Today, once again, we'll observe
the Lord's Supper. And when we do that, always read
the scripture in 1 Corinthians, where Paul quotes the words of
our Lord when he said that night that he instituted the Lord's
Supper before he went to be smitten, being the great shepherd, before
that would take place that was prophesied awake oh sword against
the man who is my fellow this is God speaking smite the shepherd
so that the sheep can go free they must go their way our Lord
said take me but he said that night take this bread and eat
it this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance
of me Likewise, he took the cup and said, take this, pass it
among yourselves. This is the blood of the New
Testament which is shed for you. This do in remembrance of me. When you do it, remember me. Remember me. May God give us
grace to truly do that this day And when we do so to remember
Him who loved us and gave Himself for us, we may well weep over
the cause what made His death necessary, that is our sin, but
at the same time rejoice over the cure. The blood of Jesus
Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin. I referred to this
passage, I think, last week in my message, and perhaps even
the week before. But Peter wrote these words in
his second epistle, chapter one. Let me read them to you. He says,
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance
of these things, though you know them, and be established in the
present truth. Peter says, I'm not telling you
nothing that you don't already know, nothing that you haven't
heard before. Then why repeat yourself, Peter? Because it's
necessary. Why? Because we so soon forget.
We so soon forget. Yea, I think it is meet. It's
just the right thing for me to do. As long as I am in this tabernacle,
as long as I'm in this flesh, as long as I'm alive, to stir
you up by putting you in remembrance, knowing that shortly I must put
off this my tabernacle. I won't be here long, Peter says,
and neither will your pastor. Even as our Lord Jesus Christ
has showed me, moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able
after my decease to have these things always in remembrance."
I suppose that the memory can be a two-edged sword, can't it? It's so sweet to remember as
Bobby just sang to us and it was a blessing to me as I followed
along reading the words in our handbook as she sang them to
us. What a sweet memory as we look back on the way that grace
has brought us safe thus far, right up to this very place,
to this very moment. How sweet to remember that God
leads his dear children along. And I imagine when she's saying,
some through the fire, some through the water, We all have memories
of those times. But also we have the sweet memory
of some times on the mount where the sun shines so bright. God
leads his dear children along. What sweet memories. But I suppose,
like Peter himself, we'll, as the expression goes,
go to our graves with some regrets. I don't think Peter beat himself
up over that denial of his Lord that night, but it was always
in his memory. He regretted that it happened,
but he thanked God for that grace when the great shepherd arose
and forgave him, that one he had denied. And I suppose that
you and I as believers all have regrets and we'll take as I said
to our grave but that's as far as we'll go
with them. They'll be buried there as you
taught this morning again John such a great lesson always is. We'll bury them there but they
won't follow us to glory. No. There'll be no regrets in
heaven. Every tear shall be wiped away. I was recently informed about
a friend of mine, a dear friend, who'd had a heart attack and
I hadn't heard who recently had one. So I sent him a message
and this was their answer to me just the other day. They wrote,
I'm recovering but still somewhat weak. I don't have much energy. I don't expect to be setting
the world on fire. It was the second heart attack
I've had from broken heart syndrome. And they tell me to avoid stress,
physical and emotional. Larry, if you know how to do
that, would you please let me know? And I thought about it. Before
I answered, I thought about it. And I wrote him back, and I said,
the only certain answer I know for avoiding those things will
be when the great physician himself wipes all tears from our eyes. Until that day, I pray that he
will prove his grace sufficient for you and for me. And I added
this. I believe he will. I believe
he will. Lester, I believe God's grace
will see us through every difficulty. Even David, the sweet singer,
the sweet psalmist in Israel was not exempt from heartache,
was he? Was not exempt from trial. In
one of his psalms, Psalm 42, There's only 11 verses. And twice
in those few verses, verse 5 and then at the close of it, midway
through the psalm and then at the end of it, David utters these
words. He asked himself this question. Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within
me? Why are you cast down? That is,
why are you depressed? That's the word, cast down. Why
are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you disquieted? The word
is disturbed. Why are you disturbed within
me? As I said, none of God's people are exempt from this casting
down, this depression from time to time. Mr. Spurgeon, one of
the first books I bought that Mr. Spurgeon wrote, and I think
I've got everything he wrote now, quite a few, but one of
the first was entitled Lectures to My Students. It was a series
of messages he gave that were written down later and put in
a book that he gave to preachers. Some young preachers that had
come to him and he, wanting his advice and so forth, so He gave
these lectures in the tabernacle, I think, on Thursday evenings
to this group of young men. But one chapter in the book is
entitled, The Minister's Fainting Fits. Fainting Fits. Spurgeon said, there'll be times. There'll be times. And he says,
I tell you this so you won't be overcome when it happens.
