Joni Mannell – The Breaking Of Bread – Class 3 – Ye do Shew Forth the Lords Death

1
00:00:00,040 –> 00:00:06,280
This is the Bible study Terra
Nova, and this is our brother’s

2
00:00:06,880 –> 00:00:10,600
second, third talk.
Good heavens.

3
00:00:11,200 –> 00:00:22,860
So welcome, Brother Johnny.
Well, good morning brothers and

4
00:00:22,860 –> 00:00:26,720
sisters.
So let’s let’s just make sure we

5
00:00:26,720 –> 00:00:28,960
know where we’ve been so far in
our first session.

6
00:00:28,960 –> 00:00:30,160
I really wanted to share with
you.

7
00:00:30,160 –> 00:00:32,720
If you remember, it feels like a
long time ago now, doesn’t it?

8
00:00:32,720 –> 00:00:34,200
We’re just hitting the halfway
point.

9
00:00:34,200 –> 00:00:37,600
So you know, we’re on the home
straights now in our first

10
00:00:37,600 –> 00:00:40,840
session, I really wanted to
share with you or or at least

11
00:00:40,840 –> 00:00:43,280
try and get inside the mindset
and the attitude and the

12
00:00:43,280 –> 00:00:44,640
demeanour of the Lord Jesus
Christ.

13
00:00:44,640 –> 00:00:46,240
Remember that.
Be of good cheer.

14
00:00:46,240 –> 00:00:48,920
I have overcome the world.
I want you to have my joy, my

15
00:00:48,920 –> 00:00:52,280
peace, the the confidence and
the sense of purpose in the mind

16
00:00:52,280 –> 00:00:55,120
of the Lord Jesus Christ, that
as we come and break bread and

17
00:00:55,120 –> 00:00:58,240
share in that memory, we might
remember a man who was

18
00:00:58,240 –> 00:01:01,960
absolutely determined to fulfil
for our sake the things that God

19
00:01:01,960 –> 00:01:04,280
had given him to do, and
delighted to do so.

20
00:01:04,720 –> 00:01:09,080
For the joy set before him, he
endured the cross and that joy,

21
00:01:09,080 –> 00:01:12,040
Brent sisters, was bound up in
you and I and what a privilege

22
00:01:12,040 –> 00:01:14,800
it is to think about that and
dwell on that week by week.

23
00:01:14,800 –> 00:01:17,680
And then yesterday we talked
about the symbols of the bread

24
00:01:17,680 –> 00:01:19,640
and wine.
This bread is my body.

25
00:01:19,880 –> 00:01:22,320
And we went through the feeding
of the 5000 in John six there

26
00:01:22,320 –> 00:01:25,400
where Jesus was at pains to
point out that the bread was a

27
00:01:25,400 –> 00:01:28,240
symbol of the power of the word
of God and what it can do in the

28
00:01:28,240 –> 00:01:31,880
life of of any man or woman when
they are willing to submit to it

29
00:01:31,880 –> 00:01:34,400
and allow their lives and their.
Thinking and their.

30
00:01:34,400 –> 00:01:36,920
Feeling to be influenced and
motivated by it.

31
00:01:37,280 –> 00:01:38,760
And he wanted to share that with
us.

32
00:01:38,760 –> 00:01:41,760
This bread is my body, which
I’ve given for you.

33
00:01:42,440 –> 00:01:45,280
And and if you’re willing to
submit your lives to the power

34
00:01:45,280 –> 00:01:48,720
of the word of God, as I have
done in mine, then then great

35
00:01:48,720 –> 00:01:51,920
things can happen in your life
and that power can be harnessed

36
00:01:51,920 –> 00:01:53,920
and and made use of in your
life.

37
00:01:53,920 –> 00:01:56,360
And we thought very briefly
yesterday, once again, I ended

38
00:01:56,360 –> 00:01:59,280
up rushing towards the end.
We were we were at the marriage

39
00:01:59,280 –> 00:02:03,360
at Cana with the power of the
new wine and the energy and the

40
00:02:04,400 –> 00:02:09,240
the the strength that’s exists
in that new, never tasted before

41
00:02:09,240 –> 00:02:10,600
wine, the symbol.
Of the new.

42
00:02:10,600 –> 00:02:13,800
Life with all that it can do
with the the way it stretches

43
00:02:13,800 –> 00:02:17,720
and tests and and expands us and
Wetherbrand and sisters, our

44
00:02:17,720 –> 00:02:22,160
bottles are are able to be
challenged by that that strength

45
00:02:22,160 –> 00:02:24,880
and that energy and that power.
One brother in the UK when I

46
00:02:25,080 –> 00:02:27,360
once gave that talk came up to
me afterwards and said have you

47
00:02:27,360 –> 00:02:31,080
got the bottle for it?
Maybe that’s auk kind of phrase.

48
00:02:31,080 –> 00:02:35,000
I don’t know, but but it really
struck me to to remember the

49
00:02:35,000 –> 00:02:38,640
challenge week by week of
whether the bottle of my body is

50
00:02:38,720 –> 00:02:41,680
is flexible enough and pliable
enough and able to contain and

51
00:02:41,680 –> 00:02:45,280
harness the power of the new
life of the Lord Jesus Christ

52
00:02:45,280 –> 00:02:48,800
that He offers us.
And so we come this morning to

53
00:02:48,800 –> 00:02:52,200
our session, which I’ve entitled
you do show the Lord’s death.

54
00:02:52,200 –> 00:02:54,600
And it’s taken right out of that
last verse that Terry just read

55
00:02:54,600 –> 00:02:58,800
for us in One Corinthians 11.
For as often as you eat this

56
00:02:58,800 –> 00:03:01,120
bread and drink this cup, you
do.

57
00:03:01,120 –> 00:03:04,120
Show the Lord’s death till he
come.

58
00:03:05,360 –> 00:03:06,680
And this session, Brent says it
is.

59
00:03:06,680 –> 00:03:09,720
Really, really very.
Personally special to me, all of

60
00:03:09,720 –> 00:03:14,880
them are this one especially.
And when I share with you why,

61
00:03:14,880 –> 00:03:18,560
you’ll probably laugh because
either you’ll have seen it 100

62
00:03:18,560 –> 00:03:21,200
times before and think, OK,
what’s so special about that?

63
00:03:21,600 –> 00:03:23,800
Or you’ll have never seen it
before and still think, well,

64
00:03:23,800 –> 00:03:26,120
I’d never seen it that way, but
it’s still still what’s so

65
00:03:26,120 –> 00:03:27,920
special about that?
And that may be the case.

66
00:03:27,920 –> 00:03:30,640
I’m going to take that risk.
But you know, I’m a, I’m a

67
00:03:30,640 –> 00:03:32,440
simple soul.
And you know, brothers, sisters,

68
00:03:32,440 –> 00:03:35,400
sometimes when you’re reading
the Bible one day and suddenly a

69
00:03:35,400 –> 00:03:37,760
penny drops, something falls
into place.

70
00:03:37,760 –> 00:03:40,120
You see it in a way that you’ve
never seen it before.

71
00:03:40,800 –> 00:03:43,440
Well, that happened to me one
day when I was thinking about

72
00:03:43,440 –> 00:03:47,600
what the Apostle Paul meant in
this verse when he said, as

73
00:03:47,600 –> 00:03:53,000
often as you eat this bread and
drink this cup, ye do show the

74
00:03:53,000 –> 00:03:56,200
Lord’s death till he come.
And I really spent a lot of time

75
00:03:56,200 –> 00:03:59,120
trying to work out what was it
that the Apostle Paul meant when

76
00:03:59,120 –> 00:04:01,360
he, when he just wrote that one
sentence.

77
00:04:01,760 –> 00:04:05,720
As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, ye do show

78
00:04:05,720 –> 00:04:08,960
the Lord’s death till he come.
And, and the, the question I had

79
00:04:08,960 –> 00:04:11,320
for myself, brother, sisters and
I, I would like you to ask it

80
00:04:11,400 –> 00:04:14,920
for yourself this morning as we
share this study is what does

81
00:04:14,920 –> 00:04:18,160
that verse mean to you?
As often as you eat this bread

82
00:04:18,160 –> 00:04:21,880
and drink this cup, you show the
Lord’s death till he come.

83
00:04:22,320 –> 00:04:24,520
In what way do you show the
Lord’s death?

84
00:04:24,520 –> 00:04:28,840
By coming week by week and
eating from that loaf and

85
00:04:28,840 –> 00:04:32,360
drinking from that cup?
In what way are you showing the

86
00:04:32,360 –> 00:04:34,720
Lord’s death?
Is it the act of coming?

87
00:04:35,160 –> 00:04:37,520
Maybe that’s what it is.
Does it mean the fact that the

88
00:04:37,520 –> 00:04:39,760
very fact that we simply come
and we sit together in

89
00:04:39,760 –> 00:04:44,120
fellowship and we share in those
simple memorials is, is it that

90
00:04:44,120 –> 00:04:46,200
that’s demonstrating the Lord’s
death?

91
00:04:46,400 –> 00:04:49,720
The very fact that we came and
sat together and did it, is that

92
00:04:49,720 –> 00:04:53,320
what Paul is getting at?
Let me tell you about the word

93
00:04:53,320 –> 00:04:56,160
Paul uses here.
You do show the Lord’s death.

94
00:04:56,880 –> 00:04:59,720
Terry was reading the Revised
Version, I think you proclaim

95
00:04:59,720 –> 00:05:03,200
the Lord’s death and the Greek
word that’s used there by the

96
00:05:03,200 –> 00:05:05,600
Apostle Paul, you do show or you
proclaim.

97
00:05:06,280 –> 00:05:08,280
It’s a word you know.
Well in the New Testament, it’s

98
00:05:08,280 –> 00:05:11,240
most commonly translated.
Preach.

99
00:05:12,760 –> 00:05:15,640
And more than 10 times this word
is translated preach.

100
00:05:15,640 –> 00:05:17,480
It’s it’s most common
translation in the New

101
00:05:17,480 –> 00:05:20,920
Testament, this Greek word, you
preach the Lord’s death.

102
00:05:21,320 –> 00:05:24,480
That’s interesting, isn’t it?
This idea of proclamation, I

103
00:05:24,480 –> 00:05:27,720
like the Dyglot’s translation.
It says you announce the Lord’s

104
00:05:27,720 –> 00:05:30,200
death, you make a declaration
about it.

105
00:05:31,480 –> 00:05:34,200
So that’s interesting, isn’t it?
How is it then that by coming to

106
00:05:34,200 –> 00:05:37,720
my ecclesia and you to yours, or
whatever circumstance it is that

107
00:05:37,720 –> 00:05:41,840
you break bread and fellowship
with with the body of Christ and

108
00:05:41,840 –> 00:05:45,000
with his believers?
How is it that by coming week by

109
00:05:45,000 –> 00:05:48,440
week, you declare, you make an
announcement, you it’s a word of

110
00:05:48,440 –> 00:05:50,520
proclamation.
It’s a it’s a method of

111
00:05:50,520 –> 00:05:52,920
preaching the Lord’s death till
he come.

112
00:05:53,200 –> 00:05:55,120
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen
your attendance at the breaking

113
00:05:55,120 –> 00:05:57,680
of bread in that way.
It’s one of your most finest

114
00:05:57,680 –> 00:06:00,600
preaching tools.
Maybe it is that by the fact

115
00:06:00,600 –> 00:06:03,640
that your neighbors know that
you have a routine in your life

116
00:06:03,640 –> 00:06:06,280
that you stick to rigidly.
Maybe that’s what it is that

117
00:06:06,280 –> 00:06:08,760
proclaims the Lord’s death.
The fact that you have this

118
00:06:08,760 –> 00:06:12,280
central focus of your life week
by week upon which all of the

119
00:06:12,280 –> 00:06:14,400
other components of your life
revolves.

