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good evening everyone welcome back to free grace baptist church it's good to be here again the second time to the worship our Lord and tonight in a special way remembering our Lord Jesus Christ and his death till he comes again in the Lord's Supper I don't know if there are any announcements to reiterate well maybe I will pastor Butler will be back doing the Wednesday night Bible study this upcoming wednesday december 7th so that is good news and as well he'll be back in the pulpit next next lord's day so he's he's feeling good and it'll be a be nice to have him back and back in commission well let's begin our worship tonight if you'll turn in your Bibles with me our call to worship will be a reading of psalm 32 psalm 32 this is the word of God a psalm of David a contemplation blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit when I kept silent my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long for day and night your hand was heavy upon me my vitality was turned into the drought of summer seyla I acknowledged my sin to you and my iniquity I have not hidden I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my sin seyla for this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to you in a time when you may be found surely in a flood of Great Waters they shall not come near him you are my hiding place you shall preserve me from trouble you shall surround me with songs of deliverance seyla I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go I will guide you with my eye do not be like the horse or like the mule which have no understanding which must be harnessed with bit and bridle else they will not come near you many sorrows shall be to the wicked but he who trusts in the Lord mercy shall surround him be glad in the Lord and rejoice you righteous and shout for joy all you upright in heart amen well let's stand and sing the first hymn is 195 in your Trinity hymnals that's him 195 let's stand and sing together you Oh Oh or please be seated let us pray Heavenly Father we thank you now the second time on your Lord's Day we can gather together for the worship of Father Son and Holy Spirit we pray that you would bless us Lord to worship you in spirit and in truth help us to do so help us to now this evening hallo your Most High name we pray God that you would receive all honour and glory from this gathered assembly we know that we do require the aid of the Holy Spirit that we might worship you or right and so we do pray for that this evening we pray that the Lord Christ would be among us as we read in the book of Revelation that Christ walks among his lamp stands we pray for that fellowship and we pray for that presence and would ask that you would bless us and help us to worship you Father Son and spirit we pray Lord God that you would receive all honor in this place we thank you again for the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ our precious Savior we rejoice in the gospel of our Blessed God and we do pray that you would help us now as we worship as we pray as we sing hymns as we engage in the preaching of your word help us to reflect with great joy upon the things of our Savior that he came into this world sinners to save that by the perfection of his work and by Amazing Grace were made the sons of God not by anything wrought in us are done by us but solely and alone by virtue of the obedience of Christ even unto the cross death we are made by by you two to be partakers of the the joy of everlasting life and that in eternal inheritance that we have by Jesus Christ we thank you for the forgiveness of sins and would pray that you'd wash us a fresh in the blood of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ knowing that in him and in him alone we have the certainty of salvation and the forgiveness of sins we pray God that you'd be with those unable to join us we pray that you'd be with the sick those who are struggling physically those with disease and and many issues Lord we pray that you would watch over them strengthen them in body and heal them and we pray that they would no reprieves from pain and that they would know times and seasons where those discomforts of their disease and their sickness might be far from them we'd pray that you would heal that you would strengthen than that even in the midst of physical suffering you would lift up your Saints we pray God for any struggling spiritually we would ask again that you would send your spirit to them to return to them the joy of their salvation that they might be strengthened in their walk with Christ we think again Lord this evening of those persecuted Saints around the world are our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that are in nations where the government or their fellow citizens rail against them in opposition to the things of Christ in opposition to the people of Christ and we do just pray that you'd strengthen our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that you would cause them in the midst of a tyrants in the midst of a of opposing people to lay hold of the hope of their calling without wavering we pray that they would have that strong a grip upon the things of truth that they would know that their faith in their hope are in God and that you would cause them to endure with a great grace unto the end we pray Lord that you would deal with those who oppose your people worldwide we would ask that you would soften the hearts of your enemies that you would truly change the hearts of your enemies remove from them hearts of stone replace them with hearts of flesh that beat for the Savior and put within them your spirit that they might walk after your statutes and we would ask God that any who would remain in opposition who opposed your people even in persecution and unto death we pray that you would cause them to stumble like drunken men we pray Lord God that you would vindicate your name in all the earth and that those who oppose your people would be brought to an end we ask Lord God that you would be with those who rule over us the governments of the nations we pray for them Lord as we are commanded that we may live peaceable lives in this lower world and have opportunities to freely gather to to freely share the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ we pray that those who rule over us would do so in righteousness and equity and we pray that they would no longer sanction wick in the land we rejoice that we can gather tonight to observe the Lord's Supper we thank you for this blessed ordinance and we do pray that you would impress upon us the the preciousness of the blood of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ and in that blessed truth that he bore in his in