1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,840 Do this probably 4 times, maybe five times a year, and the 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,320 message doesn't change. And I've said that many times, 3 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:12,000 and there's so much to the actual story and so much to 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,600 communion that you'll never run out of things to talk about. 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,120 And I hope it doesn't get old. Always. 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,000 I'm focused on a few different things. 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,720 Last time you remember, we talked about the fact that Judas 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:26,640 sat there and ate, ate the meal with Christ, knowing that he was 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,680 going to betray him. And how often we do the exact 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,560 same thing when we sit in church and make a decision or take 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,240 communion. And then knowing that we're 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,160 going to go out and live our lives the way that we want to 13 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:38,640 live and do exactly what we want to do. 14 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,160 And we don't really care. Not discerning the Lord's body 15 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,200 is the way the Bible says it in First Corinthians. 16 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,160 And that's a very serious thing. It's very dangerous thing. 17 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,200 But what I want to focus on tonight is, is just really the 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,440 exact reason that Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper in 19 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Matthew 26. And of course, you know, the 20 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,080 whole story. And I think about this, you 21 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:06,000 know, Jesus came for one reason and that was to die on the 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,920 cross. It wasn't because he wanted to 23 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,480 experience what it was like to be a man. 24 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,440 It wasn't. It wasn't because he wanted to 25 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,320 show off how, how you know, his abilities and, and everything 26 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,120 else that he'd do in the miracles and all those things. 27 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,320 That's not why he came. The Bible said the Son of man 28 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,240 has come to seek and to save that which was lost. 29 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,240 That's why Jesus came to earth. And the moment he came and in 30 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,680 fact, for, for probably all of eternity, he knew there was 31 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,760 going to come a moment when he was going to come to this tiny 32 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,640 little ball in the middle of a huge, huge Galaxy in the middle 33 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,560 of, of a, of many other galaxies, in the middle of a 34 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,640 huge, huge universe. He knew that he was going to 35 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,120 come and give his life. And it's a very, very special 36 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,280 thing what Jesus did. It's not like he's going all 37 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,680 over to the universe. And maybe if there's multiple 38 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,080 universes or who knows what else is out there, It's not like he's 39 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,040 going all over to these different places, dying on all 40 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,160 these different planets for all these other different people. 41 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,720 He did that for us. And and just to think that that 42 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,280 we feel so insignificant when you actually think about how 43 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,840 small we are in relation to the rest of the universe. 44 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:12,320 And yet Jesus Christ, God's Son, God himself, came down in the 45 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:17,200 form of a man, lived here for 33 1/2 years and died for us. 46 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,320 And he did that. He came knowing that that's 47 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,400 exactly what he was going to do. And now his ministry is coming 48 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,760 to an end. He's spent 3 1/2 years. 49 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,280 One minute they're trying to make him a king, the next minute 50 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,720 they're trying to kill him. Back and forth. 51 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,720 It went like that all the way throughout his ministry. 52 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:41,320 And you think about maybe putting yourself in this 53 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,080 situation, something that you finally resolve, You know, you 54 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,280 got to do it. And you're saying, all right, 55 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,920 the time's come. I'm going to take it like a man. 56 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,640 I just got to go out and do it. And as you get closer to that 57 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,120 thing, you start having second thoughts and say, man, I thought 58 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:56,560 I was tough. I thought I could handle this, 59 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:00,800 but I'm now I'm not so sure. And that's kind of what Jesus 60 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,080 went through. And I'm not saying that he 61 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,640 thought, oh, I'm not tough, but obviously it was a very, very 62 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:07,520 difficult thing that he knew he was about to do. 63 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,240 And I think it's something that's way more than what we 64 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,640 could even imagine. It's way more than we could even 65 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,880 comprehend. This is the God of the universe. 