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 We're singing, first of all, to God's praise in Psalm 84.

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 Psalm 84, that's on page 112.

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 And we're singing verses 1 to 7.

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 How delightful are your dwellings, O Almighty Lord, to me!

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 For your courts my soul is yearning, in your house I long to be.

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 Heart and flesh cry out aloud, for the true and living God.

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 Even sparrows find their dwelling, and the swallow builds a nest.

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 Near your altar, Lord Almighty, where her offspring may have rest.

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 Blessed whose home is your abode, they are ever praising God.

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 These verses to the end of verse 7.

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 How delightful are your dwellings.

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 How delightful are your dwellings, O Almighty Lord, to me!

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 For your courts my soul is yearning, in your house I long to be.

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 Heart and flesh cry out aloud, for the true and living God.

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 Even sparrows find their dwelling, and the swallow builds a nest.

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 Near your altar, Lord Almighty, where her offspring may have rest.

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 Blessed whose home is pure abode, they are ever praising God.

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 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, those who have a pilgrim's mind.

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 blessed Michaela!

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 Where they He Kristolad!

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 Hä�us Gabriel 161

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 Hope your children haremроде Vouismas

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みます

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 Let's join together now in prayer. Let's call upon the Lord in prayer.

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 Lord God, Almighty our Father in heaven, we come to address you tonight as our God,

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 as we always do when we come to worship you. For we acknowledge that you are our God,

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 and we give thanks that you take us as your people in covenant with you.

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 We bless you tonight for this renewed opportunity we have to gather together in praise and worship,

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 to call upon your name and to come to hear your word. And we thank you, Lord, for all that you mean

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 to us as we prepare once again to remember the Lord's death in the Lord's Supper. We give thanks

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 for your wisdom and kindness in providing us with such a means of grace, a means and an ordinance

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 that accompanies the regular preaching of your word. And it sets forth the beauty and the

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 sufficiency, the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we ask, Lord, that as we prepare for it and

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 as we anticipate tomorrow coming to sit at the Lord's table again, may we find, Lord, the preciousness

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 of the Lord and of his death made clear to us once again and made indeed increase in our estimation.

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 We ask, O Lord, that we will know of you meeting with us, of the calling of your Holy Spirit upon us

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 to draw us to yourself. And we ask that each one who comes and intends to come to the table

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 will come, Lord, not trusting in themselves or fearful because they find themselves unworthy.

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 Help us to come trusting in you as our foundation. Help us to come believing in the worthiness of the

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 Lord and that it is our responsibility and privilege to show that we accept that worthiness

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 by coming to do as he requires. We thank you, Lord, today for all the blessings that we receive from you.

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 And we ask that you would help us as we confess our inability to number them. Help us, Lord, to

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 therefore conclude that it shows your worthiness to be praised. So bless us here, we pray tonight,

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 and bless us as a congregation at this juncture once again. And we thank you, Lord, that we can look

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 back upon many times of blessing in the past, that we can recollect the ways in which you have blessed

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 us and kept us and helped us hitherto. And we pray that we may draw strength from this renewed occasion,

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 and especially from the Lord's Supper itself again. And enable us, Lord, to be encouraged and encourage

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 us one of another as we come together. We thank you that your people form a spiritual family that you

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 have called together, that you feed as they come together to worship under the Word and as they

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 come to sit at your table. O Lord, our God, we pray that you would dispense to us the blessings that

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 have accrued through the death of Christ. And we pray as we come to remember him in his death,

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 that we may, Lord, truly meet him in the power of his risen life, that through your Holy Spirit,

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 O Lord, you would draw near to us and show to us once again our great need of all that is set out on the

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 table representing the Lord in his death. Lord, we pray that you would encourage us and enable us to help

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 one another as we come on this pilgrimage that we've been singing about, a pilgrimage that goes on until

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 we come to the heavenly Zion, until we come to appear before God. And we pray that our time in this world may be a

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 time when we'll use all the means you have given us, O Lord, to progress in that way, to find strength

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 for the journey, to cope with all the difficulties and overcome them as we come with our desire tonight,

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 Lord, that as we lay our concerns before you, so you'd assure us that you are able to meet us and meet

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 all our needs. Bless, we pray, any whose thoughts tonight are on coming to the Lord's table tomorrow

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 for the first time. We give thanks that there are such among us, Lord. We pray that you would encourage

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 them. We pray that they may find, even through this time of worship this evening, further confirmation

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 to the comfort of their hearts. We ask, O Lord, that you would speak to them and draw them.

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 And we pray that we may rejoice in seeing others joining the number of your openly professing people.

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 And we pray, O Lord, that this may be an occasion when we will have such rejoicing,

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 when we will be able to say that the Lord is indeed at work among us. We ask for your blessing to be

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 with those tonight who have challenges and difficulties in their lives that they may feel

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 they cannot share with others and come to open their hearts to others. We pray that you would bless

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 them and pray that you would draw near to them to encourage them, O Lord. We pray that you'd bless

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 those who mourn the passing of loved ones. We ask, Lord, that you would draw near to them,

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 those who have come in this past week to lay to rest the remains of loved ones. We ask,

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 Gracious One, that you would bless them and comfort them and show to them your ways and give to them

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 what we are unable to give ourselves, that comfort and consolation that derives from the energy of your

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 Spirit, from the work of grace in their hearts. We pray, too, for those who are ill. We pray for those

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 who are seriously ill tonight, those who are laid aside and appear to be approaching the end stage of

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 life in this world. Gracious Lord, bless them, we pray, with the grace required, that we all require

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 to take that great step out of time and into eternity, out of this world and into that world to come,

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 out of this world where we know you but faintly compared to being in your presence in eternity.

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 O Lord, our God, we pray that even as we come to remember them before you, you would help us to

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 consider ourselves, too, so that we may realize that our days, too, are fast hastening on.

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 We thank you that you have given us such means as the Gospel and the Lord's Supper,

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 so that we may be strengthened and may be prepared by your Holy Spirit's ministry

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 for that time for ourselves when it comes also. Bless, we pray, all who are preparing for worship

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 tomorrow in the various congregations in our presbytery and throughout the church, throughout

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 the world. Indeed, O Lord, we pray that your Holy Spirit may be active on the Lord's day and may

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 draw many to yourself. We pray that many will come to regard this coming Lord's day as a day of liberty,

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 a day of deliverance, and a day of being ushered into the freedom with which Christ makes us free

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 and brought to those wonderful places where the Lord Himself presides and feeds His people.

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 So, we ask that you would continue to bless us as a congregation, bless our young people once again

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 as we pray for them, for our children, for our young ones, for our young adults. Remember them,

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 we pray, as they witness the table of the Lord and all that is said in regard to it and all that is done

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 laid on their young hearts, we pray. Give them even through witnessing such things for themselves that

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 they may come to have that desire in their own hearts, that they too will join the number of

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 your people, that they will turn their back to living for this world and will come to look forward

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 to being servants of Jesus Christ. Remember, we pray each and all who at this time, Lord, are preparing

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 for also to preach your word. We ask that you'd bless them here in our own midst, be with Scott at this

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 time and be with all others, Lord, like him who are preparing and training for gospel ministry.

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 We ask that you would continue to provide for them and to encourage them each and every day.

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 And so, go before us now, we pray, O Lord. Hear us in this our prayer and continue to bless us

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 through this service for Jesus' sake. Amen.

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 We'll sing once again to God's praise, Psalm 63 this time. Psalm number 63, that's again in

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 Psalm 63. O God, you are my God alone. I seek your face with eagerness. My soul and body thirst for you

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 in this dry, weary wilderness. I've seen you in your holy place. Your power and glory held my gaze.

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 Far better is your love than life, and so my lips will sing your praise. Psalm 63, the verses 1 to 8.

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 Again, we stand if you can to sing.

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 O God, you are my God alone. I seek your face with eagerness.

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 My soul and body thirst for you in this dry, weary wilderness. I've seen you in your holy place.

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 Your power and glory held my gaze. Far better is your love than life, and so my lips will sing your praise.

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 I'll bless you, Lord, throughout my life. And raise my hand to you in prayer.

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 My joyful lips will sing your praise. My soul is fed with riches fair.

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 Upon my bed, I lie awake. And in my thoughts remember you.

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 I meditate throughout the night. And keep your constant love in you.

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 Because you are my help alone. In shadow of your wings I'll sing.

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 You hold me up with your right hand. Do you, O God, my soul will cling.

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 Let's read God's Word together now from the Epistle to the Hebrews.

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 And chapter 13, the last chapter of that letter to the Hebrews.

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 So that's Hebrews chapter 13.

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 Let brotherly love continue.

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 Keep your life free from love of money.

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 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings.

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 For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods which have not benefited those devoted to them.

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 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.

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 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.

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 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

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 Therefore let us go out to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.

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 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

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 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God.

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 That is the fruit of our lips that acknowledge his name.

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 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

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 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give an account.

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 Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

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 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience desiring to act honorably in all things.

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 I urge you the more earnestly to do this, in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.

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 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep,

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 by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good, that you may do his will,

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 working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ,

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 to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

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 I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

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 You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.

