Alright, now each believer that's
here, we have so many blessings from God to thank Him for. He's blessed His people with
electing grace, choosing us in Christ before the foundation
of the world. He's blessed us to shed upon us His holy, unchangeable,
unconditional love. He's called us by His grace and
given us regenerating grace so that we believe on Christ. He's
predestinated us. He's worked all things together
to bring us under the sound of the Gospel. He's effectually
called us into that everlasting covenant. May that everlasting
covenant with us, ordered in all things, ensure. He's preserved
us. right up to this very hour right
now. We have an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, that
fadeth out of way, reserved in heaven for us. And he continues
every day to provide innumerable temporal needs, showing us he's
faithful and he knows what we need and he provides what we
need. But today we're coming together to remember Him around
the Lord's table. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
this do in remembrance of Me. So it might be helpful for us
as we remember Him today to take a walk with the Savior. I've
titled this message, A Walk with the Savior to His Table. And
in the second hour, we'll take a walk with the Savior from Gethsemane
to Bethany. Our Savior tells us here in Matthew
20 where we'll go and what we'll see on this walk with the Savior.
Matthew 20, verse 17. And Jesus going up to Jerusalem
took the twelve disciples apart in the way and said unto them,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man shall be betrayed
unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn
him to death. And they shall deliver him to
the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify him. And the third
day he shall rise again. Now on this walk we're going
to remember the gracious person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Gracious
to teach us, to protect us, to care for us, to provide for us. And we're going to also remember
that work he did whereby he accomplished the redemption of his people.
First we go up to Jerusalem. Now even on his way to Jerusalem,
he's within a week of laying down his life. And even on his
way to Jerusalem, he's being merciful to needy sinners. The
first thing we see down in verse 29 is as they departed from Jericho,
there was a great multitude following him. And two blind men were sitting
by the way. And they began to cry out to
him. And here's what they cried in verse 30. They said, O Lord,
have mercy on us, thou Son of David. Have mercy on us. Are you blind? That's the question. Are you blind? It doesn't matter
about the person sitting next to you. You're not going to be
responsible for them. The question is, are you blind?
Are you blind? The Lord said to some one day,
He said, if you would say you were blind, you'd have sight.
But because you say you see, your sin remains. Those who come
to God begging for mercy, they come begging, contrite, broken,
with nothing to offer to God, they'll receive sight. He'll
have mercy on them. He'll give them sight. That's
what He did. Look here in verse 32, And Jesus
stood still, He stood still, and He called them, and He said,
What will ye that I should do unto you? And they said unto
Him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. And so Jesus had compassion
on them, and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received
sight, and they followed Him. You see, the great physician
stands still for sinners who really need mercy. He stands
still for them, and He calls them. And he touches them, and
he gives them sight. And they see, and they follow
him. He said, they that are whole
have no need of the physician, but they that are sick, I came
not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. That's
who he's calling. So sinner, come begging. Come
to him, beg him. Do you see your need? Come begging
for mercy, and you'll receive sight. You'll receive spiritual
sight, true sight. Well, next we come to Bethpage
and near Jerusalem. And everything that we see Christ
doing here, He's doing to fulfill the Scriptures. Now watch, everything
that we see Him doing, He's doing to fulfill the Scriptures. Now
look at this up. Look at this up in the Scriptures.
This is very important. Christ sent two of His disciples
ahead of Him. He sent them ahead for this reason. Look down here at verse 2. I'm
sorry, Matthew 21, 2. Go into the village over against
you, and straightway you shall find an ass tied and a colt with
her. Loose them and bring them unto
me. How did Christ know this? How did He know they were going
to be there? He's God. He's all-knowing God. That's why. And He said of that
owner that was there in verse 3, He said, He said, If any man
say all unto you, you shall say, The Lord hath need of them, and
straightway He will send them. What's going to make this man
who owns these animals to just let them go with his disciple?
It's because Christ is God. He makes men willing in the day
of His power. He does. Whether they ever believe
Him or not, He makes them willing in the day of His power. That's
right. He makes them willing to do whatever
it is He'd have them to do. And why did Christ do all this?
