1 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:07,100 It's a beautiful day, it's a good day to be in the house of 2 00:00:07,108 --> 00:00:08,800 the Lord. I'm glad to see you today. 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,300 My name is Kyle. Service lead, Pastor here. 4 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:13,800 If you're visiting with us, I want to say thank you. 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:18,300 I'm glad that you're here today and I pray that you enjoy your 6 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:22,000 time. But anyway, we are here to now 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,400 in this moment to hear from God's words to hear it preached 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,600 and taught, and we're going to seek the Lord and aligning 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,800 ourselves to it. And so, here in a moment, I'll 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:32,400 pray and ask him to help us with that. 11 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,900 But before I do, I wanted to just kind of catch you up 12 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:38,600 briefly on where we're at. We're in the middle of a series 13 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,800 that had an extended break back in the fall. 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,400 And we picked it back up early spring now. 15 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,600 And but the series is called what happens when we worship. 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,800 And what we're looking at is what takes place when we come 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,400 together for the worship of God. What is what's going on in the 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:58,100 service? And so, when we say worship, 19 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:00,900 we're not talking about like the modern kind of cultural 20 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:03,900 understanding of what worship is, which is typically just the 21 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:06,000 music. Portion of a service. 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,600 We're talking about the entire service. 23 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,700 What's taking place from beginning to end in this worship 24 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:17,200 service, we've touched on so many of the theological truths, 25 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,000 the Deep truths of what's taking place, like things where we 26 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 said, you know, we were created to worship. 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,200 And so we're always worshipping, no matter what we're doing, 28 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,200 we're worshiping. Something were either worshiping 29 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,900 God or worshipping an idol. Now, you might not be bowing to 30 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:34,100 a, some carved image that you've created. 31 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,600 By your life, you are submitting to ultimately, either God or 32 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,400 Satan. And so you are always 33 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,200 worshipping in that way. Another things we talked about 34 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,300 in this series is that, when we come together, we are meeting 35 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:52,100 with God, we're truly coming to meet with God. 36 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:56,600 Hebrews 12 teaches us, that we've not come to Mount Sinai, 37 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,700 we're not come to something that can be touched. 38 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:02,600 We've not come to, you know, it's not about, it's not only 39 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,800 about the physical elements. That are in play here, it's not 40 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,300 about an instrument, it's not about, it's not only about, I 41 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:12,600 should say instruments or holding God's word in our hand, 42 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,300 or those kinds of things. Those, those aren't what make 43 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:18,000 worship worship their tools for our worship. 44 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,700 Their and God's word certainly is the most effective tool for 45 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:23,500 our worship. That's why we want to sing songs 46 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,700 that are about as word want to pray prayers, that are from his 47 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:28,000 word. We want to or that are informed 48 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,800 by his word. And we want to preach from his 49 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,100 word, right? So that our hearts and our minds 50 00:02:33,100 --> 00:02:35,900 and our souls are alive Mind with the word of God and all 51 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:37,600 that we're doing in a worship service. 52 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,000 But the most important fact going on in or ship service is 53 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,100 that God has truly come to meet with us. 54 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:47,900 And we are meeting with him when we worship. 55 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:49,800 And so, that's a really amazing thing. 56 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,200 So you can step back and you can look through our archives and 57 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,300 our sermons and listen to some of those, those lessons, if you 58 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:59,300 haven't. But what we've been doing for 59 00:02:59,308 --> 00:03:02,200 the last several weeks now, is looking at each element of 60 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,200 worship. And so we've talked about 61 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,600 Reaching we've talked, we're going to talk about singing. 62 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,200 We're talking today about the Lord's Supper. 63 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,000 We've talked about our call to worship. 64 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:16,000 And so today, again, we're talking about the Lord's supper 65 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,300 and essentially, well, the title we've picked for this is the 66 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:24,600 Feast of fellowship with God. So the Feast of the Lord's 67 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,800 Supper is meant to be Fellowship, a reminder of our 68 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,500 fellowship with God, and a reminder of our fellowship with 69 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:36,900 one another, I want to put this big idea before you Through the 70 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:38,600 Lord's supper and you can write this down. 71 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,200 If you're taking notes through the Lord's, Supper the Holy 72 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,900 Spirit, strengthens our faith, hope and love in the finished 73 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:50,100 work of Jesus Christ. As Believers, really, and truly 74 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:54,400 Feast on him. So through the Lord's, Supper 75 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:58,400 the Holy Spirit, strengthens our faith, hope and love in the 76 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,500 finished work of Jesus Christ. As Believers, really, and truly 77 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:06,000 Feast on him. I'm going to explain that as as 78 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,800 we go along today. But for now, I'd like for you to 79 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,000 stand. If you're able, as we read the 80 00:04:11,008 --> 00:04:13,900 word of the Lord, when I finished reading, I'll say this 81 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:15,900 is the word of the Lord. I ask that you respond. 82 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:19,800 Thanks, be to God. First Corinthians chapter 11, 83 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,300 maybe didn't tell you that yet. So I'll give you a second. 84 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,400 First Corinthians chapter 11, we're going to start reading in 85 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,100 verse 23 and will read through verse 29. 86 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:37,300 All right. I'll start now for I received 87 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:40,400 from the Lord, what I also delivered to you that the Lord 88 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,800 Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread. 89 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,900 And when he had given thanks, he broke it. 90 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:49,200 And said, this is my body, which is for you. 91 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:53,200 Do this in remembrance of me in the same way. 92 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,600 He also took the cup after supper saying, this cup is the 93 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,900 New Covenant in my blood do this, as often as you drink it 94 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,400 in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this 95 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,800 bread and drink the cup you proclaim, the Lord's death, 96 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,100 until he comes. Whoever therefore eats the bread 97 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:16,600 or drinks the cup of the Lord. In an unworthy manner, will be 98 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:21,500 guilty concerning the body and blood of Lord, let a person 99 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:24,000 examine himself then. And so eat of the bread and 100 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 drink of the cup for anyone who eats and drinks without 101 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,500 Discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 102 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,700 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 103 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,000 Let me pray for us. Heavenly Father, we praise you 104 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,200 and we thank you for your word, Lord. 105 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,900 We humble ourselves. Now, as we come to it, we ask 106 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:47,800 Lord that you would instruct our hearts and our minds that we 107 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,800 would that our faith would be strengthened. 