Communion: A Commandment Kept in Love
February 13, 2022 · 2:08:59 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
This communion service opens by defining what a commandment really is - a binding rule that governs a person's words and actions. God gave commandments to Israel, but Christ Himself also received a commandment from His heavenly Father and fulfilled it perfectly. Jesus declared, I love the Father and I do exactly what He commanded, abiding always in the Father's love.
To love God is to keep His commandments, and these are not burdensome: believe in the name of Jesus, love God, and love one another as He loved us. Christ proved His love by laying down His life of His own will, for no one took it from Him. Standing silent before Pilate, like a lamb led to slaughter, He willingly surrendered for our salvation. The breaking of bread is the commandment He left His church, and we keep it the same way He obeyed the Father - freely, out of love, never out of duty.
With a personal story, the pastor warns against treating worship as mere obligation. As a young man he once vowed to pray an hour each day like Jesus, but felt only relief when the week ended, until God asked him whether he had done it out of love or out of duty. Those who truly love do not count the time. He calls the church to examine themselves, admit their own guilt rather than point fingers like Adam, forgive as Christ forgave, and so proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
Key Points
- A commandment is a binding rule that should govern everything we say and do.
- Jesus loved the Father by perfectly obeying Him, and His obedience is our example.
- God's commandments are not heavy: believe in Jesus, love God, love one another.
- Christ laid down His life willingly; no one forced Him, and that is the measure of His love.
- Communion is a commandment we keep out of love, never out of duty or fear of what others think.
- Those who love God do not count the cost or the time it takes.
- At the Lord's table, judge yourself, admit your own guilt, and forgive as you have been forgiven.
Devotional
Ask yourself today not only whether you obey God, but why. Christ kept His Father's commandment all the way to the cross, and He did it out of love, not obligation. When you come to His table, do not let it become routine or a duty performed for the eyes of others. Turn the pointing finger back toward your own heart, confess what you find, and receive His forgiveness. Then go out and live every day in communion with the One who freely gave Himself for you.
Those who truly love do not keep count of the time.
No one took Christ's life from Him; He laid it down willingly, out of love for us.
We keep this commandment not out of duty, but out of love, just as Jesus did.
Transcript
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foreign yeah okay [Music] and the mercy of god is is great with us because we are here today let us all say praise be to our lord he is worthy of all the praise and we would like you to stand to your feet so that we could begin our service with song and to praise our lord to give him our praise and worship our sacrifice of our words be blessed [Music] oh [Music] yes [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] that the lord was with us and i saw how the lord failed and and gave us a feeling of the holy spirit you know on thursday when we came here for prayer and our prayer was for our worship team for our group that does the sound of the sound operators that which are preaching we must be united with the group that is praising god inaudible and even be united with the sound almost we are we are reliant on one another in order to bring glory to god soon today before us we have a special service [Music] more can unite us than the love of jesus christ that was revealed to us but in order for it to unite us we must want it and we can praise his name because he is worthy to be praised let us pray hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i mean [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] hey [Music] i [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] [Music] blue [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] church let us just raise our voices let us praise his holy name in this place let us glorify him for who he is oh lord we come before you in this place we glorify you jesus we magnify your holy name in this place father god we we we adore you we love your you as as our precious savior lord jesus christ we thank you so much that you have given us this time this opportunity to be here standing before your face father god about assad lord we thank you so much that you have given us a community of people that we can be together as one united glorifying and praising your name in this place lord therefore we stand here before you we worship you we praise you we give you all of our adoration lord jesus and we ask that you come in your power in your spirit and you begin to touch our hearts and work in our lives and our families father god you begin to unite the generations lord you begin to make peace in the families jesus lord and if people come here with their with their weight in their burdens father god and the chains that of bondage jesus i pray that your spirit that your power let it let them be set free let them be delivered from whatever it is that is holding them jesus if they have come here with sickness with pain father god i pray that your healing power the power of your holy spirit let it touch their mortal bodies in this place father god and let them be healed in jesus mighty name let this be a place where