Mark 15 beginning in verse 33. And when the 6th hour had come,
there was darkness over the whole land until the 9th hour.
And at the 9th hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Elohi Elohi,
Lama Sabakhtani, which means my God, my God, why have you
forsaken me? And some of the bystanders
hearing it, said, Behold, he is calling Elijah.
Someone ran and filled the sponge with sour wine, put it on
a Reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, wait, let us see
whether Elijah will come to take him down.
And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathe his last.
And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to
bottom. And when the centurion who stood
facing him saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said
truly, this man was the Son of God.
The more I read and study the New Testament, the more I
realize how much I need to read and study the Old Testament.
And that includes a familiarity with the sacrifices that the
Lord God instituted for His people, Israel under the Old
Covenant. I understand that these ancient
practices were elaborate protocols and fulfilled purposes
for that time. But you have to understand that
those particular rituals foreshadowed elements of the
death of Jesus Christ. And I think it's important for
us to see it that way, that those specific sacrifices were
not just practical, they were prophetic, that they all pointed
to this one sacrifice to come. And the more that we believe
that and engage with our Bibles and its totality and make these
connections between the left side of your Bible and the right
side of your Bible, the more I assure you this, that your heart
will erupt in praise and adoration as you see the
masterpiece of God's ways. And in this short time, I want
to give you a glimpse of that. I want to show you in your
Bibles how there's a particular sacrifice that's not often
considered with what Jesus does here that was fulfilled, and it
will grant a greater significance to what Jesus did
on our behalf. And so we read these verses, but
now I'm going to ask you to turn with me to the Book of Numbers
and let's look at chapter 28 together, beginning in verse 1.
Numbers 28, beginning in verse one.
It says here the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the
people of Israel and say to them, My offering, my food for
my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to
offer to me at its appointed time, and you shall say to them,
this is the food offering that you shall offer to the Lord. 2
male lambs a year old, without blemish, day by day as a regular
offering. Again, there's a large catalogue
of different sacrifices that Israel were to honor in their
worship to God. And what you and I just read
here is a unique one. It's called the regular burnt
offering. It says regular offering here in
verse 3, but when you go to verse 6, it elaborates and says
this is the regular burnt offering.
And here's what this regular burnt offering comprised of.
It was a daily act of worship and it was something that the
priest had to honor by taking two lambs in the prime of their
lives, one designated to be placed on the altar, completely
consumed by the flames, and then for that lamp to be replaced by
another year old lamb at the evening time for the same
purpose. Now what this sacrifice implies
is this, that the altar at the entrance of this worship center,
called the Tabernacle and later the temple, would never be
extinguished. That altar, that place of
sacrifice, would never become cold.
It would never lose its fire. It was to be a continual cycle
of sacrifices uninterrupted. And the purpose of this visual
and even the aroma is to cause the people of Israel to remember
that God is worthy of continual sacrifice, that God demands of
us and he deserves not sacrifice based on convenience, not
sporadic worship, but constant, constant.
And this is what they would see and this is what they would
smell. And as Christians, it symbolizes
our call to surrender to the will of God, a heart posture
that is to be maintained every day, every morning, every night,
every week, every month, all the years of your life.
And Paul alludes to this in Romans 12/1.
You know this very well when he says, I appeal to you therefore,
brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as
a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to Him, which is your
spiritual worship. Again, let me remind you that
what was unique about the regular burnt offering is that
it was continuous and it was complete.
All of the animal, nothing was held back, nothing was reserved.
The entire beast was made into a fragrant offering.
What Paul's saying here with using this familiar languages,
your bodies, your lives have that same purpose in the new
covenant. Here's the key difference.
You're not giving a debt offering, you're giving a living
1A living sacrifice. So we're not talking about
martyrdom necessarily. We're not talking about one
event. We're talking about a lifestyle.
And the same way that land would be placed on that altar and
would burn and burn until it was replaced, your one life is meant
to be set apart on the basis of His grace to be granted to Him
continually, without reservation, without hindrance.
Now here's the beautiful thing. This does point to a practical
truth of our sanctification. But as I said earlier, it points
to the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you'll find that in a parallel passage of what we just
read in Numbers 28. So look at Exodus.
