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August 1, 2024 6:00 am

The Lord's Supper is not just a sacrament, but an ordinance that represents the heart behind it. It's about looking around in fellowship, looking behind in remembrance, and looking forward in anticipation of the marriage supper of the lamb, where believers will celebrate with Jesus at the head of the table.

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Where's my Mountain Dew? You're listening to Clear View Today with Dr. Abaddon Shah, the daily show that engages mind and heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm Ryan Hill.

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We're going to leave a couple of links right there in the description, so you can do just that. The verse of the day today is coming to you from Psalm, chapter 8, verse 1. O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth, who have set your glory above the heavens. O Lord, our Lord, how awesome are your ways. If you guys have not listened to Psalm 8 by Shane and Shane, aka the Worship Initiative, you need to do that right now. That has become one of our favorites at Clear View Church.

We're doing it this weekend. Is that the same Shane and Shane Worship Initiative? Yeah, they're the same. Really? Worship Initiative is their company, so it's not always them singing, but they head up the Worship Initiative. I knew what Worship Initiative was. I didn't realize that was Shane and Shane. Oh, yeah.

Oh, well, cool. That's their thing. Love it.

Love it. They did this great thing where they take the Psalms and they make them into modern worship songs for contemporary churches. I'm telling you, we do a lot of them here.

Yeah. Psalm 8 is one of those that we do. It's such a glorious psalm of David where it says, God, you are majestic. You are holy. You are God.

That's enough for me. It's great because there are psalms sometimes that are like psalms of anguish or lamenting where we're crying out, God, save me. God, I'm in this dark place. I want to see your light again.

I want to walk in your ways again. Then there are others that are just simply, God, you are amazing. I think that modern worship music kind of misses the mark on that sometimes.

Yeah, true. Other than the ones like the psalms that Shane and Shane are putting out, I think it's very me-driven. It's very me-focused. It is. It is.

That's one of the things that I appreciate about the worship here that, John, the setlist that you build and the songs that you, Dr. Shaw, and David write is that it's very God-focused and who we are in light of who God is because that's how worship ought to be. It's easy. It's easy to write about what God has done for me and the victory that I have. I was once this, but now I'm this. I was living like a beggar, and now I'm living like a king. I get it. I get it.

I have been tempted, and I do. I still write stuff like that, and I have those thoughts. At the end of the day, though, we're leading people to worship a God for who he is, not just what he's done for us. What he's done for us is great, but at the end of the day, I'm still going to worship him because of who he is, because of the God and the great glory that he is. We want to let you guys know that this episode is, of course, sponsored by the Date the Word app.

You can check that out for free right now on iPhone or Android. Every single day connects today's date with God's Word with the hope of making it more memorable for you. Ryan, I've got to tell you, buddy, I did something that I thought I was never going to do, and I thought of you the whole time because of what we talked about here on the show. Really? I tried McDonald's Sprite. I finally tried McDonald's Sprite.

What was your takeaway? It was like a rocket to the moon. It's a trip, for sure. The whole thing about McDonald's Sprite was they said it tasted like TV static. It's way ...

It's rough. It's way too much carbonation for some reason. Yeah, I don't want to say spicy. It's not spicy, you know, that whole... that whole thing.

But it's weird. It's like hypercarbonated. Yeah, to the point where it barely even tastes like Sprite. I drank it, and it was like pop rocks and soda in my mouth. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. But it was like...

I don't know. It just consumed all the energy in my mouth. It's not pleasant. It wasn't. Then I had to take that walk of shame where I sat there, tried it at the thing, looked at Ellie. Ellie was like, what the hell was that?

I was like, mm-mm. I didn't take anymore. Sprite is a weird drink.

Do you ever feel like... I don't know if you did this when you were a kid, but when you were sick, your parents would give you Sprite because they felt like Sprite is next to medicine. It's medicinal.

Yeah. It's a drink in which it's clear, and it will help calm your stomach a little bit. Is that true? It can. The bubbles can kind of... the garbage can kind of help settle your stomach if you're feeling particularly like, ugh, feeling a little queasy. Like Sprite, ginger ale, those kind of things. Yeah, even ginger ale. It's soda.

I was given ginger ale and soda when I had an upset stomach as a kid, but then I was like, is it truly helping? I guess it is because mom's all over the... It's not like, oh, you have a cold? Here, have a Sprite, honey.

I mean, it's not medicine. You know one thing I've always noticed about Dr. Shaw? He's one of the only people that I've ever met genuinely who likes Sprite.

