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This is when you compare it to you.
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I don't remember how crying it's my baby cheaper.
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This is my baby cheaper.
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This is the day.
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This is my day.
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This is my day.
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I've got the boy.
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I've got to go to the card.
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This is my day.
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The Lord be with you.
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Welcome everyone to this house of the Lord on this fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
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And also today is the first Sunday we're celebrating the season of creation.
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And I'm looking forward to next three Sundays there will be a mission moment from our creation care team.
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Welcome also those who join this service through our online live stream at this time or later on.
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Please take a moment, as always, to find your friends in register at your queue and write your name so that we may know your presence with us today.
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And thank you for doing that so much.
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I would like to bring your attention to two things.
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First, uh this Saturday, our Methodist Man breakfast resumes at nine o'clock.
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It's open to all men in this community, and not necessary to be our church members, just to be together and enjoy the fellowship.
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And the best breakfast in Brunswick County.
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It is Saturday at 9 o'clock.
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And also the new membership class schedule is set and announced.
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As we say it's a new membership class, it's open for all our old members to be a renewed membership class time for you.
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If you consider joining uh Ocean UNI Method Church, please come and see me or Pastor Josh.
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Please see me or Pastor Josh.
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I've been looking forward to new faces at our church to be more active in your presence.
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Now I turn to our worship leadership for the spiritual traditional service this morning.
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Shannon Wintry.
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Shannon?
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Good morning.
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The announcements were on the screen.
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Um, so I hope you had time to look at them.
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But I do want to point out that the beautiful flowers this morning were given um in um given to the glory of God in memory of Sarah Leatherman on behalf of her beloved Ernest on her birthday, which is today.
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So um those are beautiful and thank you, Ernest.
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Um as we enter into the season of creation, a time when all Christians everywhere are encouraged to renew their relationship with God, the Creator, we offer this prayer.
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Father God, we offer you our gratitude for the gift of your creation, a wondrous tapestry woven by your loving hands.
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From the tiniest flower to the vastness of the ocean, each part of nature reveals your artistry.
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Thank you for this world of wonder and for entrusting it to our care.
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Help us to cherish it always, for it is a testament to your boundless love.
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Grant us the wisdom to be faithful stewards of your creation and to encourage others by the actions we take and the examples we set.
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We offer this prayer in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Please stand now for the call on in Troy.
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Praise the Holy One.
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Make your praise known in the gathering of the faithful, the hopeful, and even the questioning.
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Let our praise today be made new.
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We come together to sing a new song and speak a new word of hope.
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Come, let us worship the God who journeys with us, guiding us through division into the peace of reconciliation.
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We bring our whole selves into worship, ready to listen, learn, and love our neighbors.
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Amen.
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Join me in singing for the fruits of this creation, which can be found on the screen or in your hymnal on page ninety-seven.
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Bitchie for the womb, my saving potentially for the wood my saving potentially.
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With the wood and gorgeously, and here the door from the mountain and here goes and here the gentle break.
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Send him to the dark, I scarce can take it in.
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Let us prepare our hearts for prayer.
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Dear Lord, we come before you today full of awe and reverence.
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You are the King of King and Lord of Lords.
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You are loving, just sovereign, and completely true.
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You are the light in this world.
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We confess that we have been impatient, we lose our temper and fail to love others the way you love us.
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Today we lay down our worries and focus on your majesty.
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You know every good and bad thing we have done.
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We confess our sins to you and ask for you to cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
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We stand in awe and wonder of the forgiveness you offer us.
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We are so blessed to live here and to see your beauty everywhere we live.
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You paint a stunning picture with sunrise and sunsets and the white caps of the waves and the ocean.
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Thank you for your constant grace that meets us every morning.
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For the countless blessings you pour into our lives.
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We lift up people everywhere who are hurting, lonely, or in need.
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For the brokenhearted and sick, bring your healing touch and comfort and strength.
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For the oppressed and needy, who provide justice, safety, and daily provision.
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For our communities and leaders who bring wisdom, greatness, and a desire to see peace and community.
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Help us put your hands and feet in this world.
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Share your love and light with everyone we need.
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At this time we say the names aloud of those who are heavy on our heart.
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And now let us unite together and pray the prayer Jesus tell us to say Father, who are in heaven, help be thy name.
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Thy kingdom, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day the daily prayer.
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And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespassed against us.
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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For that is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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As God has blessed us, we now have the opportunity to give back.
