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I want to talk to us this morning about the significance of the Lord's supplicence, the

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significance, the reason why we get up in the rain on the first Sunday, the reason why we

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tune in on YouTube or our streaming of our service or Facebook, the reason why every

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month or some churches receive it every Sunday. Some persons take it every quarter.

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Some churches observe it on the first Sunday as do we and then there are churches where I was

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baptized that observed the Lord's supplicence on the fourth Sunday. It does not matter when you

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observe the Lord's supplicence, the scripture says, as often as you do it, whenever you do it,

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do it in remembrance of me. The Lord left only two ordinances with his church, baptism and the Lord's

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supper. In baptism we commemorate our death with him. In the Lord's supper we demonstrate his death

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for us. This feast of remembrance was instituted on the most solemn night of Jesus' life.

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The Passover feast commemorated by Jesus in the upper room was over done, finished,

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after Jesus instituted it, after they partook of the bread and the cup, the Passover feast was

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once and forever finished. Its significance was ended when Jesus instituted the Lord's supper.

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The true Passover lamb was about to be slain and his blood shed. I was in the barbershop

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yesterday morning and if you want to get some deep theology, if you want to hear from some

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Harvard scholars, spend some time in the black barbershop. Every theologian in Houston makes

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his way to the barbershop with some speculative theology. Many of them know nothing about where

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the Lord's prayer is found in the scriptures, but at the barbershop everybody has a Yale

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Divinity School degree in theology. This man the other week was talking about the Passover

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and the Lord's supper and he calls himself, you know, because there's this new crowd now of black

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Hebrew Israelites who say that they are Jewish in the way they observe Christianity. He was trying

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to get us to understand that we were taking the Lord's supper the wrong way and we were not observing

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it the way Jesus said we ought to observe it. And he said the reason why y'all so ignorant

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because y'all not listening to nobody. I'm trying to tell you how to do it. I'm trying to tell you

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how to observe it and he kept looking at me and I go to the barbershop to sit in the chair

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and fall asleep while he's cutting my hair. I don't do any Bible study in the barbershop.

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You want to do Bible study? Come meet me on Tuesday nights here at Lily Grove. I don't do free Bible

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study at the barbershop, but I hope he's listening this morning. So let me explain to you by a

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young black Hebrew Israelite friend what the Passover and the Lord's supper is all about.

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When Jesus instituted the Lord's supper, he negated the Passover. The Passover is no longer

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necessary because Jesus is now the paschal lamb. He is now the lamb that takes away the sins of the

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world. The blood that was on the doorposts and on the lentils in the Old Testament in Egypt,

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Jesus now shed his blood on the cross that now when I go to sleep tonight when death passes over

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is not because blood is sprinkled on my doorpost, but because Jesus shed his blood on Calvary's

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cross. He died in my place. The just for the unjust, the righteous for the unrighteous.

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And there is now no need for a Jewish Passover. We have a lamb slain from the foundation of the

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world. That night, Jesus knew that what loomed ahead of him was Gethsemane,

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Garbatha, Golgotha, and the grave. By three o'clock the next day, soon to dawn, he would be dead.

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The shadow of the cross cast a pall over the assembly in the upper room. But before going out

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to face the terrible ordeal of Friday, the Lord paused to initiate a new feast. First Corinthians

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11 is the earliest account of the institution of the Lord's supper in Scripture. Indeed,

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it is the earliest record of any words of Jesus and of one of the very few incidents in his earthly

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life that Paul goes to the trouble to describe. He said, I received what I deliver unto you.

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The words received and delivered in verse 23 are almost technical terms for receiving and passing on

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tradition. Paul makes an affirmation, brothers and sisters, that he had received the truth concerning

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the Lord's supper directly from the Lord himself, not being in the upper room when Jesus actually

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instituted the Lord's supper because Paul is an apostle born out of due season. He was not in the

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room when it took place and he wrote some 60 years after Jesus went back to heaven. So in order for

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Paul to know what happened in the upper room, somebody had to tell him that. And the somebody

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who told him that was not Peter, because Peter had already been crucified upside down. James had

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already been beheaded. Others of the disciples had been boiled in oil and crucified in the form of

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an ex. So for Paul to know what happened in the upper room, he received direct revelation.

