All right, good evening and welcome to our midweek Bible study.

We're glad that you're joining with us tonight.

We are going to be partaking of communion together tonight.

Oh, you know what I forgot to do?

We've got to do it now.

You've got to come up, get the elements,

because at the end of the study we're going to partake together. I knew I was forgetting

something. So those of you online, you are encouraged certainly at this time to get the elements

and have them ready so that you can partake together with us tonight

at the conclusion of our study together.

And on Thursday nights we've been going through the Bible book by book and chapter by

chapter and verse by verse.

And tonight we are not going to do that. We're not going

to resume our verse by verse teaching, but I did want to do a topical teaching tonight actually

about communion since we are going to be partaking together of communion.

So I'll give you just another moment here.

All right.

So I want to talk with you tonight about the importance of partaking together of

communion, especially with everything that is happening in the world today, specifically as it relates to the purpose of communion as

an ordinance for the Christian from the Savior until he returns.

That's what I want to talk about tonight. And even more specifically,

the much-needed reminder that partaking together of the Lord's table provides us. If you were to take

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