Now look at Exodus 29 and notice how this provides a distinct
instruction with the same sacrifice, the regular burnt
offering, It says in Exodus 2942 and 43 HLB a regular burnt
offering throughout your generations at the entrance of
the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you
to speak to you there. There I will meet with the
people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.
Do you see it? This daily offering of a new
lamb in the morning, a new lamb in the evening, was essential
for God to engage with His people favorably and intimately.
That constant sacrifice created and provided a consecrated
platform for God to meet with His people.
That's why he was saying this is important.
And God's heart is that He would commune with His people all the
day, all the time. And they had to show it on their
part that they wanted that kind of intimate relationship with
God by providing the sacrifice all the day, all the time.
But here's where the Lord Jesus Christ is the greater regular
burnt offering. Because when we come to him, we
realize that as a true Lamb of God, who is the Son of God, all
he had to do was make a single sacrifice.
A single sacrifice that was sufficient for God to sanctify.
Not a place you not so that He can dwell in, a location so He
can dwell in your heart. Our relationship with the Lord
is no longer depended upon. A daily effort to bring new
lambs being slaughtered, fresh blood being poured out every
morning and every night. What you have with the Son of
Man and what He did 2000 years ago on that particular day was
enough. And it will always be enough.
And if you doubt that Christ fulfills the regular burnt
offering, go back to what we read in the beginning of the
service in Mark 15 and look at the times when Jesus was on the
cross. Go to Mark 15.
We didn't read this, we read it last week.
But look at verse 25 of Mark 15. This was the hour when Jesus was
nailed on the cross in Mark 1525.
We read and it was the third hour when they crucified him.
Now Mark is using the Jewish method of calculating the hours
of the day. So the third hour here equates
to our time as nine AM, 9:00 AM. Is that morning or evening good?
This is when Jesus was crucified.
He was nailed on the cross in the morning.
When did he die? Go to verse 33 of Mark 15.
And when the 6th hour had come, there was darkness over the
whole land until the 9th hour. Now the 9th hour when he died
would mean that he died at 3:00 PM.
Now that's the afternoon. And so let's pause here and
think back to the regular burnt offering, a lamb in the morning,
a lamb in the evening. Now I come and I read my Old
Testament faithfully and I read the Gospels, and I realize that
Jesus Christ, whom John the Baptist said he is the Lamb of
God who takes away the sins of the world, was crucified in the
morning. And I'm expecting it for it to
say. And then he died in the evening,
but it says he died at 3:00 PM. So I got thinking.
I read this earlier this past week and I've been thinking
those past few days seems to be like an incomplete picture of
the regular burnt offering until I was out and about and it hit
me like lightning. And I pulled out my phone to my
Bible app and I reread what we opened with at the beginning of
this sermon. Look again at verse 33.
And when the 6th hour, which is noon, had come, there was
darkness over the whole land until the 9th hour.
You see what this means? That although Jesus did die in
the afternoon, something supernatural occurred.
This blackness blanketed the land and gave the appearance of
the evening. And so in a symbolic way, we see
Jesus Christ as a regular burnt offering, nailed on the cross in
the morning and giving up his life under the midnight
blackness during midday. But this darkness also means
something else. I find it interesting that when
you recall the birth of Jesus Christ from Luke's vantage
point, we learned that it happened at night.
And Luke 2 verse 8, we're told that it happened at night.
And that night had many awesome things happening, including
this. An Angel of the Lord appeared to
a group of shepherds out in the field at night.
But do you remember what happened when they appeared?
Says there that the glory of the Lord shone around them.
So at the birth of Jesus Christ, though it was at night, there
was a heavenly light that blazed on the scene.
And now as we come to the death of Jesus Christ, at the peak of
the day, we read of this blackness covering the sky.
God was behind this blackness. This was not coincidence.
This was not an act of Satan. We know for certain that this
darkness that covered the whole land was orchestrated by the
Father. And that is more confirmed when
again you read the Old Testament.
What do you discover? That in many places, when God
causes this darkness to occur over a place, it is often
equated with a readiness of His judgement.
And so my personal reading, I just finished the book of Amos
this week, and I stumbled upon a passage concerning something
that you've probably read called the Day of the Lord.
