All right, we're going to actually be looking at 1 Corinthians chapter 11. The context is the same as what Brad just read to us from Matthew 26. I want to use 1 Corinthians 11 as our text. You want to turn there? I've entitled today's message, The Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper. It's the Lord's table. And he made this supper. And he gave this to us who believe on him to come together and to eat this together. And I want to go through this with you. because it's so important. The gospel is preached throughout scripture, and this thing that we do, which the Lord gave us to do, preaches the gospel. In 1 Corinthians, in chapter 11, and beginning at verse 20, It says, when you come together, therefore, into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. The Lord's supper is what they should have been doing when they came together, but they were each one eating by themselves and leaving some people without food. It is what Paul is correcting next. He says, for in eating, everyone taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunken. What? Have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. So you can see the context here. The apostle Paul was moved by God the Holy Spirit to give this to the church at Corinth to correct their disobedience, but it was such a blessing when he did that too. So you can see here that even in this disobedience of this church, the apostle is going to instruct them. And that's part of what I want to say to us today from this text of scripture. He goes on in verse 23. The apostle says, for I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you. that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped, saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry or wait one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home, that you come not together, not together unto condemnation, and the rest will I set in order when I come. I want to use this text of scripture as the outline for our sermon today. And the first question that is answered here, or asked really, implied, is why did God determine before for Judas to betray the Lord Jesus? And especially on this night, why? Why did God determine on this night that Judas would betray the Lord Jesus Christ? And the second question I have is, why, I mean, what does this supper mean that the Lord gave to his disciples? What is the bread? And what is this wine that he gave to them? What do they mean? And then the third question I have here is, who is supposed to take this? Who was supposed to take this? And what does it mean here to take this cup and to drink this cup, to eat this bread and drink this cup unworthily and to be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord? What does it mean for a man to examine himself? So that's the next question. And then finally, I want to look at this in overview so we can see what the, the summary is of the Lord's Supper to us. So first of all, let's consider the context here, that in the context of the Lord's Supper, Judas betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ. Judas betrayed Christ. To betray, what does this word mean? As I thought about it, and thinking about what Judas did, and his relationship to Christ, what Christ did for Judas. Judas was greatly privileged. And you know that because there were only 12 apostles and he was one of the 12. Looking out here now, let's see, four, six, nine, there's more people here today than there were in that upper room. One of them was Judas. And Judas had this privileged place with the company of Christ's apostles. He was chosen by Christ. He heard the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. He heard the same words that Jesus spoke to the 11 that gave them life in their souls and produced faith in him, in them. He heard those same words. And he saw Jesus perform miracles. He resorted with the Lord Jesus Christ when he withdrew himself from his enemies to be alone with his disciples. He heard him pray. He saw the work, the labor that he underwent in order to bring the gospel and the pain that it caused him when he took the infirmities of those he healed. And he saw the mocking that his enemies were bringing against him, the reproach. He saw that. He was with the Lord. The Lord treated him as a friend, as one who's had the Lord's confidence. The Lord trusted in him as a friend. And so, To betray then means that Judas used this privileged relationship he had with Christ in order to take advantage of the Lord Jesus Christ to his hurt, in order for Judas himself to gain a little bit of money. Judas betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, and he didn't ever enjoy that money. In fact, as soon as it was given to him, I mean, they tried to give it to him and he said, I have betrayed the blood of an innocent man. And they said, what is that to us? And he went out and hanged himself. He never enjoyed that money. But it was what was going on inside of Judas. He had this privileged position with the Lord and yet he used it. in order to turn over Christ to his enemies, deliver him into the hands of his enemies. That's a horrible thing. I can think of nothing worse than that, to take advantage of someone's trust as a friend and betray them and turn them over for personal gain to their enemies. Christ suffered