The Heart of Communion; John 18:28

Delivered during the Good Friday service, 4/2/2021. As we continue our yearly Good Friday series, (which takes the events of that fateful day from just after the Last Supper to Christ's burial in the tomb); we come to the end of the Jewish trial and begin to make the transition to the Roman trial. But we won't get any further this evening than the front door! Because the same men who are actively involved with committing the greatest travesty of justice in the history of mankind by condemning the Son of God, are so worried about ceremonial defilement they will not pass through Pilate's door. We will use this event to discuss their actual defilement-- that of corrupting the heart of the Passover. And subsequently we will better understand the warning Paul gives us of taking Communion in an unworthy manner. In the process, we will learn that the Lord's Supper is one of God's great blessings and observe the sacrament reverently and lovingly, thereby capturing the true heart of Communion.