We'll get a message, we'll go to God in prayer. Just ask your prayers for me. I've wanted to preach this message to you for a while and I don't like messages that kind of hang on. I preach other ones and then come back and they seem to grow when I do that. I have a message and then I look at it again and it seems to grow.

Well, I long for the Lord to bless this. I've been wanting to speak on this and have this supper with you. We're preaching on the Lord's table. And it's been a while since we've had the Lord's supper, but I think it's good for us to be reminded of this ordinance that our Lord Jesus Christ gave us and the purpose, its meaning, and not to be duped by what the world says about it.

I ask your prayer for me. Pray for the churches. that have no pastors still. Remember them in your prayers. I'll be preaching, I think, I'm preaching Tuesday, Tia, is that, okay, Tia's got my schedule. So, preach Tuesday in Danville, pray for them, pray for that as well. Pray for those that are sick. Him and Ryland are sick, and the kids have been sick, and pray for them. Pray for God's blessing on that.

I don't know about you, but I'm in need of him. I need him. When I stand here, I don't ever want to stand here by myself. And you do not want me to stand here by myself. We pray the Lord would be with us and use his word. Pray for your family members, those that are lost, those who have no interest in the things of Christ, those who are dead in their sins. God is able.

I mean, I look out and I see, who hath believed our report? Isaiah said it. Who hath believed our report? There were very few then, there are very few now, as we see. But it don't matter what we see, does it? Scripture says that as many as were ordained to eternal life, believed. And we know that's true. God has a people and he will call them. So be confident of that. The church is always full. Isn't that wonderful? The true church of God is always full. Not one's going to miss out. Not one for whom Christ died. Let's go to him in prayer. Gracious Father, again we We come before you pleading only to be heard by the blood and righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. We come in his merit, asking for the strength and power of the Spirit to be upon us.

That you, Father, would quicken us in our hearts, in our minds, in our bodies to hear and receive the word even as it is the word of God and not man. I ask you to give me the liberty and unction of thy spirit to declare the words of our Lord Jesus Christ plainly and clearly so that none could misunderstand or misinterpret this, but I pray that you would by the spirit reveal it to everyone. I pray that Christ be magnified and honored. Thank you for this ordinance we are about to receive. I pray father that you would take the words of the gospel, apply them to our heart and show us the right manner and purpose of this table. Please forgive us our sins and cleanse us of our unrighteousness. We ask this in the name of Jesus and for his sake. Amen. I take your Bible's term with me in Matthew chapter 26. Matthew chapter 26. Text is going to be found in verse 26 through verse 30.

The scripture says, and as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it and break it and gave it to his disciples and said, Take eat, this is my body. And he took a cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying, Drink you all of it for this is my blood of the New Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom."

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives, the Lord's table. The Lord's Supper. Now in this text, our Lord Jesus Christ here with his twelve disciples in this upper room were celebrating and eating the Feast of Passover. It says, and when they were eating, that's what they were eating. They were in honor, obeying the law, celebrating the Feast of Passover.

It was a very special evening. in that it was the last time that they would see the Lord Jesus Christ before His suffering. They would see Him this night, interact with Him this night, and then He must go and suffer. They would be scattered. And for a time, they would fear and doubt. So Jesus here in this moment, is going to give them something to comfort them.

He's going to institute the Lord's supper in this night. This was a very important night for our Lord. In Luke's gospel, listen to what he said. The scripture says, and he said, I have desired with desire to eat this supper with you. This was something the Lord Jesus Christ was anticipating. You ever have something coming up and you know it's coming and you're excited about it? This was something that Jesus said, I have desired, not with just any, but with great affection, I've desired to eat this supper with you.

Now, this was done because this was the last official Passover. It was the last official Passover of the law because this night Christ was going to literally fulfill Passover. He was going to literally fulfill it where it was no longer necessary or valid. This was the last Passover. You see the Lord here anticipates the fulfillment of this ceremony. which was only a picture of his salvation. Now Passover was a feast of celebrating remembrance of deliverance of Israel. That's what it was intended for.

