The gospel of God is a single message. It's not a complicated message.
Paul's fear was, he said, I fear that just like Satan beguiled
Eve in the garden, that he should deceive you into thinking this
gospel is about other things, that it's complicated, rather than the singleness and
the singularity of Christ alone. Men get to debating over intricate
points of doctrine, because one doesn't believe some point of
doctrine that the other one believes, they divide from one another
and they begin to call the other one lost and the other one calls
the other one lost and you'll go to hell playing doctrinal
badminton. The gospel is Christ. Salvation
is knowing Christ and trusting Christ and resting in Christ. Christ the Lord is God in human
flesh. He walked this earth spotless,
went to the Garden of Gethsemane and presented Himself as the
spotless Lamb of God. And God laid on Him the iniquity
of all His chosen people. And Christ went to that cross
and suffered judgment. He suffered the just wages of
sin, which is death. And He did that for a limited
number of sinners, a particular people. For by that death He
justified us. He saved us. He redeemed us.
So that God will call out everyone for whom He died. Bring us out
of the prison of our sin nature and out of the prison of our...
the curse that we were under. And if the Son makes you free,
you will be free indeed. He makes you free. Free to worship
God, free to walk with God, free to commune with God, free to
be accepted into God's kingdom forever. That one who saves is
Christ. He is salvation. I want you to
get that today. Christ is the substitute. Christ died in the place of notable
prisoners. That's my title and that's my
proposition. Christ died in the place of notable
prisoners. Let's turn to Matthew 27 and
let's read verses 15 through 26. Matthew 27, 15 says, Now at the
feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner
whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner,
a notable prisoner called Barabbas. Therefore when they were gathered
together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto
you? Barabbas or Jesus, which is called
Christ? For he knew that for envy they
had delivered Christ. And when he was set down on the
judgment seat, His wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing
to do with that just man? For I have suffered many things
this day in a dream because of him. But the chief priests and
elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas
and destroy Jesus. The chief priests and the elders
persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas and
destroy Jesus. The governor answered and said
unto them, Whither of the twain will ye that I release unto you?
They said, Barabbas. And Pilate saith unto them, What
shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? And they all
said unto him, Let him be crucified. And the governor said, Why? What
evil hath he done? But they cried out the more,
saying, Let him be crucified. When Pilate saw that he could
prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, a riot, he
took water, and he washed his hands before the multitude, saying,
I am innocent of the blood of this just person, see ye to it.
Then answered all the people and said, His blood be on us
and on our children. Then released Tebarabbas unto
them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be
crucified. The first thing we see in this
text is that those Christ died for are like Barabbas. They are notable prisoners. It
says here, the governor was wont to release unto the people a
prisoner, whoever they would, and they had then a notable prisoner
called Barabbas. A notable prisoner means Barabbas
was a known prisoner. He was known. He was guilty of
the crimes with which he was charged. He knew that. That was
known to him. He knew it. Everybody around
him knew it. He was guilty. He was in prison,
chained and bound in prison. He knew that. That was known. It was noted and everybody knew
it. And he was unable to free himself from that prison and
from those guilty charges. He knew that. And they knew that.
All this man was worthy of was death for his crimes. They knew that. He was a notable
prisoner. And that's true of everybody
for whom Christ died. All for whom Christ died were
notable prisoners. We looked at the garden this
morning. We looked at Adam in the garden. And when Adam transgressed
and we transgressed in him, God declared, when He pronounced
Adam and the whole human race to be under the curse, God pronounced
that we were guilty. Guilty of rebelling against God. Guilty. God pronounced there,
we were guilty of robbing God of His glory. God is worthy of
all worship, all praise, all submission, all honor, all glory
goes to God. And yet, by our sin, and the
sin mainly of our vain religion, we try to rob God of His glory.
We are robbers by nature. God pronounced us guilty of murder. Sin is not only robbing God,
sin is murdering God. Sin is having malicious intent
in the heart. Sin is envying God in the heart. Sin is that carnal mind that
hates God. That's what sin is all about.
