Worthy

Have your Bibles with you die. Turn with me if you would Revelation 5 were looking at today versus 8 to 14 Revelation 5 starting verse eight and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

They sang a new song, saying where the are you to take the scroll and open it seals, for you were slain by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth that I looked and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders of voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing and I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them, saying to him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever. And the four living creatures said a million and the elders fell down and worshiped spray father.

What a glorious saying we have just read of what true worship is all about. Heavenly father, we have been called a call on our life is believers as children of God to be worshipers and we pray heavenly father today as we look at this passage that our hearts might be more own flaying than ever to worship you to praise you to pray to you to give you the honor glory and and all that you deserve. Lord we just just are left speechless Lord to what you have done in and all we can do is just stand back and absolute all and give you thanks for your great glorious God, we thank you for the Lamb. The Lamb that was slain. We thank you for the line the. Of the tribe of Judah, we thank you for Jesus today who came to give his life a ransom for many. And heavenly father we would just pray that we might see that vision very clearly in our hearts and minds today in and be so wild by that which changes forever got us directors through this passage, Lord, may Jesus be exalted, and may this congregation beatified keep my lips from era and it's in Jesus holy and precious name we pray.

Amen. You may be seated. In Revelation chapter 4 verse one we saw that God he taken John off of the earth and transported him in the heaven, and given him a vision. A vision of the Lord God Almighty on the throne, and in the right hand of God the father. There was a scroll that was sealed up with six seals that scroll was a scroll of destiny.

It was the title deed of the world that had been lost to mankind through sin, and is all that's going on a huge Angel steps forward, and any steps for daily I offers up in a loud voice a great challenge who is worthy to step forward and to break the seals and open the scroll who is worthy to do that will no one no one steps forward. The search begins and everyone is absolutely quiet.

No one is approaching the throne.

No one steps forward, and John begins to weep and he begins to cry tears begin to roll down his cheeks, for he knows that if no one opens that that scroll if no one opens it, then that means there is no hope that that CN Satan, death, and Hale have one in this life is absolutely no meaning and what happened there was a glorious occurrence look in verse five.

Again in one of the elders said to me, weep no more. The whole the line of the tribe of Judah, the root of David is conquered so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.

There was a worthy one and there was one who had the legal right to open that scroll. It was the sinless, spotless Lamb of God's name is Jesus, a name greater than all names higher than any other name. He was the roads of Sharon, the lily of the valleys. The bright morning star. The fairest of 10,000, the great I am the King of Kings and Lord of lords. He and he alone was worthy. I think of all the great men of God that lived through history. Think of guys like Moses and and David and Daniel and and Elijah and Elisha, I think of Peter and Paul and James and John think of Calvin and Luther and and and Charles Spurgeon and think of the reason people like John Piper that we have such great disdain for and yet no one not one of them even with think about approaching that throne. Why because there is none righteous, no not one that we've all seen in the come short of the glory of God. But then what happens in the midst of all that in the midst of all that one steps forward. The line of the tribe of Judah, the Lamb who is been slain, and he reaches over and he takes the scroll from the hand of God the father several years ago, Gen. Tommy Franks went to a field hospital in Kuwait and he took with him in his hand a Purple Heart award any wit in order that he might go to the ceremony of giving a wounded soldier. This Purple Heart when he got there the wounded soldier was waiting for him and he was there with an armless leave his arm had been ripped off in battle and the and Tommy Franks with the ceremony pendant to his uniform and it was there and he turned around and was ready to leave and there was a reporter there that was very cynical and the reporter said to general price, wait just a minute pay said server in the light of our horrible this war is would it not be better for you to have spent your time at the strategy table than to be here.

Gen. Franks turned around very quickly and with fire with fire just shooting out of his eyes. He said I was to be here because this man has been to Baghdad. He is been to Baghdad and he is worthy of this honor. But I want you to know the 2000 years ago, the Lord Jesus Christ ascended back to heaven and for the first time in 33 years Jesus was once again face-to-face with his father and I have to wonder if some angel did not step up and say, oh Lord Jesus quarter those wounds in your hands and Jesus looks. I am the father looks it back to the angel and he says he's been to Calvary. He is been to Calvary and the wounds in his hands are the tangible evidence of the price that he is paid for the salvation of his people were thinking is the Lamb who was slain brothers and sisters nominal break this message down into three parts. Today, and I will look at three different groups that are worshiping the Lamb.