Look at verse 4. All this was done that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. See, He's doing
everything to fulfill the Scriptures. Saying, Tell ye the daughter
of Zion, Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek and sitting upon
an ass, and a colt, the foal of an ass. The Spirit of Christ
made the prophets write that Christ would do all these things.
The Spirit of Christ did. He gave them the words to write
and they wrote these things out. And then every step Christ took
when He was here was Him fulfilling everything that He said beforehand
that He would do. things that he did himself and
things that other people around him did even after he was in
the tomb. They were still fulfilling those
Scriptures just like they were reading the book and saying,
well, now this is what we need to do. And they had no conscious
awareness they were even doing it. What does that tell us? By God giving the Word beforehand
and then Christ coming forth and doing these things, we have
all these witnesses for us that He's God, and that He's God's
Son, and that He is the Christ, and that He is the Savior that
shall save His people from our sins. These are all witnesses
to us that this is the Christ. This is Him. Alright, then we
follow Christ into Jerusalem. Look down at verse 8, Matthew
21. and a very great multitude spread their garments in the
way. Others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them
in the way. And the multitudes that went before and that followed
cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest." Hosanna
means save me, I beseech you. They acknowledged that Jesus
Christ was the King, that He is the King. They acknowledged
that He's the Messiah. They acknowledged He's the Son
of David, promised by God. They acknowledged that He's coming
in the name of the Lord. We're going to see later it was
written. And God put it in their hearts to say it. He did. But they thought Christ was coming
to establish an earthly kingdom. They thought Christ was coming
to take them out from under the yoke of Rome and give them all
these temporal blessings. So in five days from now, you
know what these same people are going to be crying? Crucify Him. Crucify Him. When natural man
doesn't get what he wants, That's his cry, kill him, kill him. Whether it's God or our brethren,
that's his cry, kill him, kill him. Whether it's in an outward
literal killing him or just in his heart, that's his killing.
Verse 11, And the multitude said, This is Jesus, the prophet of
Nazareth of Galilee. This was written. Jesus Christ
is the prophet. Moses said, The Lord thy God
will raise up unto thee a prophet in the midst of thee, of thy
brethren, like unto me, and unto him shall ye hearken. Christ
is the only true Nazarite. You know, Nazareth and Nazarite
mean separated and given to God from the womb. They mean the
same thing. Nazareth and Nazarite. This too was written in the Scriptures.
Matthew 2.23 says, And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth,
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets. He
shall be called a Nazarene. You know where it was written?
You know who spoke it? We saw it just the other day. Jacob
spoke it when he blessed Joseph. And he said it of Joseph, but
it was prophetical of the Lord Jesus Christ. In Genesis 49,
26, he said, The blessings of thy father shall be on the crown
of the head of him that was separate, Netzer, Nazarite, from his brethren. Moses also said the same thing
in Deuteronomy 33, 16. See, these things were all written,
and they're all coming to pass. Next, we follow the Lord into
the temple. Verse 13, he ran out the money changers that were
in the temple. Why? Verse 13 says, he said unto them,
it is written, it's written, my house shall be called the
house of prayer, but you've made it a den of thieves. You think
about what these men were doing. These men, they made it so if
you need a lamb, you need a dove, you need anything to sacrifice,
come to the temple, we'll have them there ready for you. You
just bow and walk right in and sacrifice them. They didn't have
to feed it, they didn't have to care for it, they didn't have
to put it up, so their heart wasn't broken when they had to
kill it and offer it to God. It was no sacrifice to them whatsoever. They could just stop by the temple,
run in, make a sacrifice and jump back in their chair and
take off. It's about the same as a man having his offering
given, automatically withdrawn out of his account, so he don't
ever even have to think about it. Wasn't sacrificial. Nothing about it was sacrificial.
But you see why he did this? It was written. And then the
lame, the blind and the lame came to Him and He healed them.
Right there in the midst. He's in the midst. He's throwing
out all His people in the temple. And here comes a blind man and
begs for mercy. And a lame man and begs for mercy.
You know what he did? He stopped and healed them. Why? Isaiah 35, 5 says, Then the eyes
of the blind shall be opened. Then shall the lame man leap
as a heart and the tongue of the dumb sing. He's fulfilling
the Scripture. When the chief priests and the
scribes were displeased because even little children, like Faith
and Sarah, they're running around. And they're running around singing,
Hosanna, Hosanna, Lord in the highest. And these high priests
were so angry about that. And the Lord said, verse 16,
He said unto them, Yea, I hear it. He said, Have you never read? Have you never read the Scripture?
