The Sermon You Are Never Alone by David McGee
Oct 3, 2010
You Are Never Alone (25:31)
Referenced Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 11:27-28
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1 Corinthians 11:27-28
27) Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord‘s cup in an unworthy manner, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
28) But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
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Paul replied, and on while we do they place where the Lord 's supper. They are being on the Brandon, and bringing of the cup. Paul says in first Corinthians eleven twenty seven twenty eight therefore whoever eats the bread and drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and the blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. A man ought to examine himself. Now it's important that we begin to look at ourselves in the right relationship in the right relationship that we have with Christ now it is it is very important that on wiki widget here. I love when they did the audit dropping, you know where we examine our something and you have the look in the mirror this morning, we can all know the way he did not about a face as I brought one for you to say that I visited there are great men. The thinking of is this everything is about you that Reagan Junior, so whenever we think I'm a mere way they got election. No wealthy vehicles with a physically break a mirror up ever empowered a mere with seven years bad luck. I think you can think of that who decided that if you break one of these things is a glass. Asia has seven years bad luck in love with him. I know you, you think it much of our. Not that I'm glad he got sometimes people me that I may be able to walk under ladders. Now why padlock while he held the reins is now blocking somebody walked under a ladder and it fell on them, and they know that you know why you know you walk your dog will bad luck to you. Did you know so my hearing is here this this piece of glass with some stuff on the back and makes it reflective. I now want to say the magic words. Okay, got the whole demeanor and close your eyes and say the magic words, one of the magic words mirror, mirror near you. Not holding my hand in hand revealed to me and me, the one whom before stand and watch me play instead of helping your what is it so you myself. I love what got the magic mirror, Ray failed to be the one reform of is that you done ahead. He hasn't been there and I think they can begin making a thing as the generally, when you look into a mirror near you. You're the one doing the assessing now, that that will have fairytale mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of all, I do that one of the well with me but you think about how we empower thing. I mean here is is just it's at the piece of glass, and with some coding on the back. I stole off the wall is when you deal with missing values. Note that the so anyhow it. We had this mirror that this thing the women power as we look at it. We knowingly put water. We haven't wife's implies that Emily misguided without once over that that Yahoo will look appropriate far prefer for public but some people and their mystical layout approaching things will end power. This. There is some try some cultures that if they look into the mirror they look into them urinate in the theater the mirror because it captures their soul. It captures are solved. Why do they look at an AC news Albany don't really understand the jealousy of dog she itself for the first time in the near. I mean it is. They just live this life marketing the parents bargain at that dog looked ferocious that itself the back way and whatever so late. We have a lot to do with the with the mirror and wanted what it does on the Bible tells us that we are to examine ourselves before we eat of the bread and drink the cup and the difference is that, as we examine ourselves number one has, as we look in the mirror. It is as it should be admitted that I didn't change much. I than trouble is, it didn't change much from yesterday, but on last week, but you know what stays a lot over the years that the and so the mirror can reflect those changes in what we have to do is get some pictures and stop and look at it from years ago and see how much you've changed while I member on this one. The gallery. I mean we've all done this one you come in from of perhaps working order outside and not the command master player whatever and even in the house, and there is some cupcakes or whatever on the table had nerve white bread, white cake and yielded up and start eating and then you see these prints of the cupcake because what happens in and wash your hair as all you look at letting you have a decision to make life will or a vendor who on the dirt does one make sure so. So we are alive because cupcake is not good. So what happens is sometimes there are some things that are very obvious. You know there is something very, very obvious if you are if you are eating and somebody said was a Gary got home on your mouth or how about the one I love the ride yesterday that sometime that with the kids, you know you can you do the reflection you have two bowls and the one ball. The person yells. There's two people in the one ball that you give to somebody has black suit on the bottom and UV value in your smoke. There spoke to