277: Peter King – Exhortation: Bread and Wine

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Hi, this is Levi.

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This week’s talk is an
exhortation by Brother Peter

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King given at the Idlewild Bible
School in 1997.

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This exhibition did not have a
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This is one of the tapes that
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we you’ve you’ve you’ve noticed
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before.
Some of these other talks we’ve

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been posting that are older and
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So we don’t have a title.
It is the first, the opening

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education for Idlewild and I
really enjoyed listening to it

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because as I kind of suspected,
I actually remember this talk

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specifically and I was only 10
years old.

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I was really struck as a child
by Brother Peter and I think

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this is a classic.
This is his third time on the

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show.
There are two other episodes if

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you haven’t listened to them and
enjoy this one by Peter King and

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this is a classic like he he
kind of just it’s essentially

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going first by verse through a
couple passages on the same

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theme, which is bread and wine
in this case.

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So it’s a really great kind of
classic exitation but then at

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the end he makes it again very
personal.

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I’m he I think always just
really comfortably moved moves

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between kind of exposition and
exitation on and and you know

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practically how we relate to God
and the Lord Jesus while you

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know while you know while the
point before you know the minute

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before would have been just a
piece of exposition or a Hooray

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a look into a specific word.
So I really enjoyed listening to

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this talk again and remembering
being 10 in that room and and

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hearing it and really excited to
to share it here.

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So here is a nice station by
Brother Peter King.

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When the Lord Jesus Christ
introduced the emblems to his

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disciples, what do you think was
in their mind when at the

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beginning of the feast?
Because that’s when it took

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place, not at the end.
He introduced to them the the

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bread and the wine.
What thoughts do you think were

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uppermost in their mind?
I suppose from Sunday school

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days, those of us who were
fortunate enough to attend when

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we were five years old, Just
think of the the, the shock and

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the revulsion.
Such a suggestion that the Lord

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made.
But if you ponder the matter,

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brethren and sisters, you will
find, I think, with the word of

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God in our hand, that this is
not necessarily the case.

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My proposition to you this
evening is that they were

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shocked beyond belief when the
Master equated the bread with

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his body and the wine with his
blood.

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But for the Lord to take from
the table a piece of bread and

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say, I want you to eat this as a
memorial feast, didn’t surprise

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them at all.
For the Lord to produce a cup of

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wine and say, I want you each to
drink from this single cup,

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caused them not a moment’s
hesitation in accepting, of

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course, what did surprise them
and shock them, and I should

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think it took them a long time
to come to terms with, was his

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association with his body and
the bread and his blood with the

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wine.
But as a memorial service they

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were not surprised, because as
good Old Testament people, and

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they were, they were well
acquainted with memorial

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services of bread and wine.
Many times I should think they

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had taken bread and wine as a
memorial feast.

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Of course, in the chapters that
we shall read in Matthew in a

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few days time, when the Master
brought them to specifically his

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body, and his blood chopped
them.

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And I thought for a few moments
this evening we might profitably

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have a look at some Old
Testament breaking of bread

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services, and see the principles
that were undoubtedly involved

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then, and see whether they apply
to us today.

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And I think we should find
unerringly with the word of God

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faithfully in our hand, that
they will.

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The first time that we read of a
breaking of bread service is at

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the time when Abraham did to the
four kings with his 318 trained

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men what the five kings couldn’t
do in battle.

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You remember early in Genesis
how that the five kings served

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the four kings, and then in the
13th year they rebelled and war

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against Ward against Ed or
Naoma, and they came off worse

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and the five kings lost the
battle, they lost their cities,

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they lost their people, they
lost their possessions.

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And Abraham of course couldn’t
have cared a figure about this.

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He would he.
He wouldn’t even have caused him

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a moment’s agitation, these nine
idiot kings warring among

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themselves, had not his nephew
not been in Sodom, which was one

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of the cities taken by Quedor
Laover.

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And he assembles his 318
soldiers, pursues Cador Laomar

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and the three kings that were
with him, overtakes them and

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defeats them, and brings back
all the people and the goods

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that have been taken from the
cities and on his way back.

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And it’s ever so important that
we get the structure of the

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story in the right order.
On the way back, he’s met by

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Bira, the king of Sodom, and
Bira, the king of Sodom says,

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I’m delighted that you’ve done
what you have done.

