WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.040 I have finally been able to convince my father 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.379 -in -law during this trip here that he should 00:00:05.379 --> 00:00:09.019 say a few words to us in this time of meditation 00:00:09.019 --> 00:00:13.019 tonight. He is a very dear man. Some of you have 00:00:13.019 --> 00:00:14.939 gotten to know him and their visits here and 00:00:14.939 --> 00:00:20.059 you know that he is a man of God. I guess my 00:00:20.059 --> 00:00:22.179 favorite picture of him is found in our wedding 00:00:22.179 --> 00:00:26.199 album. We particularly chose this picture because 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.219 of what it suggests. There's a picture of him 00:00:29.219 --> 00:00:33.500 at our reception, and he is standing next to 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:36.799 me with his mouth open, obviously talking, and 00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:39.520 has his arm, his hand on my arm and his other 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:43.979 hand on his bullfold. And I've been trying to 00:00:43.979 --> 00:00:45.659 figure out ever since, was he putting it away 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:48.380 or taking it out? I don't remember him taking 00:00:48.380 --> 00:00:51.820 it out. But that's my favorite picture of him. 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:55.060 But tonight he's going to share with us. He is 00:00:55.060 --> 00:00:57.420 on the staff at Calvary Baptist Church in Covington, 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.979 Kentucky. And he and my mother -in -law will 00:01:01.979 --> 00:01:05.900 be heading back tomorrow to home there. But I'm 00:01:05.900 --> 00:01:08.500 glad that tonight, Papi, as we call you, you've 00:01:08.500 --> 00:01:10.700 consented to speak to us. Come and share the 00:01:10.700 --> 00:01:23.430 word. You notice he said I was going to say a 00:01:23.430 --> 00:01:28.390 few words. In other words, he meant be brief. 00:01:29.489 --> 00:01:43.890 Amen. In the year 1934, I was ordained to the 00:01:43.890 --> 00:01:48.489 gospel ministry. So in December of this year, 00:01:49.730 --> 00:01:53.469 I will have been in the ministry fifty years, 00:01:53.950 --> 00:01:57.310 and I admit to you that I know so little about 00:01:57.310 --> 00:02:01.930 preaching yet. There is so much I still have 00:02:01.930 --> 00:02:05.510 to learn. But I remember what an old preacher 00:02:05.510 --> 00:02:07.969 said to me in the early part of my ministry. 00:02:08.889 --> 00:02:12.610 He said, Young man, as long as you are green, 00:02:12.750 --> 00:02:17.509 you are still growing. So I will be growing because 00:02:17.509 --> 00:02:21.580 I recognize that In so many areas, I have to 00:02:21.580 --> 00:02:27.439 say, I just don't know about this. It's a privilege 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.639 to be with you tonight. We always enjoy coming 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.620 and visiting with you folk here, especially our 00:02:35.620 --> 00:02:41.080 family, our youngest daughter, and the three 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:47.120 or four grandchildren. The pastor said something 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.379 about When he introduced us to the class this 00:02:51.379 --> 00:02:55.539 morning, he said, my wife's name is, mother -in 00:02:55.539 --> 00:02:59.120 -law said, now her name is Mary Frances, isn't 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:04.120 it? Eagleston. And she said, yes. And he said, 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:07.400 now you tell me what your name is. I said, Harmon 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:11.580 Eagleston. And when he had my wife's middle name 00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:14.680 in there, I just couldn't let him get by with 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.360 that. I said, well, my full name is Harmon Brooks. 00:03:20.120 --> 00:03:24.659 Now, that means nothing to you all, but Jonathan's 00:03:24.659 --> 00:03:29.500 middle name is Brooks. I tell you, he's something 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:42.520 special. It's always a solemn time when we come 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:47.860 to the Lord's Supper. It's a time of rejoicing. 00:03:48.810 --> 00:03:54.030 But yet it should sober us when we realize the 00:03:54.030 --> 00:03:58.610 price that Christ paid for our redemption. And 00:03:58.610 --> 00:04:02.770 tonight, briefly, I said briefly, I'd like for 00:04:02.770 --> 00:04:07.930 us to think about three different looks when 00:04:07.930 --> 00:04:12.150 we come to the Lord's table. Three looks when 00:04:12.150 --> 00:04:13.930 we come to the Lord's table. Do you have your 00:04:13.930 --> 00:04:16.230 Bible with you tonight? Hold your sword up, would 00:04:16.230 --> 00:04:23.290 you? I'll declare. Mark, is that your Bible or 00:04:23.290 --> 00:04:26.889 your wife's? It's mine. It's yours. All right. 