CROSS TO COMMISSION | The New Covenant | Matthew 26:26-30 | Arik Hayes

Have a seat, my love. Thank you guys. Hmm. Hmm. Wow. Hmm. Alright, beloved. I want to welcome you to the 2018-19 church today. How you doing? How you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. Old school church, you say glad to be in the number. Yeah. Say he didn't have to let me live. God, I just thank you for coming grace today, to be able to have the activity of our limbs. To be breathing. I actually had an aunt who was just on the respirator last week. Sometimes we take breath for granted. Thank God she's recovering. Thank you Lord. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. So to welcome our online community of digital disciples family, we love you. We love you. Some no doubt are watching this. Some may be even in the building. Hey family, how you doing? How you doing? We give visits from you guys probably every week. We just want to say hey, we thank you. We love you. Thanks for joining us. I want to welcome the unbeliever again. Right? We believe here that you can belong before you believe. That means, alright man, maybe I got invited by a friend, maybe I just ran by a TikTok, whatever, we're making a lot of fuss about. What's 2819 about? Maybe you crept in, maybe you walked in boldly. Welcome. Welcome wherever you are. Welcome if you're watching via screen. Right? It's our hopes that you would hear something. You would be called by God himself and something would prick your heart. And you would use the faith that he has given you to make your way into the kingdom. Maybe it would be your brother and sister. Amen. Alright. And at this time, I usually honor my pastor. I'm going to do it slightly differently. Go ahead and throw this pick up for me. Alright. Our pastor and our leading lady who's with us today. Alright. They, I think this pick is South Africa, correct? Right? We really are trying to push this thing until all have heard. Just not a slogan. Different continents, right? And I was scrolling and I happened to catch this. So, so me and my wife, we just passed 10 years, November 7th. Right? Right. Thank you. Thank you. But back here, if I'm not mistaken, over 20 years, Mary, 21 years. Thank you. Thank you. For those that are single, you may not know. For those that are married, you do know. For those that are married and been divorced, you know as well. That cost you something. You don't get there 21 years looking at each other, smile and hand in hand on another continent, preaching the gospel, not seeking glory of yourself without a cost. That cost you something. It's easy to get up here and people do it all over the country. And they, they, they fake for two hours on stage and off stage. That cost you something. Lead a revival that's expanded. Lead your family, four children. Lead yourself and be married. That cost something. So for that, I want to honor them. I want to honor them. All right. All right. Before we jump into the world, I just want to, I just want to, we want to be, we want to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Right. So if you've been paying attention to the news, right, you, you, you are probably aware that due to the government shutdown and although there may have been like a last minute change, right, there are people that may go without food. Let's not get like hyper religious here. Food matters. You got food. We got food and we don't want to fast because we want the food that's there. Okay. So at the end of the experience, right, we have our vision cash is going to come up and just show you some ways that we can be the hands and feet of Jesus to serve our local community. How you can, how you can tap in and be able to help those that may be dealing with food shortages in this season. Okay. Beloved. All right. Cool. All right. Family. So as a church where continuing to walk through the book of Matthew and a series we titled Cross to Commission and I have the honor and privilege of preaching this sermon to you that I've titled the new covenant. The new covenant. God have your way in this sermon. Oh God, use your words or your man servant. Use your holy scriptures to empower and give revelation. And the name Jesus, I pray. Amen. All right. Family. So it's amazing how when you're called of God, he can take you through things and you'll be able to use it in ways that you did not think. Right. So I felt like the Lord called me away from my last job back in 2023. He let me know actually about August, September, October timeframe of 22 that I that is my season there was up. And let me tell you something. I won't go into specifics, but I was making good money. Don't get hyper religious spiritual on me. You want good money right now. Don't you? Okay. I didn't say over God, but if you had the choice to be broke and have good money, you're going to choose good money. Right. Okay. Well, make sure I was in the right building. Okay. All right. But he was letting me know this time here was coming to an end. And I'm saying, well, Lord, just, just, okay, let me get something going. Right. And at this time, I just had my twins. They still in formula and diapers. Okay. But the Holy spirit was persistent. Your time here is up. So much so that I believe that he used what was going on in the company to start pushing me out. Because I was dragging my feet and was distracted much like my son that I was talking about. And let's keep it above. I was scared. I'm going to talk like we family. I was scared. Elder the church, 2019 church, middle of revival, all that good stuff. Scared. Preaching. Scared. Praying. Scared. Son of God. Scared. Believe in the gospel. Scared. My wife was home with the babies. We got four at this time. It's on my back. So I'm saying, all right, well, let me, let me, let