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 Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.

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 Grace be with all of you.

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 And again we pray for God to bless to us this reading of his word.

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 And before we turn to a few verses from this passage, let's sing again to his praise.

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 This time we're singing in the Scottish Psalter, on page 382.

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 That's Psalm 107.

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 We'll sing verses 1 to 8.

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 Praise God for he is good, for still his mercies lasting be.

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 Let God's redeemed say so, whom he from the enemy's hand did free,

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 and gathered them out of the lands from north, south, east, and west.

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 They strayed in deserts pathless way, no city found to rest.

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 And so on through to the end of verse 8.

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 Psalm 107.

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 Praise God for he is good.

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 Praise God for he is good.

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 For still his mercies lasting be.

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 Let God's redeemed say so, whom he from the enemy's hand did free,

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 And gather them out of the lands from north, south, east, and west.

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 They strayed in deserts pathless way, no city found to rest.

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 For thirst and hunger in them face, their soul when slates them pressed.

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 They cry unto the Lord, and he them frees from their distress.

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 Them also in our way to walk, that brightest he did guide,

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 That they might to a city go, wherein they might abide.

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 So that men to the Lord would give grace for his goodness then,

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 And for his works of wonder done, and to the sons of men.

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 Let's turn down this evening to a verse or two we find in Hebrews 13.

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 We're going to look at verses 13 and 14.

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 We can read at verse 12.

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 Well, these verses on the immediate context there, as you can see,

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 Recreate for us a very important scene in the New Testament.

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 That, of course, being the scene at Calvary, the scene of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And it is something, as these previous verses show, that fits in and indeed fulfills what the Old Testament ritual showed,

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 When the bodies of these animals that were devoted to God,

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 Those that were brought into the blood, brought into the holy places by the high priest,

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 The bodies are burned outside the camp.

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 That's something that goes back to the Acts of Exodus 29, verse 14,

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 Where the Lord gave instruction that that was to be the ritual.

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 The bodies were to be burned outside of the camp, because they were regarded as unclean.

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 The blood was used in the ritual of blood shedding and sprinkling of blood and so on,

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 Prefiguring the death of Christ.

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 And that was done, as it says here, outside of the camp, outside the gate, it says there in verse 12,

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 As far as Jesus once, as he fulfilled that Old Testament ritual.

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 So, Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people.

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 Therefore, let us go out to him outside the camp.

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 So, he's using different words there, outside the gate, outside the walls of Jerusalem,

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 Literally, as where the cross was situated, not inside, but outside the city,

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 Which is really now taking us back, as it were, to the scene at that moment.

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 Because the Word of God is what it is, a very reliable word to us,

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 As it brings us and describes to us and recreates the scene to us,

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 What it's really doing is taking you and I back, as if we were standing there

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 And watching what was happening with the crucifixion of Christ.

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 It's just as real, it should be just as real to us,

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 As if we had been standing there literally on the occasion it took place.

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 And as it's placing us here at the scene,

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 So, it's actually calling on us in a spiritual fashion

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 To do what was done then by going out to the cross physically.

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 Those who were actually going to stand in the vicinity of the cross or nearby the cross.

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 And spiritually, that is what it's calling on us to do,

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 To actually come to associate with Jesus,

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 Come to actually stand by the side of Jesus crucified,

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 Come to actually show that this Jesus, this cross, this death,

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 Is the death that is so vital and valuable to us,

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 That we go and stand by it in terms of embracing it spiritually for ourselves.

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 And that's why the Hebrews are addressed here.

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 The Hebrews were obviously facing some difficulties

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 In following their faith in the Lord,

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 Probably through the persecutions that they were suffering.

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 And it appears that some might have even had the idea

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 That it might have been better going back to the Old Testament ways after all.

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 And that it would be better to have something that you could see physically

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 Rather than have the spiritual sight by faith of the cross and of Christ as a person.

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 And the writer to the Hebrews is assuring them that that is not the case.

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 That we have the advantage, that we have the benefit of looking back on this

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 That has happened historically at Calvary.

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 And therefore we can come to that as the way in which God has revealed in Jesus

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 His love for His people by giving Him to the death that He died on the cross.

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 And that's really what we're anticipating, of course, remembering tomorrow at the Lord's Supper.

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 So that there's a real way in which, a very real way in which spiritually the Lord's Supper too

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 Is actually itself as it sets out for you there, the bread and the wine that's used in the Lord's Supper.

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 In a sense that too is taking you back to Calvary.

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 Taking you back to what you find even in these verses in Hebrews 13.

00:27:47.360 --> 00:27:49.380
 And it's placing you there so that you're saying,

00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:53.380
 Well, I see this in front of me in the Lord's Supper.

00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:55.140
 I know what it represents.

00:27:55.280 --> 00:27:56.760
 And it's so precious to me.

00:27:57.060 --> 00:27:59.900
 And as I do this, and as I reach out and take the bread,

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.900
 And as I reach out and use the wine and take the wine,

00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:06.280
 Well, I am associating with this Christ.

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.180
 I'm identifying with this Jesus.

00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:11.580
 I am saying about these elements and what they represent,

00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:13.620
 Especially in the death of my Lord.

00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:15.540
 That is where I'm taking my stand.

00:28:16.120 --> 00:28:17.400
 That's where I want to be found.

00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:21.259
 And that's where I want to be seen as one of His people.

00:28:22.460 --> 00:28:26.700
 So, there are two things, briefly, I want to just take from the passage tonight.

00:28:26.780 --> 00:28:29.860
 First of all, there's an emphasis on leaving the city,

00:28:30.060 --> 00:28:31.560
 Which would be Jerusalem, literally.

00:28:32.100 --> 00:28:34.920
 Leaving the city to go out to Jesus.

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:41.100
 And secondly, looking forward to the city where Jesus now is.

00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:43.580
 We have here no continuing city,

00:28:43.580 --> 00:28:46.940
 But we are seeking the city that is to come.

00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.500
 The one that is to come in heaven.

00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:53.240
 So, in a sense, it's a tale of two cities.

00:28:53.340 --> 00:28:56.240
 The city of Jerusalem, which represents, really,

00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:59.800
 All that's associated with rejecting Christ.

00:29:00.280 --> 00:29:02.360
 With putting Him outside.

00:29:02.820 --> 00:29:05.160
 With not wanting to be associated with Him.

00:29:05.820 --> 00:29:07.720
 And spiritually, you can relate to that,

00:29:07.780 --> 00:29:09.960
 Because, in a sense, that's what this world is.

00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:12.279
 That's what the world in which we love is.

00:29:12.360 --> 00:29:15.579
 That's what worldliness itself is.

00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:21.519
 That's what our natural condition and our fallenness and sinfulness wants to do with Christ.

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:24.960
 And what it's saying here to the Hebrews is,

00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:30.059
 Well, you've got to leave everything that's associated with opposition to Jesus,

00:29:30.299 --> 00:29:31.799
 With enmity against Jesus,

00:29:32.220 --> 00:29:33.740
 With rejection of Jesus.

00:29:33.980 --> 00:29:35.819
 You've got to walk away from that.

00:29:35.879 --> 00:29:37.059
 And you've got to go to Himself.

00:29:37.859 --> 00:29:42.460
 And you've got to take and embrace His death as the basis of your new life.

00:29:42.460 --> 00:29:47.660
 And as I say, that's what, in a sense, is actually done in the Lord's Supper.

00:29:47.860 --> 00:29:50.680
 Every time we have the Lord's Supper and we partake of it,

00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:55.720
 We're reenacting, if you like, that walk out to Jesus

00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:59.740
 And taking all that it means to us in His death,

00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:02.440
 All that He means to us to ourselves, yet again.

00:30:03.620 --> 00:30:04.319
 Now, you notice here,

00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:06.000
 Therefore, in verse 13,

00:30:06.100 --> 00:30:07.100
 Let us go out to Him.

00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:10.340
 And therefore, there ties up the previous verses for us.

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:14.519
 This is the conclusion, having stated what He said there in the previous verses.

00:30:14.959 --> 00:30:16.480
 Therefore, seeing this as the case,

00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:24.559
 Let us go to Him outside of the camp and bear the reproach He endured.

00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:28.179
 And as I said, Jesus was placed outside.

00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:29.619
 And that itself is symbolic.

00:30:30.740 --> 00:30:38.099
 Because it's really as someone rejected by the authorities of the time, literally,

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:42.779
 Rejected as a possible Savior or Messiah.

00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:44.419
 He is placed outside.

00:30:44.539 --> 00:30:45.259
 They don't want Him.

00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:46.059
 That's not…

00:30:46.059 --> 00:30:47.740
 He doesn't fit with their expectations.

00:30:48.299 --> 00:30:52.500
 He doesn't actually measure up to what they regard or think a Messiah should be.

00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:53.480
 He has come.

00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:54.579
 They've heard Him.

00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:56.279
 They've seen His miracles.

00:30:56.500 --> 00:30:57.079
 They've done all…

00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:00.539
 They've had all of that in terms of their advantage and their privilege.

00:31:00.539 --> 00:31:02.740
 And still, by and large, most of them say,

00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:03.619
 No, He's not for us.