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Thank you for rescuing the
people, the men, the women and

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the children.
Give the souls to me and keep

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for yourself the bounty that you
have taken.

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And at that point there is an
interruption.

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He doesn’t go away.
He has a single interview

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because while he’s talking to
Bira, the king of Sodom and

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probably the king of Gomorrah
also, there comes to him

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Melchizedek out of the city of
Salem, perhaps Jerusalem,

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bearing bread and wine.
And he is king and priest of the

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Most High God, and he comes to
Abraham, and Abraham leaves Beer

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of the king of Sodom kicking his
heels, while now he addresses

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Melchizedek.
And Melchizedek introduces the

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bread to him and the wine.
And it’s a lengthy meeting

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because Abraham pays tithes of
all the tea hat, and he receives

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an exitation from Melchizedek.
And it’s a good exitation, and

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it’s a practical exitation, and
it’s an exitation that Abraham

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could remember and something
that he could do.

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And when the bread and wine were
taken away and Melchizedek goes

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back into the city, I mean, just
ponder for a moment, if you

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will, the wonderful types that
we have all coming together.

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We have Melchizedek representing
the Lord Jesus Christ, king and

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priest of God’s holy city.
We have Abraham bearing all the

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promises which God made to his
faithful people.

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And manifesting Melchizedek was
more important than Abraham

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because the lesser always pays
tithes to the greater.

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And when Melchizedek goes away,
Abraham turns again to address

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the king who’s been kicking his
heels while this service has

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been taking place.
And now he addresses Bearer.

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And now we see the effect of the
exitation upon the man of God.

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He says, I’ve lifted up.
When did he do that?

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I lift up my hands to God
Almighty that I won’t take

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anything from you.
This was the exitation that

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Melchizedek gave him.
Melchizedek would have said, you

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want to have nothing to do with
this man.

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He represents filth and evil and
sin and is abhorrent to God.

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Never heard the agitation and
applied it.

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And he said, I don’t want
anything to do with you.

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I won’t take anything from you.
I won’t take a thread from you.

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I won’t take a bootlace from
you, lest it should be said I

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have made Abraham rich.
Now that’s serious talk,

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brethren and sisters.
I mean, you can get no lower

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than a bootlace.
You see.

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He didn’t even say I wouldn’t
have a head covering off you.

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He said I don’t want a boot.
Like I wouldn’t have a thread

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off you.
There are ways of of turning

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down a gift, and this isn’t one
of them.

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This, this, this isn’t a lesson
in etiquette.

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This is a lesson in godliness.
He’d heard the exitation you see

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and applied it.
Would God, we, we, we did that

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with the exitations that we
hear.

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But he put his life on the line
in so doing.

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You see you.
You cannot say that to a Middle

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East potentate.
You cannot say that to a Middle

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East king and get away with it.
You wouldn’t do it today.

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I am telling you, it’s not a
question of debate, it’s a

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statement of fact.
You cannot do it.

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Your life is in danger.
So Abraham has exposed himself

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on two issues.
Firstly, he’s in grave danger by

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throwing away the offer of a
gift.

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And secondly, with respect to
Abraham, you’ve turned your back

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on very great wealth because the
booty that was taken, that had

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previously been stolen from
Sodom and from Gomorrah wasn’t

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something to be sneezed at.
So now watch.

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Watch what happens.
And it’s ever so important that

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we get the order right.
He’s broken bread as a memorial

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service, faithfully with his God
and with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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He’s denounced sin and renounced
it.

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And now God says to him in verse
one of chapter 15.

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Of course we’re very grateful to
the ancient Archbishop of

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Canterbury, who put the word of
God into chapters and verses for

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us.
We’re grateful to him.

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But occasionally an error is
made.

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And here is one verse.
One of chapter 15 of Genesis

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should be verse 25 of chapter
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Now it came to pass after these
things did God spoke to Abraham

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in a vision and said, Fear not,
Abraham.

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I am thy shield and thy
exceeding great reward.

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Do you see what’s happened?
I am thy shield.

