Okay. Yeah. It'll be special, right? Okay. Let's look at lamentations. book of Lamentations, Lamentations
of the Prophet Jeremiah, Lamentations, Chapter 3. I know these words were written
by the Prophet Jeremiah, the Spirit of God gave them to him. These are the testimonies of
every believer. I know it's a testimony of your
heart. Look here, Lamentations 3.22. Don't you echo these words. It's
of the Lord's mercies that we're not consumed. Because His compassions
fail not. Isn't that what you say? You
say, Amen, Jeremiah. Amen. That's how I feel, too. I know that's true. In the 23rd
verse, they're new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith
my soul. Therefore will I hope in Him. The Lord is good unto them that
wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh the Lord, the soul that
seeketh Him. Well, let's sing that great song,
Great is Thy Faithfulness, number 40. Number 40, you can remain
seated on this first song. Number 40, Great is Thy Faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness, O
God my Father. There is no shadow of turning
with thee. Thou changest not, Thy compassions
they fail not, As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be. Great is Thy faithfulness, Great
is Thy faithfulness, Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have need Thine hand hath
provided. Great is Thy faithfulness. boredom to me. Summer and winter and springtime
and harvest, sun, moon, and stars in their courses above. Join with all nature in manifold
witness To thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love. Great is thy faithfulness, Great
is thy faithfulness, Morning by morning, new mercies I see. All I have need, if I had that
provider. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord,
unto me. for sin and the peace that endureth. Thine own dear presence to cheer
and to guide. Strength for today and bright
hope for tomorrow. Blessings, oh, mine. With ten thousand beside, Great
is thy faithfulness, Great is thy faithfulness, Morning by
morning, new mercies I see. All I am need, if I had that
provided. Great is my faithfulness, Lord,
unto Thee. Turn over to page 73, please. 73, let us stand as we make Jesus
Christ be praised. When morning deals the skies,
my heart awaking cries, ? May Jesus Christ be praised ?
How I can't work and pray ? To Jesus I prepare ? May Jesus Christ
be praised A sadness fill my mind, A soulless fear I find. May Jesus Christ be praised,
For faith's my earthly bliss, My comfort still is this. May Jesus Christ be praised In
Him's eternal bliss The love, His strength, His bliss May Jesus
Christ be praised The powers of darkness fear When this sweet
chant they hear. May Jesus Christ be praised. Is now like this mine? Why can't it go be mine? May Jesus Christ be praised Be
this eternal song Through all the ages long May Jesus Christ
be praised. And be seated, please. Pastor Destin is reading Luke,
Chapter 22. in the first 30 verses of Luke
22. Now the feast of unleavened bread
drew nigh, which is called the Passover. And the chief priests
and scribes thought how they might kill him, for they feared
the people. Then entered Satan into Judas,
surname Viscariate, being of the number of the twelve, and
went and captains, how he might betray
him unto them. And they were glad, and covenanted
to give him money. And he promised and sought opportunity
to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. Then
came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed.
And he sent Peter and John, saying, go and prepare us the Passover,
that we may eat. And they said unto him, where
wilt thou that we prepare? And he said unto them, behold,
when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet
you bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where
he entereth in. And ye shall say unto the good
men of the house, the master saith unto thee, where is the
guest chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples?
And he shall show you the large upper room furnished there make
ready. And they went and found as he
said unto them, and they made ready the Passover. And when
the hour was come, he sat down and the twelve apostles with
him. And they said unto them, and he said unto them, What desire
have I decided to eat this Passover with you before I suffer? For
I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof until it be
fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup, and gave
thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves.
For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine,
till the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread, and
gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying, This
is my body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of
me. Likewise also the cup after supper,
saying, This cup is a new testament in my blood, which is shit for
you. But behold, the hand of him that
betrayed me is with me on the table. And truly the son of man
goeth as it was determined, but woe unto that man by whom he
is betrayed. And they began to inquire among
themselves which of them it was that should do this thing. And
there was also a strife among them which of them should be
accounted as the greatest. And he said unto them, the kings
of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. And they that exercise
authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not
be so. But he that is greatest among
you, let him be as the younger. And he that is chief, as he that
does serve. For whether it is greater, he
that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth, is not he that sitteth
at meat But I am among you as he that serveth. Ye are they
which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint
unto you a kingdom that my father hath appointed unto me, that
you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones
judging both tribes of Israel." End of reading there. We do come this evening to return
with grace and mercy following through by the blood of our Lord
Jesus Christ and with his righteousness alone. Father, we do confess
that we're sinners. There's nothing good in us to
commend us unto thee. From the tops of our heads to
the bottom of our feet are wounds and bruises and putrefying sores.
