It’s a serious and somber time. Just as the Lord Jesus spoke His final words to His disciples at the Last Supper before He was crucified, Brother Branham left us with Communion before he went to be with the Father.
The Communion service is something that is special to all of us. It is a time of reflection, when we look at our lives and do our best to make all things right. Is there malice towards anyone, no matter what they have done to us? If there is, then quickly make amends. Is there sin somewhere in our lives? Then make a commitment to sin no more. Is there ANYTHING that hinders our walk, or someone else’s walk, with the Lord? This is the time to make all wrongs right before the bread and wine touches our lips.
It’s also a time of service, when we wash the feet of the saints. We should pray for each other like we have never prayed before. As Satan goes through this world like a roaring lion, our prayers for one another come before God as a sweet smelling savor. The prophet told us that these prayers are the most powerful weapon ever placed into the hands of men.
It could be the last chance we have. It will most certainly be the last time that a few of us have. If the Lord tarries to another Communion service, there will be some of our brothers and sisters who will go to be with the Lord between now and then.
For our brothers and sisters around the world, we hope that this special day will be a sober reminder of what our Lord Jesus did for us at Calvary and what He requires of us today.
As we prepare for the Communion, we also look forward to another meal that we will all enjoy together, when our Lord Jesus stops by each person seated at the Wedding Supper to wipe our tears away. This world is a trial to all of us, but be encouraged, Jesus Christ has overcome the world!
Keep the faith, our dear friends. We are ALL standing together during these closing hours of time. We love you!
Here are a few highlights from the sermon that is dear to our hearts: Communion.
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23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
I believe that we have seen enough in our day that we live in, that we ought to really give (every) all of our being to God. We—we should really serve God. I believe that He has blessed us with the direct answer to Scripture.
Now we're fixing to observe something here that's really sacred.
Now, we only have three physical Divine orders left to us: one of them is communion; feet-washing; water baptism.
I don’t believe anyone has a right to take the Lord’s supper until he has taken the Word of the Lord into his heart.
“Blessed is he that does all of His ordinance, keeps all of His statutes, all of His commandments, that he might have a right to enter into the Tree of Life.”
Finally, over and over it went again, over and over it kept going until finally it become a tradition. The commandment of God became a tradition to the people.
You don’t take the Lord’s supper by a tradition. You take it because it’s the love of God in your heart, in keeping the commandments of God. See, that’s what you take it for.
But down in there, too, was another Nature present, see, predestinated, was in there by God. In this same body, see, two natures in there.
Now, that old life was forgiven, put in the sea of God’s forgetfulness, to never be remembered against me no more. See? Now we stand justified (as though we never had sinned) in the Presence of God.
And then this is really the showdown. Then if you don’t do it, you have no Life. If you do do it unworthily, you are guilty of the Body of the Lord.
It’s a revelation that I am part of Him and I’m part of you, and I love you and I love Him, and we’re taking this together as a symbol of our love to God, and our love and fellowship to one another.
But taking the body of the Lord Jesus Christ in this communion, does not mean that that communion is the literal body of Christ.
Now, the same thing is by our coming to take the Lord’s supper, that, we must come knowing what we are doing. Just like when you go into the water to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, you know what you’re doing, you’re putting on to the church what God has put in you, Christ.
Well, what will the Anti-type do? If the body of a sacrificial animal did that for them, what would the Body of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, do for us? Let’s just be reverent when we come.