0051S 2 John Sermon - Truth Warriors

Truth and love must work in tandem for Christians to stand against deception in today's world, with no compromise on essential doctrines, while showing authentic care for those who struggle as shown in 2 John

• Walking in truth means taking God's word as authoritative and reliable
• Love is defined biblically as obedience to God's commandments, not affirmation of whatever people desire
• Christians must guard against deceivers who distort the gospel message
• Face-to-face fellowship strengthens believers against isolation and false teaching
• Five modern heresies undermining churches: denial of Scripture's authority, prosperity gospel, redefinition of Christ, sexual revolution theology, and universalism
• The church must maintain clear boundaries on essential doctrines while showing compassion
• Catechizing households helps establish biblical foundations in families
• Hospitality has biblical limits - we should not platform those who actively undermine Christ's teaching

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Christian Warrior Mission
• 17:06 2 John: Truth and Love on the Battlefield
• 24:00 Love as Obedience to God's Commands
• 36:22 Guarding Against Deceivers and False Teachers
• 45:00 Five Modern Heresies Confronted
• 55:16 Lord's Supper and Closing Benediction

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:27

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Speaker 1: 12:41

Welcome to Christian Warrior Mission. Happy Lord's Day to you. Hope you had a great week and I hope you, like us, are in the end of summer, the beginning of fall. 70-degree days and 50-degree nights are coming this week. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, praise the Lord. I love me some fall. Fall is my favorite time of year, my favorite weather. Sweatshirt, sweatpants, weather, nothing like it, nothing like it. So I hope it's cooling off where you are as well as it is here. I mean, I can't believe I'm saying this in August, but I'm sure we'll get one more week of really hot weather in September or something.

Speaker 1: 14:53

Welcome to Christian Warrior Mission Home church. Yes, please, yes, okay, lauren's going to adjust this effect. Okay, adjust this effect. Can I go like this? Okay, that's better, I guess. Can you get the table? Whoa, too much, you need the tabletop. Or else it looks like I'm floating. There you go, good enough, too much, you need the tabletop. Or else it looks like I'm floating. No, there you go. Good enough, we'll fix it for next week. Work in progress.

Speaker 1: 15:42

Welcome to Christian Warrior Mission, a home church, community ministry and farm forging Christian Warriors for today's challenges. Here we forge men and families into battle-ready disciples of King Jesus, locking shields and advancing on every front so Christ is honored, his people are protected and his kingdom surges into every sphere of life. Advance on every front, every day, no excuses, no retreats. I hope you guys have been catching our daily Battle, bible Study, which starts usually at 7 am, monday through Friday, with some exceptions, but there we go through one chapter a day and we fight three battles. We fight to get a humble and grateful heart aligned unto the Lord. Two, we fight to deliberately pursue a relationship with our Creator by studying His Holy Scripture and through prayer. And three, we fight for each other by locking our shields of faith over one another and investing each other in each other's lives.

Speaker 1: 16:45

We also are doing the 91-Day Challenge over on Patreon. It's just a way to have more control over there, but you can join. It's the 91-Day Challenge. You can join at any time. It's just a way to have more control over there, but you can join. It's the 91-Day Challenge. You can join at any time. It's really a way of life and every day you just log what you do in the seven battlefields of faith, family, fitness, finances, fundamentals, fellowship and fidelity and you just put what you did and then every day you keep racking up score in each one of those categories and at the end of 91 days you will be in a completely different part of your life. I know for me I am doing really well on my faith, my family, my fitness and my fellowship and my fidelity. My finances and my fundamentals are still struggling a little bit, but everywhere else it's been great. Life in the gym has been great. Of course, I'm just coming off a 15-day regimen of prednisone so all my joints felt like they were 18 years old again, so that's going to come to an end, but I really enjoyed feeling good for a while.

Speaker 1: 17:48

We also are catechizing, so we are going to be on week three, so we kind of restarted. We got this and we were going and then we started the challenge and I wanted the challenge to line up and I figured, why not, we'll restart. So technically we're on week three and I'm going to review those three, okay. So here we go. Catechism is an organized way to know your faith. We're going to talk about it today in 2 John Boy. We're getting close to the end here. You know we only have 3, john and Jude, and then we're in the book of Revelation and then we're done. You know that's a pretty big milestone for this church. You know we started at Matthew 1 in the New Testament. Actually, we started in Genesis and then jumped to Matthew 1 and have gone our whole way through and it's a pretty big deal. So we're going to be great once we wrap it up and to start over. And that's where the truth goes, because now, once we've covered it all, you know I really want to drill down and maybe not cover as much, not a whole chapter, maybe just specific verses and really deeply unpack them. So all right. So our catechisms.