66 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:17,240 And, and I've said this many times before and, and again, I'm 67 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,880 not, I'm not trying to make it, I'm not trying to downplay and 68 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,320 I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to make it any less 69 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,880 important. But it's, it's like taking a, a 70 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:30,440 Lego set, building some people out of Legos and creating your 71 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,760 own little, you know, little universe out of Legos and then 72 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:38,080 going and dying for those Legos. I mean, it's just something that 73 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,440 we can't even comprehend, right? Or, or, or taking something and 74 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,960 making that out of play DoH and then saying they're not doing 75 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:45,600 exactly the way that I wanted them to do. 76 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,520 Let me go die for them and take their place. 77 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,640 It just it doesn't make sense to us that somebody who would 78 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,840 create all of this would be willing to go die for his 79 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,960 creation. It it, it doesn't. 80 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,640 If you, if you could, if you could put this into the mind of 81 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,440 Christ and think about what Christ must have been thinking, 82 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:08,200 It doesn't make any sense to us that he would be willing to come 83 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,240 and die for us. It doesn't make any sense for us 84 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,720 to say we know better than you do and shake our fish that God 85 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,079 and sin and do all of these other things. 86 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:21,120 He created us. He gave us life. 87 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,320 We would not be here were it not for him. 88 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:25,840 We wouldn't have any of the things, we wouldn't have the 89 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:28,440 breath that we have if it wasn't for Jesus Christ. 90 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,840 And what he, what he gave us that creation. 91 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,360 And yet we seem to think that we are powerful enough that we can 92 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,960 shake our fists that God and tell him, I'm not going to do it 93 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,120 your way. I'm going to do it in my way. 94 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,480 And even in the middle of that, God commendeth his love toward 95 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,840 us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 96 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,760 And He's coming to the end, and He knows that it's the end. 97 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:56,640 He'd been telling them that the end was coming for a long time 98 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,720 for him. He told them exactly what was 99 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,000 going to happen. He was going to die, and He was 100 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,120 going to raise again in three days. 101 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,880 But they didn't understand it. And in Matthew 26 verse #26 102 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,640 they're sitting there eating the Last Supper as we know it. 103 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,760 And there's Jesus sitting with his 12 disciples, his 12 104 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:20,080 apostles. And as they were eating, Jesus 105 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,440 took bread and blessed it and break it and gave it to the 106 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,120 disciples and said, take, eat, this is my body. 107 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,920 And he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, 108 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,440 saying, Drink ye all of it. For this is my blood of the New 109 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,360 Testament, which is shed for many for the remissions, 110 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,040 remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not 111 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,320 drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day when 112 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,120 I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom. 113 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,080 First Corinthians chapter 10 tells us. 114 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,320 First Corinthians Chapter 11 tells us that we should be doing 115 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,560 the, the taking, taking the Lord's Supper, taking the bread 116 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,800 and taking the cup and, and doing it to remember Jesus 117 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,320 Christ. And this is a very, very 118 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,720 important time for us when it comes to communion to make sure 119 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:02,600 that our heart is right before God, to make sure that we're not 120 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,320 taking communion unworthily, to make sure that our hearts are 121 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,720 right. And I'm going to talk about that 122 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,800 in just a minute. But what I want you to think 123 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,640 about again tonight is the sacrifice that Christ gave for 124 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:17,760 us. Matthew chapter 26 verse 26 125 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,080 through 29 we just read verse 30 begins Peter's denials. 126 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,000 Jesus Christ said that Peter was going to deny him, and Peter 127 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,080 said no way, not possible. Everybody else might deny you, 128 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,280 but not me. I'm not going to. 129 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,320 Then Jesus took Peter and James and John and he went to the 130 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,520 Garden of Gethsemane. And verse 38 My soul is 131 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,760 exceeding sorrowful even unto death. 132 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,240 Tarry ye here, and watch with me. 133 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,960 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and 134 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,000 prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup 135 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,600 pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but 136 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,040 as thou wilt. If Jesus did not know what was 137 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,240 coming, if He didn't know how difficult that was going to be, 138 00:06:58,240 --> 00:06:59,400 He wouldn't have been asking for that. 139 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,640 He knew why He came. He came for that very reason. 