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Communion depicts the ugliness of Jesus' crucifixion to portray our relationship with Him. While we feast on bread and wine, Jesus washes our feet through communion, showing that the service enacts our relationship with Him beyond just sharing a meal together with unwashed feet as a barrier. True obedience comes from the heart through identifying with Jesus' will and finding delight in His service after knowing Him through communion with God.
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1) God wants believers to know the hope of His calling, which is the certainty of increasing blessing and joy in Christ, beginning now and lasting eternally.
2) God wants believers to know the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, which refers to believers being God's special possession who will share in Christ's glory for all eternity.
3) God wants believers to know the surpassing greatness of His power toward them, which was demonstrated powerfully in raising Jesus from
What god wants
This document is a summary of a sermon given by Pastor Steven J. Cole on Ephesians 1:18-19. The sermon discusses three things that God wants believers to know according to these verses: 1) The hope of His calling, which refers to God taking the initiative in our salvation and the certainty of increasing blessings in Christ. 2) The riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, referring to God's inheritance of His people. 3) The surpassing greatness of His power toward believers, demonstrating God's power in saving and keeping His people. The sermon encourages believers to pray for God to enlighten their understanding of these truths from Scripture.
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- 5. Jesus initiated communion to depict the ugliness of the cross.
- 14. Why not just eat with unwashed feet?
- 16. Unwashed feet are a barrier to communion. Communion = Relationship
- 17. John 13: 8-11
- 18. The communion service is a symbolic enactment of a relationship with Jesus.
- 19. While we feast on the bread and wine Jesus washes our feet.
- 20. 1 Selected Messages p353 ✤Some think they are committing themselves to God while there is a great deal of self-dependence. There are conscientious souls who trust partly to God and partly to themselves.
- 21. 1 Selected Messages p353 ✤ They do not look to God, to be kept by His power, but depend upon watchfulness against temptation, and the performance of certain duties. There are no victories in this kind of faith. Such persons toil to no purpose.
- 22. Desire of Ages p668 ✤ All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will,
- 23. Desire of Ages p668 ✤ that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him,
- 24. Desire of Ages p668 ✤ our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.
- 25. Why: Communion?
- 26. If you are at the table Jesus will wash your feet.