Speaker 1: 19:04

One first question Warrior, what is your life? And the answer to that is to glorify God, honoring and exalting in him forever. Warrior, what is your life To glorify God, honoring and exalting in him forever? Last one Warrior. What is your life? To glorify God, honor and exalting in him forever? Two Warrior whom do you serve? Answer I serve the Lord of hosts, father, son and Holy Spirit, the one true God, my creator, redeemer, sustainer and eternal king. Warrior. Who do you serve? I serve the Lord of hosts, father, son, holy Spirit, the one true God, my creator, the one true God, my creator, redeemer, sustainer and eternal king. Warrior. Whom do you serve? I serve the Lord of hosts, father, son and Holy Spirit, the one true God, my creator, redeemer, sustainer and eternal king. And then, warrior who is the father.

Speaker 1: 20:08

Warrior, the first person of the Trinity eternal, unbegotten, infinite in wisdom, power and love, creator of all and source of every grace. Warrior who is the Father, the first person, of the Trinity eternal, unbegotten, infinite in wisdom, power and love, creator of all and source of every grace. Finally, warrior who is the Father of every grace. Finally, warrior who is the father, the first person, of the Trinity eternal, unbegotten, infinite in wisdom, power and love, creator of all and source of every grace. All right, that is the three you need to memorize this week. Let's go ahead and bring it to prayer and get started. Let's pray.

Speaker 1: 20:52

Lord of hosts, commander of heaven's armies, fix our feet on your word. Forge us into a union of truth and love. Give us steel in our spine to resist deceivers, tenderness in our hands to shepherd the weak, and unity in our ranks to stand the line For Jesus' glory forever. Amen. We also do the Lord's Supper. I taught it last week. This week. I'll just read it If you're wondering where to find it.

Speaker 1: 21:17

It's Matthew 6, 9 through 13. And this is a model prayer If you want to know how to pray. No one prays better than Jesus. He said to pray that in this way. Our Father is in, who is in heaven. Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us in temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, for yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen, all right. Him in the power and the glory forever. Amen, all right.

Speaker 1: 22:00

The title of this sermon is obviously. We're in 2 John, and the good news for some of you is that this is short. It's only 13 verses. I think that's the shortest sermon I'd be doing. I've done so far 13 verses and it's only one letter. It's a real short letter and this is the truth and love on the battlefield Truth and love on the battlefield. The church stands or falls whether she walks in truth and love and refuses quarter to deceivers, strengthening face-to-face fellowship for joy. That is a biblical antidote for today's five corrosive heresies. Because this was so short, I figured why not at this point? We're going to cover five, because in John second John you're going to see again he warns against deceivers. So I picked the top five heresies of today that are pushed out there that distort Christianity in some way and lead people to doom. Okay, so we're going to address those, but first let's get into 2 John.

Speaker 1: 23:06

All right, the first thing we need to know is this was written by the Apostle John and he is writing as the elder, the same voice and vocabulary as 1 John and the gospel. The themes are truth, love, abide, commandments and antichrist. The date is 85 to 95 AD, late 1st century, likely after the gospel in 1 John, when John has advanced in years. He wrote this in Ephesus, a Roman province of Asia and is the traditional center of Johannine ministry. I hope I said that right. 2 John fits a network of churches across Asia Minor.

Speaker 1: 23:52

The recipients of this are the elect lady. Now we've got to figure out what that means and we'll read that here in a second. But to the chosen, the lady and her children has two plausible meanings A godly woman in her household or, you know, hosting a house church, or a local church personified, as the lady and her children are members. Either way. The letter targets household and church life, doctrine, hospitality and boundaries. Some things to understand. Early Christian missions depended on itinerant teachers and the hospitality of homes. There were very few hotels. Everyone was poor, so hospitality was huge and homes were almost all the churches in early in first century church. You're looking at what the churches looked like. They were homes like this. This is my two car garage converted into a sanctuary. Okay, john warns in this, as you'll see many deceivers who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. All right, and we'll unpack the rest of that, I think, later. I just have my notes a little bit.

