The Power of a Meal | Daniel King

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Evangelist Daniel King (00:00):
As an evangelist, I love preaching the gospel, but I also consider part of my calling to equip the church to do evangelism. Now, when I was a young evangelist, I thought that meant that I would train everyone to be a platform evangelist like me. I said I could train anybody to go and preach the gospel to thousands of people. But then I found out that one of the main phobias that people have is the fear of speaking in front of big crowds. And so I’m like, “Oh, okay, I can’t do that.” Well, maybe you can’t speak in front of a big crowd, but I was like, “Here, here’s a megaphone. Why don’t you go out on the street corner and preach to a small crowd?” And people are like, “Daniel, I don’t really feel comfortable doing that.” And so I was like, “What is the most effective evangelism tool that people in the church can use to reach out to people who need Jesus?” And one day it came to me.

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One of the most powerful tools that we could use as a church is our dinner table.

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Some of us may never preach from a big platform, but the dinner table at home can become our platform to reach people for Jesus. And I’ve found that this is a great evangelistic tool that everyone in the church can use because pretty much everyone I’ve talked to tells me, yes, Daniel, I like to eat. How many of you like to eat? Anybody here like to eat? Yeah. I like to eat too. And so this is something that every single one of us can use to bring people to Jesus. And so today I have a table set up here. And I’m wondering, is there anybody here who’s hungry this morning? Maybe you didn’t get enough breakfast, you’re hungry. Yeah. Clayton, I see that hand.

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Clayton and Tina, why don’t you come up here? Come up here guys. And then give them a hand. And then I need somebody else. Who else would like to volunteer to come help me? Who’s a little bit snacking? Yeah. Yeah. Come on. Come on up here. And then grab one other person to come with you. Grab somebody else. Grab somebody else. Yeah. You know who to grab? Oh, okay. Yeah. Come on. Miss Tina, have a seat right here. Clayton, have a seat. Come on up here, guys. Come on. Give them a great big hand. And I brought some breakfast. Here’s an apple for you. And we got some bread here. Yeah. There you go. There’s some bread for you. I’m going to give you a big piece here. Clayton, you look like you need a big piece right there like that. And there you go, Miss Tina.

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And you guys, here’s an apple if you’re hungry. Oh, and we got some juice here. It’s not a good. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. Thanks so much. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead and have something to drink. Thank you. Wow. What’s your name? Isatu. Isatu. Nice to meet you. I’m Daniel. Hi, Daniel. I hope you enjoy. I spent all night cooking this bread here. So me and Sobies cooked it up for you. Yeah, here you go. Yeah. So if you get thirsty or you’re hungry during, just go ahead. Feel free to eat. No problem. Okay. So we’re going to just have a meal here and we’re going to talk because throughout the Bible, it turns out that meals are a very important way that God interacts with humankind. In fact, when God created the first man and the first woman, their names were Adam and Eve. And the first thing that God did is he gave them food to eat.

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In Genesis two: nine, it says, “The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground. Trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.” And so God created Adam and Eve because he wanted to have a relationship with them. And every day he would walk with them and talk with them in the Garden of Eden. And he would probably pick fruit off the tree and give it to them to eat and dig some vegetables up. And they would just have a good time fellowshipping and eating. And he said, “You can eat from any tree in the garden,” but there’s one tree in the middle of the garden called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He says, “You can have everything else, but don’t eat from that tree.” Well, Satan, the deceiver came and he offered the fruit of that tree to Eve.

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And she took it and she ate. And when she ate, she disobeyed God. And when we disobeyed God, that is called sin. And so she sinned. And then she gave it to Adam and Adam ate too. He sinned. And what happened when Adam and Eve sinned is it broke their fellowship with God. And so God wanted to have a relationship with them. God loved them so much. He gave them all this abundance in the garden and he wanted to walk with them and talk with them every single day. But when they sinned, it broke their fellowship with God. I find it very interesting that the first sin happened at a meal. It was the first meal that someone took without gratitude to God. And sin causes us to become slaves. Because sin, it comes and it brings deception into our lives and it causes us to become a slave to the devil.