And you know the ceremony, the way it was instituted, the scripture says that the Lord said, take a lamb without spot and without blemish. That was the law. Take a lamb without spot and without blemish. This was truly the Lamb. The Lamb Himself was celebrating Passover. And it was the last one before the Lamb was to be slain. You took that Lamb, it had to be without spot.

That's a picture of Christ, isn't it? Clearly, the sinless Son of God. came into this world and by his obedience obtained righteousness for his people. And this lamb was to be killed in the midst of the congregation. His blood drained from his body. And this is a picture of what the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God would do. He came to be a sacrifice for sin. He was appointed the Lamb of God.

Well, as the scriptures say, he was as a lamb slain when? Before the foundation of the world. Jesus Christ, our Savior, was appointed to be the Lamb of God before Passover ever was instituted. Before Abel had ever offered his first sacrifice, Christ was ordained of God to be the Lamb of God and die for his people. And this night, he was to be taken and then the next day crucified. Crucified.

And remember that blood of the lamb then was to be applied to the doorpost and the lentil. What a picture of the work of the Holy Spirit, isn't it? That he would take the blood of Christ, apply it to our hearts, and when God said this, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. That's why it's called Passover.

Because when God came in judgment and he saw the blood, judgment passed over. You that have the blood of Christ, listen, judgment is passed over because it's already taken place. You didn't, your sins weren't swept under the rug. They were paid for and justice could not demand a second sacrifice.

I've often thought of that boy inside there, the man, young man, the firstborn. How fearful a night was that for the firstborn? Are you sure that lamb was without spot? Dad, are you sure? God said it had to be without spot. Are you sure? Did you kill it the way God said to? Was it applied enough on the door? I mean, How often we ask that of our Father. Is His righteousness enough? Sure. It's enough, son. It's enough. Was His blood spilled correctly? Was it rightly done? God says, I'm satisfied. Was it applied? Well, do you believe? Do you believe on the Son of God? That's the application of this.

And so this night, the Lord Jesus Christ celebrating what He would do. And this is the scripture. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. This Passover was a law. It was a law. And Christ came to fulfill the law in every part. And as He's eating this Passover, what was He doing? He was ready to fulfill it. He was ready to magnify it. To show its real intent. What was the intent of Passover? The intent was to be a picture. You're going to see this. This was a law. This was not something that they could do or not do. This was the law. It was this night. Christ saying, I'm going to fulfill this. He institutes something new. Something new. He institutes a new ordinance and it's not like Passover. It's absolutely different than Passover.

You see, Passover was a legal commandment that if a person was to obtain righteousness by the law, he had to perform Passover because it was part of the law. You here understand more about the law than most seminary students. You know that there's not just 10 laws, or 20, or 30, or 50. You know this, there's 613 laws. And this is one of them. Passover was a law. It was a law ready to be fulfilled. Not by us, but by Christ. Just like all the other law. And so this once again shows us that the law And the feasts are all part of the law. And Scripture says, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.

And see then, this ordinance of the Lord's Supper is not an infusion or extension of Passover. There are professing believers even today that honor what they call the Seder. It's just a made-up version of Passover. They somehow infuse the Lord's Supper, the Lord's Table, with Passover.

Just because it happened the same night, because there are similarities in it, doesn't mean that they're the same. They're not an extension of one. One preacher wrote this, as the light of the stars are inferior to the light of the sun, as they are different lights and not the same, even so Passover is inferior to the light of the Lord's Table. And they are different. They are different.

The first was an ordinance of law. The second, an ordinance of grace. The first required a real, literal sacrifice. The second simply points to a sacrifice already been made. I'm going to go into great detail on this. This is not a sacrifice. This just reminds us of a sacrifice already made.

