Thank you. Thank you. th th Thank you. Who's Ollie at? In the back. Sitting in the back. Thank you. Thank you. th th Good evening. Let's all stand
together and sing hymn number 448. 448. There's a sweet and blessed story
of the Christ who came from glory just to rescue me from sin and
misery. He in loving kindness sought
me and from sin and shame has brought me. Hallelujah, Jesus
ransomed me. Hallelujah, what a Savior, who
can take a war-lost sinner, lift him from my reclaim, set him
free. I will ever tell the story, shouting,
glory, glory, glory. Hallelujah, Jesus ransomed me
From the depth of sin and sadness To the heights of joy and gladness
Jesus lifted me In mercy, full and free With his precious blood
he bought me When I knew him, God, he sought me In love divine
he ransomed me. Hallelujah, what a Savior, Who
can take a poor lost sinner, Lift him from a miry place and
set him free. I will ever tell the story, shouting
glory, glory, glory. Hallelujah, Jesus ransomed me. By and by, with joy increasing
and with gratitude unceasing, lifted up to be with Christ eternally. I will join the hosts, they're
singing in the end forever. ? The King of love and ransom paid
? ? Hallelujah, what a Savior who can take up more lost sinners
? Be seated. We'll sing hymn number 298. 298 In shady green pastures so rich
and so sweet, God leaves his dear children alone. Where the water's cool flow bathes
the weary one's feet, God leaves his dear children alone. Some through the water, some
through the flood Some through the fire, but all through the
blood Some through great sorrow, but God gives us all In the nice
season and all the day long Sometimes on the mount where the sun shines
so bright, God leaves his dear children alone. Sometimes in the valley in darkest
of night, God leaves his dear children alone. Some through the water, some
through the flood Some through the fire, but all through the
blood Some through great sorrow, but God gives us all In the night
season and all that ain't long Though sorrows befall us and
Satan oppose, God leaves his dear children alone. Through grace we can conquer,
defeat all our foes, God leaves his dear children alone. Some through the water, some
through the blood Some through the fire, but all through the
blood Some through great sorrow, but God gives us all In the night
season and all the day long Away from the mar and away from the
play, God leads His dear children along. Away up in glory, eternity stay,
God leads His dear children along. Some through the waters, some
through the flood Some through the fire, but all through the
blood Some through great sorrow, but God gives us hope In the
night season and all the day long Good evening. If you have your
Bibles, let's turn to the book of Exodus, and we'll read a few
verses of Exodus 12. And the Lord spake unto Moses
and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto
you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of
the year to you. Speak ye unto the congregation
of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall
take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for a house. If the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house
take it according to the number of the souls. Each man according
to his eating shall make your account for the lamb. Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall
take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep
it up until the 14th day of the same month, and the whole assembly
of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side
post and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall
eat it. And they shall eat the flesh
in that night, roast with fire. and unleavened bread, and with
bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden
it all with water, but roast with fire, his head with his
legs and with the pertinence thereof. And you shall let nothing
of it remain until the morning, and that which remaineth of it
until the morning you shall burn with fire. And thus shall you
eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, your
staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's
Passover. For I will pass through the land
of Egypt excuse me, for I will pass through
the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt. Both man and beast, and against
all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you
for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. In this day, shall be unto you for a memorial. And you shall keep it a feast
to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by
the ordinance forever. Let's pray. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we come unto you in the name of your blessed Son, Lord Jesus
Christ. Thanking you for this word, Lord.
Thanking you for all your daily mercies. We ask you to bless
the brother tonight as he stands to declare Christ once more.
In this word, speaking of him, Lord. Knowing that the blood
were covered in the blood. We ask thee to bless the sick
of the congregation. Send thy spirit down among us.