That might sound like an exciting title, but it's
actually supposed to be a terrifying 1 because the Day of
the Lord is consistently something that refers to God's
wrath visiting a people, and in many passages it points to His
ultimate judgement to come with His retribution against the
wicked, the day of the Lord. And let me quote to you what
we're told about the Day of the Lord from Amos's writings and
Amos 5 verse 20. You don't have to turn there,
just listen, please. Is not the Day of the Lord
darkness and not light and gloom with no brightness in it?
I mentioned this to you to highlight that when this unusual
darkness overshadowed Calvary, it signalled that God's fierce
judgment was ready to be unleashed.
For three hours of darkness from noon till 3:00, there was a
spiritual transaction that was taking place that none of us can
explain or even conceive with our imaginations.
God showed up on Calvary and He was performing a work on His Son
who willingly chose to become the sin bearer of humanity.
And so shattering was this experience to the Son of God
that he voiced His lament by quoting the first part of yet
another Old Testament prophecy, Psalm chapter 22.
Do you see it in verse 34? My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me? Pause.
In what way did God the Father forsake God the Son?
Definitely not the Son of God separating himself from the
nature of God. Definitely not Jesus Christ
temporarily disconnecting himself from the essence of
divinity. Nor is this forsaking.
This is so important because I believe many people
misunderstand this. Nor is God the Father forsaking
this experience that the Son was lamenting and echoing from David
and Psalm 22, indicating that God the Father was absent from
this moment. Now.
Instead, he was present, but in a different way.
God was very much present, but He was present with His
terrifying judgement. In other words, when Jesus is
lamenting, why have you forsaken me, He is vocalizing that He has
tasted the separation of the Father's comfort and warm
affection, the intimate communion that he's always known
has been veiled. And it was so agonizing to him
that he said it with a loud cry. I want you to imagine this for a
moment. We've been studying the trial of
Jesus, the torture of Jesus, and now the crucifixion of Jesus.
And we got glimpses of what he endured, the slander, the
spitting, the slapping. And what do we find in Jesus?
A silent lamb. There was no outburst.
But when it came to this darkness, when it came to the
Father judging our sin on the Son, he cried.
He cried with misery, agony, pain.
An old minister observed it rightly when he said that at the
earliest infancy Jesus suffered at the hands of men.
The earliest phase of his ministry, Jesus suffered at the
hands of Satan. But when it came to the cross,
Jesus was destined to suffer at the hands of God.
That's what we're witnessing here.
The Lord Yahweh chastising his anointed shepherd.
We're witnessing that and strangely though this is
inconceivable, we somehow behold a beauty in it and that's
unfortunately not the case for many who witnessed it first
hand. Notice how some interpreted
Jesus words in verse 35 and some of the bystanders hearing it
said behold he is calling Elijah.
What are you talking about? They misinterpreted the words of
Jesus Elohim, and they began to think to themselves, oh, he's
calling upon the prophet Elijah. Now, why would they come to that
conclusion? They came to that conclusion
because they were familiar enough with their own scriptures
that Elijah was transported into heaven, He didn't die.
And that Malachi promised that before the day of the Lord would
come, before God would come and clean up the whole world, before
judgement would arrive and he would establish his Kingdom,
Elijah would go forth as a forerunner.
And so in their mix thinking, they're thinking, OK, he's
calling upon Elijah. He claimed to be Messiah.
He claimed to be the Son of Man. So maybe Elijah's going to show
up. And I thought, how did you
mishear him? Because again, it says there in
verse 34 that he cried with a loud voice.
He didn't whisper it, He didn't mumble it.
He cried it with precision. He cried it from the depths of
his heart. And so you might be surprised.
How do they hear Elijah? I'm not surprised actually,
after meditating on it. Why?
Because think about the hearing of most of the people throughout
Jesus ministry. The things that he said about
himself, the things that he taught, how it was
misunderstood, how it was misapplied, how it was missed
all together. Do you think it'd be any
different as they come to the final moments of Christ's life?
They misheard it. They misinterpreted it.
You know, I was looking at this and I thought to myself of a
verse that we studied many months ago in the book of Mark.
Jesus in one of his teachings said something that we apply to
an entire sermon concerning our relationship to God's voice and
his word. Can I remind you, as we're ready
to wrap up the book of Mark in a few weeks, look at Mark 424 and
remember what Jesus said in one of his teachings.
And he said to them, Mark 424 And he said, Jesus said to.
Them pay attention to what you hear.
It's possible even for you to say in love.