Speaker 1: 25:04

So important things to realize about the political and religious climate, the imperial cult this was emperor worship of Caesar. It was strong in Asia In refusal to participate, marked Christians as socially suspect for rejecting idols. Persecution was localized, sporadic but real. Ongoing. Synagogue and church separation increased tensions from the Jews and the Christians Increased tension. Christians were losing social and legal cover once afforded to Jews. The church is thus under external pressure, imperial piety and internal infiltration, false teachers. John addresses the internal threat. So the church doesn't collapse from within. So the church doesn't collapse from within. The church life and structures were small, familial, family churches Wow, I'm having a hard time speaking today and they were fragile. Leaders literally guarded the doors and had to doctrinally guard them. Guard them from people coming in, so from persecution and attack, and from people coming in and bringing in false gospel. A public reading of letters, face-to-face oversight mattered.

Speaker 1: 26:28

John prefers embodied presence for joy, unity and discipline. So let's go ahead and let's get into it. 2 John, verse 1. The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth, verse 4,. I rejoice greatly to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we received commandment to do from the Father. Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning that we love one another and this is love. That we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

Speaker 1: 27:43

Beginning up in verse 7, for many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess Jesus Christ is coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. Watch yourselves that you do not lose what you have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. Anyone who goes too far and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Those who remain in his teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. So I'm going to read that again If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him greeting, for the one who gives him greeting participates in his evil deeds. And then verse 12, though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you and speak face to face so that your joy may be made complete. And speak face to face so that your joy may be made complete. The children of your chosen sister greet you All right, so again, very short and pointed in at least two places. So let's talk about verses 1 through 6.

Speaker 1: 29:10

Love and truth. John repeats truth, because truth is not a mood, its reality is. God defines it, embodied in Christ. Now let me say that again.

Speaker 1: 29:26

In our society today, people have their truth. No, there is not your truth and my truth. Truth is reality as God defines it. That is truth. No, there is not your truth and my truth. Truth is reality as God defines it. That is truth. Your feelings aren't truth. Your feelings aren't truth. You may feel like a unicorn. You are not a unicorn you may feel.

Speaker 1: 29:50

My daughter pretends that she's a horse one day, a cow the next day, a kitty the next day and a dog the next day. That doesn't make her those. What is she? She is a woman, a girl, a female okay, a female human. She doesn't get to choose what she wants. Reality is as God defines it, embodied in Christ. Grace, mercy and peace in truth and love.

Speaker 1: 30:25

Gospel benefits. Flow along the tracks of truth, not sentiment. No truth, no grace. If you are lying to God. He knows that there's no grace there. You know, everyone's like. I was talking to somebody today who was Christian, curious and talking about truths. I don't think I'm going to go into it. I don't want to break that confidence. I'm going to leave that where it is at. So, again, gospel flows along the tracks of truth. No truth, no grace.

Speaker 1: 31:16

One of the things I will talk about is a hypothetical of what happens if a murderer, or what if Hitler, at the last moment, turned to Jesus and repented. Would he be saved? Well, if he meant it? Maybe Possibly, according to the gospel? Yes, would he be saved? Well, if he meant it. Maybe possibly according to the gospel. Yes, if we understand it clearly. But could he? Would he, and what do you mean it? Would it be fire insurance? All of us are counting on that grace. All of us are counting on that grace. All of us are counting on if we truly repent, turn and believe that we will be saved. So, yeah, if a murderer was to turn and repent and believe as what some people call the thief on the cross, he's the standard, but I believe that no one on earth has as much faith as the thief on the cross. So if you think you can have as much faith as him, good luck to you. I don't think anyone did, does or has so.