108 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,700 That our faith would go down deep Lord, that it would bear, 109 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:57,600 great fruits. And so Lord, would you give us 110 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,800 Hearts today? That are good soil as Christ 111 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,900 taught hearts that Are receptive to your word that are eager to 112 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:08,100 learn from you and from your Council, to seek your face and 113 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:11,700 to be instructed by you. And so Lord, I am merely an 114 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:14,400 instrument in your hands. As we talked about last week 115 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,100 that the sermon is not about me, it's about your word. 116 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:20,900 And so I ask Lord that you would speak through me. 117 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:23,400 So your people that you would edify their hearts that you 118 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,500 would and struck them correct where we need correcting Lord 119 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:32,600 and so that we might be mature followers of Your son Christ, 120 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,500 Jesus we are powerless without the holy spirit for this work. 121 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:40,900 And so we ask father that your spirit, dwell richly and us. 122 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:44,200 Now, as we study your word is in Christ's name, I pray, amen. 123 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,300 Amen. May be seated. 124 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:54,200 So from the beginning of creation, the pattern of worship 125 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,200 culminates in feasting before the fall, you have Adam and Eve, 126 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,400 the man in the woman in the garden and they were supposed to 127 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,600 be able to eat from a tree called the tree of life and live 128 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,900 forever. This is part of the reason they 129 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:12,300 were kicked out of the garden after they disobeyed God by 130 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,500 eating from the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. 131 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:19,600 God says is Not good for man to be this way. 132 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,200 Let's remove him from the guard unless they eat of the tree of 133 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,100 life and live forever. The problem would be that they 134 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:29,300 would live forever in this condemned State, and so God 135 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:35,100 removes them from the garden. And, and so what we see later in 136 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:38,700 scripture is that the gift of feasting, feasting doesn't come 137 00:07:38,700 --> 00:07:42,900 to an end that worship involves eating worship. 138 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,800 Involves feasting with God. In fact, when Christ returns, 139 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:50,100 And his people, dwell with him and the new heavens and new 140 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:53,000 earth. The crowning joy of the 141 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,600 Redemption of all things. In that moment will be a feast 142 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,100 with Christ. It's called the marriage supper 143 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:02,500 of the lamb. And even the Book of Revelation 144 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:06,200 tells us that the tree of life will give life to God's people. 145 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,100 Once again, in revelation, 22 verse 2. 146 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,700 And so the emphasis is on eating, but why is there an 147 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:16,900 emphasis on eating well, because our God is a god of Of 148 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:20,400 communion. Our God is a god of Fellowship. 149 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:23,900 We might say he Delights to commune with his people and a 150 00:08:23,907 --> 00:08:28,900 shared meal is one of the most powerful ways to enjoy communion 151 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:32,000 with someone, right? You know, this to be true. 152 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,799 After all, most First Dates, take place at restaurants right? 153 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:41,000 You invite someone to go eat to enjoy a meal together and you 154 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,799 talk over this Mill. You get to know one another over 155 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,200 the mill. We enjoy things like dinner 156 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,700 parties where Your friends will come together and enjoy a meal 157 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:51,900 with one another. Oftentimes, one of the 158 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:55,100 highlights of my week is enjoying a meal in our home 159 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:57,800 group where we get together with other brothers and sisters in 160 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,600 the Lord. And we Feast with one another as 161 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,300 we also study the word of God seeing and pray with each other. 162 00:09:05,900 --> 00:09:10,200 So the shared meal is wired into US. 163 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,500 Its intrinsic to who we are. Why is it so natural to share a 164 00:09:14,508 --> 00:09:17,600 meal with the people you love? Because God Created you this 165 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,700 way? God has made you to enjoy 166 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,300 feasting he created you to commune with others and to do it 167 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:26,700 around a meal. Jonathan Cruz says that feasting 168 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:31,000 is a primary means of fellowship and in worship we Feast to 169 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,500 fellowship with God. However, there's an innate 170 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:41,300 desire to Feast with others in us and that innate. 171 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:44,900 Desire alone is not enough to reconcile us with God. 172 00:09:44,900 --> 00:09:47,700 So in other words, just because you want to eat with other 173 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:51,500 people, just because you want to be able to share a meal, is not 174 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:56,500 enough to allow you to share a meal with God and Men, throw 175 00:09:56,500 --> 00:09:59,800 your, you have a craving for food and that craving for food, 176 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,700 Bears, witness that you were meant to Feast with God, 177 00:10:02,700 --> 00:10:07,600 ultimately the problem is that your sinful desires and just 178 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:13,600 your outright sinfulness Bear witness that you cannot Feast 179 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:19,900 with an utterly holy God, as you currently sit since sin entered 180 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:22,300 the world, our only hope for fellowship and communion with 181 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:26,900 God is through the finished work of Jesus Christ communion with 182 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:29,400 God, must go through the Cross of Christ. 183 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,000 He is the way he is the truth. He is the life. 184 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,500 No one comes to the father Christ says, except through me 185 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:40,400 right in John 14:6. And so we rightly All this 186 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,800 communion meal, the Lord's Supper because it is truly made 187 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,800 possible by our Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ. 188 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:50,500 Jesus both the host of The Mill and the mill itself, he is the 189 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:54,700 source, the substance and the celebration of the bread and the 190 00:10:54,708 --> 00:10:56,900 wine. We cannot understand the Lord's 191 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:00,600 Supper apart from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 192 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,300 It's impossible. And so it's important to note 193 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:05,700 that the Lord's Supper is not primarily about what we are 194 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:09,000 doing, right? It's primarily about what God 195 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 has done for. For us through Jesus Christ. 196 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:15,500 However, this doesn't mean that you were merely passive in it 197 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:17,100 either. It's not as though, you were 198 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:21,400 being force-fed, a cup and the bread today and you're just 199 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,700 passive in receiving that you are actively participating and 200 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:28,700 the body and blood of Christ your active. 201 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,400 But our activity. As we've seen throughout this 202 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,300 worship series, our activity, and worship our activity in 203 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:36,800 singing or activity and preaching, or activity, and a 204 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,400 call to worship our activity in all of this as. 205 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,700 But especially The Lord's supper or baptism is owing truly, and 206 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:48,200 only to the salvific work of God, through his son, who died 207 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,000 was buried and rose again on the third day. 208 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,600 That is how we participate is because God has initiated our 209 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,100 participation. Amen. 210 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,500 And so we are active, but we're only active because God was 211 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:04,200 active first. He's initiated this wonderful 212 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,400 relationship. So there's a couple of 213 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,600 long-standing truths that I wanted to read to you about the 214 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,300 Lord's. Supper these Help provide a 215 00:12:11,308 --> 00:12:15,400 foundation, a helpful foundation for us as we think about the 216 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,300 Lord's Supper. So first is this one? 217 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,100 These come from the London. Baptist confession of faith that 218 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:26,500 says this, the supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by him 219 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:30,500 the same night he was betrayed. It is to be observed, in his 220 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:34,300 churches, to the end of the age as a Perpetual remembrance and 221 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:38,000 display of the sacrifice of himself in his death. 