Maunday Thursday 03/28/2024

First Baptist Church Leominster

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Well, we hope to Keep our service to within an hour or so.

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That's that's the plan or that's the hope this evening We'll be observing the Lord's Supper and we'll also consider our

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Lord's sufferings as prophesied in the Old Testament a Thousand years before the death of our

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Lord Jesus through the psalmist King David Psalm 22 And so let's pray and ask

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God's blessing upon our gathering, please Our father it's our great privilege to be able to gather together as your people on this evening this

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Maundy Thursday evening our God to observe to commemorate the

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Death of your son our Lord Jesus Christ So many Years ago our

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God 2 ,000 years ago. He gathered together with his disciples and observed that Passover meal and Instituted the

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Lord's Supper the communion service and Your people have been observing that service ever since and it's our joy our privilege to do so this evening

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We pray our God that you would help us to have Significant insight into the nature of your death your sufferings on our behalf

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Lord Jesus We pray our God that you would help us to see our sin and see the the glorious efficiency

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Lord Jesus of your suffering and death to atone for our sin because of its infinite worth and Lord as we come this evening we come as disciples of Jesus Christ Acknowledging our

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Lord our need for ongoing cleansing of sin That we might walk in sweet fellowship with you and with one another and so our

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God we ask that you would bless this evening we pray bless each of us who are gathering in Jesus name those of us who are disciples of Jesus Christ and Father we pray for anyone here.

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That may be a stranger to to Christ as Lord and Savior that this evening's

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Message and word our God would would reveal Jesus Christ and all his saving glory

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For we pray these things father in Jesus name Amen Amen Well the choir is going to begin for us this evening with a piece if you would please

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Oh Oh Oh Let's turn in our red hymnals, please to hymn number two five two

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When I survey the wondrous cross and let's stand and sing together, please two five two

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When I survey

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The cross On which the

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Prince of Glory Died my riches gain

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I count loss And For contempt on all my pride

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For See His hands,

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His feet, did there such love, and so rich a crown, were the whole rank that loves.

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Amen. Be seated, please. And let's open our Bibles to Psalm 22.

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Psalm 22 is a psalm written a thousand years before our

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Lord was crucified. It of course reflects the great sufferings that King David was enduring at that time, but the

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Holy Spirit, of course, moving upon David, He penned words that foretold and so beautifully portrayed the sufferings of our

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Lord Jesus in His crucifixion. At this time, we're just going to read the first 21 verses of Psalm 22.

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me?

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And from the words of my groaning, oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not hear.

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And in the night season, and I'm not silent. But you are holy, enthroned in the praises of Israel.

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Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted and you delivered them. They cried to you and were delivered.

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They trusted in you and were not ashamed. But I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised by the people.

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All those who see me ridicule me, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying he trusted in the

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Lord, let him rescue him. Let him deliver him since he delights in him.

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But you are he who took me out of the womb. You may be trust while on my mother's breasts.

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I was cast upon you from birth. From my mother's womb, you have been my God. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.

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Many bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. They gape at me with their mouths like a raging and roaring lion.

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I'm poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax.

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It is melted within me. My strength is dried up like a posture and my tongue clings to my jaws.

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You have brought me to the dust of death. For dogs have surrounded me.

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The congregation of the wicked has enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.

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I can count all my bones. They look and stare at me. They divide my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots.

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But you, O Lord, do not be far from me. All my strength hastened to help me.

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Deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth and from the horns of the wild oxen.

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You have answered me. We'll pause there. Let's turn to hymn number 246, please.

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And Alan will come and help us out here. 246. Please be seated.

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And now we'll read the rest of Psalm 22. Psalm 22. Psalm 22. Verses 22 through 31.

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I will declare your name to my brethren. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.

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You who fear the Lord, praise him. All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him.

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And fear him, all you offspring of Israel. For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted.

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Nor has he hidden his face from him. But when he cried to him, he heard. My praise shall be of you in the great assembly.

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I will pay my vows before those who fear him. The poor shall eat and be satisfied.

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Those who seek him will praise the Lord. Let your heart live forever. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the

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Lord. All the families of the nations shall worship before you. For the kingdom is the

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Lord's and he rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth shall eat and worship.

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All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him. Even he who cannot keep himself alive.

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A posterity shall serve him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation.

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And they will come and declare his righteousness to a people who will be born.

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That he has done this. And of course those verses speak of the exaltation of our

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Lord. And what has been going on these last 2 ,000 years. Even reaching to Gentiles including ourselves who were in Jesus Christ.

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Let's turn now to him 247. Alan if you'll lead this.

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And immediately after 254. 247 first.