Speaker 1: 32:42

Walking in truth, the Christian life is a march, not a couch. If you're sitting on your couch not serving anyone and you're just going about your life stumbling through it, bumbling through it, without trying to help anyone else, you're not doing it right and you may not even be saved. You're called to be a light in this world. You are called to be a catalyst for change in people's lives. See a need, you meet it. That's what you're to be. It's a march, not a couch. This is love that we walk according to His commandments. Love is an aimless affirmation. Love is obedience. God does not separate what we keep trying to pry apart. So here's your takeaway If your love requires you to disobey scripture, it isn't love. It's treason dressed as tenderness. How often do we see this when we go and affirm things and we say, oh, love is love. I'm about to dive into that here with both hands. The Bible tells us what is sin and what is not. Disobey that at your own peril.

Speaker 1: 34:19

The Perimeter Against Deceivers in verses 7-11. Many deceivers who do not confess Jesus Christ are coming in the flesh. First century docetism I said this three times before. I swear my tongue does not want to work there. Docetism Denied the real humanity of Christ. John calls such teachers antichrist because they oppose the true Christ. Watch yourselves Security posture, complacency loses ground already won. Watch yourselves tells you to be on guard.

Speaker 1: 35:01

And then we heard the words go too far in verse 9. Runs ahead, so-called progress that leaves Christ's teaching behind. John renders the verdict that there is no God in that. And then, lastly, the surprising one Do not receive him, nor give him greeting In a house, church, world. Receiving a teacher meant platforming them. Giving him food, bed and a pulpit To host a false teacher is to aid in his war against the flock. That's complicity. The takeaway hospitality is holy. We are to give it, but never to wolves. Mercy to the struggling, no quarter to deceivers. And then the last two verses, 12 and 13,. You see, john prefers face-to-face to paper and ink or digital, because embodied present fortifies joy, unity and discipline. Lone wolves get picked off, shield walls hold together. So let's refute the five heresies of today.

Speaker 1: 36:20

Anyone who goes too far and does not remain in his teaching, christ does not have God, in verse 9. Remaining in the teaching of Christ means staying under apostolic scripture. Every heresy below is a refusal to remain in that. First is denial of scripture's authority. This is progressive Christianity and liberalism.

Speaker 1: 36:46

The Bible contains truth, but it isn't the truth. We must update it with modern love. You know God is love, love, love, love. God is holy, holy, holy John's answer in verse 6. He defines love as obeying God's commandments. You cannot weaponize love to overthrow God's word and forbids running ahead of Christ's teaching.

Speaker 1: 37:18

Progress that contradicts Scripture is apostasy, not maturity. We see this in 2 Timothy 3, 16-17. All Scripture is God-breathed in them and that the man of God may be equipped, not some, not when it fits. John 10.35,. Scripture cannot be broken. Matthew 5.18,. Not one iota passes away until all is accomplished. Confessional wisdom in the Westminster Confession 1.6 summarized Scripture is sufficient for God's glory, man's salvation, faith and life.

Speaker 1: 38:05

Why this heresy kills. When feelings become canon, christ's crown is removed and handed to the mob. Let me say that again when feelings become the canon, christ's crown is removed and handed to the mob. Mission becomes moral fashion, holiness becomes harm. God is too stern, god is too hard. What you have no idea, what you even are, how depraved you are, how good he is. You have an inflated opinion of yourself and you have no idea who God is.

Speaker 1: 38:51

What do we do with this? What's our response? You catechize your household, as we are. You teach literal text and context. There are lines in the Bible that are poetry and are meant to be taken and applied in lofty ways, and then there are things that are meant to be taken literal, teach literal text in context. And then, anytime somebody asks you for something, require chapter and verse. This is like somebody coming up to you on the front lines of the battle and changing the battle plan and you're like let me see those orders, I want to see those. Give me the orders, I want to see them. If we're going to attack somewhere where we're not supposed to attack, I need to see the orders. The next we're going to talk about is a popular one.

Speaker 1: 39:56

This is the prosperity gospel. God wants you to live in the best you. He wants you to have a Ferrari. He wants you to have that big house on the hill. He wants you to have all this stuff. He wants you to have a bigger bank account and send it all here. Right the lie Faith is a lever to get cash, comfort and constant healing. John's answer verse 8, speaks of a future full reward, not guaranteed present luxury.

Speaker 1: 40:31

The New Testament normalizes suffering now, glory later. I'm sorry, but when I read the New Testament I don't see a bunch of rich people running around having a great time. I see a bunch of Christians who are suffering and fighting for survival, persecuted, hunted. I don't see anyone rolling in their chariots and carts and in their. I don't see any of that. I see them all penniless. And these were Jesus' best friends. So you think he wants you to be rolling in your grind culture?