his body our sins upon that tree that we having died to sin might live for righteousness and we do just pray that you would bless this night might you be honored father son and holy spirit and might all that we do just be done unto your glory and for the worship of your Most High name and we pray in the name of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ amen well let's sing again the last team before the preaching is 193 let's stand and sing 193 together Oh Oh is be seated you turn your Bibles to first Peter 1st Peter chapter 1 I'll read from verse 12 verse 20 of first Peter chapter 1 Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the pilgrims of the dispersion in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bethania elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in sanctification of the spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ grace to you and peace be multiplied blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be ready to be revealed in the last time in this you greatly rejoice though now for a little while if need be you have been grieved by various trials that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes though it be tested by fire may be found to praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ whom having not seen you love though now you do not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully who prophesied of the grace that would come to you searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when he testified before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow to them it was revealed that not to themselves but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven things which angels desire to look into therefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance but as he who called you as Holy also be holy in all your conduct because it is written be holy for I am holy and if you call on the father who without partiality judges according to each one's work conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your father's but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot he indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you who threw him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory so that your faith and hope are in God amen let us pray father we thank you for this time now in your word the preaching of your Holy Word we pray that you would again be with us help preacher and hearer Lord God we pray that you would be active by your spirit in this act of worship that the word might be proclaimed with great joy and with that proper measure of precision that your word deserves we pray Lord God that by your spirit you would edify Saints this evening that you would save sinners and that would this would yet again be an exercise where our God is glorified and father son and spirit are praised we pray in the name of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ amen well tonight we're observing the Lord's Supper and in so doing we're remembering our Lord's death till he comes again but because we are commanded in the Lord's Supper to to do this in remembrance of me according to the words of Christ that doesn't necessarily force us to exclude a consideration of father and spirit at the point of the death of the Lord Jesus Christ so tonight we're going to look at the Trinity and the death of Christ and we're going to use this first Peter 1 through 21 section as our address of scripture to consider those things and will branch out as we move along we want to note again the Trinity and the death of Christ and hopefully we see that at the outset of this passage before we get to our main content right at the outset of this passage first Peter 1 & 2 1st Peter 1 1 & 2 we have the Trinity brought forward in simply the greeting that Peter gives to these churches notice at the beginning of this epistle Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the pilgrims of the dispersion in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bethania elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in sanctification of the spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ there there are those parts of epistles parts of New Testament letters that we have where the Trinity is is brought forth by the writers in a greeting here in doxology zel swear in benedictions whether at the beginning the middle or the end of letters the Trinity comes out Father Son and Holy Spirit the Bible is not absent of the Trinity but it is absolutely replete with Trinitarian language so we simply want to look at the Trinity and the death of Christ in a three-fold manner of course the father and the death of Christ the Son and the death of Christ that kind of sounds historian the son and his own death and thirdly the Holy Spirit and the death of Christ so father son and spirit and the death of our Lord Jesus Christ first off notice the father and the death of Christ and we want to observe three things under this particular observation the first is that the father purposes and orders the events concerning the death of Christ notice first often largely we have inverse to this language elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father there is a purpose and an ordering that terminates in a sense upon the father here as it's brought out elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father this sprinkling this obedience and sprinkling of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is its source or its its origin in the electic for knowledge of God the Father the language later on in first Peter 120 notice is this he indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you we noted this morning with regards to the the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ in that him to Christ as to god that this obedience of Christ is in accordance with the Covenant of redemption that there's an eternal purpose that our triune God has to save guilty sinners from from their sins our God and here's another big word for you our God is purposive our God acts after a purpose our God has this purpose and ordering with regards to the events concerning the death of Christ we serve a God of of eternal purpose we are the Saints of Christ our elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and in case it's going to creep into our minds that that's the idea of Christ looking or the father looking down the the tunnels of time and elekton according to things he foresees the language is the same in verse 20 he was foreordained before the foundation of the world it's divine and sovereign for ordainment the death of christ the death of that one whose blood is sprinkled according to verse to the death of that glorious christ is according to the purpose