Luke, The Orderly Account of Truth - In Remembrance of Me - Luke 22:1-23

Summer is officially over, and what that means is we're

back in the Book of Luke. Who's ready for that.

I love the Sunday School series that we got to

go through. If you guys missed out on any of them,

go back and watch them. They're so cool. It's just

great getting to go through the old the Old Testament

stories and things we heard growing up in church, or

maybe stories we've just heard from going through life and

hearing what God actually has to teach us through these stories.

So it was such a good series. But this week

we're getting back into the Book of Luke and we've

been in. The series is called Luke the Orderly Account

of Truth. Luke the Orderly Account of Truth, and we're

going verse by verse the entire book or Gospel of Luke.

And you know, we started this all the way back

in the October of twenty twenty three. It's been a

long time. We're closing in on two years of being

in Luke. Now. We've had our occasional breaks, which is cool,

but we're closing in on two years. But I think

it's pretty awesome that we as a church can say

that we've gone through a two year year long series

going through a gospel that's pretty rad and you guys

have done a great job hanging in there, and we're

almost there, so we're going to just stick it out

until we get through it. But in the Gospel of Luke,

Luke did a careful investigation of Jesus' life and his

ministry so that we would know with certainty the truth

about who Jesus is and what he taught. And since

it's been a couple months since we've been in it,

we're going to do a little recap of what has

happened recently. In the Gospel of Luke, well, Jesus has

been going to the temple every single day to teach,

to teach and preach, and each night he'd leave the

city and you'd go back and stay on the mount

called all of it. And then the next morning he'd

come back and he keep teaching again. And the last

thing that Luke records him teaching about is the destruction

of the temple. Jesus is giving the people a warning

so that they would be ready for when it shows up,

and they'd be ready for that day. He was telling them,

I'm warning you now so you can be ready. So

today we're going to be picking it back up in

Luke chapter twenty two, So grab your bible. Start turning

to Luke chapter twenty two. And if you don't have

a Bible, we have a bunch of them out at

the resource desk. Please go grab one. We want you

to have a Bible. But this is the last day

before Jesus gets arrested and goes through a brutal execution

where he's put on trial. He's mocked, he's mistreated, he's beaten,

and then he's finally crucified. But before all of that happens,

he wants to have a meal, specifically the Passover meal

with his disciples. So we're going to be in Luke

chapter twenty two, verses one through twenty three, where Jesus

institutes the Lord's Supper or communion. So I want to

read our text for today and then pray. Does that

sound good? All right? Luke chapter twenty two, starting in

verse one. Now the feast of unleavened bread drew near,

which is called the Passover, and the chief priests and

the scribes we're seeking how to put him to death,

for they feared the people. Then Satan entered into Judas

called a scariot, who is one of the number of

the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief

priests and officers how he might betray him to them,

And they were glad and agreed to give him money.

So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him

to them in the excuse me in the absence of

a crowd. Then came the day of unleavened bread, on

which the passover Lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus

sent Peter and John, saying, go and prepare the passover

for us, that we may eat it. They said to him,

where will you have us prepare it? He said to them, behold,

when you've entered the city, a man carrying a jar

of water will meet you. Follow him into the house

that he enters, and tell the master of the house.

The teacher says to you, where is the guest room

where I may eat the passover with my disciples, And

he will show you a large upper room furnished. Prepare there.

And they went and found it just as he told them,

and they prepared the passover. And when the hour came,

he reclined at table, and the apostles with him, and

he said to them, I've earnestly desired to eat this

passover with you before I suffer, For I tell you

I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in

the Kingdom of God. And he took a cup, and

when he had given thanks, he said, take this and

divide it among yourselves, for I tell you that from

now on I will not drink of the fruit of

the vine until the Kingdom of God comes. And he

took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke

it and gave it to them, saying, this is my

body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance

of me. And likewise the cup, after they had eaten, saying,

this cup that has poured out for you is the

new covenant in my blood. But behold, the hand of

him who betrays me is with me on the table.

For the son of man goes as it has been determined.

But woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.

And they began to question one another, which of them

it could be who is going to do this. Let's pray, God,

We thank you for your word. God. Let us have

open hearts to receive from you. Today, must hear the

message you have for us. Let us feel what you

want us to feel and to do what you want

us to do. That God, as we go through your text,

you would awaken in our hearts and an understanding of

what you have to say. God, we thank you that

we have the freedom to gather and learn under your word,

God leading guide this time together right now in Jesus name.