He does. He really likes Sprite. Like imagine the last time you asked someone, hey, you want something to drink? And they're like, yeah, let me get a... I'll take a Sprite.

If someone actually said that to me other than Dr. Shaw, I'd be like, you'll take a what? You want Sprite? Like, I've got other stuff. They're like, no, no, I'll take Sprite.

I'll take Sprite. That's weird to me. Yeah. It's a little strange.

But I've always respected Dr. Shaw because he's of an age where he knows what he likes and that's what he wants. Kids are Sprite drinkers a lot, most of the time because parents push them towards Sprite because it's caffeine free. Yeah, true. That caffeine free thing makes... So caffeine free and clear soda, parents will typically push them that way. But it's not calorie free. No, no, it's not. Well, they're kids.

I mean, whatever. It's tons and tons of sugar. They're drinking sugary juice. I mean, it's just sugary carbonated. Yeah, true.

True. But yeah, most adults I know wouldn't be like, I would love a Sprite, but Dr. Shaw is. He loves Sprite. Yeah, Dr. Shaw is like, I'll absolutely take a Sprite. To me, to me now, I feel like that's weird.

But at the end of the day, you got to respect the man because he knows what he likes and he's unashamed of it. That's right. Dr. Shaw is the reason that I stopped pretending like I didn't like Burger King because I love Burger King, but it was not popular like Burger King. It was not. No. Rather than let us know if you are a Sprite drinker and or if you have prescribed Sprite as medicine in the past and if it was worth it. Or if you've tried McDonald's Sprite and you're like, you know what, I'll never do that again. Yeah.

Because you shouldn't. That's the guy who likes McDonald's Sprite. Someone goes to the drive-thru and orders Sprite. Ew.

This is delicious. Even the McDonald's employees are confused. Like, why are you getting this? They're like, for real?

They're like, all right, bust out the Sprite. Rather than let us know, 252-582-5028 or you can visit us online at cleerviewtodayshow.com. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. Hey. Hey, you. Me? No, not you.

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Amen. Let's hop back into the show. Welcome back to Clearview Today with Dr. Abbadan Shah, the daily show that engages mind and heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You can visit us online at ClearviewTodayShow.com or if you have any questions or suggestions for new topics, send us a text, 252-582-5028. That's right. And we're here once again in the Clearview Today studio with Dr. Abbadan Shah, who's a PhD in New Testament textual criticism. Dr. Shah, I want to give you some odd respect.

This is sort of weird respect. You're the only person that I've ever met in person that I can really think of that enjoys Sprite, like enjoys the taste of Sprite. Everybody else that I know either doesn't like Sprite or they're like, yes, it's fine.

Well, it's fine. You know I've stopped drinking Sprite. Yes.

Yes. I do drink zero Sprite. Sprite zero. Sprite zero. Yeah.

But that's very rare. Yeah. I've never met another person who's like, I like Sprite. Like who would choose Sprite first? Like if you're presented a Sprite, it's like, okay. But you're like, I'll take a Sprite.

Yeah, I love it. Problem with Sprite is, my goodness, there's so much sugar. So here's the thing.

We talked about that in the intro. You think it's like a diet drink because it's clear. Well, you actually get tricked because like when you're little and you have an upset stomach, they give you Sprite. Sometimes Sprite is what is recommended.

However, that does not make it a medicinal drink. Yeah. You look at the calories on Sprite and it's like, oh my goodness, it's higher than even Coca-Cola, right? Yeah, it is. So Sprite is one of the sugariest drinks you can drink. But I never have met people who are like all about, this is way off topic.

It's very esoteric. I don't even think you can find this video anymore, but there was a video on College Humor way back in the day about a guy who wanted to get his boss a present, but he didn't know anything about his boss. So he saw his boss drinking a can of Sprite. So he got him like a full Sprite outfit.

Like a Sprite poster, a visit to like the Sprite factory, his name on like a plaque with the Sprite logo on it. He was like, you didn't know anything else about him. He's like, I just know this dude loves Sprite.

He's like, I mean, it's fine. He just saw him drinking a can of Sprite. I saw you drinking one Sprite and now that's your entire personality.

I wish I could find, I've looked for that video, but I can't find it. When I used to travel, I would drink Sprite like crazy. It's like I'm traveling, it doesn't count, I'm going to drink Sprite. And then one day, I think, I don't know who it was who told me, I think maybe David, who said, that's one of the worst sugary drink you can ever have.

I said, no way. I turn around and I'm like, oh my word. It tricks you, man. It tricks you. This is what I've been pouring.

Just pouring in. Just big scoops of sugar just down the head. But there's no caffeine in it. So it's okay.