00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:06.000
 We don't have any king but Caesar.

00:31:07.259 --> 00:31:10.220
 That's what you find written in the gospel records, of course.

00:31:10.859 --> 00:31:14.599
 But when we think about Jesus being placed outside,

00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:16.920
 and the cross being placed outside,

00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:19.559
 and the death of Jesus taking place there,

00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:22.159
 that, of course, in the teaching of the Bible,

00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:29.040
 is something that represents His being made a curse by God Himself.

00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:35.340
 Everything that was associated with being crucified was regarded as cursed.

00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:38.920
 And in Paul's letter to the Galatians,

00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:42.140
 you'll find that mentioned in chapter 3,

00:31:42.220 --> 00:31:44.779
 that Jesus was made a curse for us.

00:31:44.840 --> 00:31:46.420
 For it is said, it is written,

00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:50.820
 Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree or is hanged on the cross.

00:31:50.860 --> 00:31:51.940
 That's what that means.

00:31:53.080 --> 00:31:57.500
 And so, when you think about Jesus outside the walls of Jerusalem,

00:31:57.660 --> 00:31:59.080
 at a distance from Jerusalem,

00:31:59.800 --> 00:32:01.120
 outside of the camp,

00:32:01.259 --> 00:32:03.400
 outside of those that rejected Him,

00:32:04.220 --> 00:32:05.300
 placed outside,

00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:10.180
 primarily it's to be thought of as an act of God.

00:32:11.700 --> 00:32:13.220
 Because what happened was,

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:15.840
 of course, that God,

00:32:17.340 --> 00:32:19.600
 having laid our sins upon Him,

00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.240
 regarded Him in our place,

00:32:23.379 --> 00:32:26.939
 as the one to bear the penalty of sin,

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:29.480
 the penalty that was due to sin.

00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.679
 And as we go, therefore,

00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:34.259
 and remember where Jesus died,

00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:35.559
 and what that represents,

00:32:36.059 --> 00:32:37.299
 that it was outside,

00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:39.119
 we'll see in a moment how that

00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:41.319
 actually connects as well with

00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:43.119
 His own words on the cross.

00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:44.519
 My God, my God,

00:32:44.579 --> 00:32:47.199
 why have you forsaken me?

00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:49.039
 Why am I outside?

00:32:50.139 --> 00:32:52.259
 Why am I actually out of your favor?

00:32:53.219 --> 00:32:55.059
 Why have you rejected me?

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:57.799
 Why have you forsaken me?

00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.579
 And that itself is something you carry with you

00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:03.079
 to the Lord's table,

00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:04.639
 because the Lord's table,

00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:05.899
 in a sense, as we said,

00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:07.599
 is something of a reminder,

00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:09.879
 or even a reenactment of this scene,

00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.079
 as if you are physically going out to Him.

00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:15.099
 Spiritually, that's what you're doing.

00:33:15.659 --> 00:33:17.099
 When you come to take your place

00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:18.299
 at the Lord's Supper,

00:33:18.419 --> 00:33:19.019
 you're really saying,

00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:20.859
 this is where I must be.

00:33:20.959 --> 00:33:22.099
 This is where I want to be.

00:33:22.419 --> 00:33:24.779
 This is what my remembrance of Him is about.

00:33:25.099 --> 00:33:26.059
 I remember Him,

00:33:26.199 --> 00:33:28.599
 and I love Him as the crucified one,

00:33:28.899 --> 00:33:30.879
 as if He were still hanging on the cross.

00:33:31.619 --> 00:33:32.740
 You take your place

00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:35.799
 at the side of the cross,

00:33:36.579 --> 00:33:38.539
 in the vicinity of the cross,

00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:43.440
 and you accept that as God's basis

00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:47.319
 of new life of righteousness for you.

00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:49.120
 So, He's saying,

00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:50.799
 let us go to Him.

00:33:50.900 --> 00:33:51.900
 Let us go out to Him.

00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:53.200
 Let's go to where He is.

00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:54.759
 What you do, in other words,

00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:57.460
 privately in your heart by faith,

00:33:57.460 --> 00:33:58.460
 that's what you're doing

00:33:58.460 --> 00:34:00.140
 when you embrace Jesus.

00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:02.039
 This is the Jesus you're embracing.

00:34:02.399 --> 00:34:04.460
 Not any modern versions of Christ

00:34:04.460 --> 00:34:06.159
 where certain parts of the Bible

00:34:06.159 --> 00:34:08.340
 are just excised or cut out

00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:10.679
 that don't seem to fit the thoughts of today.

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:12.960
 You take the Bible at face value.

00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:14.820
 You take what it tells you about the Lord.

00:34:15.219 --> 00:34:16.139
 You embrace the Lord

00:34:16.139 --> 00:34:18.139
 as described in the Word of God,

00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:20.920
 which you regard as reliable and accurate

00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:22.179
 as to who He is

00:34:22.179 --> 00:34:23.039
 and what He has done

00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:24.099
 and why He has done it.

00:34:24.259 --> 00:34:24.639
 And you say,

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:26.840
 that's the Lord that I need.

00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:28.119
 That's the Savior I need.

00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.019
 That's the Savior I embrace.

00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:31.759
 That is the Savior I love

00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.240
 to remember as to His death

00:34:35.240 --> 00:34:37.120
 by doing it in the Lord's Supper.

00:34:39.240 --> 00:34:40.000
 And so you see,

00:34:40.900 --> 00:34:43.120
 as you remember the Lord's death,

00:34:44.120 --> 00:34:45.340
 you are remembering Him

00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:48.220
 as He is represented and shown here,

00:34:48.940 --> 00:34:50.160
 crucified for you,

00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:51.960
 placed outside,

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:53.960
 made a curse,

00:34:54.500 --> 00:34:56.300
 bearing the sin of His people,

00:34:56.300 --> 00:34:58.500
 meeting the penalty

00:34:58.500 --> 00:35:01.780
 that God must visit sin with.

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:05.920
 Let us go out to Him.

00:35:07.080 --> 00:35:08.560
 You've done that already.

00:35:09.600 --> 00:35:11.900
 You've taken the biggest step already

00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:13.780
 in going out to Him spiritually

00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:15.960
 by accepting Him

00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:17.240
 as He's offered in the Gospel.

00:35:17.780 --> 00:35:19.460
 And it's a natural progression

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:20.580
 of that step

00:35:20.580 --> 00:35:23.039
 to actually come to the Lord's table

00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:24.920
 and remember Him there.

00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:26.159
 In a sense,

00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:28.460
 that's part of the going out

00:35:28.460 --> 00:35:29.360
 you've already done.

00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:31.019
 You've already come

00:35:31.019 --> 00:35:32.739
 to stand by the cross,

00:35:32.820 --> 00:35:33.320
 to accept,

00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:34.519
 to embrace this Christ,

00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:35.820
 to place your trust,

00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:36.500
 your confidence,

00:35:36.820 --> 00:35:37.820
 your faith in Him.

00:35:38.219 --> 00:35:39.519
 And you're showing that now outwardly

00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:41.719
 by coming once again

00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:42.500
 to the Lord's table

00:35:42.500 --> 00:35:43.219
 or by coming

00:35:43.219 --> 00:35:45.619
 for the first time

00:35:45.619 --> 00:35:47.079
 to the Lord's table,

00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:48.039
 to the Lord's Supper.

00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:51.199
 I remember Abraham

00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:53.039
 in chapter 11 here of Hebrews.

00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:56.119
 We find him described there

00:35:56.119 --> 00:35:56.800
 in chapter 11,

00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:58.119
 verses 8 to 10,

00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:00.920
 as somebody who obeyed

00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:01.820
 when he was called

00:36:01.820 --> 00:36:03.239
 to go out to a place

00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:04.340
 that he was to receive

00:36:04.340 --> 00:36:05.539
 as an inheritance.

00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:06.360
 And he went out

00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:07.659
 not knowing where he was going.

00:36:08.139 --> 00:36:09.619
 By faith he went to live

00:36:09.619 --> 00:36:10.800
 in the land of promise

00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:12.039
 as in a foreign land,

00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:13.960
 living in tents with Isaac

00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:14.679
 and Jacob,

00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:15.920
 heirs with him

00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.400
 of the same promise.

00:36:18.039 --> 00:36:18.679
 But you see,

00:36:19.019 --> 00:36:20.119
 what he's saying is,

00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.219
 by faith he obeyed

00:36:22.219 --> 00:36:23.519
 when he was called

00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:24.900
 to go out.

00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:26.960
 There's a going out

00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:28.239
 in association

00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:29.759
 with trusting in Christ.

00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:31.139
 There's a going out

00:36:31.139 --> 00:36:32.019
 from this world,

00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:32.820
 a going out from

00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:34.800
 the life that we had

00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:35.940
 as we were born

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:36.739
 into this world,

00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:38.739
 the life of the fallen sinner.

00:36:38.860 --> 00:36:39.759
 We go out from that.

00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:40.900
 We go out from the world,

00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:42.420
 from the values of the world,

00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.400
 from what the world sees

00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:44.039
 as important.