Everybody said a men, who here knows what it means

to tie a string around your finger? Someone heard that before?

Not many people looks like it's kind of an older saying,

but it's a way to remember something. You would tie

a string around your finger, and anytime you look down

at your finger or you felt it, you'd be like, oh, yeah,

I'm supposed to remember that thing. So you tie a

ring a string around your finger, or if you're like me,

you tie a string around your finger. You feel like

you look down and you're like, oh, yeah, I'm supposed

to remember something, but you can't remember what you're reminding yourself about.

You ever done that. Some people don't tie a string

around their finger. They'll do like a rubber band around

your wrist, or put notes on your mirror. That's someth

My wife likes to do write notes on our mirror

so she remembers stuff, or put sticky notes literally everywhere.

Anyone else likes sticky notes. I love sticky notes everywhere.

For me, if I really need to remember to take

something with me if I'm leaving the house, I'll put

my keys on it, because i can't leave the house

without my keys, So I'll put it on whatever I

need to remember. That helps me remember what I'm trying

to remember when I leave the house. But the point

of all these tricks or these tips or these strategies

is to remind you of something, because we as people

are just forgetful. We're a forgetful kind of people. We

get to thinking of other things, or we're moving too

fast through life, and we too easily forget things, and

sometimes we even forget the most extremely important things. And

in our text today, Jesus is helping us remember the

most important thing. But instead of telling us to tie

a string around our finger, he's giving us something to

do together as a regular practice in the church. He's

given us communion. He tells us to do it to

remember him. So the title today's message is in remembrance

of me. In remembrance of me. But Jesus isn't telling

his disciples and us to just remember him in general.

It's not just a general reminder that he exists. He

saw him. To remember that he is the sacrificial lamb

whose blood causes God's judgment to pass over us. I'm

gonna say that again. If you are taking notes, this

is something you should definitely write down, that Jesus is

the sacrificial lamb whose blood causes God's judgment to pass

over us. Just like the blood of the lamb that

was put on the door posts in Egypt, causing the

wrath and judgment of God to pass over the Israelites

in Egypt. That's what Jesus blood is going to do

for us. Now, So you guys ready to jump into this.

And if you're like, what does this have to do

with Egypt and doorposts, don't Re'll explain it later. We'll

get into it. I promise. There is a little bit

of set up in the beginning of our text today

that you just heard us read. So let's get to

these first verses. Now. The feast of unleavened bread drew near,

which is called the Passover. We're going to talk about

the feast of unleven bread and Passover in a little bit,

but just know that for right now, that this feast

is coming up, and the chief priests and the scribes

were seeking how to put him, Jesus to death, for

they feared the people. So these religious leaders they hate Jesus.

Jesus has been rebuking them and for their hypocrisy, their

hypocritical leadership, and their love of the praise of men

since he showed up on the scene. And now they're

trying to find a way to kill him, but they

can't because they fear the people. They fear what the

crowds will do. Verse three. Then Satan entered into Judas,

called a scariot who was of the number of the twelve.

He went away and conferred with the chief priests and

officers how he might betray him to them, and they

were glad and agreed to give him money. So he

consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them

in the absence of a crowd. So here we see

Satan enter Judas. That's kind of a big deal. It's

a scary verse. Satan wasn't just harassing Judas. No, he

entered him. And I love how arc Sproll put it

in a commentary has read in this past past week

that he said Satan entered into the inner core of

Judas being and fired up the avarice and intensified judas greed.

Satan found to listen to this a willing companion in Judas.

Satan didn't coerce Judas to perform that act. They were

partners in crime. Judas acquiesced willingly out of the darkness

of his own heart. He didn't need to have Satan

possess him. He was happy for that occasion. This is

wild because Judas, who was a number of the twelve,

that means he was one of the twelve disciples following Jesus,

he was not a true believer. He was not a

true believer. And we see in John seventeen, specifically John

seventeen twelve, what Jesus says about Judas. While I was

with them, I kept them in your name, which you

have not excuse me, which you have given me. I

have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost,

except the Son of Destruction. That the scriptures, that the

scripture might be fulfilled. So Judas is called the son

of destruction. He's the only one of the disciples to

be lost. But it was for the purpose that scripture

might be fulfilled. So Satan enters Judas and he goes

to the chief priests and he agrees to betray Jesus

for thirty pieces of silver to deliver Jesus to them

away from the crowds in the cover of night. It's

just deep betrayal. And there is one more thing I

want to say before we move on from this piece,

is if you are filled with the Holy Spirit of God,

he won't let you be filled with anything else. And

that's a great comfort that we can take. Pastor Duncan

says it good. He's like, I don't think the Holy

spirit's cooled bunkin with demons. I don't know if you

stole that quote from someone or made it up, but

it sounds dope. We put on the full armor of God,

that's what we're told to do. We put on the

full armor of God because our battle with Satan and

demons is an external battle, not an internal one. And

part of our armor is the shield that blocks the

fiery darts at the end enemy right we resist the

devil and he flees from us. That's what scripture says.