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Please stand. O sacred head.

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With grief and shame weighed down.

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Now scornfully surrounded.

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With thorns thine only crown.

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O sacred head. What glory.

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What bliss till now was thine.

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Yet though despise and glory.

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I joy to call thee.

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What thou my lord hast sown. Was all transgression.

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But thine fall my savior.

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Tis I deserve thy praise.

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Look on me with thy favor.

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Bow safe to me. What language shall

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I. To thank thee dearest friend.

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For this my dying song. Thy pity without end.

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O make me thine forever. And should

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I fainting be. Lord let me never.

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Outlive my. Amen. Please turn immediately to your.

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To page 247 in your red hymnal. Oh. I'm sorry 254.

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Oh 254. Alas and did.

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My savior bleed. And did.

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My soul. He devote.

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That same. As I.

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Was it. For crimes. That I. He grown.

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Amazing. Pity. Grace. Unknown.

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Beyond. The. The. And.

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His. Glory. When.

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Christ. The. God. died.

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O man, the creature's sin.

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Thus might I hide my blushing face, while his dear cross appears.

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Dissolve my heart in thankfulness, and melt mine eyes in tears.

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But drops of grief can ne 'er repay the debt of love.

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Dear Lord, I give myself away.

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Tis all that I need. Please be seated.

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Well, I'd like us to turn to Psalm 22 to consider in some detail these words that are before us.

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Again, this psalm was the experience of King David. It was experienced about a thousand years before our

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Lord was crucified, and yet they so graphically portray his sufferings, our

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Lord's sufferings, upon the cross. Martin Luther said of this psalm, this is a kind of gem among psalms and is peculiarly excellent and remarkable.

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It contains those deep, sublime, and heavy sufferings of Christ when agonizing in the midst of the terrors and pangs of divine wrath and death, which surpass all human thought and comprehension.

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I know not whether any psalm throughout the whole book contains matter more weighty, or from which the hearts of the godly can so truly perceive those sighs and groans inexpressible by man, which their

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Lord and head Jesus Christ uttered when conflicting for us in the midst of death and in the midst of the pains of terrors of hell.

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Wherefore, this psalm ought to be most highly prized by all who have acquaintance with temptations of faith and spiritual conflicts.

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So wrote Martin Luther long ago. And then in the 19th century,

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Spurgeon introduced this psalm in his classic study, The Treasury of David. This is beyond all others, the psalm of the cross.

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It may have been actually repeated word by word by our Lord when hanging on the tree. It would be too bold to say that it was so, but even a casual reader may see that it might have been.

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It begins with, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And ends according to psalm in the original with, it is finished.

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For plaintive expressions uprising from unutterable depths of woe, we may say of this psalm, there is none like it.

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It is the photograph of our Lord's saddest hours, the record of his dying words, the misery of his last tears, the memorial of his expiring joys.

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David and his afflictions may hear in a very modified sense, but as the star is concealed by the light of the sun, he who sees

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Jesus will probably neither see nor care to see David. Before us we have a description both of the darkness and the glory of the cross, the sufferings of Christ and the glory which shall follow.

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Oh, for grace to draw near and see this great sight, we should read reverently, putting off our shoes from off our feet as Moses did at the burning bush.

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For there be holy ground anywhere in Scripture, it is in this psalm,

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Psalm 22. We read verses 1 through 21 first, and here we read basically a plea for God's help,

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Christ on the cross of course, and the appeal that that is made in verses 1 through 10 is an appeal to God, of course

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Christ appealing to God his father, based upon the covenant relationship that he had with his father.

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me?

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And from the words of my groaning, oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not hear, and in the night season, and I'm not silent.

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So these words were spoken by our Lord, or these were the thoughts of our Lord when he hung upon the cross.

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Again as one rope nailed to the tree, we behold our great Redeemer in extremities, and what see we?

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Having ears to hear, let us hear, and having eyes to see, let us see. Let us gaze with holy wonder, and mark flashes of light amid the awful darkness of that midday midnight.

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And first our Lord's faith beams forth, and deserves our reverent imitation. He keeps his hold upon his

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God with both hands, and cries twice, my God, my God, the spirit of adoption was strong within the suffering son of man, and he felt no doubt about his interest in his

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God. Oh that we could imitate this cleaving to an afflicting

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God, nor does the sufferer distrust the power of God to sustain him, for the title is used

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L -E -L, Hebrew L, signifies the strength in the name of his mighty

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God. He knows the Lord to be the all -sufficient support and succor of his spirit, and therefore appeals to him in the agony of grief, but not in the misery of doubt.