because Judas turned him over to his enemies. In John chapter 18 you can read about this. The Lord knew that the soldiers were coming and Judas brings the band of soldiers and he comes up to Jesus and kisses him. He betrayed him. He directed the soldiers to him according to his plan that he had put in place with the high priest before. That's betraying. Now, this event of Judas betraying Jesus actually was foretold in the Old Testament, and I don't have time to take you to that, but let me rehearse some of the history behind it. The event that God used in scripture to foreshadow, to predict and anticipate this event of Judas betraying Christ is seen in the history of David with his son Absalom, and David's trusted counselor Ahithophel, and another man that was a servant of Saul named Shimei. Now, what happened was that David had sinned against God. He had committed adultery with Uriah's wife, Bathsheba. And then he had Uriah murdered at the hand of his enemies. Uriah was one of David's 30 great men. If you read about that in scripture, there were a few men that were significant in David's kingdom and Uriah was one of them. And yet David murdered at the hand of Uriah's enemies. He murdered Uriah. That's a betrayal, isn't it? Uriah was a faithful servant to David. He had taken Uriah's wife when Uriah wasn't present. And Uriah came back. He tried to cover it up. Uriah wouldn't do what was necessary to cover it up. So he sent him out to have him killed in battle. And then David lived in hypocrisy. until the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to discover his sin and expose him. And you remember that account of Nathan bringing that to David's to weigh heavily on David when he gave that comparison of the rich man who had flocks and yet he had a friend come for dinner and he looked at his neighbor's only sheep and took him and killed that sheep for his friend to feed to his friend. And David was so mad and angry that he said, that man will surely die. And Nathan said, you're the man. You're the man. And from there, David says, I've sinned and the 51st Psalm is poured forth. But the point here is that David sinned a great sin. God forgave his sin. But because of this sin, God chastened David and the chastisement was severe. Rebellion arose within his kingdom in his son Absalom. And David's trusted counselor and wise counselor Ahithophel joined Absalom with many in Israel who joined Absalom against David. David had been faithful. David had been faithful to them, but they turned against him. And Absalom used his place as the king's son to betray his father. And Ahithophel used his place as the king's counselor to get close to Absalom in his trust and to take an advantage for personal gain at the expense of David's life. That's betrayal. And then Shimei was another character, a servant of Saul, who when he saw David outside and fleeing from Absalom and those who had joined with Absalom, and Shimei is cursing David and throwing stones and kicking up dust and bringing reproach on the king and accusing him of being a bloody man. And David's men said, let me just go kill this man, Shimei, Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, which was a sister of David's. Abishai said, let me go over and take off his head. David said, no. God sent him to curse. Let him alone. Who can tell if God will turn his curse into a blessing? And you can read about this in scripture. But that was the setting. And that was what foreshadowed this betrayal of Christ by Judas. David was being chastened for sin he committed. Now, the Lord Jesus never sinned. And Judas had seen his life perfect and impeccable and heard his words, nothing wrong. No one, not even his enemies could find wrong with him. And yet Judas betrayed him. He said, I have a way to enrich myself a small amount of money at the expense of this man's life. And he took advantage of him and betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies, just like Ahithophel and Absalom and Shimei and all of Israel who came against David at that hour of his low point. David sinned and the chastisement of God upon him was as a consequence of his sin. But the Lord Jesus never sinned. David was betrayed by his friends. He was faithful. The Lord Jesus Christ was faithful to his father, to his people. And yet it was on this night, this night when the Lord gave this supper to his disciples, that God arranged for Judas to betray his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? It was a very intimate night, wasn't it? Remember how intimate it was. There's only 12 men and the Lord Jesus Christ. It was the last Passover, the last Passover ever to be held in a legitimate fashion. It was this Passover. And this was the very first time in all of history that the Lord Jesus Christ took bread and wine and gave it to his disciples and explained, this is the meaning of it, the bread, my broken body, for you, the wine, the blood of the New Testament, for the remission of sins. And this is when he told them, you take this bread from my hand and you eat it. He broke it right before them and gave it to them. This night was a night of intimacy, wasn't it? And this night was the night when the Lord Jesus was heard by his disciples speaking of his father, how his father had sent him into the world, how he was returning