He said, it was written, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
thou hast perfected praise. And then, you know what he did
with these know-nothings that thought they knew it all? He
left them. He turned around and left them.
He never spent a night in Jerusalem. He left them and he went out
of the city into Bethany and he lodged there. Well, let's
wake up and walk with our Savior the next morning. Look at verse
18. Now in the morning, As He returned unto the city, He hungered."
Our Savior is God and He's a man. He hungered. He's touched with
the feeling of our infirmities. In the midst of all this, all
this is going on, that just seems amazing, doesn't it? That the
Lord was hungry. And He looked on a fig tree and He was hungry
and He wanted to find fruit, but He didn't find any fruit
on that fig tree, so He dried the fig tree up. But that was
a picture of something. He was looking, he was hungering
for fruit on that tree called Israel. He came looking for fruit
on that tree in that vineyard, but he found none. And so he's
about to dry up the kingdom of Israel. He's about to dry it
up. And 70 years later, God's going to wipe it off the map.
Why is he going to do that? because they brought no fruit.
And that was written. All that was written. Back in
Isaiah 5, in verses 4 and 5, it talks about God making a vineyard
and having a wine press in it, and it talks about Him putting
a hedge around it, but He looked for fruit and there was none.
And so He took the hedge down and destroyed it. Well, these
chief priests and scribes came to Christ, and while He's in
there destroying their little circus that they had going in
the temple, and they come to Him and they said, by what authority
do you do this? Can you imagine saying that to
God? That's what they're doing. By
what authority do you do this? And he gave them a parable. And
he gave them a parable about a man who, a husbandman who planted
a vineyard, a householder who planted a vineyard and he let
it out to husbandmen. And he sent his servants to him
looking for fruit. And they beat his servants. And
then he kept sending more servants and he beat those servants. Just
like God keeps sending His preachers to them, and they just rejected
them, and slew them, and wouldn't hear them. And so finally, He
said, I'm going to send them My Son. They'll hear My Son.
And they said, this is the heir. This is the heir. Let us seize
him, and let's kill him, and we'll seize the inheritance.
And look down at verse 40. When the Lord, therefore, of
the vineyard cometh, the Lord asked them this question, what
will He do unto those husbandmen? Verse 41, they say unto Him,
They say unto him, he will miserably destroy those wicked men and
will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen which shall
render him the fruits of their seasons. And that's what God
did. He took down the hedge and destroyed
Israel. And so now the sheep that God
is calling out, they're not Israel and they're not Gentile. They're
just His elect. That's who they are. And He's
called them out of the four corners of the earth. And when He's called
them all out, all Israel will be saved. They'll all be saved. Look at verse 42, Jesus said
unto them, Did you never read the Scriptures? Did you never
read the Scriptures? The stone which the builders
rejected, the stone is the same as become the head of the corner.
This is the Lord's doing, and it's marvelous in our eyes. Therefore
I say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and
given to a nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever
shall fall on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever
it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. We need to fall
on this stone and be broken. We need to be broken, and we
need to lay flat on Christ the foundation and not move. Because
everybody this stone falls on, they're going to be ground to
powder. And look, verse 45, And when
the chief priests and Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived
that he spake of them. Good perception. But when they
sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because
they took him for a prophet. You see, what I'm trying to show
you is Christ is the end. He's the end purpose, He's the
end fulfillment, He's the end of everything that's written
in this book. Christ is the end of all the
prophets, and all the Psalms, and all the law. Christ is the
end. And Christ is the fulfillment
of it all. And this whole book is to declare
to us, we're sinners, we're undone, we can't come to God by our works.
That's why God sent His Son. His Son came to redeem His people,
to save His people from our sins. And He shall not fail. So, sinner,
cast away your vain thoughts and your vain wisdom and what
you think is wisdom. Cast it all away and come to
Him broken and contrite. Do you see the difference between
those sinners who came begging mercy and these men who came
all haughty and heady and high-minded and thinking that they knew something?