I say this for you to be hearing but not paying attention to what
you're really hearing. I want to be surprised if some
of us are thinking about laundry food.
Why do you think Jesus said pay attention to what you hear?
Because it's possible for us to be hearing but not really
listening. And that comes with
ramifications. And with all the horrors that
took place on Calvary, let me add this one.
The irresponsible hearing of these bystanders.
You're saying why? Why are you making it so
extreme? I'm making it extreme because of
their lack of hearing led to their lack of understanding that
prophecy was being fulfilled right before their eyes.
Psalm 22 was being realized and here they are thinking, oh,
Elijah, it might come. And here's what I did.
I studied this the other day and I stepped back reading this
passage, meditating on it, putting it together.
Lord may never be so of me that as I read your word or hear your
word that I miss what you're really saying.
I don't want that to happen to me.
I don't want to miss what you really reveal about yourself.
I don't want to miss about what your prophecy say about the
future. I don't want to miss about what
you demand of me as a Christian. I don't want to misinterpret
anything. I don't want my preconceived
notions, my ideas, my distractions to get in the way
of what your mouth is saying. I'm telling it to me now.
I telling it to me the other day.
Now I'm telling it to you. I don't want to miss what your
word has to say when it's preached, when it's read, when
it's when it's heard. I don't want to miss what you're
doing in the world. I don't want to miss what you're
doing in my life. I don't want to be blind and
deaf to to all that you might be conveying.
But because of whatever reason, my ears are caked and I can't
really perceive it. And so I miss it.
Behold, he's calling Elijah and then something happens in verse
36. Someone ran and filled with a
sponge sour wine and put it on reading, gave it to him to
drink, saying wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take
him down. That seems like a random act,
but it's not. When you compare it to John's
account. John tells us one of the seven
sayings of Jesus on the cross. 2 simple words, I thirst.
When you compare it, you realize that Jesus said I thirst and
John tells us to fulfill scripture.
Yet another prophecy. He said I thirst and this man
ran to fulfill that need. And before you think that this
is a ray of mercy in a very dark and gloomy and evil sight, Mark
tells us and clarifies the real reason why he went through all
this trouble to help Jesus with his thirst.
He said it right. Wait, let us see whether Elijah
will come to take him down. It wasn't a quench his thirst.
It was to satisfy his curiosity or even to mock him.
And again, it's amazing how any part of the Bible can provide
practical application and instruction, and it's no
different here. I look at this and I realize
that as dark again as everything has been reading Mark 15, it
gets even darker. Even in this one act.
The depravity of man is so vile, and it shows us what you and I
are capable of. Unrestrained, unhinged.
If the Holy Spirit doesn't harness our hearts, we can even
look at opportunities to provide mercy and charity and seize it
instead, to make it about us, to satisfy selfishness and
carnality and the flesh. You have a man who provided
drink and you think that's nice of him, but in reality he just
wants to see a show. Laura, I don't want to ever,
ever look at potential opportunities to do good in your
name and manipulate it for my sake, whatever that sake is.
And that's why in Romans 12/9, the Holy Spirit tells us,
believers, let love be genuine, genuine.
And I could have said love. He said no, no, it's possible to
love with laces of hypocrisy. It's possible to love and it's
polluted. Only the Holy Spirit in His Word
can decontaminate our love and make it pure holy.
Let love be genuine and regardless of this person's
motive, you know what Jesus does in order to fulfill Scripture.
He plants his dry lips on that dirty sponge and he takes a sip.
And after he takes a sip, we read Fulfilling Psalm 6921.
We read that He made a loud cry and then breathe his last.
I can assure you that when Jesus made this loud cry, it wasn't a
screech of agony. It wasn't a taunt of anger.
Because John tells us what was behind that loud cry. 3 words
that you know very well. It is finished.
And he didn't whisper it the way I just did.
He thundered it with triumphant authority.
Oh, I wonder what that sounded like.
It is finished. That was strange for somebody
who was suffering crucifixion because your lungs were
collapsing, you were losing breath, you were dying of
exhaustion. And yet this is just another
idea to confirm that Jesus was completely in control.
It is finished. What was finished?
The achievement of atonement, the complete obedience of Christ
that would make our salvation necessary was complete.
The suffering that He needed to endure to make the payment for
your sin and mine was done. The fear that mankind has
suffered with concerning death has been put to an end because
of His death, and the uncertainty of our entrance into
eternal life has been solved forever.
