And we have here in our text
the account of creation. The declaration and description
of how all things came to be. How they were created. However,
this is more than just a historical account of creation. This is
also a picture of salvation. As we know, in all things, this
is an account of how God created the world, but everything, we
talked a little bit about this this morning, everything in God's
word is Christ. It's about him. It pictures him,
it typifies him. When the Lord was with those
two men, he began right here in the book of Genesis. and went
all the way through, you know, the prophets and David and the
Psalms and showed unto them the things concerning him. It's all
concerning him. And this is an account of salvation,
but this is, I mean, this is an account of creation, but this
is a picture of salvation. And I want us to kind of consider,
I want to just, I think in a sense, say what I'm going to say tonight,
because I kind of feel like Some of the notes are all over the
place. And it's actually the fewest
notes I've ever had on a message. But I want us to see it. And then as we are going through
the word of God, just get a very clear picture of the whole entire
thing. But it begins with, in the beginning, God created the
heaven and the earth. We see here in the beginning
God. And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was
upon the face of the deep. This is a picture of sinners. This is a picture of man by nature.
Man by nature is without form, without void, and in a state
of darkness. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. And this is what happens when
God saves a sinner. God moves upon that sinner. Salvation is the work of God. And we have here a picture of
creation, but spiritually speaking, this is also a picture of the
new creation. When God saves a sinner, that
sinner is born again. And he said, let there be light,
and there was light. And that's the gospel. When the
gospel goes forth, the gospel is light. And that light is Christ. Christ is that light. The sun
and the moon weren't created until, I believe, day four. So
this light here is not the sun. or the moon, this is a different
light. This is Christ. God said, let
there be light. And God saw the light was good,
and God divided the light from the darkness. There's a difference
there. There's a division there between the light and the darkness.
And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day. And this
is a picture here of the child of God in this world. And the
order is very important, we're gonna look at that, but there's
evening and there's morning, but it's called by one name,
day. And so are we, the children of God. We're new creatures in
Christ, born again, but we still have that old nature, don't we? We still have that sin that dwells
within us, but we're only called by one name. We're the children
of God. And so I wanna say, like I said,
kind of consider that. What I want us to begin with
this is that in the beginning, God created the heaven and the
earth. God is, God is, and God is the
source and cause of all things. He is the sovereign creator and
all things were created according to his purpose and by his will. He created all things. There
is no effort made here, no argument given to prove the existence
of God. In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. I do not care what the scientists
of this world have concluded. I do not care what the philosophers
of this world have written. And I do not care what man thinks,
theorizes, hypothesizes, or believes. And I'm not gonna debate evolutionism
compared to creationism. There is no debate. There is
no debate. The reason why evolution, the
theory of evolution even exists is only because man by nature
hates God. That's the only reason why. The
creature serves, or man serves a creature instead of the creator.
Man hates God. That's why he came up with evolution.
And I heard someone say this the other day, and it was so
true. One of the reasons why man loves evolution is he can
look at some microorganism or whatever it was that he says
man came from and developed into this stage and this stage and
eventually monkeys and then became man. And man in evolution can
say, look at what we've become. Look how far we've come. We've
evolved from this little thing into a thinking human being with
emotions and a free will and everything else. But when you
look at God's word and you see it as it truly is, man doesn't
sit there and say, you know, look how far we've come. Man
has to say, look how far we've fallen. Look at what we've become. When Isaiah saw the Lord, what
did he say? He said, woe is me, I'm undone. When we see God, we see how far
we've fallen. and by nature hates God and does
everything he can to deny God. Look at Isaiah chapter 40. Look
at Isaiah chapter 40. I do want us to look at some
scripture tonight. Isaiah chapter 40. In the beginning, God created
the heaven and earth. Look at verse 12. Who has measured the waters in
the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended
the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in
scales, and the hills in the balance? Who has? Who has directed
the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counselor, taught Him? Who
taught the Lord? With whom did He take counsel,
and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of judgment,
and taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and counted as a
small dust of the balance. Behold, he taketh up the isles
as a very little thing. Do we understand who it is that
we're talking about here? Lebanon is not sufficient to
burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
All nations before him are as nothing. They are counted to
him less than nothing in vanity. To whom then will you liken God,
or what likeness will you compare unto him? The workman melteth
a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold,
and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished that
he hath no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot, he seeketh
unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall
not be moved. That's what man does. Man, Man goes out and uses that which
God created to make an idol out of it. And God didn't make the
world. God created the world. There
was nothing that existed. We make things. We make things. God doesn't make things. God
created everything. There's a huge difference out
of nothing. He just spoke it into existence.