Do you see the difference? One got grace. One was saved. He showed one mercy. The other
ones, he left them alone. and He's just going to destroy
him. All right, let's look now at the second thing. Let's walk
on with Christ through the events of His betrayal. Matthew 26.
Let's go to Matthew 26. I can't possibly go through everything,
so we're going to have to just take some highlights. But this
is something I want you to pay particular attention to. These
men were zealous for the law. They were zealous for the law.
They claimed they were. for the Word of God. Oh, the
Word of God's got to be upheld. We can't contradict the Word
of God. But these men were betrayers, is what they were. They were
betrayers. These men who claim to be zealous for the law are
betraying Christ who is the fulfillment of everything written in His
Word. So look at what they do. Matthew 26, verse 1, And it came
to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, He said unto
His disciples, You know that after two days, two days, Thursday,
the Passover will begin. After two days, He said, is the
feast of the Passover. Now see that word feast? That's
when the feast of the Passover is. And the Son of Man is betrayed
to be crucified. He said that's when it is going
to happen. So, verse 3 says, then, you know why it's going
to happen? It's written, that's why it's going to happen. And
he's controlling everything, that's why it's going to happen.
But now watch this, verse 3. Then assembled, at the same time
that he's saying this, then assembled together the chief priests and
the scribes and the elders of the people unto the palace of
the high priest who was called Caiaphas. This high priest called
Caiaphas. This is a room full of educated
ignoramuses is what this is. And they're all standing there
together consulting what they're going to do. All zealous of the
law. Look at verse 4. And they consulted
that they might take Jesus by subtlety. and kill him. But they said not on the feast
day. We're not doing this on the feast
day. That's when Christ said it's going to be done. But they
said not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the
people. Now let me tell you what the
law state. Deuteronomy 17, you can read
this on your own later, but the law stated this. The law of God
stated this. In matters too difficult to judge,
between man and man. It matters too difficult to judge.
A man was to come up to the high priest. to the council at Jerusalem,
to the judge that God had set up, that which these men were
supposed to be, these men who were consulting to crucify Christ. And this man was supposed to
hear their judgment, what their judgment was, the sentence that
he declared. And they were to do that sentence,
whatever it was, and not turn to the left or the right. But
if they wouldn't do the sentence that the judge said, they were
to be executed. and they were to be executed
in the most public way possible. And here's why. The Lord said
in Deuteronomy 17, 13, Because then all the people shall hear,
and fear, and do no more presumptuously. But they said, not on the feast
day, lest there be an uproar among the people. We're not going
to do this thing in a public fashion, they said. But no sinful
man's ever fulfilled the law of God. Ever. And these men won't
do it either. But God's in control. And Christ
will fulfill this law. He fulfilled the whole law. The
matter of settling the sin of his people is a matter too difficult
for man. Too difficult. The matter of
declaring God righteous is too difficult for man. And so Christ
himself willingly went up to Jerusalem himself. He did. And Christ is every party in
this transaction. He's the judge and He's the counsel. And He goes up there and Christ
willingly will be made sin so that God can lawfully impute
sin to Him. God never imputes sin where it's
not. To impute is to charge. He will willingly be made sin
so God can lawfully charge Him with sin. Then Christ, who's
the high priest, who is the great counsel, which is the Sanhedrin
typified, he will, as it were, sentence himself to die by giving
himself to justice. And God the judge will have Christ
lifted up on the cross on the feast day because it's the time
when the most people will be in Jerusalem. And so Christ will
fulfill his law. And the effect will be exactly
what God said it would be in His law. All the people, all
His elect that He died for, shall hear and fear by His effectual,
irresistible grace. And they shall no more break
God's law presumptuously, because every one of them will, by His
grace, come and submit all to Christ and believe on Christ
and thereby establish the whole law of God in perfect righteousness.
So you see, it don't matter what these men are consulting to do
about the law. God's going to fulfill it. He's
going to fulfill it. Now let's see God work all things
together to bring about this. Look at Matthew 26. These men
are saying, not on the feast day. So how is God going to bring
all that about? How is He going to make them
do this on the feast day? Verse 6, Now when Jesus was in
Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him
a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, precious ointment,
and poured it on his head as he said it meet. Before any of
this happened, God worked grace in the heart of this woman. And
she'd been saving almost a year now to save up and buy this precious
alabaster box of ointment. And at this very time, she comes
and pours it on the Lord Jesus Christ to anoint him for burial.
