Good morning, everyone. It's
so good to see everyone this morning. And I pray that as we
go through these times, we would trust Jesus. Would you turn with
me in your Bibles to the book of Colossians chapter three,
Colossians chapter three. We're going to be in the book
of Numbers again. Numbers chapter four, but I'd like to stop by
Colossians chapter three, because it has a great deal to say about
our Savior, about our Lord. Colossians chapter three, verse
10 and 11. Colossians chapter three, verse
10 and 11. The scriptures share here, Colossians chapter 3 verse
10 11 and have put on the new man Which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created him Where there is neither Greek
nor Jew circumcision nor uncircumcision Barbarian or Scythian bond or
free? But Christ is all and in all
Now that's our theme when we go to the book of Numbers. Christ
is all and in all. So if you'd go back there to
the book of Numbers chapter 4, the book of Numbers chapter 4. The book of Numbers chapter 4,
we have seen the preparation for moving the tabernacle. And
no doubt it was quite an ordeal. And then couched in the middle
of all the instructions, one person comes to the forefront. And that is, we have Eliezer. Eliezer. Eleazar, the son of Aaron, Eleazar
the Nixton line for high priest, was given tremendous responsibilities
when it came to the moving of the tabernacle from one place
to the other and setting it up And as there in verse 16, there
are a number of responsibilities that Aaron, or excuse me, Eliezer
had. And in the past, we have looked
at a couple of those, but I'd like to look at the number third
thing that he has to deal with. And it tells us here, and to
the office of Eliezer, the son of Aaron, the priest pertaineth
the oil for the light and the sweet incense and the daily meat
offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the
tabernacle, and of all that there is. Numbers chapter 4, verse 16,
and to the office of Eleazar, The son of Aaron, the priest,
pertaineth the oil for the light and the sweet incense and the
daily meat offering and the anointing oil and the oversight of all
the tabernacle and of all that therein is in the sanctuary and
the vessels thereof. One verse put here in this passage
of scripture to share with us the responsibilities of this
son of Aaron. His name is Eleazar. Eliezer
was given great responsibility. Now, it doesn't tell us if he
had anybody to help him, but from other passages of scripture,
I am going to make the assumption that this responsibility was
placed upon his shoulders and his shoulders alone. We have already looked at the
oil for the light, and that oil was used for that candlestick
in the holy place, and the sweet incense that was burned on the
offering of incense, which speaks of our Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ. And we followed him through several positions of his ministry
when he was here upon the earth, and everywhere he went, and he
dealt with his people, whether it was healing them from physical
illnesses or resurrecting them from spiritual death, we find
that the Lord's incense went everywhere. There was an incense
of grace. Now, with this man Eleazar, as
he traveled through the wilderness there, I can't help but think
that there was that scent that he carried with him also, that
wherever he was, there was that sweet odor that drifted along
with him as he is carrying that incense along with him. Well
today we'd like to look at the third item that's listed here
that he was responsible for and it says the daily meat offering. For us to understand this daily
meat offering better we'll have to go back to a passage of scripture
that we studied about five or six years ago and that was in
the book of Leviticus. So would you turn there with
me to the book of Leviticus? this daily meat offering. Now here in the book of Leviticus
it gives us a great deal of information with regard to that and it wasn't
so much termed a meat offering in the sense that we understand
what meat is today. To many peoples of the world,
their meat is their bread. That is just about what they
subsist on. Some type of bread, some type
of ground grain, and then mixed with water or spices or something,
and then baked in an oven. Well, that's what we have here.
We have this meat offering that consisted, and here in the book
of Leviticus chapter 2, we read about it. Leviticus chapter 2,
and it tells us here in verse 1, And when any will offer a meat
offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be a fine flour, and he
shall pour oil upon it, and frankincense thereon. And he shall bring it
to Aaron's sons, the priest, and he shall take thereof his
handful, the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, and all the
frankincense thereof, and the priest shall burn the memorial
of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, a sweet
savor unto the Lord. And the remnant of the meat offering
shall be Aaron's and his son's. And it is a thing most holy of
the offerings of the Lord made by fire. excuse me this the true
test that we have of this meat offering or this meal offering
or this grain offering that's mentioned here and it is this
type of material that Eliezer is carrying because they used
it in the tabernacle and it was he had to have the oversight
the carrying of this Now this meat offering, or this meal offering,
or this grain offering that we have here mentioned in Leviticus
chapter 2, it's also mentioned in several other places in the
book of Leviticus. It always consisted of very fine
flour. Eleazar is carrying with him
some very fine flour, and this fine flour has been inspected.