and the ordering of God the Father if we were to work through some passages very briefly in the in the New Testament turn with me to Matthew 26 Matthew 26 in the garden Christ is acknowledging the in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night in which he is betrayed Christ himself acknowledges the eternal purpose of the Father with respect to his own death of course you know the scene notice in verse 39 he went a little farther this is Matthew 2639 he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed saying O my father if it is possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as you will now I don't know if this is the case but I you know we come to a passage like this in our minds aren't necessarily drawn to an eternal purpose but rather perhaps just generally the will of God concerning Christ or the drinking of the cup of his wrath but our minds are to wholesomely wander upon the topic of the eternal purpose of God the Father in sending forth his son to give himself as a ransom for many nevertheless not as I will but as you will the cup of his death the cup of the wrath of God poured out upon the cross was before him and he resigns to the will the eternal purpose of his father moving forward in the gospel narratives you can move to Luke 22 and in fact this takes place within the context or what we're going to read takes place within the context of the institution of the Lord's Supper when they're observing the Passover and Jesus Institute's the Lord's Supper but notice the language in Luke 22 at verse 20 Luke 22 and verse 20 likewise he also took the cup after supper saying this cup is the New Covenant in my blood which is shed for you but behold the hand of my betrayer is with me on the table and truly the Son of Man goes as it has been determined but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed jesus christ recognized that he's going to the cross this resolute determined march of the son of God having taken to himself man's nature to the cross that determined in resolute march is according to the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God it's here according to what has been determined by God according to the and truly the Son of Man goes at it as it has been eternally preordained the Father purposes and orders the events concerning the death of Christ secondly under the father and the death of Christ the father bruises the Sun in order to bring about the salvation of his people the father bruises the Sun in order to bring about the salvation of his people if we find our way back to our passage first Peter chapter 2 we have this language in the text in first Peter chapter 2 we didn't read we read first Peter 11 to 22 but we did but if we were to read on all the way through to the end of first Peter to notice the language here remember if you were here this morning this takes place within the context of Peter exhorting servants to a proper obedience to their masters and he sets forth Christ as the chief example of resolute determination under suffering and notice what we have in in 1st Peter 2 verse 24 speaking of Christ who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed for you were like sheep going astray but have now returned to the Shepherd and overseer of your souls you might be asking well this has to do with the Sun it didn't really hear the the father mentioned there but Peter is repeating the words of Isaiah from Isaiah 53 the prophet Isaiah is in the 4 of Peters mind as he's bringing forth this example of Christ and the language is clearly drawn out of Isaiah 53 and there we read yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he has put him to grief the father purposes and orders the events concerning the Son and the father bruises the Sun in order to bring about the salvation of his people you know those words of Christ on the cross reflect this this high and and holy and solemn reality when he cries out my God my God why hast thou forsaken me the bruising of the sun by the father upon Calvary's tree according to the determined purpose and foreknowledge of god now the father is pouring out divine wrath upon the son he's bruising the sunnies putting him to grief this is again brethren an instance where we have to remark after the the seriousness of sin the absolute the severity of sin and man's transgression because the only answer for it is the son being bruised by the father upon that Roman gibbet of execution Calvary's cross that event at Golgotha is very solemn and among so many multifaceted things that it brings forth to the mines in the hearts of Christians one of the things that it highlights is the severity of our sin the glory of our Christ in taking upon himself the bruising of the Father in order to bring this the salvation of his people bring about the salvation of his people the father bruises the Sun in order to bring about our salvation it's a high and it's a it's a glorious truth if we were to read previous in Isaiah 53 the language of bruising is there as well in verse 5 it's in verse 10 and it's back in verse 5 but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities in in 1st Peter Peter uses the language of to those who believe he is precious so we work through all of these instances of the glory of the triune God in the death of Christ we are to land upon this point we look to remember our Lord's death till he comes again Christ is to be precious to the believer every single one of these points ought to Tacomas as weights to our soul not as weights weighing them down but as weighty things to our souls cause us to rejoice in our Christ and to see him as precious of the highest value nothing of vanity in reflections upon the Savior but only things full of the highest value he is precious to us the father purposes and orders the events concerning the death of Christ the father bruises the Sun in order to bring about the salvation of his people and thirdly this doesn't exhaust the father and the death of Christ but thirdly the father receives the human soul of Christ upon the death of Christ you can turn to Luke 23 you know very often we when we think about the when we think about the Trinity in the the work of redemption we don't necessarily do this wrongly but we think ok father predestined son redeems and then spirit applies the benefits of redemption there's almost you know there's this order there's the eternity history and then and then salvation but that's if we were to just you know fit the Trinity into that you know that particular shape or approach it's almost like a modal istic Trinity the Father the Son and then the spirit it's right to think that way because Ephesians 1 not mota listicle II but that the Father predestinated the son redeems and the spirit applies