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 Sincere welcome to you all today to this communion service.

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 It's good to see so many out on this wonderfully bright morning

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 and we trust the Lord will bless us as we come together.

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 And if you're joining us online, we welcome your presence online as well

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 and pray God to bless your participation that way.

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 Now there are a lot of things in the intimations bulletin sheet today.

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 I'm not going to go through them all.

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 There is an insert as well, which I won't just say anything about.

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 You can read that for yourselves.

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 Just to say that tea is served in the hall after the morning service here

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 for tea and fellowship and coffee.

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 And everybody's welcome to come to the hall after the service just now.

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 And there's a congregational fellowship tonight.

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 We're really pleased to be able to get back to those sort of things

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 that we enjoyed so much before the COVID situation set in.

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 And so tonight there's a time of fellowship.

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 It'll be led by Scott McLeod and our elder Murdo McLeod, Murdo A. McLeod,

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 will share his testimony.

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 The monthly prayer meeting tomorrow evening is on Zoom.

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 That's at 7.30 p.m.

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 And you can see all the other services through the week as they're mentioned there.

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 Now you can see on Friday the 17th of June at 7 o'clock, that's 7 to 9 p.m.

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 Arrangements have been made there under the church's Healthy Gospel Church emphasis,

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 which is a free church-wide emphasis.

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 An invitation is extended to all those who work with children and young people in the congregation,

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 along with parents and carers of children,

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 to come along on that evening on the 17th of June

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 to just share ideas about the children's work in the congregation.

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 And Gordon McLeod, the Presbytery Youth Worker, will actually be present as well

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 and will help guide the time that we have together.

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 So that'll be in the MA Upper Hall, Friday 17th of June.

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 And if you can help in any way with that or be present, then please just do so.

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 There's a thank you there from the Women for Mission.

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 You can see that the sum of £3,400 was raised over the past year

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 through the fundraising meetings in the congregation.

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 That's a wonderful sum and that's gone to the WFM main fund.

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 Now also there's a summer holiday club being planned.

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 We've not done this before and it's quite an exciting venture.

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 It's led by Fiona McLeod, whose details are there.

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 If you can help with that, just please read the information.

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 But if you can help with that, please do read whatever way you can help,

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 whether it's by donations or by helping with various other aspects of what's planned there.

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 It'll be on the mornings of 1st to 5th of August, God willing.

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 Finally, just I'll mention the presentation to Reverend Callum Murdoch-Smith.

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 We're greatly looking forward to the induction of Callum Murdoch-Smith

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 as our Assistant Minister.

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 I'm thankful to God for that provision.

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 But as it says there, please remember not only him,

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 but the congregation that he's leaving in North Uist and Grimsey as well.

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 And as is customary, we will be making a presentation to Callum Murdoch and to his family.

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 Please just read through the details there as how you can contribute if you wish.

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 Contributions can be placed on an envelope.

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 Just mark them, presentation.

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 And as usual, if you're making them by cheque, make it payable to Stornoway Free Church.

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 Well, these are all the notices I'm going to mention for the moment.

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 Let's begin our worship, and we're singing firstly today from Psalm 113

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 in the Scottish Psalter version on page 393.

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 We'll sing the whole of the psalm to the tune St. Columba.

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 Praise God, ye servants of the Lord.

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 O praise, the Lord's name praise.

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 Yea, blessed be the name of God from this time forth always.

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 From rising sun to where it's set, God's name is to be praised.

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 Above all nations, God is high.

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 Above heavens, his glory raise.

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 Psalm 113, singing the whole psalm, and we'll stand as usual to sing.

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 Amen.

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 Praise God, ye servants of the Lord.

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 O praise the Lord, ye praise.

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 Yea, blessed be the name of God from this time forth always.

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 Praise God, ye servants of the Lord.

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 Praise God, ye servants of the Lord.

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 From rising sun to where it's set, God's name is to be praised.

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 Above all nations, God is high.

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 But then, God's glory raise.

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 But to the Lord our God that dwells,

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 On I who can compare,

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 And serve the humble things to see,

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 In heaven and earth, the time.

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 Yea, from the dust of grace of the earth,

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 The very Lord of life,

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 And from the dust of grace of the earth,

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 And from the dust of grace of the earth,

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 Oppressed with poverty,

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 That he may hide,

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 And with the princes set,

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 With those that know his people are,

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 The chief, he princes great.

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 Join together in prayer.

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 Almighty God, we thank you for this occasion and renewed privilege that you have given us together to worship you and to gather here in this place.

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 We ask, O Lord, that you would bless us as the one of whom we have been reading and singing,

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 The one who humbles himself and looks down toward us,

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 And who has come into this world in the person of your Son,

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 In order to identify with our need,

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 And to provide for us against it.

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 We confess, O Lord, that we are indeed humbled whenever we think of God coming into this world of sin and of woe,

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 And taking to himself the penalty that his people deserved for their sin.

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 We thank you today for the remembrance of it in the Lord's Supper.

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 We thank you for the way that, in your wisdom, you have appointed this sacrament for us to partake of.

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 Knowing how liable we are, O Lord, even to forget or even to sideline the best of things.

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 We bless you, Lord, for all that is set out before us in the Gospel and in the Lord's Supper.

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 We thank you today for being part of your church in this world,

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 For belonging to your church that has so many privileges given to it by you.

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 In covenant with yourself we come to possess so many promises,

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 So many privileges and advantages.

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 And we pray today for thankful hearts, O Lord, as we seek to give thanks to you.

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 We pray that our thanks may be truly sincere,

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 And that we may not be satisfied with a mere formal confession,

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 Either of sin or of thanksgiving.

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 But enable us, O Lord, to know that movement of our hearts

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 That truly comes from your Holy Spirit working in us.

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 And be pleased, we pray today, to impress upon us anew the love of our Saviour,

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 The love of the Jesus who walked this world

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 And met the many temptations he met with

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 And came to face the wrath of the devil and even the wrath of God

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 And successfully overcame them.

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 And we thank you, Lord, for all that that death provides for us.

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 And bless you today that in remembering the Lord's death in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper,

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 We do bring before ourselves the reality of these things.

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 They are real to your people.

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 And they are thankful that they are real.

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 They are not inventions of human beings.

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 They are not ordinances that the church has seen fit to invent and to set up and appoint.

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 Lord, we thank you that they are appointed by yourself.

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 And even the death of the cross was your appointment.

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 From all eternity you purposed that your own dear Son should come into this world

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 And die the death of the cross for sinners.

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 O humble us anew, we pray, as we think of the implications of this for ourselves.

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 As we think of that great love of God with which you have embraced sinners such as we are here.

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 And embrace them in such a way as to love them freely.

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 And by your grace provide for them a salvation that is in Christ our Lord.

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 Lord, we thank you today that there is forgiveness of sin with you.

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 Because we are so conscious of our sin, O Lord, at such times as these.

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 Although we are conscious of them many times.

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 But we are conscious especially in the light of the cross.

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 And of the sufferings of the Lord and of his death.

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 How it is our sin that nailed to the tree.

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 The Son of God in our nature.

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 Even though ultimately it was your appointment and your doing.

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 We recognize, O Lord, that the gravity of our sin can only be measured by the greatness of the cross.

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 And we thank you today that you have given us the privilege of seeing ourselves anew at the foot of the cross.

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 And gazing upwards to him, as your word says, of those who gathered there in the presence of Golgotha.

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 And sitting down, they watched him there.

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 And may we today, O Lord, have our eyes keenly fixed upon what your word tells us about your cross.

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 And keenly fixed especially upon your own person as the Savior.

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 And we ask, Lord, today that these moments we spend here in this place of worship will truly be meaningful and precious and lasting with us.

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 We pray for all today who are at the Lord's table.

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 We thank you for those who have been here before.

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 For their continued attachment and perseverance and walk of faith.

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 We thank you for those who are here for the first time in their experience.

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 Lord, we pray for them too today that they may know the meaningfulness of belonging to your people.

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 And especially that they may know the meaningfulness of being savingly related to the Lord whose death is remembered.

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 Bless this occasion to them, we pray.

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 Bless it too to those who are onlooking.

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 We give thanks for them again today.

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 We pray that your blessing will reach forth to them as they witness those things that belong to the remembrance of your death in the sacrament.

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 We pray that they themselves, O Lord, will be touched in their hearts.

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 That we will see them coming in days to come to take their place at the Lord's table too with his people.

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 We ask, gracious one, that as your word tells us, your people proclaim the Lord's death by taking the communion.

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 Lord, we pray that that proclamation today, along with the proclamation of the gospel, will touch the hearts of all who are looking on and all who are participating alike.

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 Remember, we pray today, those who can't be with us.

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 Remember those who are confined to their homes and are watching online.

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 Remember those, O Lord, who for other reasons are unable to be present.

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 Remember those who are still fearful or apprehensive, following the results and the period of pandemic that we have come through.

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 And we thank you, Lord, that you continue to provide for us as we emerge from the pandemic and from its conditions.

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 And we pray that you would help us to look to you for our strengthening.

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 We ask that as we reflect upon those issues that are so big and so important for us in Providence, Lord, that they may impress upon us all the more our need of Jesus Christ, our Savior.

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 Our need of being found in him, not having a righteousness of our own, but having the righteousness of Christ.

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 We know that we are made acceptable in the beloved, in the Father's presence.

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 And so we pray for our children today.

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 We pray that as they come in to watch the table being served, we pray that it will be meaningful to themselves as they grow up and reflect upon these things and are taught about them at home and Sunday school and other ways.

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 Lord, we ask that your blessing today will be upon them and that they will grow up in the fear and in the respect that is due to the Lord.