Three different groups that are praising Jesus with absolutely everything that sent him in the first truth that I will look at is the Saints look with me in and in verse eight.

These are the saints in heaven when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures with 24 elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints, the four living creatures are also worshiping there they are angelic billions will get to them later, but the ones I will not really focusing on right now are the 24 elders. They represent the saints from all time who have died.

Enter it in heaven and who are they your men like like Moses and David and Elijah. Men like David and Daniel, men like Paul and James and John. Men like Peter, men like a Lutheran and and Calvin and Whitfield men like James Kennedy, men like my uncle Percy was missionary in Brazil for over 40 years.

Men like him, Charles Long, who was a missionary to Vietnam and women. Women like my grandmother.

One of the greatest Christians that have ever known. People like Keith Green and all of them. All of the saints are gathered around the throne, praising Jesus Christ with everything that's in them.

My grandmother died in 1976 is one of the greatest Christians that I've ever nine and she passed away and and I remember she believed with all her heart that she was not gonna die until Jesus came back to the she wasn't going to die. Jesus was just going to come back and get her and she believed that let didn't happen. She was mistaken that my grandmother said you think my grandmother feel like she missed out. Absolutely not, for she is in heaven right now with all the saints in glory worshiping Jesus Christ with everything that center in the day is coming on that great resurrection day when the Lord is going to give her a new resurrected body. But I want you to know that she is more alive right now than she has ever been before. Jesus said he believes on me will never die. I wept at my grandmother's funeral, I wept, not for my grandmother. I went for me because I knew I'd miss her but I knew her. My grandmamma was my grandmother was with Jesus and she will be with Jesus for all of eternity people.

When we worship down here it's tainted worship, sin gets in the way self gets in the way other people get in the way. But in heaven. Our worship is going to be unhindered and unencumbered our sin nature's going to be eradicated. Our capacity to worship is given the absolutely unlimited worship in heaven is pure, it is sweet it is glorious. It is totally God centered, sinless, and absolutely selfless and that's what's being described here.

I want you to notice the two elements of worship that we have here. One is the heart and the other is the golden bowls of incense.

The harp is always been a primary instrument in worship because of the Psalms and over and over again we see the commands to worship the Lord with the harp, David was a great king in Israel. He was a man after God's own heart.

He wrote the majority of the Psalms that we have in Scripture, and he was a harpist there times when we are to worship the Lord with mild playing symbols. There times we need to worship the Lord with a loud drummer a loud shout, those that those times are or are victorious, victorious times layer times are that are celebratory. They are times that are very vigorous types of worship. Sometimes we worship even even with a military tone. Sometimes we worship with the warfare mentality like in the song of Moses says this then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, I will sing to the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously the horse and his writers. He is thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my song.

He is become my salvation. This is my God and I will praising my father's God and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name Pharaoh's chariots and his host.

He cast into the sea and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea, the floods covered them. They went down into the depths like a stone. You don't sing a song like that quietly you sing it boisterously, you sing it with great vigor you sing it at the top of your lungs. It's a warfare song and that's the way that song is to be sung, but here we are told to worship with the harp harp is a different type of worship is the music of the harp is soothing when King when King Saul was going to times of deep depression.

He would call on David and David accompanied bring his heart but he play in the heart play in the beautiful music would soothe Saul's troubled soul is is a type of worship that we see it heaven it at this particular point, it is sweet reverent worship. It is praise that calls for adoration and reflection and thankfulness.

People God has called us to be appraising people's has nothing to do with style of worship. It has to do with the Lord who is called you to praise him, and that is extremely important and you know what it doesn't matter what your spiritual gift is your spiritual gift might be teaching like the administration could be giving it could be murder be any of these things, but the primary calling that you have in your life as a Christian is to worship God that his primary when I'm doing premarital counseling.