And every sin born into this world is bound under the curse,
bound by our sin nature, and we cannot free ourselves. We're
notable prisoners. God said this, can the Ethiopian
change his skin? Can the leopard change his spots?
You say that's an impossibility. God said, then may you also do
good that are accustomed to do evil. It's an impossibility to
change what a man is. A man can change direction, and
a man can change his habits, and a man can change his morals,
and a man can change those things, but he hadn't changed what he
is before God. Only God can do that. No sinner
ever knows God. No sinner ever flees to God.
No sinner ever begs mercy of God till we're made to know,
I am the sinner. That's what we have to be made
known. I know a dear brother who preaches in a prison. And
he's told me that for all these years, it's been like 20 years
he's preached in a prison. And all these years that he's
preached in a prison, he said, I've yet to hear a man in that
prison tell me he's guilty. He's right where he belongs and
right where he's supposed to be. Yet to hear a man say he's
guilty. And that's us by nature. All
we've sinned a little. All we've... maybe not as good
as some, but we're not as bad as others. That's our nature.
That's the confession that most men make. We have to be brought
to see we are the chief. I personally am the chief of
sinners. Are you the chief of sinners?
Are you the worst sinner there is? Are you the notable prisoner? That's where we have to be brought.
If we say that we have no sin, if we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess
our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sin because
of Christ. Because of Christ. But if we
say that we have no sin, we make God a liar and His Word is not
in us. The sure proof that a man is
not born of God and does not have the truth of God dwelling
in him is that he will not confess, that he cannot, he cannot, by
any work of His hand, save Himself, because He is the sinner. That's
what it is to confess sin. Confess, I can't contribute one
thing to salvation. I'm a sinner. Now secondly, while
left in our sins, Christ Jesus is the one that we reject. While
left in our sins, Christ is the one we reject. It's not It's
not certain doctrine. It's not various points of doctrine. It's Christ. Look here with me,
Matthew 17. When they were gathered together,
Matthew 27, 17. When they were gathered together,
Pilate said, Whom will you that I release unto you? Who do you
want me to release from charges? Barabbas or Jesus which is called
Christ? For he knew that it was for envy
that they had delivered Christ. And when he was sat down on that
judgment seat, his wife said, don't you have anything to do
with that just man? God put this in her dreams so
that she came saying, he's a just man, don't have anything to do
with him. See, Jesus is holy. He's holy. He's righteous. He's God. That's who He is. He's
everything we're not. He's different from sinners. He's holy and He's just. All
the charges that were brought against Barabbas and all the
charges that are against us are true. They're true. They're all true. We're guilty.
We're guilty. But none of the charges that
were brought against Christ were true. They were false. They were false. What is the
significance of Christ being born of a virgin? It's not to
exalt Mary. It's not to start worshiping
Mary. The point of Him being born of
a virgin is to declare Christ doesn't have a nature like you
and I are born with. We're born of Adam. Adam begat
Seth in his image. In Adam's broken, fallen, defiled
image. And it came on down the line
to you. And you were born with that same
broken, defiled, unrighteous, unholy image. Christ wasn't born
of that corrupt seed. Christ was conceived in the womb
of the Holy Ghost. And He's holy. His nature is
holy. So that everything He thought
before God was just in perfect agreement with God. That's what
it declares. Every thought was in agreement
with God. I don't imagine at all. This is just my personal
conjecture. I do not imagine that when Christ
was born, He cried like most babies do. Because He had no
sin. He had no sin. There was no anger
in Him from being brought from that warm place to this cold
place. He was the best child a mother and a father could ever
have. Because He never sinned. He never
rebelled against them. You imagine having a child like
that. Best child a mother could have. God the Father bore witness
from heaven. He said, this is my beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased. The only way God would say that
is if He was righteous and holy. God said, I'm well pleased with
Him. Christ is the true holy priest for His people. It says,
such a high priest became us. He was becoming. It had to be.
And He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, made higher
than the heavens. This One who came was more pure
and more holy than the heavens. He's higher than the heavens.
