Return to your Bibles to Exodus chapter 34. Exodus chapter 34. We were in Exodus last week. We'll be there again. Exodus, second book in your Bible. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Exodus chapter 34. For our text, we'll be in verse 6 and 7. Exodus 34, starting with verse 6. Exodus 34, verse 6. Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate, and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness and faithfulness, who keeps loving kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the fathers and the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations." The context of this, if you know your story in the Book of Exodus, is that just a few chapters before this, probably two months, three months before this, Israel was rescued out of slavery in Egypt. Remember God did all those mighty acts through Moses. They've been brought through the desert to Mount Sinai. That's chapter 19 of Exodus. They were given the law, the covenant in chapter 20. Remember last week we discussed that when God thundered off the mountain, the 10 commandments. And then God calls Moses up back into the mountain for 40 days to give him the rest of the law and the plans for the tabernacles. You'll recall the story that while Moses is up there for 40 days, the Israelites get worried. Maybe he's dead. Remember, they saw God on the mountain scare the daylights out of them so much so that they thought, maybe Moses is dead. Maybe he killed him. He's not coming down. It's been 40 days. So they make this golden calf. to be their God and worship it in this big, literally was some kind of a drunken orgy. You recall Moses comes back down, finds him doing this and what ensues after that. But the point is immediately 3,000 were slain, more were slain later. But just consider now, this is where we are in chapter 33 and 34. They've sinned against God in an awful way. Think of all they've seen in the last three months to do something like this. I mean, they've tested God already several times, and he's helped them, he got angry with them, but this is, would someone take the straw that would break the camel's back? This is stabbing God right in the back. He just told them 40 days ago, you will not have any other gods, you will not make any graven image, and what are they doing now? You can imagine. And God is furious, as well he should. This is a huge insult. I mean, they really blew it this time, and this is big. And they know it. Now, if you're in Exodus, go back to chapter 33 for some context to this. Exodus 33, verse 1. This just happened, Exodus 33, verse 1. The Lord said to Moses, depart. Go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, to your offspring I will give it. I will send an angel before you. I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hittites, the Jebusites. Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. That's what he's promised them, but know this, but I will not go up among you. lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people." When the people heard this disastrous or sad word, they mourned. They're in the Hebrew there, they plunged into mourning. Remember, God just rescued them. They saw him in the pillar of cloud, the pillar of fire, part the Red Sea, destroy the Egyptians, feed them in the wilderness. They're eating manna already. And now God just said, I'll give you the land. I'll drive out your enemies. I'll send an angel with you, but I'm not going. I'm not going with you anymore. I'm done. He said, if I go with you, he says, here for a minute, I'll destroy you because of how wicked you are, how rebellious you are. And it says the people went, the collective, they plunged into mourning. They were just dancing before this golden Catholic started taking off all their earrings and all their jewelry and all their fancy clothes. And they are mourning. It's a sad day. They really blew it. I mean, big time. And God says here, I will no longer travel with you. It's not gonna happen. You're on your own. I'll send my angel with you, but I'm not going. So now drop down to verse 12. Moses, always the intercessor here, bargains with God. He does this several times with their travels. He goes to God and begs him. Exodus 33, verse 12. Moses said to the Lord, see, you say to me, bring up this people, but you've not let me know whom you will send with me. You've said, I know you by name. You've also found favor in my sight. In other words, I know, God, you love me. Now, therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, then please show me your ways. Show me how to do this. Show me how to serve you, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider, too, this nation is your people. And he said, my presence will go with you, meaning you, Moses. I will give you rest, you, Moses. And he said to him, if your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. Think about that. How shall it be known I found favor in your sight, I in your people? If it's not you going with us, then we are distinct. Moses saying, Lord, look, I know you love me. I know you've called me. I know you know me. I've seen your favor. Lord, I want to know how to serve you. I want to know how to please you. But Lord, if you're not going to go with us, then don't send us. Lord, if you're not in