Awaken our souls. We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen. M number 216. 216 you If you from sin are longing to
be free, look to the Lamb of God. He to redeem you died on
Calvary, look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. For He alone is able to save
you, Look to the Lamb of God. When Satan tempts and doubts
and fears assail, Look to the Lamb of God. You in His strength shall over
all prevail, Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God
Look to the Lamb of God For He alone is able to save you Look
to the Lamb of God Are you a weary? Does the way seem long? Look to the Lamb of God. His love will cheer and fill
your heart with song. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God Look
to the Lamb of God For He alone is able to save you Look to the
Lamb of God Fear not when shadows on your pathway fall. Look to
the Lamb of God. Enjoy your song. Christ is all
in all. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. Look to the Lamb of God. For He alone is able to save
you. Look to the Lamb of God. Open with me to Mark chapter
14. I want to say a few things about
what we call the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper. In Mark 14, look with me in verse
22. Now, the Lord just been talking
about being betrayed. He dealt with that this morning.
And as they did eat, Jesus took bread and blessed and break it
and gave to them and said, take eat. This is my body. And he took the cup, and when
he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank
of it. And he said unto them, this is
my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many. Verily or truly I say unto you,
I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that
I drink it new in the kingdom of God. And when they had sung
a hymn, they went out unto the Mount of Olives. Our Father, in the blessed name
of Christ, meet with us tonight. Enable me to speak of our Lord
in a wonderful way, to set him forth in some sense of his glory
and his power, and his great love were with he loved us. For
Christ's sake I pray, amen. You know, Paul mentioned some several things
about the Lord's table. He called it the Lord's table.
He said you can't take the table of the Lord's table or the table
of Satan at the same time. You can't do it. And our Lord,
when he was having a wedding for his When a king was having
a wedding for his son, they noticed that there was somebody in there
that didn't have on a wedding garment. And that's one thing
about the Lord's Supper. It's for His people. And it's
a spiritual, it's a spiritual meal. It's a spiritual meal.
That's what it is. But I'm gonna read some verses
to you. You can look at them with me
if you want to in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. about what Paul said
about taking the Lord's Supper. It's a spiritual meal. It's a
communion. It's a communion. He said in
1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 16, the cup of blessing which we
bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread
which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread
and one body, for we all are partakers of that one bread."
And what he's saying is that our union with Christ, our fellowship
and our communion with that communion means one with, a common union. And we have a union with the
Lord Jesus Christ in such a wonderful way. He said, the cup and the
bread is the body and blood of Christ. And he also said, as
often as you do this, do it in remembrance of me. And I'll tell
you, beloved, here's the thing about the Lord's Table. It's
for believers only, and that's why I say that, because it talked
about communion over there. And believers are the only one
that have communion with the Lord Jesus Christ. Believers
are the only one that have this common union with Christ. They enjoy their union with Christ. They delight in their fellowship
with Christ. They delight in their union with
the Lord Jesus Christ. For it's believers only. Now
I know that there are some people that believe in closed communion.
Closed communion, that it's only for people in a particular congregation. But it didn t say it was the
Separatist Baptist table. It didn t say it was any other
Baptist table or anything else. It said it s for believers. It
s for God s people. It s the ones that have union
with Christ, the ones who belong to Christ. And this communion
that we have with Him is a BOND of the UNITY and LOVE which Christ
has for EVERY believer, EVERY believer. I mean, you know, that's
why Paul said, We being many, lot of us, but we're one body.
We're one body. You know, and we have this bond
of unity and love, which is among all believers. It really is.