120
00:06:14,400 –> 00:06:16,800
Maybe that’s what the Apostle
Paul meant, the fact that you

121
00:06:16,800 –> 00:06:18,960
have this discipline and this
structure in your life.

122
00:06:19,120 –> 00:06:21,160
Maybe that’s how you show the
Lord’s death.

123
00:06:21,160 –> 00:06:25,560
You declare it, you preach it As
often as you eat this bread and

124
00:06:25,560 –> 00:06:29,560
drink this cup, you do, You show
the Lord’s death.

125
00:06:29,560 –> 00:06:31,720
You proclaim, you preach the
Lord’s death.

126
00:06:33,440 –> 00:06:36,520
Maybe that’s what it is.
I had a really interesting

127
00:06:36,520 –> 00:06:39,000
experience on on my way to be
here.

128
00:06:39,560 –> 00:06:43,360
This week I had to explain to my
colleagues where I was going.

129
00:06:43,360 –> 00:06:46,960
I don’t often take 2 1/2 weeks
off work at one in one go.

130
00:06:47,000 –> 00:06:49,200
And they were, they said to me,
where are you going?

131
00:06:49,200 –> 00:06:52,640
So I began with kind of the, the
geographical interest.

132
00:06:52,640 –> 00:06:54,680
Well, I’m going to Newfoundland,
right?

133
00:06:55,480 –> 00:06:56,880
Not many people been there
before.

134
00:06:56,880 –> 00:06:58,840
So a bit of talk about that.
Well, why are you going there

135
00:06:58,840 –> 00:07:00,720
then?
What made you choose to go to

136
00:07:00,720 –> 00:07:05,720
Newfoundland of all places?
You know so.

137
00:07:08,320 –> 00:07:12,040
So I thought I can see a series
of leading questions coming

138
00:07:12,040 –> 00:07:13,240
here.
So I said, well, I’m going to

139
00:07:13,240 –> 00:07:17,600
speak at a Bible school.
And of course you get the, the

140
00:07:17,720 –> 00:07:20,080
the raising of the eyebrows.
That’s interesting.

141
00:07:20,080 –> 00:07:22,440
Didn’t know you’d be doing that.
And your holiday, Johnny.

142
00:07:23,400 –> 00:07:27,160
And, and you can start feeling
this little sense of trepidation

143
00:07:27,160 –> 00:07:28,960
rising in the pit of your
stomach now, can’t you?

144
00:07:28,960 –> 00:07:30,880
Because the next question, of
course, is well.

145
00:07:30,880 –> 00:07:32,760
What are you going to be
speaking about?

146
00:07:34,480 –> 00:07:38,240
And so you knowing what the next
three questions are going to be,

147
00:07:38,240 –> 00:07:41,440
I start thinking, well, I either
keep going here or I bail out.

148
00:07:41,480 –> 00:07:44,320
And I, I didn’t, I said, well,
I’m going to be my, my theme is.

149
00:07:44,840 –> 00:07:48,920
At the breaking of bread.
And I found this myself in this

150
00:07:48,920 –> 00:07:51,960
really interesting situation of
I’ve never had to begin

151
00:07:52,000 –> 00:07:54,680
explaining my faith to somebody
from this beginning.

152
00:07:55,000 –> 00:07:58,680
I’ve started in all other kinds
of places, you know, prophecy,

153
00:07:58,840 –> 00:08:03,720
the, the, the nation of Israel,
politics, suffering, all kinds

154
00:08:03,720 –> 00:08:07,320
of other opening kind of gambits
for kind of explaining your

155
00:08:07,320 –> 00:08:09,080
faith and what the word of God
means to you.

156
00:08:09,360 –> 00:08:11,000
And I’d never started here
before.

157
00:08:11,280 –> 00:08:13,880
And the thing that immediately
came into my mind was this verse

158
00:08:13,880 –> 00:08:16,680
here in one Corinthians 11.
As often as you eat this bread

159
00:08:16,680 –> 00:08:20,080
and drink this cup, you declare
the Lord’s death, you preach it,

160
00:08:20,240 –> 00:08:21,960
you proclaim it, you announce
it.

161
00:08:22,360 –> 00:08:24,720
And I thought, well, here we go,
sit down, buckle up.

162
00:08:25,000 –> 00:08:27,880
We’re in for a discussion now
about what the breaking of bread

163
00:08:27,880 –> 00:08:32,000
means to me, how it changes my
life, how it’s at the core of my

164
00:08:32,000 –> 00:08:34,480
understanding of what the Lord
Jesus Christ means to me and

165
00:08:34,480 –> 00:08:38,400
what he’s done in my life and
how my faith like pivots really

166
00:08:38,400 –> 00:08:40,600
around that.
I’m not sure how successful it

167
00:08:40,600 –> 00:08:42,640
was.
My colleagues have not yet

168
00:08:42,640 –> 00:08:46,920
declared their desire to be
baptised so and I suspect that

169
00:08:46,920 –> 00:08:50,200
may be some way.
Down the line, but maybe that’s

170
00:08:50,200 –> 00:08:53,600
what the Apostle Paul meant.
Maybe he wanted us to make it

171
00:08:53,600 –> 00:08:58,120
the focal part of our preaching
about what this central part of

172
00:08:58,120 –> 00:09:01,080
our routine of worship means in
our daily living.

173
00:09:01,080 –> 00:09:04,320
As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you do it in

174
00:09:04,320 –> 00:09:07,760
remembrance of me.
But you can tell that by the

175
00:09:07,760 –> 00:09:10,120
fact I want to speak for at
least another 35 minutes.

176
00:09:10,120 –> 00:09:13,080
There’s probably a bit more to
it than that, or at least I

177
00:09:13,080 –> 00:09:15,200
think there is.
And and this is what I I think

178
00:09:15,200 –> 00:09:19,800
it is.
This these are the.

179
00:09:19,800 –> 00:09:22,440
Words that we have here up on
the screen from the apostle Paul

180
00:09:22,440 –> 00:09:25,600
in One Corinthians 11.
As often as you eat this bread

181
00:09:25,600 –> 00:09:27,600
and drink this cup, you show the
Lord’s death.

182
00:09:27,600 –> 00:09:30,040
You announce it, you declare it,
you proclaim it.

183
00:09:30,840 –> 00:09:32,600
And I think.
The Apostle Paul was picking up

184
00:09:32,600 –> 00:09:36,560
on some words of the Lord Jesus
Christ in the Upper.

185
00:09:36,600 –> 00:09:39,920
Room as he shared the bread and
wine that Luke and Mark.

186
00:09:39,920 –> 00:09:44,200
I think it is particularly
record very simple words, words

187
00:09:44,200 –> 00:09:46,480
that we probably quote most
Sundays.

188
00:09:47,160 –> 00:09:50,160
This is my body, he said, which
is given for you.

189
00:09:50,880 –> 00:09:56,080
This do in remembrance of me and
brethren says when I just kept

190
00:09:56,080 –> 00:10:00,440
rolling around that that verse
from Luke 22 in my mind, I

191
00:10:00,440 –> 00:10:03,200
started to realise that I’ve
been reading it wrong for most

192
00:10:03,200 –> 00:10:06,440
of my life.
This bread is my.

193
00:10:06,440 –> 00:10:10,360
Body which is given for you this
do in remembrance of me and.

194
00:10:10,360 –> 00:10:12,200
I want to really just.
Dwell on that that one

195
00:10:12,200 –> 00:10:15,040
statement.
This, this is my body which is

196
00:10:15,040 –> 00:10:16,600
given for you, this deal in
remembrance of me.

197
00:10:16,640 –> 00:10:18,400
What do you think the Lord Jesus
meant?

198
00:10:18,720 –> 00:10:21,200
Because this, this is the verse,
this is, these are the words I

199
00:10:21,200 –> 00:10:22,760
think the Apostle Paul is
referring to.

200
00:10:23,040 –> 00:10:25,320
As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you show the

201
00:10:25,320 –> 00:10:28,000
Lord’s death.
There is an action that comes

202
00:10:28,000 –> 00:10:30,360
out of coming to the breaking of
bread service.

203
00:10:30,800 –> 00:10:34,120
There is something that we need
to do all right, this is the

204
00:10:34,120 –> 00:10:36,440
word do right here in Luke’s
Gospel.

205
00:10:36,600 –> 00:10:38,120
This is my body which is given
for you.

206
00:10:38,200 –> 00:10:41,800
This do in remembrance of me.
We have to do something.

207
00:10:42,040 –> 00:10:47,080
There is an active participative
element to to coming and leaving

208
00:10:47,080 –> 00:10:48,520
from the breaking of bread
service.

209
00:10:48,520 –> 00:10:51,080
That’s what the Lord Jesus
saying and it’s that word do

210
00:10:51,080 –> 00:10:53,920
that kind of jumped out of the
page and hit me in the face in a

211
00:10:53,920 –> 00:10:56,200
way that it had never hit me in
the face before.

212
00:10:56,440 –> 00:11:01,280
All right, this do what is the
do that the Lord Jesus referring

213
00:11:01,280 –> 00:11:04,120
to this this is my body which is
given for you.

214
00:11:04,280 –> 00:11:07,960
This do in remembrance of me.
What is the do bit that the Lord

215
00:11:08,000 –> 00:11:10,600
Jesus was referring to?
What is it that he wanted us to

216
00:11:10,600 –> 00:11:12,480
do?
And I’m going to make a personal

217
00:11:12,480 –> 00:11:14,600
confession to you brethren,
since I made one yesterday.

218
00:11:14,760 –> 00:11:18,200
Here’s today’s when I was young
in the truth, I used to come to

219
00:11:18,200 –> 00:11:20,480
the breaking of bread and think
that what the Lord Jesus meant

220
00:11:20,480 –> 00:11:23,600
by that was come and take a
piece of the bread.

221
00:11:23,840 –> 00:11:28,520
Sit it, sit down, eat it, and
you’ve done your peace.

222
00:11:29,280 –> 00:11:32,880
This bread is my body which is
given for you this do in

223
00:11:32,880 –> 00:11:35,960
remembrance of me and the doing
that I thought the Lord Jesus

224
00:11:35,960 –> 00:11:42,120
was referring to was coming,
sitting, eating and I suddenly

225
00:11:42,120 –> 00:11:43,960
realised bread and sisters one
day and this is the point where

226
00:11:43,960 –> 00:11:47,160
you’ll be smiling because you’ve
been here probably 30-4 years

227
00:11:47,160 –> 00:11:50,280
ahead of me.
The the thing that hit me in the

228
00:11:50,280 –> 00:11:52,200
face bread and sister was I
realised that I’d I’d been

229
00:11:52,240 –> 00:11:54,760
reading that verse wrong.
Let me break it down and take it

230
00:11:54,760 –> 00:11:56,400
more slowly If you haven’t seen
it before.

231
00:11:57,440 –> 00:12:00,960
Jesus was taking the bread from
the plate, from the table in

232
00:12:00,960 –> 00:12:05,280
front of them, and he blessed it
and he broke it and he said this

233
00:12:05,280 –> 00:12:09,120
is my body.
This bread I want you to see is

234
00:12:09,120 –> 00:12:15,800
a representation of my body, and
I have given this.

235
00:12:15,800 –> 00:12:20,120
Body for you, not the bread.
He’s not making a reference to

236
00:12:20,120 –> 00:12:22,160
the bread, is he?
He’s talking about his body.

237
00:12:22,440 –> 00:12:25,800
This bread is a representation
of my body, and I have given

238
00:12:25,800 –> 00:12:30,440
that body for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

239
00:12:30,640 –> 00:12:34,280
That’s what I want you to do.
I don’t want you to just take

240
00:12:34,280 –> 00:12:36,560
this bread and eat it and go
your way.

