368: Joni Mannell – Ye do Shew Forth the Lord’s Death

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Howdy, this is Matthew I

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pilgrimage in Detroit and I’m a
disciple of Christ of the

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Milford Rd.
Ecclesia.

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This week’s talk is a class
entitled You Do Show Forth the

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Lord’s Death from the series
given by Brother Johnny Manell

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at the Terra Nova Bible School
in 2011 called The Breaking of

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Bread.
The emblems on Sunday morning

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can be tricky for some people.
We commonly hear that we can’t

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let the bread and wine become a
ritual that we do just to do.

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But how many of us don’t even
really know what these two

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symbols are supposed to
represent, or what they’re

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supposed to get us to feel?
It might be thinking they

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represent the Lord’s body and
blood, which of course is true,

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but what does that knowledge do
for our morality and service?

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Brother Johnny examines the
words of First Corinthians where

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you’ll recognize the familiar
words.

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For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you do

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show forth the Lord’s death till
he come.

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We walk through what it means
and looks like for us to show

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Christ’s death at the breaking
of bread.

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Brother Johnny provides a moving
call to action.

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A common word you’ll pick up in
this class is do.

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And that’s something that I had
never thought of, that the

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little piece of bread and simple
sip of wine is supposed to

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remind us of our need to get up
and do.

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This series will be on the
extended podcast and we’d highly

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recommend listening to the
remaining classes, especially if

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you are someone who doesn’t
always know how to make the most

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out of the bread and the wine.
Classes like these can be so

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immensely helpful to provide
strong scriptural grounding for

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our weekly tradition.
So here is brother Johnny Manel

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with his class.
You do show forth the Lord’s

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death.
Well, good morning brothers and

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sisters.
So let’s let’s just make sure we

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know where we’ve been so far In
our first session.

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I really wanted to share with
you.

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If you remember, it feels like a
long time ago now, doesn’t it?

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We’re just hitting the halfway
point.

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So you know, we’re on the home
straights now in our first

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session.
I really wanted to share with

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you or or at least try and get
inside the mindset and the

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attitude and the demeanour of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Remember that.
Be of good cheer.

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I have overcome the world.
I want you to have my joy, my

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peace, the the confidence and
the sense of purpose in the mind

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That as we come and break bread

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and share in that memory, we
might remember a man who is

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absolutely determined to fulfil
for our sake the things that God

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had given him to do and
delighted to do so.

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For the joy set before him, he
endured the cross and that joy,

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Brent sisters, was bound up in
you and I and what a privilege

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it is to think about that and
dwell on that week by week.

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And then yesterday we talked
about the symbols of the bread

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and wine.
This bread is my body.

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And we went through the feeding
of the 5000 in John six there

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where Jesus was at pains to
point out that the bread was a

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symbol of the power of the word
of God and what it can do in the

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life of of any man or woman when
they are willing to submit to it

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and allow their lives and their
thinking and their feeling to be

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influenced and motivated by it.
And he wanted to share that with

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us.
This bread is my body, which

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I’ve given for you.
And, and if you’re willing to

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submit your lives to the power
of the word of God, as I have

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done in mine, then then great
things can happen in your life

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and that power can be harnessed
and and made use of in your

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life.
And we thought very briefly

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yesterday, once again, I ended
up rushing towards the end.

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We were we were at the marriage
at Cana with the power of the

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new wine and the energy and the
the the strength that’s exists

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in that new never tasted before
wine, the symbol of the new life

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with all that it can do with the
the way it stretches and tests

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and and expands us and
Wetherbrand sisters.

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Our bottles are are able to be
challenged by that, that

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strength and that energy and
that power.

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One brother in the UK when I
once gave that talk came up to

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me afterwards and said, have you
got the bottle for it?

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Maybe that’s auk kind of phrase.
I don’t know, but but it really

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struck me to to remember the
challenge week by week of

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whether the bottle of my body is
is flexible enough and pliable

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enough and able to contain and
harness the power of the new

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life of the Lord Jesus Christ
that he offers us.

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And so we come this morning to
our session, which I’ve entitled

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you to show the Lord’s death.
And it’s taken right out of that

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last verse that Terry just read
for us in one Corinthians 11 for

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as often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you do show

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the Lord’s death till he come.
And this session, Brent says it

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is really, really very
personally special to me.

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All of them are this one
especially.

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And when I share with you why,
you’ll probably laugh because

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either you’ll have seen it 100
times before and think, OK,

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what’s so special about that?
Or you’ll have never seen it

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before and still think, well,
I’d never seen it that way, but

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it’s still still what’s so
special about that?

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And that may be the case.
I’m going to take that risk.

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But you know, I’m a, I’m a
simple soul.

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And, you know, brothers,
sisters, sometimes when you’re

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reading the Bible one day and
suddenly a penny drops,

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something falls into place.
You see it in a way that you’ve

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never seen it before.
Well, that happened to me one

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day when I was thinking about
what the Apostle Paul meant in

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this verse when he said, as
often as you eat this bread and

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drink this cup, ye do show the
Lord’s death till he come.

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And I really spent a lot of time
trying to work out what was it

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that the Apostle Paul meant when
he, when he just wrote that one

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sentence.
As often as you eat this bread

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and drink this cup, ye do show
the Lord’s death till he come.

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And, and the, the question I had
for myself, brethren, sisters

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and I, I would like you to ask
it for yourself this morning as

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we share this study is what does
that verse mean to you?

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As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you show the

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Lord’s death till he come.
In what way do you show the

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Lord’s death?
By coming week by week and

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eating from that loaf and
drinking from that cup?

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In what way are you showing the
Lord’s death?

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Is it the act of coming?
Maybe that’s what it is.

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Does it mean the fact that the
very fact that we simply come

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and we sit together in
fellowship and we share it in

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those simple memorials is, is it
that that’s demonstrating the

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Lord’s death?
The very fact that we came and

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sat together and did it, Is that
what Paul is getting at?

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Let me tell you about the word
Paul uses here.

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You do show the Lord’s death.
Terry was reading the revised

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version, I think you proclaim
the Lord’s death.

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And the Greek word that’s used
there by the apostle Paul, you

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do show or you proclaim.
It’s a word you know.

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Well in the New Testament, it’s
most commonly translated preach.

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And more than 10 times this word
is translated preach.

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It’s it’s most common
translation in the New

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Testament, this Greek word, you
preach the Lord’s death.

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That’s interesting, isn’t it,
this idea of proclamation?

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I like the Dyglot’s translation.
It says you announce the Lord’s

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death, you make a declaration
about it.

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So that’s interesting, isn’t it?
How is it then that by coming to

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my ecclesia and you to yours, or
whatever circumstance it is that

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you break bread and fellowship
with with the body of Christ and

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with his believers?
How is it that by coming week by

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week, you declare, you make an
announcement, you it’s a word of

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proclamation.
It’s a it’s a method of

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preaching the Lord’s death till
he come.

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I don’t know if you’ve ever seen
your attendance at the breaking

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of bread in that way.
It’s one of your most finest

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preaching tools.
Maybe it is that by the fact

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that your neighbors know that
you have a routine in your life

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that you stick to rigidly.
Maybe that’s what it is that

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proclaims the Lord’s death.
The fact that you have this

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central focus of your life week
by week upon which all of the

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other components of your life
revolves.

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Maybe that’s what the Apostle
Paul meant, the fact that you

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have this discipline and this
structure in your life.

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Maybe that’s how you show the
Lord’s death.

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You declare it, you preach it As
often as you eat this bread and

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drink this cup, you do, You show
the Lord’s death.

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You proclaim, you preach the
Lord’s death.

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Maybe that’s what it is.
I had a really interesting

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experience on on my way to be
here this week.

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I had to explain to my
colleagues where I was going.

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I don’t often take 2 1/2 weeks
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And they were, they said to me,
where are you going?

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So I began with kind of the, the
geographical interest.

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Well, I’m going to Newfoundland,
right?

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Not many people been there
before.

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So bit of talk about that, well,
why are you going there then?

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What made you choose to go to
Newfoundland of all places?

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You know, so, so I thought I can
see a series of leading

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questions coming here.
So I said, well, I’m going to

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speak at a Bible school.
And of course, you get the, the,

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the raising of the eyebrows.
That’s interesting.

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Didn’t know you’d be doing that.
And your holiday, Johnny.

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And, and you can start feeling
this little sense of trepidation

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rising in the pit of your
stomach now, can’t you?

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Because the next question, of
course, is, well, what are you

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going to be speaking about?
And so you knowing what the next

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three questions are going to be,
I start thinking, well, I either

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keep going here or I, I bail
out.