people come to experience the power of your kingdom jesus let there be an outpouring of your holy spirit in this place let there be a filling of your holy spirit in this place god let your holy spirit come in its power and let us experience him at a new level father god we are a people in need of your spirit flow holy spirit let your spirit come like a rain into our lives into our church into our families let the fire of the holy spirit burn and let it not die out in jesus mighty name [Music] let us walk in this spirit and not by sight lord oh jesus we ask you we are in need of you in need of your presence in need of your word lord assad and we ask you that in this place everything that be spoken everything that be done let it be for your will let it be through your power through your spirit not by our might lord but through your spirit in jesus mighty name we pray amen [Music] is [Music] me [Music] you should be standing never [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] m [Music] me [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign is [Music] [Music] i mean i greet you all by the name of our lord jesus christ let us all say praise the lord one more time praise the lord [Music] in the house of god there should be worship to his name it is written that to him be the glory through all generations in the church today is a very special uh uh service remembering the death of jesus christ for us and today i would like to talk on this particular topic period before we participate in this uh event that christ has commanded us and this topic is called a commandment a commandment so let us define what does this word mean zapovic a position or a uh an order that serves as a guide for actions and words of a person that is because we in generally know what our commandment is but let's define it it is a required rule palestinian a position for a an order a command qatar is [Music] that serves as a governing uh substance for words and actions god gave commandments to the israelites as we know it but uh also god gave commandments to his church in the new testament that also received a commandment from his heavenly father and he has fulfilled it in perfection in his ministry here on earth because the lord said ideal and did sign always as his heavenly father commanded [Music] but the word must learn that i love the father and that i do exactly what my father has commanded we see that the lord openly says that the we know that the heavenly father loved and continues to love his only begotten son and he always referred to him as my beloved son and christ said that i always abide in his love but i love the father do we love god and christ says because i do and speak and act just like the father commanded me husbands do you love your wives jean will you be watching wives do you love your husbands are you trying to please one another what if i just continue saying to my wife yes i love you i love you but i will not do what she's asking me to do i'll just do what i act the way i like to act [Music] jesus christ shows here that he loved and continued to love his heavenly father by fulfilling his through fulfilling his commandments premiere that is always uh serves an example for us praise the lord praise be to jesus love god is fulfill his commandments they are not heavy and difficult it is to uh believe in the name of jesus christ love god and love one another as he loved me amen do so there is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words that that which i spoke will condemn him at the last day for i did not speak of my own accord but the father who sent me on dominion commended me what to say and how to say it what to say and how to say it [Music] for i know that his commandments is eternal life so whatever i say i just i say just what the father has told me to say not only with actions but also with words are the commandments and we should be just like jesus and as it is written whoever speaks speak as as if as if it was the words of god yes not your own ideas not your own will but just as the word of god says ami amen at the top of it it is a commandment the last one for us and that's why he said that whoever rejects his sacrifice and what he uh teaches us that person rejects and ignores what the heavenly father has commanded and christ said that the last day the judgment day such person will have to give an answer they will have to answer why did they reject the lord's salvation that god has offered through his beloved son people ignored what jesus was talking about what he taught but he said i'm not judging you let us but this isn't my word this is a commandment but you're right what did god not do in the good the reason my father loves me is that i lay down my life only to take it up again nicktoons no one takes it from me no yes yo this commandment i received from my father and that's why when we remember how christ was crucified how he stood before pilate and pilate was surprised that christ is not responding to his questions he's a figure of authority i have authority to kill you or to let you go why aren't you defending yourself but no christ did it out of his own will he surrendered for our for for us if this wasn't given to you from above from that takes up on him all the sins of the world you only military and he had this commandment that's for your reasoning to give up his life and we see that the suffering death and resurrection it is his willing fulfillment of the commandment that he received from his father for our salvation the prophet isaiah in ver in 53 verse 7 jesus christ he was talking about the suffering of jesus christ the messiah