Sermon Topic: Ordinances

The Memorial Supper

Date: March 28th, 1982  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-36  |  Topics: Communion, Memorial, Ordinances

There are four accounts of the institution of the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper in the New Testament. The twenty-sixth chapter of Matthew, the fourteenth chapter of Mark, the twenty-second chapter of Luke, and the eleventh chapter of Paul’s first letter to Corinth.


The Jesus of the Memorial Supper

Date: April 4th, 1982  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26  |  Topics: Communion, Memorial, Ordinances

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink thisContinue Reading


The Jesus of the Memorial Supper

Date: April 4th, 1982  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26  |  Topics: Communion, Memorial, Ordinances

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink thisContinue Reading


The Meaning of Baptism

Date: February 20th, 1983  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-22  |  Topics: Ark, Baptism, Burial, Death, Judgment, New Life, Obedience, Ordinances, Resurrection, Symbolism, Truth, Water, cleansing

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the fiContinue Reading


The Chronology of the Supper

Date: April 7th, 1985  |  Scripture: Matthew 26:26  |  Topics: Bread, Communion, Last Supper, Ordinances, Wine, remembrance

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.


Baptism in Water

Date: March 22nd, 1987  |  Scripture: John 3:22-23  |  Topics: Baptism, New Life, Obedience, Ordinances, Submersion

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.


Baptism in Water

Date: March 22nd, 1987  |  Scripture: John 3:22-23  |  Topics: Baptism, New Life, Obedience, Ordinances, Submersion

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.


Washing Feet and Washing Stripes

Date: May 22nd, 1988  |  Scripture: John 13:1-7  |  Topics: Baptism, Bread, Communion, Conversion, Cup, Foot Washing, Humility, Last Supper, Ministry, Ordinances, Service

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towContinue Reading


Lest We Forget

Date: April 1st, 1990  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:24  |  Topics: Communion, Martyrs, Ordinances, Veterans

And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.


Seven Sureties of the Sacred Supper

Date: August 5th, 1990  |  Scripture: Matthew 26:26-30  |  Topics: Church, Communion, Eucharist, Lamb of God, Memorial, Ordinances, Promise, Sacred Supper

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom. And when they had sung an hymn, theyContinue Reading