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May the ushers please come forward to collect our tithes and offering a lot of people.
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Dear Lord, receive these gifts as signs of our trust in your saving power and our commitment to your work of healing and restoration.
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Use what we offer to mend what is broken, welcome those who feel outside, and build a community where forgiveness and hope have the final word.
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In Christ's name we pray.
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Amen.
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Our scripture reading this morning is from Exodus chapter 12, verses 1 through 14.
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Listen for the word of God.
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The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, this month shall mark for you the beginning of the month.
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It shall be the first month of the year for you.
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Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household.
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If a lamb household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one.
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The lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat it.
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year old male.
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You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the month.
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Then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.
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They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lentil of the houses in which they eat it.
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They shall eat the lamb at the that same night.
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They shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, legs, and inner organs.
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You shall let none of it remain until the morning.
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Anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
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This is how you shall eat it.
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Your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you should eat it hurriedly.
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It is the Passover of the Lord.
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For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals on all the gods of Egypt.
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I will execute judgments.
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I am the Lord.
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The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live.
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When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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This day shall be a day of remembrance for you.
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You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord.
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Throughout your generations, you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
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This is the word of God for the people of God.
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Thanks be to God.
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O God of creation, God of justice, God of peace, we come to your presence with our hearts of joy and gratitude.
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Almighty God, unto all hearts are open, all desires are known, and from you no secrets are hidden.
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Cleanse our hearts and minds by your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worldly magnify your holy name.
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In Christ's name we pray.
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Amen.
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Anybody has any soul food for you?
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Do you have?
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What is it?
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You know, when you have your soul food, you bring the memories and stories to come together as you are about to dig in the dish.
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There might be a more delicate definition about the soul food, but in general, the soul food refers to the dishes of the African-American community who are forcefully relocated from Africa to the Deep South.
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It goes back to the days of slavery when the African-American people comforted one another by recreating the flavors of their homeland.
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They utilized leftover ingredient because it's hard for them to get proper ingredients with their circumstances as slaves.
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Signature menu includes fried chicken, as you all know, mac and cheese, cornbread, collard greens and more.
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And this story is intertwined with food.
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We hear this morning quite weird menus and puzzling mandates.
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Like a lamb roast in the hole, easily spread, and bitter herbs.
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And all of this to be eaten and nothing left till the morning.
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If there are something left over, it should be burned.
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And the most important part of this mirror called Seder in Hebrews, when you gather to eat, you got to share the stories of your ancestors.
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And also the marvelous act of deliverance of God on the night of Passover.
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As these people represent such historic event to it, tasting every different element of the mirror, the people of Hebrews come to understand who they are, where they are from, and most importantly, who God is, whose name is I Am, Who I Am.
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Yes, the day of Exodus turns the life of these people into a new beginning.
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They set a new calendar as their history starts anew.
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Before this day, they were slaves.
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But from this day on, they are free people to worship not Egyptian idols, but God of the Hebrews on the way to the promised land through the wilderness.
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And the blood of sheep or goat that they smear on the doorpost tells you what happened on that historic night.
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And easteries or unleavened bread reminds us that the salvation rushes in our lives.
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When they bite bitter herbs, which will bring forth tears on them, they come to understand and have first-hand experience the very bitterness of the lives of their ancestors.
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You got to eat in a hurry with weird mandates, like bears on your waist, sanders on your feet, and a staff in your hand.
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It's because you are on a journey now.
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And at any moment God is coming to you and say, get out of here.
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You are now free.
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Go.
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And that's the moment at which their lives will be defined forever.
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Freedom or bondage, liberation or oppression.
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And the consequences of their decision would not simply remain on them alone, but on their offsprings, particularly on your firstborn.
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The most precious first love and the gift of parenthood.
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And now you may have said, Pastor, I have a question.
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What is it?
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Why?
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Why did God act so violently to sweep and cheer all the firstborns across Egyptian families?
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Do we believe a God of hatred and violence so much?
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Could this act of seemingly unthinkable massacre be justified at all?
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Good question.
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You know, in any ancient days, people believed the firstbones of plants or even the firstborn of a womb of a woman are gifts of God's grace.
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So they believed it right to return the firstborns to God.
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So as you read now, if God the Creator and the original source of all firstborn, as they believed, has decided to cure them across all Egyptian households.
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Yes.
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It carries something serious.
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The message is this God withdraws his gift of grace from these people.
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Why?
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Why?
