"Christian Life Keys" Ephesians 5:15-21
- Our Senior Pastor Robert Dennison, preached this sermon on April 16, 2023.
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Not you, it’s me.
Let’s take our Bibles and turn to Ephesians chapter five today as we’re looking at Christian life keys. Christian life keys. We’re continuing our study in the book of Ephesians in the first part of Ephesians. It’s very doctrinal in nature, what God has done for us. But then Paul gets down to some nitty gritty about how we’re supposed to practically live our lives.
And that’s what the text is about today. Ephesians 5. I begin reading in verse 15. Pay careful attention then to how you walk. Not as unwise people, but as wise, making the most of the time because the days are evil.
So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. And don’t get drunk with wine which leads to reckless living. But be filled by the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Singing and making music with your heart to the Lord, Giving thanks always for everything, to God the Father. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. May we pray. Heavenly Father, once again, we thank you so much for your word and your omnipotence and your knowledge in your wisdom. Father, you saw fit to give us your special revelation so that we would understand how to stand before you in true righteousness by placing our faith in Jesus Christ, his work on the cross, his death, his burial and resurrection. But Father, you also give us instruction on how to live our lives.
And so many of the questions that we have about what we need to do, how we need to behave, and what we need to say, Father, if we will just spend time in your Word, you answer so many of those questions directly to us. And as we look at your Word today, show us anything in our life, Father, that we can bring more in tune to your son, that we might reflect him better in the world. In his name we pray. Amen. We’re looking today at life keys and the first one we find in verse 15, that is to live intentionally.
Live intentionally. Paul writes in verse 15. Pay careful attention then to how you walk. Not as unwise people, but as wise. This idea of walking is throughout Scripture, and it’s not just physical walking.
It’s talking about how we live our life. It’s talking about the actions that we perform. It’s talking about the things that we say, and it’s mentioned over and over in Ephesians 4. 1 We already read to walk worthy of the calling that you have received in Ephesians 5:1. He said, Walk in love in Ephesians 5:8, walk as children of light.
But it’s not just in Ephesians. Paul says in Galatians 5, walk by the Spirit. In Colossians 1, walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him. Colossians 2, walk in him being Jesus. Romans 13:13, we’re to walk with decency.
And second Corinthians 5, 7, we’re to walk in faith. First John 2, 5 walk just as Jesus walked in. Second John 6, walk according to his commands. The emphasis is that once you come to faith in Jesus Christ, then we focus on how we walk, how we live our life, and it’s important that we do that. The passage here tells us to pay careful attention to how you walk.
That means keep a diligent watch over how you live your life. In other words, be purposeful in all that you do. Be purposeful in all that you say every day. Don’t just let life happen. And it comes to the end of the week and you’re like, I didn’t accomplish anything.
Nothing happened this week. It’s because you weren’t intentional from the beginning. You need to be thoughtful about your life choices. In other words, pay careful attention then to how you walk. It’s the opposite of this next expression here.
Not as unwise people, but as wise. The person that is not paying careful attention to how they walk is the unwise person, meaning that they’re just walking through life kind of mindless. And unfortunately, they’re unmindful of the consequences of. Of every thought that they have. They’re unmindful of the consequences of all their actions, and they’re unmindful of the things that they say.
It’d be an awful thing to say something to someone, and then when you turn away, they say, boy, they didn’t really think that through before. They said that because it wasn’t intentional. It wasn’t what they really meant. We need to live our lives intentionally. Paul tells us that this is important in verse 16 because we need to make the most of the time.
In other words, we’re in this season of the world’s history, that it’s extra important that we’re intentional about how we live. And the reason for that is because the days are evil. To think that things are going to get better and better is not what Jesus promised us. He promised us that things are going to get worse and worse. And as we come closer and closer to the day of his second coming, and therefore we’re supposed to make the most of this season, this evil season, you know, Satan is still influential in this world.
And everyone that he controls and that he sees over, they are against Jesus, they’re anti the Lord. It shouldn’t be odd that the world is sinful and becoming so more and more this is what is normally to be expected. And in this normal world situation, the world is now our enemy and it’s out to get us and it’s out to destroy us. We’re actually in a time of war, but it’s a spiritual war that’s going on. And if we think of any country that’s going into war, they need to make the most of the time.