It's all good. And they put that all over the brand too. See, that's the thing. We started talking about it because in Wyoming, I finally tried McDonald's Sprite for the first time in my life. I wasn't impressed. McDonald's Sprite is a different category. McDonald's Sprite is like, it tastes like electricity. It tastes like TV static. Yeah, it was weird. It was a weird feeling. It was like very little flavor, but like 100% intensity.

You can feel it behind your eyes. Yeah, true. People don't really often look forward to Sprite with anticipation. Yeah, true. I see where you're going.

It's something that they kind of tolerate or they don't, not good, can you throw me off? No, you're good. We don't necessarily look forward to it with anticipation, but one thing we can look forward to with anticipation is the Lord's Supper. Oh, Lord's Supper.

Thank you very much. I thought for sure you were going to be like, you know, we don't put Sprite in our communion cups. We put green juice.

I thought that's the direction. That's the low hanging fruit. But you guys, sometimes you got to take the long way around. You guys will all come together.

You did it. We're talking about communion again today. We've been in this discussion for the past couple of days, but there's so much to unpack here when we think about what communion is, what it represents, and the heart behind it. You know, we've talked about looking behind in remembrance.

We said that yesterday. We also need to look around in fellowship. But there's many more perspectives that we need to take when we head to our communion.

Absolutely. You know, what we're telling people is communion is not sacramental. And I know there are some listeners who may be jarred by hearing that because you're growing up in a, or you grew up in a tradition or you are part of a denomination that looks upon it as sacramental. We're not trying to, I guess, dis you, I guess, dis you, dis you, dis you, whatever, how you say it. We're not showing you no disrespect.

There's no disrespect happening here. We're just simply expressing how we feel, how we see the Bible interpreted and we see it more as an ordinance rather than as a sacrament. The difference between those two is sacrament means it offers you something sacred, something spiritual. That's right. Right. And the thing is that, yes, it is something spiritual, but it's not necessarily in the bread or the cup that you find some blessing or some healing or something like that. It's more in the meaning behind it. So it's an ordinance.

It has been ordered. It has been mandated. And so why has it been mandated? Because it was misused and mistreated in the early church. So Paul wrote First Corinthians, especially chapter 11, to explain to the Corinthians that they need to straighten up. They really have lost sight of the meaning and purpose of the Lord's Supper.

They're mistreating each other. And also, they're not seeing themselves in that upper room. If you remember yesterday, we talked about the Passover, Haggadah said, every man should so, and I'm paraphrasing here, every man should so see himself as if he was there on that night when the Hebrews left Egypt. He should see himself or she should see herself standing in one of those rooms, one of those homes as the death angel was passing by, taking the life of every firstborn male. And if he saw the blood on the doorpost and the lintels of the house, then you can escape. You'd be safe.

But if not, someone will die. Put yourself back into that night. Taking the same principle but applying it to the Lord's Supper, Paul is saying, I'm going back to that night when Jesus broke that bread and said, take it, this is my body, which is broken for you.

Then he gave the cup after the supper saying, this is the cup of the new covenant. Picture yourself in that upper room. Think of Jesus giving you that bread, giving you that cup. And recognizing that this is for you personally, so don't just sit there and be thinking about what you're going to eat next, or trying to get to McDonald's before the wine gets too long. Or get nostalgic about growing up, being there with your mom and daddy, and taking part in the community.

It's not for that. Of course, you can think of those things if you wanted to, but really it's about something different. And we're trying to explain from 1 Corinthians 11 what is the proper perspective.

And the perspective is fourfold. First is you look around in fellowship, and one application is look and see someone in the congregation who you need to pray for, and pick them and pray for them. Second, we talked about looking behind in remembrance, means go back to that fateful night in the upper room where Jesus celebrated the last supper, which became the Passover for him and his disciples at least. And he made it very personal to them, this is my body broken for you. This is my cup of the new covenant. So imagine Jesus giving you the bread and the cup, make it very personal.

But now comes the third perspective, or look, which is look forward in anticipation. Again, we're getting this from the text, 1 Corinthians 11, 26 says, for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes. So there is some anticipation for a future event, his coming. So let's think about those people, first Hebrews who are leaving Egypt.

Of course there is fear, there is anxiety, I mean, I cannot begin to imagine the fear and anxiety, because we are looking at those passages in Exodus from a past perspective. It's already happened 4,000 years ago, but they hadn't the benefit, they didn't have the benefit of 4,000 years of time, they were living it. We may die. And how is it going to be that we may die?