but you see all throughout the working of redemption father son and spirit are active in the salvation of sinners it's not a modal istic God where the father becomes the son who becomes the spirit but three blessed 13 blessed persons in our one God Father Son and spirit who together work out the salvation of sinners and that perfectly that's why we're considering the father son and spirit at the point of the death of Christ it is father son and spirit who are active to bring a about the redemption of their elect in Luke chapter 23 we're talking now about the father receiving the human soul of Christ at the death of Christ notice in Luke 23 beginning in verse 44 now it was about the sixth hour and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour then the Sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was torn in two and when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice he said father into your hands I commit my spirit having said this he breathed his last what does this mean here father into your hands I commit my spirit well doesn't mean his divinity it doesn't mean the Holy Spirit that proceeds from the father and the son it means his human soul remember when Christ takes to himself man's nature with all the essential properties in common and infirmities thereof yet without sin that includes body and a reasonable soul the the Son of God as he goes about the days of his flesh isn't simply animating a human body by his divinity but rather he unites to his divinity humanity both body and reasonable soul and so Christ upon the cross here cries out to the father into your hands I commit my spirit father the human soul of Christ is received by the father as he breathes his last the father and the death of Christ the father purposes and orders those events concerning Christ's death the father bruises the Sun to bring about the salvation of his people and the father receives the human soul of Christ upon the death of Christ isn't that a wonderful pattern to that Christ leaves for his people there with that cry father into your hands I commit my spirit when Stephen is being stoned to death by those murderous Jews after they bring him before a mock trial just before are they you know as they are throwing large stones upon his head to crush him to put him to death he cries out to Christ to receive his spirit he cries out any praise to Christ to receive his spirit of the glorious pattern at the moment of death however were brought to our death if it's the violence of a Stephen sort of a persecution a Stephen sort of murder whatever our death might be we can just like Christ and just like Stephen who had that Christ as his master cry out receive my spirit and we have the absolute certainty from these glorious prototypes that our Father if we are in Christ will receive our spirit blessed truth secondly then the Sun and the death of Christ the Son and the death of Christ if we find our way back to first Peter and of course when we say that we're saying the Son of God having taken to himself man's nature the death of that one what do we find here in first Peter and then in else and then elsewhere with respect to the Son of God and the death of Christ first off we want to know that the Son bore the punishment that was due to us for breaking the law of God we have that clearly in view here in 1st Peter to 24 again just to read it now but with our minds calibrated to reflections now upon the Sun notice what we have in 1 Peter 2 24 who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed at glorias language that contains this truth the Sun bore the punishment that was due to us for breaking the law of God isn't I know we spent time on that this morning and we won't spend as much time tonight but what it what a glorious reflection is we look to engage in the Lord's Supper that remembers the very thing that we're talking about now to reflect upon the fact that Christ bore our sins and in his own body on the tree if you're a believer tonight Christ bore in his own body your sins upon the tree amazing for you if you just reflect upon your guiltiness I don't think we do this much we hope it's not the favorite activity of of the person to reflect upon their own iniquity to reflect upon you know the transgressions that we have done in fact it's not necessarily always a wholesome thing to do why because we have Christ our advocate with the father the righteous one who has given himself to wash away our sins and our transgressions but sometimes it is a necessary exercise in order to bring us too high and heavy and holy thoughts about the one who bore our sins in his own body on the tree we think of sin lightly and if we think of sin lightly we will not properly and highly estimate the the inestimable value of Christ bearing in his own body our sins that language of Galatians 3 13 of Christ becoming a curse for us that language is absolutely amazing and I think sometimes we let that we let that foraa are we the language of for us we don't import enough of the biblical weight to that term notice in Galatians 3 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law having become a curse for us as it is written cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree Christ becomes a curse for us that doesn't just mean that we have you know his curse bearing as a gift though it does mean that the for us reality of the death of Christ we ought to consider that as a gift given by God to us but we need to understand the weight that it is substitution ery that it is in the place of us kids if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ that for us means that he died he became a curse instead of you that he bore the the curse of the law in your stead if you believe in him in your room in your place it's it's absolutely glorious we remember the death of Christ we remember it solemnly because of the reality that the the creator of all things took to himself our nature in order to be a curse for us and we remember with great joy joined to that solemnity this this act where he bore in his own body our own sins absolutely glorious making Christ no doubt precious to those who believe the Sun bore the punishment that was due to us for breaking the law of God secondly under the Sun the Sun actually and fully saved his people the perfection of the saving work of Christ if you find your way back to first Peter notice we have that in a couple of places the Sun actually in fully saved his people notice in verse 3 and this is actually a doxology being rendered to the Father but it is because of the perfection of the work of Christ notice in first Peter 3 chapter 1 verse 3 blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be ready to be revealed in the last time you see that the