Alright brethren, let's go to
Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53. Today, those here that have spiritual
discernment to discern the Lord's body will be coming to the Lord's
table. And our Lord taught us to do
this to remember Him. He said the broken, unleavened
bread pictures His body that He gave to be broken for His
people. And the wine that is poured out,
that is crushed under the grape that's crushed to make the wine
and it's unleavened through the process is a picture of His blood. And He said this due in remembrance
of me. I want to look here now at this
psalm that's concerning Christ and let's see if we can remember
Him just a little while. He says in verse 1, Who hath
believed our report? To whom is the arm of the Lord
revealed? For He shall grow up before Him
as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry ground, he hath
no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected
of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we
hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was despised, and we
esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him. And with his stripes we are healed. Who here believes our report? It means who believes our gospel? Who believes our gospel? It's
only those to whom the arm of the Lord is revealed. We don't
just come to believe the gospel on our own and by our own will.
It has to be revealed. Divine revelation. If we have
spiritual discernment to believe the gospel, Behold Christ and
believe the gospel. God gave us that spiritual discernment. In fact, Christ died to purchase
that gift for His people. It says, Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For
it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. And here
is why He did that. That we might receive the blessing
of Abraham. that we might receive the promise
of the Spirit through faith. Christ purchased the guarantee
that everybody for whom He died shall be born again of the Holy
Spirit of God and the arm of the Lord shall be divinely, powerfully,
effectually, irresistibly revealed to them. They're going to see
the power, the arm of the Lord in the face of the Lord Jesus
Christ, everyone for whom Christ died. He sent us forth with this
gospel. I don't know who they are. You
don't know who they are. We have no idea who they are.
But I can come and preach week in and week out, go places and
preach because I have this guarantee. Christ died and rose again and
I have the guarantee that He purchased this gift, God's going
to give the blessing of Abraham, the Spirit of God is going to
enter in everybody for whom Christ died and call them out. He's
going to do it through this word I'm preaching. And that's what
keeps me going to preach. That's what keeps me looking
for a word is because I know He's going to call out His people.
And not only is He going to save us in the first hour through
the preaching of the gospel, When he says, ìIt pleased God
by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe,î that
means from the first hour to the last. Christ will minister
to us this way right here, through the preaching of the Word. I
almost preached to you again from Job 42. I was so blessed
last week by that when it said, ìGod turned the captivity of
Job when he prayed for his friends.î That coming and offering those
sacrifices for his friends and making intercession for his friends,
that was the public worship of his day. Just like Abel, what
was Abel doing? He was publicly worshiping the
Lord when he went and offered his sacrifice. Cain came to the
public worship of the Lord, but Cain didn't worship the Lord.
He came with the work of his own hand. But that was public
worship. And it was public worship for
Job when he was brought to bring that offering and that sacrifice
and offer it for his friends and pray for them. And it was
during that time, while he was there doing that, that God turned
his captivity, brought him out of the captivity of that sorrow
and that affliction of that trial and gave him a heart to behold
Christ and rejoice in Christ and have his affliction turn
to joy. Christ said, where two or three
are gathered in My name, there I will be in the midst of you.
And He is going to speak to His child through His gospel doing
what we are doing right here, right now. And you can come here
and you can be so afflicted and in captivity to the trial and
in captivity to your flesh and in captivity to the world and
all the things that are going on in this world. And as the
preacher begins to preach, you can't concentrate. All you can
hear is a man and you're looking at this one moving and that one
moving and this noise and that noise and everything else. But
then all of a sudden, the Lord speaks to you and He turns your
captivity. You hear Him. Job was a believer. It wasn't the first hour. And
brethren, it's not the first hour that He saves us through
this gospel. It's every hour, every hour. He continues to save
us through this Gospel. You go home. You've heard it.