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 Remember, we pray all that we anticipate in this week ahead.

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 We pray for Reverend Calamurdo and for Joan as they anticipate and prepare to come to join us here.

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 We thank you for the provision you have made for us in them.

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 We pray for Calamurdo as he takes up the assistantship.

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 We ask, O Lord, as we look forward to his induction, that we may do so depending upon yourself and with thankful hearts that we may indeed come to appreciate him and his ministry here in our midst.

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 And we ask that you would bless the congregation that he has been in, in North Uist.

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 Remember them, Lord, we pray.

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 We know how difficult it is now when a minister leaves the congregation and when they find themselves not only bereft of a pastor but having to look for a replacement.

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 We pray for them and ask that your blessing will continue with them.

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 And even as was the case many times before, that even in the absence of a permanent pastor, great blessing may yet break out amongst them.

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 Many will be turned to the Lord and your people strengthened.

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 Go before us then now, we pray.

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 Hear us in this our prayer and pardon our many sins.

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 For Jesus' sake.

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 Amen.

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 Now let's read from God's Word.

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 Our reading is from John chapter 19.

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 The Gospel of John and chapter 19.

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 And today we're reading beginning at verse 17.

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 And reading down to verse 37.

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 So John chapter 19 at verse 17.

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 So they took Jesus and he went out bearing his own cross to the place called the place of a skull which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

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 There they crucified him and with him two others, one on either side and Jesus between them.

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 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.

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 It read, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

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 Many of the Jews read this inscription for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city.

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 And it was written in Aramaic, in Latin and in Greek.

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 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, do not write the King of the Jews.

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 But rather, this man said, I am King of the Jews.

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 Pilate answered, what I have written, I have written.

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 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts.

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 One part to each soldier, also his tunic.

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 But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

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 So they said to one another, let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see whose it shall be.

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 This was to fulfill the scripture which says,

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 They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

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 So the soldiers did these things.

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 But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister,

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 Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

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 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby,

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 he said to his mother, woman, behold your son.

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 Then he said to the disciple, behold your mother.

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 And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

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 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said, to fulfill the scripture,

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 I thirst.

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 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch

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 and held it to his mouth.

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 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said,

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 It is finished.

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 And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

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 Since it was the day of preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath,

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 for that Sabbath was a high day,

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 the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken,

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 and that they might be taken away.

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 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other two,

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 of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.

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 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead,

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 they did not break his legs.

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 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,

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 and at once there came out blood and water.

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 He who saw it has borne witness.

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 His testimony is true,

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 and he knows that he is telling the truth,

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 that you also may believe.

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 For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled.

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 Not one of his bones shall be broken.

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 And again another scripture says,

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 they will look on him whom they have pierced.

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 And so on may the Lord add his blessing to that portion of his own precious word.

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 Now we're going to sing in Gaelic,

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 and our singing in Gaelic is from Psalm 22.

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 Psalm 22 and verses are marked on their bulletin sheet.

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 You can follow them on the bulletin sheet.

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 Psalm 22 and verses 14 to 16.

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 In English they go,

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 So like water I am poured out,

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 my bones all out of joint do part,

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 amidst my bowels as the wax so melted is my heart.

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 My strength is like a potsherd dried,

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 my tongue it cleaveth fast unto my jaws,

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 and to the dust of death thou brought me halfst,

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 and so on.

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 So Psalm 22 in Gaelic from verse 14.

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 Psalm 22 and verses 14.

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 These verses from 14.

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 Mariske,

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 Vortig Mishu Machu.

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 I'm going to be seated for this singing.

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Evangelia,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Hermen,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 Mariske,

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 O Christ, O Christ.

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 Will you turn with me now, please, to Paul's letter to the Colossians.

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 Paul's letter to the Colossians.

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 We read in John's Gospel the account of the crucifixion.

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 And here is Paul's theological reflection on Jesus who died the death of the cross.

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 It's a passage that really deals with the Father's role in it.

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 But here there's also digression, if you like, to consider who it is.

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 It is Jesus, the firstborn of all creation and so on.

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 And in verse 17, we can pick up the reading there.

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 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

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 And he is the head of the body, the church.

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 He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

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 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself

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 all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of the cross.

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 Particularly verses 19 and 20, the emphasis on reconciliation through the death of Christ,

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 making peace by the blood of the cross.

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 Now, the Colossians were facing false teaching of a serious kind.

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 It was false teaching that many scholars think led to, or were the early parts of what came

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 to be known as Gnosticism.

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 And it appears that there were false teachers going around saying that in order to approach

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 God, you needed a series of levels of approach, if you like, involving angelic beings, especially

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 angels.

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 Because the idea was that God himself could not come into actual contact with humanity.

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 Because human beings being sinful, God could not actually come into contact with humanity.

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 And whatever the nature of that false teaching was, that was certainly one of the ideas that

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 it was promulgating in Colossae.

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 It appears that some people in the church in Colossae were giving far too much attention

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 to that teaching, which is why Paul wrote the terms that he wrote in Colossians in regard

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 to the person of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and the death that he died on the cross.

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 And that's why Colossians stresses again and again through the letter as you read it, the

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 superiority and the sufficiency of Jesus.

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 The sufficiency of Jesus is so very, very important to us.

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 We're actually commemorating or remembering in the Lord's Supper the death of Christ, and

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 it's the death of the Christ who is himself sufficient to meet all our needs.

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 The Jesus who died on the cross is God's provision against all our needs as sinners, and particularly

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 in regard to being reconciled to him.

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 We do not need anything more than Jesus or anyone more than Jesus.

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 And that's what Paul was setting out for the Colossians, that God the Father did this through

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 the death of Jesus, he reconciled us to himself.

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 He was making peace through the blood of the cross.

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 And we're looking at that today just very briefly in relation to the Lord's Supper.

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 Making peace really is very much the same thing as reconciliation, making peace between us and

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 God.

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 And two things I want to mention briefly.

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 First of all, the enmity which required to be removed.

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 Because when you think about making peace between two parties that are at odds, obviously

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 that means that the enmity there is something that stands between those who are at odds, those

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 who are divided, and that making peace, reconciliation, means dealing with that enmity, with the cause

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 of that enmity.

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 And so we need to look at the enmity which required to be removed, and more fully looking

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 at the death which removed that enmity.

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 Now the enmity which required to be removed is an enmity that we caused.

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 Because when we believe the Bible and go back to what it says about the fall of man in Adam

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 in the Garden of Eden, this is where our rebellion against God actually resulted in this enmity

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 against him.

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 You know, there's a lot of mystery about Adam, the perfect human being, yet in Genesis 3 you

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 read an account of the fall and how he and his wife Eve capitulated to the suggestion of

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 Satan that God was somehow keeping something back from them that he should have also given

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 them.

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 But here is the issue that we face.

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 We cannot understand the cross unless we accept Genesis 3 to be a reality.

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 You'll come across many, many people, many theologians indeed, that will say to you, you should

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 not take the likes of Genesis 3 and even Genesis 1 and 2 literally.

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 They're actually mythical accounts.

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 They're designed to present something that's important, but you mustn't take Adam as a historical

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 figure.

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 Well, Jesus did.

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 And that's enough for me and it should be enough for you, that Jesus believed in the

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 historical Adam.

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 And as he reflected many times and taught many times, as you find in the Gospels, what happened

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 in Adam was so important for Jesus because Jesus knew that that's where man fell, that that's

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 where we fell from the estate that God had created us in.

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 That's where we became sinners at heart, if you like.

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 That's where our rebellion against God resulted in enmity against him.

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 In other words, if you accept Genesis 3, then you accept it as the background to the cross

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 of Calvary.

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 You can't begin to understand the death of Jesus, the Son of God in our nature.

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 You can't begin to even appreciate what that includes and what that is for and what the

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 purpose of that is if you dismiss the account in Genesis 3 of our fall and of the enmity that

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 came between ourselves and God.

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 And that hostility, that enmity that came about by our sin against God in Adam, in our representative

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 Adam as the Bible presents him, means that that rebellion, that hostility is two-sided.

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 There is our hostility to God.

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 Our hostility as sinful human beings to God.

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 And that's really shown in many respects.

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 It's shown particularly in the call of the gospel to come and repent.

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 What do you do with that unless God actually opens your heart to receive the need of it and

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 to believe what the Bible is saying about yourself while you dismiss it?

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 You do what Adam did.

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 You just go and hide from it.

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 You're not willing to accept it as something that you're called upon to do because the hostility

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 of your heart is directed against God and the claims of God and the authority of God and

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 the Word of God.

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 There's hostility from our side towards God.

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 But there is something else.

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 There's the hostility of God towards us.

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 If you look at verse 21 here, you can see how Paul goes on,

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 You who were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled.

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 And the hostility of God himself consists in the way in which he himself has something against

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 us because of what we've done against him.

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 We mustn't think that our sin is something in which God is somehow neutral.

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 You can see the hostility of God towards us in our fallenness.

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 And this is in no way interfering with his love for his people and his provision, as we'll

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 see, of Jesus and of his death.

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 But all you've got to do is go back to Genesis again and Genesis 3 and look at what happened

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 after God had spoken to Adam and Eve and also to the serpent, the devil and the serpent.

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 We read in verse 24 of Genesis 3 that he drove out the man from the garden.

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 And he placed a guard against entrance to the garden.

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 Cherubim and a flaming sword.

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 In other words, God was saying to fallen man, you can no longer live here.

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 You can no longer come here.

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 And when you think of what that word means, God drove the man out of the garden.

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 He didn't just say, now please leave in a very kind sort of way.

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 He drove him out.

