Paul says, for though I preach
the gospel, the good news, it's news, not yesterday's news,
today's news, and it's good news. It's called the gospel of God.
God's gospel. It's called the gospel of Christ. It's called the gospel of grace. It's called the eternal gospel.
The gospel that did not have its beginning in time. As God
is eternal, his gospel is eternal. We read of the truth of the gospel. Only in the gospel do we have
the truth. It's called the gospel of peace. What peace there is, if he is
my peace. It's called the gospel of hope.
I have a blessed hope. The gospel of Jesus Christ. We
read of the word of the gospel. The gospel has words, a content, the word of the gospel. And if those words are not preached,
the gospel is not preached. We read of the mystery of the
gospel. I love that. The gospel is so
mysterious, so other, so It doesn't come from this world. We read
of the gospel of the glory of God. Though I preach the gospel. That's a staggering claim, isn't
it, that Paul makes. Though I preach the gospel. It's also a statement of fact.
Though I preach the gospel. I have nothing to glory. I can't
take credit for that. I can't become proud of myself
because of that. I can't think somehow I'm different
and that's why I do it. Paul said in Ephesians chapter
3 verse 8, unto me who am less than the least of all the saints. Now I'm afraid if I'd say that
I don't know if I'd really believe it. I'd like to. I should. It's the truth. But when Paul
said this under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that's what
he really believed. I who am less than the least
of all the saints. Paul would look at me dead in
the eye and say, I'm less than you are. what humility this man
demonstrated. And to me, who am less than the
least of all the saints, is this grace given that I would preach
the unsearchable riches of Christ. Though I preach the gospel, I
have nothing to glory of. Yea, necessity is laid upon me. This is not optional. Necessity
is laid upon me. Yea, woe is unto me. And what does that mean? I can
tell you exactly what it means. Paul is saying, if I don't preach
the gospel, I'll go to hell. That's the woe he's speaking
of. The woe of eternal destruction. You know, some people, through
fear of men, are afraid to preach the gospel. Anybody who knows
God is afraid not to. Necessity is laid upon me, yea,
woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. Now, look in verse
three of the same chapter. My answer to them that examine
me is this. You know, Paul was always under
the microscope of the Corinthians. They were questioning everything
he said. They were questioning his authority. They were questioning
his apostleship. He had his critics. Now look
in verse one. He says, am I not an apostle? Now, what's an apostle? It's
someone who was taught the gospel directly by Jesus Christ himself. What a blessed privilege. I love
it when he says, I knew a man in Christ. I love the humility
of that language. I knew a man in Christ about
14 years ago, whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot
tell. such a one caught up into the
third heavens. And Jesus Christ himself taught
Paul the gospel. He said, I certify you, brethren,
the gospel that was preached to me is not after man, for I
neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation
of Jesus Christ. There were 12 apostles. Anyone who makes this claim,
Today, he's a liar. There were 12 apostles. We even
read in the book of Revelation of the 12 apostles of the Lamb.
Well, what about Matthias and whatever that other fellow's
name was in Acts chapter one? Well, that's when the church
decided to take a vote and they said, show us which of these
two you've chosen. Neither. Paul took the place of Judas. Paul, the apostle. Paul was called
to be an apostle. And then he says, am I not free?
I have the freedom every other
believer has. Have I not seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? He appeared to me. He gave me
this commission. Paul didn't have a bunch of men
lay hands on him, and there he got his authority. Jesus Christ
gave him his gospel. He said, are not ye my work in
the Lord, the people he was preaching to? He said, you heard the gospel
through me. Verse two, if I be not an apostle
unto others, yea, doubtless I am to you. For the seal of mine
apostleship are you in the Lord. Mine answer to them that examine
me, that are putting me under their microscope, say, well,
I don't agree with Paul here. I don't agree with this. I don't
believe his authority. I've got problems with Paul.
He's not a very good speaker. His bodily presence is weak.
His speech is contemptible. You'd think an apostle would
be a more powerful-seeming man than Paul. Short, he's bald,
he's, he just, that doesn't sound like an apostle to me. My answer to them that do examine
me is this, have we not power to eat and to drink? Now, as
we're gonna go on reading, he is talking about his right for
support. Now, he didn't take it from them.