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And I, I didn’t, I said, well,
I’m going to be my, my theme is

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at the breaking of bread.
And I found this myself in this

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really interesting situation of
I’ve never had to begin

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explaining my faith to somebody
from this beginning.

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I’ve started in all other kinds
of places, you know, prophecy,

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the, the, the nation of Israel,
politics, suffering, all kinds

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of other opening kind of gambits
for kind of explaining your

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faith and what the word of God
means to you.

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And I’d never started here
before.

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And the thing that immediately
came into my mind was this verse

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here in one Corinthians 11.
As often as you eat this bread

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and drink this cup, you declare
the Lord’s death, you preach it,

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you proclaim it, you announce
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And I thought, well, here we go,
sit down, buckle up.

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We’re in for a discussion now
about what the breaking of bread

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means to me, how it changes my
life, how it’s at the core of my

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understanding of what the Lord
Jesus Christ means to me and

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what he’s done in my life and
how my faith like pivots really

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around that.
I’m not sure how successful it

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was.
My colleagues have not yet

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declared their desire to be
baptised so, and I suspect that

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may be some way down the line.
But maybe that’s what the

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Apostle Paul meant.
Maybe he wanted us to make it

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the focal part of our preaching
about what this central part of

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our routine of worship means in
our daily living.

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As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you do it in

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remembrance of me.
But you can tell that by the

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fact I want to speak for at
least another 35 minutes.

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There’s probably a bit more to
it than that, or at least I

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think there is.
And and this is what I I think

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it is this these are the words
that we have here up on the

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screen from the apostle Paul in
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As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you show the

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Lord’s death, you announce it,
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And I think the apostle Paul was
picking up on some words of the

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Lord Jesus Christ in the upper
room as he shared the bread and

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wine that Luke and Mark.
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record very simple words, words
that we probably quote most

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Sundays.
This is my body, he said, which

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is given for you this do in
remembrance of me.

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And when I just kept rolling
around that that verse from Luke

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22 in my mind, I started to
realise that I’d been reading it

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wrong for most of my life.
This bread is my body which is

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given for you, this do in
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And I want to really just dwell
on that, that one statement,

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this, this is my body which is
given for you, this deal in

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remembrance of me.
What do you think the Lord Jesus

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meant?
Because this, this is the verse,

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this is these are the words I
think the Apostle Paul is

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referring to.
As often as you eat this bread

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and drink this cup, you show the
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There is an action that comes
out of coming to the breaking of

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bread service.
There is something that we need

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to do all right.
This is the word do right here

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in in Luke’s gospel.
This is my body which is given

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for you this do in remembrance
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We have to do something.
There is an active participative

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element to to coming and leaving
from the breaking of bread

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service.
That’s what the Lord Jesus

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saying and it’s that word do
that kind of jumped out of the

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page and hit me in the face in a
way that it had never hit me in

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the face before.
All right, this do what is the

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do that the Lord Jesus was
referring to?

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This this is my body which is
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This do in remembrance of me.
What is the do bit that the Lord

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Jesus was referring to?
What is it that he wanted us to

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do?
And I’m going to make a personal

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confession to you, Brent, since
I made one yesterday.

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Here’s today’s when I was young
in the truth, I used to come to

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the breaking of bread and think
that what the Lord Jesus meant

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by that was come and take a
piece of the bread.

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Sit it, sit down, eat it and
you’ve done your peace.

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This bread is my body which is
given for you.

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This do in remembrance of me and
the doing that I thought the

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Lord Jesus was referring to was
coming, sitting, eating and I

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suddenly realised Brent sisters,
one day and this is the point

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where you’ll be smiling because
you’ve been here probably 30-4

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years ahead of me.
The the thing that hit me in the

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face, Brent sister, was I
realised that I’d I’d been

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reading that verse wrong.
Let me break it down and take it

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more slowly.
If you haven’t seen it before,

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Jesus was taking the bread from
the plate, from the table in

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front of them, and he blessed it
and he broke it and he said,

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this is my body.
This bread I want you to see is

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a representation of my body.
And I have given this body for

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you, not the bread.
He’s not making a reference to

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the bread, is he?
He’s talking about his body.

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This bread is a representation
of my body, and I have given

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that body for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

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That’s what I want you to do.
I don’t want you to just take

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this bread and eat it and go
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I want you to take on board the
symbol that it represents, and

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that’s what I want you to do in
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This bread is my body, which I
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Now I want you to do the same.
I don’t want you to just sit

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here and eat a piece of bread.
I want you to take your bodies

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and give them in service as I
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That’s the do that the Lord
Jesus Christ was talking about.

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This bread is my body which I
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This do in remembrance of me.
Give your bodies in service as I

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have given mine.
That’s brothers and sisters,

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what hit me in the face.
Maybe you’ve seen it a million

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times.
Maybe you’ve never seen it

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before.
Just when you just really think

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slowly and carefully about what
it was the Lord Jesus was

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challenging us to do, He was
challenging us to do what He has

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done.
This is my body which I’ve given

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in service for 33 1/2 years of
my life, in service and in as in

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the most finest obedience I
could muster for the sake of my

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Father.
And this bread is a

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representation of that.
And week by week, when you come

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together and you eat it and you
share it, that’s what I want you

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to do in remembrance of me.
And that suddenly changed the

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whole way in which I came to the
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Suddenly it wasn’t just that
Jesus wanted me to come and eat

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a piece of bread.
That wasn’t the doing that he

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wanted me to do.
He wanted me to be moved and

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touched by the symbol.
This bread is my body which I

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have given for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

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If you really want to Remember
Me Brother Johnny, don’t just

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come and eat a piece of bread.
Do what I have done for you in

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remembrance of me.
Give your body in service as I

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have given mine for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

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I’m sorry if I’m labouring the
point where this says just

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humour me because that that was
a day that changed my life.

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I remember the day all those
pennies dropped in my mind for

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me.
That’s how I that’s how I began

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to read that verse, this do in
remembrance of me and that

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turned that turned my life
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That really challenged the way I
came to my ecclesia week by week

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and what I saw in that bread and
how it challenged me to take the

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issues of it away in my life.
It’s a challenge to our daily

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living to be motivated,
influenced in the way in which

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we give our bodies in service
for the Lord Jesus Christ.

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This do in remembrance of me.
If you really want to Remember

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Me and honour my memory and all
that I have done for you, then

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you need to do likewise.
In remembrance of me.

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I want to take you into John’s
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We did this a little bit on on
Sunday and we were remarking

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yesterday at how extraordinary
it is in a way that the the

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gospel writer who spends most of
his time in the upper room, 4

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chapters of his gospel sitting
right there with the disciples

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in the upper room, doesn’t seem
to actually use these words that

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the other gospel writers do.
This bread is my body which is

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given for you.
This cup is the new covenant in

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my blood which is poured out for
you, this new in remembrance of

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me.
And yet what when I reread

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Brethren Sisters those chapters,
I suddenly realised that John

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does use all those words.
In fact, he uses them in much

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greater detail as we were
looking at briefly yesterday by

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by the the feeding of the 5000
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He went into so much more detail
than the others about the

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symbols of bread and wine.
And right there in the upper

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room, Brent says when you
actually begin to dissect the

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words that the Lord Jesus Christ
used that are recorded in John’s

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Gospel, you will discover that
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This is my body which is given
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This do in remembrance of me is
right there, right there in

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John’s explanation of the of the
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Let me give you an example.
Here’s our words in Luke 22.

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This is my body which is given
for you.

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This do in remembrance of me.
Now let me give you some

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examples.
Just some little extracts from

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John’s gospel in the upper room.
Have a look at this.

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He rose from supper and began to
wash the disciples feet.

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If I, your Lord and Master, have
washed your feet, you also ought

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to wash one another’s feet.
For I have given you an example

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that you should do as I have
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Can you see the echo there in in
John’s explanation, instead of

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just condensing it down into
that one statement that Luke has

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done and that the apostle Paul
has done?

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As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you proclaim

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the Lord’s death, You make an
announcement, you make a

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declaration.
All of a sudden John’s expanded

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it out and it and and we now
understand why Luke said this

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simple statement based on this
long discourse here in in John

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13 and 14, Jesus says, I’m going
to give you an example of what

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this bread represents.
This is my body which I have

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laid down and given in service
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And if I’ve washed your feet as
an example of what that means in

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in as a living practical
example, then you ought to be

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able to do that as well.
If I, your Lord and Master, can

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wash your feet, then if you want
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if you want to come and take
this bread which has symbolised

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my, my body of service, in
remembrance of Me, then you

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ought to be washing one
another’s feet and be doing as I

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have done for you.
Does that make sense?