222 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,700 It is given for the confirmation of the faith of Believers and 223 00:12:42,700 --> 00:12:45,600 all the benefits of Christ's death, their spiritual 224 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,300 nourishment, and growth and him. And their Her engagement in, in 225 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:55,000 to all the duties, they owe him. The supper is to be a bond and 226 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 pledge of their communion with Christ and each other. 227 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:04,200 And then goes on to say, just a few paragraphs later, worthy, 228 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:09,000 recipients, who outwardly, partake of the visible elements, 229 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,800 that is the bread and the cup in this ordinance. 230 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:17,100 Also, by faith inwardly receive and feed on Christ crucified and 231 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:20,900 all the benefits of his death. They do so really, and truly, 232 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:25,300 yet not physically and bodily, but spiritually, the body, and 233 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:28,200 blood of Christ are not present bodily or physically in the 234 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,900 ordinance, but spiritually to the faith of Believers just as 235 00:13:31,900 --> 00:13:35,500 the elements themselves are present to their outward senses. 236 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:38,700 And so we want to make it plain. That we are not saying that the 237 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:42,700 bread and the cup are the true body and blood of Christ. 238 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:46,400 This is a long-standing teaching and Catholicism it's called 239 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:48,400 transubstantiation. They believe that when the 240 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,900 Minister President, Praise for the, the bread and the wine that 241 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:56,400 it truly becomes the body and the blood of Christ. 242 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:57,500 But this is not what we're saying. 243 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:00,200 We are saying, however, that though, there are physical 244 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,500 elements. What's true spiritually is that 245 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:05,800 you are truly participating in the body, which was broken on 246 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,200 your behalf and the blood which was spilled on your behalf. 247 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,100 You are participating spiritually in those things. 248 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:15,000 And so you are therefore present with Christ Christ as present 249 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 with you, as you receive the Lord's supper, and these are 250 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,600 really Downing truth. It helps it honestly, it 251 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:27,100 prevents us from observing the Lord's Supper in a Anna wrote 252 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:30,600 religious manner, right? That would be Unworthy of 253 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,700 receiving the summer. We it helps us acknowledge. 254 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:36,300 What is truly going on in the Lord's supper? 255 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:38,700 And so again, I say through the Lord's, Supper the Holy Spirit, 256 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:41,900 strengthens our faith, hope and love in the finished work of 257 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:46,800 Jesus Christ, as Believers, really, and truly Feast on him, 258 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:47,500 though. The truth. 259 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:52,600 The feasting is Spiritual we will now explore three aspects 260 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,700 of the Lord's Supper. Those this faith, hope and love. 261 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:56,500 I want to talk to you about what these means. 262 00:14:56,500 --> 00:15:00,200 And as we do, I think that the truth, we must Delight in that 263 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:05,200 is that God grants us. The gift of feasting with him 264 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,100 through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 265 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:11,200 We're going to see that as we go through this and I hope that as 266 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,400 the old hymn what wondrous love is this says, I hope that it 267 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,200 causes you to dwell on this and him, we read this. 268 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,900 What wondrous love is this old? A soul. 269 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,100 What wondrous love is this? That caused the Lord of bliss to 270 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:26,200 Bear? The Dreadful curse for my soul. 271 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:29,300 When I was sinking down beneath God's righteous. 272 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:34,500 Frown Christ laid aside, his crown for my soul to God. 273 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:36,700 And to the lamb, I will sing to God. 274 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:38,300 And to the lamb who is The Great? 275 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:42,000 I Am while Millions join In theme, I will sing. 276 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:45,600 And when from Death, I'm free, I'll sing on. 277 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,900 And when from Death, I'm free, I'll sing. 278 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,200 His love for me and through eternity. 279 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,500 I'll sing on. Amen. 280 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:58,000 So first, it is a feast of Faith. 281 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,100 First, the Lord's Supper is a feast of Faith, so if you're 282 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:02,400 taking notes, you can write that down. 283 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,400 It is a feast of Faith because it strengthens our faith in 284 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,900 Christ. It's strengthening our faith in 285 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:12,100 Christ. As we look back in faith to what 286 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:15,100 Jesus has done for us on the cross. 287 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:18,300 So let me, let's look at these verses again, First Corinthians 288 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:21,100 11:23 to 26 for I received from the Lord. 289 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:23,200 When I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the 290 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,800 night, when he was betrayed took bread. 291 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,300 And when he had given thanks, he broke it. 292 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:31,400 And said, this is my body, which is for you. 293 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,500 Do this in remembrance. Of May in the same way, he also 294 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:40,000 took the cup. He said this this cup is the New 295 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,800 Covenant in my blood do this, as often as you drink it, in 296 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,700 remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink 297 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:50,800 the cup you proclaim, the Lord's death until he comes. 298 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,400 And so from the mouth of Christ, we have him saying, we see this 299 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,000 in the gospels as well. Not just in this letter to the 300 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,400 Corinthians, but Christ says do this in remembrance of me take 301 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,200 this bread and remembrance of me. 302 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,300 This is my body which is broken for you. 303 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:11,099 Remember it take this cup, this wine drink it in remembrance of 304 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:15,300 my blood which is spilt for you and a New Covenant of Grace, 305 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,000 right? This is for you but do it in 306 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 remembrance of me and then at the very end Paul's just telling 307 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,300 the Saints there at Corinth. He says as often as you partake 308 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:28,600 of the supper, You proclaim the Lord's death until he comes your 309 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,900 proclaiming the death of the Lord in this. 310 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:35,100 And so the Lord suffers meant to remind us of the work of Christ 311 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,000 on the cross and strengthen our faith in him. 312 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,600 That's why it's right to view the Lords of the Lord's. 313 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,800 Supper, as a covenants confirmation, right? 314 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:49,800 This cup is the New Covenant in my blood Christ says, it's a 315 00:17:49,808 --> 00:17:53,300 direct reference to the New Covenant that we have in Christ 316 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,800 which God makes with his people. Ruth about broken body and the 317 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,100 spilled blood of his only son. It's a covenant that has come to 318 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:05,600 us from God through his son, which is the second member of 319 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,600 the Trinity. He is the god man, Jesus Christ. 