I like to always say good morning.
A dear brother this week told me, he said, every morning is
a good morning, because Christ our King is risen. And that's
so true, isn't it? Every morning we wake up, it's a good morning.
We're so blessed. Matthew 16, verse 13 to 21. The name of the message is, What
Jesus Must Do For Us. what Jesus must do for us. When Jesus came to the coast
of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Whom do
men say that I, the Son of Man, am? And they said, Some say that
thou art John the Baptist. Some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah
or one of the prophets, He saith unto them, But whom say ye that
I am? And Simon Peter answered and
said, Thou art the Christ. Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood
hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this
rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the
keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind
on the earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt
loose on earth thou shalt be loosed in heaven. Then he charged
his disciples that they should tell no man that he was the Christ.
And here's our text in verse 21. From that time forth began
Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer
many things of the elders and the chief priests and the scribes
and be killed and be raised again the third day. Here before us we have our Lord
and King the great sovereign, the sovereign of the universe
who condescended and became a man. Fully man, but yet fully God. And he's instructing the disciples
on what must come to pass. There's no question. It must
come to pass. And this had to come to pass
as same as when our Lord said he must needs go into Samaria.
Why? Because he had sheep there. There
was a woman at the well who was one of his sheep given to him
from eternity. And there turned out to be a whole bunch more
too there. So he must. He must go to Jerusalem. He must suffer many things at
the hands of the rulers and elders and scribes. He must. This didn't catch him by surprise.
He knew what he had to do. Scripture says he set his face
like a flint to Jerusalem. That means steadfastly. Flint
means just steadfast. That he was unmoving. He knew
what he must accomplish. He must die in the sinner's room
and place. He must. He must rise again from the dead.
He must. He must. Look at our text again. From that time forth began Jesus
to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem
and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and
scribes and be killed and be raised again the third day. Now from that time points us
upward in the text Back to verse 16 where Peter declares that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Notice verse 21 in light of this.
In light of Peter saying that thou art the Christ, From that
time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he
must go to Jerusalem and suffer these things of the elders and
the chief priests and be killed and be raised again the third
day. Our great King, our great Savior,
our great Redeemer is telling his disciples the things that
he must do. He must. In religion, there's a lot of
telling people what they must do. And as I said before, it's an
endless list. False religion puts a whole emphasis
upon you and what you do and not upon what Christ has
done. Salvation becomes conditioned
upon what the sinner does. But in our text, our great King
and Savior is saying what He must do. What He must do. If He doesn't die, then our sins
are not paid for. If He doesn't rise from the grave,
then we're not justified. And God's not satisfied. He must. Oh, the Lord Jesus Christ
here plainly states in our text what He must do for the salvation
of His people. What He must do. From that time
forth, again, we'll look at the verse again. From that time forth
began Jesus to show unto His disciples how that He must go
unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and chief
priests and scribes and be killed and be raised again the third
day. Oh, salvation is of the Lord. He must do it. He must do it
all. Salvation is not of our works, not of our doing, not what we
think. Oh, I think I'm saved because
I'm not as bad as that guy over there. That's a work all on its
own. Salvation is of the Lord. It's of the Lord. It's all His
work. It's all His work. Psalm 57-2
says this, I will cry unto God Most High, unto God that performeth all
things for me. Beloved, I ask, has not Christ
performed all things for you? Could you save yourself? No,
but Christ has saved us from our sins. Could you pay for one
sin? No, but Christ has redeemed us
from all our sins. All of them. There's not one
left behind. Not one. So then the Lord Jesus
Christ is my salvation. And every believer says, the
Lord is my salvation. He's my salvation. From beginning to end, from Alpha
to Omega, that's A to Z in the Greek, He's everything. If you take Christ out, I have
no salvation. I'm still dead in my trespasses
and sins. I have no justification. I can't
stand in the presence of God without Christ. Not at all. But He's done it all. Unto God
that performeth all things for me. Turn, if you would, to 2 Timothy,
chapter 1. 2 Timothy 1, verses 8-10. He's the beginning and end of
my salvation. All my hope, all my trust and my rest for my eternal
soul is in Christ. It's nowhere else. Nowhere else. There was a time when I trusted
in myself, but I don't know more. Verse 8, chapter 1, 2 Timothy. Be not thou therefore ashamed
of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be
thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God. Who hath saved us? We can't save
ourselves. Remember the scripture I read,
unto God that performeth all things for me, Christ was God
in the flesh and he did it all. He did it all from the redeeming
of my soul, who saved us and called us with a holy calling,
not according to our works. There goes any kind of works
right out the window. It's not my works, it's his work. It's what he's done. Amen. Every believer, we just rest