00:04:28.149 --> 00:04:32.509 All right. Would you let me see it after the 00:04:32.509 --> 00:04:37.709 service and see if his name is in it? Yes. All 00:04:37.709 --> 00:04:40.310 right. Always bring your Bible with you when 00:04:40.310 --> 00:04:44.930 you come to the house of God. Follow along as 00:04:44.930 --> 00:04:48.329 the preacher reads the word. And as he preaches 00:04:48.329 --> 00:04:53.750 it, I often say this, when I was growing up on 00:04:53.750 --> 00:04:59.850 the farm, we milked about eleven cows night and 00:04:59.850 --> 00:05:05.889 morning. And you know, we didn't have the milkers. 00:05:07.149 --> 00:05:12.930 Here were the milkers. And I never went to milk 00:05:12.930 --> 00:05:17.449 without a bucket. Now that's logical, isn't it? 00:05:17.990 --> 00:05:21.129 I always say, don't come to church without the 00:05:21.129 --> 00:05:25.610 Bible, the sword of the Spirit. One time preaching 00:05:25.610 --> 00:05:27.750 at Calvary, I said, how many of you have your 00:05:27.750 --> 00:05:32.529 Bibles? And every one but a young lady said, 00:05:32.589 --> 00:05:35.069 well, I have my little New Testament. I said, 00:05:35.149 --> 00:05:38.250 well, that's a dagger. It's all right. It's a 00:05:38.250 --> 00:05:41.389 dagger. It's a part of God's Word. Now tonight 00:05:41.389 --> 00:05:44.029 I'd like for you to open your Bible to 1 Corinthians 00:05:44.029 --> 00:05:56.370 11. In the first part of the chapter, Paul praises 00:05:56.370 --> 00:06:01.329 the Corinthian believers because of the way they 00:06:01.329 --> 00:06:07.269 had obeyed his preaching, his oral teaching. 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:11.199 He said, I praise you for the way you have observed 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:16.160 and kept and obeyed the instructions of the Lord 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.180 through my oral teaching. But when he comes to 00:06:20.180 --> 00:06:22.439 the 17th verse, he said, no, I've got something 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:26.879 I can't praise you for. I have something I have 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:33.060 to rebuke you for. And that something was, when 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:36.899 they came to observe the Lord's Supper, In the 00:06:36.899 --> 00:06:39.279 early church they had what they called a love 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:47.060 feast before the supper. And the rich members 00:06:47.060 --> 00:06:52.100 would bring their baskets full of food, abundance 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:55.899 of food, and they would get off and eat their 00:06:55.899 --> 00:07:03.180 food together. And the poor folk, those who were 00:07:03.180 --> 00:07:07.410 possibly slaves, and they had to come right from 00:07:07.410 --> 00:07:12.050 work to the service. They had very little to 00:07:12.050 --> 00:07:17.889 eat. And as they sat and watched the rich people 00:07:17.889 --> 00:07:22.709 eating their food, I'm sure they drooled. They 00:07:22.709 --> 00:07:24.930 thought, I'd sure like to have some of that steak. 00:07:26.990 --> 00:07:29.629 But that's the way they did. Instead of doing 00:07:29.629 --> 00:07:32.589 it together, little group over here, little clique 00:07:32.589 --> 00:07:36.279 over here, and they didn't observe the Lord's 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.560 Supper together. Paul said, I want to tell you 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.360 something. You can't observe the Lord's Supper 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.000 like that. You can go through the form, but it's 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.439 not observed in the Lord's Supper. And so then 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:53.680 in verse 23, we break in there, follow along 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.019 as I read. I have received of the Lord that which 00:07:58.019 --> 00:08:02.139 also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus 00:08:02.139 --> 00:08:06.740 the same night while he was being betrayed, took 00:08:06.740 --> 00:08:10.319 bread. And when he had given thanks, he break 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:14.519 it and said, Take eat. This is my body which 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:21.160 is for you. This do in remembrance of me. After 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:25.220 the same manner also he took the cup. After supper, 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:29.160 saying, This cup is the New Testament or covenant 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.759 in my blood. This do ye as oft as ye drink it 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:37.080 in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:41.379 this bread and drink this cup, ye do show or 00:08:41.379 --> 00:08:45.360 proclaim, preach, or declare the Lord's death 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.220 till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this 00:08:50.220 --> 00:08:54.539 bread and drink this cup of the Lord in an unworthy 00:08:54.539 --> 00:08:58.360 manner shall be guilty of the body and blood 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:04.370 