We're turning to the book of the Revelation, chapter 5. We'll read the chapter together. Revelation, chapter 5, beginning our reading at the verse number 1. Let's hear God's Word. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back side, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof. And no man in heaven nor in earth, neither under the earth was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not, behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and though in the midst of the throne, and off before beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth and he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne and when he had taken the book the four beasts and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, and hast made us son to our God, kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels, round about the throne and the beasts and the elders and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature which is in heaven and on earth and under the earth and such are as in the sea. And all that are in them, heard I saying, blessing and honor and glory and power be on to him that sitteth upon the throne and on to the Lamb forever and ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and 20 elders fell down. and worshipped him that liveth forever and ever. Amen. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Our gracious and loving Father, how thrilling to read, O God, this account of all that is happening now in glory. And Lord, those of our loved ones who are already there, taking their station before the throne of God. They now see the king in all of his beauty, and they worship him unsinningly. They worship him perfectly. O God, our worship on earth is so imperfect. Lord, our hearts at times are dull. Lord, our lips at times are closed. O God, at times, Lord, O God, we experience a father, a lethargy in our worship, but not these in glory. Oh, we praise you, there will come a day when we will sing as we ought to sing, and we'll worship as we ought to worship, and Lord, we'll praise thee as we ought to praise thee. But until then, Lord, oh God, we pray that thou wilt tune our hearts Lord, help us to listen to thy word today, and not only to listen, and to hear it, but to heed it, and to put it into practice, even in our lives. May we see our Savior now, once again, as we meet around the Holy Scriptures, where we offer prayer, asking for the infilling of thy Spirit. I pray this in our Savior's precious name. Despite being written over by over, sorry, 40 different authors from all walks of life, over a period of 1,400 years in three different languages, there is a tremendous harmony that exists in Holy Scripture, a harmony that can only be attributed to the divine superintendence of the Spirit of God in the production of God's Word. One reoccurring scene that you find in scripture from the first book to the last book is the theme of the Lamb. We come to meet the Lamb, first of all, in Genesis chapter 22, when God instructs Abram to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice to Him. His father and son trek up Moriah's mountainside. Isaac turns to his father Abraham and asks him this question, where is the Lamb? for a burnt offering. Abram gives the reply, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. And that he did, that he did in the form of a ram whose horns were caught in the thicket. That ram would become the substitutionary sacrifice for Isaac. A picture of the substitutionary death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on the cross. This theme of the lamb continues into the book of Exodus, where we find the final play coming upon the Egyptians, the death of every firstborn male of the Egyptians, including the crown prince of the Pharaoh. On that occasion, God instructs the Israelites to take a lamb, to slay that lamb and then to apply the blood of that lamb upon the doorposts and upon the lintels. The lamb is then seen again in Isaiah chapter 53, as the prophet foretells of the Messiah's death upon the cross. There he writes in verse 7, he was oppressed and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth, he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. When the Son of God eventually came to earth, manifest in the flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the one who came before him to prepare the way for him, his herald John the Baptist, would declare the following about the approaching Christ. Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. The Lamb of God had now appeared for the purpose of doing the Father's will. The prophesied Lamb of the Old Testament now becomes the personified Lamb in the New Testament, having accomplished the task for which he came. The Lord Jesus Christ ascended back into heaven. And it is Christ, as the glorified and as the exalted Lamb, that we come to find presented to us in this, the book of the Revelation. 29 times in 22 chapters, the term Lamb appears in this closing book of the New Testament. 28 of those references refer to the Son of God. With this being Communion Sunday, As we will soon gather around the table as God-redeemed children, and as we come to consider the work of Christ, I thought that this title of Jesus Christ was a most suitable title for us to consider in this family worship service. And so today, I want us to think about what John focuses upon as he comes to present the Lamb the Lamb of God in his book, in his writings, in the book of the Revelation. And so we'll consider what John focuses on with regard to the Lamb and what we ought to focus upon as we consider our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The first thing that John focuses on as he recounts the revelation that God gave to him of the glorified and of the exalted Lamb is the wounds of the Lamb. The wounds. of the Lamb. That's very interesting. Very interesting to notice that the