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Henry Mahan

Remembering Christ

Luke 22:15-20
Henry Mahan • October, 7 1992 • Audio
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What does the Bible say about the Lord's Supper?

The Bible teaches that the Lord's Supper is an ordinance instituted by Christ to remember His sacrifice.

The Lord's Supper, also known as the Lord's Table, was instituted by Christ during the Passover meal with His disciples. In Luke 22:19-20, Jesus took bread and wine, giving thanks and declaring them as symbols of His body and blood, meant to be observed in remembrance of Him. This sacrament serves to remind believers of the significance of Christ's death, which fulfilled the Passover and provided atonement for sin. As stated in 1 Corinthians 11:24-26, participating in the Lord's Supper is a proclamation of the Lord’s death until He returns, emphasizing its importance in the life of the believer.

Luke 22:15-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

How do we know Christ's sacrifice is sufficient for our salvation?

Christ's sacrifice is sufficient because He is the perfect Lamb of God, without sin, offered once for all.

In 1 Corinthians 5:7, Paul states, 'For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.' This declaration affirms that Christ is the fulfillment of the Passover lamb, which was to be without blemish. His sacrifice is complete and sufficient for salvation because He alone is without sin, having lived a perfect life. Furthermore, Hebrews 10:10 confirms that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Since no further sacrifice is needed, believers can rest assured in their salvation through faith in Christ’s completed work.

1 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 10:10

Why is remembering Christ's death important for Christians?

Remembering Christ's death is vital for Christians as it reinforces our dependence on His grace and mercy.

Remembering Christ's death is essential because it reminds us of the foundation of our faith and the grace we have received. As mentioned in Luke 22:19, Jesus commanded us to 'do this in remembrance of me,' highlighting the necessity of recalling His sacrifice. This remembrance not only encourages believers to reflect on the cost of their salvation but also fortifies their assurance in God’s promises. It serves as a reminder of our ongoing need for grace, enabling us to live in a manner worthy of our calling, rooted in His sacrificial love and mercy towards us.

Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 11:24-25

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Now, I'm going to speak tonight
on the subject, Remembering Our Lord. Remembering Our Lord. Now, we've gathered together
here to worship the Lord at the table of the Lord. We've come
to observe this blessed ordinance which our Lord gave to His church. We call it the Lord's Table.
And I'm going to read three different passages of Scripture. The first
one is found in Luke 22. Luke chapter 22. This was the
day that our Lord instituted this supper, this Lord's table. Luke chapter 22. On the day of
the Passover, before our Savior died, our Lord met with his disciples
in the upper room to observe the Passover. And it says in
verse 15 of Luke 22, And Christ said to them, With desire I have
desired to eat 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. Now he took the cup and gave
thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves. For
I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until
the kingdom of God shall come. And he took the bread and gave
thanks and break it and gave unto them, saying, This is my
body which is given for you, this do in remembrance of me. Likewise, also the cup after
supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which
is shed for you." Now, what is the Passover? Our Lord had met
here in the upper room with his disciples to observe the Passover,
which they did. What is the Passover? Well, let's
turn to that second passage of Scripture in Exodus 12, Exodus
chapter 12. Now Israel was down there in
Egypt, been there 400 years, in bondage, in slavery, in captivity,
and God determined to deliver His people out of Egypt. And
He said to Moses in Exodus 12, the Lord spake unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, shall be unto you the beginning
of months, it shall be the first month of the year to you." Now
you speak unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, in the tenth
day of this month, I shall take, they shall take to them every
man a lamb, a lamb, according to the house of their fathers,
a lamb for a house, not one lamb now for the whole people of Israel,
but a lamb for each house. according to the size of the
house." Verse 4, "'If the household be too little for a lamb,' see,
they have to eat it, all of it, "'let him and his neighbor next
unto his house take it according to the number of the souls. Every
man, according to his eating, shall make your count for the
lamb.'" Now watch how this lamb is to be selected. "'Your lamb
shall be without blemish.'" This is the Passover now that our
Lord and his disciples were observing, in which Israel had observed
clear back to the town of Moses. Now your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male of the first year. You'll take it out from
the sheep or from the goats and keep it up until the fourteenth
day of the same month. That's four days you're to observe
that lamb. The whole assembly of the congregation
of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take
of the blood and strike it on the side post, two side posts,
on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat
it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire,
unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Don't
eat it raw. Don't mix it with anything, with
water. Roast it with fire, the head with the legs, with pertinence
thereof. Let nothing of it remain unto
the morning. And that which remaineth of it
unto the morning ye shall burn with fire, and thus shall ye
eat it, with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, your
staff in your hand, and eat it in haste." It's the Lord's Passover. This is the beginning of the
Passover. This is the first Passover, way back there in the land of
Egypt, when God would deliver Israel out of Egypt into the
Promised Land. This is the Lord's Passover.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will
smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast,
and against all the princes or leaders of Egypt, I'll execute
judgment. I am the Lord, and the blood
shall be to you, partaking upon the houses where you are. When
I see the blood, I'll pass over you. I'll see the blood, I'll pass
over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you
when I smite the land of Egypt." Now this, and our Lord told Israel
to observe this Passover from then on. That was the first one.
Then they were to observe it from that time on until the Messiah
comes. Now if you'll turn to 1 Corinthians
5 verse 7. What did this Passover, this
first Passover, to whom did it refer? What did it mean? Well, in 1 Corinthians 5, verse
7, listen to what it says, "...Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that ye may be a new lump, as ye are all unleavened. For even
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." In other words, this
first Passover, when Moses went to the people of Israel, down
there in Egypt, told them, select the Lamb. That Lamb is Christ. That's Christ, the Lamb. He's
called the Lamb all the way through the Scripture. When John the
Baptist pointed him out to his disciples, he said, behold the
Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. And then
in the book of Revelation, even in heaven, they beheld and a
Lamb was in the midst of the throne as it had been slain.
And they sang praises unto him, unto the Lamb of God, who loved
us and gave himself for us." Christ is that Lamb. And that
Lamb that was selected was to be without spot or blemish. When
Israel picked out the Lamb to sacrifice, to roast with fire,
the Lamb whose blood would be on the door, it was to be a spotless
Lamb. Christ, our Lamb, is without
sin. He's the only man who ever lived
without sin, spotless, without blemish. He had no sin. He knew
no sin. He did no sin. That Lamb was
to be a male of the first year, a male in the prime of life.
That's Christ. When He's 33 years of age, He
was crucified. That Lamb was to be put up for
four days and observed, to be tried, to make sure it had no
blemish, no disease, and no spot. Our Lord Jesus was tried for
almost three and a half decades here on this earth. Tried by
the Father, tried by the law, tried by Satan, and tried by
me, a tried stone who never failed the test. He defeated even Satan
when he came to him. Kill it in the evening, our Lord
was slain. Roast it with fire. Hear Him
on the cross, I thirst. My tongue cleaveth to my jaws,
bearing the wrath of God for his people, walking the winepress
alone, Christ's suffering under the wrath of God against our
sin. Take the blood and put it on
