READ 1 CORINTHIANS 11:25-28

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU

• Seen someone doing something

• Without putting much thought into it?

I THINK MANY PEOPLE PARTAKE OF COMMUNION

• In that very same manner

• We go through all the acts of communion

• But too often we are thinking about things 

• that are outside the church and then we don't

• focus on Jesus while we partake

LET ME EXPLAIN

• The Apostle Paul tells us to search our hearts

• To make sure we don’t have anything in them

• That would stand between us and Jesus

YET, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE

• NOT searched our hearts before Communion ?

• How many times have we taken the bread and drink -

• while we were thinking about something else?

• About things like what we must do later today,

• Or what we did yesterday?

JESUS GAVE US TWO ORDINANCES TO FOLLOW

• One is baptism

• That is for another teaching

• The other is Communion

WE ARE TO ENTER COMMUNION

• With a heart that is yielded to Jesus

• A heart that yearns for His presence

• A heart that seeks Him in all we do

AS WE PARTAKE OF COMMUNION TODAY

• Let us search our hearts

• And purge anything that might be in them

• That would separate us from our Lord Jesus

AND LET US USE THIS SUPPER

• To cleanse our hearts of other thougths

• And once again surrender to Him

• Placing Him as our # 1 priority in our lives