Now here in Exodus chapter 12, I want to draw a line from this
Passover feast to the ordinance of the Lord's table. When our
Lord gathered His disciples around that table, He said, I'm going
to eat this Passover with you. He's going to eat this table,
was on that day of the Passover, in celebration of his accomplishment
of it. He is the lamb that was about
to be slain. He is the fulfillment of this
ordinance. And there's four things, by way
of introduction, that we need to see in this old ordinance. This is where we learn. This
is that foundation in the Old Testament that was given us in
pattern and type and symbol. And we learn a lot from it, and
we'll understand what happened better if we come back and see
it. in its foundation. But there's four things that
you need to know about this old ordinance. First of all, that
this Passover marked a new beginning for Israel. This was a new beginning. That old Egyptian calendar was
replaced with a new calendar. And this become not whatever
that Egyptian month was, but this become the month Abib. We'll
get into that as we go into the next chapter in Exodus. But that
old Egyptian calendar, this was a new beginning. This was the
first month, the beginning of days. And as this was the beginning
of days with them, marking them as the Israel of God, so it is
in Christ our Passover. He is our new beginning. Old
things, Paul said, are passed away. Behold, all things are
become new. To who? To those who received
Christ Jesus. If any man be in Christ, he said,
If He be in Christ, He is a new creature. Old things are passed
away, and behold, all things are become new. And these new
things include a new understanding. This was a brand new ordinance.
They had never done this before. None of these men had ever done
this before. This was a brand new ordinance.
They saw this Lamb in a whole new light when this Lamb of the
Passover was slain. They had a new understanding.
They also had a new attitude of heart. This Lamb marks a new
attitude of heart. Those who see it and understand
it and have received Him have a new attitude of heart. And
they've got a new hope and a new expectation. It marked a new
beginning. And then secondly, every man
in Israel had to have the Lamb sent forth of God. Not just any
lamb would do. It had to be God's lamb. It had
to be that lamb without blemish, without spot. It had to be that
lamb of God. And it's interesting when you
go through here, and I took this a little different direction
when I was teaching you this. And I taught you how that each
individual chose that lamb, which each individual does. And I told
you that each individual had to take that hyssop and dip it
in that basin of blood and strike that blood on his door. And even
so, I can show you that in the faith of God's elect in the New
Testament, where we mark ourselves out through baptism, which is
a confession of that blood, and so on. But here's what I want
you to see tonight, that the father of each house was to select
the lamb and make provision for the house. And that's a point
that you need to think on because our Heavenly Father is the one
who selected the Lamb for us. He selected the Lamb, our Heavenly
Father. Chosen of God and precious is
how the Apostle set Him forth. And He selected, provided, slaughtered
the Lamb of God. And then thirdly, we need to
know this about this old ordinance. The blood of the Lamb was to
be applied to the door of the house. Not on the threshold to
be trodden underfoot, but on the two side posts and on the
lintel, which is the top of the door. And that blood was applied
by the same one who selected the lamb, the same one who provided
the lamb, the same one who examined the lamb, and the same one who
slaughtered the lamb, took the hyssop and put it on the door.
And true gospel preaching, that's the hyssop. He didn't have much
to say about the hyssop, did he? He just said, take the hyssop.
The important part of the hyssop was it was the means to apply
the blood. That's what you need to see.
And that hyssop represents the preaching of the gospel. And
the blood of the Paschal Lamb affectionately secured the deliverance
of all for whom it was slain. And as it's set forth, that blood,
that lamb is set forth. It's applied by the hand of God
the Spirit through the preaching of the gospel. And then here's
the fourth thing we need to know. This paschal lamb must be eaten. I showed you last week that true
faith eats the sacrifice. He said, except you eat of my
flesh and drink of my blood, you have no life in you. He's
talking about a spiritual eating. He said, my words are spirit
and my words are life. But here's what I want you to
see. True faith understands. This is the important thing.
I noticed Sunday that not everybody in here took the table when I
passed it out. And some who didn't take the
table are people that come here, and they come here on a regular
basis to worship God. But they've got some fear of
the table, and that's okay. I respect that. But true faith
understands. It's very important to me that
you at least understand what these things are talking about.