They need to be intentional about what they’re doing, because if they’re not, they’re going to be defeated in the end. The psalmist reminds us of this in Psalm 90:12, where he says, lord, teach us to number not our years, but to number our days one by one carefully, so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts. In other words, we need to seek to have God’s wisdom in our lives so that we know intentionally how we are supposed to live. It’s great to be intentional about your work. It’s great to be intentional about what your vacations are going to be and your recreational things.
It’s great to be intentional about how you’re going to spend time with family and friends. But most importantly, we need to be intentional about how we are living in our spiritual life. And I want to share some intentionality in spiritual living today. And I want to refer us to what the navigators call the will illustration. This is something that they show to new believers, and they take them through this process so that they understand what’s most important in living their life intentionally.
As a new believer, Christ there is the center. He’s the hub of the wheel that everything is revolving around. And what we strive for is a life that’s intentional and obedient to the Lord. That’s the tire on the outside, but that tire is connected to the wheel by four spokes. And the four things that they emphasize that we need to be involved in in order to live intentionally is first, we need to have prayer in our life.
That’s a vertical relationship with the Lord. We speak to him in prayer and then he speaks back to us when with the other vertical spoke there, and that’s his word. Whereas we reach out in fellowship to believers on one side, and we reach out to the world and witnessing on the other. And as with any wheel, if you take one of those spokes away, what’s going to happen to the whole thing? It’s going to collapse and fall apart.
But they also have to be balanced, because if you cut some of those spokes short. I remember we used to have to adjust the spokesman spokes on our tires. If some of the spokes weren’t adjusted right, what happened to the wheel? It would get lopsided, I don’t know what the Word is. And you’d be riding.
It was like this all the time. God wants us to be intentional in what we do with the Word. He wants us to be intentional what we do with prayer and fellowship and witnessing. Therefore, to be intentional, we have to have spiritual goals in each of these areas. I want to take time to just share a Bible passage for each one of these.
In the spiritual goal, the Word, we go to second Timothy 3, 16, where it says, all scripture is inspired by God. That means that all of God’s Word was given by him to us. It’s all worthwhile. He used different men to write the text. They had all types of different occupations.
They had different vocabularies. They had different thoughts and emotions. But God still used all that their style to tell us exactly what he wants us to know. So why does God’s Word help us with our spiritual goals? How does it help us to live intentionally?
Well, there are four words here that tells us what God does for us. First, it’s profitable, meaning it’s going to do something wonderful for us by teaching us. It gives us instruction about how, first off, we come to true faith in Jesus Christ. And through his death and burial and resurrection, we can have God’s righteousness in our life. But it goes beyond that to teach us how we’re supposed to live.
People say, well, what should I do about this and what should I do about that? If you spend time in God’s Word, most of those questions will be answered. So we have this positive aspect that God’s Word teaches. But we also have a negative aspect, something that we don’t all enjoy and that’s being rebuked. Because God’s Word also, as we read it, tells us and points out to us the things that we are doing wrong in our life.
It’s pointing out things that we need to change. It’s pointing out sins to us that we need to confess. But thank the Lord, he doesn’t just rebuke us and get onto us, but he also corrects us. Now, this correction is a positive thing. It’s where God says, I rebuke you for doing this.
But now let me show you the right way to do it. Some of us have had bosses in the past and they say, you just did that completely wrong. It was awful, it was terrible. And they leave the room and you’re left. What did I do?
I thought I was doing the right thing. Our boss or our parent rebuked us. What we really want them to do is also to correct us and say, but let me show you how to do it the right way, so that you can get a bonus next week from being successful with it. God’s Word teaches us, it rebukes us, it corrects us, and it also trains us in righteousness. That means that it helps to build up strength in our lives as we go through the study of it.
And this is all so that the man of God can be complete, so that the woman of God, the child of God, can have everything that we need and we can be equipped for every good work. And in order to live a life intentionally for the Lord, you need to be equipped for that so that you don’t just use part of the things, but you’re able to do everything that God intends for us. One of our spiritual goals to be intentional about is spending time in God’s Word. But the second spoke that we want to look at is prayer. In First Thessalonians, chapter 5.