our midst, then don't send us. Lord, we'll be nobody without you. We won't even survive without you. Lord, if you're not going, then don't send us. Don't send me. He's begging for mercy here. Lord, please, if you're not with us, and Israel is nothing. Israel's nothing. So of course, you see here in verse 17, the Lord said to Moses, the very thing you have spoken, I will do, for you have found favor in my sight. Because of you, Moses, because you're asking me because I love you, okay, I will go with you. I will go with the nation. And again, God listens to Moses, verse 17, he says, I will do this. You all have an outline, right? You all have a handout sheet? Okay. It appears, if you read this, that Moses is so overwhelmed by this. He's trying to figure out, they all are trying to figure God out. They saw his power and his majesty on the mountain, scared the daylights out of all of them. Moses shook with fear, it says. Now they've done this terrible thing. Thousands have died already. And Moses says, Lord, I need to know you. I need to know how to serve you. Show me your ways, Lord. And here now, God just said, okay, Moses, I will go with you. God, as the word is relents, goes with him. Now God has been revealing himself to Moses, little by little. You're trying to figure out who this God is. And notice Moses says here, Lord, show me your ways. He's hungry for more. Lord, who are you? Lord, what are you all about? What are you, Lord? You know, someone said, once you've come to know God, you'll never have enough. You'll never say, all right, that's enough God stuff. You'll never, if you truly know him, You'll never have enough. You'll never be satisfied. You'll always desire more, and there's always more to know. God is never boring, if you know Him. There's always more to Him. That knowing God becomes an obsession after a while. Finding out more, learning more, deeper and deeper and deeper. And I'm sure for eternity, that's all we're gonna do. Now note closely here, chapter 33, verse 18. Moses asked something here amazing. Verse 18, Moses said, I pray you, show me your glory. I beg you, Lord. That's what the word pray means. I beseech you is the old word. Lord, show me your glory. Now just stop and think a minute. Consider what he just asked. They saw Mount Sinai smoke and burn and jump. They heard the trumpets and the noise. It scared them to death. And he just said to God, Lord, show me your glory. Show me, Lord, what makes you great. Show me, Lord, what makes you glorious. Someone said, Pastor Fraser, an old Southern preacher who said, our God's a struttin' God. He's saying, God, stretch your stuff. Show me, Lord, show all of us your glory. What makes you so glorious? Show us how great you are. Now just try to imagine what God could have done to answer that. This is fun to think about. Can you imagine the display of power and majesty God could have put on before them? They'd be begging Him to stop. He could have shook the earth. He could have shook the heavens. God, by His almighty power, by just the majesty of His person, He could have leveled the place. He could have put on such a show of light and glory and power. They'd be begging Him, no more, no more, no more. Imagine what he could have done. Remember what happened back at Mount Sinai. Well, think of it. If God were to describe himself, if God were to say, all right, you want to know what makes me great, what would he say? Now, God often in the scriptures does this, and there's many aspects to this. What does he say here? And notice here how God decides to answer this request. Moses' request was, show us what makes you glorious. That's a big question. It's an easy one for God to answer, by the way, but it's a big question. Look in chapter 33, look at verse 19. And he, God, said, I will make all my goodness pass before you and proclaim before you my name, the Lord. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy in whom I show mercy. All right, Moses, I'm a prayer answering God. You just asked me to show you my glory. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to notice that. I'll make all. That word all in Hebrew is very strong. It means every bit of my glory, the totality of what makes me great, of what makes me good, he says here. I'll make all my goodness pass before you, and I'll proclaim my name. In Hebrew here, I'll proclaim my name, Yahweh. Yahweh. I'll show you, Moses, what Yahweh means. I'll tell you who I am. Now think about that. In fact, He says there, I'll be gracious to whom I am gracious. How do you love that? God's going to proclaim before all the nation who He really is. You wanna know who I am? You wanna know what Yahweh really means? I'll tell you, I'm gonna show you. This is an amazing thing when you think about it. I mean, consider what's about to happen here. And He reminds them that my kindness to you is only because I'm gracious. He says there, I'll have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I'll have compassion on whom I'll have compassion. You don't deserve any of this. Israel deserved right then to be wiped off the face of the earth for what they just did. But God says, I'm gonna do this only because I'm gracious, only because I'm merciful, because I choose to be kind to you. That's a big thing, only because