That's what preachers or pastors are pastor-teachers. We don't
just get up and say things and don't care whether you understand
them or not. I'm trying to teach you some things. Now, only God
the Holy Spirit can teach you these things effectually, but
I can teach you these things in the Scriptures and show you
what it says. But true faith understands. You
go through the New Testament and that word see or seeing in
the New Testament means to perceive. Lots of folks saw Christ with
their eyes who didn't see Him spiritually at all. In fact,
that whole multitude from that John chapter 6 that I just quoted
from, they all saw the Lord and then didn't understand what he
preached at all, saw him with their natural eyes, heard him
with their natural ears, but had no understanding whatsoever,
thought he was teaching cannibalism, and turned and walked away. But
when he says everyone that seeth the sun and believeth on him
may have everlasting life, he's talking about a perception of
who he is. Blessed are your eyes, He said,
for they see. He that hath seen Me, He said,
hath seen the Father. Now listen to what our Lord said
to His disciples over here in Matthew chapter 13. Now this is right after He told them.
They questioned Him as to why He talked to those doctors of
divinity and master theologians in parables. Simple, everyday
parables. He said, because it's given unto
you to understand it's not given unto them. Not given unto them. Matthew 13, 13, Therefore speak
I unto them in parables, because they seeing, see not, and hearing,
they hear not, neither do they understand. That's what this
hearing and seeing is all about. And in them is fulfilled the
prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing you shall hear and
not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive."
So the main thing when we talk about this ordinance is understanding
what it means. You know, I read those Scriptures
to you out of Exodus a while ago, and the Lord was careful
through Moses how He instructed them concerning this ordinance.
And He said, He's talking 40, 50 years. They still had 40 years to go
through the wilderness. And then they were going to go
into Canaan, and then they were going to do all of these things,
and then they were going to keep this feast. He said, you're going
to keep it even when you get to Canaan. And when you keep
it, after 40 years, your children are going to say, what's this
mean? What are you doing this for? And I guarantee you, some
of the little ones here Sunday morning was asking their parents,
what is this? What's this mean? What's this
for? And he said, when they ask you, here's what you tell them.
And he told them exactly what it meant. What I'm driving at
in all of this is we're so prone to ceremonialism as men. As natural men, we're prone to
it. What do you do? Well, we've always
done that. Yeah, but what's it mean? Well, I don't know. But
we've always done it. They've always done it. The old
folks knew what they were doing when they established it. And
we're going to keep it. The important thing is not doing
it, it's understanding what it means. If you don't understand
what it means, that's the only thing Paul said that would disqualify
you from coming to this table is not being able to discern
what this table is about. If you do not discern it, don't
take it. This is the Father's Lamb chosen
for you. proven by Him, slain by Him,
applied by Him, and roasted in His fire. And He is to be eaten
exactly as God gave instruction for Him to be eaten. When we
look at Him, we look at that lamb in the fire, we see sin
punished. We see righteousness established.
And we see justice satisfied. And all, as Brother Scott Richardson
was so fond of saying, by the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We see that. We understand that.
We understand what that's all about. And we're to eat it, savoring
those bitter herbs. We're to eat it with unleavened
bread, that is with sincerity and honesty before God. And we're
to eat everything that is edible. Now the important thing in this
supper is not to look around to see what somebody else is
doing. The important thing in this thing is your own understanding
and to understand and eat it in honesty before God. Now, I
tell you, that takes examining your own heart. I can't see your
heart. I'm going to serve you the table.
You don't want it, you can't eat it in honesty before God,
don't eat it. Just pass it by. Pass it by. It's not a thing
to look over and worry about, well, what are they going to
think if I don't eat it? Well, I tell you, you don't need to
worry about what they're thinking. You needn't worry about what
he's thinking. You don't need to worry about what they see,
you need to worry about what He sees. And then we're to eat it with
expectation. He tells us here in the Old Tithe,
with our loins girded and shoes on our feet, they expect the
deliverance. And that's what God told us.
He said, put your shoes on, gird up your loins, get your staff
in your hand, be ready to leave. Because that's what this Lamb
is all about, deliverance. We're to eat it in haste. What I believe that refers to
is today if you hear your voice harden, not your hearts. I think
that's what he's talking about there. Haste. Don't put these
things off. You know, I notice, I look around,
I can't help but see you. I stand up here looking at you.
