But what we are doing here tonight
is the most important and necessary ordinance that we can do as believers. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself
gave us this ordinance and commanded us to participate in it. And
along with baptism, these are the only two symbols that we
are to acknowledge symbols. These are symbolic. There's no
saving power in them. They're merely symbols of what
the Lord has done. They're mere symbols. And as
I said this morning, baptism is a one-time thing, but this
is something we are to do continually. This is something we are to observe
quite often. And as I said this morning, this
is perhaps the closest we can get to pure worship and communion
with Jesus Christ. And as I said also, if you miss
this, you're not only being disobedient to this important, necessary,
and vital command and ordinance of our Lord, but you're missing
out on true worship. Now, you're here, and the times
when we miss this, and perhaps There's a reason, a definite
reason why he's given us this, and I'll show you that in a moment.
But if you miss out on this, perhaps you reach a place where
you have forgotten the Lord entirely. Because he said, this do in remembrance
of me. This do in remembrance. So, if
you're not doing this, if we're not participating in this, In
remembrance of him, we have probably forgotten him. It's true of us
all. We go through times when we do
forget our Lord. He doesn't leave us. He said,
I'll never leave you, nor forsake you. But he hides himself from
us for our chastening. And if you have, perhaps right
now, someone that's going through a time of you feel far from the
Lord. You feel as if you have been
spiritually forgetful and you haven't had
much communion with him. This is the place to come. This
is the time. I'm glad you're here. This is
what this is for. It's exactly what this is for,
to rekindle that memory. And that's the reason this is
a very solemn and blessed, sobering and a serious time together.
This is a time to rekindle that memory, that fellowship, and
commune with Him. You say you're approaching this,
you're sounding awfully mystical. Well, I don't know. There's something about this
that our Lord, He hallowed it, or He commissioned it, and He
told us to observe it in remembrance of Him, and there's something
to it. There really is. There's nothing
in these elements, but it's the memory. It's the quiet, serious,
sober, contemplating reflection upon what Christ has done, and
entering into it by partaking of these symbols, and communing
together in this thing of worship. And I hope the Lord will bless
us in this time. Now let me note some things about
this table. Look over at Luke chapter 22.
Look at verse, Luke chapter 22, Now, after our Lord sent the
disciples in to prepare for that last supper, the Passover feast,
they finally got together in that upper room. Luke chapter
22, verse 19. Now, I'll just read it. You know the verse, but I'll
read it again. And he took bread, and he gave thanks, and break
it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given
for you, this do and remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup
after supper saying this cup is a new testament in my blood
which is shed for you. Now, let me say right off the
bat here something I just thought about. But it's obvious that
this doesn't, as Catholicism actually believes this, that
the bread and the wine actually turns into the body and the blood
of Christ. That's exactly what they believe.
And the so-called priest, a man who self-styles himself a priest,
administers Salvation to those who take it. Temporal salvation.
Because they have to come back and go to camp. Isn't that true?
Anybody who knows anything about Catholicism, that's what the
Mass is. They're crucifying the Son of God afresh every time
they partake of it. And that man right there, that
man who calls himself a priest, there are no more priests. No. We have one high priest. But
right here, I notice this. Christ said, this is my body
which is given for you. Now, he's saying that symbolically
because, Vicki, he hadn't given his body yet. Right? Now, if he'd have said that after
he had gone to the cross, but he didn't. He hadn't been crucified
yet. So you see, it's symbolic. It's
symbolic. So that destroys all this notion
of the word is transubstantiation, that it actually becomes the
body and blood of Christ. No. No, it's symbolic. But this
is a, here's some things I want you to notice. I didn't mean
to get off on that, but something I noticed there. Here's some things I do want
you to notice about this ordinance. This is a singular and a simple
command for worship. He said this, this right here. He didn't give any more commands.
than love your brother and so forth. This is the only thing
that he said to do, a simple act performed in a common setting
among common people. It was a very simple gathering
together of those disciples and the Lord in that upper room,
a very poor and meager circumstances with only bread and wine by these
poor men. It was a very simple setting
among common people and nothing else was to be added to it. Nothing. Bread, wine, faith. With the Lord there. Nothing
else was to be added to it. And men have forgotten this.
