Evening and you just pray pray for me and I desire your prayers tonight I'll tell you later But we're tonight we're gonna be in 1st Corinthians chapter 11 1st Corinthians chapter 11 Josh said Josh Josh says Lord supper and now you said won't you do that for me? He said that about time. I said not tell you what I hear with Bill this morning. So I I went home today and started focusing on the Lord's Supper. And the things, what the Lord's Supper, if you notice this table when it's not covered up, on the front of it it says, this doing remembrance of me. So tonight I want to think about, let's remember. what Jesus did for us. And let's remember, let's take the advice of the table that's carved in. We got that saying from the scripture here that we're going to read, too, that this do in remembrance of me. So tonight, we want to just maybe draw our focus. I kind of said it this morning when I got up and opened up the service about leaving everything outside. Leaving all the distractions, all the things that the devil wants us to focus on, leave those outside. Tonight, let's do the same thing, and let's focus on Jesus and what he did for us. And tonight, with the Lord's Supper, it's always a time of reflection. It's always a time to really think about what God's done for us, and what Jesus did for us, and the sacrifice that he made. With the Lord's help, we're gonna go through some scripture here and just see just how much that Jesus loved us. I know we know that. But I say sometimes I think we throw it around like Jesus loves me, this I know, but Jesus loves me. If we think about the death that Jesus died on the cross, I know it's been probably 20 years now since the Passion of the Cross came out, but when I watched that movie for the first time just to see the beating that they portrayed on a movie, about what the sufferings that Jesus suffered, and that was a movie, and I know it, and thinking about it, the sufferings that He suffered were worse than what they could even show on a movie screen. But I think about just even that, if He just went through that, man, did I deserve that? He loved me. He loved me and he cared for me. And I think about the sufferings and the shame that he had to take upon himself when he took upon himself the sins of every human being. As he hung on a cross with no shred of clothes on, out there with all humility before everybody that could walk by and see him. And as beaten as he was and as brutally murdered as he was, And He done it all for me and you. How much that He loves us. How much that He cares for us. In 1 Corinthians 11, verse 23, says this, and this is a familiar text that goes along with the Lord's Supper, and we'll read this for tonight. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks, he break it, and said, Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Let's go to Lord in prayer. Dear Lord, we thank you tonight for this scripture. We thank you for your word. Lord, we thank you, Lord, for the Lord's Supper that we're going to partake here tonight. We thank you, Lord, that it's a reminder of just how much that you loved us and how much that you cared for us. We thank you, Lord. Oh, Lord, for your sacrifice that you made on that cross. We thank you, Lord, for enduring the cross, Lord, and giving us the victory over the death, hell, and the grave, the victory over our sins, Lord. Oh, I pray that you'd help us tonight, Lord, just to maybe catch a glimpse of just how much that you love me, Lord. I pray that you would use this feeble preacher here tonight, Lord, that just use me tonight to maybe just help us to realize just how much that you really loved us and cared for us, Lord. I pray you'd give us the words tonight, Lord, remove me of myself, fill me with your spirit, Lord and preach through me tonight in Jesus name we pray amen so there were some things here that I was thinking about today and the the death that he died on the cross and I were to break them down into maybe four different types of death here that we can see on the cross and the first one is kind of already talked about a little bit was a pun it was a punishing death and It was a very brutal, vicious, punishing death. It was really just, it wasn't for the faint of heart. It wasn't probably, it was probably the most excruciating death in the history of all of mankind. And I don't say that, I mean, I'm not saying, taking that, I'm being very serious about that. It is probably the most excruciating pain that anyone's ever endured on this earth in a death. Jesus dying on the cross was so much more than just the physical pain of dying on the cross. We've got to look into the thing that we've got to look into is that it was so much more punishment. It was so much more humility. It was so much more embarrassment, I guess, maybe, that He had to endure the sins that were not His sins, but the sins of the world. To think that for a moment, there was not a moment in his life, 33 years here on this earth, where he did not walk with God, and he did not have a relationship with God. And then he all of a sudden now, he's on a cross, bearing the sins of all of mankind, and God has to turn his head and look away from it, because he can't look upon sin. So now Jesus, who lives His life for 33 and a third year, He's living His life with God, in the presence of God. And now, my God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? The one who should have never been forsaken by God was forsaken by God. It's one of the cries on the cross. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? You look at Psalms chapter 22. I've got all these marks, so I'll be way ahead of you. And I maybe got ahead of myself. In verse 1 of Psalms chapter 22. They say this is the description of the cross, and this is the sufferings of Jesus Christ. In Psalms 22, this was almost like prophecy of Jesus dying on the cross. I believe these are Jesus' words as He was going to die on the cross. These were Jesus' thoughts probably while He was on the cross. And verse 1 of chapter 22 says, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Why art thou so far from helping me? And from the words of my roaring." He says, I think about this, and all you parents out there, could you imagine your child saying, Daddy, Daddy, why have you forsaken me? Mommy, Mommy, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me? He felt all alone. And He had your sins and my sins. And that's the reason why He felt alone on the cross. It was because of your sins and my sins. God cannot look upon those sins. I believe that Bryson, me and Bryson talked a lot back when we were going down into the neighborhood. I believe Bryson was the one that told me. Could you imagine, like, all that God's God's bow and arrow pulled back. And His target is sin. And His target is so spread across the whole entire world. But on that one day, His target was His only Son. Like the whole target, His target of sin was all placed upon one man on one day there on that cross. Could you imagine having the wrath of God, all the full wrath of God, on yourself? Could you imagine that the God, that my Father, that this is what Jesus is thinking, my Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? He's like, my Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, why are you forsaken me? Why have you turned your back from me? Why are you making me go through this? He felt all abandoned and all alone. I'm telling you, that right there in itself was probably worse than the nails in His hands and His feet. That was probably worse than the humility of being naked there on the cross. That was probably worse than those crowns of thorns that they placed upon His head. He felt abandoned. He felt alone. And it's all because of your sins and my sins. Why does the Lord's Supper mean so much to me? Because of what He endured on the cross for you and for me. Amen. This do in remembrance of me. is a vicious, it was a punishing. All of the punishment for all of the sins of all of the world upon one man. All at one time. I'm not talking about just the people that lived in his day. I'm talking about the people that lived before his day. The people that lived during his day. And the people that lived after his day. And all the people that lived until Jesus comes back and takes us all home. The sins of all of humanity upon one man, upon one man's shoulders, upon one cross over 2,000 years ago, and He suffered that death for you and for me. Why does the Lord suffer me so much to you, Jason? Because He loved me so much. Blame Jesus' body out here on this table. That's Him right there. laid out before us so we can remember the death that Jesus died. You keep reading over there, Psalms 22, in verse 14 it says, I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they pierce my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones, they look and stare upon me. as He's hanging on the cross. He says, I can look down and see all of my bones staring at me. He said, my mouth is so dry. My tongue is stuck to my cheeks. He said, I'm in misery and in pain because of my sins. Because of my sins, He's on that cross. He loved me so much that He died on that cross, the miserable pain, the miserable death. I'm telling you what, today I wish, you know what I mean? I think all of us would be like, no Lord, don't do that for me. No Lord, don't do that for me. I don't deserve that. Not whatsoever, I don't deserve that. I know all the sins that I've done. I know all the same thoughts that I've thought. I know the past that I have. But thank God, He forgave me of my past. Thank God, He forgave me of my future sins, my past sins, my present sins. He's forgiven me for all the things I've done wrong. on the cross over 2,000 years ago because he loved me so much. I'm telling you what, Jesus loves you. the same as He loves me. I ain't special. I'm the same as you. He loved me as much as He loves you. He loves you as much as He loves me. He died for me as much as He died for you. I'm telling you, we do this in remembrance of Him because He died for your sins. He died an excruciating, painful, punishing death. Not only was He miserable physically, but as we said earlier, He was miserable separated from God, His Father. That might be one of the most heartbreaking sayings that He said on the cross. It's, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? You know what God would have said? If God was looking upon him, if God was talking to him at that time, I believe God would have said, I'm forsaking you for Jason Turner, because I can't look upon his sin. I think he would have said, this is the reason I'm forsaking you. But I think about this. He took my place on that cross. It was a substitutionary death. It was a substitutionary. I believe the word today some people use is vicarious. He was doing it. Even though we didn't deserve it, He did it anyway. Hebrews chapter 2, you know, He said, my God, my God, why has Thou forsaken me? But He knew what He had to endure. He knew what was coming. He knew when He came here that He was going to have to die. for the sins of the world. He knew that. Because He loved us, He came anyway. He knew what He was going to have to face. You read over there in the Garden of Gethsemane when He's praying, He