of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and 00:09:04.370 --> 00:09:08.049 so let him eat of that bread and drink of that 00:09:08.049 --> 00:09:11.889 cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily 00:09:11.889 --> 00:09:15.350 eateth and drinketh damnation or judgment or 00:09:15.350 --> 00:09:19.429 chastisement unto himself, not discerning the 00:09:19.429 --> 00:09:23.330 Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and 00:09:23.330 --> 00:09:28.429 sickly among you, and many sleep, many had already 00:09:28.429 --> 00:09:33.220 died. onto the chastening of the Lord. But if 00:09:33.220 --> 00:09:37.720 we would judge or carefully examine ourselves, 00:09:37.899 --> 00:09:41.720 we should not be judged. But when we are judged, 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:45.500 we are chastened, we are disciplined of the Lord 00:09:45.500 --> 00:09:48.299 that we should not be condemned with the world. 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:50.799 Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:56.179 to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man 00:09:56.179 --> 00:09:59.960 hunger, let him eat at home. that ye may come 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:04.059 not together unto condemnation or to judgment, 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:12.679 and the rest will I arrange when I come." The 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:16.340 Apostle Peter said of our Lord in 1 Peter 2 verse 00:10:16.340 --> 00:10:24.279 7 that he is precious to them that believe. Isaiah, 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.549 speaking of coming Messiah, said one of his names 00:10:28.549 --> 00:10:34.110 would be wonderful. I tell you, our Blessed Redeemer 00:10:34.110 --> 00:10:40.210 is so precious that it takes many, many names 00:10:40.210 --> 00:10:45.149 to just partially reveal to us how wonderful 00:10:45.149 --> 00:10:50.269 he is. Three of the most commonly used names 00:10:50.269 --> 00:10:55.889 of our Savior in the New Testament is Lord, Jesus, 00:10:56.090 --> 00:11:01.669 and Christ. Those three names together are found 00:11:01.669 --> 00:11:05.350 about eighty times in the New Testament. Here 00:11:05.350 --> 00:11:08.590 is an example, 2 Corinthians 8 and 9. Isn't that 00:11:08.590 --> 00:11:29.139 a wonderful verse? Lord Jesus Christ. Of course, 00:11:29.179 --> 00:11:35.759 Lord is his divine name, bringing out to us the 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:40.580 deity of our Savior. Jesus is his human name, 00:11:41.220 --> 00:11:46.980 meaning Savior. He who was God became man. And 00:11:46.980 --> 00:11:52.759 then Christ, meaning the Anointed One, also equivalent 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:57.259 to the Hebrew word Messiah. He is the anointed 00:11:57.259 --> 00:12:02.279 one. In my scraping through the New Testament, 00:12:02.500 --> 00:12:07.860 I found that several times the word Lord is used 00:12:07.860 --> 00:12:13.139 as a possessive adjective. In fact, three times 00:12:13.139 --> 00:12:17.120 here in the 11th chapter of 1 Corinthians, we 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:21.279 have the word Lord used as an adjective, a possessive 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:25.309 adjective. Revelation 1 .10 is another time. 00:12:25.789 --> 00:12:29.269 The word Lord, as the name of our Savior, is 00:12:29.269 --> 00:12:33.330 used as an adjective. Revelation 1 .10, John 00:12:33.330 --> 00:12:36.970 says, I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. 00:12:37.990 --> 00:12:41.629 The Lord's day. Of course, some believe that 00:12:41.629 --> 00:12:45.889 that means the day of the Lord that John speaks 00:12:45.889 --> 00:12:47.950 about in the book of Revelation. Others think 00:12:47.950 --> 00:12:51.029 it's referring to the first day of the week. 00:12:51.309 --> 00:12:54.450 on which the early saints gathered together to 00:12:54.450 --> 00:12:57.370 worship the Lord. I rather take it with that 00:12:57.370 --> 00:13:02.029 meaning. John, on the island of Patmos, away 00:13:02.029 --> 00:13:06.590 from his home, away from other believers, nobody 00:13:06.590 --> 00:13:08.590 knew what he was going to be doing that Lord's 00:13:08.590 --> 00:13:13.769 Day. But I tell you what, he was in the Spirit 00:13:13.769 --> 00:13:17.850 on the Lord's Day, meaning that the Spirit of 00:13:17.850 --> 00:13:21.730 God so possessed him that he was able to write 00:13:21.730 --> 00:13:27.090 to us the wonderful book of Revelation, the Lord's 00:13:27.090 --> 00:13:31.850 Day. And then here in 1 Corinthians 11, we have 00:13:31.850 --> 00:13:35.590 the word Lord used as an adjective again in verse 00:13:35.590 --> 00:13:40.769 26. Notice verse 26. For as often as ye eat this 00:13:40.769 --> 00:13:45.289 bread and drink this cup, ye do proclaim the 00:13:45.289 --> 00:13:51.299 Lord's death, the Lord's death. There are some 00:13:51.299 --> 00:13:58.100 who are higher critics and it's hard for them 00:13:58.100 --> 00:14:02.779 to accept the miraculous in the Bible. They deny 00:14:02.779 --> 00:14:08.899 that Jesus really died. He just fainted. He swooned 00:14:08.899 --> 00:14:12.580 and the cool air of the sepulcher caused him 00:14:12.580 --> 00:14:17.279 to come back, revive from that fainting condition. 