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And the people of God, the Israelites, there came a time where they were slaves in Egypt. And just like sin causes us to become slaves, the children of Israel, they were being whipped. They were forced to make bricks by the evil pharaoh in Egypt. And then came a time where God brought deliverance to the children of Israel. And the Pharaoh had to let them go. And God gave the children of Israel a special meal to celebrate this moment. And it was known as the Passover. And we find the history of the Passover in Exodus 12: three. It says, “On the 10th of this month, every man shall take for himself a lamb. And then you shall eat it with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.” And to this day, Jewish people celebrate the Passover.

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And if you study the meaning of the Passover, everything that they eat at the Passover has a symbolic importance. And so the lamb that they eat, it reminds them of that salvation that comes through sacrifice. At the Passover, they eat bitter herbs. And this reminds them of the pain of slavery. They eat unleavened bread, which symbolizes purity and haste leaving behind the old life in Egypt. And then they drink wine, which represents joy in covenant. And so in order to celebrate their deliverance from slavery, the children of Israel always ate a meal together. And when Jesus came to earth, we find in the gospels that Jesus was a foodie. He loved to eat. And so in the New Testament, three times it says the son of man came. One time Jesus said the son of man came to seek and to save the lost. Another time it says the son of man came not to be served, but to serve.

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And then the third time it says, the son of man came eating and drinking. And so these first two times, it shows us the purpose for which Jesus came. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He to set us free from the slavery of sin. That’s why Jesus came. And Jesus came, his posture was not to ask people to serve him, but to serve. But then he came eating and drinking. And so the first two times that Jesus came, that expresses his purpose. But then when Jesus came eating and drinking, that was the method that he used. And Jesus ate and drank a lot. He spent a lot of his time eating and drinking. In fact, in Luke chapter 7:34, Jesus is accused of being a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. And so he ate with people so much that they accused him of being a glutton and a drunkard.

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He said, “Why are you eating with all these sinners?” Well, the reason Jesus was eating with sinners was because he wanted to have fellowship with them. He wanted to have a relationship. He didn’t care what mistakes they’d made or what things they’d done to mess up their lives. He says, “Come on guys, let’s get together over a meal.” And the thing about a meal is that it can be a tremendous mission field because people’s defenses go down. You’re eating together. You’re talking. Tell me a little bit about your family. Where’s your family from? Tell me a little bit about your kids. How are your kids doing? You can talk, you can chat with one another, and then you’re eating together. And so if Jesus did evangelism at the dinner table, perhaps we could do evangelism at the dinner table too. In the book of Luke, one scholar looked through the whole book of Luke.

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He said that two thirds of the book, Jesus is either at a meal, going to a meal, or just leaving a meal. And so we see this throughout the gospels. And in John chapter two, Jesus, his very first miracle, he turned water into wine. It was a big feast and Jesus was at the feast. And then in Luke chapter five, Jesus goes to a banquet at the house of Levi. In Luke chapter seven, Jesus is at a meal when a sinful woman comes uninvited, weeps in his feet and pours perfume on his feet as an act of worship. In Luke chapter nine, Jesus multiplies the loaves and the fishes to feed 5,000 men plus women and children. In Luke chapter 11, Jesus condemned the Pharisees at a meal. In Luke chapter 10, Jesus goes to the house of Mary and Martha to eat a meal with them.

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In Luke chapter 15, we have the story that Jesus told about the prodigal son. And when the prodigal son comes home to the father’s house, the father immediately throws a big feast. In Luke chapter 19, we see the story of Zacchaeus, the tax collector, and Jesus goes to his house to worship. And in Luke chapter 22, we find the story of the last supper. And then in Luke chapter 24, Jesus has another meal with the men on the road to Emmaus. And so over and over again in the book of Luke, we see that Jesus, one of the ways that he ministered to people was by eating a meal. And often we think of the ministry of Jesus. We think of the teaching of Jesus. We think of the miracles of Jesus. We think about Jesus going to the cross. But when we think about Jesus, I think we should think about Jesus at a meal table.