But Father, we do look to that one that is holy, pure, and righteous,
our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we do ask this evening
to build our pastor as he stands, proclaims Christ and Him crucified
one more time. And Father, what we ask for ourselves,
we ask for all your preachers this day standing, proclaiming
Christ and Him crucified. For that is the only good news,
the only gospel, the only salvation, the only way of salvation. The
Lord is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man can come
to thee except through Him. And Father, we ask for the sick
and afflicted to be thine will to raise them up and come and
hear the great and glorious gospel one more time. And Father, we
do give you thanks for all things, for all things of your end. And
we do ask one more time that you would be with us through
this service and through the Lord's table. For he is the only
salvation. I would think we ask in the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, for his sake alone we ask. Amen. Let's go back to that scripture
that Jim just read to us from Luke, the 22nd chapter. My subject is in remembrance
of Christ. In remembrance of Christ. I want you to first of all consider
when the Lord's Supper was instituted. As he read the first few verses
of Luke, the 22nd chapter, it's obvious that it's at the Passover. It's at the Passover. We have some understanding, we
have knowledge of the Passover. It originated in Egypt. God had said to Abraham that
his seed would be in bondage in Egypt for 400 years. Then the Lord would bring them
out of their captivity. Israel couldn't They couldn't
liberate themselves. They had no ability to relieve
themselves of the Egyptian bondage. They could not escape their captors. In many ways, they picture us. We're held captive by Satan at
his will. We're in an awful, awful shape. There's nothing we can do to
relieve our misery. And even more, we don't even
know about our misery. You know, the Egyptians or the
Israelites are in Egyptian bondage. They knew of their bondage. They
knew of the hardships. And all from their hearts, they
cried out to God. And the Scripture says the Lord
heard them. But you and me? left to ourselves,
unregenerate, lifeless, things of God foreign to us. We don't
know about our bondage and therefore we don't even seek
to be free. Our Lord talked about the freedom
that his people have. He talked to the Jews about it
and they said, we are not in bondage to anybody. But we are. We are. And the Lord, He heard the cries
of Israel. He delivered them out of their
captivity. And I know God puts within us
that cry of desperation. And he has to do it. And then
we plead with him. We said, Lord, save me or I'll
perish. I need your mercy. I cast myself
upon the mercy of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. Free me from
my bondage. Free me from my captivity. I'm held captive by one who has
great power and authority and I'm no match for him. But on
the other hand, he's no match for you. You have all power and
all authority over the one who holds me captive. Oh Lord, if
you speak the Word, if you just speak the Word, I'll be released. I'll be liberated. I'll be free. The Lord, He determined to free
Israel from their bondage, but not without blood. Not without
blood. And so he told Moses to tell
the elders of the children of Israel, tell every family about
a special, special lamb. Nothing special about the lamb
in and of itself, but it's the Passover lamb. God said, I'm
coming through Egypt this evening. And if you want If you want my
mercy, if you want me to pass over your house and the firstborn
not die, you've got to mark your door with blood. You've got to
take a lamb. You've got to take a lamb. It's got to be an innocent lamb.
It's got to be a spotless lamb because this lamb pictures the
lamb. You see, the very first Lamb
was the Lamb of God. The Lamb of God who was smitten
according to God's covenant purpose in old eternity. Our names are
said to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life. That's what it
says. It could have said the Lord's Book of Life. That would
have been right. It could have been said that
our names are written in the Redeemer's Book of Life or the
Blessed Savior's Book of Life, but it doesn't say it that way.
It doesn't say our names are written down in the Son of God's
Book of Life. It says our names are written
down in the Lamb's Book of Life. He's the Lamb of God. The Lamb
of God. And right from Genesis chapter
4, when Abel offered the firstling of his flock to God as a sacrifice
for his guilty soul and the guilty souls of his family, right from
the get-go, God introduces us to a lamb. He tells Moses, this
is a Passover lamb. It's got to be a male. Because
it was a man who got us in this mess. And it's going to have
to take another man, a perfect man, the God-man, to get us out
of it. For there is one God and one
mediator between God and man. The man. He is the man. Christ Jesus. His lamb is. John said, John the Baptist,
behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Throughout
the scriptures he is represented as the Lamb. So the Lord told
Moses, you tell these folks, you get you a lamb. A male of the first year and
the very prime of life. Without spot, without blemish,
our Lord Jesus, He was inspected, He was examined by everybody. Nobody found any fault in Him.