You go home. It may be Tuesday and He brings
a word back into your heart that you heard preached and shows
you something in His providence to make you realize that's what
it was talking about. And He turns your captivity. This is how He's going to do
it. This is how He's going to do it. All who believe the gospel
rest in Christ our substitute who is our salvation. When he
reveals the arm of the Lord, that arm, that power of the Lord
is Christ. And all to whom this gospel is
revealed believe on Christ our substitute. That's what the gospel
is, the gospel of substitution. Now first of all, in our regard
for the prince of life, We see why Christ had to come and save
His people. In our regard for the Prince
of life, we see why He had to come. Look here, in our total
ruin, there was nothing about Christ that made us desire Him. Look at verse 2. He shall grow
up before Him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness,
and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire
Him. Now, if the Lord Jesus had come
and He would have been an impressive prince and, you know, riding
in an Escalade and He would have had a lot of bling and He would
have, you know, lived in a mansion and He would have been a powerful
speaker and He would have had a high rise that He lived in
somewhere, we might have paid attention to Him. for vain, selfish,
sinful reasons. But that's not how He came. He
came just a man. He came the carpenter's son. He came preaching and this foolish thing that men
despise, preaching, that's what He came doing. And because He
came lowly of a poor birth and poor family and He didn't come,
He came how God said He would come. Right here we read Isaiah
saying how He would come. And Isaiah told us right here
how we would receive Him. And that's how we received Him.
That's how He came. That's how we received Him. He
had no form or cumbliness about Him that when we would see Him,
There was no beauty about Him that made us desire Him. Nothing
about Him. But not only did we not desire
Him, not only were we just neutral toward Him, we hated Him. We absolutely hated Him. Look
here, verse 3. He's despised and rejected of
men. a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces
from Him. He was despised and we esteemed
Him not. Now that, what you're reading
here about seeing no beauty in Him, but not only that, despising
Him and rejecting Him. That's not only true of those
mean old Pharisees and those mean old Romans and all the people
that nailed Him to the cross. That's true of every single elect
child of God. In our flesh, that's how we regarded
Him. We despised Him and rejected
Him and caused Him sorrow and caused Him grief and hid our
faces from Him and esteemed Him not. We mocked Him because of
His humble birth. We mocked Him because He's the
carpenter's son. We called Him a madman and a
gluttonous man and a wine-bibber. I did that and everybody in this
room did that. You might say, well, I wasn't
there when He walked this earth. When did I do that? Every day
of our unbelief, every day of our rebellion, we joined in with
those who did it face to face with Him. That's what we did. Every day that we did not believe
on Christ, confess Him, that's what we were doing. We were mocking
Him. I remember doing it. I remember thinking in my heart,
these people are crazy. Believe in this. These people
are insane, believe in this. I remember thinking this was
just a carpenter's son. These people are insane, believe
in this. Mocking him in my heart. Mocking him. You try to conceive. I want you to try to think about
this now. We are remembering our Lord and you try to just
think about the constant anguish that our sinful condition caused
Him and His soul. I'm talking about the sin of
those He came to save. And He walked among us. He walked
this earth just like you go out and walk every day. But here's
one that knew no sin and He's not only walking among sinners. You take Multitudes of people
that you just couldn't stand to be around them. Well, that's
how it was for him. Not being able to stand being
around us. And not only that though, he's
going to lay down his life for it. He's going to be made what
we are before God. You know, a president goes into
office and they all got dark hair, you know, and just four
years later and they already got gray hair and if they get
elected a second time by the end of that, they're just about
white hair. That's nothing. That stress, that anguish, that
burden is nothing compared to what Christ came to do. You don't
think that had some physical effect on him? I guarantee you
it has. When those Jews said, you're
not yet 50 years old, I guarantee you our Lord looked like He's
50 years old. A 30-year-old man, I guarantee you looked 50 years
old. We don't have any idea. If it does it to us, lesser things
do it to us. He had every infirmity we have
yet without sin. I don't think we considered that.
He grew in wisdom and stature as a man. He was a man in all
points like his brethren. And touched with all the feeling
that sin causes. You and I to feel. Yet he didn't
have sin. But he still was touched with
it. His body was growing. His body increased. In Scripture he increased in
wisdom and stature as a man. I can't even enter into that.