now to his father and how he would go and prepare a place for them, how they would be with him, how he prayed. They heard him pray to his father. Father, I will that they also whom thou has given me be with me where I am. This was an intimate night, wasn't it? John lay on Jesus' breast. such intimacy to hear the prayers of the Lord Jesus Christ for us, what intimate communications he had with them, what love he showed to them. Why then was it this time that God designed for Judas to betray the Lord Jesus Christ? This is why we sang that first song that we did. I need the precious Jesus for I am full of sin. The answer to this question is in that song. You see, whenever God is going to show us himself, when he's going to show us his truth and his grace, he has to first show us the context of it. And this was the context, the evil, the unfaithfulness of Judas, and the absolute faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ, the two set in contrast, one with another. The Lord Jesus is going to give himself for his people. Judas is going to be the instigator, the catalyst, if you will, that would be used by God in order to deliver him into the hands of his enemies. And it would happen at this time, at this very time, this night, when he would give himself, he said, he says where we read there in Matthew 26, let me remind you how it's worded. He says, when even was come, he sat down with the 12, in verse 20 of Matthew 26, and they did eat, and he said, verily I say to you that one of you shall betray me. They were exceeding sorrowful. and began every one of them to say to him, Lord, is it I? And he answered and said, he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The son of man goeth as it is written of him. But woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed. It had been good for that man if he had never been born. You see, this is the context. There's nothing more frightful, nothing more horrifying to me to realize that the very thing that was in the heart of Judas, that moved him out of personal covetous greed, to bring upon the Lord Jesus Christ this suffering, this reproach, this death at the hands of his enemies. The very thing that moved Judas to do this is in me. That horrifies me. That is terrifying to me. That causes me to tremble. No wonder the disciples said, Lord, is it I? You see, this is the context for the revelation of Christ's intimacy to his disciples. The intimacy comes out of this, doesn't it? And we've referenced this before. But do you know Joseph's own brothers sold him? Joseph's own brothers sold him, just like Judas. Joseph's own brothers sold him as a slave into Egypt and God had designed this before for their salvation. That's the intimacy here. The context here is the greatest imaginable evil against the greatest imaginable holy one of God. The one who came in our nature and spoke to us eternal words of life from God in eternal love of His own self serving. This was part of the intimacy, stooping and serving and washing His disciples' feet in a servant's dress. And here in this context, what do we have? We have this horrid almost unspeakable sin of wickedness that lay in the heart of Judas, which was also in the heart of Joseph's brothers. And it's in our heart, too. There's a hymn, an old hymn. It was written, I think, in the 1500s. And the title of the hymn is, Ah, Dearest Jesus. It goes like this, Ah, Dearest Jesus, How hast thou offended that man to judge thee hath in hate pretended, by foes derided, by thine own rejected, O most afflicted? Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee. T'was I, Lord Jesus, I it was, denied thee, I crucified thee. You see, that's the context. And that's the way that this intimate communication from Christ would burrow itself into the hearts of his disciples, so that when they took this bread broken for you, this wine crushed and made to be the blood of the everlasting covenant fulfilled for the remission of our sins. And they took this into their mouth and consumed it, and it became part of them, and it reflected that taking of Christ, crucified by faith into ourselves. Then the impact of it would be there, that he was crucified because of my sin. I did this. I crucified him. I, it was, denied him. In Zechariah chapter 12, Zechariah is an Old Testament book near the end of the Old Testament. It says this in Zechariah chapter 12, and he says, I will pour upon, verse 10 of Zechariah 12, he says, I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his own son. and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." You see, this is the context. This is the intimacy. This is the reason why the Lord was delivered up on this night is because it was for our sin. He was delivered up in unfaithfulness and in betrayal, delivered up to his enemies, and he suffered the pain of this betrayal from a trusted friend. Because I deserved to be given up and delivered by God into the hand of justice, Because of my sin and the Lord Jesus Christ had to bear the consequences of my unfaithfulness. That's why he was delivered up this night. Lord, is it I? Is it I? Yes, the Lord was there for you and for me who believe on him. It's for us, wasn't it? And you see here also the reason is that in this unfaithfulness of Judas, in this great evil of Judas' heart exposed to be the