Not even God. And that's vital. Because He
can't save sinners if He's a sinner Himself. He can't save those
who are spotted, those who are blemished, those who are wretched,
those who are poor and naked and blind. He can't save us unless
He Himself is impeccable. He's got to be the spotless Lamb
of God. So the Lord gave instructions
to Moses, this has got to be a male without spot, without
blemish. And it's got to be separated
from the rest of the flock. Our Lord Jesus, He was separated
in the covenant of God. He was separated in the purpose
and counsel of God, even from before the foundation of the
world. He's the Lamb chosen out of the flock. Psalm 89, 19. The Lord said, I have laid help
upon one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the
people. And then on the fourth day that
lamb had to be killed. It had to be killed. At a specific,
specific time. And our Lord, He had to be killed. That lamb that died, it died
a violent death. Oh, it suffered. I know certain
individuals had been living back in those days that said, that's
cruel to the animals. Well, I'll tell you what, it
was cruel to the animal. But that's the way God says it's
got to be done. For a reason. For a reason. That suffering as that animal,
as that lamb bled to death and kicked and bleated, and as the
life's blood went out of it, that pictured the substitutionary
death, the agonies and the sufferings of our blessed Savior. He didn't
just go to sleep, fall into a coma, and die. It wasn't a peaceful
death that He died. It was a death of the cross.
It was an agonizing death. And this is the reason. That's
what our sins deserve. Absolute suffering. Unlimited
suffering. Infinite suffering. That's what
we deserve. Our Lord Jesus suffered for our
sins. And then this lamb killed on
the fourth day after its separation. It had to be roasted with fire
and eaten. The fire represents the wrath
of God. There is therefore now no condemnation,
no wrath, no judgment to any of God's people because all of
the wrath and all of the judgment fell on the Savior. Roasted with
fire. That's God's wrath. That's God's
judgment. All of the anger, all of the
vengeance, all of God's absolute hatred of our sin, all stored
up in His wrath. focused on the Lord Jesus. What
was the reason for that? Because He bore our sins in His
own body on the tree. All of our indebtedness became
His indebtedness and the justice of God said, we will exact from
you everything that is due to our justice. So God's wrath fell
on Him. How bad was it, preacher? I tell
you, it's so bad he cried out, my God, my God, why has thou
forsaken me? Oh, the death of our Lord Jesus,
it's not a little thing, it's the most critical thing of all
time and all eternity. The substitutionary death of
the Lamb of God. This is what everything before
time began. That's what everything pointed
to. Everything points back to that
now. And in eternity that is to come,
everything still points back to the cross. It's the blood. It's the blood that makes atonement
for the soul. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sin. Oh, you all preach a bloody religion. Absolutely. Yes, sir. And if the day ever comes that
we cease to preach the death of our Lord Jesus Christ as a
sacrificial death, as a death of intense suffering, as a death
that satisfied God's justice, if we ever cease to preach that,
may God burn the building down. Dude, this is the reason we exist. To hold up the truth. To hold
up Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The Savior said, and I, if I
be lifted up, I'll draw men unto Me. This He spake concerning
His death. I know that. But He also spake
it in meaning this. I believe this is an application
to it. As we hold Him up, He draws men to Himself. We're not
promoting 13th Street Baptist Church. We're not promoting our
denomination. We're not promoting a man. We're
promoting King Jesus. We're promoting the Lamb of God
who was smitten for sinners. He had to be eaten. That roasted
lamb, it had to be eaten. Have you feasted on the Lord
Jesus Christ? You know, the Savior said something
about there in John 6, except you eat my flesh and drink my
blood. You don't have life. We feast
on Him spiritually. What is that? That's faith. That's
faith. As we take the Lord's Supper
here in a little bit, we'll take the bread, we'll chew it up,
we'll swallow it. Well, it becomes part of us.