00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.840
 And we walk out

00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:48.179
 from that

00:36:48.179 --> 00:36:49.360
 to the cross of Christ

00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:50.199
 and embrace him

00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:51.460
 and say,

00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:52.079
 no, this is where

00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:52.840
 I take my stand.

00:36:52.900 --> 00:36:53.940
 This is my foundation.

00:36:55.779 --> 00:36:56.599
 And this is where

00:36:56.599 --> 00:36:58.480
 we find represented

00:36:58.480 --> 00:36:59.440
 in the Lord's Supper

00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:01.219
 that going out

00:37:01.219 --> 00:37:02.559
 that's already taken place

00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:03.159
 in your heart

00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:04.579
 when you came

00:37:04.579 --> 00:37:06.539
 to embrace the Lord,

00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:07.880
 to stand by his side,

00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:08.559
 to leave

00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:10.460
 the city of this world,

00:37:10.539 --> 00:37:11.000
 if you like,

00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:12.480
 to go to him.

00:37:13.340 --> 00:37:13.659
 And you see,

00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:14.340
 it's also saying,

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:15.960
 bearing the reproach

00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:17.699
 that he endured.

00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:20.219
 The older translation

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:22.360
 has bearing his reproach.

00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:23.599
 It comes to pretty much

00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.320
 the same thing.

00:37:25.099 --> 00:37:26.079
 What is the reproach

00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:26.980
 that he endured?

00:37:27.219 --> 00:37:28.480
 Well, it's the stigma,

00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:29.739
 it's the shame,

00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.639
 it's all that's mentioned there

00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:33.059
 at the beginning

00:37:33.059 --> 00:37:34.420
 of chapter 12,

00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:34.980
 for example,

00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:37.239
 where in verse 3,

00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:38.300
 you consider him

00:37:38.300 --> 00:37:40.220
 who endured from sinners

00:37:40.220 --> 00:37:41.400
 such hostility

00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:42.840
 against himself

00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:43.720
 so that you may not

00:37:43.720 --> 00:37:44.280
 grow weary

00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:46.000
 or faint-hearted.

00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:47.500
 It's all that's associated

00:37:47.500 --> 00:37:49.000
 with the humiliation,

00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:50.000
 the shame,

00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:51.720
 the hostility

00:37:51.720 --> 00:37:52.320
 of sinners

00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:53.160
 against himself

00:37:53.160 --> 00:37:54.140
 as it's mentioned there.

00:37:55.220 --> 00:37:56.519
 That's what he experienced

00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:57.000
 for you.

00:37:57.080 --> 00:37:58.320
 That's what he did for you.

00:37:58.600 --> 00:37:59.440
 That's what he took

00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:00.740
 to himself for you.

00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:02.019
 And when you come

00:38:02.019 --> 00:38:02.960
 and realize

00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:04.280
 that going out to him

00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:05.780
 is not going to be

00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:07.600
 something different

00:38:07.600 --> 00:38:08.320
 and kind

00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:09.480
 from what he did for you

00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:10.880
 because that reproach

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:11.820
 that he met with

00:38:11.820 --> 00:38:13.640
 is the same in kind

00:38:13.640 --> 00:38:14.900
 as his people meet with

00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:16.280
 as they make it known

00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:17.060
 that they've gone out

00:38:17.060 --> 00:38:17.660
 from the world

00:38:17.660 --> 00:38:19.160
 and come to the cross.

00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:24.480
 Bearing his reproach,

00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:27.180
 being prepared willingly

00:38:27.180 --> 00:38:29.800
 to come by associating

00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:30.580
 with Christ,

00:38:31.720 --> 00:38:32.580
 to be thought of

00:38:32.580 --> 00:38:33.420
 by the world

00:38:33.420 --> 00:38:35.599
 as no longer fit for purpose

00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:36.880
 for their company.

00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:39.400
 It's something that

00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:41.039
 in being rejected

00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:41.960
 by the world

00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:43.300
 follows the pattern

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:44.320
 the Lord himself

00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:45.920
 experienced

00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:47.360
 in his own going out.

00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:49.480
 And so he's saying

00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:51.559
 bearing his reproach,

00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:53.539
 the reproach he endured,

00:38:53.659 --> 00:38:55.659
 the reproach the same in kind.

00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:58.159
 Just think of how willingly

00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:00.379
 the Lord went out

00:39:00.379 --> 00:39:01.779
 to the cross

00:39:01.779 --> 00:39:02.879
 for you,

00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:03.639
 for his people.

00:39:04.699 --> 00:39:05.639
 Just think of how he

00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:06.839
 committed himself

00:39:06.839 --> 00:39:07.699
 wholeheartedly

00:39:07.699 --> 00:39:08.259
 and fully

00:39:08.259 --> 00:39:10.019
 and was not deflected,

00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:11.559
 not even for a split second

00:39:11.559 --> 00:39:12.699
 from going out

00:39:12.699 --> 00:39:13.879
 to that cursed death

00:39:13.879 --> 00:39:14.539
 of the cross.

00:39:17.299 --> 00:39:18.699
 Early on in his ministry,

00:39:19.839 --> 00:39:20.839
 Satan had attempted

00:39:20.839 --> 00:39:22.599
 every way he could

00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.259
 and that's quite considerable.

00:39:25.260 --> 00:39:27.540
 in that temptation

00:39:27.540 --> 00:39:28.140
 that you find

00:39:28.140 --> 00:39:29.220
 mentioned in the Gospels,

00:39:30.080 --> 00:39:30.760
 Matthew 4,

00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:36.420
 what was the devil's attempt?

00:39:36.720 --> 00:39:37.920
 What was he trying to do?

00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:39.960
 What was his aim?

00:39:40.120 --> 00:39:40.980
 What was his purpose

00:39:40.980 --> 00:39:43.800
 in that temptation of Jesus?

00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:44.660
 Well, you can actually

00:39:44.660 --> 00:39:45.820
 see it even from

00:39:45.820 --> 00:39:47.340
 one of the three temptations

00:39:47.340 --> 00:39:48.020
 that are mentioned

00:39:48.020 --> 00:39:49.560
 when the devil said to him,

00:39:50.120 --> 00:39:51.480
 all of these kingdoms,

00:39:51.640 --> 00:39:52.680
 as he took him to see

00:39:52.680 --> 00:39:53.880
 all the kingdoms of the world,

00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:56.220
 all of these will I give you

00:39:56.220 --> 00:39:57.680
 if you fall down

00:39:57.680 --> 00:39:58.619
 and worship me.

00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:01.619
 What is that about?

00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:04.000
 It's the devil saying

00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:04.619
 to the Lord,

00:40:05.180 --> 00:40:05.920
 look, you don't have

00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:07.059
 to go through the cross,

00:40:07.160 --> 00:40:07.760
 you don't have to go

00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:08.700
 through the difficulties,

00:40:09.099 --> 00:40:09.740
 you don't have to go

00:40:09.740 --> 00:40:10.559
 through the trials

00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:11.940
 that you're presently enduring.

00:40:12.059 --> 00:40:12.500
 Here you are

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:13.099
 in the wilderness,

00:40:13.500 --> 00:40:13.980
 you've been here

00:40:13.980 --> 00:40:14.840
 such a long time,

00:40:14.940 --> 00:40:15.619
 you're starving,

00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:16.300
 you're hungry,

00:40:16.900 --> 00:40:17.460
 you could easily

00:40:17.460 --> 00:40:18.440
 turn these stones

00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:19.000
 into bread,

00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:19.559
 as he said

00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:20.519
 in one of the other

00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:21.220
 temptations.

00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:22.820
 Why go on with that?

00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:25.160
 Why not just do

00:40:25.160 --> 00:40:25.900
 what I say?

00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:26.940
 Why not just do

00:40:26.940 --> 00:40:28.980
 in obedience to me

00:40:28.980 --> 00:40:29.940
 and I will give you

00:40:29.940 --> 00:40:30.960
 everything you want?

00:40:32.220 --> 00:40:32.519
 You see,

00:40:32.620 --> 00:40:34.960
 there's the powers of evil

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:36.100
 ranged against

00:40:36.100 --> 00:40:37.400
 the Son of God

00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:38.180
 in our nature

00:40:38.180 --> 00:40:40.180
 and in His life

00:40:40.180 --> 00:40:40.800
 of obedience

00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:41.740
 for His people.

00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:44.820
 These are the amazing,

00:40:45.260 --> 00:40:47.340
 unfathomable challenges

00:40:47.340 --> 00:40:48.160
 that He faced

00:40:48.160 --> 00:40:48.760
 from the devil.

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:49.280
 None of us

00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:50.320
 has been through

00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:51.900
 such incredibly

00:40:51.900 --> 00:40:53.380
 complex

00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:55.400
 and deep temptation,

00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:58.080
 but He dismissed him.

00:41:00.460 --> 00:41:01.580
 He was determined

00:41:01.580 --> 00:41:02.880
 at every step

00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:05.420
 that He would die

00:41:05.420 --> 00:41:06.200
 the death He came

00:41:06.200 --> 00:41:06.740
 into the world

00:41:06.740 --> 00:41:07.340
 to accomplish.

