I'm sorry, let's read 1 Corinthians
5, 1 Corinthians 5, Exodus 12 is our text tonight, but I want
to read 1 Corinthians 5. Read one verse, verse 7. 1 Corinthians
5 verse 7, "...Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be
a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover
is sacrificed for us." Christ our Passover. Now you can turn
back to Exodus chapter twelve. Exodus chapter twelve. Now God
had revealed to his people here in this true story of the children
of Israel who were in bondage in Egypt at the time. God had revealed to them through
his preacher Moses was his preacher. Moses was his spokesman. And
God revealed to his people through his preacher that he was going
to destroy their enemies, deliver them from bondage, and bring
them to the promised land flowing with milk and honey. And he instituted
this feast to commemorate their deliverance from bondage, to
commemorate their deliverance. and their redemption. And he
called it an ordinance forever to remember how the Lord had
redeemed them and brought them out with a high hand, one place
said. He brought them out with a high
hand. And what a picture of Christ
this is. This is one of the clearest and most glorious pictures of
Christ in all of God's Word. Christ, our Passover. Even Christ,
our Passover, was sacrificed for us. All right, let's read
verses 1 and 2 of Exodus 12. The Lord spake unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you
the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. In other words, to them, before
they were in bondage. They were a non-people. They were no one really. under the strict service of the
Egyptians and they were not a nation not a people but now that the
Lord is bringing them out. Their life is just beginning.
And so the calendar starts right there their life is just beginning
right now with deliverance with redemption and so it is with
every believer who was dead and trespassed in sin. When the Lord
redeems him or her, when the Lord brings them out of bondage,
life begins, eternal life. This is the beginning for you,
the beginning. Verse 3. Speak ye unto all the
congregation of Israel. All need to hear this. Say, in
the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man
a lamb. Every man needs a lamb. according
to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. Everyone
needs a lamb. If you're going out, if you're
going to be redeemed, if you're going to be delivered, you've
got to have a lamb. You've got to take part in it.
You've got to be under this blood of this lamb. And all of Christ's
people have been redeemed. They're bought with the precious
blood of the lamb. They've been delivered. If the household be too little
for the lamb let him and his neighbor next on to his house
take it according to the number of the soul every man according
to his eating to make your account of the land. Now the words everything
had to be accounted for it was not going to be any lamb lacking
no one who needed a lamb was going to be without. And there
was not going to be any lamb left over. It was going to be
exactly the right amount of lamb and blood shed to put over those
doors. None wasted, none lacking. And so it is with the blood of
Christ, with the redemption that's in Christ. It's particular. It's
for his people. Everyone who needs a lamb, Christ
died for them. But not the whole world. He died
for his people. And that blood was particular,
shed for those people. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, made remission for the sins of His people, every one of them.
There's no blood left over. It was all shed for His people,
not spilled, shed. All right? Verse 5. Now, here's
the Lamb. He said in verse 4, according to his eating shall
make your account for the lamb. Now here's the lamb. This is
important. It can't just be any old lamb.
It can't be any old lamb. It can't be the worst lamb. It
can't be a lamb you don't want. It's got to be the best lamb,
a particular lamb, one kind of lamb. Verse 5, your lamb, your
lamb, your lamb shall be If you want to be redeemed, it shall
be without blemish. Without blemish. Christ is the
sinless one. Without spot, without blemish,
without sin. Only the sinless one can be made
sin for us. He who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God. He's without blemish. Read on. A male of the first
year. A male. This is a man. God became
a man. Under us a child is born, a son. But the son was given a mate
of the first year. That means the first born lamb
from that particular youth. The first begotten lamb of that
particular youth. It is first year, that's in its
prime, a yearling. And so it was that Christ is
the only begotten son, the first born, the only begotten son. Read on. without limit, and you
shall take it. This lamb shall be out from the
sheep. Choose it out from among the
sheep. Christ, the scripture says, was
chosen out from among the people. Chosen from among the people. Take it from the sheep. Verse
six. And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the
same month. Keep it up for the purpose of
everyone observing that lamb. They were to put this lamb separate,
apart, so that everyone could scrutinize the lamb, could observe
it, and make sure that it is without blemish. Look it over
carefully, because the Scripture says it shall be perfect to be
accepted. God won't accept anything but perfection. And so the whole
congregation was to watch it and observe it. It must be a
perfect lamb. That's the required lamp without
blemish, without spot. So take a good look at it. Is
it perfect? Is it without sin? The Lord Jesus
Christ stood before God 33 and a half years, and God said, I'm
well pleased. He stood before men and said,
Who among you convinces me of one sin? Somebody find one fault
with me. Nobody could, though they wanted
to. And devils. It said Satan came
to him and Then he's the perfect lamb. He's the perfect Passover
lamb, the sinless one, the holy one, suitable sacrifice. He's
perfect, so he shall be accepted. And we're accepted in him, in
the beloved Paschal lamb. That means Passover lamb. All
right? And the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill him in the evening. The whole assembly shall kill
it. That's what Peter said at Pentecost when he was preaching.