320 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:12,500 And this Covenant has come to us because of God's grace toward 321 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:14,900 us. It's the sign of God's covenant 322 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:17,600 with us. And the same way the rainbow was 323 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,200 for Noah and the same way the stars were for Abraham in the 324 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,000 same way the throne was for David, these things were meant 325 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,000 to remind these men n that God had made a covenant with them 326 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:31,600 and the fellowship meal. We see that our fellowship is 327 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:37,300 with God through Jesus Christ by his gracious salvation. 328 00:18:38,100 --> 00:18:40,700 Jonathan Cruz says this, he says, Jesus gives us Bread and 329 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:44,100 Wine as a means of Awakening or faith to the mighty work of 330 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:48,100 Salvation that he accomplished with his body and blood on the 331 00:18:48,100 --> 00:18:50,800 cross. That's what we're meant to think 332 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:52,400 back. That's what we're meant to 333 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,500 think. Back on as we protect of this 334 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:57,900 Mill, that's what it means. Means to do this in remembrance 335 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:02,600 of me. The memorial aspect of the 336 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,500 Lord's Supper helps us understand. 337 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:10,200 One reason why we must regularly partake of the Lord's Supper we 338 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,100 are spiritually weak people who are prone to. 339 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:17,700 Forget God's Mighty works of Salvation on our behalf. 340 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:21,700 And so a regular participation of the Lord's Supper helps us to 341 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:27,500 see these wonderful truths. However, through the regular 342 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:31,000 ordinary seemingly mundane participation in the Lord's 343 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:35,300 Supper God has graciously, strengthening our faith in his 344 00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:40,000 salvation, it seems mundane. It seems ordinary. 345 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,400 It seems like it's just merely a cup, and a little piece of bread 346 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,800 and that nothing more could be taking place. 347 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,700 But what we see in the word of God, and what we see throughout 348 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:54,500 church history is that it is a participation in the body. 349 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,900 And blood of Christ Jesus spiritually. 350 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:00,700 And so we're reminded of our covenant with God as we 351 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:03,200 participate in it. And so in the supper, we see 352 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,300 that God promises to graciously save, Sinners. 353 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:10,800 Even the worst of them through the sacrifice of his son, he 354 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,200 gives us a way to deepen, our faith, in the work of Christ 355 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,900 that that we hear when the word is preached. 356 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:20,600 And so now we respond by receiving the Lord's supper 357 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,600 together. So we can never be told to 358 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,600 remember, too often. Right, we're so prone to forget, 359 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,500 we're so prone to think that somehow after my, my salvation, 360 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:34,000 which is a work of God by his grace, that I am now meant to 361 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:38,100 buy my own Works work for righteousness. 362 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:42,400 Now, so we go from a work of Grace to Works righteousness, 363 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,500 and let us buy my own works. That I'm going to stay in good 364 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,000 standing with God. But what the supper reminds us 365 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,700 of, is that as we confess sins, as we repent of those sins as we 366 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,500 believe in and Trust, Christ for the Forgiveness of these sins 367 00:20:56,500 --> 00:20:59,600 that it's his work of Grace, from the beginning of Salvation, 368 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:04,000 to the end of Salvation in us, that allows us to participate in 369 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,800 such a wonderful meal. Amen. 370 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,500 It's his work in us and so we can never be told to remember 371 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:15,000 too often because we're always forgetting, but when you see the 372 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,600 broken bread in the moments, remember Christ body broken for 373 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,300 you. When you see the cup poured out, 374 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:25,100 remember the blood of Christ poured out for the Forgiveness 375 00:21:25,100 --> 00:21:27,800 of your sins. When you smell the substance of 376 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,800 the copper, you remember the pleasing Aroma of Christ blood, 377 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,100 sacrifice on your behalf when you taste the bread, remember 378 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,300 that Christ is the bread from Heaven, that feels every 379 00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:42,500 spiritual need and strengthens your so Journey. 380 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:46,100 He's with you at all times. And so through the Lord's, 381 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:48,100 Supper the Holy Spirit, strengthens our faith. 382 00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:52,000 Strengthens our home, strengthens our love in the 383 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,700 finished work of Jesus Christ, as Believers, really, and truly 384 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:59,300 Feast on him. The second thing we see about 385 00:21:59,308 --> 00:22:02,200 the Lord's Supper is, that is filled with hope, it's a feast 386 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:06,400 of faith, and it's filled with hope the Lord's Supper is filled 387 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,700 with hope as we look forward in Hope For What Christ will do one 388 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:14,800 day. And so, in First Corinthians 11 389 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,100 26, Paul just says explicitly for as often. 390 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:19,700 As you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the 391 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:21,100 Lord's, It's death until he comes. 392 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,100 It's a looking forward to, right? 393 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:27,700 The mill is meant not only to look back at the cross. 394 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:30,200 Not only look back at what Christ has done for you, but 395 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,100 it's a looking forward to that. Wonderful day. 396 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:34,900 Were Christ, will split the heavens and the Earth. 397 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,500 He'll split wide. The skies riding, he'll descend, 398 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:40,500 he'll return and he'll establish the new Heaven, and the new 399 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:43,000 Earth. And that all his redeemed, 400 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,500 people will dwell with him in eternity. 401 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:49,300 In this place, the Lord's Supper is, mirror is more than 402 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:52,400 Memorial, right? It's not simply just a memorial, 403 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,900 it's not simply that we're eating and drinking and memory 404 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:58,600 of Christ is that we're eating and drinking as we look forward 405 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:03,400 and hope to what Christ will do. It's about looking forward to 406 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,200 his coming again and the prophecy of Isaiah in the Old 407 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,200 Testament. The Israelites Are encouraged to 408 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,700 look forward to a feast that will come in the new Heaven, and 409 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:19,100 the new Earth. And God extends an invitation to 410 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:23,100 all those who are thirsty and hungry to eat freely from the 411 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:28,600 Bounty of Yahweh, which is the Lord in Isaiah, 55 a feature, a 412 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,500 future, Feast will come on yahweh's Mountain, which is a 413 00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:37,400 reference to the new heavens and new earth and Isaiah Prophecies 414 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,800 about this explicitly and in chapter, 25 verses 6 through 9 415 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,700 says, on this mountain, the Lord of hosts on this mountain, 416 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:49,400 Yahweh will make for All Peoples, a feast of rich food a 417 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:54,600 feast of well, aged wine of rich food, full of marrow of aged 418 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,800 wine. Well, refined and he will 419 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,100 swallow up on this mountain. The covering that is cast Over 420 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:03,600 All Peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. 421 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,600 He will swallow up death forever and the Lord God will wipe away 422 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,100 tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people, he will 423 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:15,800 take away from all the Earth for the Lord has spoken. 424 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,200 It will be said on that day. Isaiah continues. 425 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,500 Behold. This Is Our God. 426 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,600 We have waited for him that he might save us, this is the Lord. 427 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,300 This is Yahweh. We have waited for him. 428 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,100 Let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 429 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,400 Praise the Lord. And here we see the blessings of 430 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:42,200 God given to his people, as they share a meal in his presence, in 431 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,400 the new Heaven and the new Earth here it is that God will wipe 432 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,000 away every tear here. It is that God will conquer his 433 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,200 enemies here. It is that God will vindicate. 