Live intentionally by rejoicing always. And by praying. What’s the word there? Constantly. You know, if you pray one minute a day, or if you pray five minutes a day, if you pray four hours a day, this verse tells you you could still pray.
What? You could still pray more. It’s supposed to be part of our ongoing conversation with the Lord. Every day, rejoice always, pray constantly. Give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
And we’ll talk about giving thanks later, because that also comes up in the passage. But living intentionally for the Lord involves spending time in God’s Word. It involves spending time in prayer intentionally. And the third thing is that we need to live intentionally in our fellowship with other believers. I take us here to Hebrews, chapter 10, verses 23 through 25.
It says, Let us consider one another. In other words, this Christian life isn’t just about thinking about ourselves. Throughout Scripture, it talks about the one another’s. How many times, Hunter, you counted them the other day? 91 times.
The new Testament talks about how we’re supposed to interact with one another. We are in this together as a fellowship. Let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good Works. In other words, we’re supposed to be encouraging one another to love more and to do good things. And that word provoke there means actually kick them in the pants.
You know, sometimes we need to do that with other believers around us to get them moving in the right direction. And then he says, not neglecting together together, as some are in the habit of doing. When I was a little boy, regular church attendance was every Sunday morning, every Sunday night, and every Wednesday night. Then somewhere along the way, regular fellowship attendance was every Sunday morning and every Sunday night. And then somewhere along the way, it became regular fellowship was every Sunday.
Now, for a lot of people, regular fellowship is once a month. Okay, but what does the text tell us here? We’re not to neglect gathering together, as some are in the habit of doing, meaning it just becomes a habit for people not to come because they’re not intentional about coming together for worship and fellowship. But he says, encouraging each other, and we’re not supposed to do this less and less. We’re supposed to do it what all the more as you see the day approaching, as we expect the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, we need to spend more time in fellowship.
And I’ve mentioned worship so far, but it’s also getting together for Bible study. It’s getting together with other believers in your home for dinner. We’re in this together. We need to spend time together. And Scripture tells us that we shouldn’t just let it happen.
We need to be intentional about it. Then we come to the fourth spoke in the will, and this is witnessing. And we get the great Commission from Matthew 28. Jesus said, Go, therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything. I have commanded you and remember, I am with you always to the end of the age.
This isn’t a verse just for the disciples. It isn’t just for pastors and missionaries. This is a verse for all believers. We’re supposed to be intentional about sharing the gospel with people and then helping them to learn more about God’s Word. To be intentional about witnessing means that you have people in your mind that you know you need to share the gospel with family, friends, people that you work with, or neighbors.
You need to make a plan when you’re going to share with them and start praying. God, help me to find the right opportunity to share with them the gospel. Because the day is coming that you’re going to regret if they’re not in heaven with you. That you didn’t share because instead of being intentional about your life, instead of being intentional about witnessing, you were just going day by day and. And hoping that maybe at some point they might hear the gospel.
Live your life intentionally. The next key that we find here going back to the text in Ephesians, is to understand God’s will. Verse 17, it says, don’t be foolish, but instead understand what the Lord’s will is. Don’t be like the foolish person. That’s unintentional work at understanding God’s will.
How is it that we get to know what God’s will is? I take us back to Proverbs 3, 5, 7. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not rely on your understanding. In all your ways, know him and he will make your path straight.
Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. If we want to understand what the Lord’s will is, he wants to reveal that to you. But you have to begin out your life with an attitude of God, I trust you that your will is the right way. And I’m wanting you to show me your will.
And I’m already trusting you that I’m going to accept it. Otherwise, it’s like someone saying, would you please give me instructions how to do this? But I’m not going to pay any attention at all to the next hour and a half when you explain this, you need to go there first with the attitude, God, I want to know your will. I’m going to trust it. And not just in our head, but with our entire being.
Don’t rely on your own understanding. That’s telling God. You know, I have very limited knowledge. I don’t even know what’s going to happen after church today, much less tomorrow or next week. It’s so important, God, that you show me what what you want me to do.
Because you know what’s just around the corner for me. My own understanding is limited. I shouldn’t rely on it. Verse 6 says, in all your ways, know Him. This is a big key to understanding what the Lord’s will is.