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And we’ve seen that meals can be an effective way to minister to people. Recently, we did a big festival in the nation of Ethiopia, and we were in an area that had people from many different religious groups. And so there were Muslims, there were Ethiopian Orthodox. There were people who were animists who worshiped rocks and trees. And so we said, “How are we going to reach all these people?” We said, “Let’s invite all the leaders from all these religious groups together and let’s have a friendship meal.” And that’s what we call it. We call it a friendship meal. And so we invited the leaders from all these different religious groups. And there were three Muslims imams who came to the meal. And so I sat down with them at a table. We were at a restaurant and they ordered a delicacy, which they love. It was raw lamb, raw mutton.

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And so they’d pick it up and eat it. And so I’m sitting there with them, just eating along with them. And later on, a more experienced missionary says, “Don’t eat raw lamb. You could get some worms and it would not be good.” But I was just sitting there eating mutton with a. By the way, do you know what to say when someone serves you mutton? You say, “Thanks for mutton.” So I ate right along with them. And we’re talking, we’re talking about the Quran, we’re talking about the Bible. And I had an opportunity to minister to these Muslim leaders as we were eating a meal together. And then because of that, they stood up in their mosque and they told people, “If you need healing, go to the festival and Jesus, the prophet will heal you.” And they’re encouraging their people to come. Why? Because we took the time to eat a meal together and to have friends with them.

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Our family, we also minister to Muslims in our home city. We live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And my parents were missionaries in the nation of Afghanistan for 12 years. And then when the Taliban came back into Afghanistan, we were able to rescue 53 of the people that my parents were working with. And they came out as refugees. And many of them came to the United States and we invited them to our city. And so for the last several years, our family has been ministering to these Afghan refugees. Most of them are still Muslim, but one of them got pregnant. So Jessica was taking her every week to her doctor’s appointment to help with her pregnancy and everything. And then at Christmas time this year, we had nine of these Muslims come to our house for Christmas. And we weren’t able to serve a traditional Christmas ham, but instead we made Afghan palau, which is like rice and chicken with carrots and raisins and it’s just delicious.

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And so we’re feeding them. And as we’re feeding them, it gives us the opportunity to talk to them about Jesus and to minister to them. And so let’s look at some of these occasions that Jesus used a meal to minister. If we look at Luke 5:29, it says, “Then Levi had a great banquet for Jesus at his house and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.” And so Levi was a tax collector and he threw this big banquet and he invited all of his friends to come and eat with him. And so Levi is also known as Matthew. And he’s the one who wrote the first gospel in the New Testament, the gospel of Matthew. And so that meal must have had a profound impact on his life. Because he had that meal with Jesus, he became a follower of Jesus and went around writing down all the sayings of Jesus.

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And so then later he wrote the gospel of Matthew. And some of the religious leaders were upset at Jesus. They folded their arms. They said, “Why is Jesus eating with these tax collectors? These sinners, these people that are far away from God? Why would Jesus spend time with them and eat with them? Doesn’t he know that these are not the good people that you’re supposed to hang out with?” And Jesus said to them in Luke 5:31, he says, “It’s not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.” He says, “I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” You see, Jesus wants to have fellowship. He wants to have relationship with sinners. He wants to have relationship with me, with you. He wants to eat with you. He wants to talk with you. He wants to walk with you every single day.

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And then of course, the name of this church is the Father’s House. It comes from the story of the prodigal son. In Luke chapter 15, this man had two sons. And one day the younger son comes to Jesus. He says, “Dad, I wish you were already dead.” He said, “Can you give me my inheritance?”That’s what he was asking by asking for his inheritance. He basically say, “Dad, I wish you were already dead.” I mean, that’s a great insult, but the father is a loving father. He takes half of his money and gives it to this boy. And he travels to a far away land and he wastes his money. He goes and spends the money on gambling and drinking, parties, prostitutes. He just spending money until one day there’s a big famine on the land. He reaches in his pocket and the money’s gone and he has nothing to eat.