very first thing that we're brought to consider with regard to the Lamb is His work of redemption. The work of the cross. The place where Christ was wounded on to death. where Christ suffered for sin. It is this matter that is the primary matter. It is the preeminent matter that we ought to think about as we consider the Lamb here in the book of the Revelation. It is the fact that He is the wounded Lamb. It is this detail of the wounds of the Lamb that seems to arrest the attention of John as he comes to recount and now to write down the revelation that God gave to him here on the Isle of Padmas. It seems to be that the wounds of the Lamb are the things that leave the lasting impression upon the mind of God's servant. John comes to refer to the wounding of the lamb, or the wounds of the lamb, at least on three separate occasions in this book. Look there at the verse number 6 of this chapter. Chapter 5, verse 6, Look at the verse 12. saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain. And then in chapter 13 and the verse number 8, we read similar words again. And all they that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of Each of the verses, they refer to the slain lamb. The thought behind the word slain is that of sacrifice. The idea behind the word slain is that of a wounding on to death. The word can be literally translated this way, to butcher, to slaughter. to kill, to slay, to wound, to wound mortally. Now think for a moment of who we are considering. Think for a moment who we're looking at here in the book of the Revelation. Who is the one that we're now considering? This is not the one who entered into his estate of humiliation. We're not considering Christ in his estate of humiliation, but rather we are considering now Christ in his estate of exaltation. This is the exalted. This is the glorified, this is the resurrected Christ, and yet it appears that He bears in His body the scars, He bears in His body the wounds that are the result of His suffering in the days of His humiliation. How can then you marry? How can you marry these two things together? The wounds of His humiliation, in the body of the glorified Son of God. Well, you can marry these two things together because His wounds are part of His glory. The wounds of Christ are part of His glory. Whenever the Lord Jesus Christ neared the cross, He went to His Father in prayer. And in John chapter 17, we read the words of the Savior's prayer where he would say, Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy son, that thy son may also glorify thee. Even in his dying, The Son was glorified. And the glory of that death, it comes now to find a permanent memorial in the wounds of the Lamb of God that he now bears in his glorified body. John says that he saw a lamb as it had been slain. What are these wounds in thy hands? This is part of my glory. I am glorified in my dying. I am glorified in the atonement that I made for my people. I am glorified in the fulfilling of all the terms of the covenant of redemption. Robert Murray McShane, he said these words, the wounds of Christ were the greatest outlets of his glory that ever were. He went on to say, the divine glory shone more out of his wounds than out of all his life before. The marvelous thing is this, that though the Lamb bears the wounds of a past conflict, the Lamb, according to John here in Revelation 5 verse 6, this Lamb is now found to be standing, there stood, a lamb as it had been slain. There stood a lamb. The standing posture of the lamb is referred to in chapter 14 in the verse number one where John writes these words, and I looked and though a lamb stood, he stood on the Mount Zion and with him 140 and 4,000 having his father's name written in their foreheads, This standing lamb points us to the fact that he is the living lamb. This is no dead lamb that we are considering together. This is no dead lamb that's in heaven, but rather this is the living lamb. You see the wounding that Christ endured on the cross. The scars which are now still yet visible were not to be fatal for the Son of God. His wounding was not a fatal wounding as such because Christ rose again from the dead. Yes, He died, but He rose again from the dead. And so we find here now the standing Lamb, the Son of God is to be viewed then, brethren and sisters today, this Lamb of God, He is to be viewed as the triumphant Lamb. He is to be viewed as the all-conquering Lamb. He is to be viewed as the victorious Lamb. He is to be viewed as the living Lamb. As we think today about the wounds of the Lamb of God today, let me ask you this question. Have you come to hide yourself? Have you come to hide yourself in the wounds of Christ, hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand? Never foe can fall. Follow, never trade or stand. Are you hiding in the rock of ages? Rock of ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee. Are you hiding today in Christ? Are you hiding, as it were, in the wounds of Christ? Do those wounds plead for your acquittal in heaven's high courts? Do you prize his wounds? Do you cherish His wounds? The wounds that were inflicted upon His head, and His hands, and His feet, and on His side? For those wounds, what do they do? They express the love that God had for me, and the love that God had for all of His people. In evidence, the work that he did in order to save them from their sin, he is wounded. We sing the hymn, Wounded for me, wounded for me. There on the cross, he was wounded for me. Gone my transgressions, now I am free all, all because Jesus was wounded for me. The wounded lamb, the wounds of the lamb. It is this that arrests the attention of John. This is the primary thing. This is the preeminent thing. He was considering his attention was taken up with the wounds of Christ. Joseph Stennett, he wrote a hymn. And I trust the words and the sentiments of that hymn are your sentiments