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Let’s look at another one.
Jesus took the bread and blessed

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it and break it and gave it to
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Take, eat.
This is my body which I have

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given for you.
Here’s one from John 15, and you

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know these words so well.
I just want you to put them in

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this context of these verses in
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This is my commandment, that you
love one another as I have loved

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you.
That’s one of the most

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challenging things, for
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ever said.
It seems to me in the record of

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Scripture.
This is a new commandment, that

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you love one another as I have
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The old commandment was
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Do you remember under the law it
was love one another as you

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would love yourself, do unto
others as you would have done

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unto you.
And that standard is a little

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bit easier, isn’t it?
Because we all have that

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standard of how we want other
people to treat us in life.

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That’s very variable amongst all
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And we know that we want to
treat others if we can based on

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how we expect to be treated.
Now Jesus says, I’m going to

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take that standard just right
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Now I don’t want you to base
your standard of how you treat

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one another on how you want to
be treated.

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I want you to base that standard
on how I have treated you.

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Greater love has no man than
this, that a man lay down his

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life for his friends.
This bread is my body.

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Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his

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life for his friends.
This cup is my blood which I’ve

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poured out.
Greater love hath no man than

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this, that he would lay down his
life for my friends.

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You are my friends if you do
whatsoever I command you.

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Not if you come and sit week by
week and just eat a morsel of

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bread and take a sip from the
cup.

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You will do it in remembrance of
me if you do as I have done for

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you, If you try and elevate your
living and the standards by

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which you will treat one another
and the way in which you will

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give your lives in service.
If you do as I have done for

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you.
That’s a challenging that’s a

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vibrant way, isn’t it, Brent
Sisters, to see the bread and

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the wine week by week.
If you really want to

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demonstrate to make a
declaration, an announcement

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says the apostle Paul about what
the Lord has done for you, then

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don’t just come and sit in the
meeting week by week.

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Take these symbols and make them
a reality in your in your daily

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living.
He took the cup and gave thanks

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and gave it to them saying drink
all of it.

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I used to smile at that when I
was a little boy watching my mum

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and dad drink drink the wine on
a Sunday, always marvelling that

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they always left the cup half
full.

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Drink all of it.
And of course it doesn’t just

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mean empty the cup, it means
drink.

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Drink it in its fullness of what
it’s supposed to mean to you and

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signify to you.
This is my blood of the New

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Testament, shed for many for the
remission of sins.

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And notice how John translates
that simple statement.

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A new commandment I’ve given to
you, that you love one another

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as I have loved you.
By this will all men know that

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you are my disciples.
If you have loved one for

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another.
That’s what the apostle meant

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there in one Corinthians 11,
isn’t it?

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As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you declare

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the Lord’s death.
You make a a statement, an

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announcement.
By this all men will know that

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you are my disciples if you have
love one to another as I have

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loved you.
That’s the declaration we make,

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00:23:18,400 –> 00:23:22,040
Bren sisters, that’s the
announcement that we make when

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we declare the Lord’s death.
As often as we eat this bread

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and drink this cup.
And suddenly I realised that

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what the apostle Paul was saying
was he doesn’t mean, you know,

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52 Sundays, 52 times you
actually make a declaration

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about the the Lord’s death.
He means as often as you eat

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00:23:36,040 –> 00:23:40,840
this bread, as in loving one
another and giving your bodies

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in service.
As often as you drink this cup.

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He doesn’t mean tasting the
wine.

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He means as often as you pour
out your lives in service.

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That’s how you declare you make
an announcement about the Lord’s

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00:23:56,040 –> 00:23:58,800
death.
By this all men will know last

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one.
For as often as you eat this

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bread and drink this cup, you do
show the Lord’s death.

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And how does John keep that
moving?

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If a man love me, he will keep
my words.

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If he really loves me, if he
really wants to Remember Me,

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there will be an action that
leaves the meeting room on a

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Sunday morning or whenever it
might be.

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If a man really loves me, if he
really wants to Remember Me in

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honour, in his life or her life,
what I have done for him or her,

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then he will keep my words.
You are my friends, if you do

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whatsoever I command you.
And I’ve just taken some

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snippets there that you know so
well from John 13 through John

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16.
But do you see how John, instead

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of just condensing it down into
one or two verses, gives us the

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living, practical understanding
of what those verses mean?

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As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you declare

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the Lord’s death.
To have really eaten the bread

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is to have put our bodies into
the service of Christ.

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To have really drunk from his
cup is to have poured out our

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lives for his sake.
And you know, brother, this is

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even in that upper room as the
Lord took those two symbols.

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It seems to me we have even in
the, even in the, the very

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things that the Lord was doing,
We have some of the finest

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examples of what he meant that
he could have ever given to us

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because as he took the bread and
as he took the wine, he prayed

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twice.
Just just think about this and

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I’m going to really try and take
this slowly.

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I know I’m going to run out of
time, but I really want to.

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This is the slowest bit if I can
make myself do it twice.

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The Lord went in prayer in the
upper room and one of the most

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frustrating things of my life
until I meet him one day will be

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that we don’t have the words of
those prayers right.

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But we’re told this, that the
Lord Jesus took bread and gave

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thanks and he broke it and said
this is my body which is given

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for you.
Can you just imagine for a

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moment?
I know it’s hypothetical, Brent

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sisters, because and this side
of the Kingdom will never know

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exactly what the Lord said, but
just try and imagine for a

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moment what the content of that
prayer might have been.

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Brethren, when you have to pray
on a Sunday, you’re asked to

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00:26:23,440 –> 00:26:27,080
pray for the memorial emblems.
Try and think about what this

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prayer of the Lord might have
been.

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All we’re told is that it was a
prayer of thanks.

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But when I actually stopped to
think about that, it just sent a

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shiver down my spine because I
guess, and I might be wrong and

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I, I’d love to discuss it with
you if you’ve got a view.

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My guess is that the Lord’s
prayer of thankfulness wasn’t

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for the actual bread on the
plate.

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Thank you for giving us this
loaf of bread that we can now

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share.
It may, it may have been that.

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I’m just saying personally for
me, I’m guessing it was more

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than that because the words are
she just took bread and gave

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thanks and he and he’d break it.
And he said to the disciples,

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this is my body.
That’s what it is.

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It’s my body which is given for
you.

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And it was a prayer of
thankfulness.

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Can you imagine that bread and
sisters, father?

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00:27:16,640 –> 00:27:19,520
And I know I don’t want to be
flippant bread and sisters by

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trying to imagine what the
prayer of the Lord might have

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00:27:21,640 –> 00:27:25,160
been, but just just for the
purpose of our our class this

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00:27:25,160 –> 00:27:28,080
morning.
Father, I thank you for giving

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me this body that I have desired
to put into service for your

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00:27:33,640 –> 00:27:36,400
sake.
And I thank you that I am the

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one who, in laying it down for
these men and women will give

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00:27:39,880 –> 00:27:42,440
them life.
And I thank you for giving me

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that opportunity and that
privilege of serving you in that

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00:27:45,600 –> 00:27:47,680
way.
And he broke it.

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And he said to them, this is my
body which is given for you.

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This do in remembrance of me
that that just turned my world

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00:27:56,000 –> 00:27:59,720
Brentices inside out when I
think about my prayers and how

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00:27:59,760 –> 00:28:02,800
often my prayers are prayers of
thankfulness.

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00:28:02,800 –> 00:28:06,840
Do you remember how the apostle
Paul said make you don’t be

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anxious about anything but in
everything with prayer and

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00:28:09,520 –> 00:28:12,240
supplication, make your request
known unto God.

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But he didn’t stop there, did
he?

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He said with Thanksgiving, every
single time you pray, it needs

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00:28:19,880 –> 00:28:22,000
to be with Thanksgiving.
Now let let me tell you

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something about my life.
And again, this is personal

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00:28:24,080 –> 00:28:27,240
confession time and I’m
desperately hoping that you guys

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00:28:27,440 –> 00:28:29,800
have the same challenges in your
life than I do.

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Otherwise, this is humiliation
time as well.

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00:28:34,200 –> 00:28:38,160
I find it really easy to go to
God in prayer and say thanks

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00:28:38,160 –> 00:28:42,600
when my life’s going swimmingly.
But when my back’s up against

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the wall and I’m standing at the
bottom of the barrel and

532
00:28:46,080 –> 00:28:49,680
everything’s going at 100 miles
an hour and I’m out of control.

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00:28:50,600 –> 00:28:52,520
And I don’t like being out out
of control.

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00:28:52,520 –> 00:28:54,400
And I don’t know what’s going to
happen next or what the

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00:28:54,400 –> 00:28:56,000
solutions to my problems might
be.

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Saying thank you to God for
those moments, those

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00:28:59,160 –> 00:29:03,200
circumstances, those experiences
tends to require a discipline in

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00:29:03,200 –> 00:29:05,560
my mind that I sometimes
struggle to rise to.