This is God who made the ground He was walking on. But He was
able to let go of all His glory of being God and submit Himself
like that and be made flesh and be touched with all these infirmities. Can you imagine the pressure
and the burden that was on Him? knowing why he was here. You
and I, it becomes a burden to us if we just think about the
fact we are going to die. You know, right now you are young
and it may not be that big a deal to you, but you find out that
you are sick, it becomes a big deal. And it weighs on you. Ravi, that
weighs on you, don't it? Imagine our Lord, imagine every
day He walked this earth knowing what He is going to bear on that
cross. And yet, though we did not love
Him, He loved His people. Even when He was walking amongst
us and we showed Him no love while He walked amongst us, and
yet He still loved His people. and bore with our griefs and
our sorrows the whole time He walked this earth. Verse 4 says,
Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Now
we saw recently, I believe it was, I can't remember which gospel
we were in, Matthew I think or Mark, and we saw that it said
that the fulfillment of this had to do with Him casting out
devils and healing people. And that was, as we saw, that
was the symptoms. The symptom was the sickness.
The cause is sin. And the reason, and we saw this,
the reason that He showed us that He could actually remove
bodily sickness. And it says here, surely, surely
He hath borne that. He bore those griefs and carried
our sorrows. Matthew says our sicknesses. Our disease. He blew up. And the reason he is doing that,
remember why he said to people, which is easier, to say to this
man, your sins are forgiven or a rise and walk? And you know
what we natural men, you know what we say. Oh, it's easier
for you to say your sins are forgiven. We can't see that. We don't know if that's... He
did it or not. He said, well, so that you will
know that I have power to forgive sin. So you'll know I am able
to bear sin and to bear the justice that that sin deserves and pay
for that sin and justify my people from that sin. So you'll know
I have the power to forgive sin. He said, stand up and walk. And what did that man do? He
stood up and walked. That's why the Holy Spirit applied this
verse to him healing sickness. It was so that you and I will
know he had the power to make him sin. And we see it in what
we think is a harder thing to do is to heal somebody of sickness.
Because we can't see how he could be made sin and we don't understand
that. But we could see a little bit
of a man going from being a leper to being healed. We could see
a little bit of a man who couldn't walk all of a sudden being able
to walk. But He did it to show you that just like I have power
to bear that sickness, I got power to bear the sin that caused
that sickness. God is a whole lot bigger than
we are and can do things we can't even comprehend He can do. I
can't get past, great is the mystery of godliness. God was
manifest in the flesh. I'm still hung up on that. But he removed that bodily sickness
by miraculous power. We don't have a way of understanding
how he did that, but I want you to understand here, Isaiah is
speaking of the spiritual fulfillment of that physical power that he
had, that physical healing he did. He's talking about the spiritual
aspect of it. Look, Isaiah says, when he says
here he bore our griefs, he goes further to say in verse 5 what
he's talking about. Our transgressions, our iniquities. That's what he's talking about.
Our transgressions, our iniquities. The transgressions and the iniquities
that cause the sickness. He surely heaven borne it. Verse 6, All we like sheep have
gone astray, we've turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Can you imagine, I
don't know how to enter into this, but can you imagine if
you had to bear everybody's flu, you know how bad the flu is and
how it makes you feel. Imagine if you had to bear everybody's
flu at one time. That wouldn't be anything compared
to what Christ bore. He bore all the iniquity of all
His people. He bore all the transgressions
of all His people. Peter said, who His own self
bare our sins in His own body on the tree. A lot of people
in our day would reject Peter. If he was here today preaching
and he used those words, they would say, Peter is saying Christ
was made a sinner. He is saying he made sin. Not
a rebel, but he bore his people's sin. Every time Christ healed somebody,
And you know it had to heighten that burden of that baptism that
he knew he had to be baptized with. We're not talking about
people who had hearts in love with him. We're talking about
sinners and he knew our hearts. And yet he loved us even though
we didn't love him. And every time he would heal
somebody, he knows, he is reminded of that baptism he is going to
be baptized with on Calvary's cross. Every single time he is
reminded of that. He said, I have a baptism to
be baptized with and how am I straightened? till it be accomplished. Those
words tell us something about the load that Christ bore knowing,
just knowing what He was going to bear. I'm straightened till
it be accomplished. You know, if you have something
that you're going to have to do and it's going to be shameful
and painful and it's going to cause you to, it's going to injure
your reputation, It's going to cause people to look at you in
a light that you don't want to be looked at. But you know you're
going to have to do it anyway. That is a straight. That is a
pressing down upon you. Imagine what Christ... Imagine
how He was straight. But that also expresses His desire. that he wanted to see the justice
of God satisfied. He wanted to see God, His Father,
Himself, the Son of God, Sacred Person of the Trinity. He wanted
to see Himself glorified. He wanted to see His law upheld,
His law honored, His people saved from our sin. He was in a strength
to let that was accomplished. You want to see how He loved
His people though we didn't love Him? Even while He was anticipating
bearing our sin, all through His days, all through His life,
He's going about doing good for people, He's going about preaching
the truth, being rejected constantly, His own disciples come up to
Him and act like it's the first day they ever met Him. If you'd
show us the Father, we'd believe you. I can tell you that ripped
His heart out. That ripped His heart out to
be questioned. Like they didn't even know who
He was. And all the while, as He's going
through all of this, anticipating bearing our sin, look at verse
3. It says, we hid, as it were, our faces from Him. He was despised and we esteemed
Him not. You just picture him coming down
the street and here is somebody he knows up here that is walking
along. Maybe he healed some of their
family just last week. And they see him coming and they
turn around and went the other way. Hiding from him. Don't want
to talk to him. Don't want to come in contact
with him. I can tell you they did that to him. People do that
to me that I know in Pennington just because I am a preacher.
