I so much appreciate your thoughtfulness
and care for me, and I can't tell you how hesitant I am to,
at least for a while, cancel our evening services on Sundays,
but I do think that's best, and I appreciate your suggesting
it. Turn with me, if you will, tonight to 1 Corinthians, the
11th chapter. First Corinthians chapter 11,
my text will be verses 27, 28, and 29. A couple of weeks ago
I preached to you from the book of Leviticus chapter 26 on the
subject of public worship, and at that time I thought It would
be good to come back to this passage again and address the
matter of the Lord's Supper from this passage of Scripture, because
we need constant reminders concerning the instruction of Scripture
and what we're about to do here in this place tonight, remembering
our Savior. I am certain that there are few
passages in the Word of God that had been more horribly misinterpreted
and misused than our text this evening. First Corinthians 11,
verse 27. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat
this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall
be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine
himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that
cup. For he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning
the Lord's body. I've tried to address these particular
verses of scripture a number of times in this pulpit, answering
the question, who is worthy? I do not doubt that these three
verses of scripture have been more troubling to sensitive souls
than any others in the New Testament. Troubling simply because of the
poor, terribly incorrect teaching of men who do not understand
the scriptures. Many of God's people read these
verses of scripture as I once did. and think to themselves,
surely if anyone is unworthy to receive the Lord's supper,
it is me. Satan roars against the weak,
untaught or poorly taught child of God and accuses him of sin
and guilt and tries to put him on the footing of law and legality
before God. The old serpent is as subtle
as he is evil, as clever as he is vile, and under the guise
of humility and holiness. Under the guise of humility and
holiness, he would turn our eyes away from our Redeemer, away
from the Lord Jesus to ourselves. He seeks to make us look to ourselves
rather than to Christ alone for our worthiness and our acceptance
with God. So I want to answer this one
question. This is the whole purpose of the message. Who is worthy? Who is worthy to take this bread
and wine, eat the bread and drink the wine in remembrance of our
Savior? Who is worthy to worship and
serve our God? Paul's doctrine in this passage
reaches beyond just the ordinance itself. It reaches to the very
essence of our being accepted of God. Let me answer the question,
who is worthy clearly and distinctly? And then I'll show you the answer
from our text. Every true believer, every sinner
who trusts Christ alone as his only wisdom, his only righteousness,
his only sanctification, his only redemption. Every sinner
who believes on the Son of God is worthy to take the Lord's
Supper, to eat the bread and drink the wine. Every sinner
who believes on the Son of God is worthy to worship God, to
come to God's throne in prayer, and to serve God in his generation. Now let's see if I can demonstrate
that from the scriptures before us. It is not possible to understand
1 Corinthians 11, 27, 28, and 29 without reading it in its
context. Indeed, when you read the Scriptures,
always seek to understand the context in which a passage is
found. Not just that immediate context,
but in the context of the whole revelation of God in Scripture. in this part of First Corinthians,
the Apostle Paul is inspired by the Spirit of God to set in
order the disorderly affairs that were taking place in the
local church at Corinth. More importantly, he sets before
us here the proper order of public worship in gospel churches. Particularly
in this 11th chapter, the Spirit of God is exactly telling us
what we should and should not do as we observe the Lord's Supper
together. So hold your Bibles open here
at 1 Corinthians 11 and follow me through the scriptures. We'll
begin at verse 20. When you come together, therefore,
into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. Now let
me show you three things here. First, there was a specific place
where the Corinthian church assembled at a specific time for public
worship. That seems to be such a redundant
statement that it need not be made. But there are many, many
people who fancy themselves learned, spiritual, holy people who care
nothing for commitment. They'd like to run from one place
to another, go to no place at all, or meet together whenever
they take a notion to do so and call it worship. This they call
freedom. I call it irresponsibility. Would
to God that every believer in the world would hear what I'm
about to tell you. When the local church to which
you belong, the local church where you are helping to build
the kingdom of God, the local church where your family meets,
meets together, it is both your privilege and responsibility
to be present. The local church would soon cease
to exist if everybody decided to run to this place or that
or to no place at all according to their own whims. I have just
recently had a tremendous example of what ought to be the thoughts
of people with regard to their local church and their responsibilities. A very dear friend of mine, Sarah
Tove, Sarah Vandal, before she was married, was talking to me
when I was up in Cottageville. I've known the church in Cottageville.
preaching to them for, oh, 42, 43 years. And I've known most
of the people in that church longer than that. But she said,
there are a lot of folks who tried to get us to move to this
place or that. Go here because there are lots
of young people, young families there. Go here because there's
our age group there. Go here because I like the weather.