this afternoon. This is what he wrote. Behold how every wound of his Precious balm distills, which heals the scars that sin had made and cures all mortal ills. Those wounds are mouths that preach His grace. The end signs of His love, the seals of all expected bliss in paradise above. The wounds, they preach grace. Grace for the unworthy, wounded, the lamb. As it had been slain, the wounds of the Lamb are His glories. The wounds of the Lamb are His jewels. The wounds of the Lamb are His sacred ornaments. The wounds of the Lamb are His tokens of love for us. For it was by His wounds, Isaiah said, we are healed. By His wounds, we are healed. To you, who seek an efficient remedy for sin. Well, let me encourage you to look to the wounded lamb today, the lamb who was slain, no longer slain, but the lamb who was slain, the wounds of the lamb. The second thing that John focuses on in this revelation of the lamb is the worthiness of the lamb. The worthiness of the Lamb. You know, the worthiness of the Lamb is something that is woven into the very fabric and into the very lyrics of the praise that is offered to God in heaven. Look there at the verse number 9. There we read in chapter 5 that the four beasts accompanied with the four and twenty elders are said, they're said that they fall down before the lamb and they sing a new song and what is the words in their song? They sing these words, thou art worthy. Who is worthy? The one who took the book. Who took the book? It was the lamb. Thou art worthy. to take the book and to open the seals thereof. For thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and hast made us unto our God, kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. Look there at the verse number 12. Same with a loud voice this time now. The angels, they join now in. They add their voices in unison. The angels now sing in unison these words. Worthy, worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and glory. In the previous chapter, in the chapter number four, the four and 20 elders, they offer this song of praise to the one who sits upon the throne. Note the words again. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and they were created. Heaven's praise hones in, focuses in, lasers in, as it were. It focuses, it hones in on the Lamb's worthiness. The Lamb is worthy because the Lamb is all the glory. In Emmanuel's land, one preacher said, take whatever view of Jesus Christ we may. His worthiness appears. but especially if we look at His glorious person, His perfect character, and His finished work, what He is, He is to His people, and what He has done, He has done for His people. Who is it today that is worthy of our undivided love? Who is it today that is worthy of our unstinted service? Who is it today that is worthy of our unquestioning obedience? Who is it today who is worthy of our unwavering faith? Who is it today that is worthy of our unending praise? It is the one who lived and died and rose again for us. It is the Lamb. And this is the very argument that John puts forth here in Revelation 5 verse number 9, thou art worthy. Why art thou worthy? For, there's the reason, for thou wast slain and thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, tongue, people and nation. The work of redemption, the work of redemption, the work that Christ undertook for his people displays his worthiness. There's coming a day, child of God, whenever we will stand before the throne of God, and we'll stand before that throne without fault. That's what the scripture says. We will be presented without blame. We will be blameless. And we will stand before the throne without fault. But listen, child of God, on that day, we'll not be singing about ourselves. Realizing that our worth Realizing that our worth is a derived worth. A worth that comes to us through our union with Jesus Christ. Realizing that we will on that day ascribe all worthiness to Him. The Son of God is worthy of all the praise and the honor that we could ever bring Him. For He alone is worthy. Christ the Lord. Christ the Lord. I wonder, would you agree with the words of one preacher who said this, Jesus is worthy of my life, worthy of my love, worthy of everything I can say for him? Worthy of a thousand times more than that. Worthy of all the music on earth. Worthy of all the songs of all the sweetest singers. Worthy of all the poetry of the best writers. Worthy to be adored of all that are in earth and under the earth and in the sea and in the heavens and in the heavens of heavens. He is worthy. Since he is worthy of all the above. Because of what he did for sinners on Calvary, let me ask you, why is he not your Savior? Why is this one not your Savior today? Why is he not your friend? Why is he not your Lord? Why is he not your master and believer, if he's worthy of it all? Why do you keep him on the sidelines of your life? Why is he on the periphery? Why do you not serve Him with the vigor and the zeal that you ought to? For the Lamb is worthy of it all. Why is He not front and center of all you do? If He's worthy, is He worthy? Heaven believes He's worthy. The Father believes He's worthy. The angels and the cherubim and the seraphim, they believe that He's worthy. The glorified saints believe He's worthy. O child of God on earth, do we believe it? Is he worthy of your best? Are you giving him your best? The third matter that John focuses on, the wounds of the lamb, the worthiness of the lamb, he then comes to focus on the wrath of the lamb. The opening off the sixth seal, the penultimate seal on this book that is described here in chapter five is presented and described for us at the end of chapter number six. I want to read the verses 12 to the end. In chapter six, verse 12, we read, and I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal and though there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, the moon became as blood. The