It’s just to get to know him better. You don’t necessarily have to know what decision to make about tomorrow. But speaking, spend time getting to know God better. As we read God’s Word, as we spend time in prayer, as we know more about his character when we read how he has acted in the past in God’s Word and what he promises us, the more we know about him, the more we understand what his will is. This happens in marriage.
You know, you spend a long time with somebody. And all the years that Mary and I have been together, because I know her, we can go to a restaurant and I can probably guess what she’s going to order. I can finish some of her sentences now. It isn’t always true, but you understand what I’m saying. I know what she’s thinking, and I know what her will is.
Not because I’ve asked her about that thing, but I just know who she is. And in the same way as we get to know God better, we understand what his will is. And when this happens, it says he’s going to make our path straight. It’s going to be obvious how we’re supposed to live our lives. And then verse seven says, don’t be wise in your own eyes.
Again, God is emphasizing here. Sometimes we think we have a good idea about what we’re supposed to do. And we also have other people in our lives that they think that they have a good idea about what we’re supposed to do. But the key is that we understand that if God shows us something differently, especially in His Word, doesn’t matter how it makes us feel. It doesn’t matter if it makes us upset.
If it’s God’s will, we need to do that thing. Fear the Lord, therefore, and turn away from evil. Meaning that we want to do God’s will because we know that we’re going to stand before him someday. He’s going to hold us accountable for our decisions. He’s also going to hold you accountable for your lack of decisions, your indecisiveness of not living your life intentionally.
And that fear of the Lord is a certain respect that we have for Him. Understand God’s will. Desire to know God’s will above your own will. Desire to know it above the will of others. Because God’s will, it’s eternal.
It always magnifies him. And it’s always for all the best purposes. God’s will is not limited by a lack of knowledge. It’s not limited by the fact that he can’t be everywhere at once, because he sees everything from all angles. And he’s not limited to decisions based on what he knows today and from the past.
He knows what’s going to happen tomorrow. He knows about all eternity. And that makes his wisdom far above ours. And what we should strive to understand and remember. Sometimes.
It’s not always going to line up with what the world says. Have you sometimes heard where the world says, do something different than what God says? It’s getting more and more frequent. We need to stick with what God is telling us to do, understand God’s will. The next key we find is to be filled with the Spirit.
Be filled with the spirit. In verse 18, we read, don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit. The command here is obvious not to get drunk because it’s going to lead to reckless living and reckless driving. Okay, that’s. That’s obvious.
But. But Paul is also making this comparison here between what wine does to you and what the Spirit also does for you. In other words, the more wine you drink, the more liquor you drink, the more it controls you. In the same way, the more we allow the Holy Spirit into our life, the more we’re going to come under his control. The word filled here, it means to be full of, to be completely satisfied with someone or something.
And here it is in our relationship with Jesus Christ, with His Spirit. We’re supposed to have so much of him in us that we’re completely satisfied in how we live. They use this word to describe some different things in the past. In the Greek language, they could talk about the sails on a boat being. The word is filled by the wind.
So the more the sails would open up and the more wind that they caught, the boat could move more smoothly, could get where it was going. The Holy Spirit is supposed to be like the wind in our sails, giving us direction and power to move. We can’t see him, but he’s still very active in our lives as long as we are allowing him to fill us. It also talks about the. The filling of sound or music in a house.
It’s where you walk into a house and someone has music going on all the speakers in every room. The Holy Spirit is supposed to fill us in that same way. So that when people are around us, it’s almost like they hear that there’s something different in our lives if we’re filled with Him. Like sound and music fills a room. The word also means that a fragrance that would.
Would fill a house. I was thinking about some from friends years ago. We went to their house, and I walked in, it’s like, wow, we’re gonna have this wonderful cake for dinner. Because I could smell it. It’s this French vanilla cake.
And I just had a picture in my mind. And we didn’t have any dessert. It was a candle that was burning. You know, it was called cake. That was the scent in the candle, but the whole house.
I mean, you just smelled it when you Came in. The Holy Spirit wants to be that way in our life, that he gives us a wonderful aroma that other people can sense in us.