Go here because, because, because, because. And she said, further
down, folks don't understand, but I simply told him, I'm here
because this is where I want to be to build the church of
God here. We ought to look for the place
where we are fed, yes. Where we're ministered to, yes.
But our business ought to be to look for the place where we
are needed and useful in building the kingdom of God. We ought
not center the worship of God around ourselves ever, but rather
we ought to center ourselves in the worship of God. Here's
the second thing. When the Corinthian church came
together at the appointed time, they claimed that they did so
to eat the Lord's supper. They came together and had their
love feast and folks gorged themselves and they had a big party and
they drank until some were drunk. They came together to have a
good time. They came together for entertainment.
They came together for a good time of fellowship. Sort of like
you might get together with a group of folks and go to the sports
bar, or go to the country club, or go to the swimming pool, or
go to a ball game, or go on a picnic. They came together to please
themselves. My soul, if ever there's been
a picture of what's going on today and called worship, that's
it. This whole religious world bends
over backwards to entertain people, to entertain folks on the way
to hell, and they call it worshiping God. Paul said, you come together
to observe the Lord's Supper? You didn't come to keep the Lord's
Supper. That's just name. You came to please yourselves.
You came to entertain yourselves. You came to gratify your flesh.
That's not our business. Our business is to worship God
our Savior in this place. And a third observation from
verse 20. If we do not observe the ordinances of God, the ordinances
of divine worship, In the manner prescribed by God, we do not
observe them at all. The Corinthians said, let's go
to church and worship God. Let's go to church and keep the
Lord's Supper. But they came to throw a party.
And therefore Paul said, when you come together in one place,
this is not to worship God. This is not to keep the Lord's
Supper, to eat the Lord's Supper. Here we come together every Lord's
Day evening to observe the Lord's Supper. We won't continue doing
this every day while we're taking this brief reprieve and observe
the Lord's Supper every Sunday morning. And we won't do it for
one reason, because on Sunday mornings we often have folks
who are visitors, unbelievers, and we wouldn't entice them to
do what they shouldn't do. But we will continue to maintain
often eating the bread and drinking the wine together. We have for
these 40 years observed the Lord's Supper together every Sunday
evening, not because God requires it be done every Sunday evening.
That's just the way it was done in the New Testament. And our
Lord taught us to often observe this blessed feast of the gospel. But we come here to observe it
and it's called the Lord's Supper for this reason. Christ is the
one who is the author of it. He's the one who instituted it.
He is the subject of it. He's the host of it. It's for
his family. You who are here, who do not
belong to this church per se, anytime we have visitors here,
if they're God's people, they're welcome at the table. If they're
God's people. If you believe God, you're welcome
at the feast. That's the only qualification.
You don't have to be a member of this church or another church.
Somebody says, well, that's open communion. Well, it's open to
God's people. Open to the Lord's people and
we do nothing to fence it. That's not our responsibility
We simply set before you the bread and wine because of Christ
our Savior He is the reason for the Lord's Supper Now look at
verse 21 For in eating everyone taketh before other his own supper
and one is hungry and another is drunken Paul explains here
exactly why the Corinthian practice was not an act of worship, could
not possibly be considered observing the Lord's Supper. They added
to the ordinance of Christ a gaudy feast that soon got out of hand. We meet together from time to
time and have our church dinners, our fellowship dinners. There's
nothing at all wrong with that. But these Corinthians kept what
some folks today would call a love feast. And it was a rude, cruel,
self-serving, self-gratifying party. Rather than waiting on
one another, they rudely jumped in front of one another. Instead
of waiting for the poor, the poor were left hungry with nothing. And while the poor got nothing,
those who jumped before them and gorged themselves and drank
insatiably to the point of drunkenness took everything to themselves,
never considering others. Some years ago, Shelby and I
were at a meeting. I couldn't believe it, started to serve
dinner. Folks had paid for a ticket to
eat with the folks at the conference. And there were some folks there
who came and had not purchased a ticket. You won't believe this. They
sat around and watched the rest of the folks eat. That kind of stuff ought never
be tolerated in the church of God. Never. But that's precisely
what the Corinthians were doing. Verse 22. What, have ye not houses
to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God,
and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall
I praise you in this? I praise you not. Now, Paul is
not here giving a prohibition to having church dinners. He's
not here telling us we ought not eat in church buildings.
