Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
chapter 11. 1 Corinthians chapter 11. Paul, the apostle, writing, starting in verse 23,
he says, I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered
unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was
betrayed, took bread. 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. And 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 ye eat this bread
and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come."
Let's pray together. Our Father, we are truly thankful
that we have this time to be able to approach You. We realize
that we are able to totally on the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ,
that it is by grace and grace alone that we know You, know
You effectually We pray this evening that You would be pleased
to bless the Word to our heart. We pray for those that are among
us that are sick. We pray, Lord, that You would
be pleased to, according to Your will and purpose, bring about
the healing of these that we know. We ask You to forgive us
where we failed You, for Christ's sake. Amen. in remembrance of Me. This do
in remembrance of Me. You know, it is a shame to all
of us that we need to be reminded of the shed blood, broken body of the
Lord, but the presence of sin within. As much as I hate and you hate,
I know. I'm convinced of this to admit
this. But we need reminded. Let us do in remembrance of me. This remembrance that Paul was
talking about was something that was a divine revelation. He said,
I received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you." That's
a miracle of God's grace that the Lord would reveal something
to any of us, that He would say something, that He would teach
something. He's pleased to reveal, to teach
by His Holy Spirit through the means of like this man. This man was a preacher right
here. He raises up a preacher. And he said, I have delivered
that to you, that which I received of the Lord. Well, I thought,
what was it? What revelation had Paul received? He said, what I delivered unto
you was that which I received of the Lord. Well, in 1 Corinthians
chapter 15 and verse 3, Paul said, he said, how that Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures." How he was buried
that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. The Lord revealed to him how
that he had died, was buried, and rose again according to Scriptures. That of which we speak tonight,
in a few moments, in obedience to our Lord's command. We want
to remember Him in the eating of this bread and the drinking
of this cup. And we do so in remembering the
Lord. It's good that we are encouraged
to remember the Spirit of God blesses that which honors the
Lord Jesus Christ in remembering. Paul said he died for our sins
according to the Scriptures. Well, in the garden, the Lord
God Himself said unto the serpent, He said, I am going to 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. speaks of the Lord's death, how
He died according to the Scriptures. How did He die according to the
Scriptures? Now, I know what men say, how
He died, that He died to make it, that is, salvation, possible. That's not according to Scripture.
That He died as a martyr, that's not according to Scripture. How
did he die? Well, according to Scripture
in Isaiah 53, look at that Scripture with me, Isaiah 53 and verse
4 and 5. This is how the Lord died according
to the Scriptures. Isaiah 53, verse 4 and verse
5. Here is how He died. Surely He
hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows." How did He die? He died with the imputed guilt
of God's elect. He bore our griefs and carried
our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. He died under the wrath of Almighty
God with our guilt, that is, the guilt of His elect. He was
wounded, Isaiah says in verse 5, for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. How did the Lord
die according to the Scriptures? He died as a substitute. That's
how He died. He laid down His life for His
sheep. And then secondly, and you can
stay right there in Isaiah 53, secondly, He was buried according
to the Scriptures. Isaiah 53 and verse 9, Scripture
says, and He made His grave with the wicked and with the rich
in His death because He had done no violence, neither was any
deceit in His mouth. Our Lord, in Matthew 20 and verse
40, concerning the prophet Jonas, this is according to the Scriptures,
said, as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's
belly, so shall the Son of Man three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth." How did he die? According to the
Scriptures. As our substitute, he died. Imputed guilt of his
elect upon him. He died as a man. He was buried. And he rose again the third day
according to the Scriptures. Psalm 16. And verse 10 says, For thou wilt
not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption. And he had said three days and
three nights in the belly of the whale. And the Scripture
says that that third day that Jonah came out of the whale,
a picture of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, In
Psalm 86, verse 13, "'Great is thy mercy toward me. Thou hast delivered my soul from
the lowest hell,' or grave." Our Lord was crucified. He died. He was buried. And He rose according to the
Scriptures. This evening, we want to remember
that. He said, delivered from the lowest
hell. When our Lord died, the Scripture
says that He was in hell. What is and what does He speak
of as being in hell? How did He die? How was He buried?