00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:09.900
 And so He's saying

00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:11.300
 to you tonight,

00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:12.300
 I have done all this

00:41:12.300 --> 00:41:12.940
 for you,

00:41:13.940 --> 00:41:14.740
 and now

00:41:14.740 --> 00:41:16.200
 you're doing this

00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:16.699
 for me.

00:41:17.539 --> 00:41:18.399
 You're doing this

00:41:18.399 --> 00:41:19.379
 in response to

00:41:19.379 --> 00:41:20.719
 my going out

00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:21.259
 to the cross

00:41:21.259 --> 00:41:21.859
 for you,

00:41:22.899 --> 00:41:23.719
 crucified there

00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:24.279
 for you,

00:41:24.759 --> 00:41:25.460
 made a curse

00:41:25.460 --> 00:41:26.259
 there for you,

00:41:26.879 --> 00:41:29.339
 leaving the approval

00:41:29.339 --> 00:41:30.460
 of the camp,

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:31.299
 leaving the approval

00:41:31.299 --> 00:41:32.359
 of the city,

00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:34.059
 and going out

00:41:34.059 --> 00:41:34.599
 to the cross

00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:35.259
 and to the curse

00:41:35.259 --> 00:41:36.439
 and to the stigma

00:41:36.439 --> 00:41:37.259
 and to the shame

00:41:37.259 --> 00:41:37.899
 of the cross.

00:41:38.339 --> 00:41:39.119
 Remember they said

00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:39.539
 about Him

00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:40.259
 when He was crucified,

00:41:40.500 --> 00:41:42.019
 come down from the cross

00:41:42.019 --> 00:41:43.059
 and we will believe you.

00:41:43.059 --> 00:41:44.320
 You made yourself out

00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:45.000
 to be someone,

00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:45.860
 the Son of God.

00:41:46.279 --> 00:41:47.159
 Now we'll believe you

00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:47.920
 if you come down.

00:41:48.019 --> 00:41:48.360
 And of course

00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:49.320
 they didn't understand.

00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:52.259
 But you understand.

00:41:53.500 --> 00:41:54.420
 You understand

00:41:54.420 --> 00:41:55.699
 why He just couldn't

00:41:55.699 --> 00:41:56.820
 come down

00:41:56.820 --> 00:41:57.519
 from that cross,

00:41:57.619 --> 00:41:58.559
 why He was committed

00:41:58.559 --> 00:41:59.779
 to the death

00:41:59.779 --> 00:42:00.480
 of the cross.

00:42:01.219 --> 00:42:02.239
 It was so that you

00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:03.840
 and I would be saved,

00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:04.679
 would be redeemed,

00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:06.259
 would be brought

00:42:06.259 --> 00:42:08.219
 to have eternal life.

00:42:09.099 --> 00:42:10.000
 And now He's saying,

00:42:10.619 --> 00:42:12.519
 let us go out to Him

00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:14.500
 bearing the reproach

00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:15.880
 He endured.

00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:16.659
 After all,

00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:19.400
 supposing we were

00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:20.059
 to suffer

00:42:20.059 --> 00:42:22.880
 all of our Christian lives,

00:42:23.739 --> 00:42:24.780
 the kind of suffering

00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:25.460
 that you find

00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:26.500
 even in those

00:42:26.500 --> 00:42:28.980
 who are solely persecuted

00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:29.639
 in other parts

00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:30.420
 of the world today

00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:32.599
 above what we actually experience

00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:33.659
 in whatever persecutions

00:42:33.659 --> 00:42:34.059
 we have.

00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:35.259
 But supposing you had

00:42:35.259 --> 00:42:36.860
 all of that persecution,

00:42:38.780 --> 00:42:40.639
 it's a small cup

00:42:40.639 --> 00:42:42.219
 in comparison.

00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:44.579
 with what Jesus suffered.

00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:49.159
 And when we think

00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:49.960
 of going to bear

00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:51.000
 His reproach,

00:42:52.099 --> 00:42:52.920
 bear the reproach

00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:53.679
 He endured,

00:42:54.380 --> 00:42:55.440
 that reproach

00:42:55.440 --> 00:42:56.639
 that we experience

00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:58.820
 will never measure up

00:42:58.820 --> 00:42:59.599
 to the reproach

00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:01.619
 that He experienced.

00:43:01.619 --> 00:43:05.500
 because all of what He suffered,

00:43:06.099 --> 00:43:07.019
 He suffered

00:43:07.019 --> 00:43:08.920
 in all its intensity

00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:11.239
 so that we would be delivered

00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:13.019
 from the curse

00:43:13.019 --> 00:43:14.139
 of God.

00:43:15.759 --> 00:43:17.420
 So let us go out to Him

00:43:17.420 --> 00:43:19.039
 bearing His reproach.

00:43:19.099 --> 00:43:19.279
 Again,

00:43:19.359 --> 00:43:20.239
 if you cast your mind

00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:21.420
 back to chapter 11

00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:23.019
 where it speaks

00:43:23.019 --> 00:43:24.000
 to the same of Moses,

00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:26.559
 Moses also by faith,

00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:29.619
 when he was growing up

00:43:29.619 --> 00:43:30.500
 in verse 24,

00:43:31.099 --> 00:43:32.320
 He refused to be called

00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:33.699
 the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

00:43:34.219 --> 00:43:35.039
 choosing rather

00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:36.239
 to be mistreated

00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:37.779
 with the people of God

00:43:37.779 --> 00:43:38.900
 than to enjoy

00:43:38.900 --> 00:43:39.980
 the fleeting pleasure

00:43:39.980 --> 00:43:40.559
 of sin.

00:43:40.619 --> 00:43:41.279
 And then look next

00:43:41.279 --> 00:43:41.900
 what it says.

00:43:42.420 --> 00:43:43.179
 He considered

00:43:43.179 --> 00:43:44.619
 the reproach

00:43:44.619 --> 00:43:45.380
 of Christ

00:43:45.380 --> 00:43:47.059
 greater wealth

00:43:47.059 --> 00:43:48.920
 than all the treasures

00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:49.579
 of Egypt.

00:43:49.579 --> 00:43:51.639
 for He was looking forward

00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:52.940
 to the reward.

00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:54.480
 That's an amazing statement.

00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:56.239
 Here was Moses brought up

00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:57.779
 in Pharaoh's palace,

00:43:58.319 --> 00:43:59.380
 brought up with access

00:43:59.380 --> 00:44:00.340
 to all the riches

00:44:00.340 --> 00:44:01.019
 of Egypt

00:44:01.019 --> 00:44:03.259
 that would be given to him

00:44:03.259 --> 00:44:04.460
 were he to remain there,

00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:05.599
 were he to continue

00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:07.199
 as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

00:44:07.659 --> 00:44:07.980
 Instead,

00:44:08.219 --> 00:44:08.779
 what did he do?

00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:09.940
 He walked away from that.

00:44:10.099 --> 00:44:11.119
 He went out from that.

00:44:12.099 --> 00:44:12.799
 And he went out

00:44:12.799 --> 00:44:14.460
 to align himself

00:44:14.460 --> 00:44:15.759
 with the persecuted people

00:44:15.759 --> 00:44:16.840
 of God in Egypt.

00:44:17.739 --> 00:44:19.500
 But that's not the only thing.

00:44:19.579 --> 00:44:19.880
 it says,

00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:21.840
 though the language

00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:22.619
 that's used there

00:44:22.619 --> 00:44:24.679
 is most interesting

00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:25.500
 and significant.

00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:26.559
 He considered

00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:28.219
 the reproach of Christ

00:44:28.219 --> 00:44:30.440
 suffering for his God,

00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:31.920
 he considered that

00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:33.380
 greater riches

00:44:33.380 --> 00:44:34.819
 than all the treasures

00:44:34.819 --> 00:44:35.460
 of Egypt.

00:44:35.900 --> 00:44:36.400
 In other words,

00:44:36.460 --> 00:44:37.319
 what's that saying to us

00:44:37.319 --> 00:44:39.059
 is here is Moses saying

00:44:39.059 --> 00:44:40.079
 about all these treasures

00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:40.619
 of Egypt,

00:44:40.739 --> 00:44:41.679
 yes, I can have that.

00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:42.860
 I don't want them

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:45.279
 because suffering for God

00:44:45.279 --> 00:44:47.079
 is of greater value.

00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:50.179
 And that's what it's like

00:44:50.179 --> 00:44:51.779
 when you come out

00:44:51.779 --> 00:44:53.159
 on the Lord's side.

00:44:54.420 --> 00:44:56.659
 The Lord is convincing you

00:44:56.659 --> 00:44:57.719
 and laying on your heart

00:44:57.719 --> 00:44:59.219
 the same fact.

00:45:00.259 --> 00:45:01.759
 The sufferings that I endure

00:45:01.759 --> 00:45:03.299
 and I may need to endure

00:45:03.299 --> 00:45:04.059
 as a Christian,

00:45:04.539 --> 00:45:05.659
 even if I don't know yet

00:45:05.659 --> 00:45:06.400
 what they're about,

00:45:07.860 --> 00:45:08.920
 they have a value

00:45:08.920 --> 00:45:10.659
 which all the treasures

00:45:10.659 --> 00:45:11.420
 of this world

00:45:11.420 --> 00:45:12.440
 can never give you.