We do not worship the church building as the church. This
is a building. This is a building where the
church meets. This is a building dedicated to the worship of God,
but it is not the church. You folks sitting here listening
to me now, you who are God's people, that's the church of
God. There is nothing holy about this building. Nothing holy about
this building. Nothing that makes this place
a somehow more spiritual place than another place. Please understand
that. Some years ago, I stress this
because there are a lot of folks who have the idea that something
is, that they treat the church good enough, like Catholics treat
a Catholic cathedral. You go in and cross yourself,
pull your hat off, kneel, act holy. There are a lot of folks
who actually teach that you ought not to eat in a church building. That defiles the church building.
42, 43 years ago, while I was still pastoring in Lookout, we
had a meeting, Brother Mahan was there with us, we had a fellowship
dinner, and lots of friends came to the meeting, and I was sitting
beside Brother Mahan, and a fella sitting across from him talking,
asking a lot of questions and talking, and finally Brother
Mahan said to me, he had a, I can see him right now, he had some
corn and beans on his fork, And he said, called him by name,
said, aren't you going to eat? And he responded, don't believe
you ought to eat in the Lord's house, Brother Mayhen. And Henry
never paused for a breath. He said, you use the bathroom
in it, don't you? That kind of took the starch out of that.
But folks think you're going to defile the church building
by eating in it? What stupidity. Paul does not
say we'll not have our feast, our fellowship dinner, such as
that. This is what he's saying. If you're going to behave like
this, one jumping in front of another, have a party where you're
just gratifying your flesh, at least stay at home. Don't come
to the house of God and call it worshiping God. You ought
to be ashamed of yourselves for so shamefully embarrassing the
poor among you. Now look at verse 23. For I received of the Lord that
which also I delivered unto you. that the Lord Jesus, the same
night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given
thanks, he break it and said, take, eat, this is my body, which
is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner, also he
took the cup when he had sucked, saying, this cup is the New Testament
in my blood. This do ye as oft as ye drink
it in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread
and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till it come. Now be sure you don't miss this.
Here the Spirit of God tells us that when the gospel writers,
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John speak of the Lord Jesus on the
night he was betrayed taking the bread, and they say he blessed
it, that does not mean that he used some kind of papal mumbo-jumbo
and turned the water or turned the bread into his blood and
turned the wine into his body. It simply means he gave thanks
for it. He gave thanks for that which God here sets before us.
Having said that, let me just touch the highlights in these
verses. We are to observe the Lord's
Supper the same way our Lord did it with his disciples on
the night in which he was betrayed. with simplicity, with as little
show as possible, with utter simplicity. I hope you have observed
that when we break bread together here, I make it my business to
have as little to do with it as possible. And I have always
insisted when I'm gone, you do the same thing as you do when
I'm present. Because I want no one to have
any idea that there's somehow a priestly function that I perform
here. In fact, I make it my business
never to look up and see who takes the bread, who takes the
wine. I suggest you do the same. It's none of your business. It's
none of your business. That's between you and God, not
you, me, and God. That means that we are to use
unleavened bread and wine, nothing else. The unleavened bread represents
the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, the body that was broken for
us. The broken pieces speak of him being crushed to death with
the will of divine justice because he who do no sin was made sin
for us. The wine, not grape juice, the
wine represents the precious blood of Christ. the blood of
the everlasting covenant, shed for many for the remission of
sins. The bread and wine separated,
the body and blood separated, speak of certain death. Our Lord
Jesus Christ died in our stead at Calvary and he gives us this
picture, the bread and wine, as representations of his death. We are commanded here to observe
this ordinance often. The Savior doesn't say how often.