context out of which this intimate communication of Christ flows because he bore the sins of his people in order to save them from the very sins that delivered him up. And he's going to reveal this in intimacy as Joseph embraced his brothers and kissed them and said, is I, Joseph, your brother whom you sold? Now don't be angry with yourselves, for it was not you, but it was God who sent me here before you to preserve life. That's the reason. But out of this also we see the faithfulness of Christ in this dark contrast of the evil of our own hearts, don't we? Where we were unfaithful in the extreme, he was faithful in the extreme. Our sin, His righteousness, our unfaithfulness, His faithfulness, our ungodliness and His holiness, our hatred and His everlasting love. We need this, don't we? I need Thee, precious Jesus, for I am full of sin. That's the context. And now notice also, he says here in 1 Corinthians 11, Not only was it this night that Judas betrayed the Lord was the context, but it says here that when this took place in this most intimate setting, at this most intimate of times, in this revelation of Christ's grace, in the abounding sin of our own our own evil. He says that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 24, he says, when he had given thanks, he break it. He took bread. When he had given thanks, he break it and said, take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. Now, this is amazing, isn't it? If you just turn that knob to the middle, hon, in the bottom, it'll turn it off. On this same night, the Lord Jesus Christ now is gonna take bread in his hands, and he's going to take that bread, and the disciples are going to be watching him now, and he's gonna break the bread. Why bread? Why did he use bread? Why did he do this with bread? Remember, Jesus said, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven. My father giveth you the true bread. He gives you, my father has given you the bread of life, the bread of heaven. And if a man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And this bread that I will give is my body, which is broken for you. And if a man eat of this bread, he will live forever. And if a man does not eat of this bread and drink my blood, he has no life. No life in him. That's why he took the bread. Because the bread is a symbol, it represents the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Son of God coming in our nature. Because it was only as a man that he could bear the shame and the reproach of a man. From wicked men at their hands and deliver up to bear their sins against God that required God to deliver him up. for their salvation and to bring to God a just payment to make peace with God for them. And this he did because he took a body. He was made lower than the angels in order that in the body and the soul of a man, he should taste death for every son. And this is why it was bread, because he is the bread of life. He couldn't be life to us unless he came as a man and in himself bear our sins in his own body on the tree and there suffer the outpouring of God's indignation of wrath against us for our sins. That's why he says it's for you. It's a substitution. The Lord Jesus Christ substituted himself. Before God, where we ought to have stood, but He stood in our place. He interposed Himself to answer God for us with the answer of Himself. His body broken. This is my body broken for you, you said. Is it I? This is broken for you. This is why you will not be given over to that evil and wicked heart. And the guilt of your rejection of me will be taken away by me because my body will be broken for you. Take it. Eat it. This is your life. In your soul, take into your soul by faith the Lord Jesus Christ substituted himself for my sins that turned him over to his enemies at the hand of God's justice. Zechariah 13.7 says, Awake, O sword against my shepherd, smite the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. You see, God pierced his son. God gave him up. This is the way we know the love of God, that God sent his son that we might live by him. This is the bread of life. This herein is love, not that we love God, but that God loved us and gave his son to be the propitiation for our sins. You see, he made Christ to be all that God required in order to make peace with us so that God would not only be passive towards us, but that he would actively bless us with every spiritual and heavenly blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Every blessing of God has the stamp of Christ crucified on it. Everything is given to us because of him. That's why the bread, that's why the bread was broken. And the Lord took the bread He took the bread, he drew their attention to this bread. And it says here that that it was the same night he was betrayed when he took it and broke it. And then he said, take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. But in Matthew 26, where we were reading earlier, he says this, it says. As they were eating, in verse 26, Jesus took the bread, notice, and He blessed it. He who was broken for us, when He rose again from the dead, He blessed His crucified body and risen life to us for our life. And He break it, and notice, He gave it to the disciples. His blessing it was, in another place said, a giving thanks for it. So he was giving