00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:14.119
 because they are

00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:15.099
 sufferings for him.

00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:16.740
 They are bearing

00:45:16.740 --> 00:45:17.800
 his reproach.

00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:20.179
 They are part and parcel

00:45:20.179 --> 00:45:22.200
 of following Christ.

00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:26.200
 And you might be saying tonight,

00:45:26.300 --> 00:45:27.300
 well, I wish I could do that,

00:45:27.380 --> 00:45:30.599
 but I would rather wait

00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:32.539
 until my faith

00:45:32.539 --> 00:45:33.440
 is somewhat stronger.

00:45:33.539 --> 00:45:34.420
 I'm not sure I can just

00:45:34.420 --> 00:45:35.460
 cope with that yet.

00:45:36.740 --> 00:45:37.940
 Maybe here and that's what

00:45:37.940 --> 00:45:39.280
 your thought is

00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:40.539
 of going to the Lord's table

00:45:40.539 --> 00:45:43.099
 and maybe even

00:45:43.099 --> 00:45:43.880
 you're coming to

00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:44.940
 the Lord's table

00:45:44.940 --> 00:45:45.960
 having been there before

00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:47.559
 and still lamenting

00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:49.759
 your, what you see

00:45:49.759 --> 00:45:51.239
 as your weak faith

00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:52.500
 and you're saying

00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:53.519
 you're tempted

00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:55.019
 by the devil perhaps

00:45:55.019 --> 00:45:55.820
 or your own mind

00:45:55.820 --> 00:45:56.179
 is saying,

00:45:56.320 --> 00:45:57.279
 well, maybe I shouldn't

00:45:57.279 --> 00:45:57.980
 go this time

00:45:57.980 --> 00:45:59.360
 the way I feel about myself.

00:46:00.019 --> 00:46:00.639
 Maybe I should just

00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:01.599
 stay away this time.

00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:02.659
 Well, listen to what

00:46:02.659 --> 00:46:03.559
 Matthew Henry says

00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:05.000
 in a wonderful book

00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:05.400
 called

00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:06.940
 The Communicant's Companion.

00:46:06.940 --> 00:46:10.260
 You say your faith is weak,

00:46:11.099 --> 00:46:13.179
 pious affections are cool and low,

00:46:13.900 --> 00:46:15.780
 your resolutions unsteady,

00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:17.700
 and therefore you keep away

00:46:17.700 --> 00:46:18.619
 from this ordinance.

00:46:19.820 --> 00:46:21.539
 That is like a man should say

00:46:21.539 --> 00:46:22.220
 he is sick,

00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:24.639
 and therefore he'll take no medicine.

00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:26.679
 He is empty,

00:46:26.780 --> 00:46:28.079
 and therefore he'll take no food.

00:46:28.860 --> 00:46:29.579
 He is faint,

00:46:29.579 --> 00:46:32.039
 and therefore will take no cordials.

00:46:33.260 --> 00:46:35.800
 This ordinance was appointed chiefly

00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:38.860
 for the relief of such as you are,

00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:41.460
 for the strengthening of faith,

00:46:41.980 --> 00:46:44.140
 for the inflaming of holy love,

00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:46.980
 and the confirmation of good resolutions.

00:46:48.260 --> 00:46:49.740
 In God's name, therefore,

00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:51.840
 use it for these purposes.

00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:55.340
 Pine not away in your weakness

00:46:55.340 --> 00:46:58.380
 while God has ordained strength for you.

00:46:59.380 --> 00:47:00.800
 Die not for thirst

00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:04.120
 while there is a well of water

00:47:04.120 --> 00:47:05.620
 beside you.

00:47:06.500 --> 00:47:08.300
 He meant by that the Lord's Supper.

00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:11.240
 A well of water to refresh you.

00:47:12.180 --> 00:47:13.900
 A source of spiritual food

00:47:13.900 --> 00:47:14.920
 to strengthen you.

00:47:16.080 --> 00:47:17.680
 A means of comforting you

00:47:17.680 --> 00:47:20.100
 so as to console your heart.

00:47:20.980 --> 00:47:22.500
 Well, that's what Matthew Henry was saying

00:47:22.500 --> 00:47:25.000
 going outside the camp

00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:27.260
 to Him bearing His reproach.

00:47:27.980 --> 00:47:29.260
 All the sufferings,

00:47:29.740 --> 00:47:30.560
 whatever they may be,

00:47:30.640 --> 00:47:31.420
 small or great,

00:47:31.420 --> 00:47:34.980
 are part of God's program

00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:36.760
 of your sanctification,

00:47:37.300 --> 00:47:38.400
 of your improvement,

00:47:39.220 --> 00:47:40.519
 of your consolation,

00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:42.440
 of your eternal happiness.

00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:44.539
 Let us, therefore,

00:47:44.619 --> 00:47:45.320
 go out to Him

00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:47.539
 outside the camp.

00:47:48.099 --> 00:47:48.659
 And now, briefly,

00:47:49.619 --> 00:47:50.139
 secondly,

00:47:50.300 --> 00:47:52.200
 we find here

00:47:52.200 --> 00:47:53.760
 looking forward to the city

00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:55.740
 where Jesus now is.

00:47:55.900 --> 00:47:58.240
 For here we have no lasting city,

00:47:58.239 --> 00:47:59.739
 but we seek the city

00:47:59.739 --> 00:48:00.539
 that is to come.

00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:02.219
 And if you think of that literally,

00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:03.500
 in those days,

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:05.179
 the writer was talking there

00:48:05.179 --> 00:48:06.039
 about the camp

00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:08.419
 or the Jerusalem,

00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:09.539
 the city of Jerusalem.

00:48:10.059 --> 00:48:10.500
 He's saying,

00:48:10.859 --> 00:48:11.559
 you can remain there,

00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:12.459
 it's not going to last.

00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:12.879
 And of course,

00:48:12.959 --> 00:48:16.579
 Jerusalem was destroyed

00:48:16.579 --> 00:48:17.799
 virtually by the Romans

00:48:17.799 --> 00:48:18.839
 in 70 A.D.

00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:20.559
 But when you come to apply

00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:21.360
 this spiritually,

00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:23.079
 what is it really saying

00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:23.780
 to us spiritually?

00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:24.220
 It's saying,

00:48:24.539 --> 00:48:25.980
 this world is not going to endure.

00:48:26.260 --> 00:48:27.220
 Living for this world

00:48:27.220 --> 00:48:28.340
 is going to be a disastrous

00:48:28.340 --> 00:48:30.500
 decision on your part

00:48:30.500 --> 00:48:32.660
 and a disastrous choice.

00:48:33.079 --> 00:48:34.500
 So when you leave this world

00:48:34.500 --> 00:48:35.480
 and you leave everything

00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:36.280
 that's associated

00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:37.640
 with rejection of Christ

00:48:37.640 --> 00:48:38.920
 and you go out to Him

00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:40.700
 and you come to the Lord's Supper

00:48:40.700 --> 00:48:43.140
 as itself an extension,

00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:43.780
 if you like,

00:48:43.780 --> 00:48:45.480
 of that going out to Him,

00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:48.400
 what you're saying is,

00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:50.280
 well, I'm seeking the city

00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:51.059
 that is to come.

00:48:52.380 --> 00:48:53.900
 I'm seeking the city of heaven.

00:48:55.400 --> 00:48:56.660
 Not seeking in the way

00:48:56.660 --> 00:48:58.539
 that you don't know much about it,

00:48:58.579 --> 00:48:59.220
 but seeking it

00:48:59.220 --> 00:49:00.380
 because God describes

00:49:00.380 --> 00:49:01.420
 something of it for you

00:49:01.420 --> 00:49:03.200
 in His own Word

00:49:03.200 --> 00:49:03.800
 in the Scripture.

00:49:03.960 --> 00:49:05.720
 Because everything you have

00:49:05.720 --> 00:49:07.260
 in the city of this world

00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:08.340
 is fleeting,

00:49:08.420 --> 00:49:09.180
 not only fleeting,

00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:10.019
 but uncertain,

00:49:10.460 --> 00:49:12.139
 uncertain to fall.

00:49:12.139 --> 00:49:13.579
 It looks stable,

00:49:13.740 --> 00:49:15.539
 but it's resting

00:49:15.539 --> 00:49:17.099
 on the fault line

00:49:17.099 --> 00:49:17.920
 of God's judgment

00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:19.300
 and it's not going to last.

00:49:22.300 --> 00:49:23.200
 And that's why

00:49:23.200 --> 00:49:24.300
 you've left that city.

00:49:25.139 --> 00:49:26.240
 That's why you've gone

00:49:26.240 --> 00:49:27.139
 out to the cross.

00:49:28.240 --> 00:49:29.400
 Because you're convinced

00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:31.519
 that to be in this world

00:49:31.519 --> 00:49:32.940
 and to belong to this world

00:49:32.940 --> 00:49:34.079
 spiritually, morally,

00:49:34.340 --> 00:49:36.360
 is going to be caught up

00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:37.659
 in the destruction,

00:49:37.820 --> 00:49:38.740
 the terrible destruction

00:49:38.740 --> 00:49:39.800
 of God's judgment.