And I don't make judgments on you, but I see folks back there
and when it comes time for the supper, they just kind of all
cringe up. Now I got to deal with this thing.
Don't put this thing off. If this thing is bothering you,
it's bothering your heart, you need to get this thing settled
between you and God. You don't need to just leave
this thing fester. You don't need to just leave
this thing alone. You need to get this thing straight and get
it straight before God. Have no reservations. He said,
I'm coming through tonight. That's what He told them. They
had a few hours, Russell. That's all they had. They couldn't
put it off. And we don't know we got that
much time. But that man who both knows and understands God, understands
something of his own sin and what this sacrifice is all about,
he'll eat it in haste. He has no reservation. God's
already revealed to him his condemnation. God had already revealed to these
people his plagues. These people understood that
everybody in Egypt was condemned of God. And the one thing that
is going to protect them is that lamb. This feast was an ordinance to
be kept forever, perpetually throughout their generations.
It was a memorial feast to celebrate redemption. It was a hopeful
feast looking for the coming of the true lamb. And it was
a covenant feast celebrating redemption accomplished by the
Word of God's promise. 430 years is how long he told
Abraham that they were going to be in Egypt. And if I'm not
mistaken, it says in this very chapter, on the self-same day. Huh? On the self-same day. 430 years later, they're going
to walk out of Egypt according to God's promise. And we only
worship God as we understand Him in the person and work of
Christ. True worshipers worship Him in spirit and in truth. And
if you go look that word up, where he was talking to that
young woman there at the well, and he said, you worship you
know not what. You don't know what worship is.
And I wonder sometimes, I turn on my TV, I don't even have to
wonder at that. They don't know what worship
is. They get up here with a big orchestra, and a band, and some
drums, and they get that beat going, and get to singing, and
get some professional singers up there, or a choir, and the
music fills the place, and they look at all these visual aids,
and the sound in those big churches, how it rings around and stuff,
and the aura of all that stuff begins to get hold of them, and
they call that worship. You can't find that in the Scripture.
Believers sang, but they sang with understanding. That's what
Paul said. If you're going to sing, sing with understanding,
because you can't worship God and sing without understanding.
Understanding is the key thing in worship. True worshippers,
our Lord told that woman at the well, true worshippers worship
in spirit, little s, not capital s, little s. And every time you
see that little s when he is talking about spirit, he is talking
about spiritual understanding. Spiritual understanding of the
truth. That is how we worship God. There
is no other way to worship Him. Feeling good is not worship.
You know, he'd go home. One fella told me, he said, well,
you know, he said, I just think when a man comes home from church,
he ought to feel better than when he went down. And I said,
well, not necessarily. Not necessarily. God may be doing
work in his heart, and him come away from here to lower a snake's
belly, and still be the work of God. But we only worship God
as we understand Him. And feeling good is not worship.
The senses aroused is not worship. Worship comes from the heart
and mind. True worshippers worship Him
in spirit and in truth. You know, I'll give you a perfect
example of this. The disciples on the road to
Emmaus. They were walking along there depressed and the Lord
came to them. Went all the way back to the books of Moses. And
then He read to them the Psalms. And then he went through the
Minor Prophets and Isaiah and all of that. And he preached
to them those things, showed them those things concerning
himself. And then when he revealed himself to them, and he went
away, they looked at each other, Russell, and they said, didn't
our hearts burn as we walked along the way? And he opened
to us the Scriptures. They had understanding of what
he said. And their hearts burned in worship.
That's the only way you can worship God. Now you can say what you
want to, but in churches where preaching is not preeminent,
worship's not preeminent either. And most of the time it's not
there at all. As it was in Israel, so it is
with all men, there's a tendency to gravitate toward ceremonialism. Feelings, senses, surroundings,
all of these things. You know, we're attracted to
that kind of thing because we're just natural men. I like to hear
a good song, don't you? I do. I like to hear a good singer,
talented singer, stand up here and sing. I like that. But I'll
tell you this, I don't want to stand up here and sing I'll Fly
Away. I'm not going to get anything out of that. I want to stand
up here in that voice that God's given them, with that talent
God's given them, and sing some God-honoring hymn that I can
understand and worship. Let me give you several things,
and I'll just touch on these things so I don't go too long
tonight. But I'm going to give you some
things here concerning the Lord's Table that I believe were taught
back here in this old foundation where these things are laid in
this first Passover that are carried right on over into the
Lord's Supper in the New Testament as He fulfilled all these things.