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God defies the power of Pharaoh, who does not care for the people's life, and denies the dignity of a people, especially for the foreigners, the slaves.
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Pharaoh represents the status core, life-threatening, life-killing, and the misuse of superpower, and the entire system to sustain it against God the Creator.
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You know, as we celebrate this month as the month for God's creation, we believe our God will never ever tolerate this pharaoh reality, killing people and the whole creation.
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As God hears the cries of the oppressed, the Hebrew slaves.
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In fact, Pharaoh was given many chances, nine times in the Bible, to turn around and change his actions and policies.
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But he stubbornly refused to do that.
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So God is now taking his final action.
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That the whole land of Egypt became the land filled with a wailing cry.
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That's what happened on the night of Passover.
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And that's the message profound from our God in it.
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My sisters and brothers, our God is God of justice, God of liberation.
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And we believe in this God are called then and now to perpetually remember these mighty acts of God through our lives and our values we live out day by day.
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And the most remarkable thing in here is this story has been experienced through people's gut, their stomach.
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It's interesting to hear this story that this Passover story could not be forgotten.
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They could not forget.
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Partly because it is a very strange story, weird.
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But also the way they experienced it.
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The Hebrew people think the truth cares to your God.
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And your God never tells a lie.
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So in the Bible, in the Bible, the John's Gospel, chapter 7, Jesus says, Rivers of living water shall flow out of a believer's heart.
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And Jesus drew this word from Jeremiah chapter 2 and verse 13, where the original Hebrew word for heart literally means stomach and God.
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So what Jesus really meant when he said that, he meant the rivers of living water shall flow out of believers' God.
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The deep part of who you are.
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As for the Hebrew people, the story of Passover is written deep in their gut.
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And it's intertwined with the mirror they taste.
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That's the way this Passover story becomes a perpetual remembrance for the people of Easter.
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Sisters and brothers, this morning we are invited to a table that tells how deeply our salvation is inscribed into our God.
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As you are invited to come and taste and eat these elements of God's feast.
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Yes.
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How deep God's love for you.
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When Jesus offered last supper, he shared a Passover mirror with his beloved disciples.
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It was Jesus Himself given to them as the Lamb of God.
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Even to the one who betrayed him.
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As we hear the story of Passover, it is a story of blood of Jesus smeared on our heart, each and every one of us, as a mark of his own.
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So that the power of evil, the rule of Pharaoh, shall not possess any of us.
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Never.
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So my friends, the blood of Christ save us forever.
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As it represents the unconditional and sacrificial redemptive love of God.
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And his justice in it.
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Yes, through this blood of Jesus, we are created as new people, a new community.
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Yes, we are pass over people.
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Redeem and liberate.
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May God bless you.
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May God grant you the blessing of remembrance, of the day of your redemption, and the call for salvation, and the great exodus of your journey of life, and the mighty power of our God, who defies Pharaoh even now and forevermore.
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In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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Now I invite you to the table.
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As we prepare this table, I want to remind you again that we unite Methodist Church practice open table.
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That means no membership needed to take this mirror or even to be baptized or not, you are welcome to taste and take it.
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As you're earnestly yearning for God's grace now.
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As you see, the communion steward will hold a common cup.
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You are invited to take it.
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If you have any issues of your individual need for health, there would be individual cup at the end of the pew.
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And for the gluten-free bread and wine, the passengers and I will hold for you to come as you are ready.
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And the altars are open for you.
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So please join me at this time with the great thanksgiving found on your screen together.
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The Lord be with you.
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Lift up your heart.
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Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
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It is right and a good and joyful thing always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.
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You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life.
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When we turn around and our love failed, your love remained steadfast.
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And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending Hymn.
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By the baptism of his suffering death and resurrection, you gave birth to your church and delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the spirit.
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On the night in which he gave himself for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, and broke the bread, and gave it to his disciples and said, Take it.
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This is my body which is given for you.
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Do this in remembrance of me.
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When the suffer was over, he took the cup and gave thanks to you.
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And gave it to his disciples and said, Drink from this all of you.
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This is my blood of new covenant poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
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And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice in union with Christ's offering for us as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
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Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.
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Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
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Make them before us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
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By your spirit, make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the word until Christ comes in final victory and we feast at his heavenly banquet.
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Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy church, all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, now and forever.
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Amen.
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Grant that we may go into the world in the strength of your Holy Spirit to give ourselves for others.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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In your God.