the doorpost and on the lentils, and eat the roasted Passover
lamb. This is the Lord's Passover,
and when I see the blood, I'll pass over you." And Christ is
the fulfillment of that Passover. He is our Passover. So he gathers
his disciples here in Luke 22 to eat the last Passover. This is the last Passover. All
the way from Moses, all the way down through David, Isaiah, Jeremiah,
all of Malachi down to the last Passover. This is the night before
he suffered and ate this Passover. No more Passover. Why? Because
Christ has died. The Lamb has died. There'll be
no more lambs slain. There'll be no more blood shed.
There'll be no more innocent suffering for the guilty. There'll
be no more blood spilled or shed. This is the last Passover. Now,
at that time, our Lord took the bread. He took the bread. Now turn to 1 Corinthians chapter
11. Here's the third passage. Our
Lord took the bread and wine. He broke the bread and he served
him the wine. He said, this is my body broken
for you, my blood shed for you. Now let's look at 1 Corinthians
chapter 11. And this, this Lord's table,
which began that evening before he died, instituted by the master
himself, was then delivered to the churches. Paul gave it to
the churches. And it's come right on down to
this night. You see, it goes right on back. This supper goes
all the way back to Moses. It changed when the Lamb of God
was slain, our Lord Jesus Christ, our Faithful. We are observing
the Lord's table, which He gave to His church. All right, here
it is in 1 Corinthians 11, 23. I have received of the Lord that
which also I delivered unto you. that the Lord Jesus, the same
night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given
thanks, he broke it and said, Take, eat, this is my body, which
is broken for you. This do ye, in remembrance of
me. After the same manner also he
took the cup, and when he had supped, saying, This cup is the
New Testament, new covenant in my blood. This do ye, as oft
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 comes." When Israel, down through the years, took
a lamb and slew it and roasted it with fire, observed the Passover,
and he said, your children say, what do you mean by this service?
They'd say, this is the Lord's Passover. We were enslaved. We were in bondage. We were in
Egypt. We were unable to deliver ourselves,
and God came down and delivered us, and he delivered us by the
slaying of the firstborn, by judgment, by the Passover. When
he saw the blood, he passed it over us, and the Egyptians let
us go. Now, we observe in the Lord's
table and say, what mean ye by this service? This is our Lord's
table. His body was broken for us. His
blood was shed for us. We were in sin. We were in bondage. We were in slavery. We were in
darkness. We were in the kingdom of evil
and darkness. And He delivered us by His death. And when He sees the blood, He'll
pass over us. Now, our Lord took bread and
wine to represent His person and work. We don't slay animals.
Because no more blood needs to be shed. This is the blood that
was shed once for all. No more blood is to be shed.
No more suffering for sin. He has once suffered for sin. The just for the unjust bring
us to God. No more blood, no more suffering,
and no more death. Even you won't die. Oh, he said
you're asleep, but you're not going to die. He died for you. Because he lives, you live. This
body will sleep, but you'll never die. And the bread and the wine
are good elements. Now let me show you that in passing. First of all, the bread and the
wine represent Christ so well, because bread and wine are so
common. Bread and wine are everyday common
elements, and they're very real. actually became man. Common like you and me. He had
flesh. There's so much flesh. Flesh
everywhere. People everywhere. And our Lord
Jesus Christ became a man. A common, everyday, ordinary,
real man. Just like this is real bread
and real wine. Common. Something ordinary. And
the Lord from heaven came down and actually became, not special
flesh, But he was made in the likeness of our flesh, sinful
flesh, that's right. He thirsted, he wearied, he hungered
just like we are. Secondly, the bread and the wine
show his suffering. Do you know how bread is made? Look out in that field and there's
the wheat growing and it's just blowing in the breeze and it's
all the tassels up there and it's ready to be harvested and
then they go in with a big old combine, you know, and they reap
that reap that wheat or whatever it is they make it out of, and
then they take it to the mill. And just the other day up in
West Virginia, I saw one of those big stones from a gristmill where
they grind it, you know, grind it. They take that wheat and
grind it and put it through the threshing floor and grind it. Our Lord Jesus suffered, suffered. And then they take that bread
and put it in the oven. and bake it under extreme heat. The bread sure symbolizes our
Lord's broken body, as He went through all that agony and suffering.
And the wine, you know, He talked about walking the wine press
alone. Those beautiful grapes, see them
out there on the... I saw a special the other day
on grapes and making wine, and the grapes were so pretty, and
then they went into that place where they were and the juice was separated from
the grape, and my Lord's blood was separated from his body.
He shed his blood, his blood flowed out for our sins." See
that wine, bread and wine, he didn't just pick this out. This
bread and wine symbolizes our Lord's suffering and shows his
death. Shows his death. How? Because the two are separated.
The body and the blood. My body and blood's all one.
I can't give you my body and my blood. But he says, the bread,
this is my body. Now this is my blood. And the
two were separated on that cross. And then the bread and the wine
are such good representations and elements representing our
Lord because they require no effort on my part. I just receive
them. I receive the bread, I receive
the wine. Here it is, it's free. You're
sitting there and I'm here and when the bread is passed out
in the midst of it, it's handed to me. And you know what I'm
going to do, Johnny? I'm going to take it. Take. Eat. This is my body broken for
you. It's all you do. You don't have
to suffer. You don't have to shed your blood.
You don't have to die. You just have to take and eat.
Just take it. Drink ye all of it. This is my
blood, free, free. And then this bread and wine
show the nearness of Christ to us. What I do with the bread
when I take it? I eat it. It becomes a part of
me. What I do with the wine? I drink
it. Eat my flesh and drink my blood, which is Christ in you,
the hope of glory. I prevail till Christ be formed