140 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,960 The only reason he was born was so that he could die. 141 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,080 The only reason he had a a ministry on this earth was so 142 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,600 that he could die. That's the only reason he came. 143 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,880 And he knew that it was going to be so difficult to go through 144 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,080 all of those things that he said. 145 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,760 God, I know, I know This is why you sent me here. 146 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,960 But please, if there's any way possible, make it so that I 147 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,520 don't have to make it so that I don't have to go through that. 148 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,080 But if that's what you want, I'll do it. 149 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,760 The Bible says in verse 42 he went away again the second time 150 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,400 and prayed, O my father, if this cup may not pass away from me, 151 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,560 except I drink it, thy will be done. 152 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:48,560 Verse 44 he prayed the third time saying the same words and 153 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,200 then we know what happens. Verse 47 down through about 154 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:58,160 verse 56, Judas comes and betrays Jesus with a kiss on the 155 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:03,640 cheek, and they arrested him. And verse 57 then they that laid 156 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,360 hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where 157 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,200 the scribes and the elders were assembled. 158 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:12,120 Verse 60 they had tried to get witnesses against Jesus to put 159 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:13,640 him to death, they didn't find any. 160 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,520 Verse 60 Yeah, though many false witnesses came, yet found they 161 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,000 none at the last came two false witnesses and said, this fellow 162 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,400 said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in 163 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,480 three days. And the high priest arose and 164 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,360 said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? 165 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,000 What is? What is it which these 166 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,280 witnesses, against which these witness against thee? 167 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,760 But Jesus held his peace. The one thing that he did answer 168 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,880 was the question that came in verse 63. 169 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,919 Tell us whether they'll be the Christ, the Son of God. 170 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,840 And Jesus saith unto him, Thou has said, Nevertheless, I say 171 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,720 unto you, Hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on 172 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,720 the right hand of power, coming in the clouds of heaven. 173 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,200 Of course, everything that Jesus said was going to happen with 174 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,920 Peter came to pass. In verse 69, Peter denied Christ 175 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,400 not once, not twice, but three times. 176 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,960 And then the cock crowed, and he remembered what he said, what 177 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,960 Jesus had said in the Bible says in verse #75 And he went out and 178 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:17,520 wept bitterly. They brought Jesus to Pilate in 179 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,480 verse. In chapter 27 Judas gets 180 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,640 emotional, if you will, sorry for what he did, sorry that he 181 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:31,560 got caught, took the 30 pieces of silver and threw it back at 182 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,640 those high priests, those chief priests, and he went out and 183 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,720 hanged himself. And then begins the long process 184 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:42,320 for Jesus before Pilate and before others. 185 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,400 Verse #15 of Matthew chapter 27. Now at that feast the governor 186 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:49,160 was want to release unto the people of prisoner whom they 187 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:54,280 would they had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas and 188 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,040 they demanded that they release Barabbas. 189 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,680 Verse 21 Whether of the twain will you that I release unto 190 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:02,200 you? The governor said and they said 191 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,800 Barabbas they and Pilate couldn't Pilate couldn't 192 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,800 comprehend it. Why do you want Barabbas Jesus? 193 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,480 I can't find anything wrong with him. 194 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,280 Why do you want him? And they just shouted louder and 195 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,480 louder, Crucify him, crucify him. 196 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:19,480 And then begins the process of Jesus dying on the cross. 197 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:24,400 Verse #26 Then released Hebrew Abbas unto them. 198 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,600 And when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be 199 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,600 crucified. Then the soldiers of the 200 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,640 governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto 201 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,240 him the whole band of soldiers. And they stripped him, and put 202 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,840 on a scarlet robe. And when they had platted a 203 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,880 crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a Reed in his 204 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,760 right hand. And they bowed the knee before 205 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,000 him, and mocked him, saying Hail King of the Jews. 206 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,880 And they spit upon him, and took the wreath, and smote him on the 207 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,280 head. And after that they had mocked 208 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,200 him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on 209 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:56,960 him, and let him away to crucify him. 210 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,440 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. 211 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,560 Him they compelled to bear his cross. 