HWA Passover Service 1981 - Church of God - NEO

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Father help us all to take it worthily. Help us to have Faith and Believe. We are in a time of trouble when apparently Satan has come down after the Battle with Michael in Heaven and is persecuting the Church in every way possible. Our only defense is the Shield of Faith in the Armor of God. Father in Heaven, help us to understand that we don't work up Faith ourselves. That Faith is the gift of God -- that it comes through your Holy Spirit -- and that you give it when we are totally surrendered to you. It is not our Faith. It is Jesus' Faith given to us -- the same Faith He used to walk on the water -- the same Faith He used to heal the sick, to perform miracles, to cast out demons. Father, I ask you to give all in this room that Faith -- a Faith that many of us have never had. Open our minds to receive it, in the name of Jesus, and bless this Bread to that purpose, as we partake of it, in Jesus' name, Amen. [PAUSE FOR THE TAKING OF THE BREAD] Wine PRAYER (in progress): Jesus said for all of them to drink of it -- that this is the New Testament of His blood shed for the remission of sins (Matthew 26:28). Help us to understand, Father, that this merely is a Memorial representing, a symbol representing, the Blood of Christ -- and our taking it means our receiving again the Blood of Christ for the remission of our sins. God is the Lawgiver -- God the Father. Our sins cut us off from God the Father -- and when Jesus paid the penalty in our stead, that simply reconciles us to God the Father -- and God has Eternal Life to give. However, the Life comes through the Resurrection of Christ rather than through His death. And, it comes through our resurrection, ultimately, and I hope for God's Church at the Second Coming of Christ -- for Judgment is on us now. So, Almighty God bless this wine as we take it and help us to realize the significance -- the meaning of it -- that we are once again affirming by taking it that we are accepting the Blood of Christ for the remission of our sins, and to reconcile us to God. And, that means that we have repented because we have no right, we cannot accept His Blood unless we have repented, and to repent means to turn away from sin that we will not commit those sins, whatever they may be, again. At least that we will strive mightily never to again -- and that we ask God's help.
He said as a Church, that if we sin, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins -- and not only us but the rest of the world too. So, bless everyone in this room, Father, as they partake of this. Help us to realize the real deep significance of it and the meaning of it as we take it. We ask your blessing on it, in Jesus' name. Amen. [PAUSE FOR THE TAKING OF THE WINE] Conclusion The thirteenth chapter [of John], beginning with verse 31: John 13:31 Therefore, when he [Judas] was gone out, Jesus said, … 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. Most people would not understand how that could be a new commandment. You'll find it quoted way back in the Old Testament. It is new because any thing new never becomes old. It is a Spiritual Commandment and Spiritual things never become old. They are continually new. Therefore, it is still a New Commandment and always will be. John 13:35 By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another…. 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. He will come in clouds. He will receive those who have at that time God's Holy Spirit whether dead or living. The dead shall rise first. We which are alive will be changed instantaneously from Mortal to Immortal and caught up to meet Him in the air -- but we are merely going to meet Him as he is coming back here. For His feet will rest that same day on the Mount of Olives and He is going to remain here for the next Thousand Years -- and where He is that is where we shall be also. John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, … … Dwelling in Him by the Spirit -- the same as the Father can dwell in us by His Holy Spirit.
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