look directly derive the mimic everything that you do and when you're looking at them, and they're going like this and you're going like the asset. Now, I guess. Of course there laughing your where were they laughing at and you putting black select all over your face and death. When it's all over what you joke you look at their and you know what you are going to marry lab is such a lovelier place in everybody's laughing because the joke was on your show, we find the things that is, as we tried to be more like them who try to understand what no what people are doing, and so on. What's going on in our life. The Bible says that it is the mirror of God 's word and whenever in Belgrade and drink the problem we are. We are reflecting upon what is written here. The difference is when I reflect on the image in the mirror I my old assessment and perhaps my societies assessment on what a person should look like and what a person should be wearing and we have the ways of looking at things, but the bearer of God 's word is a mirror that talks a lot about that which is eternal, that gives us a perspective of life that isn't something that comes to us on our own. I'm a member said if I were God, immortal God what he should do this one make sure that whenever you pray, we generally tell God what he should do. God, you know I I said that I'm sure glad that God has a flat or a default rate appear guys every time I pray I tell them what he should do it is okay, but I never thought of just little humor there. Else, like God, the all knowing doesn't think of something, and I had to form him, so it's not that way. So the reflectiveness that we find the word in the mirror of God 's word is there things that we need to look at and there are things that we need to add the alleged looking into a mirror and it in and it am sure will come up with one of these Sunday and it says more makeup needed pluck your eyebrows, your hair take a bath shaved in our Sunday. That's what happened here or there will look at it. There is no tie what you should be very well. The Bible is the mirror of God 's word and it gives us an outline of what we should be doing and how we show you what God. This is the neatness Scripture doesn't no matter important that we understand the bodily. Jesus Christ of the good Shepherd who lean fishy broad range of us in the path of righteousness for his name thing and liaison. He doesn't help us. Okay, God raised us he doesn't know a guilt trip is someplace that you book because you think you should, or somebody think you should add the sugar, whether covenants and if only, and we do all that guilt and manipulation and guilt and manipulation is not being led the purpose of the church and the purpose of the word of God. The purpose of our relationship with Jesus Christ is about being landing the path of righteousness for his namesake and that literally means that a shepherd where every of his name will take care of it. She Jesus were the be the title Lamb of God, he who is God is worthy of that title because he believed sauce who are unworthy in his path. The path of righteousness. So is our good Shepherd. I was reading this story about John Revere. He's an author and and this is how he tells his story of when he finally came to know Jesus Christ. This is Ward Savior, and this was whenever he was a student at Purdue University is in one evening his Christian friends knocked on his door and in the course of sharing the word of God with me. He asked John, can you tell me about the present in the United States. John responded, sure. His name is Jimmy Carter. His wife's name is Roslyn. He was a former governor of Georgia. Prior to that he was a peanut farmer is a good thing. You tell me about Ryan Seifert, I can. Born of a virgin, the stepfather was named Joseph. He had twelve disciples, and he died on the cross. He said right now tell me this, you know, the president needed all president Carter like you know your mother. I quickly responded no. Yes, what was the difference. I said while she is my mother. I know her personally, I've never met the present United States even said so you have a personal relationship with your mom. But even though you know much about the president you don't know him, you don't have a personal relationship with him and I answered correct. Then he said, you know Jesus Christ. Like you know your mother. I was stunned. I sat there, not knowing what to say eventually God 's plan of sending Jesus. It was not to make us a bunch of churchgoers, but the humble personal relationship with us for the next year. I spent hours in the Bible. I couldn't get enough. I wanted to know God 's word in before giving my life to Jesus, the Bible, read much like a bunch of stories and rules. Now it was God 's word to me personally because it had come alive in my heart and this is the relationship that we are looking for in Jesus Christ. The relationship is that we know him and I know him and the power of his resurrection. We spoke of this in our Sunday school lesson. There is when it talks about in first Peter about knowledge talks about a knowledge that is knowing and that it talks about an knowledge that he has an understanding that they are one with the word revealed reveal that the right word but anyhow what it means is that I know the word of God like I will never leave you nor forsake you. And then the revelation of that