stars of heaven fell onto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind, and the heaven departed as a scroll, when it is rolled together, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men The term wrath, It's not a term that you would associate with a lamb. A lamb is a meek animal. A lamb is a gentle animal. A lamb is a timid animal. But here the pain man, he comes to write and speak about the wrath of the lamb. Wrath! Wrath! The wrath of the lamb. There are two words translated wrath in the New Testament. The first word is the Greek word thumos. It really speaks about a wrath that explodes, as it were, an instant wrath. The blowing, as it were, of the fuse, that kind of wrath, an anger that just seems to spill out and explode out of an individual. The second word is the word orge. It really speaks about a wrath that builds slowly, but builds gradually. It is the word orge that is used here in Revelation chapter 6. It speaks about a slow building up of God's wrath to the point where it can no longer be contained. And it is this point, it is this point where we find ourselves in Revelation chapter 6, that God's anger has built up to such a point, has reached its limit, that now it spills over into the world. The wrath of the Lamb. Sinner, there is a day of wrath. There is a day of wrath coming, sinner. It is the wrath of the Lamb. It is a day like no other. And sinner, in faithfulness to your soul, I must warn you, yes, warn you, warn you, who avoid the gospel meeting. I must warn you. I must warn you that this day of wrath, you will come to experience the full fury of God's own diluted wrath on that day, sinner. Fleeing to Christ will lead to your avoidance of God's wrath. For such was exhausted upon the person of God's dear Son at the cross of Calvary. But fleeing from Christ, that which you are doing, sinner, that which you are presently doing, will bring you face to face with God's wrath. You will die in your sin, sinner. Are you listening? You will die in your sin, and if you die in your sin, you will have a personal working knowledge of what it is to be an object of God's wrath. I can only but then implore you to flee from wrath to come, because God's wrath As one preacher put it, when God's wrath has come on the sinner for millions of years, it will still be wrath to come. It'll always be wrath to come. Though a million years have passed, it'll always be wrath to come. More wrath coming. The wrath of the Lamb is what John speaks about here. Oh, I pray that none will come to experience firsthand the wrath of the Lamb. John writes about something else regarding the Lamb here in this book. He writes about the worship of the Lamb. The focus of heaven's worship is undoubtedly the Lamb of God. We have brought that attention to your attention as we have thought about the worth of the worthiness of the Lamb. Look there in chapter 7 and the verses number 9 and 10 of the chapter. And after this I beheld, and though a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes and palms in their hands, and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God, which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb. Notice that heaven's singing will be congregational in its nature. It is a blessing at times to listen to soloists and duets quartets at times, but in heaven, in heaven the entire universe will unite their voices to ascribe praise and worship to the Lamb of God. And the theme of their worship is the salvation of the Lamb. The salvation that the Lamb procured and secured in his death. They sing salvation, salvation to our God. Their theme is a theme of redemption. Oh, I know that there are people that we love to laud and we love to praise on earth, even as Christians. We think of Bible characters and we think of faithful ministers and men and women who made an impact for God down through church history, reformers and revivalists and missionaries and church leaders and Puritans and martyrs. But no worship will be going to them in heaven. No, all worship is directed to the Lamb. All worship directed to the Lamb of God, as well as to Father and to Holy Spirit. Will your voice be found among this gathered throng in Revelation 7, when the redeemed of all ages will be gathered before the throne to sing this song? Will your voice, will your voice be heard Will you join in this song? Will you sing your praise? And will you give your worship to the Lamb? Well, that's hardly probable if you never truly worshiped Him on earth. It's hardly likely if all your time was spent on worshiping self, and money, and worldly possessions, and sport, and movie, and television, and music stars of this world. It's hardly going to be the case if you couldn't even assemble with the church to worship on earth. The worship of the Lamb. The Lamb is worshiped in heaven. I have three, four more points to quickly make. I have four or five minutes here. Let me make them very quickly. You can study them out for yourself. Think about the way of the Lamb, the way of the Lamb. That's what John comes to highlight for us in chapter 7 in the verse 17. For there we read, The Lamb will lead his people to living fountains of waters. This is imagery that conjures up thoughts of satisfaction and pleasure. Christ's sheep will drink from no stagnant pool. They will drink from no better well in heaven, but rather they will drink and salate their thirst from heaven's fountains of living waters as God the Lamb will lead them there. From fountain to fountain I then shall be led. Do we not sing that in one of our hymns? From fountain to fountain I'll be led there by the Lamb. to drink of their fresh pleasures while eternity ages roll. We'll be under no illusion, my dear friend. This is only the portion of those who follow the Lamb now. Only those who follow the Lamb now will follow the Lamb to the fountain of living waters. These fountains of living waters