Imagine THE preacher. but just in worse ways than that,
but just hiding our faces from despising Him, esteeming Him
not. This is what the Lord meant when
He said, ìHerein is love, not that we love God, but that He
loved us.î It was not just, yes, it was love that God sent His
only begotten Son, but also as Christ walked this earth. We
didnít love Him while He walked this earth. Meaning He was laying
down His life for despised Him and esteemed Him not and turned
their faces on Him. I don't know who His elect are.
When I come in contact with people in Pennington or in Ewing or
over in PA, I don't know who are God's elect. He knew them. And yet He hadn't given them
life yet. The Father hadn't been pleased
yet to call them out. And they treated Him with the
enmity that was in their heart. And yet he still loved them anyway. We wouldn't do that, would we?
It don't take much for make us to say, well, you reached your
limit, buddy. Not him. We hated him. He still loved his people. And
this was his heart even though his soul trouble was progressing. It was always progressing. The
closer he got to that hour... Well, first off, you just imagine.
You know why we don't know the day we're going to die? You know
why we don't know it? We'd live like hell right up
until about a day before and then we'd try to get right with
God. He knew the day he was going
to die. He knew how He was going to die. He knew what He was going
to bear. And every step He took, every hour of the day, He got
closer and closer and closer. And He is not in the midst of
people that are comforting Him and loving Him. And His own disciples
don't even understand what He is doing. Just a little bit. And there's
things, he said, I can't tell you right now. I'm going to have
to wait until after I've risen and tell you. I just can't tell
you some of the things. You can't bear them right now,
he said. Listen to how his soul trouble
progressed. Just in the Garden of Gethsemane,
it said, first of all, you read in John 12, 27, he said, now
is my soul troubled. What shall I say? Father, save
me from this hour, but for this cause came I unto this hour.
And then in the garden, Matthew 26, 37, He took with Him Peter
and two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith He unto them, My soul
is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. My soul is so exceedingly
sorrowful, I'm just about to die right now. And He said to
them, Tarry here with Me. Pray with me. Please pray for
me. That God will strengthen me.
That my flesh doesn't become so weak that I just expire right
here. Talk about love. We fell asleep. I stayed up too
late last night. I couldn't stay up and pray for
you. I'm sorry. I fell asleep. While he's bearing
that, his apostles fell asleep. And then a little bit later,
being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly and his sweat
was falling down to the ground in great clots of blood. Was that real? That was real. Don't tell me
this thing is just a legal matter. Don't tell me I don't want to even say that. It doesn't make
me angry that men don't believe what I believe. I can understand
not believing the Gospel. What makes me angry is people
mock my Redeemer and what He suffered. Did you see the progression?
My soul is sorrowful. My soul is exceedingly sorrowful.
My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. I'm sweating blood. I'm so burdened. And here's amazing love. Our
all-powerful Savior humbled Himself and depended entirely upon the
Father to teach His elect. When He was there in that garden,
not only is He praying to the Father because He needs the Father
to send that angel to strengthen him because his flesh is about
to totally expire. Not only is he praying because
he needs that, he's teaching his apostles at the same time
to look out of themselves to the Father. To look out of themselves
to Him like he looked to the Father. He wasn't only praying
for himself, he was praying and doing what he was doing to teach
them something about faith and you and me about faith. He had
a lot on Him and was fulfilling it all while He was doing that.