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I’ll protect you from this evil
man and thy exceeding great

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reward.
Your reward will come from me,

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not from sin.
The the, the, the blessing is is

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tailor made for the man of God
exactly what he wanted.

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But mark this, it came after
breaking bread, not before.

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He didn’t say to God now that
these are the things that I

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want.
No, I’ll break bread and drink

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wine very much the other way
round.

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He broke bread and drank wine as
a memorial, and then God tailor

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made a blessing for him.
And do you know brethren and

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sisters, wherever you look in
the word that holds good?

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Because the next breaking of
bread, service of which we read,

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brings us into collision with
exactly the same principle.

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Moses has left it Egypt and
Gontamidian there.

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He’s doubled his age, and at the
ripe old age of 80, he sets off

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back to Egypt to rescue the
Hebrew people with God’s help.

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And he does it with God’s help,
with God’s guidance.

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By himself he would have been a
failure.

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And he comes to the base of
Sinai, where Jethro his

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brother-in-law, not
father-in-law, where Jethro, his

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brother-in-law, hears of the
great work which Moses has

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performed, and he brings his
wife who has been sent back on

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the road.
This is an exhibition, not a

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Bible classic dress.
We have no time to go down that

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way.
But Zipporah has been sent back

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to Jethro by Moses.
And then Jethro says to Zipporah

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and the boys, Now I must take
you to the base of Sinai to

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Horeb, where Moses has done what
he said he would do, and he’s

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brought out God’s people and you
must be reunited with your

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husband.
Which is why, incidentally,

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Miriam and Aaron chide with
Moses because of the Kushite

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woman who’ve been married.
He didn’t just marry her that

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only just found out that he was
married when he came back to

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Egypt.
He didn’t see fit to tell them

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that he was married because he
didn’t think he’d see his wife

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and sons again.
But but when Jethro brings them,

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he has some very fast talking to
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This is I forgot to tell you, I
was married when I was in Egypt,

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in Midian, and this is my wife
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Then look what happens.
Jethro and Moses and Aaron and

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the elders of his trail eat
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It is a memorial service.
Exodus chapter 18 if you look

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in.
But believe me, it’s there.

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It’s a memorial service.
And in the morning Jethro says

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to Moses what means this great
line of people outside your

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tent.
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judge, you see, and they come to
me for me to pass judgement on

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them between right and wrong.
And Jethro says to him, you will

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surely wear yourself out doing
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He must learn, doesn’t actually
say this, but this is what he

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means.
You must learn the art of

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delegation.
Give give the job of judging

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1000 people to this man, and the
job of judging 100 people to

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this man, and to him 10 people.
And just reserve the right to

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handle the difficult cases
yourself.

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But if you’re going to deal with
every problem that ever arises,

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you will surely weigh yourself
out.

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And Moses did, and he laid his
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It was just the blessing that he
needed.

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He didn’t need protection.
He didn’t need wealth.

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He wanted to learn the art of
delegation.

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And Jethro told him after
breaking of bread.

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Incidentally, you’re well taught
here.

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I know you are.
You might just like to ponder

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what was the great
characteristic that that Jethro

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told Moses he should look for in
the judges whom he appointed.

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What was it?
Just one and such a good man

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With Jethro, I cannot believe.
You see, you could live 40 years

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in the company of somebody like
Moses and not be a believer.

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And such a good man was Jethro,
that he preceded the giving of

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the 10 commandments by a whole
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Because he said, when you
appoint judges, you must look

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for men who are not covetous.
Got it?

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In one, you see?
No, she did, and he laid his

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burden down after breaking
bread.

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And the principal holds good
brethren and sisters.

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The next time we read up a
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when Ruth the Moabites comes
home with Naomi.

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I suppose we should call Amara,
although nobody ever does.

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Don’t call me sweetness and
light, she says.

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Call me bitterness, because the
Lord took me out full and

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brought me back empty.
Went out with three men, came

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back with none.
One daughter-in-law and Ruth.

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He’s providentially LED, as you
know, to glean in the field of

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boys again, what superb types we
have.

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Boaz unerringly representing the
Lord Jesus Christ, and Ruth the

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Gentile Ecclesia.
And Ruth is providentially led

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to glean in his field, and in
one day she she gleans enough to

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feed a mother-in-law and herself
for two weeks.