There'll be times of depression of spirit. There'll be times
you'll be cast down. And Mr. Spurgeon himself suffered
greatly throughout his life with bouts of deep depression. So
he was talking about something he had experienced. We could
give example after example in the Word of God, but you remember
Elijah. Now picture Elijah, this great
prophet of God. He's in a cave by himself, hiding
out. And God speaks to him and says,
what are you doing here, Elijah? What doest thou hear, Elijah?
And he said, Lord, I'm left alone. I'm all alone. And they're seeking
my life. Is this the same fella that just
hours before stood on Mount Karma, squared off against hundreds
of false prophets, and issued a challenge? You build an altar
to your God. And I'll do the same. And the
God who answers by fire, let him be God. You remember that? And you remember how Elijah prayed?
And the fire of God fell from heaven and lit up the water around
the altar, and the sacrifice, the wood, the fire, everything?
And the people said, oh my, Elijah's God, he's the true God, and a
woman, the queen, Jezebel. sent word to Elijah, you tell
him before the sun goes down I'm gonna have his head and Elijah
had a fainting fit and ran in fear. But thank God that's not
the end of the story. It doesn't end that way. The
same great sorrow that God leads his children through That's exactly
what he does. He leads them through. Turn,
if you will, or listen while I read. Here's a familiar passage.
And it refers to Elijah, this time that I just made mention
of, in Romans chapter 11. Lord, this is Elijah talking.
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, verse 3, and digged down thine
altars, and I'm left alone, and they seek my life. Poor, poor,
pitiful me. But, thank God, that's not the
end of the story. But, what said the answer of
God to him? I have, Elijah, you've told me
what they have done. Now let me tell you what I've
done. Let me tell you what I've done.
I have reserved to myself 7,000 men. That ought to put some wind back
in Elijah's sails. Elijah, you're looking at the
seen and not the unseen. You're looking at the temporal. Let me tell you about eternal.
I reserved to myself 7,000 men, Elijah, you didn't know that,
did you? Who have not bowed the knee to
the image of Baal. And Paul says, even so. even so at this present time
also. There is an election, a remnant
according to the election of grace. There's that word again. Isn't it amazing how often we've
run across that word that so many people hate? But hate it
or not, like it or not, God Almighty has an election. He had it in
Elijah's time. He had it in Paul's time. Paul
said, Timothy, that's why I preach the gospel. That's why I endure
all these sufferings. Not for a maybe Timothy. Not
for a perchance Timothy. I do it for the elect's sake. God Almighty's chosen a people
and He's chosen the means, the preaching of the gospel, by which
He'll call them people out of darkness. Therefore I preach
the gospel and endure all things for their sake, that they too
may obtain the salvation of God that's in Christ Jesus. Yes,
there's a remnant right now, child of God. Right now, according
to the election of grace, that's why this world continues. I hear these self-proclaimed
prophets. It's really not funny. But have
you seen these clowns? with their charts and their diagrams. One called me one afternoon.
He was going to enlighten me about the signs of the times,
and I'll tell you the truth. He said, Larry, it's really not
hard. It won't take much time. I fell asleep listening to him
on the phone. I don't think I've ever done
that before. He went on and on about 7,000 years and divide
that by 2 and add 7 to that and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Oh yeah, very simple, very simple. The reason the world stands is
because God Almighty, not because some far-fetched delusional prophecy,
But because God Almighty has an elect people in this world
that He chose to salvation. And Jesus Christ died for those
people. And He didn't die in vain. And
He's going to call them all to Himself. And when He calls that
last sheep for whom He shed His blood, then the world shall be
no more. That's the only reason it stands.
