Returning to the book of the Revelation, chapter four. The book of the Revelation and the chapter four. And with the word open, let's unite in prayer. Loving Father, we commit our time around the table of remembrance today. We better please to confess our sin and to seek a fresh cleansing. Oh God, and to know our renewed zeal and vigor for thee, the lap, the place, where we remember thy suffering and thy death. Bless our ready hearts, we pray this in Jesus' precious name. Amen. Revelation 4, verse 8. When he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty elves were settled down before the Lamb, having every one of them parts, in golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and open the seals thereof, for Thou hast slain. Thou hast named us to God by Thy blood, out of every kindred and tongue of every nation, and hast made us unto our God, kings and priests. We shall reign on the earth. I beheld and heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts, The elders and the number of them is 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands. Saying with a loud voice, worthy is the land that was slain to receive power and riches of wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. Amen. It doesn't take very many words to communicate communicate deep and profound news to another person. Take for example the words, I love you, or it's over, or I'm leaving, or he's dead, or it's terminal. You'd have to agree with me that they are but short statements and yet the ramifications of them are seismic and long lasting. Around this table of remembrance, I want to remind you of some three-worded statements that really encompass what we come to remember at the communion supper. The first three-worded statement comes from the tree. It is finished. These are words of completion. With redemption secured, The Son of God cried from the middle tree these words of victory, declaring to heaven, earth, and hell that salvation was now complete, that the work of redemption was done. And it is this that we come to remember around the table today, the fact that Christ has done all that is required for our salvation and that we are resting our souls on the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is finished. The second free worded statement is heard at the tomb. He is risen. Matthew 26 verse six. These are words of jubilation spoken to the woman who came to the empty tomb. The angels dispatched by God to earth in jubilation declare that Christ had risen from the dead. who is no longer under the power of death. For Christ had triumphed over death. His death would be the death of death for the child of God. And we must not miss the importance of the fact that Christ is risen. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 17, and of Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. And so today around the table, of remembrance, we remember our risen and exalted Savior. The third, the third set of words, they come to us from not the tree or the tomb, but from the table. They are the words till they come. 1 Corinthians 11 verse 36, these are words of anticipation. Yes, we look back to the death of our Lord, but we also look forward to his return. We are living in the last of the last days. And we ask ourselves then, are we living our lives in the light of the day when Christ will return to gather his loved ones home? Are we, with anticipation, looking forward fitting the return of Jesus Christ. It is finished, words of completion spoken from the tree. He is risen, words of jubilation spoken at the tomb. Till he come, words of anticipation that we hear at the table. Thou art worthy. Words of adoration that are spoken from before the throne. Revelation 4, verse 12. Revelation 4, or 5, sorry, and the verse number 12. Saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb. Sorry, it's chapter 4, verse 11. Thou art worthy. O Lord, thou art worthy. Words, of adoration. Those who are before the throne, they adore the one who sits upon the throne. They come to find that he alone is worthy to receive glory and honor and power. I wonder how is our love for Christ today? No better place to come to have love for him rekindled than around the table of remembrance. only three words each time, but each three-word statement conveys to us some profound and some comforting truth. It is finished. He is risen. Till it come. Thou art worthy. May our souls rejoice in these truths even this afternoon. The apostle Paul said, for I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you. The Lord Jesus, the same 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. This do in remembrance of me. Some brother, please do this with full acquaintance. Lord, we just did come before Thee on the knee. Lord, thank Thee indeed that everything You said and done glorified the Father. Everything was as it should have been. Every step You took, every move You made, It was in that obedience to the Father's will. And we pray, Lord, that each and every one of us would set our foot forward in the path of righteousness. That we would not set our foot aside to bypass men. It's so easy to do. So, so easy to do. Help us to be those who, Lord, submit Lord, it is what you want us to do, Lord, whether it be hard or easy. And Lord, help us to be those people that you need us to be in the ways that lie ahead, Lord. And we know that there are hard days. We know for every one of us there's testing day to day and days from Lord, days go over testing. I've heard that. And Lord we pray that thou would give us all that grace and strength Lord to follow thee. to be set, and our Lord set for the defence of the gospel, and our Lord God to stand foreswear from the truths of thy word. Lord, undertake for us, guide us, and may Lord even our hearts rejoice, and the things of the Lord, rejoice in the word of God, may we be satisfied with that, which thou hast provided for us, for Christ's sake. Amen. that which cleanses our sin and brings us into fellowship with God again. So brother, pray for the wine, the anthem, the precious blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Heavenly Father, as we read on Thy holy presence, we do thank Thee again for Thy word to our hearts today. Truly, Lord, the lines have fallen to us in present days. We are thankful again for a faithful servant today to deliver Thy word to each one of our hearts. We would just pray again, Lord, that You would open our hearts now and our minds, Lord, to receive Thy word as a word from the Lord. And we thank you again that we can gather in this fashion around the communion table. Thank you again for the people, Lord, that are found here. And we thank you most of all for what the wine represents. We know, Lord, as we have heard from thy word this morning, that we were born on a tree. Lord, we had a sin that had to be removed. Born on sin, shapen on a neck. That's what thy word declares us. And Lord, we thank you again for your great provision for us. Lord, we thank you again for that cleansing agent that you submitted to us. As we read there even in Romans 1, speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, you said, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to deter his righteousness for the forgiveness of sins. How we thank you that the blood of Christ brings about forgiveness of sins. That first night, Lord, the first communion, you took the wine and you said, this represents my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Again, we thank you. It's the blood of Christ and only the blood of Christ that can remove our sins. So, Lord, we want to acknowledge that today. We want to thank you afresh. We want to thank the Lord for the great love you have for us, Lord, to go to the cross. While that blood flowed in your veins, Lord, even though it was sinless blood, it was indestructible blood, Lord, until it was shed, it could not be a saving blood. And Lord, we thank you again, even again as we read in that word that Christ so loved us that he gave himself to be an offering and a sacrifice unto God. for a sweet-smelling saviour. So Lord, we want to again just thank the Lord for enduring the cross for us, for allowing thy precious blood to be shed. And Lord, we thank you again that, Lord, we will always keep the blood of Christ as that which sanctifies each one of us. And Lord, we pray again, as we continue on in this life, that you'll help us ever to live in the shadow of the cross. Accept our thanks now for this wine, and for all that it represents to us, even as we partake of it. Let us ponder on these great truths. For it's in Jesus' name we ask it. Amen. Be sure the Lord stays with us until we come. Amen. Let's pray. Our loving Father, love us, and because of that we love thee. Oh, to love thee more with an ardent love, a zealous love, a jealous love, allowing no other loves into our lives. Oh, give us all hearts and we may serve thee as we ought. Think of the passion of our Saviour. We mourn the lack of our passion. We see the giving of himself entirely to the Father's will and we see how reluctant O God, Mrs Gillespie's heart and her family and the young family have I served him as he preaches even now.