 Amen. First Corinthians chapter number 11. So we're going to be there for the entire sermon. This is going to be kind of a Bible study tonight. So I guess every sermon is kind of a Bible study because we're in the Bible. But we're going to kind of go detailed through the part of this chapter where Paul is talking about the Lord's Supper or coming together for the Lord's Supper because we're going to be doing this here in preparation for Easter. We celebrate the Lord's Supper every Wednesday before the Easter Sunday. I'm coming up. I'm going to explain to you why we do that. But I'm going to first go through the detail in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and kind of show what the Lord's Supper is, what it's not, and why we do what we do here for the Lord's Supper. So first of all, you know, what is, you know, I was raised, you know, Lutheran which is basically Catholic, and Lutheranism and many Protestant religions teach very close to what the Catholics teach in this sense is that the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, they call it, is a sacrament. All right? And you say, what is a sacrament? A sacrament is kind of a, I guess you could say it's not a Bible word. It's a word that is basically, you know, sort of made up from the Latin word. And a sacrament, basically, if you look up the Catholic definition of a sacrament, I always have to write this down because it's so confusing, you know, but it says this. It says, sacraments are efficacious signs of grace instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church through which divine life is given. So a sacrament is basically something in the Catholic Church, there's seven sacraments. In the Lutheran Church, there was two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's, and Holy Communion were sacraments in the Catholic Church. I don't even know if I can name all seven. It's like, it's like the Eucharist or Holy Communion confirmation, I think is one. You got marriage is one. You got the anointing, I'm counting anointing of the sick. I don't know what the other ones are. Baptism is one. And then there's like Holy Orders, I think is one. Did I hit seven? I think I got close enough, okay, since they're all fake anyway. So sacraments are basically the way for the false Catholic Church, and then the Protestants kept it going out of the Catholic Church. The Protestants are very Catholic. You know, when it comes down to it, that was one of the shocking points of my life when I realized, oh man, I'm Catholic. When I finally realized what the Bible said, and because I was raised in the Lutheran Church of Missouri Synod, which was a very conservative Lutheran Church. It was like the small Lutheran Church. It was not liberal. And many of the pastors that I had in the Lutheran Church of Missouri Synod were very anti-Catholic. We are not Catholic. We're not fellowship with Catholics. And then imagine my surprise when I finally see the truth, see the gospel. I'm like, oh man, I'm Catholic this whole time I've been Catholic. So sacraments are this way of tying our works to salvation, all right? And this is why so many Baptists before, you know, in the 300s going into the Dark Ages, why so many Baptists were killed by the Catholic Church, just because they would not accept that baptism is part of salvation, because that's what was being taught, is that baptism is actually part of salvation. And Christians would not accept that rightfully. So, but that's what a sacrament is. It's tying our works to salvation. And we know that salvation is not of works, no matter how tricky you get with it. It's actually worse for the Protestants, because Protestants will teach that the sacraments, baptism and the Lord's Supper, is actually, they'll say, oh yeah, you're saved by grace through faith. That's what Protestants will tell you. This is why sometimes it's many times easier to get a Catholic saved than a Protestant saved, because you'll tell a Protestant, it's just, it's faith alone. They're like, yeah, I know. It's only through grace. Yeah, I know, not of works. But the sacrament is a means of grace. So the way you get God's grace is by doing these works. I mean, you're just like, but that's what they believe. All right? So look, it's, there is no sacrament. It's a made up thing to just, you know, come up with a works-based salvation. But I mean, it makes no sense, because basically in order to, I mean, what if you stop doing the sacrament? It doesn't make any sense. How long do I have to, how long do I, how many times a week do I have to do sacraments? How many times a month? How many times a year? What, I mean, every hour? What do I have to do here? There's nothing like that in the Bible. It's basically based on two lies. The first lie is that salvation is earned over time. You know, like, you're getting, you're getting salvation as your life goes on. When we know that's not true from, you know, everything in the Bible, especially John 3.36, why, I think that's why I probably like John 3.36 so much, because, you know, it says, you know, that word half. You know, you half it, you have it, you currently possess it. He that believeth on the Son, half, just like that. It's in a moment that you are saved, that you get eternal life, that you get everlasting life. Salvation is not earned over time. Once you trust on Jesus, you get it in a moment. So it's based on that lie, that you're earning this salvation over time, and then it's just, you know, it's a tie to works-based salvation, basically is what it is. Alright, so look, it is not a sacrament. As a matter of fact, in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse number two, the Bible explains what it is. Look at verse number two of 1 Corinthians chapter 11. So what is it? What is it? The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 in verse number two, it says, Now I praise you, brethren, that ye, talking to the church, remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I deliver them to you. So he's saying keep the ordinances. What are the ordinances? An ordinance is just an order. It's just something that you're commanded to do. That's all an ordinance is. Now, a Bible-believing Christian, a Bible, a fundamentalist who believes the words of the Bible, believes that there's two ordinances of the church, and those ordinances are baptism and the Lord's Supper. Things that we are commanded to do. Alright, go down to verse number 23 and let's get into the Lord's Supper and what it is all about and how it needs to be done and how we need to look at it. Alright, look at verse number 23. 