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Luke 22:13-20
We Celebrate By Remembering

The goal we have tonight is to worship God. The means by which we
have to accomplish that goal is the Lord’s Supper. And the aspect of
the Lord’s Supper we have to worship with tonight is remembrance. We
want to remember the Lord tonight.

What do we want to remember?

I. We Remember His Sacrifice.
    A. By sacrifice, I want to take you down a different path
        tonight.
        1. In years gone by, I have attempted to draw you attention
            to the fact that Jesus’ suffering did not start with His
            arrest.
        2. I have said, that Jesus’ suffering started when He left
            heaven.
        3. While I still believe that to be true, I want to use a
            different set of terms tonight.
        4. The terms I want to use are: sacrifice, suffering, and
            separation.
        5. While I am sure there was suffering in all three of these
            areas, I want to be more specific tonight.
    B. When did Jesus’ sacrifice begin?
        1. It began when He left heaven.
        2. Jesus sacrificed His life on the cross, but He sacrificed
            much more than His life—and many of the sacrifices He
            made, were eternal sacrifices.
    C. Let us remember that Jesus is God.  Everything that is said
        of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, is true of God
        the Son.
    D. There are several attributes (characteristics) which are
        uniquely God’s and no other.
        1. God is sovereign.
        2. God is eternal.
        3. God is unchanging (in His nature, i.e. holy, sinless,
            righteous)
    E. However, Jesus sacrificed some of His attributes—and some
        forever.  Which ones?
        1. Jesus was and is omniscient.
            a. That means Jesus knows everything.
            b. This is the nature of God.

Pro 15:3  The eyes of the LORD are in every
place, beholding the evil and the good.

            c. However, while in human body, Jesus did not know
                everything.

Mt 24:36  But of that day and hour knoweth no
man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only.

        2. Jesus was omnipresent.
            a. That means He was everywhere at the same time.

Pro 15:3  The eyes of the LORD are in every
place, beholding the evil and the good.

            b. God could see all things because He was everywhere.
            c. Once placed within a human body, both ceased.
            d. Jesus is still in a human body, a glorified body, but
                still a body.
            e. Jesus sacrificed omnipresence forever.
        3. Jesus was and is omnipotent.
            a. That means all powerful.

Mr 10:27  And Jesus looking upon them saith,
With men it is impossible, but not with God:
for with God all things are possible.

            b. Yet, when Jesus was on earth, He was limited in what
                He could do and was aided by the Godhead.
        4. But it seems to me that there were other sacrifices Jesus
            made while on earth.
            a. He sacrificed the worship due Him.
            b. He sacrificed the glory that was His.
            c. He sacrificed the fellowship with God.
    E. How many were the sacrifices our Lord made that man may never
        comprehend?!  I do not know, but we remember.

II. We remember His suffering.
    A. Although I feel Jesus suffered in some measure by His
        sacrifices, His real suffering started with His arrest.
    B. A. Physical pain - The pain Christ endured in his execution
        was horrific - especially remembering His nerves would never
        deaden being without sin.

Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and
buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms
of their hands,

        1. They spit on Him.
        2. They buffeted or hit Him with their fist.
        3. They smote Him with their palms - slapped Him.
        4. Then they made a game of their torment, blindfolding Him,
            slapping Him more, and commanding Him to tell who had
            hit Him.  (Perhaps one day, He will.)

Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him, and to
cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say
unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike
him with the palms of their hands.

        5. They platted a crown of thorns on His head.

Mark 15:17 And they clothed him with purple, and
platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his
head,

        6. They scourged Him with a cat-of-nine-tails for 39 licks.

John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and
scourged him.

        7. They gave mock worship to Him with the crown of thorns, a
            purple robe, and a reed for a scepter.

John 19:2 And the soldiers platted a crown of
thorns, and put it on his head, and they put
on him a purple robe,
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they
smote him with their hands.

        8. They forced Jesus to carry His own cross, at least as far
            as He could.

John 19:17 And he bearing his cross went forth
into a place called the place of a skull, which
is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

        9. They stripped Him (shamed Him) and gambled for His
            garments.

John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had
crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made
four parts, to every soldier a part; and also
his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven
from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let
us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it
shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled,
which saith, They parted my raiment among them,
and for my vesture they did cast lots. These
things therefore the soldiers did.

       10. They nailed Him to the cross
       11. They crucified Him which was to affix Him to the cross in
            such a way that He would slowly die from suffocation,
            lung and heart congestion, and stress to cardiological
            and nervous systems.
       12. How can such a thing happen to the Son of God?  These
            things I cannot comprehend, but tonight we remember. 
              
    C. Pain of debasement

Psalm 113:5  Who is like unto the LORD our God,
who dwelleth on high,
6  Who humbleth himself to behold the things that
are in heaven, and in the earth!

III. We remember His Separation.
    A. Something happened on the cross that I don’t understand and I
        am not certain any human can.  Jesus, One of the Members of
        the Godhead, was separated from the Father.

Mt 27:46  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried
with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me?

    B. This is the separation—the death—that sin brings.
        1. I do not know if this is when the separation began or just
            when Jesus acknowledged it, but by this time, Jesus and
            God have a barrier between them.
        2. That barrier is our sin.
        3. Thornes on your brow, stripes on your back, nails through
            your hands and feet hurt; but being separated from God
            hurts much more!
        4. Was this the same kind of separation that the sinner
            experiences in hell?  I am not sure I have all the
            answers but my guess would have to be yes.
        5. How can such a state exists?  I do not know, but tonight
            we remember!   

Paul in the book of Corinthians, gives to us the warning to be 
certain we do not partake of this meal unworthily.  If you are 
without Christ, be saved.  If you are saved, be certain you are 
right with God for this meal is important to God.  It is the meal
that He has given to remind us of what His Son has done.