in you. Salvation is not just an illo-empty
profession of faith or reformation of character or life. It is a
joint union with, a living union with, a vital union with a living
Lord. He reigns in you. He resides
in you. He remains in you. Christ and
you are one. You can take everything away
from me, everything I've got. If you've got enough force and
law and power, you can take my clothes, you can take my house,
you can take my wife, you can take my children, you can take
my car, you can take everything. There's one thing you can't take,
what I ate tonight. It's part of me. It's already
in my bloodstream. It's already clear down to my
fingernails. It's already growing new hair, I hope. It's all over
me, what I ate. And you can't take Christ away
from me. He's in here. You can point a gun at me and
try to make me deny Him. You do what you want to, but
you can't take Him. He lives in my heart. That's
right. I'm going to eat His flesh and
drink His blood. That's right. All right, let
me show you this in 1 Corinthians 11. There's some things I want
you to see, three or four important truths from this text, 1 Corinthians
11. And when He had given thanks,
verse 24, and when He took bread, And when he had given thanks,
he broke it and said, you take eat, this is my body which is
broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. Verse 25, after the same manner
also he took the cup when he had stopped saying this cup is
the New Testament in my blood, this do, this do, as oft as you
drink it in remembrance of me. What did he say? Three times,
twice, and it's repeated again in verse 26. This do in remembrance
of me. All right? Let me break that
down. This do. Not something else. Not something
else. Notice the simplicity of it.
There's nothing here tonight. There's no altar. There's no
priest officiating. We have a priest. He's at the
right hand of God. But there's no priest officiating.
There's no ceremony. There are no uniforms. There
are no candles burning and there's no kneeling. There's nothing
here but bread and wine. That's all. That's what he said. This do. This do. He said it twice. This do. This
do. We have no right to change it.
For the Lord himself designed it. The Lord himself instituted
it. I have no right to do this like
I want to or desire to or make it more attractive. He said this
do. This do. Now it's quite common
for us to celebrate birthdays and celebrate anniversaries and
celebrate days of victory and celebrate homecoming and celebrate
all those things like you choose to celebrate. You can celebrate
all those things like you want to. But our Lord, in his own
lifetime, the night before he died, appointed the method and
designed the way by which his people are to remember this all-important
act, his death. He designed it, he instituted
it, he appointed the method, and himself presided over the
first Lord's table. I don't dare change it. I don't dare do anything else.
Before he even died, he sat about the table with his disciples
and he himself took that bread and break it and handed it to
them and said, eat it. It's my body broken for you.
Now this day in remembrance of me. And he took that wine and
he blessed it. And he gave it to them. He said,
drink ye all of it. Drink ye all of it. This is my
blood shed for you. This too. You have a problem
with that? I can't see what the problem
is. I can't see why people make it a fellowship supper, why they
make it a toast to their own righteousness. I don't know why
they make it anything but what it is. It's the simplicity of
the gospel of Christ. The broken bread and the wine,
body and blood of Christ. This, that, alright. The second
word he said, in remembrance, in remembrance. He didn't tell
us to remember his birth, he said remember my death. He didn't
tell us to get together and remember his birth and have a Christmas
party and build a nativity scene. He didn't say, he said this dude
in remembrance of me, my death. As often as you do this, you
show what? My death, my death. Christ didn't
save me by being born into the world, he saved me by dying on
the cross. A babe in a mother's arms can't
save a flea. It takes a redeemer on a cross.
This doing remembrance of me, you mean I have to be reminded
of my Lord? I have to be reminded of his
love for me? I have to be reminded of his
death for me? Forget Christ? Is that possible? Oh, I tell you, we're still in
this body, and we're prone to forget. We're prone to forget. We're prone to become indifferent.
We're still in the body of flesh. If we were purely spiritual beings,
we would purely, constantly praise God. But we're not purely spiritual
beings, we're fleshly beings. We're flesh and spirit. The Spirit,
our Lord said, all right, He told His disciples in this critical
night, this critical night, He went up there on the mountain
to pray and He left three of them. The inner circle, Tom,
that's the inner circle. Peter, James, and John told him
to watch and pray. And he went a little farther
and prayed himself and came back. They were asleep. But our Lord
is so tender, and that's what I want to be. He said, your spirit's
willing, but your what? Flesh is weak. And it's not my
spirit that causes me the problem, it's my flesh. You see, earth
is nearer to me than heaven. Is that not true? Earth is nearer
to me than heaven. I know the things of this earth
are nothing compared to Christ and nothing compared to His grace,
but they're awful near to me. They're awful near to me, and
they influence me, and they appeal to me, and it's all vanity. I
know that, but it's the whole emphasis of my world. I live
in a vain world. These things are constantly pulling
on me and constantly attracting me and I live in the middle of
them and I have to be reminded of that world. I don't have to be reminded my
head hurts. I don't have to be reminded of
my temper. I don't have to be reminded of
my flesh and my pride. Do you? And my this, that and
the other. I have to constantly be reminded
that Christ loved me and gave himself for me. That's the reason
Paul said, I'm cast down, but I'm not destroyed. I'm depressed,
but I'm not clean gone. I'm down in the dumps, but I'm
looking up. That's right. You do this in remembrance, in
remembrance. I need to be reminded, do you? I need this. I need constantly
to come back here and come back here and come back there. At
the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light and the
burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by faith I received
my sight and there my burden rolled away. But I got to go
back. I got to go back. This do in
remembrance, watch it, of me. of me, who I am, the Son of God
was made flesh and brought among us. What He did, my body broken
for you, my blood shed for you. Why He did it? That a holy God
might be just and justified. That God might see the blood
and pass over me. I don't know whether it's as
important for me to see the blood as for Him to see the blood. I just don't feel this. I don't
think that's awful important. I think the important thing is
when he sees the blood. Christ justified God. Where is
he now? At the right hand of God. Now
watch this. As often as you eat this flesh
and drink this, eat this bread and drink this wine, you do,
verse 26, you do show, you show the Lord's death till he comes.
You show it to whom? You show it. To whom? To yourself. I tell you, this bread gives
me hope. This wine gives me hope. This
blood, this broken body gives me hope under the burden of sin.
If I didn't have Christ, I'd be in utter despair. My sins
would destroy me, would yours? I show myself again. This is
the way a sinner lives. This is the way God saves sinners.
This is the way that men are justified. This is the way that
sin is put away. This is the way. Show me again. Show me again. Tell me the old,
old story. Tell me again and again and again.
If you don't, I'm going to despair. And it gives me assurance when
I consider death and judgment. When I consider death and judgment,
I remember He's already died and born my judgment. This gives
me patience under trial. If God be for me, who can be
against me? He despaired not His own Son, but delivered Him
up for us all. How shall He not with Him freely
give us all this? I'm encouraged, aren't you? If you're going to have a meeting
tonight and discuss how many souls we won to Jesus, I'm going
to have to be awful unhappy. If we're going to have a meeting
tonight and discuss how much we sacrificed for the Lord, I'm
going to be awful blue. My sins are going to overwhelm
me, but if you're going to have a meeting tonight and discuss
how he died for sinners, I'm going to be right there rejoicing.
That's what I'm saying. This gives me hope, this gives
me assurance, this gives me confidence, this gives me patience, and this
gives me an example to live by. As he loved me, I'm to love you.
As he gave himself for me, I'm to give myself for you. As God
forgave me for Christ's sake, I'm to forgive you for Christ's
sake. It teaches me how to live. Everything I need is right here
in the Lord's table, because it shows Him in whom everything
was accomplished. And then I not only show it to
myself, I show it to God. In my hands no price I bring,
except through the cross of Christ I cling. I'm confessing Christ
all over again. I'm confessing Christ to God
all over again. As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you show to whom? To Him. The Lord's death
till He comes. That's all He's going to accept.
That's all He's going to be satisfied with. That's all that's going
to stand between me and hell is His blood and His righteousness. Isn't that right? So I say, Father,
this is my hope. This is my hope. Nothing I do,
the law, deeds, whatever, I don't claim any righteousness. I don't
lay claim to any reason for your mercy except Christ loved me
and gave himself up. I'm showing it to God. No other
sacrifice, other foundation can no man lay. And then I show it
to others. If someone's here tonight And
you've just never really seen what this is all about. I don't
know what it's all about either, but I do know what some of it's
about. I do know that Almighty God is
holy, and I'm a sinner. And the only way a sinner can
be just with a holy God is for a substitute to die for him.
And Christ is my substitute, whom the Father ordained, whom
the Father anointed, whom the Father sent. Pleased God to bruise
him, and he suffered for my sin. And before he left here, he left
this bread and wine and said, now you eat that bread and drink
that wine and you show my death till I come. Now I know in a lot of circles
today, it's unfashionable to believe in and to preach the
old gospel of the atonement, the blood of Christ. I know modern
culture has altered the Bible and religion until there's no
real atonement left, there's not much preaching on the blood,
substitution. I know that people today are
too intellectual, they're too advanced, they're too proud,
they're too self-righteous to look to the cross of Christ,
our substitute, but I speak once again from my heart before God's
people, before God the Father, before all the universe, as for
me, as for me, and I hope you say the same thing as I say it,
as for me, I tie the scarlet line in my window again. One
more time. The old sinner puts the scarlet
line in the window one more time. One more time, I say to God,
I believe in the real and literal substitution of our Lord Jesus
Christ and the actual shedding of His blood for my sins. I believe
it. One more time, I say He died
just for the unjust to bring me to God. And in the midst of
this generation of a thousand new Gospels that aren't worth
the breath it takes to preach them, one more time, I preach,
and I hold, and I speak, and I demonstrate by this table the
gospel of God Almighty, the gospel of God's grace, the gospel that
Isaiah preached. He was wounded for my transgression. He was bruised for my iniquities.
The chastisement of a priest was laid on him. By his stripes
I'm healed. One more time. One more time. One more time, my dear friends.
It's the blood that makes atonement for the soul. One more time,
like Rahab of old, tie the scarlet line in the window and go sit
down and rest in Christ. One more time, if nobody else
believes it, I believe it. If no one else sees it, God sees
it. God sees it. Thou God, Hagar said, seest me,
and I'm hiding behind the cross. If no one else is pleased with
it, God is. This is my beloved son, in whom
I am well pleased. At midnight in Egypt, no one
saw the blood, but God did. And because God saw it, somebody
lived. And in this dark midnight of
1992, when the whole religious world had gone crazy, and seek acceptance with God
ever way, but thee way. I gather with you, God's little
flock, and we put on our hearts door one more time, the blood.
The blood. That's all. The blood. And go
in and sit down. And God said, when I see it,
I'll pass over you. See, so that's my only hope.
I said, don't dress it up. Don't take anything away from
it. Don't change it. Just do. In remembrance of faith. And as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you show, once again to our own hearts,
once again to one another, once again to our children, once again
to our God, the Lord's death, till he comes.
Henry Mahan
About Henry Mahan