We take it into ourselves. We'll drink the wine. It becomes
part of us. We come to the Lord Jesus Christ
as needy sinners. And it's as though we feast on
Him. We take you in. I receive you, dear Lord Jesus
Christ. I receive you as you're set forth
in the Word of God. I receive you as my prophet to
teach me. I receive you as my priest who
offered the sacrifice to God that put away my sins. I receive
you as my great high priest who represents me on a high, who
is my advocate, who is my mediator. I take you in. I receive you
as my king, as my Lord to rule over me. I feast on the Lord
Jesus Christ. I eat of Him. I drink of Him.
I take Him into me. Don't you? I do it willingly.
You see, the Lord makes us willing in the day of His power. When you will eat the bread and
drink the wine, these men wait on you. Nobody is going to make
you. Nobody is going to make you take the bread. Nobody is
going to make you open your mouth. Nobody is going to force it in
your mouth. bump your jaws together so you can chew it up and then
kind of mess with your throat and force you to swallow it.
No, you do that willingly, don't you? And that's how we receive
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's not forced down our throat. I worship Him willingly and lovingly. I worship Him voluntarily because
He has made me willing to receive Him. I want Him. I want Him with
all my heart, don't you? But I used to didn't want Him.
I had no willingness to come to Him. When I heard about Him
as set forth from the Scriptures, I had no intention of ever believing
on this particular Savior. And then, miraculously, suddenly,
I found myself believing Him and receiving Him. The Lord does something to us. He gives us new taste buds too. Oh, taste and see that the Lord
is good. And I'll tell you what we taste
and we realize, boy, He is good. This gospel's good. I believe
I'll have another taste. Believe I'll have another taste.
Well, just pass me another bowlful. I'll come next Sunday so I can
eat again. I like the taste. Don't you like
the taste of the gospel? The Lord, what's happened? He
gave us a heart of flesh. He took away the heart of stone.
He gave us a new heart to believe in. Yes, this originated back
with the Passover. The Passover. And I want you
to consider not only when this Lord's Supper was instituted
at the Passover, but consider the circumstances. He called Peter and John. He said, I want you to go into
the city. You'll find a fellow. He's bearing a pitcher of water.
And you just follow him back. Go into the house. He's a servant. And then you tell the master
of the house, you tell him, the master, But thee, Master, saith
unto thee, where is the guest chamber that I shall eat the
Passover with my disciples? This is not a helpless, weak,
invalid Savior. He's the Lord of glory. He sends
forth His disciples because He's arranged everything. I tell you, this will give peace
to all of the Lord's people when you realize the Lord has arranged
everything. And so they go into town. Sure
enough, there's a man carrying a pitcher of water. Goes back
to his house. Goes in. Says to the fellow who
owns the house, the master said, where's the guest chamber where
I need to pass over with my apostles? That fellow said, well, it's
right here. It's right here. He's arranged
everything. He leaves nothing to chance.
I'm so thankful that nothing, nothing in our salvation and
nothing that happens in life is left to chance. Scripture
says all things are of God. God's the first cause of all
things. even his death. You see, the very one who sent
forth Peter and John, and who had arranged all of this as to
where they would meet and have this last supper, where he would
initiate the Lord's Supper, he not only arranged all that, but
he arranged his own death. He did that before the world
began. The Lord reigns over all things. Even the wicked. Even the wicked. There's a man who's mentioned
in this context. His name is Judas. And Judas, earlier in the chapter, It says,
Satan entered into him, he went his way, and he communed with
the chief priests and the captains, and they made a covenant. What
a vile covenant it was. Thirty pieces of silver. But
do you know why he entered into that covenant? On account of another covenant.
That's a covenant of grace. Because if you look down in the
22nd verse, truly the Son of Man goeth as it was determined. It was determined. God had already
determined this in the covenant of grace. He ordained this covenant
between Judas and these religious folks that hated Christ. This
is all planned out. purpose before God made the world. And when all of the enemies of
our Lord came together to crucify Him, when we read in Acts chapter
4, they were doing what God's hand and God's counsel determined
before to be done. They crucified Him. You see,
our Lord Jesus dying on the cross, it wasn't a last gasp effort
on God's part to save sinners. There are some people that seem
to think that the death of the Savior was like a secondary plan. The first plan failed. And then
the second plan failed. The first plan was God made a
man, God made a woman, and they were perfect. And supposedly
things would work out just wonderful for them, but Adam messed everything
up and then he fell. And so then God implemented another
plan. He'd give them the law to keep.