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00:29:05,560 –> 00:29:08,560
And there’s a fine example in
the Old Testament.

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We won’t turn to it now because,
as ever, the clock is against

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me.
Do you remember Daniel, A man

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00:29:14,440 –> 00:29:19,160
who was at least 80 years old,
if not more, discovered that he

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00:29:19,160 –> 00:29:21,120
was going to get thrown to the
lions.

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00:29:22,560 –> 00:29:24,640
He was going to spend a night in
the lions den.

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For all he knew, it might be his
last night.

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00:29:28,520 –> 00:29:31,240
And when he knew that was going
to happen, his instinct was to

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00:29:31,240 –> 00:29:34,560
open his window there in Babylon
towards Jerusalem.

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00:29:34,960 –> 00:29:38,160
And he got down on his knees and
he prayed 3 times a day.

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And the record says like he
always did.

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And the only thing we’re told
about that prayer of Daniel was

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that he said thanks.
That’s all we’re told about it.

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And I, I admire that man greater
than he’ll ever know for that

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00:29:53,400 –> 00:29:57,000
prayer.
I don’t know how you would feel,

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00:29:57,000 –> 00:29:58,760
Bren sisters, knowing you were
about to be thrown to the lines,

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00:29:58,760 –> 00:30:01,080
getting down on your knees and
saying, well, do you know what,

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Father, I thank you for all that
you do for me.

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00:30:05,880 –> 00:30:08,200
And I’d be racking my brains
even if I was saying the words,

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00:30:08,200 –> 00:30:10,160
I’d be thinking, what has he
done for me?

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00:30:10,160 –> 00:30:11,880
I’m about to be thrown to the
lions.

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And here was the Lord Jesus
Christ, Brent Sisters, in the

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upper room with these men giving
thanks for the bread that was a

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00:30:21,240 –> 00:30:25,280
representation of his body that
he’d absolutely given

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00:30:25,280 –> 00:30:27,760
unflinchingly in service for
these men.

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And he could say thank you for
it.

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That’s what it means, Brent.
It’s in your life to to do this

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00:30:35,080 –> 00:30:38,960
in remembrance of him that you
that you elevate your mind and

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00:30:38,960 –> 00:30:41,640
your thinking and the way in
which you approach your life and

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00:30:41,640 –> 00:30:44,320
the perspective that you bring
to bear on the different

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circumstances that you go
through.

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So that even when your back is
up against the wall, you can sit

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00:30:48,960 –> 00:30:50,880
down, you can take a piece of
bread.

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And you can remember a man who,
even when his back should have

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been never more pinned against
the wall, could go to prayer in

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00:30:57,920 –> 00:31:02,360
prayer to his Father with a word
of thanks That that blows my

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00:31:02,360 –> 00:31:05,240
mind.
And he did it twice.

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This cup is the New Testament in
my blood, which has been poured

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00:31:10,600 –> 00:31:13,720
out for you.
And he gave thanks.

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00:31:14,240 –> 00:31:16,600
I have to tell you, Brin
sisters, if that’d have been me,

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I’m not sure it would have been
a prayer of thankfulness.

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I would have been racking my
brains to wonder all the reasons

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why God had made me, of all
people, go through this.

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00:31:28,520 –> 00:31:30,400
What?
Was there no other way that He

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00:31:30,400 –> 00:31:35,040
could save men and women from
their worst fate than putting me

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00:31:35,280 –> 00:31:38,400
through all of these things for
their sake when there was no

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00:31:38,400 –> 00:31:40,800
justified reason for me going
through it?

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00:31:40,800 –> 00:31:42,960
It would have been fine for you
to go through it.

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No problem.
You deserved it.

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00:31:44,320 –> 00:31:48,320
I, I don’t deserve it.
And yet for the Lord Jesus

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00:31:48,320 –> 00:31:50,880
Christ, for instance, it was a
prayer of great thankfulness and

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00:31:50,880 –> 00:31:55,160
gratitude to God that He could
be the one who could do this for

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00:31:55,160 –> 00:31:58,920
you and for me.
And He asked us to do the same

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00:31:58,960 –> 00:32:01,520
in remembrance of Him.
He asked to, He asked us to

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00:32:01,520 –> 00:32:05,120
elevate our mind and our
thinking and our attitude in our

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00:32:05,120 –> 00:32:09,000
daily living.
If we want to demonstrate that

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00:32:09,000 –> 00:32:11,840
we’ve remembered we’ve been
there in the presence of the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
When we took that bread and when

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00:32:13,840 –> 00:32:17,120
we sipped from that cup, we
recognised that there was a

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00:32:17,120 –> 00:32:20,440
challenge being made in our life
and in the way we think and in

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00:32:20,440 –> 00:32:24,040
our response to our everyday
circumstances, from having been

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00:32:24,040 –> 00:32:29,240
there and witnessed His
demeanour and his state of mind.

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00:32:29,240 –> 00:32:31,600
Come with me brother and
sisters, to one Peter chapter 2.

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00:32:39,700 –> 00:32:45,540
I want to finish this morning
with with another look at the

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mind of the Lord Jesus Christ so
that we can understand what it

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00:32:48,220 –> 00:32:54,060
means to do as He has done.
That we can understand what the

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00:32:54,060 –> 00:32:57,380
challenge looks like in our
daily living to try and follow

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00:32:57,380 –> 00:33:00,540
His example, what it means to
put our bodies into His service,

607
00:33:00,920 –> 00:33:04,520
what it means to pour out our
lives as He did into that cup

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00:33:04,800 –> 00:33:08,480
for us if we really want to do
and remember him.

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00:33:08,480 –> 00:33:11,120
What, what does that look like
in our in our daily living?

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00:33:12,840 –> 00:33:15,760
And here in One Peter chapter 2,
Peter begins to give us an

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00:33:15,760 –> 00:33:17,880
insight into what that might
mean and what it might look

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00:33:17,880 –> 00:33:20,480
like.
One Peter chapter 2 and verse

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00:33:21,080 –> 00:33:29,080
21.
For this is what you’ve been

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00:33:29,080 –> 00:33:33,520
called to, says Peter.
Because Christ also suffered for

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00:33:33,520 –> 00:33:39,760
you, leaving you an example that
you should follow in his steps.

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00:33:40,600 –> 00:33:45,280
Who did no sin, neither was
guile found in his mouth.

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I just want to stop there and
think about the challenge of the

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00:33:48,560 –> 00:33:51,480
apostle Peter in those words.
This is what you’ve been called

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to.
He says Christ suffered for you,

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00:33:55,000 –> 00:33:58,240
leaving you an example that you
should follow in his steps.

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00:33:58,240 –> 00:34:02,000
There was some suffering that
the Lord Jesus Christ endured

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00:34:02,320 –> 00:34:05,320
that He wants you to have a go
at in your daily living.

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00:34:06,320 –> 00:34:09,760
He can’t mean the cross, can he?
The suffering that the apostle

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00:34:09,760 –> 00:34:13,199
Peter is referring to, there
can’t be the cross because he’s

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00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:17,000
saying he wants us to have a go
at following in his footsteps,

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00:34:17,239 –> 00:34:18,679
and he doesn’t ask us to do
that.

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00:34:18,679 –> 00:34:21,440
That’s the absolute wonder,
Bruin sisters of the Lord Jesus

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00:34:21,440 –> 00:34:23,239
Christ.
He never asked us to go to

629
00:34:23,239 –> 00:34:26,120
Calvary with him.
He did that for us.

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00:34:27,000 –> 00:34:29,760
But there is some suffering the
Lord asked us to experience in

631
00:34:29,760 –> 00:34:33,520
our life, asked us to be willing
to have a go at some example

632
00:34:33,520 –> 00:34:35,920
that he wants us to follow that
we can do.

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00:34:37,480 –> 00:34:39,360
This is what you’ve been called
to, says Peter.

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00:34:39,600 –> 00:34:42,719
Christ suffered for you, leaving
you an example that you should

635
00:34:42,719 –> 00:34:45,080
follow in his steps.
And here’s the example.

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00:34:45,080 –> 00:34:47,320
Here’s the slap in the face that
the apostle Peter is now going

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00:34:47,320 –> 00:34:53,159
to give you verse 22, who did no
sin.

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00:34:54,679 –> 00:34:56,800
That’s the example.
He wants you to have a go at

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00:34:56,800 –> 00:34:59,280
following.
He doesn’t expect you to achieve

640
00:34:59,280 –> 00:35:03,880
it, but he wants you to have a
go now brethren says sin your

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00:35:03,880 –> 00:35:06,760
daily living.
Here’s a challenge for you.