Now, when they came to putting it together to be used as a sacrifice,
there was no mechanical device that was used to measure it out.
This is on purpose. God has an eternal purpose in
this, and that is that the priest would put his hands in that flower.
Now there's several things that we're going to find out. The
priest is directly involved in this. But his hand went through
the presented fine flower and it would be immediately known
whether the one that offered that fine flower said it's good
enough or it is the perfect fine flower for an offering. Now when
that high priest put his hands or that priest put his hands
in that fine flower, just like we used to be able to do, used to be we had to put that
flour through a sieve. We had to put it through a flour
sifter. And I remember stones coming
out of it, pieces of wheat coming out of it, all kinds of things
coming out of it, which you did not want in your pastry. You
didn't want it in your biscuits. So you bought a sieve. You bought
a flower sifter and you sifted all of it. Well here, we don't
have that mechanical device. We have something far more sensitive. We have the hand of a priest.
And as soon as he reached down into that fine flower, he immediately
knew whether the presenter of that fine flower was saying in
his heart, this is good enough, or whether he was presenting
a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ in all of his perfect righteousness. And that meant that all of the
obstacles would be taken out of it. The high priest would
soon know whether there were lumps in there as he went down
into that fine flour and gripped it in his hands. He would know
if there was chaff in there as he reached down into that flour
and pulled some out with his hands. He would know whether
there was any bran in there. He would know if there was any
grit in there. Anything that was not fine flour would soon
be indicated. Now, it doesn't tell us how often
there was things in there that shouldn't be in there, but there's
only one reason that that priest would go through with his hands.
The Lord indicated that it would be his hands that went through
this fine flour. This is the meal, this is the
fine flour that Eliezer is carrying around, and this is the representation,
the picture of our great High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ,
in His perfect righteousness. There is no chaff in Him. There
is no bran in Him. There is no grit in Him. There
is no lumps in him. He is the perfect righteousness. He is the perfect Son of God.
And those who would bring that which was less than that was
indicating that they were satisfied with a little bit of their righteousness. And this will not suffice. This
will not work. This will not do. God has not
accepted that. He will not deal with that. He
will have nothing to do with that kind of righteousness, our
righteousness. In the book of Leviticus, there
in chapter 2, And in verse 5, would you read that with me?
And if any oblation be a meat offering, bacon in a pan, it
shall be fine flour, unleavened, mingled with oil. And in verse
7, and if any, if thy oblation be a meat offering, bacon in
a frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour. with oil. And in chapter 5 of the book
of Leviticus, in verse 11, we read these words, chapter 5 and
verse 11, as we think about this fine flower that Eliezer is carrying
around, and he is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, and what
he is carrying is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have
Him carrying that wonderful oil for the light. We have Him carrying
that great incense. And we have Him now carrying
this fine flour, this meat offering that is a meal offering or an
offering of impeccable fine flour. In the book of Leviticus chapter
5, And there in verse 11, But if he be not able to bring two
turtle doves or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring
for his offering the tenth part of an ephah, a fine flower, for
a sin offering. What indication we have here
of how fine that flower must be. It is for a sin offering. It is for the sin of this individual
that brought. Now when we were going through
the book of Leviticus, we talked a little bit about how many times
these offerings were offered, and probably not very often because
it is very difficult to find sinners. We're not a sinner until
that is revealed unto us by God Almighty in our conversion, in
our new birth, and then we realize what great sinners we are. We
realize how we were affected by the fall, and that we were
there when Adam sinned against God, and we were representatives
there too, and we brought it down to our age. We can't improve
on the fall. We can't make it better. There's
only one that can, and his name is Jesus of Nazareth, king of
the Jews, the one that was crucified for our sins. So this one that
is bringing this, in verse 11 says, a tenth part of an ephah,
a fine flower, for a sin offering, and he shall put no oil upon
it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon, for it
is a sin offering. This has to be the cleanest. the purest, the finest of flower
to represent the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is what we have here
as our friend Eleazar, as the priest Eleazar, as our brother
Eleazar, and as a representation and a picture of the Lord Jesus
Christ is carrying. The sinner was presenting a picture
of their own righteousness, Our righteousness must be Christ.
