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Christ then is present sacramentally we say.

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That means he's not present locally.

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It's not like you and me standing here.

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But he is present according to his promise.

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What that means, we don't claim to understand and we really don't try to explain it.

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Luther didn't explain it.

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He just said in with and under.

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It's there.

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And that's why we're not going to test the contents of your stomach and find body and

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blood there.

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But is he present according to his body and blood?

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Yes.

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I don't know how, but he is.

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That's the promise he makes.

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This then also leads to another teaching.

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Because of Christ's promise, that means that the bread and the wine are delivering the

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body and blood to whom?

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At the rail.

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If you're at the rail and you're receiving it, who's getting the body and the blood?

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Me.

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Yeah.

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What about the unbeliever next to you?

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What's he getting?

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Bread and wine.

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Bread and wine and?

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Body and blood.

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You bet he is.

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That's known as the Mandu...

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One more Latin phrase for you.

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I'm not sure that's the last one.

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It won't be the last.

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Manducatio Indignorum.

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Manducatio Indignorum.

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Manducatio Indignorum.

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Trust me, you will thank me someday for all this Latin.

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Because you will be sitting in a class down the road here and the prop will just start

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spouting out the Manducatio and you're going to go, what's that?

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You're going to have people going, not knowing what they're talking about.

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You will know.

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You will know.

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I'm going to say, I have Dr. Biermann to thank.

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His mercy to me.

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I'm so grateful.

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All right.

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Manducatio Indignorum.

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Manducatio means the eating, okay?

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Mandicate.

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The eating Indignorum of the unworthy.

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The eating of the unworthy.

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The Manducatio Indignorum.

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The eating of the unworthy.

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And the Manducatio Indignorum teaches simply the fact that when Christ says He's present,

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He's present.

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And even the unworthy will receive the body and blood of Christ.

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Anybody gets it because of His promise.

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This is really very important because if I teach that only true believers get the body

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and blood, what have I just done to the sacrament?

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Is it an issue of gospel or is it an issue of law?

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It's an issue of law because now it depends on me.

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And if it depends on me, it's not gospel.

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The point is God is simply delivering His gifts.

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If forgiveness is there, I don't have to be worthy of it.

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It's simply there.

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So even the unbeliever gets the body and blood.

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The comfort of this comes in here.

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Suppose I am really struggling in my faith and I'm not sure about anything anymore and

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I know my sin and my sin is overwhelming and I'm burdened by it and I feel terrible

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about it and I think I'm not worthy of Christ's presence.

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I drag myself to the altar and I receive there the body and blood of Christ.

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Do I get the full thing?

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Absolutely.

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And it doesn't depend on me.

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And that's where all the comfort comes in.

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He's there for me because He says so.

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It doesn't depend on me.

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That's tremendous comfort.

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Yeah?

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I went to Catholic University and went to a student Mass, also known as Singles Mass,

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but for a lot of other reasons.

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I did find some comfort in what every time you went up to the table they repeated the

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words of the Centurion, Lord I'm not worthy to receive you but I say the word and I shall

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be healed.

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I don't know.

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I found comfort in that.

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Yeah, that's part of their piety.

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I mean that's one of the things that a parishioner is supposed to say when he receives a sacrament,

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I am not worthy to receive you.

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I am not worthy to say the word and I will be so.

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And so that's part of that piety.

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I'm receiving them.

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And we have Lutherans who will practice different degrees of that as well.

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Yeah, that's a cool thought.

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We're not worthy of His presence with us but yet He comes.

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So the Mondicatio Inignorum says that everybody gets the bread and wine.

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This is kind of the acid test if you really had communion right.

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Because if you believe in the Mondicatio Inignorum then you really understand Christ's presence,

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the real presence.

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If you deny this, and of course Calvin would deny this because He's only there for the

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believers.

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Well, now you don't have a real sacrament.

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Now you're not getting the gospel.

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You made it into law.

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So this is a critical test on do you really understand what's going on here and what's

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being given and what's not being given in the sacrament.

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So then Calvin would say that the spirit, the divine spirit of God isn't even present

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in communion or Christ, isn't even present only for the elect then.

