You Are Not Your Own (communion msg.)

Introduction: The Solemnity of Existence and the Purpose of Communion Meditation

0:00 The following sermon was delivered on Sunday evening, June 4th, 2000, at the Trinity Baptist Church in Montville, New Jersey. It is a sobering thought to know that each of us shall indeed be launched into worlds unseen. When you breathe your last and those who stand at your deathbed or pick pieces of your body out of wreckage say so-and-so is dead, you will have launched into realms unseen to be held forever in unspeakable bliss or indescribable torment. It's a serious sober thing to be possessed of an immortal, never-dying existence as a creature of God. May God help us not to trifle with our souls. Let's pray. Our Father, we are sobered. The thought

1:15 that you have stamped us with a never-dying existence and our bodies and souls shall forever be in your presence, resplendent with your glory, or in the hideous, horrible place of outer darkness with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Oh God, help me as I preach to feel the weight of that basic reality. Help those who are gathered here, saint and sinner alike, not to trifle with you, the living God, nor barter away their never-dying existence for trinkets. Come to us and meet with us. Use your word to prepare our hearts to come with the appropriate disposition of heart to this table of remembrance. We plead in Jesus' name. Amen.

2:22 Amen. Amen. As Pastor Smith indicated, we are grateful that we have visitors among us. And for your sake especially, I should just explain that in the ministry of the Word, prior to the Lord's Supper, those of us who are asked to preach are expected to bring a communion meditation, which means it should be something focused upon the central issues of the cross, the significance of the table, some aspect of the truth of the cross as it touches our lives and so that we are not excessively wearied or rushed when we come to the table to limit our meditation to 30, 35 minutes. And I will make every effort to do that tonight as I always do when I'm asked to bring the communion meditation, though at times I don't come down exactly on the 35 minutes but may extend it to 40, but so that there is no question in your own mind as to why the people sit and pray. Amen. Amen.

3:27 Amen. Amen. Amen. Maybe you should take an hour plus exposition in the morning and just get what would be considered by morning standards a mini-sermon that you'll understand that we do want to have time to thoughtfully reflect upon our Lord Jesus and His work for us when we come to the table. Anyone acquainted with this Bible would agree with me when I say that the religion of the Bible is essentially and fundamentally a religion which centers on in the cross of christ all of the doctrines of the christian faith flow into the cross as the rivers flow into the sea and all of the duties of the christian faith flow out from and are illuminated and colored by the cross even as the sun pours out its light upon the whole earth and i want us to turn in paul's first letter to the corinthians and consider a brief portion

4:33 of chapter six in which the truth of the centrality of the cross is seen as the cross is planted right down in the midst of the apostles treatment of the subject of fornication there in the church at corinth and as the apostle is seeking to load the the consciences of the people of God with reasons as to why they should flee fornication, among the many concerns central to them all is the concern that is set before us in the portion of this passage that we will consider together as our communion meditation. A few months ago, I sought to give you a more detailed exposition of the entire passage as I brought that brief, I think it was six message series on God's antidote to sexual impurity, but tonight we come back to the last part of verse 19 and verse 20 as the framework for our communion meditation. Here the apostle says, And you are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Glorify God therefore. In your body.

5:53 You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Glorify God therefore. In your body. As I've already intimated in its immediate context, the emphasis is clear that the apostle Paul is here underscoring how the believer should regard his body in the light of the temptation to sexual impurity.

6:22 But as is so often true, when the implications of the cross are brought to bear upon a specific issue, the teaching of the impact of the cross upon life extends far beyond its immediate context. For example, in Ephesians 5, when Paul is laying out the duty of husbands to love their wives, he states the truth that Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. And gives us some of the richest teaching on the doctrine of Christ's death that extends far beyond the immediate context and focus of the apostle's concern. And so it is here that no matter where a Christian is, no matter what his circumstances, no matter what the particular relationships he may be presently sustaining to others, it is always true of him at all times, in all places, in all relationships. And in all circumstances that he has been bought with a price. He is not his own, and is under solemn obligation to glorify God in his body. And I want us to consider the truth of these verses under three heads.

The Centrality of the Cross in Christian Faith

7:39 First of all, what is in our day, nothing short of a radical affirmation. a radical affirmation. Nothing short of a radical affirmation here. The Apostle says to these Corinthians, where he has a sense of duty.