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He would fain know why he is left, he raises that question or repeats it, but neither the power nor the faithfulness of God does he mistrust.

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What an inquiry is this before us, why hast thou forsaken me? And we must lay the emphasis on every word of this saddest of all utterances, why?

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What is the great cause of such a strange fact, as for God to leave his own son at such a time, and in such a plight?

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There was no cause in him, why, why then was he deserted? Past? It, such a time, such a plight, this is done, and the

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Savior is feeling his dread effect as he asked a question, it's surely true, but how mysterious. It was no threatening of forsaking which made the great surety cry aloud, he endured that forsaking in a very deed.

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Thou, I can understand why traitorous Judas and timid Peter should, should be gone, but thou my

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God, my faithful friend, how canst thou leave me? This is the worst of, of all, yea, worse than all put together.

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Hell itself has, for its fiercest flame, the separation of the soul from God, forsaken.

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If thou hadst chastened, I might bear it, for thy face would shine, but to forsake me utterly, ah, why is this?

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Me, thine innocent, obedient, suffering son, why leavest thou me to perish?

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The sight of self seen by penitence, and of Jesus on the crossing by faith will best expound this question.

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Jesus is forsaken, was forsaken because of our sins, separating us from our

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God. So we see the depths of anguish that our Lord encountered. It was in his sensible severing of communion with God his father, he felt forsaken, abandoned of God, he felt denied of help, denied relief, denied deliverance, and then given his eternal fellowship with the

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Father, never having known the least distance in spirit between himself and God the

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Father, one can understand the depth of distress which he felt and expressed on this occasion.

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But even as he expresses his great loss of comfort and companionship, he did not question the holy nature of God, as we read in verses three and four, but you are holy, enthroned in the praises of Israel.

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Our fathers trusted in you, they trusted you delivered them, they cried to you and were delivered, they trusted in you and were not ashamed.

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So no matter how terrible were his own experiences, he would not lay charge against God his father for falsehood or injustice.

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We may tend to question or even murmur against God when matters don't seem to go as we think they should go in our own case, in our own lives, but the

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Son of God did not wrongly charge the Father with wrongdoing or failure. Christ's death was consistent with God's holiness and justice, it was commensurate with his holiness and it was because of God's holiness that the

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Son of God was smitten when he became our sin bearer, our representative, though he were treated as the guilty sinner.

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And our Lord felt and expressed the shame in the manner he was publicly displayed and cruelly treated, as verses six through eight read, but I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men despised by the people.

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All those who see me ridicule me, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head saying he trusted in the

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Lord, let him rescue him, let him deliver him since he delights in him.

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So the one who will one day have every knee bow and every tongue confess him as the all -worthy

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Lord had no one to sympathize with him or defend him as he hung for our sins.

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Christ's sense of rejection by his father was all the more egregious in that Jesus had never known a time, never an incident in which his father had been not near him and with him.

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Verses nine through eleven read, but you are he who took me out of the womb, you made me trust while on my mother's breasts.

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I was cast upon you from birth from my mother's womb, you've been my God, be not far from me for trouble is near, for there are none to help.

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And then of course as he hung there, feeling alienated from his father due to our sin, his enemies derided him seeking to compound his suffering.

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There was no one to help him or defend him against those who derided him and tormented him, rather he was surrounded by Roman soldiers who abused him verbally compounding his sufferings.

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Verses 12 and 13, many bulls have surrounded me, strong bulls of nation have encircled me, that's prophetic of the

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Roman armies, the Roman soldiers about him who crucified him, they gape at me with their mouths like a raging roaring lion.

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And then beginning with verse 14 through 18, we read of our Lord's physical sufferings to which he had been subjected.

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I'm poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint, my heart is like wax, it's melted within me, my strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue clings to my jaws, you've brought me to the dust of death.

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And here again that the Gentile Roman soldiers for dogs have surrounded me, the congregation of the wicked has enclosed me, they pierced my hands and feet and that was hundreds and hundreds of years before the

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Romans invented the death by crucifixion. I count all my bones, they look and stare at me, they divide my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots, which of course took place at the foot of the cross.

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But even in the height of his suffering and the depths of his abandonment, he expressed hope in God and so he continued to pray for help and for sustaining strength to endure what he was experiencing.

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And he was confident that his prayer was heard, but you O Lord do not be far from me,

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O my strength hasten to help me, deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog, save me from the lion's mouth and from the horns of the evil oxen, the wild oxen and you have answered me.

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And so in verses 1 through 21 we have the sufferings of the Lord Jesus proclaimed and foretold.

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But then we read secondly in the 2nd section verses 22 through 31 the result of his sufferings.