Passover required a literal sacrifice. That's why these people celebrating the Seder, they don't kill anything. They're not really celebrating Passover. They're not performing Passover. Again, just made-up superstition. That's all it is. And we know this, Passover was a literal sacrifice that pointed to a coming sacrifice. This is not a sacrifice, but a remembrance of a sacrifice that points back to a sacrifice. One was required every year. This one was only required once. See, the difference is vitally different. And so consider this night, as the Lord institutes this, I want you to see His love in doing this. This was not as He came down on Mount Sinai. This ordinance is not commandment. It's not a law. It's an ordinance of love. It's an ordinance of love.

He knew after this night that His disciples would be very confused. that they would be very troubled. Why? They would soon never see him again. They would never see him again. And so the Lord Jesus Christ, in love for them, left them not a commandment, but an ordinance of remembrance.

That's what this is. An ordinance of remembrance. Not a commandment to obtain righteousness, but one that shows righteousness already revealed. So as we consider this ordinance, consider how the disciples viewed it after his resurrection. Do you not think that they enjoyed this supper? Because this was something that they remembered this night. This night the Lord has to do it every time they took this supper. Every time they performed this ordinance. Do you not think it stirred their hearts to remember Him? What is this ordinance meant to do? It's meant to stir our hearts to remembrance of Him. It's to consider Him. died for our sins.

But sadly, this ordinance, like many others, have been perverted. Perverted. Twisted by false teachers who preach Satan's gospel of free will works religion, have taken this and made it a commandment. They have taken this and made it a part of one's salvation. Never intended for that. Therefore this simple table has been made corrupt by legalists who pollute the simplicity of it.

Therefore today let us seek the grace of God and as we observe this table, as we remember this table, I want us to see three things. Three things about this. I want you to see the elements. The simplicity of the elements. Only two. Only two. Bread and wine. Simple, basic elements. Secondly, I want you to see the purpose.

Why? What is the purpose? You'll see that this has nothing to do with my salvation. It doesn't contribute one part to my salvation. Why then have it? Well, it's the same thing with baptism. Baptism is a confession of our faith. It has nothing to do with our salvation, yet it's It's an ordinance that the Lord put forth as a picture. This, too, is a picture.

So what's the purpose? Remember. For us to remember. And thirdly, the presentation. Who in the world is this supper for? So firstly, the elements. First of all, we see this bread, bread. Now, in Exodus, we see this that You can read it if you want to later, Exodus 12. The Jews at Passover were required to eat a very specific type of bread, unleavened bread. Unleavened bread. Now, why is this important?

Because in Scripture, most every time leaven is mentioned, it has to do with sin. Sin. Our Lord said, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. He's talking about their evil doctrine, their evil hearts, their sin. Beware of their evil deeds. Paul says this twice in 1 Corinthians 5 and verse 6 and Galatians 5 verse 9. He says, a little leaven. Leaven's the whole lump. He's talking about sin.

So you see the importance of having unleavened bread in this. This bread was to picture the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what he said, this is my body. This testifies, when you hold the bread into your hands, you understand, this testifies of his humanity and his sinless nature. This is what it was simple. It's simple. It's unleavened bread. It's sinless. When Jesus said this, I am the bread of heaven. He was making an analogy. He was making a picture. He was showing you a picture of something. It was a picture of his body. Our Lord Jesus Christ. His body. I'm going to skip ahead here. I've got, I'm sorry about my notes are out of order, but that's all right.

Uh, this shows us that he is the son of God that's come down from heaven and that he's a sinless son of God. Why? Why did he do this? So that he, by his obedience should perform a righteousness, even the righteousness of God for us. This is the picture of the unleavened bread. Christ came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of the Father which has sent Him.

Which is what? To provide a righteousness for us. So as you take this bread, it reminds you where your righteousness comes from. Where does your righteousness come from? It comes from Him. It comes from Him. The second element of this supper is the wine. The wine.