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It came directly from Jesus. Paul was told some things when he went up to the third heaven

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that he was not committed to even talk about. And Jesus gave him this information so that

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Paul says, what I receive, I pass on to you. What I got, I give it to you just like I got it. And

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this morning, what I got, I give it to you just like I got it. We take the Lord's supper because

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the Lord Jesus Christ instituted it. And every time we take it, it's an acting sermon.

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So that when we eat this bread and drink this cup, when we leave here, we are a living testimony

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of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ from the day.

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This new feast was instituted after the Passover and was distinct from the Passover.

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Nevertheless, the bread and wine were now used for an entirely new purpose.

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Hear me, brothers and sisters, throughout the Old Testament,

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rivers of blood flowed in countless animal sacrifices. But all that blood

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could not give a guilty conscience peace. All that blood,

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bullocks on the altar, lambs without spot of blemish, rams of consecration, pigeons,

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turtles of sacrifice, 24 hours a day, all that blood could not wipe away one single stain.

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But the blood that Jesus shared for me, I wish I had a witness here,

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the blood that gives me strength from day to day, it will never,

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you can help me say it, never lose this part. It reaches to the highest mountain.

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It flows to the Lewis Valley, the blood that gives me strength from day to day,

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to day, to day, to day, to day, to day, to day, to day, it will never.

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I don't just shout about it on the first Sunday.

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Somebody don't help me talk here. I don't just give God glory for the blood at Easter and Good

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Friday. Every time I think about how he washed my sins away, every time I think about when my

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conscience is guilty, he stirs up in my soul that there is a fountain.

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Fill with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. Center you out of plumb.

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Beneath that flood and lose all your guilty stain. Let me, let me, before I give you my three little

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points here and let me, let me just share this with you. I read a couple of days ago about this,

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this little boy who was mischievous, that little boy's are, and he'd go out, leave the house,

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go to play, and his mother would always be on him to be back in the house at a certain time.

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But he would never get back when the, when the mother gave instructions. He was always getting

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home late. Mother would fuss at him, try to get him in the house on time. He wouldn't listen,

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wouldn't come in the house on time. And, and so one day he came home late. His mother didn't say a word.

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She put some bread in front of him and a cup. She sat down at her place at the table and the

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father was at his place in the table with this giant steak and this baked potato with, with butter

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and sour cream, chives and cheese. And the father had a large glass of his favorite beverage.

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And this boy was at his end of the table with bread and a cup. Mother didn't say a word.

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Father didn't say a word, but to teach him who Jesus is.

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The daddy took his plate from the boy, put it where his plate was, took that big beautiful

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steak and potatoes and put it where the boy was. And for the first time the boy saw the sacrifice

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of the lamb. God took that little plate I had and gave me his plate to make me know that when you

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trust me, no good thing. I wish I had a Bible reader. No good thing will he withhold from him

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who walks up rightly. And that boy never came home late another day because his daddy showed him

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if you walk up rightly, no good thing will be withheld from you. If you trust God for your future,

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if you let God be your savior, because he will not save you against your will.

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You have to open the door and he will come in. The sacrifice has been made,

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but you have to appropriate it. Walk with me around the text. Look with me again in verse 23,

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for I receive from the Lord what I also handed on to you that the Lord Jesus on the night when

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he was betrayed took a loaf of bread. In that one verse, the scripture says, this due in remembrance

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of me, it's even written on the Lord's table that we observe every first Sunday. This due in

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remembrance of me. What should we remember? We should remember first of all his person.

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At the Lord's table, we should be occupied with no man saved Jesus only.

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We should focus our thoughts, our music, our scripture reading, our ministry on his person,

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on who he is in all the fullness of his nature and personality. He is the eternal.

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He is the uncreated one. He is the self existing second person of the Godhead.

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He is co equal. He is co existent. He is co eternal. He is co regent with God the Father,

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possess of all the attributes and the prerogatives of deity. Yet he lays it aside to become sin for us.

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He was made in the form of God and he thought it not robbery to be equal with God,

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but he took upon himself the form of a slave, the form of a servant and became obedient even

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under death, even to the death on the cross. The death that I should have suffered. Jesus

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suffered in my place. The death that I should have died. Jesus died for me.

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And when he says this, doing remembrance of me, remember. Remember how he stepped out of eternity

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into time. Watch this so that one day I may step out of time into eternity.

