called the Passover. And the
chief priest and scribes sought how they might kill him, for
they feared the people. Then entered Satan into Judas,
surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he
went his way and communed with the chief priest and captains
how he might betray him unto them. And they were glad and
covenanted to give him money. And he promised and sought opportunity
to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. Then
came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John saying,
go and prepare us a Passover that we may eat. And they said
unto him, where wilt thou that we prepare? And he said unto
them, behold, When you are entered into the city, there shall a
man meet you bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the
house where he entereth in, and you shall say unto the good men
of the house, the master saith unto thee, where is the guest
chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples? And he shall show you a large
upper room furnished. There make ready. And they went
and found as he had said unto them, and they made ready the
Passover. And when the hour was come, he
sat down and the 12 apostles with him. And he said unto 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. And 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 bread and gave thanks
and break 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 a new testament in my blood which is shed for
you. The Lord's Supper is a church
ordinance in which God's people those of us who know him as our
Lord and Savior, when we are called upon to remember him. You notice in verse 19, he said,
this do in remembrance of me. Now this evening, before we observe
the Lord's table, I want us to consider these three things.
When we think about doing this in remembrance of him. First,
The Lord instituted this remembrance ordinance at the close of the
Passover feast. The supper was ended when he
gave his disciples commandment concerning the Lord's table.
The Passover feast, we know, was an old covenant ordinance. It was an old covenant ordinance
that God had given to the nation of Israel to commemorate their
deliverance from Egyptian bondage. They were captives in Egypt for
over 400 years. And when God delivered them,
then he gave them this memorial feast that they were to observe. It was an old covenant ordinance,
an old covenant ordinance. The Passover law was given in
Exodus chapter 12, and then in Exodus chapter 13, God commanded
that they should keep, and it says, this ordinance in his season
from year to year. In other words, every year at
Passover time, they were to keep that ordinance. It was a Passover
feast, the feast of unleavened bread, as it was also called. It was at this feast which was
also a feast that was done in remembrance of something, in
remembrance of that deliverance that God had wrought in bringing
his people out of Egypt. As I said, it was an old covenant
ordinance, an old covenant ordinance. In that place in Exodus 13, not
only does it say thou shalt show this ordinance in his season
from year to year, but it also says, thou shalt show thy son
in that day saying. In other words, when they came
into the land and their children were old enough to ask about
the Passover feast, this is what they were to say. This is done. We do this because of that which
the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. Now this
night was to be the last Passover. Our Lord said that in this passage
that we've just finished reading, that it would be fulfilled that
night. In other words, that type, that
picture of God's salvation that is given to us in the Passover
feast They were delivered from bondage. They were delivered
from captivity by the blood of the lamb that was shed and the
blood was put on the doorpost of their houses. They were to
keep that feast from year to year. And when their children
asked them what was the purpose of it, they were to tell them
that this is done in remembrance of the Lord delivering me out
of Egypt. It's the greatest type in the
Old Testament of God's salvation, the Passover feast, the greatest
type. There are many types, many types
all through the Old Testament, which speak of the Lord Jesus
Christ and of his salvation that he has brought, that he has accomplished
for his chosen people. But this is the greatest, the
Passover. But now this was to be the last
Passover feast. Why? Because it was now fulfilled. It was fulfilled, the Apostle
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 5 and verse 7, for even Christ,
our Passover, is sacrificed for us. So that old covenant had
this ordinance of remembrance, And now this new covenant, he
said, this is the new covenant in my blood. This new covenant,
the covenant of salvation, the covenant of grace, the covenant
of promise, the everlasting covenant, all the covenant of peace, all
of these titles or names which are given to the same covenant,
the new covenant, but it was ordained are established in the
blood of Jesus Christ. This is my blood of the new covenant,
he said, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But the first point, the first
thing I wanted us to acknowledge tonight is the Lord instituted
this remembrance ordinance, and that's what it is. It's an ordinance
in which we are to remember Christ. that he instituted this remembrance
ordinance at a feast that was also a remembrance ordinance. But it was a deliverance out
of Egypt where this is an ordinance that speaks to us of our deliverance
from the captivity of sin. Second, the Lord instituted this
ordinance, this remembrance ordinance with these words, this do in
remembrance of me. Now, we know that it is his death
that we are to show forth. By the bread and the cup being
separated here on the table tonight, we show forth the death of the
Lord Jesus Christ. But we are to remember This do
in remembrance of me. That's the point I want to make
for all of us here this evening. God give us a grace and God help
us this evening to put aside every thought and every care
and think only upon Jesus Christ. This do in remembrance of me. Remembering him. And I have six
things tonight for us to think about. This do in remembrance
of me. First of all, let's remember,
meditate on his relationship to the father. His relationship
to the father. We know that he is God's eternal
son. He is his only begotten son. He is one with the Father. In 1 John chapter 5 and verse
7, let's remember this, that when we think of Christ, let's
remember his relationship to the Godhead. He is one person
of the blessed Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Let's remember this, in 1 John 5 and verse 7, the scripture
says, For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. Three that bear record in heaven,
and these three are one. And the three which bear record
in heaven, the Father, the Word, in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And it was
the Word who became flesh. This is the record. And so as
we think about Him, remember Him, let's remember, first of
all, His relationship to the Father. He is one with the Father. I want you to look at a verse
in Deuteronomy, just a minute, if you want to turn back here
to chapter six of Deuteronomy. And I have read that this verse
of scripture is quoted in every Jewish home every day. They were
of the habit of doing this. It may still be so, I'm not sure. But this one verse in chapter
six of Deuteronomy and verse four, here, O Israel, the Lord
our God is one Lord. Now if you look at this text
in the Hebrew, if you have a concordance that gives you the words in Hebrew,
what you will see is the Lord, Jehovah, singular, the Lord. Our God, Elohim, which is plural,
is one Lord, Jehovah, singular. Sometimes people say, well, the
doctrine of the Trinity is not taught in the Old Testament.
Yes, it is. In fact, it's in the first chapter
of Genesis when God said, let us make man in our image. You have a plural noun with a
singular verb. Let us make man in our own image. Yes, the truth, I should say. the truth of the Trinity, the
fact that there are three persons in the Godhead. This do in remembrance
of me. Let's remember his relationship
to the Father and to the Holy Spirit, that he is the eternal
Son of God, the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and glory. Number two. Let's remember, meditate
on His relation to us. First, His relationship to the
Father. He's one with the Father, but
His relationship to us, He's one with us. He's one with us. The scripture says in Galatians
4, in verse 4, but when the fullness of the time was come, and that's
God's time, when God's time came, And aren't you glad tonight to
know that with God, there is no time. He's the eternal one. We've come into a new year, and
with us, minutes and hours and days and years and decades are
all so important. But God is eternal, and there
is no time with God. He is I am. I am. Not I was or I shall be, but
I am. And aren't you thankful tonight
that our times are in His hands? Our times. He set the boundary
of our habitation, the scripture says. It was no accident that
you were born where you were born. No accident that you were
born to the parents to whom you were born. This was all ordained
of God. Our times are in His hands. And just as He has set the limits
of our habitation, where we would live, so He has set the limits
of our time as long as we would live in this world. The time
of our birth, the time of our new birth, the time of our going
out of this world. Our times are in His hands. But
in the fullness of the time, God's time, on God's calendar,
that which God had purposed from old eternity, just a little over
2,000 years ago, in the fullness of the time, God sent forth His
Son made of a woman. Now His Godhead was not made
of a woman. He's eternal, but it was His
humanity. He took his body. It was made
from the virgin. God the Holy Spirit came upon
her. The first promise, but his relationship
to us. This is very important. It's
important that we recognize that he's God. Absolutely. If he's not God, we don't have
a Savior. Now that's just so. There is
no Savior unless he is God. And He is God. But at the same
time, He cannot be man's Savior unless He is also man. His humanity. The first promise
of a Deliverer, the first promise of a Savior, which was given,
recorded in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15, you will remember,
was the seed of the woman. The seed of the woman. In Colossians
2 and verse 9, the apostle Paul said, for in him dwelleth all
the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Have you ever thought about that
word all? For in him, for in the man Christ Jesus, dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Look with me, if you will, in
Hebrews chapter 2. Let's remember this new and remembrance
of me. Let's remember tonight his relation
to the Father. He is the only begotten of the
Father. And let's remember his relation
to us. He is flesh of our flesh and
bone of our bone. But in Hebrews chapter 2, And verse 12, the Scripture says, I'm sorry, verse 14. Hebrews
2 and verse 14. For as much then as the children
Now remember that promise in Isaiah 9 and verse 6. For unto
us a son is given, unto us a child is born, and the government shall
be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. He was given In that covenant
of grace, he was given a people, children. And this is what this
verse is saying. For as much then as the children,
those who were given unto him, were partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same. That through
death, he might destroy him that had the power of death, that
is the devil. As God, he could not die. But as a God man, he did die. And not only die, but satisfied
and destroyed the works of the devil. Number three, let's remember,
meditate on his life of privation. I looked that word privation
up in the dictionary for this definition. The word means the
state of being deprived, particularly deprivation or absence of what
is necessary for comfort. Let's remember his life of privation,
the absence of that which is necessary for comfort. He was a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. It began at his birth when he
was born in a stable and laid in a manger. At an early age,
we know that he was taken into a foreign country to escape the
sword of a tyrant. Then those years, when they returned
and turned in to live at Nazareth, he was working at a carpenter's
bench. Can you imagine that? Can you
imagine that he who spoke the worlds into existence with his
word, he spoke the world into existence, that now as a man
with muscles in his arm, he takes a hammer or he takes a saw, whatever
tools they had to do the work of a carpenter. That's amazing,
isn't it? His life was one of privation. He knew what it was. to earn
his bread by the sweat of his brow, just like God told Adam
that would happen because of his sin. He knew. He learned by experience. As
God, he's omniscient. He knows everything, doesn't
he? But by being made a man and coming
into this world, He may, this is what the writer of Hebrews
tells us, he may be touched with the feelings of our infirmities. Whatever we experience in this
world apart from sin that is natural to man, he knew by being
God, he knew this, but just knowing it did not allow him to be touched. Touched with the feelings of
our infirmities. But by living in this world as
a man and by the deprivation, life without comfort that he
lived in this world, he may be touched with the feelings of
our infirmities. That means no matter what situation
you may find yourself in, believer, No matter what loss or what cross
or what difficulty you may go through, the Lord Jesus Christ
may be touched with the feelings of your infirmities. Number four,
let's remember, meditate on his public ministry. Do you remember
that after he delivered his first sermon, his first sermon after
he was He was baptized and then after those 40 days in the wilderness
being tempted of Satan, he returns to Nazareth and he takes the
book and he delivers his first sermon. And what was the end
of that? They did their best to kill him.
Their city was built on a hill and they tried to push him off
the hill to destroy him. His public ministry. He went about, the Apostle Peter
tells us, doing good. For three, three and a half years,
the Lord Jesus Christ went about doing good. And the good that
he did, he cast out demons. Mary Magdalene, remember one
who followed him, do you know that there were seven demons
in her? Went about doing good, casting
out demons, opening the eyes of the blind, cleansing the lame,
cleansing the lepers, and giving strength and healing to the lame. And yet, at the end of that time,
he heard those same people that he had walked among, when given
the choice by Pilate, shall I release unto you Jesus or Barabbas? Barabbas. Barabbas. Let's remember his life, his
public ministry. The same people crying out, crucify
him, crucify him. And number five, let's remember,
meditate on what followed that night. Remember his agony going
into the garden and none of his disciples could watch with him.
His sweat, as it were, great drops of blood. And then being
taken into Pilate's hall, first before the Sanhedrin, judged
before the Jewish Sanhedrin, a mock trial. And then before
Pilate and the soldiers, how they mocked him. Being sent to
Herod and Herod's soldiers doing the same thing, mocking him. putting a robe upon him and saying,
Hail King, and putting a cover over his eyes and smiting him. All of that the Lord Jesus Christ
suffered that night. Let's remember Gethsemane. Let's remember the awful death
that he died. when he was upon the cross, six
hours there, suffering agony, untold agony, untold agony. And number six, let's remember,
meditate on what is pictured in this broken bread and the
cup. What is pictured here tonight?
What is before us? What do you see? We see his vicarious
death. His vicarious death, his death
in the place of his church. The scripture says Christ loved
the church and gave himself for it. The church, those who are
part of his body, his mystic body. And third, the Lord instituted
this remembrance ordinance to be observed till he comes again.
The Apostle Paul tells us this, that he received this from the
Lord, what he delivered. And part of that is, for as often
as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's
death till he comes. Do you see how we show the Lord's
death? And that's what we do. We show
the Lord's death. We do not affect the Lord's death,
we show his death by the bread and the cup being separated.
We do not accomplish the Lord's death, we show it. This is not
a sacrifice. I noticed last few days when
they had that shooting up around Fort Worth. On the news, first
I saw that the man shot while they were having mass. And I
thought, well, must have been a Roman Catholic church. But
then it turns out it's not a Roman Catholic church. It was a church
of Christ. That's not the mass. That's not
the mass. This is not the mass. In the
mass, They claim they have an unbloody sacrifice. And every
time the Mass is said, the Mass is performed, Christ is sacrificed
again on the altars of men. We're not effecting the sacrifice. We're showing his death. We're
remembering his death. And I know sometimes people get
upset at me because I mention this, but my friends, there's
a world of difference between the Lord's Supper and the Roman
Catholic Mass. I mean, there's a world of difference,
and it's an important difference that we recognize this. The scripture
said what we are showing is His one offering. For by one offering
he hath sanctified forever, or he hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. This is not another offering,
this is just a remembrance of that one offering. He said, this
is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the
remission of sins. I said we were going to do something
different tonight. We're going to sing now this
hymn, Lead Me to Calvary, number 124. And I trust the Lord will help
us all this evening to remember him when we sing this hymn and
when we eat the bread and drink the cup in just a little while,
just a few minutes, that we remember him. and his sacrifice for us. OK, Bill. Amen. Number 124, lead me to
Calvary. King of my life, I crown Thee
now, Thine shall the glory be. Lest I forget Thy golden-brown
brow, Lead me to Calvary. Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest
I forget Thine agony, Lest I forget Thy love for me, Lead me to Calvary. Show me the tomb where Thou wast
laid, Tenderly mourned and wept, Angels in robes of light of rain,
Guard in me whilst thou slept, Lest I forget Thine agony. Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary. Let me, like Mary through the
gloom, Come with a gift to Thee. Show to me now the empty tomb,
Lead me to Calvary Lest I forget Gethsemane Lest I forget Thine
agony Lest I forget Thy love for me Lead me to Calvary May
I be willing, Lord, to bear Daily my cross for Thee. Even Thy cup of grief to share
Thou hast poured all for me. Lest I forget Gethsemane. Lest I forget thine agony. Lest I forget thy love for me. Lead me to Calvary. The man will come now at this
time. Scripture here tells us in 1
Corinthians 11, for 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 break and said, take eat, this is my body, which is
broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. Brother Kelly, would you come
and give thanks tonight for the bread, which is a picture of
his body. And as we eat this bread tonight
to remember that our Lord did this for us, in remembrance of
Him, we observe this ordinance. Our gracious Heavenly Father,
we're so thankful for this place that we could come. We've heard
the word tonight, and thank you for it, Lord. And we thank you
for our church family that we can come before your table, Lord,
and observe your supper. Father, we thank you, Father,
for And we give thanks for this grant, Father, that we will receive. Father, help us to always be
in remembrance of thee as we go about. This life that you've
given us, this life of grace and mercy. And Father, we're
so thankful for all the blessings we have in Christ. Father, go
with us now, Lord. And again, we give thanks for
this broken bread that represents and is a symbol of your broken
body that you bore the sins for us on Calvary. I ask and pray
these things in Christ's name, amen. Our Lord 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 had supped, saying, this cup is the New Testament
in my blood. This do you as oft as you drink
it in remembrance of me. Brother Streeter, will you give
thanks for the cup? Our most gracious Heavenly Father,
we are eternally thankful tonight, Father, for the work of redemption
and atonement that you've accomplished on our behalf in the person and work
of your son. We're thankful, Father, for that
blood that was shed on Calvary's Mountain. Father, we pray that
as we partake of this cup that you'll remind us, even as we've
been reminded tonight, Father, that as we partake of this ordinance,
that our communion is with our Lord and our Savior. Father,
that we're taught to remember Him, to remember His work, His
person. Father, we know that we're not
worthy of even the least of your blessings, Father, and yet you've
given us your son. Father, we thank thee. We bless
thee for all that you've done for us and do for us in Christ. And it's in his name and for
his sake that we pray, amen. The Lord said, this is my blood
of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission
of sin. Let us stand and open to number
118, 118, when I survey the wondrous cross. The wondrous cross On which the
Prince of Glory died My richest gain I count but loss And pour
contempt on all my pride. Forbid it, Lord, that I should
mourn Saving the death of Christ my
God, All the vain things that joy beholds, I sacrifice them
to His blood. See from his head His hands,
His feet. Sorrow and love flow me, go down. Bitter such love and sorrow me. O'er thorns composed so rich
a crown Were the whole realm of nature mine That were a present
far too small Amazing, so divine, demands my
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