For this hour, we're going to be back in Ephesians chapter five with the first eight verses of the chapter. Now there's two kinds of people in this world. In this hour, we have that contrast, those that are born of light and those that are left in darkness.

Everyone's born in darkness. Everyone is born darkness and born in darkness, in the flesh. No good in this whatsoever. We're all begotten by darkness because that is the oblivion that our father Adam plunged us into by a decision he made. And men talk about choosing that you need to make the right choice. Well, man was only given one choice ever and he blew it. He blew it. So don't give me a choice. No, no, it's just saved me. Saved me, Lord.

Adam's choice plunged every human ever born into sin, save one, the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you find it interesting that there's no such thing, and we're talking about the two, born of light and born of darkness. Do you find it interesting there's no such thing as a light that flees darkness? You find that interesting? But darkness always, always flees light. Scripture says, the light shined in darkness and darkness comprehended it not. They're totally opposites, completely opposite.

Genesis chapter one, it tells us that the Lord God said, let there be light. And there was light. He commanded the light to shine out of darkness. And then the verse goes on and says, he's commanded that light to shine forth in your hearts, the hearts of his people. With that said, let's read this text, Ephesians 5. Verse 1-8,

But be ye therefore followers of God as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. But fornication and uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints, neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things come the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For you were sometimes darkness.

I think that that's really interesting how he words that. Because he doesn't say you were born of darkness, it says you were sometimes Darkness. That's complete, isn't it? Full of it. Completely full of it. It's what I'm getting from that. But now are ye light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light.

I've titled this message, Children of the Light. Children of the Light. He says, you were darkness. Now you're light. Well, we know how light switches work. Once you turn on a switch, the light comes on. Well, we're dead in trespasses and sin, completely in darkness, don't know where the light switch is and have no ability to turn it on. The Lord's gonna have to be the one to do that. That's as simple as I can put it.

To find clearly here are the children of darkness left to ourselves, all these things that he says in verse three through five, that's us. That's us, we will serve ourself, we will serve our lust, we will worship ourself, we will seek after pleasure, popularity, and power until we run ourself into the pit. That's just what we'll do by nature. It's because of our depraved heart. The scripture tells us that our heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. That's pretty dark, isn't it? That's pretty dark. Deceitful above all things, not some things, not most things, all things, and desperately, desperately wicked. That's darkness. That's what we're created into. That's what we find ourself whenever we're born. We don't have to do anything to acquire that. That's just what we are by nature.

But the children of light, are born from above, not left to themselves. Notice the description in verse one. Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children. In verse eight again, for ye were sometimes darkness, but now, and if you notice those words are ye, that's in italics, that means it was added by the translator, so it wasn't in the original text, so it should read, you were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light. This is the description of the Lord's people. We were darkness, but now we are the children of the light.

So I have three questions this morning. What is the source of this light? What's the source of this light? That's really important. Because if you and I have light in us, we don't need his light. So it's really important we find out where the source is and who the source is. Why are we the children of the light? And how are we the children of the light? By this time, by this hour over, I pray the Lord would answer those questions, cause us to be able to rejoice in our Savior and his finished work.

So first question, what is the source of light? Turn with me to John chapter one. You want to know the source of all light? It's right here in John chapter one. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God whose name was John, The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe. He was not that light, but he was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. He came into his own and his own received him not. But to as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them which believe on his name, which were born. not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory. The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace. and full of truth.

Christ Jesus, the Word, is the singular, solitary, complete source of light. It's found in His life. His life was the light of men. He created all things for His glory and for His honor. He's the only one that has this light. He's completely other than we are, in every way. Everything about us is bad, it's evil, it's sinful, prideful. Not him, it's perfect, it's pure, it's holy. So this light is the opposite of this darkness.

And he says, now you're the children of this light. We find, we read scripture, that we are false by nature. Scripture says, let every man be true, let every man be a liar. Let God be true and let every man be a liar. Let God be true and let every man be a liar. How do you let God do something? You don't let him, just don't touch it. We're not letting him be true, it's just saying, understand something, God's truth, we're the liars by nature. But not him, look at verse 14, last five words. Full of grace and truth. Full of grace and truth, that's him. That's the Lord Jesus Christ, that's the light of the world. He said that by him all things exist.