00:14:18.409 --> 00:14:23.649 The Bible more than once says he died. Romans 00:14:23.649 --> 00:14:28.649 5 -6, for when we were yet without strength, 00:14:29.389 --> 00:14:34.850 in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Who 00:14:34.850 --> 00:14:36.830 are you going to believe, the skeptics or the 00:14:36.830 --> 00:14:44.230 Bible? Christ died. Romans 5 -8, but God commendeth 00:14:44.230 --> 00:14:48.039 or demonstrated his love for us. In that while 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:54.120 we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. I tell 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:57.700 you, he didn't just faint. He didn't just die. 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:02.960 He didn't just shroom. He died the Lord's death. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.379 Then come to verse 29, you have the word, Lord, 00:15:07.539 --> 00:15:12.820 again. Verse 29, for he that eateth and drinketh 00:15:12.820 --> 00:15:17.590 unworthily, notice it's an adverb. It's not describing 00:15:17.590 --> 00:15:21.610 the person that eats. It's an adverb describing 00:15:21.610 --> 00:15:24.929 the manner in which we eat. So many folks say, 00:15:24.929 --> 00:15:28.950 oh, I'm so unworthy. And the Bible said that 00:15:28.950 --> 00:15:33.730 unworthy ones should not partake of it. If there's 00:15:33.730 --> 00:15:37.629 anyone here tonight, you're saved. And you feel 00:15:37.629 --> 00:15:41.730 that you're worthy of coming to the Lord's table. 00:15:42.129 --> 00:15:44.590 Would you stand to your feet now and tell us? 00:15:45.670 --> 00:15:48.450 We're all unworthy. He's not talking about that. 00:15:48.450 --> 00:15:50.629 He's talking about the manner in which we partake 00:15:50.629 --> 00:15:54.429 of it. If we partake of it unworthily, we eateth 00:15:54.429 --> 00:15:56.850 and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning 00:15:56.850 --> 00:15:59.789 the Lord's body. There you have it again, the 00:15:59.789 --> 00:16:03.570 Lord's body. It could have two references there. 00:16:03.590 --> 00:16:08.649 The Lord's body could be referring to his body 00:16:08.649 --> 00:16:12.389 as represented in the bread and the fruit of 00:16:12.389 --> 00:16:17.500 the vine. We could come to the Lord's table and 00:16:17.500 --> 00:16:22.879 not realize that the bread and the fruit of the 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:27.759 vine is representative of his body that was given 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:33.080 as a sacrifice for our sins and his blood that 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:38.659 was shed for us at Calvary. Or it could be referring 00:16:38.659 --> 00:16:40.919 to his spiritual body. You know the Lord Jesus 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:46.639 has a body on earth now. A spiritual body. And 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:51.299 every born -again person in this age is a part 00:16:51.299 --> 00:16:54.299 of that body. Some are in heaven now, some are 00:16:54.299 --> 00:16:57.320 still on earth, but we're all members of that 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.460 body. And we became members of his body when 00:17:00.460 --> 00:17:05.839 we got saved. We were baptized by one spirit 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:10.160 into the one body of Christ. It could be referring 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.480 to that. This could be a rebuke to these who 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:17.640 were in Corinth eating the Lord's Supper in the 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:19.339 way they were eating it. Little group over here, 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:22.519 little group over here. He said, listen, you're 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:27.640 not recognizing the fact that all believers are 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:31.680 in the body of Christ. You're not discerning 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:35.259 the body of Christ, the Lord's body. And then 00:17:35.259 --> 00:17:38.160 we come to the 20th verse. Go back, I mean, now 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:40.859 to the 20th verse. And here you have the word 00:17:40.859 --> 00:17:45.220 lords again. Listen, when you come together therefore 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:49.779 into one place, it is not possible to eat the 00:17:49.779 --> 00:17:54.259 Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper. This is the 00:17:54.259 --> 00:17:57.079 only time in the New Testament you have the expression, 00:17:57.940 --> 00:18:03.059 the Lord's Supper, referring to that meal, that 00:18:03.059 --> 00:18:06.859 memorial meal that he had with his disciples 00:18:06.859 --> 00:18:12.400 on the night before his crucifixion, before he 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:16.140 went into the Garden of Gethsemane, had that 00:18:16.140 --> 00:18:20.400 supper. Well, I wonder why it's called the Lord's 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:26.460 Supper. Well, I can think of just three reasons 00:18:26.460 --> 00:18:31.180 quickly. One is he instituted it. That's why 00:18:31.180 --> 00:18:34.119 it was the Lord's Supper. He instituted it. A 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:39.000 second reason was it was given in the evening. 