He mended tents. and made tents
and sowed tents and corn. Scripture points that out. He
didn't take anything from them. But he's saying as an apostle,
don't I have the right to eat and drink the way you do? I can't
work a job the way you do. I can't give myself to the ministry
of the word. He had to travel all over the
place preaching the gospel. He couldn't work a job. He said,
but don't I have a right to eat and drink like you do? Of course
I do. Have we not power, verse five?
to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as the other apostles?
Don't we have a right to do that? Or as the brethren of the Lord
and Cephas, Paul's saying, I have a right to be married. I'm not
right now. Some are, there's so much speculation
as to whether Paul used to be married or whether he's a widower.
Nobody knows. But he says, I've got a right
to be married, just like Peter. Peter was married. I've got a
right to be married just like him and to lead about a sister
or wife. Or I only, in Barnabas, verse
six, have we not power, do we not have the right to forbear
working? If I give myself to the ministry of the word and
preach to the people that are able to support me, don't I have
a right to that policy? Don't I have a right? I only,
in Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working? You know,
you can't really give yourself to the preaching of the word,
to prayer, to the ministry of the word, if you're working full-time.
Now, when we first started this church, I worked full-time. I
did so for six years. Had to. And certainly didn't
take a paycheck. We didn't have anybody to give
us any money. I mean, we struggled just to
pay the rent in that storefront when we started. But that being
said, he said, we have the right to forbear working. And then
he uses these illustrations. Who goes to warfare anytime at
his own charges? When we send somebody overseas
to fight, we take care of them. No soldier is expected to take
care of himself. Or who plants a vineyard and
eats not the fruit thereof? The farmer, he gets to eat the
fruit of his vineyard, doesn't he? Or who feeds a flock and
eateth not of the milk of the flock? Say I these things as
a man or sayeth not the law, the same thing also is what I'm
saying scriptural right now. Look in verse nine, for it's
written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth
of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Now, the ox that are treading
the corn, do you put a muzzle on their mouth so they can't
get anything to eat? No. You let them eat what they want.
You let them eat what they need. They need that for strength.
You don't muzzle them to keep them from eating. And so he asked
this question. Does God take care for oxen?
Of course he does. He takes care of the little birds
on the other side of the world. He takes care of every insect. He takes care of every molecule.
He's in control of everything. He says the cattle on a thousand
hills are mine. If I was hungry, I wouldn't tell
you about it. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof,
and everyone receives what they have from him. Of course he takes care for oxen's,
or saith he it altogether for our sakes. For our sakes, no
doubt this is written. This is why this is written,
to teach this. Turn to 1 Timothy chapter five
for a moment. First Timothy chapter five, verse
17, let the elders that rule well
be counted worthy of double honor. Now that word actually is double
pay. So that means double pay. especially they who labor in
the word and doctrine, for the scripture saith, thou shalt not
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, and the labor is worthy
of his reward. It was not only written for oxen,
it was written, Paul is telling these people, that did not help
in his support. As a matter of fact, he had other
churches supporting him and he refused to take a dime. from
the people in Corinth lest they should question his motive. And
that's why he was mending tents and working as he did. Verse 11, if we've sown into
you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal
things? You're taking care of our needs.
If others be partakers of this power over you, or not we rather,
Nevertheless, we've not used this power, but suffer all things
lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. What he's saying is
I don't want anybody thinking he's in this for the money. No, he's
not. He's mending tents in order to
do this. Verse 13, do you not know that
they which minister about the holy things live of the things
of the temple? How did the priests live? By the temple, by the food of
the temple, by the tithes, and so on. They didn't have their
own property. This was the way it was in the Old Testament.