Yes, glory to God, there is now an election according, or rather
there is a remnant according to God's election of grace. And glory, I find that encouraging. Now I know a lot of fellas grit
their teeth and just can't stand that. Oh, I can't stand that.
Well, just don't stand it then. Thank God I rejoice in it. I
rejoice in it that The Lord has not sent me on a fool's errand.
No. My sheep will hear my voice and
they'll follow me. This is why I came down from
heaven, he said. This is why I came down from
heaven, to do my Father's will. And this is my Father's will.
Of all, did you hear that? Did you hear that? Of all that
the Father giveth me, I should lose none. Glory to His name. Brother Maurice Montgomery, who
now is with his Savior in glory, who now beholds the King in His
beauty, He wrote this to his congregation when he pastored. He said, Dear brothers and sisters,
as we watch our nation in a religious or moral downgrade, which fills
our hearts with sorrow, let us ever call to mind the words of
the great Apostle Paul, who made you to differ. and be very very thankful to
God that we are that we are not a part of the church's apostasy
and this nation's reprobation that we have been snatched out
of darkness and death and translated into the kingdom of light the
kingdom of God's dear son we read that in Galatians 1 in our
sorrow let us be thankful very thankful and then he quoted a
few words of old John Newton, the writer of Amazing Grace.
Newton wrote in his day, while we lament the growth and pernicious
effects of infidelity and see how wicked men wax worse and
worse, deceiving and being deceived, what gratitude should fill our
hearts to him who has called us out of the horrid darkness
in which multitudes are bewildered and lost That's a pretty good
description of this religious generation, isn't it? Multitudes
just wandering around in darkness. Just groping around in darkness. Don't know God from a billy goat. Preach the gospel in the average
church today, and people will stand there if they pay any attention,
if they don't sleep under it. But if they're listening, they'll
look at you like Brother Donnie says, like a calf looking at
a new gate. What's he talking about? Grace? Salvation by grace? It's not
of him that willeth or of him that runneth, but God that shows
mercy? Are you kidding me? Where'd he
get such a thing? The glorious gospel of the blessed
God. It's the message that is owed
as God himself, so to speak. Mr. Newt went on to say, as we
behold this horrid darkness in which multitudes are bewildered
and lost, let us thank God. that he has brought us into the
glorious liberty of the light of the gospel." And old Newton
went on to say, faint are our warmest conceptions of his mercy. Yes, they are. Yes, they are,
especially this man that's talking to you now. Yes, thank God, there
is a remedy for this vexing depression that David lamented, that Elijah
lamented, that all God's children do from time to time. this disturbance
of heart and soul. While there are many things that
can and do cause this casting down, thank God there is a great
physician. There is a great physician with
healing in his wings. And he says, here's your prescription,
suffering believer. The Great Physician says to you
and I, you believe in God, believe also in me. David arose out of
his depression in this way. Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you disquieted within
me? Hope thou in God. That was the answer. Hope thou
in God. I will yet praise him and so
shall every suffering believer. Remember, we don't have a high
priest that cannot be touched. Our merciful high priest was
made like unto his brethren. He's not a marble statue. He's not some lifeless cold marble
idol. Paul says in Hebrews 4, we have
a high priest who can be touched, who feels, who identifies, who
sympathizes. How can that be, Paul? Because
he experienced those same things. We have a high priest who can
be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. I think John
referred to this in his lesson this morning when the Lord said
just prior to his going to the garden, prior to him entering
into that place where he swept great drops of blood, he said,
now is my soul troubled and what shall I say? He's been there. He's been there. Now is my soul
troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour,
but for this cause came I unto this hour. Someone very rightly
said of our Lord, the sufferings of his soul were the soul of
his sufferings. Talk about loneliness. Talk about
loneliness. Ah, so we cannot imagine the
loneliness that the Son of God passed through when he trod the
winepress alone. You'll all leave me this night.
It's written. The shepherd will be smitten
and the sheep will be scattered. You'll all leave me alone. You'll
go all to your own place. And I'll be left alone. He said,
but yet I'm not alone because the Father is with me. I always
do those things that please my Father. Never been a separation
between the Father and the Son. Proverbs says I was brought up
with him from everlasting when the world within the stars were
put in place I Was there I was daily his delight before him
rejoicing in holiness I'm not alone and shortly after he said
those words my God my God Why is that forsaken me Mark Luther said, looking at
that verse of scripture, someone said for hours. And then finally
he just threw up his hands and said, who can understand that?