says, Lord, please let this cup pass from Me. He said, I don't want to do this, Lord, but if not My will, but Your will be done. He didn't want to have to do that. He was willing to do that because He loved us enough, so much, that He did that. In Hebrews 2, verse 9, now it says, But we see Jesus. Do you see Him? Look for Him. Search your heart for Him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. Every man. He said, look, Jesus is in heaven, probably sitting on the right hand of God. He's sitting there. He's high above. He's high and lifted up. He is God. He is God. And He made Himself a little lower than the angels. He said, I'm going to go down there and I'm going to be a little lower than the angels. This is God in the flesh. This is God saying, I'm going to humble myself. I'm going to lower myself below even the angels of heaven. He said, I'm going to lower myself. He says that I'm going to lower myself, lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he by the grace, grace of God, should taste death for every man. Woo! Right? Every man. You can say every man. You can say every wool man. You can say every hue man. But He died, tasted death for every man. Praise the Lord. He loved me. Oh, it was a substitutionary death. He didn't say that the grace of God should taste death for this one and that one. It says for every man. That tells me He made Himself a little over the angels so that He could take your place on the cross. Substitutionary death. A vicarious death. I'm telling you, something we didn't deserve, but He did it anyway. Praise the Lord. It was a voluntary death. You want to talk about the volunteers? Let's talk about the volunteer that decided one day he was going to make himself a little lower than the angels so that he could taste death for every man. You think about Hebrews 12, verse 2, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who he for, wait, sorry, for, who for Let me start over. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross. He endured it. I ain't got a lick of endurance. I wouldn't have made it. Jesus endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. I'm telling you, He did it for the joy that was set before Him. He knew that, hey, if I can just get through this, hey, if I can just get through this punishment, if I can just get down off this cross, if I can just die for three days, if I can just Oh, I know what I'm dead. You know what? Three days later, I'm going to resurrect from the grave. And one of these days, three days later, I'm going to be sitting at the right hand of God. If I can just get through this. If I can endure the cross. Ah, the joy that's set before me. And you know what he's thinking too? He ain't just thinking about himself. What he's thinking is, hey, for the joy that Jason Turner's going to be with me in heaven someday. for all of eternity. He said, Wayne Henley's going to be there. Oh, Josh Green's going to be there. He said, I can't wait till they get there. Right? Listen, how many of us are sad and grieving and thinking, I can't wait to get to heaven to be with my loved ones. Well, guess what? Jesus said, I'm dying on the cross. I'm going to be buried three days for the joy that one day all those people will be there with me. I'm telling you, He loved me. Right? Listen, Jesus wants every one of us there just as much as we want to be there with our loved one. More, more so. He volunteered his life on a cross. And for the joy, I'm telling you, we get up and sing. Had a few good ones this morning. And I'm telling you, we sing about that reunion. I'm homesick, right? I'm looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. We think about, oh, we start thinking about Mamaw. We start thinking about Papaw. Oh, think about Daddy up there. We think about, oh, we think about Uncle up there. Oh, we think about, oh, our pastor that preached to us. And I tell you, tell us about Jesus. Dumped us in that right there. Married me in April. Think about meeting up with Him someday. Oh, I can't wait to be there. Oh, guess what? Jesus was thinking the same thing about you. He said, I know. I just can't wait till Jason gets there with me. I just can't wait. to Westside Baptist Church, the church comes into those gates. I just can't wait till they're all here with me. The joy that's set before me. I'm telling you, that's better than any Christmas present I ever got. That's better than any birthday present I ever got. That's better than anything I've ever received. I'm telling you what, Jesus, he was thinking about us. And he was thinking about one day we'll all be happy together because I'm fixing to endure the cross. He said, I'm going to do this so that one day we'll all have that glad reunion. One day we'll all have that glad reunion day. We'll all be together in heaven. It doesn't matter if you're from Ohio. It doesn't matter if you're from Kentucky, Alabama, oh, even Alabama. It doesn't matter where you're from. We're all going to be together. in heaven someday. Doesn't matter where you're from, right? Listen, for the joy that was set before Him, He endured the cross. I'm telling you, that might not be exactly what, maybe that wasn't the intention of that verse, but this I know, it was joy that was set before Him. And I do believe there was joy knowing that His people were going to be there with Him someday. I know He was happy about that. He wouldn't have done it If He didn't have something to do it for. He knew His people were going to be with Him someday. Romans 5, verse 8. But God commended His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners. I'm telling you. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God commended His love toward us. and that while we were yet sinners. Now, you think about God, you can think about God the Father, but if you think about God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, some people would say, well, this is the Father here. No, this is God here. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. They commended their love towards us, and that while we were yet sinners, while I was still while before I was even born and He knew all the sins that I was going to commit. Even though He knew what I was going to be. Even though He knew what you were going to be. Even though He knew the sins that we would all commit. Even though He knew how bad we were going to be. He came and died for our sins. I'm telling you. But God committed His love toward us and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. That's us. That's you. That's you. That's me. Us. Not just me, not just Josh, the pastor, not just all of us. Together, he died for us. So it was voluntary. It was voluntary. He did it because he loves us. Lastly, it was a victorious death. And I'm going to be honest. I lost my notes before I got up here. And I needed Liz to sing about two more verses of that song so I could look up some more verses. I had them in my phone. I thought, I'm going to be slick. I'm going to put them things up there on my phone. I was going to scroll right here while I was looking through them, and I accidentally deleted the things. So, Liz, if you say a couple more verses, I might be able to find a verse for the victorious death. But I think we can already see the victory here. I think even in just the verses that we've got, I think we see the victory here. That one of these days, we're going to be with Him. And it wasn't because of anything I've done. It wasn't because of anything that you have done. It's all because of that death on the cross that we are remembering tonight. I glory in the cross. Right? It's not anything of myself. It's not anything I've done, but it's because of what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary. It's because of that suffering that that shame that reproach that that was upon his body. It was all because of that. That's all because of what he did. For God so loved the world. that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. There's the victory, right? I didn't deserve it, but He did it for me anyway. There's the victory that I didn't deserve a thing, that He did. And I'm telling you what, looking at what He suffered, if I was there in that day, I said, no Lord, don't do it. But He would have done it anyway. I'm telling you, what was it? Peter said, no, no, you ain't doing that. No. He said, how? Get thee behind me, Satan. He said, I'm doing it. I have to. I'm doing it. So Jason turned and go to heaven someday. So all those people sitting at Westside Baptist Church on October 30th, 2022, all them can know me and be with me someday. I can't wait till that joy, right? That's what he was thinking. I can't wait till that happy day when we're all together again in heaven. They're all going to be there with me. That's what he was thinking. That's what he was saying. They're all going to be there with me. Thank the Lord for the victory of the cross. As we get a song ready, I think about Jesus paid it all. I don't know if that's what you got or not. But he did pay it all, right? And it's all because Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, but he washed it white as snow. It's all because of what he did. Now listen to that. Now you keep reading 1st Corinthians chapter 13. I probably already lost my place, but it talks. It gives a warning to about taking it not worthily. You got to be a listen. If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Savior, or if you have sin in your life that you have not, you've not repented of, do not take of this. I'm just warning. This is the warning, not me warning. This is what the Bible says. The Bible says, any of those that take it unworthily. He said, don't take it unworthily. He said, because there's some people that sleep. And that means they died because they took it unworthily. This is a serious, serious thing. This is probably the most serious, maybe. This is the most serious service that we'll have here, is this doing remembrance of me. This is the one that says, hey, if you're not worthy to take this, don't take it. He said, because this is only for my people. This is only for those that have put their faith and trust in me. This is only for the people who have looked at the cross and said, boy, He loved me. I'm going to follow Him. Right? I'm going to follow Him. But he even warned there, he said, don't take it unworthily. Because if you take it unworthily, some have been sick, and some have died, even died, because they took it unworthily. So listen, there's a warning there. So if you're not ready to partake of this Lord's Supper, well, right now we're going to sing a song and have an altar call. If you'd like to come and pray and ask God to forgive you of anything that might be between you and Him that would keep you from taking this, well, here's your opportunity. I'm not saying you have to come to the altar, but you can pray right there in your pew. But we're going to sing a song, make things right with the Lord before we take this. I've done it several times in my life. I was afraid to take it unworthily. And I'll sit over there and bow my head and ask God to forgive me of anything that's going on in my life. And if you need to do that tonight, do that before we partake of this Lord's Supper, as we sing the song.