241
00:12:36,840 –> 00:12:39,480
I want you to take on board the
symbol that it represents, and

242
00:12:39,480 –> 00:12:41,960
that’s what I want you to do in
remembrance of me.

243
00:12:42,280 –> 00:12:45,080
This bread is my body, which I
have given.

244
00:12:45,440 –> 00:12:48,560
Now I want you to do the same.
I don’t want you to just sit

245
00:12:48,560 –> 00:12:51,720
here and eat a piece of bread.
I want you to take your bodies

246
00:12:51,960 –> 00:12:55,000
and give them in service as I
have given mine.

247
00:12:55,240 –> 00:12:57,920
That’s the do that the Lord
Jesus Christ was talking about.

248
00:12:58,160 –> 00:13:00,600
This bread is my body which I
have given for you.

249
00:13:01,000 –> 00:13:05,560
This do in remembrance of me.
Give your bodies in service as I

250
00:13:05,560 –> 00:13:08,320
have given mine.
That’s brothers and sisters,

251
00:13:08,320 –> 00:13:10,520
what hit me in the face.
Maybe you’ve seen it a million

252
00:13:10,520 –> 00:13:11,800
times.
Maybe you’ve never seen it

253
00:13:11,800 –> 00:13:13,840
before.
Just when you just really think

254
00:13:13,840 –> 00:13:16,800
slowly and carefully about what
it was the Lord Jesus was

255
00:13:16,800 –> 00:13:20,440
challenging us to do, He was
challenging us to do what He has

256
00:13:20,440 –> 00:13:23,440
done.
This is my body which I’ve given

257
00:13:23,440 –> 00:13:28,640
in service for 33 1/2 years of
my life, in service and in as in

258
00:13:28,640 –> 00:13:32,400
the most finest obedience I
could muster for the sake of my

259
00:13:32,400 –> 00:13:33,720
Father.
And this bread is a

260
00:13:33,720 –> 00:13:36,600
representation of that.
And week by week, when you come

261
00:13:36,600 –> 00:13:39,840
together and you eat it and you
share it, that’s what I want you

262
00:13:39,840 –> 00:13:44,520
to do in remembrance of me.
And that suddenly changed the

263
00:13:44,520 –> 00:13:47,440
whole way in which I came to the
meeting on a Sunday.

264
00:13:47,760 –> 00:13:50,120
Suddenly it wasn’t just that
Jesus wanted me to come and eat

265
00:13:50,120 –> 00:13:52,800
a piece of bread.
That wasn’t the doing that he

266
00:13:52,800 –> 00:13:57,240
wanted me to do.
He wanted me to be moved and

267
00:13:57,240 –> 00:14:00,840
touched by the symbol.
This bread is my body which I

268
00:14:00,840 –> 00:14:06,320
have given for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

269
00:14:06,320 –> 00:14:11,160
If you really want to Remember
Me, Brother Johnny, don’t just

270
00:14:11,160 –> 00:14:16,120
come and eat a piece of bread.
Do what I have done for you in

271
00:14:16,120 –> 00:14:21,200
remembrance of me.
Give your body in service as I

272
00:14:21,200 –> 00:14:25,280
have given mine for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

273
00:14:25,720 –> 00:14:27,560
I’m sorry if I’m labouring the
point where this says just

274
00:14:27,560 –> 00:14:30,600
humour me because that that was
a day that changed my life.

275
00:14:30,600 –> 00:14:33,960
I remember the day all those
pennies dropped in my mind for

276
00:14:33,960 –> 00:14:36,360
me.
That’s how I that’s how I began

277
00:14:36,360 –> 00:14:38,960
to read that verse, this do in
remembrance of me and that

278
00:14:38,960 –> 00:14:41,000
turned that turned my life
inside out.

279
00:14:41,720 –> 00:14:45,320
That really challenged the way I
came to my ecclesia week by week

280
00:14:45,320 –> 00:14:50,400
and what I saw in that bread and
how it challenged me to take the

281
00:14:50,400 –> 00:14:53,440
issues of it away in my life.
It’s a challenge to our daily

282
00:14:53,440 –> 00:14:57,200
living to be motivated,
influenced in the way in which

283
00:14:57,200 –> 00:15:00,600
we give our bodies in service
for the Lord Jesus Christ.

284
00:15:00,600 –> 00:15:03,600
This do in remembrance of me.
If you really want to Remember

285
00:15:03,600 –> 00:15:07,240
Me and honour my memory and all
that I have done for you, then

286
00:15:07,240 –> 00:15:10,360
you need to do likewise.
In remembrance of me.

287
00:15:11,200 –> 00:15:13,120
I want to take you into John’s
gospel again.

288
00:15:13,120 –> 00:15:15,560
We did this a little bit on on
Sunday.

289
00:15:16,120 –> 00:15:19,320
And we were remarking yesterday
at how extraordinary it is in a

290
00:15:19,320 –> 00:15:22,680
way that the the gospel writer
who spends most of his time in

291
00:15:22,680 –> 00:15:26,520
the upper room, 4 chapters of
his gospel sitting right there

292
00:15:26,520 –> 00:15:29,240
with the disciples in the upper
room, doesn’t seem to actually

293
00:15:29,240 –> 00:15:31,480
use these words that the other
gospel writers do.

294
00:15:31,800 –> 00:15:33,960
This bread is my body which is
given for you.

295
00:15:33,960 –> 00:15:37,040
This cup is the new covenant in
my blood which is poured out for

296
00:15:37,040 –> 00:15:38,800
you, this dew in remembrance of
me.

297
00:15:39,120 –> 00:15:41,960
And yet what when I reread
Brethren Sisters those chapters,

298
00:15:42,160 –> 00:15:44,760
I suddenly realised that John
does use all those words.

299
00:15:45,240 –> 00:15:47,680
In fact, he uses them in much
greater detail as we were

300
00:15:47,680 –> 00:15:51,400
looking at briefly yesterday by
by the the feeding of the 5000

301
00:15:51,400 –> 00:15:54,200
and the wedding at Cana.
He went into so much more detail

302
00:15:54,440 –> 00:15:56,520
than the others about the
symbols of bread and wine.

303
00:15:56,800 –> 00:15:58,840
And right there in the upper
room, Brent says when you

304
00:15:58,880 –> 00:16:02,320
actually begin to dissect the
words that the Lord Jesus Christ

305
00:16:02,320 –> 00:16:05,840
used that are recorded in John’s
Gospel, you will discover that

306
00:16:05,840 –> 00:16:09,640
the essence of this principle.
This is my body which is given

307
00:16:09,640 –> 00:16:12,800
for you.
This do in remembrance of me is

308
00:16:12,800 –> 00:16:16,240
right there, right there in
John’s explanation of the of the

309
00:16:16,240 –> 00:16:17,920
Last Supper.
Let me give you an example.

310
00:16:18,800 –> 00:16:22,280
Here’s our words in Luke 22.
This is my body which is given

311
00:16:22,280 –> 00:16:24,000
for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

312
00:16:24,200 –> 00:16:25,520
Now let me.
Give you some examples?

313
00:16:25,520 –> 00:16:28,600
Just some little extracts from
John’s Gospel in the upper room.

314
00:16:28,600 –> 00:16:32,080
Have a look at this.
He rose from supper and began to

315
00:16:32,080 –> 00:16:36,600
wash the disciples feet.
If I, your Lord and Master, have

316
00:16:36,600 –> 00:16:41,160
washed your feet, you also ought
to wash one another’s feet, for

317
00:16:41,160 –> 00:16:44,320
I have given you an example that
you should.

318
00:16:44,320 –> 00:16:49,520
Do as I have done to you.
Can you see the echo there in in

319
00:16:49,520 –> 00:16:52,520
John’s explanation instead of
just condensing it down into

320
00:16:52,520 –> 00:16:55,560
that one statement that Luke has
done and that the apostle Paul

321
00:16:55,560 –> 00:16:57,320
has done?
As often as you eat this bread

322
00:16:57,320 –> 00:17:00,240
and drink this cup, you proclaim
the Lord’s death, You make an

323
00:17:00,240 –> 00:17:02,080
announcement, you make a
declaration.

324
00:17:02,320 –> 00:17:06,200
All of a sudden, John’s expanded
it out and, and, and we now

325
00:17:06,200 –> 00:17:09,480
understand why Luke said this
simple statement based on this

326
00:17:09,480 –> 00:17:13,680
long discourse here in, in John
13 and 14, Jesus says, I’m going

327
00:17:13,680 –> 00:17:16,000
to give you an example of what
this bread represents.

328
00:17:16,280 –> 00:17:19,640
This is my body which I’ve laid
down and given in service to

329
00:17:19,640 –> 00:17:22,200
you.
And if I’ve washed your feet as

330
00:17:22,200 –> 00:17:25,599
an example of what that means
in, in as a living practical

331
00:17:25,599 –> 00:17:28,840
example, then you ought to be
able to do that as well.

332
00:17:29,080 –> 00:17:33,080
If I, your Lord and Master, can
wash your feet, then if you want

333
00:17:33,080 –> 00:17:35,000
to do something.
In memory of me.

334
00:17:35,320 –> 00:17:38,000
If you want to come and take
this bread which has symbolised

335
00:17:38,000 –> 00:17:42,760
my my body of service in
remembrance of me, then you

336
00:17:42,760 –> 00:17:46,120
ought to be washing one
another’s feet and be doing as I

337
00:17:46,120 –> 00:17:48,800
have done for you.
Does that make sense?

338
00:17:50,560 –> 00:17:52,600
Let’s look at another.
One Jesus took the bread and

339
00:17:52,600 –> 00:17:54,880
blessed it and break it and gave
it to the disciples.

340
00:17:55,280 –> 00:17:58,600
Take, eat.
This is my body which I have

341
00:17:58,600 –> 00:18:01,720
given for you.
Here’s one from John 15, and you

342
00:18:01,720 –> 00:18:04,160
know these words so well.
I just want you to put them in

343
00:18:04,160 –> 00:18:06,480
this context of these verses in
the upper room.

344
00:18:06,960 –> 00:18:11,120
This is my commandment, that you
love one another as I have loved

345
00:18:11,120 –> 00:18:12,720
you.
That’s one of the most

346
00:18:12,720 –> 00:18:15,800
challenging things by instances
that the Lord Jesus ever said,

347
00:18:15,800 –> 00:18:17,520
it seems to me in the record of
Scripture.

348
00:18:18,120 –> 00:18:21,680
This is a new commandment, that
you love one another as I have

349
00:18:21,680 –> 00:18:23,480
loved you.
The old commandment was

350
00:18:23,480 –> 00:18:25,560
different.
Do you remember under the law it

351
00:18:25,560 –> 00:18:29,640
was love one another as you
would love yourself, do unto

352
00:18:29,640 –> 00:18:32,160
others as you would have done
unto you.

353
00:18:32,160 –> 00:18:34,000
And that standard is a little
bit easier, isn’t it?

354
00:18:34,000 –> 00:18:36,520
Because we all have that
standard of how we want other

355
00:18:36,520 –> 00:18:39,600
people to treat us in life.
That’s very variable amongst all

356
00:18:39,600 –> 00:18:41,720
of us.
And we know that we want to

357
00:18:41,720 –> 00:18:45,200
treat others if we can based on
how we expect to be treated.

358
00:18:45,360 –> 00:18:48,040
Now Jesus says, I’m going to
take that standard just right up

359
00:18:48,240 –> 00:18:50,520
upper level.
Now, I don’t want you to base

360
00:18:50,520 –> 00:18:53,040
your standard of how you treat
one another on how you want to

361
00:18:53,040 –> 00:18:56,120
be treated.
I want you to base that standard

362
00:18:56,120 –> 00:19:00,200
on how I have treated you.
Greater love has no man than

363
00:19:00,200 –> 00:19:02,880
this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.