7:50 This is where the emperor of the world will be. Corinthian believers, and you are not your own. In a day of crass self-expression and I am my own person-ism, in a day when the rationale to justify the slaying of one and a half million unborn children every year in our country is, it is my body, I am free to do what I will with my body, in a day in which people speak of their preferences being the only rule and law to which they are obligated, I say this is a radical affirmation. To say to a group of people that they are to regard themselves in no sense as their own possession. You are not your own. Now notice, it does not say your mind. Your mind is not your own to think your own thoughts. Your soul is not your own to feel its own feelings. Your heart is not your own to love its own chosen objects.

8:58 But it says you are not your own. Everything that constitutes you, you, if you are a Christian, is not your own. Your mind, your affections, your soul, your heart. Your body, the totality of what makes you you is not your own.

9:23 Now that's not rhetorical hyperbole, that's reality. If you are a Christian you are in no sense your own possession. You are not your own. In no part of your humanity, in no set of circumstances, in no relationships, you and I are not...

The Radical Affirmation: 'You Are Not Your Own'

9:46 you & I are not....

9:47 You & I are not....

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9:47 our own the radical affirmation but now notice secondly the logical explanation why is this so for here comes the logical explanation you are not your own for you were bought with a price the reason why none of us who is a true believer is his own is quite simple and logical it is not because we are god's creatures though that is true psalm 100 in verse 3 says that the lord has made us we are his he has made us and not we ourselves we are his by right of creation but the emphasis of this text is not upon god's rights in us and over us in virtue of creation but the text says you are not your own for you were bought with a price and the language of the text is the commercial language of that day a bona fide commercial transaction has passed over us and has made us genuinely truly rightfully legally the property of another you are not your own for you were bought with

The Logical Explanation: 'For You Were Bought With a Price'

11:11 a price and what was the price that was paid to purchase us revelation 5 in verse 9 and 14 in verse 9 and 14 in verse 9 and 14 in verse 9 and 14 in verse 9 and 14 in verse 4 are the answer of the word of god to that question revelation 5 and verse 9 they sing a new song saying worthy are you to take the book and to open the seals thereof for you were slain and did purchase unto god with your blood men of every tribe and tongue and people and nation and made them to be unto our god a kingdom and priests they are the saints and they reign upon the earth you did purchase unto god with your blood and revelation 14 and verse 4 similar language these are they that were not defiled with women for they are virgins here using this as imagery of their purity these are they that follow the lamb whithersoever he goes these were purchased from among men to be the first fruits unto god and unto the lamb these were purchased from among men

12:29 purchased by whom purchased with what purchased by the lamb of god at the price of his own life's blood now when the apostle used this language to the corinthians they would have understood the commercial overtones of the language used and it may well be and some of the commentators point this out that paul may be referring to an act that is called an act of manumission in which a slave was set free by a price paid to the master in the name of a deity and in the name of a pagan deity a slave would be purchased and become the property of another and it may be that against that background in a society that was riddled with the institution of slavery that paul uses the language but whether that's there or not this much is clear that when the apostle gives a logical explanation for his radical affirmation that explanation is simple and clear you are not your own for you were bought with a price every time a sinner in the consciousness that he can do nothing to pardon his own sin he can do nothing to pardon his own sin he can do nothing to pardon his own sin

13:51 he can do nothing to release himself from his legal obligations to the law of god cast himself upon christ and the virtue of his sacrificial bloodletting in that transaction of repentance and faith he becomes totally irreversibly eternally the purchased property of the lord jesus christ not just positionally and federally going back to the act of purchase when our lord died in space time history but our lord enters into the fruit of his purchase and we become his possession bought by the price of his own precious blood the radical affirmation you are not your own the logical explanation for you were bought with a price and you are not your own for you were bought with a price and you are now we come to the crunch line the universal implication what's the implication then of all this look at the text you are not your own for you were bought with a price here's the implication

The Universal Implication: 'Glorify God Therefore, In Your Body'

15:13 of therefore statement glorify god therefore in your body now a number of you have the new king james verse 1 and verse 2 and verse 3 and verse 4 and verse 5 and verse 6 and verse 7 and verse 7 and verse 8 and verse 9 and verse 10 and verse 11 and verse 12 and verse 13 and right there we come to a bottom where the lukewarmож use the word Harshad as a reference to the religion that we were forming with fatigue and also the new king becauseラallows very ultimately the religion we have seen in vogue chapter one in the bible which says that holy or MOM is not light therefore the people who landed there dwell only on the earth today directly after the end night these things came to our heads after the victory of a new and the great victory whichresser that the biblical scripture also starts with the example we had in chapter 2 of verse it says believing in the yahweh who was a God but not the policeman and it comes from the holy strength he has the right by Jesus the epistles and Fleshy. It needed to be elevated into a little higher level of spirituality to be told that the universal implication of being purchased by the blood of Christ is that God be glorified in our bodies. With no mention of the spirit. Seems crassly carnal and focused upon what is touchable and feelable. But remember the context. The context is people who could gather in their charismatic free-for-alls on the Lord's day.