He said, This is my blood of the New Covenant, of the New Testament. Our Lord Jesus Christ came in the flesh and when His body was broken, when His body was broken, out poured blood. We know this, without the shedding of blood is no remission of sin. And as we take the wine, we see this, that his blood was shed to ratify the new covenant.

In Hebrews, Paul said this about a last will and testament. He says, the last will and testament of a man has no force until he dies. Our Lord God has made a covenant, a will, to give salvation to His people. And without the death of the testator, the covenant would not be enforced. But now that Christ has died, the covenant is now enforced and the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed us of all our sins.

So as you see this, and why wine? Because it is a symbol of joy, isn't it? It's a symbol of joy. So as we drink this wine, he said, drink all of it, all of it, drink it in. This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for the remission of sins. And so as you that believe, you take this, you remember this, that your sins are gone. That's what it is. His blood cleanseth us from all our sins. All our sins.

So you see the simplicity of it? It just pictures Christ. The bread pictures His deity becoming humanity, His sinless perfection for my righteousness, His broken body, so that now His body had been broken, the veil, Paul says this in Hebrews, he says, as His body was broken, the veil of the temple was rent. Making a way for us into the very presence of God. How do you know you have a way? Remember how you're way. This is how you remember you have a way. He made a way by His broken body. He made a way by His death and by His blood. He's made a way. And therefore, you who believe.

Listen, we eat this, right? We eat the bread and we drink the wine and it becomes part of us. What a picture of faith, isn't it? When you eat this bread and drink this, it's as many as received Him, to them gave you the right to become the sons of God. As we eat this bread and drink this wine, it does nothing for our souls. It's just testifying, it's a gospel message. That's all it is. It's a gospel message, testifying of our union with Him. Now when you eat bread, where do you get your strength from? You get strength from bread. Where do you get your joy from? The joy is a picture of wine. Where do you get your joy from? I get my strength and my joy from Christ. And we eat this by faith in Him.

Now, is that simple? That's all it was meant to do. Very simple elements and yet I want to take a moment to expose the heresy of many who take this table and pervert it. Namely, the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant churches. Why? Because they believe that some mystical, superstitious way that that bread becomes literally the body of Christ. literally the body of Christ. They say some words, make some signs, and all of a sudden bread becomes flesh. The blood they believe is literally the blood of Jesus Christ.

Therefore, we understand this as no mere error. But every time that is occurring, I want you to understand what they mean. They are re-sacrificing Jesus Christ every time they do it. That He is literally dying again. This is not error, it's blasphemy. It's heresy in the highest order because they daily crucify the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame.

But what was the apostle's argument? for the sacrifices of the law being put away. The argument of the law being put away was what? That there was a constant need of a sacrifice. This is why Passover had to be done year after year after year because the sacrifice was never sufficient. But the Apostle said, Jesus Christ being the fulfillment of those sacrifices, listen, this is the glory of the Gospel, that He by Himself was offered once, once upon the cross, showing something different than those other sacrifices. His sacrifice actually accomplished redemption. That's why there was no more need for sacrifice. Look at Hebrews 10. I'm going to take you there. This is probably one of the clearest passages. Look at Hebrews 10. He's again setting the law over against Christ. And he's showing you how much Christ's sacrifice is better. Look what he said.

For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, but not the very image of the things, could never, by those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers to thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to have been offered? because that the worshippers, once purged, should have no more conscience of sin. But in those sacrifices, there's a remembrance made of sins every year. Remembering this, that sacrifice last year wasn't good enough. That's what it reminded them, that they needed a better sacrifice. And the next year, what? They needed a better sacrifice. And the next year, they needed a better sacrifice. It reminded them that this wasn't enough. This wasn't sufficient.

Look at verse 12, about this man. See what this table tells me? This table tells me something. It tells me this, that the man that this table represents, This man, after he had offered how many sacrifices? One sacrifice. After this man had offered one sacrifice for sins, what'd he do? He sat down on the right hand of God. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool, For by his one offering, one offering, one offering, he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." So what does this testify?