yes and it's it underlines there that he was he was suffering out of his own will willingly out of his own will praise the lord and when he fulfilled this uh commandment of the father pronounced praying that's where the love of god was truly displayed towards all of us and that's why the service of the breaking of the bread is a commandment from the lord that he gave us for his beloved church he fulfilled what the father has commanded him and then he gave a commandment a new commandment [Music] and we do this also out of our love towards him out of our own will nobody forces us we do it out of our own will just as jesus did amen and every time when we fulfill this commandment we proclaim the death of jesus christ for our sins we proclaim his great love towards us and that we received it and that we believed in it with our hearts and here on earth this great mystery will continue to be fulfilled by us because of our love towards him but now check your heart we will pray soon or because that is just the rule that we have they told us to do it who would have thought that he would be a pastor today and you do move i didn't there will be a pastor for eight years but i remember i got this desire in my heart and i was practically there for every uh prayer and i told the youth maybe some of you remember here i said let us this week we will pray no less than one hour just like jesus did and everyone agreed but see i'm the one that uh suggested it and so monday comes around and i begin to pray you talk to you and it's so hard to pray and i'm praying and praying and praying well i decided i wanted to do this and i already thought maybe an hour and a half has gone by already [Music] and the whole entire week i did this i don't know about the other brothers but we agreed on this in the whole week i i did it and when this week was when that week was over i was relieved i was like okay and i wake up in the morning you know how it is when you wake up and your brain turns on like a computer yeah social world is did you do it out of love come here to towards me or just out of duty oh yeah and i understood and that's why they say object those that love to solve they don't pay attention to time god wants us to do this out of our love towards him [Music] in order for this to bless us we have to love the lord hallelujah hallelujah they got married recently first love god wants us to love him as he loved us so that it wouldn't be like oh today's communion we gotta go but what will other people say no we have to do this out of love praise the lord [Music] but as we fulfill this mystery yes there are certain conditions the church has to do this first timothy chapter 6 13 in the sight of god who gives life to everything and of christ jesus who while testifying before pontius pilate made the good confession i charge you to keep this commandment without spot in your charisma or blame the evil gospel issue which god will bring about in his own time god the blessed and only ruler the king of kings and the lord of lords apostle paul the holy spirit through the apostle paul do it commands and until the time when jesus christ returns in other words until his return let us remember this is i believe that we all took time and we prepared but we will have a prayer now maybe the holy spirit is talking to you and there's something else that you need to repent of period first corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 as always we read this before we begin we're apostle paul through the revelation from the holy spirit describe the order in which this should be accomplished i would like to for us to listen to this standing and we will bow and pray me just admit your guilt but it's nice for you just admit your guilt don't uh blame somebody else don't do like adam and eve and point fingers that's not what god is expecting just admit when something happened and you broke the will of god in this prayer for the christian we will approach christ and judge yourself in this and we're set up that way where we like to point fingers and we say well it's her fault his fault this is why this happened it's not used to them there but what happens when you're okay three pulses and i'm not even going to mention the finger of god all that we have to do brothers and sisters it's just to turn that finger towards yourself if we would judge our own self yes if we would just admit our guilt hallelujah thank you hallelujah foreign foreign [Music] me [Music] we will be taking part in this important service when jesus was in the upper room with his disciples what the bible says before he was betrayed he took the bread means he took the wine blossom he blessed it in my blood that was paid for you pastor pastor nikolai read from corinthians where it says the following words that he has handed it over to us today we are disciples of jesus christ even paradoxes the body and blood of jesus christ that was paid for me that was paid for each one of us here that was beaten and bruised not named they were mocking him this is a man and it was done for me in you let us pray foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign me do [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] jesus christ jesus said like healing for our soul and spirit he has prepared it for us today whose spirit was blessed may god bless you i would like to remind everyone who is able to participate in this service it's everyone who's been baptized as an adult and you're also in peace with the lord may god [Music] foreign [Music] let us know [Music] you the word of the lord says he also took the club and said this is the new testament