in what He's done. Not according to our works, but
according to His own purpose and grace. Oh, God has grace
and mercy on sinners. Which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began, but now is made manifest. Manifest. By the appearing of our Savior,
Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death... Oh, He's risen. He rose
from the grave victorious. And hath brought life and immortality
to life through the Gospel. Eternal life in Christ Jesus
in Him alone. Nowhere else is it found. Back to our text in Matthew 16,
it says, From that time forth began Jesus to show unto His
disciples that He must go into Jerusalem and suffer many things
of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and
be raised again the third day. The Lord Jesus Christ, God incarnate
in the flesh, the great King of kings and Lord of lords, declares
three things that He must do. He must purchase us. He must purchase us. He must die. He must suffer. He must be killed. And He must
be raised on the third day. Oh, and He must do this for the
salvation of His people. So the first point is this. He
must suffer at Jerusalem. He must, and our Lord suffered
at the hands of godless men. religionists, the elders and chief priests
and scribes, the very ones who were teaching the blind, leading
the blind, and they did not know Him. The men who studied the Word
of God daily, but did not know Him. blind. But what these wicked men performed
is not the reason of our salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ suffers
not only at the hands of sinners, but more importantly, He suffers before a holy and
just God. of a holy God, under the justice of a holy God. Turn, if you would, to Acts chapter
4. And why did he do this? Why did he do this? To redeem
his people from their sins. Greater love hath no man than
this, than a man lay down his life for his friends. Acts 4. The kings of the earth. Verse
26. The kings of the earth stood
up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and
against His Christ. For of a truth, against Thy holy
child Jesus, whom Thou has anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate
and the Gentiles and all the people of Israel were gathered
together. for to do whatsoever thy hand
and thy counsel determined before it to be done. Christ must die. He must do this. It was determined by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God for him to die on Calvary's
cross, to redeem his people from their sins, and he must die.
Turn, if you would, to 1 Peter. The Lord Jesus Christ dies the
sinner's substitute. The absolute sinless one dies
the sinner's substitute. 1 Peter 2, verse 25, and then 1
Peter 3, verse 18. He died as the sinner's substitute,
bearing our sin in His own body. For ye were as sheep going astray,
verse 25 of chapter 2, but now are returned unto the shepherd
and bishop of your souls. And then 1 Peter 3.18 says this,
and we looked at this this morning, Christ only, He did it all. He paid it once. Once. It's perfect. It's finished. Verse 18, For Christ also hath
once suffered for sins. He suffered for sins, but they
weren't His. He's perfect, spotless, sinless. He died in the room and place
of sinners. The great substitute. For Christ also once has suffered
for sins. He's just and holy for the unjust. That's us, sinners. That He might
bring us to God. We can't come to God on our own.
He must bring us. Being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit. His soul was made an offering
for sin. Isaiah says this in 53, verse
10, Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him, for He hath put Him to grief.
When thou shalt make a soul an offering for sin, he shall see
a seed, and he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of
the Lord shall prosper in his hands. The Lord Jesus Christ,
the perfect, sinless substitute, dies in the room and place of
sinners, before God's holy law and justice, that which was rightly
for us who believe. Oh my. For he hath made him to be sin
for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. Our sins are imputed to him,
and his righteousness is imputed to us. The perfect sinless sacrifice,
the Lord Jesus Christ, is the just one dying for the unjust,
that they might live." What condescension. What condescension. The King of Glory becomes a man. Let's read to our next portion
of the text. Matthew 16, 21, From that time
forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must
go into Jerusalem and suffer the things of the elders and
chief priests and scribes. So he must, and he did. And then
it says, And be killed. God is holy. He's not the God of people's
imagination that think, well, He's up there and He's just letting
the world spin and do its own thing. People think that all
the time, right? That He's a distant God and He's
just, well, He's not really involved in my life. God is the King of
the universe. He's sovereign. He's sovereign. Nothing happens outside His will.
He's a king, nothing to be trifled with, no one to be trifled with.
He's holy, and His justice is uncompromising. It's uncompromising. It must be satisfied. It must
be. Scripture declares that the soul
that sins, it must die. I'm a sinner. Therefore, before
God's law and justice, I must die. for my sins and everyone
who believes, every one of them. And there's no one in the world
that will not stand before God's holy law and justice, whether
they believe in him or not. So the great sinless sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ dies in the room and place of sinners. One who knew no sin in mind,
no sin in deed, no spoken sin, nothing. Perfect, spotless, absolutely
perfect. Fulfilling the law of God for
me and for all who would believe. Perfectly. And God's law and justice demands
that we must die because we're sinners. So Christ, the sinless
sacrifice, dies in the sinner's place. before that holy law,
before the holy justice of God, which must be satisfied, right?
