![]() We’re supposed to live out every day as pilgrims and strangers going through life remembering what Christ has done. This evening we are loved, we are loosed from our sins, we’re washed. They were so aware of how much Christ had done for them. ![]() That’s why the early church celebrated communion so often. He has freed us from the ongoing power of sin. Tonight, communion is a celebration of the One who has loved us so much that He has loosed us from the prison house of sin. He did loose us from our sins through His blood. What’s the wonderful thing? It’s all true. That O in there is a difference between washed, that’s what New King James says, or loosed or free, that’s what the other manuscript family says. That one unpronounceable letter is either L O U, and then the ending, or it’s L U and the ending. There’s one, a macron, difference between the NIV, the NAS, the ESV, the New King James and the King James. You notice we have another one of those variants. That’s what this verse says because it says, “and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the Kings of the Earth.” Look at this summary of Christ’s work, “to Him who loved us and washed us”, that’s New King James version. We conclude the service celebrating the One, look what it says in Revelation 1:5, the One who has set us free, washed us, removed the eternally destructive sins that were upon us by nature that we have practiced by choice. God sent his Son to accomplish for us something that not only is once and for all completed at the cross, but is operative today and everything that we’re going to do tonight fits together in that way. Revelation 1:5 is the celebration of the greatest possession we have. Revelation chapter 1 verse 5 is a tremendous reminder that sets the stage for everything we’re going to look at both at communion and in the life of David.
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