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 It's an action of hostility against this man because of what he has done and because of

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 the human race in him.

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 God's hostility needs to be dealt with.

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 You see, there's a two-sided hostility as the Bible teaches us.

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 We haven't time to go into other passages that deal with this.

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 You can follow it through yourselves, especially in the writings of the Apostle Paul.

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 And when you go to the Romans epistle, Romans chapter 8, you can see that the whole creation

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 actually came under a curse due to the sin that we sinned against God.

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 We can't explain why that is or how that is.

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 But Romans chapter 8 tells us that creation is longing to be released from that bondage

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 of corruption which came upon it at the fall and in consequence of the fall of man.

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 You see, that tells me today, my sin is serious stuff.

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 And not only is my sin serious as far as I'm concerned, even more so it's serious as far

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 as God is concerned.

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 He is not neutral towards sin or towards sinners.

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 He has that hostility that needs to be removed along with our hostility against him.

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 That's what the cross is about.

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 That's what the death of Jesus is about.

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 To deal with that hostility, to make peace by the blood of the cross, to reconcile to himself

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 all things.

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 So there's the enmity, very, very briefly, the enmity that needed to be removed.

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 And let's look at the death which removed the enmity.

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 Who took the initiative in providing the cross and providing the death of the cross, the death

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 of Jesus?

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 Who took the initiative?

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 It didn't come from us.

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 It didn't come from human beings saying to God, please do something about our predicament.

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 Please do something to set this right, what we have put wrong.

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 No, it came from God himself.

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 He has done this.

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 God the Father sent his Son into the world specifically with this purpose to die the death of the cross,

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 which is the death that we as sinners deserved.

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 Instead of applying it to us, the Son of God took it himself.

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 God made the first move.

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 You see the words here in verse 19, it pleased him.

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 Well, it isn't quite translated that way in ESV, but I think that would be the better translation.

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 It says here, in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.

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 Better translation, I think, would be it pleased God.

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 God the Father especially.

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 And that's what he's been dealing with in the earlier part of the passage through there,

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 the early part of the chapter.

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 But anyway, it would be better just translating it, I think, this way.

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 It pleased God, or it pleased the Father, that in him, in his Son, in Jesus, all the fullness would dwell.

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 Now, when it says fullness, really that means the fullness of God.

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 Everything that makes God divine.

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 Every single attribute that makes God divine.

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 All the powers and the plenitude of godness, of godhood.

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 That's what fullness there means.

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 And it pleased the Father that in him, in Jesus, all this fullness would dwell.

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 In other words, when he became human, in order to die the death of the cross,

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 he didn't leave his deity behind.

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 He didn't cease to be fully God.

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 He didn't drop some of the plenitude of the fullness that was always his as the Son of God.

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 You can see the same in chapter 2 and verse 9 there.

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 For in him, in Jesus, the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.

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 You see the wonder of Christ's person just glimpsed at there, can't you?

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 The wonder of the Jesus who walked in this world, who faced temptation, who lived a perfect human life,

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 who died the death of the cross.

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 Who is he?

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 This is the question that we have to keep asking all the time in order to keep in our minds a right view of Jesus and who he is and what he's done.

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 You ask, who died on the cross?

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 Well, here is the Son of God, the plenitude of Godness in him.

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 And what it's saying is it pleased the Father through him to reconcile all things to himself.

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 Remember when God created the universe at the beginning, as you see, as you read in Genesis,

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 he looked out on it when it was finished after the six days of creation, and it was very good.

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 God was delighted with it.

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 God was pleased with it.

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 Nothing needed to be adjusted.

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 Nothing needed to be done to improve it.

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 It couldn't be improved.

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 He was pleased.

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 And what Paul is telling us here is that God was pleased to restore it.

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 That God was pleased to bring it back towards a pristine state.

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 To reconcile all things to himself.

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 And now doesn't that make you wonder today?

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 With thankful wonder that the God against whom we rebelled, the God against whom we have enmity naturally in our hearts,

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 the God whose hostility against sin is explained in the Bible or referred to in the Bible,

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 doesn't it amaze you that that God, that same God, that very God, is the one who initiated this reconciliation?

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 And doesn't it make you even more amazed and thankful that he did this through his son?

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 That he himself set up this plan of salvation from all eternity that would send his son Jesus into the world to die the death of the cross for sinners,

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 for those rebels against God that we are.

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 That's what lies behind verse 20, verses 19 and 20.

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 God was pleased to do this.

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 And he says it's by the blood of the cross.

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 Making peace by the blood of the cross.

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 And as we said, verses 19 there in chapter 2, verse 9 shows Jesus being fully God.

00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.739
 But of course, he's also fully human.

00:42:04.739 --> 00:42:12.339
 There is no aspect of humanity or humanness missing from the humanity of Jesus.

00:42:13.099 --> 00:42:18.979
 You mustn't think of the fact that he did not have sin of his own, that he was a perfect human being.

00:42:19.299 --> 00:42:22.459
 You mustn't think that that means he wasn't a complete human being.

00:42:22.859 --> 00:42:27.159
 Because God created human beings in the beginning without sin, of course.

00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:33.279
 And the completeness of Christ's humanity is so precious.

00:42:34.399 --> 00:42:37.179
 So precious to us as we remember his death today.

00:42:38.059 --> 00:42:42.319
 The death of Jesus Christ, the Son of God in our nature.

00:42:43.339 --> 00:42:46.920
 Now, the Bible has some pretty amazing things to say about that.

00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:53.980
 And they're not things which we would ourselves have invented or spoken about in the terms they're spoken about.

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 And I'm thinking especially of two verses in the book of Acts, which really fill your heart with amazement.

00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:06.119
 Especially as you come today to remember the death of the Lord in the Lord's Supper.

00:43:06.260 --> 00:43:10.220
 Acts chapter 3, verses 14 to 15.

00:43:10.219 --> 00:43:18.419
 Here is Peter saying, verse 14.

00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:25.259
 But you denied the holy and righteous one and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you.

00:43:25.279 --> 00:43:30.319
 That's reflecting on the Jews' desire to release Barabbas and to condemn Jesus.

00:43:30.779 --> 00:43:33.059
 You denied the holy and righteous one.

00:43:33.839 --> 00:43:35.599
 That's a name for God, of course, too.

00:43:35.939 --> 00:43:38.279
 And asked for a murderer to be granted to you.

00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.400
 And you killed the author of life.

00:43:43.340 --> 00:43:44.780
 What a remarkable phrase.

00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:47.240
 The author of life is God.

00:43:47.780 --> 00:43:49.140
 The one who creates life.

00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:50.340
 Who gives life.

00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:53.260
 And what he's saying is you killed the author of life.

00:43:53.500 --> 00:43:54.700
 This very one.

00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:02.360
 And then in Acts chapter 20, you remember where Paul met with the elders from Ephesus.

00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:05.820
 A very poignant emotional passage.

00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:08.160
 An emotional meeting as it was.

00:44:09.120 --> 00:44:10.400
 He wasn't going to see them again.

00:44:11.579 --> 00:44:16.099
 And it was very much a sorrowful occasion for that reason.

00:44:16.660 --> 00:44:21.860
 But you remember what Paul said there in verse 28 of chapter 20.

00:44:21.860 --> 00:44:51.840
 He says,

00:44:51.860 --> 00:45:05.640
 And this is something that elders take into account in terms of their responsibility as overseers, as elders, as in a pastoral setting, carers of the flock of God.

00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:21.699
 What is this saying to them that really, more than anything else, I think in that passage, says this is really what impels you, what motivates you, what fills your life with a burden to look after God's church?

00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.659
 Because he purchased it with his own blood.

00:45:25.659 --> 00:45:28.359
 And these are remarkable words.

00:45:29.319 --> 00:45:33.159
 And they bring us back to the question, who died on the cross?

00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:37.319
 It wasn't just a human nature that died on the cross.

00:45:37.879 --> 00:45:43.799
 The Son of God in our nature or through his human nature died on the cross.

00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:45.800
 God didn't die.

00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:46.560
 God didn't die.

00:45:46.640 --> 00:45:47.940
 The deity didn't die.

00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:58.220
 But the Son of God, who is fully God, through our human nature, gave himself to the death of the cross.

00:45:59.180 --> 00:46:01.000
 And I can't explain that any further.

00:46:01.380 --> 00:46:02.340
 Nor do I want to.

00:46:02.340 --> 00:46:15.820
 Because I want to preserve the mystery, the wonderful mystery in this, how God, in becoming man, came to the cross in the person of Jesus and died the death of the cross.

00:46:16.700 --> 00:46:20.000
 But that's what you remember today in the Lord's Supper.

00:46:21.019 --> 00:46:22.460
 Achieving God's peace.

00:46:23.420 --> 00:46:26.579
 Making peace by the blood of the cross.

00:46:27.240 --> 00:46:31.000
 And reconciling all things, he says, to himself.

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:34.440
 That's what the cross achieved.

00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:40.039
 To reconcile not just you and me, individuals, or even the whole church of God.

00:46:40.579 --> 00:46:44.079
 When Paul says all things, he means the whole creation.

00:46:44.659 --> 00:46:54.059
 The whole creation as it came under the curse of God is going to be released from that bondage of corruption at that time when Christ will be revealed.

00:46:54.179 --> 00:46:58.780
 When God restores the whole created order to what it should be.

00:46:58.780 --> 00:47:06.680
 And when that happens, we will appreciate all the more how that has been achieved.

00:47:07.580 --> 00:47:09.640
 Reconciling all things to himself.

00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:13.840
 Making peace by the blood of the cross.

00:47:14.420 --> 00:47:22.500
 The word reconcile there means more than just individuals coming to be reconciled to God.