That the death of Christ was sufficient, saying it was only required once. Once. And yet these heretics constantly daily seemed to desire to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, supposing his death once was not sufficient. That his death must of necessity be offered daily, constantly, perpetually.

The Apostle says in chapter 10 here, In verse 29, how much sore punishment suppose you? Shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified as an unholy thing. That word unholy means common. It just happens over and over again. It's just a common thing that he should be crucified again.

These are truly what the Romans used to call Christian cannibals. You know, this is the same idea that the Jews had when Jesus said, I am the bread of life. You can see John chapter six, look over there real fast. The Lord Jesus Christ talking about him setting himself as a picture of being the bread. Look at verse 48. He said, I'm the bread of life.

Your fathers did eat man in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I shall give him is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. And the Jews strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

Is it the same mentality? The Roman church has the same mentality as these people. They literally think that they have to eat the flesh of Jesus Christ. They literally have to drink his blood. And I like the Lord Jesus, he even doubles down on him. He said very In verse 53, Jesus then said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Accept a man, eat of the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, he shall have no life. Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up again at the last day.

Now, this is what the Roman Church will turn to, to say, See, told you, you gotta eat his flesh, you gotta drink his blood. No. Go down to verse 61. Just read the text. Verse 61, Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it and said to him, doth this offend you? What if you shall see the son of man ascend up to heaven where he was before?

It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh that profiteth nothing. These words I speak unto you. What are they? They are spirit and they are truth. He's not talking about literally eating his flesh and drinking his blood. He's talking about faith. The whole idea of eating and drinking in this text, these people thought it carnal, just like the Roman Church thinks carnally. But these words are spirit. They're spiritual words.

When Jesus said, I am the bread of life, did you expect to see a piece of bread? Was he talking literally that he would become a piece of bread? When John said, Behold the Lamb of God, did people turn around and look for a four-legged furry creature? No, these words were meant to picture something. When John saw him on the throne, he said, I saw one as had been slain, a lamb slain. Now when we get to heaven, are we going to see a four-footed beast on the throne of God cut open? Is that what we're going to see?

No, these words are spirit. They're spiritual words, carnal and literal words. Therefore, it is superstitious nonsense to believe that the bread and wine somehow become, by some chanting and bowing and scraping and signs of the cross, somehow transform this into the literal body and blood of Christ. Now listen, I'm taking from their own words. Their own words testify that the priest at that moment has the power to command Jesus Christ to come down from the throne and into that pole. That the priest himself takes the authority as Christ himself.

You see, this is not a mere error. You see this? It's not a mere difference of opinion on doctrine. Listen to their own words. They believe that every eyelash and toenail of Jesus Christ is in that bread. Literally in that bread. that as that priest commands him to come down and be, he is making a real sacrifice. Now you get this, this is their doctrine, it is a real sacrifice taking place.

And not only does the priest do this, but he also, as Christ, as he stands there in the representation of Jesus Christ himself, listen, he makes union between the people and Christ. He does. The priest does. That he's the one that makes the union between Christ and the people.

You know what the problem with this is? None of this comes from the Word of God at all. None of it. This whole false doctrine is founded upon the lie that the body and blood of Christ are literally in the elements, that Jesus is present in this bread and in this wine. But what is this instituted here? See how complicated and convoluted it gets from the simplicity of it? The simplicity is this.

Do this in remembrance of me. Do this in remembrance of me. And we know this, we are not made righteous by eating this. I have the righteousness of God imputed and imparted to me through faith in Jesus Christ. But my eating this does not infuse righteousness to me. It just reminds me of where my righteousness comes from. And so as we this day take this bread and this wine, we know this, that this is not a re-sacrifice. Our Lord Jesus Christ offered himself once. I want you to know this.