212 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:05,240 And when they were coming to a place called Golgotha, that is 213 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,840 to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink 214 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,360 mingled with gall. And when He had tasted thereof, 215 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,920 he would not drink. And they crucified him, and 216 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,320 parted his garments, casting lots, that it might be 217 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,320 fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet. 218 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,080 They parted my garments among them, and upon My vesture did 219 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,600 they cast lots. And sitting down they watched 220 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,360 Him there, and set up over his head his accusation written. 221 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,640 This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. 222 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,440 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the 223 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,040 right hand and another on the left. 224 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,480 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, and 225 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,560 saying, Thou that destroys the temple, and build this in three 226 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:44,880 days. Save thyself. 227 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,760 If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. 228 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,360 Likewise also the chief priest, mocking him with the scribes and 229 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,120 elder, said, He saved others himself he cannot save. 230 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,600 If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross 231 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,560 and will believe him. He trusted in God, Let him 232 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:05,080 deliver him now if he will have him, for he said, I am the Son 233 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,080 of God. The thieves also which were 234 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,720 crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. 235 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,880 Now from the 6th hour there was darkness over all the land until 236 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:20,320 the 9th hour and about the 9th hour Jesus cried with a loud 237 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,680 voice saying, Eli, Eli llama, so box tonight. 238 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:27,600 That is to say, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? 239 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,240 Some of them that stood there when they heard that, said This 240 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,920 man call it for Elias. Straightway one of them ran and 241 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,960 took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a Reed and 242 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,240 gave him to drink. The rest said, let be, let us 243 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,720 see whether Elias will come to save him. 244 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,800 Jesus, when he'd cried again with a loud voice, yielded up 245 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,800 the ghost. Of course, you know, everything 246 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,920 that happened after that, the temple, the the, the veil in the 247 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:57,840 temple was run in twain. There was an earthquake, 248 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,800 darkness over the face of the entire earth. 249 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,800 And even some of those that were there said surely this was the 250 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,200 Son of God. And all we get in other passages 251 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,720 in Mark and Luke and John about the crucifixion and it goes into 252 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,520 more detail and just the way that that Jesus was beaten to 253 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,800 the point where he was not even recognizable as a man. 254 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,640 And they hung him on that cross. And you can imagine what that 255 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,840 vinegar must have felt like to all the open wounds that were on 256 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,280 his body. It's what it must have felt like 257 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:31,320 where they ripped his beard out. I'm sure his face was bleeding 258 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,320 and his head was bleeding, His back was bleeding, His body was 259 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,160 bleeding. And then as if that wasn't 260 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,120 enough, they took the spear and they shoved it up into his side. 261 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:42,760 The Bible says the blood in the water came out. 262 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,800 Jesus did that for us. Had we not sinned, he never 263 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,760 would have had to die. And I believe that the majority, 264 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,560 if not every person in this room this morning, this this evening 265 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:57,520 is saved. And I hope you are, I hope you 266 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,880 know Christ is your Savior. But don't ever forget what he 267 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,680 did for you. He took that from me. 268 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,480 He took it for you. And that's where the communion 269 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,040 service is all about. Yes, we must. 270 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,240 We must, we must make sure that our hearts are clean before God. 271 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,680 But this is a remembrance of His body that was broken for us. 272 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,920 It's a remembrance of His blood that was shed for us. 273 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:30,720 We must never, ever forget it. And so as I do, let's turn over 274 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,440 to 1st Corinthians chapter #10 there's requirements for taking 275 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,400 the Lord's Supper. And I just want to run through a 276 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,200 few of these things very quickly with you to make sure that 277 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:43,440 you're not taking the Lord's Supper unworthily. 278 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:45,800 It's a very dangerous thing to do that. 279 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,800 The first thing is that you must be a born again Christian. 