Be drunk not with wine, but be drunk with the Spirit. Let him take control of the way you walk, meaning how you speak and how you act. You know, we’re all baptized and we’re all sealed at the time of our salvation with the Holy Spirit coming into us. But this command to be filled by the Spirit is something that has to happen every single day in our life. It’s a constant renewal where we commit ourselves to him, that we want him to fill us.
We open ourselves, we light the candle, we turn on the music, whatever we need to do to allow him to permeate in us and through us. Scripture tells us two ways that we can keep this from happening is by quenching the Spirit. That means that to throw water on him. In other words, if you have a spark or a fire, the last thing you want to do if you’re trying to start a campfire is for someone to run up and throw water on it. Well, the Holy Spirit, throughout the day, he puts little sparks in your mind.
Give someone a call. Send a card of encouragement. Share something about the Lord. Tell somebody that you’re thankful for what God did today. Or you might get a prompting, you know, stop and do this on the way to work, whatever it is, as the Spirit prompts you.
If you just say, no, I’m not going to do that. You’re throwing water, you’re quenching what he’s trying to do in your life. But also Scripture says in Ephesians 4, 30, don’t grieve the holy Spirit, meaning that if there’s any sin in our life, each day that there is sin in our life, the Holy Spirit now is having to deal with that. He’s being grieved and he’s sinful, sad, and he’s mourning because he knows that what you’re doing is hurting you, but it also is going against his holy nature. We need to be filled with the Spirit.
It’s something that we have to do intentionally every day. Now, what does it look like? Paul tells us in verse 19, these are going to be the characteristics in our life, or some of them. If the Holy Spirit is filled with filling us, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing, making music with your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for everything, to God the Father. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Submitting to one another in the fear of Christ, there’s going to be speaking in your life, there’s going to be singing in your life, there’s going to be making music, giving thanks, and there’s going to be some committing to one another. I just want to point out first that that one another shows up two times there. Because we are supposed to be doing this as a body of believers. We’re supposed to intentionally be doing this in fellowship with one another. These things don’t just happen alone, but God’s ideal is we do it together.
The first one there is speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Some of you are probably really glad that it’s okay just to speak the words, because maybe you can’t sing that well. I mean, we usually have readings from scripture, readings from a psalm. That psalm was a song. But here we’re speaking it out loud to one another on Sunday morning hymns.
Those were doctrinal songs. They talk about the character of God, they talk about what God has done for us. They give us a better understanding of salvation. And then the. The spiritual songs or every other type of music that isn’t a psalm and, and isn’t a hymn.
It’s perfectly fine to be speaking these to one another, but not only that, we’re supposed to be singing them together. Remember, it’s singing together collectively and also singing on your own and making music. You may not be able to play an instrument, but the music is supposed to be where. What’s the word there? It’s supposed to be in your heart.
That means when we come together or when you’re alone singing, you don’t just sing the words by rote. You’re supposed to be thinking about them, expressing them to the Lord from your heart, singing and making music with your heart to the Lord and then giving thanks not sometimes, but how often? Always. And not for some things, but for what? For everything.
Now I want to see your hands. How many of you can think of one thing that you can thank the Lord for today? Okay, I’m happy. How many of you can think of two things? You know, you should make it an intentional part of your day that God going to thank God for something one time on Monday.
And then if you can get that down, okay, then you can really stretch yourself and say on Tuesday, where I’m going to find two things to thank the Lord for. Okay. And if you can do that, then on Wednesday we’re going to stretch it, we’re going to double it to four. Okay? How many of you woke up this morning and thanked your wife that she made sure you heard the alarm.
Okay, okay. Who should you really thank that you woke up this morning? You thank God. If you had food to eat this morning, you need to thank who. You need to thank God.
If you could walk through the doors today, if you’re able to sit down and stand up. All of these things are gifts from the Lord. But we have to be intentional about it because we just get to where we’re ho hum and we don’t thank God for all these things every day. But get some number in your mind, you know, and I’m going to thank God for whatever it is and go through that list. And I encourage you to also mention to other people.
I’m so thankful to God today that I’m able to come into work. It’s just a way of witnessing with other people so that they know that you are a believer. Give thanks always for everything. And then the last thing is submitting to one another. Submit.
Submission is not a popular word in our culture today. It’s actually offensive. Everybody lives for themselves. They put themselves first. But that is not the way that God says we are supposed to live.