God wants to do it. And for the sake of time, we're gonna skip the rest of 33 and drop down to our text. Exodus 34, verse five. A lot more goes on here, and I'm tying into that when we get to the Lord's table, and this is leading up to that. Look at that again, Exodus 34, verse 5. Here's where God answers Moses' request. Show me your glory. Exodus 34, verse 5 again. The Lord descended in the cloud. That's that Shekinah cloud that followed them all the way out of Egypt, and led them, I should say. And stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And notice it there. The Lord. The Lord. God. Now let's think this through. God's going to explain who he really is. You want to know what Yahweh means? Here's what it means. And think of it, when God tells us about himself, we need to listen. No one knows God but God. So when God starts describing himself, this is something we need to perk our ears up for. He says there, the Lord, the Lord, God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faith. There in the Hebrew, as this cloud's passing by, it's apparently moving back and forth or moving somehow. They hear this voice shouting, Yahweh, Yahweh, God. There in the Hebrew, Yahweh, Yahweh, El. God's proclaiming his name. God's introducing himself, if you will. God's proclaiming. He's shouting his own name before the people. He's shouting out his name, Yahweh. Now, this is the name that God told Moses, who he went back in chapter 3, 14 at the burning bush, when God commissioned Moses. Moses says, it's been 400 and some years. They don't even remember the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Who are you? And Moses says, when I go to them and tell them, who should I say you are? Remember what he says? I am. Yahweh. I have it there in your sheet, by the way. You want to know what God's name looks like in Hebrew, that's it. I'm not a Hebrew scholar by any imagination stretch, but that's how God said his name to Moses. That's what it looks like in Hebrew. Let's talk about this for a minute. Some call this the tetragrammatron. In Hebrew, it's Y-H-W-H. It comes from a verb, hayah, meaning to be. God's name literally means I am. There's no proper English way to say it with that name. There's no proper way anyway to say it. It has something to do with, I am always the one who is. I am the always-is-ing one. That's a bad name at least, but that's what this says. You can't say, well, God is good. He is good, but he's so much more than that. God is great. Sure, he's great, but he's so much more than great. God just is. This speaks of his eternality. It speaks that there's no boundaries around God. You can't reach the end of this. Anywhere you look, God is infinite. God is eternal. I am that I am. That's who I am. That's my name. He's here shouting to them. They're seen as clouds go by. Yahweh, Yahweh, or I am, I am. That's powerful stuff. I am the ever-existing, I am the ever-is-ing one. It's interesting, this is the phrase Jesus used for himself all the time. In the Gospels, again, our English translations tend to not bring this out like they should. Some verses there, John 8, 24. Jesus, I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that living in the Greek, I am. Unless you believe that I am. you will die in your sins. They knew what he meant when he said that. He spoke the name of God. In John 8, 58, Jesus said to them, truly, I truly say to you, before Abraham was, and he speaks God's name, I am. Those who say Jesus never claimed to be God don't know their Bibles very well. This is the eternal I am. Yahweh. Yahweh God. This is the name Israel knew Him. This is the name He told them. This is who I am. This is my name. Now God has many names. You can't name God, understand? No name fully describes Him. He's giving us a name that we can try to relate to Him by. But God is so much more than any name we give Him or He gives Himself. Now they already knew Him by this name, but now God's going to tell them. You want to know what that name really means? Let me tell you what Yahweh really means. It says here, Yahweh, Yahweh. Your version says the Lord, the Lord God. The word God there is the word El. It means God Almighty, power. That's the word for God, the powerful one, the mighty one. Yahweh, Yahweh Almighty. You want to know what Yahweh Almighty means? God then proceeds here to describe Himself. And get this right. This is how God wants us to see Him. When God tells us, here's what my name means. He's telling us, here's how I want you to, and there's many other times I've been in the prophet, so he talked about his creation power, his prophesying power, his wisdom, his understanding is infinite. God will often talk about his aspects, but here, he wants you, here's how I want you to know me, to understand me, to look at me. Notice it again here, verse six. Yahweh, Yahweh, God. Notice that first phrase, compassionate and gracious. That's my name. Yahweh, compassionate and gracious. I'm sure the ground is shaking as he's saying this. The word compassionate, of course, means loving kindness. It's often translated that way. Yahweh Almighty, the God who is compassionate, who is gracious, who is merciful is what this means. Remember, grace is getting what you don't deserve, like they're getting right now. They