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Learning to Sing God’s Songs of Trust (Psalm 4)
Series: Learning to Sing God’s Songs (Psalms)
Lake Drive Baptist Church
Sunday Morning Sermon
2.14.2016
A Compassionate God and an Uncompassionate Prophet (Pt. 1 – Jonah 1)
Lake Drive Baptist Church
Sunday Morning Sermon
2/28/2016
The Gospel According to Jonah (Jonah 1:17-2:10)
Lake Drive Baptist Church
Sunday Morning Sermon
3/6/2016
A Compassionate God and an Uncompassionate Prophet (Pt. 2 – Jonah 3-4)
Lake Drive Baptist Church
Sunday Morning Sermon
3/13/2016
What Does a Miserable Christian Sing? (Lament Psalms; Psalm 13)
Series: Learning to Sing God’s Songs (Psalms)
Lake Drive Baptist Church
Sunday Morning Sermon
4.3.2016
The following was a sermon I delivered on November 22, 2015 as a guest preacher at Living Water Community Church in Vancouver, WA. Below you will find a link to the sermon audio as well as my sermon notes.
We’re aware of the fact that the clothing we wear needs to fit the occasion, event, or activity to which we wear them.
For example, when I was in high school, I worked at a restaurant. And I had to wear a uniform—this ugly purple polo shirt that felt like burlap. Or, when I refereed soccer, I didn’t just wear whatever I wanted; I wore a referee outfit.
Similarly, many of you probably have either a work uniform, a certain dress code that you have to follow, or, if you’re in school, maybe you have a school uniform.
We even have special gowns for graduating (although I’m slightly convinced that whoever invented these wanted to make graduates feel stupid—“Hey, you’re graduating. Congratulations! How ‘bout you wear this black-garbage-bag-looking thing and silly square hat. Oh! And while you’re at it, why don’t you walk across a stage while we take pictures of you? How does that sound?”).
We have these unwritten rules for what we wear and where we wear them: You don’t wear a tuxedo if you’re fixing your plumbing. And you probably don’t want to dress like Richard Simons if you’re going to a formal wedding… Or ever for that matter. And when you go shopping, you don’t wear your pajamas… well, unless, apparently, you’re shopping at Wal-Mart.
You see, there’s this recognized principle (at least among most of us) that what we wear needs to fit the occasion of the thing we’re wearing it to.
Now when it came to the Lord’s Supper for the Corinthian church, they found themselves wearing “the wrong clothes.” Of course, I don’t mean that they were literally wearing the wrong clothes. But think of this idea of clothing as an illustration—the way they practiced the Lord’s Supper did not match the meaning of the Lord’s Supper. Their practice was inappropriate for what the Lord’s Supper means. And so they found themselves “wearing the wrong clothes.”
But we too can easily find ourselves “wearing the wrong clothes” in how we practice the Lord’s Supper. We too can lose sight of the full, true, Biblical meaning of the Supper, and, consequently, practice it inappropriately.
Kirk E. Miller 