Pastor Tony Ashmore teaches on "The Table" in this Vision Sunday celebration.The Table
Pastor Tony Ashmore
Sunday, August 26, 2012
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Sermon Notes:
Luke 22:29-30 “And just as my Father has granted me a Kingdom, I now
grant you the right to eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom.”
1 Corinthians 10:16 “When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we
sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t we
sharing in the body of Christ?”
The Local Church as the ‘Table of the Lord’: (Acts 20:28 “So guard
yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church,
purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed
you as elders.”)
1. Seats at the table: Exodus 25:30 “Place the Bread of the Presence on the
table to remain before me at all times.” Jesus is ‘The Bread of Life’. The
Table is His Church—‘I will build my church’—Seats at the table are defined
by Jesus, and therefore are the target of our enemy. If we don’t have these
seats at the table, we are not a church.
• Lost, hurting, next generation (unconnected and disconnected)
• New believers
• Mature believers
• Pastor/Leaders (Note Acts 20:28—This chair feeds. This chair is one
reason ‘just doing church in my house or at the coffee shop’ is not
church—there is no ‘delegated authority’ from Heaven being exercised.
We must get under what God puts us under before we will get over what
God has put us over. Example of the enemy’s plan to remove this seat
from the table: Pastor Larry Stockstill’s dress code and the choice of
some to ignore it.)
• There is another seat, not at the table, but crying for the attention of those
at the table, especially the Pastor/Leaders—The ‘Why Chair’. Questioning
everything. Enough ‘whys’, ‘what abouts’ and ‘ hows’ will dismantle any
vision. If the Pastor/Leader turns to give attention to the Why Chair, then
the other 3 chairs are not receiving the benefit of the gift Christ gave the
church. 1 Corinthians 10:21 “You cannot drink from the cup of the
Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s
Table and at the table of demons, too.”
2. Getting as many people to the table as possible: Psalm 128:3b “…Your
children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your
table.”
Luke 14:23 (TNIV) “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the
roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house
(banquet table) will be full.”
• Who are we inviting to the table with us as we serve the Lord? (note the
scripture where Jesus asks who is greatest—those sitting at the table or
those serving the table? He replies that the world’s system says those
sitting at the table, but not His system. Those serving are the greatest.
When we get more people to the table rather than just doing it ourselves
we are ‘greater in the Kingdom’. Luke 22:27 “Who is more important,
the one who sits at the table or the one who serves? The one who
sits at the table, of course. But not here! For I am among you as one
who serves.”) Once we have ‘come to the table’, we must become those
who get others to the table. It’s all about Harvest, souls. I don’t do things
alone because it shrinks the harvest.
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