And I allude once again to Catholicism. And we need to be instructed
along these areas. That's the reason I bring these things up,
because I believe perhaps some folks that are ignorant about
what's going on out there today. and perhaps a little bit tolerant
of it. The scriptures are not tolerant of this, of all of this
heresy and blasphemy that's going on. But men have forgotten this,
and they have turned this thing into a grandiose display of religious
pageantry and paganism. As I said, Roman Catholicism,
Episcopalians, even the Anglicans. And it seems that they're saying
that simply drinking wine and eating bread is not enough. It's
not enough. That you have to use great and
elaborate ceremonies and so forth to drum up and speak in Latin
and chants and cantatas and this and that. No. No, Christ said
this do. This do. And you see, this is
a picture of man's idea of salvation, isn't it? They've turned this
thing of salvation into something you've got to do. It's not enough
just to believe and rest in Christ. There must be something else
added to it. Great faith and this and that and the other.
We must add to it. No. No. Bread and wine, the blood
and the body of Christ saves a man's soul. And simple faith
in it. This do. This do. Can you imagine
the Apostle Peter and maybe John? the beloved disciple going into
St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome today.
St. Peter's. First of all, Peter
would say, what's my name? He'd grieve, wouldn't he? He'd
weep and say, what's my name doing on God's house? I am the
Lord's name up there, wouldn't he? But if they went in that
place and saw this, observed all this ceremony going on under
the name of the Lord's table, they call it the Mass, what do
you think their reaction would be? Well, Peter had punched John
and said, what is this? What is going on here? And somebody
said, this is the Lord's table. Oh no, wait a minute. And John
said, this is not the Lord's table. He said merely bread and
wine. He said they were sitting down
at a table, common men, common fishermen, with the Lord in a
common setting and broke a little bread and poured a little wine
and drank it. sang a hymn, and that's it, didn't
it? What's all this going on here? This is not what the Lord commanded,
is it? But no, Christ said, This be.
This is all that the Lord told us to do. All right, so I'm not
wearing a robe, or a woman's dress, or whatever. This be. Common, very common. Very common. And he said the reason, the purpose
he gave it, was to remember Him. Remember Him. Remembrance. This do merely in remembrance
of me, not for salvation. Now, don't do this for salvation. Yet men who, like I said, imagine
themselves to be priests, they claim to administer salvation
upon the tongue. Salvation in the tongue, in an
element. But they claim to administer
salvation and make atonement for sins in the mass. That's
what it is, folks. That's what it is. But no, the
work was finished. We read over there in Hebrews
how this man, after he'd offered one sacrifice for sins forever,
sat down. And Christ upon that cross, when
that sacrifice was made, he said, it's finished. No more sacrifices
to be made. No mass is to be made. No. Christ offered that one sacrifice,
the sacrifice of his body and blood upon Calvary's tree. And then he took that blood.
For three days he went somewhere. I believe, perhaps it sounds
good, but he went to hell with our sins, took them there and
deposited them. And then he took his blood to
heaven itself and poured that blood out on the altar before
the Lord, presented that blood before the Lord on the mercy
seat on the altar, thereby securing securing our salvation. But the
work was finished, and he sat down after that on the right
hand of God. There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. No
more sacrifice. We're not making a sacrifice
here. Not at all. Just to remember Him. That's
all it is. Sipping a little wine, eating
a little bread, unleavened bread, just to remember, just to bring
to mind, bring to memory what He has done, what He has done. We're not doing this for salvation.
