up, when you're walking through the way, like it says in the Bible, to teach our children.

So, do you remember the lady in the Old Testament, the widow of Zarephath?

To show the importance again of the bread.

When Elijah came, he said, make me a little bit of bread, give me a drink of water, and get me a little loaf of bread.

She says, Well, I am here to pick up these sticks, I'm going to go make my loaf, and I'm going to feed it to my son, and we're going to die.

So in her mind, after that bread was gone, there was no more life.

But she went by faith, and then they did have the flour and the oil all the time.

It represents life, hope, joy, strength, and fortitude.

And that's why Jesus employed it for communion and so much more.

So the bread of communion, it is representing Christ's body and most people know that.

The problem that various churches, They use yeast in their bread.

We were just talking earlier about the Methodist church.

It's just a regular loaf of bread out of Walmart.

And when you have communion in a Methodist church, you all file up to the front and you tear off your piece, you dip it in the juice and you chop it down, and that is communion.

If he did sin, we wouldn't be needing And we couldn't have communion.

Because you have to have a perfect, sinless sacrifice.

There could be no scars on them, no boo-boos.

It had to be absolutely perfect as a lamb could be to represent Christ.

And so this communion bread, it also has to have no yeast in it because Jesus had no sin.

To eat a regular loaf of bread for communion means our understanding of Christ's character and life are very confused.

There are people out there who say Christ sinned.

And for a Christian who's reading their Bible, that should be like totally bonker kind of thinking.

Because if Christ sinned, we have no hope of going to heaven.

Because then he'd be in the same boat we're in and he would need a savior.

But we don't want to have our concept of Christ's character confused when we approach communion.

It is misrepresenting who He is and it declares a false gospel.

You know, it's interesting, you're like, well, a false gospel, Why is that?

Well, if we say that Jesus had sinned, and he gets to go to heaven, then we can retain our sins and go to heaven.

The very popular idea is, you can keep on sinning and go to heaven too.

But if you look in your Bible, it's in Matthew 1.

This is a huge verse that I share in my Bible studies with folks.

In Matthew 1, Verse 21, when you're there say Amen.

For those of you who are able to bring your Bible.

Matthew 1.21, and I got the old King James.

She shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people." What's the next word?

I was studying with a lady from Sudan and we were studying this and she says, what does from mean?

I'm like, oh my, I'm not an English major.

I stood up and I said I've been sitting here and I'm going from there to here Am I still over there?

I Went from I Moved so I can't stay So if Jesus is saving us from our sins, if this is my sinful state and he's saving me from this, I am moving over here to an unsinful state.

I can't stay here and still be over there.

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