364
00:19:03,120 –> 00:19:07,000
This bread is my body.
Greater love has no man than

365
00:19:07,000 –> 00:19:09,560
this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.

366
00:19:09,720 –> 00:19:12,280
This cup is my blood which I
have poured out.

367
00:19:12,280 –> 00:19:15,640
Greater love has no man than
this, that he would lay down his

368
00:19:15,640 –> 00:19:18,720
life for my friends.
You are my friends if you do

369
00:19:19,600 –> 00:19:23,440
whatsoever I command you, not if
you come and sit week by week.

370
00:19:23,800 –> 00:19:26,840
And just eat a morsel of bread
and take a sip from the cup.

371
00:19:29,160 –> 00:19:34,000
You will do it in remembrance of
me if you do as I have done for

372
00:19:34,000 –> 00:19:38,480
you, if you try and elevate your
living and the standards by

373
00:19:38,480 –> 00:19:41,240
which you will treat one another
and the way in which you will

374
00:19:41,240 –> 00:19:45,600
give your lives in service if
you do as I have done for you.

375
00:19:45,800 –> 00:19:49,240
That’s a challenging that’s a
vibrant way, isn’t it, Brent

376
00:19:49,240 –> 00:19:52,720
Sisters, to see the bread and
the wine week by week.

377
00:19:52,760 –> 00:19:54,880
If you really want to
demonstrate to make a

378
00:19:54,880 –> 00:19:59,720
declaration, an announcement
says the apostle Paul about what

379
00:19:59,720 –> 00:20:02,680
the Lord has done for you, then
don’t just come and sit in the

380
00:20:02,680 –> 00:20:05,560
meeting week by week.
Take these symbols and make them

381
00:20:05,560 –> 00:20:07,680
a reality in your in your daily
living.

382
00:20:09,320 –> 00:20:12,120
He took the cup and gave thanks
and gave it to them saying drink

383
00:20:12,120 –> 00:20:15,440
all of it.
I used to smile at that when I

384
00:20:15,440 –> 00:20:18,080
was a little boy watching my mum
and dad drink drink the wine on

385
00:20:18,080 –> 00:20:21,920
a Sunday, always marvelling that
they always left the cup half.

386
00:20:21,920 –> 00:20:24,120
Full.
Drink all of it.

387
00:20:24,600 –> 00:20:27,520
And of course it doesn’t just
mean empty the cup, it means

388
00:20:27,520 –> 00:20:29,760
drink.
Drink it in its fullness of what

389
00:20:29,760 –> 00:20:31,960
it’s supposed to mean to you and
signify to you.

390
00:20:32,280 –> 00:20:35,200
This is my blood of the New
Testament, shed for many for the

391
00:20:35,200 –> 00:20:37,600
remission of sins.
And notice how John translates

392
00:20:37,600 –> 00:20:40,360
that simple statement.
A new commandment I’ve given to

393
00:20:40,360 –> 00:20:42,240
you, that you love one another
as I have loved you.

394
00:20:42,480 –> 00:20:46,200
By this will all men know that
you are my disciples, if you

395
00:20:46,200 –> 00:20:48,320
have loved one for another.
That’s what the apostle meant

396
00:20:48,320 –> 00:20:49,800
there in one Corinthians 11,
isn’t it?

397
00:20:50,520 –> 00:20:53,200
As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you declare

398
00:20:53,200 –> 00:20:55,680
the Lord’s death.
You make a statement, an

399
00:20:55,680 –> 00:20:58,200
announcement.
By this all men will know that

400
00:20:58,200 –> 00:21:02,560
you are my disciples.
If you have love one to another,

401
00:21:02,560 –> 00:21:07,720
as I have loved you, that’s the
declaration we make.

402
00:21:07,720 –> 00:21:11,360
Bren sisters, that’s the
announcement that we make when

403
00:21:11,360 –> 00:21:14,280
we declare the Lord’s death.
As often as we eat this bread

404
00:21:14,280 –> 00:21:16,080
and drink this cup.
And suddenly I realised that

405
00:21:16,080 –> 00:21:18,800
what the apostle Paul was saying
was he doesn’t mean, you know,

406
00:21:18,960 –> 00:21:22,440
52 Sundays, 52 times, you
actually make a declaration

407
00:21:22,440 –> 00:21:25,360
about the the Lord’s death.
He means as often as you eat

408
00:21:25,360 –> 00:21:30,120
this bread, as in loving one
another and giving your bodies

409
00:21:30,120 –> 00:21:33,360
in service.
As often as you drink this cup,

410
00:21:33,360 –> 00:21:34,840
He doesn’t mean tasting the
wine.

411
00:21:35,480 –> 00:21:38,480
He means as often as you pour
out your lives.

412
00:21:39,320 –> 00:21:42,920
In service, that’s how you
declare.

413
00:21:42,920 –> 00:21:45,720
You make an announcement about
the Lord’s death.

414
00:21:45,720 –> 00:21:48,400
By this all men will know.
Last one.

415
00:21:49,600 –> 00:21:52,080
For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you do

416
00:21:52,080 –> 00:21:55,200
show the Lord’s death.
And how does John keep that

417
00:21:55,200 –> 00:21:58,200
moving?
If a man love me, he will keep

418
00:21:58,600 –> 00:22:04,240
my words if he really loves me.
If he really wants to Remember

419
00:22:04,240 –> 00:22:06,760
Me, there will be an action
that.

420
00:22:08,120 –> 00:22:11,120
Leaves the meeting room on a
Sunday morning or whenever it

421
00:22:11,120 –> 00:22:14,920
might be.
If a man really loves me, if he

422
00:22:14,920 –> 00:22:19,000
really wants to Remember Me in
honour in his life or her life,

423
00:22:19,000 –> 00:22:23,920
what I have done for him or her,
then he will keep my words.

424
00:22:23,920 –> 00:22:27,240
You are my friends if you do
whatsoever I command you.

425
00:22:27,240 –> 00:22:29,760
And I’ve just taken some
snippets there that you know so

426
00:22:29,760 –> 00:22:32,720
well from John 13 through John
16.

427
00:22:33,320 –> 00:22:36,560
But do you see how John, instead
of just condensing it down into

428
00:22:36,560 –> 00:22:41,080
one or two verses, gives us the
living, practical understanding

429
00:22:41,080 –> 00:22:44,920
of what those verses mean?
As often as you eat this bread

430
00:22:45,480 –> 00:22:49,280
and drink this cup, you declare
the Lord’s death.

431
00:22:50,600 –> 00:22:53,400
To have really eaten the bread
is to have put our bodies into

432
00:22:53,400 –> 00:22:56,680
the service of Christ.
To have really drunk from His

433
00:22:56,680 –> 00:23:00,720
cup is to have poured out our
lives for His sake.

434
00:23:01,840 –> 00:23:04,600
And General Brethren says, even
in that upper room, as the Lord

435
00:23:04,600 –> 00:23:06,920
took those two symbols, it seems
to me we have.

436
00:23:08,760 –> 00:23:11,520
Even in the, even in the very.
Things that the Lord was doing.

437
00:23:11,520 –> 00:23:14,240
We have some of the finest
examples of what He meant that

438
00:23:14,240 –> 00:23:20,880
He could have ever given to us.
Because as He took the bread and

439
00:23:20,880 –> 00:23:23,840
as He took the wine, he prayed
twice.

440
00:23:23,840 –> 00:23:27,200
Just just think about this and
I’m going to really try and take

441
00:23:27,200 –> 00:23:28,520
this slowly.
I know I’m going to run out of

442
00:23:28,520 –> 00:23:31,680
time, but I really want to.
This is the slowest bit if I can

443
00:23:31,680 –> 00:23:35,400
make myself do it twice.
The Lord went in prayer in the

444
00:23:35,400 –> 00:23:38,800
upper room and one of the most
frustrating things of my life

445
00:23:39,160 –> 00:23:42,240
until I meet him one day will be
that we don’t have the words of

446
00:23:42,240 –> 00:23:47,560
those prayers right.
But we’re told this, that the

447
00:23:47,560 –> 00:23:54,400
Lord Jesus took bread and gave
thanks and he broke it and said

448
00:23:54,400 –> 00:23:56,920
this is my body which is given
for you.

449
00:23:57,720 –> 00:23:59,200
Can you just imagine for a
moment?

450
00:23:59,200 –> 00:24:01,680
I know it’s hypothetical,
brethren, sisters, because and

451
00:24:01,680 –> 00:24:04,080
this side of the Kingdom will
never know exactly what the Lord

452
00:24:04,080 –> 00:24:07,840
said, but just try and imagine
for a moment what the content of

453
00:24:07,840 –> 00:24:11,120
that prayer might have been.
Brethren, when you have to pray

454
00:24:11,120 –> 00:24:14,600
on a Sunday, you’re asked to
pray for the memorial emblems.

455
00:24:15,160 –> 00:24:17,680
Try and think about what this
prayer of the Lord might have

456
00:24:17,680 –> 00:24:20,920
been.
All we’re told is that it was a

457
00:24:20,920 –> 00:24:24,680
prayer of thanks.
But when I actually stopped to

458
00:24:24,680 –> 00:24:28,840
think about that, it just sent a
shiver down my spine because I

459
00:24:28,840 –> 00:24:32,000
guess, and I might be wrong and
I’d love to discuss it with you

460
00:24:32,000 –> 00:24:34,440
if you’ve got a view.
My guess is that the Lord’s

461
00:24:34,440 –> 00:24:37,920
prayer of thankfulness wasn’t
for the actual bread on the

462
00:24:37,920 –> 00:24:40,400
plate.
Thank you for giving us this

463
00:24:40,400 –> 00:24:42,360
loaf of bread that we can now
share.

464
00:24:42,400 –> 00:24:45,480
It may, it may have been that.
I’m just saying personally for

465
00:24:45,480 –> 00:24:48,120
me I’m guessing it was more than
that because the words are.

466
00:24:48,800 –> 00:24:51,320
Jesus took bread and gave thanks
and he and he’d break it.

467
00:24:51,320 –> 00:24:53,800
And he said to the disciples,
this is my body.

468
00:24:55,000 –> 00:24:58,440
That’s what it is.
It’s my body which is given for

469
00:24:58,440 –> 00:25:00,080
you.
And it was a prayer of

470
00:25:00,080 –> 00:25:04,200
thankfulness.
Can you imagine that bread and

471
00:25:04,200 –> 00:25:07,840
sisters, Father?
And I know I don’t want to be

472
00:25:07,840 –> 00:25:10,040
flippant bread and sisters by
trying to imagine what the

473
00:25:10,040 –> 00:25:12,880
prayer of the Lord might have
been, but just just for the

474
00:25:12,880 –> 00:25:17,000
purpose of our our class this
morning, Father, I thank you for

475
00:25:17,000 –> 00:25:21,000
giving.
Me, this body that I have

476
00:25:21,000 –> 00:25:23,520
desired to put into service for
your sake.

477
00:25:24,520 –> 00:25:27,560
And I thank you that I am the
one who in laying it down for

478
00:25:27,560 –> 00:25:29,800
these men and women will give
them life.

479
00:25:29,840 –> 00:25:33,240
And I thank you for giving me
that opportunity and that

480
00:25:33,240 –> 00:25:35,280
privilege of serving you in that
way.

481
00:25:36,360 –> 00:25:39,640
And he broke it and he said to
them, this is my body which is

482
00:25:39,640 –> 00:25:43,160
given for you.
This do in remembrance of me

483
00:25:44,040 –> 00:25:47,480
that that just turned my world
Brentices inside out when I

484
00:25:47,480 –> 00:25:51,040
think about my prayers and how
often my prayers are prayers of

485
00:25:51,040 –> 00:25:53,960
thankfulness do.
You remember how the Apostle?