We only do this in remembrance, not for forgiveness, but for
remembrance. This day. And this brings me
to this all-important question. I wish I could have everyone
here, including myself, sitting right here, and ask you personally. Now, he says, do this day in
remembrance of me. Do you know Christ? Do you know Him? You can't remember somebody you
don't know, can you? That stands to reason. Do you
know Christ? Do you? You cannot remember somebody
you've never met, and whether or not you may come to this table
is dependent upon that. Yes, it is. Whether or not you
know Christ or not, for he said to his disciples, right here,
and he says it to us, this do in remembrance of me, in remembrance
of me. And it would be a profanation
of his blessed table for someone to participate in this who didn't
know Christ. And that's a sense in which he's
saying there, over there in 1 Corinthians 11, to eat and to drink of this
unworthily, that is, unfitly. Now, nobody's worthy. Nobody's
fit to partake of it. But he's talked about not discerning
the Lord's body, not discerning it. That is, someone who really
does not know him and does not discern him, doesn't understand
what this is all about. And it's going about the motions
because you're supposed to be doing it. Every believer is supposed
to do it, so you do it. No. No, no, no, no. No, don't
take up. Don't partake of it. It's like this. We don't invite perfect strangers
to our birthday celebrations, do we? We wouldn't just open
up our doors to anybody on the street to come in and help us
celebrate somebody's birthday. somebody we know, they couldn't.
They couldn't. Whose birthday is it? Well, it's
Terry's. Terry who? They know they couldn't
enter into it. And it'd just be, it'd just be,
it's wrong. So in solemn warning, and it
is a solemn warning, it needs to be made. And now listen, we
don't police the table here. Anybody who claims to be, professes
to be a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, been baptized and
professed Him by a believer in baptism, doesn't have to be in
this church either. We invite you to this table.
Anybody may partake of this table who is a baptized believer. But
we don't police the table because I don't know your heart. I don't. None of these men know. We hardly
know our own hearts. This is the reason we don't police
it. This is the reason nobody can. Nobody's to police the table,
or that is, withhold it from anybody. But this is the reason
we're to examine ourselves. Examine ourselves. And do you
see, do you see why we press, or why I press constantly for
a personal relationship with a person? Christ said this is
eternal life. that they might know Thee, know
Thee. Not about Thee, but know Thee,
the only true God, the true and living God, and Jesus Christ
whom He sent. And this is a good question,
a very good question. And I ask myself this, before
I come here and take this, do I know Christ? Do I? Do I really? Now, I don't want
to frighten anybody or discourage anybody. I don't want to do it.
But I do hope this will cause us to examine ourselves. It's
necessary. It's needful. It's vital that
we examine ourselves even more closely to see whether or not
we truly have a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's safe. It's very safe. Yes, it is. Salvation. Make no
mistake about it there now. Salvation is simply trusting
the Lord Jesus Christ, simply trusting Him, simply. Salvation
is simply believing the record that God has given concerning
His Son and coming to Him in faith, coming to Him, bowing
to Him and asking Him to save you. And, now, it doesn't stop
right there. Now, bear with me. Anybody, leave
me. Salvation is simply trusting
Jesus Christ, bowing to him, submitting to him, coming to
him by faith, seeing who he is as revealed in the scripture,
bowing to him and asking him to save you, realizing you're
a sinner, that he's your only hope and asking him to save you.
And when this takes place, now that's a hard work. Remember
when the Ethiopian Enoch said to Philip, what does hinder me
from being baptized? What did Philip say? You might
know. He said, Thou mayest, if you
believe with all your heart, you mayest. See, you believe
with the heart. It's a heart work. It's not just
a head. It's not just an acknowledgment of facts like we talked about
this morning. It's with the heart. It's understanding and knowing
with the heart what you are and who Christ is. Once that takes
place, once that takes place, that simple trust, that simple
need for him, seeing your need of him, and that simple trust
in him, Lord, I need you, help me. Once that takes place, Christ
always reveals himself to you, always. No, never, no. Like that blind man who was healed,
and everybody kept examining him, you know. Now something
took place in him, but he did not yet know the Lord Jesus Christ.