434 00:24:51,300 --> 00:24:55,100 His people here it is and most importantly that we see the 435 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:59,800 defeat of death once and for all the swallowing of death, is the 436 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,100 real Mill for God. On that day, death will be eaten 437 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:08,100 alive. To speak, it will exist no more 438 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,100 and therefore fellowshipping with God should not just be the 439 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:16,400 Pinnacle of a worship service. It's not just the Pinnacle of 440 00:25:16,408 --> 00:25:19,300 what we're trying to do in here to create a feast and to create 441 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:20,600 a meal that we have with the Lord. 442 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,800 And we walk away, realizing we are truly those because of the 443 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,000 work of God through Christ. We were truly those who are now 444 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:29,500 feasting or fellowshiping with God. 445 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:31,800 That is the Pinnacle of what we're trying to do here but 446 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,700 we're doing that because it's the Pinnacle of a life. 447 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,100 Of worship. You understand? 448 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:39,700 It's the Pinnacle of what you're hoping for. 449 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:43,100 It's the Pinnacle of what you're working toward as you trust 450 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:47,000 Christ, as you repent of your sins and you exercise faith in 451 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,900 him. As you grow in your faith, as 452 00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:50,200 you grow in your love, for others. 453 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,300 What we're hoping for, what we're looking forward, to is a 454 00:25:53,308 --> 00:25:57,300 Christ who redeems us all from the fall of this world. 455 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,200 Amen. And he places us with him in his 456 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,600 presence just as he took Adam and placed him into the garden, 457 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:06,700 Right. I can't help. 458 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:08,900 But every time I do that to act like I'm like barely picking up 459 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:11,000 these little people and moving them, right? 460 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,300 Don't think that's how it happens. 461 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:18,900 But anyway, you get the point. And so we see the blessings of 462 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:21,900 God here in Isaiah 25. We see what we're looking 463 00:26:21,900 --> 00:26:25,100 forward to. And so when Jesus instituted the 464 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:29,000 Lord's supper and Matthew 26 verse 29, he said this to his 465 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,400 disciples listen to this. He says, I tell you, I will not 466 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,500 drink again of this fruit of the vine until the day, when I drink 467 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:40,100 it new with you in my father's Kingdom. 468 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,700 Wow. So you and I are told Feast 469 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,900 enjoy the Lord's Supper partake of the Lord's Supper. 470 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,500 As often as you eat it, as often as you drink it, do this in 471 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:55,300 remembrance of me. So we are to continue doing it. 472 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,100 But we need to recognize that as we continue doing it. 473 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:03,600 Christ, is waiting for that day where he'll return and we'll eat 474 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,200 it Anew with him in his father's Kingdom, incredible. 475 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,400 He's referring to the new heavens and the new Earth that 476 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,900 new kingdom that he's going to usher in upon his return on that 477 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:17,300 last day whenever it is and he promises disciples. 478 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:21,900 He promises you and me. That he will Feast with us. 479 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:27,200 There will be present with him. Revelation 19, verse 9, John 480 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,900 writes. This of the Angel, the angel 481 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:32,900 says to him, right? This blessed are those who are 482 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:36,900 invited to the marriage supper of the lamb and the angel said 483 00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:40,300 to me, these are the true words of God. 484 00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:44,300 Amen. Therefore would Old Testament. 485 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:50,900 Israel Only Knows in Shadow. We know now in substance but 486 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:55,500 they could only see mere Shadows of it didn't yet have Christ we 487 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:58,500 know because we can see Christ and him crucified. 488 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:02,200 We know that the hope of eating with God can be attained only 489 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,800 through Jesus Christ. Now having been sprinkled clean 490 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,900 by the blood of Christ. As Hebrews tells us we can enjoy 491 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:12,900 this Feast of fellowship with God. 492 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,200 Jonathan Cruz says this in his book on worship. 493 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,500 He says, if we think the Lord's Supper is only about looking 494 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:25,100 back and Remembrance on the death of Christ, the sacrament 495 00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:27,800 will become more of a funeral than a feast. 496 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,500 Let that sink in. If we think it's only about 497 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:34,300 looking back, it becomes more of a funeral than a feast. 498 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,900 But if we see that God is pointing us forward in faith to 499 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:41,600 what is to come in the next stage, we will be unable to 500 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,500 participate with anything but joy and gladness but as we look 501 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:51,900 forward to the feast that's to come as you walk in this life 502 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:54,400 where you are a Sojourner, right? 503 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,100 You recognize every single day that this world is not your 504 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:01,400 home. Your beliefs and Christ do not 505 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,000 line up with the world that your beliefs in Christ, your trust, 506 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,300 in him, your fear of him, your all of him, your reverence, for 507 00:29:08,300 --> 00:29:13,500 him, your desire to glorify his name is contrary to everything 508 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:17,500 that this world stands for. And so you recognize as you go 509 00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:21,400 through painful moments as you go through difficult 510 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,900 relationships, as you struggle in your work, as you get 511 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:30,400 frustrated by life, you recognize that this cannot be 512 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,800 all that there is to life. I'm a Sojourner. 513 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,300 I'm a soldier. You're a Sojourner, you're on 514 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:44,100 your way to what? Hebrews 11 calls a Heavenly 515 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:48,800 Homeland? And by Faith by faith, you will 516 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,400 join the Lord there. And by faith right now you will 517 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,700 walk as a Sojourner to that day by faith. 518 00:29:56,700 --> 00:30:00,000 In Christ you will you two will come into the presence of the 519 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,600 Lord. Jesus Christ and participate in 520 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,600 this. And so when you, when you take 521 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,400 the Lord's Supper, when it's offered to you and your partake 522 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,800 of the Lord's Supper, you need to remember, You need to 523 00:30:13,808 --> 00:30:17,200 remember that. This is a foreshadowing of that 524 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:23,800 great meal to come. John frame old Pastor, not alive 525 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,400 anymore. He said this about the little 526 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,500 bit of bread and the little thimble of wine that you partake 527 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:35,800 of. He said that that it's good that 528 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,800 we use such small representations of that middle 529 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,200 to come, because it helps us to understand that it's only small 530 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,700 representations of the glories of Heaven that we can experience 531 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:50,800 on this earth, right? It's just A little bit. 532 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,000 Now, a little bit here, a little bit there. 533 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,700 We see the glory of the Lord at work in this world. 534 00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:58,700 And it's those things that remind us that there's great 535 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:03,000 glory to come unhindered on adulterate Glory, that awaits 536 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,900 Us. In heaven, one day, you met him 537 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,500 and so it helps us in our soul Journey, it helps us get there. 