me get some stuff moving. Let me get some stuff moving. Right. Stuff happened. Trying. It's not working. It's not working. Trying some more stuff. Not working. Had a stash, stash dwindling. Day by day, much faster than I thought it would. Ran into a business partner. Thought we had like, we got good values. Said his believer. And I'm like, I see the promise. Right. So, so much like I did my, my last company. I'm like, I could do this here, man. And I dove all in. I'm like, I think, I think this is it. I'm like, okay, okay. Okay. This is it, man. But at the time, he actually can't, he can't afford to pay me. Right. I have a level of expertise. I've had corporate background. I've had like entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial experience. Right. So, so the salary, he ain't making it, man. So I said, Hey, do this. Right. I saw about we do this. How about I work for equity in the company. Equity. That means ownership. Right. So we agreed on 40%. Right. So once everything is divided, all the bills are paid. He gets 60%. I get 40%. That was the agreement. Right. So I dive in. I'm like, Oh yeah. I'm telling my family, y'all think this is good. Jump in, jump in. Stuff started to go left. All of a sudden, like a couple of different times, the stuff happened at a depth in his family. He would get quiet on me. I'd be like, Hey bro, like, I just want to make sure we good. Soon he would come around when he's wanting to talk again. Yeah, man. Everything is good, man. Everything is good. I just, you know, I got stuff going on. Everything is good. Everything is all right. Slight tweak. Okay. Happened again. That's the same face I had. Hey, man. Everything all right. Everything. All right, man. I'm still working on bringing in my contacts. Hold deal. Hold deal. Hold deal. Go quiet again. Hey, man. Everything all right. Has some stuff going on in life. I understand that, but quiet on me. It's happened like three times. Slight tweak. Happened the last time. You don't have equity in this company anymore. I've worked close to a year. No payment. No payment is coming. So when we talk about agreements, we're talking about the relationships. We're talking about the relationships. We're talking about the relationships. And I didn't know this at the time. So be careful who you, you, you actually get in relationship with, right? Even on the business side. Right. I always talk about the relationship. Even on the business side. I didn't know this, but business partnerships actually worse than marriage. They break up to the tune of 70%. Wish I would have pondered that before I put my trust. So what I'm getting at is, is when you're going into relationship, you really need to be aware of one is the integrity of the one that you're making the covenant with. Some of you may be saying, man, couldn't you sue? Couldn't you do something? Yeah, but you got to go through all of that. And nothing is guaranteed. And if they want to try to get around it, they can try. That's why they have business lawyers. And we're used to contracts, right? Let's bring it into the biblical perspective. Right, right, right. We deal with covenants with God, which is so difficult for us to even conceptualize in the West, right? With the contract, really, we thinking, man, I don't feel like paying it. I don't have to pay. If I don't feel like doing it, I ain't got you. What you going to do? You going to sue me? I'm broke anyway. Okay. Right. And with that done, that has permeated throughout the fabric of our society. Now, nobody trusts nobody because at any given time, you can switch up on me. Not so with God. And just so you know when it comes to biblical context, a covenant was so binding. We talk about this in marriage when I married people. A covenant was so binding that when they actually took covenant with someone that were actually not even viewed in a sense as two separate people or entities, they were viewed as one. That's why. With that being the backdrop, let's jump into the Scriptures. And this is the thing, beloved, we're going to be led by the Holy Ghost this morning. Right. So really, my cortex is only four verses. Right. That's my cortex. But I have a lot of ground to cover to give you the context that I feel like you need to even respect these four verses like you should. Okay. All right. So look at your neighbor and say, we're going to get in that Bible today. Okay. Look at the other one. I never do this. Look at the other one. I don't care if they listen or not. We're going to get in that Bible today. All right, beloved. Give me Matthew 26. We're going to go 26 through 29. Turn them pages. Open that app. Let's go. All right. For the sake of time, it says, now as they were eating, Jesus took the bread. And after blessing it, broke it and gave it to the Decider. He took all the apples and said, take, eat. This is my body. Verse 27. It says, and he took a cup. And when he had given thanks, he gave it to them. Same. Drink of it all of you. Say all of you. First 28. He says, for this is my blood. Of the Covenant say Covenant. which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Take that down, all right? So a couple things we're gonna break out, right? So I read this here, and because we're in the Western context, we really don't know about covenant, and we really don't know the context of when this was even first said, it's hard for you to really respect this, right? And because we take communion in church, we just kinda, you know, passed the wafer, passed the juice, and we may do some reflection of the heart, and then we just get to it, and I think we're missing something when it comes to communion or the Lord's suffer, all right? So let's go to the other instance in John 6, where Jesus talks about this. John 6, we're gonna