16:30 And men and women prophets standing up, thus saith the Lord, and giving their words from God and people speaking in tongues with no interpreters and they were having a charismatic free-for-all. Really? Really in the spirit. And they go out on Monday and consort with harlots and engage in fornication. And the apostle is seeking to demonstrate that the redemption of Jesus Christ does not terminate upon the soul, but the whole man.

17:02 You were bought with a price. Not your soul. You were bought with a price. You notice in my opening remarks, based on the words of the hymn.

17:12 I didn't say, I didn't say it's a sober thing to know you have a never-dying soul. You notice I didn't say a never-dying. You have a never-dying existence. Body and soul. You're going to exist somewhere forever.

17:24 Death is just a temporary rending of the soul and the body. That's all. Just temporary. And the apostle is concerned that these people who through pagan influences in philosophy and in morality felt that they could be very spiritual inwardly.

17:44 That there was no real difference what they did with the fleshy part of who and what they were, is careful to terminate the emphasis here or focus the emphasis upon glorifying God, therefore, in your body. The duty mandated in this universal implication, what is it? It is to glorify God. To bring honor and praise to God.

18:09 That when people interact with you, they will know something of what God is. Like, especially, God revealed in Jesus Christ. For he that saith he abideth in him ought himself so to walk even as he walked, whom he did foreknow, then he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. And the duty mandated in the light of that radical affirmation, you're not your own, based on that logical explanation, we were bought with a price, is this.

18:43 I am not. I am now under solemn obligation in every place, at all times, and in all relationships to be passionately concerned that what I do, what I say, where I go, and how I interact with others, what I think when I'm alone, all that I am, that I bring honor and praise to the God who has purchased me at the price of the blood of Jesus Christ. Of his own dear Son. Glorify God.

19:21 Christ's free redemption brings us back to the place where we begin to live for the very purpose for which we were made. What is man's chief end? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. He made man in his image after the image of God.

19:46 God created he him, male and female created he them. And what is the most critical element of our sin? All have sinned and fall short of what? You can quote it. Fall short of what? The glory of God. The very purpose for which we were made. That you and I might be living, walking, breathing representatives of God. And the sin of our sin is that we fall short at the very purpose of our existence. And God in his great redemptive love and mercy at great cost to himself has bought a people with his own blood. And when they come by faith to embrace his graciously provided salvation, they are from henceforth no longer to regard themselves as their own, but his purchased possession now consciously and deliberately to live for the very purpose for which we were created. Glorify God, therefore. That's the duty mandated, but look at the sphere specified. Glorify God, therefore, in your body, in the realm and

21:11 sphere of your bodily existence. In the context, again I acknowledge, the primary emphasis would be glorify God in your body, that is, in the expression of your sexual capacity and appetites. Flee fornication, arm yourself with all the motives in the passage. I fully acknowledge that, but this is not the only passage that speaks of glorifying God in the realm or sphere, of our bodily existence. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your hearts, no, present your souls, no. What does Romans 12, 1 say? That you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable, rational service. You don't go out and get an animal and slit its throat and present it unto God as an expression.

The Sphere Specified: Glorifying God in Bodily Existence

22:14 Of gratitude for his free salvation and his mercy in Christ, you present yourself in the concreteness of your bodily existence. That body that God has given you, in that body you are to glorify him. When that body is at work, when that body is at play, when that body is alone in secret and its eyes look at what it chooses to look at, when the hands touch what they choose to touch, when that body is placed in proximity to other bodies and relates to those bodies, in the totality of your redeemed humanity, you and I are to be committed to glorify God in the sphere of our bodily existence. Now, do you see the tremendous relevance of this as we look in two directions? As we come to the table, it's my turn, to assist at the table tonight, along with Pastor Carlson, or Pastor Smith. I think it's Pastor Smith, yes. And I will uncover that loaf of bread and break it, and we'll read the words from 1 Corinthians

23:33 11. And then the symbol of the fruit of the vine, the little cups filled with the fruit of the vine. And what we're saying is this, that the Lord Jesus Christ, present by his spirit, is in these two emblems reminding us that the price that was paid to redeem us from everlasting torment, unto all of the privileges of everlasting glory and the presence of God and of the Lamb, and all of his redeemed in the new heavens and earth, was that Jesus Christ died for us. But now, bring this text to bear upon the table.