00:47:22.500 --> 00:47:27.559
 Or God reconciled coming to make peace between himself and individuals like we are today.

00:47:28.360 --> 00:47:35.980
 It actually carries in it the whole idea of setting things back to the way they should be.

00:47:36.659 --> 00:47:39.840
 If you think about two people that have fallen out.

00:47:40.380 --> 00:47:42.219
 The need to make peace between them.

00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:45.119
 However that's brought about.

00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.880
 What you're really seeking to achieve.

00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:49.659
 Whether it's by mediation or whatever.

00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:56.199
 What you're really seeking to bring about is to restore things to what they were and to what they should be.

00:47:56.859 --> 00:47:58.259
 To make peace.

00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:00.819
 And this is what God has done.

00:48:01.179 --> 00:48:05.699
 The Father has done us through Jesus Christ, his son, by his death on the cross.

00:48:06.179 --> 00:48:09.599
 Making peace by the blood of his cross.

00:48:09.599 --> 00:48:13.279
 God has put the enmity behind him.

00:48:14.139 --> 00:48:16.539
 God has put our rebellion behind him.

00:48:18.259 --> 00:48:21.259
 God has put the cause of the breakdown behind him.

00:48:22.099 --> 00:48:24.400
 In Jesus and his death on the cross.

00:48:25.279 --> 00:48:28.019
 That is what the cross has achieved.

00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:30.960
 It's so enormous that we cannot take it in.

00:48:32.099 --> 00:48:36.460
 It's of such dimensions that we just don't have the capacity.

00:48:36.460 --> 00:48:38.199
 And I certainly don't.

00:48:39.019 --> 00:48:42.800
 To take in exactly and all that's involved in that.

00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:45.519
 To take a broken creation.

00:48:46.240 --> 00:48:48.900
 And provide for its fixing.

00:48:49.820 --> 00:48:51.840
 To take a broken relationship.

00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:54.539
 Where God detests sin.

00:48:55.039 --> 00:48:56.699
 And is wrathful against sin.

00:48:57.340 --> 00:48:58.340
 And against sinners.

00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.380
 And deal with that so that it's put behind him.

00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:04.420
 What could achieve that?

00:49:04.699 --> 00:49:06.400
 Who could achieve that?

00:49:07.420 --> 00:49:10.039
 When such an enormous thing needed to be fixed.

00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:11.400
 To be put right.

00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:13.760
 Well that's what Jesus has done.

00:49:13.860 --> 00:49:15.280
 That's what God the Father through.

00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:17.860
 The death of his son on the cross.

00:49:18.380 --> 00:49:20.019
 Has actually brought about.

00:49:20.659 --> 00:49:24.360
 Making peace by the blood of his cross.

00:49:25.300 --> 00:49:26.900
 Now that peace exists.

00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:30.079
 And 2 Corinthians 5 tells us that.

00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:32.800
 The reconciliation that has been brought about.

00:49:33.199 --> 00:49:33.760
 By that.

00:49:34.019 --> 00:49:35.220
 Actually exists.

00:49:35.219 --> 00:49:35.719
 It's there.

00:49:35.819 --> 00:49:36.379
 God is saying.

00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:37.679
 I have done this.

00:49:37.899 --> 00:49:39.000
 I have dealt with the problem.

00:49:39.359 --> 00:49:41.119
 I have dealt with the enmity.

00:49:41.339 --> 00:49:42.299
 I have dealt with.

00:49:43.099 --> 00:49:45.019
 What needed to be done.

00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:47.439
 To reconcile sinners to myself.

00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:50.359
 And to deal with my wrath against sin.

00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:51.119
 All of that.

00:49:51.799 --> 00:49:53.480
 God has dealt with in the cross.

00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:54.480
 God has dealt with the cross.

00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:57.000
 And so when you come to Jesus.

00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:00.320
 What you're doing effectively.

00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:02.599
 Is taking that reconciliation.

00:50:03.059 --> 00:50:04.059
 And making it your own.

00:50:05.059 --> 00:50:06.260
 That's why you're here today.

00:50:06.340 --> 00:50:07.059
 At the Lord's Supper.

00:50:08.019 --> 00:50:09.780
 You've taken this Christ.

00:50:09.940 --> 00:50:10.940
 To be your Savior.

00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:12.139
 By faith.

00:50:12.219 --> 00:50:13.519
 You've come to trust in him.

00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:15.699
 You recognize that.

00:50:16.139 --> 00:50:17.940
 That itself is by God's initiative.

00:50:17.940 --> 00:50:19.679
 Through the work of God's spirit.

00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:20.320
 In your heart.

00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:21.900
 But it's a reality.

00:50:22.120 --> 00:50:23.080
 That's the reality.

00:50:23.640 --> 00:50:24.980
 That exists in your heart today.

00:50:27.680 --> 00:50:28.980
 And you remember.

00:50:29.380 --> 00:50:31.180
 How that's so wonderfully portrayed.

00:50:31.900 --> 00:50:33.140
 In the prodigal son.

00:50:33.320 --> 00:50:35.080
 In Luke chapter 15.

00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:38.340
 When he came back home.

00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:40.500
 Still filthy from.

00:50:41.539 --> 00:50:42.620
 The most recent.

00:50:43.019 --> 00:50:44.340
 Work that he'd been doing.

00:50:44.539 --> 00:50:45.480
 And groveling.

00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:46.900
 And scrabbling with pigs.

00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:48.660
 Trying to get something.

00:50:48.659 --> 00:50:50.299
 Even the pigs that were eating.

00:50:50.420 --> 00:50:51.980
 So that he would not die.

00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:54.679
 And he came to himself.

00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.319
 And when he came to himself.

00:50:57.859 --> 00:50:59.000
 He began to think.

00:50:59.219 --> 00:51:00.559
 What a fullness there was.

00:51:00.619 --> 00:51:01.739
 In his father's house.

00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:03.619
 And how foolish he had been.

00:51:03.699 --> 00:51:04.819
 To turn his back on it.

00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:05.980
 And he said.

00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:06.619
 I will arise.

00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:08.039
 And I will go to my father.

00:51:08.379 --> 00:51:09.219
 I will say to him.

00:51:09.219 --> 00:51:10.619
 Father I've sinned against heaven.

00:51:10.659 --> 00:51:11.319
 And against you.

00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:13.019
 And I'm no more worthy.

00:51:13.099 --> 00:51:14.099
 To be called your son.

00:51:14.460 --> 00:51:16.379
 Make me one of your hired servants.

00:51:16.380 --> 00:51:16.660
 Friends.

00:51:17.160 --> 00:51:18.599
 Or as one of your hired servants.

00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:20.039
 But when he came back.

00:51:20.240 --> 00:51:21.740
 When he actually reached his father.

00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:23.900
 And saw his father running towards him.

00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:26.619
 And his father embraced him.

00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:28.599
 He began.

00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:31.200
 The words that he had practiced saying.

00:51:32.059 --> 00:51:32.619
 Until.

00:51:33.160 --> 00:51:33.860
 They disappeared.

00:51:33.980 --> 00:51:34.780
 And the father's.

00:51:35.200 --> 00:51:36.000
 Smothering of them.

00:51:36.059 --> 00:51:37.740
 As he clasped them to his chest.

00:51:37.739 --> 00:51:37.879
 He said.

00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:41.379
 It's the greatest hug.

00:51:41.759 --> 00:51:42.859
 Recorded in the Bible.

00:51:45.619 --> 00:51:46.459
 And it.

00:51:47.359 --> 00:51:47.879
 Represents.

00:51:48.899 --> 00:51:50.919
 The most wonderful reconciliation.

00:51:52.179 --> 00:51:53.439
 That the father has effected.

00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:54.439
 Through Jesus Christ.

00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:55.039
 His son.

00:51:58.839 --> 00:51:59.959
 There's no mention.

00:52:00.819 --> 00:52:02.399
 By the father of the prodigal.

00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:03.339
 Of his past.

00:52:03.340 --> 00:52:05.920
 He doesn't say to him.

00:52:06.380 --> 00:52:07.559
 Now what are you going to do.

00:52:07.620 --> 00:52:08.960
 To make up for what you've done.

00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:12.160
 What are you going to pay me.

00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:13.900
 How are you going to show respect.

00:52:14.940 --> 00:52:16.880
 How are you going to actually deal with.

00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:19.200
 The problem that came between us.

00:52:19.579 --> 00:52:20.640
 Yes you're back home.

00:52:21.059 --> 00:52:22.620
 But I need something from you.

00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:23.880
 There's nothing like that.

00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:24.220
 Is there.

00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:27.140
 Neither is there with God.

00:52:27.139 --> 00:52:27.179
 God.

00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:30.179
 Because when you come.

00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:31.799
 To the offer of the gospel.

00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:33.900
 Where Jesus is presented.

00:52:34.059 --> 00:52:35.359
 As the savior of sinners.

00:52:35.859 --> 00:52:37.139
 Here is God saying.

00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:39.179
 This is my provision.

00:52:39.900 --> 00:52:40.879
 I've made peace.

00:52:41.019 --> 00:52:42.379
 By the blood of the cross.

00:52:43.339 --> 00:52:44.319
 And I'm calling on you.

00:52:44.420 --> 00:52:45.239
 To accept it.

00:52:46.259 --> 00:52:47.359
 And when you accept it.

00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:49.379
 You don't then come to God.

00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:50.199
 The father.

00:52:50.759 --> 00:52:52.279
 Seeking to accept Jesus.

00:52:53.519 --> 00:52:54.879
 And afraid of God.

00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:55.599
 Saying well.