knowledge is. I know that I'm not alone and I know that God 's promise I will never leave you thinking about the revelation of that knowledge. As I stand here and I don't feel alone. Why does Jesus is with me, so there is a different thing than knowledge. The knowledge did not Jesus as our Lord and Savior is not only that we know that Jesus has died upon the cross is risen from the dead, and we partake of communion and that would enter into this partnership with God. We have this partnership with God. Jesus has has instigated an anti- and he has called us, and he has spoken to our hearts. So there is this knowledge. But the understanding is, I am forgiven. I am forgetting. We spoke up and sang about the resurrection. The resurrection is that that there is a knowledge that Jesus Christ is because I live, you shall live also. And then there is his understanding and a heart that says when he calls me, I will rock I will hear you call my name, see that is not only an knowledge that is a revelation to my heart 's revelation to my heart. James chapter four verses of James chapter four verse ten that there in chapter one verse ten operated. Find out I can. What is the thing I like yourself before the Lord and he will lift you up so we had this relational understanding that God is going to let us he's going to take us where we are to where he wants us to be the James sat there for versus one two and three it says what causes fights and quarrels among you, don't they come from your desires that you battle with the battle within you. There are a lot of battles going on in our life and you want something but don't get it. Here you convict and what you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. And you don't have because you don't ask when you ask you will receive, because you last with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your own passion and the idea is here that this continental us about a revelation and understanding that in our hearts, and how then do we see ourselves with our knowledge and with our heart is a reluctant leader and we can assess what we look like, but when we look at our hearts was only one assessment account and this assessment. In Revelation nineteen. Simon says let us rejoice and be glad in giving glory for the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his blindness may herself ready that God has given us a whole that is going to last forever. The mirror of God 's word reflects the word in our life. It reflects Jesus Christ. It reflects Jesus Christ and and what you gone so as we type this word, and we look at it and give us a reflection and reflection is the love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul and mind your neighbor as yourself will guide you don't know my neighbor and. But what happens is, he says to us that his revelation will give us the ability to love those who don't love us just as when he was dying on the cross, he said, father, forgive them for they know not what they're doing the same lava was in his heart on the cross for us, it's the same love that helps us love our neighbor, the same love and he says that he died for us because he loves us is the same reflection that tells us that I'm with you always. I'll never leave you nor forsake you. God 's word inspires our belief, God 's word inspires us to understand God has a purpose for writing John ten ten, says the thief is only there to steal to kill and destroy that I had come that you may have real and eternal more and better life than you ever dreamed. So whenever we start looking at the word, and we start looking and reflecting upon the word of God. We don't come with me, don't come with our own conception landing we do and that's what we get in trouble. We look at the word in which they are well you know in the interest written a long time ago by people who are outdated and all that kind of stuff is not what it says is, we look at this word that heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass away. There is a hope in our heart because the hope that is in the Scripture is reflected into our lives by the same God who inspired the writers, the same God who inspired Paul and Peter, the same God who inspired John and Matthew the same, the same God who inspired Timothy same God who inspired John Balaam, the same God spires and has, as we reflect upon this the purpose is not a guilt trip. The purpose is that you have lied and that we might have better life than we ever imagined that we might have better life than we ever imagined. That's the reflection that we get from the because it is alive and active, and goes to the very heart of our soul and I wanted. This is a song came to my mind as I was putting this together. As Brad said he was being the ceiling reuse these that I know he is in him whom him and him and him and I and A is an man, I love you. I will add them all alone and I mean nine, a in the is in there, I will and will in the way I carry in the nine who I mean him playing in the Verde and the Moran of the that you can highlight on man. I mean you love your know that as long to being a him and I is a man, and will you and I may live in an online family ran a panel and paying them in the way that he will their time and being and will when I see it in the mind-boggling as I ride the weaning the ball and every time you look in the mirror you'd be a reply. Remember that one