should all be dead. God's holiness demands such a thing. But God says, I'll be gracious to whom I'll be gracious, and I'll show mercy to whom I'll show mercy. And I'm Yahweh God, and that's just what I do. He's forgiving these people. He's going to go with them again. Gracious. Remember what he said back in chapter 13, 19? He said, I'll make all my goodness pass before you. Well, here he says, Yahweh, gracious and compassionate. Note the next phrase in verse 6. Slow to anger. Boy, are they good. Is that good news to them that that's true? God has a temper. God's a person. God gets mad. God gets furious, but not right away. He's slow. God has great patience. How do you think the world's still here? Do you realize how this world's provoking him? God has a temper, and one day this world's going to see that temper. But for right now, he's slow to anger, indulgent. He's enduring with much patience until he accomplishes the building of his church. Here in Irda he's saying, I am slow to anger. I'm tolerant, I'm putting up with you for now. I'm dealing with you for now. Slow to anger. Verse six again, abounding in loving kindness. There's the word again. God can't stop saying that. Loving kindness, mercy, I'm abounding. If I can say this with reverence, the word means I'm slopping over with loving kindness. It just flows out of me. God is just full to overflowing with loving kindness. Many of your Bibles translate this as steadfast love, love that stays, love that really means that it's in for the long haul. The Hebrew word is tzed, which means goodness or kindness. Now remember, this is Yahweh, Creator, Almighty God. You want to know who I am? Here's who I am. Notice the next phrase, verse 7, who keeps loving kindness for thousands. And the word thousands is usually, it's just a large number meaning lots and lots of people. Notice the word keeps. The word keep means guards or maintains. You know what castles were called? Keeps, the place you keep something safe. I maintain, I keep, I protect my loving kindness for thousands upon thousands upon. The word just means a large, large company of people. It's not just one, it's not just Moses I love. A few people I'm kind to. I'm kind to thousands and thousands and thousands. Next verse, verse 7, we're going to go back to this. Who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. Now the word forgive there, again, our English Bibles don't do a great job here. The word forgive actually is the word who carries off, who bears away. I carry off or bear away sin, transgression, and iniquity." Now we're going to come back to that. Keep that in mind. It's on your notes there. But that's what he says there. Iniquity, transgression, and sin. That's the full description of what you and I are. Iniquity is the word for perversion or depravity. That's what it means. You know, sin twists you. Sin distorts you. Sin perverts you. Sin makes you into something twisted and perverted. What God created you to be, sin has so perverted us and twisted us that we hardly even resemble that anymore. We're twisted and wicked and evil right down to our core. That's what iniquity means, perversion, depravity. We're depraved. We're a sick thing, sin sick. The word transgression there means defection or treason. You've crossed a line you weren't supposed to cross. Traitor is what it means. We're all traitors. God gave us his word. God gave us his law, and we've all said, no way. God said, don't. I said, I'm going to. God said, you should. I said, I'm not going to do that. That's transgression. It's treason. Traitors, defection. Of course, the word sin is a common word for just falling short. not doing, not being what you're supposed to be. God here carries away, it says, our sin, but that's a great description of what human beings are. Sin, iniquity, transgression, and sin. But now let's move on. Note the other side of the coin in verse seven. He says there, yet he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. I spent a little time there. He'll by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The word no means there is the idea of never. Or as Paul would say, Pastor Paul told us, remember in Romans how when Paul says, God forbid, in the Greek it's no, no, no, no, no. That's the word here. That's what it means. I will no, no, never, no, never will I ever leave guilt unpunished. Because he can't, he's God. God's righteous, God's holy. It would be wrong if God let evil get away with it. It would be wrong if God didn't punish sin. He'd be charged with a crime himself. You know what you think about a judge here on earth, lets guilty go free? What do you think of those guys? They're criminals. God says, no, never, never, never will I ever let sin go not punished. It's my nature. It's what Yahweh is. But now stop and think this through. God is absolutely holy. He's righteous. He's just. But he's also told us here that I'm loving and kind, I'm full of loving kindness, I'm full of goodness, I'm full of graciousness. How can God be gracious and still punish sin, iniquity, and transgression? Think about it. How can he faithfully and righteously punish all wickedness, none of it can be let go, none of it can be set free, and still show compassion? See what's happening here? Is there anyone who's not guilty? Is