God, forsaken by God. Yes, he can identify with that
loneliness, that sorrow, that desertion, that grief. In Matthew
chapter 26, listen to these words. Then cometh Jesus with them to
a place called Gethsemane, where that olive press was, that olive
garden. That's a good picture of where he would trod that wine
press, where like that, those two stones grinding out every
precious drop of oil from those olives. That's what the Son of
God endured. being crushed, bruised Isaiah
said beneath the wrath of God Almighty. Even then in the garden
the shadow of the cross was beginning to eclipse his holy soul. God forsaken of God. And he said
set ye here while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him
Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and
very Heavy. Very heavy. Then saith he to
them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Carry ye here,
and watch with me. Watch with me. I need companionship. Watch with me. Stay awake, Peter. Watch with me. And he went a
little further and fell on his face. We've never seen the Son
of God like this. And prayed, saying, O my Father,
if it's possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not
my will, but thine, be done. And he cometh unto the disciples
and findeth them asleep. Watch with me. Asleep. And said to Peter, what could
you not watch with me? One Yes, we have a high priest
that can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. So what? So what? And please, please realize I'm
not trying to be cavalier. No, no. What use should we make
of that? Child of God. If we have a high
priest that can be touched knows what it is to be cast down, knows
what it is to be depressed, touch with the feeling of our infirmities
no matter what they may be. What should we do, John? Well,
Paul says, then let us come boldly. Let's come boldly. If I've got
such a high priest, let me come to him. Oh, if I can't walk with
strong faith, Let me crawl, but let me come to Him. Whatever
I must do, come to Him that I might find grace and help in time of
need. In Galatians chapter 1 again,
look at verse 5. Look at verse 5. Remember what I read to you concerning
Peter, what he said? It is meat as long as I am in
this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.
Remember little flock. Remember little flock. Now our
Lord in Luke 12 told his disciples, fear not little flock. It's your
father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Little flock
remember what our Lord said. Remember what he said. There
the great shepherd reminded them and us, though we're a little
flock, we're God's flock. We're God's flock. Did you hear
that, Mike? We're God's flock. God's people
are exactly that. They're God's people. God puts
a difference between his people and this world. Everything God
does in this world, he does for his people, his chosen, his beloved,
the apple of his eye. Remember what he told Moses that
night, that night of the first Passover. Moses, you tell the
people that I'm going to pass through Egypt tonight. And there's
going to be a cry like was never heard before. There's not going
to be a house where death doesn't enter except those houses where
death is already entered in that Lamb of God. In that Lamb whose
blood was applied. Moses, you tell them I'm passing
through. And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it,
nor shall it be any more. But, oh there's a but, there's
a but, my soul. But against any of the children
of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against any man or
beast that you may know how that the Lord doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel. Yes, God puts a difference between
His people and it's grace that's made them to differ from this
world. He's translated us out of darkness into the kingdom
of His dear Son. Paul in 2 Thessalonians writes
concerning that time of religious apostasy, when it seems like
he looked out through a telescope of time and looked at our day
this year, 2017, and he described it to a tee. It seems like the
whole world is bowing down before the idol of man's free will. I'm not making that up. Most churches, most churches,
it's man's will that's what. Set God's will aside, but we
can't deny man's will. Deny God his rights and his glory
and his honor, but maintain man's merit and man's worth. That's the average message heard,
but it's not good news. And Paul said, oh, but, but. We're bound to give thanks to
God for you, brethren. Why? Because God had from the
beginning chosen you to salvation. I believe when they read that,
they said, Hallelujah, praise the Lord, amazing grace, how
sweet the sound. Don't you? And that's what Paul
tells us here about God. We thank God for the hope which
is laid up for you in heaven. The hope. The hope. I won't be
long on each of these, but look at this text here in Galatians
1 verse 5. The hope which is laid up for
you in heaven. Eight words. Eight words are
full of such comfort, such grace. The hope laid up for you in heaven. Now notice as I pointed out in
today's article in the bulletin, Paul doesn't say a hope. Paul's
talking about the hope. The hope that God gives sinners.