00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:57.219
 What else are you going to give me.

00:52:58.279 --> 00:52:59.819
 You don't need anything else.

00:53:00.699 --> 00:53:01.500
 It's all here.

00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:02.920
 In the person.

00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:04.380
 Of his son.

00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:06.159
 The death.

00:53:06.819 --> 00:53:07.460
 Which removed.

00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:09.199
 The enmity.

00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:11.519
 It pleased the father.

00:53:12.179 --> 00:53:14.000
 That in him all fullness should dwell.

00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:15.480
 And through him.

00:53:15.579 --> 00:53:16.739
 To reconcile to himself.

00:53:16.860 --> 00:53:17.559
 All things.

00:53:18.279 --> 00:53:18.960
 Whether on earth.

00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:19.460
 Or in heaven.

00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:20.259
 Making peace.

00:53:20.779 --> 00:53:21.619
 By the blood.

00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:23.659
 Of his cross.

00:53:24.739 --> 00:53:25.219
 Amen.

00:53:25.219 --> 00:53:25.699
 May God.

00:53:26.339 --> 00:53:27.519
 Bless these thoughts too.

00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:28.799
 And while we sing some verses.

00:53:28.980 --> 00:53:29.339
 The children.

00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:30.879
 Will make their way in.

00:53:30.959 --> 00:53:31.799
 From the Sunday school.

00:53:31.879 --> 00:53:32.819
 And if we need to pause.

00:53:33.299 --> 00:53:34.539
 Until all the children are here.

00:53:34.619 --> 00:53:35.299
 Then we'll do that.

00:53:35.439 --> 00:53:36.639
 Psalm 85.

00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:39.319
 Page 113.

00:53:40.899 --> 00:53:41.739
 And we're reading.

00:53:42.219 --> 00:53:43.980
 Singing verses 8 to 13.

00:53:43.980 --> 00:53:49.079
 I will hear what God the Lord says.

00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:49.880
 To his saints.

00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:50.880
 He offers peace.

00:53:51.500 --> 00:53:53.199
 But his people must not wander.

00:53:53.340 --> 00:53:54.719
 And return to foolishness.

00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:57.019
 Surely for all those who fear him.

00:53:57.260 --> 00:53:58.679
 His salvation is at hand.

00:53:59.019 --> 00:54:00.260
 So that once again.

00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:00.900
 His glory.

00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:02.420
 May be seen within.

00:54:03.099 --> 00:54:03.980
 Our land.

00:54:04.099 --> 00:54:04.539
 Psalm 100.

00:54:04.940 --> 00:54:06.000
 Psalm 85.

00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:07.920
 Page 113.

00:54:08.420 --> 00:54:10.099
 These verses 8 to 13.

00:54:10.179 --> 00:54:11.480
 Come out.

00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:12.119
 And to God's praise.

00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:12.539
 Amen.

00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:14.380
 To God's praise.

00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:27.660
 I will hear what God the Lord says to his sins, King of the Jews.

00:54:27.660 --> 00:54:38.539
 But his people must not wander and return to foolishness.

00:54:38.539 --> 00:54:49.539
 Curing for all those who fear him, his salvation is at hand,

00:54:49.539 --> 00:55:00.539
 so that once again his glory may be seen within our land.

00:55:00.539 --> 00:55:11.539
 Love and truth come together, righteousness and peace and grace.

00:55:12.699 --> 00:55:22.940
 Righteousness looks done from heaven, from the earth's faint faithfulness.

00:55:22.940 --> 00:55:32.940
 What is good the Lord will give us, and our land his food will bear.

00:55:33.940 --> 00:55:43.940
 Righteousness will go before him, and his royal way debil.

00:55:43.940 --> 00:55:50.940
 Amen.

00:55:50.940 --> 00:55:51.940
 Amen.

00:56:14.700 --> 00:56:19.740
 Well, as always, we now take our warrant for the remembrance of the Lord's death in the

00:56:19.739 --> 00:56:26.579
 Supper from 1 Corinthians chapter 11, as we read there what Paul wrote to the Corinthians,

00:56:26.759 --> 00:56:31.339
 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and from verse 23.

00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:39.199
 What I received from the Lord, what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the

00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:41.059
 night in which he was betrayed took bread.

00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:46.899
 When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, this is my body which is for you.

00:56:46.900 --> 00:56:49.380
 Do this in remembrance of me.

00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:54.900
 In the same way also he took the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant

00:56:54.900 --> 00:56:55.780
 in my blood.

00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:59.940
 Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.

00:57:00.660 --> 00:57:07.920
 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until

00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:09.139
 he comes.

00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:10.700
 And so on.

00:57:10.699 --> 00:57:15.299
 And we follow the Lord's own example in giving thanks.

00:57:15.419 --> 00:57:17.719
 So let's give thanks now in his name.

00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:27.339
 Almighty God, we pray that you would still our hearts in your presence.

00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:31.859
 We know that we are in the presence of the living God.

00:57:31.860 --> 00:57:36.240
 That we are in the presence of the one who gave his only begotten Son.

00:57:37.500 --> 00:57:39.820
 And in the presence of the Son who is now exalted.

00:57:40.700 --> 00:57:42.420
 The presence of the Holy Spirit.

00:57:43.240 --> 00:57:44.940
 The one God in three persons.

00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:51.460
 We thank you Lord today for all that is set out before us here on this table of the Lord.

00:57:52.460 --> 00:57:54.480
 We bless you for all that it represents.

00:57:55.740 --> 00:57:59.200
 We thank you for all that has gone toward providing it for us.

00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:02.739
 Lord help us to see yourself in it.

00:58:03.819 --> 00:58:09.259
 We read in your word that you came to the disciples after your resurrection from the dead.

00:58:10.299 --> 00:58:12.559
 And that you came into that place they were gathered.

00:58:13.659 --> 00:58:15.899
 You showed them your hands and your side.

00:58:17.179 --> 00:58:22.119
 The confirmation not only of your death but also of your resurrection from the dead.

00:58:23.460 --> 00:58:26.659
 And so we pray Lord today that these elements may be for us.

00:58:26.659 --> 00:58:29.819
 As they were for these disciples long ago.

00:58:30.980 --> 00:58:33.159
 The evidences of your suffering and death.

00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:37.199
 But also that we meet with yourself spiritually.

00:58:37.659 --> 00:58:39.739
 As the Lord who has risen from the dead.

00:58:40.759 --> 00:58:42.460
 And we thank you Lord today.

00:58:43.179 --> 00:58:46.619
 For the fullness of that life that you have provided for your people.

00:58:47.699 --> 00:58:50.139
 For out of your fullness we have all received.

00:58:50.940 --> 00:58:52.399
 And grace for grace.

00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:56.820
 Bless to us we pray these elements today.

00:58:56.980 --> 00:58:58.960
 As we seek that they be sanctified.

00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:02.660
 From their common to their sacred use.

00:59:03.740 --> 00:59:05.960
 Make the bread oh Lord indicative to us.

00:59:06.700 --> 00:59:07.980
 Of your broken body.

00:59:09.240 --> 00:59:13.599
 And make this cup oh Lord represent to us the reality of your death.

00:59:14.320 --> 00:59:15.340
 The shedding of your blood.

00:59:15.340 --> 00:59:15.380
 Lord.

00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:22.079
 We thank you that your promise to your people was that and still is.

00:59:22.720 --> 00:59:24.440
 That you would never forsake them.

00:59:25.180 --> 00:59:28.079
 That you would be with them through the course of their life in this world.

00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:31.220
 And bring them on to be in heaven with you.

00:59:32.220 --> 00:59:34.440
 And we thank you Lord in that wilderness journey.

00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.120
 That we come to such an oasis as this today.

00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:40.660
 Where we can refresh our souls.

00:59:40.659 --> 00:59:46.699
 Where we can draw strength to bring with us Lord from this table today.

00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:51.239
 To meet the difficulties and the challenges of life in this world.

00:59:52.279 --> 00:59:54.319
 We thank you for everyone who is here.

00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.739
 We thank you for the children as they watch from the gallery.

00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:01.279
 We pray that as they watch these things.

01:00:01.399 --> 01:00:04.379
 That they may ask themselves of the meaning of them.

01:00:05.179 --> 01:00:08.019
 We pray that their parents at home will explain to them.

01:00:08.019 --> 01:00:10.800
 That this represents the death of Jesus.

01:00:11.940 --> 01:00:13.159
 And that in the Lord's Supper.

01:00:13.739 --> 01:00:14.860
 The Lord's people come.

01:00:15.619 --> 01:00:17.400
 To draw their strength from Christ.

01:00:17.500 --> 01:00:20.179
 And to express their thankfulness to him.

01:00:21.340 --> 01:00:23.900
 And so Lord we ask now that you'd continue with us here.

01:00:24.780 --> 01:00:27.000
 Bless us as we serve the table.

01:00:27.719 --> 01:00:30.840
 As the elders go about their privilege and responsibility.

01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:34.559
 And help us who receive the supper Lord to do it.

01:00:35.140 --> 01:00:35.940
 With faith.

01:00:36.780 --> 01:00:38.079
 And with hope and with love.

01:00:38.980 --> 01:00:41.260
 And to discern in it the Lord's body.

01:00:42.200 --> 01:00:43.039
 Hear us we pray.

01:00:43.500 --> 01:00:44.800
 For your glory's sake.

01:00:45.300 --> 01:00:45.660
 Amen.

01:00:45.659 --> 01:00:51.519
 Just briefly before we take the supper.

01:00:52.339 --> 01:00:54.119
 Going back to Colossians again.

01:00:55.039 --> 01:00:57.299
 And we find in chapter 1 of Colossians.