So what is the Lord's Supper? What is it? It's a visible sermon. It's a visible sermon. It's something
that you can see. It's a visible sermon. And it's
a visible sermon. Paul said it's showing the Lord's
death, showing the Lord's death till he comes. And our Lord Jesus
said, except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have
no part in you. And by faith, by faith, we eat
his flesh and by faith, we drink his blood. And when it says showing
the Lord's death, and he wrote tonight, it's a memorial. What
does it mean when we show the Lord's death? When we take this
wine and this bread, what do we mean we're showing the Lord's
death? Well, what did our Lord's death accomplish? That's exactly
what it means. What did our Lord Jesus show
in the Lord's death? What did our Lord do in His dying? His body was crucified on a cross
in order to put away sins. He suffered in our room and place
to make us acceptable unto God Almighty. His death was an effectual
death. His broken body was an effectual
broken body. His blood that was shed is effectual. For everyone for whom He shed
His blood, everyone that He shed His blood for, their sins will
be taken away. That's what He said tonight,
when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. And Christ, He shed
His blood. We're talking about showing His
death. What did we show about His death? It was an accomplished
thing. When our Lord Jesus cried out
on the cross, it is finished. What was finished? Sin was finished,
death was finished, justice was finished, law was upheld, and
God's people were saved once and for all. As a lot of them
don't know it yet, but they were. When Christ died on that cross,
I mean every soul for whom he died, every ounce of blood that
he shed, it guarantees the salvation of all his people. That's how
his blood is. That's how precious his blood
is. And oh my, we show the purpose of it, the effect of it. Every
one of us here this evening, we're here because of the death
of Christ. We're here because his body was
nailed to a tree. We're here because his body was
broken. That's the reason I'm here. I
would not have no communion with Christ. I'd have no fellowship
with Christ. We wouldn't have any communion
with one another had it not been for the death of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And so when we do this, this
is a visible sermon. It's a visible sermon. And look
what it said here in verse 22. Now they're eating, they're eating. Eating the Passover. And as they
did eat, Jesus retched and got a piece of bread. And he blessed it. He blessed it. Thank God he blessed it. Oh, he blessed it. He blessed
it. He blessed his body. He blessed
it. What a blessed body it was. He
blessed it. Oh, and first of all, he took
it. He took it. He took it. He took bread and he blessed
it. Lord, bless this. Bless this
to those who take it. Bless those whose body I was
broken for. Bless those, oh Lord, who will
take of this broken body of mine. Bless them, oh Lord, who will
benefit from my death. Bless them, oh Lord. And he took
the bread, and then he broke it. He broke it. He was broken, so broken, oh
my. And he took bread. You know,
this is not man's invention. Our Lord Himself instituted this,
not just tradition of men. He'd break it. And He started
giving it out. Here, James. Here, John. Here, Peter. Here, Matthew. Here, Thaddeus. Here, gave it
to them. And look, He said, take it. You take it. You take this. And when I give it to you, I
want you to eat it. I want you to eat it. I want
you to partake of who I am. I want you to partake of what
I do. I want you to partake of my body
that's gonna be broken for you. Oh my, he blessed it. Oh, you know how His body was
so broken, the scripture said he was bruised for our iniquities,
chastisement our peace was upon him, wounded for our transgressions,
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted for us. His body on that tree. You see, everybody wants to see
a pitiful looking man hanging there with a little loincloth
over him. That wasn't the way it was. Oh my, what a blessing,
what a blessing, oh, what a blessing that our Lord Jesus Christ went
to that cross. Oh, how blessed we've been. We're
gonna be blessed for eternity on account of it. But he took
it and he broke it and he said, this is my body. And over in
one place said, which is broken for you. We have been so blessed by that
broken body of our Lord Jesus Christ. Eternally blessed. When he said, I'll no longer
drink wine till I drink it with you in the kingdom of God. When
we sat at the Lord's table, every one of us will be drinking wine
that Christ himself will furnish for us. Oh, he blessed it. His broken,
broken body. And then look what he said, oh,
he break it, oh, he broke it. He broke it. What does he mean
he broke it? You know, our Lord Jesus says
this, I lay down my life for the sheep. No man takes my life
from me. I lay it down of myself and I
take it up for myself. And oh, listen, he said, this
commandment have I received my father. His broken body was a
voluntary act on his part. He voluntarily done this. He
voluntarily done this. And this broken bread and this
wine poured out, all I can say, how much he must have loved his
people. How much he must have loved his
people. Having loved his own, he loved
them to the end. Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Oh, he
must have loved his people. Paul said, he loved me. Oh, how
do you know he loved me? He said, because he gave himself
for me. That's how I know he loved me.