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And he goes and he eats with some pigs. He’s feeding the pigs and the pigs are eating all the food. He thinks about the servants in his father’s house and says, “The servants in my father’s house are eating better than me.” And so he trudges his way home and he’s going to repent and say, “Dad, I’m so sorry. I made a mistake.” And so he’s walking back with his head down, dressed in rags, but the father is out in front of his house every day and he’s looking for his son. Where is my son? See, the father wanted to have a relationship with his son. Every day he’s looking, where is my son? And finally, way off in the distance, he tears through his eye. And he says, “That looks like my son.” And he runs as fast as he can. And the son falls at his feet and he’s in rags and dusty and dirty.

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And the father lifts him to his feet. And the father gives him a hug and gives him a kiss on both cheeks. And the father takes off his coat and puts his coat on his son and then takes the signet ring off of his finger and puts the ring on his son’s hand and takes his shoes off of his feet and puts the shoes on his son’s feet. And then he grabs him by the hand and runs with him to the house. And he starts yelling to all his servants and says, “Guys, guys, get the fattened calf. Slaughter the fatted calf. We’re going to have a feast because my son who was lost has now returned home.” One time a Sunday school teacher was telling this story and he asked all the kids, “Who was sad in the story?” And the right answer is the older brother.

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But one little kid raised his hand and he says, “The fatted calf.” Yeah. The father was like, “Let’s throw a feast. Let’s have a party because my son who was lost has now been found.” And so he threw a big supper for everyone and everyone is celebrating and they’re all eating and they’re super excited. And so this shows us a picture of what happens in heaven when one person gives their life to Jesus. The Bible says all the angels of heaven rejoice when one person comes home to the Father’s house. And so that’s the heart of this church is to call people home to the Father’s house. And I love how this church prioritizes fellowship and meals. And in fact, I love one of the ministries of this church called Five Loaves. Because what are you doing? You’re feeding people who are hungry. And so many people in the church are planting gardens and bringing food and saying, “Hey, you can come pick our berries.” Why?

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Because people like to eat. And when you feed people, it gives you an opportunity to minister to them and to help them with their needs. Isn’t that beautiful? Come on, give a great big hand to this church. You guys do such a great job loving people, fellowshipping with people, feeding people meals. Then in Luke chapter 19, you have the story of Zacchaeus. Now, Zacchaeus was another tax collector. And his name means righteous one. So he was born a Jew and his name means righteous one, but he was not living in a righteous manner because instead of serving Yahweh, the Lord God of Israel, he had sworn allegiance to Caesar. And to do that, you had to call Caesar Lord. And then he went and he was collecting taxes for Caesar. And he was hated because he would always collect a little bit extra from people and slip it into his own pocket.

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And so he was stealing from people. Money literally became his God and he was worshiping money. And the Bible tells us that Zacchaeus was short. And so he had this inferiority complex when he was little people. He was the last one to be picked at for sports. People would make fun of him. And so he says, “I’ll show him.” And so he says, “If I make enough money, everyone will respect me.” And so he goes and he’s stealing money from people. He’d knock on their door and demand their taxes and they wouldn’t want to pay, but there would be two Roman soldiers behind him and they’d be forced to pay. And they’d say, “Oh, we owe 10 centuries.” He said, “No, you owe 20.” And no, we don’t. And then the soldiers would glare at them and they’d have to pay and everyone was mad at him.

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But Zacchaeus, one day, he heard about Jesus. He says, “I want to see this man who has been doing so many miracles.” And so he goes to where Jesus is coming into town and he tries to push his way through the crowd. And the crowd is pushing him away saying, “Get out of here, Zacchaeus.” Jesus doesn’t want anything to do with you, but he wanted to see Jesus. And he was short. He had all these fancy clothes on, but he says, “I want to see Jesus.” So he climbs up into a Sycamore tree. He doesn’t care if his clothes get torn or anything. He climbs up there. And Jesus is walking by. And when Jesus looks up into the Sycamore, Jesus stops. He looks up at him. And Jesus says, Zacchaeus.