We read this morning, he thinks it and it's done. I can't think
anything to be done. God thinks it and it's done.
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Hath it not
been told to you from when? From the beginning, right here
in our text. In the beginning, God, this is the foundation of
everything. You take this as the foundation
and it goes all the way to the very end of Revelation where
the Son of God promises that one day he's gonna come back
and he's gonna deliver us and bring us into the kingdom and
we're gonna spend eternity with him. Foundation right here, from
the beginning. Have you not understood from
the foundations of the earth? In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. And I know how all things came
to be because God has declared it in his word. That's why, by
faith, we know that the worlds were established by God, that
they were created by God, by faith. Paul said that in Hebrews.
In the beginning God created, creation is the work of God performed
by Christ. And this is plainly and clearly
declared and revealed to us in the scripture, for by him, Paul
wrote in Colossians, by him were all things created that are in
heaven, that are in earth, that are visible and invisible, whether
they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers,
all things were created by him. That pretty much encompasses
everything, doesn't it? Everything, all things were created
by him. And they were created for him.
and he's before all things, and by him all things consist. We
read in the book of John, in the beginning was the word, and
the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in
the beginning with God. All things were made by him,
and without him was not anything made that was made. In the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth. And salvation, Salvation begins
with God. Salvation is the work of God.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with all spiritual blessings according as He chose
us in Christ. We love Him, why? Because He
loved us. He chose us, He redeemed us,
He called us. We read it in Ephesians chapter
two, Paul describes us as being children of wrath, even as others,
but God, but God, because of his mercy and his rich grace
saved us. But of God are you in him who
is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption.
It's of God. It's not of him that willeth
nor of him that runneth, it's of God. When we have here a description
of man and his natural state, we read that the earth was without
form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the earth. Man
by nature is without form. We are without void. We are in
a state of darkness. To be without form and void is
to be a waste. It's a wilderness. It's desolate. It's empty. It's vain. Part of
the translation is an undescribable ruin. And that's what we are
by nature. When it says that the earth was
without form and void, you can actually take that word was,
and it can be translated as became. And that picture's the fall.
Adam and Eve, when they were in the garden, they were made
perfect. But when Adam sinned, we became
void. We became without form, darkness,
sin. He plunged all of humanity into
corruption. We became cursed. Man by nature is in a ruined
state of sin because of the fall of Adam. He is void of knowledge. Have you not heard? Have you
not known? No, because by nature we don't know. We have no understanding
and we're incapable of being able to understand. Man by nature is a wilderness,
he's desolate, there's no good. An absolute, depraved, and ignorant
waste. Paul said, as it is written,
there is none righteous, no, not one. There's none that understandeth.
Why? Because we're in a state of darkness.
We're blind by nature, we don't understand. There's none that
seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the
way. As soon as we're born, we go astray. As soon as we're born,
we're speaking lies. They are together become unprofitable,
we're void. Anything that's voided is unprofitable. You void a check, that check's
unprofitable, it ain't gonna do anything for you. You can't
do anything with it, right? There's none that do with good,
no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher
with their tongues they've used to seat. The poison of asp is
under their lips. His mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed
blood. destruction and misery in their
ways, and the way of peace they have not known. And there's no
fear of God before their eyes. This is us by nature. Look at
Romans chapter one. Look at Romans chapter one. Romans chapter one, verse 20.
Paul says, the invisible things of him from the creation of the
world are clearly seen. You look at this world. God is clearly revealed in these
things. Clearly revealed. You look at
the sunrise, you look at the sunset, you look at the animals,
you look at everything. I mean, I love looking at pictures
from space. It amazes me. The things of God
are clearly revealed in this world. And they're understood
by the things that are made. But how many times does Chris
say, you can't hate what you don't know? Even it's eternal power and God
has so that they're without excuse. Because that when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became
vain in their imaginations. And notice this, their foolish
heart was darkened. It's a state of darkness. Although
they think they're wise, they profess themselves to be wise,
they became fools. And they changed the glory of
the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible
man. That's what we just saw in Isaiah. That's what they did.