He said, you with wicked hands have taken and crucified the
Lord of glory. All we like sheep have gone astray. We did reject him. We did despise
him. We did turn our faces from him. We all did this in our unbelief
and rebellion. But the very one whose blood
we shed is the one that redeemed us, that very blood. Redeemed
his blood was shed for the remission of our sins because God laid
on him the iniquity of all his people. Yes, by his stripes we
are healed. Verse 7, it says, now this is
spoken concerning the elders, they shall take of the blood. Look down at verse 21. See the people were not to apply
this blood, but the elders, verse 21. Then Moses called for all
the elders of Israel and said unto them, Draw out, take you
a lamb according to your families, kill the Passover. You take a
bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood and strike it on the little
of two side posts. So back up to verse seven. So
that's who he's talking about, plies the blood. Verse seven,
they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side
posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein they shall
eat it. The elders do that. They put
it on the little and the side. So we don't apply the blood to
our soul. Faith doesn't apply the blood.
Faith acknowledges that the blood was shed, that the blood, that
God has done this. The Holy Spirit's the one that
applies this blood. Christ applies the blood. God
applies the blood. The Trinity applies the blood.
They apply the blood to their elect. We don't apply the blood.
What faith does is acknowledge Hey, I believe the blood was
shed for a mission of mine. Faith finally sees the blood.
Faith believes the blood. What it says here, take the blood
and strike it on the two side posts on the upper door post
of the houses. Side post, right side, left side,
and upper lintel. The lintel. Strike it. Put the blood there. And I believe
this represents many things, but Number one, the head, the
lintel, the head. God gives us an understanding
of what the blood is all about. You don't bypass the head. You
understand, this is what Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 11 when
he said you need to discern the body, you need to discern why
the blood was shed. You need to know why Christ died.
Because God is holy and he must punish sin. And the soul that
sins must surely die. And without the shedding of blood,
that means death. The life of the flesh is in the
blood. And for us to die, our blood will leave our body through
death. And Christ poured out His soul
unto death. Christ poured out His blood unto
death. Christ was killed on behalf of
His people as a substitute. Christ bore the sin, the punishment. That was due to God's people.
And his blood was shed. That means he died. He died to
pay the penalty that we deserve. So the head, we understand that.
We understand why Christ died. It's more than just believing
he did die. You need to know why he died. You need to know
why we need a sacrifice. Because God said, OK, you must
punish sinners. All right? That's the little
understanding. And the side post, the heart.
with the heart man believe under right we read that the heart
the affection not only the understanding not only do we do we understand
why the blood was shed but we we know and feel and have a need
and love the fact that it was the blood is precious to you
who believe he is precious his blood is precious the affection
and then the hands the head the heart and the hands Our works
are wholly unacceptable to a holy God unless they're under the
blood, washed out. So the lintel and the doorpost. All right? Now, there's no deliverance. No one could be delivered. No one could be redeemed. None of these people could be
delivered unless that blood was shed for them. And none could
be delivered who did not eat the lamb. the blood was shed,
but that's not all they had to eat. Look at verse eight. It says, and they shall eat the
flesh in that night, that night. In other words, today was the
day of salvation. No one could say, well, I'm really
not hungry right now. I'd really rather wait. I'm kind
of busy right now. Tonight's the night. Today, boast
not thyself of tomorrow. You don't know what a day could
bring. Death is coming. This thing is urgent. This is
a message of life and death. You don't put it off. Do it now,
he said. Tonight, today is the day of
salvation. Eat it. You shall eat the flesh in that
night. Our Lord said, except you eat
my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part in Blessed are they, he said, that
hunger and thirst after righteousness. Just eating his flesh and drinking
his blood means receiving him by faith. Laying hold of him. When you eat something, you take
it in your hand and you consume it. You need it. You eat because
you're hungry. And you take it in. Love the
taste of it. And it goes down in your body
and you assimilate it. Your body assimilates it. And
it nourishes you. And it causes you to grow, and
life is nurtured by that. So it is with Christ. The just
shall live by faith. It's not just facts. Hartman
believed it. He laid hold of Christ by faith.
