Tonight we celebrated the Lord's Supper at church and it was such a blessing. I feel like many times in my life when I have celebrate the Lord's supper, we have been challenged to "get right with God so you will be worthy of taking the Lord's supper." It's almost the idea of, "Hurry, clean up your life so you are 'worthy' to take part. Get all of that sin OUT!" This is Biblical in the sense that if we have known sin in our lives we are to deal with it before partaking, but there is NOTHING that we can do in our OWN strength to become "worthy" of going before God in any way. Being able to stand before Christ has nothing to do with how GOOD I am, the fact that I have no "unknown" sin in my life, the fact that I am a nice person... being able to stand before Christ is GRACE.
We've been going through a book study in Sunday school called Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges. (Great read!) He talkes alot about the need of preaching the Gospel to yourself daily... focusing on the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, but also what this means for my life and How God is working in my life today BECAUSE of the Gospel. Because of the Gospel and because of Christ's work on the cross I can have victory, I can love, I can have peace, etc... and ultimately I can glorify God.
When we step back and view the cross it can't help but humble us. Today Pastor Fisher was teaching on this and he brought out the fact that even if the whole world were perfect but ME and I sinned ONE time, that would be enough sin for Jesus to die. My sin drove Him to the cross.
SO, all of that said, tonight as we celebrated the Lord's supper it was a needed time for me to focus on the cross of Jesus Christ. We read from Isaiah 52:13-53:12 which says...
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