How is my first born son may die? I mean, it would be very painful death. And so already we are miserable, already bad things are happening, Egypt is upside down, they hate us now, we have to get out, I mean, there's no other way, we have to get out. But what if this one last plague backfires? What if we didn't do something right? What if we miss something? What if I didn't understand it correctly? Everything is going great, praise God, but what if this is the one, would it even be worth it, that trip?

It'd be like, I don't know, I don't want to go, I don't care, I don't know, somebody wants to go, go, I don't want to go. Your first born is dead, now you have to bury that child. So it's a tough thing. There's some anxiety for sure in the moment. But they were also to look in anticipation to the life of freedom and joy that was coming for them. So I can almost picture the moms and dads reminding the children who are either crying, you think some kids want to have pride?

I'm sure. Oh yeah, you got to leave your home, you got to leave your friends. Everything you've ever known. Some teenager is like, I don't want to go, I don't want to, what if y'all go and just send me a lift or something and I'll meet y'all, I can meet y'all there. I love the Nile, I like to fish here, I like it when my friends are here, I don't want to leave.

They're not that bad? Y'all even know where we're going? I mean, you can see the argument happening. I can almost visualize the parents comforting the children and what were they to comfort them with? Comfort them with the promises that we're going to a better land. So that's something that I think is kind of uniquely, maybe you have a very unique perspective on because like for me, I was born here in the United States, same with Ryan, same with all of us. This land is the only land that we've ever known, but it's sort of absent. I think people try to make it so now, but I think that that mindset is sort of absent that over there, there's a land of flowing with opportunity and freedom. You know what I mean? Right, right.

So it's what gave them some kind of focus, motivation. It's not just like, hey, bad things are happening and worse one is coming. No, once we get through this, we get to go to a great land. This is going to be our land. We're not going to be slaves there. This land is fine, great, wonderful, but this land we're going to is the land of promise. It's ours. It'll be ours. This is what God has promised.

God told Abraham, the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete. It'll take about 400 some years, 400 years have passed. We are headed home. Wow.

And imagine being in that generation too, like this is it, this is our generation that's going to inhabit it. Right. There's no more waiting.

Yeah. There are several passages I want to read that will help our listeners, viewers understand this anticipation. First one is Deuteronomy 33, 28, if one of y'all want to read it, feel free to jump in. Then Israel shall dwell in safety. The fountain of Jacob alone in a land of grain and new wine, his heavens shall also drop dew. Wow.

That's incredible. That's the promise. Safety, land of grain, new wine, heavens shall also drop dew means it'll be not this torrential rain. It'll be a nice gentle rain that will soak the land, give the greenery, the crops, all the water and nutrients it needs, especially in a land like Egypt to where they're working out in the desert. You know, that language is really, that's right, beautiful, but this is going to be something else. This is not just going to be water coming down the tributaries of the Nile river, you know, the Delta, but this is going to be a good land. Trust me, trust me.

Don't think you're going to settle for less. That's a good point that we bring all that up because you know, it's not just, we even tend to think, well, our struggles are that too. It's just something we got to get through that's going to somehow just make us stronger.

Not remembering or not realizing there's something good waiting on the opposite, on the other side. That's right. That's right.

Here's another one. Zechariah 8, 12. If you want to read that, John.

Sure, sure. It says, for the seed shall be prosperous. The vine shall give its fruit. The ground shall give her increase and the heavens shall give their dew. I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these.

Now Zechariah came much later than of course the Exodus. We know that, but those words describe all the beautiful characteristics of the promised land. Seed shall be prosperous. Do you think there's any- Vine shall give us fruit. I mean, on and on.

It's just beautiful. Amen. Do you think there's anything here? Because I know a lot of people will say, well, you know, the Jewish people, they had this promise that something good was coming, but they didn't really know what it was. They didn't know Jesus was coming. They didn't know about this whole Messiah things, that stuff that we've, you know, but I see that there's a lot of very, I don't know if it's Messianic language, but there's definitely some prophetic language here about one that's coming to make all this right. I believe in single meaning, single referent.

Okay. So which means the text has one meaning and it is what it is. So there, what is God saying? God is telling Israel that there is something wonderful coming, a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey. I mean, all this is coming for you. At the same time, I also believe that sometimes that same text has multiple meanings.

Okay. I mean, single meaning, but multiple referents, not referents, but referents, which means it is the same meaning that this is going to be plentiful, fertile, vibrant, nourishing, all of that. But multiple referents means immediately it's talking about the land for the various generations of Hebrews and people of Israel. But another reference is also to the coming Messiah.