00:18:39.950 --> 00:18:44.650 And that's why they call it supper. You know, 00:18:44.730 --> 00:18:48.490 in the Bible, the evening meal was always called 00:18:48.490 --> 00:18:55.329 supper. What do you call it? In some circles 00:18:55.329 --> 00:18:59.650 they call it dinner. It's all right. I wouldn't 00:18:59.650 --> 00:19:04.390 pick at you about that. But I just know that 00:19:04.390 --> 00:19:08.970 down south we called it breakfast. The Bible 00:19:08.970 --> 00:19:11.849 called the morning meal breakfast, evening meal 00:19:11.849 --> 00:19:15.569 lunch or dinner, I mean the noon meal, and then 00:19:15.569 --> 00:19:20.609 the evening meal supper. And it was supper. And 00:19:20.609 --> 00:19:22.869 a third reason they called it the Lord's Supper, 00:19:24.109 --> 00:19:28.430 it spoke of Him. It spoke of Him. It was the 00:19:28.430 --> 00:19:32.890 Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper. And in the 00:19:32.890 --> 00:19:36.589 scripture we read tonight, It pointed out to 00:19:36.589 --> 00:19:40.309 us that when we come to the Lord's Supper, there 00:19:40.309 --> 00:19:45.490 are three looks that we ought to always take 00:19:45.490 --> 00:19:48.730 when we come to the Lord's Supper. The first 00:19:48.730 --> 00:19:52.490 look we should always take is a backward look. 00:19:54.109 --> 00:19:57.890 Somebody said, never look backward. Never look 00:19:57.890 --> 00:20:00.549 backward. But here we are admonished to look 00:20:00.549 --> 00:20:03.869 backward in verse 24 and 25. Listen to verse 00:20:03.869 --> 00:20:32.089 24 and 25. this New Year, as often as you drink 00:20:32.089 --> 00:20:35.910 of it, in remembrance of me." In remembrance 00:20:35.910 --> 00:20:42.650 of what? In remembrance of the time when he at 00:20:42.650 --> 00:20:49.390 Calvary offered his body as a sacrifice for our 00:20:49.390 --> 00:20:54.970 sins. He said, take, eat this as my body. This 00:20:54.970 --> 00:20:58.509 represents my body. And he said, when you drink 00:20:58.509 --> 00:21:03.440 of the fruit of the vine, Remember that at Calvary 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.039 I shed my precious blood that you might have 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:14.700 remission of your sins. Yes, that's the backward 00:21:14.700 --> 00:21:19.779 look. Look back. Look back to Calvary and remember 00:21:19.779 --> 00:21:24.680 what he did for us there. What did he do for 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:31.519 you there and me? Listen, his body. was the atoning, 00:21:31.619 --> 00:21:37.059 satisfying sacrifice to the Father that made 00:21:37.059 --> 00:21:42.359 possible our redemption. His precious blood that 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:46.339 was shed there made possible the forgiveness 00:21:46.339 --> 00:21:53.119 and cleansing of our sins. It was shed. We have 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:57.819 a song, Grace that is greater than all my sins. 00:21:58.190 --> 00:22:02.430 One of the stanzas goes there where the blood 00:22:02.430 --> 00:22:12.150 of the lamb was spilt. Spilt. When Dr. Fred Brown, 00:22:13.230 --> 00:22:16.269 great church evangelist of today, was preaching 00:22:16.269 --> 00:22:18.289 in the Philadelphia area when he was a young 00:22:18.289 --> 00:22:22.549 man, and he said he noticed in the service a 00:22:22.549 --> 00:22:27.950 quaint little fellow with a little goatee. very 00:22:27.950 --> 00:22:30.789 quaint, just a little goatee, very well kept. 00:22:31.769 --> 00:22:35.069 He said at the close of the service, that man 00:22:35.069 --> 00:22:38.230 came up to Dr. Brown as a young preacher and 00:22:38.230 --> 00:22:41.609 said, young preacher, you made a terrible mistake 00:22:41.609 --> 00:22:46.529 tonight in your message. Well, you can imagine 00:22:46.529 --> 00:22:50.329 how Dr. Brown must have felt. If he'd have found 00:22:50.329 --> 00:22:52.869 a hole, he could have crawled through it. He 00:22:52.869 --> 00:22:55.589 would have. He said, well, I know I make a lot 00:22:55.589 --> 00:22:58.799 of mistakes, but he said, What was my mistake 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:02.859 tonight? He said, you said when the blood of 00:23:02.859 --> 00:23:08.079 Christ was spilt. Dr. Brown said, yes, I remember 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:11.440 saying that, but what's wrong with that? He said, 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:12.900 you go home and get your dictionary and look 00:23:12.900 --> 00:23:17.700 up and see what the word spilt means. You know 00:23:17.700 --> 00:23:21.619 what it means, don't you? Accidentally done. 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:30.720 I had many a milk bucket. The milk was spilt 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:36.299 in it, but it was accidentally done. Ah, listen, 00:23:36.980 --> 00:23:41.700 the blood of our Savior was not accidentally 00:23:41.700 --> 00:23:47.700 done. It was done with a purpose. A purpose. 