It is finished. And when he made this cry,
something supernatural happened. You think how much more can
happen? Well, we read what happened just
like that midnight at midday, as one preacher put it, there was
another act of God where? Look here, verse 38 and the
curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
The Bible's so specific from top to bottom, showing that it was
God who ripped that veil. What is this curtain all about?
Well, for hundreds of years when God called the nation of Israel
to build that worship center that we referenced earlier,
there was this thick veil that separated the people from the
most Holy place where God resided and manifested His
glory. And that barrier served as a
constant reminder that our sinfulness separates and
alienates us from enjoying the fullness of God's presence.
So that's what the priest saw. That's what the people
understood. And it was, it was there.
It was there always, always, always.
And only one time of the year could the high priest enter in
for a few moments representing the people of God.
And now what we see here is, which I find so fascinating
because throughout the years, all the lambs, all the bulls,
all the goats, all the birds that were slaughtered in the
millions, how much blood did they accumulate?
How much blood did they sprinkle?
It didn't shred an inch off that veil.
And yet when the Son of God shed his blood, it ripped that veil
like a piece of Kleenex. That's what God was after all
along. Now we have entrance into his
presence. And listen to this.
It's not about just us going into the Holy of Holies.
That's the symbolic picture. It's the fact that God who
reside in the Holy of Holies now moves out and lives in US.
What accomplished that? The blood.
And now God is committed to find his home, which He did in His
temple, which is the church, not this building.
Buildings are wonderful. We got to meet somewhere, you
and I collectively, the temple of God, where the Holy Spirit
dwells and God is committed to making us his permanent address
until we meet him for face to face and enjoy him without any
interference for all eternity. That's what we're in.
That's the new covenant. But more than the the entrance,
the symbolic picture of us now having gotten God having us, we
see here with the ripping of the veil, the cancellation and
nullification of the old covenant and the inauguration of
the new covenant, we don't need temple sacrifices anymore.
We don't need to shed anything. What he has done is enough now.
And So what we have here is the inauguration of the new
covenant. There is now a new way in which
we relate to God, in which we worship God, in which we are
grafted into the program of God. And since this time, millions
have been joined, millions have been adopted into this wonderful
covenant. Do you think that this temple
veil ripped and nobody noticed it?
I haven't. We touched on this a few weeks
ago when we were talking about the power of the gospel and one
little part of the sermon where even Pharisees were saved.
Do you remember? We talked about that briefly,
and that's found in Acts chapter 6, verse seven.
You don't have to turn there, but let me remind you that we're
told early in the church, the church movement, it says, and a
great many priests became believers.
I wonder how many of those priests were in the temple
witnessing that veil tearing. I wonder how many saw it and it
registered and they were ready to receive Jesus as their
Messiah. The veil tore from top to
bottom. The priests were not the only
one who were saved. We read of an individual in
verse 39. This is our last verse before we
break bread. And when the centurion who stood
facing him saw that in this way he breathed his last.
He said truly, this man was the Son of God.
He was a centurion. He was not just an average
soldier. He supervised hundreds of
soldiers. We have right to believe that
this centurion was part of this whole process, Christ's trial,
his torture, his beating, the caring of the cross, the
crucifixion on the cross. He witnessed everything.
He witnessed the patience of Christ, the elegance of Christ,
the dignity of Christ. He heard every word that he
uttered from the cross. And the cherry on the top is
that when he died, the way he died and the earthquake took
place and the rumblings happened and the fear and, and all of
these things accumulating, it dawned on him this man was the
Son of God. Here's why this is so massively
important in connection to the gospel of Mark.
As one unit, Mark records us by the Spirit, yes, but also
strategically by the Spirit. This is the first time, funny
enough, we're at the end of the book, and this is the first time
that through human lips this precise confession was made that
Jesus was the Son of God. The Father proclaimed it at his
baptism. He reaffirmed it on the Mount of
Transfiguration. Demons said it on many
occasions, but through the lips of a person it occurred for the
first time here at the cross. And through whose lips?
A Gentile. This was the Son of God.
Now, last week you and I remembered that this was not the
only person who at this time made a saving confession.