He said, I need this Christ. I need this sacrifice. I take
Him. How do you take Him? I don't
know. You just do. Old Brother Scott said, Come
to Christ, but don't move a muscle. Those of you who have laid hold
of him know what that means. You cry out, Lord, I need you,
and he'll commune with thine heart, and you'll say, take me,
I'm yours, and you're mine. The only requirement to eat,
really, is hunger. It doesn't ask you if you're
hungry. to clean yourself up first before
you come to the table. No, come just as you are. The
only requirement is hunger and thirst. Eat it, verse 8, eat
the flesh that night, roast with fire. This is Christ, this is
God's wrath against sin. Jesus Christ went through hell
for us. Jesus Christ bore our hell. from
a holy God, the wrath of God was poured out on him. If we're
not in Christ, we're under the wrath of God. But if we're under
the blood and in Christ, there's therefore now no condemnation.
The lamb was the one that was consumed, not the people. Roast with fire and unleavened
bread. Unleavened bread. Our Lord warned,
beware the leaven of the Pharisee. That meant self-righteousness.
Paul talked about it in 1 Corinthians. He said it meant sincerity. Do
it sincerely. We're not playing games here.
These people, it truly was life and death. If they didn't eat
this lamb, they would die with the Egyptians, with the world.
It was life and death. That's how important it was.
And he that eats my body and drinks my blood, Christ said,
will never die. If you don't, you will die eternally. This unleavened bread of sincerity. Sincerity and truth. Bitter herbs. Read on. And eat it with bitter
herbs. Bitter herbs. The gospel's sweet,
is it not? The gospel is sweet. Redemption
is sweet. These people, oh, this day of
their redemption was sweet. When they were going out, do
you reckon they were singing? Do you reckon they were smiling? They've been in bondage all this
time, huh? You reckon it was joyful? You
reckon they were happy? On the first week or so, they
were just floating, walking out of that place. They were singing,
we're marching to Zion, to the promised land. But it wasn't long after that,
until the trials started setting in. They had 40 years to walk. Bitter trials, bitter sorrow. persecution from those that hated
God and hated them. And so it is. This gospel is
tempered with bitter earth, bitterness, trials and persecution. All who
partake it now will eat these bitter earth. Everyone. No one is exempt. Anyone who
partakes of Christ is going to partake of the afflictions that
come with it. That's the trial of your faith.
Faith must be tried. Verse nine, eat not of it raw. Don't eat this lamb raw. It's
got to be fully prepared, fully cooked, not half baked, fully
cooked. The work of Christ is a finished
work. The work of Christ is complete. The sacrifice was totally consumed
by the fire, totally consumed by the fire. And that's a picture
of the judgment that Christ bore for us. There's none left for
us. It's all Christ. The wrath was poured out upon
him. Read on. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden
it all with water. Don't sodden it all with water.