We cannot bring our own righteousness, and if there is a lump in it,
if there's chaff in it, if there's dirt in it, if there's anything
that the priest can pick up, it is because we didn't care. Now, only in regeneration will
we care to have the righteousness of Christ. Would you turn with
me over to the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 1? Brother John and I
were talking about this while I was down there last week, and
here in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 30, we have this wonderful statement
made about our Savior. And this statement is not just
words. We don't want it to just be words.
And this is not just doctrine. We don't want to make this just
doctrine. We want this to be the sinner's
plea and hope. This is what we have. And the
Apostle Paul, as he wrote to the Corinthians, had this to
say about our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, which a little
bit later he was going to write, Christ is all and in all. And
what we read in the Old Testament with regard to Eleazar, he is
all, he has it all, he has every bit about this picture of our
Savior. 1 Corinthians 1, verse 30, the
Scriptures share this, But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who
of God, is made unto us. Now notice all of these fine
things. There's no chaff in any of these. When we look at the
wisdom of God, when we look at the righteousness of God, when
we look at the sanctification of God and the redemption, there
is nothing left in there but the purest and finest of flour. The representation is what this
priest is carrying from place to place as he took these items
And He is informed. The people have been informed
what He's doing for them. They could not do it on their
own, but He is doing it for them. He is carrying that light, the
oil for the light. He is carrying that great incense. He is carrying this great grain
offering, this fine flour. And here in the book of 1 Corinthians
1 and verse 30, it says, But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God. Now, God ordained this. God stated
this. God has put this in order. And
it is far more than words. It's far more than doctrine.
This is our life. This is our Savior, who is made
unto us this one wisdom. Now, I don't understand all about
wisdom, and I probably never will. But I know in my natural
state, I had none. And in my spiritual state, I
have what He's given me. He has given me his wisdom. He's
given me Christ. But I discover every day more
about God's wisdom in the redemption of his people. How is it possible
for a just God to justify sinners? How is that possible? In God's
wisdom, he's performed it. He's practiced it. He's laid
it out. And then it tells us that he is the righteousness.
Christ is all our righteousness. I'm going to have trouble all
my natural life understanding that, that He is all my righteousness,
but the Scriptures tell it so clearly and so plainly, and so
we will live with it. We'll just say, He is it. There's
nothing else. He is my all and in all. He has the perfect oil. He has
the perfect incense. He has the perfect grain. There's
not a bit of chaff in it. There's nothing that would hinder
Him. And then He is my sanctification
and redemption. All of these things are far greater
than just a doctrine. They are a living person, the
Lord Jesus Christ. What could God feel if we fell
into His hands? What would God feel if we fell
into his hands as that grain fell into the hands of that priest? As he reached down into the presentation,
as he reached down into this offering, as he reached down
into what was going to be consumed on fire, if he reaches down into
that fine flour, what would he find if we were put into his
hand? Turn with me if you would over
to the book of Hebrews chapter 10. In Hebrews chapter 10, We
have these wonderful words that are left to us. A warning, yes,
but how joyous it is if when we fall into the hands of God,
the God of heaven only feels the fine flower of his son. He
has taken care of the sins of his people at the cross. He will
not find any chaff. He will not find any grit. He
will not find anything in there to hinder from saving his people
from their sins. So here in the book of Hebrews
chapter 10, Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 31, the scripture says,
it is a fearful thing. to fall into the hands of a living
God. Now what would happen if you
fell into the hands of the living God? What would he feel? What
would be there? Well, the only position that
we can have that there is safety is to be found in him. to be found in Christ. When He
touches that one, He finds perfect righteousness. When He touches
that one, He finds perfect sanctification. He finds perfect redemption.