perfection of the glorious salvation wrought by Christ that comes to to his believers the the doxology hear the praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ it it mounts perfection upon perfection perfection of salvation upon perfection of salvation we're saved through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead add to an inheritance that's in corrupt able undefiled that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation there's a fivefold repetition there of the perfection of the saving work of the triune God that Jesus Christ through his death and resurrection God has saved us to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that does not fade away reserved in heaven and were capped what a beautiful complex of words there to highlight the perfection of the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ the perfection of the saving work of Christ the fact that the Sun actually and fully saved his people is brought out a little bit later in verse 18 19 and 20 notice what we actually verses 18 and 19 notice there in first Peter 118 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your father's but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot you see the perfection of the sacrifice here Christ giving himself as a sacrifice is giving himself as a perfect sacrifice he's a lamb without blemish and without spot there's that language of precious again the the precious blood of Christ you see here the perfection of the work of Christ the perfection of the death of Christ is wrapped up gloriously in that language of him being a sacrifice without blemish and without spot you know it's it's madness then isn't it and it's to do violence to the perfection of the work of Christ to say that Christ only inaugurated a plan of salvation a you know a way of salvation that needs to be made efficacious by man that we need to activate that we need to appropriate that we need to somehow bring that final ingredient in order to make his death effectual Spurgeon Spurgeon says something like this on honest you know on a scheme of atonement that says that Christ only made men savable he says something like the at that at that point then the cross quakes the blood falls powerless to the ground and the atonement is a matter of perhaps scheme of salvation that says that Christ's death only inaugurates some sort of way of salvation that man now needs to add his contribution to in order to activate is something that renders the cross as quaking the blood falling powerless and it renders the atonement and redemption a matter of maybe no Christ is a lamb without blemish and without spot what is the Bible elsewhere tell us sometimes in words that we we might just might just pass over and not see the certainty of redemption you shall call his name Jesus for he will save his people from their sins there's a faithful saying worthy of all acceptance that Christians knew in the first century and Paul draws their attention to it in first Timothy 115 a faithful saying worthy of all acceptance a saying that would have been perhaps creedal at that particular time a nice summary of the Christian religion the Christian message in just one sentence Christ Jesus came into the world sinners to save that's the faithful saying worthy of all acceptation Christ Jesus came into the world sinners to save he really does save the perfection of his work some other passages that we have in our Bibles that speak to the perfection of Christ's work the Sun actually fully actually and fully saved his people turn to the book of Hebrews Hebrews is replete with the perfection of the saving work of Christ it's a number of passages that we could go to but we'll go only to one notice in Hebrews 10 beginning in verse 11 and every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifice sacrifices which can never take away sins but this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down at the right hand of God from that time waiting till his enemies are made his footstool for by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified you see in only a handful of verses the author bringing out essentially what all of Hebrews is about the supremacy and the sufficiency and the perfection of Jesus Christ and His substitution ery sacrifice for by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified you see unlike the high priest and unlike those priests ministering in the temple who offer up yearly sacrifices who offer up daily repeating the same sacrifices which could never take away sin this Christ comes and he offers up one perfect sacrifice and it is by that by that one offering that he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified precious Christ glorious supper thirdly then under the the Sun and the death of Christ the Son by virtue of his death continues to intercede for and keep his people the Sun by virtue of his death continues to intercede for and keep his people Christ the the perfection of Christ's saving work is seen first in the execution of it upon Calvary's tree as a redemption that is not one of maybe and perhaps but one of absolute certainty glorious perfection and then it's seen in the fact that by virtue of his victorious saving work he holds us in the impenetrable grip of his hand he keeps us he intercedes for us if you're still in the book of Hebrews that you can back to Hebrews 7 no doubt you're familiar with this passage at this very point you see the the language here being used is the same as in Hebrews 10 also this is Hebrew 723 also there were many priests because they were prevented by death from continuing but he because he continues forever has an unchangeable priesthood therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them isn't this glorious that the great Shepherd gives his life for the Sheep and that self-same great shepherd holds on to his sheep unto that great day you know that that language in John 10 is is absolutely is absolutely glorious where Christ is talking about the Good Shepherd laying down his life for his sheep he's talking about himself of course he is that great Shepherd who is also the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world and in John 10 we have this language that the Sun by virtue of his death continues to intercede for and keep his people notice this blessed language that ought to come rushing to the Christian heart and cause it to mount up with joy overflowing John 10 verse 25 jesus answered them I told you and you do not believe the works that I do in my father's name they bear witness of me but you do not believe because you are not of my sheep as I said to you my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any one snatch them out of my hand my