And this caused the disciples to murmur. You remember? They
murmured. And Judas was one of them. Judas was one of them.
Judas Iscariot. And the Lord Jesus Christ rebuked
them sharply for murmuring. He said, she's done a good work.
And when the Lord did that, that was the last straw for Judas.
And you know what he did? Look at verse 14. Then, exactly
according to God's determinate counsel, one of the twelve called
Judas Iscariot went unto the chief priests and said unto them,
What will you give me? And I'll deliver him unto you.
And they coveted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And
from that time, He sought opportunity to betray. God's going to bring
about His will. There's no use in fighting against
God. His will is always going to be
done. And in the process of doing it,
He works grace in the hearts of His people. He works good
for His people. He glorifies His name. And at
the same time, He destroys His enemies. Don't be like those
men, like Judas Iscariot. Don't trade true righteousness
and true holiness for that vain thing you call righteousness
and holiness, which is nothing but filthy rags. Don't trade
the true silver and the true riches of God's unsearchable
riches for this perishing silver and gold of this earth. Don't
trade eternal life for a vapor, because what is your life? It's
a vapor. It's here for a minute and it's
gone. Don't trade it for those things.
Let's turn to Luke 22 now. Luke 22. Christ sent them to
tell them they are going to observe the last Passover together. And
He sent them to get it ready. Luke 22, 14. The hour was come
and He sat down and the twelve apostles with Him. And He said
unto them with desire, I have desire to eat this Passover with
you before I suffer. Through this whole walk we're
taking with our Savior, He knew what He was going to suffer.
And through the whole thing, His disciples didn't understand.
And so in everything He's doing, He's teaching them all along
the way. He's teaching them so they'll understand. And here
He desired to eat this Passover with them to teach them by way
of type and shadow of what He's about to do for them. Verse 16,
He said, For I say to you, I will not any more eat thereof until
it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. He said that, until it
be fulfilled in the kingdom of God, because Christ is the fulfillment
of the Passover, and He's about to fulfill it. He's about to
fulfill it. Christ is the antitype of what
the Passover typified. All the firstborn in Egypt died.
All the firstborn in Egypt died that night. But those in Egypt
without a lamb, they died under the justice of God themselves. But those who had a lamb and
were under the blood of the lamb, when God saw the blood, He passed
over them because a lamb died in their place. They died too,
but a lamb died in their place. You understand that? That's substitution.
Christ is the Passover Lamb. Christ came into this earth and
He's laying down His life for His people. He's putting away
the sin of His people. That's where we're watching Him
go to do. And by that, He satisfied justice for His people. And everyone
that He satisfied justice for, God shall bring them to cast
all their care into the hand of Christ and believe on Him
by His grace. And so, when He sees the blood,
When he sees them under the blood, he's gonna pass over them. And
because somebody's already died for them. They've already died.
They died in their lamb. They died in Christ. So purge
out, therefore, the old leaven. This is what he tells us, brethren.
This is what Paul said, purge out the old leaven. All the,
everything that turns you to your flesh and your wisdom and
to your will and to your works. Listen to this, that you may
be a new lump. This is, I'm reading from 1 Corinthians
5. He says, as you are unleavened. Don't you love that? You are
unleavened. That's what he says to the believer. You are unleavened.
It means believers are purged of all our sin and because the
work of the Holy Spirit recreating us anew in righteousness and
true holiness, we've been made fit. I know in our flesh dwells
no good thing, and we're still leaven in our flesh, but God
says we are unleavened. We are unleavened. For even Christ
our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the
feast." Not the feast of the Passover, this was the last one.
but the Feast of Christ, the Feast of the Gospel, the Feast
of His Table, the Lord's Table. Not with old leaven, not looking
to self for worthiness. That's not where we're going
to find worthiness. Neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness.
Not sitting there with maliciousness in our heart like Judas had and
wickedness pretending to be an apostle. Christ knew it the whole
time. But with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth, we discern the Lord's body in the sincerity
of faith and truth. And He is our worthiness for
coming to the Lord's table, the same as He is our worthiness
for entering into heaven. So purge out all the old leaven.