They went out and they took a tree and cut it down and made an idol.
and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Wherefore
God also gave them up to uncleanliness through the lust of their own
hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. And
they changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and
served the creature more than the creator." That's man by nature. That's man by nature. This is
the sad state of natural man. He's without form, he's void
in a state of darkness. And the sad truth is that man
loves darkness. He loves, look at John chapter
one. We quoted part of this in the
beginning. John chapter one. In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God, and all things were
made by him, and without him was not anything made that was
made. And in him was life, and the life was the light of men. The Word who created all things,
he's the light. And the light shineth in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not. We're incapable of understanding
unless God moves upon us. unless God reveals himself to
us, unless Christ reveals himself to us. There was a man sent from
God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to
bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe.
He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that
light. That was the true light, which light is every man that
come into the world. He was in the world, and the
world was made by him, and the world knew him not. We have no understanding We're
unable to comprehend and we don't know him by nature because we're
void. We're void without form and in a state of darkness. He
came unto his own and his own received him not. But as many
as received him, to them gave he the power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born.
And that's how the light is received. That's how Christ is known. We're
born again, and we're getting ready to see that. So remember
that, which we're born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Salvation is of God. It's the work of God. John also said, this is the condemnation,
that light is coming to the world, and men love darkness rather
than light, because their deeds are evil. That's what we are
by nature. That's what we are by nature.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God
said, let there be light, and there was light. When a sinner is saved, the Spirit
of God moves upon him. God has to speak life into his
heart. When God saves a sinner, that
sinner is born again, a new creation takes place. We read in the word
of God that you don't put new wine into old skins. No, you put new
wine into new skins. The garment, you don't patch
up the garment, it's a new garment. And we see that so much, it's
a new creation. When the Lord was speaking to
Nicodemus, he said, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man
be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus
saith unto them, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he
enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born? And
Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man
be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom
of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which
is born of the spirit is spirit. When God moves upon a sinner,
he does so with his spirit and he creates a new creature. There's
a new creature that is created. Paul said, if any man be in Christ,
he's a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things become new. That's so much about what Paul
talked about, right? He said, all that that I used
to trust in, it goes as dung that I may win Christ. I need him. This new birth is accomplished
by God through the preaching of the gospel. We read in Peter,
he said, for as much as you know, you were not redeemed with corruptible
things, the silver and gold from your vain conversation received
by tradition from your fathers. Those aren't the things that
save us. That's what Paul was looking to there. He was looking
to his works. He was looking to his heritage.
He was looking to the things that he, did and accomplished
as his salvation. But he said, those things, they're
done to me now. But we're redeemed with the precious
blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish and without spot, who
verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest for you in these last times. Christ is a lamb
slain before the foundation of the world. What began in Genesis
is just a revelation to us of what God accomplished in eternity
past. These things were already accomplished.
God's revealing them to us in time. Who by him do believe in
God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that
your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing you have purified
your souls and obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned
love in the brethren. See that you love one another
with a pure heart, being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth forever.
This is that seed which the sower went out and sowed. When we read
about that, the sower went out and sowed, and some of that seed,
it fell by the wayside. Some of it fell among thorns,
some of it fell among the rocks, but some of it fell on the good
ground, the good ground. But that seed is the gospel,
that sower is Christ. And God prepares that ground,
that good ground, to receive that seed. And that seed takes
root and to bring forth fruit. And that's the gospel. God said,
let there be light. Let there be light. All flesh
is as grass, and the glory of man is the flower of grass. And
the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.
But the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word
by which the gospel is preached to you. God who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts. How
does he do that? By the preaching of the gospel.
Look at Ephesians chapter four. Ephesians chapter four. Verse 17. Now remember, we're new creatures
in Christ. We're new creatures, okay? Paul
said, this I say therefore and testify on the Lord that you
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of
their mind. That walk is the course of life,
it's our actions, it's everything we do, it's how we live, that's
what the walk is. He said, walk not as they walk
in the vanity of their minds. Without form, void, having the
understanding, what? Darkened. That's what we are
by nature. He says, don't walk like that.
Being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
that is in them. Why? Because of the blindness
of their heart. Who being past feeling have given
themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with
greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ.