1 Corinthians chapter 11, this is also in the Gospels, Mark 14, I believe, and Matthew 26, the verse of the week, explain Jesus' words here. These are words that Jesus said at the Last Supper when he commanded the disciples to do this, where he gave this ordinance, but Paul repeats it with much more explanation of why we do it, how to do it, and how not to do it in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, which is why we're looking at 1 Corinthians chapter 11 tonight. And you don't think that, oh, that's Paul. Look, Paul was taught by Jesus Christ himself. Paul knows exactly what Jesus Christ wants us to do and doesn't want us to do. Alright, look at verse number 23 and let's get into this this evening. For I have received of the Lord, that which was also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. When he had given thanks, he break it and said, take, eat, this is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. So I mean, this is not complicated. This is not complicated and it is so crazy when I look at my life from the perspective of what I was taught about the Lord's Supper and the Eucharist and all this stuff that, see the difference between the Lutherans, the Protestants, and the Catholics is the Catholics believe that it is actually Jesus' body and blood that they are eating when they eat the bread and drink the wine. And they drink actual alcoholic wine, which is another sermon in itself. Alright, but, and I've preached on that, I'm not even going to get into that point. The Lutherans believe that it's present in the bread and the wine, that the body and blood of Christ is present like spiritually or something. I don't even know what that means. Okay? Why do we do it though? Why do we do it? I mean, look, it is not Jesus' actual body and actual blood, first of all. And I'm not even going to get into that. I've preached on that extensively. If you believe that, it's foolish and I don't even know where to begin. You know, Jesus, I mean, explained this so many times to the, it was the Pharisees that couldn't understand this type of thinking. You know, I am the bread of life. What is this loaf of bread? What? I mean, that's not what we're talking about tonight. But why do we do it? Why is Jesus saying to, for the disciples, to do this? Or at least, look, he's just saying at the time of the Last Supper right now. Okay? So we don't even know if he's telling us to continue doing it. Alright? But look, he says, do this right now. Why? To remember me is what he's saying. Look at verse number 25. After the same manner, he also, he took the cup and after he had stopped saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. So here he's saying, as often as you drink it. So this is implying that, you know, they should do this, you know, more often than just this one time. Why? Again, he says it again, to remember Jesus, to remember his sacrifice. Look at verse number 26 to kind of wrap it all together right now. He says, for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. What does that mean? Till he come. That means till he comes back. So it means that the church is supposed to do this until they're a raptured off of this earth. That's what this means. So he's saying, you do show ye, the church, talking to the Corinthian church here or talking to believers, you do show the Lord's death. What does that mean to show the Lord's death? To remember. Again, he's saying, do this to remember me until I come back. This is why we say this is an ordinance of the church. It is an order of the church to do this. He's like, just keep doing this until he comes back. So you say, why don't we do this every Sunday? We'll get to that. Okay. But we see that we're supposed to do this. We are supposed to do this. Why? To remember Jesus, to remember his broken body and to remember his blood that was shed for the remission of sins, to remember those things, to bring those back. I mean, doesn't that make perfect sense? Because what do we do as Christians? What do we do as human beings? We take things for granted. We forget things. We get involved in our lives and we take everything for granted, our eternal life for granted, our eternal security for granted. We get involved in all the blessings that God has given us and we do what? We forget things. So Jesus is saying, I'm implementing this so you don't forget what I did. Alright. Now turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 5. Just flip back a few chapters in 1 Corinthians chapter number 5. Let me explain to you why we do it once a year. Okay. Why we don't do it every week or why we don't do it once every other week or whatever. I used to actually gauge how conservative I thought whatever Lutheran church I was in on how often they did communion. So I was really against a church that only did communion like once a month. I'm like, that's a liberal church right there. But I'm going to show you why we just do it once a year. Look down at 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and look at verse number 7. There's a very specific reason why we do it once a year. The Bible says this. It says purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Notice what the Bible says there. It says Christ our Passover meaning Christ it