It's unbending, isn't it? It must be satisfied. Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed upon
all men for that all have sinned. Romans chapter 5, verse 12. So
the penalty of God's broken law, the man's death. Turn, if you
would, to Romans chapter 6, verse 23. And do you know that the
wages or the payment for sin, just like you earn wages, the
payment for sin, that which we justly earned, is death. Death before God's holy law and
justice. That which we justly earned on
our own. Romans 6, verse 23. For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord. So in the Greek word there, for wages is defined the soldier's
pay or allowance. That's what we've earned. That's
what we've earned as sinners, is death. Eternal death. The payments of our sin is death.
But look at our text. So Christ, the great sinner substitute,
dies in the place of sinners. And what love this is. What love
this is. You can't, you can't plummet. It's boundless. For the wages
of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Now the Greek word, For
gift there is a favor which one receives without any merit of
his own. There goes works. A gift that one receives without
any merit of his own. Oh, salvation in Christ is a
gift without any merit in us. We don't deserve this wonderful
mercy which God gives us in Christ, and there's nothing in us that
warrants it, but it's from the pure mercy of God in Christ.
And what do we say? Hallelujah, what a Savior. Oh,
what a Savior. For the wage of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Now here's something for comfort for those of us who believe
and we sojourn through this world of woe. The Greek word for eternal
is this, without beginning and end. That which always has been
and always will be, without beginning, without end, never to cease,
never to cease. And beloved, it's all in Christ
Jesus' name alone. The gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. The just one dies for the unjust. Salvation and deliverance from
the penalty of sin demands the absolute necessity for Jesus
Christ to die in our room instead. is our blessed surety. And He's
our sin offering. And He's our substitute for all
our sins. Lamentations says this, Is it
nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Is it nothing to you? Behold and see, if there be any
sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the
Lord hath afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger. And
that's talking about Christ on the cross. Is there any sorrow like unto
my sorrow? Oh, what he endured on that cross. Which is done unto me wherewith
the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
He's dying on the cross and they're mocking him. But he must die. He must die
so that his people would be redeemed. He must die. He's in anguish
and grief. in sorrow as he's bearing the
wrath and judgment of God for the sins of his people. The Lamb must be slain upon the
altar of God's holiness. There must be a proper sacrifice
for the sins of his people. Christ, the spotless, sinless
Lamb of God. Awake, O wake! Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow, saith
the Lord of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little
one. Zechariah 13, 7. The sword of
God's justice was plunged into Christ for his people. He paid it all. He paid it all. He was taken
from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the
land and living for the transgression of My people. Was He stricken? Sinless. Sinless,
but yet dying for sinners. Turn, if you would, to John 1,
verse 29. This great sacrifice, this great
sacrificial lamb is declared by John. The Lamb of God takes
away the sins of His people. The next day, verse 29, The next
day, John, seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Behold
the Lamb of God. Oh, that God would give you eyes
to behold the Lamb of God. There was a time when I didn't
see Him. When I was like Mary. You know how she supposed Him
to be the gardener? But when He spoke, my sheep hear
my voice and they follow me. Behold the Lamb of God. Oh, God,
we give you eyes to see if you have not looked upon Christ as
your Savior. May He give you faith and repentance
to trust in Christ. May He lovingly draw you to Him
and show you that you're a sinner in desperate need of Him. Matthew
1.21 says this, "...and she shall bring forth a Son, and thou shalt
call His name Jesus. For He shall save His people
from their sins." He saved. Oh, He saves His people from
their sins. And He did it. He did it. He was delivered up
for the sins of His people. He that spared not His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all. How shall He not with Him so
freely give us all things? Oh, who shall say anything to
the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who
is He that condemneth? It is Christ that died. Yea,
that is risen again. Oh, He's risen. He's risen. And He's even at the right hand
of God which also maketh intercession for us. And this leads us to
our next point. He's risen. He's risen. He arose from the grave. Look
at Matthew 16.21 again. From that time forth Jesus came
to show unto His disciples that He must go unto Jerusalem and
suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and be killed.
Oh, He must. He must because He knew if He
did not, no one would be redeemed. And be raised again the third
day. Oh, He's risen. Notice again in our text, he
must go to Jerusalem, he must be killed, and he must be raised
from the grave. Our Lord's resurrection from
the dead declares that all that he said is God's prophets to
be true. Deuteronomy 18.18 says, I will
raise up them a prophet from among the brethren, like unto
thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak
unto them all that I shall command him. All that the Bible said was true.