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This is when you compare it to you.
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I don't remember how crying it's my baby cheaper.
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This is my baby cheaper.
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This is the day.
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This is my day.
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This is my day.
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I've got the boy.
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I've got to go to the card.
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This is my day.
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The Lord be with you.
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Welcome everyone to this house of the Lord on this fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
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And also today is the first Sunday we're celebrating the season of creation.
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And I'm looking forward to next three Sundays there will be a mission moment from our creation care team.
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Welcome also those who join this service through our online live stream at this time or later on.
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Please take a moment, as always, to find your friends in register at your queue and write your name so that we may know your presence with us today.
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And thank you for doing that so much.
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I would like to bring your attention to two things.
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First, uh this Saturday, our Methodist Man breakfast resumes at nine o'clock.
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It's open to all men in this community, and not necessary to be our church members, just to be together and enjoy the fellowship.
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And the best breakfast in Brunswick County.
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It is Saturday at 9 o'clock.
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And also the new membership class schedule is set and announced.
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As we say it's a new membership class, it's open for all our old members to be a renewed membership class time for you.
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If you consider joining uh Ocean UNI Method Church, please come and see me or Pastor Josh.
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Please see me or Pastor Josh.
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I've been looking forward to new faces at our church to be more active in your presence.
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Now I turn to our worship leadership for the spiritual traditional service this morning.
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Shannon Wintry.
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Shannon?
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Good morning.
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The announcements were on the screen.
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Um, so I hope you had time to look at them.
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But I do want to point out that the beautiful flowers this morning were given um in um given to the glory of God in memory of Sarah Leatherman on behalf of her beloved Ernest on her birthday, which is today.
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So um those are beautiful and thank you, Ernest.
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Um as we enter into the season of creation, a time when all Christians everywhere are encouraged to renew their relationship with God, the Creator, we offer this prayer.
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Father God, we offer you our gratitude for the gift of your creation, a wondrous tapestry woven by your loving hands.
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From the tiniest flower to the vastness of the ocean, each part of nature reveals your artistry.
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Thank you for this world of wonder and for entrusting it to our care.
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Help us to cherish it always, for it is a testament to your boundless love.
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Grant us the wisdom to be faithful stewards of your creation and to encourage others by the actions we take and the examples we set.
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We offer this prayer in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Please stand now for the call on in Troy.
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Praise the Holy One.
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Make your praise known in the gathering of the faithful, the hopeful, and even the questioning.
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Let our praise today be made new.
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We come together to sing a new song and speak a new word of hope.
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Come, let us worship the God who journeys with us, guiding us through division into the peace of reconciliation.
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We bring our whole selves into worship, ready to listen, learn, and love our neighbors.
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Amen.
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Join me in singing for the fruits of this creation, which can be found on the screen or in your hymnal on page ninety-seven.
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Bitchie for the womb, my saving potentially for the wood my saving potentially.
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With the wood and gorgeously, and here the door from the mountain and here goes and here the gentle break.
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Send him to the dark, I scarce can take it in.
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Let us prepare our hearts for prayer.
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Dear Lord, we come before you today full of awe and reverence.
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You are the King of King and Lord of Lords.
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You are loving, just sovereign, and completely true.
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You are the light in this world.
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We confess that we have been impatient, we lose our temper and fail to love others the way you love us.
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Today we lay down our worries and focus on your majesty.
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You know every good and bad thing we have done.
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We confess our sins to you and ask for you to cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
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We stand in awe and wonder of the forgiveness you offer us.
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We are so blessed to live here and to see your beauty everywhere we live.
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You paint a stunning picture with sunrise and sunsets and the white caps of the waves and the ocean.
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Thank you for your constant grace that meets us every morning.
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For the countless blessings you pour into our lives.
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We lift up people everywhere who are hurting, lonely, or in need.
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For the brokenhearted and sick, bring your healing touch and comfort and strength.
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For the oppressed and needy, who provide justice, safety, and daily provision.
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For our communities and leaders who bring wisdom, greatness, and a desire to see peace and community.
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Help us put your hands and feet in this world.
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Share your love and light with everyone we need.
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At this time we say the names aloud of those who are heavy on our heart.
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And now let us unite together and pray the prayer Jesus tell us to say Father, who are in heaven, help be thy name.
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Thy kingdom, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day the daily prayer.
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And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespassed against us.
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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For that is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
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As God has blessed us, we now have the opportunity to give back.