doesn't say Christ during the Passover or Christ you know at the Passover it says Christ our Passover. The Passover was in the Old Testament the Passover was the actual lamb. Alright. It pictured Christ but the Bible here is saying that Christ is our Passover. Turn to Hebrews chapter number 8. Hebrews chapter number 8 and look at verse number 8. Jesus Christ is the actual replacement of the Passover lamb. It is what the Passover lamb was picturing. Alright look at Hebrews chapter 8 and verse number 8. The Bible says finding fault with them he sayeth behold the days come sayeth the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they continued not in my covenant and I regarded them not sayeth the Lord for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days sayeth the Lord I will put my laws in their mind and write them in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people this is Romans 2 15 right here and they shall not teach they shall not teach every man is neighbor and every man is brother saying know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities while I remember no more in that day he sayeth a new covenant he hath made the first old this is why we call it the new testament and the old testament right here and now that which decayeth and waxes old is ready to vanish away so all that to say this every ritual and sacrifice in the old testament was a picture of Christ all of these things that were done in the old testament that was the old covenant but it all pictured Christ go to Numbers chapter 9 and look at verse number 14 this is also why so we see Christ is the Passover Christ is the Passover the Passover lamb that somebody in the old testament would have called the Passover when they said kill the Passover they meant kill the the unblemished lamb that was just picturing the real Passover which was Jesus Christ okay now this is also interesting look at numbers actually go to Numbers chapter 9 and look at verse number 14 because it's very interesting to see when a stranger would come into the land somebody that wasn't in Israelite this is just goes to show you that it was never about genealogies by the way because somebody could come in even in the old testament somebody could come into the nation of Israel and they could accept the one true God they could essentially get saved which is what I'm going to show you actually happened to that person and as soon as that happened they got saved they accepted the one true God they were treated exactly like the people that were born in the nation of Israel who had parents from the nation of Israel you know it's never been about genealogies the only time the genealogies were actually important was when God was just dividing up the land saying all right these people get this spot over here and these people get this spot over here that's that's the only reason it was really important because even strangers could come into the land Ruth was a mobitus they could come into the land and it was all about what they believed it was all about the where they put their faith but look at numbers chapter 9 of verse number 14 I'll prove it to you and if a stranger sojourn among you mean meaning a stranger comes into the nation and hangs out among you and look at look at what the criteria is here and what and we'll keep the Passover unto the Lord according to the what what is it the sacrament of the past it's an ordinance and keep the ordinance of the Passover and according to the manner thereof so shall he do he shall have one ordinance both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land so what did he have to do what are this stranger that came from Egypt or wherever have to do in order to be treated with all the same laws there was no he was under you know tribute or anything like that as soon as he did what he kept the Passover what does that mean that is implying that he knew about the coming Messiah that the Lord was going to send and they were saved in the Old Testament by looking forward to the promise of the coming Messiah just as we are saved by trusting and looking backwards at the Messiah that has already come the that's why numbers 914 that's why the strangers like oh they just it's not about just like oh he did it he's celebrated and he ate the meal and whatever no he believed he believed he believed in the coming Messiah it's talking about he was saved they were saved and there to be treated exactly as everyone else the Passover equals the Messiah the Passover is to the Old Testament the Passover is to the Old Testament as the Lord's Supper is to us is what this boils down to the Old Testament again Old Testament is just a picture of the coming Messiah versus a remembrance of the one that has already come for us it isn't that isn't I mean isn't that just amazing how well that fits together how well that that they they were just doing this they were doing this meal the picture Jesus coming and what are we going to do we're going to do this meal to remember that Jesus came it's it's poetic it's so perfect and that's why we do it once a year that's why we don't do it every week because it's replacing the Passover very simple now go back to 1st Corinthians chapter number 11 1st Corinthians chapter number 11 it's not that complicated if you just read the Bible it fits together perfectly it makes perfect sense so obviously who's to do it believers are to do it people that are just as numbers chapter 9 verse 14 you know it's people that believe in the Messiah people that have trusted on Jesus is to do the Lord's Supper to remember Jesus wouldn't make much sense to want to celebrate something to remember Jesus if you didn't believe in Jesus in the first place but how is it administered and received what's going on here in the Corinthian church because Paul has some pretty strong words for what's happening here look at 1st Corinthians chapter number 11 and verse number 16 the the Corinthian