Communion Service
Sunday, April 26
John 3:14-15 ESV
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
Numbers 21: 6-9 NIV
“Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, ‘We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us.’ So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The LORD said to Moses, ‘Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.’ 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.”
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Genesis 2:17 NIV
“But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Genesis 3:4-6 NIV
“‘You will not certainly die,’ the serpent said to the woman. 5 ‘For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.”
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Romans 5:12 LB
“When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. His sin spread death throughout all the world, so everything began to grow old and die, for all sinned.”
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Numbers 21: 8 LB
“… ‘Make a bronze replica of one of these snakes and attach it to the top of a pole; anyone who is bitten shall live if he simply looks at it!”
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2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
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John 8:51 NIV
“‘Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.’”
John 11:25 NKJV
“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.’”
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So in the Lord’s Supper today, we celebrate God’s great gift—the body and shed blood of His Son who, when we first looked to Him, took away the poison of our sin and condemnation!
Amen!