start in verse 35. All right, so just, you know, context here, Jesus had just fed a multitude with loaves and fish, okay? So he had just seen the miraculous power of God, right? And he had a huge following. That's why you can't get caught up on the following. I'm jumping ahead a little bit. There's a huge following with him, but Jesus knows that not everybody actually believes, okay? Verse 35, ESV said, Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe. So Jesus says, I am the bread of life. Me, right? But he said, you have seen me, you have encountered me, you are around me, but I know some of you do not believe. You can call yourself a disciple all you want. Jesus letting you know just because you call yourself a disciple does not mean you believe. You can even follow and have nearness to him. Does not mean you are a disciple. And 37, he starts to talk about himself. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me, I will never cast out. This is a dependable God. It should give you confidence. All who comes to me, the Father sent me. Do you know that you didn't start this thing with salvation? Do you know that anybody that really comes to know God is drawn by him? Jesus. But you think you just woke up and was smart enough to follow him? No, we had darkened hearts. All of us were led astray. We need the power of the Holy Spirit to even spark that in our soul and start to follow the true and living God. Amen. Verse 38. Now let me go there. I want to stop here. He said, all those that come to me, I will never cast out. He'll never cast us away. That's the whole reason that he came. Can I tell you something? I'm a homebody. When I say homebody, I'm an extreme homebody. Like my wife has to work very hard to get me out the house. I'm gonna keep it a buck when it's time to go somewhere. Like the morning of, I got a little bit of attitude. My wife would say big. I would say, I got a little bit of attitude. You know why? You know why? I'm with who I want to be with at the house. I'm not looking to go to an event to have some fun. I got fun at the house. I got my wife at the house. I got all four of my children at the house. You really don't have much of me out there. If I come out to meet you, I really love you. I like you. Like be resolved. I'm not bored at home trying to find something to do. I am fulfilled right at the house. Jesus is fulfilled right amongst his people. To him, you are the main event. Oh my God. He came from heaven. He abandoned heaven to be with you, so you'll never be abandoned again. I'm gonna say that again. He abandoned heaven to be with you, so you will never be abandoned again. Christ continues to talk here. Verse 38, he said, for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And he tells us what the will is. 39, it says, and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. He doubles down. This is the will. I'm not even doing my own will. I'm doing the will of the Father who sent me, that anybody who comes to me, I will keep them all and raise them up on the last day. The dependable God, the faithful one, the one that is mighty to save. Verse 40, for this is the will of my Father. He continues to explain that everyone who looks on the Son and believes, they believes, believes in him, should have eternal life and again, he says, I will raise him up on the last day. Our salvation is secure in Jesus. And I say this because I know there are some, you can raise him if you want to. Is he really gonna come and get me? Is he really gonna follow through on his word? Let's keep it above because I can't see him. I can't touch up and try to hold him to task. And many of our lives reflect that. We won't go all in on him because we really don't believe his word. We really don't believe that he is who he says he is. And I'm not here to, to beat you over the head. I just want to expose your heart, because really behind that is why you won't go all in. This is why some of us just keep one foot in the world. Because we really feel like the world is more stable than Christ. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we married to Christ, but we keep a tender profile going. Just to see what's out there. Just to, just to see, you know, knowing that they will abuse us. Here he is, have given all that he had, came from heaven, gave us life, rules on the third day, went back to the Father. He sent us, listen, I'm going to prepare a place for you. If it were not true, I would not have told you. But even in our humanity, some of us struggle to really, I'm talking about really believe it. I'm talking about situate your whole life around the fact that the Holy Spirit has been sent here for us to walk this thing out. And our Savior is coming back to get us. Does your life look like that? Where have we secretly hid a lack of trust in God and His Word in our heart? And act like it was okay. Right? Not trying to beat you that, I told you, I felt the calling of the Holy Spirit. I was scared, y'all. You know why? Cause I see four children and a wife and I look at the bank account and it's going down. I'm not trying to judge you. I've been there. What I'm saying is he's faithful. Can I tell you something? Even when you encounter some Judas-esque movements, it never stops the will of God in your life. If I could go a little further, the Judas-esque or the Judas in your life can redirect you where you may have been distracted to get you to the right place. And I'm not saying that you should be there. He directs you where you may have been distracted to get you where he wants you to be, AKA all full-time staff at 2019 church as of June 2nd preaching right now. I keep it a buck. Got a family. I was going to make good money. My season for that in that capacity was over. In the meantime, the church