We go this morning to the very beginning of the Bible in the book of Genesis in chapter 3. And remember what we learned in, as it were, spiritual kindergarten. The basic lessons of the Christian faith, the fundamentals of the gospel, right here. Genesis chapter 3. begins after 2 ended with this verse, 25, and they, Adam and Eve, were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Not ashamed. This is the Word of God, Genesis 3. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her that he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, And they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden. And I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. And to the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground, for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever, therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way. of the tree of life. That's the reading of the chapter. The text is two verses in this chapter, 7 and 21. In verse 7, the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. And 21, And to Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them. One of heaven's greatest blessings is that God comes down to us and takes away our shame. Shame is a result of guilt, Guilt comes when we sin and know we ought not do what we did and ought to have done what we didn't do. Guilt comes and shame overwhelms us. Then God comes and takes away our shame, removes our guilt, and washes away our shame. That's the gospel in the passage that we have before us this morning. That's one of the kindergarten lessons that we learn as Christians. When overwhelmed by guilt and shame you are, where do you go? What do you do? Who do you look at? This is the call of the Word of God to you and to me today. Don't try to cover yourself because he that covers his sins shall not prosper. Don't try to cover yourself by what you might be able to do better next time, by what you might want to change, by what you never want to do again. Try to cover yourself. Go to God and allow Him to cover you. Right here. Right here. Let's look at this Word of God briefly at the occasion of the Lord's Supper this morning under the theme of a question, with what will you be covered? And perhaps I could have put in parenthesis in the bulletin, fig leaves or firs. That's really the options that you have. And so the question is, with what will you be covered? Your own efforts, works, goodness, obedience, or God's? And you know the answer. Let's remind ourselves what the Word of God says to us in this gospel spoken to a man and his wife who tried to establish their own righteousness, who tried to will his salvation, and tried to run for His salvation, but the Word of God is very clear. It's not of Him that willeth, and it's not of Him that runneth. It's of God that showeth mercy. Let's see that Word to us this morning. With what will you be covered? Well, the story is very simple. Everyone knows it. Even the littlest children after Adam and Eve ate of the apple or whatever fruit it was from that one tree about which God said, you shall not eat of it. They were ashamed. They were overwhelmed with shame and guilt. They knew the shame of their nakedness, and that's what's in focus here. Before, they were naked and not ashamed, and now they're naked and ashamed. Their eyes were opened so that they saw their nakedness." And you mustn't imagine that that simply means that this is a signal of evolutionary progress, that before this they were civilized or uncivilized savages, and now they become somewhat civilized and decide to wear clothing. Knew they were naked. Don't imagine that, but that's the explanation given by many. That doesn't explain the uncivilized nakedness in Hollywood and the rest of the ungodly world today at all, does it? No, their eyes were opened and they saw that they were naked means that they had a spiritual awareness now that were, as their bodies were, instruments of righteousness. and holiness by which God enabled them to bring forth the seed, the generations to come, now their bodies are instruments of sin and corruption. And they saw that. They recognized that. And they stood in the presence of God, and they couldn't deal with that, and that's why they tried to run away. I remind you of what the end of chapter 25 says. The man and his wife, they were both naked, and they were not ashamed. And now in our text, verse 7, now they're naked. And what it doesn't say is, though true, terribly, terribly full of shame. They forfeited their happiness. Can you imagine what they said to each other if they were talking any more, which I wonder about? That's just speculation. We provoked God. We forfeited His favor. We lost His image. We didn't have dominion over the creatures anymore. We corrupted our natures. And there's a disorder in us that is hard for us now to figure out. If they were speaking to each other and could think about what had happened, that's what they were thinking about. God said no, and they did. God didn't make them this way, and now they were this way. and they didn't want to face God. It's more than an interesting question, right at this point, to ask whether or not, right at this point, Adam and Eve were regenerated or yet spiritually dead in sin. Of course, we know that they became dead in sin. God said that to them. The day you eat thereof, you will die, and they did. as God's judgment upon sin, the question now is, were they yet now, when they're hiding from God and ashamed, regenerated? Did they have God's life in them again? I say that's more than an interesting question. It's a very important question that has application to us. But before we make that application, let's ask that question and answer it this way. The only way you can understand this history is to say, yes, they were born again now. That after they died, spiritually, God came to them very soon, we don't know how soon, and began to work His own life in them again. That's the only way you can understand this. You might question that. And our natures are going to question that with questions like this. If they were born again, they wouldn't have run from God. If they were regenerated, they wouldn't have feared His judgments. They wouldn't have blame shifted and resorted to evasions and excuses. They would have been humbled before God if they were born again. Did you just say that? If you said that, do you realize what you said? If they were born again, they would not have what? And what do you do and what do I do now? Having been born again, we know, clearly having seen the gospel of grace and what God did to us and for us in His Son. Not to us, but for us in His Son. And Adam and Eve didn't know any of that. The gospel of a merciful God who would come and forgive them and embrace them in love and pardon was as foreign to them as an iPhone or an airplane would have been to them. What's that? They had no idea about God's mercy. All they had ringing in their ears was God's Word to them before they ate. The day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. That's what they knew about God. And you say if they were regenerated, they wouldn't have done what they did? Be very, very, very careful, people of God. It's no wonder that they were hiding like little children behind some big bushes and in the trees. And besides that, if Adam and Eve were dead in sin, they wouldn't have hidden. They would have gone looking for the devil who made these promises to them, saying