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May the ushers please come forward to collect our tithes and offering a lot of people.
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Dear Lord, receive these gifts as signs of our trust in your saving power and our commitment to your work of healing and restoration.
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Use what we offer to mend what is broken, welcome those who feel outside, and build a community where forgiveness and hope have the final word.
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In Christ's name we pray.
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Amen.
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Our scripture reading this morning is from Exodus chapter 12, verses 1 through 14.
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Listen for the word of God.
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The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, this month shall mark for you the beginning of the month.
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It shall be the first month of the year for you.
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Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household.
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If a lamb household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one.
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The lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat it.
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year old male.
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You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the month.
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Then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.
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They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lentil of the houses in which they eat it.
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They shall eat the lamb at the that same night.
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They shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, legs, and inner organs.
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You shall let none of it remain until the morning.
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Anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
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This is how you shall eat it.
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Your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you should eat it hurriedly.
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It is the Passover of the Lord.
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For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals on all the gods of Egypt.
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I will execute judgments.
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I am the Lord.
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The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live.
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When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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This day shall be a day of remembrance for you.
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You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord.
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Throughout your generations, you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
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This is the word of God for the people of God.
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Thanks be to God.
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O God of creation, God of justice, God of peace, we come to your presence with our hearts of joy and gratitude.
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Almighty God, unto all hearts are open, all desires are known, and from you no secrets are hidden.
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Cleanse our hearts and minds by your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worldly magnify your holy name.
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In Christ's name we pray.
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Amen.
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Anybody has any soul food for you?
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Do you have?
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What is it?
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You know, when you have your soul food, you bring the memories and stories to come together as you are about to dig in the dish.
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There might be a more delicate definition about the soul food, but in general, the soul food refers to the dishes of the African-American community who are forcefully relocated from Africa to the Deep South.
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It goes back to the days of slavery when the African-American people comforted one another by recreating the flavors of their homeland.
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They utilized leftover ingredient because it's hard for them to get proper ingredients with their circumstances as slaves.
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Signature menu includes fried chicken, as you all know, mac and cheese, cornbread, collard greens and more.
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And this story is intertwined with food.
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We hear this morning quite weird menus and puzzling mandates.
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Like a lamb roast in the hole, easily spread, and bitter herbs.
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And all of this to be eaten and nothing left till the morning.
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If there are something left over, it should be burned.
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And the most important part of this mirror called Seder in Hebrews, when you gather to eat, you got to share the stories of your ancestors.
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And also the marvelous act of deliverance of God on the night of Passover.
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As these people represent such historic event to it, tasting every different element of the mirror, the people of Hebrews come to understand who they are, where they are from, and most importantly, who God is, whose name is I Am, Who I Am.
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Yes, the day of Exodus turns the life of these people into a new beginning.
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They set a new calendar as their history starts anew.
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Before this day, they were slaves.
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But from this day on, they are free people to worship not Egyptian idols, but God of the Hebrews on the way to the promised land through the wilderness.
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And the blood of sheep or goat that they smear on the doorpost tells you what happened on that historic night.
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And easteries or unleavened bread reminds us that the salvation rushes in our lives.
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When they bite bitter herbs, which will bring forth tears on them, they come to understand and have first-hand experience the very bitterness of the lives of their ancestors.
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You got to eat in a hurry with weird mandates, like bears on your waist, sanders on your feet, and a staff in your hand.
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It's because you are on a journey now.
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And at any moment God is coming to you and say, get out of here.
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You are now free.
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Go.
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And that's the moment at which their lives will be defined forever.
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Freedom or bondage, liberation or oppression.
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And the consequences of their decision would not simply remain on them alone, but on their offsprings, particularly on your firstborn.
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The most precious first love and the gift of parenthood.
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And now you may have said, Pastor, I have a question.
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What is it?
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Why?
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Why did God act so violently to sweep and cheer all the firstborns across Egyptian families?
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Do we believe a God of hatred and violence so much?
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Could this act of seemingly unthinkable massacre be justified at all?
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Good question.
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You know, in any ancient days, people believed the firstbones of plants or even the firstborn of a womb of a woman are gifts of God's grace.
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So they believed it right to return the firstborns to God.
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So as you read now, if God the Creator and the original source of all firstborn, as they believed, has decided to cure them across all Egyptian households.
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Yes.
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It carries something serious.
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The message is this God withdraws his gift of grace from these people.
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Why?
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Why?