When he comes, he will bring nourishment and joy and celebration and all the things that come out of harvest. So there's one message that God is telling to his people, but it is referring to multiple things. Right. Right. Some people may disagree with me and say, they'll say single meaning, single referents.

That's it. I think that cheapens prophecy, that cheapens promise and that cheapens typology. So yeah, I'm good with the single meaning, single referents, but I'm also good with single meaning, multiple referents.

And I'm also for fuller meaning. There are times, not every time. So if you make it every time, then I think it's cheapening it and you are misinterpreting the text. Okay. And I get it. Some people are like, come on, pick one. I would say we don't have to.

Okay. We have to be wise. We have to be discerning and make sure that each text, we look at it in its own context first for the first generation that heard that text or lived out that story. And then also try to find, could it be something more? And then reading, you know, last week we talked about this in one of our messages in Judges, how Jesus fulfilled and he said to the disciples on the road to Emmaus that ought not Christ to have suffered these things.

Beginning at Moses and the prophets, he showed them every place where he was. And that's what we're doing here. Right. Yeah.

A hundred percent. Yeah. It's a great point because it helps us to remember that, you know, we shouldn't make the text mean something that it never did, but we also shouldn't ignore meaning that is there. I feel like if you just, it's kind of like you said it's cheap to just say what it says is what it means. It's like, well then I'd may as well just read it once, learn it, and then I don't have to revisit it because I've learned it. Yeah.

There's nothing new to discover. Yeah. Like Egypt is a symbol for world and slavery. That's biblical.

Yeah. And out of Egypt, I call my son. That's one of the toughest double meaning passages or double reference passages.

What makes it tough? Because for one, if you just go by the Old Testament meaning, then God is talking about the people of Israel coming out of Egypt, leaving Egypt and coming out. But when the same passage is applied to Jesus in the gospels, when he comes back from Egypt, you know, because of Herod, they had to go to Egypt and then they come back. It doesn't make any sense. It's like, so they came, so Jesus came out of Egypt, out of Egypt, I call my son.

How does that even work? He's not Egyptian. Right. He was not a slave.

He was just in Egypt for a brief time in his infancy. Yeah. He was not a slave. Right. He was not a slave to sin.

So how does that even work? Well, just know that there are times that the Bible will declare something as a type and we have to accept it. Right. So kind of going back to this great question, by the way, for those who are still wondering where are we going with this? John asked the question about, you know, did the people understand this? When Jesus came, he did exactly this.

When he began his ministry, the people, whether they recognize or not, he did signs and wonders that were fulfilling that harvest or that celebration prophecy. Well, I even think about, yeah, I even think about the, where he turned the water into wine. Yeah. You know, we actually went there. We actually went to Cana.

There was a lot of shenanigans that happened in Cana, but that was one of the places where we went. And that was one of the few places where we actually got to stop and just kind of reflect on, think about what Jesus did here. Yeah.

Think about the significance of this place. That's right. He fed 5,000 plus and, you know, this is again, abundance. He refers to himself as the true vine. That's also, you know, he was repeatedly fulfilling the promise that, you know, here he is. Also when you go to Revelation chapter 19 verse six through nine, and maybe one of you can read that.

Sure. It said, and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thundering saying, Alleluia for the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready. And to her, it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, right, blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the lamb. And he said to me, these are the true sayings of God.

Definitely something to look forward to. So there is a marriage supper coming. So when it says, when Paul says in first Corinthians 11, 26, for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes. That's right.

A hundred percent. What is the till? Well, that's the marriage supper of the lamb. You know, the communion is not going to be celebrated in heaven. My encouragement to our listeners viewers is when you're celebrating the communion or the Lord's supper or the Lord's table, always of course, look around in fellowship, look behind in remembrance, but look forward in anticipation. When you're holding that little piece of wafer in your hand or the cup in your hand, think about that one day you can be around that big banquet table with Jesus at the head of the table, celebrating with, you know, men, women, boys, and girls from all ages before Christ during Christ, his earthly ministry, and since Christ till the end of time, all those who believed in him waited for his coming or look back to his coming. We're going to be celebrating this marriage supper of the lamb. And that is awesome to think about.

That's right. Definitely something to look forward to. If today was helpful for you guys in clarifying your understanding of communion, write in and let us know, 252-582-5028, or you can visit us online at cleerviewtodayshow.com. Don't forget, you can partner with us financially on that same website. Be a part of what God is doing through the Clear View Today show and reaching the nations with the gospel of Jesus. We're going to continue this conversation on tomorrow's episodes to make sure you guys tune in. Love you guys. We'll see you guys next time on Clear View Today.
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