church is whatever they're doing they're not doing it right and Paul is rebuking them harshly what's going on here in the Corinthian church is the Lord's Supper is not for eating and drinking all right look at verse number 16 look at verse number 16 there was problems here with the Lord's Supper in a verse number 16 the Bible says but if any man seemed to be contentious we have no such custom neither the churches of God now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not that you come together not for the better but for the worse so here we see that Paul is saying he says two things that are pretty pretty amazing here he says number one there's there's contentious people in the church what does that mean it means a person given to disagreeing a person given to arguing you know somebody who's just like this is a this is what pastors will call a troublemaker somebody that just is constantly just going against other people constantly just going against what the pastor wants to do just contentious all right just causing trouble and then look what he says in verse number 17 though he says there's contentious things going on here there's contentious people but he says it would be better that you come together he says you come together not for the better but for the worse you know what he's saying it would be better that you not come together than to come together like this isn't that a profound thing to say he's saying it would literally be better if you I mean look you know what he's saying if a content if a person is contentious it would be better to I mean just overall if a person was contentious and just wanted to cause trouble just wanted to argue with people want to cause all kinds of problems it'd be better that they didn't go to church isn't that a profound thing I mean I stand up here and scream at you all the time like you need to be in church you need to be coming to church the bible commands it but if you're contentious and you want to cause problems it'd be better that you didn't come to church I'm gonna explain to you why that is but that's what he's saying look at verse 18 for first of all when you come together in the church I hear that there be divisions among you and I partly believe it for they're almost there there must also be heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you so we got all kinds of problems going on here but then he gets more specific on what that's actually happening he says when ye again ye he's talking to the whole church here he's talking to a plural group of people talking to the Corinthian church when you come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lord's supper so he's saying you're not eating the Lord's supper it's like you're coming together as a church you say you're coming together to eat the Lord's supper but that's not what's happening here is what Paul is saying for an eating why now he's gonna explain it for means here's why here's why you're not doing you know you're not doing the Lord's supper he says for an eating everyone take it before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken so everyone is going and they are just using the Lord's supper to just some people are just going and they're just gorging on food and drink and then some people just get nothing and Paul is saying this is not the Lord's supper this is not what is supposed to happen look at verse number 22 he says what have you not houses to eat and drink in or he despise you the church of God and shame them that have not what shall I say unto you shall I praise you in this I praise you not so specifically this was like this potluck where he had a bunch of people bringing like this great food and then other people couldn't bring much or anything and like the people that didn't bring anything got nothing and the people that brought the great food just ate way too much and didn't allow anybody else to eat their stuff I mean right now some of you are thinking like I'm glad it doesn't work this way in this church no I'm just kidding but just think about that for a second there is always going to be in Paul he's he's kind of he's an evangelical leader of this group he's rebuking these people but it's interesting because first of all they're using the Lord's supper to gorge themselves on food and he's saying that's what eating at your house is for it's not to actually get sustenance and to eat and drink it's it's not it's not a potluck period aside from the divisions part of it but then some went without and there's the there's the divisiveness about it and look it was you know you have to understand that I can relate to what Paul is saying here because like he's seeing something that only the leader of the church sees he's seeing something in every single church every single and this was actually much of what Paul preached on when he wrote the epistles to the churches he was constantly preaching on getting the church together getting the divisions out of the church getting all these people that especially the Gentiles I mean you kidding me the Gentiles are coming to church now they're nothing like the Jews even Peter had a problem with this even Peter had a problem sitting down and eating the things that the Gentiles wanted to eat and God had to teach him a lesson about that but Paul is constantly just preaching against this constantly trying to get these cultures broken down yet everybody just accept this one culture of the Bible and look I mean it's something that a pastor has to think about maybe you don't see it but it's one of the reasons that a lot of things are done the way they're done around here is because the pastor sees everybody so the pastor just can't have like two people in the church get to do something and then other people don't because it will cause divisions and contentions and things it'll cause problems so it's Paul looking out for everyone in the church because he has that perch he sees that view he