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God defies the power of Pharaoh, who does not care for the people's life, and denies the dignity of a people, especially for the foreigners, the slaves.
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Pharaoh represents the status core, life-threatening, life-killing, and the misuse of superpower, and the entire system to sustain it against God the Creator.
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You know, as we celebrate this month as the month for God's creation, we believe our God will never ever tolerate this pharaoh reality, killing people and the whole creation.
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As God hears the cries of the oppressed, the Hebrew slaves.
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In fact, Pharaoh was given many chances, nine times in the Bible, to turn around and change his actions and policies.
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But he stubbornly refused to do that.
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So God is now taking his final action.
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That the whole land of Egypt became the land filled with a wailing cry.
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That's what happened on the night of Passover.
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And that's the message profound from our God in it.
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My sisters and brothers, our God is God of justice, God of liberation.
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And we believe in this God are called then and now to perpetually remember these mighty acts of God through our lives and our values we live out day by day.
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And the most remarkable thing in here is this story has been experienced through people's gut, their stomach.
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It's interesting to hear this story that this Passover story could not be forgotten.
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They could not forget.
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Partly because it is a very strange story, weird.
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But also the way they experienced it.
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The Hebrew people think the truth cares to your God.
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And your God never tells a lie.
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So in the Bible, in the Bible, the John's Gospel, chapter 7, Jesus says, Rivers of living water shall flow out of a believer's heart.
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And Jesus drew this word from Jeremiah chapter 2 and verse 13, where the original Hebrew word for heart literally means stomach and God.
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So what Jesus really meant when he said that, he meant the rivers of living water shall flow out of believers' God.
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The deep part of who you are.
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As for the Hebrew people, the story of Passover is written deep in their gut.
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And it's intertwined with the mirror they taste.
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That's the way this Passover story becomes a perpetual remembrance for the people of Easter.
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Sisters and brothers, this morning we are invited to a table that tells how deeply our salvation is inscribed into our God.
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As you are invited to come and taste and eat these elements of God's feast.
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Yes.
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How deep God's love for you.
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When Jesus offered last supper, he shared a Passover mirror with his beloved disciples.
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It was Jesus Himself given to them as the Lamb of God.
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Even to the one who betrayed him.
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As we hear the story of Passover, it is a story of blood of Jesus smeared on our heart, each and every one of us, as a mark of his own.
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So that the power of evil, the rule of Pharaoh, shall not possess any of us.
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Never.
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So my friends, the blood of Christ save us forever.
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As it represents the unconditional and sacrificial redemptive love of God.
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And his justice in it.
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Yes, through this blood of Jesus, we are created as new people, a new community.
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Yes, we are pass over people.
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Redeem and liberate.
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May God bless you.
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May God grant you the blessing of remembrance, of the day of your redemption, and the call for salvation, and the great exodus of your journey of life, and the mighty power of our God, who defies Pharaoh even now and forevermore.
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In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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Now I invite you to the table.
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As we prepare this table, I want to remind you again that we unite Methodist Church practice open table.
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That means no membership needed to take this mirror or even to be baptized or not, you are welcome to taste and take it.
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As you're earnestly yearning for God's grace now.
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As you see, the communion steward will hold a common cup.
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You are invited to take it.
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If you have any issues of your individual need for health, there would be individual cup at the end of the pew.
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And for the gluten-free bread and wine, the passengers and I will hold for you to come as you are ready.
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And the altars are open for you.
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So please join me at this time with the great thanksgiving found on your screen together.
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The Lord be with you.
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Lift up your heart.
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Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
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It is right and a good and joyful thing always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth.
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You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life.
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When we turn around and our love failed, your love remained steadfast.
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And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending Hymn.
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By the baptism of his suffering death and resurrection, you gave birth to your church and delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the spirit.
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On the night in which he gave himself for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, and broke the bread, and gave it to his disciples and said, Take it.
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This is my body which is given for you.
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Do this in remembrance of me.
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When the suffer was over, he took the cup and gave thanks to you.
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And gave it to his disciples and said, Drink from this all of you.
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This is my blood of new covenant poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
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Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
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And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice in union with Christ's offering for us as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
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Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.
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Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
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Make them before us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
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By your spirit, make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the word until Christ comes in final victory and we feast at his heavenly banquet.
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Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy church, all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, now and forever.
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Amen.
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Grant that we may go into the world in the strength of your Holy Spirit to give ourselves for others.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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In your God.