Don't put any water on it. Don't put it in water. Don't
water it down at all. They need to see that this was
a live lamb. Don't cover it up. You can put
any old kind of meat in a pot full of water and put some taters
in it. You can put an old shoe in a pot. and put enough stuff
in it and nobody will know what they're eating. Right? Smells
good. Put enough seasoning in it and
all that. No, don't mask it over. Don't beautify the crucifixion
of Christ. Don't mix anything with it. Everybody
needs to see it. There's a man having his body
slit open under the wrath of God. This is what God will do
to a man for his sin. They need to see it. And when
this lamb was finally consumed, they saw a charred whole body
of what was once an innocent lamb. You know, to the flesh, a heart-rending,
difficult thing to take that innocent lamb, slit its throat,
bleeding lamb, and slit its throat in front of men, women, and children,
grotesque, horrible, torturous kind of death. And then set it
on fire in front of everybody. And when it's done, you know,
there's been a lovely little lamb. You see that? Don't water it down. Don't mask
it over. The crucifixion of our Lord was
a horrible thing. A horrible death, an ignominious
death that he suffered. And the gospel is not to be watered
down. The gospel is not to be watered down at all. Nothing
to be added to it. Those people are redeemed by
that lamb. Nothing else. That lamb. And we're redeemed one way. By
Christ. Christ alone. Read on. Roasted
with fire his head, with his legs, and with the pertinence
thereof. The whole lamb. I love this. The whole lamb,
you can't have part of the lamb, or it's not a lamb. You've got
to have a whole lamb, a complete lamb. And at Calvary's cross,
the complete work of Christ, all of His attributes are on
display. We have a complete redemption because we've got a complete
Christ. Yes, He's loved, but He's also holy, just, righteous,
merciful, gracious. He's a complete. A complete substitute. His work was complete. It wasn't
partial, but complete. Verse 10. Let nothing of it remain
until the morning. That which remaineth of it in
the morning, you burn it with fire. Let nothing remain. Today,
He said, is the day of Passover. Today is the day. There's no
Passover tomorrow. That's what the Lord's telling
us. There's no Passover tomorrow. Today's the day. And so it is with us. We don't
know that the Lord might not come tonight. Today is a day
of Passover. Today is a day of salvation.
There's no, there remains no more sacrifice for sinners. This
is it. Christ is the only sacrifice.
And we don't take him at a convenient time. Verse 11. Thus shall you
eat it. Thus shall you eat it with your
loins girded. That's the truth. Paul talked
about the whole armor of God. He said, Be girded with the truth.
Be girded with the truth. Eat it with the understanding.
Eat it with discernment. Read on. With your shoes on your
feet. He talked about being shod with
the gospel. Shod with the gospel. Ready to walk by faith. You're
going to eat this lamb and you're going to walk out of here by
faith. In that language. With your staff
in your hand. I like that. With the staff in
your hand. You got the staff in your hand?
You have your staff in your hand? Yes, you do. There it is. There's
your staff. He's riding his staff. They come
for that. This is a shepherd's staff. Read
on. Eat it in haste. Eat it in haste. It's the Lord's Passover. Eat
it now. Take it. Roast it. Eat it, put your shoes on, put
your staff in your hand, we're leaving this place. We're getting out of here. We're not going to continue here
in bondage like this. We're going to the promised land.
Now hurry up and eat it. Let's go. Ready? It's the Lord's Passover. The
Lord's Passover. Oh, verse 12. Are you ready for
this? Verse 12 and 13. I will pass
through the land of Egypt. God Almighty said He's coming
back to this earth. Christ said He's coming back.
He said, I will come again. And when He comes, it's to receive
His people. But for the rest of Egypt, it's
death and destruction. He said, I will pass through
the land of Egypt this night. This is the eleventh hour. I'm
certain of that, people. We're in the eleventh hour. Absolutely
certain of that. This night, and I will smite
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.
God's going to destroy this planet. And against all the gods of Egypt,
principalities and powers are going to be destroyed at the
brightness of Christ. I will execute judgment. I am
the Lord. Why is it all coming to pass?
Because I am the Lord. Why is this true? I am the Lord. Heaven and earth will pass away,
but not one of my words will pass. Verse 13. But now the blood. I'm coming
through, he said, for judgment. And the blood shall be to you,
those of you with the lamb, under the blood who have eaten the
lamb, shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over. Pass over. And the plague shall not be upon
you. I won't find it on you to destroy
you when I smite the Lamb of God. When I see the blood, I
will pass over you and the plague won't be on you. God said, I
will smite It's certain, because I'm the Lord, he said. And God
said, now when I see the blood, I will pass over you. It's certain,
because I'm the Lord, he said. When I see the blood, he doesn't
say, when you see the blood. He said, when I see the blood. I'll pass over you. Who? He doesn't
give any names, does he? He doesn't give me a name. He
said, Moses, when I see your faith, Aaron, when I see your
works as elders, when I see that you faithfully perform. When I see the blood on whosoever's
house, the blood is on whosoever's tabernacle, the blood is upon
it. Whosoever is under the blood,
I'll pass over you. Whosoever eats the lamb, I'll
pass over you. Whosoever wants mercy, whoever
wanted mercy, whoever believed God had blood on their door.