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He died on that cross but that was not the end of course. Even as he hung suffering what encouraged him and strengthened him was the assurance that his death would secure the redemption of his people.

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Through his death he would see one day that it would enable the host of his own people to stand with him in the presence of his father.

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All joining in praising God as they're taught to do and directed by their Savior. The Savior is going to lead his people in praising the

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Father. And Jesus was confident in his vindication before God and his resurrection.

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He would stand before God the Father declaring forth his glory to his people, his brethren. And so we read in verse 22 and following,

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I will declare your name to my brethren. In the midst of the assembly

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I will appraise you. This is in heaven. You who fear the Lord praise him all you descendants of Jacob glorify him and fear him all you offspring of Israel.

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For he is not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted nor is he hidden his face from him.

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But when he cried to him he heard. And then prophetically the

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Son of God declared my praise shall be of you father. In the great assembly

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I will pay my vows before those who fear him. The poor shall eat be satisfied those who seek him will praise the

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Lord let your heart live forever. The words of our

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Lord recorded in Psalm 22 22 are quoted in the New Testament epistle to the

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Hebrews in which we read of Jesus being the high priest of his people Hebrews 2 10 and following.

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For it was fitting for him Jesus for whom are all things by whom are all things and bringing many sons to glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings for both he who sanctifies those who are being sanctified are all of one for which reason he's not ashamed to call them brethren saying and here it is

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I will declare your name to my brethren in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to you.

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The Lord Jesus is going to be singing praise to his father in our presence in our hearing and again

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I will put my trust in him and again here am I and the children whom God has given me secured of course through his death upon the cross.

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The writer went on to write in as much then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood he himself likewise shared in the same that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil and release those who fear death were all their lifetime subject of bondage for indeed he does not give aid to angels but he does give aid to the seed of Abraham and that's all people of saving faith and therefore in all things he had to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest and things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the people for in him for in that he himself has suffered being tempted he's able to aid those who are also tempted.

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So in Hebrews 10 we read that it was fitting for him again we have reference to God the father it was through Christ's death that he accomplished the task of bringing many sons to glory the means by which

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God glorifies his elect the many sons is through the mediator the father sent on their behalf the death of Jesus was the means that God the father was bringing many sons to himself we should not err in thinking that somehow

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God their father was against us and Jesus won him over to be gracious to us no

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God is for his people because he chose to view them from eternity to been in Christ and he sent his son to redeem them unto himself it's

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God the father who loved so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and then we read in Hebrews 2 11 for both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one meaning one

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God the father and it's for this reason that he Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren and then the writer to the

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Hebrews quotes three Old Testament passages to substantiate what he was saying and there and there and also included

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Psalm 22 22 in which Christ is speaking to the father I will declare your name to my brethren in the midst of the assembly

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I will praise you and then in the remainder of Psalm 22 we have we have the psalmist telling forth the great effect or outcome of Christ's sufferings there's a people gathered from all over the world and he specifically includes

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Gentiles who have come into favor in relationship with God through the sufferings of their Savior even their own death will not prevent them from standing before their

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God one day even as the Savior presents them to his Holy Father to worship and serve him forever the psalmist declared prophetically and you and I will one day experience this fully when we're in the presence of God all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the

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Lord and all the families of the nation shall worship before you for the kingdom is the

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Lord's and he rules over the nations and all the prosperous of the earth shall eat and worship all those who go down to the dust that is died shall bow before him even he who cannot keep himself alive and so a posterity shall serve him it will be recounted of the

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Lord to the next generation and they'll come and declare his righteousness to a people who will be born that he has done this and that's what we do that's what we've been doing this evening hasn't it a realization of the promise of God at the end of Psalm 22 and as we're about ready to observe the

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Lord's Supper we're in part fulfilling these final words of Psalm 22 31 we're declaring forth the

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Lord as the Apostle Paul declared as often as you drink or eat this bread drink this cup you proclaim the

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Lord's death till he comes as you eat this bread and drink this cup you are proclaiming you are preaching the

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Lord's death until he comes thank God let's pray father thank you for your word that you've given us we thank you our

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God that we enjoy this blessing this peace this joy of being secure and safe our

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God with regard to our salvation all attained obtained to for us through your son

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Jesus Christ when he died for us so long ago and we thank you our God that death could not hold him but that third day he rose again you've indicated him the whole world said he was deserving of death but you said no death could not hold him you raised him he ascended you enthroned him and he is

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Lord he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and our God you've given us this ordinance this

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Lord's Supper to observe and we pray our God that you would bless us now as we eat and drink of this supper and as we do so we do in faith faith in Jesus Christ in him alone as our