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Remember how he lived among us as a man among men to show us how man is intended to be

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in the eyes of God, but not only ought you remember that he's co equal and co existent and

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co eternal and co region. Remember the last time he blessed you. Remember the last time he opened

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the door for you. Remember the last time he heard your prayers. Remember the last time the Lord came

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to your rescue. Remember the last time you sinned and God washed it clean. Remember the last time

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you prayed and God was listening. Remember the last time you were bruised and God healed your

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wounds. Remember the last time you were down and God picked you up. When you want to remember his

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goodness, this do. Can you remember some of him? I think I said this to you some time ago.

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Many of us are kind of awkward when it comes to shouting. We're kind of timid about shouting. We

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don't like to carry on like that because we are kind of rigid and you know, especially when you've

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been to school or you have a mass a certain amount of whatever it is you have, you become a little

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laid back when it comes to church and when it comes to how you give God glory. And I know that's

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your personality, your reserve. That's the way you are. That's just the way you were made. And you

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say, well, you know, I'm that's not how I am. That's not how I carry on until the rockets play or the

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astros play or you win the lottery or or you meet that special someone or you get that new thing or

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you have that raise on your job or something goes on that excites you. You can hear you all down the

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street screaming and hollering. But when it comes to Sunday morning, that's just not who I am. That's

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just not the way I carry on. And then we shake our heads like this when we say that's that's not

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what I do. That's not how I carry on. Well, let me teach you how to shout. You don't have to run.

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You don't have to break nothing. You don't have to you don't have to hurt yourself. Here's a good

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tool to help you shout. Have a good memory. Remember when you were broke and God paid your bill.

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Remember when they lied on you and said you'd never be anything and God put your enemy back in

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their place. Remember when you thought you would not get that promotion on the job, but the person

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who was trying to stop you, God got you over them. If you want to shout, just remember how good God

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I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

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My soul, I wish I had a witness, shall make her boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear

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that of and be glad. Oh, that's that's church talk. Oh, magnify the Lord with me. But listen,

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if you don't magnify him with me, I'm a magnifying by myself. Here it is. Here's the shout. Here's

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the holler. Oh, taste and see. Don't take my word for it. Don't believe me. Taste and see. Try him

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for yourself and you'll come back here next Sunday and say, Reverend, I know for myself. Can't nobody

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remember his person. Co equal, coexist, core eternal, core region. But then in verse number

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24, remember his passion. And when he had given thanks, he brokered and said, this is my body

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that is, here it is for you. Do this in remembrance of me, but what I'm doing is for you. The emphasis

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is on the vicarious work of Christ. What happened to his body was for us. That was purpose in his

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suffering. They whipped it. They put a crown of thorns on his head. Isaiah said they pulled his

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beard out. They scourged him until the blood was on his back. They whipped him until bone was showy.

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He was wounded for high transgression, bruised for our iniquities. The chest ties of my peace

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was on him. But his stripes, I am here for all we like sheep have gone astray and God has laid on

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him the iniquity of us all. The Lord supper is an acted sermon and acted proclamation of the death

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which it commemorates. The emblems in the Lord supper, the bread and the cup take us directly

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to Calvary. They speak of his body broken and bruised and his blood poured out with all of the

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eloquent voice that only that passion can engender. The shedding of his blood ratified the new covenant

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with eschatological meaning for the Jews and soteriological meaning for the church.

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Eschatological meaning for the Jews, meaning when the Jews repent when he comes again in the

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second coming, the eschatological meaning will then take place that those Jews who believe will

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then be saved. But those of us who could not be saved as Jews because we are not the seed of

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Abraham had to be grafted into the family soteriologically through the shedding of his blood

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and now we are children of God as Abraham's children are because he shed his blood on the cross

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to bring us soteriology soteriologically to what the Jews have eschatologically.

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I couldn't say that again for a thousand dollars.

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All I'm trying to get over to you brothers and sisters is that when he died he became both

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expiation and propitiation. It has something to do with the sacrifice with the ritual on the

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day of atonement. When the high priest would take a goat, two goats, two he goats and he would sacrifice

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one goat and shed his blood on the mercy seat and then he would take the other goats and confess

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the sins of the people on the head of that goat and turn that goat to loose in the wilderness

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and it would become for them escape goat. The goat that was sacrificed was expiation

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because without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. But not only did sin have to

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be atoned for sin had to be taken away and the blood that was shed on that goat as expiation

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when they turned the other goat loose he took their sins away as propitiation.