24:14 That very purchased price that redeemed us out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the clutches of the devil, and out of the condemnation of God's righteous law, that blood shed for us, bought us, so that we are henceforth not our own. If you take the bread and the cups, saying, I have salvation from the broken body and the poured out blood of Christ, you know what you're saying in the next breath? Therefore, I gladly acknowledge I am not my own. A whole Christ was given to purchase.

24:51 whole salvation that will secure the whole allegiance of all who embrace it it wasn't a half christ to purchase half of you it was a whole christ given to purchase the whole you and if you're a true believer you are not your own you've been bought with a price and the wonder of god's grace is you're glad that it's so you know you ain't lost nothing but hell and bondage and the wretched tyranny of your body being the playground of your lusts there's a beautiful concreteness in the biblical doctrine of sanctification when paul opens up the truth from a differing perspective in romans 6 of our union with christ in his death burial and resurrection when he died we died with him to sin when he rose we have risen with him to newness of life after all of that he says reckon yourselves there thought to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto god in christ jesus and then he gives the practical outworking of that and he says look don't present your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin but present yourselves unto god and your members as instruments of righteousness unto god for sin shall no longer

26:16 exercise lordship over you for you are not under the law but under grace grace encompasses the the totality of the humanity of all to whom it comes in saving power. And we say, Lord, I'm not my own. My eyes are not my own to look at whatever they would look at. But, Lord Jesus, they are yours to look upon the things that please you.

26:45 My ears are not my own to hear what they would natively desire to hear, but what will please you. My tongue is not my own to speak its own words. My hands, my feet, all of the members of my body, not my own, bought with a price. And by your grace, oh, Lord Jesus, I am committed to glorify you in my body.

27:11 Now that's the avenue from the text to the table.

Pastoral Challenge: Modesty and Immodesty in Summer

27:18 And now I want to speak very pastorally.

27:22 Summer is upon us.

27:26 And with summer come backyard pools. Neighborhood pools.

27:31 And community pools. And park lakes.

27:36 And I want to lay a solemn challenge before every blood-bought child of God in Trinity Baptist Church. And I know some of you will go home and mumble. Some of you will get in little groups and try to refute what I've said.

27:55 I've counted the cost. And I've been bought to be Christ's free man. 1 Corinthians 7.23 You were bought with a price.

28:03 Be not the slaves. Be the slaves of men. And I will not be a slave to your potential frowns or criticism. But I want to lay out this challenge on behalf of my Savior, whose body and blood will be remembered here tonight.

28:17 Every woman, every girl in this place, your body is his purchased possession. And if it's his possession and under his control, it will not willfully or carelessly be exposed to become the object of the wanton, lustful glances of men and boys. Who know not Christ, or the occasion of stumbling into lustful glances from your brother's inn. Do you hear me?

28:49 Do you hear what I'm saying? If you consciously say when you get up the morning you're planning to go to Peavey Park, to the community pool, to your backyard, I don't care where it is.

29:05 Can you put on your bathing garment, whatever it is. And say, Lord Jesus, I glorify you in the bearing of this much of my body to anyone who wants to look upon it. Oh yes, it may elicit a leering, and I may feed the wickedness of the hearts of men, but Lord Jesus, I glorify you as I do it. Can you gather with your brothers in Christ when you know what Christ said?

29:50 Whoso looks to lust upon a woman hath committed adultery. Whoso looks to lust upon a woman hath committed adultery already in his heart, and bear as much of your body as in any other circumstance would be considered shameful, except to your husband behind the bedroom door. But because American culture has said you can have bared thighs up to here as long as it's a one-piece suit. And you can wear the equivalent of bra and panties, which if you walk down the street, you'd be arrested.

30:25 Because it's by sand and sand. Surf in the community pool. It's acceptable. What in God's name has happened to our consciences?

30:34 Happened to them.

30:41 Glorify God in your body.

30:46 In your body, Christian woman. Ah, yes, but. Yeah, I know, ah, yes, but.

30:55 I was reared on Long Island Sound. Five minutes walk from the beach. I grew up on the beach.

31:06 I loved the beach. But when God saved me, this is not a cultural thing with me. God got hold of my conscience. And indiscriminate mixed bathing has never been a part of my life.