00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.700
 But to leave that city,

00:49:43.340 --> 00:49:44.539
 to leave that condition,

00:49:44.680 --> 00:49:45.700
 to leave that state,

00:49:46.120 --> 00:49:47.320
 to go out to Jesus,

00:49:47.640 --> 00:49:49.140
 to associate with the cross,

00:49:49.340 --> 00:49:50.960
 to trust yourself to Him,

00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:53.860
 to embrace that crucified Christ

00:49:53.860 --> 00:49:55.820
 as crucified for you,

00:49:56.240 --> 00:49:57.539
 that's to show

00:49:57.539 --> 00:49:59.780
 that you are seeking the city

00:49:59.780 --> 00:50:01.400
 that is to come.

00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:03.960
 And you want to express that

00:50:03.960 --> 00:50:05.680
 on this occasion anew

00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:07.380
 by going to take this communion

00:50:07.380 --> 00:50:08.820
 yet again

00:50:08.820 --> 00:50:09.960
 or for the first time.

00:50:11.099 --> 00:50:12.320
 You're not saying of yourself,

00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:13.900
 I'm worthy of this.

00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:15.039
 You're not saying of yourself

00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:18.619
 that I can do this.

00:50:18.680 --> 00:50:19.360
 I have the strength

00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:20.400
 to do this myself.

00:50:20.740 --> 00:50:22.260
 I can manage this on my own.

00:50:22.300 --> 00:50:22.860
 It's just something

00:50:22.860 --> 00:50:23.740
 I want to do.

00:50:24.180 --> 00:50:25.019
 You're not saying that.

00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:25.519
 You're saying,

00:50:25.780 --> 00:50:27.079
 He has done it for me.

00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:28.900
 He's done everything I need

00:50:28.900 --> 00:50:30.320
 to make me right with God.

00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:32.700
 And it's the least I can do

00:50:32.700 --> 00:50:35.019
 now to go to the table

00:50:35.019 --> 00:50:38.039
 to show that my trust is in Him,

00:50:38.680 --> 00:50:39.700
 that I'm looking forward

00:50:39.700 --> 00:50:41.860
 to the city that has foundations

00:50:41.860 --> 00:50:45.099
 as builder and maker is God.

00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:47.700
 And that's why it says

00:50:47.700 --> 00:50:50.099
 we're seeking one to come.

00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:52.280
 You see, again,

00:50:52.420 --> 00:50:53.559
 going back to chapter 11,

00:50:53.660 --> 00:50:55.800
 it's such a wonderful chapter 11,

00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:56.160
 isn't it?

00:50:56.160 --> 00:50:58.820
 All these examples of faith

00:50:58.820 --> 00:50:59.840
 and different ways

00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:02.000
 in which their faith was expressed.

00:51:02.580 --> 00:51:04.160
 In verses 13 to 16,

00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:05.180
 I often read this

00:51:05.180 --> 00:51:07.240
 when we come to funerals,

00:51:07.340 --> 00:51:08.100
 especially funerals

00:51:08.100 --> 00:51:08.960
 of the Lord's people.

00:51:09.860 --> 00:51:11.420
 These all died in faith.

00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:14.300
 Chapter 11, verse 13,

00:51:14.380 --> 00:51:15.600
 These all died in faith,

00:51:16.100 --> 00:51:17.000
 not having received

00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:17.780
 the things promised,

00:51:17.980 --> 00:51:18.940
 but having seen them

00:51:18.940 --> 00:51:20.960
 and greeted them from afar

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:22.300
 and having acknowledged

00:51:22.300 --> 00:51:23.260
 that they were strangers

00:51:23.260 --> 00:51:24.539
 and exiles on the earth.

00:51:24.900 --> 00:51:26.880
 For people who speak thus

00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:27.820
 make it clear

00:51:27.820 --> 00:51:29.300
 that they are seeking

00:51:29.300 --> 00:51:30.599
 a homeland.

00:51:31.900 --> 00:51:33.019
 And if they'd been thinking

00:51:33.019 --> 00:51:33.800
 of that land

00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:34.920
 from which they'd gone out,

00:51:35.240 --> 00:51:36.500
 they would have had opportunity

00:51:36.500 --> 00:51:37.440
 to return.

00:51:38.099 --> 00:51:39.039
 But as it is,

00:51:39.300 --> 00:51:40.940
 they desire a better country.

00:51:41.160 --> 00:51:42.559
 That is a heavenly one.

00:51:42.900 --> 00:51:44.180
 Therefore, God is not ashamed

00:51:44.180 --> 00:51:45.599
 to be called their God,

00:51:46.140 --> 00:51:48.220
 for He has prepared for them

00:51:48.220 --> 00:51:49.700
 a city,

00:51:50.660 --> 00:51:52.079
 a lasting residence,

00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.500
 an eternal abode in heaven.

00:51:56.119 --> 00:51:56.819
 And all the way through

00:51:56.819 --> 00:51:57.500
 these few verses,

00:51:57.659 --> 00:51:59.319
 you can see various things

00:51:59.319 --> 00:52:01.579
 that tie in with what we're seeing

00:52:01.579 --> 00:52:02.980
 here in Hebrews 13.

00:52:03.940 --> 00:52:04.779
 They're seeing things

00:52:04.779 --> 00:52:06.440
 by faith from a distance.

00:52:06.619 --> 00:52:08.440
 They were not yet in the city

00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:09.819
 that is heaven, of course,

00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:11.159
 but they were looking forward to it.

00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:12.559
 They're making it clear

00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:14.360
 that they are seeking a homeland.

00:52:14.900 --> 00:52:15.719
 If they'd been thinking

00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:16.559
 of the land from which

00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:17.079
 they'd gone out,

00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:18.099
 they would have an opportunity

00:52:18.099 --> 00:52:18.819
 to return.

00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:20.420
 That's how it is for yourself,

00:52:20.420 --> 00:52:21.940
 by going to the Lord's table,

00:52:22.019 --> 00:52:23.039
 by doing what you're doing

00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:24.159
 in obedience to Christ,

00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:25.599
 you're actually making clear,

00:52:25.700 --> 00:52:26.480
 I don't want to return

00:52:26.480 --> 00:52:27.119
 to the world.

00:52:27.619 --> 00:52:28.400
 I don't want to return

00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:29.440
 to what I was.

00:52:29.740 --> 00:52:30.579
 I don't want to return

00:52:30.579 --> 00:52:31.780
 to my lost condition.

00:52:32.260 --> 00:52:33.019
 I don't want to return

00:52:33.019 --> 00:52:34.860
 to my unforgiven state.

00:52:35.200 --> 00:52:36.280
 I don't want to return

00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:37.860
 to that position I had

00:52:37.860 --> 00:52:39.500
 where I was either at enmity

00:52:39.500 --> 00:52:41.340
 with God consciously

00:52:41.340 --> 00:52:42.599
 to myself or not.

00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:44.400
 I don't want to return

00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:44.780
 to that.

00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:45.579
 That's in the past.

00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:46.760
 That's the city

00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:48.200
 that's going to be destroyed.

00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:50.839
 That's where God

00:52:50.839 --> 00:52:51.960
 has taken me out from.

00:52:53.319 --> 00:52:54.319
 But I'm looking forward

00:52:54.319 --> 00:52:57.059
 to that city that is to come.

00:52:58.059 --> 00:52:59.359
 The city that has foundations

00:52:59.359 --> 00:53:01.559
 of which He is builder

00:53:01.559 --> 00:53:02.339
 and maker.

00:53:03.439 --> 00:53:03.799
 Therefore,

00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:06.359
 I want to go to the Lord's table,

00:53:06.699 --> 00:53:07.960
 not because I'm good enough

00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:08.539
 in myself,

00:53:09.359 --> 00:53:10.460
 but because it shows

00:53:10.460 --> 00:53:11.699
 that I love Him

00:53:11.699 --> 00:53:12.739
 who is good enough.

00:53:13.859 --> 00:53:15.099
 And that He's done all this

00:53:15.099 --> 00:53:16.099
 so that I could come

00:53:16.099 --> 00:53:17.739
 and look forward

00:53:17.739 --> 00:53:19.339
 in faith and hope

00:53:19.339 --> 00:53:20.779
 to that city

00:53:20.779 --> 00:53:21.759
 that has foundations.

00:53:22.759 --> 00:53:23.920
 Now, we could think of

00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:26.319
 what it says there

00:53:26.319 --> 00:53:27.019
 in verses 11,

00:53:27.259 --> 00:53:28.380
 verses 13 to 16

00:53:28.380 --> 00:53:29.179
 of chapter 11,

00:53:29.299 --> 00:53:32.619
 as using all the means

00:53:32.619 --> 00:53:33.339
 available,

00:53:34.059 --> 00:53:34.699
 and same here

00:53:34.699 --> 00:53:36.699
 in chapter 13,

00:53:36.860 --> 00:53:38.440
 we're seeking the city

00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:39.239
 that is to come.