There was a thief on the cross, remember, and he learned from
his own blasphemies that he was a Sinner from his past life,
realizing that he was very close touching distance to the Savior
of the world. And he said other would you
Remember Me when you come in your Kingdom and Jesus confirm
today you will be with me in paradise.
That thief was not just a thief. He was a Jewish thief.
So even in the the final moments of Christ's mission, the
culmination of his work, when Jesus is dying, you know what
happens? A Jew gets saved.
A Gentile gets saved. What's the lesson?
Here's the lesson. Whether you're a Jew in this
place or not a Jew, whether you are a hardened police officer or
a crazed criminal, if you're a murderer or a blasphemer, no
matter who you are, as we behold the cross, we are being told
emphatically, Jesus will forgive you no matter what you've done.
Here's where I'm ending. No matter what you have done,
Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, is ready to wash you
with His blood, delete your debt of sin, make you His own, live
in your heart, shepherd you throughout your life until you
meet Him face to face. So there's a time coming where
His unfiltered presence will shower over us for all of
eternity. But my constant prayer, knowing
these truths have been experienced in my life,
believing that this book is true.
Lord, help me experience Your glory, Your power, Your presence
as much as is possible on this side of heaven.
And that's a prayer that God faithfully answers in many ways.
Do you have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ?
Do you, do you, do you? Behold how prophecies have been
accomplished, how the person of Christ is undeniably attractive
and unlike anybody else in all of history.
After what you've heard week after week after week, you see
this man, after all these events, made a conclusion.
This man was the Son of God. Can I ask you, what's your
conclusion of Jesus? Does this only confirm to you
that he is indeed the Son of God?
Are you still doubting or are you among the blasphemers who
still mock You know what's amazing?
When Jesus will be buried, and we're going to study that soon.
And when he raises from the grave, you actually find out
that the Pharisees who realize that that tomb was empty still
didn't believe they conspired and they paid off some of the
soldiers, telling people, make sure that you let people know
that the disciples took them away.
It's amazing how our hearts can be hardened despite all the
proof before us, but I am. I'm closing here before we open
this table to ask you please, if you don't know him, be confirmed
in that conviction. Have certainty to why you'll
deny him. Don't be indifferent with your
soul, challenge your skepticism and if you even seek Him in your
skepticism with an honest heart that wants to know the truth
with your limited understanding. God is so gracious to lead you
and make himself known to you. And I pray that every person
here would walk out knowing that their names have been written in
the Lamb's book of life. I pray that your soul is saved.
I pray that you know this Jesus of whom I believe.
And I preach unashamedly as we come to this table to eat.
We are remembering his body and his blood.
And we're going to sing in a moment and go straight to the
table. And Pastor Ben is going to lead
us in giving thanks for the elements.
But it is my duty to ask you that if you're not a believer in
Jesus Christ that you respectively reserve yourself
from participating. This is this is something like
Jesus instituted for his church, for those who believe in the
message that I just preached. And so if you've put your faith
in Christ, you're coming here to remember, it's not because of
what I've done. It's not because of what I've
shed with this blood or any other person's blood or any
other animal's blood. It's because of his blood.
That's what you're OK. So listen, let me tell you
something. We're celebrating today.
This is a celebration. So come to this table happy and
hold those elements with joy. He died for me.
So if you if you don't believe in that message, I pray that you
would. And when you do, you can you can
join this table, but if you don't just watch and what you're
watching is people lining up coming to take these elements,
proclaiming by way of drama. I'm saved by his grace.
Believer, if you believe this message, but your heart is not
lined up with the gospel way of life, you bring more joy to your
master by repenting and reconciling with those that you
haven't reconciled with instead of taking of this.
So I ask you to reflect on your own life, but let me also say
that Jesus is not looking for perfection to get to this table
or us. None of us are welcome.
But if there's something that you are justifying that you know
is sin, that's what he means by warning us in First Corinthians.
If you know it's sin, but you're holding on to it, let go of it
before you take any of this. But believer also, if you are
conscious that you're a Sinner, we all are.
But you know in your, your heart of hearts, I want to live holy.
I want to live a repentant life. Come, come, come, come.
This is for you. Praise team.
Can we come and can we worship? We're going to sing reflectively
and then we're going to partake. Take this time now as they come
and prepare. Don't worry about who's beside
you and just prepare your heart to worship the Lord with this
ordinance. Shall we do that?
I'm going to join you here.