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00:35:06,760 –> 00:35:09,480
If you’ve never tried it before,
try having a sinless day.

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00:35:10,160 –> 00:35:13,080
Just give it a go.
Try getting up in the morning

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00:35:13,080 –> 00:35:17,640
and thinking today I am going to
have a go, a sinless day one day

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00:35:17,640 –> 00:35:22,120
in my life.
One day when my thoughts, when I

646
00:35:22,120 –> 00:35:24,200
would not be ashamed in the
presence of the Lord Jesus

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00:35:24,200 –> 00:35:28,000
Christ to have him know all the
things I think today, I would

648
00:35:28,000 –> 00:35:31,720
not have the Lord Jesus Christ
ashamed in my life today by

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00:35:31,720 –> 00:35:35,720
anything that I say, anything
that I do, any place that I go,

650
00:35:35,880 –> 00:35:39,040
anything that I allow my mind to
dwell upon or think, You know,

651
00:35:39,040 –> 00:35:42,560
in those instinct moments when
something happens and we go, you

652
00:35:42,560 –> 00:35:44,400
know, I’m going to try and
control it.

653
00:35:44,400 –> 00:35:47,440
I’m going to try and take
possession of my mind and my

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00:35:47,440 –> 00:35:50,200
body and I’m going to try and
have a sinless day.

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00:35:52,080 –> 00:35:56,360
And well, it’s 10:30.
If today had been the day, I

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00:35:56,360 –> 00:36:01,080
wonder how we would be doing,
You know, and that’s the

657
00:36:01,080 –> 00:36:02,520
challenge.
Brentsis is the Lord Jesus

658
00:36:02,520 –> 00:36:04,440
Christ wants us to have a go at
doing.

659
00:36:05,400 –> 00:36:08,920
This is what you’ve been called
to because Christ suffered for

660
00:36:08,920 –> 00:36:12,920
you, leaving you an example that
you should follow in his steps.

661
00:36:12,920 –> 00:36:17,040
Who did know sin.
That’s the example.

662
00:36:18,640 –> 00:36:20,040
The suffering that Christ
endured.

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00:36:20,040 –> 00:36:21,680
Brentsis is to be an example to
us.

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00:36:21,680 –> 00:36:25,480
There is some suffering we can
have a go at doing for His sake.

665
00:36:25,480 –> 00:36:28,920
The example we ought to follow
is His desire to do no sin.

666
00:36:28,920 –> 00:36:32,840
And I wonder, Brent says, if
this is the do in Luke 22, this

667
00:36:32,840 –> 00:36:34,800
bread is my body which I’ve
given for you.

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00:36:34,840 –> 00:36:39,160
This do in remembrance of of me.
This is what you’ve been called

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00:36:39,160 –> 00:36:44,280
to, that Christ suffered for
you, leaving you an example that

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00:36:44,280 –> 00:36:46,080
you should follow in his steps.
And what we’re going to

671
00:36:46,080 –> 00:36:50,000
discover, Brent says, is just in
our last 10 minutes or so, is

672
00:36:50,000 –> 00:36:53,200
that the suffering the Lord
Jesus endured in his desire to

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00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:56,520
do no sin.
I’m going to suggest to you just

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00:36:56,520 –> 00:36:59,560
just for the purpose of our
class this morning was greater

675
00:36:59,560 –> 00:37:01,960
and more painful than any nail
they could have driven into his

676
00:37:01,960 –> 00:37:05,200
body.
And if you try having a sinless

677
00:37:05,200 –> 00:37:09,080
day just for one day, you’ll
discover how painful that was

678
00:37:09,080 –> 00:37:13,160
for the Lord Jesus Christ to do
that unflinchingly for 33 1/2

679
00:37:13,160 –> 00:37:16,400
years.
And that’s the suffering, Bren

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00:37:16,400 –> 00:37:18,600
sisters.
That’s the example that you and

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00:37:18,600 –> 00:37:23,560
I have been called to not
Calvary this this suffering

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00:37:24,760 –> 00:37:27,520
coming to Hebrews chapter 5 just
back a few pages.

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00:37:28,400 –> 00:37:39,510
Let’s see how this develops.
Let’s see how much it meant to

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00:37:39,510 –> 00:37:41,390
the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I’m not going to take you

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00:37:41,390 –> 00:37:42,990
this morning to any words that
you don’t.

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00:37:43,270 –> 00:37:46,590
I’m guessing you don’t know
really well Hebrews chapter 5

687
00:37:46,590 –> 00:37:51,830
and verse 7, who in the days of
his flesh when he had offered up

688
00:37:51,830 –> 00:37:56,390
prayers and supplications with
strong crying and tears.

689
00:37:57,400 –> 00:38:00,480
And to him that was able to save
him from death and was heard in

690
00:38:00,480 –> 00:38:06,280
that he feared though he was a
son, yet he learned obedience by

691
00:38:06,280 –> 00:38:10,120
the things which he suffered,
and being made perfect, He

692
00:38:10,120 –> 00:38:12,840
became the author of eternal
salvation and to all them that

693
00:38:12,840 –> 00:38:15,880
obey him.
I find that an absolutely lovely

694
00:38:16,200 –> 00:38:19,360
insight brethis is into the mind
and the life of the Lord Jesus

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00:38:19,360 –> 00:38:22,000
Christ.
What it’s telling us is that he

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00:38:22,000 –> 00:38:25,600
didn’t find it easy.
First of all, he ended up on his

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00:38:25,600 –> 00:38:29,520
knees in prayer with strong
crying and tears.

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00:38:30,000 –> 00:38:33,200
I don’t know how many times in
your life when you’ve felt the

699
00:38:33,200 –> 00:38:36,920
need to pray, it’s been on your
knees with strong crying and

700
00:38:36,920 –> 00:38:38,360
tears.
I can.

701
00:38:38,360 –> 00:38:40,360
Maybe I can.
Well, I don’t know.

702
00:38:40,360 –> 00:38:42,480
Maybe it’s on one hand, isn’t
it?

703
00:38:42,480 –> 00:38:48,120
I guess for me, if that strong
crying and tears because it

704
00:38:48,120 –> 00:38:52,480
meant that much.
It was that important to me and

705
00:38:52,480 –> 00:38:55,200
what it tells us is that even
though he was the Son of God,

706
00:38:55,200 –> 00:38:59,600
verse 8, the Lord Jesus Christ
had to learn obedience just like

707
00:38:59,600 –> 00:39:01,240
all of us have to do in our
lives.

708
00:39:01,920 –> 00:39:05,000
The Lord Jesus was no different.
He had to learn obedience to his

709
00:39:05,000 –> 00:39:07,280
Father and yet this was the
method.

710
00:39:07,720 –> 00:39:10,840
He lured obedience by the things
which He suffered.

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00:39:11,320 –> 00:39:13,480
Now, brethren says, I want you
to ask you to go back in your

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00:39:13,480 –> 00:39:17,280
minds and remember however it
was you learned obedience in

713
00:39:17,280 –> 00:39:20,680
your lives, what the method was.
And if you’ve been watching us

714
00:39:20,680 –> 00:39:23,000
with Elias this week or any of
the other families with

715
00:39:23,000 –> 00:39:26,360
children, you have a very visual
example right there in front of

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00:39:26,360 –> 00:39:28,600
you.
How do you learn obedience?

717
00:39:28,720 –> 00:39:30,600
How do any of us learn
obedience?

718
00:39:30,840 –> 00:39:33,240
Sure, we learn through
suffering, but we learn through

719
00:39:33,240 –> 00:39:37,240
trial and error, don’t we?
We spend our lives, you know, as

720
00:39:37,240 –> 00:39:40,320
children and mum and dad say
don’t touch that, It’s hot.

721
00:39:40,600 –> 00:39:44,080
And what you discover is until
baby has touched the hot thing,

722
00:39:44,520 –> 00:39:47,760
he never really knows what
obedience feels like.

723
00:39:47,760 –> 00:39:50,600
OK, how?
It doesn’t matter how many times

724
00:39:50,600 –> 00:39:53,240
Mum says I don’t want you to go
there, I don’t want you to pick

725
00:39:53,240 –> 00:39:55,960
that up.
That knife will cut you until

726
00:39:56,040 –> 00:39:59,520
you know blood is flowing, until
bruises are showing.

727
00:39:59,760 –> 00:40:04,160
What you discover is that that’s
tends to be the way human nature

728
00:40:04,240 –> 00:40:10,280
learns, learns obedience.
You learn by trial and error and

729
00:40:10,280 –> 00:40:12,600
what I, what I’ve discovered,
and again, here’s confession

730
00:40:12,600 –> 00:40:14,200
time.
It doesn’t change as we get

731
00:40:14,200 –> 00:40:15,400
older, does it?
It gets a bit more

732
00:40:15,520 –> 00:40:18,760
sophisticated, that’s all.
So as we get older, we spend our

733
00:40:18,760 –> 00:40:22,640
lives going.
I wish I’d not said that if I

734
00:40:22,640 –> 00:40:24,720
had my time again, I, I wouldn’t
have done that.