was exploding. At that time, neither one of the elders were on staff. And I'll tell you family, it was the scariest almost two years of my life. I was getting kicked in the chest by fear. Every day I feel like I was battling the pressure. I keep rolling. I feel like I was getting jumped with fear. Just it's not going to work out. Ultimately, the fear was you can't depend on him. Those words are just words on the page. It's not backed by an eternal God. They just up there singing songs because they happy. It's not because the Holy Spirit is inspiring. You saw the enemy can creep in here and make a home and we let them stay there. So the Jews verse 41, so the Jews grumbled about him because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven. They said, is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he know? How does he now say, I have come down from heaven? Let's stop. Right. So now, now, now after he had fed other thousands of people, now he said, I am the bread of life, not a question in him. I know none of us go through that. Haven't you seen God work at a season in your life? When you know there was no way you could make it out and then like we just stop, hold on clap yet. Right. And then we take a hop right here and then forget and get amnesia. I mean, you know, he moved. He moved. God, God, please, please, please. He show up. We get right here and be like, oh man, God, is you ever gonna? That's real. That's real. Your knees are still bruised from praying and getting an answer. We get amnesia on God. So they try to dismiss him. Let me stop right here. Hey, listen, some of you are actually making strides in God. I mean, you're really trying to read and pray. You're trying to really walk this thing out. Right. And one of the biggest things you deal with, especially young in the faith and even a seasoned saints, the people that we love and care about around us don't affirm us. So as a result of that, we start denying God. We start pushing our scripture under the bed. We don't want to wear anything that's Christ like. Right. We would go out. We don't want to pray in front of them when we eat. We start hiding him. Especially if some life hit us. Don't worry about the affirmation. They didn't call you. They are neither the author nor the finisher of your faith. Verse 43. Said, Jesus, answer them. Do not grumble amongst yourselves. No one can come to me again unless the father who sent me draws him. And I will raise them up on the last day. Verse 45. It is written in the prophets. And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and learned from the father comes to me. You cannot try to get to the father outside of Jesus. 46. Not that anyone has seen the father except he who is from God. He's speaking of himself here. He has seen the father. Christ is speaking of himself. 47. Truly, truly I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. Again, Christ affirms himself. He says, I am the bread of life. And then I think he hit him real here. Verse 40. He says, your fathers ate the manna and the wilderness and they died. Verse 50. He says, this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat of it and not die. He's 51. He said, I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for life of the world is my flesh. He said, I am the bread of life. If you eat of me, you will never die again. I'm not waiting for another man to affirm me. I come from the father. I am sent from him. He's of me and you will have eternal life. He said, this is the bread of life. I believe you put emotion to him. This is the bread of life. This is not a what. Me, I am him. I am the one that has been prophesied about. I am the one coming to die for the sins of the world. I am your salvation. I am your hope. I am the level of your soul. I am your salvation. I am your hope. Me. I know what you have to say about me. Your words don't outweigh the words of my father. I know I left heaven and you're asking you about it. I am the Messiah. I am the Son of God. You guys can't even see God. You would die. I have seen the Father. I have seen the Father. All right. Go to the muscle, though. Amen. First 52. The Jews then disputed amongst themselves, saying, how can this man give us flesh to eat? First 53. So Jesus said to them, truly, truly, anytime he doubles down on this truly, you need to listen. Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Verse 54, whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. Let me get that to you in the amplified. Verse 54, the one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, the one who believes in me and accepts me as savior has eternal life. That is now possessing it and I will raise him up from the dead on the last day. Verse 55, he continues, for my flesh is true food. I want the deep things of God, giving me to, he said for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Again, he says, whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. Get that to you in the amplified. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, believes in me, accepts me as savior, remains in me and I in the same way remain in him. So I gave you a couple of things to look out when you're making an agreement or a covenant. One, the dependability of the one making the covenant with you. Right, two, you need to know what is required of you and what you're going to get. If you don't understand the covenant, you're not going to live up. It's hard for you to really understand and live up to what your part of the covenant is because you have your part. We just read what our part is abiding him, believing him. Right, that's why it's so big for us to come away from dead works. We got to do this, we got to do that, we got to do this, we got to do that, we got to check this off the book, we got to go back to the law, we got to do these things. Listen, man, we're not trying to pick on like a certain particular group, that's why we stay away from the law. The reality is they need to come away from the law. They'll never be able to fulfill it. You'll never be able to live by the law. Right, all of our requirements is to really and truly believe in him, abide in him, believe in his word. I like to amplify it. I also believe it's just not a mental ascension, right? It's to really cleave to and trust in. Like think about like going across like a bridge, like you have like a mountain, you're like somewhere in Nepal or something, it's like a mountain and it's like a river. And they're like rocks, right? And there's like usually in the movies, some real old raggedy bridge. I don't understand why they don't do better bridges, right? But it's like a real, it's like rope that looks like it was made when Jesus was on the earth, right? And it has like planks, right? That really could have been replaced. And what you're going, you're clinging to that bridge. Because you know, you have no ability to fly. You know that if that bridge fails you, you will be destroyed. That's how we're supposed to cling to Christ. That's how our relation is to be to him. So what he says, we cleave to. Like when it talks about marriage, you will leave your mother and your father and cleave to your wife that oneness, that, that, that, that, how many of y'all been in love? You been in love? All right, you ever been to a point, you ever tried to hug the person you in love with and you just feel like you can't get close enough? Not after 50 years of marriage or whatever they get you, man, I'm talking when you first meet them and they give you a hug and you just like nuzzle into them. You would have smelled what they smell like. You'd have said, hey, oh my gosh, I'm so much, you make noise like, mm, mm, I don't love you so much. I miss you, I miss you looking like a punk behind closed doors. I know it happened to guys too. I won't tell nobody. Right, but you just, you just, oh my gosh. I mean, like my wife, they say, this is a country saying you had your nose wide open. You ever heard that? You from the country? That mean you are fully in love, right? Right, that's how we're supposed to be with Christ in His words. Cleave and nuzzle in and trying to get even closer, even though we're already one. Amen. Verse 57, as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, He also will live because of me. Verse 58, this is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever. Okay. And I'm running out of time, family, but you do you know that? After He said this, they grumbled and it says a large amount of His disciples left Him. Like some of them so hard saying, they were just like, what you talking about man? Like I read I was doing research, like drink blood, that's against high dietary laws. I ain't doing that. Like ain't you Joseph son? Like you tripping. He left, but I love about security in Christ. So we can have the same security in Him. You know what He did? Maybe even as He saw some of them leave, they're still with that eyesight. You know what He did? He didn't buckle. He turned to the disciples and said, do y'all want to go too? Right? I want to say it was Peter. He was like, where would we go? God, where we go Christ? He said, for you have the words of eternal life. And I want to step this for you, beloved, when you hit hard times, we can't pick a plan B. Yeah. Where else can you go? Who else can you run to that has the words of eternal life? I don't care what economic hardship comes. I don't care how bad the divorce was. I'm not trying to be insensitive. You may have prayed and they still passed. Maybe your child is a strange from you and you love them like no other and you cry yourself to sleep at night. How could they do that? Maybe you're betrayed in business. We don't leave the one who has words of eternal life. Nobody else has that. You don't give up the eternal for the temporary. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Thank you. Thank you. All right, now I want to give you that context, right? Now I'm going to jump back into Matthew 26. I'm going to read it again. He says, now as they were eating, Jesus took the bread. And after blessing it, he broke it and gave it to the disciples. And said, take, eat, this is my body. I wanted to give you that context because that was a hard saying. We can't just roll up on that like that's something we just do all the time. No, Christ lost followers over that. Verse 27, and he took a cup and he said, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink of it, all of you. And then verse 28, he says, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Right, I want to talk about covenant there. In many transcripts, and actually in other accounts here, it says the new covenant. Right, the new covenant. And we'll get into that, but it said, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Let me give it to you in the amplified. For this is my blood of the new and better covenant, which ratifies the agreement and is being poured out for many as the substitutionary atonement for the forgiveness of sins. Stop. So largely the word atonement, like y'all got substitute, right, so be able, you had substitute teacher. A teacher was there, somebody else is there to take her place, right? But atonement is largely like a theological word, right? So it's broken down by some to act one meant, right? The one, it actually, he actually made us one by his death on the cross. He wiped the slate clean and he made us one. Think about that. He justified the ungodly you and me. And so holy and the blood was shed, that's why we kicked tremper over the blood. Now we have access, not just