word of God truly telling us about that reflection that you are never alone, and you fear nothing at all the person you see in the mirror fears nothing at all because you're safe from your about father. That's what this word deflects in Iowa andPaul replied, and on while we do they place where the Lord 's supper. They are being on the Brandon, and bringing of the cup. Paul says in first Corinthians eleven twenty seven twenty eight therefore whoever eats the bread and drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and the blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. A man ought to examine himself. Now it's important that we begin to look at ourselves in the right relationship in the right relationship that we have with Christ now it is it is very important that on wiki widget here. I love when they did the audit dropping, you know where we examine our something and you have the look in the mirror this morning, we can all know the way he did not about a face as I brought one for you to say that I visited there are great men. The thinking of is this everything is about you that Reagan Junior, so whenever we think I'm a mere way they got election. No wealthy vehicles with a physically break a mirror up ever empowered a mere with seven years bad luck. I think you can think of that who decided that if you break one of these things is a glass. Asia has seven years bad luck in love with him. I know you, you think it much of our. Not that I'm glad he got sometimes people me that I may be able to walk under ladders. Now why padlock while he held the reins is now blocking somebody walked under a ladder and it fell on them, and they know that you know why you know you walk your dog will bad luck to you. Did you know so my hearing is here this this piece of glass with some stuff on the back and makes it reflective. I now want to say the magic words. Okay, got the whole demeanor and close your eyes and say the magic words, one of the magic words mirror, mirror near you. Not holding my hand in hand revealed to me and me, the one whom before stand and watch me play instead of helping your what is it so you myself. I love what got the magic mirror, Ray failed to be the one reform of is that you done ahead. He hasn't been there and I think they can begin making a thing as the generally, when you look into a mirror near you. You're the one doing the assessing now, that that will have fairytale mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of all, I do that one of the well with me but you think about how we empower thing. I mean here is is just it's at the piece of glass, and with some coding on the back. I stole off the wall is when you deal with missing values. Note that the so anyhow it. We had this mirror that this thing the women power as we look at it. We knowingly put water. We haven't wife's implies that Emily misguided without once over that that Yahoo will look appropriate far prefer for public but some people and their mystical layout approaching things will end power. This. There is some try some cultures that if they look into the mirror they look into them urinate in the theater the mirror because it captures their soul. It captures are solved. Why do they look at an AC news Albany don't really understand the jealousy of dog she itself for the first time in the near. I mean it is. They just live this life marketing the parents bargain at that dog looked ferocious that itself the back way and whatever so late. We have a lot to do with the with the mirror and wanted what it does on the Bible tells us that we are to examine ourselves before we eat of the bread and drink the cup and the difference is that, as we examine ourselves number one has, as we look in the mirror. It is as it should be admitted that I didn't change much. I than trouble is, it didn't change much from yesterday, but on last week, but you know what stays a lot over the years that the and so the mirror can reflect those changes in what we have to do is get some pictures and stop and look at it from years ago and see how much you've changed while I member on this one. The gallery. I mean we've all done this one you come in from of perhaps working order outside and not the command master player whatever and even in the house, and there is some cupcakes or whatever on the table had nerve white bread, white cake and yielded up and start eating and then you see these prints of the cupcake because what happens in and wash your hair as all you look at letting you have a decision to make life will or a vendor who on the dirt does one make sure so. So we are alive because cupcake is not good. So what happens is sometimes there are some things that are very obvious. You know there is something very, very obvious if you are if you are eating and somebody said was a Gary got home on your mouth or how about the one I love the ride yesterday that sometime that with the kids, you know you can you do the reflection you have two bowls and the one ball. The person yells. There's two people in the one ball that you give to somebody has black suit on the bottom and UV value in your smoke. There spoke to look directly derive the mimic everything that you do and when you're looking at them, and they're going like this and you're going like the asset. Now, I guess. Of course there laughing your where were they laughing at and you putting black select