father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand I and my father are one the language here again it's language you see the Bible very often just mounts a language upon language in order to highlight the glory of the message it's trying to communicate here on this particular point the the the interceding and the keeping of Christ of his people notice the language in verse 28 I give them eternal life and they shall never perish it's a reiteration of the language of Christ in John 3 and here we have this language that is mounted on top of it so they shall never perish neither shall any one snatch them out of my hand not only do they never perish but the reality of the perfection of Christ saving work is is added tours is is something is supplemented here by the further language that we're not able to be snatched out of the hand of Christ there is a sovereign and impenetrable grip that Christ has upon his people it's a comfort a comfort of comforts knowing our own sinful waywardness we don't rest upon the greatness of our recovery after stumbling into sin we rest upon the sovereign the sovereign ability of Christ to hold on to his people for all eternity a glorious truth and you see it doesn't only it doesn't stop there they shall never perish neither shall any one snatch them out of my hand my father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's and I and my father are one so we have the the never perish the not being able to snatch them out of my hand the not being able to snatch them out of my father's hand and then there's this unity of the unity of the persons of the Godhead in verse 30 that has served as a foundation for the impenetrability of the grip upon Christ's people I and my father are one the languages is glorious our Bible comes to us presenting to us not a savior who fails not a savior who affords people a 75-percent redemption but a savior who saves his people who actually in fully saves them and who by virtue of that death continues to intercede for and keep his people precious Christ lastly then thirdly the Holy Spirit and the death of Christ the Holy Spirit in the death of Christ you can turn back to first Peter 1st Peter chapter 1 the Holy Spirit and the death of Christ first note the spirit made known the truth concerning the death of Christ the spirit made known the truth concerning the death of Christ noticed the language in first Peter 110 speaking of the Salvation wrought by Christ of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully who prophesied of the grace that would come to you searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when he testified before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow you see it was by the Holy Spirit by the third person of the Trinity that these holy men of old were made to know of and to promise the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow what we looked at this morning isn't it in Philippians 2 the sufferings of Christ his obedience unto the cross death and then the glories that would follow therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name the spirit testified the spirit made known the truth concerning Christ and in second in second Peter 1 we have this same language if you turn to the right to Peter's second epistle second Peter one noticed the language in ffort in verse 16 for we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but where I witnesses of his Majesty for he received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to him from the excellent glory this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain and so we have the prophetic word confirmed which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts knowing this first that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation for prophecy never came by the will of man but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit moving those holy men of old to witness and to testify to this coming Christ who would come into the world sinners to say father son and spirit in the glorious salvation wrought by the death of our Lord Jesus Christ secondly under the Holy Spirit we want to note the spirit assisted and supported the human nature of Christ under sufferings the Holy Spirit assisted and supported the person of Christ according to his human nature under its sufferings I don't know if you noticed it but when we're reading when we are reading in the book of Hebrews this morning to highlight a different point there's some interesting language in Hebrews 9 and verse 14 that speaks to the Holy Spirit's role in the death of Christ notice in Hebrews 9 at verse 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God when we noted this language this morning that from cradle to grave Christ's life is is one giant work of obedience from cradle to grave well from cradle to grave Christ is given the Holy Spirit as one who helps as one who upholds as he goes about in the days of his flesh having taken upon himself our nature the Holy Spirit is given to him by the father in order to go about his doings and his dying and his rising again at how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God in Isaiah Isaiah prophecies concerning this coming one this Messiah this servant this Christ His Spirit the Spirit is given to him in order for him to go about and do his messianic work throughout his earthly ministry we have the the reality of the Holy Spirit's work upon Christ according to his human nature as he perfects the work of salvation and it is brought out here that through the Eternal Spirit he offered himself without spot to God the spirit assisted and supported the person of Christ according to his human nature under sufferings isn't I don't know how often we really reflect upon this but brethren we have one God in three persons and those three persons are so intimately United because of the oneness of the divine essence but because of the perfection of their own their own indwelling in their own unity father son and spirit and mutual and eternal love one God in three persons and we have here the fact that the Son of God does not go about his earthly sojourn unto death absent of father and spirit but rather even unto death the spirit is there as Christ offers himself without spot to God the Blessed truth that we have in our Trinity in the triune God and in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ well lastly then under the spirit we want to note finally this the spirit applies the benefits of Christ's death to his people so the spirit makes known the truth concerning the death of Christ the spirit assists and supports the person of Christ according to his human nature under sufferings and the spirit applies the benefits of Christ's death to his people you know in this you know if we