He's holy, spotless, undefiled. So why was it when He walked
this earth that sinful man rejected Him then? Why was it? For that very reason. Because
He's holy and righteous. and we're not. It was for envy. It was for envy of what He is
and what we're not. Look at John 15. John chapter
15, verse 22. Christ said, if I had not come,
if I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin. But now they have no disguise
for their sin. He that hateth me, hateth my
Father also. If I had not done among them
the works which none other man did, they had not had sin. But
now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that
the word might be fulfilled that's written in their law. They hated
me without a cause." These were religious men Christ was speaking
of. These were the chief in religion. They were the chief leaders in
religion that He's speaking of that hated Him. Why did they
hate Him? Why did they hate Him? Why is
it in our day right now, why does most religion hate Christ? That might be a shocking statement
to some. But it's true. That's why they won't preach
Christ as all salvation. They put some work in man's hand.
Why won't they preach Christ as all salvation? Because the
lost man, the unregenerate man, no matter how religious he is,
in fact, the more religious he is, the more he envies Christ
and hates Christ. Why? Because if you preach Christ
as being the only righteousness of His people, that strips away
your disguise and makes all your self-righteousness to be discovered
as nothing but sin. You preach Christ as being the
sanctification of His people, the holiness of His people, and
the sanctifier of His people, and you make vain preachers who
think they're sanctifying people by their compelling, enforcing
sinners to do what they'd have them do. It discovers them to
be transgressors against Christ. And those that think they're
sanctified by their works under the law, their disguise is stripped
away, and they're declared to be polluted and not holy. That's
why men won't preach Christ as all. That's why. If I preach
that all salvation is by the works of Christ, then it takes
all my works and makes all my works for salvation, for righteousness,
for sanctification, for redemption, for acceptance with God. It makes
all my works to be vain in the light of Christ. That's what
Christ meant. When He came, He was that straight
stick that was laid down beside them. And when He was laid down,
long as they were comparing themselves with themselves, they didn't
seem all that crooked. But whenever Christ came and
they were compared to Christ, they were crooked as a snake
and twice as poisoned. And that's why men won't preach
Christ. That's why men want self-made
religion. won't preach Christ for the same
reason that we rejected Him when He walked this earth. Envy. Envy. He reveals our sin. Here's what Will Work's religion
does. The chief priests and the elders
persuaded the multitude that they should ask for rabbis and
destroy Jesus. The chief priests and elders
persuaded the multitude they ought to release the notable
prisoner and destroy Jesus. And whenever Pilate couldn't
persuade him otherwise, he saw he couldn't persuade him otherwise,
he gave them what they wanted. He released Barabbas and delivered
Christ to be crucified. That's the essence of all man-made
religion right there. Say, how is that? The essence
of the message preached by any religion that puts any work in
your hand. Now listen to me carefully. Any
work that's put in a sinner's hand, here's what's being done
by that message. They are releasing sinners. The notable prisoner, they're
releasing us, the sinner, of his obligation to pay the wages
of sin, which is death. They're releasing him of that
obligation by saying he can save himself by some work he does.
See, you've got to die. You want to be saved by God?
You've got to die. I don't mean just die physically.
I mean you have to die that eternal death known as hell. You've got to die that death
and satisfy justice. You've got to die that death.
The only way that can be is to die in a substitute, Christ the
Lord. He did that for His people. You see, when they preach a work
done by man to save a man, they release the sinner of his obligation
to honor and magnify the law in perfect righteousness from
a perfectly holy heart. They release the sinner of that
obligation. The only way that law could be
honored and magnified from a perfectly holy heart is by Christ Jesus,
the Son of God. The only way. That's why we preach
Christ. and we preach down man and all
his works. We're not going to release you
of that obligation. The only way that obligation
can be fulfilled is by Christ Jesus, the just one and the faithful
one. The only way. And what most preachers
are doing today, the man that's not sin of God, this is the evidence
that he's not sin of God. Oh, he may get a little fit of
truth, and see some truth, and go and decide he's going to preach
it to the congregation. And he preaches it. And the congregation
rejects him, just like they rejected Pilate. So what does he do? When he sees he can't prevail,
he gives them what they want. He releases the sinner of his
obligations. And in doing so, the Hebrew writer
says, they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put
Him to an open shame. That's just what happened right
here. That's what religion did to Christ, and that's what religion
does to Christ in our day. It hasn't changed. Man don't
change unless God makes him new. That's the same thing that happened
then. Now here's the last thing I want you to see. We're the
notable prisoner. We're the notable prisoner. That
was my first point. We're bound. We've got to be
made to know we're the sinner. Number two, as long as we're
rejecting this salvation, it's Christ we're rejecting. Christ
said, this is the condemnation. Light came into the world and
men loved darkness rather than light. And that chief darkness
men love rather than light is their religion. Their self-made
salvation. And that's the condemnation.