He doesn't say weekly or monthly or daily. We're to observe it
often. Not putting it aside as something
that's rarely done. I personally know congregations
that have gone for years without observing the Lord's Supper.
because they put it off. We don't want to make this mundane
thing. That's kind of like, say, making
prayer a mundane thing, so we won't pray for a few years. We
observe the Lord's Supper often with reverence. And as often
as we eat the bread and drink the wine, we're to do so in remembrance
of our dear Redeemer, our blessed Savior. I've told you this before,
I spent years wondering why in this gospel age, when our Lord
forbids Sabbath-keeping, altar worship, sacrifices, He forbids
any form of carnal worship. We worship God in spirit and
in truth. He gave us two carnal ordinances by which to confess
Him. believers baptism, picturing
our death, burial, and resurrection with Christ, going down into
the watery grave, and rising up again. And by this, we identify
ourselves with Christ and his gospel, confessing our Savior
and our faith in him. And he gave us this bread and
wine. A few years ago, we were up in Fairmont, I was preaching
for Brother Marvin Stoniker, and he said, Brother Don, this
is not long after Brother Scott Richardson had been called to
glory. He said, Brother Scott came into my office one day,
not long before he died, and gave me a pocket knife. He picked
it up and handed it to me. He said, he said, I'm gonna give
you something to remember me by. Marvin said, Brother Scott,
I don't need a pocket knife to remember you. He said, take the
knife and put it in your pocket and you'll remember me. And Marvin
said, you know, Brother Don, I never pick that knife up to
open a letter, to cut open a box, to clean my fingernails, to put
it on the bureau at night, take it off the bureau, put it in
my pocket in the morning. I never see that knife that I don't think
about Brother Scott. Isn't it remarkable? Our Savior
gave us this ordinance, the bread and wine, in a picture that makes
it impossible for us not to remember Him. Which of you have ever seen
the bread or wine without thinking of Him? Which of you have ever
even passed by while they're setting the table up on Sunday
morning and not thought of Him? We think of him because of what
he gave us to remind us of him. Oh, thank you, blessed Savior,
for the simplicity with which you sweetly force us to remember
you. In the true observance of the
Lord's Supper, we show forth in beautifully symbolic language
the Lord's death until he comes again to receive us to himself. So we eat the bread. And we drink
the wine in anticipation of Christ's appearance. Now look at verse
27. Here Paul speaks of those who
eat and drink unworthily. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat
this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall
be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Now, without question,
there's a sense in which we do things unworthily if we don't
observe the Lord's Supper with the proper elements, the bread
and wine, or if we don't have an attitude of reverence and
worship for Him, or if we come to Him with coldness and malice
and indifference. Those things certainly are unworthy
of Him. All of those things are unworthy of men and women who
claim to worship God, unworthy of our great and glorious Savior.
But that's not what this text is talking about. Commonly, these
verses of scripture are used by preachers and churches, and
held over folks' heads to beat them, and beat them in subjection. And folks are given the idea
that if they have some unconfessed sin in their lives, are they
not as spiritual as they ought to be? or they don't read the
Bible enough, or not devoted enough, or they look at yourself,
and you're not worthy, then you can't take the bread and wine.
And lots of folks are disciplined by the church so that they're
forbidden to come to the Lord's Supper and take the bread and
wine because of something that they have done or some way they
behave. Now, I know with absolute certainty
that's not the case here. That's not what's spoken of here.
Our text has nothing to do with how you behave, has nothing to
do with your sin or your holiness, nothing to do with your righteousness,
your unrighteousness. That person who eats and drinks
unworthily is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord Jesus.
Therefore, according to verse 29, taking the bread and the
wine in the act itself, he eats and drinks damnation to himself. Now Merle, that's something you
can't do. God's elect cannot do that. They have eternal life and they
shall never perish. They are kept by the power of
God, kept by His grace, preserved in Jesus Christ. God's people
cannot eat and drink damnation to themselves. Well, what's this
talking about? To eat and drink unworthily.