Our battle with Satan and demons is an external battle,

not an inn for a believer, But the internal battle

that we have is with our own sin nature that

we continually need to put to death. So you have

maybe I like to think about it this way. Satan

holds up a platter with options for you. Don't pick

anything off the platter. If you're a believer and you

put faith in Jesus, you are full of holy spirit.

He's not in you. This excuse me. The devil's not

in you. He can't get in you, but he will

offer you some things. Don't take it makes sense, okay,

So this is a setup from our text what we

just talked through and read through. The Passover feast is

drawing near. Satan enters Judas, and he agrees to betray Jesus.

And it's helpful for us to see this setup because

this is the setup for the entire rest of the

Book of Luke. This is what we're leading up to

in the whole rest of the Gospel of Luke. But

now the feast day has arrived, so let's keep moving

on our texts in verse seven, then came the day

of unleaven bread on which the Passover Lamb had to

be sacrificed. Okay, so what is this day of unleaven

bread or the feast of unleaven bread? And what is Passover?

What is this? Well, this feast is a festival where

the was and it was for the purpose of remembering

when God did something incredible for his people for seven

days that people would eat unleaven bread. And that's unleaven

bread is bread without yeasts, of bread that doesn't rise.

And when the kids would ask mom, Dad, why are

we eating this bread, this was a moment for the

parents to say, well, let me explain that before the

tenth plague in Egypt. It's to remind us of when

God saved our people from Egypt to be and he

told us to be ready so fast to leave, to

leave Egypt with a haste that we didn't have time

to wait for the bread to rise. And eating the

unlovend bread during this festival is a continual reminder that

God saved his people from the Egyptians in this miraculous way.

And this festival is tied very closely to Passover. Celebration

because in the Tenth Plague, when the Israelites were in Egypt,

in the tenth plague against the rebellious Egypt and the

rebellious Pharaoh, was that every firstborn in the land would die,

not just of the people, but also of the animals.

Even but God said to the people, if you would

sacrifice a spotless lamb and put his blood on your doorpost,

that the angel of Death would pass over your home

and your firstborn would live. And this Passover celebration and

this passover lamb is a reminder of how God's judgment

and wrath passed over those who trusted in what God

said and put the blood of the lamb on their doorpost,

so they'd sacrifice and eat a lamb. From mind them

of this goodness from God, this mercy and grace from

God saving them from slavery in Egypt. So he saves

them from Egypt, punishes their enemies being se and then

they're saved from the wrath of God and the judgment

of God. This is what this feast, this is what

they're celebrating during this feast. But can you guys see

that there's some gospel parallels in here. We before Jesus,

before putting faith in Christ, where slaves a sin like

the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. Well, Jesus defeats our

greatest enemies, sin and death, like God destroyed the enemies

of Israel in Egypt. And it's through faith in Jesus

that we're spared from the wrath of God, just like

faith in God by being obedient to the blood on

the door post saved them and spared them from the

wrath of God. These gospel connections are beautiful. I mean,

if you're ever wondering, like, what's the story of the Bible,

it's kind of on repeat. You can see it as

you read through it. God is kind of making the

same point over and over and over again. But this

is what Jesus is pointing out as he institutes the

Lord's Supper. So Jesus tells Peter and John to go

get the feast ready. Look at verse eight. So Jesus

sent Peter and John, saying, go and prepare the passover

for us that we may eat it. They said to him,

where will you have us prepare it? He said to them, behold,

when you have entered the city, a man carrying a

jar of water will meet you follow him into the

house that he enters. That sounds kind of creepy a

little bit. See a guy with the jar water's fall

him into the house verse eleven, and tell the master

of the house. The teacher says to you, where's the

guest room where I may eat the passover with my disciples,

And he will show you a large upper room furnished.