He has it all. He doesn't touch us. We're so
imperfect, so marred by the fall, so sinful, heart desperately
wicked. And God comes and says, I'm going
to find out where you are. I am going to have you fall into
my hands, if you please. And when you fall into my hands,
who will I feel? Will you be depending upon your
righteousness, or are you fast in him who gave himself for you? The other day, I had the opportunity
of speaking to a guy that believes on Sabbath, Saturday, and the
worship of Saturday. You know, he makes it very plain
that his whole being is based upon these works of righteousness. And the believer is very plain. I depend upon him who is my righteousness. This perfect one. Turn with me
back if you would. Isaiah chapter 40. This is such
a familiar passage of scripture when we're talking about the
position of the church. when we're called on as ministers
of the gospel, as those who declare the truth of God's word. We have
here this wonderful passage of scripture about comfort. Comfort
ye, comfort ye my people. Isaiah chapter 40 and there in
verse 1. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people.
Bring the word of God. Comfort me. Bring me the message
of grace. Comfort me. Bring me the fact
that there is a perfect bread. There is a perfect wheat, a fine
flour. Tell me about that very thing.
Because all I have is full of lumps. All I have is full of
burrs. All I have, oh, you know, I've
got this very, there's nothing in here that you want, Lord.
So when we present the grain, may it be Christ. Isaiah chapter 40, verse one,
comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Now speak here,
speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare
is accomplished and that her iniquity is pardoned. Now notice
this, for she hath received of the Lord's hand double. for all our sins. She hath received
of the Lord's hand double." Know what he went down through that?
He double-sifted that. The very act of our Savior, the
Lord Jesus, in him bearing our sins upon the cross, he could
go through that flower double. He says he's received double.
There is no imperfections here. I've checked it out twice. I've
measured it twice. I've felt it twice. I've gone
through it twice. He's received double for all.
We've received double for all our sins because the very perfection
of Christ, the very righteousness of Christ, the very goodness
of Christ, the very death of Christ was so perfect in every
capacity that there would be no fault found in him. that he
would be the perfect righteousness for his people. And so we find. that we have this comfort. God
has dealt with it in such a miraculous way. He's put away sin by the
sacrifice of his son. And now there is a perfect righteousness
that we enjoy, that we have in Christ Jesus. In the book of
Amos, it brings up an interesting, well, it brings up a flower sifter
over here in the book of Amos. Would you turn with me to the
book of Amos chapter nine, Amos chapter nine. Amos is called
on to talk about a flower sieve here in the book of Amos chapter
9 and verse 9. The true sieve is the hands of
the master, the true sieve is the hands of the priest, the
true sieve is the hands of God. And he can feel the flower and
know instantly if there's any imperfection there. Are we coming
in our own righteousness? He's going to find so much imperfection. He's going to find so much chaff.
He's going to find so much grit. He's going to find things that
were not acceptable. But oh, if we come in the righteousness
of Christ, he will find no imperfection whatsoever. The book of Amos
chapter nine and verse nine. Below, I will command and I will
sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn sifted
in a sieve. You know what's going to fall
through? The grain. You know what's going to stay?
Is the grit. Oh, they have nothing to offer.
God when it comes to their religion, when it comes to their ability,
when it comes to them being priests, when it comes to them having
a place before God because they're chosen Jews. We heard this morning
in the Bible class that not all Israel is of Israel. And they're
going to show, they're going to be shown that they are. They are in a position without
help and without hope and without God in the world. The only ones
that can approach the God of heaven is the ones that have
the righteousness of Christ. When God would come with His
great finger, when He'd come with His hand and sift through
the presentation, I come in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And as he puts his hands in there to find out, this is righteousness. This is perfection. This is what
I demand. This is what I command. So we
have Eliezer, the priest, carrying about this wonderful picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we find out that we, as believers,
plead the righteousness of Christ. We plead what he is to us. Now, there are a couple of verses
I'd like to read over in the book of John, chapter 6. In John,
chapter 6. John chapter six, we read these
words and the Lord spends a lot of time sharing with the people
here, sharing with these hearers. Now we get to hear what he had
to say and there were other people that were there that heard what
he got to say, what he had to say and didn't like what he had
to say. They did not like him preaching the gospel. He was
preaching the gospel from the Old Testament. He was bringing
up something that they knew about from their historical perspective
but they did not understand that he was speaking about himself.
