COMMUNION MESSAGE - PASTOR DAVID J. LEET - First published on 05/07/1999.

INTRODUCTION

Jeremiah 23 V 17A:

“them that despise Me” Is talking about the people will not walk in God’s laws, either by ignorance or stubborn and stiff-necked rebellion. 

Jeremiah 6 V 16-17: A prime example.

16 Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

17B: False prophets who tell them it is alright to do as they see fit in their own eyes.  Proverbs 14 V 12 - It leads to death.

“Imagination” of his own heart”.  Remember our image:

Genesis 5 V5:Corrupted (succour = assistance/aid)

5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

HYMN 1

O help us, Lord: each hour of bed,

Thy Heavenly succour five;

Help us in thought and word and deed,

Each hour o earth we live

O help us when our spirits bleed,

With contrite anguish sore

A when our hearts are cold and dead,

O help us Lord, the more.

Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)

Jeremiah 23 V 18:

"Who has submitted to God and obeyed His Word?"

Isaiah 43 V 18-21:

18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

Isaiah 43 V 25:

The Lord God of Heaven and earth says: I am doing a new thing do you not understand?  I am making a way back to Me.

I have chosen you, and you will be for my praise.  I will blot out your sinful pasts and not remember them again.

Ephesians 3 V 11-12:

11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

God's purpose for us by Christ’s faith.

I Corinthians 5 v 7-8:

7 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:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Submit to God through Jesus Christ, our Passover Lamb,  Being true to ourselves and God the Father. 

Thus we may be says as it says in:

2 Corinthians 5 V 17:

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

New Creature!

HYMN 2

Author of life divine, who hast a table spread,

Furnished with mystic wine, and everlasting bread,

Preserve the life Thyself hast given

And feed and train us up for Heaven.

Our needy souls sustain with fresh supplies of love,

Till all Thy life we gain, and all Thy Fullness prove,

Behold without a veil Thy face.

Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

HYMN 3

Hark, my soul!  It is the Lord;

“This thy Saviour, hear His Word;

Jesus speaks and speaks to thee;

“Say, poor sinners love’s at thou Me?

“I delivered these when bound,

And when bleeding, healed thy wound;

Sought thee wandering, set thee right;

Turned thy darkness into light.

“Can a woman’s tender care

Cease toward the child she bare?

Yes, she may forget be,

Yet will I remember thee.

‘Mine is an unchanging love,

Higher than the heights above,

Deeper than the depths beneath,

Free and faithful, strong as death.

“Thou shalt see My glory soon,

When the work of grace is done;

Partner of My throne shalt be;

Say, poor sinner, love’s thou Me?

Lord, it is my chief complaint

That my love is weak and faint;

Yet I love thee, and adore;

O for the grace to love Thee more!

William Cowper, 1731-1800