And which way do you not know they which minister about the
holy things, live of the things of the temple? And they which
wait at the altar partakers with the altar. Even so, in the same
manner hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel
should live of the gospel. Now, this church takes care of
me, you take care of me, so generously and so well. And I'm thankful
and I'm grateful for the generous support you give to me to preach
the gospel. And you know what? I'm not kidding
when I say this. Every morning that I wake up,
I'm excited to get in the word and preach the gospel and to
pray for you and to pray for the Lord to open doors, to preach
his gospel, to pray for his blessing. I'm so thankful. And whenever
I quit feeling that way, it's time to quit. I hope I keep,
but whenever I quit feeling that way, if I lose my passion for
this, it would not be fair for me to continue preaching. But
as long as the Lord makes me continue this way, I want to
do it. And I'm thankful. But like I
said, when we first started this church, it was all we could do
to pay for the rent for the storefront on Limestone Street and pay the
gas bills and everything like that. We didn't think anything
about paying, but when the, Church was able that you began to support
me. You supported me well, and I'm very grateful. I'm very thankful. Pray for me that the Lord will
enable me to be a man after his own heart and a pastor after
his own heart. And pray for me that I can say
with Paul, though I do preach the gospel. Verse 15, but I have
used none of these things. Neither have I written these
things that it should be done so unto me. Now, I'm not trying
to use this to manipulate you. We feel guilty. We're going to
start giving now. You know, preachers are good at that, manipulating
people, trying to make them feel guilty, trying to get them to
respond to what they want them to do. And that's not preaching
the gospel. That's never right to try to
manipulate people. And Paul says, I'm not manipulating
you. And one of the things I think is, well, kind of sounds like
it. I know he's not, but I think of what I love it when Paul said
to Philemon, I know you're going to do this willingly, but let
me remind you, you owe me your life. And okay, I get it. You know, he, he did, but he
lets him know I'm not doing this to try to manipulate you to give
toward me for it would be better for me to die than that any man
should make my glory and void. You know, he said in another
place in second Corinthians, For what is it wherein you are
inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome
to you? And he said, forgive me this wrong. Forgive me for
being that way and not taking any support from you. And indeed,
he didn't. I've used none of these things,
neither have I written these things that it should be done
so unto me, for it were better for me to die than that any man
should make my glorying void. For though I preach the gospel,
We'll come back to this in a moment. That's the main part of this
message. For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to
glory of, for necessity is laid upon me. I have nothing to glory
in in preaching the gospel. I'm aware of my own sinfulness. I'm aware of my own inadequacies. You know, it's sometimes it's
hard to preach when you feel so sinful. And you feel so inadequate. And you think if people knew
what I was like, would they even listen to me? And Paul was saying
that. He said, I don't have anything
to glory in. I have nothing to boast in. The
gift to preach the gospel is a gift. I can't boast in a gift.
If I've got a gift to preach the gospel, then I do. God gave
me that gift. It's not because of any ability
or inherent ability in me. It's a gift. What do you have
that you didn't receive? Now, if you received it, why
would you glory as if you didn't receive it? If it's something,
you know, you got on your own. Now he says actually preaching
the gospel is a necessity that's been laid on me. The Lord God
is the one who's laid it on me and the gospel is a necessity
to me. The gospel I preach, that's the
only way I can be saved. It's a necessity to me. And it's
a necessity to me to preach the gospel. Paul says, a necessity
is laid upon me. Yea, woe is unto me if I preach
not the gospel. Now by that, he doesn't mean
things will not go well for me. He means if I don't preach the
gospel, I will be in hell. That's a sobering thought, isn't
it? And that's exactly what he means by this. And that's one
of the many reasons you tremble lest you misrepresent the Lord.