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Fabulous story, fabulous love
story and boy assist to her.

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I’ve heard that you’re a
faithful girl.

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How that you have not turned
your back on your mother-in-law,

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but you’ve been very faithful.
Now hear this ever before.

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He spoke to her like that they
broke bread and drank wine.

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He said, come to me and and eat
this.

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And he gave a parched corn.
It’s the corn still on the

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stalk, held over a flame and
tapped out gently.

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It’s a great delicacy in the
land and it’s called parched

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corn.
Of course it won’t fill you up.

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It’s only it’s only a tape as as
is this, but it’s that of which

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it speaks, which is important.
It’s bread given by the king to

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the bride.
And then he said, come with me

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and he says to the stewards give
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The authorized version to which
I happen to be addicted, calls

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it vinegar.
It’s rough red wine that the

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with which the workers slake
their thirst.

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Look what the king has given the
bride.

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He’s given a bread and he’s
given a wine and they feast

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together.
And then he says, because the

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blessing must follow the the
memorial service.

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Then he says you won’t go into
any other field, will you?

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You will stay faithful to me,
won’t you?

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You’ll have other offers, other
offers, which might, might,

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might sound more attractive.
Don’t, don’t go.

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Stay faithful to me.
And she did, and he married her.

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But the blessings came after the
memorial service was taken and

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it was tailor made for her.
She didn’t need to learn the art

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of delegation.
She didn’t want protection or

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great wealth.
She wanted to be encouraged to

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say, in the field of the man
representing the Lord Jesus

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Christ, say faithful, and you
will be blessed.

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And she did, and she was.
And wherever you open your book,

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brethren and sisters, the
principle holds good.

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Isaiah 55 We read it a little
while ago.

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Eat bread and drink wine free of
charge, free to you, not free of

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cost to the Father or the Son.
But what blessing follows?

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Eat and drink, and your chapter
55 Eat and drink and your soul

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shall live time presses.
Let’s just go into the New

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Testament, shall we?
Quickly.

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The Apostle Paul came down to
Troas, and as his custom was, he

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came to break bread on the first
day of the week with the

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disciples.
Now the Jewish day starts at

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6:00 in the evening, if you know
so at chapter 20, if you’re

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going there.
But there, I promise you the

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the, the, the apostle, the
apostle at 6:00 on Saturday

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evening.
It’s now Sunday morning.

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Well, it’s Sunday.
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they come together to break
bread.

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And the apostle Paul, I suppose
he’s on his, shall we say by

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7:00 by the time they’d had a
few hymns.

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And whoever was taking brother
Paul’s job but said a couple of

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prayers.
And brother Dick makes some

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announcements.
We’re going to hear the apostle

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Paul preached next Saturday or
might have been Peter or John,

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the fraternal And the
announcements, let’s say that

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those those bits and pieces
took.

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Let’s say they took it took an
hour.

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Shall we?
He’s on his feet at 7:00.

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Of course, the excitations in
those days were somewhat longer

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than we have today.
He’s still speaking at midnight.

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5 hour exitation.
Yeah.

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No, no, you’re not going to get
that this evening.

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I promise you that.
But no, no, no, you’re not.

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But I tell you this, brothers
and sisters, in passing we have

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we have forgotten the art of
concentration.

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You see, there are some young
people on the back row tonight

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who are just not listening.
I tell you what, he’d better be

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listening tomorrow.
Yeah, I’m deadly serious.

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We haven’t.
We have forgotten the art of

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concentration.
We don’t bother if the speaker

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goes on for more than 2234
minutes.

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Mostly cliches in the United
Kingdom.

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Give you give you a bit of paper
which says don’t speak for

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longer than 24 minutes, will you
please?

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During the morning and at night,
for whatever you do. 35 minutes

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maximum.
Right, James.

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But we we, we can’t concentrate
for longer than that.

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That’s what we’re saying.
You see, brothers and sisters,

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concentration is not something
with which we are born.

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It’s something which we learn
and we are slow learners.

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I take my time sitting where you
are and I know it’s difficult.

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The speaker voice goes on and
drones on and you play with the

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numbers on the inboard.
I know, I know where you’ve

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been.
I’ve been down that road myself.