Listen to what Isaiah 45, seven says. I form the light, I create darkness, I make peace and create evil, I the Lord do all these things. See, our God is sovereign. He reigneth over the inhabitants of heaven and the earth and everything else, everything else. As the supreme ruler, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, as the Alpha and Omega, as the one who is seated as the successful Redeemer of His people, He reigneth and He is the light. He is the light. Without Him, there'd be nothing.

You know, the son was to I don't know. Well, how would you say that turn off? I don't know. Quit glowing, quit burning, lost its heat and its light. Everything would die. Everything would die. You have to have light in order for there to be life. I understand there's some things that can grow in darkness, but most of it's not. Not that good. Mold can grow in darkness. You understand what I'm saying? That means mushrooms. Some people like mushrooms. You get what I'm saying though. Most of the things that grow has to have light because of the, it's in water. Imagine that. Has to have water as well. And that's what the, that's what's glorious about the Lord's gospel is he gives both. It's the washing of water by the word and it's his light that he shines forth into the heart of his people, illuminating them, showing them you're lost. You're sinful. And he says, fear not, I put away your sin, you shall not die.

He alone is purposed. He is willed and none can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? He is the sole source of light. We must establish that first and foremost. There's no light in us whatsoever of ourself. No man has light of themselves. You can't get it. You can't merit it. You can't earn it. It's given freely by the grace of God alone.

Second question is, why are we the children of light? Turn with me to Ephesians chapter two. I should have read that verse 13 again, which says, which were born not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. That's the why, we're the children of light right there, because of God's purpose. That's what he's gonna say right here to us also in Ephesians two.

Listen, verse one through 10. And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sin. So what happened? You hath he quickened. Who quickened? He did. Who did he quicken? His people. You hath he quickened who were dead. At the time we were dead. The time we were sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. The time we were dead, he came to us and said, live.

You hath he quickened who were dead and trespasses in sin, wherein in time past you walk according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience among whom also We all had our conversation in times past of the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." That's chapter five of Ephesians right there. Those verses that we said, if the Lord leads you to yourself, that's where we would land. That's us right there without God.

And here's where the interjection of the gospel comes in. The glorious truth, but God. He interjects. He interjects. He comes to a sinner and he says, who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherein he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace you are saved. So just in case we didn't get it the first time, Paul adds to the end of it, by grace you're saved. You hath he quickened, and this is how, by grace.

So why are we the children of the light? because of the amazing grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the finished work on the cross of Calvary. And hath raised us up together, verse six, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ, through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through faith, in that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus under good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."

If God does not do it all, we're going to remain in darkness. Why? We're children of darkness by birth, by nature. That's us. We can't go against our nature. We can't do anything contrary to the darkness.

Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. Men love darkness rather than light. Why did they not come to Christ, everybody that he met? Why did the Pharisees not believe on Christ? They loved the praise of man. They loved darkness rather than light. They wanted the flesh to be applauded. They wanted to get some credit for their salvation. They wanted men to praise them. The Christ said, you will not come to me that you might have life. You don't want the light. You're happy in the darkness. That's the truth of it. They were happy in their darkness. It's a sad state.

If you think about it, a lot of people spend most of all of their life, some of them in this darkness, thinking that they have the light. They really do. It's sad because they think they've acquired it somehow they've done it somehow that they're the children of light because have done this and I've done that No, if you're the children if you're a child of the king if you're a child of the light It's because God quickens you when you were dead in trespasses and sin God came to you where you were as a sinner and saved you by his grace Didn't ask permission Didn't say, hey, if you'll just open the door, I'll come in. No, he had to kick the door down, throw out the strong man, make abode in our heart, and that's exactly, God gave us a new heart first, so he done it all. He done it all.

If he doesn't choose to save, none will be saved. Dead man can't choose to live. And considering it's his light to begin with, it has to be all him. I can't make him shine it. When's the last time you made God do something? A lot of people believe, well, you pray hard enough. They don't come out and actually say make God do something, but they say stuff like prayer changes things. Prayer changes me. Prayer changes you. Prayer's not for God, it's for us. It's to seek His face. It's to call upon His name. It's to beg for mercy. It's to beg for grace. Prayer's not for God, it's for us, for His people. But there are those that believe if you pray hard enough, It's almost like wishing for wish. I mean, no irreverence or disrespect to people, but it's like they're wishing to a genie and it's eventually going to come true. It just doesn't work that way. He's God. He's God. Can't be dictated to, can't be threatened, can't be manipulated. He's God.