He loved me and gave himself for me. And oh, and you cannot
look into what it said there in verse 22. And he gave it to
them. Gave it to them. He gave it to them. His people. This is for you. This is for
you. He gave it to them. I was one of them. You're one of
them. Here, take this. He gave it to
them. gave it to his people, gave it
to his elect, gave it to his disciples, gave it to his children. And oh my, this is what's called
the children's bread. And he gave it to them. And he
gave himself and all that he has, and he gave all the things
that he himself accomplished, he gives to them. He gave it
to them. Can you imagine reaching out
and Christ giving you something out of his hand? His hand. That hand that when we see it
in glory, it's gonna have nail prints in it. That head that we see, it'll
have scars in it from a crown of thorns. Them feet that we
see that Mary said that'll have holes in them. And yet, his body,
It's the way it was treated. It's just like he said, here,
take this. You take it. And what would it
be to reach and get something out of the hand of Christ? I
tell you what, if I get anything, it's got to come out of his hand.
Huh? Anything we get in this world,
it comes out of his hand. This is for you. This is for
you. Oh, my. And when he says, take
eat, To them, it shows our mystic union with the Lord Jesus Christ,
our oneness with Him. And by faith we eat His blood,
flesh and drink His blood. And oh my, eating Christ sustains
our life, our spiritual life is sustained and nourished by
the Lord Jesus Christ. We live off of Him. We live by Him and live of Him,
through Him and because of Him. And take eat, this shows us the
wisdom of God. You know what destroyed us? They
partook of the fruit of the knowledge of the tree of good and evil
in the garden. We fail by someone eating. We fail by someone eating a fruit. And we all became sinners by
that one deed that that man did. And this shows us the wisdom
of God. We were restored by the same
way we fail. We fail by eating the forbidden
fruit and we're saved by eating his flesh. Something that he
gives freely and all drinking his blood. This is my body, he
said. This is my body. And then look
what he said. And then in verse 23, he took
the cup. He took the cup. I'm not through yet, he said.
I'm not through with you fellas yet. I'm not through with you. He took the cup. Notice that
everything, he took it. He took it. Our Lord instituted
this. Our Lord started this. Man didn't
start this. This is not an invention. And
I remember one time years ago, I was in a big hospital in Chillicothe,
Ohio. And the Church of Christ or Camelites
would come in there and have services two or three times a
week. And they had a little chapel
you could go into. And I remember going in there and listening
to those fellas preach or teach or whatever they did. And they
offered bread and wine to everybody in that building. And a lot of
people got up and went up there and took it. But I knew instinctively,
instinctively, that there's no way in the world I could do that.
You know the only way I learned how I could take the Lord's table?
He took it and He gave it. This don't come from a preacher.
This come from Him. He took the bread. And look what
it said, and he took the cup. He rest and got a cup. Now, you
know, if we had a cup, a big old cup, and I took a drink out
of it and I passed it all the way around, I don't think anybody in the world
gets sick of it. I really don't think anybody gets sick of it.
But I tell you, but our Lord took that cup. He took the cup.
And they've been looking for that cup ever since. But our
Lord took that cup and looks what it says now. And when he
had given thanks, what was he given thanks for?
What was he given thanks for? He's fixed to go in the Gethsemane
when he gets up there. They sang a hymn and headed to
the garden. He said, he give thanks for why
he's going off over here and take a cup from the hand of his
father. He's fixing to go over here and pray till his sweat
became, as it were, great drops of blood. Blood's gonna pour
from his body. And yet he took that cup and
he said, Father, I thank you. I thank you. I thank you for
my blood that's gonna cleanse sinners. I thank you for my blood. that's gonna make men and women
clean as if they'd never sinned. Wash them from all their sins.