735
00:40:24,720 –> 00:40:28,400
That decision wasn’t good.
I understand the problems that

736
00:40:28,400 –> 00:40:30,560
came in my life from having made
that choice.

737
00:40:31,320 –> 00:40:33,560
I wished I’d not dealt with that
person in that way.

738
00:40:33,560 –> 00:40:36,240
And if I had my time again, I, I
would, I would do that

739
00:40:36,240 –> 00:40:39,160
differently.
And we learn by trial and error

740
00:40:39,160 –> 00:40:41,600
every single day.
And I suppose the challenge of

741
00:40:41,600 –> 00:40:44,960
adulthood, which I’m one day
going to master, is to get to

742
00:40:44,960 –> 00:40:47,560
the point where you, where you
actually do what you say you’re

743
00:40:47,560 –> 00:40:50,200
not going to do anymore.
I’m not going to do that again.

744
00:40:50,200 –> 00:40:51,800
I’m not going to say that again.
I’m not going to make that

745
00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:54,280
mistake again.
And one day, apparently my mum

746
00:40:54,280 –> 00:40:57,040
tells me, you get to a point
where you stop making the same

747
00:40:57,040 –> 00:41:00,320
mistakes over and over again
because finally you’ve learnt

748
00:41:00,320 –> 00:41:01,600
that they’re, they’re bad
things.

749
00:41:01,760 –> 00:41:04,160
They don’t help your life, they
don’t help those around you.

750
00:41:04,160 –> 00:41:05,920
And one day you learn to stop
doing it.

751
00:41:07,360 –> 00:41:10,200
The Lord Jesus Christ, Princess,
couldn’t learn obedience that

752
00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:15,680
way, didn’t have the freedom to
learn that way, couldn’t go

753
00:41:15,680 –> 00:41:18,960
through life by going well.
Wished I’d not done that, wished

754
00:41:18,960 –> 00:41:21,480
I’d not said that, wished I’d
not been there.

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00:41:22,000 –> 00:41:23,640
I wouldn’t have.
I wouldn’t make that choice

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00:41:23,640 –> 00:41:27,840
again if I had my time again.
Jesus didn’t have his time.

757
00:41:27,840 –> 00:41:31,400
Again.
Jesus couldn’t learn obedience

758
00:41:31,400 –> 00:41:35,480
that way, shouldn’t learn by
bumbling through life, making

759
00:41:35,760 –> 00:41:41,600
mistake here and error there.
Had to learn obedience by a

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00:41:41,600 –> 00:41:45,080
different kind of suffering.
And the suffering that the Lord

761
00:41:45,480 –> 00:41:49,400
experienced, Princess, is that
taught him obedience, I suspect

762
00:41:49,400 –> 00:41:52,040
was probably different to the
suffering that teaches his

763
00:41:52,040 –> 00:41:53,400
obedience.
Come back with me just a couple

764
00:41:53,400 –> 00:42:03,800
of pages to Hebrews chapter 2.
Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 10

765
00:42:04,520 –> 00:42:08,720
For it became him for whom are
all things and by whom are all

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00:42:08,720 –> 00:42:12,280
things, in bringing many sons
into glory to make the captain

767
00:42:12,280 –> 00:42:15,560
of their salvation perfect
through suffering.

768
00:42:16,240 –> 00:42:18,200
What was the suffering, Brent?
This is that the Lord Jesus

769
00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:21,040
experienced that made him
perfect.

770
00:42:21,880 –> 00:42:24,400
I I don’t believe the right here
is talking about Calvary.

771
00:42:24,400 –> 00:42:26,360
That wasn’t the suffering that
made him perfect.

772
00:42:26,760 –> 00:42:29,280
That wasn’t the suffering that
made him sinless, A faultless

773
00:42:29,280 –> 00:42:32,000
man, a man who went through
every day not learning by

774
00:42:32,200 –> 00:42:35,520
mistake, by faults, by by poor
experience.

775
00:42:36,040 –> 00:42:38,200
What was the suffering that the
Lord Jesus endured, Bren

776
00:42:38,200 –> 00:42:41,040
sisters, that made him perfect?
This is the example we’re being

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00:42:41,040 –> 00:42:43,840
challenged to follow.
Verse 18.

778
00:42:44,720 –> 00:42:51,080
For in that He himself hath
suffered being tempted, He’s

779
00:42:51,080 –> 00:42:53,440
able to succor them that are
tempted.

780
00:42:54,280 –> 00:42:56,280
The suffering that the Lord
Jesus experienced.

781
00:42:56,280 –> 00:42:59,280
Princess, it sounds really
simple when you just read this

782
00:42:59,280 –> 00:43:00,840
verse.
The suffering the Lord

783
00:43:00,840 –> 00:43:03,920
experienced was temptation.
And you go, Oh yeah, I know what

784
00:43:03,920 –> 00:43:05,800
that’s like.
I, I, I know what temptation

785
00:43:05,800 –> 00:43:08,120
means.
Of course we do, because we give

786
00:43:08,120 –> 00:43:11,600
in to it every day.
I can overcome everything except

787
00:43:11,600 –> 00:43:15,200
temptation, right?
That’s, you know, anything.

788
00:43:15,200 –> 00:43:17,160
I can overcome anything except
temptation.

789
00:43:18,440 –> 00:43:21,640
And the Lord Jesus Christ had to
and the suffering that he

790
00:43:21,640 –> 00:43:25,680
endured, Bren Sisters, was every
time you and I think, oh, I, I

791
00:43:25,680 –> 00:43:27,640
wished I’d not done that.
I wished I’d not said that I

792
00:43:27,640 –> 00:43:29,920
wished I’d not been there.
The suffering the Lord Jesus

793
00:43:29,920 –> 00:43:31,360
Christ had to experience was
this.

794
00:43:31,880 –> 00:43:34,080
I need to think now about what I
am going to say.

795
00:43:35,400 –> 00:43:37,600
I need to think now about where
I am going to go.

796
00:43:38,360 –> 00:43:40,920
I need to think about who I am
going to be and what I am going

797
00:43:40,920 –> 00:43:43,520
to say and how I am going to
think and what I am going to do.

798
00:43:43,840 –> 00:43:47,000
I need to have such a a
discipline and a control over my

799
00:43:47,000 –> 00:43:50,720
mind and my body that I don’t
look back in 5 minutes time

800
00:43:50,720 –> 00:43:52,240
going.
I’ve lost it.

801
00:43:52,280 –> 00:43:55,440
It’s gone.
That moment of sinlessness that

802
00:43:55,440 –> 00:43:58,280
I’m that I’m aiming for, for you
and for me is gone.

803
00:43:59,400 –> 00:44:00,800
Just like that.
Just so easy.

804
00:44:00,800 –> 00:44:02,640
Sin.
Sin to you and I, Brent and

805
00:44:02,640 –> 00:44:07,280
sisters, costs nothing because
we can we can go and pray to God

806
00:44:07,280 –> 00:44:11,840
on a daily basis and God’s mercy
is rich to forgive us and to

807
00:44:11,840 –> 00:44:16,440
make up our our weaknesses and
our shortcomings cement a lot

808
00:44:16,440 –> 00:44:19,760
more to the Lord Jesus Christ.
He couldn’t afford to do it or

809
00:44:19,760 –> 00:44:23,520
have it in his life for you and
for me and he asked us to engage

810
00:44:23,520 –> 00:44:24,880
Brent.
This is in that process.

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00:44:25,680 –> 00:44:28,000
This is what you’ve been called
to, says the apostle Peter.

812
00:44:28,920 –> 00:44:32,040
The example of the Lord Jesus
Christ to engage in his

813
00:44:32,040 –> 00:44:34,920
sufferings, that you might
follow in his steps a man who

814
00:44:34,920 –> 00:44:39,640
did no sin.
This bread is my body which I

815
00:44:39,640 –> 00:44:42,800
have given for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

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00:44:42,800 –> 00:44:46,280
Have a girl.
Have a go at elevating your mind

817
00:44:46,280 –> 00:44:48,480
and your thinking.
Have a go at taking greater

818
00:44:48,480 –> 00:44:51,320
control of your life for my
sake.

819
00:44:51,480 –> 00:44:54,160
If you really want to Remember
Me, if you really want to

820
00:44:54,160 –> 00:44:57,160
demonstrate your understanding
of what I’ve done for you, then

821
00:44:57,160 –> 00:44:58,960
you have a go at doing it for
me.