I'm going to give you nine things tonight. The first thing is the
eating and drinking of the Lord's table is an act of obedience
to our Lord and Master. You know why these folks put
that blood on the door and killed that lamb? Because God said to
do it. Huh? God said to do it. And I get so tired talking to
folks about baptism and the Lord's table. These things ain't optional. The sovereign Lord of glory commands
us to be baptized and commands us to take the Lord's table.
They're not options. Now if you're unsure of yourself
and you're unsure of your conversion and all of that and you don't
really understand, then by all means, don't eat it. But if you
do, and you're convinced that you're a believer, and you understand
what these things mean, then you're commanded to take it.
These things, they're loving commandments. I'll grant you
that, but they're commandments just the same. The ordinances
are not options. Whatever the sovereign king of
glory tells us to do, we must do. He don't say things just
to hear himself talk. You know, and we get it that
way in this country. It wasn't that way when I was
little. If mom and dad told you something, you better get about
it and get it done. Now, anymore, they can do it,
and they'll sit and roll their eyes a little bit, and maybe
on about the third or fourth time, they'll go do it. When
the sovereign king of glory tells you to do something, you do it. You know that every last person
that God provided His Lamb for and put Him to death was commanded
to eat it. You read that chapter. They were
all commanded to eat it. He didn't say, now some of you
eat it if you want to or if you're hungry. He didn't tell them that.
He said, you eat it. And the only ones exempt from
this ordinance, as far as I can tell, I didn't read the whole
book of Exodus to come up with this, but the only ones exempt
from this ordinance was a stranger who was not circumcised. In other
words, if they had a slave or they had a servant who had sold
themselves for a debt and they worked for them and they were
uncircumcised, then they weren't to take this ordinance. Not there
and not in Canaan. Not at any time. And we know
by the New Testament that circumcision has to do with that work of God
in the heart. That's what that circumcision
is about. And people without a work of God in their heart
don't need to partake of that table. If they had no experiential
knowledge of Christ, then they shouldn't take that table. And
that's why I tell them you need to get these things settled in
your mind and heart. Because baptism and the Lord's
table are ordinances to be observed. And then secondly, the Lord's
Supper is a memorial feast. Moses instructed them several
times in chapter 12 here concerning what and how this feast was to
be kept. And in the years to come, he
said, looking out there 40 some years ahead of time, he said,
your kids are going to ask you about that. And he said, you
remember what I'm telling you today. And that's what you're
going to tell them. It's a memorial. It's a memorial
feast. This day, he said in verse 14
of Exodus 12, shall be unto you for a memorial. And you shall
keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep
it a feast by ordinance forever. And I say this to you, you can't
remember what you never heard. You can't remember what never
took place, can you? But it took place with them.
They understood it. And then thirdly, the Lord's
Supper is an exhibition of our Savior's death as our substitute
and Redeemer. That's really the heart of what
this Passover is all about. But in Romans chapter 3, verses
24 and 25, talking about the redemption accomplished in Christ
Jesus, He says, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in His blood to declare His righteousness for
the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God. Now he's talking about Old Testament
saints. And every single writer I read,
and I read a bunch of them, every single writer I read It says
that this is talking about the blood of the Paschal Lamb set
forth in the Old Testament in the Passover. That's what this
is talking about. God set Him forth in that capacity. And that's exactly how you are
to look on Him. And this is what happens when
natural men with no understanding start monkeying around with God's
ordinances. You know, we've got a real thing
about alcohol in our generation, so we're not going to serve wine
anymore, we're going to serve grape juice. And then pretty
soon it ain't grape juice because everybody didn't like it, it
wasn't sweet enough, so then they get grape pop and they start
pouring that out into the glasses. And then pretty soon they're
serving jelly rolls or something besides unleavened bread. And
pretty soon all that supper tells All it shows is you. It doesn't
show anything about why it was given. You can't look at it and
perceive what God established these things for and why He said
to take this wine and unleavened bread. He said back there in
chapter 12, if any man in that whole company was found having
leaven in his house, that he'd be stricken from the camp. Take him out of your number. That is what happened. Paul said,
as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show,
show the Lord's death till He comes. That's what it is. It's
an exhibition. And then fourthly, the Lord's
table is an ordinance, not a sacrament. especially you young girls, you're
going to be hearing this on TV, going to be seeing it with your
friends, and they're going to come back and be talking about
this thing of the Lord's Table, and they call it a sacrament.