And here's the third thing. That one, they rejected. is the
substitute and the Savior by whom His people are set free.
That one that was rejected right there that day is the one who
is the substitute and the Savior of His people. Now I want you
to put yourself in that cell where Barabbas sat. He's guilty
and he knows it. You put yourself in there. It's
dark, cell, dirty, Big old heavy bars on the door. Can't get out
of it. Sinner, that's your nature. That's
your sin nature. That's where you are under the
curse of the law. Surrounded by four stone walls
or three stone walls and an iron gate. Shackles on your ankles. You can't get out. Say, well,
my will is free, I can do what I want to. Within that cell,
Barabbas could move around all he wanted to. But he couldn't
get out of that cell. That's what Brother Scott Richardson
meant when he said, a man's will is as free as a frog in a snake's
belly. He can hop around all he want
to, but he can't get out of that snake's belly. That's our nature. By nature, you can do things,
You can will this or that, do this or that, but you can't get
out from under that sin nature. That nature is to hate God and
you can't make yourself love God. You can't make yourself
bow to Christ and trust Christ and declare Him to be all salvation. You can't do that. You can't
say you need a righteousness and Christ is that righteousness.
You can't say you need a holiness and Christ is that holiness.
You can't free yourself from that sin nature and that curse.
You cannot do that. Only Christ can do it. So there
he is. He's sitting in that cell. Now
he can't hear Pilate. Pilate's just asking him in a
regular tone of voice. It's the crowd that is in the
tumult. They're in a riot. They're yelling
loud. A multitude of people yelling
loud. So he can't hear what Pilate said. So he didn't hear when
the governor said, which of these two men is it that I will release
unto you? He didn't hear that part. What
he heard was, Barabbas! Barabbas! Barabbas! You can just picture him get
up off of his seat, go up to that cell door, grab hold to
those bars, and press his ear to those bars, and he's wanting
to hear what's coming next. Whatever's coming next, that's
what I'm getting. They call Barabbas, and whatever's coming next, that's
what I'm going to get. And he doesn't hear Pilate say,
What will you that I do with this Jesus? All he hears is that
multitude cry out, Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Crucify Him! He heard them yell His name,
Barabbas! Barabbas! Barabbas! Crucify Him! Crucify Him! Crucify Him! He knows He's guilty. He knows
Death is coming for him. He knows that his only salvation
now is for God to release him. That's the only way he can be
saved. Man's got to be made to hear his voice called, you're
the guilty one. Barabbas. Barabbas. You're deserving of execution.