280 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,560 First Corinthians chapter 10 and verse #16 the cup of blessing 281 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,880 which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of 282 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,720 Christ? It's where we get that word from 283 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,960 the bread which we break. Is it not the communion of the 284 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,200 body of Christ? Taking communion has everything 285 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,200 to do. In fact, verse 17 For we being 286 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,920 many are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that 287 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,440 one bread. If you've never partaken of that 288 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,040 bread, it's the bread of life. You never partaken of the bread 289 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,920 of life, then you are not part of that body and there is no 290 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,400 communion for you. There's no communion of the body 291 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,480 of Christ. There is no communion of the of 292 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,480 the blood of Christ. So you must be a born again as a 293 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:26,920 Christian. But secondly, in fact, if you 294 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:33,040 will turn over to Acts chapter #2 Acts chapter #2 you must be 295 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,280 baptized in order to take part in communion. 296 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:40,480 And we see the pattern that they followed in Acts chapter 2. 297 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,240 Then they that gladly received His word were baptized. 298 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,480 And then the the following step after that is to join yourself 299 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,560 to the Church. If you haven't done that, I want 300 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,560 to encourage you to do that. It's an important step. 301 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,360 Then they that gladly received His word were baptized. 302 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:58,040 In the same day there were added unto them about 3000 souls and 303 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,840 they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and 304 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,840 fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers. 305 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,480 First Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 20. 306 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,560 When you come together, therefore into one place is not 307 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,280 to eat the Lord's Supper. Verse 33 Wherefore, my brethren, 308 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,760 when you come together to eat, tarry one for another. 309 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,760 If any man hunger, let him eat at home that you come not 310 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,040 together into condemnation. The rest of all I set in order 311 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,760 when I come. Paul said, but you need to be 312 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,040 saved. You need to be baptized. 313 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:30,040 And by the way, we've got it. We've got, as I mentioned a 314 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,600 little bit earlier, eight people that are that are set to be 315 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,040 baptized next week. And I'm not in the place of God 316 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,000 to give permission or not give permission. 317 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,200 But I know that if we had done the baptism this week, you would 318 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,480 have all been baptized. And so I think it's important to 319 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:45,920 to give you the decision. But I think it's perfectly fine 320 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,880 if you want to take the Lord's Supper tonight, then you're fine 321 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,960 to do that. We're going to do the baptism 322 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,920 next week. But I know that that many of 323 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,520 you, we've been planning to do it for a while. 324 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,480 We would have done it today had it not been for our special 325 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,440 Sunday. So I'll leave that decision up 326 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,760 to you. But I think it's, I see no 327 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,440 problem with allowing any of you that want to, to take part in 328 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,960 the Lord's Supper tonight. But not only should a individual 329 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:14,440 be saved and a new individual should be baptized, but you need 330 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,000 to be in fellowship with the Lord. 331 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:19,240 And that's such an important part. 332 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,960 In fellowship with the Lord also means in fellowship with one 333 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,000 another, because you can't be in fellowship with one another if 334 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,119 you're not in fellowship or you can't be in fellowship with the 335 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:27,880 Lord if you're not in fellowship with one another. 336 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,320 And I'm so thankful that we don't have any of that head 337 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,560 butting in the church. We don't have a lot of that of 338 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:36,520 any of it to my knowledge. I mean, if it's, if there's any 339 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,040 going on, you need to get it right. 340 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,240 But when we're all trying to do what God wants us to do, when 341 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,080 we're all trying to live as as close as we know how to what the 342 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,720 Lord wants us to do, there is going to be that sweet 343 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,000 fellowship, right? You read all the way through the 344 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,120 book of first John. You find over and over in first 345 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:54,080 John that the Bible says if, if you're not in fellowship with, 346 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,960 with one another, then you don't have the love of God in you. 347 00:17:57,720 --> 00:17:59,880 It's very plain. It's very plain in the Bible. 348 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:05,560 But if you but but turn over to 1st Corinthians chapter #11 And 349 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,440 I want to give us, as I always do, the fourfold look at the 350 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,600 Lord's Supper because that's what this is all about. 