Henry T. Mahan was born in Birmingham, Alabama in August 1926. He joined the United States Navy in 1944 and served as a signalman on an L.S.T. in the Pacific during World War II. In 1946, he married his wife Doris, and the Lord blessed them with four children.

At the age of 21, he entered the pastoral ministry and gained broad experience as a pastor, teacher, conference speaker, and evangelist. In 1950, through the preaching of evangelist Rolfe Barnard, God was pleased to establish Henry in sovereign free grace teaching. At that time, he was serving as an assistant pastor at Pollard Baptist Church (off of Blackburn ave.) in Ashland, Kentucky.

In 1955, Thirteenth Street Baptist Church was formed in Ashland, Kentucky, and Henry was called to be its pastor. He faithfully served that congregation for more than 50 years, continuing in the same message throughout his ministry. His preaching was centered on the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified, in full accord with the Scriptures. He consistently proclaimed God’s sovereign purpose in salvation and the glory of Christ in redeeming sinners through His blood and righteousness.

Henry T. Mahan also traveled widely, preaching in conferences and churches across the United States and beyond. His ministry was marked by a clear and unwavering emphasis on Christ, not the preacher, but the One preached. Those who heard him recognized that his sermons honored the Savior and exalted the name of the Lord Jesus Christ above all.

Henry T. Mahan served as pastor and teacher of Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, Kentucky for over half a century. His life and ministry were devoted to proclaiming the sovereign grace of God and directing sinners to the finished work of Christ. He entered into the presence of the Lord in 2019, leaving behind a lasting testimony to the gospel he faithfully preached.

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