In John 6, verse 35, we find the Lord Jesus saying this about
himself. John 6, verse 35, Jesus said
unto them, I am the bread of life. Now let me ask you this
question. How do we get bread? How do we get bread? I remember
my mother one time asking dad to grind some grain very fine
because she wanted to make some homemade bread with home-ground
wheat. And we ground it. But you know
what? She had to put all of that, even
that fine, fine, fine flour through a sieve. She had to put it through
a flour sifter because there were still imperfections in there. Now, when we're talking about
this bread, Jesus saying, I am the bread of life, we find out
that that is made up of the finest of righteousness, the finest
of water, and then it is put in an oven. That's how bread
is made. We have the finest of flour,
we have the best water, and we put it together and it is baked
in an oven. Now, I used to like bread dough.
But it is not bread. Bread is baked. And when the
Lord Jesus Christ is sharing with us that this, the making of this bread, that he's
talking about, I'm the bread of life. He is going to be baked
in an oven, if you please. He is going to be broken in an
oven, if you please. He is going to the cross and
He's going to bear the sins of His people. He just could not
be the fine flour, but it must be baked. It tells us here in
the book of John chapter 6 and verse 35, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. I am
the bread of life. He goes on and continues to talk
here about the manna that came down, the Old Testament manna.
It was quite an article that those people found, and they
found out they ground it and made it into bread. It had all
the nutrients they needed, it had everything they needed, and
it was made this manna. What is it? It's what that word
manna means. What is it? And they use it. God fed those children of Israel
there in the wilderness. And then it ceased when they
entered into the promised land. They fed them tons and tons and
tons and tons of this every day. And then when we follow them
through the years, he was continually feeding them this manna. You
know, there was a certain element of Israel that got tired of the
manna. They got tired of the perfect,
perfect. They got tired of Christ is what
they're saying. They got tired of God is what
they're saying. And here we have, I am the bread
of life. This life that we must have when God raises us from
the spiritual dead and gives us life, the only way we have
this life is to sustain on the bread of life, the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is our all and in all. He is our food and he is
our drink. He is everything. And then in
that same chapter, chapter six and verse 51, he says this, I
am the living bread that which came down from heaven. Let's
qualify this a little better. I am the bread of life, but now
I'm the living bread. This is the living word of God,
the living son of God. Now, it's not going to be long
that he is going to be taken and crucified and slain. We're
going to see this fine flour baked in the furnace of God to
put away sin for his people forever. We're going to have him do that.
He's going to. Now, the Apostle Paul picks up
this point over in the book of First Corinthians, Chapter 11.
In First Corinthians, Chapter 11. The Apostle Paul, as he writes
to the Church of Corinth, This group of folks had some error,
and every time that the Apostle Paul dealt with them, he pointed
them to Christ. He wanted them to know that the
errors that creep in are often just a slanted view of Christ. And he wanted them to know who
Christ is. He preached Christ. And here
in the book of 1 Corinthians 11, verse 23, we find that he
had received some information God had given him this information. I received of the Lord that which
I delivered unto you. I'm just not speaking out of
school here. I have some information that I was taught, and I was
taught of God. Just as we can go back to the
book of Numbers or Leviticus and say, here we have, we've
been taught of God. Here we have this fine flower.
We have this meat offering that Eliezer is going to carry around
that's going to be offered from time to time. And it is fine
flour without any encumbrance in it. It is fine flour without
any chaff. It is fine flour without... Because
it's been inspected by the great high priest. His fingers have
gone through it. And they are sensitive fingers.
He will not accept any of our righteousness in this presentation.
It must be Christ. And so the Apostle Paul, in writing
to these saints at Corinth, had this to say in 1 Corinthians
11, verse 23, and I have received of the Lord that which also I
delivered unto you. I've been faithful to bring it
to you, present it to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night
in which he was betrayed, took bread. Now, the same night he
was betrayed is not long before he's crucified. He said that
he is going to lay down his life for ransom for many. No man takes
my life from me, but I lay it down on myself. So this, that
he, the same night he was betrayed, he did something He says, and
when he had given thanks, oh, excuse me, that the Lord Jesus,
the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. Now he's going to give these
disciples a beautiful symbol. This bread is not able to be
consumed unless it is broken. The benefits of the righteousness
of Christ to the church. They're not benefits that we
can enjoy and appreciate until he was broken on the cross. Notice this, he took bread. And
when he had given thanks, he break it and said, now this bread
is made from that fine flour. This bread is unleavened bread.
