become this Lord's Day to consider more texts of scripture regarding the mocking of the Lord Jesus. Last Lord's Day, we described all the distress that was caused by a tableau mocking Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper of Christ and his disciples. And seated along the table instead of disciples were drag queens. Instead of Christ, a very large lesbian dress to expose most of her chest wearing a headdress that depicted a halo. At the end, what she presented to the disciples and to the public is not the sacraments that represent Christ's body and blood as a sacrifice, but rather a nearly naked man painted all in blue with an orange beard said to represent Dionysus, the Greek god of feasting, festivals, drunkenness, and revelry. Thinking what Christ did at the final celebration of the Passover feast brings into focus the vileness and the mockery of it in Paris. Christ told his disciples at that last Passover that he had looked forward to celebrating the Passover before he went to the cross. That feast was established when God rescued the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt by bringing down a horrible judgment on the whole land, killing the firstborn of man and beast. But God provided a sacrifice to save the Israelites. They were to offer up a lamb and paint its blood on the doorposts of their dwelling. Then when God passed through the land to smite the firstborn that very night, He would pass over wherever He saw the blood, sparing the lives of all within that house. Furthermore, God commanded that the Israelites celebrate the Passover every year to recall how God had saved them by the blood of the slain lamb. The original sacrifice pointed to a judgment and rescue to come. The subsequent celebrations pointed back to how they were saved by the blood of the lamb. When the Lord Jesus celebrated that last Passover feast with His disciples the night before He was betrayed He showed them something new, something far better. He showed them that He is God's true Lamb and sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins. Jesus used that feast to celebrate a better sacrifice than the Passover Lamb could ever be. Christ's bloodshed satisfied God's wrath against His poor people, whom He would redeem. That wrath due to us for our crimes settled upon Christ instead, and thereby the wrath passed over those who trusted Him. Christ had already exhausted it by His sacrifice. Christ used that celebration to present a new and final offering for sin. This reveals the truly abhorrent nature of the Olympic Tableau. They repurposed the Lord's Supper to picture not Christ and His sacrifice, but their own new Christ figure. who brought forth not salvation from sin, but rather the pagan god of feasting and festivities and debauchery. As if to say, we don't need a savior from sin and death, we need to go back to the pagan celebration of sin and let that be our rejoicing. Or in other words, let us eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die. How should believers respond to this filthy blasphemy? Christ has given us the honor celebrate His offering for sin around the Lord's table. We have a duty to worship Him, and praise Him, and rejoice in how He has saved us. Nothing that lost, deluded, and wicked people can do can take away what Jesus bequeathed to us. Nothing they can do should dissuade us from shouting out Christ's glory and majesty as our Redeemer. In Hebrews 13, we're told that God is well-pleased with our sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving and worship. So this should be our answer. We will continue in our worship and praise of Christ, no matter what blasphemers may do or say. Think of this, what we do today around the Lord's table is well-pleasing to God, well-pleasing to Christ. Why should we stop or slacken our worship in any way? we are preaching Christ's sacrifice for us until He returns in visible glory and power. But we had to cut several things from last Sunday's sermon. One of them was Jesus was cruelly mocked during His ministry also. Not just His Lord's table is mocked in these days, but during His own ministry He was mocked. What was done in Paris is nothing new, you see. Christ has always been subject to mockery and shame, and it was foretold by Isaiah. You remember Isaiah said, Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before us as a tender plant, as a root out of a dry ground, He hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He is despised, and we esteemed him not." Now, in Matthew 12 at verse 22, for example, we read this instance, was brought unto him, one possessed with the devil, blind and dumb, and he healed him insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by the prince of devils, Beelzebub. And Jesus knew their thoughts and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. And if Satan cast out Satan, he's divided against himself, how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. So the religious rulers of Christ's day, rather than rejoice that a man had been rescued from the possession of demons, something that no one else could offer, and which would completely transform this poor man's life, he was blind and dumb as well. And Jesus healed him. And they insisted on criticizing Christ and mocking Christ and claiming that Christ was working not by the power of the Holy Spirit, but by the power of the devil himself. And Christ told them that he cast out devils by the spirit of God. And therefore the kingdom of God has come unto you. But notice that they mocked him because he did a good miracle. Not because he had made some mistake or tripped and fell or misspoken in any way or done something else to disgrace himself. No, because he had done a miracle to help a poor, helpless person bound by the devil. That was why they mocked him. And then the healing of the man born blind is, of course, a classic case of these people mocking Christ. After he was born blind and the people presented him to the Pharisees at John 9 at verse 13, they brought to the Pharisees him that before time was blind. And it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Then again, the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, he put clay upon my eyes and I washed and did see. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, this man is not of God. because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said, how can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. Rather than rejoice in the Lord Jesus' astounding healing of this man, because as it said later, never in the history of the world has a person who was born blind been healed to see. Rather than doing that, they denounced Christ as being not of God because he doesn't keep the Sabbath day, because he healed. a poor blind man on the Sabbath day. How much work does it take to heal a blind man on the Sabbath day or many of the other healings that Christ did on the Sabbath day? These people were walking around and carrying their clothes and eating their lunch and washing their hands on the Sabbath day. But oh no, let Christ heal a poor blind man and they're gonna criticize him and claim that he's not of God. the one who sent of God, the one who is God, manifest in the flesh, and they deny who he is. And later on in the same chapter, verse 24, then again call they the man that was blind and said unto him, give God the praise, we know that this man, that is Jesus, is a sinner. He answered and said, whether he be a sinner or no, I know not. One thing I know that whereas I was blind, now I see. So this poor man who had been blind from birth, which means he had never read a single word. Maybe people read the scriptures to him, but who probably couldn't do anything but beg for a living, he puts them in their place, doesn't he? Whether he's a sinner or not, I don't know, but one thing I know, I was blind, but now I see that this man just grounded and rubbed it into their faces that Jesus had healed him And they couldn't stand it, could they? And later on, at verse 29, they said, we know that God spoken to Moses, but as for this fellow, that is Christ, we know not from whence he comes. And the man answered and said to them, why, hearing is a marvelous thing that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened my eyes. He was extremely, extremely well-spoken. And he knew how to twist the knife in their old cold dead hearts. Now we know, the man continues, that God heareth not sinners, but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. Since the world began, was it not heard that any man open the eyes of one that was born blind? If this man was not of God, he could do nothing. And he was right. They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. They thought he was born in sins, while they weren't, you see. They thought they were better than him. No doubt the man was born in sins. We all are. But you see, their righteousness, they thought, was retroactive. It wasn't just that they obeyed the law now, they thought, and they claimed, and they boasted in. They had been born obeying the law. So they cast him out of the synagogue. But the Lord Jesus never casts out His people. Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. But of course the mocking of Christ was most intense at His crucifixion, wasn't it? It was foretold by Christ to His disciples that He would be mocked. Mark 10 at verse 32, And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem. And Jesus went before them, and they were amazed. And as they followed, they were afraid. And He took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him, saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles, and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. Notice they would mock Him, and they would spit upon Him. And Christ told His disciples on several occasions that this was to be His lot, but worst of all, they would kill Him. But best of all, on the third day, He would be raised from the dead. And they couldn't remember any of it. And then when He was buried, they didn't remember that He had promised He would be raised from the dead the third day. So the Lord Jesus knew what was about to happen and he warned his disciples but they were insensitive to it and when it happened they appeared to have been shocked by it. But at his trial before the Sanhedrin he was mocked. By Herod he was mocked. By Pilate's men he was mocked and by the people around the cross he was mocked. Four different groups of people if you will that mocked the Lord Jesus in and around of the day he was crucified. By the Sanhedrin in Luke 22 at verse 63, we read this, after they had condemned him to death, the men that hailed Jesus mocked him and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him saying, prophesy, who is it that smote thee? And many other things blasphemously spake they against him. This was just, as it were, a petty torment that was inflicted upon Christ. Now, of course, it was the people that guarded Christ before the Sanhedrin that carried this out. But no doubt, the Sanhedrin itself sat by in approval of it, that they should blindfold a prisoner and smite him on the face and demand that he tell them who it was that smote him. And many other blasphemous things spoke they against him. This sort of mocking, you know, is outrageous and outside the bounds of normal civilized procedure, isn't it? But that wasn't the worst they would do to him, is it? Pilate sent him to Herod, sent the Lord Jesus to Herod because he found out that Herod might have jurisdiction. And at Luke 23 at verse 8 we read, And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad, for he was desirous to see him over long season, because he had heard many things of him, and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him. Then he questioned with him in many words, but he answered him nothing. So Herod got no satisfaction at all from Christ. Herod could have gone and met with Christ anytime he wanted to. But