And you're going, well, I don't see anything wrong with that.
What's wrong with a sacrament? It's what a sacrament is. A sacrament
means an actual bestowing of grace. In other words, they're
saying when you drink this wine and eat this thing, you're saved. You're saved by drinking that
wine and eating that bread. The Catholics actually believe
that the bread turns into the body of Christ and the wine actually
turns into His blood. Now that's really sick, but this
is what people do. And these things are called sacraments.
And this thing of sacrament, it was unheard of until The Catholic
Church was formed and it means a visible sign of inward grace
or that by which grace is conferred. And this ought to shock us, but
the Protestant Reformed and Reformed Baptists and all who follow after
that same error, a lot of the Presbyterians and a lot of stuff
like that, they still refer to these ordinances as sacraments. Sacraments. And they still believe
that they confer grace, else they wouldn't baptize babies. Baptism is not a sacrament by
which grace is conferred, it's an ordinance by which redemption
is confessed. And the Lord's Supper is not
a sacrament by which grace is imparted, but it's an ordinance
by which the death of Christ is shown and set forth and remembered. The gospel, here's the important
thing, the gospel ordinances speak of redemption accomplished. They're not the means by which
it's accomplished. They say it's already accomplished. Already accomplished. All right. Fifthly, the Lord's Supper is
a table of communion. Now what's that mean? Communion. It means common union. That's
exactly what it means. It's two words in one. It means
common union. We all gather to observe the
Lord's table. We have all things in common.
We all worship the same God. We all have the same sin, the
same problem. We all have the same remedy for
it. We're all called by the same gospel to the same hope and saved
by the same blood. And we're all one in Christ Jesus. And there's neither male nor
female, born nor free. Jew or Gentile. And we all believe
the same things concerning this supper. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
chapter 10. This is something I learned a long
time ago, but these differences over the ordinances reveal a
problem. They reveal a problem. The problem
is in the understanding of what they mean. Now, if they don't
mean anything, if you had no understanding of what they mean,
then it's nothing more than a ceremony. And if you practice it with a
false understanding, then you practice idolatry. So it's important. And whenever there's a big difference
in these ordinances, it reveals a problem. Ignorance of what
they mean usually means there's a problem in how they perceive
the Christ, and a problem there is fatal. Now watch this, 1 Corinthians
10, verse 16. He said, the cup of blessing
which we bless, is it not the communion, the common union of
the blood of Christ? Ain't that what this is? Ain't
that what this is for? Ain't that what this celebrates
and remembers and sets forth, rejoices in? That common union
in the blood of Christ. The bread which we break, is
it not the communion, that common union of the body of Christ?
Isn't that what we confess? We're all one body, His church. For we being many are one bread
and one body, and we are all partakers of that one bread. I guess this is where folks get
the idea that we're just a cult over here sometimes. It's because
we preach these things in relation as they relate to the Church
of God, His elect. They're not universal. And they're
not to be practiced that way. Peter addressed his second epistle
to those who had obtained like precious faith with us through
the righteousness of God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. He
didn't write to everybody in the world. He didn't write to
all the churches in the world. He wrote to people of like precious
faith. That's who he recognized as the
elect of God. You can say what you want to,
but this book says two can't walk together except they be
agreed. It just ain't going to happen. They'll try. They'll try for a while. And then they'll find they can't
do it. They can't do it. All right. Sixthly, the Lord's
Supper is a token of His covenant. Way back yonder in Genesis chapter
15, Abraham laid out the sacrifice as God instructed him. And then
God told him about his seed going down into Egypt. And there they'd
be in bondage for 430 years. And then he told him of his deliverance
at the end of that time. And he caused a deep sleep to
fall on his servant Abraham, and then the darkness caused
a burning lamp to move across that sacrifice. And in the light
of that sacrifice, he understood what that was talking about down
in Egypt. In the light of that sacrifice. In the light of God upon the
sacrifice, God made a covenant with him concerning his seed.