Oh, I say to you who are not following the Lamb presently, let me encourage you to begin following the Lamb today. Let me encourage you to become a follower of the Lamb, for those who follow Him now will follow Him in eternity. Maybe you're looking for guidance in your life. Follow the Lamb. Follow the way of the Lamb. Allow Him to lead you. Allow Him to guide you. Yes, we think about the way of the Lamb. John, he speaks here in this book about the winning of the Lamb. The winning of the Lamb. Speaking of a confederacy of ten kings who mustered their forces against the Christ. In Revelation chapter 17, in the verse 14, we read these words, These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and they that are with Him are called the chosen, the elect, yes, and faithful. I'm sorry I'm stretching alliteration here, the winning of the Lamb, the triumph of the Lamb. John reminds his readership here that the Lamb will overcome all of his enemies. The Lamb, the Lamb will ultimately triumph and that's the message of God's Word. The Lamb wins. Christ wins. God wins. Thank God for that. And that's what you need to remember, child of God. That's what you need to remember as you journey your way through this old, weary, sinful world. You need to remember that though it appears, though it appears the church is in retreat, And though it appears that the floodwaters of sin and wickedness are constantly rising and inundating the land, the Lamb, the Lamb will ultimately prevail. The Lamb will ultimately triumph. You need to remember that, child of God. The Lamb wins. The Lamb wins. The winning of the Lamb. I'm for one glad that I'm on the winning side. Are you on the winning side? I'm on Christ's side. Who is on the Lord's side today? Let him come on to me. Young man, come on to Christ. You're on the losing side. You hear it whenever your football team is on the losing side. They're the losers. Get on to the winning side, child of God, or sinner today. Get on to Christ's side. He wins. The Lamb wins. He overcomes. He overcomes his enemies. In the final instance, John speaks about the wife and the witnesses of the Lamb. I can only point them to you, Revelation 21. In the verse number nine, first of all, he speaks about the wife of the Lamb. It says, And there came unto me one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials full of seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, and I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. This is the church. The church is the Lamb's wife. And then he speaks about the Lamb's witnesses in verse 14. And the wall of the city had 12 foundations, and in them the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb. The apostles, who were they? They were witnesses of Christ. They were witnesses for Christ. And so we have the wife of the Lamb and we have the witnesses of the Lamb. Let's bring them together. The church as the bride of Christ. is to continue to fulfill the mandate that Jesus Christ gave to his apostles when he commissioned them to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Our task, brethren and sisters, is a very simple task. It's not complicated. What does the church need to do? The church does not need to entertain men and women. The church of Christ does not need to do anything else but to make the Lamb known. That's what we're doing, to make the Lamb known. That's our mandate. That's our mandate in our children's meeting, in our youth fellowship, in all of our ministries. It is simply to make the Lamb known. That's it. Are you doing that? Are you facilitating? And are you funding the effort that the Church of Jesus Christ is engaged in, at home and abroad, in our workplaces, in our schools, in our colleges, among our friends, in this community, among our family members? Are we making Christ known? Are we making the land known? Oh, to have the spirit of John or Charles Wesley, who said these words, "'Tis all my business here below." to cry behold the lamb and happy I be with my leader's breath if I would but gasp his name preach him to all and cry in death behold behold the lamb behold the lamb as his witnesses or let us not be found wanting the lamb He's a central character in this book, the book of the Revelation and throughout, the Lamb. Oh, that our hearts will be taken off to Him. We've been thinking about the Lamb of God today. I wonder, can you remain? And will you remain? to thank Him for all that He has done for you at the communion feast. I trust you can as a Christian, and I trust you will as one who is thankful for the Lamb who for sinners was slain. Thank God for Christ the Lamb. May God bless these considerations to your heart today. Let's bow in prayer. If you want to speak to someone, you know, our clerical session will be at the door. Maybe you've been considering these matters and you're thinking, well, it's communion Sunday and the Reverend Stewart will be too busy. Can I say that I can very easily leave the communion table and allow the elders to conduct that? They can simply read a passage of scripture. If you want to speak about spiritual things, you speak to God's servant, he'll be at the door and then communicate that to me. You need to know the Lamb will never, never, never experience the wrath of the Lamb. Come to the Savior. Come to Christ just now, repenting of sin and believing the gospel. Our loving Father, we thank Thee for the Lamb who came into this world, His great mission, the accomplishment of it, and now the Lamb continues to be the glory. there in Emmanuel's land. Oh, help us, Lord, to love the Lamb, to follow the Lamb, to serve the Lamb, to worship the Lamb, to exalt the Lamb. Oh, we look to Thee, Lord, for this. Bless us as we consider what the Lamb has done for us in our communion feast, in this communion feast, not ours, but Thine. It is Thine ordinance. Bless us as we gather together. We pray this in Jesus' name.