There is no sin in it. Representation, representing
our Savior in his perfect state without sin. He is that living
bread. He is that perfect bread. He
has that perfect flour, perfect righteousness. And he says, take
eat. This is my body. which is broken
for you, this doing remembrance of me. Take this bread and consume
it, eat it, make it yours, make it part of you. This is the blessing
that God has for every one of his elect children, that he will
be their bread of life. He will be the living bread,
and this bread is broken It is broken because of our sin. It is broken because of our fall
in Adam. It is broken because we're imperfect. It is broken because we only
want to present our righteousness, our good works, and God will
not stand for that. It must be the righteousness
of Christ. It must be that perfect, fine flower. Do this and remember
it to me. It's broken for you, broken for
you. And after the same manner also,
he took the cup. Now, when we look at that bread,
we have to say again, you don't get bread out of whole wheat.
Now they break whole wheat and make whole wheat bread out of
it, but you have to, in order to have good bread, it must be
crushed. It must be milled. It must be
between stone. The old gristmills had two stones
and they ground that fine flour and then sacked it up and sold
it. Well, this Savior, our Savior,
the Savior that God has given to his people on their behalf,
was broken by God Almighty when we read, as it says in the 53rd
chapter of the book of Isaiah, he saw the travail of his soul
and was satisfied. He saw the grinding of this and
then baked. He was put in an oven of the
justice of God. This is that bread. This is that
perfect bread that God provides for the people that He intends
to save. He is this perfect fine flour,
this water, and this heat to make this. While we go on, we
find out if you're gonna have the cup, you're gonna have to
take grapes, you're gonna have to break them. You're going to
have to bleed them. You're going to have to have
that blood flow from them, that juice flow from those grapes.
And that's what the Lord Jesus did. He died for us. He shed
his blood for us. And that's this token that he
mentions here in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 11 here. As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he come.
We do show the Lord's death. We do show the Lord's baking.
We do show the Lord's breaking. We do show this until he comes. And so, as Eliezer goes through
the wilderness, How many times he did this? How many times he
carried this responsibility? It's hard to say. We don't know
how many times they moved to that camp, how far they moved
it, how many times they set it up. But whenever they moved,
we have Eliezer out there, this priest dressed in his garments,
carrying this light, this oil for light and the sweet incense. And now we have him carrying
that bread. Excuse me, that grain. that perfect
grain, that grain of righteousness, the righteousness of Christ,
he carried it along. And then the next thing, and
we'll cover that the next time, Lord willing, that we get to
meet, and that is the oil, the anointing oil. He is the one
that carried it also. So he has a tremendous responsibility. Christ had a tremendous responsibility
towards the church. He has a responsibility given
to him in the covenant of grace before the foundation of the
world. He's carrying that out to make sure that everyone that
he purchased on the cross is going to hear the gospel. He
is going to hear about the righteousness of Christ. He is going to bring
them to belief. of the truth, they're going to
acknowledge him as Christ is my all and in all. I'm not trusting
anything else whatsoever but the righteousness of Christ.
And then too, we get to enjoy that great feast of that grain
as he took that bread and baked it and now he said, this is my
body broken for you, shed for you, blood shed for you. And
we look at it and say, Lord, I know completely why it was
necessary. I'm a sinner above all sinners.
Thank you for carrying it out just like you did, and Lord,
for letting me know in regeneration what you've done on my behalf,
that this broken body and shed blood was on purpose and for
a people, and those people belong to Christ. Well, until we are
permitted to do this again, let us go to the Lord in prayer.
Our Father in heaven, we bow before you with thankful hearts
that you are the bread of life, that you are the living bread.
You're the one that has complete and total righteousness in yourself,
finding no fault. They send him to the cross. We
ask, Lord, you'd be with our people, those that are ill, those
that have This illness is COVID, pneumonia, colds. Lord, we look forward to the
time when you once again permit us to meet together in fellowship,
but we're thankful for this means that we can do this. And we just
thank you in Jesus name, amen.