How was He raised according to the Scriptures? How did He die? What did He suffer for us? What do we remember when we eat
of this bread and drink of this cup? What are we doing? What
are we remembering here? I know men go through the motions
in this, and we must never, never just take this lightly. What
did He suffer? Turn with me to Luke 16. Luke
16. Verse 19. Hold your finger there just a
second. I want to read something in just a minute. Luke 16, verse
19. I want to just... I tell you what, hold your finger
right there. Just turn over to Luke 22, verse 44. Hold that other passage. Luke
22, verse 44. I want to show you something. What did our Lord suffer? The Scripture says in Luke 22,
verse 44, being in agony, He prayed more earnestly and His
sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the
ground. Being in agony, Now the Lord
said in Psalms, speaking in the book of Psalms, that psalm there
spoken as a picture of our Lord speaking that, Great is the mercy
toward me, thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. God the Father raised the Lord
Jesus Christ according to the Scriptures. He died, paid our
debt, buried God, three days later, raised him from the dead.
Raised him, justified, and we justified in him. Almighty God
raised him according to the Scriptures. The Lord said he suffered. He
suffered hell itself. When our Lord was in the garden,
the garden of Gethsemane, being in agony, agony, One time in
Scripture that word agony is used. One time. Agony. Being in agony. That word right
there, it means the place of anguish. The place of anguish. Being in agony. Our Lord, being
in agony, prayed, the Scripture says, more earnestly, and sweat,
as it were, drops of blood, being in agony. He went to the cross
and died this way according to the Scriptures. This is how He
died. With absolutely all of the guilt
of His elect on Him. He was made to be sin. Made to be the greatest sinner. All of God's people, all that
they owed because of their rebellion against God was on Him. All of it. I cannot even imagine
the depth of what I owed. What I owed. Just me. I'm just one. But all of the
guilt of all of his elect for all of time was placed on him,
made to be sin. Indescribable is that position. Indescribable. I can't even imagine. In agony, he prayed more earnestly. He said, If as any way this cup
pass from me, nevertheless, thy will be done." And he goes to
the cross, and Almighty God, in indescribable wrath, indescribable
justice, spewed out upon the Lord Jesus Christ the wrath of
Almighty God. And the Scripture says, that
Christ Himself tread the winepress of God's wrath alone. Alone. He was alone. Alone. Now, hell, what is hell? It is the absence, it is the
place of the absence of mercy. The absence of mercy, of God's
mercy. No mercy. No mercy. Now look at Luke 16, verse 19. There was a certain rich man
which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously
every day. There was a certain beggar named
Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring
to be fed the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover,
the dogs came and licked his sores. It came to pass that the
beggar died carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich
man also died, was buried, and in hell he lifted up his eyes,
being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus
in his bosom. He cried, and he said, Father
Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus,
that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my
tongue, For I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said,
Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivest thy good things,
and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted, and
thou art tormented. Besides this, between us and
you there is a great gulf fixed, so that they which would pass
from hence to you cannot. Neither can they pass to us that
would come from thence." Have mercy on me, Father Abraham.
The time of mercy is over. Our Lord suffered the indescribable
wrath of Almighty God, and there could be no mercy shown if you
and I were going to have mercy. We couldn't. He couldn't. He
died according to the Scripture. He suffered the winepress of
the wrath of God alone. He suffered it alone. He died,
buried, rose again. Suffered God's wrath. He had to die. Being absent of God's mercy and
suffering, the wrath of Almighty God, Christ cried, My God, My
God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Forsaken. We then are here in
obedience to His command to remember His death, His burial and resurrection. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered
God's wrath that you and I might have God's mercy shown to us.
He died that we might live. He suffered that we might be
at peace, being reconciled to God Almighty by the Lord Jesus
Christ by His blood. We remember that tonight. His
body broken for us, His blood shed for us, not by the blood
of bulls and goats, not by our keeping of the law, but by the
broken body and shed blood of Christ are all those ordained
to eternal life. They have been redeemed." The
showing of the Lord's death. The showing. Paul said back in
our text in 1 Corinthians 11, he said, As you eat this bread and drink
this cup, you do show the Lord's death. It is not merely, as some
men say, He died. He died to make it possible,
as I said a moment ago, when we show the Lord's death, what
we are proclaiming is the truth according to God's Word that
Christ our Lord is God's Lamb, the Lord. God has provided Himself
a Lamb. He is the propitiation for our
sins, the satisfaction, the appeasement, the atonement, the covering.
That's what we say when we say He broke in body and shed blood. We're here tonight to remember
that. He who has suffered the wrath of Almighty God has shown
mercy to some sinners. I'm going to ask you men if you'll
come now.