01:00:58.059 --> 01:01:00.339
 That Paul was expressing there his thankfulness.

01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:02.759
 Giving thanks to the Father.

01:01:03.599 --> 01:01:05.480
 And giving thanks to the Father he says.

01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:10.759
 In such a way as remembered how he had delivered them.

01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:15.720
 From the domain of darkness as he puts it in verse 15.

01:01:16.680 --> 01:01:19.060
 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness.

01:01:19.720 --> 01:01:22.500
 And transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son.

01:01:22.640 --> 01:01:26.340
 Giving thanks to the Father who has done this.

01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:36.800
 The Father is perhaps not the one we think of.

01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:39.320
 Mostly at the Lord's Supper.

01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:39.360
 Father.

01:01:40.120 --> 01:01:42.000
 We rightly think of Jesus.

01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:44.800
 We rightly think of the Son of God.

01:01:45.420 --> 01:01:47.460
 As we're thinking of through the sermon today.

01:01:48.260 --> 01:01:50.180
 Who effected the reconciliation.

01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:52.260
 By the death of the cross.

01:01:52.380 --> 01:01:53.880
 By his blood making peace.

01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:57.340
 Well actually of course it's the Father that sent him.

01:01:58.120 --> 01:02:01.120
 And it's the Father that's in Paul's mind here.

01:02:01.220 --> 01:02:02.700
 Giving thanks to the Father.

01:02:03.360 --> 01:02:05.300
 Who has qualified you to share.

01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:07.340
 The inheritance of the saints.

01:02:07.660 --> 01:02:08.660
 In light.

01:02:08.659 --> 01:02:11.399
 And has delivered us from the domain of darkness.

01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:17.139
 It's appropriate for us to come to the table with thanks to the Father.

01:02:17.799 --> 01:02:19.799
 As well as thanks to the Son.

01:02:20.679 --> 01:02:22.059
 That's what we're doing today.

01:02:23.019 --> 01:02:25.219
 Remember last night I mentioned that.

01:02:25.219 --> 01:02:30.559
 Eucharist was the name given by the fathers of old to the Lord's Supper.

01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:34.559
 And still it's called the Eucharist in certain denominations.

01:02:35.439 --> 01:02:37.199
 And it's a lovely term.

01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:40.199
 It's a term that means giving thanks.

01:02:40.859 --> 01:02:42.159
 Or to give thanks.

01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:44.739
 And as we come to the Eucharist.

01:02:44.739 --> 01:02:47.179
 We give thanks to the Father.

01:02:47.980 --> 01:02:49.239
 And we give thanks to him.

01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:50.440
 As Paul says here.

01:02:50.799 --> 01:02:52.940
 Because he has qualified you to share.

01:02:53.299 --> 01:02:55.559
 In the inheritance of the saints in light.

01:02:56.359 --> 01:02:58.779
 An inheritance is something you receive.

01:02:58.780 --> 01:03:02.100
 From someone who has obtained it for you.

01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:04.240
 Or bequeathed to you.

01:03:05.040 --> 01:03:06.380
 An inheritance usually.

01:03:06.860 --> 01:03:08.420
 Is something that comes to you.

01:03:08.420 --> 01:03:10.560
 By way of the death of someone else.

01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:12.600
 Who has left this to you.

01:03:13.720 --> 01:03:15.220
 And so it is with our redemption.

01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:16.800
 With our salvation.

01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:19.280
 God has made peace.

01:03:20.060 --> 01:03:21.760
 By the blood of the cross.

01:03:22.900 --> 01:03:25.360
 And obtained an inheritance for us in that.

01:03:25.980 --> 01:03:27.820
 An eternal inheritance in heaven.

01:03:28.740 --> 01:03:30.660
 And we give thanks to the Father today.

01:03:31.780 --> 01:03:35.800
 Who has made this for us.

01:03:36.720 --> 01:03:39.000
 Who has qualified you to share.

01:03:40.200 --> 01:03:42.580
 In the inheritance of the saints in light.

01:03:43.640 --> 01:03:46.360
 That qualification is precious to you.

01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:49.720
 God has made you his children.

01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:53.840
 God has adopted you into his family.

01:03:54.900 --> 01:03:57.019
 That's true of everyone who is in Christ.

01:03:57.800 --> 01:03:59.980
 You are adopted children of God.

01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:02.640
 And as adopted children of God.

01:04:03.120 --> 01:04:04.060
 You have an inheritance.

01:04:04.780 --> 01:04:07.840
 An inheritance that he has obtained for you.

01:04:08.380 --> 01:04:11.140
 By the death of Jesus on the cross.

01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:13.820
 And so we give thanks today.

01:04:14.300 --> 01:04:15.600
 For that inheritance.

01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:16.599
 For that inheritance.

01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:17.599
 And to the Father.

01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:18.199
 And to the Father.

01:04:19.019 --> 01:04:20.639
 Who has done this for us.

01:04:21.279 --> 01:04:23.400
 But he says who has also delivered us.

01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:26.039
 From the domain of darkness.

01:04:26.299 --> 01:04:27.239
 And transferred us.

01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:29.659
 To the kingdom of his beloved son.

01:04:31.819 --> 01:04:33.179
 There are two things in that.

01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:35.440
 He has delivered us from something.

01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:38.539
 And delivered us into something else.

01:04:39.539 --> 01:04:41.880
 Delivered us from the domain of darkness.

01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:45.599
 That is the region or the realm.

01:04:46.099 --> 01:04:48.240
 In which Satan held sway.

01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:53.539
 And that's what Jesus came to effect.

01:04:54.380 --> 01:04:57.440
 To deliver us from the domain of darkness.

01:04:58.559 --> 01:05:00.380
 And to deliver us into.

01:05:01.079 --> 01:05:02.220
 Translate us into.

01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:03.539
 Transfer us into.

01:05:04.380 --> 01:05:07.240
 The kingdom of his own beloved son.

01:05:07.239 --> 01:05:09.199
 In whom we have redemption.

01:05:09.699 --> 01:05:11.239
 The forgiveness of sins.

01:05:12.039 --> 01:05:13.699
 You sit at this table today.

01:05:14.579 --> 01:05:15.919
 As people delivered.

01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:18.119
 From the domain of darkness.

01:05:19.059 --> 01:05:20.479
 You sit at the table today.

01:05:20.579 --> 01:05:21.599
 As people who are free.

01:05:22.699 --> 01:05:24.259
 From the powers of darkness.

01:05:25.259 --> 01:05:27.139
 Doesn't mean they no longer trouble you.

01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:29.619
 But it means you've overcome them.

01:05:29.619 --> 01:05:31.920
 Because your life is in Christ.

01:05:32.920 --> 01:05:34.500
 And you give thanks to the father.

01:05:35.659 --> 01:05:36.980
 You give thanks to the father.

01:05:37.099 --> 01:05:38.119
 For qualifying you.

01:05:38.659 --> 01:05:39.639
 For adopting you.

01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:41.380
 For giving you the qualification.

01:05:42.519 --> 01:05:43.319
 As his sons.

01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:44.000
 As his children.

01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:44.759
 To be here.

01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:46.500
 At his table today.

01:05:47.219 --> 01:05:48.739
 To be partakers of.

01:05:49.259 --> 01:05:50.099
 That inheritance.

01:05:51.099 --> 01:05:52.279
 And you give him thanks.

01:05:52.799 --> 01:05:54.119
 For the deliverance.

01:05:54.839 --> 01:05:56.139
 From the freedom.

01:05:56.139 --> 01:05:57.719
 With which he has set you free.

01:05:57.719 --> 01:06:00.179
 As Jesus himself says.

01:06:00.279 --> 01:06:01.079
 In John's gospel.

01:06:01.899 --> 01:06:02.639
 If the son.

01:06:03.279 --> 01:06:04.019
 Sets you free.

01:06:04.799 --> 01:06:05.959
 Then you are free.

01:06:06.859 --> 01:06:07.259
 Indeed.

01:06:10.319 --> 01:06:12.219
 And so we go back to our warrant.

01:06:12.339 --> 01:06:13.480
 In 1 Corinthians 11.

01:06:14.759 --> 01:06:15.519
 And we read there.

01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:17.139
 That the night in which the Lord was betrayed.

01:06:17.279 --> 01:06:18.019
 That he took bread.

01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:20.279
 And when he had broken it.

01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:21.679
 He said.

01:06:21.779 --> 01:06:22.099
 Take.

01:06:22.480 --> 01:06:22.739
 Eat.

01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:24.199
 This is my body.

01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:25.179
 Which is for you.

01:06:25.939 --> 01:06:26.419
 This do.

01:06:26.420 --> 01:06:27.980
 In remembrance of me.

01:06:37.200 --> 01:06:38.340
 In the same manner.

01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:39.039
 After supper.

01:06:39.139 --> 01:06:39.840
 He took the cup.

01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:42.039
 And said.

01:06:42.099 --> 01:06:42.519
 This cup.

01:06:42.619 --> 01:06:43.340
 Is the new covenant.

01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:44.300
 My blood.

01:06:46.460 --> 01:06:47.260
 This do.

01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:47.900
 As often.

01:06:48.059 --> 01:06:48.900
 As you drink it.

01:06:49.579 --> 01:06:50.440
 In remembrance.

01:06:50.440 --> 01:06:51.200
 Of me.

01:06:52.340 --> 01:06:53.260
 For as often.

01:06:53.260 --> 01:06:54.700
 As you eat this bread.

01:06:54.699 --> 01:06:55.919
 And drink.

01:06:56.039 --> 01:06:56.359
 This again.

01:06:56.439 --> 01:06:57.779
 To a verse in Colossians.