He didn't know him yet. Christ hadn't revealed himself
to him. There had been a change that took place, but Christ didn't
leave him hanging for any period of time. And there's a time when
we get this knowledge in our head of the sovereignty of God
and ourselves as sinners. And we see and hear about Christ
as our only hope, the road, the truth, the life, His imputed
righteousness. We acknowledge these things in
our head, we see, we understand. And then it gradually works its
way in our heart where we really do see our need of Him. And then
we appeal to Him. Then He comes, always. He never leaves you hanging.
And like that blind man, Christ finally came to him and said,
Do you believe on the Son of God? Well, I think. I'm just
not. Who is he? Then he knew him. He worshipped
him. And it always happens that way. The Lord reveals himself. Himself. A person. This is why
we press for a communion, a knowledge of a person. Himself. Himself. Turn over to 2 Corinthians 13
with me. Second Corinthians, Chapter 13. Now, I quote this
verse of Scripture all the time, all the time, quite often. Probably
one out of three messages, I work this in there because it's so
necessary. Second Corinthians, 13. Second Corinthians, 13. Look
at verse 1 with me. Now, Paul said, this is the third
time I'm coming to you. In the mouth of two or three
witnesses shall every word be established." I told you before,
and I'll tell you again, a second time. Now look down at verse
5. Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith. Prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you? Except you be reprobates, that
is, void of any understanding whatsoever, cast out, given over. But I trust, Paul said, that
you shall know that we're not reprobates. You see that? Examine yourselves, whether you
be in the faith. It's safe. It's safe. Prove your own selves. Know you're not your own selves.
Now that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates, You
write that down, and you put it on the refrigerator. Write
her down, or you can look at it all the time. See, the whole
purpose behind this right here is to remember a person. Right? He said, this doing remembrance
of me. Me. Remembering Him. It doesn't say, no, call to mind
your favorite doctrine. Now, you can't divorce doctrine
from Christ, but you can sure take Christ out of the doctrine.
He can know doctrine. I've been there. He can know
doctrine without knowing Christ. Yes, you can. I did. But you
can't know Christ without knowing his doctrine. And he doesn't
say here, call to mind your favorite doctrine now and partake of it.
No. I have a particular fondness
for a particular religion. I like to, I love it. The doctrine. But I see it as it relates to
a person. I see that how, because of who
it was that made that atonement, whose blood it was that was shed,
I see how that it must be particular, and it must be effectual, you
see? There was a time when I argued that doctrine, but now I see
it as glorifying a person, and therefore I argue it on that
standpoint. No, you take away from the glory
of my Lord when you deny that. and on down the line with the
doctrine. But he's saying here, disdain
and remembrance of me, of me. Now, I wouldn't have anybody
ignorant of any truth in God's Word. It's all necessary. But
we've gathered here to remember a person, a person, a person. Not an idea, not an abstract,
not a concept. He's a real and living person,
and he can be known. He is known. He is none, and
he reveals himself, and he walks and talks with his people. Yes,
he does. Yes, he does. Now, when you think about this,
when you think of some of you have loved ones who have passed
away, perhaps a husband or a wife, a son or a daughter, your parents,
when you think of that person, when you think of your loved
ones, do you think about the clothes they were wearing, and
then get tears in your eyes. Oh, I remember that old jacket
Dad used to wear. Just well, tears well up in your...
No. You think about the person. You
think about how they were. You think about their characteristics.
You think about things they did, things they said, and things
that you did together. You think about their person.
You see? This is what this is about. Not so much his doctrine
as his person. The reason it's such an intimate
and a close communion service. And you remember their person.
We've come together tonight to remember His person. And He's
remembered in so many ways. He's remembered as our Lord.