Oh my. And he gave thanks. And again, he gave it to them. He gave it
to them. And oh, look what it says. And
they all drank of it. Every one of them drank of it.
Every one of them drank up. You know, it's a, and I'll tell you, this is, I
love this. I never will forget when I really, really understood
this. And he said unto them, this is my blood. Verse 24, this
is my blood, my blood, my blood of the New Testament. not the
Old Testament, not the Law, not the Ceremonies, not the Rituals,
none of those things. You know, and he read tonight
about the blood, this is the Lamb of God, this is the Lamb of God, this
is the one that he says, you know, that thou shalt call his
name Jesus, he shall save his people from their sin, and he
said, I tell you, this is my blood, of the New Testament,
the New Covenant, not the Old Covenant that could never take
away sins, not the Old Covenant that could never satisfy justice,
not the Old Covenant when the priest offered the same sacrifices,
it could never take away sin. And that s why Christ said, By
the witch will. He said, It s written of me thou
had no pleasure. You didn t have no pleasure in
the blood of sacrifices and offerings. You had no satisfaction in them.
But Lord has written of me, I come to do thy will. You prepared
me a body and I come to do your will. And then you know what
the next two verses says? By the which will we are sanctified
through the body of the Lord Jesus Christ once for all. This is my blood. He gave it
to them, this is my blood of the New Testament. And I tell
you, I like this here, and they all drank of it. They all drank of it. And remember, in remembrance
of me, remembrance of me, I dare say that everybody in this building,
some way, somehow, has something from somebody that they love.
And they say, will you keep this in remembrance of me? A Bible
pressed in a, a rose pressed in a Bible, something your mother
left you, your father left you. I want you, you know, do this.
Remember me by this. I want you to have this. Remember
me by this. And oh, when someone dies, they leave you someone,
something to remember them by. He said, as often as you do this,
do it in remembrance of me. Well, remember, oh, how he loved us. Oh, how
he loved us. We have no idea the depth of
the love of Christ. We don't. But I am grateful for
it. Oh, I'm so grateful for it. How
can it be, how can it be that thou, thou my Christ, should
die for me? Were the whole realm of nature
mine, that's a present far too small. Oh my, how He loved us. And then how He lived for us.
You know, His whole life was not lived for Himself. He came
into this world not to live for Himself. He did not. You know who He lived for? He
lived first and foremost to glorify His Father. He said, Father,
I've glorified You on the earth. I've glorified You. I've honored
You. I've upheld your name, I've upheld
your truth, I've glorified you. He lived not only for His Father,
but He lived for us. He lived for us. He lived as
someone who represented us. We needed a representative besides
Adam, and He lived for us, and He said, Because I live, you
shall live also. And the most amazing thing, to
me, said he died for us. He died. Our Lord Jesus died
for us. He said, behold, the lamb of
God, which taketh away the sin of the world. He was God's blessed
lamb. There's three things involved
in the gospel. Three things that a person has
to learn. First, you gotta find out about sin. Why did Christ
die? Why was he as a substitute? God
made him to be sin. Second thing you gotta learn
about is substitution. That's why Christ is called a
sin offender. Second thing, the word you gotta learn is substitution. What's substitution? That means
that somebody takes somebody else's place. Well, Christ, as
our substitute, as God's Lamb, was able to be a substitute for
a multitude that no man could number. Father, He was going
to come down and punish the whole human race, but Christ stood
up in wisdom and said, Oh, I know a way. Ah, there's a way. You offer me and put all their
sin on my account, and I'll die for every one of their sins.