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That's right.

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Only for the elect.

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That's right.

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Nobody else is there because he's not going to bother with you.

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And you see, you begin to see where all the doubts come in.

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So I go to the sacrament.

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Did I get corresponding blood?

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Don't know.

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Kind of a crapshoot.

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Maybe I did, maybe I didn't.

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I think my heart was right but I'm not sure if it really was.

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And this was an insight I had this previously this summer.

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I was thinking, I was getting ready to preach some text and it was talking about, you know,

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if you come to God with a sincere heart.

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And I thought, you know, we talk about that all the time.

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You've got to really mean it when you confess.

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But then I began to think what does sincere mean?

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When was the last time I was sincere about anything?

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You know, if my sincerity ever becomes a test for my, you know, worthiness, I'm in trouble.

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Sincerity is a hard thing to come by among Christians, among people.

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We might think we're really, really sincere but we have mixed motives on everything.

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And I would hate to start having sincerity become the test of anything.

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Immersively, with God it's not.

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He doesn't care where we're at.

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He just simply gives the gift.

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So you don't have to have the right attitude to get the sacrament.

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Now, we again have the difference here between validity and benefit.

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Or sometimes efficacy.

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There's a distinction here.

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The sacrament is always efficacious.

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It's always valid.

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No matter what the person thinks, the body and blood of Christ are there.

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And you're getting it.

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Is it beneficial?

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Well now this does depend on where you're at.

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This gets into the mendicato and ignorum.

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So I have a human up there who's just kind of making fun of the whole thing.

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Says, that was just bread and wine.

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Well, is he getting the body and blood?

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Yeah.

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Is it benefiting him?

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Not at all.

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He has just made light of the gift of Christ and he's made a mockery of Christ's sacrifice.

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It's actually harmful to him.

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That's the reality.

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So it's not beneficial.

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It's harmful.

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So there's a difference between validity and benefit.

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Is it a valid efficacious sacrament even for the heathen?

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Yes.

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Is it beneficial?

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No.

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And even a Christian can have varying degrees of benefit.

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You might go up to the altar and receive the sacrament.

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The guy behind you receives the same sacrament.

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It's valid for both of you.

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But one of you is saying, man, I am so grateful for this gift of God.

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It's going to make a difference in my living this week.

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And he's really paying attention to it.

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And it does.

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It has much more benefits.

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The other one kind of just blows it off and doesn't make any attention.

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Well, the gift is there for them.

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He's just not taking advantage of the benefits and not applying them to himself.

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So we do need to make that distinction.

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And it helps to keep that straight.

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The benefit is – that varies.

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But the efficacy is always there.

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And we also have to be careful because Luther did talk about a worthy recipient.

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And we still talk that way.

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And we're getting closer and closer to talking about John's question on close communion,

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which we will get to, but not before lunch.

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And the question of a worthy recipient – and Luther would talk about that.

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And he would say, fasting another hour of preparation is good.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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In his day, you could not take the sacrament if you had not fasted.

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And then it kept on cutting the time back.

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It used to be fasted for like a day, and then it became a few hours.

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And I think nowadays they still have that rule, but now it's only a short period of time.

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I think it's like –

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By the time you walk into it.

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Yeah.

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You know, essentially.

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You had breakfast drove there.

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Okay, that's enough.

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You fasted enough.

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But the idea is, our preparation is fine.

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And we even do this in our churches.

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You know, thinking about communion, be prepared for it.

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So you should prepare.

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You should be ready for this.

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So a worthy recipient should be prepared.

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But ultimately, a worthy recipient is somebody who simply believes the words.

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Who believes the words.

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Trust the promise.

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This is my body.

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This is my blood.

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And if you trust those words, and if you believe the words of promise, you are a worthy recipient,

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regardless of your level of sin, regardless of your own lifestyle, regardless of whatever.

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If you're trusting and clinging to those words, you're a worthy recipient.

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But even an unworthy recipient is still going to get the blood, the body, and the blood.

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But it won't benefit him.

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So the worthy recipient, one who is simply clinging to the promise and seeking God's

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forgiveness, that's what he gets.