We are the children of light because the sovereign God of this universe has purposed it. He chose us, his people, and the covenant of grace before time ever began to redeem them. As we heard the first hour, he said, I'm going to set my affection upon you. I'm going to love you. And he said, I loved you with an everlasting love. Before I formed you in the womb, I loved you. before the world was even spoken into existence, before the sun was even made, before light shined forth out of darkness, which is a picture of Christ. That's what that's all about. If it wasn't for the Lord saying, let there be light, that's Christ in his condescension. Think of it that way. Lord, whenever he was born, scripture talks about his birth. When he was born, that's let there be light. That's the Lord Jesus Christ, the light. and life of everything, of everything for his people.

We're children of the light because the sovereign God of this universe has purposed it. He chose to elect us in the covenant of grace, not because we're good. Not because there was, he saw, you know, a lot of times you see things and you're like, okay, I see potential here. I see a little bit of potential in this person. I see a little bit of potential in this relationship. I see a little bit of potential with this or that, and it may get better. He didn't see potential in us. No, he saw exactly what we were. Dead, dog sinners, in trespasses and in sin, without hope in this world, without hope of getting to God in any way, without hope of pleasing God in any way. We were in darkness, creatures of darkness, stumbling in the darkness, dead. You know what he said? Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw the light. that it was good. You know what he sees when he sees his people? He sees the light of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he says, well pleased. He saw that it was good. It was good. No, it's not because we're good. It's because he's good. We're the most wretched, vile, corrupt creatures to ever exist. He's the only one that's full of truth and full of grace. He's the only one that's perfect, that's righteous, that's holy. And the only way that I'm gonna be made righteous and holy is if I'm in him, be his doing.

Thank God, he said, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and whom I will, I will harden. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I just love that he said, I will have mercy. Um, cause if he never said that we're, we're in trouble, but it'd be the end of it. But he said, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. We're born as children of darkness in the darkness, but God said, I will have mercy.

Turn with me to John chapter three. Nicodemus is coming to the Lord at night, and he says, Rabbi, I know that you're a man sent from God, because no man can do the things that you do. And I love our Lord not answering. I say this probably every time we go to this passage, but I absolutely love the fact that our Lord didn't look at him and even acknowledge what he said. He says, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except you be born again, you should not see the kingdom of God. Gets right to the meat, gets right to the source of the problem, this man's heart.

So let's read this together. Verse three, Jesus answered and said, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into the second time into his mother's womb and be born?

Now here we have darkness. He was in darkness. He could not understand what our Lord Jesus Christ was talking about. He couldn't understand it. It didn't just go over his head. It was an impossibility for him to comprehend it. It's not that he just barely missed it. No, it made zero sense whatsoever. Zero sense because the flesh can't comprehend the things of God. The flesh don't mind the things of God because they're spiritual. They're spiritual. He's dead. So he's in darkness.

Nicodemus saith unto him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter through the second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, He cannot enter into the kingdom of God, that which are born of the flesh is flesh, that which are born of the spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say unto thee, you must be born again.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whether it goeth. So is everyone. that is born of the spirit. Here is the why we are the children of the light. Because the Lord blew his wind upon us. That's the why. He blew his spirit upon us at the appointed time under the sound of the preaching of his gospel. He came by a wretched dead dog sinner and said, live. And he calls light to shine out of darkness. We're the darkness, understand that. He calls his light to shine out of darkness. And guess what happens to the darkness? It can't comprehend the light. He put it away. He put away the darkness. It's gone. It's gone. Just as when you turn a light on, the darkness has to flee. That's exactly what happened. He took up his abode inside his people. There's no more darkness in there. When God sees his people, he sees the light of his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are the children of his light.

Let's read on verse nine. Nicodemus answered and said to him, how can these things be? Now this wasn't what David said when he said, such things are too wonderful for me, they're high, I can't attain to them. This knowledge is too wonderful for me. No, that's not what he's saying. He's doubting is what he's doing. He's doubting. How is that even possible? It's what he's saying. Just like that.