Not discerning the Lord's body. That's the problem. They do not
discern the Lord's body. Look at verse 28. Here we're
given two things to do. as we prepare to take the bread
and wine. I urge you always to do these
things when you come to the house of God to worship him and take
this bread and wine. Let a man examine himself and
so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. First examine yourself. Examine
yourself. The text does not say let a man
be examined. It says, let a man examine himself.
Examine yourself, whether you be in the faith. Not examine
how good you are. If you examine yourself and you
decide you're good, you're not. If you examine yourself and you
decide I'm spiritual enough now, I can come to the Lord's table,
you're not. I'm holy enough now, I can be accepted of God, you're
not. That's not the point of examination. The point of examination
is this. Do you or do you not trust the
Son of God? Is Christ your hope or is he
not? Do you rest your soul on Jesus Christ alone? Do you trust
his blood and his righteousness alone for acceptance with God,
his grace, his power, his mercy? Examine yourself. If you do,
Paul says, so let him eat. The believer is welcome at the
Lord's table. any believer and all believers. I know there are folks who get
their high hat and high opinion of themselves and they leave
the church. So I can't go to church with somebody like Don
Fortner. I just can't do that. I can't go to that kind of church.
I'm too good. I'm too holy. I'm too spiritual. Psst, who do you think you are? Our Lord Jesus met together and
broke bread with Judas and he knew who he was. He met together and worshiped
with Judas and he knew who he was. Our business is to worship
God. Our business is to serve God,
not set judge one another. And having examined ourselves
and declaring consciously before God our faith in Christ, we are
to eat the bread and drink the wine. You see the ordinances
of Christ are not optional. If God's given you faith in Christ
and you haven't confessed him in believers baptism, you need
to do it right now. You need to do it. Confessing
Christ and believers baptism. He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. Well, I just don't feel like
I ought to be baptized. That's got nothing to do with it. I
don't feel I'm ready yet. That's got nothing to do with
it. Are you born of God? Do you believe Christ? Confess
him and believers baptism. That's the only issue. And taking
the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper is not an optional thing. Our Lord says, so let him eat. remembering Christ as we do so. These are matters of obedience
to the revealed will of God. Every true believer is here specifically
told by God to eat the bread and drink the wine. Now with
that in mind, look at verse 29. For he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning
the Lord's body. Those who eat and drink unworthily
are men and women who do not discern the Lord's body. What
does that mean? They do not understand, they
do not know their own sin, their own depravity, their need of
the Savior. They do not understand the law
and justice of God demanding satisfaction. They do not understand
the revelation of the gospel, the necessity of Christ's incarnation
and his accomplishments in his flesh. They do not believe, they
do not know the gospel of the grace of God. This reflects on
all aspects of religious activity. I deliberately, purposefully
do not pressure people to make a profession of faith or to join
the church. Sometimes mamas and daddies will
want me to talk to their sons and daughters and be in a hurry
about this. We'll wait. We'll wait on God. I don't pressure folks to do
so because a false sense of grace. A false sense of peace, a false
sense of security, a false confidence in salvation is a refuge in which
you hide from God. And the practice of religion
with a sense of acceptance when you have no acceptance is to
eat and drink damnation to yourselves. The presumption of redemption,
righteousness, regeneration, and acceptance with God without
the knowledge of and a God-given faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
is damning. True believers are people to
whom God the Holy Ghost has given and continually gives spiritual
discernment. You know all things. You do discern
these things. You understand your need of the
Savior. You understand God's righteous demands. You understand
the necessity of atonement, of righteousness by the substitute.
You understand why Christ came into this world and what he accomplished.
For this calls, verse 30, many are weak and sickly among you
and many sleep. Paul is here declaring that the
judgment of God has fallen upon many at Corinth. Because like
Uzzah of old, they sought the Lord not after due order. They claimed to be worshiping
God, but they weren't. They were worshiping themselves. They claimed
that they trusted Christ alone as their savior, but they didn't.