538 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,500 And so, through the Lord's, Supper the Holy Spirit, 539 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:13,200 strengthens our faith. He strengthens our hope. 540 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,200 He strengthens our love in the finished work of Jesus Christ as 541 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,700 his Believers, really and truly Feast on him. 542 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:26,300 The third we see that we are joined in love with Christ and 543 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,200 his body. We were joined in love during 544 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,200 the supper during the Lord's Supper that we protect over 545 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,900 joined in love. In other words, we're United 546 00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:39,300 together in the bonds of Christian love with Christ as 547 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:42,100 our head and the body as our brothers and sisters. 548 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:49,400 Paul's repeated use of the word hear you, write as often as you 549 00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:51,600 drink this whenever you come together. 550 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:57,000 It's plural. He's writing to a church body. 551 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,500 That's really got this thing mixed up, but he's given 552 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:06,100 instructions to the body of Christ and To Us by way of 553 00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:09,500 proxy, the Lord's Supper is communal. 554 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:11,100 It's always been meant to be communal. 555 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,500 It's not for you to partake of in the privacy of your home. 556 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,500 It's not for you to gather your family around and partake of 557 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,900 when you have a normal Lord's Day worship service where the 558 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,300 Lord's supper will be partaking of, I'm not saying if you're a 559 00:32:24,308 --> 00:32:26,400 missionary in a distant country, blah, blah, blah. 560 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:27,600 All right. There's all these outliers you 561 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,500 can bring up and we can talk about those later. 562 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:33,700 But normally it's for you to enjoy within the body, just, as 563 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:37,700 baptism is meant to be enjoyed among the body of Believers not 564 00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:40,800 in privacy and a bathtub with no one around, right? 565 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,000 It's meant to be proclamation of your union with Christ and your 566 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000 you With one another, if I partake of the Lord's Supper 567 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,700 apart from the body, how in the world can I be partaking of 568 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:52,800 something? That's declaring my union with 569 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,000 the body when they have no idea that I even took it with them 570 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,400 that day or they didn't take it all either, right? 571 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,900 And so it can't be that and he actually gets onto them for this 572 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:07,000 and First Corinthians 11:20 through 22, it says, when you 573 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000 come together, it is not the Lord's. 574 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,600 Supper that you eat for an eating, each one goes ahead with 575 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,100 his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets. 576 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:19,500 Drunk, what do you not have houses to eat and drink in? 577 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,400 Or do you despise the Church of God and humiliate those who have 578 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:24,400 nothing? What? 579 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,100 Shall I say to you? So I commend you in this? 580 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,400 No, I will not. Wow. 581 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,000 It's meant to be enjoyed together. 582 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,900 First and foremost. What I want you to know about 583 00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:37,900 the Lord's Supper is that we are united to our head. 584 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,900 Jesus Christ. He's the head of the body. 585 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:45,300 And without the head, there can be no Union of the body. 586 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:48,200 So we must first acknowledge Christ, and this is what Paul 587 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,100 writes a chapter earlier in First Corinthians 10 as he 588 00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:53,200 starts to introduce this, talk about the Lord's Supper. 589 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,700 He says, in verse 16 and 17 of First Corinthians 10, the cup of 590 00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:01,200 blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood 591 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,800 of Christ, the bread that we break, is it not a participation 592 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,100 in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread we 593 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:12,100 who are many are one body for. We all partake of the one, On 594 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,600 bread, he's looking to the head, right? 595 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,800 He's looking to the one who founded the church Christ. 596 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,900 Jesus is the Cornerstone and the whole structure is held together 597 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:25,500 in him. And so as we communally here 598 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:29,500 partake of the bread and the cup, we spiritually partake of 599 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:33,400 the Lord's body and blood, we recognize together, as we take 600 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,699 together, that it is him and his work that unites us. 601 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:43,800 We're not United by our common Maybe Do you know cultural 602 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:47,000 conviction that we should go to church on Sunday morning? 603 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,500 We're not United by some common cultural conviction that we 604 00:34:51,500 --> 00:34:55,600 should be moral people. We're not United by some common 605 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,400 cultural. Conviction that we should vote 606 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,900 Republican or that we should vote conservative or any of the 607 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:08,000 like we are united only through Christ Jesus, our lord, that's 608 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,900 where our Union rest. That's where it rest. 609 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,500 It's on him only. And so there might be a 610 00:35:15,508 --> 00:35:18,000 participation in all these other things, right? 611 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,000 Some of those things I mentioned might be part of what we're 612 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,300 doing, but we do those because Christ is the head of the body. 613 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,100 The body doesn't move the head. The body doesn't tell the head 614 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:31,800 where to go the head directs, the body follows, and that's 615 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,300 what we're doing in Cross. Were following him spiritually. 616 00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:40,100 We are truly United with Christ because of his salvation Paul in 617 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:43,300 Ephesians tells us that we are co-heirs with Christ Jesus that 618 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:47,000 we've been seated with him in Heavenly places. 619 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,400 Now, he writes that his past tense. 620 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:52,600 You are already seated with Christ in Heavenly places 621 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,500 though, you are now physically. Klee seated in a seat at New 622 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:59,500 Life Community Church. Incredible. 623 00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:00,800 What's taking place in your life? 624 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:05,000 Spiritually and so spiritually, you can be present with Christ 625 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 yet physically here, and that's what's happening in the Lord's 626 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,000 Supper spiritually. You were being brought up to 627 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,000 dwell with Christ to Feast with him at his table because he's 628 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,900 the one that draws us it's by faith. 629 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:23,300 In him his broken body, his spilt blood that counts, as 630 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:28,200 ours, his victory over sin and death is yours. 631 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:32,200 Payment is credited to your account in him. 632 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:39,100 You are saved because Christ died and rose again and he's 633 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:41,700 called you to himself. And so in the Lord's Supper we 634 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:44,800 are spiritually United with Christ as we partake of the 635 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,000 physical bread and the Cup by spiritual. 636 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,200 I mean there's one author puts it that the Holy Spirit lifts us 637 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,100 up. As I said a moment ago to the 638 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:56,800 Heavenly places to nourish our souls upon the living Christ. 639 00:36:58,100 --> 00:36:59,900 We're not bringing Christ down and Lord's Supper. 