were to if we were to work a progression through the you know the saving work of God as it pertains the to his people you think of John 3 as we think of elevation if we consider Salvation John chapter 3 and the Holy Spirit is in John chapter 3 very often that's a passage that we go to to simply consider that you know flagship verse of Christianity that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him might not perish but have everlasting life we have the language in there as well that salvation is wrought by the spirit Jesus in verse 5 of John three answers Nicodemus speaking these words most assuredly i say to you unless one is born of water and the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit do not marvel that I said to you you must be born again the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes so is everyone who is born of the Spirit you see already here prior to his death Christ is speaking concerning this blessing reality that by virtue of his death the Spirit is given to his people in order to bring them forth from deadness and sit of sin in sin to life in Christ the spirit is this one who comes and he makes he makes sinners alive by divine power so is everyone who is born of the Spirit we think of passages like first Corinthians to you can turn there for a moment we're considering the Spirit of Christ as it pertains to the death of Christ the first Corinthians chapter to notice what we find there the reality that it is the spirit the necessity of the Spirit of God for the redemption of sinners and the knowledge of God and His Christ notice in 1st Corinthians to 10 but God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things yes the deep things of God for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit who is from God that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God these things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual but the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned our knowledge of Christ our knowledge of the the glories of a triune salvation come to us by virtue of the Spirit and by virtue altima tlie of the death of Christ for his elect for his his people this holy spirit or the reality of the Holy Spirit and the salvation of sinners one up one more verse before we close Ephesians 2 you know this glorious complex of salvation that we have excuse me fusions chapter 1 this glorious complex of the salvation that we have by Father Son and Holy Spirit we have here spoken of it the point of spirit with regards to a seal notice the language in in verse 13 of Ephesians 1 in him that's in Christ you also trusted after you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of his glory you see the Holy Spirit makes us alive in Christ Jesus he makes us to know by divine power the glories of the riches and the excellencies of Christ and he's our seal and guarantee unto that great and final day that glorious truth that we have in father son and in holy spirit three simple things that we can take away from this that actually come from the the passage in 1st Peter 1 itself are these first off to rejoice in Christ verse 8 of first Peter one says whom having not seen you of though now you do not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory no brethren we don't see Christ these had not seen Christ yet not seeing him but believing they rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory it's one of the the wonderful things about having the bread and the wine in the supper is that it is a living symbol by which the Saints of Christ see Christ we're not seeing him we're seeing these ambles in these symbols but they are living symbols in the Church of Christ that testify to the glorious conquering of our Messiah the bread that is given which symbolizes his body broken for us the wine that's given that symbolizes his precious blood shed for us living symbols and believing we see him in that sense full of glory that we you know that language in Galatians 3 1 I think I spoke about it last time but by virtue of the preaching of the word of God and no doubt by virtue of a living symbol such as this it is as though Christ Himself is crucified before our eyes we have this reality that though we don't see him yet believing with eyes of faith we lay hold of the glorious one secondly we're to gird up the loins of our mind verse 13 therefore gird up the loins of your mind and be sold sober and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Christ as obedient children not conforming yourself to former lusts as in your ignorance this knowledge of the Trinity Father Son and spirit in the salvation of sinners is to bring us to doing those good deeds for God and Kingdom having been saved we do those things that are acceptable in the sight of God that we might baddeck the gospel ornament the gospel and lastly having confidence in God notice in verse 21 who threw him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave in glory so that your faith and hope are in god you're never ashamed to rest upon Father Son and Holy Spirit in the salvation of sinners our faith and hope are in this God Father Son and spirit who save and who saved to perfection who keep us who hold us who hang on to us so that they might receive glory father son and spirit and so that we might joy enjoy and everlasting communion with them so we come to the supper now let us rejoice in father son and spirit as we reflect in a special way upon the son who took upon himself our nature in order to redeem us from our sins let us nevertheless remember that we have father son and spirit active and glorious in the salvation of sinners let us pray Heavenly Father we thank you for your word we rejoice in your revelation to us we thank you Father Son and spirit for saving your people from their sins for bringing us forth from darkness to light in Christ Jesus the Lord we rejoice in these things and as we now reflect upon a focus upon the supper this blessed ordinance might we remember our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ in a special way that he might be exalted upon this gathered assembly and we pray in his precious name amen well you can turn in your Bibles to the Gospel of Matthew Gospel of Matthew as we read the words of the institution of the Lord's Supper that Christ Himself spoke so many years ago that ordinance instituted two thousand years ago we continue until he comes again in the Church of Christ and it's a wonderful honor to be able to do so and to be able to participate in such a such a glorious ordinance and we'll just read the passage in Matthew 26 beginning in verse 17 leading up to the institution of the supper that will read as the bread and the wine are are being taken notice in Matthew 26 verse 17 