351 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,560 And in particular tonight, as we take a few minutes, as soon as I 352 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,640 finish up with here, we always take a few minutes. 353 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,160 And I want to give you an opportunity to get things right 354 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,640 with the Lord. If you need things to be right 355 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,040 with Him. If there is something that's in 356 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,240 your heart, you better not take the Lord's Supper unworthily. 357 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,800 You better not take the Lord's Supper with something in your 358 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:34,240 heart unconfessed. But as we sit there, I want you 359 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:39,600 to think through the events of all that took place with Jesus 360 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:41,040 Christ when He went to the cross. 361 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,240 I think that He did that for you, did it for me. 362 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,240 And so the first part of looking at the Lord's Supper is the 363 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,720 backward look. It's the look at what Jesus 364 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,240 Christ did on the cross for us. It causes us as believers to 365 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,320 look back at the cross of Christ, which were it not for 366 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,200 His cross, there would be no salvation. 367 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,200 Were it not for His cross, there would be no eternity in heaven. 368 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,080 Were it not for His cross, there would be no wonderful life on 369 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,760 this earth. And in First Corinthians Chapter 370 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,920 11 and verse #24 the Bible says, And when He had given thanks, he 371 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,240 break it and said, take, eat. This is my body which is broken 372 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,960 for you. This do in remembrance of me. 373 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,880 After the same manner also He took the cup when He had Sup 374 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,320 saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. 375 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,120 This do ye as OFT as you drink it in remembrance of me. 376 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,160 So this is absolutely a part of it. 377 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,880 We should be looking back on what Jesus Christ did for us. 378 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,880 That's part of the whole purpose of doing the Lord's Supper, of 379 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,200 part of the whole purpose of taking communion. 380 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,480 But then it's also the look around and we see this in verse 381 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:49,440 #25 of First Corinthians 11, by the way, that the, the, the, 382 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,560 there's a lot of people who say that, ah, that it does. 383 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,640 You know, the version of the Bible that you use doesn't 384 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,080 really matter. It just, it's just a different 385 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,640 way to say the same thing. One of the things that's that's 386 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,280 a beautiful part of the King James is that we have these and 387 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:07,280 thous and yees. Oh, that's the that's the 388 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,600 archaic language that makes the King James the Bible that most 389 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,280 people don't want to read today in our modern new world. 390 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:17,280 But I tell you what, there's an absolutely essential part of 391 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:22,360 having these and thous and ye's and use these and thous. 392 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,280 All the words that start with T are singular. 393 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,920 All the words that start with Y are plural and it makes a huge 394 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,600 difference in the way that we read this verse, verse 25 after 395 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,400 the same manner. Also he took the cup when he had 396 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,520 Sup saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood. 397 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:40,880 This do ye as OFT as you drink it in remembrance of me. 398 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,840 Singular or plural, plural. That's all of us. 399 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,720 That's a look around. That's a communion of the body 400 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,400 of Christ. It's all of us doing this 401 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:55,600 together in fellowship together. Verse 26 For as often as ye eat 402 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,520 this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till 403 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,200 he come. Singular or plural? 404 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,480 Plural. It's a look around. 405 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,720 Yes, we're looking back at what Jesus Christ did for us, but we 406 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,960 are reminded of the fact that we are part of a body, we are part 407 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,480 of a family of believers, and that we are not just individuals 408 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,320 trying to go through this world by ourselves. 409 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,560 We're together in this thing. Ye do show the Lord's death till 410 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,000 he come, but then we have the forward look and that's that's 411 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,240 at the end of that verse 26, ye do show the Lord's death till he 412 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,840 come. We should be looking for the 413 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,280 coming of Jesus Christ. He's coming back. 414 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,840 You know, I don't know if if you've been looking around at 415 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,320 anything going on in our world today, but it seems to me that 416 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,440 everything is pointing to the fact that he's coming back and 417 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,440 he's coming back soon. And we do this because we're 418 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,200 showing the Lord's death till he comes back for us. 419 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,400 Hey, Paul thought the same thing 2000 years ago. 420 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,920 Paul thought Christ was coming back. 421 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,920 And through all the centuries they thought Christ was coming 422 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,120 back. And here we're in the same 423 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,720 position. But boy, I tell you what, we 424 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,160 have a lot, a lot more signs pointing to the fact that He's 425 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,000 coming soon than they did back then. 426 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:11,560 But then verse #28 we have the inward look and that causes us 427 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,800 as believers to look within ourselves. 