If so be that you have heard him and been taught by him as
the truth is in Jesus. How do we hear him? How are we
taught by him? It's through the preaching of
the gospel, through exactly what we're doing right now. That's
how God reveals himself. That's how God saves sinners.
That's how God edifies us and builds us up and increases our
love and our faith and causes us to rest in him and our hope. And that you put off concerning
the former conversation, that old man, which is corrupt according
to the deceitful lust and be renewed in the spirit of your
mind. and that you put on the new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,
that old man which is corrupt and vile and depraved and cursed,
but that new man is righteous. That new man is in Christ who
is our righteousness and holiness. Look at it, it's still in Ephesians,
look at Ephesians chapter one. Ephesians chapter one, Paul said
in verse 17, this is his prayer, that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the father of glory, may give unto you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him. And that
the eyes of your understanding be enlightened. That's what we
desire. That's what I desire. I want the eyes of my understanding
to be enlightened. Every time I open up God's word,
I pray, enlighten my eyes. Cause me to see him, cause me
to see Christ, to know Christ. When we sit down and we hear
the gospel preached, I wanna see him. I wanna see him lifted
up and exalted. And that you may know what is the
hope of his calling. When the gospel goes forth, that's
what God does. He calls sinners. He calls them
unto himself. I wanna know what the hope is
of that calling. Redemption, salvation, justification. What's the riches of the glory
of His inheritance in the saints? That's Christ, the unsearchable
riches of God. What is the exceeding greatness
of His power to us were to believe according to the working of His
mighty power. his mighty power, which he wrought
in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at
his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality
and power and might and dominion in every name that is named,
not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. And
he's put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head
over all things through the church, which is his body, the fullness
of him that filleth all and in all. Salvation is God's work. It's God's work. And God saw the light, that it
was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. Paul
said, you were sometimes darkness, but now you're light, and the
Lord walk as children of light. And God called the light day
and the darkness he called night, and the evening and the morning
were the first day. This is a picture of the child
of God in this world. And it's important to notice
the order given. First, darkness, then light,
the called day after the light. Evening, morning, the called
day. Child of God in this world is
a new creature, child of light, but in him are two natures, the
evening and the morning. In this world, we must live with
and battle this flesh. And we will battle this flesh
until the end. Paul said, I say then walk in
the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh
for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against
the flesh. And they're contrary to one another. He divided the
light from the darkness. They're contrary to one another.
They're not the same. They're contrary to one another.
So that you cannot do the things that you would. Paul described
that so well, and we're very familiar with it in Romans chapter
seven. He said, that which I would do, I don't do, and that which
I don't wanna do, that's what I wanna do. He said, now if I do what I would
not, it's no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
We have this old nature that's in us that we battle with constantly. Constantly battle with. And all
the fruit of it. pride, unbelief, everything,
we battle with it constantly. However, there is a message of
hope here. We are saved by hope, a hope that is seen is not hope,
for what a man seeth, why is he yet hopeful? But if we hope
for that which we see not, do we with patience wait for it? We have a hope, don't we? A desired
end, we read that in Psalm 107, even though we, on the ocean
of this world, even though we go through the storms and everything,
it says the Lord's gonna bring us to that desired end. The Lord called it an expected
end. We know it's going to happen. Our hope is sure and steadfast,
because Christ is our hope. And we are gonna battle this
flesh every single day, constantly, constantly. Paul, what'd he say?
Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians,
we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens. This flesh is just flesh. That's
all it is, it's just flesh. For in this we groan, earnestly
desire to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven.
And we do, don't we? I don't wanna be like this anymore.