The hope that rests upon Jesus Christ the sure and certain foundation
that God laid and not man. Because after all, Ask yourself,
I'm asking you, how many people do you know that don't have a
hope? Just about everybody I know,
family, friends, just about everybody I know has a hope. They don't
know God from a goose, but ask them. Ask them, are you ready
to meet God? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, not a problem.
When I was six years old, I was in a meeting and the preacher,
all I remember, he told a sad story and me and a lot of other
people went up and we made a decision, yeah, no problem, made a decision
for Jesus. No problem. And a thousand other
groundless reasons for a hope. Peter said, beloved brethren,
Be ready always to give an answer to anyone that should ask you
a reason of, not a hope, but the hope that's in you. I'm asking you right now. I'm
asking each of you right now individually, what's the reason
of the hope that's in you? What is it? I'm asking you. How
would you answer the question? What's the reason for the hope
that's in you? Is it a hope? I've had people
tell me, well, I'm not concerned. Man, you're going to go out and
meet God. When a few days are come, you're
going to go the way that you'll not return. In a few days, you're
going to be ushered into the presence of God Almighty. What's your hope? And they said, well, I just think
it's all going to kind of pan out in the end. It's all going
to be okay. I've been a good person, a good
daddy, a good provider, a good husband. So, isn't that sad? What's the reason of your hope? Remember those our Lord spoke
of in Matthew chapter 7? He said, many in that day shall
say to me, Lord, Have we not prophesied in your name? We've
cast out devils in your name. We've done many wonderful works
in your name. That's what they said, but this
is what the Lord said. Depart from me, I never knew
you. Don't stop there. Our Lord goes on in that story
and tells us how such a thing could happen. He said, they're
like people who built their house on sand, sand. All those works they professed
to have performed in the name of the Lord was sand, sand. No foundation. And when the storm
came and beat upon the house, it fell, our Lord said. Oh, but
those who heard and built their house upon the rock, There's
the hope. The hope. On Christ the solid
rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand. Oh yes, the hope. Christ in you, we read it there
in verse 27. Christ in you, the hope of glory. The hope of a believer. I'll
tell you. I asked myself. I asked you.
The reason of your hope? Ask me. I'm glad you asked. Jesus
Christ, period. Jesus Christ and nothing else,
Mike. Not my preaching, not my giving,
not my pastoring. That's building on sand. Oh,
but if I build upon Christ, if this unworthy sinner has been
brought by the grace of God to fall down like that leper, like
that stinking leper, that dying leper, He had nothing. He was a beggar before the throne
of grace and all he could do was say, Lord, if you will, it's
not up to me. It's up to you. Wow. Wow. Isn't that a switch? You mean God's not in my hand? He's not waiting for my beck
and call? Does that sound like God Almighty
to you? If that's your concept of God,
you're worshiping an idol. He's an idol. The leper said,
Lord, if you will, it's up to you. It's up to you. It's all
up to you. Whether I remain a leper, whether I remain under the curse
of God's holy law, whether I stay an outcast, it's all up to you. If you will. You can make me
clean. You can do it if you're willing. And I'm not thinking about that
filthy leper right now. That's not the picture I've got
in my mind. That's not the picture I've got in my mind. He must
have been a loathsome sight to behold. But I know something
even more loathsome. I've got in my mind's eye Larry
Criss. clothed in the filthy rags of
his sin, a beggar with nothing to pay, falling down before Jesus
Christ. If you will, you can make me
claim. It's all up to you. If you don't,
I'm going to hell. If you don't, I'm going to hell. I declare. How thankful do you think I ought
to be? How amazed do you reckon I ought
to be? How much do you reckon I ought
to love him? How in the world can I ever get
over this? He said, I will. I will. Be thou clean. Your sins are all forgiven you. You're washed. You're sanctified. You're justified by the Spirit
of our God. in the wonder working of his
mighty grace. The second thing here in our
text, the hope laid up. Don't you like that? Laid up.