Speaker 1: 41:19

We see this in Philippians 1.29, granted not only to believe but also to suffer. Luke 9.23, deny yourself. Take up your cross daily. 2 Corinthians 12, 7-10,. Paul's thorn in his side remains. Christ's power is made perfect in weakness. This is so true. Why does God always pick the weakest people to be his champions? Because God is glorified in your weakness. It's obviously him, then, and not you. Stuttering Moses could never be accused of being a great orator, but with God he could be. Tiny little David, up against Goliath, could never beat him unless God was with him. Hebrews 11 faithful saints, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated, still called victorious.

Speaker 1: 42:33

Here's why this heresy kills. It manufactures consumers. Consumer Christianity come in. Where's my child care? It manufactures consumers. Consumer Christianity Come in. Where's my childcare? Where's my coffee? Where's my food? What's the Wi-Fi password? That is the church today. It's not coming in the door. What can I help? Just let me be served, instead of being the servant. When bullets fly, prosperity, converts break and run the warrior response. Preach the cost of discipleship. Celebrate perseverance under trials. Give testimonies of faithful endurance, not just breakthroughs.

Speaker 1: 43:32

All right, now we got the third one, the third heresy, the redefinition of Christ, christless Christianity. Jesus is a moral teacher or a social activist, not the God-man who saves. John answers this in verse 7, names deniers of the incarnation as deceivers and antichrists. Verse 9, refusing the teaching of Christ is not having God. The biblical case for this in John 1.14. The word was God and became flesh. Colossians 2.9. In him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily. And in 1 Timothy 2.5, one mediator, the man, jesus Christ. Lastly, 1 John 4.2-3.

Speaker 1: 44:20

Confessing Jesus come in the flesh is the Spirit's test. So one true man can atone for man, oh sorry. Only a true man can atone for man. Only true God can bear the infinite wrath and conquer death. Deny either nature and you lose salvation. Let me say that again. Only a true man can atone for man. Only true God can bear the infinite wrath and conquer death. Man had to atone for man, but only God could handle paying for all sin for all time.

Speaker 1: 45:08

The warrior's response to this is teach the Chalcedonian confession in plain language one person, two natures, without confusion or division. That's Christ. Demand, christ-centered preaching that exalts his person and work. Look in 1 Corinthians 2. Now the fourth heresy the sexual revolution, theology, lgbtq++++++, satanic alphabet soup affirmation, gender redefinition, the lie.

Speaker 1: 45:42

Love is love. Love means affirming whatever identity and desire someone claims. John's answer to this is verse 6. Love equals obedience to the commandments, not to the culture's cravings. Verse 9.

Speaker 1: 45:58

Progress beyond Christ's teaching on creation and marriage is not of god. Verses 10 and 11 do not platform teachers who deny god's sexual ethics, and aiding them participates in their evil. All you churches fly on rainbow flags. Shame on you. You will be judged and, most of all, go back up to the scripture here for a second. Where is it? I lost it. Come on, there we go.

Speaker 1: 47:28

Verse 2, for the sake of truth which abides in us, will be with us forever. Who am I love in truth in verse 1. Walking in truth, verse 4. Truth, truth, truth, truth all over truth. Without truth there is nothing. Marriage is between a man and a woman. There are two genders, male and female, period. So let's get back to that obedience to the commandments, not cultural craving, progress beyond. Okay, cover that. Genesis 127 and 224. God created male and female marriages. One man, one woman, one flesh. Matthew 19, 4 through 6. Jesus reaffirms Genesis, not Rome's or today's fashions. Romans 12, 1.24-27.

Speaker 1: 48:42

Homosexual practice sits on the catalog of exchange worship. It is not righteous identity, it is a sin. It is a sin, sin, sin, sin, sin. 1 Corinthians 6, 9-11. Such were some of you, but you were washed. The gospel saves and reforms sinners. It does not rubber stamp sin.

