Author: Bryan Gibson

Weekly Bulletin
June 13, 2021

Things to Think On When We Eat the Lord’s Supper
Every Lord’s day we bring ourselves to the cross of Christ as we eat the Lord’s Supper. There at the cross we see many truths that ought to influence our lives. Consider these four.
At the cross we see the terribleness of sin.
Only the blood of God’s Son could remove it. “Nothing can for sin atone, nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
All the good we could do would not remove sin (Titus 3:3-7).
The blood of the best man in the world could not remove sin.
“No angel could his place have taken.”
Only the blood of Christ could pay the penalty for sin.
So let’s think of the terribleness of sin and determine to never treat sin lightly again.
At the cross we see divine love.
“God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…” (John 3:16).
His love reached even to me. No doubt that if God had known that I would be the only one saved by the death of His Son, Jesus would have died just for me.
What is true of me is true of you. God loves each one of us. Jesus died for each one of us.
When we eat the Lord’s supper, let us think of God’s divine love and thank Him for saving our souls.
At the cross we see the greatest example of the innocent suffering for the guilty.
We see this happen all the time and think it’s not “fair.”
It is just the nature of sin that the innocent suffer for the guilty.
Nowhere do we see the truth more clearly than at the cross of Jesus Christ, where the innocent Son of God died for guilty people, people like you and me.
So when we eat the Supper, let us think of the innocent Christ dying for our guilt and sin.
At the cross we see evidence that Jesus is indeed God’s Son.
In His demeanor: in His forgiving spirit, in His concern for His mother, in His meek and quiet spirit in the face of taunting and ridicule, in His reassuring words to the thief, in the trust that He placed in His Father.
Remember the centurion in Matthew 27:54, the one who observed some spectacular events surrounding the crucifixion. His observation: “Truly this was the Son of God!”
In the fulfillment of prophecy: the soldiers’ casting lots for His vesture, the piercing of His hands and feet, His thirst, the taunting coming from the lips of His enemies, the piercing of His side instead of the breaking of bones, His burial in a rich man’s tomb.
So when we eat the Supper, let us give praise to Him who is God’s Son, deity, God in the flesh.
Not the Right Fit
In 1981, Conway Twitty had a hit song called, “Tight Fittin’ Jeans.” One line in the song says, “I love that lady wearing tight fittin’ jeans.” I think we all know WHY he “loved” that lady. Ladies, you're making a big mistake wearing them. You're attracting the wrong kind of attention, and the wrong kind of man. At one point in the song this jean wearing lady even boldly proclaims: “And partner, there’s a tiger in these tight fittin’ jeans.” Not exactly the “meek and quiet spirit” that God loves so much (1 Peter 3:3-4). Put on Christ (Romans 13:13-14), and then put on something that reflects His values.

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