That's why I hope I'm never cocksure and arrogant. I tremble. I don't
want to misrepresent the Lord. I fear doing that. And that's
the spirit in which Paul says when he says, woe is unto me
if I preach not the gospel. For if I do this willingly, I
have a reward. And he tells what that reward
is in just a moment. But if I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if against my will, a dispensation
of the gospel is committed unto me. Now by this, he's not talking
about whether I'm cheerful or reluctant to preach. He's talking
about whether or not this is optional or obligatory. And it's
obligatory. I do not have a choice. Necessity is laid upon me, yea,
woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. Now what is my reward? Verse 18. A bigger crown, bigger
mansion in glory, a higher position where I can say I'm up here and
you're down here. I was a preacher. You were just a lay person. I
was somebody. I get a reward. What was his
reward? He states it so clearly. What is my reward then? Verily
that when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ
without charge, but I abuse not my power in the gospel. That's
my reward. And what a reward that is. Now let's go back to verse 16. I don't know of anything more
sobering to know that very few, are preaching the gospel, the
claim to preach the gospel. In Fayette County, there are
over 50 denominations, hundreds of churches. And if you would
ask any of their preachers if they preach the gospel, I dare
say every one of them would say, yes, of course I preach the gospel. So the question is, what is it
to preach the gospel? Paul says, though, I preach the
gospel. A staggering claim, a factual
claim. What does it mean to preach the
gospel? And another way to put it is,
what is the gospel? That must be answered every time
we meet together. What is it to preach the gospel? I've got some very simple things
to say about that. First, it's to preach the word
of God. It's to preach the message of
the Bible. God takes Genesis 1-1 to Revelation
22-21 to declare his gospel. And in all that book, written
over a 100-year period by 40 different authors, there's only
one message. One message. It's to preach the Word of God,
not some kind of man-made confession of faith. I hate it when people
do that. They think they can improve on
the Scripture. Well, if the Scripture is such a big book, yeah, I agree
the Scripture is a big book, but it's only got one message.
I believe that with all my heart. The Bible's only got one message.
I'm not going to go to man-made confessions and documents. Anytime
somebody goes to those, they put more authority on those than
they do the Scripture. Oh, I love the Word of God. It's to preach
the Word of God. Not skits, plays, it's not music,
it's not entertainment. Preach the Word. Preach the Word of God. This is God's ordained means. Preach the Word. What do you
all do at your church? We preach the Word. Okay, what else? Nothing. Nothing. Don't you have anything for the
kids? Yeah, we preach the word. You got anything for the young
people? We preach the word. You got anything for the old
people? We preach the word. Preach the word. This is God's ordained
means for the in-gathering of the elect. 1 Corinthians 121,
listen to this scripture. It pleased God. That's enough
to catch my attention. It pleased God. by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. This is God's ordained
means of speaking. Now somebody says, couldn't he
speak some other way? Sure he could. I have no problem with
that if he wanted to. You know, he could have seen
an angel, maybe Gabriel or some kind of angel with a flaming
sword and 40 feet tall and bright, That'd be impressive, wouldn't
it? Well, evidently that's not what God wants, though. He could
have done that. He could have made us to know the gospel, just
all of a sudden we know it. He could have done that. But
that's not what he's pleased to do. And I think God gets more
glory, this is why he does it, he gets more glory in something
like this because it seems like such foolishness to us. It pleases
God by the foolishness. of preaching to save them that
believe. God has manifested his word through
preaching, Paul said, which is committed to my trust. How shall
they call on him in whom they've not heard? How shall they hear
without a preacher? How shall they preach except
they be sent? Now understand, this is not putting
emphasis on the preacher. This is putting the emphasis
on the means that God uses. He can use Balaam's ass just
as easily as he can any preacher. This is not to exalt the preacher.
The preacher is a sinful man. However sinful you are, that's
how sinful I am. However weak you are, that's
how weak I am. And I believe that. And this
is not, I'm God's preacher, I hate that clergy lady stuff. I hate
it when people try to make some kind of distinction, I'm God's
servant, and you're all somewhere underneath that. No, I hate that
kind of thinking. I hate clergy laity. Where'd
that ever come from in the scriptures? It's not in there. A preacher
is a man, this is not to emphasize the importance of the preacher,
oh, he's a powerful personality. No. A preacher, Scott Richard said, is a nobody. Telling everybody about somebody
who can save anybody. I like that. One beggar tell another beggar
where he got bread. That is the preacher. So Paul is not exalting himself
as preacher. He said, I'm nothing. He understood
that. He believed that. But don't ever
underestimate the importance of not the preacher, but the
preaching of the gospel. Paul said, God sent me not to
baptize, but to preach the gospel. Not with wisdom of words, lest
the gospel of Christ be made of none effect, the cross of
Christ be made of none effect, for the preaching of the cross. That's what we're doing. It's