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And it’s significant that Jesus knew his name. I don’t know how Jesus knew his name, but I want you to know that Jesus knows your name. He knows who you are. He knows what your issues are. He knows what sin you’re struggling with. He knows everything about you. Jesus knows your name. And Jesus looked up at Zacchaeus, Zacchaeus. And everybody in the crowd, they said, “Oh, watch this. Oh, Jesus knows that Zacchaeus is a sinner.” And they thought Jesus is going to lift up his finger to him and begin to call him out for all of his sin. And they expected Jesus to point his finger at Zacchaeus and say, “Zacchaeus, you better get down here. Grovel in the dirt. You better repent right now or you’re going to hell. You’re headed to hell, buddy.” That was what everyone thought Jesus was going to do.

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And you know what Jesus did? He looks up at Zacchaeus, he says, Zacchaeus, I’m coming to your house for lunch today.

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And the crowd was like, “What? Jesus is going to have a meal with him. Doesn’t Jesus know that Batman is a sinner. He’s been stealing for everybody. He’s a good for nothing tax collector. How can Jesus go and have a meal with him?” And so Zacchaeus, he gets down from the tree, takes Jesus by the hand. They go to his house and Zacchaeus calls his wife and says, “Honey, let’s put a big feast on the table.” And back in those days, they would lounge, they would lie around the big table area, and meals would take several hours. So they’d have different things come out and they’re talking. And the Bible doesn’t really tell us what Jesus and Zacchaeus were talking about. But after this meal, Zacchaeus looks at Jesus says, “Jesus, if I’ve stolen anything from anybody, I’m going to return it for full. And I’m going to give half of everything I have to the poor.” You see, money had been his God.

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But when he met Jesus, he ate a meal with Jesus. It shifted his entire thinking from money to what was truly important. And Jesus, he says to everybody there, he says, “This man too is a son of Abraham. He restored him to the place of his fellowship with God.” And he says, “For today, salvation has come to this house. And salvation came at a meal.” Isn’t that beautiful? And so then do you know the last thing that Jesus did before he went to the cross? The very last thing that Jesus did is he had a meal with his disciples. It was called the last supper. And in Luke 22:19, it says, Jesus, he took bread and he gave thanks, and then he broke it.

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And he gave it to them and said, “This is my body given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And then he took the cup. He says, “This is my blood.” And he gave us what we call communion, the Eucharist, an opportunity to celebrate the Lord’s supper together. And every time we celebrate the Lord’s supper, it’s such a significant spiritual moment because we remember that Jesus went to the cross and his body was broken for you and me. His blood was shed so that our sins could be forgiven. Why did Jesus do that? Because he wanted to restore our relationship with God. He wanted to restore our fellowship with God. He wanted us to partake of a meal with him because he loves every single one of us. He doesn’t want anyone to go to eternal death because of sin. And then after Jesus rose from the dead in Luke chapter 24, we find the story of the road to Emmaus.

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There’s two disciples and Jesus appears to them, but at first they don’t recognize him. They walk all the way, several hours to Emmaus and Jesus is It’s talking to them about the law and the coming Messiah. And so they’re like, “Oh, that’s interesting. That’s interesting.” Then they get to Emmaus, they sit down at a table, and Jesus picks up some bread and he breaks it. And in that moment that he breaks the bread, they recognize him. Say, “Wow, you’re Jesus. You’re the one that we want to have a meal with.” And then in Luke 24:41, when Jesus appears to the disciples, the first thing he says to them is, “Do you have anything to eat?” They’re like, “Yeah, we know that’s Jesus. That’s the one who likes to eat. We like to eat too.” And then in John chapter 21, Jesus has breakfast on a beach and he calls his disciples, he says, “Come and have breakfast.” And then in the early church, they continued this tradition of having meals.

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Acts chapter two verse 46, it says that the early church broke bread in their homes and they ate together with glad and sincere hearts. The very first evangelist, his name was Philip. In Acts chapter six, we find the beginning of his ministry. He actually was asked by the apostles to serve the tables and to help feed food to some of the widows. And so food became a bridge between earth and heaven. And the strategy of Jesus hasn’t changed. He still meets people where they are in homes, in parks, in restaurants, in cafes. And so sometimes we think evangelism requires special events, big budgets, or gifted speakers, but God’s favorite strategy has always been relational. Life around a dinner table. A meal slows down the pace of life. It turns a stranger into a friend. When you sit across from someone eye to eye sharing food, it’s no longer about you and me.