640 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:04,600 He brings us up to himself. As Paul said this, he said you 641 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:09,700 are setting your mind on things above, not on things on the 642 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:13,600 earth for you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in 643 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,800 God. Colossians 3, 2 3, 3, the truth 644 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,400 that he's teaching there is not that they had physically died, 645 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:24,200 but that they had spiritually died and been resurrected with 646 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,100 Christ in there now hidden with him in God, Amen. 647 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,400 And so if we're going to rightly Value taking the Lord's supper 648 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,400 together. That is if we if we're going to 649 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,400 rightly Value fellowshipping with God and with one another 650 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,600 through this ordained mill, then we must know what is going on. 651 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,500 When we celebrate the Lord's Supper, we are communing with 652 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:52,200 Christ, the bread and the cup or not, simply Memorial tokens when 653 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,800 we receive them in faith. We are not receiving a memory of 654 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,300 Christ. We are receiving Christ himself, 655 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,800 He is our all and all he is everything that we need and in 656 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,600 the Lord's Supper we have him. Amen. 657 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,700 John 6 verse 51. Jesus says this to those who 658 00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:14,700 came seeking more bread after he fed the 5000, he tells them that 659 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:17,600 the physical bread will never satisfy you and he says this, he 660 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,900 says, I am the living bread that came down from heaven. 661 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,900 If anyone eats this bread he will live forever and the bread 662 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:28,500 that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. 663 00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:31,800 A few verses later who go on to say if anyone eats my flesh and 664 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,800 drinks, my blood he will have life. 665 00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:41,700 So again, he's not teaching that you be cannibals and then he's 666 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:45,100 not teaching that when he ordains later, just a few 667 00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:47,500 chapters later. When he had ordains the Lord's 668 00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:49,700 Supper on the night he was betrayed. 669 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,600 He's not teaching that that bread and that wine truly become 670 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:57,300 his body and his blood he's teaching that in those things 671 00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:01,400 you were going to be feasting on the body and the blood of Christ 672 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,100 spiritually speaking and then and you do that by faith. 673 00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:08,200 So they were drawn more deeply into our Union with Christ. 674 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:11,900 We are also strengthening our Union with one another, so that 675 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:14,300 was a lot on our strengthening our Union with Christ. 676 00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:16,300 Let me talk to you for just a second about how we strengthen 677 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:19,600 our Union with one another and First Corinthians 10 17. 678 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,000 Again that chapter preceding, the one we're currently in he 679 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,800 says, because there is one bread we who are many are one body 680 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,800 for. We all partake of the one bread, 681 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,400 the Lord's Supper is the great uniting work in Church men. 682 00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:38,700 That's what he's saying. That that as we partake of this, 683 00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:41,900 we become one body. It is our bond of love. 684 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:46,200 The spirit is at work in all of us bonding us together in love 685 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,200 as we participate in the Lord's Supper again, Jonathan Cruz is 686 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,600 helpful. He says we who are many become 687 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:57,000 one in Christ for we have the one Spirit any and all dividing 688 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,700 differences are set aside and we come together in solidarity 689 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:03,100 under the head of the body who is Christ. 690 00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:06,500 We partake together as a sign of Conditional and Selfless. 691 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:10,300 Love that has been poured into our hearts by Christ and now 692 00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:13,500 pours forth into each other's lives and the Lord's. 693 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:16,700 Supper. We learn that we cannot love 694 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:19,600 Christ without loving him in the Brethren. 695 00:40:19,900 --> 00:40:21,800 Yeah. And so, is were partaking of 696 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,100 him. We're learning to love him. 697 00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:25,600 Well, we're learning to love him more Faithfully. 698 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,400 Our love for him is being strengthened our Union with him 699 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,300 as being deep. And we're coming to a deeper 700 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,800 understanding of how we're United with Christ. 701 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,700 Jesus. But we cannot do that apart from 702 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:40,700 the body. That's why the Apostle John says 703 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:44,400 in his Epistles. He says that if you do not love 704 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,500 your brother, then the love of the father is not in you, 705 00:40:48,100 --> 00:40:50,700 because you cannot say that you love your father and hate your 706 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:54,600 brother at the same time. And so it's untrue of us. 707 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,800 If we have, if there's divisions in the body of Christ and we're 708 00:40:57,808 --> 00:41:02,100 saying that we hate our brother, we hate those who are truly his 709 00:41:02,900 --> 00:41:05,900 and we say, but I love the Lord, I'm submitted to him. 710 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:11,900 John is saying you're a liar. Amen, you're a liar, if you did 711 00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:14,400 that. And so if we were /, take, if we 712 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,600 are to partake of the mill in a selfish way, which would be to 713 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,100 disregard the body altogether to say that this meal is for my 714 00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:23,400 nourishment. This meal is for me, and for me 715 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:28,000 alone, this is, this is my moment with the Lord here if 716 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,800 we're to do it in a selfish way. Just as the Corinthians were 717 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,000 doing and we haven't really partaking of the Lord's Supper, 718 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,600 you're forgetting one of the most important elements and that 719 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,800 is that it is a communal meal. Amen. 720 00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:43,500 Through the Lord's, Supper the Holy Spirit, strengthens our 721 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:47,100 faith, hope and love in the finished work of Jesus Christ. 722 00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:50,800 As Believers, truly, and really Feast on him. 723 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,600 Let me talk to you about this final Point, feasting in the 724 00:41:54,607 --> 00:41:58,100 wilderness. Feasting in the wilderness. 725 00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:01,900 Finally, the Lord's Supper reminds us that God is capable 726 00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:05,800 of providing for all of our needs, as we feast in the 727 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,300 wilderness. Again, this is a note on your 728 00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:12,700 sojourning, right? You, you are like those 729 00:42:12,700 --> 00:42:18,000 Israelites who wondered As they left Egypt, who wandered in the 730 00:42:18,008 --> 00:42:21,300 wilderness? You recognize this world is not 731 00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:24,700 your home, right? And so this Mill is offered to 732 00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:26,800 you as a feast in the wilderness. 733 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,900 Just as Manna fell from heaven for them. 734 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,000 As Christ reminds us to take the bread and the cup, and 735 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,900 remembrance of him. We not only remember his 736 00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:38,700 spiritual work for us and his gracious salvation, we must 737 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:44,000 remember that he is with us, always he's with us and so as we 738 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,000 feast Don him spiritually. We recognize were preaching the 739 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,900 truth to ourselves. We're remembering Christ and him 740 00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:54,700 crucified and were recalling that hope we have that. 741 00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:58,200 He's going to come again that we have another home that were 742 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,000 destined for and he's going to collect his people on that day. 743 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:06,500 And all who are not his people will be sent to Hell, Eternal, 744 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:09,300 and all, who are his people? All, who are hiding themselves 745 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:12,500 in Christ by faith. In the finished work of the Son 746 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:16,800 of God on the cross will be called to dwell with the Lord 747 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,600 eternally in life. Amen. 748 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,700 Cruz says this about this, feasting and the wondering he 749 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:28,000 says, this is what we get in the Lord's. 750 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,300 Supper God sustaining our weak Faith, through our Wilderness 751 00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:34,400 wandering, sustaining us on our journey from here, to the true 752 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,700 Promised Land. The point is this in the 753 00:43:36,700 --> 00:43:40,100 community aspect of worship God, strengthens our faith by giving 754 00:43:40,100 --> 00:43:44,000 us a taste of that future promise of Eternal fellowship 755 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,800 with him. And again, it's like the frame 756 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,000 quote, right? Why do we take just a small 757 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,900 amount of the cup. Why do we take just a little 758 00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:52,300 bitty bit? Bit of bread. 