thanks to his father that he could be broken to save his people, to have them and to bring them to himself. Talk about intimacy. He said in Luke, in Luke's account, he said, with desire, with desire, I have desired to eat this with you before I suffer. You see this? What wondrous love is this? Oh, my soul, you see. That's what the Lord has commanded us to do. Do this in remembrance of me. Remember me. When the Lord says over and over in scripture to remember him, it's because faith is not something we do one time. This is a continuous living upon Christ crucified for us. He says in first Corinthians 11 and verse twenty five, then after the same manner, also he took the cup and when he had supped saying, notice this cup is the New Testament in my blood. The New Testament in my blood, what does that mean? Well, in Matthew 26, he says the same thing, but he said, it is shed for many for the remission of sins. So what we see here is that God made a covenant called a testament that would be put into force when the one who made the testament died. This was a last will and testament. The Lord Jesus Christ is the testator. He's the one who made this last will and testament. So he had to die to put it into force. And God made this covenant with him so that all that he did would be according to God's will. He would fulfill, he would finish the work God gave him to do. And when he had finished that work, God would remember the sins of his people no more. He would receive from Christ his own blood instead of their blood. And he would be pleased. God was pleased. It says in Hebrews chapter 2, For it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. That's why it seemed good to God. And He made this covenant with Christ on behalf of His people. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of that covenant. And His bloodshed would put everything in that covenant into force. All these blessings then would flow to us because Christ shed His blood. And this also tells us that God deals with us in His Son. He deals with us because of His Son. He deals with us and everything for the sake of His Son. God never treats us, never deals with us for our sake, but only and always for Christ's sake alone. If we could just get that into our hearts, then we would love Him. We have to have this, don't we? We imagine that we need to become something or do something or be something and make God somehow attract His attention and retain His attention and recognition and blessings. It can't happen. It can't happen. I'm full of sin. I need Thee, precious Jesus. And that's why the Lord made Christ the covenant for His people. Going back in the history of David, David made a covenant. Jonathan and David made a covenant together. And in that covenant, Jonathan made David swear to him. He said, now, David, He says, I will do you good. I will tell you what my father thinks, whether it's good or bad, one way or the other. And he pledged. Jonathan took off his his armor. He took everything off and he gave it to David. His soul loved David as his own soul and made a covenant with him. He says, now, when God has made you king, he says, for my sake, show kindness to my house. to my home, to my family. And so when after Jonathan had been killed in battle and David had been given the throne and David was seated and he was reigning in peace, you know what he did? He said, is there any is there any left of the household of Saul? That I may show the kindness of God to him. And they said, well, there's this one. But he was dropped when he was a little boy by his nurse and he became lame on both his feet. He can't provide for himself. He's really of no value. He's a shameful thing. And David said, fetch him and bring him. And David looked at Mephibosheth and he said, I will surely do you kindness. for Jonathan, your father's sake, because of the covenant I made with him. And so God does us kindness for Christ's sake alone. And Mephibosheth said, who am I, a dead dog to sit at your table? And David said, you're going to sit with the king's sons at my table all the days of your life for Jonathan's sake. God deals with us for Christ's sake. He said, take this cup. It's for Christ's sake that God has given you these everlasting covenant blessings. It's for you. Remember me. Remember me. He says, as often as you do this, as often as you eat this bread, remembering my broken body for you, given by God in the incarnation, given by God delivering me up, not sparing my life for you all, that you might be with me where I am. And this cup of the New Testament for the remission of your sins, do it in remembrance of me. Don't look at the bread and ask these foolish questions. Is Jesus in the bread? Is he with the bread? Nonsense. Remember Christ. Remember what he did. These things can barely scratch the surface to remind us of what the Lord has done. God has to open his word to us and break the bread of life in our hearts and in our souls. And so he says, do this in remembrance of me. He said, whoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. What does this mean? Well, we don't have to look far. Remember what happened when Jesus gave the explanation of the broken bread and the wine being his blood, and he said, you have to eat my flesh, you have to drink my blood, or you have no life. And the