Jesus answered and said unto him, art thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we do know and testify that we have seen and you receive not our witness. If I would have told you earthly things and you believe not, if I have told you earthly things and you believe not, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. Now, the next verse is John 3, 16. And I was intentionally reading this far for this purpose. He just got done telling us that everyone that is born of the Spirit, we can't tell whether it blows, whether it goes, it's of the Spirit. That which of the flesh is flesh, that which is of the Spirit is Spirit. Now, my intention is to never just convince us, but it's to show us in the scripture. And what he just said was, is the Lord does the choosing and salvation. That's what he's saying, the Nicodemus, because you're not a spiritual creature. You're a creature of darkness. I'm a creature of darkness. So there's no way I can choose spiritual things. I'm spiritually dead and trespasses and in sin, the scripture tells us. So if God's going to save me, or if I'm going to be saved, God's going to have to do it all. God's going to have to do it all. This is the why we're children of light. God did it all. Verse 16, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this, now get this, this is the condemnation that light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Who's gonna do the reproving? It has to be God. It has to be God, front, back, side to side, top to bottom, it has to be him, totally, completely. And if he doesn't do it, it won't get done. Why? Because of what we are and who he is. What we are and who he is, we are darkness. He is light and he is life. He is life. He says you gotta be born by his spirit. That's why you're a child, his child of the light. You're born of his spirit.

Can you control the wind? And I don't mean turn a fan on. Of course we can't control the wind, can we? Some, they're streaming, they're probably home, so I imagine they're watching right now. They're sick, they're not able to get here. Can they, you get sick, can you wheel away that cold? Can you bring your fever down with just your willpower? Can't happen, can it? God has to, what makes us think we can do spiritual things if we can't do anything to control this? They, You go to the doctor, you have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, you can't just make it go down on your own, can you? No, it doesn't work that way. We don't have that power that men preach and say that we have. He has all power. He has all the power. He has all the life. He has all the light. We have none of it in and of ourself. He's gotta give it. He does it one way, by grace alone, by his choice alone, by his purpose alone.

What did we do to, What do we have to do with our first birth? We're born. Remember, one of us is born. Name, person, alive, but wasn't born. Do you remember it? No. What'd you do? I probably cried, but I don't remember it. I don't have a clue what happened. I had no physical control whatsoever, no ability to participate, nothing that I did accomplished anything but just cause pain. That's all. Just born. That's why David talks about being born in sin, shaping an iniquity. It's that curse. That's the women's curse. Just as man's to sweat, childbearing. Eve had it made to begin with. There weren't going to be any sorrow in childbearing. But no, you can blame her for that. Anyways, the point I'm making is we had nothing to do with our first birth. Nothing. And that's a physical birth. What makes us think we're going to have anything to do with a spiritual birth if we're nothing but darkness, dead and trespasses and sin?

When I say dead, I don't mean like dying. I mean, scripture talks about twice dead plucked up by the roots. That's how dead we are. We're like a stick on the side of the road that's been there for five years. You know, it has no hope of life coming to it whatsoever. God's got to pick up the stick and say, live. I use that example because that's something we can all relate to, but it's true, isn't it? We're dead dead. What power did we have? What choice did we make? What makes us think praying a prayer or working a work or living morally? And I don't, I'm not against living morally, but if we think that that has any part to do with our salvation, we're missing it. We missed it completely. Um, And here we are, creatures of darkness. How are we gonna cause the light of God to shine forth? How, you can't? We can't. You know what we say? Have mercy on me, the sinner. That's our cry. Not, I'm going to do this so God will do that. No, I'm going to just say, have mercy on me, the sinner, and pray that he has mercy. Because if he doesn't, I'm in trouble. If he doesn't shine forth his light, I'm going to remain in darkness because I am darkness. From the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, and so are you. Until he comes in and takes up his abode, he calls that darkness to flee. Isn't that wonderful? We weren't even there when God said, let there be light. It's God that commands the light to shine out of darkness, out of his people. It's his elect, his choice, causes us, darkness, his people, his light to shine out of darkness, what we are. What glory do we get for that? None, none. The darkness just flees. James 118 says, of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. His creatures of light. It's of his own will, isn't it? No longer the children of darkness, but his children of light. This is why we're the children of light. Now the last one is how. How are we the children of light? I've already said it. I mean, I basically say all three points and just keep adding to the three points as I go. That's just how I do. For by grace are you saved through faith in that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. It's by Christ Jesus finished work on the cross of Calvary alone. That's it. There's nothing else. Not my choice, not my ways, not my will, not my prayer, not my life. It's him, all him. It's the one who is the light of God sent into this world. He does it and he gets all the glory. All the glory. He chose. Now you think about God being a spiritual being. We can't choose spiritual things because we're in the flesh. Well, he became a man. 100% man and 100% God. There's a lot of mysteries in scripture, but that's one that definitely, well, you just have to leave it alone. I mean, you can't understand that. How can he be both? Well, he was. How do we believe it? By faith alone. Truth, Lord, you are 100% man, 100% God. I believe it. I believe it. But he chose to robe himself in flesh. He chose to come in the likeness of sinful flesh, yet he had no darkness in him. He had only light. He chose to, think about this. He chose to wrap himself in a robe of dust to save a bunch of dust. That's what he did. That's what he did. That's amazing love, isn't it? He lived perfectly without sin. He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily, wearing a garment of flesh for the purpose of redeeming his people. from their darkness.