01:06:58.679 --> 01:06:59.460
 Colossians 2.

01:06:59.539 --> 01:07:00.119
 Verse 8.

01:07:00.279 --> 01:07:00.759
 Which says.

01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:02.039
 As you have received.

01:07:03.139 --> 01:07:04.119
 Jesus Christ.

01:07:04.319 --> 01:07:04.879
 The Lord.

01:07:05.319 --> 01:07:05.980
 Christ Jesus.

01:07:06.159 --> 01:07:06.579
 The Lord.

01:07:07.219 --> 01:07:08.619
 So walk in him.

01:07:09.299 --> 01:07:09.739
 Rooted.

01:07:10.279 --> 01:07:10.839
 And grounded.

01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:12.059
 In him.

01:07:13.619 --> 01:07:14.460
 We mentioned.

01:07:14.599 --> 01:07:15.419
 That the Colossians.

01:07:15.539 --> 01:07:16.000
 Were facing.

01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:16.839
 False teaching.

01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:18.860
 Where there were.

01:07:19.100 --> 01:07:19.579
 Ideas.

01:07:19.579 --> 01:07:20.079
 That Jesus.

01:07:20.079 --> 01:07:21.120
 Wasn't sufficient.

01:07:22.240 --> 01:07:23.260
 That there needed to be.

01:07:23.460 --> 01:07:23.800
 Other.

01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:25.000
 Avenues.

01:07:25.120 --> 01:07:25.600
 Followed.

01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:27.220
 As well as.

01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:28.120
 Jesus himself.

01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:28.880
 And Paul.

01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:29.880
 As we said.

01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:31.079
 Was writing to the Corinthians.

01:07:31.079 --> 01:07:32.059
 To counteract.

01:07:32.600 --> 01:07:33.340
 That false.

01:07:33.420 --> 01:07:33.900
 And damaging.

01:07:34.120 --> 01:07:34.420
 Teaching.

01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:36.100
 And so he wrote.

01:07:36.240 --> 01:07:37.180
 As you have received.

01:07:37.300 --> 01:07:37.660
 Jesus.

01:07:38.579 --> 01:07:39.120
 The Lord.

01:07:39.260 --> 01:07:40.240
 So walk in him.

01:07:41.500 --> 01:07:42.280
 In other words.

01:07:42.579 --> 01:07:43.500
 He was saying to them.

01:07:43.720 --> 01:07:44.180
 Don't.

01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:44.760
 Accept.

01:07:44.760 --> 01:07:45.620
 Any other.

01:07:45.619 --> 01:07:46.079
 Jesus.

01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:47.779
 Any.

01:07:48.339 --> 01:07:48.900
 Variation.

01:07:49.059 --> 01:07:49.299
 On.

01:07:49.480 --> 01:07:49.940
 The Jesus.

01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:50.679
 That was preached.

01:07:50.779 --> 01:07:51.079
 To you.

01:07:51.799 --> 01:07:52.339
 The Jesus.

01:07:52.480 --> 01:07:53.219
 That you accepted.

01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:53.679
 The Jesus.

01:07:53.799 --> 01:07:54.299
 You began.

01:07:54.460 --> 01:07:55.319
 Your Christian life.

01:07:55.319 --> 01:07:55.599
 With.

01:07:56.299 --> 01:07:57.159
 That's what he's saying.

01:07:57.259 --> 01:07:57.519
 To them.

01:07:57.839 --> 01:07:58.519
 Don't accept.

01:07:58.880 --> 01:07:59.299
 The Jesus.

01:07:59.440 --> 01:08:00.500
 Of the false teachers.

01:08:01.259 --> 01:08:01.859
 Don't accept.

01:08:01.940 --> 01:08:02.339
 The Jesus.

01:08:02.500 --> 01:08:03.059
 That's presented.

01:08:03.259 --> 01:08:03.519
 To you.

01:08:03.579 --> 01:08:04.219
 In alternatives.

01:08:04.819 --> 01:08:05.779
 To the gospel.

01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:07.759
 And that's as relevant.

01:08:08.239 --> 01:08:08.799
 For you and I.

01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:09.199
 Today.

01:08:09.779 --> 01:08:10.519
 As it was.

01:08:10.659 --> 01:08:11.519
 For the Colossians.

01:08:11.699 --> 01:08:11.980
 Back.

01:08:12.519 --> 01:08:13.059
 In the time.

01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:13.699
 Of the apostle.

01:08:14.579 --> 01:08:15.259
 Because you'll.

01:08:15.260 --> 01:08:15.840
 Come across.

01:08:16.220 --> 01:08:16.960
 Many varieties.

01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:17.619
 Of teaching.

01:08:18.039 --> 01:08:19.760
 As to who Jesus is.

01:08:20.579 --> 01:08:21.119
 And also.

01:08:21.220 --> 01:08:21.619
 Varieties.

01:08:21.619 --> 01:08:22.280
 Of teaching.

01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:23.860
 As to whether or not.

01:08:23.940 --> 01:08:24.920
 Jesus is sufficient.

01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:26.600
 You'll come across.

01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:27.199
 A theology.

01:08:27.860 --> 01:08:28.760
 That really amounts.

01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:29.680
 To a Christ.

01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:30.280
 Plus.

01:08:30.539 --> 01:08:30.960
 Theology.

01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:32.539
 That's Christ.

01:08:32.539 --> 01:08:33.060
 Plus.

01:08:33.180 --> 01:08:33.820
 Your prayers.

01:08:34.500 --> 01:08:35.199
 That's Christ.

01:08:35.600 --> 01:08:35.920
 Plus.

01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:36.980
 Your obedience.

01:08:37.820 --> 01:08:38.420
 That's Christ.

01:08:38.539 --> 01:08:38.800
 Plus.

01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:39.560
 Something else.

01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:40.539
 On your own part.

01:08:41.480 --> 01:08:42.420
 It's not.

01:08:42.420 --> 01:08:43.579
 For the apostle.

01:08:44.220 --> 01:08:45.000
 It is Christ.

01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:45.500
 Jesus.

01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:46.920
 You received.

01:08:47.699 --> 01:08:48.039
 And so.

01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:48.480
 Walk.

01:08:48.619 --> 01:08:49.060
 In him.

01:08:50.060 --> 01:08:50.779
 And of course.

01:08:50.819 --> 01:08:51.460
 He meant too.

01:08:51.619 --> 01:08:51.800
 That.

01:08:52.440 --> 01:08:52.960
 Jesus.

01:08:53.380 --> 01:08:53.880
 The Lord.

01:08:53.980 --> 01:08:54.640
 Was accepted.

01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:55.159
 By them.

01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:56.079
 They received him.

01:08:56.899 --> 01:08:57.279
 And so.

01:08:57.359 --> 01:08:57.680
 He says.

01:08:57.800 --> 01:08:58.020
 So.

01:08:58.159 --> 01:08:58.500
 Walk.

01:08:58.579 --> 01:08:59.060
 In him.

01:09:00.340 --> 01:09:00.960
 In other words.

01:09:01.020 --> 01:09:01.899
 The lordship.

01:09:01.899 --> 01:09:02.560
 Of Jesus.

01:09:03.159 --> 01:09:03.980
 Is always.

01:09:03.980 --> 01:09:04.720
 To be with you.

01:09:05.579 --> 01:09:06.440
 It's not something.

01:09:06.440 --> 01:09:07.760
 You ever deviate from.

01:09:08.699 --> 01:09:09.319
 That's something.

01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:10.559
 You always appreciate.

01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:11.859
 Is your place.

01:09:11.859 --> 01:09:12.460
 Of safety.

01:09:13.579 --> 01:09:14.299
 The lordship.

01:09:14.299 --> 01:09:14.799
 Of Jesus.

01:09:15.099 --> 01:09:15.840
 Is universal.

01:09:16.859 --> 01:09:17.500
 The lordship.

01:09:17.500 --> 01:09:18.000
 Of Jesus.

01:09:18.539 --> 01:09:19.139
 Is total.

01:09:19.219 --> 01:09:20.359
 As far as you're concerned.

01:09:21.399 --> 01:09:21.699
 And so.

01:09:21.819 --> 01:09:22.239
 You walk.

01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:22.779
 In him.

01:09:22.920 --> 01:09:23.699
 As your lord.

01:09:24.259 --> 01:09:25.179
 You follow him.

01:09:25.259 --> 01:09:26.059
 As your lord.

01:09:26.899 --> 01:09:27.739
 You don't give in.

01:09:27.739 --> 01:09:29.039
 To any suggestions.

01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:29.559
 That.

01:09:30.059 --> 01:09:31.119
 Would draw you away.

01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:32.119
 From a faithful.

01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:32.679
 Following.

01:09:32.679 --> 01:09:33.340
 Of Christ.

01:09:34.239 --> 01:09:35.179
 Whatever it is.

01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:35.679
 The lord.

01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:36.880
 Requires of us.

01:09:37.340 --> 01:09:38.439
 As our lord.

01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:39.779
 We are committed.

01:09:39.779 --> 01:09:40.319
 To that.

01:09:41.139 --> 01:09:42.359
 And that's not legalism.

01:09:43.099 --> 01:09:43.899
 That is.

01:09:44.099 --> 01:09:44.399
 Loving.

01:09:44.599 --> 01:09:45.179
 Obedience.

01:09:45.879 --> 01:09:46.460
 To Christ.

01:09:47.500 --> 01:09:48.199
 And as we come.

01:09:48.519 --> 01:09:49.279
 From this table.

01:09:49.379 --> 01:09:49.699
 Today.

01:09:50.719 --> 01:09:51.500
 Let these words.