One of the things that I asked the couple is getting ready to get married. Is this what's the most important thing that we do in in a church service I get varied answers may be read in Scripture here in the sermon sing in the songs always different type of things. But the correct answer is worship. What is true worship. The correct answer is this. It is publicly corporately expressing and experiencing intimacy with God and folks, I want you to know that nothing is more important than that to the first element of their worship in heaven was praise the second element is prayer. The Scripture says that they were pouring out these these golden bowls of incense onto the altar of God. The incense here is the prayers of the saints. In other words, the truth that were dealing with here is the S God hears our prayers.

We give you a few Scripture to back that up. Psalm 86 verse seven in the day of my trouble. I will call upon you for you will answer me.

Psalm 116 verse one. I love the Lord because he has heard my voice. Jeremiah 33 verse three called a million. I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, which you know not. Psalm 40 verse one.

I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to me and he heard my cry, my dad was one of the greatest encouragers in the world and often times when he knew that I was down he would say this. He said that you need to remember this, God hears our prayers and folks we need to hear that and we need to believe that and we need to stand on that will incense is a symbol of prayer, symbolic of prayer and the incense is placed on the altar.

The altar is fire on it and the fire is is heating up that incense and then it becomes steam and that steam just flows right up into the face of God and it's a sweet smelling savor a sweet smelling savor in God's nostrils boats God hears our prayers only give you little illustration when my son Mitch was five months old had taken. He put them in bed one night, put them in the crib and I got down on my knees beside the crib. By that time he darted on the sleep. I just pray for me. I pray Lord protecting spiritually. Lord, protecting physically take care my son and I went on into the kitchen. I got a PO life had some sinus problems that night will take appeal for when I took that peel it knock me out. I mean it would just I could sleep through a hurricane.

Once I've taken that peel and I took it. Not when only got into bed and fell asleep about 2 o'clock in the morning I felt a tug on my leg. I thought it was my three-year-old son Jake. As I looked up and nobody was there so I thought well I must've just dream this and so I would try to go back to sleep and within just a second.

I felt not a tug but a jerk on my leg and I thought Wilhite startlingly so I just got up and I felt like I was being pushed all the way across the house in the missed Mitch's bedroom and when I walked in he was flailing around in the pre-op. He had his of the baby blanket wrapped around his neck in his face it already turned blue. I grabbed that thing.

I ripped it off his neck. He started breathing again all the color came back I picked him up in my arms. I carried them into the living room and I started rocking in a chair holding him and just praising God for taking care of Mitch now was that an angel that got me up in the middle the night.

Nobody on the face of this earth will convince me that it wasn't an angel. I believe that with all my heart that it was and I'm looking forward to get to heaven and seeking that angel out to thank him for what he's done well the saints in heaven are singing a new song and they are praising Jesus about three things look at me again verses 9 to 10 and they sang a new song say in worthier you to take the scroll and open it seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth. The first thing that they were praising Jesus for was for the atonement for the atonement they signed this to him you have redeemed us with your own precious blood, but there will never be a time in heaven when we will not be focused on what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross because every time we see we will see his hands and we will see the nail prints in his hands the tangible evidence of what he did for soma crawls. I want you to think that for just a moment if you can to one of the disciples, a young man named Thomas.

He was unbelieving disciple.

The doubting disciple when the disciples came back and they said, Jesus is been resurrected from the dead.

Thomas said I'll never believe that until I see the nail prints in his hands and his feet. That next Sunday, Jesus came back and he came to that same room where they were in the upper room and the door was locked in use, the door, he walked right to the wall and he walked right to the wall. He walked right over to Thomas and he held his hands up to doing. He said Thomas reaching in my hands and feel the nail prints and do not doubt but believe and all of a sudden Thomas's cynicism melted right into worship and he fell on his knees before Jesus and he said my Lord and my God, my brother Scott was saved in a jail sale.