In the days of His flesh when He offered up prayers and supplications
with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save
Him from death, He was heard because He reverenced God. Though
He were a Son, yet learned the obedience by the things which
He suffered. And being made perfect, being made our consecrated Captain,
He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey Him. And that's what He was teaching
there in the garden. Not only is He asking the Father to help
Him, He's also teaching us to look away from ourselves and
the weakness of our flesh to Him. Just like He looked to the
Father. And even when He was made sin
for us on the cursed tree now, surely when He was made sin and
He hung on that tree, surely then we got it. Surely then we
understood. Surely then we got it now. We understand the gospel He was
teaching us. Yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God,
and afflicted. We reason that Christ on the
cross was under the judgment of God for His own sins. When do we reason that? When
did I say that? All the days I refused to believe
on Him. All the days I questioned His
Word. All the days that I mocked the Gospel and wanted nothing
to do with it. I esteemed Him to be nothing
more than a liar who was a sinner just like me and was bearing
the judgment of God for his own sins. But what was Christ doing on
the cross? For God's elect, Because he was bearing the sin of his
people, he was made a curse. Now look at it with me. He is
bearing exactly what his people deserved. Each word in verse
4 corresponds with each word in verse 5. Look at verse 4. Verse 4 says, We esteemed him
stricken. Look at verse 5. But he was wounded
for our transgressions. Look at verse 4. We esteemed
Him smitten of God, but He was bruised for our iniquities. Look at verse 4. We esteemed
Him afflicted of God. Verse 5. But the chastisement
of our peace was upon Him. That was what He was bearing
because He was made sin for His people. That's substitution.
That's substitution. The spotless Lamb of God was
made sin for His people, and for that reason He was made a
curse for us, bearing the punishment of His people. Go back to the
picture, back in the ceremony. The spotless Lamb, that spotless,
a picture of Christ, the spotless, sinless God-man. They bring this
spotless lamb to the priest and the priest kills that lamb. That's wrong, isn't it? That's
not what happened. They bring this spotless lamb
to the priest and the priest ceremonially and tight pictures
the sin of the people going on to that lamb. And Leviticus says,
God says, and now he is made sin and type. Now he's killed. Now he's killed. Now he's wounded. Now he's bruised. Now, now, now. Hebrews says Christ is the express
image. It was not a type. He was made
sin and then he was made a curse. Was he wounded? Was he wounded? Look to that cross. Was He wounded?
Are you tired of this light bread? Was He wounded? Was He bruised
for our iniquities? Wounded means to violate the
honor of. Look at the margin. It means
to torment. Bruised means to be beat and
crushed like wheat ground by the pestle and the mortar. The
chastisement of our peace was upon Him. That means the vindictive
judgment, the wrath, the vengeance for sin that is required to make
peace with God for His people was upon Him. God justly was forsaking our
substitute that God might be just in justifying These sinners
that hated Him and esteemed Him. These very sinners who, some
of them were sitting there while He's bearing that, thinking,
He's getting what He deserves. And you know what Christ was
doing while they were doing that? Father, don't lay this to their
charge. They don't know what they're
doing. He wasn't praying that for everybody
around that cross, because He said, I pray not for the world,
I pray for them you've given me out of the world. He was praying
for some of them that were His elect that were doing what they
were doing to Him. Talk about love. And yet while God forsook Him
in justice, while His people hid our faces, while His apostles
and disciples fled, while He was all alone in darkness, in
His heart He cried out in perfect faith to God, Thou art He that
took me out of the womb. Thou didst make me hope when
I was upon my mother's breast. I was cast upon Thee from the
womb. Thou art my God from my mother's belly. Be not far from
me, for my trouble is near, for there is none. to help. Don't you just want to call on
somebody when you suffer? Don't you just want to call and
just to hear another voice that you can talk to that knows that
you're suffering and you can hear them sympathize with you
a little bit? He got no answer. There's none
to help. Not even God to whom he prayed. I'm poured out like water. All
my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It's melted
in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like
a potsherd. My tongue cleaves to my jaws.