Put all that off. Put it off. It won't do us any
good. That's what He came to save us from. Alright, now let's
look at this real quick and I'll be brief here. Luke 22, 17. So after finishing eating the
last Passover, Christ instituted the Lord's table. Verse 17, And
He took the cup, and He gave thanks, and He said, Take this,
and divide it among yourselves. For I say unto you, I will not
drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall
come. And He took bread, and gave thanks, and break it, and
gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for
you. This do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper
saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood which is shed for
you. This unleavened broken bread
is to remind us, it's not a sacrament. Grace don't come through these
elements. Grace comes from God through Christ, through His Spirit.
These elements are not going to turn into the body and blood
of Christ. These elements are to be a sign,
a reminder to us of His broken body. His unleavened body which
was sinless, without sin, which He gave to be made sin and thereby
be broken by the stroke of God's justice for us. He said, this
is my body which is broken for you. And then the wine, the wine
having to be tread out in the winepress is to remind us of
Christ who Himself tread the winepress along. who Himself
fulfilled everything that the children of Israel in the vineyard
never fulfilled, and brought forth the fruits that they never
could produce for His people. For He's the vine, and we're
the branches, and He brings forth fruit in His people. And it's
to remind us of that. He said, this is the New Testament
in my blood. You see, Christ is the essence
of the covenant. He's the essence of the new covenant.
And his blood assures, guarantees every believer that everything
that's promised us in the exceeding great and precious promises of
God in that everlasting covenant is all yes and amen in Christ. It's all written in the blood
of Christ, as it were. So it's all sure. And it's all
our salvation right there. All our salvation. Now look,
Even at the table another Scripture was fulfilled. Verse 21, But
behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the
table. In John's Gospel, the Lord said,
I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen. But
that the Scripture may be fulfilled, he that eateth bread with me
hath lifted up his heel against me. And then again we see Christ's
grace toward us. On that very night He was betrayed,
He had to break up an argument between His disciples. If you
think about what the Lord's going to endure and what He's got on
His mind, and yet He has to stop and break up an argument between
His disciples. You picture that now Savior is
there in the midst of them, and He's teaching them about what
He's about to accomplish on the cross. The hour for which the
world was made, the most monumental hour in history, The hour that
surpasses every other hour because it's the accomplishment of redemption.
It's the declaration of the righteousness of God. And yet, just like us,
they were too self-absorbed to be listening. They were thinking
about what they got to do Monday morning. Verse 26, and they began to argue
over who's going to be the greatest in the kingdom. In verse 26,
He said, He that is greatest among you, let him be as the
younger. And he that is chief, as he that
does serve. Let him that is oldest in years,
regard himself as being younger than his younger brethren. And
let him that has most authority in spiritual growth, be servant
to everybody. Verse 27, For whether is greater,
he that sitteth at meat or he that serveth, is not he that
sitteth at meat. In man's thoughts, it's he that
sits and is served by others. But God's thoughts are not our
thoughts. In that same verse, he says,
but I'm among you as he that serveth. Now, he's equal with
God. He's older than us. He's got
all authority over us. He's got all spiritual knowledge
over us. And yet Christ took the form
of a servant and served us. Let this mind be in you. Rather
than that, it was in Christ. Serve one another. Don't exalt
ourselves over one another. You see how gracious He is. Look
over at 1 Corinthians 10.16. We'll close with it. 1 Corinthians
10.16. The cup of blessing which we
bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? Is it
not the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the
body of Christ? What does that mean? It means
we being many are one bread and one body. for we're partakers
of that one bread. We've been made partakers of
the divine nature by one spirit. We've been given one faith. We're
in one body. We have one head. We have one
Savior. We've been made one. So why on earth? Has one part
of your body ever fought against another member of your body?
That'd be foolish, wouldn't it? So we don't fight against each
other. We have communion in Christ. We got oneness in Christ. This
one who's so gracious and loving and righteous and holy to put
away our sin and fulfill the law for his people. So he's our
communion. He's our tie that binds. So serve
one another. Have this same mind. Amen.