He had been driving under the influence, Greenville, South Carolina, and he was arrested is placed in the jail sale and that night he said was one of the worst nights in his life.

He said he was just totally depressed. Totally ashamed of himself and the inmate that was in there withing brought them over Bible and put it up under his under his nose.

Scott opened it up.

He opened it up to Matthew chapter 7 in the verse 21 it says not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven.

And then he opened it over to Luke chapter 6 verse 46 Jesus said why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things I say Scott got up. He walked over to the mirror he looked into the mirror and he said you're nothing but a hypocrite. You been playing a game you been acting like your Christian Jude never really turn from your sin.

There's never been any repentance you've never trusted Christ as your is your own personal Lord and Savior. You've never surrendered to him in there on the floor that jail sale. He trusted Christ as his Lord and Savior off oxidase going to come when my brother and I will stand before King Jesus on his throne, and then we will kneel before him and we will praising what you think were praising for. We will praising first of the atonement, for he is shedding his precious blood, that it might save sinners, undeserving sinners like my brother and myself. The second thing they praise Jesus for was the extent of his salvation. In other words, the gospel was not just a Jewish gospel in the old covenant, the chosen people of God or the Israelites, but in the new covenant, the chosen people of God were those who would trust Christ were those who the are the redeemed from every tribe, kindred tongue and nation, race, nationality, skin color, were not a factor it's it's a heart issue. It is not a racial issue. Have you been born again you turn from your sins and trusted Christ as your Lord and Savior.

Has he done a work in your heart.

We change your heart and you nail your new creation were old things are passed away and all things have become new. Titus chapter 2 verse 11 says for the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men in the word all their means all of every kind, all of every sort and upwards people, not just from that Israel, not just Jewish people, but people from every tribe kindred in that trick kindred, and nation. John chapter 10 verse 26 Jesus said this, I lay down my life for the sheep and other sheep I have which are not of this bowl them.

Also I must bring, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

John Piper said this, but another implication of the purpose of God in the death of Christ is that the saved to come from all the races be united in their passion for the supremacy of God who are ransomed to be praised in to sing with all the redeemed creation to him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.

That means black-and-white brown and red and yellow and every shade in between those in heaven we will worship with all the redeemed from every age and race and ethnicity will not be a factor.

Blacks, whites, Jews, Arabs, Chinese Asians, Latinos, is it doesn't matter just all who know and love the Lord Jesus only ask you something. Why should we in our church reach out to people who don't look like us. We give you, for reasons we should do that.

Number one is this the church on earth all look like the church in heaven. That's important folks in all look like that and if were going to spend forever if organist be in for all eternity with all of these people that are going to be in heaven.

Should we start enjoying each other right now I think we should number two is a testimony to the world that God has transforming power to make people who are different really, truly love each other we tell you something. The Democrats don't have a have a clue is how to handle racial prejudice and neither do the Republicans but the word of God has the answer and the word of God is. Jesus says that the answers Jesus Christ folks knowing Jesus Christ will make you colorblind knowing Jesus Christ will break down the wall of ethnicity and race. It was Jesus who said they us by this will they know that they are my disciples by the love that they have one for another obscene brothers in Christ from rival hostile tribes in Africa put aside their differences, in order that they can love each other's Christians. I sing Arab Christians and Jewish Christians embrace each other despite their differences and love each other. The third reason is this, it stretches you to go beyond loving just your own racial, cultural and social groups, and I think that's important, it forces you to stand where they are and understand their hurts and their problems and their frustrations.

But then there's 1/4 reason. If Jesus died for someone. What right do I have to shun them if Jesus died for them.

I have the responsibility to include them. They are to be seen as my brother or sister in Christ. Paul said to Paul. Paul said this about Jesus that he broke down that wall of partition that separates Jew and Gentile, and folks God have mercy on that person who tries to build that wall back again.

Jesus knock that wall down any Mitford to stay down. Thirdly, they praise Jesus for the great gift of royalty. We share a few verses with you one here says that you have made us kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. Matthew 2523 says this is Jesus speaking to the faithful. Well done good and faithful servant. You been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.