And because of who I am, I'll be able to put away every sin
that they ever committed, past, future, and present, I'll put
them all away. They're all gone. That's the
second word you gotta learn. And the third word you gotta
learn is satisfaction. Those three things make, if you're
learning those, you know what satisfaction means? God trawled the travail of his
soul, and God was satisfied. THE JUSTICE OF GOD WAS SATISFIED. DEATH WAS SATISFIED. HE OFFERED
DEATH. HE SATISFIED DEATH, TOOK THE
STING OUT OF IT. HE SATISFIED THE DEMANDS OF DEATH AND SIN
ON HIS PEOPLE. HE SATISFIED GOD. AND THE ONLY
SOUL THAT HAS EVER SATISFIED GOD IN THIS WORLD IS THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST. And I know I'm a sinner. And
I know he died. And I know he satisfied God. And he died for us. But here's another thing. Remember
this. Not only did he die, but he was
raised from the dead. Why was he raised from the dead?
Because God was satisfied. And He was raised from the dead,
what for? To say, see, I'm justified. I'm
justified, I'm justified. God Himself justified what I
did, and He justifies everyone for whom I did it for. He was
delivered for our offenses, RAISED for our justification. Oh my goodness. And oh, you know
what He does for us now? He intercedes for us. He takes
our names, takes everything that we've ever done, takes us before
Christ, take us before God, and He intercedes for us because
of who He is and what He did. And oh, of all the things that
you remember, remember this, how He saved you. How did He
save you? By grace. By grace. How's he gonna keep
you saved? By grace. Why did he give us grace? Because
the sin's put away. God is satisfied. Christ died,
rose again, sets at the right hand of God. Saved by grace,
washed in the blood, and called. And you know who made the difference
in any of us? He said, who made you to differ?
Who made you to differ? Oh, what a blessed, blessed Savior. I can't, there's no way in the
world you can, just can't say it the way it ought to be said.
Can't feel it the way I ought to feel it. Can't enjoy it the
way I ought to enjoy it. You all go back there and hop.
Girls, come on in here. Bring the babies with you. So
you can take the Lord's table with us. Brad, James is going to do the
bread and Brad is going to do the wine. So let's start. There is a fountain here drawn
from Emmanuel's vein. Lose all their guilty stains
Lose all their guilty stains Lose all their guilty stains And sinners plunged beneath that
flood lose all their guilty stains. The dying feet rejoice to see
that fountain in his day. And there may I, though vile
as he, wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. Wash all my sins away. And there may I go by the sea. Wash all my sins away. away. Dear dying lamb, thy precious
blood shall never lose its power. Till all the ransomed church
of God Be safe, dear Sid, no more. Be safe, dear Sid, no more. Be safe. to sin no more. Till all the ransomed church
of God be saved to sin no more. There since by faith I saw the
stream flowing wounds supply. Redeeming blood has been my thing
and shall be till I die. And shall be till I die. and shall be till I die. Redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die. Him follow. In the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, we come tonight. We come to hear the gospel, to
hear the truth about our Savior. We come here so we can hear about
God, hear about Christ, hear about ourselves, learn about
salvation, and praise Him. And we come tonight, Lord, to
also to take the Lord's table. And we want to remember you tonight,
Lord Jesus. that your broken body hung on
that tree, so that we could be with you in glory, so that God
could be just and justifier of the ones that believe. Forgive
us if everything has ever been unlike you, Lord, and cause us
to always remember that you put away our sins. Even the one that
we haven't even committed yet, forgive us. God, as always, you
remember the Lord. In your precious name we pray,
amen. God, gracious Father, we give
you thanks for this time of worship, this time of gathering of your
people. We consider it a great privilege
to be numbered among your people. and how the time gathers to worship
and that you've given this supper whereby it would cost you to
remember the doing and notting of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hereby
perceive we the love of God and He gave His life for us. In a universe full of wonders,
this is the wonder of all wonders, when we consider who died, and may we consider who we died
for. What wonder, what amazing love. Thank you for our dear savior,
our substitute, our sin bearer. That's all. We have to hug one
another's neck. We love one another. th th you. th th That's it, he won't wake up.