We’re supposed to be submitting to one another in the fear of Christ in the same way that we’re fearful of God, that we’re going to stand before him someday and answer to Him. Jesus Christ himself is going to hold us accountable as to whether we submitted to one another. Now this doesn’t mean we go around and we beat other people down and say, you have to submit to me. What it’s talking about here is a willing personal subjection where someone decides, yes, I’m going to submit myself. And the greatest example of that is that God himself within the Trinity is submissive to himself.
The Son, even though he’s completely equal with the Father, was submissive to the Father and coming into this world. And then the Holy Spirit was submissive to Jesus Christ when the Son sent him. He was obedient to the Son and coming to live in us. So the example is set by God in his complete equality that all of the Godhead is equal in nature and capabilities and everything that they can do. There’s still this order of submission there.
And so it is in this world. If we’re going to live according to the way that God wants us to live, we have to consider this idea of submission. We find it in that wives are supposed to submit to their husbands. Jesus Christ submitted to his earthly parents at age 12 when he stayed at the temple and they said, you need to come with us. There is the submission to the law of God and God’s Word.
There’s submission to God’s righteousness and not our own righteousness. We’re supposed to submit to government authorities. We’re supposed to submit to true prophets believing their word that’s written out in God’s word. We’re supposed to submit, submit to those that are the ministers in the church. We’re supposed to see the whole church submitting to Christ.
We see that the spirits submit to God the Father, and that servants are supposed to submit to masters. Younger people are supposed to submit to those that are older. And the authorities and the powers all submit to Jesus Christ. And the and the angels themselves do that. Submission is part of God’s decree.
It’s part of his economy that we are supposed to live that way. The Word translated there one another means that we’re all equal in this. We don’t submit to people because they’re better than us. We don’t submit to authorities because God thinks more highly of them. God loves us all equally.
We’re all on the same page. We do have different functions and we have different responsibilities. It’s in those areas that we learn to submit. We’re all equal before God and we’re all equal to the laws of society. But in order for us to all accomplish the singular goals to glorify God, we have to do that by submitting to one another.
I end the message today with three questions. The first one, are you living an intentional life that is especially intentional in regard to your spiritual life? Are you intentionally fellowshipping with believers? If you’re not make a change in your life. Are you intentionally witnessing to other people if not make an intentional change to do something different about that this week?
Week. Are you spending enough time in prayer? You need to make it your intention to do more of that. Are you spending enough time in God’s Word? If you’re not, you need to be intentional about adding more time in God’s word.
The second question, are you seeking to understand God’s will? And if you are, get to know God better. Spend time in His Word so that you understand his character and nature, so that you will understand how he wants you to live. The third question is, are you daily being filled with the spirit? If you’re not, add more music to your life.
You don’t have to do all the singing. You can read songs, you can turn on music. You can call someone up on the phone and say, pastor Robertson, I need to sing to someone today. Okay. Or you can sing to your spouse in the morning when they wake up, whatever you need to do, add more music to your life.
Have an attitude of gratitude. You know, figure out, am I thanking God enough today? Did I thank him enough yesterday? If I didn’t, I need to increase that in my life. And then thirdly, are you willingly and gladly submitting to those who have authority over you?
There’s a balance to that. If you have authority over someone, you need to be like Jesus Christ. You’re willing to lay down your life for them. You’re willing to give up your position so that you can come and be a servant. And when we have authorities in our life that love us like Jesus did, we willingly submit to them in accordance.
Kelly Jo is going to be coming up and leading us in a psalm today. We want you to use this time to reflect on the message and ask God what He may want you to change in your life. But we’re also preparing to partake of the Lord’s Supper. And Paul said that we need to examine ourselves before we come to the table, meaning we need to make sure that there’s no unconfessed sin in our life, and particularly that there are no broken relationships with other believers, that we haven’t sought them out to correct that relationship. Paul said we should take this seriously because some people get sick physically if they don’t partake of this in the right way.
And other people, God will eventually take their life. Paul. So that they will die because they aren’t taking proper consideration of themselves. Before we come to the Lord’s table today and celebrate him giving his body, and celebrate him giving his blood that we might have salvation. So we invite you to sing with us.
You may just want to be quiet, meditate and spend time in prayer. Kelly Jones.