Did you know we had no hope of getting rid of the darkness or getting out of the darkness? You ever been in a dark room before? I'm talking pitch black. You can't see anything. You'll stub your toe. You'll trip over things. It's dangerous. It's dangerous. Oh, how important that light is in those moments. What about when the power goes out and it's just pitch black everywhere? You're stumbling around, you're trying to find a flashlight or something. You need the light. I gotta find the light. I can't see anything.

He's the only light. And if he don't come to me and cause me to see, I'll never see. If he don't cause the light to shine forth in my heart, in your heart, with that brand new heart he gives us, it'll never happen. It'll never happen.

In order for us to live, he had to die. In order for us to be saved, he had to be made to bear the punishment and the full wrath and fury of God's justice. It's the only way. It was the only way. In order for us to be made light, he had to put away our darkness. That's what he did by the sacrifice of himself. Our sin was our darkness, he put it away.

I love the thought. We're all born in this darkness, born full of this darkness. And because of his finished work, there's not an ounce of darkness left in us. Now on the outside, we still see it. God don't see it. He sees his son made us creatures of the light made us like unto him. That's why he said, brethren, it does not appear what we shall be that we, but we know when he shall appear, we shall be made like him for we shall see him as he is. And scripture also says, as we, as he is, so are we in this world.

What does that mean? He told the disciples, I am the light of the world. He goes on to say, you are the light of the world. A city that's set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men hide a candle under a bushel, but put it on a candlestick and it giveth light to all that are in the house. So when I go away, you're the light of the world. His people are the light of the world because of what he accomplished on the cross of Calvary.

In order for us to be made righteous, he had to be made sin for us who knew no sin. that his precious blood might wash away our sins by his sacrifice and all by his grace. This is what he did for his chosen people. This is how they were made, the children of light, is by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the washing of his blood upon them.

We've been redeemed. We've been made God's chosen children of light, no more do we stumble in darkness. No more do we follow after darkness, but now we follow after the light. That's why he says, walk in the light as he is in the light, and you'll have fellowship one with another. You'll have fellowship one with another. He goes on to say that darkness has no fellowship with the light in the other place.

We've been bought by his blood, made heirs of God and joint heirs. with Christ.

Now let's close by going back to our text. And as we read this, think of the contrast between light and darkness. It begins talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, and he is all light. He is the sweet smelling savor that was the light and life of his people.

And as we continue reading that when it says, but, Realize that that's individuals that are still trapped in darkness and have no hope of getting out of it by what they do. Be therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once the name you, named among you, as become a saints, neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know that no whoremonger, no unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words."

And that's what all these that think they're in the light are doing. They're still in darkness, that's what they're deceiving with vain words. That's probably what we'll be looking at next week.

For because of these things comeeth the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. That word disobedience is translated unbelief. They're the children of darkness, the children of unbelief.

I've lost my place. Number seven, be therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light. How do the children of the light walk? My last question. Looking to Christ. They walk by faith. Faith bestowed freely by his grace, we look to Christ in all things as children of the light. God's elect are the children of the light because he chose them by his grace, he begotten them by his spirit, and because Christ Jesus finished the work on Calvary's cross. And he gets all the glory. He gets all the glory.

Let's pray. Father, we're thankful that you've done it all and get all the glory, caused us to believe, blessed us to our understanding. Lord, as we're about to partake these elements, we ask that you would bless them. You would clear our minds and cause us to focus upon you, our light. and we would remember the meaning behind them, Lord, the blood that shed for the remission of sin and your body broken for us, your people. We thank you, we worship you. We ask this in Christ's name, amen.