I love that. As you know, Bobby and I have
a exchange usually every Saturday. When I'm working on my message
and I'm pretty sure of the text, I'll send her an email. and tell
her what it is. And if I don't specifically request
a song, she'll look at her resources and email me back and say, well,
Larry, I'm thinking of this or this or this or this or this. She said, I checked my resources
on this text, Galatians 1 and 5, and she said, the one they
suggested was, will there be any stars in my crown? Bobby said, I hate that. I said,
amen, I'm glad you do. Please don't sing that. I remember
years ago, I thought of this when I read Bobby's email. There was a song years ago when
I was a kid. It was something to do with I'm sending up material,
my works. The theme of it was my works,
my faithfulness is sending up material by which God is going
to build my mansion. And I thought to myself, what
a dump that's going to be. What a shock that's going to
be. That won't be fit to live in. Oh no, no. This hope laid
up in heaven is not made by you and I on installment plans. No. Notice what it says, laid up.
It's already there. It's already there. It's already
built. It's already complete. Because that one in whom we're
complete, he's the architect. He said, I go to prepare a place
for you. You're not building it. I'm building
it. I go to prepare a place for you. I'm the way to that place. And
glory to his name, he prepared that place. Our hope is laid
up for us, not based on our works, but His. Because He, in preparing
that place, in doing so, rendered to God, to God's holy law, everything
demanded by God. Everything He rendered to God.
And when doing so, He said this, it is Finished. Laid up, laid up. Thank God for
that. Father, I will also that those
whom thou has given me be with me where I am. God doesn't have
one heaven for Jesus Christ, our head, and a different heaven
for his body, the church. We'll enjoy the same glorious
heaven with the same glorious redeemer that they may behold
my glory that thou gavest me before the foundation of the
world. Someone well said, Christ with
his cross is better than the world with its crown. Amen. Is that not so? The third thing,
the third sweet thought for you. The hope laid up for you. We're not strangers and foreigners. Oh, no. We're citizens, fellow
citizens of the household of God. Think of that, child of
God. Think of that. Now, sometimes, I know you're
the same. When you're planning a vacation,
someplace you want to go, down to the Gulf Shores, somewhere,
or like I do, go visit family. Man, you look forward to it.
As the day gets closer, you get more anxious. You've made a reservation. You just can't hardly wait for
the day to get there. Peter says, God's made a reservation
for us in heaven. How about that? A reservation
in heaven. And nobody can cancel it. No
one can disannul it. No one can take the ledger and
cross out our name. No. We're written in the Lamb's
Book of Life, put there by God Himself. And we have a reservation
awaiting us. Samuel Rutherford wrote this.
He said, the world will be burnt up in the day of Christ's appearance.
And why should night dreams and day shadows and water froth and
May flowers run away with your heart in the meantime? When we
come to the water's edge and set our foot in the boat and
enter on the river of death, we will wonder at our past folly. Another man wrote, When Satan
showed our Savior all the kingdoms of this world and the glory of
them, O Christian, if ever the world appeared to thee temptingly
glorious, suspect it is for Satan's discoveries, its abated hook. Let them consider, let them consider
how ill it becomes the offspring of heaven to go licking up the
dust of the earth, the woman's seed, content with to content
herself with the food of the serpent. Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world. Father, our Lord prayed,
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Thank God our hope is laid up
in heaven. And that's the last thought.
In heaven. In heaven. then how secure it must be, how
safe it must be, how certain it must be. Every attribute of
God is another reason for the hope that we have. His power,
His wisdom, His everlasting love for His own, His immutability,
every one of them is an argument. while why this reservation in
heaven laid up for us we must enjoy. But most of all the Lord
Jesus Christ himself in Hebrews 6 we're told he appears in the
presence of God for us. That anchor within the veil That
refuge, that hope, even now represents us before the throne of God. Man, you talk about an advocate
with the Father. You talk about being well represented. He represents us before the throne
of God. What a hope. What hope. Turn if you will to Colossians
chapter 3 and we'll wrap this up. We'll wrap this up. Colossians
chapter 3. If ye then be risen with Christ,
verse 1. If ye then be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above, where Christ setteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affections on things
above, not on things on the earth. For you're dead, and your life
is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life,
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him. With Him. Oh, that's heaven.
With Him in glory. Now may God enable us to remember
Him when we observe the Lord's Supper. God bless you. Thank
you for your attention.