In today's ordinance, there is no priest here. There's no priest. There's no altar. And there's no sacrifice. This simply reminds us of the priest. Who is who? The Lord Jesus Christ, our high priest. It reminds us of his righteousness. of His obedience. It reminds us of His body, of His death, of His burial, of His resurrection. It reminds us of the victory of His one offering for sin forever, perfecting God's saints. So you that believe, listen, His body was broken for you. His blood was shed for you.

Now then, the purpose. Again, what I want you to do. Now go to 1 Corinthians. So we see the elements. We see what it's not. We see what it is. It's a representation of Lord Jesus Christ's broken body, a representation of His blood that was shed once for our salvation. Now secondly, what's the purpose?

Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 11. 1 Corinthians chapter 11. The Apostle Paul gives us this. in verse 24. And Jesus said, that we take eat. Look at verse 24. And when he had given thanks, he'd break it, talking about the bread. And he said, take eat, this is my body which is broken for you.

Listen, here's the purpose. This do in remembrance of me. You see why we do it? Remember. Remembrance of me. Listen, if Jesus was bodily here, will we have need of remembering him? I mean, if I say, hey, look, while I'm standing here, remember me. Well, you wouldn't need to. I'm right here. I don't need to remember me.

But we know this, that the Lord Jesus Christ has ascended bodily. He is seated on the throne of God and we're not going to see him until we die and we go to be with him or he returns and comes again. We're not going to see him until that day. Until then, what do we do? We stir our hearts by remembrance.

This is a memorial service, not a sacrifice. So Jesus offered himself once for sin. What does this mean? There remaineth no more offering for sin. Don't, when you take this, don't you understand that there's no more offering? There's no more sacrifice to be made. No more sacrifices of blood necessary, only the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Why? Because he said it's finished. He said it's finished. Believer, is it finished? Is there anything to add to it? Anything you want to add to? You got something you want to add?

God help me to never think of anything that I would ever try to contribute to that perfect offering, to that perfect sacrifice, to that perfect person. I don't want to touch any of it. I would just contaminate it. Therefore, believers, we are not to use the word sacrament. Don't use those words. I know it's, I'm sure that I have said something like that in my years. Don't ever use the word sacrament. Why? Because sacrament has to do with sacrifice. These are not sacraments. They remind you of a sacrament. They remind you of a sacrifice. But they themselves are not sacraments.

This table is a table of remembrance, of love and affection toward our Savior's person and work. And by this we declare that we are sinners by nature, and that God by grace and power has given us life and faith. And as we receive this, we see our faith. We see how it is that God quickened our souls. So it is a time of remembrance. Now, thirdly, to whom is this given? Whom is this given? You know, I looked at this before.

Judas was there. It wasn't till after this he dipped his hand in the salt that he went out. So when the Lord instituted this supper, Judas was there. Doesn't that tell you that this supper has no power over salvation? that it can't contribute to salvation. Judas took it. It has no power in it. No authority. You can eat it. You can drink it. But listen, it's not going to save you. People eat and drink it.

I know when when I was a kid, everybody else was eating it and everybody else was drinking it. And I thought, well, why couldn't I? And so I put my hand up. My mom and dad slapped the hand, said, ah, that's not for you. Everybody else is doing it. It's not for you. I tell you, many people have eaten and drank it, not knowing Christ, and they died in their sins, just like Judas. Just like Judas. This thing can't save you. It's only a picture of someone who can. It's a picture of someone who can. Listen to me. And if He saves you, This is for you. This is what he left it for. It's an act of love he left us. To leave such a simple table.

Because we are simply minded people. And I like the simplicity of the gospel. We can clutter up anything. But if we just take it in its simplest form, We see it as an act of love. It is intended for believers. Matter of fact, look what, there in 1 Corinthians 11 still, look at what Paul says here.

He says in verse 26, as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show forth the Lord's death till he comes. You're testifying of something. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily are guilty of the body and blood of Christ. You're guilty of killing him if you take this unworthily. Now, what does that mean, unworthily? Who's worthy of taking this? Anybody want to raise their hand and say, that's me. Yeah, I'm worthy of it. No, every believer confesses he is not worthy in himself. What does this mean? It means this. If you take this, you're only adding to your condemnation. You're only adding to your sin. You're taking something that really doesn't belong to you.