All God has said to us is found in this precious book right here. The prophets declared Christ.
The whole Word declares Christ. Turn, if you would, to John,
chapter 12. And then if you would, put your
finger in Isaiah 53. John 12, verses 49 and 50. For
I have not spoken of myself, but the Father which sent me.
He gave me a commandment, what I should say, what I should speak. And I know that His commandment
is life everlasting. Whatsoever I speak, therefore,
even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. Our Lord Jesus Christ being raised
from the grave shows that everything that God has demanded for the
sins of His people is paid for. Isaiah declared this. Turn with me if you would to
Isaiah 53, verse 11 and 12. God is satisfied only in the
sacrifice of Christ. Nowhere else. Nowhere else. What was his cry on the cross? It's finished, right? It's done.
There's nothing to be added. It's perfect. And it is truly
finished. Christ has redeemed his people
from their sins. They're bought and paid for,
beloved, by his own precious blood. Isaiah 53, verses 11 and
12 says this, He shall see the travail of his soul and shall
be satisfied. Oh, God is satisfied in the sacrifice
of Christ. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities.
Did not Christ do that on the cross for his people? He bore
their sins. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death. He was
numbered with the transgressors. He bared the sin of many and
made intercession for the transgressors. But note in verse 11, and shall
be satisfied. God is satisfied with the sacrifice
of Christ. Turn, if you would, to Romans
chapter 4, verse 20. God is accepted and is satisfied
with the sacrifice, the one sacrifice that it could appease His justice
and law. We could do a billion works and never be accepted before
God. And Christ dies in the room instead
of His people once. Romans 4, starting in verse 20.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but
was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Abraham did not stagger
at the promise of God. God had promised Abraham a son
from Sarah, who according to the course of nature was past
childbearing, right? But what was that to Abraham? God had promised it, and that
was enough. That was enough. And possibilities
for man are nothing for God. He believed what God had said,
and he believed that God would perform that. And this was Abraham's faith.
He believed God. He believed what God promised. And he believed what God promised,
he'd make come to pass. Look at verse 21. In being fully
persuaded that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now
it is not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to
him, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe
on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered
for our offenses. our sins. And was raised again
for..." There it is. Oh, He was raised. He was raised
from the dead for our justification. And He's risen. The tomb is empty. He's seated on the right hand
of the Father, on the majesty on high. King of kings and the
Lord of lords. Raised for our justification. delivered for the sins of his
people. And we're sinners to the core
and raised again for our justification. The Greek word for justification
means a making right or just, a declaration of right or justice,
a judicial sentence, an acquittal, an acceptance, justification. Oh, see, and it's not in us. It's all in Christ. And this
is why we say, sinner, flee to Christ. We're just sinners saved
by grace. I'm just a sinner saved by grace.
I struggle with sin every day. Even though I'm saved now, I
struggle with sin every single day. I'm just a sinner saved
by the grace and mercy of God and Christ. Who made me to differ? I have family members who are
all lost and friends who are still doing the same thing that
I would still be doing if God hadn't saved me. Who made me to differ? Only God. Only God and His mercy in Christ. It's mercy. We who believe don't
get what we deserve. Christ paid it all. He died in our room instead.
He died in our place. Turn, if you would, to Hebrews
chapter 10. Our Lord Jesus Christ, being
raised from the dead, declares his victory over sin by putting
it away. Hebrews 10, verse 14-18, For
by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For after that
he hath said before, This is the covenant that I will make
with them. After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my
laws in their hearts, and in their minds I will write them.
Oh, and look at verse 17. And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more. Praise God. Praise God He doesn't
remember our sins, eh, brother? No more. Is that not mercy? Is that not grace? Now where remission of these
is, there's no more offering for sin, because He paid it all.
And in Psalm 103 says this, I'll read it, those of you who want
to turn there, you can, but Psalm 103, verse 12 says this, as far
as the east is from the west. I remember hearing a guy, I read
in the book, he said if you put a stick in the ground, tie a
string to the stick, and you go in a circle east, you're always
going east. Never meets West. As far as the
East is from the West, so far hath He removed our transgression
from us. Oh, what salvation. What salvation
in Christ. He conquered. He conquered the
grave too. He's conquered Satan. He's victorious
and triumphant. And I will put enmity between
thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. And it
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Turn,
if you would, to Luke 24. He's victorious over death by
conquering the grave. Luke 24, starting in verse 1.