31:22 And it isn't culturally conditioned. It's in my Bible. Am I saying anyone who has a backyard pool, who swims, I'm not saying you're sinning. What I'm saying is this.

31:39 Can you look in the mirror with whatever you've taken off and whatever you're exposing and say, Lord Jesus, you and I purchased this body and I glorify you by exposing this much to the gaze of people other than my husband and in some circumstances to my children. That's all I'm asking you. Don't get in a huff and distort what I've said. If you are not your own and you've been bought with a price, surely you want to glorify God in your body, do you not?

32:20 And what about you? What about the text where Jesus said it is necessary that offenses come? In a wicked world, men are going to sin. But woe unto him through whom the offense comes.

32:35 It were better that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were drowned in the sea. My friends, that's strong language. And some of you women may say, oh, men are going to lust. They'll lust if you wear a gunny sack.

32:48 Ah, yes. But if you go out down Main Street in a gunny sack and a man lusts after you, your conscience is clear that you have not unnecessarily occasioned his lust. You'll never be charged with being the occasion of his sin. He'll answer for his burning lust at lust through a gunny sack.

33:08 Don't get off the hook by rationalization, my dear sisters or my dear brothers. There was a time when it was thought that looking at bodies and body watching and seeing if someone was buff and ripped was only men with women. But it's the other way around now. There's as much pornography in the mall.

33:29 I hadn't been in it in years. And you walk through it and there in pennies and seers go into the men's section. The men's underwear packages are pornographic. And women and girls are body conscious now in a way they weren't 20 to 30 years ago.

Application to Men: Glorify God in What You Eat, Drink, and Do

33:49 You men, you have an obligation. You're bought with a price. Glorify God. What you put on it, what you take off it.

34:02 What you put in it and what you don't put in it. Whether therefore, here's another text that underscores it. Whether therefore you what? Eat what you eat.

34:16 How much you eat. How much of what you eat gives necessary energy. How much continually gets stored in excessive fat cells. Puts a strain upon the heart.

34:27 Unnecessarily prejudices your health and well-being and service of Christ. And holding the conscience of your children and your brothers and sisters. Whether therefore you eat what you eat. How much?

34:42 How little? You don't eat enough to burn up the energy you're using to fuel the energy. And you feed off your own body. That doesn't glorify God.

34:52 That doesn't glorify God. Whether you eat or drink. What you drink. How much you drink.

35:01 The effect of the drink. Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess. But be filled with the Spirit. Be filled with the Spirit.

35:08 Whether therefore you eat or drink. Or whatsoever you do. Do all to what? Let's say it.

35:18 Do all to what? Oh, we're right back here, aren't we? You were bought with a price. You're not your own.

35:26 Glorify God. Eating. Drinking. Whatever you do.

35:34 This is just one specific focus of it. Whatever we do. That's the great end. Christ died to have a people whose passion is that they will glorify God in whatsoever they do.

The Body as Purchased Property for Eternal Glory

35:48 And this passage that we've meditated upon says, You're not your own. You've been bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body. It's a serious thing to look in the mirror and say this.

36:08 Temple of clay that is decaying day by day. Month by month for some of us. Sprouts a new arthritic joint. And some other sign that the outward man is decaying.

36:21 To look in the mirror and say. Man, you're looking at purchased property. Stamped with the cross. And it's marked for eternal glory.

36:33 But right now. With whatever I've got. I've got to do the best I can. To make sure that Jesus gets the fruit of his death in this body.

36:46 That's why some of us. Submit ourselves. Submit ourselves to a regimen of exercise from which we get no highs. Which is unpleasant to our flesh.

36:55 It's the conviction that it's only in this body that we can serve God. Until he stops the ticker and it lies in the grave and wakes the resurrection. We've got to think that way. It's in your body.

37:10 That you will be the mother. And the wife. And the husband. And the father.

37:15 And the friend. And the workman. God have mercy on us. If like the Corinthians.

37:20 We can be spiritual. In an unbodily way. What the body is. What the body does.

37:26 Is irrelevant. No it isn't irrelevant. It's been bought with a price. Brought with a price.

The Danger of Serving Two Masters

37:33 I close with a touching passage out of the three Marys. If you haven't obtained that book. The three Marys. It's Moody Stewart's beautiful.

37:43 Edifying. Fascinating at times. And all kinds of adjectives I could use. Meditation on Mary Magdalene.

37:52 And Mary Magdalene. And Mary the mother of our Lord. My wife and I have read those two. We're just finishing up on Mary Magdalene.