428 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,080 And what a wonderful thing it is that God gave us the opportunity 429 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,280 to judge ourselves before he has to judge us. 430 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,600 Man, that's, that's a, that's a privilege beyond what we really 431 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,280 even contemplate many times. But first 28 of first 432 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,120 Corinthians Chapter 11. But let a man examine himself, 433 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,440 and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. 434 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,480 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh 435 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,240 damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 436 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,280 For this cause. Many are weak and sickly among 437 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,680 you, and many sleep they're dead because of it. 438 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:54,520 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 439 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,760 I've said this before, what a genius plan God came up with 440 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,480 when He instituted communion because He tells us we better do 441 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,480 it, but then He tells us we better not do it unworthily. 442 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:12,520 It is a time where we are required to get our hearts right 443 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,720 with God. It's a hard restart. 444 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:21,200 It's a reset of everything. Hey, after tonight, you don't 445 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,760 have to go back to that sin that you think you're addicted to. 446 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,800 You don't have to go back to that sin that you just can't let 447 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,680 go of. Let this be. 448 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,040 Let this be the day that you start over because if you're 449 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,000 going to take part in the Lord's Supper and you should because 450 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,880 the Bible says you should this do, that's a commandment. 451 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,200 But if you're going to take part in the Lord's Supper, you better 452 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,920 not take part in the Lord's Supper unworthily. 453 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,240 And all we look at that and we say, well, that was that was 454 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,840 back for those days there. There's, there's people around 455 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,040 you that are sick, there's people around that are weak. 456 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,080 There's people around you that are dead because they took the 457 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,160 Lord's Supper unworthily. That was for them. 458 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,040 Then why is the rest of the Bible for us, but not that part, 459 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,000 right? I believe there's people who are 460 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,920 weak and sickly and dead among us because they took the Lord's 461 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,480 Supper unworthily. I am trying to scare you because 462 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,480 I don't want you to take the Lord's Supper unworthily. 463 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,440 And I say that often when I'm, when I'm, when I'm given the 464 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,000 gospel. I'm not trying to scare you. 465 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,320 I just want you to understand the gravity of the situation. 466 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,120 I am trying to scare you. I want you to be scared to take 467 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,880 the Lord's Supper unworthily. You should be because He said we 468 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:29,880 should be and He's given us this opportunity. 469 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,120 Verse 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be 470 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:40,760 judged. Wouldn't it be great to not have 471 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,320 to face the judgement of God for your sin? 472 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,800 He says be sure your sin will find you out and it will. 473 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,480 But I believe He gives us a little window most of the time. 474 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,840 He gives us a little window to get it right ourselves, and this 475 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,800 is your window. I don't know what you've got in 476 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,160 your life. I don't know what maybe you've 477 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,320 got hidden in your life. I don't know what you're doing 478 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,080 that you don't want anybody else to know about. 479 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,520 But this is your opportunity to get it right with God. 480 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,960 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 481 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,360 It's a great, it's a great opportunity not only to remember 482 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,840 Christ's death, not only to remember his blood and his body 483 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,560 that was broken, but to get things right with him. 484 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,520 I want to do that tonight. I always give us the opportunity 485 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,280 to do that and have a time of invitation before we partake in 486 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,680 the Lord's Supper. And I'll ask Miss Becker to come 487 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,360 up here to, to the piano. I believe God gave us this time. 488 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:46,760 That kind of forces us really to, to look inside and get 489 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,640 things right with him. I hope you've done that already. 