For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. - Psalm 84:10
I hope this is true for all of us, and that you had a blessed Lord's Day!
Today's sermon and message for the Lord's table were needed.
The Lord's table message revolved around the leaven in the lump of bread....
Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore
purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly
are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. - 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Our dear elder likened this to ink poured in pure water, tinting the whole glass of water. So leaven makes a lump of bread rise--not just part of it. And so sin affects the whole of our being if we don't cast it out. This is a scary thought, is it not?
We must continually remember what Jesus has done for us.
The main message was about the parable of the sower and ground. What kind of hearts do we have? Mine tends to become anxious and excessively focused on things, which is a lot like the thorny ground. May God be all our hope and stay and joy, not the things of this world, which choke out the Word of God.
Now
he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the
cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and
he becomes unfruitful. - Matthew 13:22
Instead, I pray we will be as this:
But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. - Matthew 13:23
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