00:23:48.259 --> 00:23:50.880 And so, that's the backward look. Tonight, as 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:53.240 we come to the Lord's table, let's look back 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:58.599 to Calvary. Have you ever been to Calvary? No. 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.980 Some of you have been to the Holy Land. I haven't 00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:08.099 been there in person, but I tell you I've been 00:24:08.099 --> 00:24:12.759 there by faith. I've been there by faith. By 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:16.920 faith I could see Him dying on Calvary's cross 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:22.200 for a hell -deserving sinner like me. Never forget 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:24.910 to take the backward look when you come to the 00:24:24.910 --> 00:24:29.390 Lord's Supper. And then we ought to look forward 00:24:29.390 --> 00:24:33.970 in verse 26. For as often as ye eat this bread 00:24:33.970 --> 00:24:41.369 and drink this cup, ye do proclaim, ye do preach, 00:24:42.910 --> 00:24:50.170 ye do declare the Lord's death till he come. 00:24:51.529 --> 00:24:55.970 Aren't you glad he's coming again? We look backward 00:24:55.970 --> 00:24:58.750 to what he did for us at Calvary to make possible 00:24:58.750 --> 00:25:03.349 our redemption, and we look forward to his coming 00:25:03.349 --> 00:25:09.349 for the completion of our redemption. Don't forget 00:25:09.349 --> 00:25:13.190 to look forward to his coming. Expect him every 00:25:13.190 --> 00:25:16.990 day, great preacher of the past, as he'd retire 00:25:16.990 --> 00:25:20.079 for the night before he'd pull the blind. He'd 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:23.359 look out into the starry heavens and say, perhaps 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:28.400 tonight, Lord, perhaps tonight. He'd get up the 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:31.500 next morning, raise the blind, look out into 00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:37.880 the sky and say, perhaps today, Lord, perhaps 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:42.660 today. Let me tell you something. If we would 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:45.019 look forward to the coming of the Lord every 00:25:45.019 --> 00:25:50.259 day, He would purify our lives. He that hath 00:25:50.259 --> 00:25:53.900 this hope in him purifyeth himself even as he 00:25:53.900 --> 00:26:00.059 is pure. Ah Yes, he's coming again And he's going 00:26:00.059 --> 00:26:02.000 to complete our redemption. That's why we ought 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:05.359 to look forward to that He said preacher. I don't 00:26:05.359 --> 00:26:10.920 understand you I'm redeemed already You're just 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:15.759 part way redeemed. So am I I don't have my redemption 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:21.509 body yet Romans 8 speaks of how we look forward 00:26:21.509 --> 00:26:26.230 to the redemption of the body. I don't have my 00:26:26.230 --> 00:26:30.089 redemption body yet, and you can't kid me, you 00:26:30.089 --> 00:26:42.369 don't have yours either. Man came into Dr. Ironside's 00:26:42.369 --> 00:26:45.890 office on the West Coast one time, and he was 00:26:45.890 --> 00:26:51.630 a mess. Oh, he just looked terrible. And Dr. 00:26:51.750 --> 00:26:54.970 Ironside got talking with him and he said, I 00:26:54.970 --> 00:26:57.269 want you to know I've got my redemption body. 00:26:58.789 --> 00:27:04.170 I've got my redemption body. Dr. Ironside looked 00:27:04.170 --> 00:27:08.450 over his glasses and said, if that's the redemption 00:27:08.450 --> 00:27:14.309 body, I think I'll keep the one I've got. Ah, 00:27:14.430 --> 00:27:17.170 listen, this is the forward look. Look forward 00:27:17.170 --> 00:27:21.109 to the day when the Lord Jesus will come again. 00:27:23.109 --> 00:27:27.529 Surely I come quickly, he says. That doesn't 00:27:27.529 --> 00:27:29.730 mean he's going to come soon, necessarily, when 00:27:29.730 --> 00:27:34.009 he said that. It meant when the time of his coming 00:27:34.009 --> 00:27:37.190 arrives, he'll come with the speed of thought. 00:27:37.970 --> 00:27:40.630 He'll come suddenly. That's the backward look. 00:27:41.230 --> 00:27:45.369 But now let's look at the other look. Let's look 00:27:45.369 --> 00:27:48.009 at the other look, is that right? Anyways, there's 00:27:48.009 --> 00:27:50.589 the other look now. The backward look, the forward 00:27:50.589 --> 00:27:55.849 look, and then there's the look within. This 00:27:55.849 --> 00:28:00.069 is going to hurt us. We're going to say ouch. 00:28:01.529 --> 00:28:06.509 Jonathan failed and hurt his knee. Oh, it was 00:28:06.509 --> 00:28:11.980 really a terrible, terrible Scratch on there, 00:28:12.059 --> 00:28:14.579 you know. Oh, it was terrible. He had to have 00:28:14.579 --> 00:28:18.480 a band -aid on it. And it felt better as soon 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.180 as he got that band -aid on there. But he said 