486
00:25:53,960 –> 00:25:57,520
Paul said make you don’t be
anxious about anything, but in

487
00:25:57,520 –> 00:26:00,680
everything with prayer and
supplication, make your request

488
00:26:00,680 –> 00:26:03,720
known unto God.
But he didn’t stop there, did

489
00:26:03,720 –> 00:26:07,120
he?
He said with Thanksgiving, every

490
00:26:07,120 –> 00:26:10,360
single time you pray it needs to
be with Thanksgiving.

491
00:26:10,360 –> 00:26:12,200
Now let let me tell you
something about my life, and

492
00:26:12,200 –> 00:26:14,880
again, this is personal
confession time, and I’m

493
00:26:14,880 –> 00:26:18,200
desperately hoping that you guys
have the same challenges in your

494
00:26:18,200 –> 00:26:20,840
life than I do.
Otherwise, this is humiliation

495
00:26:20,840 –> 00:26:24,840
time as well.
I find it really easy to go to

496
00:26:24,840 –> 00:26:29,400
God in prayer and say thanks
when my life’s going swimmingly.

497
00:26:30,760 –> 00:26:34,560
But when my back’s up against
the wall and I’m standing at the

498
00:26:34,560 –> 00:26:36,880
bottom of the barrel and
everything’s going at 100 miles

499
00:26:36,880 –> 00:26:41,360
an hour and I’m out of control.
And I don’t like being out out

500
00:26:41,360 –> 00:26:42,760
of control.
And I don’t know what’s going to

501
00:26:42,760 –> 00:26:44,880
happen next or what the
solutions to my problems might

502
00:26:44,880 –> 00:26:47,520
be.
Saying thank you to God for

503
00:26:47,520 –> 00:26:50,200
those moments, those
circumstances, those experiences

504
00:26:50,680 –> 00:26:53,840
tends to require a discipline in
my mind that I sometimes

505
00:26:53,840 –> 00:26:57,280
struggle to rise to.
And there’s a fine example in

506
00:26:57,280 –> 00:26:59,080
the Old Testament.
We won’t turn to it now because,

507
00:26:59,400 –> 00:27:00,720
as ever, the clock is against
me.

508
00:27:00,720 –> 00:27:05,640
Do you remember Daniel?
A man who was at least 80 years

509
00:27:05,640 –> 00:27:09,440
old, if not more, discovered
that he was going to get thrown

510
00:27:09,440 –> 00:27:13,120
to the lions.
He was going to spend a night in

511
00:27:13,120 –> 00:27:15,840
the lions den.
For all he knew, it might be his

512
00:27:15,840 –> 00:27:19,520
last night and when he.
Knew that was going to happen.

513
00:27:19,520 –> 00:27:23,240
His instinct was to open his
window there in Babylon towards

514
00:27:23,240 –> 00:27:25,800
Jerusalem.
And he got down on his knees and

515
00:27:25,800 –> 00:27:29,680
he prayed 3 times a day and the
record says like he always did.

516
00:27:31,080 –> 00:27:34,400
And the only thing we’re told
about that prayer of Daniel was

517
00:27:34,400 –> 00:27:37,160
that he said thanks.
That’s all we’re told about it.

518
00:27:38,840 –> 00:27:42,720
And I, I admire that man greater
than he’ll ever know for that

519
00:27:42,720 –> 00:27:46,320
prayer.
I don’t know how you would feel,

520
00:27:46,320 –> 00:27:48,080
Bren sisters, knowing you were
about to be thrown to the lions,

521
00:27:48,080 –> 00:27:50,400
getting down on your knees and
saying, well, do you know what,

522
00:27:50,480 –> 00:27:54,880
Father?
I thank you for all that you do

523
00:27:54,880 –> 00:27:56,400
for me.
And I’d be racking my brains,

524
00:27:56,400 –> 00:27:58,880
even if I was saying the words,
I’d be thinking, what has he

525
00:27:58,880 –> 00:28:00,600
done for me?
I’m about to be thrown to the

526
00:28:00,600 –> 00:28:03,880
lions.
And here was the Lord Jesus

527
00:28:03,880 –> 00:28:08,160
Christ, Bren Sisters, in the
upper room with these men giving

528
00:28:08,160 –> 00:28:13,120
thanks for the bread that was a
representation of his body that

529
00:28:13,120 –> 00:28:16,440
he’d absolutely given
unflinchingly in service for

530
00:28:16,440 –> 00:28:18,840
these men.
And he could say thank you for

531
00:28:18,840 –> 00:28:21,160
it.
That’s what it means.

532
00:28:21,160 –> 00:28:25,240
Brent is in your life.
To, to do this in remembrance of

533
00:28:25,240 –> 00:28:29,000
him that you, that you elevate
your mind and your thinking and

534
00:28:29,000 –> 00:28:31,720
the way in which you approach
your life and the perspective

535
00:28:31,720 –> 00:28:34,520
that you bring to bear on the
different circumstances that you

536
00:28:34,520 –> 00:28:36,320
go through.
So that even when your back is

537
00:28:36,320 –> 00:28:38,720
up against the wall, you can sit
down.

538
00:28:38,800 –> 00:28:41,800
You can take a piece of bread.
And you can remember a man who,

539
00:28:41,800 –> 00:28:44,520
even when his back should have
been never more pinned against

540
00:28:44,520 –> 00:28:49,480
the wall, could go to prayer in
prayer to his Father with a word

541
00:28:49,480 –> 00:28:52,120
of thanks.
That that blows my mind.

542
00:28:53,440 –> 00:28:57,160
And he did it twice.
This cup is the New Testament in

543
00:28:57,160 –> 00:29:00,640
my blood, which has been poured
out for you.

544
00:29:01,760 –> 00:29:04,480
And he gave thanks.
I have to tell you, Brin

545
00:29:04,480 –> 00:29:08,360
sisters, if that’d have been me,
I’m not sure it would have been

546
00:29:08,360 –> 00:29:11,960
a prayer of thankfulness.
I would have been racking my

547
00:29:11,960 –> 00:29:15,440
brains to wonder all the reasons
why God had made me, of all

548
00:29:15,440 –> 00:29:18,040
people, go through this.
Why?

549
00:29:18,040 –> 00:29:19,080
What?
Was there no other?

550
00:29:19,080 –> 00:29:22,560
Way that he could.
Save men and women from their

551
00:29:22,560 –> 00:29:25,960
worst fate than putting me
through all of these things for

552
00:29:25,960 –> 00:29:29,800
their sake when there was no
justified reason for me going

553
00:29:29,800 –> 00:29:31,680
through it.
It would have been fine for you

554
00:29:31,680 –> 00:29:33,520
to go through it, no problem.
You deserved.

555
00:29:33,520 –> 00:29:37,640
It I, I don’t deserve it.
And yet for the Lord Jesus

556
00:29:37,640 –> 00:29:40,160
Christ, for instance, it was a
prayer of great thankfulness and

557
00:29:40,160 –> 00:29:44,440
gratitude to God that He could
be the one who could do this for

558
00:29:44,440 –> 00:29:48,240
you and for me.
And He asked us to do the same

559
00:29:48,280 –> 00:29:50,800
in remembrance of Him.
He asked to, He asked us to

560
00:29:50,800 –> 00:29:54,440
elevate our mind and our
thinking and our attitude in our

561
00:29:54,440 –> 00:29:58,320
daily living.
If we want to demonstrate that

562
00:29:58,320 –> 00:30:01,160
we’ve remembered we’ve been
there in the presence of the

563
00:30:01,160 –> 00:30:03,160
Lord Jesus Christ.
When we took that bread and when

564
00:30:03,160 –> 00:30:06,440
we sipped from that cup, we
recognised that there was a

565
00:30:06,440 –> 00:30:09,760
challenge being made in our life
and in the way we think and in

566
00:30:09,760 –> 00:30:13,360
our response to our everyday
circumstances, from having been

567
00:30:13,360 –> 00:30:18,600
there and witnessed His
demeanour and his state of mind.

568
00:30:18,640 –> 00:30:20,880
Come with me brother and
sisters, to One Peter chapter 2.

569
00:30:29,000 –> 00:30:34,840
I want to finish this morning
with with a another look at the

570
00:30:34,840 –> 00:30:37,480
mind of the Lord Jesus Christ so
that we can understand what it

571
00:30:37,480 –> 00:30:42,640
means.
To do as he has done that we can

572
00:30:42,640 –> 00:30:45,320
understand what the challenge
looks like in our daily living.

573
00:30:45,800 –> 00:30:48,800
To try and follow his example,
what it means to put our bodies

574
00:30:48,800 –> 00:30:53,040
into his service, what it means
to pour out our lives as he did

575
00:30:53,040 –> 00:30:57,560
into that cup for us if we
really want to do and remember

576
00:30:57,560 –> 00:30:59,040
him.
What, what does that look like

577
00:30:59,040 –> 00:31:03,000
in our in our daily living and
here in one Peter?

578
00:31:03,000 –> 00:31:06,040
Chapter 2 Peter begins to give
us an insight into what that

579
00:31:06,040 –> 00:31:07,600
might mean and what it might
look like.

580
00:31:08,160 –> 00:31:11,160
One Peter chapter 2 and verse
21.

581
00:31:17,350 –> 00:31:20,110
For this is what you’ve been
called to, says Peter.

582
00:31:20,910 –> 00:31:23,190
Because Christ also suffered for
you.

583
00:31:24,240 –> 00:31:29,040
Leaving you an example that you
should follow in his steps.

584
00:31:29,880 –> 00:31:34,560
Who did no sin, neither was
guile found in his mouth.

585
00:31:34,560 –> 00:31:37,840
I just want to stop there and
think about the challenge of the

586
00:31:37,840 –> 00:31:40,760
apostle Peter in those words.
This is what you’ve been called

587
00:31:40,760 –> 00:31:43,840
to.
He says Christ suffered for you.

588
00:31:44,320 –> 00:31:47,520
Leaving you an example that you
should follow in his steps.

589
00:31:47,520 –> 00:31:51,320
There was some suffering that
the Lord Jesus Christ endured

590
00:31:51,640 –> 00:31:54,600
that he wants you to have a go
at in your daily living.

591
00:31:55,640 –> 00:31:59,120
He can’t mean the cross, can he?
The suffering that the apostle

592
00:31:59,120 –> 00:32:02,560
Peter is referring to, there
can’t be the cross because he’s

593
00:32:02,560 –> 00:32:06,360
saying he wants us to have a go
at following in his footsteps

594
00:32:06,560 –> 00:32:08,000
and he doesn’t ask us to do
that.

595
00:32:08,000 –> 00:32:10,760
That’s the absolute wonder
brains sisters of the Lord Jesus

596
00:32:10,760 –> 00:32:12,560
Christ.
He never asked us to go to

597
00:32:12,560 –> 00:32:16,880
Calvary with him.
He did that for us, but there is

598
00:32:16,880 –> 00:32:20,080
some suffering the Lord asked us
to experience in our life, asked

599
00:32:20,080 –> 00:32:23,480
us to be willing to have a go at
some example that He wants us to

600
00:32:23,480 –> 00:32:27,800
follow, that we can do.
This is what you’ve been called

601
00:32:27,800 –> 00:32:30,280
to, says Peter.
Christ suffered for you, leaving

602
00:32:30,280 –> 00:32:33,280
you an example that you should
follow in his steps.

603
00:32:33,480 –> 00:32:35,560
And here’s the example.
Here’s the slap in the face that

604
00:32:35,560 –> 00:32:37,040
the Apostle Peter’s now going to
give you.