490 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,520 I hope you've already been examining your heart. 491 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,880 But if not, or even if you have, this is another opportunity to 492 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,760 do that, just to make sure your heart is completely right with 493 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,520 him before we start this. Because I don't want you to be 494 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,800 weak. I don't want you to be sickly. 495 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,680 I don't want you to be dead because you took the Lord's 496 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,000 Supper unworthily. So as the piano plays, we're 497 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,880 going to take a few minutes. When she's done, we're going to 498 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,120 have the song that we always listen to, and then we'll get 499 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:19,080 into this tonight. Take a few minutes, examine your 500 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,640 heart. Make sure that your heart is 501 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:57,570 right with the Lord. The. 502 00:27:24,000 --> 00:28:00,510 The. The. 503 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:58,920 The. The. 504 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:54,840 The. The. 505 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:43,410 The. The heart of man can fathom what 506 00:30:45,730 --> 00:30:56,450 if God the Father felt when he saw the pain, His Son would soon 507 00:30:56,850 --> 00:31:04,840 go. Through, though, he had but 508 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,720 every reason to ignore. Or. 509 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:14,080 Cry for help, he. Did what? 510 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:20,000 Love and. Only love I do. 511 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:33,480 Love Alert him Gone. Love let him walk alone Love let 512 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,320 him leave in his words all the. Wrong alone, love. 513 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:38,040 Let him. Go. 514 00:31:50,840 --> 00:32:03,600 To somewhere because. He loved us all. 515 00:32:20,150 --> 00:32:29,560 Love led to our guardian, where we'll all and he wept and read, 516 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:36,880 for he knew his. Final the world was. 517 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:46,240 Had had though his father. Could have saved him. 518 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:56,440 He chose to turn off and because it had to be, as I reminded. 519 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:28,040 Let him leave. Let me go to die or die or go 520 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:33,160 away to call the willing wind in those in love to song. 521 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:44,520 But let you go. And death gonna help me make the 522 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:51,280 great. But Jesus broke the chains of 523 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:58,480 sin. And on the new day I'll let you 524 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:07,000 go. I roll the soul away. 525 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,120 The sacrifice was made so on the world and gone. 526 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:46,199 To take us home again. How can it be? 527 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:55,679 I love my God to decide for me. Or let it go, or you go back 528 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:25,640 again to take us home with you. Amen. 529 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,720 A powerful song just to put you I mean, I don't know, it puts me 530 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:34,400 right back in the in the garden and puts me right back at the 531 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,440 cross and it just puts me right there. 532 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,000 And I don't know how you can sit there and not be moved by a song 533 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,120 like that when you think about what Christ did for you. 534 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,720 And that's the whole purpose of what we're doing tonight. 535 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:49,840 So we're going to have the ushers, I mean the deacons pass 536 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,520 out the the bread and we're going to do that first. 537 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,240 And just we're going to have the piano play. 538 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,240 And so just sit there in the attitude of prayer. 539 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:02,600 Think about, think about his body that was broken for you. 540 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,960 That's the whole purpose of why we're doing this tonight. 541 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,920 And so we'll take some, we'll take some time to do that, and 542 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,600 then we'll have a word of prayer, and then we'll do that 543 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:58,280 together. The. 544 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:55,040 The. The. 545 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:53,680 The. The. 546 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:53,400 The. The. 547 00:40:22,970 --> 00:40:26,960 We check with the nursery. We check with the nursery the. 548 00:41:23,590 --> 00:41:25,990 You get the sound booth, too. You get the sound booth. 549 00:41:27,150 --> 00:41:28,390 You get the guys in the sound booth. 550 00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:59,880 Yes, OK. Doc, would you leave us in 551 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,200 prayer, please, Heavenly Father, Lord? 552 00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,600 We love you and we thank you for your goodness to us. 553 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,200 We thank you, Lord, for your broken body. 554 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,720 As we remember that, I pray God that you would help us to just 555 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,040 continue to work on being a right Christian, right with you. 556 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:20,040 Have a desire to see souls saved Lord, to serve you in the best 557 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,440 way that we know how. We pray God that you just bless 558 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,920 this time as we have our yes and service. 559 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:28,920 Lord, just continue to work in our hearts. 560 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:31,880 Thank you for all you've done for us. 561 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,280 Lord help us not to take any of that for granted. 562 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,000 And we pray in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. 563 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,200 Bible says in First Corinthians Chapter 11 and verse 24. 564 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,560 And when he had given thanks, he'd break it and said, take, 565 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,640 eat. This is my body which is broken 566 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,560 for you, this due in remembrance of me.