December
9, 2012
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
LOCATION
Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd Floor
150 Washington Street
Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553
Clay Curtis, pastor
Telephone: 615-513-4464
Schedule of Services
Sunday 10: 15 AM Bible Class
Sunday 11:00 AM Morning Service
Thursday 7: 30 PM Midweek Service
Order of service, announcements, nursery schedule, etc are in
attachment. All articles in the bulletin
are by the pastor unless otherwise noted.
To Listen to “Christ
our Covenant Shepherd” Click Here
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“The outward evil in the worst of men is the same evil in
the hearts of the best of men. If you and I do not commit such evil it is only
because God restrains it.”
Don
Fortner
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“Affliction has a sweet voice when Mercy is the
listener.”—
Charles Spurgeon
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THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF
ME
Luke 22: 19-20
To
Listen Click Here
It is sad that ones for
whom Christ has given his body and shed his blood would need to be continually
reminded of him but we do. Soon after we hear his gospel so many
things intrude and steal away our thoughts from him. So many insignificant cares wrestle for our
attention. But God, in his wisdom, has
left us in these fragile frames to teach us that our sufficiency is not in
ourselves but in the God of all grace.
Our Redeemer never forgets his redeemed. (Is 49: 16) Christ has graciously given the Lord’s
Table for the sole purpose of reminding his dear child of him, “This do in
remembrance of me.”
Remember
Christ is our Worthiness
He
took the bread and the wine. God the Son took flesh and blood because those
he came to save were flesh and blood.
Christ is the Holy One. Our
Sanctifier is our Sanctification. When his redeemed are born of his Spirit the
born again child is made partakers of HIS HOLINESS! (Psalm 30: 4)
He
gave thanks to his Father. Christ gave to the Father exactly what God
required of us. His life was a perpetual offering up of himself in faithful
submissive righteousness unto God.
He
brake it. Christ willingly laid down
his life when he took flesh and the form of a servant, gave himself into the
wicked hands of men, took our sin upon himself, and suffered under the justice
of God.
He
gave unto them. Christ not only gave
to the Father, he gives his body and blood unto his people. He assembles his children at his table and
teaches us that he is our worthiness.
The
New Testament in my blood is the everlasting covenant of grace written in
Christ’s blood. It means Christ is to
God the fulfillment of every covenant obligation God’s elect owed to God and
Christ is to us God’s covenant that we are accepted in Christ. In Christ, the
believer has lived a holy life; fulfilled all covenant promises toward God;
died the death required of justice; had our sins purged, been made the
righteousness of God, and are risen at the right hand of the Father complete
and accepted of God. (Is 49: 8; He 9: 15; Jn 6: 55-57)
If you imagine your worthiness for coming
to the Lord’s table is you then you are not worthy. The worthiness of the Lord’s people is
Christ: Christ is our Lamb, Christ is our Covenant, and Christ is our
Acceptance with God.
Remember Christ is our Life
Brethren, the
same as we must eat and drink natural bread we must eat and drink of Christ
continually every day
When Satan tempts remember Christ is our
Life. Christ was hungry. Satan
tempted him to make stones bread. The
Lord Jesus said, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone.” Brethren, Christ gives you this little piece
of broken bread and cup of wine to remind us that when Satan tempts you
concerning earthly food and raiment, “Remember Christ is your Life.”
In daily trials and suffering,
remember Christ is our Life. Christ was born
lowly, raised lowly. He was slandered by
men. Brethren, as we walk as strangers
through this world, he says, “Remember Me!” Christ is our Shield and Defender.
(He 12: 3; Is 52: 14) When you hear him
cry, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!” remember that you shall never
be forsaken ever because he was forsaken in your room and stead! Believer, come to his throne of grace, he
will help, giving Life into your heart by whispering again, “Take eat! Take
drink!”
In
the hour of death, remember Christ is our Life. Christ’s hands are the
hands of God. Trust all into his hands.
His hands brake, gave, so take and eat. If he ever feeds us once, he will feed us
till the end.
Remember
Christ our Life when your sins burden you most.
When you hear the adversary whisper in your ear, saying, “You can’t
possibly be a child of God because of your sins.” Believer, remember Christ! (1 Tim 1: 15) If we could never sin again we would. It is true, I am too sinful to come into
God’s presence in myself, or even to lift up my head to him, but all my hope is
Christ in whom I am complete. Come
confessing your sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us of all our sin. “When all around my soul gives way, He is all my hope and stay.”
Remember Christ is our
Communion with God and Each Other
Each believer here has been drawn by grace
to all sit at the same table together, born of the same Spirit, we eat the same
spiritual meat, Christ (1 Cor 10: 14, 15-17; Acts 2: 46)
When a dear brother disappoints as if he
were an enemy, remember the love of Christ for you when you were an enemy in
your own minds. The love of Christ for
his child are as coals which warm the cold heart in love which no water can
quench. (SOS 8: 6-7) They are
just hungry, so give them this Bread.
(Pro 25: 21-22) Christ is the giver of every grace whereby we have
precious communion with God and with each other. Let nothing even attempt to severe this
communion we have with each other in Christ.
Lastly, take heed to yourselves, “He that
eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself.” This is the remembrance of Christ, “This do
in remembrance of me.” This remembrance
is in spirit in the new man created of God.
We do not see Christ in the flesh. Believers “know him not after the flesh, but after the spirit”, by the Holy
Spirit of God dwelling in us and bearing witness of Christ in our hearts. We
cannot remember someone we have never met. No sinner can remember Christ in
spirit, discerning his body, if the Spirit of God has not formed Christ in
us. It is better not to eat than to eat
if Christ alone is not all our worthiness because then we eat unworthily.
But
to you to whom
Christ is All, he says, “This do.” As
disobedient as it is for a man who is yet trusting in his own worthiness to
come to the Lord’s Table so it is disobedience for those Christ has made worthy
not to come to this feast. Christ says,
“This do in remembrance of Me!”
Remember, Christ is our Worthiness, Christ is our Life, and Christ is
our Communion with God and each other.