the preaching of the cross. It's to them that perish foolishness, but
unto us which are saved. It's the power of God. Now to preach the gospel, is
to preach the truth concerning God. It's as simple as that. It's
to preach the truth with regard to God in the Trinity of His
sacred persons. You know, when you preach the
gospel, You preach that God the Father who elected a people before
time began to be saved. And if you don't preach that,
you don't preach the gospel. If you don't believe that, you
don't believe the gospel. To preach the gospel is to preach
Christ the Redeemer and his successful work on Calvary's tree. When
he said it is finished, all the elect were saved. If you don't
preach that, you don't preach the gospel. It's impossible to
preach the gospel and not preach that. To preach the gospel is
to preach the work of God the Holy Spirit in giving a dead
sinner life through the preaching of the gospel. Now if I don't
preach the work of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
and preach the true character of God. You see, the Bible tells
us God's true character, and the cross tells us God's true
character, and every attribute of God, all who God is, is manifest
in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. His sovereignty, his
justice, his love, his power, His wisdom, every attribute of
God is fully displayed in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And anything I hear that is contrary to any of God's attributes is
not the gospel. If somebody says something that's
contrary to the absolute sovereignty of God, they're not preaching
the gospel. If somebody says something that's contrary to
the perfect justice of God, they're not preaching the gospel. If
somebody says something contrary to the immutability of Jesus
Christ, they're not preaching the gospel. The gospel is a declaration
of the true character of God as it's revealed in the cross
of the Lord Jesus Christ. To preach the gospel is to preach
the true character of man and God's all. The wickedness of man was great
in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually. And that's what God sees when
he looks in the natural man's heart. Only evil nonstop. There is none righteous. No,
not one. There's none that understands.
There's none that seeks after God. Oh, he's seeking God. Well,
if God's seeking him, he's seeking God. But if God's not seeking
him, he's not seeking God. He can care less about God. He's
like Esau. He doesn't think God's worth
a bowl of soup. There's none that seeketh after God. There's
none that doeth good. No, not one. Jeremiah said, the heart is deceitful
above all things, desperately wicked. That word desperately
means incurably wicked. It can't be improved. It can't
be made better. The carnal mind is enmity against
God. It's not subject to the law of
God. Neither indeed can be. As Isaiah said in Isaiah 64,
6, our righteousnesses, that word filthy rags is minstrelss
rags. Our righteousnesses are as minstrelss
rags. No life, no life, no beauty. The Lord said no man can come
to me. He didn't say no man may come.
He said no man can come to me except the Father which has sent
me draw him and I raise him up at the last day. Man's state is such that if there's
anything I must do first before God can do something for me,
I'm toast. I cannot be saved. To preach the gospel is to preach
the cross. Christ sent me not to baptize,
but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the
cross of Christ should be made of none effect. Now, when I preach
the cross, if I preach the cross the way
the cross should be preached, I'm gonna say with Paul, God
forbid that I should glory. in anything save the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ. The cross of Christ is the whole
counsel of God. The cross of Christ is the purpose
of God. The cross of Christ is why he
created the universe. The cross of Christ is why Adam
fell in the garden. Everything is for the cross of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and the only way a sinner can be saved
is for Christ to live and to die for that sinner. You know,
we're getting ready to take the Lord's table, and I love that
passage of scripture in 1 Corinthians 11. It says, for as often as
you do this, you show forth the Lord's death. You show forth
the Lord's death. This is a sermon we're all preaching.
We're preaching the only way we're saved is by the death of
the Lord Jesus Christ, what he accomplished, the complete putting
away of sins and being raised again for our justification.
You know, when we're taking the Lord's table, we're saying everything
in my salvation is in the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's it. Nothing else. That's
what it is to preach the cross. We show forth his death until
it's come. Now, I tell you what, if you preach the cross, you're
going to be like Paul. He said, I've determined not to anything
among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified. To preach the
cross is to preach nothing else. If you preach anything else,
you're not preaching the cross. The whole counsel of God. To preach the gospel is to preach
it in its freeness and its exclusiveness. in its wideness and in its narrowness. It's so wide that you can't be
too bad to come. You can't be too sinful to come.
You can't be too abandoned to come. There's not one thing you
need to do to make yourself fit to come. You can come as you
are. Come and welcome to the Lord
Jesus Christ. Nothing holding you back, but
your righteousness. It's not your sin. It's your
righteousness that keeps you from coming. Oh, the wideness
of his mercy. And the gospel is so narrow that
if you have anything other than Christ, you can't get through.