We think about Him as our Lord, our Master, as we studied this
morning. And we worship Him as such. We
see Him as our Savior. We're thankful for Him. We see
what He's done. having his body subjected to
such brutal, awful torture and being torn and torn asunder for
us like that paschal lamb and his blood poured out unto death,
poured out his soul unto death. That's what these things bring
to remember us, what Christ went through on that tree, that bloody,
ignominious death that he suffered as our Savior. Without the shedding
of blood, there's no remission. We remember that. He saved us. by his actual blood, by his blood. We remember him as our example,
and we admire him. We remember and think of him
in many ways, prophet, priest, king, mediator, intercessor,
God, man, the God-man, our sovereign, powerful, glorious, tender, kind,
merciful, gracious, compassionate Savior, God, king, master, friend. We remember his person. We take
out pictures when we're out somewhere on a trip or whatever. We take
out pictures that we have of our loved ones. We look at pictures.
Well, nobody knows what Christ looked like. Nobody. And all
these pictures are idols. They're graven images, expressly
forbidden in the Scriptures. I'm not going to joke. Graven
images. Graven images, all these pictures of Wild Bill Hickok. It's not Christ. No. It's some
blue-eyed Caucasian Sunday school teacher. That's who it is. It's
not Jesus Christ. Nobody knows what he looked like.
They're idols. Idols. But there's the picture. You
get the picture? Here's the picture. We take these
out every now and then, and we see him, right? We see his body
and his blood. Now, notice this. He was a very
simple service to simply help us remember him, to simply help
us. Jesus Christ was a very plain,
humanly speaking, a very plain, ordinary man. When you see him,
there's no beauty about him that we should desire, no comeliness
that we should desire in him. He was a plain, ordinary-looking
man. He might have looked like anybody
here, except he looked like a Jew. But a very plain, very ordinary,
Nothing to distinguish him from anybody else. Nothing. Just a
plain, ordinary man. Right? It's just bread and just
wine. Many people have this in their
refrigerator and their cabinets everywhere. It's just plain.
It's very ordinary. What distinguishes it? Faith. Faith. It's what's on the inside. It's
not the element. It's what's on the inside. Christ spoke in
a very simple language. He wore simple clothing and He
gave this simple ordinance. to simply remember. What's he doing? I don't know.
It's hard to misrepresent these two elements. Just simply eat
it and drink it. It's hard to misrepresent that. That's all we do. That's it.
And this is another reason why we need to do away with all these
gaudy ceremonies. They take away from Christ, as
do intellectualism and high-sounding oratory. and pulpit dramatics,
all these things are unnecessary and unfit for this place. Bread,
wine. Man, woman. Bread, wine. Man, woman. Young people, perhaps. You see, I'm a man. I'm a man. You're a woman. That's it. Terry, you're a man. We've got
real problems. We're real people with real problems. What we need is a real man to
stand before us to preach to us a real message about a real
Savior who can really save. And do it simply so as I can
understand it. What are you talking in Latin
for? Talk in English. That's my language.
Come down out of that higher place and take that dress off
and tell me what you're trying to tell me. Right? Tell us what
this is all about. Let's get down to the meat of
this matter. OK? We're remembering Christ
here, not me. I don't want you to go out of
here impressed with me. No matter what I do, you wouldn't
anyway. There's nothing impressive about
me. But these things, simply doing this to remember Christ,
bread and wine, two simple substances, bread and wine, and they both
typify death. Bread has to go through this
process of the corn or the wheat, whatever it is. It's plucked
up and it's primed. That one is perfectly ripe. And
it's primed, green, full of life. Pluck it up. Pluck it up. Grind it to powder. Cast it in
the oven. And out comes bread. It dies.