Prepare it there. And they went and found it just

as he told them, and they prepared the passover. This

actually kind of sounds a little bit like when Jesus

told the disciples to go get the colt that was

tied up before he rode into the city. They found

it exactly as Jesus had said. So when I'm reading this,

I'm like, maybe this is something miraculous, could have been

something very miraculous, or maybe it was just something that

Jesus set up ahead of time. Maybe a little bit

of both. I don't know either way, but it's cool

to think about this. But they find this guy carrying

a jar of water, and they follow him, and they

ask about the upper room. They ask the master of

the house about the upper room, and they say and

say that the teacher is the one asking about it.

And I love that the teacher, which I thought was

interesting because Jesus has been all week going to the

temple teaching. So I wonder if this is like a

nickname that has like kind of, you know, caught on

that Jesus is known as the teacher. But Peter and John,

they prepare everything for the passover, and now we get

to what I think is the actual core of what

today's text is really all about, and that's starting in

verse fourteen. And when the hour came that means it's

time for the meal, he reclined at table and the

apostles with him, and he said to them, I have

earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

And one of the craziest I think, one of the

craziest things about this is Jesus is talking about all

this before he's suffered, before he's been crucified. So all

this talk that he's going about about his body and

his blood are before he's died. Granted, he has told them,

like I think three maybe four times explicitly that he's

going to die and be resurrected. But we know even

in the Gospel of Luke alone, that they were kept

from understanding what he meant. But he's talking about all

this before he's ever suffered at all. Eagerly or earnestly,

or eagerly desires to eat the Passover with them one

more time before he goes to the cross. Let's keep

reading in verse sixteen. For I tell you I will

not eat it. I will not eat the Passover until

it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God. He took

a cup, and when he'd given thanks, he said, take

this and divide it among yourselves. For I tell you

that from now on, I will not drink of the

fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God comes.

So the next time that he gets to celebrate the

Passover is when it's fully fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.

And I think that that means when he returns and

all those who have believed in him, the wrath of

God passes over verse nineteen. And he took bread, and

when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave

it to them, saying, this is my body which is

given for you do this in remembrance of me. And

likewise the cup, after they had eaten saying, this cup

that has poured out for you is in the is

the new covenant in my blood. And if this doesn't

make sense, they had different phases to this whole meal.

I'm not going to go into all the details about it,

but there's like four different times they drank from the

cup during this celebration feast, and so some of it

they would eat a little bit, then they drink some

of it, and then it's like this diluted wine mix.

So that's why it kind of sounds weird. It's like, well,

did you drink the cup before or after? Just know

that he's making a point and look at the greater

point and then on your off time, study what the

whole thing was, because it's super cool and you can

earn your nerd badge like me. It's great. It's so fun.

But Jesus' body was given for us. He was pierced

for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities. The punishment

of death that we deserve he took on himself. He

himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,

that means on the cross, the sinless and spotless lamb

of God who takes away the sins of the world.

That's Jesus. His body was given for us. He was

put to death for us. So Jesus is saying, here

we eat the bread to remember the death that he

experienced on our behalf. That's what this bread is meant

to remind us. It's his body for us. It was

given for us. It is for us to remember the

substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus, where he willingly laid down his

life for us. I love. A scripture says, for the

joy set before him, he endured the cross, the joy

set before him. It was his joy to endure that

for the outcome he was going for. Scripture also says

that no one takes his life. Jesus himself said this,

No one takes his life, but he willingly lays it down,

and willingly lays it down as a substitute for us,

a perfect substitute that fully satisfies the debt that we

owe to God for our own sin. That's the bread.

Next is the cup. The cup signifies the new covenant

that we have with God through the shedding of jesus blood.

That the old way of doing things was being fulfilled,

fully fulfilled. That the way you receive forgiveness. Before was

through the constant sacrifice of spotless animals, but you had

to keep doing it over and over and over again.

It wasn't a forever sacrifice then. So that is what's

coming to an end because now we look to Jesus.

We look to Jesus, the perfect spotless lamb. He's the

final forever sacrifice that brings us into the new covenant

with God. Moses is no longer the mediator. So this

I'm gonna I'm gonna list off some stuff that would

have been very, very fresh in the Jew, in the

Jew's mind of the when they're hearing this from Jesus.

Moses is no longer your mediator. Jesus is the mediator.

