Eating with Jesus. What a privilege! And what danger! There need to be warnings.
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I preached this sermon at a service of Holy Communion in another church.
It was essentially an extended warning to all would-be communicants: If you eat with Jesus you are confessing to Him and the world that you are a sinner. Jesus eats with sinners. Only with sinners - He has not come for the righteous. The righteous must go hungry. Only the needy, the sick, the outsiders, the unclean, the powerless, the guilty will find Bread. You are qualified by your unworthiness. Entirely unfit and therefore welcome.
So come. And let your coming be your contrition, let it be your confession, let it be your repentance and your faith. Come and eat with Jesus.
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It's the kind of sermon I want to be preaching until I die. Listen here - the text is Mark 1:40-2:17.
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