The following message was given at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Coconut Creek, Florida. I want to read the passage that's very familiar to us in Hebrews chapter, I'm sorry, first Corinthians chapter 11, where we have the record concerning the order of the Lord's supper service to the church at Corinth. There was great misdeeds in the reference to the ordering of the Lord's supper. It was a serious matter. and the Lord and the Apostle Paul takes this time to instruct them and us as Emmanuel Baptist Church. So I want to read that passage to us in just a moment. See if this helps. It does. Thank you. In the right spot? Thank you. Mistakes are made. Hebrews, I'm sorry, 1 Corinthians chapter 11, 1 Corinthians chapter 11. I'm gonna start reading verse 17. where we have some instruction that the apostle Paul has given to the church. He says in verse 17, now, in giving these instructions, I do not praise you, since you come together, not for the better, but for the worse. For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. For there must also be factions among you that those who are approved may be recognized among you. Therefore, when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk. What, do you not have houses to eat and drink in? or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you. For I received of the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, take, eat, this is my body which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same manner, he also took the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes. Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason, many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. Therefore, my brethren, When you come together to eat, wait for one another. If one is hungry, let him eat at home, and lest you come together for judgment. And the rest I will set in order when I come. I want to focus upon the statement that is very familiar to us. Often it's written on the table in front of us. Do this in remembrance of me. And I'm gonna focus upon the intention of the word remembrance. Remembering events and people is a very effective principle in our life. There's a phrase that perhaps all of us have used, such as, I will never forget, and we go on. Or, I remember when. Well, let me illustrate some of this remembrance. And let me, by way of introduction, introduce my introduction. this message. When I was a young man trying to learn to preach we were told as young men we should not talk much about ourselves and use personal stories. Well I'm still trying to learn to preach but I'm older now so here goes. I remember when I was a very young boy during a week at a cottage one summer I was determined to walk into the lake and walk as far as I could and then returned back. As I was walking, getting deeper and deeper, and was beginning to walk into what we call tippy-toes, and holding my head high in order to breathe, I found myself in a place that I could not reach the ground in order to turn around. I was, what we would term back then, a scared, which isn't a word, but I was greatly afraid. And then all of a sudden, one of my relatives who followed me, which I didn't know, grabbed me, took me, turned me around so I could walk back. I'll never forget that. It's still in my mind. It's many years ago. I needed to learn to swim. There's lessons we can learn. I remember the day when, on August 22nd, 1964, how beautiful Sarah looked in the wedding dress you just made. And she was one of those women talked about this morning. She had more than just the beauty. She had a character. I related that to my daughters recently. I didn't have to speak too much about their dress, because she knew what they could wear and couldn't do. She was a principled woman. That's a great memory for me today. I remember the days in which my three daughters were born, the days. Of course, I only had three and not six. I remember, I had 11 added to the family, and three more this year, God willing. I can remember, when we talk about historical events, I can remember where I was when I was told that President JFK was shot in 1962. I was on the second floor in the alumni building, walking out of my Greek class, and somebody said the president had been shot. Still in my mind, historical events. Now the times among us vary, and there are different experiences that remain in our memories, but they're often so used for such benefit. I can remember when I first understood the fact that the Lord Jesus on the cross endured God's eternal wrath for my sins. It wasn't just a memory of knowledge that was given to me, it was the application for my own soul's sake. I can remember that. I can remember the fact My justification became real to me when I understood the perfect life of our Savior was imputed to my account, and therefore I am looked at by our Heavenly Father as complete and perfect in Him. Great, valuable memories. In the scriptures, we have accounts where there are memorials set up for the sake of reminding God's people of God's work on special occasions of deliverances of God. that he had given to this people. They are set up for memorials as reminders to them. Let me mention a couple. A memorial stone set up in Genesis chapter 28 concerning the city of Bethel, the place of Bethel, where Jacob set a pillar for Bethel to commemorate the powerful vision of God that he experienced while sleeping there in memory. The experience in Gilgal, Joshua chapter 4. God commands the Israelites to cross over the Jordan River to go into the promised land. He stopped the river, miraculously, it stopped. And Joshua was told by the Lord to take those 12 tribes across. Each tribe was to take a stone from the riverbed itself, placed on the opposite side of the promised land. And these 12 stones, as Jordan, were memorials for God's people. to remember his miraculous deeds and his love for them. God set these memorials to remember them. And who can forget that perhaps the most important memorial in the life of Israel, the Passover, when God brought his judgment upon the Egyptians in their last plague. The death angel went to every home in that country and was to kill the firstborn of every home except those who had the blood of the lamb on the lintel and the doorpost. That was their memorial. Every year, they would remember that. God set that up for us, for them. What Jesus is telling us in the context of our verses, this do in remembrance of me. It is proclaiming the Lord's death till he comes. In that event, is the most eminent event in the history of the world. It is a work of stupendous magnitude. The mighty sacrifice, the perfected redemption for the souls of sinners, such as we are. Remember me. But what do we have for our remembrance? Well, here in our text we have the apex, the height, the summit of our redemption, the new covenant, in his blood. Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. In the scriptures we are taught much about the qualifications that he met in order to be that faithful and only Redeemer. Of John, verses 14 and 16, we have these words. And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bore witness of him, this is scriptures, and cried out, saying, this is he of whom I said, he who comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. And the next verse says this. And of his fullness, We have all received grace for grace. The 16th verse says it again. Of his fullness, we have all received. What are we to remember? We are to remember the fullness of his essential deity. The Bible says, in him the whole fullness of deity dwells. He had to be the God-man. He was the God-man. Now remember, of his fullness we have all received. And then there is the fullness of his perfect manhood, because in him bodily that Godhead was revealed. He was the only mediator between God and man. Of his fullness we have all received. And then there's the fullness of His atoning efficacy in His blood, because the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1, 7. Now remember, again, it's of His fullness that we have all received. And then there's the fullness of His justifying righteousness in His life, because there is there now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Romans 8, 1. Now remember, it's of His fullness that we have received. Then there's the fullness of his divine prevailing grace when he appeals to us, when he says, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. Of his fullness, we have all received. Then there's the fullness of his victory in his death. through death he destroyed him who had the power of death that is the devil Hebrews 2 14 remember of his fullness we have all received and then there is the fullness of his efficacy of his resurrection Because the word of God says, when he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. That's his ascension, Ephesians 4, 8. Remember of his fullness we have all received. And then secondly, of his fullness of every sort and shape, the blessings of the grace that is given to us, the grace of pardon, the grace of regeneration, the grace of sanctification, the grace of perseverance, the grace of perfection, of His fullness, we have all received. And thirdly, there are times when we have the fullness of comfort in times of affliction, fullness of guidance into our living. From His fullness, we have all received. And then fourthly, the fullness of every communicable divine attribute. This is for us that we can receive from him, in him, and that is to be holy, to be loving, to be just, to be good, to be merciful, to be gracious, to be faithful, to be truthful, to be patient, to be wise, of him, of his fullness we have all received. It's impossible for us to survey the fullness that we have in him. because in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Colossians 1, 19 and 20. And we are, as believers, in him. We are to come now in remembrance of him and get all that we need supplied Our need is great, but of His greatness we will receive. We live this by faith. As we've been taught, as understanding from the Word of God, the promises of the Word of God, we are now to remember. And the fullness that we receive from Him is inexhaustible, and it is to be in our memories, to be treasured up, to meet each need that we have, because it is from Him who said, this do in remembrance, of me. He is our Lord Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Let us now then, in this ordinance, in the remembrance of our Savior, who we have been taught in our texts from this time until he comes, to remember him. And that's exactly what we have been doing since the constituting of EBC for the last 38 years ago, March 9, this coming Saturday. We are continuing to be faithful in remembering Him. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, You are the God of love. How strong and true as the poet has written, Your love is eternal and yet ever new, uncomprehended and unbought, beyond all knowledge and all thought. Our Father, we pray that You would help us to do as Mary did when it was said of her, Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. It is for our memory, for our affections, for our understanding, for our proclaiming his death till he comes. Help us as we remember our Savior now. And our Lord Jesus, you have said, remember me. And our Lord, we respond by saying, we will remember you and your love. Help us, we pray. Your love is matchless in history. We remember the glory that you had with the Father before the world was. We remember you have become our surety. And remember that you have chose us to be your bride. Remember your love brought the sacrifice of yourself. We remember your love, our Lord Jesus, as it was revealed to us in your holy life, from the manger to the garden of Gethsemane. We rejoice in your love, which death did not exhaust. We now come in obedience to your command when you have said this due in remembrance of me. We do this now because of what we have in you and what you have done for us. In Jesus' name, amen. We hope you were edified by this message. For additional sermons, as well as information on giving to the ministry of Emmanuel Baptist Church and on our current building project, you can visit us online at ebcfl.org. That's ebcfl.org.