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But we really ought to learn, if
we can, the art of

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concentration, perhaps a little
more ardently than we do.

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Not everybody can take it, of
course, and the young men Uticus

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couldn’t fell down from the
third lost.

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And he didn’t just doze off
either.

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He was fell into a deep sleep,
was taken up dead, and they took

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the opportunity to get the bread
and wine round while Paul went

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and embraced him and doubtless
raised him from the dead there

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and then.
But The thing is, we don’t read

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him the blessing until after
they break him.

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Broken bread and drunk wine.
And it’s after they’ve taken the

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bread and the wine that the
apostle Paul brings him to those

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whom he loved.
I love the understatement.

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Do you know the understatement?
In the word, In the word of God.

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They’re scattered all over.
Here’s one.

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And he brought Euticus back
alive.

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And they were not a little
comforted.

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Well, they wouldn’t be, would
they?

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It would be a great deal
comforted, wouldn’t it?

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And they were.
Oh, and then he continued his

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exhortation till Daybreak.
So if five hours hadn’t been

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long enough, they had another
five hours.

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And I shouldn’t think too many
people dozed off in the

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second-half.
We’re not told.

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We’re not told about that.
But do you see the order of the

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blessing?
They break bread, and then

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Euticus is giving back to them
alive just what they wanted,

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exactly what they needed.
And of course it would be unfair

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any speaker to to talk like that
without coming to the greatest

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of all breaking bread services,
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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In Matthew 26.
We shall be reading it in a few

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days.
Takes the bread and gives it to

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his disciples and the wine.
And they drink it.

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Not only after they’ve taken the
bread and wine do they learn

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that it’s done for the remission
of sins, not your sins are

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remitted.
Oh, by the way, take bread and

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wine.
Never that way round.

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Always the other way round.
First you take the emblems and

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then your sins are forgiven.
I’m not promoting the idea.

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Let me just make this clear.
I’m not promoting the idea that

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we come here to have our sins
forgiven.

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We can do.
But so effective is the bread

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and wine, and if we take it
faithfully, we can have our sins

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forgiven on Tuesday morning or
Thursday afternoon, if we so

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wish, and if we so confit.
But no bread and wine, no

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forgiveness.
We ought to learn that and

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preach it.
The blessing follows the

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memorial service.
Now this is the this is the

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point.
Reverend sisters, you’re but

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common, if I may use such a
word.

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The common denominator of all
breaking and bread services is

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that it reminds us of the price
that was paid for our salvation.

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This is the cost.
And the common denominator is

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that we can have our sins
forgiven because of this.

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But having looked at the
exitations, and there are ever

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so many more of them in the Word
of God, having looked and

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consider the breaking bread
services in the Word of God, do

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you not think we would be fair
to say that we two can look for

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an individual blessing following
our faithful memorial service?

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Your requirements are different
from mine.

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Mine needs are different today,
perhaps from what they were last

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week.
But surely I can come to my Lord

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and say, this is what I need,
but thy will be done.

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This is my urgent requirement.
But may thy will override it.

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I think that’s fair.
May we conclude by just looking

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into the future.
A moment, please.

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You see, the day will come when
the Lord Jesus Christ will take

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the place of Brother Paul, and
we’ll preside over a breaking of

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bread service far faster than
this.

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And maybe our brethren who
brought the bags around and who

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will shortly bring the cups and
plates around, will be replaced

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by the disciples.
Who knows?

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And you take bread having been
broken by Jesus at the hand of

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John the disciple, or Peter
Matthew.

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And we remember the Lord Jesus
Christ as He sips wine again in

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His Father’s Kingdom.
Now what blessing follows that?

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Because if the principle is
good, it must hold true all the

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way.
And it does because the blessing

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that follows is life forever
more in the Kingdom of God.

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You see, no bread and wine at
the hand of Jesus, no life,

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bread and wine in the Kingdom,
life or evermore.

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This is the glory of our hope.
And so now, as we take bread,

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drink, whining memory of the
terrible price that was paid for

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our freedom from from the
shackles of sin, let’s just

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thank our God for it, and in the
privacy of our own heart not be

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afraid to say, Lord, I lean
heavily upon Your grace.

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Bless me, please, according to
my personal and private needs,

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the sake of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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