But that didn't work out either. And then at last God said, well,
I guess I'll have to have my son die. Well, that's not the
way it worked out at all. He's the Lamb slain from before
the foundation of the world. His appointed time arrived for
Him to die, and everything happened as it was determined. As it was determined. And I'll
tell you this, our Lord wanted it to happen. Look down with
me at verse 15. He said to these disciples, He
said unto them, with desire have I desired to eat this Passover
with you before I suffer. The reason He desired it so much
was because this would be something that happened just before His
death. He desired to die. And the word
desire is a very powerful word. It means longing, But actually
this word in other places in the New Testament is translated
as lust. Which is a very powerful passion
in the heart. Now, to us, the word lust has
a negative connotation, and rightly so, but when used with our Lord,
this desire that He had, you understand that this was a very
powerful longing in His soul. He, as it were, lusted after
it. He came to this world for this very reason, and He wanted
it to happen. He wanted it to happen. It brought
Him joy. It brought Him gladness. It brought
Him happiness to save us from our sins. Isn't
that amazing? He longed for this day. He longed
for this. In Isaiah, the prophet said,
he's quoting the Lord Jesus, I've set my face like a flint. Nobody could talk Him out of
it. The disciples said, don't go to Jerusalem. Lord, they're
waiting on Him. Lord, they're going to kill you.
Oh, I desire to go. I have a passion to go. It's
in my heart to go. Simon Peter stepped up and said,
not so. I'm not going to let you go.
And the Lord said, get behind me, Satan. You don't savor the
things of God. You don't appreciate this. You
don't realize what's going on here. If I don't die, you'll
die. If I don't die, you'll never
live. If I don't die, you won't be
saved. If I don't die, your sins won't
be forgiven. If I don't die, you won't have
the righteousness that God demands. I've got to die. I'm going to
Jerusalem to die. He had to die. He desired for this to happen. Then he told them the elements.
He said bread and wine. Bread and wine. Bread pictures
His flesh. The wine pictures His blood. He says in verse 17, divided
among yourselves. Now, we don't serve the bread
and the wine at the same time. We don't eat it. We don't eat
and drink at the same time. It's separated. Because this
separation, this separation, it pictures death. I'll tell
you what, you separate my blood from my flesh, you know what's
going to happen? Absolutely you know what's going
to happen. I'm going to die. This pictures death. It pictures
death. And he says there in verse 17,
divided among yourselves. He didn't do this with a lot
of ceremony. There's no ritual here. Nobody's
kneeling. There's no religious ornaments adorning
the place. This is somebody's guest chamber.
It's just a big room. There's nothing made to be kind
of religious looking. He's not wearing a robe. He doesn't give it to Simon Peter
and say, now you let all the other apostles come in front
of you and you put a piece of bread on their tongue as they
pass by. No, He said just divide it among
yourselves. Divide it among yourselves. I'll tell you this about the
Lord's Supper and really all of our worship services. The more formality you add to
the service, the more religious dress you
bring to the service, the more religious decor you adorn the
service with, the less possibility there is of real worship. That's
just a fact. That's the reason we try to keep
things simple. I wonder who ever come up with
the idea of a preacher wearing a robe with a big cross on it.
Oh, that's so holy looking. I wonder who ever come up with
the idea of let's have some stained glass windows with a picture
of a shepherd with his staff in his hand and a little lamb
that he's holding or Mary, a picture of Mary, a painted picture of
Mary holding a baby. Who come up with all this junk?
And that's exactly what it is, it's junk. The more of that kind
of stuff you try to bring into service, the further away you're
going to get from worship. That's just a fact. Let's don't
put on pretense. Not in dealing with God. Let's
don't try to put on a show of religion. You're not going to
impress the Lord. And what does it matter if you
impress another worm beside of you? Just be yourself. I tell preachers, young preachers,
I talk to them, I say, listen, will you get up behind the pulpit
to preach? Just be yourself. Don't try to be somebody else.
Don't try to talk in a different voice. You men, when you come up and
you read Scripture and pray, and I'm thankful nobody does
this, but don't ever get up here and you're talking in your regular
voice and somebody says, would you lead in prayer? Our Father,
And you put on that air of religiosity. God hates that kind of stuff.