01:09:51.579 --> 01:09:52.000
 Be mine.

01:09:52.059 --> 01:09:52.500
 And yours.

01:09:52.579 --> 01:09:53.339
 As we look forward.

01:09:54.139 --> 01:09:54.699
 To go back.

01:09:54.799 --> 01:09:55.419
 To the world.

01:09:55.519 --> 01:09:55.979
 To follow.

01:09:56.219 --> 01:09:56.500
 Jesus.

01:09:57.259 --> 01:09:58.079
 In our own life.

01:09:58.079 --> 01:09:58.819
 And in our witness.

01:09:59.059 --> 01:10:00.339
 To his love.

01:10:01.399 --> 01:10:02.639
 As you have received.

01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:03.619
 Christ.

01:10:03.739 --> 01:10:04.059
 Jesus.

01:10:04.299 --> 01:10:04.859
 The lord.

01:10:05.739 --> 01:10:06.219
 So.

01:10:06.599 --> 01:10:06.919
 Walk.

01:10:07.059 --> 01:10:07.500
 In him.

01:10:07.500 --> 01:10:08.800
 Let him.

01:10:09.079 --> 01:10:09.859
 And him alone.

01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:11.279
 Be your lord.

01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:12.699
 Let him.

01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:13.399
 And him alone.

01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:15.199
 Decide for you.

01:10:15.260 --> 01:10:16.119
 What's right and wrong.

01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:17.479
 Let him.

01:10:17.579 --> 01:10:18.180
 And him alone.

01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:19.680
 Be the will.

01:10:20.100 --> 01:10:21.079
 To which you are subject.

01:10:22.039 --> 01:10:22.600
 Let him.

01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:23.399
 And him alone.

01:10:24.420 --> 01:10:24.979
 Be the one.

01:10:25.140 --> 01:10:26.300
 That reigns supreme.

01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:28.140
 Over your life.

01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:30.859
 And to those today.

01:10:30.939 --> 01:10:31.479
 Who are not.

01:10:31.619 --> 01:10:32.380
 At the table.

01:10:34.939 --> 01:10:35.739
 It's so good.

01:10:35.739 --> 01:10:36.479
 To see you here.

01:10:37.619 --> 01:10:38.639
 We're so encouraged.

01:10:38.760 --> 01:10:39.420
 And so grateful.

01:10:40.619 --> 01:10:41.380
 That you have.

01:10:41.719 --> 01:10:42.359
 Made time.

01:10:42.460 --> 01:10:42.819
 To come.

01:10:43.359 --> 01:10:44.559
 To this communion service.

01:10:46.719 --> 01:10:48.039
 I know that some of you.

01:10:49.539 --> 01:10:50.439
 Will have thoughts.

01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:51.239
 Of being here.

01:10:51.300 --> 01:10:51.800
 At the table.

01:10:52.519 --> 01:10:53.659
 With the lord's people.

01:10:55.159 --> 01:10:56.439
 And for whatever reason.

01:10:56.439 --> 01:10:57.460
 You have not found it.

01:10:57.460 --> 01:10:57.960
 In your heart.

01:10:58.039 --> 01:10:58.460
 Or mind.

01:10:59.179 --> 01:11:00.079
 To join them.

01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:00.939
 On this occasion.

01:11:00.939 --> 01:11:05.319
 I pray that if you don't yet have Jesus for yourself.

01:11:06.339 --> 01:11:08.359
 Something of this service today.

01:11:08.759 --> 01:11:10.000
 In the word being preached.

01:11:10.599 --> 01:11:12.460
 And in the supper that you've seen.

01:11:13.139 --> 01:11:14.679
 Will have touched your heart.

01:11:15.819 --> 01:11:18.899
 And you will overcome whatever fears you may have.

01:11:19.460 --> 01:11:22.000
 Of coming to commit your life to Christ.

01:11:23.099 --> 01:11:24.139
 And to follow him.

01:11:24.599 --> 01:11:25.759
 And to join his people.

01:11:26.439 --> 01:11:27.460
 In their public witness.

01:11:27.460 --> 01:11:27.720
 In the midst of this.

01:11:28.480 --> 01:11:29.640
 We pray for you.

01:11:30.819 --> 01:11:32.340
 We commend you to God.

01:11:33.560 --> 01:11:35.220
 We're thankful to God for you.

01:11:36.380 --> 01:11:38.140
 And we pray that you too will come.

01:11:38.380 --> 01:11:38.619
 Fully.

01:11:39.340 --> 01:11:41.000
 Into the following of this lord.

01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:43.220
 So that you will receive him.

01:11:43.539 --> 01:11:44.800
 If you haven't already.

01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:46.939
 And that as you receive him.

01:11:46.939 --> 01:11:48.079
 So you too will come.

01:11:48.819 --> 01:11:49.819
 To walk in him.

01:11:50.779 --> 01:11:51.420
 And find.

01:11:51.920 --> 01:11:52.520
 Your security.

01:11:53.260 --> 01:11:54.079
 Your delight.

01:11:54.619 --> 01:11:55.199
 Your hope.

01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:56.539
 All together.

01:11:57.420 --> 01:11:58.079
 In Jesus.

01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:02.340
 We're going to now conclude by singing.

01:12:02.739 --> 01:12:03.380
 God's praise.

01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:04.359
 Psalm 72.

01:12:07.539 --> 01:12:08.920
 Psalm number 72.

01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:09.960
 From the Scottish Psalter.

01:12:10.059 --> 01:12:11.460
 On page 314.

01:12:14.059 --> 01:12:16.539
 These final three verses of the psalm.

01:12:16.539 --> 01:12:17.539
 Amen.

01:12:17.539 --> 01:12:17.899
 Amen.

01:12:17.899 --> 01:12:20.460
 His name forever shall endure.

01:12:20.619 --> 01:12:22.239
 Last like the sun it shall.

01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:24.439
 Men shall be blessed in him.

01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:26.659
 And blessed all nations shall him call.

01:12:27.600 --> 01:12:29.199
 Now blessed be the Lord our God.

01:12:29.239 --> 01:12:30.159
 The God of Israel.

01:12:30.859 --> 01:12:32.720
 For he alone doth wondrous works.

01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:34.060
 And glory that excel.

01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:37.979
 And blessed be his glorious name to all eternity.

01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:41.140
 The whole earth let his glory fill.

01:12:41.939 --> 01:12:42.460
 Amen.

01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:44.100
 So let it be.

01:12:44.100 --> 01:12:44.920
 These three verses.

01:12:45.460 --> 01:12:46.620
 And again we stand to sing.

01:12:46.620 --> 01:12:46.680
 Amen.

01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:46.760
 Amen.

01:12:46.760 --> 01:12:46.820
 Amen.

01:13:14.100 --> 01:13:16.100
 And blessed.

01:13:16.100 --> 01:13:21.100
 All nations shall live call.

01:13:21.100 --> 01:13:26.100
 The Lord our God.

01:13:26.100 --> 01:13:34.100
 So blessed be the Lord our God.

01:13:34.100 --> 01:13:40.820
 The Lord of Israel.

01:13:40.819 --> 01:13:50.819
 For he alone doth wondrous works.

01:13:50.819 --> 01:13:58.819
 In glory thou art excel.

01:13:58.819 --> 01:14:01.819
 Amen.

01:14:01.819 --> 01:14:02.819
 Amen.

01:14:02.819 --> 01:14:17.939
 And blessed be his glorious name to all eternity.

01:14:17.939 --> 01:14:27.039
 The whole earth let his glory fill.

01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:28.640
 Amen

01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:34.180
 So let it be

01:14:34.180 --> 01:14:39.060
 After the benediction I'll go to the main door

01:14:39.060 --> 01:14:43.119
 O Lord our God

01:14:43.119 --> 01:14:46.640
 Sanctify all that we have done in your name today

01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:49.199
 Bless to us your word

01:14:49.199 --> 01:14:51.479
 And the elements of the Lord's Supper

01:14:51.479 --> 01:14:55.539
 O Lord this occasion is so precious to your people

01:14:55.539 --> 01:14:58.699
 We thank you that we are part of it today

01:14:58.699 --> 01:15:03.039
 Bless all who were observers and all who joined us online

01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:05.800
 In wherever they are in the world

01:15:05.800 --> 01:15:10.140
 O Lord we ask that the blessing of your spirit

01:15:10.140 --> 01:15:13.859
 Will take the things of Christ and show them unto us

01:15:13.859 --> 01:15:17.460
 And now be with us we pray throughout the remainder of this day

01:15:17.460 --> 01:15:20.500
 Help us to gather once again in the evening

01:15:20.500 --> 01:15:22.500
 To the praise of your name

01:15:22.500 --> 01:15:25.739
 With hunger in our hearts to learn more of your word

01:15:25.739 --> 01:15:27.460
 More of its teaching

01:15:27.460 --> 01:15:29.899
 And to come to draw near to yourself

01:15:29.899 --> 01:15:32.960
 And be with us throughout the remainder of the week

01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:34.119
 That we have entered into

01:15:34.119 --> 01:15:36.859
 Help us in all the activities we anticipate

01:15:36.859 --> 01:15:39.340
 By your will to partake of

01:15:39.340 --> 01:15:42.560
 And now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:44.479
 The love of God the Father

01:15:44.479 --> 01:15:46.060
 And the communion of the Holy Spirit

01:15:46.060 --> 01:15:48.500
 Be with you now and evermore

01:15:48.500 --> 01:15:49.500
 Amen

01:15:49.500 --> 01:15:52.500
 Amen

01:15:52.779 --> 01:15:53.439
 Amen

01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:54.779
 Amen