Now upon the first day of the week, Very early in the morning,
they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared
and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled
away from the sepulchre. And they entered in and found
not the body of the Lord Jesus. It's gone. It's gone. And it came to pass, as they
were much perplexed thereabout, they sure would be, wouldn't
they? They said to them, Why seek ye the living among the
dead? Or, I'm sorry, I skipped there. Verse 4, And it came to pass,
as they were very much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood
by them in shining garments. And as they were afraid, they
bowed down their faces to the earth and said unto them, Why
seek ye the living among the dead? He's not here, but he's risen. He's alive. He's not dead. This is why we
say, I remember when Maude Bell died, Donnie called me that night,
just minutes after she had gone home to be with the Lord. And
he said, well, she just woke up in the morning. She's more alive now than she's
ever been. Ain't that true? Why seek ye the living among
the dead? He's not here, but he is risen. And remember what
we looked at? He's raised for our justification.
Raised to show that God is satisfied with the payment that he made
for the sins of his people. Why seek ye the living among
the dead? He is not here, but He is risen. Remember how He
spake unto you when He was yet in Galilee, saying, The Son of
Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men. Remember
we read that? And crucified in the third day, rise again. Why
seek ye the living among the dead? Now think of this. Every
single religion in this world you can trace back to a man who
is dead in a grave. Every single one. Christianity
is the only one where the tomb is empty. He's the only man, and he was
the god man, whose tomb is empty. Buddha, Muhammad, Joseph Smith,
Mary Baker Etter, Eddie, the list goes on and on and on and
on. They're all in the grave because they're dead. They're dead. But Christ's tomb
is empty because he's alive, and he's risen, and he's seated
at the right hand of the Father. And he rules in majesty and power. And one day, those of us who
believe will be in his presence. Turn, if you would, to John 6,
37 to 39. His resurrection guarantees the
absolute certainty of all of God's elect to be raised up and
glorified with Him. The absolute certainty that we
will be raised up and glorified with Him who believes. John 6,
verses 37 and 39, All that the Father giveth me shall come to
me. Shall. Oh, it's marvelous. See, this is why we have a hope.
As I said before, we preach the gospel. We don't know who God's
people are. He knows. But we preach the gospel, and
God does the same. And we know that all that the
Father giveth Him will come to Him. Will come. All that the Father giveth Me
shall come to Me, and Him that cometh to Me I will have no wise
cast out. Remember a few weeks back, we
looked at Hebrews 13.7. The Lord has said, I'll never leave thee,
nor forsake thee. Never, never. For I am come down
from heaven. Oh, what condescension! The King
of glory became a man, not to do mine own will, but the will
of Him that sent me. And this is the Father's will,
which has sent me, that of all which He hath given me, I should
lose nothing. Oh, we're on the trail of the God-sheep, and He's
going to get His sheep. but should raise it up again
at the last day. He must be raised from the dead,
so that we who believe on Him will be raised also. Oh, where He is, we will soon
follow. Where the head is, the body soon
falls, and Christ is the head. He's seated on the majesty on
high. And we will see Him one day.
And we'll be without sin. Oh, my. Oh, beloved, as we struggle
through this world with sin, don't we? All the time. One day, though. And there's
many of our loved ones who are already there. Oh, one day. One day. All the elect of all the ages
shall be gathered together. What a marvelous day that will
be. And what a marvelous day it will be for we who believe
when we die, to go into the presence of the
Lord, to see the One who has redeemed us from all our sins. So Christ must be raised from
the dead, so that those who believe on Him would be raised also.
Turn with me, if you would, to Job chapter 19. Job chapter 19. And think of
this glorious day when we will see Him face to face. Job chapter 19. And this is the believer's cry.
Only one who is trusted in Christ can say this. John 19, verse 25, For I know
that my Redeemer liveth. I know. Oh, He's revealed Himself
to me. He showed me what I am. A sinner
in desperate need of Christ. I know that my Redeemer liveth.
He lives. He's a rose. He's alive. And that He shall stand at the
latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin worms
destroy this body, Oh, we're all going to perish. But the
believer says, yet in my flesh shall I see God. And look what it says in verse
27. Whom I shall see for myself. Whom I shall see for myself.
And mine eyes shall behold, and not another. Though my reins be consumed within
me, I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold." Oh,
beloved God, what a glorious, glorious day that will be. He's
risen. And we rejoice, don't we? We
rejoice. Brother John, we're going to
have communion And if you're a believer, partake in communion,
but if you're not a believer, don't partake in communion. It's
a remembrance for God's people to remember