now on the first day of the feast of the unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus saying to him where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover and he said go into the city to a certain man and say to them say to him the teacher says my time is at hand I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples so the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and they prepared the Passover when evening had come he sat down with the twelve now as they were eating he said assuredly I say to you one of you will betray me and they were exceedingly sorrowful and each of them began to say to him Lord is it I he answered and said he who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me the son of man indeed goes just as it is written of him but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed it would have been good for that man if he had not been born then Judas who was betraying him answered and said rabbi is a tie he said to him you have said it amen it's a wonderful again isn't it the Christ here Institute's a supper that will remember him within the context of a Old Testament celebration that looked back to the exodus but also looked forward typically to the Lord Jesus Christ looked forward to that true capital p passover lamb would come in the fullness of the times to give himself a ransom for many it's a wonderful occasion that we have here remember that when we take of the Lord's Supper we are to take this and our excuse me only Christians are to partake of the Lord's Supper if you're here tonight and you're not a Christian this is an ordinance just as baptism is for Christians only the Lord's Supper is to be taken only by those who are Christians those who are covered by the remission of the sins of the Lord Jesus Christ the blood of the everlasting covenant as well if you're a Christian here but you're living in unrepentant sin you are not to partake lest you bring judgment upon yourself you are not to partake if you are living in unrepentant sin but the remedy is to repent of your sins we ought not to bring necessarily the language of the high and holy salvation wrought by Christ down to the simple words but it is a simple remedy the forgiveness of sins is not is not exact it by us in response to our transgressions we're not to go off on a journey of sorrow you know to restore ourselves into into God's favor we're to repent to find forgiveness immediately in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ if you're here tonight you're only to take if you are a Christian who is living consistent with his profession now the bread remains bread the wine remains wine we say this every time but it's a good reminder the in this observance of the Lord's Supper there is no real sacrifice made for the quick and for the dead but only a remembrance of that once for all sacrifice the blasphemy of the Roman Catholic Church is exactly that repugnant to the scriptures and common sense there is no change made to the elements the bread does not become the body and the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ the the wine that does not become the actual blood of the Lord Jesus Christ but these are elements consecrated from a common to a holy use simply bread and simply wine that our symbolic of Christ's body broken in his blood shed for us when these come around a note that the juice is in the outer ring when the wine comes around the juice is in the outer ring the bread though will come around first if I can ask my brothers to come up to pass out the bread and we're going to sing a song the first him that we're singing is him 183 to a familiar tune 183 remain seated and we'll sing that him together you you verse 26 of Matthew 26 reads and as they were eating Jesus took bread blessed and broke it and gave it to his disciples and said take eat this is my body amen let us pray father we thank you now that we can partake of this bread the symbol of the Lord Jesus Christ's body broken for us we thank you that he bore and his own body our sins upon that tree as we partake might we glory in the truth of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ and we pray Lord God as sure as this bread is physically to our bodies that you would send that measure of your Holy Spirit to our souls strengthening us in our walk with faith we pray in the name of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ amen let's take together can turn in your hymn books to him number 188 Tim 188 if I can ask the brothers to come up and pass out the wine will sing hymn number 188 together stay seated you Matthew 26 27 then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying drink from it all of you for this is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins but I say to you I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my father's Kingdom and when they had sung a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives amen let us pray father we thank you now that we can partake of this wine we rejoice in what this represents the shed blood of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ we know that you have as it's written in your word without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins we rejoice though in that most certain fact that Christ did shed his blood perfectly so as to secure the salvation of a multitude that no man can number we thank you now that we can remember this as we partake of the wine we do pray that you would help us to always be lifted up to high thoughts of our precious Jesus Christ and it's in his name that we pray amen let's take together well let's all stand together and sing Man of Sorrows him number 175 if you'll stand with me and turn in your hymn books to 175 will sing together Oh why Oh Oh Oh Oh now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead that great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you complete in every good work to do his will working in you what is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen a heavenly father go with us now into this week help us to daily reflect upon the glories of our Christ and help us Lord in this lower world to shine as lights help us to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of your glorious gospel so that reproach might not be brought upon your word and your gospel but rather Lord God might we ornamented by our are doing are our thoughts and in our the way in which we conduct ourselves out in the world and might you Lord God grant us opportunities to speak to others concerning the glorious doing and dying and rising again of the Son of God we pray in the name of our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ amen we'll have a brief time of prayer and then you're dismissed you