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Lord and Savior we pray our God that you would help each of us as Christians to acknowledge our sin perhaps confess specific sin before you even as we once again in faith depend upon the

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Lord Jesus and his death to forgive us of our sins to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and so bless us our

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God as we observe this supper for we pray in Jesus name amen Alan will come and read for us or lead us in the

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Church Covenant which is in the I guess it's both hymnals isn't it either the red or blue hymnal the back cover and if the deacons would come forward that are going to help us serve that would be great let's begin having been led by the

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Spirit of God to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and on the profession of our faith having been baptized in the name of the

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Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit we do now solemnly make this covenant with each other as one body in Christ we will walk together in brotherly love we will exercise a

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Christian care and watchfulness over each other will faithfully admonish and help one another as the need may be we will be slow to take offense but always ready for reconciliation without delay if any stray from the path of truth we will endeavor to restore them in the spirit of meekness we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together or neglect to pray for ourselves and for others we will seek to educate our children in the scriptures we will seek to win our kindred and acquaintances to Christ and to holiness as stewards of the

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Lord we will aid in the support of a faithful evangelical ministry among us and in efforts to preach the gospel to the whole human family we will live circumspectly in the world denying ungodliness and worldly lusts and according to our ability and opportunities will do good to all men we will endeavor as long as we live to glorify him into his marvelous light amen good words may the

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Lord help us to live accordingly well let's pray and as we commonly do we'll let a

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Puritan of old help us in our praying and this is entitled the precious blood let's pray please our blessed

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Lord Jesus before thy cross we kneel and we see the heinousness of our sin our iniquity that caused thee to be made a curse the evil that excites the severity of divine wrath may you show us the enormity of our guilt by his crown of thorns the pierced hands and feet the bruised body and his dying cries thy blood is the blood of incarnate

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God it's worth infinite its value beyond all thought infinite must be the evil and guilt that demands such a price sin is our malady our monster our foe our

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Viper born in our birth alive in our lives strong in our character dominating our faculties and following us as a shadow intermingling with our every thought our chain that holds us captive in the empire of our souls sinners we are why should the

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Sun give us light the air supply breath the earth bear our tread its fruits nourish us its creatures observe our ends and yet thy compassions yearn over us thy heart hastens to our rescue thy love endured our curse thy mercy bore our deserved stripes let us walk humbly in the lowest depths of humiliation bathed in thy blood tender of conscience and triumphing gloriously as heirs of salvation our father bless this supper to us as we now eat and drink in faith for we pray

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Jesus name Amen the Lord's Supper of course is not for everybody or just anybody but rather it's for disciples of Jesus Christ exclusively only a disciple is someone who has turned away from self and embraced

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Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and has shown forth that faith and shown forth that repentance in baptism and commitment among the people of God if you're a disciple of Jesus Christ we invite you to eat and drink with us if not just pass the elements along that would be best for you let's pray and ask our

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God's blessing on this bread and by the way in each tray there's a couple cellophane wrapped bread these are gluten -free and so that's for the benefit of a few of us that can only have that kind of bread please don't take it unless you need to have bread gluten -free let's pray thank you our

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Father for this bread that so beautifully portrays the life that you give us through the

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Lord Jesus Christ the true bread given by you our God we pray our

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God as we hold this bread in our hands and we eat it as we exercise faith in Jesus Christ we pray our

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God that you would enliven us infuse us our God with delight and desire for the

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Lord Jesus to walk in fellowship and fullness of faith in him bless us our

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God as we eat this bread in faith for we pray in Jesus name amen well it was after supper he took the bread broke it gave it to his disciples and said to them take eat this is my body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me we offer both wine and grape juice the wine is in the purple shaded cups on the perimeter of each tray depending upon your conviction let's pray thank you our

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Father for the effectual shedding of blood of the Lord Jesus so long ago to which these cups certainly portray before us and we do hold up this cup our

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God in celebration for what you accomplished and we drink it in faith our God acknowledging it's to his death alone that we have the forgiveness of sins and so our

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Father as we drink this cup we do so confessing our sins and confessing our faith our confidence in the death of Jesus Christ to atone for our sin bless his cup our

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God to us for we pray in Jesus name amen well in the same manner our

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Lord took the cup and gave it to his disciples and said to them this cup is the new covenant in my blood this do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me and if you're a disciple of Jesus Christ you ate drank in faith confessing your sins believing on Jesus Christ you may rejoice in the reality your sins are forgiven you amen let's stand and sing one stanza of the hymn bless me the tide that binds

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I hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out to our hearts by the

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Holy Spirit was given to us but when we were still without strength through time