And it's cast in the fire. And it comes forth, bread. That's
Christ, isn't it? He was plucked from the prime
of his life. About my age. Prime of life. Plucked up. Ground to powder
upon that cross. Cast in the furnace, fiery furnace
of God's wrath. Came out bread. Manna. Life-giving bread. The sacrificial
lamb. Let me say this, if you don't
already know it. We partake of unleavened bread
here. Unleavened bread. That is, it
has no yeast in, no leaven, which would spoil it. This bread will
keep indefinitely. Indefinitely. Why do we do this?
Because leaven represents sin. And in Christ's body, in His
person, there was no sin. No sin. Nothing to spoil that
perfect sacrifice. Nothing. No spot, no blemish,
no leaven in him. And this is representative of
that. That's the reason we insist upon wine. You can keep wine
in duck tongue. It'll never spoil. Grape juice
will. Wine won't. That's the reason we insist on
using wine. And there's a symbol, too, in
wine. Wine goes through a process of growth. Grapes. Grapes are
plucked up in their prime. That big, thick, ripe, juicy
grape is plucked off the vine and crushed. And out issues forth
from that blood, blood, comes out the blood of the broken.
That's what wine is called, the blood of the broken. Container and put away for a
while. Put away. They usually put it
in cellars, caves, a tomb. Put it away for a while, and
it comes out pure and perfect, all infirmities, everything out
of it. Christ was killed. He was plucked up in the prime
of his life. He was killed, ground, his blood issued forth on that
cross, and he went into the tomb, and he took our sins with him,
and he came out in his perfect body, perfect form, no infirmities,
none whatsoever. The wine, the wine. And they
remind us of death, and they remind us this. This is very
important. Look at the text here in Luke 22. Very important. He said in verse 20, he said,
likewise, also take the cup, this cup after supper. He took
the cup after supper and said, this cup is the new testament
in my blood, which is shed for you. Now, do you recall what
we read a while ago in Hebrews 10? He said he'd take away the
first, and he may establish the second. That's the key to the
whole book of Hebrews. He'd take away the first, and
he may establish the second. Where is that, verse 9? Is that
where it was? This is typical of what we're
doing here, what Christ did. Christ, he said this is a New
Testament in my blood, which is shed for you. This reminds
us, this ordinance reminds us of the blood of the everlasting
covenant. Now, you need to know something
about this covenant to remember Christ properly. You've got to
stay with me. You've got to know something
about these covenants. Our generation's ignorant of
the word covenant. They're ignorant. This is what Paul said in Romans
10. They're ignorant. They're very ignorant. But don't
let it be so among you. Don't be ignorant of the covenant.
There was a first covenant made with Adam. That covenant was
a covenant of words. This, too, and there's really
only two covenants. He said, listen to him and live,
didn't he? Adam didn't, he died, right?
So, then what? Christ came, the second Adam
came, who was the Lord from glory. The first Adam was of the earth,
earthy. The second Adam was the Lord from heaven, from glory.
He came and God made with him a covenant, ordered in all things
and He said now, he said to his son in much the same way, he
said, now this do and they shall live. Did he fail? Some say he did, don't they? That covenant, Henry, that covenant
wasn't made with you and me. It was, in Christ it was. He
was our representative. But it wasn't made with you and
me, was it? It was made between the father and the son. The father
said to the son, this do, that is, go down there and fulfill
righteousness. a life as a man to perfection,
thought, word, and deed, as a man, and then impute it to their accounts,
to my chosen, impute it to them, make them righteous by what you
do, and then take their sins upon you and go to that cross
and die under the punishment of those sins, under my wrath. Do it. This do, and they'll live."
Christ said, OK. And he did it, and we live. That's
the covenant of grace, he said. It's all His grace. It's what
He did. And that's what we see here. That's what reminds us.
This is what reminds us. As in Adam, all died. But in
Christ, you see, everybody in Adam died, right? Some people
have some problems with that verse of Scripture. As in Adam,
all died. Okay? Everybody in Adam died,
right? That's everybody. Who's in Adam?
Everybody. Every single man, woman, boy
or girl that is born was in Adam, right? We have His blood in us.