Whoever believed God ate the lamb. Whoever feared the Lord and needed
mercy and didn't want to die like the rest of the world had
blood on their door and ate that lamb and ate it that night. They
didn't wait around. Well, whoever did that, the Lord
passed it on. Spared them. Spared them. Now, there were a lot of different
people in those houses, weren't there? In any given house, there
could have been as many as 15 or 20 people. Back then, whole
families lived together. Grandparents, the great-grandparents,
the parents, children, maybe even some cousins, aunts and
uncles, they all lived together. That's the reason he said everybody
needs enough. Enough lamb to go around. Don't want anybody to miss out.
Well, so the point is, there were some old men. Take Moses' family, for example.
Moses. Do you reckon Moses was saved?
Oh, I know he was. I know he was. Oh, yeah, Moses
is going to be delivered, isn't he? I know he was. Why? Why? Our Moses had a great grandbaby. Little weakling, child, had to
be carried everywhere it went. Who knew very little. Very weak
and helpless. Is that baby going to be saved? Why? Well, here's a person, here's
a cousin of Moses. Oh, he's just fretting. He's
walking the floor. He's scared to death. He hears
the moans and the cries out there. He's scared to death. I don't
know. I don't know if I'm safe. I want to be safe. I don't know
if I'm safe. I fear I'm going to die. I'm
such a sinner. I'm the most unworthy one here. Moses is going to be
saved. I know he is. But I'm the worst one here. I'm
the chief of sinners in this house. I don't know if I'm going
to be safe. Is he safe? Well, when I see the blood, whosoever, It's the blood that makes the
stone. What is it? The weakest to the strongest. The grown man. God will pass over you. That's good news to me, because
I'm the chief of servants in this house. All right. Who may eat it? Look over at
verse forty-three. Verse forty-three, And the Lord
said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover.
No stranger will eat thereof. Now that doesn't mean, there's
a lot of little places that like to police the table, they call
it. Men love whatever power they
can have, you know. even if it's just not letting
people take their table. People, this is not my table. This is not the table of the
Central Baptist Church. This is not a membership table. This is the Lord's. But now, a stranger means someone
who's a stranger to the grace of God, someone who's a stranger
to the gospel, someone who these things really have no meaning
to them at all. You can't eat it. Don't eat it. Do not eat
it. If you don't understand what
you're doing, if you don't really need Christ, don't eat it. Don't
do it. It's too serious. Verse 44, that every man's servant,
here's who may eat it, every man's servant that's bought for
money, You're bought with a price. You're the Lord's servant, and
you're bought with a price, not with corruptible things such
as silver and gold, but with a precious blood of the Lamb,
as without surprise. And when you have circumcised
him, he shall eat thereof. Circumcised, and down in verse
forty-eight, a stranger, if a stranger sojourns with thee, and he wants
to keep the Passover, Let them all be circumcised, and then
they come. What that's talking about is
the work of the heart, circumcisions of the heart. Who may eat it?
Whoever the Lord is going to work on that heart, truly done
a work. And it says, if he has, look
at this, let him come near, come on, come up close, keep it, and
he'll be like one born in the manger. He'll be a son like everybody
else. No uncircumcised person shall
eat it. One law, you see, there's one rule to them all. Verse 49,
one rule to all. It's home-born, under the strength
of everybody. Need that blood, need the lamb, have work on your
heart. Verse 50 and 51, thus did all
the children of Israel, whoever was redeemed, all Israel shall
be saved. As the Lord commanded, they did it. Moses and Aaron,
so did they. and it came to pass the same
day that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt. Did the Lord pass over them?
He sure did. Did the Lord bring them out?
He sure did. Did the Lord deliver them? He sure did. Did the Lord
redeem them? Just like He said He would. Did the Lord pass over them?