doesn't want these divisions to be happening and I'm sure that caused many contentions but what Paul back to verse 17 he's basically saying that it would be better that you did nothing it would be better that you did nothing you didn't even attempt to have the Lord's Supper than doing what you're doing now like this is a mess this is a train wreck this thing that you're doing look down to verse number 23 verse number 23 so again what what are they doing some are going without some are getting too much and they're treating it like a meal they're treating it like a meal and then some are getting some and some are not okay look at verse 23 for I received the Lord that which I also delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus in the same night in which he was betrayed took bread I'm going to read this again we need given thanks he break it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me after the same manner also he took the cup and when he had stopped saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood this do ye as oft as you drink it in remembrance of me for as oft as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do show the Lord show the Lord's death until he come where for now look at this he says whosoever and this is why it would be better off if they did nothing then do it doing it the way they were doing it and this is why I preach a sermon like this tonight before we go into Wednesday it says where for whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord that sounds pretty serious right there but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damn nation to himself not discerning the Lord's body like damn nation what in the world you lose my salvation over what's good I'm not coming to church Wednesday night it's talking about I'm going to prove to you that damn nation here is talking about just punishment it's talking about punishment in a couple verses down he explains very clearly that our punishment as saved believers is much different than the punishment that the world will receive okay and he's very clear about that let's keep reading look at verse number 30 he kind of starts explaining it right now now look at this he says for this cause what was this cause that they were doing this wrong that they had all these contentions that there was all these divisions that they were doing the Lord's supper wrong they were just using it as a big party to just you know a bunch of people you know having just gorging on food and drink other people getting nothing says for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and look at this and many sleep you know what he's saying like people have died he's saying that people have literally been chastised to the point look did you know that that God's chastisement can take your physical life not trying to wreck your day but and look you're not going to accidentally stumble into something that's good where God's going to take your life okay but like people that are coming into a look people let me just tell you something judgment on people that come into a church to cause division and contention is serious I'm shocked how serious it is I can read this in the Bible just as you can read this in the Bible let me tell you something it's true and I'll just leave it there and I do not rejoice in the I do not rejoice in the downfall of of my enemies as the Bible says but God's judgment is God's judgment and I do not tell God what to do in cases like that but Paul is giving a pretty strict warning here he's saying look the reason you guys have so many contentions you're doing all these things wrong is the reason that you're having all this these health problems and people are dying in the church that's a pretty harsh letter what he's saying is contention in the church and causing contention in the church is a major sin is what Paul is explaining here look at 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verse 31 now he's going to tell him like how to fix it like how to like not have this happen anymore look what he says verse 31 he says for if we would judge ourselves we should not be judged he's like hey police yourself like stop doing this police yourself catch yourself then God doesn't have to step in and do these things I mean look that's general rule of thumb for a Christian right there police yourself or God is going to do it for you look at verse 32 now he explains you know what verse if you just kind of draw a line between verse 32 and verse 29 he explains here he says but when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord and look that can be bad as he just explained in verse number what was that verse number 30 we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be what condemned with the world so he's saying like when we're chastised we're going to be chastened of the Lord but we're not going to be condemned with the world he's saying you're not going to lose your salvation he's like but God's chastisement is real I mean if you die and go to if God takes you to heaven if God looks down at you as a Christian and he gets to the point where he's just like uh yeah I'm just going to take this guy to heaven right now that's not good I mean you're still going to go to heaven but that's not a place where I want to be with God ever but he is still very clear to say that condemned with the world that condemned with the world means hell means you know true spiritual damnation this is the difference in verse number 32 that's the difference between the saved and the unsaved right there all right we won't go to hell but we'll be chastened of the Lord in this life sick dying I mean severe something that we should take very seriously look at verse number 33 so what's the answer what's the answer look at verse number 33 the Bible says where for my brethren when ye come together so he's like hey you know you should do this so we're going to come together on Wednesday night