00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:26.019 to me, he said, here's my ouch, my ouch. This 00:28:26.019 --> 00:28:27.720 is going to hurt us now. This is going to make 00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:32.500 us say ouch. Here it is in 1 Corinthians 11 and 00:28:32.500 --> 00:28:41.089 verse 28. But let a man examine himself. And 00:28:41.089 --> 00:28:43.490 after self -examination and getting things all 00:28:43.490 --> 00:28:46.710 straightened out, let him eat of the bread and 00:28:46.710 --> 00:28:52.529 drink of the cup. That's the inward look, the 00:28:52.529 --> 00:28:56.809 inward look. Those of us here in this service 00:28:56.809 --> 00:29:02.710 this evening who have been born from above, we 00:29:02.710 --> 00:29:06.849 not only need to look back to Calvary, not only 00:29:06.849 --> 00:29:11.049 look forward to look forward ahead to His coming. 00:29:11.950 --> 00:29:18.329 But we need to look within. Look within. Examine. 00:29:20.250 --> 00:29:22.829 We do a lot of examining of others, don't we? 00:29:24.009 --> 00:29:29.410 We need to examine ourselves. We're coming to 00:29:29.410 --> 00:29:35.029 the Lord's table. We're coming to the Lord's 00:29:35.029 --> 00:29:41.680 Supper. Let's for the moment turn our eyes upon 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:46.359 ourselves. Is everything all right between me 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:52.599 and my father? Do I have unconfessed sin in my 00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:57.319 life? And I know about it. I know what they are. 00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:01.500 But I've never confessed them to him as my father 00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:08.769 and said, Father, I'm sorry. Forgive me. How 00:30:08.769 --> 00:30:12.769 about it? Examine yourselves. The inward look. 00:30:13.789 --> 00:30:17.549 The inward look. How is it between you and other 00:30:17.549 --> 00:30:22.210 believers? Are there some believers here in this 00:30:22.210 --> 00:30:29.289 fellowship that maybe you just have bitterness 00:30:29.289 --> 00:30:33.450 in your heart for them? You just kind of avoid 00:30:33.450 --> 00:30:36.980 them. You don't like to speak to them. You don't 00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:40.039 like to get close to them. You have things in 00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:43.920 your heart that have grieved the Spirit of God. 00:30:46.220 --> 00:30:48.799 Can I have things like that in my life that I 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:55.400 need to confess? Examine yourselves. That's the 00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:59.160 inward look. Will you do that just a moment? 00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:04.920 Examine yourself. Husband, examine yourself. 00:31:06.819 --> 00:31:09.279 You think, boy, I'd like to examine my wife. 00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:15.559 You examine yourself. Examine yourself. Everything 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:20.000 all right between you and the Lord? Everything 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.339 all right between you and your wife, you and 00:31:22.339 --> 00:31:26.759 your husband? If not, now you don't have to make 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:31.460 a show of it. Just in the quietness of this moment, 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:37.039 confess to God. whatever might be there that 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.839 shouldn't be there. And if we confess our sins, 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:43.359 He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins 00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:48.579 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The 00:31:48.579 --> 00:31:53.160 backward look, the forward look, and the inward 00:31:53.160 --> 00:31:58.980 look. Would you let me close with a thought from 00:31:58.980 --> 00:32:05.809 the 21st verse of this chapter. 1 Corinthians 00:32:05.809 --> 00:32:10.049 10. Well, no, it's not the 21st verse. It's the 00:32:10.049 --> 00:32:14.369 24th verse. And when he had given thanks, he 00:32:14.369 --> 00:32:16.930 break and said, take eat, this is my body, which 00:32:16.930 --> 00:32:22.630 is for you. I don't like to close a service without 00:32:22.630 --> 00:32:29.390 having a gospel appeal. And here it is. Harold 00:32:29.390 --> 00:32:32.809 Fickett, who has written a number of good books, 00:32:33.710 --> 00:32:37.170 I enjoy his books that I have in my library. 