in my blood it says let us bow our heads brothers and sisters and pray thank you heavenly lord for the blood of jesus christ it is the new covenant the price that you paid for each and every one of us individually lord we thank you so much lord we are not worthy lord we are not worthy the price that's been paid for us lord and today we are reminders in this wonderful and special service lord that we are part in we are one in your body lord we are one in you lord through your blood through your body lord we thank you very much lord it is something that we cannot explain it is something that we cannot put into words lord what a praise and blessing lord that you gave us lord freely lord we thank you that each and every one of us lord each and every one of us individually lord we have an opportunity lord to be part of this lord to be touching this holy of holy lord touching your blood and touching your body lord we thank you so much to be one in you lord to be one and one another lord through your blood that you paid for us we thank you so much and we ask you that you bless this blood that you bled this communion lord that every person lord that is part in this that they would receive your blessing first lord the healing for their soul then lord the healing for their body lord for their for their mind we ask you the name of jesus christ lord that you would touch each heart that you will touch each body each and every one of us we thank you lord for your blessing for your tremendous blessing that you've freely given to us amen let's remember the brothers and sisters the benefits that we have when we are part of the communion we are one body we are one family let's forgive not just because jesus told us to forgive me but he says forgive because i forgive you and he also reminds us in his word he also reminds us in his word hallelujah [Music] anyone had an opportunity to take part in the cup thank you i would like to invite everyone to prayer that we give praise and thanks to the lord for this gift that he gave us today the prize that we paid for us 2000 years ago i asked you did you find think in your heart what god has given you what god has done in your life what god continues to do in your life not just for you but for your family and i would like to ask my brother taras to lead us in this prayer process let's get on our feet one on our knees one more time and give thanks for father god we are kneeled here before you in this place lord we thank you so much for this opportunity that we have to take part in a communion with you jesus we thank you that we as a church can humbly come to this place and receive your body and blood that was shed on the cross for us that was beaten and bruised and the blood that was shed lord jesus we thank you so much for your sacrifice that you have given us lord and we pray that we not only participate in this communion in this moment lord but let us walk out in communion with you every day of our lives let your body and blood cleanse us every moment of our life lord every every time that we breathe everything that we do and everything that we put our efforts into lord god let it be done out of our communion with you let it not be only of remembrance lord but let it be a continual work in our lives father god we glorify you for your blood and your body jesus that you have poured out for us god and we thank you so much that you have done this for us lord jesus that out of your love for this world lord god that we have become your children we have become your royal priesthood lord god and let us fulfill your will here on this earth lord jesus we receive this promise lord we receive this new covenant in this at this moment lord and we ask that we that you empower us that you give us the ability lord to fulfill your will here on this earth lord jesus we magnify you lord we lift you up in this place father god you deserve all the praise you deserve all the glory you are the king of king and lord of lords lord you are holy holy holy are you lord god almighty [Music] we thank you lord jesus for your precious blood your love your grace and mercy jesus the righteousness and the holiness lord that through this through this communion lord that we can take part in and we can be your church we can be your people we can be ambassadors of your kingdom and doers of your will in jesus name we pray amen before a while the brothers are cleaning up and we will be sending our kids to sunday school we want to thank god that we were able to return from our missionary trip but i would like to say that the mission was completed uh we have returned and god's uh work has been done we thank you for the prayers and we saw and we heard and we really needed god's support and like never before i had the great desire to come back and not just myself last second the owner of the land did not let us go there he changed his mind yeah and then there was like this kind of discourse among the group in the yellow shirts [Music] this man finally agreed that he would let us use his land for this campaign and me and pastor nicholas agreed that if uh one man were to say that we have agreed and this agreement came from another group uh there is that is preparing uh certificates they were giving to the children and we had these blow ups and uh different activities before we were going there they actually took all their uh witchcraft uh things that they used and they dug it into the ground and uh the owners of the this home saw and they did now that nature you know and we came into this we uh this place we thought everything was going to be ready and ready for us but you have all