there anyone who hasn't transgressed? Is there anyone who hasn't been a traitor? Is there anyone then? You see what's happening here. Are there any who have not committed iniquity? Are there any one of us who aren't perverted and twisted in sin? Sin must be punished. God says it here. It's my nature. It's because of my name Yahweh. It's who I am. The guilty can never go unpunished. Sin must be punished. God's very nature demands it. He says that here. By no means will He not do this. But if He will not and cannot leave the guilty unpunished, then who's left to have compassion on? If He'd do what He says here and punish all the guilty, we'd all go to hell. There'd be no one left, including Moses. You see what God's doing here? This is God talking. He's setting up here, he's describing what to us sounds like a problem, doesn't it? God's setting this up. This almost seems like a contradiction. I'm merciful, I'm kind, I'm gracious and loving, but I will never let a sinner go unpunished. What do you do now? It almost seems like God's in a conundrum here, doesn't it? What can you do about this? This is a problem that seems insurmountable. These two things are mutually exclusive. If you're gonna punish every last sin, or every last act of wickedness, how can you show compassion to anyone? It's his nature to be compassionate, but the guilty must be punished. He'd be unrighteous if he let the guilty go unpunished. Do you see what we're saying here? God himself pushes it into this corner, this thought. So how has this problem been solved? What did God do? Well, we already saw back in verse seven, look at it again. Who keeps loving kindness for thousands, note this phrase, who forgives iniquity. Write in your Bibles, there's no sin to write in your Bibles. Where it says forgive, right above there's the word carry, or the word bear. That's what it means in the Hebrew. When he says, I forgive, what he's saying there is, I bear off iniquity. I carry away iniquity. Well, that's the answer to this. God, in his great compassion and mercy, who will also always have to punish iniquity, will bear it away, will carry it away, is what he says here. But then this asks a question. How would he carry us away? Who's gonna carry us away? Is Moses gonna carry it away? That's not possible. Moses has his own sins. Could any man on earth carry away our sins? No, because we're all sinners. He can't even carry his own sins away. Could any angel do this? Of course not. Hebrews says that very clearly. An angel couldn't come to our aid. Here we see what God said he's going to show us. Here's the great goodness of the name Yahweh. Here's what makes me good. Here's what Yahweh means. He himself is going to carry away our iniquity. You hear what he's saying there? God here is preaching the gospel to these people in the Old Testament. He himself would carry them away. The Son of God, who is God the Son, would himself be the sin bearer. That's the only way this can happen. God didn't have to save any one of us. He said that back in chapter 33. I'll have mercy in whom I choose to have mercy. If God didn't choose to save any one of us, He didn't have to. But once He chooses to save us, there's only one way to do it. Our sin has to be carried away. But who can do that? None but God Himself. I have it on your sheet there, Isaiah 53. These verses make a lot more sense, doesn't it? Surely He, speaking of Christ, surely He has noticed, borne our griefs, carried our sorrow. That's what God is saying here. I, God, carry away, I bear away their grief, their sin. Read on. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. Verse 5. He was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. Notice that phrase. Upon him, laid upon his back, was a chastisement that brought us peace. With his wounds we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. So the Lord has what? Laid on him the iniquity of us all to carry it away. God took our iniquity, laid it on the back of Jesus Christ, and then crushed him under his justice. You've all heard the phrase scapegoat. That's a Bible term. Did you know that? In the book of Exodus, they had this ceremony where they would take outside the edge of the camp, they'd take a male goat. And the priest would take this goat, put his hands upon its head and confess all the sins of the people. And then give this goat a good kick in the rear and run it off into the desert, never to be seen again. It would go out in the desert and die. Symbolizing, that's what scapegoat means, someone who takes the blame for you. That God is taking, this goat symbolically is taking their sin out to be never to be seen again. He's saying here, God himself is saying, I myself will bear away, will carry away their sin. That's how I can be compassionate and gracious to those who are sinners. John 1.29, remember John the Baptist said about Christ? It's on your sheet there. The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who is written in the Greek, bears away the sin of the world. Here comes that Lamb whom God is going to lay on his back the sins of the world. And that Lamb will then carry him away to the cross. That's what God is saying here in the Old Testament Book of Exodus. 1 Peter 2.24 in your sheet there. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree. God here is preaching the gospel. Now notice here, this is God's self-description of himself. I'm a compassionate, saving, righteous God. I, God, bear away your iniquities. That's what he's saying here. Even though we're all sinners, like foolish, rebellious sheep, in God's absolute holiness, as he says here, my name demands that I must punish all iniquity. I can't just let it go. He says here, my very name, Yahweh Almighty, means that I am good, I'm compassionate, I'm gracious, and I'm going to save them the only way possible. There's only one way to do this, by bearing away their sins myself. Think about that. The only way possible, Yahweh Almighty will bear away our sins by paying the penalty Himself. Now think this one through. This is why God Himself had to become man, as we saw many, many times. Who, as the only perfect man who ever lived, could then lay down that life on the cross. Jesus, the God-man, the only perfect human being who ever lived, God took all of our iniquity, my sin, my filth, my treason, my wickedness, and laid it upon His shoulders. He bore that awful weight away, and God crushed Him instead of me. Jesus, as man, could lay down His life. As God, He was the only one worthy to totally pay for our sins. Again, it's on your sheet there, Hebrews 2.17. Therefore, he had to be made like his brother. Jesus had to become a man. Why? That he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God to what? Make propitiation. You know what propitiation means? Take away God's wrath. Jesus had to become a man just so that the wrath that we earn could be dumped on his head. That's an amazing story, isn't it? God here is preaching the Gospel. And note carefully, this is how Yahweh Almighty chooses to describe Himself. This is how He wants us to think of Him. This is what He's telling Israel. You want to know who I am, Moses? This is who I am. The Almighty God who bears away iniquity because of my great compassion and forgiveness. You want to know what Yahweh really means? This is it. This is my greatness. God wants all of us to see Him as the sin-bearing God, the righteous, holy God who will never overlook sin. Sin does not go unpunished. On the great day when everything's finished, every sin ever committed will be punished, either in Christ as our substitute or by yourself in hell. But every sin will be punished one day. God will never overlook even one. But here he's telling us, my goodness, my graciousness, my compassion, I'm going to rescue billions of you, because that's just who I am. This is the essence of who God is. You wanna come up, sister? Now, as you're in your Bibles there, look back again to verse seven. The reason we have communion, the reason Jesus gave us this little ceremony is found back in verse seven. Notice just the one word there, the word unpunished. God says, I am Yahweh, Almighty God. I can never leave sin unpunished. Punished means, the word here I think means the word beaten, punished. That means in order for you and I to be saved, someone had to be punished for it. You know who that was, that was Jesus Christ. And Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, he gave us this little sermon to remind us what He did on that cross. On that cross, He was being punished as if He did what I did. He was being punished as if that was you there. He took your lies, your lust, your hatred, your guilt, our lack of love, everything about us that's wrong, laid it upon Him and then crushed Him. dumped his wrath upon him. Jesus Christ was punished. In your mind now, picture the whipping, the scourging, the beating, that horrible trial, kicking him, spitting on him, pulling out his hair, and then nailing him to that awful cross, so much so that when God actually turned his back on him, he cried out, my God, why have you forsaken me? Jesus was punished because of what you did, what I did. But the good news is now we go free because of what he did. That's why Jesus said, don't ever forget this. Don't ever, and we do, I do, I need this badly. You go through your week, you work like I do, and you have a busy schedule, you forget him. We forget, you realize what God did for you. Yahweh Almighty died for you. That should blow our minds at how easy it is to forget that. And then when you come, this is his little piece of bread. Jesus held up a broken piece of bread and said, don't ever forget what I do. And I want you right now to think about that. When they scourged him and said he was beaten that bad, you couldn't even tell who he was. They mocked him. They spit at him. They cursed him. They kicked him. They punched him. They nailed him to a cross. And he deserved not a bit of that. And worse than that, God himself poured out his wrath on his soul. And so he cried out, my God, let this remind you What it took to save us, Yahweh, Almighty God's compassion to save sinners like us. Jesus said, do this in remembrance of me. Jesus held up the wine, fruit of the vine. I'm sure it's because it looks like blood. To remind us that only by the shedding of blood is remission of sins. The soul that sins must die. So Jesus, bloody mess on the cross, gave his life. for us. He said, take this. This is the blood of the new covenant. He said, take this and drink you all of it in remembrance of me.