access to him, but now we are one with him, right? And if you don't get that, man, actually, I'm from a country church, the Washington, Washington Chaplain Missionary Baptist Church, Oslo County, Jacksonville, right? They may not have had all the language, but they sung a song, it went something like this. I know it was a blood. I know it was a blood. I know it was a blood for me. One day when I was lost. Oh, y'all know it. I know it was a blood for me. Then they said, hey, they pierced the men inside. They pierced the men inside. They pierced the men inside for me. One day when I was lost, Jesus died on the cross. And I know it was a blood for me. And I'm talking about old mothers, old dinkets. They didn't try to make it sound cute either. They were grunted out, right? You know why? They had a revelation of the blood, the soul saving blood, the covenant making blood, the blood that was needed for access to him. Yes, yes. He substituted and died in our place. We in real life deserved death, hell and damnation to be banished away from his presence, away from all holiness, from all righteousness, from all goodness, from all blessing from him, from all grace. And Jesus died on the cross to create a new covenant that we should have eternal life that starts when we come into relationship with him and goes forever and ever and ever. And have you seen what you need to feed on the words of Christ? Didn't that encourage your soul when I read that? It wasn't my words. I read the words of Christ. You mean, you mean, you, you, you mean that Christ didn't even come on his own accord. He, he came because the Father sent him. He said the will of the Father was that all those that come to him, that he would never cast away. And that even when I fall asleep, because we don't die, we fall asleep. But he's going to raise me up on that day. And I'm going to be with him forever. That's the new covenant. That's what you've been called to. That's what he promised you and Christ don't switch up on us. Yeah. And I'll go last verse, Matthew 26, 29. He said, I tell you, I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day, say that day. When I drink it, new say new with you say you in my Father's kingdom. Now. This, there is some theological debate on what he meant here. Okay. Everything I was talking about before, no theological debate. That's the word, right? But when he says, I will not drink. He was very specific here. I tell you, I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine. Speaking of wine. I will not do it again until that day when I will drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. Okay. We're landing very hard right there. Now there are some that believe that when he rose after he was killed on the third day and appeared to, to the disciples, they're saying it alluded to the fact that he drunk then. Right. But I did research. It says, I want to say one or two places, definitely one, probably two, that it says that Christ did eat to prove that it was really him. Right. But I see no record where actually said he drunk of the vine. Okay. I see no record of that. Somebody can email me if they find it. I do not see it, which leads me to believe he's talking about the wedding supper of the lamb. So beloved, I don't think we missed it. Right. And let's, let's give it a buck, right? And pastor does a great communion. Right. I've done a couple myself, right? And we talk about the blood, but I'm talking about we who believe in him. We, we who are as disciples, the ones that will be raised on the last day. That will be a time I believe where Christ hold the cup up and we take communion with him. Communion with him. Let me tell you something. I'm keeping the bug. My wife will tell you, right? I, I don't really drink like 950 times out of 960. I'm like, nah, I don't really, I don't really the wine ain't my thing. Right. Not cause I'm trying to be super holy. I really don't like the way it tastes. I don't, right? But there will be one time. There will at least be one time that I will partake. Right. You're going to sip on something. Let's sip on something with a savior when we in heaven and we have all been called when we all get together to take communion to drink on the vine with the savior. That's why I live theologically on that day in the kingdom. He said new in the kingdom. He'd already said the kingdom of God is a hand. We said with you new in the kingdom on that day. And I'm going to tell you something. Listen to me. Y'all know me. Hear my heart. I'm not trying to beat you. If beat you over the head. If that doesn't stir up something in your soul, the thought of all of us being together and sharing wine in heaven at the wedding feast of the lamb. Beloved, you're missing something. You're missing something. Something is off. Either we don't believe or we're distracted. Nothing on this temporal earth will be able to satisfy like being in full communion and presence on that day with our brothers and sisters. Those that have gone on and followed asleep before us and with the savior. Why? Because he made a new covenant with us. And he double and triple down all that belonged to me. I will never cast away and they now have eternal life and I will raise them up on that day. By your heads. Let me pray. Holy Father. Help us. Help us. Help us depend on you. Help us believe your scriptures. God help us have more confidence in your scriptures. God in your word because you are a covenant keeping God and you have made a covenant with us. And you will do your part. God even help us believe on you and cleave to you and trust in you and love you and devote ourselves to you and bow before you and honor you and serve you with everything that we have since Jesus name we pray. Amen and amen. I love you beloved. God bless.