00:53:39.299 --> 00:53:40.059
 What does that mean?

00:53:40.599 --> 00:53:41.059
 Essentially,

00:53:41.219 --> 00:53:43.099
 it means using every means

00:53:43.099 --> 00:53:44.380
 that God has given us

00:53:44.380 --> 00:53:46.500
 to make our way towards it,

00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:49.099
 to actually finally enter it.

00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:50.759
 Not by our own merits.

00:53:51.139 --> 00:53:52.559
 That's on the merits of Christ.

00:53:52.759 --> 00:53:53.960
 But we're using everything

00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:55.059
 God has given us

00:53:55.059 --> 00:53:56.219
 so as to progress

00:53:56.219 --> 00:53:57.360
 on that journey.

00:53:58.360 --> 00:54:00.880
 And one of the wonderful things

00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:02.019
 that God has given us,

00:54:02.179 --> 00:54:03.679
 the ordinance of the Lord's Supper,

00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:06.679
 is designed to strengthen us

00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:07.480
 for that journey,

00:54:08.339 --> 00:54:09.539
 to strengthen our hope,

00:54:09.539 --> 00:54:10.440
 our faith,

00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:13.000
 our belief in Him.

00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.000
 Think of the banquet

00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:16.699
 that's awaiting

00:54:16.699 --> 00:54:17.539
 the Lord's people

00:54:17.539 --> 00:54:18.800
 in glory,

00:54:18.900 --> 00:54:20.039
 the marriage supper

00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:20.619
 of the Lamb,

00:54:20.759 --> 00:54:21.679
 as the book of Revelation

00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:22.340
 calls it.

00:54:23.559 --> 00:54:24.719
 And you can think, really,

00:54:24.820 --> 00:54:26.619
 of the Lord's Supper,

00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:27.199
 if you like,

00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:30.159
 as the starter course

00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:32.739
 for that great banquet.

00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:35.039
 We're coming to this world

00:54:35.039 --> 00:54:36.179
 just to take the starter.

00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:38.179
 It's a wonderful starter,

00:54:38.179 --> 00:54:39.659
 especially for all

00:54:39.659 --> 00:54:40.500
 that it represents.

00:54:41.259 --> 00:54:42.139
 But as you come

00:54:42.139 --> 00:54:43.399
 to take the Lord's Supper,

00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:44.500
 as you sit there

00:54:44.500 --> 00:54:46.059
 and eat this starter course,

00:54:46.139 --> 00:54:46.619
 if you like,

00:54:46.859 --> 00:54:48.019
 what it's saying to you is,

00:54:48.339 --> 00:54:49.899
 well, isn't the banquet

00:54:49.899 --> 00:54:51.199
 going to be magnificent?

00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:53.799
 If the starter is this good,

00:54:53.859 --> 00:54:54.759
 what's the main course

00:54:54.759 --> 00:54:55.619
 going to be like?

00:54:56.519 --> 00:54:57.339
 And when you come

00:54:57.339 --> 00:54:58.779
 to take that starter,

00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:00.179
 you're really feeding

00:55:00.179 --> 00:55:01.019
 your own hopes

00:55:01.019 --> 00:55:02.039
 and your own faith

00:55:02.039 --> 00:55:04.539
 of sitting at

00:55:04.539 --> 00:55:05.639
 that marriage supper

00:55:05.639 --> 00:55:06.299
 of the Lamb

00:55:06.300 --> 00:55:09.039
 whenever that day will come.

00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:11.780
 And so going out,

00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:14.080
 going out and taking

00:55:14.080 --> 00:55:14.760
 the Lord's Supper,

00:55:14.900 --> 00:55:16.400
 coming out on the side

00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:17.480
 of the Lord yet again

00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:18.440
 or for the first time,

00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:20.500
 is really an indication

00:55:20.500 --> 00:55:21.300
 that you're looking

00:55:21.300 --> 00:55:23.240
 forward to that

00:55:23.240 --> 00:55:23.980
 marriage supper

00:55:23.980 --> 00:55:25.380
 of the Lamb.

00:55:26.260 --> 00:55:27.320
 You're saying to the Lord,

00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:28.280
 thank you, Lord,

00:55:28.660 --> 00:55:30.320
 for this starter course

00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:31.260
 that you've given me.

00:55:31.700 --> 00:55:33.100
 It's sufficient for me

00:55:33.099 --> 00:55:34.500
 as long as my life

00:55:34.500 --> 00:55:35.739
 remains in this world.

00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:39.539
 But I long to have

00:55:39.539 --> 00:55:41.500
 the main course in heaven.

00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:43.739
 And this starter course

00:55:43.739 --> 00:55:44.739
 gives me a taste

00:55:44.739 --> 00:55:47.400
 of what that main course

00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:48.279
 is going to be like

00:55:48.279 --> 00:55:49.099
 when I see you

00:55:49.099 --> 00:55:50.440
 face to face,

00:55:51.059 --> 00:55:52.199
 when I'll be in

00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:53.039
 your very presence,

00:55:53.839 --> 00:55:55.380
 when I'll sit down

00:55:55.380 --> 00:55:56.239
 and when you will wipe

00:55:56.239 --> 00:55:57.719
 every tear from my eyes,

00:55:58.380 --> 00:55:59.179
 when you will lead me

00:55:59.179 --> 00:56:00.799
 to living fountains of water

00:56:00.799 --> 00:56:02.480
 as my pastor in heaven,

00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:05.340
 but I want to experience

00:56:05.340 --> 00:56:06.139
 something of it,

00:56:07.099 --> 00:56:08.380
 something of a foretaste,

00:56:08.460 --> 00:56:09.199
 however small,

00:56:10.240 --> 00:56:11.380
 while I'm in this life.

00:56:12.280 --> 00:56:13.519
 And I want to do it

00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:15.240
 in the way Jesus himself

00:56:15.240 --> 00:56:15.940
 has designed

00:56:15.940 --> 00:56:18.260
 in this Lord's Supper,

00:56:19.099 --> 00:56:20.780
 anticipating the marriage supper

00:56:20.780 --> 00:56:22.240
 of the Lamb.

00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:24.360
 I'm sure you've read,

00:56:24.740 --> 00:56:25.639
 most of you at least

00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:26.940
 have read The Pilgrim's Progress

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 probably more than once.

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 And you may recall

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 that when

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 The Pilgrim Christian

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 came to the point

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 where this burden

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 that was strapped

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 to his back

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 fell off,

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 it rolled down the hill

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 into a sepulcher,

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 recreating the scene again

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 of the Lord's cross

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 and death

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 and followed by

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 the resurrection,

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 that's where he lost

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 his burden,

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 that's where all the burden

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 of his guilt

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 and his sins fell off.

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 And it says then

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 that Christian rejoiced.

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 He sang.

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 And this is what he sang.

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 Thus far did I come

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 laden with my sin,

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 nor could aught else

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 ease the grief

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 that I was in,

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 till I came hither.

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 What a place is this!

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 Must here be the beginning

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 of my bliss?

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 Must hear the burden

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 fall from off my back?

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 Must hear the strings

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 that bounded to me crack?

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 Blessed cross!

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 Blessed sepulcher!

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 Blessed rather be

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 the man that here

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 was put to shame

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 for me.

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 This do

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 in remembrance

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 of him.

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 May God bless these

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 thoughts on his word.

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 we'll conclude

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 by singing to his praise

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 in Psalm 119.

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 This is from the Scottish

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 Psalter, Psalm 119,

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 at verse 172.

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 My tongue of thy

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 most blessed word

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 shall speak and it confess,

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 because all thy commandments

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 are perfect righteousness.

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 Let thy strong hand

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 make help to me,

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 thy precepts are my choice.

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 I longed for thy salvation,

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 Lord,

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 and in thy law

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 rejoice.

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 So on down

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 to the final verse,

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 I like a lost sheep

00:58:24.500 --> 00:58:25.160
 went astray,

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 thy servants seek and find,

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 for thy commands

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 I suffered not

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 to slip out

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 of my mind.

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 These four verses

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 in conclusion.

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 my tongue

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 my tongue

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 of thy

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 most blessed

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 word

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 shall speak

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 and it

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 confess,

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 because

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 gates

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 our

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lerin

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 sons

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 our

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 Palestina

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 Só 8

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 Thy peace that are my choice.

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 I long for thy salvation, Lord,

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 and in thy glory rejoice.

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 O let my soul, your bondage child,

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 give praises unto thee,

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 O let thy judgment, gracious,

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 be helpful unto me.

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 I like a lost sheep went astray,

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 Thy servants seek and find,

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 O thy commands.

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 I suffer not to slip out of my mind.

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 I should have said,

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 if there are any visitors with us

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 who are communicants in full communion

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 with their own congregations

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 and in good standing,

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 they're very welcome to come

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 and join us at the communion table tomorrow.

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 And if you want to take a token with you

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 just to show the elders

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 that you have a token to go to the table,

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 we'll be pleased to do that for you.

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 Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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 the love of God the Father,

01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:27.019
 and the communion of the Holy Spirit

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 be with you now and evermore.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.