And so what does he say? But let a man examine himself. Now listen to that. Let a man examine who? Himself. Is it the church's business to examine people about this? No, I know churches do. They want to... Say, I understand their sincerity. They're they're trying to protect this. They believe that they're doing God a service by examining people individually to see if they're worthy of this, not their job. We're not policemen over this. Why? It's not law. Not a commandment. You realize the thief on the cross never predicted the Lord's Supper? Never was baptized? Got that? Where's he? He's in accord with the Lord Jesus. This doesn't have anything to do with it. And I get that they want to honor it.

But listen, you have to examine your own soul before you eat and drink this. Do you believe on the Son of God? Does this stir your heart when you think of Him? When you think of what it cost some God to die in your place. Someone who believes in Christ, this stirs us to love and grace and faith. My only hope is Him. Now, if that's your confession, it's yours. If that's your confession, it's yours.

And we ought to honor it. We ought to not take it lightly. There were people in this church who were taking this lightly. They made a big feast and made a party out of it. And then people got drunk. And they made a mockery of it. We don't do that. We don't go so far to say that this isn't important. It is.

We ought to reverence this, because the Lord instituted it. It's a picture of Him. Do you reverence this? You reverence this? Why? Because it's His Word. It's His Gospel. It's the same as His Gospel. So we reverence it. So who's it for? It's for believers. And so as we present this today, you that believe, You take the bread and you eat it.

Remember the Lord Jesus Christ's body. Remember his humanity. Remember his deity. Remember it was broken for you. When you drink the wine, remember it was his blood that was shed for the remission of your sins. And as you drink it, you know now, you see by faith your union with him. So what then? can separate, when you eat this, what separates this from you? The nutrients go in your body and when the Lord Jesus Christ is in you, nothing is going to separate that.

That's what this thing shows. So we do this, let's do it as is intended. This do in remembrance of me. I hope the Lord will help that as we take this together. Brother, would you come pass out the bread and the wine, please? Our Lord God in heaven, we thank you for this beautiful picture that you've given us. Thank you for the simplicity of it. I pray that you would take the spiritual application of this table, that you would reveal it to our hearts, stir our hearts to love, seeing the grace and the perfect offering of the body and blood of Jesus our Savior. Thank you for this broken body. I pray that you would bless the thought of it, the message of it to our hearts.

In Christ's name I pray. Amen. Our Lord said, take heed. It's just my body. Mike Mannery took a cup and he gave thanks. Father, we give thanks for the perfect sacrifice of thy son, for the perfect offering for our sins. And as we drink this in remembrance of him, Call us, Father, to remember His perfect offering daily, constantly, as all our merit and forgiveness of sins. Pray it in His name. He said, drink all of it.

This is the blood of the New Testament. The Christians said they took and they sang a hymn. I wonder what that was. I'd like to know what hymn that was. It don't matter as long as it praises God and Christ, I know it would. Let's sing a hymn together and we'll be dismissed with this. What, you got a hymn for us? Oh man, that's a good one. It's not our book. I'm saying 398. That sounds good. I like this one. 398? Yeah, let's stand together and sing that. We'll be dismissed with this hymn. 398, 04,000 tongues. What though I cannot break my chain or air throw off my load, the things impossible to me are possible to God.

Who shall in thy presence stand, O match of impetus? Unfold the grasp of thy right hand, And block the sinner's fist. Faith to be healed thy fame would have, O might it now be given! Thou canst, Thou canst the sinner save, And make him meet for heaven. Bow down the twice ten thousand times, Yet let me hear Thy call. My soul in confidence shall rise, shall rise and break through all. Thou canst overcome this heart of mine. Thou wilt victorious prove forever last. and everlasting life.