759 00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:55,500 It's to remind us that this anything in this life is brought 760 00:43:55,500 --> 00:43:58,800 a is, but a breadcrumb so to speak for what's coming in 761 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,000 glory? Amen. 762 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,200 Anything we get here is just a shadow of the substance that 763 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,300 will see there. So because the Lord suffered 764 00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:10,500 such a tremendous reminder of God's gracious work of 765 00:44:10,500 --> 00:44:12,900 Salvation. It's a tremendous reminder of 766 00:44:12,908 --> 00:44:16,200 the future coming of Christ and the marriage, supper of the Lamb 767 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,300 that that's still to be had. It's a tremendous reminder of 768 00:44:19,300 --> 00:44:22,000 our Union with Christ. And with his People. 769 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:25,800 And so we must partake is those who are sojourning. 770 00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:28,700 We must partake in a worthy manner. 771 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:31,300 This is the final point that Paul makes here in 1st 772 00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:35,300 Corinthians 11, 27 through 29, he says, whoever therefore eats 773 00:44:35,300 --> 00:44:37,900 the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord. 774 00:44:37,900 --> 00:44:42,000 In an unworthy manner, will be guilty concerning the body and 775 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,000 the blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself 776 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,800 then. And so eat of the bread and 777 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,800 drink of the cup for anyone who eats and drinks without 778 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:53,900 Discerning the body. Body eats and drinks judgment on 779 00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:58,400 himself and so you have to examine your life. 780 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:04,100 Am I living in step with the commands of God as one who 781 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:08,200 proclaims to have faith in Christ Jesus and my and obedient 782 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,500 Christian. Again this doesn't mean 783 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:18,200 perfection. you know, there are many who will say that if Well, 784 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,100 maybe they don't say it explicitly, but implicitly it 785 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:22,900 Supply. Implied at times. 786 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,600 That if your life isn't all together today, you should not 787 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,900 partake of the Lord's Supper. But I'm here to tell you that 788 00:45:30,900 --> 00:45:34,400 that's not good news in the supper is meant to be good news 789 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,500 for you. It's meant to be good news for 790 00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:38,800 Christians. That it is Christ and him 791 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,100 crucified. That is your only hope. 792 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,300 Amen. Is Christ and him crucified that 793 00:45:44,300 --> 00:45:46,400 your only hope of the Forgiveness of sins. 794 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,300 Your only hope of living presently in Holiness is to 795 00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:52,800 trust in him as you repent of your sins. 796 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,700 I'm not saying we just ignore sin, not at all. 797 00:45:54,700 --> 00:45:56,200 Alan, read the verse earlier, right? 798 00:45:56,300 --> 00:46:00,200 We Grace doesn't abound so that we can go on sinning Grace 799 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,600 abounds, so that we can know. We can always come to Christ in 800 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,500 our sins and be forgiven Grace abounds, so that we will have 801 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:12,100 the strength to overcome sins Grace abounds so that we too can 802 00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:15,800 walk into Glory one day and hear from the Lord himself. 803 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:16,800 Well done. No. 804 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,400 Well, it's not because you were amazing in some way. 805 00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:25,900 It's not because you figured out some way to hold yourself up by 806 00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:29,000 your own minds. It's not because you figured out 807 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,600 some way to clean yourself up before the Lord It will only be 808 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:38,700 because you have hidden yourself in Christ Jesus that's it. 809 00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:42,200 And so when you partake of the Lord's Supper it's you 810 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:47,300 acknowledging on my own. I am destined for hell. 811 00:46:49,300 --> 00:46:56,000 And so, I eat and I drink today in faith in Christ and his 812 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,900 finished work. But that's my only hope of 813 00:46:58,900 --> 00:47:02,200 Salvation. This is my only hope of seeing 814 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:06,000 Christ in glory one day, it's not the supper itself. 815 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,300 It's the faith in Christ at the supper signifies. 816 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,300 Amen. The Lord's Supper is for truly 817 00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,900 repentant. Sinners examine yourselves. 818 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:17,500 Less you take in an unworthy manner. 819 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,700 It's for truly repentant, Sinners, who are clinging to the 820 00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:25,700 grace of God by faith in Jesus Christ, and his cross. 821 00:47:26,500 --> 00:47:29,800 And so before we prepare to protect today, I encourage you 822 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,300 to repent of any sins that are on your mind. 823 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,600 Anything that you think of when I say that we should be a 824 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,400 repenting people. Anything that the Lord brings by 825 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,900 the power of His Spirit to your memory from this week. 826 00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:49,500 Or from this morning, or from the last year that you Harvard 827 00:47:49,500 --> 00:47:51,800 and that you've tried to hide and that you're trying to keep 828 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,000 away from everyone else, confess it to the Lord. 829 00:47:56,500 --> 00:48:00,900 Present yourself to him as unworthy and receive the 830 00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:06,400 righteousness of Christ, as your very own today, and then you can 831 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:10,400 eat and drink in a worthy manner, just as a supper was 832 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:15,000 intended. Repent, believe and enjoy the 833 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,000 Lord's Supper today. Again, I'll tell you the Lord's 834 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,500 Supper. Through the Lord's, Supper the 835 00:48:20,500 --> 00:48:23,000 Holy Spirit, strengthens our faith, hope and love in the 836 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,000 finished work of Jesus Christ, as Believers, really, and truly 837 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:31,900 Feast on him. I'm going to invite you to stand 838 00:48:31,900 --> 00:48:34,400 to your feet about the worship team to come this morning. 839 00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,900 As they're coming, I have just a couple of instructions as 840 00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,900 they're preparing everything. I want you to know this about 841 00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:45,500 the Lord's Supper here at New Life. 842 00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:48,700 We practice what we call close communion, right? 843 00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:53,400 And what this means is, as long as you are, a baptized believer 844 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,500 in Jesus Christ, and you are in good standing with your local 845 00:48:57,500 --> 00:49:01,100 church elders. Then we invite you to 846 00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:04,200 participate today. So if you're not a member here, 847 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,000 what we're saying is we invite you to participate today. 848 00:49:07,300 --> 00:49:09,900 If you meet those two qualifications of eating and 849 00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:14,100 drinking in a worthy manner, the ushers are going to pass out the 850 00:49:14,100 --> 00:49:18,300 elements as the team plays here in just a second. 851 00:49:20,700 --> 00:49:25,200 As you take those though, I want you to spend time in prayer I 852 00:49:25,207 --> 00:49:28,000 want you to prepare your heart through confession. 853 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:34,100 Repentance Faith, Thanksgiving even Thank you. 854 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,400 Maybe you say today. I don't have much to can't think 855 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,600 of anything necessarily to repent of Give thanks to the 856 00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,000 Lord today for the broken body, and blood of Christ. 857 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,700 Amen. Amen. 858 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:52,200 Let's, let's sing together as they're singing again, pray. 859 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,700 Prepare your heart, and I'll be back up with further 860 00:49:54,700 --> 00:49:45,200 instructions in just a moment. Give thanks to the Lord today 861 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,000 for the broken body, and blood of Christ. 862 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,700 Amen. Amen. 863 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:52,200 Let's, let's sing together as they're singing again, pray. 864 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,700 Prepare your heart, and I'll be back up with further 865 00:49:54,700 --> 00:49:56,100 instructions in just a moment.