all over your face and death. When it's all over what you joke you look at their and you know what you are going to marry lab is such a lovelier place in everybody's laughing because the joke was on your show, we find the things that is, as we tried to be more like them who try to understand what no what people are doing, and so on. What's going on in our life. The Bible says that it is the mirror of God 's word and whenever in Belgrade and drink the problem we are. We are reflecting upon what is written here. The difference is when I reflect on the image in the mirror I my old assessment and perhaps my societies assessment on what a person should look like and what a person should be wearing and we have the ways of looking at things, but the bearer of God 's word is a mirror that talks a lot about that which is eternal, that gives us a perspective of life that isn't something that comes to us on our own. I'm a member said if I were God, immortal God what he should do this one make sure that whenever you pray, we generally tell God what he should do. God, you know I I said that I'm sure glad that God has a flat or a default rate appear guys every time I pray I tell them what he should do it is okay, but I never thought of just little humor there. Else, like God, the all knowing doesn't think of something, and I had to form him, so it's not that way. So the reflectiveness that we find the word in the mirror of God 's word is there things that we need to look at and there are things that we need to add the alleged looking into a mirror and it in and it am sure will come up with one of these Sunday and it says more makeup needed pluck your eyebrows, your hair take a bath shaved in our Sunday. That's what happened here or there will look at it. There is no tie what you should be very well. The Bible is the mirror of God 's word and it gives us an outline of what we should be doing and how we show you what God. This is the neatness Scripture doesn't no matter important that we understand the bodily. Jesus Christ of the good Shepherd who lean fishy broad range of us in the path of righteousness for his name thing and liaison. He doesn't help us. Okay, God raised us he doesn't know a guilt trip is someplace that you book because you think you should, or somebody think you should add the sugar, whether covenants and if only, and we do all that guilt and manipulation and guilt and manipulation is not being led the purpose of the church and the purpose of the word of God. The purpose of our relationship with Jesus Christ is about being landing the path of righteousness for his namesake and that literally means that a shepherd where every of his name will take care of it. She Jesus were the be the title Lamb of God, he who is God is worthy of that title because he believed sauce who are unworthy in his path. The path of righteousness. So is our good Shepherd. I was reading this story about John Revere. He's an author and and this is how he tells his story of when he finally came to know Jesus Christ. This is Ward Savior, and this was whenever he was a student at Purdue University is in one evening his Christian friends knocked on his door and in the course of sharing the word of God with me. He asked John, can you tell me about the present in the United States. John responded, sure. His name is Jimmy Carter. His wife's name is Roslyn. He was a former governor of Georgia. Prior to that he was a peanut farmer is a good thing. You tell me about Ryan Seifert, I can. Born of a virgin, the stepfather was named Joseph. He had twelve disciples, and he died on the cross. He said right now tell me this, you know, the president needed all president Carter like you know your mother. I quickly responded no. Yes, what was the difference. I said while she is my mother. I know her personally, I've never met the present United States even said so you have a personal relationship with your mom. But even though you know much about the president you don't know him, you don't have a personal relationship with him and I answered correct. Then he said, you know Jesus Christ. Like you know your mother. I was stunned. I sat there, not knowing what to say eventually God 's plan of sending Jesus. It was not to make us a bunch of churchgoers, but the humble personal relationship with us for the next year. I spent hours in the Bible. I couldn't get enough. I wanted to know God 's word in before giving my life to Jesus, the Bible, read much like a bunch of stories and rules. Now it was God 's word to me personally because it had come alive in my heart and this is the relationship that we are looking for in Jesus Christ. The relationship is that we know him and I know him and the power of his resurrection. We spoke of this in our Sunday school lesson. There is when it talks about in first Peter about knowledge talks about a knowledge that is knowing and that it talks about an knowledge that he has an understanding that they are one with the word revealed reveal that the right word but anyhow what it means is that I know the word of God like I will never leave you nor forsake you. And then the revelation of that knowledge is. I know that I'm not alone and I know that God 's promise I will never leave you thinking about the revelation of that knowledge. As I stand here and I don't feel alone. Why does Jesus is with me, so there is a different thing than