what does he say he says tarry for one tarry one for another what does that mean that means like look we do this even not with the Lord supper so we do this we tarry for one for another in a very specific way in this church and I don't know if other churches do it this way many of the churches I grew up in and and I know Verity Baptist Church did it this way but we tarry what does that mean we wait we wait so what do we do here we the the men wait the men tarry for the women and the children to eat first just in a potluck not at the Lord supper we don't you know bust into line and just try to get the food first like I'm the pastor give me the hamburger first you know I could do that you know but we tarry one for another and by the way just like just for the record like it's really annoying like if people don't tarry for one another that irritates me because you should follow the program of the church and tarry one for another and I believe just like as a servant leader I believe it's Christian that the women and the children should always eat first and when the last of the women and children have eaten that's when the first of the men can start to eat but we tarry one for another so same thing at the Lord supper we're not just going to be like you know we're going to wait when we do the Lord supper that the ushers are going to pass out the bread and we're all going to wait we're not going to be like but we're going to wait and we're all going to eat together right and then same thing when we pass out the wine the non-alcoholic wine we're going to wait for one another and then we will all partake together all right so look what does this mean for us look at verse number 34 it says if any man may hunger let him eat at home so again don't like go on a you know 50 hour fast or whatever and then come to church on on Wednesday night and expect us to just like feed you and don't come up after the service and be like where's the rest of the bread I'm hungry I'm joking but I mean it's not for eating it's not for getting filled up and getting it's not for eating and drinking if any man hunger let him eat at home that he come not together under condemnation and the rest will I set in order when I come what does this mean what does this mean for us how can we be sure that we partake of the Lord supper properly as Christians what it means for us is that the Lord supper is for us personally to remember the broken body and the shed blood of Jesus Christ not to eat and drink to fill ourselves up and the second thing is as Paul says we need to examine ourselves you need to come to the Lord supper with a clean conscience particularly towards your brothers and sisters in the church so there shouldn't be you shouldn't come to the Lord supper with contentions between your brothers and sisters if you have contentions if you have any you know problems with anybody in the church you I mean here's from this morning let it go that's the first thing to do but you can also confess things you can also get things right you can also you know just before Wednesday though or you know don't do it is what Paul is saying you're in danger of chastisement of varying degrees as the Bible is saying here this is not difficult to understand here it's an ordinance it's an order it's a command Paul just doesn't want he's just talking about the divisions that were going on in the Corinthians church it is something that we should do it is something that is good to do it is a good picture and to remember our Passover as we look back on Christ he's just saying don't do it in these ways and we would never do it in these ways I mean this you think about this situation in this church it's completely out of control as you see this and you know you had the haves and the have nots which should never be you know the thing about a church is this you're always going to have people that have more money than other people in the church but none of those things should affect how the church does things and who has things in the church and who doesn't have things in the church it's not like I've literally had people tell me that I give a lot of money to this church I've had people say that to me I mean that's a real thing and people think I mean so but that's kind of a proof that some people are kind of obsessed over that type of thing that you know they're going to get more say or they're going to get a favorable opinion from the pastor because you know I go through all the the the tithing statements by this guy or make sure I talk to him longer than this guy or whatever I mean but people it's it's ridiculous and you're laughing but people think this way people think this way that's what was happening here and we don't ever want stuff like that going on here you should never if you think that way like shame on you nobody thinks that way but I mean it happens is all I'm saying these crazy things happen contentions in the church people that literally just come into the church and and just like they get to the point maybe they didn't come in like that but they get to the point where they're just like that's all they're about is contention and trouble you're just like what it happens it's real and it's serious God takes it very seriously thank God we don't have any of those problems now but I just want you to see how serious these things are and I want you to see why we do the Lord's Supper so we can all do it correctly so look confess your sins to the Lord get things right you got something you know you offended somebody and you're feeling bad go tell them I mean tell them get things right somebody said something to you to offended you you can't let it go go talk to him about it or you know it's easier just to let it go because like that's you can you can unanimously do that just yourself right just don't be offended and have no divisions and everything's going to be great let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer