I don't know if you were listening
to my conversation with Alita, but her mother's doing some better,
and we're thankful for that. Loretta's going tomorrow for
breast cancer at, what's the name of that place, Hope? Hope
Center, it's a cancer center there in Asheville, so remember
her in your prayers. She's got a small place in her
breast that they're gonna have to decide what to do about tomorrow,
I guess, when they'll decide, so remember her in your prayers.
Fred's doing better, he's here. He said his taste buds are shot,
but other than that, he's feeling pretty good. He's finished his
first round of chemotherapy. We won't have another for three
weeks, I guess, from now. Is that right? About three weeks
from now. Two weeks. Julie goes to the
hip doctor guy on the 5th. of December, so remember her
in your prayers. She's having some real trouble with her hip
bothering her. She's probably going to have to have a transplant.
And that's... And Cora says she needs one bad. But they've worked on her brain
and they helped her right tremors, so that's good. We're thankful
for that. Okay, let's begin our worship
service with hymn number 62, crown hymn with many crowns.
♪ Crown Him with many crowns ♪
♪ The Lamb upon His throne ♪ ♪ Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns
all music but its own ♪ ♪ Awake my soul and sing of Him who died
for thee ♪ ♪ And hail him as thy matchless king ♪ ♪ Through
all eternity ♪ ♪ Crown him the Lord of love ♪ ♪ Behold his hands
and side ♪ ♪ Rich wounds yet visible above his head ♪ he glorified. No angel in the sky can fully
bear that sight, but downward bends his wandering eye at mysteries
so bright. ♪ Crown Him the Lord of life
♪ Who triumphed o'er the grave ♪ Who rose victorious to the
strife ♪ Lord, those He came to save ♪ His glories now we
sing ♪ Who died and rose on high ♪ Who died eternal life to bring
♪ ♪ And lives that death may die ♪ ♪ Crown Him the Lord of
heaven ♪ ♪ One with the Father known ♪ ♪ One with the Spirit
through Him given ♪ ♪ From yonder glorious throne ♪ ♪ To Thee be
endless praise ♪ For Thou for us hast died ♪ Be Thou, O Lord,
through endless days ♪ Adored and magnified After scripture
reading and prayer, we'll sing hymn number 45. And we will be
having the Lord's table after this morning's service, and we'll
not have a lunch today or an afternoon service, because all
y'all people pigged out on Thursday, and y'all be ashamed of yourselves. Gospel according to John. And the Pharisees are speaking
to John the Baptist in verse 25, and they ask him and said,
Why baptist thou then, if thou be not the Christ, nor Elias,
or Elijah, neither that prophet? And John answered them and said,
I baptize with water, but there are one among you whom you know
not. He it is who coming after me
is preferred before me, whose shoes latch it I am not worthy
to unloose. These things were done in Bethabara,
beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. The next day, John
seeth Jesus coming unto him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world. Let us pray. Our Father
in heaven, we bless you and thank you that you have given your
children ears to hear and eyes to see. And that we know the
most profitable and reasonable thing that we can do in this
life is to behold the Lamb of God. We are thankful, Father,
for your Word, which is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto
our path, which endureth forever. Everything else fades, is temporal,
and goes away. But your Word endureth forever. We are thankful, Father, that
that word is the instrument you use, the wonder of things we
don't understand, to give life to dead sinners, to speak to their heart and mind
through this great book, to give them new birth. If you had said
you began us with the word of truth, then we might be a kind
of firstfruits We ask, Lord, this hour that
you might be pleased to cause us in our hearts to worship you
in spirit and in truth. Bow us down in the dust where
we belong and lift our eyes to see him who's altogether lovely,
the chiefest among 10,000, the lily of the valley. We thank
you that Fred's doing well. We pray that you'd continue to
minister him as he awaits his second chemotherapy treatment.
We pray for our sister Loretta. and she goes tomorrow to get
this checked out and find out what's next on the agenda for
this cancer. Pray for Julia as she prepares
to go about her hip. Continue to pray for Inez, that
you would bless her and minister to her and minister to Alita
and Harley as they minister to her. Pray for ourselves this
morning, Father, that you might touch our hearts with your word.
speak to us because we know we can say words all day long and
they don't matter much. We try our best endeavor to say
right things concerning thee, but it's you who take this thing,
this word, this marvelous word and plant it in people's hearts.
We'll preach it, Father. You do what only you can. We
ask these things in Christ's name. Amen. Hymn number 45, Ye
Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim. Ye servants of God, your master
proclaim, and publish abroad his wonderful name. ♪ Victorious of Jesus extol ♪
His kingdom is glorious ♪ He rules over all ♪ God ruleth on
high ♪ Almighty to save ♪ And still He is nigh ♪ His presence
we have A great congregation His triumph shall sing Ascribing
salvation To Jesus our King Salvation to God Who sits on the throne
Let all cry aloud And honor ♪ The praises of Jesus the angels
proclaim ♪ ♪ Fall down on their faces and worship the lamb ♪
♪ Then let us adore and give him his right ♪ ♪ And wisdom and might ♪ All honor
and blessing with angels above ♪ And thanks never ceasing and
infinite love Now Stan and Steve, would you sing the offering please? Let us pray. Father, again we
come in the name of Jesus Christ, the unspeakable gift that you
have given to your children, and with him you have freely
given them all things. They truly are in possession
of all things because they belong to Christ, and he is heir of
all things, and they are joint heirs with him. We thank you,
Father, that you've been so merciful and gracious to us, and as we
return unto thee a portion of that which you've given us, let
us do so with the full knowledge that it's yours to begin with,
all of it, and to give it to you in furtherance of the kingdom
here and preaching of the gospel here and other places is a privilege
that is ours. We thank you for it. of us to
rejoice in giving to you, we pray in Christ's name, amen. That's my favorite offertory
she does. I like that one. I really like that one. Invite your attention back to
John. The words of John the Baptist
speaking here in verse 29, as he sees the Lord coming toward
him, he is in the baptismal waters. Matthew chapter 3, he goes on
to baptize the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, Behold the Lamb of God
that taketh away, or beareth up the sins of the world. Now this is a divine record of
a man who in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, as it were,
is fulfilling his purpose here on earth. This is what he came
to do. This singular wonderful thing
is what he came to do. John had been baptizing, but
he was one who was promised in the Old Testament. In Malachi
chapter 1, or chapter 3, in verse 1, it says, Behold, I'll send
my messenger, that's John the Baptist, and he shall prepare
the way before me. messenger of the covenant. The
Lord Jesus Christ will suddenly appear in his kingdom. And then
in the fourth chapter of Malachi it says in verse 5, Behold I
will send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great
and dreadful day of the Lord. This is a divine record of a
man in a moment fulfilling his prophecy. In Matthew chapter
11 our Lord says this in verses 9 through 14 He says, but what went ye out
to see? The people were complaining about
John the Baptist. He said, what did you go out
to see? A prophet, yea, more than a prophet. For this is he
of whom it is written, behold, I send my messenger before thy
face. He's quoting Malachi chapter
three and verse one. Which shall prepare thy way before
thee. Verily I say, among them that
are born of women, There is not risen a greater than John the
Baptist, notwithstanding he is the least in the kingdom of heaven,
or he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom
of heaven suffereth violence, and the violence taketh by force.
For all the prophets and law gave witness to John, or until
John, and if ye will receive it." This is Elijah. He is talking about John the
Baptist. This is Elijah. which was to
come. This is Elijah which was to come.
He's fulfilled his purpose in Luke chapter 1. It says this, the angel speaking
to Elizabeth I think in verse 13. He says, Fear not, Zacharias.
But the angel said, Fear not, Zacharias, for thy prayer is
heard, and thy wife, Elizabeth, shall bear a son, and thou shalt
call his name John, and thou shalt have joy and gladness,
and many rejoice at his birth, and he shall be great in the
sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong
drink, and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from
his mother's womb, which he was, because he recognized Christ
while he was still in the womb and leapt in Elizabeth's womb.
And many of the children of Israel shall turn unto their Lord, their
God. He shall go before him in the spirit of the power of Elias,
or Elijah, he'll go in the spirit of the power of Elijah, to turn
the hearts of the father of the children, the disobedient, to
the wisdom, to the just, to make ready the people prepared for
the Lord. This is a man who has fulfilled
his purpose. When he saw Jesus Christ coming,
he said, Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the
world. The world is abundant in this day with thoughts and
themes about purposeful lives. People talk about finding their
purpose and finding their passion to the point that it's making
me a little ill to hear people talk about it, but they continue
to talk about it. But this is finally and truly
the purpose of every man and woman and child who lives upon
the face of the earth. Every sinner saved by grace.
Every man who's put into the ministry. This is the reason
for the existence of the church in the world today. This is a
singular message. This is the beginning and end
of every true sermon ever preached. With these words, John had found
his niche in the geography of history. He, in truth, was brought
to life for this moment. to utter these words before he
could speak. While he was yet nestled in the
amniotic fluid of his mother's womb, he leapt at the presence
of the one whom he now proclaims. He was born and lived thirty
or so years, had a ministry of six months, declared the coming
and the arrival of Jesus Christ. He had a short and profound ministry. of him the scripture says he
did no miracle but everything he said about Christ was true.
Boy, I like that to be put on my gravestone. Everything he
said about Christ was true. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world. These words are divine counsel,
true doctrinal instruction, no better academic study can top
this. I'm not a counselor. Some preachers
believe they are. I have some books in my library.
When I first started preaching about counseling and I read them
and didn't read them again, but I'm no counselor. No pastor is
a counselor. When folks come to me with problems,
my answer is always the same because there is but one answer
to every situation. And it is what John said when
he saw Jesus Christ, ìBehold, the Lamb of God, that taketh
away the sin of the world.î There is but ONE SOLUTION to
EVERY PROBLEM that faces humanity, ìBehold, the Lamb of God.î And
I know that man is born a woman, is a few days in many troubles,
thatís the language of Scripture, and the troubles that humanity
faces are as complex as the world that they occupy in. are many, disease and distress,
sorrow and woe, loss and isolation, crime and debauchery, fear and
anger, all plague men and women. Will looking to Christ make the
problems go away? No. No. But they will put the problem
in its proper place and anchor the soul in the midst of the
storm. This short and often trial-filled existence is not your life. It
is a snippet in the script of your life. You will go on. You will live forever somewhere.
You will. This ethereal breath of earthly
existence, this vapor, this thing that goes faster than a post
or a weaver's shuttle, is but a fleeting moment. And when all
is said and done, all men will know that the words of John the
Baptist are the singular thing. all their attention and note
and worthy to embrace. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world. Salvation begins, continues,
and culminates in looking at the Lord Jesus Christ. Our life
is lived, and you who know Christ know this is so. Your best life
is lived, your sweetest moments in life is when you look into
Christ. The rest of the time, it's just junk. Most of the time,
it's just utter failure all around I see. But to look at Christ
in that moment and worship Him is to be as happy as a hog in
mud. To be happy is to know Christ
and to look and see Him. And that's when we're happy. The rest of the time, when we
consider ourselves, we're not. When we consider our problems,
we're not. But when we see Him, Those who are long in the truth,
who have been believers for a little while, can tell you that as the
days grow short and the nights grow near, beholding the Lamb
of the God is the only thing that gives Him any true joy and
peace in this world. Religious men have come up with
all sorts of inventions to mortify the deeds of the flesh, but the
only way to do that is by beholding the Lamb of God. You can't apply
to the flesh to mortify the deeds of the flesh. It's just stupid.
That's things below. You have to look at things above,
it says in Colossians 3, where Christ is. Set your affection
on things above and not things below. Now the flesh is below,
so don't apply to the flesh to stop doing things in the flesh.
How do you do it? You look to Christ. And all that
does is not stop the flesh from being the flesh, it starves the
flesh for attention because your mind is elsewhere. Malice and
envy and hatred and anger subside when you look at Christ. The
only way to obey the precepts of the gospel is to look to Christ.
The only way to lay aside the sin of unbelief and wait so and
weight that so easily besets us according to Hebrews 12 is
the only way is to look to Christ looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith who for the joy that sat before him
endured the cross despising the shame and is now sitting down
on the right hand of the Father behold the Lamb of God the only
way to see Christ coming again is to look over him Hebrews 9
says he'll appear for those that are looking for him that are
looking for him That's my eschatology, if you really want to know. I
have people who spend a whole lot of time studying the Methodist
in the last days. People ask me about it, and I
say, well, I'm kind of a pan-theologist or pan-eschatologist. I believe
it's all going to pan out pretty well. But here's what I think
about it. I'm looking for Christ. And when
He appears, I'll see Him. Because I'm looking for Him.
That's what the Scripture says. The word BEHOLD requires EXCLUSIVE
ATTENTION and SINGLE-MINDEDNESS and it all inspires. BEHOLD! Stop what you're doing. Pay attention.
It suggests that nothing else is to be in the view, nothing
else is to be in the vision. BEHOLD means to be possessed
of a singular TUNNEL VISION. The periphery is to cease. This
one glorious thing is to fill the vision and this only. You
cannot behold the Lamb of God and at the same time look at
yourself. You can't do it. you can't look at your works
if you're beholding the Lamb of God. You cannot look to the
law if you are beholding the Lamb of God. You cannot behold
the Lamb of God at the same time behold your brothers and sisters
and observe or take account of their weakness and faults and
sin not looking at the Lamb of God. When you're looking to the
Lamb of God you love your brothers just like crazy and your sisters
just like crazy and no matter what they do you won't find fault
with it because you're looking elsewhere. You're looking at
the Lamb of God. Looking to Christ means beholding
Him alone. Be like old Anna, the prophetess. After she sent
me to hold up the baby and said, Behold, I'm ready to die. Take
me home. I've seen thy salvation. Anna, the prophetess, who was
80 years old, she hung around the temple all the time. Everybody
that came into Jerusalem looking for redemption, she says, Look
at Him. Look at that baby. There's the
redemption. Look at Him. behold the lamb
notice the employment of the definite article this is the
land we've been studying and moses on wednesday night in in
uh... in in the book of exodus we've
been about this lamb a lot the land he said that don't behold
a lamb but behold the lamb of god is as if god has but one
lamb and indeed he does just have one lamb He's the only Lamb
of God. The book of Revelation is filled
as Christ is revealed as the Lamb. on the throne, the Lamb
slain from the foundation of the world, the Lamb slain that
has redeemed us out of every kindred, nation, tongue, and
people. He is the Lamb, the Lamb. What does that mean? He is the
sacrifice that God has offered to Himself to satisfy Himself,
His law and His justice on behalf of the people whom He has chosen
from the foundation of the world to save. The Lamb of God, He
is the Lamb. all the others that were slain
throughout the ages, millions pointed to and pictured him.
He is the Morning Lamb, slain in the morning of time, slain
from the foundation of the world. He is the Evening Lamb, slain
in the end of days, in which we call the Gospel Age. He is
the Passover Lamb, whose blood assures the believer that he
has been passed over in judgment and wrath. He is the Lamb on
the throne in Revelation. He is the subject and song of
glory. Worthy is the Lamb, they sang a new song. Worthy is the
Lamb. He's the Lamb of God, He's God's
Lamb, God's sacrifice. It is in this capacity we see
the true glory of His person. He's the Lamb of God, the single
successful sacrifice that honors God's law and satisfied God's
justice. He is the sacrifice that pleased
God and fixed it so that God could be just and justify sinners
by becoming propitiation for them, according to Romans 3.
and God said that was right for me to do that it was a righteous
act he declared his righteousness twice he says that in Romans
chapter 3 verse 25 to declare his righteousness at this time
that he might be just and justify them that believe on Jesus Christ
God was right to do that now we in our minds say how can we
can't come up with something like that God said that was a
righteous act God pouring out his wrath on his son was a righteous
act. Christ offering himself to God
was a righteous act. The salvation that it accomplished
was a righteous act. It was right when you stand before
God, you stand before him excepted in Jesus Christ if you're in
him. And God says, looking at you, now think about yourself
for a second. Don't take too long because you'll
really get depressed if you think too long about yourself. But
look at yourself just for a second and God says about you, I was
right to save this one. I was righteous. It was a righteous
act to save him. A righteous act. He's the Lamb
of God in whom all the elect are accepted. Accepted and beloved. Behold Him. Pray God to fix your
eyes and hearts upon Him. When you do, you will find that
the things of earth indeed will grow strangely dim. Behold Him,
the Lamb, as the Lamb of God. God's accepted sacrifice will
sweeten every relationship you have, temper every fit of fury
and resentment, and turn life into a precious, fine, and enjoyable
thing. Behold the Lamb of God, and be
saved. The Lord said, I am God, there
is none else. Look unto me, all ye that are
in the earth, and be ye saved. For I am a just God and a Savior.
He is only a just God and a Savior in Jesus Christ. only in Christ. Behold Him and
nothing or no one else. If you look at Him in those moments,
your weakness will become strength, beholding Him. Your experiences,
your deeds, your works, and your thoughts will fade into nothing
beholding Him. Your inward struggles with self
and sin and your bent to self-exaltation and self-righteousness and self-deification
are only quelled as we look at Him and His acceptance and His
accepted obedience to God. We're to bring everything we
do, good or bad, or what we think is good or what we think is bad,
to the obedience of Christ, to His obedience, not to ours. Do
we obey? I hope we're obedient children,
but if we don't obey perfectly, we know that. But when we do
obey, what do we do with our obedience? Bring it to His obedience,
because His obedience is the one that counted. His obedience
was one that was effectual. Someone has you believe that
there's more to the Christian life than this singular vision.
Rules, regulations, church covenants, bylaws, and such are the fodder
of religion. designed to take men's eyes off
the prize and give churches and councils power to judge men's
behavior and thus keep them in line with the characteristic. Some would say that there is
more to preach than Christ. Such have yet to look to Him. Those who have looked and are
looking know that they have seen the very best of things. Nothing
on earth can compare. They've seen the only thing,
the chiefest among ten thousand, the altogether lovely one, the
rock, the king, the sovereign lord, the lily of the valley,
the bright and morning star, the water of life, the bread
of life, the blood of the everlasting covenant, the death by which
death has been put to death, the hope, the calling, the peace,
the righteousness, the sanctification, wisdom, and redemption of God.
All of those things, what you'll see when you behold the Lamb
of God. They who look to Him, behold
Him, have seen the glory of God in His face. According to 2 Corinthians
chapter 4 and verse 6, Jesus Christ is the one true and living
God. In Him dwelleth the fullness
of the Godhead in a body, in a human being. He is Father,
He is Son, He is Holy Spirit, He is all. He is all. To behold Him is to believe Him.
To behold Him is to trust in Him alone as the singular means
by which you are accepted by God. Behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him. The Lamb of God. How do you do that? You can't
see Him with these eyes. He is not here. How do you behold Him? You behold Him by believing Him.
By believing what God has said about Him. To trust Him as He
is revealed. in this word. I've never seen
Jesus Christ. I used to have a frame in my
office with a blank sheet of paper on it. I had it framed
behind my desk and people would say, well, what is that? That's
a picture of Jesus. I'd say, well, ain't nothing
there. They'd say, oh, we love Him who we've not seen. We've
not seen Him. But I behold Him. Because the
child of God, according to 2 Corinthians 4, we see things that can't be
seen. We look at stuff that's invisible. That's what we see, the invisible.
How do we do that? Right here in this book. That's
how it's done. You see, the world is run by
that which is invisible. Not by that which is visible.
That which is visible is going to pass away. Soon there'll be
nothing to it. You and I are going to pass away.
This used to be red. I used to be red here, too. It
all turned white. What happened? I'm dying by degree.
I'll soon be off the face of this earth and go home to glory
one of these days. Because that's the world. That's
what we see. We buy a car. Oh, we're so glad
to get that car. It's so fine, that car. And then
about two years later, things start going wrong with it. We're
not so happy about it. Why? Because it's fading away.
Everything fades away. everything is temporal, that
you can see, look around you, everything you see, even this
earth, the beautiful blue sky, the mountains, the rivers, the
people, the animals, they're on their way out, they're temporary, well what's
real then? What you can't see, the invisible
things of God, That's what's real. Behold the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the world. And this is not a theological
statement designed to induce academic debate or universal
versus particular redemption debate. The sin of the world
is not a categorization of all sin of all men. Do not think
that John made this statement to set up a religious forum.
He didn't. Do not think that John made this declaration to
incite a vigorous argument on the issues. He didn't. this is
to and for the one who is beholding the Lamb of God. This is good
news to the one who beholds the Lamb of God. The sin of the world
is not about the evil of the cosmos. I'm looking to Christ's
statements about me and for me. Beholding Christ is to know and
understand that He's taken away my sin in my world. a sin that plagues my paltry,
insignificant, fleeting existence. Beholding Christ is simply the
sinner looking to the Savior. It is not consulting with flesh
and blood. In Him I see the sin of my world
taken away. In fact, if I look through His
eyes in those moments that I can see things with His mind, and
never see them perfectly sometimes I can look at everything even
the bad things the vile things things that upset me I can look
at those things and say those things are working together for
my good and for the glory of God old Scott Richard used to say
if I could see things like God see things I wouldn't change
a thing. If I could see as God sees, I
wouldn't see it change a thing. Once we see through Christ's
eyes, everything becomes beautiful in His day. I see Christ. I see my sins taken away. He
was manifested, it says in 1 John, to take away my sins by the sacrifice
of Himself. He entered in once into the holy
place, not made with hands, but with His own blood and obtained
eternal redemption for us. He by one offering has perfected
forever them that are sanctified to the point that God will remember
their sins no more, and where that sacrifice is made, where
remission is made, there is no more need for any other sacrifice.