00:32:37.230 --> 00:32:40.829 He points out that there's no word in the best 00:32:40.829 --> 00:32:45.650 manuscripts for the verb broken. He said, in 00:32:45.650 --> 00:32:51.390 fact, it's just the preposition there, my body, 00:32:51.670 --> 00:32:56.650 which is for you. He said the Lord was literally 00:32:56.650 --> 00:33:01.069 and actually saying, he said the four could be 00:33:01.069 --> 00:33:06.059 up and over. up and over. He said, the Lord was 00:33:06.059 --> 00:33:08.900 really saying, this is my body which is over 00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:15.339 you. A picture of the substitutionary atonement 00:33:15.339 --> 00:33:18.799 of Jesus Christ. You know, atonement has the 00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:24.920 meaning of covering. Over you! The wrath of God 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:29.839 that we deserve to have administered to us for 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:34.240 eternity. The body of Christ comes between us 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:38.460 and that wrath. Then he told about an experience 00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:42.579 that J .C. Massey, a great preacher in the East 00:33:42.579 --> 00:33:48.519 in his day, told about himself, on himself. He 00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:52.960 grew up on a farm in South Georgia and his mother 00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:58.180 was known and famous for her ability to make 00:33:58.180 --> 00:34:03.420 feather beds. Feather beds. Of course, they don't 00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:06.819 have those anymore. I wish I had one when it 00:34:06.819 --> 00:34:11.019 gets 25 below zero. But anyways, his mother was 00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:15.699 known for making feather beds. And she'd always 00:34:15.699 --> 00:34:19.760 told him, said, now listen here, don't you ever 00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:24.780 get on the headboard of any bed and jump into 00:34:24.780 --> 00:34:28.460 the feather bed. She almost threatened him with 00:34:28.460 --> 00:34:33.050 death. If you did. One day his mother was out 00:34:33.050 --> 00:34:37.510 in the barn washing and she sent him into the 00:34:37.510 --> 00:34:42.949 house to get something. He went into the house 00:34:42.949 --> 00:34:47.170 to get what his mother wanted. He was doing real 00:34:47.170 --> 00:34:51.849 good in obeying until he got in there. And he 00:34:51.849 --> 00:34:55.030 climbed up on the headboard of one of those beds 00:34:55.030 --> 00:34:58.730 and he dived into that feather mattress, feather 00:34:58.730 --> 00:35:03.610 bed. Oh, it was so much fun. And he kept doing 00:35:03.610 --> 00:35:06.869 it. Got up on the headboard, dived into the feather 00:35:06.869 --> 00:35:12.469 mattress, feather bed. All of a sudden he heard 00:35:12.469 --> 00:35:19.250 the swishing of a skirt. His mother came in, 00:35:19.250 --> 00:35:26.989 and he knew that payday had come. He threw himself 00:35:26.989 --> 00:35:33.730 on the bed. stomach down, back up, and she was 00:35:33.730 --> 00:35:38.130 getting ready to administer the punishment he 00:35:38.130 --> 00:35:44.829 deserved. An older brother at that time saw the 00:35:44.829 --> 00:35:50.829 situation and he threw his body over the body 00:35:50.829 --> 00:35:56.070 of little JC and he said to his mother, he said, 00:35:57.070 --> 00:36:01.309 Little JC is not big enough to take the punishment 00:36:01.309 --> 00:36:06.469 and said let me take the punishment for him. 00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:09.809 Throw his body over the body of little JC Massey. 00:36:12.170 --> 00:36:18.570 The mother looked and tears began to flow down 00:36:18.570 --> 00:36:24.349 her cheek. She was a devoted Christian. She realized 00:36:24.349 --> 00:36:27.789 in what was taking place there was a picture 00:36:27.789 --> 00:36:34.989 of Calvary where Jesus died in my place, in your 00:36:34.989 --> 00:36:39.730 place. And then she looked at both of those boys 00:36:39.730 --> 00:36:42.489 and she said, you all get out of here as quick 00:36:42.489 --> 00:36:48.889 as you can. Oh my friend tonight, that's why 00:36:48.889 --> 00:36:53.650 we look back to Calvary because there he died 00:36:53.650 --> 00:36:58.449 for you and me. Have you ever looked to Him in 00:36:58.449 --> 00:37:02.949 faith and repentance of sin? If you haven't, 00:37:03.210 --> 00:37:06.449 tonight would be a good time to do that. Good 00:37:06.449 --> 00:37:09.230 time to do it. If there's just one here tonight, 00:37:09.489 --> 00:37:14.829 you've never had that birth from above, and you 00:37:14.829 --> 00:37:17.409 realize you're a sinner and you're on the way 00:37:17.409 --> 00:37:22.250 to hell, deserving to go there. Let the Spirit 00:37:22.250 --> 00:37:24.650 of God work in your heart. Work that repentance 00:37:24.650 --> 00:37:27.789 toward God in faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:37:28.849 --> 00:37:31.349 Then after you get saved, you can have that backward 00:37:31.349 --> 00:37:34.869 look. You can have that forward look. And when 00:37:34.869 --> 00:37:37.250 you come to the Lord's table, you'll have that 00:37:37.250 --> 00:37:45.050 inward look. That'll be so helpful. Let's pray. 00:37:46.150 --> 00:37:56.269 Father, thanks for Calvary. Lest I forget Gethsemane, 00:37:56.590 --> 00:38:01.710 lest I forget thy agony, lest I forget your love 00:38:01.710 --> 00:38:08.969 for me, lead me to Calvary. As we come to the 00:38:08.969 --> 00:38:13.269 Lord's table tonight, Lord, help us to have all 00:38:13.269 --> 00:38:18.449 three looks and maybe be strengthened spiritually. 00:38:19.769 --> 00:38:22.769 as a result of taking the three looks again. 00:38:23.670 --> 00:38:25.010 In Jesus' name, amen.