Luke 2228 to 29 you've continued with me in my trials and I pointed to you a kingdom as my father has appointed me. Revelation 20 verse four and I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither hath received his mark upon their head or in their hands and they lived and they reigned with Christ a thousand years.

We tell you something when you go to heaven you're not going be sitting on the cloud, twiddling your thumbs and in the midst of just absolute boredom.

That's not gonna happen.

You are going to be serving the Lord by raining and ruling with him and you will praise him for that. For all of eternity. What a privilege that's going to be like the second group who is praising Jesus here are the angels the Angels verses 11 to 12 then I looked, I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders. The voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. What blows my mind. In these verses is the the crazy number of angels, thousands upon thousands to thousands upon 10,000 myriads upon myriads of angels and what are they doing doing the same thing that the saints are doing. They are praising Jesus for his redemption for his atonement worthy is the Lamb that was slain. That's what the Angels are doing new angels are different from us. These angels are sinless leg not done nothing all their life, but praise God and carry out God's command lately Junior whole existence.

That's what they've done. That's what they were created for. I'll be honest with you think they have some trouble understanding us a look at us what is wrong with these people wire in the world are they so sinful.

Why are they so hateful, why are they so rebellious and I think when they went when they saw what Jesus did on the cross and they saw the torture that he went through in the sheer hail that he experienced on that cross. I think it blew their minds to come to a realization that he was doing that for us that he did that because he loved us. We deserve judgment. He gave us mercy. We deserve hail and he gave us his heaven. We deserve misery and he gave us his joy in all that was finalized at the cross we taste something angels never will get over that. Jesus said the 12 legions of angels were there at the cross ready to take him back to glory and put into this wicked world. Jesus held his hands up to an unknown don't stop it. Don't stop it. I'm going through this and he died for us and she had his blood and paid a ransom that we might have eternal life in the Angels are still astounded and in our absolute all as they stand before him in glory, praising him for our atonement.

Lastly, all of creation praises Jesus now I want to think about that for just a minute.

All of creation. What is that include look at verse 13 to 14 and I heard every creature in heaven on earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them, saying to him who sits on the throne into the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever. And the four living creatures said amen of the elders fell down and worship how many creatures will praise him all the creatures that include fish that include my dog does that include a giraffe does that include the insects.

I think it does and how does it do it will in this time that the Lord is going to restore to them the nature that they had before the fall and the line will lie down with the lamb and the cobra will not strike brothers and sisters. Every creature will praise Jesus not just the saints, not just the Angels but every creature.

James voice is when my spiritual heroes and Richard Phillips is a writer and pastor pastors in Greenville South Carolina nail and I'm using one of his commentaries on my study of Revelation and I found out that during the time that James voice was getting ready to die. Richard Phillips was working it at his church.

I'm not sure what position he held at that time he was there withing and he kinda suffered through his death withing only just read you because this absolutely blessed my heart Richard Phillips had to say about James voice a. During that time he said in the year 2000, James Montgomery Boyce, the famous Bible expositor, pastor of tense Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia with preaching to this very section of Revelation when he realized that something was wrong with his body. In other words, the passage that I've been preaching on this morning is the passage that he preached on the very same week that he found out that he had some some something terribly wrong. A doctor's examination revealed that Boyce was afflicted with the cancer that must take his life. Within a few short weeks. I vividly remember Dr. Boyce calling me to his office and calmly telling me this news shortly thereafter, he addressed the congregation is surfer 32 years on the subject.

The disease had progressed so rapidly that boys could no longer preach and could speak only briefly. After describing his condition and thanking them for their prayers. He noted that he had been preaching the sovereignty of God for so long and that now they want to know whether God was sovereign over his disease, Boyce responded that his illness and his impending death was not accidental, but was God's sovereign will for his life. Yet even that was not the point he really wanted to make. He went on. It's possible in it to conceive of God is sovereign and yet in different God to charge, but he doesn't care.

But it's not that God is not only the one who's in charge. God is also good, everything that he does is good that is the very point made Revelation 5.