That one sacrifice did it. And if you're not looking to
Him and Him alone, you and your world of sin are still upon you,
and your world ain't nothing but sin. I can give you no better
advice. I can preach no better message.
I can tell no other truth than this. Behold the Lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the world. Behold the Lamb of God. We're going to observe an ordinance
that the Lamb of God instituted. It was instituted on the night
of the Passover. It was celebrated and commemorated
with the people in Egypt. were delivered by the blood of
the lamb. The elements of the feast were
unleavened bread. No leaven was to be in the house,
anywhere in the house, and none in the bread. All unleavened
bread. Why? Because leaven is a picture of the hypocrisy of
the self-righteousness of the Pharisee. And this deliverance,
that night, was going to be an act of God. He said, put that
doorpost, put the blood on the doorpost of the limbs of that
lamb that you slayed. Take his blood out of a basin. you'll be safe because when I
see the blood, I'll pass over to you. of Israel or of the Egyptians,
first of all, and the blood of his firstborn, the Lamb of God. That's the way it's said in the
Word. And that blood they'll have. Justice must be satisfied. God
did not let sin go by. He was saved by that blood. And they took that unleavened
bread and they ate it for seven days in a commemoration. They
didn't put the blood on the doorpost anymore. That was a one-time
thing. and they took the unleavened
bread and the wine. And that night, at Passover, our Lord sent with
his disciples. They painted many pictures of
the so-called last supper when they sat at the table together.
They probably sat on the floor, more than likely. That's the way it was written
in the East. He took the bread, the unleavened
bread, and stayed and ate it for seven days. Or six days on the seventh day.
He took that unleavened bread and broke it. He said, take heed,
this is my body broken to you. Do this in remembrance of me.
I wasn't a body. He was a body that was holding the grave in
reverence of me. Symbolic. Like the Passover itself
is a commemoration of the Passover, of the deliverance of Jesus.
He's talking about a commemoration of the Passover, giving his children
work, his blood for the way of sin by the sacrifice of Jesus. He said, this cup is the New
Testament in my blood, and the new covenant in my blood. As
long as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do so forth
my death, until I come in. Behold the Lamb of God, the sacrificial
dying Lamb of God. This table is for sinners saved
by grace. Ain't no good people allowed
here. Ain't no more sinners allowed
at this table. Commemorate the death of Jesus
Christ. Let's ask the Lord's blessing
upon the table. Our Father in heaven, we thank you for mercy
and grace through Jesus Christ. We thank you for that shed blood.
In a good way, I stand by the sacrifice of Him saved. We thank
you that it was a perfect sacrifice, our Lord, and you were totally
appreciated and satisfied with it. So much so that everyone
for whom that blood was shed and that body was broken will
never perish and have eternal life. What a thing to think on. as we face death on every hand,
that we shall never die. We'll go to sleep one day, our
bodies will heal, and we'll wake up in the presence of our blessed
Savior, all because of what we're going to commemorate today, the
death that He died in our women's state. Help us, Lord, to appreciate
what we are about to do. Give us a heart of thanksgiving.
We pray in Christ's name. On the night I rode into the
train, he took the bread, and he broke it, and I left the railroad.
Passover feast. Now, that particular Passover,
he said to his disciples, I've been waiting for this Passover,
and this one, and this ends the Passover, and begins what was
called the table of the Lord. He took the bread, and he broke
it, and he said to his disciples, hey, eat. This is my body, go
continue eating. As often as you eat, as you eat,
as you eat. Now, he also picked the cup,
and after he had rested, he said, this cup is the new testament,
the new covenant in my blood. As often as you eat this bread,
and drink this cup, you will surely serve forth my dead until
I come again. Do this in remembrance of me. And the record is that they
sang to him, and our Lord went out to him and prayed. Now a
piece of a prayer. Let's stand together.
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest
frame, but only lean on Jesus' name. All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand. Well, it's good to have my brothers
and sisters from down under. You know, we agree, don't we? Yes, and whatever you want to
do with that, if anybody knows, please, we're going to stay in
touch. He's the one I've been living
with forever, in the presence of our King. Oh, how we ought
to love each other, in this world of unloving people. I love you. I do. God bless you. Have a good night.