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It’s about us together. Not everyone is called to stand on a stage or to travel to the nations, but every single one of us has a table. And hospitality is one of the simplest and most overlooked ministries in the kingdom of God. It doesn’t require a microphone, a degree, or a platform. It just requires an open door, an open heart, a warm meal, and a face that says, come on in. Let’s eat together. And so your table can become your mission field. Now, I actually wrote an entire book called The Power of a Meal. And in this book, I have seven steps that can help you go through the process of how you can effectively use a meal to witness to people. Preparation, invitation, connection, conversation, illumination, transformation, and then a time of celebration. So if you want to dive more into that and get equipped to use your dinner table as a mission field, we have these books available on a table right out here in the foyer, and you pick one up right after the service was over.

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And I also want to invite you to come to a meal. This coming Friday night, July 31st, we are having a banquet to talk about all the missions work we do around the world. And so we want to invite you to come to a banquet with us. We’re going to have wonderful Chinese food for everyone. And so we need you to RSVP. If you want to come to the banquet, come and talk to us at the table right out there in the lobby. And we’d love for you to come and eat a meal with us. I can’t preach about having a meal without actually inviting you to come to a meal. And so we would love to have you come. And we want to say thank you so much to this church for supporting us and being so generous and helping us to go to the nations.

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If you can come to the meal, we’re going to be talking about ways that you can be involved and to help us to share the gospel and to bring people to Jesus all over the world. But even if you can’t come, if you want to partner with our ministry, stop by the table and ask us how you can be a part to help us to preach about Jesus to people all over the world. And I have a challenge for you today. Over the next 30 days, I want every single one of you to invite someone who needs ministry out for a meal. You can invite them over for coffee to your house. You can take them to a restaurant, but look for an opportunity to use a meal to minister to someone. How many of you will do that over the next 30 days? And I pray that the Holy Spirit would bring someone into your mind right now and you say, “Hey, that family member, I need to have them over for a meal,” or that neighbor, maybe someone from work, someone that you’ve met going through life.

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Just say, “Hey, let’s get a coffee together. I want to hear about what’s going on in your life.” And then use that as an opportunity to minister to them.

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And I want to tell you that Jesus is preparing a wonderful meal for all of us in heaven. It’s called the marriage supper of the lamb. Revelation chapter 19: nine says, “Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the lamb.” And so when Jesus went to heaven, he went to prepare a place for us and to prepare a meal for us. And think about how good the marriage supper of the lamb is going to be with all these thousands of years the angels have been preparing all the recipes and getting ready because they’re waiting for us to come and eat and to restore that fellowship that we can have with God. And so today I want to make sure that every single one of you have your name on the guest list of the marriage supper of the lamb. Could I ask everyone to bow your head and close your eyes?

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In the beginning of time, God created Adam and Eve to have fellowship with them. And God gave them from all of his bounty and his goodness, but then sin came and destroyed their relationship with God.

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And today sin does the same thing. It destroys our relationship with God. But God does not want you to be left out. God has a place for you at his banqueting table. And if you want to make sure today, you say, I’ve been walking away from God. I don’t know for sure if I have an invitation to that marriage upperly, but I want to make sure that I’m in heaven. I want to make sure that I’m going there. And I want to ask Jesus to forgive me of my sin. I want to be like Zacchaeus. I want to turn away from my love for other things. I want to turn back to my love for Jesus. If you want to make sure today that your name is on the invitation list to go to the marriage upper of the land, could you lift up your hand high in the air right now?

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Because we’re going to pray together. If you want to make sure that you’re going to the great banquet in heaven, just lift up your hand and wave it at me. Yeah, several of you are lifting up your hands. Wonderful. Can we pray together? Everyone say this with me. Say, dear God, in heaven, I want to go to the banqueting table.

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I want to spend eternity with you, God. I believe Jesus died on the cross. I believe Jesus shed his blood for my sin. I believe Jesus rose from the dead. And I want to make sure that my name is on the invitation list. My name is on the invitation. To spend eternity in heaven. Jesus, you are my Lord. You are my Lord. I choose to serve you every day of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.