605
00:32:37,680 –> 00:32:44,680
Verse 22 Who did know sin?
That’s the example.

606
00:32:44,680 –> 00:32:46,600
He wants you to have a go at
following.

607
00:32:47,360 –> 00:32:50,800
He doesn’t expect you to achieve
it, but he wants you to have a

608
00:32:50,800 –> 00:32:54,000
go now Brent, this is in your
daily living.

609
00:32:55,200 –> 00:32:57,200
Here’s a challenge for you.
If you’ve never tried it before,

610
00:32:57,200 –> 00:33:00,240
try having a sinless.
Day, just give it a go.

611
00:33:01,160 –> 00:33:04,320
Try getting up in the morning
and thinking today I am going to

612
00:33:04,320 –> 00:33:07,600
have a go at a sinless day.
One day in my life.

613
00:33:07,960 –> 00:33:12,600
One day when my thoughts, when I
would not be ashamed in the

614
00:33:12,600 –> 00:33:15,120
presence of the Lord Jesus
Christ to have him know all the

615
00:33:15,120 –> 00:33:18,320
things I think today.
I would not have the Lord Jesus

616
00:33:18,320 –> 00:33:22,920
Christ ashamed in my life today
by anything that I say, anything

617
00:33:22,920 –> 00:33:26,600
that I do, any place that I go,
anything that I allow my mind to

618
00:33:26,600 –> 00:33:29,360
dwell upon or think.
You know, in those instinct

619
00:33:29,360 –> 00:33:32,720
moments when something happens
and we go, you know, I’m going

620
00:33:32,720 –> 00:33:34,840
to try and control it.
I’m going to try and take

621
00:33:34,840 –> 00:33:38,320
possession of my mind and my
body and I’m going to try and

622
00:33:38,320 –> 00:33:43,560
have a sinless day.
And well, it’s 10:30.

623
00:33:44,040 –> 00:33:46,960
If today had been the day, I
wonder how we would be doing,

624
00:33:47,560 –> 00:33:51,320
You know, and that’s the
challenge when, sisters, the

625
00:33:51,320 –> 00:33:55,160
Lord Jesus Christ wants us to
have a go at doing this is what

626
00:33:55,160 –> 00:33:58,880
you’ve been called to because
Christ suffered for you, leaving

627
00:33:58,880 –> 00:34:02,200
you an example that you should
follow in his steps.

628
00:34:02,200 –> 00:34:06,320
Who did know sin?
That’s the example.

629
00:34:08,080 –> 00:34:10,840
Suffering that Christ endured,
Brentsis is to be an example to

630
00:34:10,880 –> 00:34:12,560
us.
There is some suffering we can

631
00:34:12,560 –> 00:34:16,120
have a go at doing for his sake.
The example we are to follow is

632
00:34:16,120 –> 00:34:19,320
His desire to do no sin.
And I wonder, Brents, is if this

633
00:34:19,320 –> 00:34:23,600
is the do in Luke 22.
This bread is my body which I’ve

634
00:34:23,600 –> 00:34:26,679
given for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

635
00:34:27,400 –> 00:34:31,480
This is what you’ve been called
to that Christ suffered for you.

636
00:34:32,320 –> 00:34:34,760
Leaving you an example that you
should follow in his steps.

637
00:34:34,760 –> 00:34:35,400
And what?
We’re going to.

638
00:34:35,400 –> 00:34:39,320
Discover Brent sisters is just
in our last 10 minutes or so is

639
00:34:39,320 –> 00:34:42,520
that the suffering the Lord
Jesus endured in his desire to

640
00:34:42,520 –> 00:34:45,840
do no sin.
I’m going to suggest to you just

641
00:34:45,840 –> 00:34:48,880
just for the purpose of our
class this morning was greater

642
00:34:48,880 –> 00:34:51,280
and more painful than any nail
they could have driven into his

643
00:34:51,280 –> 00:34:54,520
body.
And if you try having a sinless

644
00:34:54,520 –> 00:34:58,400
day just for one day, you’ll
discover how painful that was

645
00:34:58,400 –> 00:35:02,480
for the Lord Jesus Christ to do
that unflinchingly for 33 1/2

646
00:35:02,480 –> 00:35:05,720
years.
And that’s the suffering, Brent

647
00:35:05,720 –> 00:35:08,960
sisters, that’s the example that
you and I have been called to

648
00:35:09,040 –> 00:35:15,520
not Calvary this this suffering
coming into Hebrews chapter 5

649
00:35:15,520 –> 00:35:19,160
just back a few pages.
Let’s see how this develops.

650
00:35:27,590 –> 00:35:29,470
Let’s see how.
Much it meant to the Lord Jesus

651
00:35:29,470 –> 00:35:31,390
Christ, and I’m not going to
take you this morning to any

652
00:35:31,390 –> 00:35:33,550
words that you don’t.
I’m guessing you don’t know

653
00:35:33,550 –> 00:35:36,800
really well.
Hebrews chapter 5 and verse 7.

654
00:35:36,800 –> 00:35:41,760
Who in the days of his flesh,
when he had offered up prayers

655
00:35:41,760 –> 00:35:47,280
and supplications with strong
crying and tears unto him, that

656
00:35:47,280 –> 00:35:50,680
was able to save him from death,
and was heard in that he feared

657
00:35:51,560 –> 00:35:56,240
though he was a son, yet he
learned obedience by the things

658
00:35:56,240 –> 00:35:59,880
which he suffered, and being
made perfect, he became the

659
00:35:59,880 –> 00:36:02,680
author of eternal salvation and
to all them that obey him.

660
00:36:03,320 –> 00:36:06,080
I find that an absolutely lovely
insight.

661
00:36:06,080 –> 00:36:08,680
Brenthus is into the mind and
the life of the Lord Jesus

662
00:36:08,680 –> 00:36:11,320
Christ.
What it’s telling us is that he

663
00:36:11,320 –> 00:36:14,920
didn’t find it easy.
First of all, he ended up on his

664
00:36:14,920 –> 00:36:18,880
knees in prayer with strong
crying and tears.

665
00:36:19,320 –> 00:36:22,080
I don’t know how many times in
your life when you’ve.

666
00:36:22,120 –> 00:36:24,880
Felt the need to pray.
It’s been on your knees with

667
00:36:24,880 –> 00:36:27,680
strong crying and tears.
I can.

668
00:36:27,680 –> 00:36:29,680
Maybe I can.
Well, I don’t know.

669
00:36:29,680 –> 00:36:31,800
Maybe it’s on one hand, isn’t
it?

670
00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:37,320
I guess for me if that strong
crying and tears because.

671
00:36:37,320 –> 00:36:40,200
It meant that.
Much it was that important to me

672
00:36:41,560 –> 00:36:43,480
and what it.
Tells us is that even though he

673
00:36:43,480 –> 00:36:47,400
was the Son of God, verse 8, the
Lord Jesus Christ had to learn

674
00:36:47,400 –> 00:36:50,520
obedience just like all of us
have to do in our lives.

675
00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,280
The Lord Jesus was no different.
He had to learn obedience to His

676
00:36:54,280 –> 00:36:56,600
Father, and yet this was the
method.

677
00:36:57,000 –> 00:37:00,160
He lured obedience by the things
which he suffered.

678
00:37:00,760 –> 00:37:03,240
Now, Brendan, sis, I wanted to
ask you to go back in your minds

679
00:37:03,520 –> 00:37:07,120
and remember, however it was you
learned obedience in your lives,

680
00:37:07,120 –> 00:37:10,000
what the method was.
And if you’ve been watching us

681
00:37:10,000 –> 00:37:12,320
with Elias this week or any of
the other families with

682
00:37:12,320 –> 00:37:15,640
children, you have a very visual
example right there in front of

683
00:37:15,640 –> 00:37:17,880
you.
How do you learn obedience?

684
00:37:18,040 –> 00:37:19,880
How do any of us learn
obedience?

685
00:37:20,160 –> 00:37:22,520
Sure, we learn through
suffering, but we learn through

686
00:37:22,520 –> 00:37:26,520
trial and error, don’t we?
We spend our lives, you know, as

687
00:37:26,520 –> 00:37:28,800
children.
And mum and Dad say, don’t touch

688
00:37:28,800 –> 00:37:29,600
that.
It’s hot.

689
00:37:30,040 –> 00:37:33,360
And what you discover is until
baby has touched the hot thing,

690
00:37:33,840 –> 00:37:38,800
he never really knows what
obedience feels like, OK, how it

691
00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:41,280
doesn’t matter how many times
Mum says, I don’t want you to go

692
00:37:41,280 –> 00:37:42,760
there.
I don’t want you to pick that

693
00:37:42,760 –> 00:37:45,240
up.
That knife will cut you until

694
00:37:45,320 –> 00:37:48,800
you know blood is flowing, until
bruises are showing.

695
00:37:49,040 –> 00:37:53,480
What you discover is that that’s
tends to be the way human nature

696
00:37:53,560 –> 00:37:59,720
learns, learns obedience.
You learn by trial and error and

697
00:37:59,720 –> 00:38:01,880
what I, what I’ve discovered,
and again, here’s confession

698
00:38:01,880 –> 00:38:03,480
time.
It doesn’t change as we get

699
00:38:03,480 –> 00:38:04,680
older, does it?
It gets a bit more

700
00:38:04,840 –> 00:38:06,200
sophisticated.
That’s all.

701
00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:08,640
So as we get older, we spend our
lives going.

702
00:38:08,640 –> 00:38:13,240
I wish I’d not said that.
If I had my time again, I, I

703
00:38:13,240 –> 00:38:15,960
wouldn’t have done that.
That decision wasn’t good.

704
00:38:16,440 –> 00:38:19,080
I understand the problems that
came in my life from having made

705
00:38:19,080 –> 00:38:21,840
that choice.
I wished I’d not dealt with that

706
00:38:21,840 –> 00:38:24,720
person in that way.
And if I had my time again, I, I

707
00:38:24,720 –> 00:38:26,200
would, I would do that
differently.

708
00:38:26,960 –> 00:38:29,480
And we learn by trial and error
every single day.

709
00:38:29,880 –> 00:38:32,400
And I suppose the challenge of
adulthood, which I’m one day

710
00:38:32,400 –> 00:38:35,480
going to master, is to get to
the point where you, where you

711
00:38:35,520 –> 00:38:38,280
actually do what you say you’re
not going to do anymore.

712
00:38:38,440 –> 00:38:39,640
I’m not going to do that again.
I’m not.

713
00:38:39,640 –> 00:38:41,440
Going to say that again, I’m not
going to make that mistake

714
00:38:41,440 –> 00:38:43,560
again.
And one day, apparently my mum

715
00:38:43,560 –> 00:38:46,280
tells me, you get to a point
where you stop making the same

716
00:38:46,280 –> 00:38:49,080
mistakes over and over again.
Because finally.

717
00:38:49,080 –> 00:38:51,400
You’ve learnt that they’re,
they’re bad things, They don’t

718
00:38:51,400 –> 00:38:53,400
help your life, they don’t help
those around you.

719
00:38:53,400 –> 00:38:55,200
And one day you learn to stop
doing it.

720
00:38:56,680 –> 00:38:59,520
The Lord Jesus Christ, Princess,
couldn’t learn obedience that

721
00:38:59,520 –> 00:39:05,000
way, didn’t have the freedom to
learn that way, couldn’t go

722
00:39:05,000 –> 00:39:08,240
through life by going well.
Wished I’d not done that, wished

723
00:39:08,240 –> 00:39:10,760
I’d not said that, wished I’d
not been there.