Thou has brought me into the dust of death. Dogs have compassed
me. The assembly of the wicked have
enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell
all my bones. They look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them and cast lights upon my vesture.
But be not thou far from me, O Lord. Oh my strength, haste
thee to help. Deliver my soul from the sword. Deliver my darling from the power
of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth. For thou hast heard me from the
horns of the unicorns. Do you know how that psalm starts?
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He got no answer
for three hours. Now three hours might not seem
like a long time when you're waiting on something that's insignificant. But what he was waiting on, three
hours was a long time. It was an eternity. It was enough
to satisfy eternal judgment. And when he had offered up prayers
and supplications, he was heard because he reverenced God his
Father. How was he heard? After he cried, it's finished,
and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost, he was received
into the holiest of God in spirit. That's how he was heard. He was
received into the holiest of holies, into the presence of
the Father in spirit. And three days later, for our
justification, to justify to us that he really was raised,
his body came out of the grave. Now, go back to that type just
real quick. I want to say this to you. After
that high priest killed that sin-bearing lamb, he didn't go
into the holy place with that sin-bearing Lamb. Even
in the type, He didn't go into the holiest of holies with the
sin-bearing Lamb. That would be to bring sin into
God's presence. He didn't do that. The high holy
priest of God went into that holy of holies with the blood
of the Lamb, the sin already having been paid for. No sin went into the holy place.
Just that spotless high priest. Listen to this. Neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God. That doesn't refer to when he
came to Gethsemane and was made sin and was slain and hung up
on the cross. That's referring to when he obtained eternal redemption,
just like that high priest took that blood, the sin's put away
now, eternal redemption has been obtained, and that high priest
goes into the holiest of holies with the blood and sprinkles
it on the mercy seat. That's what he's telling us.
When he said, I commend my spirit to you, Father, he entered into
the holiest place through the eternal spirit without spot and
offered himself to God through his own blood. And eternal redemption
was done. It was done. It was accomplished. Now, who's believed our gospel? Who's Christ our Lord been revealed
to? Here's the good news, verse 5,
Isaiah 53, 5 at the end. With his stripes, we are healed. With his stripes, we are healed. Brother Robbie, when Chloe is healed and comes
to a place and they say, she won't ever have to come back
here. So we know now that it's in remission. She won't have
to come back for even check-ups now. She's not going to keep going
back. She's not going to keep trying to do something to get
well. She's going to be well. With His stripes, we are healed. We don't have to keep trying
to do something to get well. We're healed. He did everything
necessary to heal us. Now once in the world has He
appeared to put away sin? I want you to read this. Go to
Hebrews 9. I just want you to see it real quick. Somebody preached
on this. I think it was down at Greg's.
And this right here just leaped off the page at me. I hope it
will you. Look here, Hebrews 9 and look at verse 26. Don't you see what this says?
Hebrews 9, 26. Now look here at the second part. Now once
in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by
the sacrifice of Himself. And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment." It's saying that's
what He was doing on the cross. It's appointed unto men once
to die and after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to
bear the sins of many. He died that death for us. He bore our sins to a land not
inhabited. He settled our judgment forever. And so now, unto them that look
for Him shall He appear the second time. without sin unto salvation. He won't be bearing sin when
we see Him again. It's gone. It's put away forever. Now, of
this table, you know what Christ said? He said, do this in remembrance
of Me. Now listen, for as often as you
eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death
till He comes. We're showing here a picture
of His death till He returns. He gave us this simple ordinance
here, not to complicate it, but just to make it something simple
where we can see a picture of His body broken in that bread
and a picture of His blood spilled out in this wine. And we get
a picture of Him being our life because we're going to eat it
and we're going to drink it. And it's going to be one with
us. And that's what He's given to picture this. So we can show
His death till He comes. That's why He says, now let a
man examine himself. Because to drink unworthily of
this table is to not be able to discern the Lord's body. And
not to be able to discern spiritually what this is about. To see Christ
in this and worship Christ in this. And He says the man who
eats this unworthily He is guilty of the blood and body of Christ
because He is doing it with no spiritual discernment. But for
you who can say, Christ is my only hope, this is all my salvation,
this is indeed, He is all. And you have the spiritual discernment
to understand and see and rejoice. He says, you do this in remembrance
of Me. Alright, Brother Kevin and Brother Kevin, can y'all...