knowledge. The knowledge did not Jesus as our Lord and Savior is not only that we know that Jesus has died upon the cross is risen from the dead, and we partake of communion and that would enter into this partnership with God. We have this partnership with God. Jesus has has instigated an anti- and he has called us, and he has spoken to our hearts. So there is this knowledge. But the understanding is, I am forgiven. I am forgetting. We spoke up and sang about the resurrection. The resurrection is that that there is a knowledge that Jesus Christ is because I live, you shall live also. And then there is his understanding and a heart that says when he calls me, I will rock I will hear you call my name, see that is not only an knowledge that is a revelation to my heart 's revelation to my heart. James chapter four verses of James chapter four verse ten that there in chapter one verse ten operated. Find out I can. What is the thing I like yourself before the Lord and he will lift you up so we had this relational understanding that God is going to let us he's going to take us where we are to where he wants us to be the James sat there for versus one two and three it says what causes fights and quarrels among you, don't they come from your desires that you battle with the battle within you. There are a lot of battles going on in our life and you want something but don't get it. Here you convict and what you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. And you don't have because you don't ask when you ask you will receive, because you last with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your own passion and the idea is here that this continental us about a revelation and understanding that in our hearts, and how then do we see ourselves with our knowledge and with our heart is a reluctant leader and we can assess what we look like, but when we look at our hearts was only one assessment account and this assessment. In Revelation nineteen. Simon says let us rejoice and be glad in giving glory for the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his blindness may herself ready that God has given us a whole that is going to last forever. The mirror of God 's word reflects the word in our life. It reflects Jesus Christ. It reflects Jesus Christ and and what you gone so as we type this word, and we look at it and give us a reflection and reflection is the love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul and mind your neighbor as yourself will guide you don't know my neighbor and. But what happens is, he says to us that his revelation will give us the ability to love those who don't love us just as when he was dying on the cross, he said, father, forgive them for they know not what they're doing the same lava was in his heart on the cross for us, it's the same love that helps us love our neighbor, the same love and he says that he died for us because he loves us is the same reflection that tells us that I'm with you always. I'll never leave you nor forsake you. God 's word inspires our belief, God 's word inspires us to understand God has a purpose for writing John ten ten, says the thief is only there to steal to kill and destroy that I had come that you may have real and eternal more and better life than you ever dreamed. So whenever we start looking at the word, and we start looking and reflecting upon the word of God. We don't come with me, don't come with our own conception landing we do and that's what we get in trouble. We look at the word in which they are well you know in the interest written a long time ago by people who are outdated and all that kind of stuff is not what it says is, we look at this word that heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass away. There is a hope in our heart because the hope that is in the Scripture is reflected into our lives by the same God who inspired the writers, the same God who inspired Paul and Peter, the same God who inspired John and Matthew the same, the same God who inspired Timothy same God who inspired John Balaam, the same God spires and has, as we reflect upon this the purpose is not a guilt trip. The purpose is that you have lied and that we might have better life than we ever imagined that we might have better life than we ever imagined. That's the reflection that we get from the because it is alive and active, and goes to the very heart of our soul and I wanted. This is a song came to my mind as I was putting this together. As Brad said he was being the ceiling reuse these that I know he is in him whom him and him and him and I and A is an man, I love you. I will add them all alone and I mean nine, a in the is in there, I will and will in the way I carry in the nine who I mean him playing in the Verde and the Moran of the that you can highlight on man. I mean you love your know that as long to being a him and I is a man, and will you and I may live in an online family ran a panel and paying them in the way that he will their time and being and will when I see it in the mind-boggling as I ride the weaning the ball and every time you look in the mirror you'd be a reply. Remember that one word of God truly telling us about that reflection that you are never alone, and you fear nothing at all the person you see in the mirror fears nothing at all because you're safe from your about father. That's what this word deflects in Iowa and