He sure did. Did He kill the Egyptians? He sure did. It's just like He said. All right. Pass out the bracelet. Okay. Thank you. Let's read from 1 Corinthians
11. 1 Corinthians 11. Let's read verses 23 through 28. writes where I have received
of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus
the same night in which he was betrayed took bread our Passover
the Lord our Passover he took bread and when he had given thanks
gave thanks for the bread he broke it and said take eat this
is my body which is broken for you This do, for a remembrance,
in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he
took a cup when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament
in my blood. This do ye, as oft as you drink
it, in remembrance of me. For as oft as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's bed, till he come,
the Lord our Passover. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat
this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall
be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. That means unworthily
doesn't mean that we're worthy to take it. It means we do not
discern what we're doing. We do not understand, and we
need to discern it. Read on. It says, let a man examine
himself. The man examined himself. It's
not for me to examine you, not for this church. Examine yourselves,
whether you be of the faith. You need Christ as we've preached. And you may partake. Let him
eat of that bread and drink of that. Okay. All right, let's thank the Lord.
He's spoken about it. Our Lord, thank you. for your
work on Calvary's truth. I thank you for your whole life
lived for us to establish that righteousness
we need. You are our Passover lamb whom
we have observed to be without spot, without limit, sinless
one, perfect substitute, holy one
of Israel. We have declared thy righteousness
in the congregation, and the Lord, we believe, is well pleased
for your righteousness' sake, and we are accepted in thee.
We receive and believe thy righteousness as our own. And we thank you
for being made sin for us and your body broken on our behalf
and under the wrath of God at Calvary. And so we take this
bread in remembrance of thee, thy broken body, thanking you
for it. And we repent of our sin. In Christ's name we pray
and give thanks. Amen. I'm going to try this again. So, I'm going to go ahead and
do that. Okay. Okay. Back again to 1 Corinthians 11. You notice your cup is full.
I filled these cups on purpose. Christ, a full cup of God's wrath. Pour it out on me. His blood in a hymn of fullness.
I kept thinking of fullness as I was pouring these cups on. Fill it up. Most of you, not all of you,
know this, but I dare not presume that everyone does. These elements,
this bread and this wine, are nothing. The bread I bought at
the store, the wine I made personally, it's nothing. There's nothing
to them. They're just bread and wine. They don't put away sin. They don't do anything special.
They don't turn into the blood of Christ and the body of Christ
like the Catholics say. No, no, no. This is just symbolic. It's just bread, just as much.
We just do this because he told us to do it, and it's a good
object lesson. It's a good way to remember him. You have to put it in your body. Chew it on. You're thinking about
it. Chew it on. Thinking about what he did. Drink this wine. It's sweet wine. That's on purpose. Not dry. Sweet wine. That's by
design. The blood of Christ is sweet
to the sinner. It says in verse 25, after the
same manner also he took the cup When he had stopped saying,
this cup is a New Testament in my blood, this do you, as often
as you drink it in remembrance of me. So the Lord gave thanks
and they drank the cup. Let's give thanks for his blood. Our Heavenly Father, we feel
so inadequate to give proper thanks to you for what you did
for your son on our behalf. We feel so poor, so weak in faith and understanding. We cannot fully comprehend what
Christ went through, what he did, actually pouring out his
blood, his soul, unto death, for the likes of us. But we do
have some understanding. We do believe and love it that the blood of
Jesus Christ, God's Son, washes away our iniquity. We
believe it. We don't fully understand that,
but we believe it. We thank you for the precious
blood. We know it is the blood. Our life, our eternal life, is
because of the blood of Christ. So we give thanks, and we repent
of our sins. May we ever be under the blood
of Christ. It's in His name we pray, the
Paschal Lamb, our Passover Lamb. In His name we pray and give
thanks. Amen. All right, when the Lord ate
the last supper with his disciples, it says they sang a hymn after
they did that. They sang a hymn. I wonder what
they sang. Do you ever wonder that? Wouldn't
you have liked to have heard him lead us there? Let's sing out of the blue book,
number three. 363. 363. Sheriff, you'll come up. This is to the tune of 187 in
the Green Book, Less Be the Tide. 363. A song to the tune of Less
Be the Tide. Let's sing all four verses. It's
all too good to leave any of them out. Let's stand. A parting hymn we sing around
thy table, Lord. Again our grateful tribute bring
our solemn vows reborn. Here have we seen thy face, and
felt Thy presence here. So may the savor of Thy grace
in word and life appear. The purchase of Thy blood I see
in no longer day. Up that our dear Redeemer trod,
may we rejoice each day. Instead of forgetting love, be
our communion song. Now may we know the worth of
love, and know when we are done.