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Belmont Community
Church of Johnstown

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Upcoming Sermons & Devotional Message

October Sermons 2025


10-19-  The Unexpected

Genesis 37:23-28  Genesis 50:15-20


10-26- The Eye of the Donkey

Numbers 22:21-31  Hebrews 13:1-2

Devotional Message : These will change 1-2 times a week. Stop by often to read the new message.

 

Some Thoughts on the Power of the Table


In the beginning, God created us to live in fellowship with Him. In creation, God placed our forebears in a garden he planted to work and care for it. Everything the man saw was good and pleasing for food. God told the man he could eat the fruit of any tree in the garden—except for the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  

God used to walk in the garden in the cool of the day to talk with the man and woman, but all that changed when they ate forbidden fruit. Their disobedience (sin) resulted in our separation from God, and all that follows in the Bible is the account of God’s mighty acts to restore us to fellowship with God.

One of the common themes of God’s restorative action is an invitation to a table.

Ever since we fell into sin, God has been bringing us back to his table. Moses, Aaron, and others went up a mountain where they saw God, and they ate and drank (Exodus 24:11). Likewise, the Israelites ate at the temple, in the presence of the Lord (Deuteronomy 12:7). 

On the night before his death, Jesus sat at a table with his disciples. They broke bread, drank wine, and Jesus said, do this in remembrance of me (1 Corinthians 11:24-26). Whenever we receive the Lord’s Supper we are having table fellowship with God. 

On the evening of the first Resurrection Day, Cleopas and his friend recognized Jesus as he blessed and broke the bread for their dinner (Luke 24:30-31). Later, the disciples had breakfast on the shore with the risen and living Jesus as their cook. 

“When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.” (John 21:9)

All of this is a foretaste of what is to come. In Luke chapter 12, Jesus alludes to His return:

“Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.” (Luke 12:37)

When Jesus returns, imagine sitting down for dinner, in the kingdom of God, with Jesus as our waiter. Jesus has made us children of God, and we will eat at his table forever.

When you share a table, look for Jesus, my friends.


Bishop Jeff Greenway 



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