Just be yourself. And when you come before the
Lord, just be yourself. And you know what you are? You're
just an old sinner. You're a dead dog sinner by nature. Just be what you are. And you
come to the Lord and say, Lord, here I am again. I'm just a mess,
Lord. I hear these people talking about
how holy they are. They live in a holy life and
a godly life. Listen, the Lord admonishes us
to walk uprightly before men. But after we endeavor to walk
uprightly before men, we know in our hearts still what we really
are. You come before God, just come
before God honestly. Lord, I'm just a sinner. Lord, you saved me maybe years
and years ago. Lord, I don't feel I've made
any progress. I'm just as vile as I ever was.
Lord, would you forgive me? Oh, may the blood of Jesus Christ
be real to me and real to you. Just be yourself. Be yourself
when you come in here. And I'm not saying cut up and
carry on and stuff like that. We're reverent. We're reverent. We're respectful of the things
of God, but don't try to adorn yourself or adorn your attempts
to worship. Just be honest. I heard Brother
Mahan say years and years ago, he said, honest people don't
wind up in hell. Meaning people who are honest
before God. You're honest before God. He
hates the pretense. Oh, hypocrisy. Boy, I tell you,
some of our Lord's harshest, harshest words spoken in this
world were spoken to hypocrites. He just scalded them, didn't
He? Wow! I mean, the words that He used
toward them, if most preachers used that words toward somebody
in their congregation, they'd get fired. They wouldn't even
be able to finish the message. Boy, He laid them low because
He despises hypocrisy. Pride. Proud look. I know what you are. And you
know what I am too. We're just sinners in need of
God's mercy. And the Lord Jesus gathers these
sinners around Him. And He institutes the Lord's
Supper. And you know what? He didn't bar Judas from partaking. I know some preachers, some churches,
some denominations, they use the Lord's Supper as a means
of discipline. Well, there's some churches that
like that word discipline. We're a disciplining church.
I'm going to discipline you. Take you before the discipline
committee and I just send shivers down me. I'm going to discipline
you. What authority do you have to
discipline me? Well, I can't bar you from the
table. I tell you, the Lord Jesus, He
was at this table. And there's a devil sitting at
that table. And he didn't say to him, you can't take this.
And he didn't tell the other disciples, hey, when you're passing
this bread around, don't you serve that one over there. When you're passing this wine around,
don't you serve that fellow. He didn't say that. You see,
if you're an unbeliever, and you take the Lord's Supper, that's your fault. You shouldn't
do it because this is for believers only. But when these men wait
on you and they come before you with the bread, they're not going
to refuse to serve you. And I'd say that to these men,
don't refuse to serve anybody. Say, well, I know something about
so and so. You may do it, but it's not your
business to refuse anybody. Not that that would ever arise,
but that's not our business. Here's what the Scripture says.
I wish people would pay attention to the Scriptures. Let a man
examine himself. Are you in the faith? Do you
love the Lord Jesus? Then the supper is for you. And he says this, let me give
you this and I'll quit. He says there at the end of verse
10, This do in remembrance of me. In remembrance of me. Now you can't remember him if
you don't know him. Somebody asked me this past week,
said, do you remember so and so who used to attend this church? I said, no. Never knew him. Never knew him. You can't remember
somebody you don't know. And you can't remember the Lord Jesus
unless you know Him. Unless He's made Himself known
to you. And He's done that. He's done
that for us. He's made Himself known. So we'll
take the bread and we'll take the wine. And we'll do so in
remembrance, in remembrance of the Savior. Before we do, let's
turn to 192. Number 192. Let's sing this hymn
together. It's about six stanzas, maybe
something like that. But according to thy gracious
word, I think it's the way it goes. But let's stand and sing
all of these stanzas together. the man can serve you the bread. According to Thy gracious word
and meek humility, This will I do, my dying Lord, I will remember
Thee. Thy body broken for my sake,
my bread from heaven shall be. I take and thus remember Thee. Gethsemane, can I forget? O'er there thy conflicts see, Thine agony and bloody sweat,
and I remember Thee. When to the cross I turned mine
eyes, and rest on Calvary. O Lamb of God, by sacrifice I
must remember Thee. Remember thee, and all thy pains,
and all thy love to me. If while abread a post remains,
will I remember thee? And when these failing lists
grow down, and mind and memory to leave. When thou shalt live thy kingdom
come, Jesus, remember me.