724
00:39:11,320 –> 00:39:12,960
I wouldn’t have.
I wouldn’t make that choice

725
00:39:12,960 –> 00:39:17,160
again if I had my time again.
Jesus didn’t have his time

726
00:39:17,160 –> 00:39:20,680
again.
Jesus couldn’t learn obedience

727
00:39:20,680 –> 00:39:24,800
that way, couldn’t learn by
bumbling through life, making

728
00:39:25,080 –> 00:39:30,920
mistake here and error there,
Had to learn obedience by a

729
00:39:30,920 –> 00:39:34,400
different kind of suffering.
And the suffering that the Lord

730
00:39:34,800 –> 00:39:38,160
experienced, for instance, is
that taught him obedience, I

731
00:39:38,160 –> 00:39:41,200
suspect was probably different
to the suffering that teaches

732
00:39:41,200 –> 00:39:42,720
His obedience.
Come back with me just a couple

733
00:39:42,720 –> 00:39:53,080
of pages to Hebrews chapter 2.
Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 10

734
00:39:53,800 –> 00:39:58,000
For it became him for whom are
all things and by whom are all

735
00:39:58,000 –> 00:40:01,560
things, in bringing many sons
into glory to make the captain

736
00:40:01,560 –> 00:40:04,840
of their salvation perfect
through suffering.

737
00:40:05,560 –> 00:40:07,480
What was the suffering, Brent?
This is that the Lord Jesus

738
00:40:07,480 –> 00:40:10,320
experienced that made him
perfect.

739
00:40:11,160 –> 00:40:13,720
I I don’t believe the right here
is talking about Calvary.

740
00:40:13,720 –> 00:40:15,640
That wasn’t the suffering that
made him perfect.

741
00:40:16,040 –> 00:40:18,560
That wasn’t the suffering that
made him sinless, A faultless

742
00:40:18,560 –> 00:40:21,280
man, a man who went through
every day not learning by

743
00:40:21,480 –> 00:40:24,840
mistake, by faults, by by poor
experience.

744
00:40:25,320 –> 00:40:27,800
What was the suffering that the
Lord Jesus endured, bun sisters,

745
00:40:27,800 –> 00:40:30,320
that made him perfect?
This is the example we’re being

746
00:40:30,320 –> 00:40:33,120
challenged to follow.
Verse 18.

747
00:40:34,000 –> 00:40:40,400
For in that He himself hath
suffered being tempted, He’s

748
00:40:40,400 –> 00:40:42,720
able to succor them that are
tempted.

749
00:40:43,560 –> 00:40:45,560
The suffering that the Lord
Jesus experienced.

750
00:40:45,560 –> 00:40:48,560
Princess, it sounds really
simple when you just read this

751
00:40:48,560 –> 00:40:50,120
verse.
The suffering the Lord

752
00:40:50,120 –> 00:40:53,240
experienced was temptation.
And you go, Oh yeah, I know what

753
00:40:53,240 –> 00:40:55,080
that’s like.
I, I, I know what temptation

754
00:40:55,080 –> 00:40:57,400
means.
Of course we do, because we give

755
00:40:57,400 –> 00:41:00,880
in to it every day.
I can overcome everything except

756
00:41:00,880 –> 00:41:04,480
temptation, right?
That’s I, you know, anything.

757
00:41:04,480 –> 00:41:06,440
I can overcome anything except
temptation.

758
00:41:07,720 –> 00:41:10,960
And the Lord Jesus Christ had to
and the suffering that he

759
00:41:10,960 –> 00:41:15,000
endured, Bren Sisters, was every
time you and I think, oh, I, I

760
00:41:15,000 –> 00:41:16,960
wished I’d not done that.
I wished I’d not said that I

761
00:41:16,960 –> 00:41:19,240
wished I’d not been there.
The suffering the Lord Jesus

762
00:41:19,240 –> 00:41:20,640
Christ had to experience was
this.

763
00:41:21,160 –> 00:41:23,360
I need to think now about what I
am going to say.

764
00:41:24,680 –> 00:41:26,880
I need to think now about where
I am going to go.

765
00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:30,200
I need to think about who I am
going to be and what I am going

766
00:41:30,200 –> 00:41:32,800
to say and how I am going to
think and what I am going to do.

767
00:41:33,080 –> 00:41:36,280
I need to have such a a
discipline and a control over my

768
00:41:36,280 –> 00:41:39,440
mind and my body.
That I don’t look back in 5

769
00:41:39,440 –> 00:41:41,520
minutes time going.
I’ve lost it.

770
00:41:41,560 –> 00:41:44,680
It’s gone.
That moment of sinlessness that

771
00:41:44,680 –> 00:41:47,520
I’m, that I’m aiming for, for
you and for me is gone.

772
00:41:48,680 –> 00:41:50,080
Just like that.
Just so easy.

773
00:41:50,080 –> 00:41:53,680
Sin, sin to you and I, Brent and
sisters, costs nothing.

774
00:41:54,720 –> 00:41:58,320
Because we can, we can go and
pray to God on a daily basis and

775
00:41:58,320 –> 00:42:02,440
God’s mercy is rich to forgive
us and to make up our our

776
00:42:02,440 –> 00:42:06,440
weaknesses and our shortcomings.
Sin meant a lot more to the Lord

777
00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:09,080
Jesus Christ.
He couldn’t afford to do it or

778
00:42:09,080 –> 00:42:11,640
have it in his life for you and
for me.

779
00:42:11,640 –> 00:42:14,200
And he asked us to engage Brent.
This is in that process.

780
00:42:14,960 –> 00:42:17,320
This is what you’ve been called
to, says the apostle Peter.

781
00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:21,320
The example of the Lord Jesus
Christ to engage in his

782
00:42:21,320 –> 00:42:23,280
sufferings that you might follow
in His steps.

783
00:42:23,520 –> 00:42:28,160
A man who.
Did no sin, this bread is my

784
00:42:28,160 –> 00:42:32,080
body which I have given for you.
This do in remembrance of me.

785
00:42:32,080 –> 00:42:35,560
Have a girl.
Have a go at elevating your mind

786
00:42:35,560 –> 00:42:37,760
and your thinking.
Have a go at taking greater

787
00:42:37,760 –> 00:42:40,640
control of your life for my
sake.

788
00:42:40,800 –> 00:42:43,480
If you really want to Remember
Me, if you really want to

789
00:42:43,480 –> 00:42:46,440
demonstrate your understanding
of what I’ve done for you, then

790
00:42:46,440 –> 00:42:48,240
you have a go at doing it for
me.

791
00:42:50,400 –> 00:42:52,280
Come over to Matthew 4 really
quickly.

792
00:42:54,920 –> 00:42:57,200
The writer of the Hebrew says
that the the suffering the Lord

793
00:42:57,200 –> 00:43:00,480
Jesus experienced was by being
tempted.

794
00:43:01,400 –> 00:43:03,600
And I suggested to you a moment
ago, Bren Sisters, that that was

795
00:43:03,600 –> 00:43:08,600
a greater it was it felt like
greater pain to the Lord Jesus

796
00:43:08,600 –> 00:43:11,720
Christ than any nail driven
through his body.

797
00:43:13,400 –> 00:43:16,840
And as you know, in in what we
classically call the temptations

798
00:43:16,840 –> 00:43:19,720
of Jesus.
Well, in a way it’s defined for

799
00:43:19,720 –> 00:43:22,360
us what that suffering felt like
and what it meant to the Lord

800
00:43:22,440 –> 00:43:24,520
Jesus.
And again, you know this scene

801
00:43:24,520 –> 00:43:26,480
ever so well.
Jesus verse one was led up of

802
00:43:26,480 –> 00:43:29,320
the spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted of the devil.

803
00:43:29,320 –> 00:43:33,320
And when he’d fasted 40 days and
40 nights, he was hungry.

804
00:43:33,880 –> 00:43:35,040
It’s not really surprising, is
it?

805
00:43:35,040 –> 00:43:37,600
We made comments about the food
at Bible school yesterday.

806
00:43:37,920 –> 00:43:39,520
Well, here’s another one.
We have.

807
00:43:39,520 –> 00:43:41,960
No, we have.
We struggle to stand in the

808
00:43:41,960 –> 00:43:44,480
Lord’s sandals in this moment in
the wilderness, don’t we?

809
00:43:44,680 –> 00:43:47,640
We don’t go for like more than
three hours without eating food.

810
00:43:48,520 –> 00:43:51,760
If you’ve ever tried going for
40 days without food, you’ll

811
00:43:51,760 –> 00:43:54,240
know what it does to your mind.
It makes everything just feel a

812
00:43:54,240 –> 00:43:56,080
little shaky.
I’m not telling you that from

813
00:43:56,080 –> 00:43:58,120
experience.
Maybe just a day or two without

814
00:43:58,120 –> 00:44:02,880
food and all of a sudden your
perspective starts to go and the

815
00:44:02,880 –> 00:44:08,160
Lord hasn’t eaten for 40 days.
And the tempter came to him and

816
00:44:08,160 –> 00:44:11,440
said if you are the Son of God,
command that these stones be

817
00:44:11,440 –> 00:44:15,320
made bread and right there
bread.

818
00:44:15,320 –> 00:44:18,640
And sisters, in that verse
you’ve heard what the real

819
00:44:18,640 –> 00:44:20,520
temptation was for the Lord
Jesus Christ.

820
00:44:20,520 –> 00:44:22,080
I don’t know if you ever noticed
it before.

821
00:44:22,360 –> 00:44:24,440
It wasn’t to make stones into
bread.

822
00:44:25,280 –> 00:44:27,760
It was deeper than that.
Read it carefully.

823
00:44:29,000 –> 00:44:34,280
When the tempter came to him,
verse 3, it said to him, if you

824
00:44:34,360 –> 00:44:41,400
are the Son of God, that was the
temptation bred and sisters it

825
00:44:41,400 –> 00:44:42,480
wasn’t.
The the the.

826
00:44:42,640 –> 00:44:45,120
The stones to bread was the
secondary issue.

827
00:44:45,640 –> 00:44:49,640
The real challenge, the
temptation was, if you are the

828
00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:52,960
Son of God, are you really the
Son of God?

829
00:44:53,320 –> 00:44:56,120
Do you really?
Think Jesus of Nazareth, son of

830
00:44:56,120 –> 00:44:58,280
Mary and Joseph is the Son of
God.

831
00:44:58,720 –> 00:45:00,360
And you think about that,
brethren, sisters, for a moment,

832
00:45:00,360 –> 00:45:02,560
and you put yourself in the
Lord’s shoes and you think,

833
00:45:02,560 –> 00:45:06,560
well, I would have been
thinking, yeah, am I, am I

834
00:45:06,560 –> 00:45:10,200
really the Son of God?
I mean, I remember hearing it as

835
00:45:10,200 –> 00:45:12,240
I came out of the Jordan.
Just look back at the last verse

836
00:45:12,240 –> 00:45:14,760
of, of chapter 3.
A voice came from heaven saying,

837
00:45:14,920 –> 00:45:17,720
this is my beloved son in whom I
am well pleased.

838
00:45:17,920 –> 00:45:20,760
And it was, it was as if all
heaven was ringing with the

839
00:45:20,760 –> 00:45:23,480
words, this is my beloved son in
whom I am well pleased.

840
00:45:23,720 –> 00:45:27,200
That was six weeks ago and you
haven’t eaten a meal since.

841
00:45:28,520 –> 00:45:31,200
And now the challenge in your
mind is this, Are you really the

842
00:45:31,200 –> 00:45:33,480
Son of God?
Do you really think you’re the

843
00:45:33,480 –> 00:45:35,560
Son of God?
Do you really think that when

844
00:45:35,560 –> 00:45:38,240
you’re hanging there on the
stake with nails through your

845
00:45:38,240 –> 00:45:41,000
wrists and your ankles that God
is really going to come and

846
00:45:41,000 –> 00:45:43,640
raise you from the dead?
Do you really believe that?