Speaker 1: 49:11

Okay, so what do we do? We must understand that those who are seeking to be better strugglers, who repent, belong in the family. We will help them, we will guard them, we will disciple them. But teachers who celebrate sexual rebellion must not be platformed. Compassion for the wounded does not mean commissioning the wolves. So our response as warriors is to teach God's design positively and early in the home. And then, of course, every church should institute a membership confession that clearly affirms biblical sex and marriage. Protect the flock. Do background checks policies. Protect your family.

Speaker 1: 50:06

Lastly, universalism or inclusivism All religions lead to heaven. It's all the same. God right, a loving God, won't judge sincere people who are saved without Christ. Verse 9,. Remaining in Christ's teaching is required to have God. Another path rejects the Son and loses the Father.

Speaker 1: 50:24

Verse 9,. Verse 10 and 11, verse 10 and 11, john 14.6,. Acts 4.12,. Matthew 7.13-23,. The narrow gate. Many who say Lord, lord, are unknown to Christ.

Speaker 1: 50:46

Hebrews 9.27,. It is appointed to die once and after this comes judgment. Revelation 20.11-15,. The great white throne, names not in the book of life are judged. Why this heresy kills. If everyone is saved, the cross is pointless. Missions die, holiness evaporates the warrior's response.

Speaker 1: 51:12

Preach repentance, faith clearly send in, support evangelism with urgency and refuse Christianity without conversion. So some church's gatekeeping, a playbook we came up with. Know who is Jesus, fully God and fully man. What is scripture? God breathed, final authority. What is the gospel? Substitutionary atonement, resurrection, repentance and faith. What is holiness? Sexual ethics per Genesis 1-2, 1 Corinthians 6,. Hebrews 13-4. What is the way of salvation? Christ alone In your household.

Speaker 1: 51:59

Audit media and curriculum quarterly. Teach children the Apostles' Creed, ten Commandments and key texts. Practice family worship. We must care for strugglers. In Galatians 6, restore them with gentleness, accountability and discipleship. In wolves we must warn and then avoid no platform given. So I challenge you this week to memorize 2 John 6 and 9 through 11.

Speaker 1: 52:34

Define love biblically in 30 seconds Some quotes to think about. Athanasius said he became what we are, that he might make us what he is. Calvin said love is not lawless, it is guided by truth. And Luther said I will not trust my heart or wisdom one hair's breadth without the word of God. And then Spurgeon said Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong. Rather, there's a difference between right and almost right.

Speaker 1: 53:12

So church, truth and love are not opponents. They are your right and left hand. Like them, hold the line against the five lies of our age. Strengthen your homes, guard your pulpits, build face-to-face fellowship. The king is not wringing his hands. He reigns March.

Speaker 1: 53:35

Let's pray for a moment here. King Jesus, anchor us in your truth and inflame us with your love. Expose deceivers, heal the broken, embolden the saints. Make our home citadels, our church a shield wall and our witness a clear trumpet blast. Keep us from running beyond your teaching. Keep us abiding in you. Amen, alright, we're going to do the Lord's Supper now. 1 Corinthians 11-28,. Sorry, but a man must test himself and in doing so he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. No-transcript. Sanctify this bread and this cup and sanctify us, your people, as we proclaim the death, resurrection, the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray in his mighty, matchless name Amen.

Speaker 1: 55:35

1 Corinthians 11, 23 through 24 says the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was being betrayed, took bread and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said this is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Remember this symbolizes his body, pierced, beaten and sacrificed for you. Let us partake of the bread together and remember Christ's body broken for us. Go ahead and eat the same way. He took the cup also after supper, saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. Saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. This symbolizes his blood, the blood that purchased our forgiveness and sealed the everlasting covenant. Let us partake of this cup together and remember Christ's blood poured out for us. Go ahead and drink. For as long as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. By this eating and drinking, we publicly proclaim Christ has died, christ has risen, christ will come again. We are his soldiers in his everlasting kingdom.

Speaker 1: 56:54

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift and assurance through your son, jesus Christ, strengthening our faith that we may overcome this world. Keep us steadfast in prayer, bold in confession and vigilant against idols. Fill our homes, our church and our lives with witness from the Spirit, the water and the blood. As we march forward, may we do so as warriors equipped with truth, love and courage. Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved, complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus. Faithful is he who calls you and he will also bring it to pass. In Jesus' name we pray Amen. God bless you. See you tomorrow at 7 am.