of course, he didn't want to go out there and meet with Christ, well, with the hoi polloi, if you will. And he wanted Christ to come to him. He wanted a command performance from he who is the king of glory. And it didn't work that way, did it? And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him. And Herod, with his men of war, set him at naught and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate. Now notice, it seems to implicate Herod's personal involvement in this particular instance of mocking. Herod with his men of war set him at naught, that means debased him, ridiculed him, mocked him and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe and sent him again to Pilate. So they were mocking the dignity of the Lord Jesus by use of this gorgeous robe as if to belie the things that they said to him, as if to dress him in a sort of a clown setting. But then Pilate's men, of course, not only did they scourge Jesus and take him out and crucify him, but they also mocked him. You see this recorded in Matthew 27 at verse 36. Then released Pilate Barabbas unto the crowd, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers, and they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when they had plaited a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand, that was to signify a scepter. And they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews. And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. And after they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away. to crucify him. So here was more malignant cruelty exercised against Christ, but it included this concept of mocking him. And notice they mocked him with their words by pretending to give him adoration and honor. Hail King of the Jews. And they had equipped him with mocking accessories to this role that they thought they would force him into as the faux king of the Jews to be mocked and then to be crucified. They gave him that scepter, that reed. They put a crown of thorns upon his head and pressed it in. And he was no doubt in great pain and bleeding profusely from those thorn pricks to the scalp. And that was of course to simulate a real crown of a real king. So they had a little tableau of their own, you see. They put on a little mini performance themselves with the Lord Jesus as the butt of their cruel mockery and of their blasphemy against his honor and dignity and right to rule. And the strange thing about this is, of course, that Pilate had specifically questioned Christ about whether he was a king of the Jews. And Christ had given him an answer which satisfied Pilate so that Pilate could acquit Christ of being a insurrectionist or a usurper of Caesar. He found no fault in him at all. Yet these people persisted in mocking the Lord Jesus as the King of the Jews. John Gill has this to say about the crown of thorns. He says, never did Jesus look more like the lamb caught in the thicket to rescue Abraham's son Isaac from the altar than when men pressed the crown of thorns upon his sacred head and he patiently bore it. So there is this tie in between the crown of thorns the curse of the ground, which yields thorns and thistles from Genesis 3, and the ram caught in a thicket as the substitute for Isaac to the very Lord Jesus himself. But you know, they may have mocked Christ by calling him in derision the king of the Jews, but The scriptures tell us that now Christ is highly exalted and given a name, which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. And there won't be any humor or tittering or mocking in their tone at all, will there? There will be dread and fear. I guess a week or two ago, I ran into some people who wanted to use that text of Scripture as a proof that lost people can understand the things that be of the Holy Spirit. Contrary to 1 Corinthians 2, verse 14, they can understand it. So we don't need the Holy Spirit to convert us, to give us faith to believe. Their use of that text Philippians 2 was to refute the need for regeneration in order to believe or understand the things that be of God, which exposes their misapprehension of what 1 Corinthians 2.14 is teaching. It's not teaching that men cannot understand the things of God, although there are some things that men cannot understand without the Spirit. It's not saying that men can't understand anything of the things of God. It's mainly saying that in the final analysis, men without the Spirit of God refuse to accept and believe the things that be of God. There's plenty of atheists that could tell you the gospel better than most Christians can. It's just that they refuse to believe it. They won't believe it. And so these people have missed the point entirely These people aren't going to be hung up on whether they can believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. It's that they refuse to bow to Him as Lord. But one day they will. They'll be forced to. They'll believe it all right. It'll be shoved down their throat. They won't need the Holy Ghost. But they'll be forced to bow the knee to cry out that Jesus Christ is Lord. These people that mocked Christ and derided his claim to be the ruler of this world, one day that smirk will be wiped off their face, you see, if they haven't come to trust the Lord Jesus before then. Remember the verse from Thomas Kelley's hymn. Sinners in derision crowned him, mocking thus the Savior's name. Saints and angels crowd around him. Own His title, praise His name. And that's what we're to do, you see. We are allowed to honor Christ and worship Him and kneel before Him as our King, as our Lord, as our Savior. We do that now. One day, everyone will have to do that, but it'll be too late for them. But then finally, the people at the cross, they mock the Lord Jesus, and we know this very well. Matthew 27 at verse 39, And they that pass by reviled him, wagging their heads, and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. They had, of course, misapprehended what Christ was speaking of. The destruction of the temple was the destruction of His body, and in three days it would be raised up again. And the Apostle John makes all this very clear. although the disciples didn't understand it at the time, but they decided they would mock Christ and rail against Him and use His statement that He would raise the temple up in three days as a point of mockery against Him. You see, all the good things He had done, all the people He had healed, all the poor dead souls He had raised from the grave, all of that, you see, was of no value or substance to these people at all. All they did was to laugh at something that they themselves had misconstrued that the Lord Jesus had taught. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. And the truth of the matter is that anybody but the Son of God, if they had the power, would have come down from the cross. The irony is that the very Son of God would not come down from the cross because he had to save his people. and there was no other way. And so he set his face like flint to do the work that his father had laid upon him. They mocked Christ's great work of salvation. They mocked Christ's great work of salvation. Likewise, also the chief priests mocking him with the scribes and elders said, he saved others, Himself He cannot save. If He be the King of Israel, let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe Him. He trusted in God. Let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him. For He said, I am the Son of God." They didn't understand, or they wouldn't believe, that the One who had saved so many was saving all of His people as He refused to save Himself. There is great irony in many of the things they said, mocking and ridiculing the Lord Jesus, especially at the foot of the cross. And again, they were mocking Christ in the very midst of His greatest work of salvation. Greater than restoring sight to the blind man, greater than raising Lazarus from the dead, was Christ, the incarnate maker, dying on the cross, bearing the sins of His loved ones, and redeeming us by His body and by His blood. They mocked Him while He was in the very act of saving His people, of saving us. The people mock Christ in the act of His saving us. You know, there are times in this world, I preached a sermon once about it, where people will mock heroes. They will mock heroes. even as they rescue helpless people. You see, they mocked Him because God would not save Him, they thought. And they questioned that God would not have Christ, that's why God would not deliver Him. They were wrong about that too. God was right then and there accepting the body and blood of Christ as our sacrifice. He was accepting Christ. He would have the Lord Jesus. He would have the Lord Jesus die to save His people. That was Christ's problem, you see. It was that God desired Him so very much. At that very time wicked men mocked that God rejected Him, God desired Christ as our sacrifice. God desired him as our sacrifice, which is why he would not rescue him off the cross, which is why Christ cried, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? In order to make it clear that all the promises of Psalm 22 were his, including God leaving him there and God redeeming his soul at a later time, which leads us to remark upon God's honor of the Lord Jesus. You see, it's contrasted to men's mocking. Where men mocked Christ, God the Father honored him most publicly. It had been made clear to the public at the beginning of Jesus' ministry. You remember in Matthew chapter 3 at verse 13, Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John the Baptist to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest out of me. And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us, to fulfill all righteousness. Then he baptized him. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water, and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him and lo, a voice from heaven sang, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. So God announced, and in another place it makes clear that other people heard it too, God announced that this was his beloved son in whom he is well pleased. And then again, privately at the transfiguration, we know that text well. After Peter opened his big mouth and babbled away at some nonsense, God the Father, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. In another place, there's added the phrase, Hear ye Him. You know, Peter was big on telling the Lord Jesus not so, and when Christ said he was going to suffer and die and rise again the third day, Peter's response was, Not so, Lord. Let it not be said of thee. Remember, Jesus rebuked him. that he loved the things of the world and not the things that are of God. And soon after was this incident of the transfiguration where God spoke from heaven audibly to the disciples and to Christ, telling them, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. Listen to Him. Listen to Him. But it would be a while before Peter would learn the lesson to stop contradicting Jesus, listen to Him, and believe what He said. This was the answer God had already given to the mockers at the cross who claimed God had rejected Jesus. He had already said, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. But you know, God's honor and acceptance of Christ had been foretold. And Matthew, the gospel writer, incorporated the text from Isaiah in a particular incident. We read this in Matthew chapter 12 at verse 14. Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. This was after he did those good deeds. But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence, and great multitudes followed him. and He healed them all, and charged them that they should not make Him known, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased." This is God, the Father, speaking of His Son, the Lord Jesus, incarnate in our humanity. The one He's chosen, His beloved, in whom He is well pleased, I will put my spirit upon him. He shall show judgment to the Gentiles, or justice is the word to the Gentiles. He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth justice unto victory, and in his name shall the Gentiles trust. So it had been foretold that God was well pleased with the Lord Jesus and with what all the Lord Jesus had accomplished. Sometime during the ministry of Christ, the Lord's people would honor him. The blind man honored Christ as he defended him against the mocking and denigration of the Lord Jesus by the Pharisees. and the crowd that saw Christ heal that man who was deaf and dumb." They had words of praise for the Lord Jesus too, didn't they? Mark chapter 7 at verse 32, they bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They beseech him to put his hand on him. And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue and looking up to heaven, he sighed and saith unto him, that is, be opened. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it, and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well. He maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak." Now, it's interesting here that these people They praised Christ, they honored Christ, even while technically they were disobeying him, and going about and publishing how great a thing Christ had done for this poor man. He hath done all things well. That is, of course, a theme of one of the hymns we sing, and it's always on the lips of the people of Christ. The Lord Jesus has done all things well. He's done all things well. You see, we have a duty not to mock what God honors, and we have a duty then to honor what God honors. You see how that's supposed to work? We are not to mock what God honors, but to honor what God honors. God is well pleased with us when we honor and praise and worship Christ. You remember that hymn by William Featherston. It has a verse that says, I love thee because thou hast first loved me and purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree. I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow. Forever I love thee, my Jesus, tis now. Another hymn that expresses This idea that whom the Father honors, we also honor. That in fact, this is a point of agreement between lowly creatures saved by grace and the God of all the universe. We're agreed on this thing that we honor the Lord Jesus in His humanity, in the work that He did, in the sacrifice that He made. We honor Christ, the Father honors Christ, and we are aware of these things mutually together. God knows when we honor Christ, and we know that God has exalted and honored Christ. The hymn writer W.B. Dick wrote these words. We would, O God, present before thy face the fragrant name of thy beloved Son, By faith we view Him in that holy place which by His dying He for us has won. Now listen, we share thy joy in Him who sitteth there. Our hearts delight in thy delight in Him, chiefest of thousands, fairer than the fair. His glory naught can tarnish, naught can dim. And that is a great point of contact between lowly creatures saved by grace and the God of all the universe, we have a joy in the joy that God has in the sacrifice of Jesus. This is how we know that Christ's sacrifice will do the job of saving all of His people. Because God rejoices in it. God has embraced it. God has loved it. God was not dissuaded by the mockers. You know, we are so ignorant and lowly that we will approve of someone until the crowd rises up and begins to mock them and ridicule them. And then we may have second thoughts, you know, we may join the crowd and maybe we might turn against the person. But when God saw and heard the mockers, He didn't turn away from Christ. No, he honors Christ in his humanity. The man Christ Jesus is honored by God. And we rejoice in the fact that God rejoices in our blessed Redeemer. And around this table, we celebrate what Christ did to save us. The body that he gave as an offering for sin and the blood that he poured out to make an atonement for our sin. Let's give thanks. for the bread first that pictures the body of Christ broken for us. Oh God, our Father, we rejoice that Christ withstood the mocking and the shame and the torture and the death that he went through to save his poor lost people, to bear away our sins in his own body on the tree in an offering and a sacrifice before you to satisfy all of your just demands. We praise you that you honored Christ and that you accepted Him as our sacrifice, and that you have exalted Him as our Lord and King and Prince and Savior. We thank you for this bread that Christ left us to demonstrate, to display, as it were, an emblem of His body that was broken for us, and to point out to us that His body is the bread of life, that we gain sustenance from the body of Christ, and this is pictured in our partaking of this bread at this feast. Help us to treat Christ as our bread of life, that all our life comes from Christ, and that we may honor Him night and day, and bless us as we partake of this feast, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. The scriptures tell us that on the night our Lord was betrayed, He took the bread and He blessed And he broke it and he said, take and eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me. I'd like to ask my father if he'd give thanks for the cup that pictures the blood of the Lord Jesus shed for the forgiveness of sin. And the scriptures tell us that after they had supped, he took the cup and he blessed it. And he said, drink ye all of it. This cup is the new covenant in my blood. for the remission of sin, do it as often as you do it in remembrance of me. And the scriptures tell us that as often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we do preach the Lord's death until he comes. Let's stand and sing out of the big blue book, number 332. My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine. For thee all the follies of sin I resign. My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou. If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus tis now. Number 332.