It is good news that God is on the throne instead of Caesar.

Yet, not only is God sovereign over history.

But when we see Jesus taken the scroll, we are sure that the sovereign love us so much as to die for our sins. We can trust him for whatever he brings in the history and into our lives.

I mentioned James Boyce's farewell address to tip Presbyterian Church. I was seated directly behind him at the time and when he finished speaking, we rose to sing the opening hymn of the worship service. Boyce was not able to remain so we set down his hymnal for the last time he walked to the door at the back of this chancel as he approached the door he passed in front of me.

I was struggling with my emotions and voice stopped, look me in the eye. Grass my arm and smiling said press on brother fight the good fight. That too is the message. Revelation 5. Christ is enthroned, having redeemed us by his blood, we are now a kingdom of priest to serve him on earth knowing that the Savior who loved us reins over us all. Let us get on with the work he has given us and devoted our sales to the cause of his glory.

Let us not be daunted by the winds of earthly change or the vain threats of evil powers, against the gospel of Christ is sovereign reign over thing. All things for our good. Let us press on in faith with the priestly work of worship, witness and prayer for the sake of his kingdom of salvation here on earth, a man, a man was closing prayer heavenly father we bow in your sweet presence now to praise you and thank you for stories like we heard of a gym. Boyce James voice of preacher Lord who loved you with all of his heart who came to the end of his life and didn't flinch below.

He knew that he was in your sovereign hand and it was your time and it was your will for him to go. Father may that be true of every single person in this country vacation today. May we know you in such a way and love you so much and be so assured of your love for us that death would not put a fear in her heart that the thought of eternity would excite us and not scare us. Heavenly father I pray now as we get ready for our time of celebration with the Lord's supper that Lord you would be with us in great power. The father you would reveal yourself to us in in ways that you only due to the partaking of the Lord's supper. We pray father that we might experience your presence and that our worship for you and through to you will be even more precious than normal. We love you Lord, thank you and praise you for your letter of goodness to us and it's Jesus holy and precious thing that we pray.

Amen. Before we have the Lord's supper on ISH Cadillac and her mom and dad to come forward. Let me share with you what this young lady what's been going on in her life that she talked to me a few weeks ago and shared with me that she had trusted Christ as your Lord and Savior, and she want to be a part of our church. You want to be a member of our church so got together with John and Lydia and John brought sage over for you Gina not to to talk to. We shared our testimony with her. She shared her testimony with us and we can win over some things and ask her if she had any questions and we felt very comfortable at this young lady knows Jesus Christ personally as her Lord and Savior so we we accepted her into our fellowship and at that point time we went over the valves with her and they were little difficult or a one her age that we explained them to her and Eugene did a great job and that she knows what those valves mean now and I won't.

I'm in a ask you these questions, and sage.

If you agree with these and believe in these. I want you to say yes would you do that right number one you acknowledge yourself to be a sinner in the sight of God justly deserving his displeasure and without hope, save in his sovereign mercy. Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ is the son of God and Savior of sinners and you receive an rest upon him alone for salvation as is offered in the gospel you now resolving promise and reliance on the grace of the Holy Spirit that you will endeavor to live as becomes the followers of Christ. You promise to support the church and its worship and work to the best of your ability and you submit yourself to the government discipline of the church promise to study its purity and pace. Mom and dad, do you promise to you will make a commitment to continue to keep loving her and pour in the word of God into her heart. Congregation would you make a vow to pray for her and to encourage her when you get a chance to say or and I help her in her walk with Christ, if you do that, we indicated by Sandy man man Lydia God bless you for the privilege and sage. God bless you get a take of the Lord's supper this morning. Yes you do, you sure to go back there us were going to. I will ask other elders come forward and Eugene is a officiate in the Lord's supper this morning. Scott, would you and Jay please remove cloth seated. This is a very special time in our worship of the Lord Jesus Christ has instituted this meal. It's a sign and the seal of the grace that we have in him, and he has promised his presence in a spiritual way in the unique way. During this time, and so if you're here this morning and you belong to Christ, you were united