822
00:45:01,080 –> 00:45:03,000
Come over to Matthew 4 really
quickly.

823
00:45:05,640 –> 00:45:07,920
The writer of the Hebrews says
that the the suffering the Lord

824
00:45:07,920 –> 00:45:11,200
Jesus experienced was by being
tempted.

825
00:45:12,120 –> 00:45:14,280
And I suggested to you a moment
ago, Bren sisters, that that was

826
00:45:14,280 –> 00:45:19,320
a greater it it was it felt like
greater pain to the Lord Jesus

827
00:45:19,320 –> 00:45:22,440
Christ than any nail driven
through his body.

828
00:45:24,120 –> 00:45:27,560
And as you know, in in what we
classically call the temptations

829
00:45:27,560 –> 00:45:30,440
of Jesus.
Well, in a way it’s defined for

830
00:45:30,440 –> 00:45:33,080
us what that suffering felt like
and what it meant to the Lord

831
00:45:33,160 –> 00:45:35,160
Jesus.
And again, you know this sea

832
00:45:35,160 –> 00:45:37,800
never so well Jesus verse one
was led up of the Spirit into

833
00:45:37,800 –> 00:45:40,040
the wilderness to be tempted of
the devil.

834
00:45:40,040 –> 00:45:44,040
And when he’d fasted 40 days and
40 nights, he was hungry.

835
00:45:44,560 –> 00:45:45,720
It’s not really surprising, is
it?

836
00:45:45,720 –> 00:45:48,280
We made comments about the food
at Bible school yesterday.

837
00:45:48,640 –> 00:45:50,240
Well, here’s another one.
We have.

838
00:45:50,240 –> 00:45:52,680
No, we have.
We struggle to stand in the

839
00:45:52,680 –> 00:45:55,160
Lord’s sandals in this moment in
the wilderness, don’t we?

840
00:45:55,360 –> 00:45:58,360
We don’t go for like more than
three hours without eating food.

841
00:45:59,320 –> 00:46:02,440
If you’ve ever tried going for
40 days without food, you’ll

842
00:46:02,440 –> 00:46:04,960
know what it does to your mind.
It makes everything just feel a

843
00:46:04,960 –> 00:46:06,760
little shaky.
I’m not telling you that from

844
00:46:06,760 –> 00:46:08,840
experience.
Maybe just a day or two without

845
00:46:08,840 –> 00:46:13,560
food and all of a sudden your
perspective starts to go and the

846
00:46:13,560 –> 00:46:18,840
Lord hasn’t eaten for 40 days.
And the tempter came to him and

847
00:46:18,840 –> 00:46:22,120
said if you are the Son of God,
command that these stones be

848
00:46:22,120 –> 00:46:26,000
made bread and right there
bread.

849
00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:29,280
And sisters, in that verse
you’ve heard what the real

850
00:46:29,280 –> 00:46:31,200
temptation was for the Lord
Jesus Christ.

851
00:46:31,200 –> 00:46:32,760
I don’t know if you ever noticed
it before.

852
00:46:33,040 –> 00:46:35,120
It wasn’t to make stones into
bread.

853
00:46:35,960 –> 00:46:38,440
It was deeper than that.
Read it carefully.

854
00:46:39,680 –> 00:46:44,960
When the tempter came to him,
verse 3, it said to him, if you

855
00:46:45,000 –> 00:46:52,080
are the Son of God, that was the
temptation bred and sisters, it

856
00:46:52,080 –> 00:46:55,800
wasn’t the the the the stones to
bread was the secondary issue.

857
00:46:56,320 –> 00:47:00,320
The real challenge the
temptation was if you are the

858
00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:03,640
Son of God, are you really the
Son of God?

859
00:47:03,960 –> 00:47:07,320
Do you really think Jesus of
Nazareth, son of Mary and

860
00:47:07,320 –> 00:47:10,040
Joseph, is the Son of God?
And you think about that,

861
00:47:10,040 –> 00:47:11,880
brethren, sisters, for a moment,
and you put yourself in the

862
00:47:11,880 –> 00:47:14,920
Lord’s shoes and you think,
well, I would have been

863
00:47:14,920 –> 00:47:18,480
thinking, yeah, am I, am I
really the Son of God?

864
00:47:19,720 –> 00:47:21,800
I mean, I remember hearing it as
I came out of the Jordan.

865
00:47:21,800 –> 00:47:24,120
Just look back at the last verse
of, of chapter 3.

866
00:47:24,120 –> 00:47:27,680
A voice came from heaven saying,
this is my beloved son in whom I

867
00:47:27,680 –> 00:47:29,840
am well pleased.
And it was, it was as if all

868
00:47:29,840 –> 00:47:33,160
heaven was ringing with the
words, this is my beloved son in

869
00:47:33,160 –> 00:47:36,320
whom I am well pleased.
That was six weeks ago and you

870
00:47:36,320 –> 00:47:40,160
haven’t eaten a meal since.
And now the challenge in your

871
00:47:40,160 –> 00:47:42,600
mind is this, Are you really the
Son of God?

872
00:47:42,880 –> 00:47:44,920
Do you really think you’re the
Son of God?

873
00:47:45,200 –> 00:47:47,160
Do you really think that when
you’re hanging there on the

874
00:47:47,160 –> 00:47:50,640
stake with nails through your
wrists and your ankles that God

875
00:47:50,640 –> 00:47:52,640
is really going to come and
raise you from the dead?

876
00:47:52,800 –> 00:47:56,680
Do you really believe that?
Have you ever had those days,

877
00:47:56,680 –> 00:47:57,720
Brent?
This is where you just think to

878
00:47:57,720 –> 00:47:59,320
yourself, do you know what?
I’ve lost my mind.

879
00:47:59,600 –> 00:48:02,080
I don’t know what I’m doing.
This whole thing that I’ve been

880
00:48:02,080 –> 00:48:05,200
learning since I was a kid, the,
the, the belief that one day the

881
00:48:05,200 –> 00:48:07,080
Lord Jesus Christ is going to
come back, that there’s going to

882
00:48:07,080 –> 00:48:10,000
be an everlasting Kingdom of, of
righteousness and, and peace on

883
00:48:10,000 –> 00:48:11,840
this earth.
That’s, that’s ridiculous.

884
00:48:12,040 –> 00:48:14,720
I must be losing my mind.
Have you ever had one of those

885
00:48:14,720 –> 00:48:17,800
days brains, sisters, Johnny
Munnell, do you really think

886
00:48:17,800 –> 00:48:19,480
this is all true?
Do you really think that one day

887
00:48:19,480 –> 00:48:20,680
this is actually going to
happen?

888
00:48:21,400 –> 00:48:23,120
You think Jesus didn’t have
those days?

889
00:48:24,720 –> 00:48:29,080
If you are the Son of God, if
you really think you are the Son

890
00:48:29,080 –> 00:48:34,640
of God, go on, prove it, test
it, give me the evidence.

891
00:48:35,520 –> 00:48:38,000
Can you imagine, Brunt sisters,
how that would have weighed on

892
00:48:38,000 –> 00:48:42,120
the Lord’s mind, knowing that he
was going to have to hang on a

893
00:48:42,120 –> 00:48:44,320
cross?
Wouldn’t it be good to jump off

894
00:48:44,320 –> 00:48:48,280
the pinnacle of the temple and
just feel the angels beneath his

895
00:48:48,280 –> 00:48:52,360
feet so that when he did have to
go on the cross, he would have

896
00:48:52,360 –> 00:48:54,120
some confidence that the Lord
will be there?

897
00:48:54,840 –> 00:48:58,520
He wouldn’t need to rely
entirely on his faith and his

898
00:48:58,520 –> 00:49:01,000
understanding of all the things
his mother has been teaching him

899
00:49:01,000 –> 00:49:03,880
all these years.
If you are the Son of God, I

900
00:49:03,880 –> 00:49:07,240
don’t know about you bread and
sisters, but I don’t think we’ve

901
00:49:07,240 –> 00:49:09,720
ever been tempted in that way
ever.

902
00:49:11,000 –> 00:49:13,000
And the Lord found that
suffering.

903
00:49:14,200 –> 00:49:17,320
If you are the Son of God every
day of his life, do you really

904
00:49:17,320 –> 00:49:19,000
think you need to do this,
Jesus?