this mix-up half of the the the counter is for us and the other some people came and said we would we would have gladly opened up if we knew that this is this is a pastor on that moped and then his assistant this is a missionary he is a graduate from a school bible school a video there's a woman that called us and said please pray for me we came to our house this is the first song and we said that this is the pastor that will be here and we pray and after prayers it was hard but praise god god helped the meaning of the republic in the dominican republic and now we will pray for the kids david and there will be more you'll share more uh for the missionary if you want to say something david diana spockman where's the david david do you like the mission trip yes i'm aboard most uh setting up all this stuff and making friends with everybody friends okay what was the scariest thing nothing david each one of them shared a full word on each uh part of the bracelet and uh they actually uh asked us to review their sermons christina is [Music] i mean greetings my brothers and sisters what a wonderful day thank you procrastinating i would like to make some few announcements for us to remember that today for the youth five o'clock is the youth service then mondays we have 7 30 a normal prayer when a dialogue we invite everyone mfc has approached him wednesday 7 30 we have a midweek service saturday i've seen we had a good discussion uh on friday we're going to have some new topics to to for a bible study damn it so stay tuned we have those getting those ready for us then reminder on sunday we start our church actually at 10 30 in this conference room over there conference connected and then 11 o'clock we have a normal service i would like to ask my brothers do you see improvement that people kind of come and study coming a little earlier then next sunday we will have guests there are brothers from a mission called azer uh they will be serving in our church and also at the end of the service they will have different literature that you can get by making a donation to the ministry now reminder to all the parents they have teenagers march 11 through the 14th we there is going to be a teen camp uh in the northport area let's just say march march um it's going to be 170 registration per person yeah it's going to be registered so keep it in mind this week is the last week to register because they will increase the price you know also on march 12 in march we would like for you to save a date we are planning a couples event in our church seminary for couples and then also we would like to remind you to save a date on may 21st uh mary martha ministry they are planning a girls conference in our church it's not just for us it's going to be for everyone in florida so young ladies get ready this is all we have as far as announcements for this week and upcoming events i would like to invite a group to sing and we'll have a collection for our church foreign let us stand to our feet and give praise to the lord [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] me [Music] she oh is [Music] the word of god that is written in the book of luke chapter 10. it talks about jesus sending his disciples uh to for mission work i would like to use this tax as a basis for my servant today before we have a prayer um it is written after he selected the question is after what in chapter 9 it says that one man said i would like to bury my father says i will i would follow you but i need to say goodbye to to my family [Music] today is the day of prayer and fasting on our prayer calendar about evangelism jesus says when you enter into the home stay there no but if they do not accept the peace that you bring him yes do not remain there near sport do not argue with them but go further in doing that you must say the words that god was with us today it was god's voice to go and preach the gospel jesus he laid out everything that we need to spread the name of my sermon today is god's peace that we need to um obtain or have in order for us to use when we go to the motherboard on the screen if we maybe put it on the screen for us do you have it no need to mirror topics robinson's [Music] actually we used electricity from she opened up her home and he invited us to practice today do you see this pastor that is peaking around the corner do you see him well do you see how happy he is here you see how how he feels being part of something we ask him this more experienced pastor that was speaking around the corner to help this junior pastor to help him in his ministry another thing that we were able to do and what our agreement was is not to pay for and get a hotel room i ask everybody are we going to stay at the hotel are we actually going to use those money instead stay in school and use those money to buy t-shirts for the details we decided we're actually going to buy t-shirts for the team so there were they can change different colors for everyone and they put us in those bunk beds in school where students sleep and first day we had water we pressed two times and it's too so we can be able to use it so we had shower but we had no water but we were able to adjust well and what's interesting to highlight the last day when a flight got cancelled it was not a hotel it was a resort it tumbled all you can eat there all-inclusive andrei they put us in an all-inclusive hotel in dominican republic we were walking around and we couldn't believe it you know we decided we should cancel our flight and stay two more days there yeah but we want it to be the next one and i was working and i was telling myself dominican republic