I really don't. I desire to be what I am in eternity. I wanna be just like him. If so be that being clothed upon,
we shall be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle
do groan, being burdened, and it is a burden. The weight and the guilt of sin. That's why we pray, Lord, forgive
us of our sins. There's none that do us good,
no not one. There's nothing good that we do. Nothing good that
we do. Because sin is mixed with everything
that we do, everything we think, Everything we put into action
is all sin. Not that we would be unclothed,
but clothed upon. That mortality might be swallowed
up in life. Look at 1 Corinthians, 1 Corinthians
chapter 15. In verse 49. Paul wrote, as we have borne
the image of the earthy, we shall, shall, also bear the
image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. We've already
seen that. That's what the Lord told Nicodemus. Flesh and blood
will not inherit. You gotta be born again. Neither
does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed. We shall be
changed. And in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound,
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed for this corruption, this void without form, the state of darkness center
is one day gonna be changed. This corruption is gonna put
on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. So when
this corruption shall put on incorruption and this mortal
shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and
the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be unto God, which
giveth us the victory. How? Through our Lord Jesus Christ. He giveth us the victory. One
day, one day, we shall be changed. This corruption's gonna put on
incorruption. One day we shall finally just
be rid of this flesh. And the children of God will open up their eyes in glory,
behold in the face of their savior. And they're gonna be just like
him. We'll be able to truly worship
him as he's worthy, as he deserves to be worshiped. Be able to see
him as he truly is. We see through a glass dimly
right now. but one day all that darkness is gonna be gone. There
is gonna be nothing that prohibits us from being able to see him
as he is. All right, go back to Genesis
real quick. I wanna show you one last thing
and we'll be done. All right, Genesis chapter one.
All right. Verse five, God called
the light day and the darkness he called night, and the evening
and the morning were the first day. Look at verse eight. And
the evening and the morning were the second day. Verse 13, the
evening and the morning were the third day, and each day God
is creating, God is creating, God is creating. Verse 19, the
evening and the morning were the fourth day. Verse 23, the
evening and the morning were the fifth day. Verse 31, God
saw everything that he had made and behold, it was very good.
We read, you know, good, good, good, very good. And the evening
and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the
earth were finished. That word finished is perfect,
perfection. When Christ was on the cross,
he said it is finished. That word finished, perfect,
perfect, perfect. Finished in all the host of them.
And on the seventh day, God ended his work, which he had made,
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
made. And God blessed the seventh day, sanctified it, because that
in it he had rested from all his work which God created and
made. Do you notice what's not there
in the account of that day? Up until then, the evening and
the morning, the evening and the morning, There's no mention
of evening right there. No mention of evening. The work
was finished. God rested. Look at Revelation
chapter 21. One day, one day, we're gonna be able to completely
rest in the finished work of God. Revelation chapter 21, verse
21. And the 12 gates were 12 pearls,
every several gate was of one pearl, and the street of the
city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And John said,
I saw no temple there. for the Lord God Almighty and
the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the
sun, neither of the moon to shine and to walk, for the glory of
God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the
nations of them shall walk in the light of it. No more darkness,
no more darkness. Don't even need the sun and the
moon, because Christ is a light. And one day, when this corruption
is put on incorruption, and this mortal is put on immortality,
the children of God arrayed in the fine white linen, the righteousness
of Christ, around the throne, we're gonna be able to walk in
the light I don't even know what that means.
But I long for it. I want to know, I want to experience
that. I can't even comprehend that.
I truly can't. That's one thing that amazes
me. I love these last chapters of Revelation. I love it. They
give me so much comfort. They give me so much joy. I can't
comprehend. I can't even hardly enter into
it. So I still got this darkness
that dwells inside of me. I still have this sense of unbelief
that haunts me. There are so many things I just
can't understand. I know it's true. I know it's
true, and I long for it. That's what Paul's talking about
when he says, in this flesh, we've grown, don't we? I want
that. I don't wanna live in this flesh
anymore. I wanna walk in the light of
Christ. I wanna see him. I wanna be with him. And all the kings of the earth
do bring their glory and honor into it, and the gates of it
shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there. No night. It's not gonna be any
more evening and morning. It's just gonna be perfection. It's gonna be day. It's gonna
be day all day. They shall bring the glory and
honor of the nations into it, and they shall no wise enter
it into anything that defile it. Neither worketh abomination
or maketh a lie. They which are written in the
land's book of life. That not comforts me. Nothing's
gonna enter into it that's gonna defile it. The world became without
form and void. That was all part of God's purpose
in the revelation of salvation to the glory of Christ who came
and saved his people. But in that kingdom, Nothing
shall ever enter in that shall defile it, or corrupt it. And
he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. And in
the midst of the street of it, on either side of the river was
there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruit, and yielded
her fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse,
but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. and
his servant shall serve him, and they shall see his face,
and his name shall be in their foreheads, and there shall be
no night there, no more night. Near the light of the sun, for
the Lord giveth them light, and they shall reign forever and
ever. One day we're gonna be able to
rest and not finish work. And I long for that day. I hope
that was clear. We'll pray and then do the Lord's
Supper.