disciples said, we can't stay anymore. We've heard enough. You've gone too far. We're leaving you. And Jesus turned to his other disciples and he says, will you also go away? will you?" And Peter said, no. Where else would we go? You see, to examine yourself means are you coming to God with some value for recognition from God? Do you mix something with God's grace or are you leaning entirely as a sinner, helpless and guilty? Lord, is it I? Take away this guilt in this heart of mine. Keep me from betraying you. Hold me fast or else I will fall. Is that your attitude? Then you're going to come and you're going to take this bread as a sinner because Christ gave his life for you. Otherwise, you're guilty of the body and blood of the Lord because you come presuming that you can add something to what only Christ could do. In Hebrews chapter 10, he says it this way, In Hebrews chapter 10 in verse 35, I want to read this to you. After giving the first 10 chapters of the book of Hebrews to prove Christ fulfills the Old Testament, he says in verse 35, cast not away therefore your confidence. Don't cast away your faith, just like he told the Galatians, are you so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain? He says, cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. For you have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise for yet a little while. And he that shall come will come and will not tarry. Now, this is it. The just shall live by faith. But if any man draw back, trusting in himself, trusting in an idol, trusting in something else, As the Corinthians were prone to do, he said, my soul will have no pleasure in him. But we we are not of them who draw back onto perdition. That's what happened to Judas. But we are of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Second Corinthians 13, five, he says this. Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith or no. In First Corinthians, chapter 10, he says this. First Corinthians chapter 10, he says, the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? This is that intimate communion we have with God where God Himself discloses His heart to us in the blood of His Son. Is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, we, the church of God, gathered together to do this together, being many, are one bread, one body. For we are all partakers of that one bread. When we take Christ by faith into our souls, by God-given faith, through the Spirit of God, when we hear the word and we're taking him into our souls and say, Lord, Be my propitiation. Be my life. Be my answer. Be my righteousness. Be everything from God to me and everything from me to God to fulfill all that God requires of me. And all the blessings that God would give to His people. Lord Jesus, be that for me. That's taking in our souls by faith. And therefore, what we do with our mouth in eating this bread and drinking this cup is preaching what's going on in the heart by God's grace. And says, behold. This is first Corinthians 10, 18, behold, Israel out to the flesh, are they not they which eat of the sacrifices? partakers of the altar, what say I then, that the idol is nothing, the idol is anything, or that that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? He's talking to them because they were concerned about idols and whether they should eat these things. He said, but I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, not to God. And I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. We cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils. You see? This is coming to the Lord's table in the unbelief of idolatry, thinking that we by our own works, which idols are the works of men's hands, trusting in what we can do, trusting in some manipulation we can do in order to get God to bless us, not looking to God who must save us by His own will in the blood of His Son. That's the difference, see? Examine yourselves. Are you in the faith? Are you a broken sinner in need of a savior and can't save yourself? Is Christ all to you or is he just a little bit? Do you need him and will you trust him? You see, when you're a sinner, you have nowhere else to go and you're happy to be that way. They're never so happy as when Christ is everything for us. And when we wonder if God will know us and receive us, we say, Lord, receive me for Christ's sake. That's it. That's the covenant. And then he goes on. If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. You see, this is the process. was betraying Christ, the other disciples said, Lord, is it I? I know. I know that if left to myself, I would do what he did. I know he would. I know that the same sin that led Judas to sell Christ for his own personal gain, give him up to reproach and suffering and death at the hands of his enemies, I know that that would be me unless the Lord take me to himself and save me from my sins. Lord, is it I? We judge ourselves, don't we? This is a sinner coming to God. needing a Savior and finding only Christ, able to save, willing to save me. And that's what we're doing when we take the Lord's Supper. Lord, you gave this. You took it. You broke it. You blessed it. You thank God for it. You gave it. And then you told us to take it and eat it. And in doing this, to remember you, to preach the Lord's death until he comes,