905
00:49:19,560 –> 00:49:21,880
Do you really need to think you
need to live in this way and put

906
00:49:21,880 –> 00:49:25,280
yourself under this sense of
discipline and constriction in

907
00:49:25,280 –> 00:49:26,720
your life?
Do you really think that’s

908
00:49:26,960 –> 00:49:29,320
that’s really going to make an
eternal difference for these

909
00:49:29,320 –> 00:49:33,040
people?
And Genobran says it mattered so

910
00:49:33,040 –> 00:49:36,560
much to the Lord that he ended
up on his knees in prayer with

911
00:49:36,560 –> 00:49:41,560
strong crying and tears because
not sinning to the Lord Jesus

912
00:49:41,560 –> 00:49:45,680
Christ, not giving in to those
temptations affected him to that

913
00:49:45,680 –> 00:49:50,400
extent.
That’s suffering, that’s

914
00:49:50,400 –> 00:49:54,840
suffering to to live your life
under that level of discipline

915
00:49:54,840 –> 00:49:58,520
and control for 33 years.
That’s a challenge.

916
00:49:59,960 –> 00:50:01,760
And that must have been painful
for him.

917
00:50:03,240 –> 00:50:06,000
And I’ve I don’t think I’ve ever
got close Bren Sisters to that

918
00:50:06,000 –> 00:50:08,520
in my life.
And yet what the Lord Jesus is

919
00:50:08,520 –> 00:50:11,600
asking us to do, Bren sisters,
week by week, when we come and

920
00:50:11,600 –> 00:50:15,640
take this bread and when we come
and drink from his cup, He’s

921
00:50:15,640 –> 00:50:19,120
asking us to do as He did for
His sake.

922
00:50:19,120 –> 00:50:22,640
Give it a go.
Try and elevate your thinking in

923
00:50:22,640 –> 00:50:26,160
your mind when you leave the
memorial meeting on a Sunday or

924
00:50:26,160 –> 00:50:29,720
whenever it might be, Try and
give yourselves in service to

925
00:50:29,720 –> 00:50:32,200
God to the greatest extent that
you can.

926
00:50:32,200 –> 00:50:36,360
Make it something that matters
to you to discipline your lives

927
00:50:36,360 –> 00:50:39,040
and give yourselves in service
for Him.

928
00:50:39,040 –> 00:50:41,280
Last reference Hebrews chapter
12.

929
00:50:59,240 –> 00:51:01,000
And again, you know these words
ever so well.

930
00:51:03,200 –> 00:51:05,920
Wherefore seeing we also
accomplished about with so great

931
00:51:05,920 –> 00:51:11,760
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay
aside every weight and the sin

932
00:51:11,760 –> 00:51:15,960
which so easily besets us, and
let us run with patience the

933
00:51:15,960 –> 00:51:19,960
race that is set before us.
I once heard a preacher telling

934
00:51:19,960 –> 00:51:23,040
a story of of a woman.
I guess it was an American thing

935
00:51:23,040 –> 00:51:24,280
because we don’t have them in
our country.

936
00:51:24,280 –> 00:51:29,080
This this lady drove into up to
her house and she had a number

937
00:51:29,080 –> 00:51:31,160
of children and she saw her
children sitting on the doorstep

938
00:51:31,160 –> 00:51:34,440
playing with skunks.
We don’t have skunks in our

939
00:51:34,440 –> 00:51:36,200
country.
So I’m relying on you to know

940
00:51:36,200 –> 00:51:39,320
what that might be like.
And she was horrified when she

941
00:51:39,320 –> 00:51:42,480
saw it and she jumped out of the
car and she she said, run,

942
00:51:42,480 –> 00:51:45,760
children run, get away.
And each one of them picked up a

943
00:51:45,760 –> 00:51:51,440
skunk and ran.
And you know, Bren, sisters, the

944
00:51:51,440 –> 00:51:54,360
challenge in our life is sin is
like that.

945
00:51:55,520 –> 00:51:59,760
Let us lay aside every weight
and the sin that besets us

946
00:51:59,760 –> 00:52:01,920
instead of picking it up and
running with it everywhere we

947
00:52:01,920 –> 00:52:04,200
go.
Let’s have a go at putting it

948
00:52:04,200 –> 00:52:08,840
down, leaving it behind instead
of voluntarily carrying it with

949
00:52:08,840 –> 00:52:11,680
us and taking it with us,
looking unto Jesus.

950
00:52:11,680 –> 00:52:15,000
And here’s the Crooks, verse 2,
the author and finisher of our

951
00:52:15,000 –> 00:52:18,640
faith, who for the joy that was
set before him endured the

952
00:52:18,640 –> 00:52:21,760
cross, despising the shame, and
is set down at the right hand of

953
00:52:21,760 –> 00:52:23,640
the throne of God.
And here’s the challenge.

954
00:52:23,640 –> 00:52:28,440
Brensis is for you and me, for
consider him who endured such

955
00:52:28,440 –> 00:52:30,400
contradiction of sins against
himself.

956
00:52:30,600 –> 00:52:34,240
In case you ever get weary and
faint in your minds, in case you

957
00:52:34,240 –> 00:52:36,880
ever think Brensis, in your
life, you’ve suffered more than

958
00:52:36,880 –> 00:52:39,040
anybody.
I know we always feel like that,

959
00:52:39,040 –> 00:52:41,600
don’t we, in our lives when when
the chips are down and things

960
00:52:41,600 –> 00:52:43,600
are tough, you feel like
nobody’s ever gone through this.

961
00:52:43,800 –> 00:52:46,960
I’m the only person who in this
moment right now is feeling how

962
00:52:46,960 –> 00:52:49,800
I’m feeling.
And the apostle says, in case

963
00:52:49,800 –> 00:52:52,920
you ever feel that you’ve
suffered more than any, in case

964
00:52:52,920 –> 00:52:55,840
you ever feel that the
challenges and the sacrifices

965
00:52:55,840 –> 00:52:58,920
that are being laid on you in
your life and more than anybody

966
00:52:58,920 –> 00:53:02,480
else has ever had to bear, the
apostle says, consider him.

967
00:53:03,280 –> 00:53:05,760
That’s why we come to remember
Him week by week.

968
00:53:07,320 –> 00:53:10,840
You have not yet resisted unto
blood in your strife against

969
00:53:10,840 –> 00:53:13,360
sin.
Only the Lord ever had to do

970
00:53:13,360 –> 00:53:16,040
that, and He never calls us to
do that, brother and sisters,

971
00:53:16,040 –> 00:53:18,600
for His sake.
He never calls us to shed our

972
00:53:18,600 –> 00:53:25,000
blood in our battle with sin.
Some men have done it, but He

973
00:53:25,000 –> 00:53:30,600
doesn’t call us to it.
He just says, take, eat.

974
00:53:31,120 –> 00:53:35,880
This is my body which I have
given for you, not will give,

975
00:53:36,120 –> 00:53:39,840
not on the cross.
I have given this body for 33

976
00:53:39,840 –> 00:53:44,960
years in service for your sake.
And if you want to do something

977
00:53:44,960 –> 00:53:51,280
remembrance of me, then do this.
Give your body in service.

978
00:53:52,240 –> 00:53:54,080
You know it’s not without
coincidence Brent sisters that

979
00:53:54,080 –> 00:53:57,480
God said to Adam that in the
sweat of his face he would eat

980
00:53:57,480 –> 00:54:04,240
bread and for the Lord Jesus
Christ to eat that bread to give

981
00:54:04,240 –> 00:54:10,080
his body in service caused such
sweat on his brow that it was

982
00:54:10,080 –> 00:54:14,800
like great drops of blood and
Bren sisters in our lives.

983
00:54:15,080 –> 00:54:19,440
I’m not sure how often we break
a sweat in eating the bread from

984
00:54:19,440 –> 00:54:24,440
the Lord’s table.
This do in remembrance of me.

985
00:54:25,480 –> 00:54:28,880
But if I am to share, if I am to
declare, if I am to announce His

986
00:54:28,880 –> 00:54:32,960
death every time I eat this
bread and drink this cup, if I

987
00:54:32,960 –> 00:54:38,520
am to declare the Lord’s death,
then I must do an attempt to do

988
00:54:38,520 –> 00:54:42,000
and to attempt to elevate my
mind to strive to be as love

989
00:54:42,000 –> 00:54:45,760
Master and as God governed in my
own life, knowing that in the

990
00:54:45,760 –> 00:54:48,680
failing and in the trying, His
weakness will His.

991
00:54:48,720 –> 00:54:52,360
My weakness will still be made
perfect by His strength.

992
00:54:52,920 –> 00:54:55,920
And may it be bridges as week by
week, as we come, and as we

993
00:54:55,920 –> 00:54:57,600
take, and as we eat and as we
drink.

994
00:54:58,040 –> 00:55:02,640
May we declare, may we announce,
may we preach the Lord’s death

995
00:55:03,280 –> 00:55:19,360
till he come.
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00:55:19,360 –> 00:55:20,960
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