They trusted their own works. For if we would judge ourselves,
We should not be judged. Paul's language is simple, clear,
and emphatic. If you and I will sit in judgment
with God against ourselves, like David did, like Isaiah did, we
will not be judged and condemned by God with the world. That person
who genuinely acknowledges and confesses his sin before God
is the recipient of and has experienced the grace of God in Christ. That
person who does not, does not know God. Verse 32, but when
we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord that we should not
be condemned with the world. There's a big difference between
being killed under the judgment of God and being chastened by
the mercy of God. People use things like this. Back in verse 31, many are sick
and weak and sickly, and many sleep among you. If you don't
do right, Bill, God's going to get you. God's going to get you. He'll take you out of this world.
Would you please explain to me how God taking me from here to glory
is punishment. Would you care to explain that
to me? How God taking you from here
to heaven is punishment, or chastening, or correction. Would you explain
that to me? That's not what we're talking
about. Those who go to hell with bread in their mouth and wine
on their tongues from this very place because they don't trust
Christ or in hell. The believer will be chastened
and corrected by his heavenly father that it be not judged
with the world, but rather partakers of his righteousness. Look at
verse 33. Wherefore, my brethren, when
you come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any men
hunger, let him eat at home, that you come not together to
condemnation, and the rest will I set in order when I come."
We're to deal with professed believers as believers. Take them at their profession.
Well, he sure doesn't act much like a believer. Most of the time you probably
don't either. Take professed believers at their
profession. Quit trying to decide who's saved
and who's not. That's not your affair. You don't
have the ability and you shouldn't desire to make that judgment. That's not our business. True
believers often behave terribly inconsistently with their profession. You read the book of 1 Corinthians,
and you read about strife and division in the church, and you
read about fornication, and you read about all manner of evil,
and you read about the abuse of various gifts and talents,
and Paul refers to them as brethren and saints. Do you reckon he
was mistaken? He's riding by divine inspiration
and giving us an example. Though Paul says and does nothing
to promote or encourage inconsistencies or sinful behavior in God's people,
he loves them still and seeks both to correct their errors
and to minister to their needs. So should we. When we come together
to eat the Lord's Supper, we ought always be thoughtful and
considerate of one another. You see 1 Corinthians 10, just
turn back there one page, verse 16. This is not only the table
of communion with Christ, it's the table of communion with one
another. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the
communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break,
is it not the communion of the body of Christ? You and I, together,
take this bread and drink this wine as one body, as one family,
as one with Christ, in sweet communion with one another. Oh,
what a blessed privilege. I'm privileged, as few of you
are, visiting places, preaching every now and then to break bread
with my friends in different parts of the world. And it's
always delightful to commune with Christ in his body at the
table of the Lord. We must not, however, mingle
the worship of God and carnal pleasure. We must not interject
into the worship of God that which God has not ordained. To
do so is to destroy worship altogether. To mingle human inventions and
carnal traditions and ceremonial religious customs with the worship
of God is to risk bringing upon unregenerate men and women the
added condemnation of smug religious self-righteousness. We mustn't
do it. Back some years ago, when we
were in West Virginia for nine years, Shelby and I and Brother
Ron Rumberg and his wife, Brother Brant Seacrest and his wife,
we took about 150 kids to camp every year for a week. And during
the week, we would have various activities for them. And some
of my friends, we'd have campfire service and a couple of preachers
suggested that we, at the campfire service, play some games. And
I said, no, no, we won't do that. I didn't ask whether they agreed
and I said, no, we won't do that. Why would you do that? Because
we're not going to mix worshipping God with playing games. We're not going to mix worshipping
God with playing games. Not even with eight and nine
year olds. We're not going to mix worshipping
God with playing games. Now, as we sit together here
in the house of God, let us know our worthiness to take the bread. and take the wine and call on
the name of our Lord. I'm worthy of God's acceptance. Are you? I'm worthy of God's
smile. Are you? I'm worthy of God's
approval. Are you? Brother Don, how could
you say that? I'm in Christ. Are you? I believe
on the Son of God. Do you? I urge you then to do these four
things. Examine yourself. Remember Christ. Remember his person, his work,
his grace, his sacrifice, the efficacy of his blood and of
his righteousness. Worship God and love one another. And thus,
take the bread and wine and remember Christ, show him forth his death
until he come. Amen.