Do you understand that? If you have anything other than
Christ alone, you're not getting through this narrow gate. As
a matter of fact, you're excluded. The only people who come are
the people who come by Him. To preach the gospel is to shut
men up to Jesus Christ. Nothing more. Nothing less. nothing else. Christ plus nothing, Christ minus
nothing. Christ alone as the only object
of faith. And the rule of the gospel is
follow me. How do you follow somebody? You're
not looking at your feet when you're following them. You're
not looking at somebody else. You're not looking behind you
for evidences. You're looking to that one only. Christ only is all my salvation. You don't graduate past that. What a claim. I preach the gospel. May that be our purpose in life. First to be saved by the gospel
and to preach the gospel. Let's pray. Lord, how we thank you for the
gospel that saved us. And we ask that you give us the
grace to preach your gospel in this. Generation, you placed
us in this place, you placed us. Lord, enable us to preach
the gospel. Enable us to conduct ourselves
in such a way that we won't be a distraction. that we won't
be in offense. Lord, if men are offended, let
it be your gospel they're offended by. But Lord, we love your gospel. In Christ's name we pray, amen.
Now before we take the Lord's table, turn the page to 1 Corinthians
11. Verse 23. For I have received of the Lord
that which also I delivered unto you. But the Lord Jesus, the
same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. Hold on just a second.
Why don't you all have a Lord's table? Sunday morning, there's
a lot more people here. They did it at night. That's
enough of a reason for me. I don't need any other reason.
Does it say you have to do it at night? No, but they did it
at night. And I feel just a lot more safe doing it the way they
did it. And I know some people will object
to that. Well, you're free to object,
but we have a night because it was the same night that the Lord
was betrayed. He took bread, verse 24, and
we had given thanks. He'd 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'd sucked. Why do we take bread, then after
that take the wine? Why don't we do it all at the
same time? They didn't there, did they? After the same manner also, he
took the cup when he had supped and said, this cup is the New
Testament in my blood, the new covenant in my blood. The blood of the everlasting
covenant. That's what I'm gonna preach on Wednesday night. The
blood of the everlasting covenant. This do as often as you drink
it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till
he come. That's what we're doing right
now. We're celebrating the power of his death. Now you wouldn't
be celebrating his death if you didn't celebrate his resurrection.
We're celebrating his resurrection, but we're celebrating the fact
that he died. That is so mysterious to me that
the God-man could die. I don't know how it happened,
but it did happen. The God-man died. And in his death, he put away
sin. That's why God raised him from
the dead. He was successful in what he
did. 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. You know when you drink it unworthily? When you think you're worthy. That's when you're in trouble. Verse 28, but let a man examine
himself That's so important. Examine yourself. You don't need
to worry about somebody else. You know, the people use the
Lord's Table, as they say, to discipline the church. You can't
take it. Your life's not right. You need to wait till your life
is better. Then you can take the Lord's
Table. That is so ungodly. That is so contrary to the gospel. Let a man examine himself. Don't
be looking at somebody else. You think they ought to be taking
the Lord's table? The reason I look ahead, get
on the front row, I don't even want to know who's taking it.
Let a man examine himself. And what's it say next? Let a man examine himself and
so let him eat of that bread. and drink of that cup. Not, well
I better not, my life's not good enough. No, if you're not ready
to take the Lord's table, you're not ready to die. You see the
only, what we're seeing, do you see that the broken body and
shed blood of Christ is all your salvation? That's to eat it and
drink it worthily. Verse 29, for he that eateth
and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation, condemnation
to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many
are weak and sickly among you in many sleep. For if we would
judge ourselves, we should not be judged. And every time I take
the Lord's table, I judge myself. And I know that the only way
I can be accepted by God is through what Jesus Christ did on Calvary
Street. What he did in his life, what
he did in his death, what he did in his resurrection. And
we are doing this in remembrance of him. We're going to get to
that in a few weeks and look at it more carefully. But this
do. That's what we're doing right
now. This do in remembrance of me.