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[0:00] 1 Corinthians 11 verse 24 1 Corinthians 11 verse 24 1 Corinthians 11 verse 24 1 Corinthians 11 verse 24 1 Corinthians 11 verse 24

[1:14] As we break bread together we can remember the brokenness of Christ. broken bread, broken body take it, this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me, broken body what has he done for you? He was broken for you he was broken for you, we know his bones were not broken but he says my body is broken for you, his body was broken his skin was broken, it was pierced, his back was like a ploughed field he was beaten badly, beyond recognition, his face more marred than any man the thorn pierced brow, he was broken for you disfigured, degraded, yet the broken body represents God's breaking down of the sin barrier we see the burden of guilt lifted and peace restored his punishment is our peace, his pain is our relief his rejection, is our acceptance he knows what it's like to feel hurt maybe you're feeling somewhat like that today there's times we all have felt hurt, forsaken he knows what it feels like to be broken in our Isaiah 52, 14 it reads of the travail of his soul you know, it's what, I can never experience the travail of childbirth but some of you good people here have the travail of childbirth you know, it's no picnic I suppose and the Lord Jesus had the travail of his soul how deep that would have been the pain that he would have felt the mistreatment, the agony that he bore the grief, but most of all the guilt the guilt, the judgment of God against sin the sinless one, yet without sin our Lord, yet he bore our sin broken for you, think of it today broken for you, the betrayal, the wounds the mocking, the scourging, forsaken broken, a man of sorrows humiliated, cursed what will your response be to the broken bread and the broken body today will it be a broken heart a broken heart broken up over our sin as we've said sin, we need to get a handle of that we need to understand the grossness and the deepness of our sin and be broken up over our sin that's a good place to be to realise our sin

[3:57] Psalm 34, 18 God says, the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit if you're broken this morning broken up over your sin if that fallow ground that hard heart is broken up like ground ready to be cultivated and seeded and flourishing then you're in the right place right now with God to be broken up it's the appropriate response to the broken saviour to be broken up in our heart and acknowledge our sin now when the Holy Spirit comes he'll convict or he'll judge the world of righteousness sin and judgement you know there is that sense where it's the working of God's spirit when we're feeling broken up because then God can penetrate when that hardness is broken up he wants our hearts broken up today in Psalm 147 he healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds when our hearts are broken he can come with his healing touch and heal the broken heart

[5:06] Luke 4 he says the spirit of the Lord is now upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that are bruised he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted he is the one who can heal the broken in heart healing is here today wholeness is here today his brokenness is our wholeness his bruising is our healing where there is brokenness of heart he can bind up the wounds but you know sometimes we don't allow our hearts to be broken up now we're a bit like that hard hearted Pharisee and you know God didn't penetrate because he wasn't broken up in his heart and where there is a brokenness of heart he can bind up the wounds he can heal he can mend he can make whole broken people

[6:07] I urge you today to come to the one who can restore you God heals broken up people he repairs people damaged by sin you know sin is damaging you see these pictures sometimes you know before heroin and after heroin or you know before ice and after ice sin has a toll on you and after sin it has a toll on you there's an impact and yet God can fix up the most broken as the example of the woman at his feet unworthy maybe mocked and scorned and derided and an outcast God can heal whoever you are today he can heal your heart something I'm too far gone I'm too far from God God can never touch a life like mine I'm too sinful no it's a good place to be to realise you sin but don't say that God can't touch your life because God can touch to the uttermost to the guttermost to the furthest and hardest of hearts he can penetrate and he can restore because God is in the soul restoration business the soul restoration business the hands that tore the bread can put lives torn by sin back together a preacher said this

[7:34] God uses broken things it takes broken soil to produce a crop broken clouds to bring rain broken grain to give bread broken bread to give strength and it's the broken alabaster box which gives forth perfume you know that container of perfume could have remained shut up and unbroken but when it was broken it unleashed the fragrance of her worship and it is Peter weeping bitterly broken who returns to greater power than ever when it seemed with Peter as he had denied Christ you know it seemed like he was you know he was forsaken but he wasn't God didn't give up on Peter he returned to power greater power than ever before when he was broken when he was broken let us call the ushers now perhaps

[8:39] Bob oh Rodney's got it organised thanks Rodney please come forward please come forward the ushers and we'll be waited on and please let's be prayerful as we do we'll pass the bread and cup and hold together and please feel invited feel welcome today he wants us in the word to not partake carelessly not discerning the Lord's body but discern the Lord's body in other words recognise that his body is here today in picture form in the bread and in the reality of who is here broken people I've heard it said about when you make bread I don't know if anyone's got a bread maker here today but in the traditional way that they would make bread they shake it they break it they bake it and they make it and I heard someone preach to put it like that and it stuck with me and it's like that with our life sometimes isn't it sometimes we shake it like that grain as the chaff is divided from the wheat he shakes us he breaks us sometimes that grain is broken it can yield forth the fruitful seed from which the bread can be made he bakes us he puts us in the oven sometimes through life doesn't he as we go through those times of where the heat is applied then he makes us he makes us into that bread and you know the word says that we are bread we are as it were one loaf one loaf one piece of bread one loaf of bread he makes this church to be as it were a loaf of bread and we're all part of that and there's lots of different sizes and shapes and types of grain that make up

[10:52] God's church today throughout the world in many places and we're part of that body he says take eat this is my body which is broken for you and we can do that today as we trust him if you're yet to believe put your trust in him call on his name it's simple really we make it too complicated sometimes yet it's trust in him it's trusting that perfect body yet without sin can bear our sin yours and mine and we can by faith claim that promised forgiveness that he gives to us as we've broken in heart he can bind up our wounds we'll just wait for one another it says let a man examine himself and when I see that scripture it makes me think well I'm not to examine you you're not to examine me but you are to examine yourself examine yourself examine yourself today and we can easily look at others and think think thoughts about others but the bible says to examine your own heart examine your own heart and it's a good timely occasion to consider what have

[12:17] I done this week what have I neglected to do what could I do next week how can I better be in God's will doing his work pleasing God how can I bring glory to God with what life I've got left to live how can I make account for his glory and these are things we should consider examine yourself elsewhere it says examine yourselves whether you be in the faith and that's important we can go through the motions there might be people here you might have gone through the motions and yet not had the reality so it's important that we have the reality ending ending ending ending ending ending ending ending ending ending ending ending Thank you.