say being that your birthday is coming up all i wanted was able to gift you is the mission trip and she was so happy that she was with me but this is my gift to youth [Music] but our heavenly father was able to give us a much better gift on the beach uh in an all-inclusive resort and then as soon as we arrived there this is what we saw the rainbow proposed he didn't want to use but you would like to actually pray we had a big question mark whether we're going to be able to make it home all together we had plans yeah he peter gave me the key from his car we seem like we had to split up the team and what if he comes to miami he doesn't have the keys we didn't have the answer and we just when we were praying and fasting in our church that monday i had a dream it was it was a prophetic word a prophetic dream you know god is giving me or some someone on the team a prophetic we had a situation when we went to mexico to in san diego i realized that you need to be uh sensitive i didn't share this online i only told those in the conference room when we were planning the trip and there was this one man that kept telling very insistently you cannot stay here and i saw like we are in in this place where you are resting like a hotel and the word is you cannot stay here and from the moment we've arrived i started to think god what does this really mean where do i apply this dream what situations [Music] when we were there we felt it is god's will it is god's promise in this church that is full of witchcraft and water that this place needs to have a church [Music] i already agreed inside of me that i need to stay i need to stay behind but when i he when we receive this phone call from brothers and he said those exact same words that i heard in the dream a week before you cannot stay there you need to go are you just kind of you know it was this moment where i agreed this is how it is and it needs to go we were praying but we put everything in in the morning uh we we brought our suitcase because yeah we say no yeah we didn't know if you're going to be allowed for everybody to go or just maybe a part of us but in prayer we just put it in his hands and this is something what my most sermon was supposed to be about but i'll share with you later yesterday on the screen for next time and maybe we'll revisit this topic next time on a missionary service can you have that please topics sometimes the mind is is given up but deep in us in our heart sometimes even the heart can give up for your strength to come to church and there's a moment sometimes with at least one thing it still remains in you get up in prayer especially if you are maybe witnessing or preaching or sharing the gospel with somebody and that word is not being received in that village they did not want to accept this but there was one little place we have this you should have seen their worship they just grab the bucket they just grab a few sticks and just start making music but most importantly it is the kind of spirit that they were praying with and worshiping people were passing by looking on the streets they say they have no place to do the camp with nothing is working out for them and look at them they still worship he just wanted to do a simple prayer but god turned into amazing worship it was the god's uh uh uh you know when you share the gospel those in your household it is the most difficult one and they're not being accepted jesus says do not get discouraged do not be sad just shake it off anastasia in the united states you start again start to pray to him start to tell them start to tell you [Music] [Music] is [Music] okay foreign is before we have anything on our tongue he knows it sure he knows everything he knows what you're going through and he knows why you're going through it nothing you're going through just just because maybe god would like to teach you something maybe you had a prayer while back saying god please change me and now because of those circumstances god is changing you he is molding you up let's be wise go through this within wisdom and change yes maybe when you're praying for those family members for a long time for their salvation don't get discouraged let's bring it before the lord and pray together as family kidney stones and he was god delivered him from this stone amen vladimir he has praise report before the lord let's pray for sister olia for her parents they needed healing that god would give him strength and encouragement she has a for her health we're going to pray sister amila she is going through a very difficult time right now that god would bring healing that god would also encourage her she has a praise report to the lord sister irina she is asking for her healing for her health and also god would give wisdom and help in this situation to make a decision or whatever they might be going through ladies they uh give praise to the lord for the retreat that they went to sylvia we'll pray let's let's raise hands so that we have uh know who's next sister sylvia sister sylvia is asking for her husband anthony for his salvation for her daughter allah for her salvation sister oksana is asking for her mom you stand on ukraine she's going to go have a surgery that god would show his hand in this situation m maybe you have a special prayer i would like for us to kind of pray with you together maybe for salvation for ma'am a family member christina foreign i if you would like to have lattice we're going to have one or two pallets of lattice here on the parking lot so you can come and pick as much as you want maybe you need it for somebody else a lot [Music] don't run away [Music] you