847
00:45:44,960 –> 00:45:46,200
Have you ever had those days,
Brent?

848
00:45:46,200 –> 00:45:47,720
This is where you just think to
yourself, do you know what?

849
00:45:47,720 –> 00:45:49,920
I’ve lost my mind.
I don’t know what I’m doing.

850
00:45:50,400 –> 00:45:53,040
This whole thing that I’ve been
learning since I was a kid, the

851
00:45:53,040 –> 00:45:55,640
the, the belief that one day the
Lord Jesus Christ is going to

852
00:45:55,640 –> 00:45:58,000
come back, that there’s going to
be an everlasting Kingdom of, of

853
00:45:58,000 –> 00:45:59,680
righteousness and and peace on
this earth.

854
00:45:59,680 –> 00:46:02,840
That’s that’s ridiculous.
I must be losing my mind have.

855
00:46:03,200 –> 00:46:06,280
You ever had one of those days?
Brains, sisters, Johnny Munnell?

856
00:46:06,280 –> 00:46:07,880
Do you really think this is all
true?

857
00:46:07,880 –> 00:46:09,600
Do you really think that one day
this is actually going to

858
00:46:09,600 –> 00:46:11,720
happen?
You think Jesus didn’t have

859
00:46:11,720 –> 00:46:16,840
those days?
If you are the Son of God, if

860
00:46:16,840 –> 00:46:21,400
you really think you are the Son
of God, go on, prove it, test

861
00:46:21,400 –> 00:46:25,960
it, give me the evidence.
Can you imagine when, sisters,

862
00:46:25,960 –> 00:46:30,440
how that would have weighed on
the Lord’s mind, knowing that he

863
00:46:30,440 –> 00:46:31,760
was going to have to hang on a
cross?

864
00:46:31,760 –> 00:46:35,680
Wouldn’t it be good to jump off
the pinnacle of the temple and

865
00:46:35,680 –> 00:46:39,920
just feel the angels beneath his
feet so that when he did have to

866
00:46:39,920 –> 00:46:42,840
go on the cross, he would have
some confidence that the Lord

867
00:46:42,840 –> 00:46:45,200
will be there?
He wouldn’t need to rely

868
00:46:45,200 –> 00:46:49,080
entirely on his faith and his
understanding of all the things

869
00:46:49,080 –> 00:46:51,240
his mother has been teaching him
all these years.

870
00:46:51,640 –> 00:46:55,400
If you are the Son of God, I
don’t know about you, brother

871
00:46:55,400 –> 00:46:57,600
and sisters, but I don’t think
we’ve ever been tempted in that

872
00:46:57,600 –> 00:47:01,480
way ever.
And the Lord found that

873
00:47:01,480 –> 00:47:05,440
suffering.
If you are the Son of God every

874
00:47:05,440 –> 00:47:07,800
day of his life, do you really
think you need to do this,

875
00:47:07,840 –> 00:47:09,760
Jesus?
Do you really need to think you

876
00:47:09,760 –> 00:47:12,560
need to live in this way and put
yourself under this sense of

877
00:47:12,920 –> 00:47:15,080
discipline and constriction in
your life?

878
00:47:15,080 –> 00:47:17,360
Do you really think that’s
that’s really going to make an

879
00:47:17,360 –> 00:47:19,040
eternal difference for these
people?

880
00:47:20,920 –> 00:47:23,480
And Genobran says it mattered so
much to the Lord that he ended

881
00:47:23,480 –> 00:47:29,280
up on his knees in prayer with
strong crying and tears because

882
00:47:29,280 –> 00:47:32,360
not sinning to the Lord Jesus
Christ, not giving in to those

883
00:47:32,360 –> 00:47:35,720
temptations affected him to that
extent.

884
00:47:36,600 –> 00:47:42,880
That’s suffering, that’s
suffering to to live your life

885
00:47:42,880 –> 00:47:46,080
under that level of discipline
and control for 33 years.

886
00:47:46,720 –> 00:47:50,520
That’s a challenge.
And that must have been painful

887
00:47:50,520 –> 00:47:53,760
for him.
And I’ve I don’t think I’ve ever

888
00:47:53,760 –> 00:47:56,680
got close Bren Sisters to that
in my life.

889
00:47:56,680 –> 00:47:59,240
And yet what the Lord Jesus is
asking us to do, Bren sisters,

890
00:47:59,640 –> 00:48:03,360
week by week, when we come and
take this bread and when we come

891
00:48:03,360 –> 00:48:07,720
and drink from his cup, He’s
asking us to do as He did for

892
00:48:07,720 –> 00:48:09,240
His sake.
Give it a go.

893
00:48:09,840 –> 00:48:14,040
Try and elevate your thinking in
your mind when you leave the

894
00:48:14,040 –> 00:48:17,160
memorial meeting on a Sunday or
whenever it might be, Try and

895
00:48:17,160 –> 00:48:21,080
give yourselves in service to
God to the greatest extent that

896
00:48:21,080 –> 00:48:22,920
you can.
Make it something that matters

897
00:48:22,920 –> 00:48:27,960
to you to discipline your lives
and give yourselves in service

898
00:48:27,960 –> 00:48:30,160
for Him.
Last reference Hebrews chapter

899
00:48:30,160 –> 00:48:49,530
12.
And again, you know these words

900
00:48:49,530 –> 00:48:53,690
ever so well.
Wherefore, seeing we also

901
00:48:53,690 –> 00:48:58,170
accomplished about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, let us lay

902
00:48:58,170 –> 00:49:03,810
aside every weight and the sin
which so easily besets us, and

903
00:49:03,810 –> 00:49:07,290
let us run with patience the
race that is set before us.

904
00:49:07,890 –> 00:49:11,240
I once heard a preacher telling
a story of, of a woman.

905
00:49:11,240 –> 00:49:13,120
I guess it was an American thing
because we don’t have them in

906
00:49:13,120 –> 00:49:16,440
our country.
This, this lady drove into up to

907
00:49:16,520 –> 00:49:19,320
her house and she had a number
of children and she saw her

908
00:49:19,320 –> 00:49:21,640
children sitting on the doorstep
playing with skunks.

909
00:49:22,560 –> 00:49:24,080
We don’t have skunks in our
country.

910
00:49:24,080 –> 00:49:26,560
So I’m relying on you to know
what that might be like.

911
00:49:27,160 –> 00:49:29,080
And she was horrified when she
saw it.

912
00:49:29,080 –> 00:49:32,560
And she jumped out of the car
and she said, run, children run,

913
00:49:32,560 –> 00:49:35,080
get away.
And each one of them picked up a

914
00:49:35,080 –> 00:49:41,200
skunk and ran and you know, Bren
sisters, the challenge in our

915
00:49:41,200 –> 00:49:47,040
life is sin is like that.
Let us lay aside every weight

916
00:49:47,840 –> 00:49:49,480
and the sin that besets us
instead of.

917
00:49:49,480 –> 00:49:52,640
Picking it up and running.
With it everywhere we go, let’s

918
00:49:52,640 –> 00:49:56,720
have a go at putting it down,
leaving it behind, instead of

919
00:49:56,720 –> 00:50:00,360
voluntarily carrying it with us
and taking it with us, looking

920
00:50:00,360 –> 00:50:01,920
unto Jesus.
And here’s the crux.

921
00:50:02,520 –> 00:50:06,280
Verse 2 The author and finisher
of our faith, who for the joy?

922
00:50:06,280 –> 00:50:09,800
That was set before him, endured
the cross, despising the shame

923
00:50:09,800 –> 00:50:11,960
and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God.

924
00:50:12,200 –> 00:50:15,240
And here’s the challenge, Brent.
This is for you and me for

925
00:50:15,240 –> 00:50:18,360
consider him.
Who endured such contradiction

926
00:50:18,360 –> 00:50:21,120
of sins against himself in case?
You ever get?

927
00:50:21,120 –> 00:50:24,360
Weary and faint in your minds.
In case you ever think Brent is

928
00:50:24,360 –> 00:50:27,360
in your life, you’ve suffered
more than anybody I know.

929
00:50:27,360 –> 00:50:28,640
We always feel like that, don’t
we?

930
00:50:28,640 –> 00:50:31,000
In our lives, when when the
chips are down and things are

931
00:50:31,000 –> 00:50:32,240
tough, you feel like nobody’s
ever.

932
00:50:32,240 –> 00:50:35,040
Gone through this, I’m the only
person who in this moment right

933
00:50:35,040 –> 00:50:39,120
now is feeling how I’m feeling.
And the apostle says, in case

934
00:50:39,120 –> 00:50:42,240
you ever feel that you’ve
suffered more than any, in case

935
00:50:42,240 –> 00:50:45,160
you ever feel that the
challenges and the sacrifices

936
00:50:45,160 –> 00:50:48,240
that are being laid on you in
your life and more than anybody

937
00:50:48,240 –> 00:50:51,800
else has ever had to bear, the
apostle says, consider him.

938
00:50:52,600 –> 00:50:55,080
That’s why we come to remember
Him week by week.

939
00:50:56,640 –> 00:51:00,160
You have not yet resisted unto
blood in your strife against

940
00:51:00,160 –> 00:51:02,680
sin.
Only the Lord ever had to do

941
00:51:02,680 –> 00:51:05,360
that, and He never calls us to
do that, brother and sisters,

942
00:51:05,360 –> 00:51:07,920
for His sake.
He never calls us to shed our

943
00:51:07,920 –> 00:51:14,320
blood in our battle with sin.
Some men have done it, but He

944
00:51:14,320 –> 00:51:19,920
doesn’t call us to it.
He just says, take, eat.

945
00:51:20,440 –> 00:51:25,160
This is my body which I have
given for you, not will give,

946
00:51:25,440 –> 00:51:29,160
not on the cross.
I have given this body for 33

947
00:51:29,160 –> 00:51:34,240
years in service for your sake.
And if you want to do something

948
00:51:34,240 –> 00:51:40,600
remembrance of me, then do this.
Give your body in service.

949
00:51:41,560 –> 00:51:43,400
You know it’s not without
coincidence Brent sisters that

950
00:51:43,400 –> 00:51:46,800
God said to Adam that in the
sweat of his face he would eat

951
00:51:46,800 –> 00:51:53,520
bread and for the Lord Jesus
Christ to eat that bread to give

952
00:51:53,520 –> 00:51:59,360
his body in service caused such
sweat on his brow that it was

953
00:51:59,360 –> 00:52:04,080
like great drops of blood and
Bren sisters in our lives.

954
00:52:04,360 –> 00:52:08,720
I’m not sure how often we break
a sweat in eating the bread from

955
00:52:08,720 –> 00:52:13,680
the Lord’s table.
This do in remembrance of me.

956
00:52:14,760 –> 00:52:18,160
But if I am to show, if I am to
declare, if I am to announce His

957
00:52:18,160 –> 00:52:22,240
death every time I eat this
bread and drink this cup, if I

958
00:52:22,240 –> 00:52:27,800
am to declare the Lord’s death,
then I must do an attempt to do

959
00:52:27,800 –> 00:52:31,280
and to attempt to elevate my
mind to strive to be as love

960
00:52:31,280 –> 00:52:35,040
master and as God governed in my
own life, knowing that in the

961
00:52:35,040 –> 00:52:38,000
failing and in the trying His
weakness will His.

962
00:52:38,000 –> 00:52:41,640
My weakness will still be made
perfect by His strength.

963
00:52:42,200 –> 00:52:45,200
And mate Libre, and says as week
by week, as we come, and as we

964
00:52:45,200 –> 00:52:49,040
take, and as we eat, and as we
drink, may we declare, may we

965
00:52:49,040 –> 00:52:53,200
announce, may we preach the
Lord’s death till he come.