There's a sin within us. Even so, in Christ shall all
be made alive. Is everybody in Christ? No. But everybody in Christ shall
be made alive. Right? Right. In Christ shall
all be made alive. And we drink this cup, as we
drink this cup, this reminds us of our acceptance in the beloved.
And by virtue of that blood and that covenant, Christ has become
our covenant head. These are old terms, and I love
them. Our covenant head and surety.
Covenant head and surety. In other words, he's the head
of that everlasting covenant. He is the one that fulfilled
it. He's the one that made it with the Father, and he's the
one that carried it through, and he's the one that lives now
to make sure that the inheritance is given out to those it belongs
to. He's the surety of that covenant. He lives. He lives to, the only
one that ever lived to read his own will, Christ. He's the surety
of that covenant, of that will, that testament. Finally, finally,
excuse me, the best way, now listen to me, bear with me here,
this will be a blessing to you. The best way to remember Christ
is by simply believing and receiving him. simply believing and receiving
Him. Now listen, listen to this illustration.
We're not asked to bring anything. We're not asked to bring anything
with us to this table, are we? We're not asked to bring bread
and wine with us. You're going to say, now we're
going to have that Lord's table tonight. Everybody bring them
a cup of wine and a little bit of bread. No. It's already here. It's already been prepared. And
Christ was that Lamb slain before the foundations of the world,
already prepared. We have nothing to do but to
eat and to drink. But I want to do something for my Lord.
I want to do it. Well, that's good, and y'all too, but not
for salvation, and not now. Just sit real quiet, like, and
then somebody will pass—somebody will even pass it out to you.
You don't have to come down and get it. Christ comes to us, doesn't
he? He came to us. Just sit right
there, and we'll serve you. That's salvation. That's faith. That's what it is. Just sit back,
rest now. Christ is already, he's already
been slain. Nothing for you to do to be saved.
Sit down, rest, believe, and he'll serve you. Salvation. That's
good news, isn't it? That's good news. It sure is. Just rest in him and take, David
said, what will we do? Offer sacrifice and pray and
what will we do? What can we do? He said, I'll take the cup of
salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. That's all we're
doing right here. That's all we're doing. But we
poor weak believers, this is what we say, and it's perhaps
going through your mind right now. Lord, we say, Lord, I don't
love you like I ought to. I don't love you like I ought
to. But Lord, it's the reason I'm coming to the table tonight,
because you love me. I sure do appreciate it. So I'm
coming to commemorate your love for me, not mine for you. I'm
unworthy to be loved, so unlovely. And I feel, I just don't feel
like I love you like, but you love me. I'm coming to think
about that. I'm coming to talk about that. And Lord, you say, I can't do
anything for you. I can't serve you or write. I
just don't feel like I've ever done anything for you. But I'm
sure glad you did what you did for me. And that's why I'm coming
tonight. So you remember him. I sure thank
you for what you did for me. Sure did. You say, Lord, I seem
to have forgotten you. During the hustle and bustle
and the fill with materialism And just everything has just
gotten in the way. I feel like I've left my first
love. I really do. So, Lord, I'm coming
back. I've come back. I'm sitting down
now. I want to remember You. I want to remember You. I don't
want to forget You, Lord. That's what this is all about.
It's a good place to do it. I want to remember You. I've
forgotten You, and I want to remember You. And so He says,
well, let's do this. and remembrance of that. Take
the cup. And that's the sense, I believe,
perhaps it has some meaning towards this. When Christ was knocking
on the heart, on the door of those, on the heart's door of
those believers, not unbelievers now, not unregenerate people,
no, no, no, no. Talking to the church there in Revelation. Talking to the church. He's knocking
on that door and he says, now, open to me. You've forgotten
me. Open up he calls you he may have told you right now through
my voice tonight. Open up. He says you'll come
up. Come in. And what does he say
next? Suck with you. I hope he does
tonight. Brother Henry, service to bring
you.