The veil in the temple which we just sang about,

was about to be torn from top to bottom. Do

you remember how tall that the thing was? It was

like nine feet tall or something crazy. It was like, really,

it might have been longer taller than that. So someone

look it up and tell me after service, it's really tall.

You don't you can't reach the top of it just normally.

So God tears the veil from top to bottom, and

that means we have access to God directly through Jesus.

Because of what Jesus did, There's no more separation. Jesus

is now our high priest. We don't need the high

priest to go unto the inner courts anymore. Jesus is

our high priest. The law of God is no longer

written on stone tablets. Where is it written on our hearts.

It's written on our hearts. Everything changed under the New Covenant.

Everything changed. The old way of doing things was about

to be fulfilled through Jesus, the shedding of his blood

through his death on the cross. So what is Jesus saying, saying,

Eat this bread and remember my death for you. He's saying,

drink this cup and remember the new covenant God has

with you through my blood. Do this in remembrance of me.

He used to practice a celebration and meal to remember

what God did for you then, and now I give

you a new practice, the bread and the wine to

remember what I've done for you. And Paul reiterates this

in First Corinthians. We read this text a lot when

we're going through communion. You can keep your place in

Luke all all the verses on the screen, but first Corinthians,

chapter eleven, verse twenty three. For I received from the

Lord what I also delivered to you. That the Lord Jesus,

on the night when he was betrayed, took bread, and

when he'd given thanks, he broke it and said, this

is my body, which is for you. Do this in

remembrance of me. In the same way, also he took

the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new

covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you

drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as

you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim

the Lord's death until he comes. We're a forgetful people.

That's why we came up with the whole tighest string

around your finger. We're forgetful people. We need to be reminded,

to be reminded of the most important things. And the

most important thing is that Jesus laid down his own

life for us, that we have a new covenant through

his blood. And every time we take communion and remember this,

we are proclaiming his death until he returns. I know

it sounds like a weird thing to proclaim someone's death,

but when his death means something very important, that's a

great thing to proclaim him in. And when Jesus talks

about next in our text is the means by which

this sacrifice would take place. So look at verse twenty one.

But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is

with me on the table. For the son of Man goes,

as it has been determined. But woe to that man

by whom he is betrayed. And they began to question

one another, which of them it would be? Who is

going to do this? Now we know the betrayer is

Judas the beginning of our text kind of gave that away.

Spoiler alert. He's one of the twelve sitting and eating

at the table. Woe to that man who would betray

go odd. It will not go well for that man.

But notice what it says. It says for the son

of Man goes. What what does it say? Is that

still on the screen? Yeah, verse twenty two, say it loud?

What does that mean? As it has been determined? This

is all according to God's plan of redemption for sinful man.

God has a plan. He knows the story from end

to beginning, because he's the one who wrote it. In

Luke's other book, Acts if he didn't know that. Luke

also wrote Acts. He records Peter's sermon on the day

of Pentecost, and I love what he says, Acts two,

Verse twenty two. Men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus

of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with

mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through

him in your midst, as you yourself know, Verse twenty three.

This Jesus delivered up according to the definite plan and

foreknowledge of God. You crucified and killed by the hands

of lawless men. Raised him up, loosing the pangs of

death because it was not possible for him to be

held by it. It was one hundred percent according to

the definite plan and fore knowledge of God, that these

lawless men would kill Jesus. What man meant for evil,

God meant for good. Not that he used it for good.

He meant it for good to bring about that many

people would be saved. You guys, remember the story of Joseph.

That's what Joseph. That's the conclusion Joseph came to. At

the end, He's like, all these bad things that happened

to me, What you men meant for evil. God meant

these things for good. If any piece of Joseph's story changes,

the outcome is different. Well, it's the same thing with Jesus. Here,

God determined all this to happen the way that he

wanted it to happen. God planned for it. But still

woe to the man and by whom the son of

Man betrayed. And after this, the disciples start trying to

figure out who it is, which actually leads to a

slightly funny argument that we'll talk about in next week's text.

But they go from trying to figure out who's going

to betray Jesus to who's the best, which totally sounds

like dudes hanging out what kind of conversation they would

have like brothers. They're like, Oh, who's gonna do this

terrible thing? Well, who's the best of us? Though, So

we'll talk about that later next week. Kind of the

band come up, please? So the meat of our text today,

I wrote a joke in here that I hesitated even

want to say. It's gonna say the Lamb's meat pun

intended just because it's cheesy joke or whatever. But the

meat of our text today is all about the Lord's

supper or communion during the celebration of remembering what God

has done for his people long ago, where the blood

of the lamb caused God's judgment and wrath to pass

over his people. Jesus is showing his disciples that have

better lamb is here, A better sacrifice is here, one

whose blood covers sin permanently forever. We don't need a

bunch more sacrifices because one was perfect for it, Jesus.

