God our Father, how humble we are, humbled to consider that thou would bring us to thyself and more to make us thine. And we pray that as we meet around thine thy word and partake of the emblems, may we do so having expressed returning to 1 Corinthians 11, these are the words of institution, so we want to read them. 1 Corinthians 11 verse 23. 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. Many against times he breaketh it, saying, eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord. Unworthily shall ye be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. Amen. Paul writes in verse 26, For as oft as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, The word show means to declare. I've drawn that to your attention before. And thus our coming together around the table of remembrance, we declare. We declare that we believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures. However, when God's people assemble together to remember the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, their coming together results in other unspoken declarations that are being made at that particular time. We make those declarations both individually and collectively. And before we partake then of the communion, I want to highlight a number of the unspoken declarations that we declare as we gather around the table of remembrance. We are declaring, albeit in an unspoken manner, our obedience to Christ. By remembering the Saviour's death in God's appointed way, we're simply obeying. We're obeying the clear command of Christ to do this in remembrance of Him. When Christ instituted the Lord's Supper, on the eve of His death, He informed His disciples, who were the representatives of the New Testament Church on that occasion, that they were to do this in remembrance of Him. And therefore, when we come together and we partake and participate in the communion supper, in a non-verbal way, we are simply saying, Lord, we just want to obey you. We just want to obey thee. As we do this, we want to declare that we are obedient children, and we're obeying our Father, and we're obeying Christ, and we're obeying the Spirit of God, the Godhead. And so you may not have thought of it, but we are declaring, who to? To the angels. The angels look in. They look into this service today. They consider the mystery of it all. God loving a people. Not the fallen angels, but loving a people. And redeeming them. And bringing them into his family. We declare it to God that we want to obey him. We declare it to our fellow man and our fellow believers that we are obedient children, not disobedient. And then we are declaring, albeit in an unspoken manner, our love for Christ. Love for Christ brings us here. And how could we not love him? the bloody sweat of Gethsemane? How could we not love him? Will we remember the brutal scourging of Gilbatha? How could we not love him? Will we remember the barbaric suffering of Gilgatha? How could we not love him? You see, if we love him, we keep his commandments. And the command to remember the Saviour's death is a command. And as we sit at the table of remembrance, we are expressing our love for Christ, not the love for the Church. The Church is not represented in the emblems. It is Christ who is represented in the emblems. We are expressing our love for Him. And know that that love will only find itself to be increased as we dwell upon the Saviour's love. We also express faith in Christ, because as we sit at this table, we are saying that we don't believe in our works, our religious practices, our penance, our giving in to the work of God for salvation. Rather, we're depending on the cross, the saviour. That's what we're saying. By faith, we are saying Christ digests for the ungodly, but we are saying Christ died for me, Christ died for me. And as we appropriate and as we take to ourselves the bread and the wine, we ought to recall the day, the night, the hour that we took Christ as our savior by faith. And mine, us remembering him in this way, we are expressing that our faith is not only something of the past, but it's a present faith, I and it is a future faith, that we're saying today that our faith is going to continue to rest in Christ alone for salvation. A lot of our works are in our deeds. And then finally, we are declaring, we are showing, albeit in an unspoken way, we are declaring our expectation of Christ. When we remember the Saviour's death, we are doing so till he come. Till he come. That's what it says in verse 36. Till he come. Couched in these words, there is the expectation that then such an act of remembrance will no longer be required to be undertaken by us when Christ returns. Because when he appears, we shall see him as he is. There is coming, thank God, a day when the symbols before us will soon give way to the substance they represent, Christ. Christ appearing is something that should fill our hearts with expectant wonder. And so we are declaring we're here at the table until he comes. faith in Christ, we are expectantly willing for Christ. These are some of the unspoken declarations that are being made when we come together to remember the Saviour's death. May God bless these truths to our hearts this afternoon. Having read before us a symbol of the broken body of Jesus Christ. Thank you for the opportunity, Lord, to worship thee. We were adopted even into a family of fraud. Lord, we just give Thee all the thanks for all that Thou hast done for us, Lord. We thank Thee for Thy so great a salvation, Lord. We just pray, Lord, now that even as we partake, even as we remember Thy body which broke across everything aside from Thee, Lord, that Thou hast done for us even through our salvation. Thank Thee, Lord, for even each brother and sister, Galbraith, tonight, today, Lord. We pray, Lord, and God bless us all. So let's continue with us. Thanking you again for this time. And I say, if you're joining us for the first time, we partake of the bread together, or individually. And so whenever you receive the bread, ponder your Savior, and then partake of the bread as an individual, and then we then partake of the wine together with the family of God, and how we rejoin to Christ. Okay. Heavenly Father, as we get on in thy holy presence, we thank thee again, Lord, for thy people dealt with in this fashion. Lord, as we read in Isaiah, Lord, he shall see the trouble of his soul and shall be satisfied. We believe today, Lord, you are satisfied with your people met in this fashion. And we thank thee again for what the wine represents, Lord. that represents true is thy precious blood. Lord, thank you again for thy word to our hearts this morning. And we, Lord, have learned of the great union that we have with Christ. And Lord, we realize as we read there in Ephesians, Lord, we read of the God-word aspect of Calvary. And we realize there is obviously a man-word aspect of the Realize, first of all, Lord, that there is a Godward aspect. And He has said there in Ephesians that He hath made us accepted in the beloved. Lord, we thank Thee again that You accepted the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. You accepted the shelling of His precious blood. Lord, You said a way back there in the beginning of Scripture that when you would see the blood, the blood of the chosen sacrifice, the blood of the Lamb, O Lord, that your wrath would pass over us. And we thank thee for that today. We thank thee for the shedding of the blood, because we realize, Lord, from Scripture, that there would be no union with Jesus Christ if it was not for the precious shed blood. Because it says there in the next verse, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. Lord, we've been hearing this morning of the grace of God. And Lord, we thank you again for that great love that you have for each one of us. Lord, that love that took you to the cross. Read there, Lord, again on my word that you so loved us that you gave yourself to be an offering and a sacrifice unto God. And Lord, we thank you today Lord, for allowing thy precious blood to be shed. We thank you, Lord, again for the power that was in that blood. Lord, it was ordained of God, ordained of God to be that which would satisfy the Father's holy wrath against our sin. And Lord, we want to again, Lord, praise Thee, Lord, indeed, for going to the cross. And Lord, it has been prayed over, Lord, for suffering such agony. And again, Lord, for allowing that precious blood, Lord, that was so vital, so essential, Lord, to our salvation, to our union with Christ. for allowing that precious blood to be shed. So, Lord, as we partake of this wine, let us again, Lord, have these great thoughts before us. And we thank you again for the communion table. And as our pastor has reminded us of the many statements that the communion table makes, and us being gathered here in this fashion, And Lord we pray again, I ask the Lord to accept our thanks for all the blessings that this great union we have with Christ has brought to us. We do ask this in our Saviour's name. Amen. After the same honour also he took the cup, which he had stopped saying, this cup is a new testament of my blood. As do ye, as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me, for as oft as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye be sure the Lord stays till he comes. power. Thank you that thou art raised again, a living saviour. We cry to thee that as we leave this place that we may leave prayerfully, carefully, pondering thy love and who we are, those who are in Christ. May we leave rejoicing.