Justice of God will not yield. Justice of God will not be in
the justice of God. God will by no means clear the
guilty. You must be crucified. You've
got to hear God say your name. And you've got to hear God say
crucify Him. That's when you start calling
on God. That's when you start confessing your sin to God. That's
when you start being a mercy beggar. Begging God. Please have
mercy on me. I can't save myself. Do you think
Barabbas thought for one second he could save himself where he
was? No. No. There's no escaping. There's
no escaping. All of a sudden he hears that
jailer coming. Those keys rattling. Don't you
know he's terrified? Oh, terrified. This is it. This is it. That jailer comes
and he opens that prison, opens that door. And he walks over
to Barabbas and he unlocks those shackles off his feet, those
shackles off his arms, and they drop to the floor. And he points
to that open door and he says, Barabbas, Jesus Christ, is crucified in your place. You now are free to go. You're free to go. That, my friends,
is our gospel. Our gospel is Christ the substitute. Christ Jesus took the place of
God's elect Barabbas. Are you a notable prisoner? Are
you one who cannot save himself? Are you one that's so bound and
so confined that you're in the prison cell of your nature under
the curse, guilty, in shackles, bound, so that you cannot free
yourself and you've heard God speak into your heart and say,
you are the guilty one. You are the guilty one. You are
the guilty one. Crucify Him. Crucify Him. Crucify Him. Have you heard God
speak that in your heart? When you're brought to that point
where you cast all your hope on the mercy of God. God, I don't
deserve to be saved. God, I don't deserve mercy. God,
I don't have anything I've ever done that's good to deserve one
thing from you. That's when Christ speaks. And He makes you to know. I laid
down my life in the place of all mine elect. And when He makes
you to know that, He makes you to know that He did it for you
personally. He went to that cross and took
the sin, my sin, personally. When it says, He who knew no
sin was made sin, that I might be made the righteousness of
God, here's what it means. He became me on that cross. He took my place on that cross. He bore my sin. He bore my judgment,
my stripes, my cross, my death. He bore that for me. And now by that death, He justified
me of all the law's claims on me. The law can say nothing else
to me. I'm talking about the law of
Holy God. And when He came out of that
tomb, I came out of that tomb. I came out of that prison when
He came out. I was in Him. And so, because
God will not charge His people with sin, for whom Christ died. You see, Christ already paid
it. Christ paid it. He suffered the wages of sin.
He suffered death. He paid it. God will not then
turn around and charge those for whom Christ died because
they're just before God. He justified them. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifieth. Who is He that condemneth? It's
Christ that died again rather than that's risen again. Whoever
lives to make intercession for us. God won't charge one of His
elect. Because Christ died for us. What
He will do then, because we're in that prison and we can't get
out of that prison. He said in Isaiah, He said, I've
raised you up and I've given you, speaking of Christ, I've
given you for a covenant of the people. that you might say to
the prisoners, show yourselves. And to them that are in darkness,
come forth. Don't you imagine when that jailer
came to that cell, the rabbi's thinking he's been called to
prison. I bet he was sunk up in that darkest corner of that
cell, out of the light as far as he could, because a man that
thinks he's going to be condemned for his sins, he won't come to
the light. That jailer came there and undocked that door. Christ
is that jailer. He's the one that comes. He comes
to that prison and breaks them bars down and He speaks to you
and He says, come out of the dark and come into the light.
And when He speaks, you come in. You see them big old convicts,
some big convicted felons and sometimes they have to handcuff
them fellas and they have to bind those fellas and hogtie
those fellas and it takes four or five men to get them into
a jail cell. When they come and tell them
they're free to go, it don't take nobody to get them out.
They walk out of there happy because they're free. I guarantee
you when Christ tells you He's laid down His life and paved
the sin of His people and He's done it for you personally and
He's redeemed you and He brings you, says, come to the light,
you won't have to be persuaded. A preacher won't have to dim
the lights and beg you and call you and persuade you to come
down an aisle. No, you'll flee out of that dungeon and you'll
lay hold of Christ and you won't ever leave Him. Don't ever leave
Him. Look over to Isaiah 53. Look
at verse 8. Let's begin in verse 6. Let's
begin in verse 4. Surely He hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows, yet we that 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. Now brethren,
everybody that He healed by His stripes, they'll never be sick
again. They'll never see death again.
They're healed. He's going to bring them all
to glory, every one of them. Because he succeeded. That's
what it just said. He succeeded. Look, all we like sheep have
gone astray. We turned everyone to his own
way, and the Lord had laid on him the iniquity of us all. He
was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.
He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before
shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. He was taken away
by distress from prison and from judgment. And who shall declare
His generation? For He was cut off out of the
land of the living, for the transgression of My people was He stricken."
The transgression of My people was He stricken. 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.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. It satisfied God's justice
to put him to death instead of his people. He hath put him to
grief. When thou shalt make his soul
an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong
his days, and the pleasure The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper
in His hand. You and I can read this past
tense, brethren, because he's already come to the cross now.