So those who put the blood of Jesus on their

door post, meaning those who put faith in Jesus believe

in him and trust in him for salvation. God's judgment

and wrath passes over us and falls on him. I

can't like, I don't want to. I really want to

put enough emphasis on this that there is God is just.

There is a penalty for sin. Something or someone has

to die. So it's either us or it's Jesus. Because

God is just, He is just, and the justifier is beautiful,

So there had to be a sacrifice, a substitute for us.

God's judgment and wrath passes over those who put faith

in Jesus. But Jesus is also saying here, when you

take communion I want you to remember all of this.

The point of taking communion is to remember to remind

us of what Jesus has done for us. And I

love this quote from the late pastor John MacArthur says,

regular observance of the Lord's Supper is to be a

constant reminder to Christians of the lamb of God, chosen

by God sacrifice for sinners, whose death satisfied the demands

of God's justice, and whose life was poured out on

our behalf so that our sins can be fully and

forever forgiven. That's amazing, and I think that beautifully summarizes

what we're doing when we take communion. We're reminded that

Jesus is the Lamb that was chosen by God and

sacrificed for sinners, and his death fully satisfies the debt

that we owe to God because of our sin. Forever

through what Jesus has done, that we're made right with

our Creator. And I can't like. That just blows my

mind when I think about it, because I think we

stop and think about the creator of all things, the

one who created everything in existence and set order to everything.

I did something that put me at enmity with him,

and he made a way for me not to be

his enemy. That's amazing. We receive forgiveness, we're forgiven of

all of our sins and get to look forward to

eternity face to face with Jesus. That's really really good news.

So what do I want us to do today? I

want us to remember because we're literally going to be

taken Comedian during our meal, and when we do that,

I want us all to seriously consider what Jesus has

done for us, to seriously consider it, to remember the

sacrifice that he willingly made for us. To think about

the brutality of what he endured for us, the death

that we deserved, he received, what we deserved, he received.

And I want us to remember the words of Isaiah

and Isaiah chapter fifty three, which I'm going to read

the entire chapter to you to buckle up. It's only

twelve verses who has believed what he has heard from us?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

For he grew up before him like a young plant

and like a root out of dry ground. He had

no form or majesty that we should look at him,

and no beauty that we should desire him. He was

despised and redirected by men, A man of sorrows and

acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide

their faces. He was despised, and we esteemed him not

surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, inflicted. But

he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for

our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace.

And with his wounds we are healed. All we, like sheep,

have gone astray. We have turned every one to his

own way, and the Lord has laid on him the

iniquity of us. All. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted.

Yet he opened not his mouth, like a lamb that

has led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that

before its shears is silent. So he opened not his mouth.

By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And as

for him, his generation, who considered that he was cut

off out of the land of the living, stricken for

the transgressions of my people. And they made his grave

with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death,

although he had done no violence, and there was no

deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the will of

the Lord to crush him. He has put him to grief.

When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall

see his offspring. He shall prolong his days. The will

of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Out of

the anguish of his soul. He shall see and be

satisfied by his knowledge. Shall the righteous One my servant

make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear

their iniquity. Therefore I will divide him a portion with

the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong.

Because he poured out his soul to death and was

numbered with the transgressors. Yet he bore the sin of

many and makes intercession for the transgressors. That's our Jesus.

He was pierced for whose transgressions our transgressions. He was

crushed for whose iniquities our iniquities. The chastisement or the

discipline or punishment that brings us peace, It's put on him.

He is the perfect, spotless, sacrificial lamb who takes away

the sin of the world, as through him that we

escape the judgment and wrath of God that we deserve

because of our sin. First John says, if you say

you have no sin, you're a liar, and you call

God a liar. Every single one of us has sin,

every single one of us has a the weo to God.

And if you put faith in Jesus, he paid that

debt for you, He settled that debt for you. He

took the punishment for us on himself. So when we

take communion in a little bit at the meal, so

please stay for the meal. Stay for communion. I want

you to remember this, remember what Jesus has done for you.

To take communion in remembrance of Jesus. Amen, can you

guys please stand to your feet,