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When Christ shed his blood and died on the cross he became both expiation and propitiation. What can wash?

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Wash away my sin. I wish I had a witness. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can make me

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whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. He ratified the new covenant in his blood.

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Yes, sir. Some of us will remember from reading the scripture when God got ready to make a covenant

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with Abraham when making a covenant with Noah, with Moses, with David. He would have them to

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split an animal in two and put the two halves on side of each other and then a smoking pot

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fire would pass between the two halves of the animal. I want you to get this because this is

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really worth shouting over. The fire would pass through the two animals signifying that God is

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passing through the two halves of the animal. Here is the significance of that. God never asked

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Abraham to pass through. He never asked Noah to pass through. He never asked David to pass through.

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He never asked you or I to pass through because the ratification of the covenant doesn't depend on

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you because even when I don't keep my word, the fire that goes through the two halves means God

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says if you don't keep your half of the bargain, I'm still going to keep my hand.

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So here is the shout. Jesus paid it.

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You bring nothing to the table. You bring nothing but your no good soul to the table.

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You bring nothing but your dirty heart to the table. You bring nothing but your lying tongue

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to the table. But God says if you come to the table, I'll make a covenant with you.

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Nothing in my hands I bring simply to the cross I clean.

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And so now brothers and sisters, there's not only this matter of his person,

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there's not only this matter of his passion, but he wants us to remember his promise.

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And the promise is as often as you drink this cup, as often as you eat this bread,

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what you are doing is foreshadowing, foretelling another supper.

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Jesus is no longer on the cross. He's on the throne.

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You want to know why church is so dead in some churches,

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while worship is so stale and dry and ritualistic and dead and you fall asleep every time you go.

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Because in that church is a crucifix.

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And Jesus is no longer on the cross. And so when you go in the church, whether it's a crucifix or

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a cruciform and Jesus dead body is still on it, it's a dead experience because we don't serve a dead Jesus.

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The Bible says he ever lives to make intercession for us. He is not on a cross, he's on the throne.

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And because he's on the throne, because his person was broken, because his passion was executed,

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because his promise was made, he is coming back.

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He's now our great high priest. He's now our advocate with the Father.

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He's now seated at the right hand of majesty on high, transcending all time and space,

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coming back for his church and when he comes again, we shall reign forever.

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There's not only a promise of his return, but also there's a promise of a rehearsal.

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When we take the Lord's supper this morning, we just rehearse it.

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Because there's another supper, the marriage supper of the Lamb.

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And if you're going to take that supper, you got to participate in this supper.

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Because this is just dress rehearsal for when all of us are at the table.

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Let me let me let me let me let me let me let me shout by myself.

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I'm looking at some folk who's going to be at the table that shouldn't have been there because

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of who they are. Rehab and got no business at the table. She's a prostitute, but she's going to be

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there. Mephibosheth was crippled and both his feet has no business at the table, but he's going to be

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there. Abraham said Sarah was his sister when she was really his wife. He lied, but he's going to be

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at the table. Moses killed a man, but he's going to be at the table. David committed adultery,

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but he's going to be at the table. I ain't no good in my heart, but I would be at the table.

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Because at the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart

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rolled away. It was there. By faith, I received my sight. Now I'm happy. I'm on my way to Canaan

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land because I've been invited to the marriage supper of the lamb. The reason I'm not going to

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hell this morning is because I haven't been invited. My parents taught me, don't ever go

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where you haven't been invited. I've been invited to sit in heavenly places with Christ Jesus,

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and you think I'm going to miss out on that invitation because you don't want to shop,

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because you don't want to give God glory, because you don't want to wave your hands in the sanctuary,

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because you're too dignified to tell God, thank you. I need somebody to join me this morning

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to thank God that when is all over.

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God, some glad moment when this life is over, I'll fly away because I've been invited

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to the marriage supper. This is dress rehearsal this morning. When we take this bread and take

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this cup, we are rehearsing because Jesus said, I will not take it again until I take it new with you

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in my father's kingdom.