The pleasure of the Lord has prospered in His hand. He justified
us. He reconciled us. He redeemed
us. He did that for all His notable
prisoners. He shall see of the travail of
His soul. Just like a woman travails in
childbirth and she sees her travail when that child is born, He is
going to see His children born because He travailed for them.
And He shall be satisfied. By His knowledge shall My righteous
servant justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall
divide the spoiled with the strong. Because he poured out his soul
unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors, and bare
the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. For the
transgressors. The good news of the gospel,
brethren, is this. In Christ, God chose His people
freely by grace. In Christ, God redeemed His people
freely by grace. In Christ, God regenerates His
people freely by grace. In Christ, God preserves His
people freely by grace. And in Christ, God brings His
people home freely by grace. And He does not lose one. It's all in Christ. The love
of God's in Christ. God's holiness is in Christ.
God's righteousness is in Christ. God's wisdom is in Christ. God's
power is in Christ. God's glory is manifest in Christ. God is in Christ. He's the fullness
of the Godhead. Everything's in Christ. Do you
believe on Christ? That's the question. It's not
do you believe the doctrine of reprobation. It's not do you
believe the doctrine of election. It's not do you believe the the
gospel of limited atonement. That's not... When you know Christ,
you believe the doctrine. The question is, do you believe
Christ? Whose Son is He? If He's the Son of God, that
means He's our Savior. He's the Messiah. He's everything
God says about Him in His Word. He's the truth. The way, the
truth, and the life. You believe Him. That's the question.
That's the question. Don't be persuaded away from
the gospel by slicing and dicing men who want to... Brother Henry
used to say that the rose has a sweet, fragrant smell. We behold
Christ like the rose of Sharon and the smell is so sweet and
so good to the smell of the believer. But the botanist comes in and
he cuts that rose up to inspect it, to see what it's made of
and see everything about it to where he's just, he's disassembled
it to the point that now it has no fragrance whatsoever. That's
what men do who get so intricate in doctrine and start splitting
and dividing over doctrine to where if there wasn't something
to fight about in that doctrine, they wouldn't have any care for
the gospel whatsoever. They have no love for Christ. They don't smell that precious
savor. And that's not their heart. Their heart is to beat you over
the head with some point of doctrine. Let them have it. Let them have
it. What do you think of Christ?
That's the issue. The substitute for sinners. Now
what we're going to do now is we're fixing to celebrate the
fact that there's now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
And we're going to celebrate this by taking a piece of bread
that the Lord said symbolizes my broken body. Broken for you. You who believe Him, you who
trust Him, you for whom to whom He is all your salvation. He
said, this is My body broken for you. Taking wine, that unleavened
wine, as all the leaven has been fermented out of it, so there
is no leaven in it whatsoever. We are going to drink that wine, symbolizing His blood. That is
what every Old Testament sacrifice They all had wine with them to
symbolize His shed blood. Unleavened, pure, holy blood. Pure blood. Pure nature. And we're doing this to show
His death. To show that by that death, He accomplished our salvation. By that death, He accomplished
reconciliation and justification and atonement. He is our salvation. And we're going to do this by
His grace till He comes again and carries us home. We're going to eat that bread.
We're going to drink that wine. And by that we're going to confess
that the only way we have life is by Christ Himself. By Him being in us and being
one with us and making us one with Him. So that He's our nourishment,
He's our bread, He's our life. That's the only way we have life.
Have you eaten Him? By faith? He says to all who
trust Him alone, come to the table. Do this in remembrance
of Me. But to those who have not, He
says this, He gives this solemn warning. Don't come to this table
because you'll be drinking condemnation to yourself. Because you discern
not the body of Christ. Still trusting in your worthiness. And our worthiness is not ourselves,
it's Christ only. Those are the ones who are commanded
by Christ to take of this table. You believe Him, you follow in
Him, you trust in Him, obey Him. We could sooner cease from being
baptized as cease from this ordinance. They both by Christ and He says
do this in remembrance of Me. Alright, Brother Kevin, you pass
the elements out.