37:59 And he has this beautiful section. We read several nights ago. When the Lord reveals himself to Mary. When she's weeping by the tomb.

38:08 And he says to her Mary. And she turns and says. Rabboni. He shows that that expression.

38:17 Rabboni. Meant my master. My teacher. My Lord.

38:21 And as he's opening up the concept. The concept of Rabboni. My master. He says it demands humility.

38:27 And secondly. It implies singleness in the eye of the servant. And here's the passage I want to read to you. The service can never be reconciled without first reconciling the masters.

38:40 But the prince of this world has nothing in Christ. And what fellowship has Christ with Belial. Yet the attempted double service. The attempt to serve two masters.

38:51 Christ and some other. The attempted double service is deeply injuring thousands of true believers. Now notice his careful wording. The attempt to serve two masters is ruining and hindering thousands of real believers.

39:06 A real believer can only attempt to serve two masters. Because in reality no man can serve two masters. Then he says this. And tens of thousands of professing Christians are continually perishing in the vain endeavor.

39:22 To please two masters. Half master and half Lord is all they really call Jesus. Master of my soul. Lord of my spirit.

39:33 But not master of my body. My tongue. My ears. My eyes.

39:39 My feet and hands. Lord of my devotions. But not of my affections. My heart.

39:45 My intellect. My time. My farm. My merchandise.

39:49 My all. Master of my future. My all. My old age.

39:53 My weakness. My sickness. My sorrow. My death.

39:57 And my eternity. But not master of my present. My health. My life.

40:02 My pleasure. Half savior for the best of men would leave them wholly lost forever. And our complete redeemer is likewise our absolute Lord. Jesus is meek and lowly in heart.

40:17 But he will not be mocked by any man. And to every half servant. He will sternly say. No servant can serve two masters.

40:26 Depart from me. You workers of iniquity. But on the other hand. The my rabboni of Mary.

Invitation to Unbelievers and Warning to Professing Christians

40:35 Strikes a kindred chord in the heart of every humble. And single eyed follower of Jesus. My unconverted friend sitting here tonight. I'm so glad in the light of our first hymn.

40:48 That I can say to you in the language of Matthew 12. All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men. Except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven the sons of men.

41:06 For the blood of Jesus. God's son cleanses from all sin. Come now let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet.

41:17 They shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson. They shall be as wool. Christ's blood has power to cleanse.

41:25 And forgive the vilest of sins. In any combination. And in any amount. That's the gospel.

41:32 Go to Christ. And the virtue of his blood will render you clean as the new falling snow. But if you go. Know that the blood by which you're cleansed.

41:44 Has purchased you. All of you. The whole of you. Without exception.

41:50 If you want to know. The sweet kiss of his pardoning grace. Throw yourself upon him. And with Mary say Rabboni.

42:01 My master. My master. If any professing Christian comes to this table. Willfully.

42:11 Knowingly. Clinging. To anything that is a contradiction of Christ's purchase of you. You're trifling with sacred things.

42:22 And partaking. Of those emblems of his body. And his blood. In an unworthy manner.

42:28 And provoking God to severely chastise you. If you're a true Christian. Coming to the table is not only. Coming with joy.

42:38 And gratitude. And fresh expressions of devotion to the Lord Jesus. Who died that we might be forgiven. But with fresh and honest.

42:49 Searchings of heart. To ask. Does he have in me. What he died to get.

Concluding Prayer and Confession

42:56 From me. You're not your own. For you were bought with a price. Glorify God therefore.

43:04 In your body. Let us pray. Our Father. How we plead with you.

43:09 That you would take your word. And bring it home to our hearts. With power. We acknowledge with shame.

43:18 That so often we rob our Lord Jesus. Of the fruit of his suffering. When with hand. And foot.

43:23 And eye. And tongue. We have sinned. We have sinned.

43:27 We have sinned. We have sinned. We have sinned. We have sinned.

43:31 We have sinned. We have sinned. We have sinned. We have sinned.

43:36 We have sinned. We have sinned. We have sinned. We have sinned.

43:40 To the same. realm. Brazil. We are free to rise.

43:44 From the power. That this city. Is stricken. By.

43:48 You. Shall. Ain't. Won't.

43:52 Back. You have your. Right. Glory.

43:56 And. Out. Of your. Punches.

44:00 oug. Of God. Taught. Who.

44:04 Sons. incomes. Of. in a fuller and more glorious way, to glorify you perfectly, and that forever.

44:14 Continue with us, we plead, in Jesus' name. Amen.