And now on the very day they would be delivered by the same
light on the same sacrifice, he said, the blood shall be to
you a token upon your houses where you are. That same sacrifice
and that same light. This blood was a covenant token,
not only of the Abrahamic covenant, but of the everlasting covenant
and of that deliverance which was yet to come. In Matthew 26,
verse 27, the Lord took the cup, and when He had blessed it, He
said, Drink ye all of it, for this is My blood of the New Testament. That word testament means covenant,
which is shed for many for the remission of sins. And then here
is the seventh thing. This supper is a feast of thanksgiving. When the Lord instituted this
supper, He said, with desire. Boy, I'll tell you, it'll do
your heart good to sit and think about that for a minute. Because
these fellas didn't know much, neither do we. Huh? When He said, have not I chosen
you twelve, and one of you is a devil, every last one of them
said, is it me? Is it me? Well, to this ragtag
bunch, here's what He said, with desire. The Son of God, the Eternal
Son of God, with desire, I have desired to eat this table with
you. You think about that. Huh? Knowing what they were,
knowing where they were, and knowing who was among them, He
said, with desire, I have desired to eat this Passover, that's
what He called it, this Passover with you before I suffer. For
I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof until it be
fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And so he went out and fulfilled
it. And he took the cup and he gave thanks. And he said, take
this and divide it among yourselves. Don't we do that? When we take
that cup, don't we have thanksgiving in our hearts for Him who shed
His blood for us? All right, here's the eighth
thing. The Lord's Supper is a picture
of faith in Christ. Faith in Christ. In John 6, verse
56, and I've quoted this to you once already tonight. But He
said, He that eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood dwelleth
in Me, and I in him. That's what He said. And as the
Living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father, so he that
eateth Me, even he shall live by Me. All true faith eats the
sacrifice. That's what we do when we eat
that bread and we drink that wine. All true faith eats the
sacrifice. Faith feeds on Him. Now let me
show you something, and you can do this later on. I'm not going
to get into it tonight. But in Leviticus chapter 7, God,
just a little bit later on, He divides Israel. He divides a
people aside and creates what is the Levitical priesthood.
And this Levitical priesthood He refers to as His firstborn.
This is His holy priesthood. They and they alone minister
to the things of God. Now this Levitical priesthood
is a picture of the church. You go over into the book of
Peter and you find over there where he calls us a royal priesthood. Ain't that what he called? A
royal priesthood. And we set these things forth.
But what's over here in Leviticus chapter 7 is the fact that these
priests had a right to the sacrifice. That's what they lived on. Did
you hear anything about that? The Levitical priesthood survived
on the diet of the sacrifice. That's all they ate. All they
ate. And Peter said, you are a chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. And as that old priesthood had
a divinely given right to the body of the sacrifice, so do
all those who believe. The Lord's Supper is a picture.
of true faith in Christ. And then the last thing is this.
The Lord's table is a symbol of hope. You look at that table,
it's a symbol of hope. Exodus 12, 11, He said, Thus
you shall eat of it with your loins girded, your shoes on your
feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in
haste. And all true hope rests in the
body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was His body that
gave way to a new beginning. That's what it's all about. His
body that rose above the curse of Adam, His body that obeyed
the law of God, His body that served with fear, His body that
was broken for us, and His blood that was shed for us, and caused
the destroyer to pass over us. Now He said, when they ask you,
you tell them what this means. Huh? As Moses told those people,
I'm telling you, when they ask you, what does this mean? You
know what it means. Tell them what it means. Tell
them what it means. Tell them what that blood is.
Tell them what this ordinance is. Do you understand what it
means? Then with delight and rejoicing,
eat and drink and celebrate the Lord's Passover. That's what
He tells them to do here. And I tell you, if the Lord tells
you to do it, you have a right to do it. Don't you? Huh? That's right. We've got a right
to do it. It's OK to do it if he tells
us to do it. He said, this do. This do. Our father, we thank you. I thank
you for the hearts of those that are gathered here tonight, the
interest that they have. Pray that you'll take these simple
things that I've said and quicken these words in their hearts.
As we take this supper in the days to come, by the grace of
God, may our hearts burn within us as we remember and understand
what this table sets forth. I ask you for Christ's sake.
Amen.