to him, carry out on your promises that we're going to have good instead of evil. No, Adam and Eve fell right into the arms, as we've said before, of God and of Jesus Christ. They recognized the deceitfulness of sin, and that sin never delivers what it promises. And that's now what we need to say for a few minutes. Satan said their eyes would be opened. Oh, they were. not in the way they expected. Satan said, you'll be safe. Now they're anything but safe in the hands of an angry God. Satan promised them life, and now they're running for their lives. Satan said, you're going to be advanced and elevated. And now they were abased to a degree that they never imagined possible. Something bad happened to us. You're going to be as God's, bold, daring, powerful. And they weren't. Because sin never delivers what it promises. And that's the beginning of the good news for us today. People of God, not just you young people. Friends of Connor, not just you, but me and you adults, you and I need to listen to this. Sin never delivers what it promises. It always makes fair promises. And this is a kindergarten lesson to us today. Remember what you learned. Sin will always find you out. It never gives you what it promises it's going to give to you. Promises, promises, promises, but none of them come to pass. How many of us haven't learned that to our great, great dismay? We expect so much and nothing. We anticipate joy with sin and it's just sadness. We suppose it's going to be good and we find ourselves dirty, filthy, and shameful. We didn't have time to apply that this morning. But you go home and ask yourself, is it any different when you sin than if your mother or grandmother would respond to that email from Nigeria of that poor widow whose rich husband died, and she wants you to give her your bank account number so she can give you money? You say, who in the world would ever fall for that scam? Well, people do, and young people do. An alleged young woman sends you a picture she ought not send and says to you, send me one of yours, I'll be your friend. And it's a scam, you understand that, and you ask yourself, whoever would succumb to a foolish temptation like that? Doesn't everybody see it? And that's the question you and I need to ask ourselves whenever sin presents itself as promising something to us good. It's a lie. It's a scam. But we always do. And then to compound our error, we run from God when we sin. Instead of coming to Him with our shame and sorrow, we flee. Instead of going to Him in prayer, to church, to the Bible, to our devotions, to His supper, we run. and hide following their example. And if that's not bad enough, it gets worse because we then try to cover ourselves and say, God, I know you're not happy with me. How about this? How about this? And that's exactly what Adam and Eve did. It's the next kindergarten lesson that you can't cover yourself in a way that's helpful for God to approve you and not see right through everything you use to cover yourself. They used fig leaves, and so they may have found a leaf that was large and perhaps soft and suitable to sow with other fig leaves so that they could cover themselves on their private parts. And now they imagine they can stand in front of God not naked and not ashamed. They didn't realize that their needs were not physical, but spiritual, and the covering they needed was not only outward, but especially inward, and that's what you and I need to learn, too. Where do you go with what's inside you that's dirty? Don't go to your works. Don't go to your efforts. Don't say today, if you've been exposed in a sin yesterday or any time, well, I'm going to go to church more. I'm going to listen to sermons better. I'm going to have my daily devotions more frequently. I'm going to listen to my parents better. I'm not going to hang with that crowd. You may say all of those things, but that's not what you must say first. It will not suffice for you in your guilt and shame, because, as comes out in the proverb later, who so covers his sins shall not prosper, but he that confesses them shall have mercy. Don't cover, confess. And so Adam and Eve covered themselves, and they still hid. And it's my speculation, and you may take this or leave this, it's not the word of God, but it makes sense that Adam was hiding there and Eve was hiding there because in their sins against each other, they were angry at one another. What did you do? Why did you do that? I can't imagine that you would act that way and hurt us so badly. Well, one of the applications of this is that though God gave them a different covering, that is, though God took away that covering, He did give them another covering because we do need something physical to cover us. You make the application in this beautiful spring day when you may be shopping this week for clothes. And ask yourself what clothes ought to do, especially summer clothes and beach clothes and water clothes. And ask yourself what your purpose is in the clothing or lack of clothing that you wear in the summer. And remember this. God didn't give them gloves. He didn't give them a hat and shoes. He gave them something to cover their nakedness. But the main application of this, people of God, is that you must not imagine that you can cover your sins with any efforts on your part. You may will all you want. You may run as fast as you can toward God or away from God. It's not your willing and it's not your running that's going to accomplish your salvation. It's the mercies of God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Everything else is a fig leaf. And now listen. Where are you? Adam. Can't imagine that God said, where are you? Adam. No, the God who made him and her and loved them. always did, always will, that God in tender love came to them and said, where are you? Not because He didn't know where they were, but because He wanted them to think. Where am I? What am I doing? What have I done? What am I now trying to do? And do I think that God is anything other than a God of justice or mercy or both? Where are you? He can find you today, too. You can't hide, of course. It would be foolish to think about it. A little kindergartner might think he can hide by covering his eyes or going into his bedroom under the blankets, but we've learned better than that. Where are you? God says to you today, spiritually, what are you hiding from? Why are you hiding? Come to me. And this is another kindergarten lesson. In the work of salvation, it's never initiated by you. It's always initiated by God. They didn't come to God. God came to them, and he found them. And with his voice, where are you? He drew them. out of the hiding place into his presence, still ashamed of themselves, and God spoke peace to their hearts. And then he asked Adam, and we don't know this for sure, but I can't imagine any other way either, take a sharp stone and sharpen it sharper. and take that little lamb, that suckling his mother, and slaughter it. If Adam didn't do it, God did, but in his presence it's probably not much different. Adam killed that little animal. You can imagine the shock in the heart and mind of that man. He didn't know what death was, but he was going to see it up close and personal. The day that you eat, you will die. And now God is doing something very strange. Adam is not dying. Someone else is dying. The day that you eat, you will die. And I'm going to provide for you a sacrifice. Have you ever slaughtered an animal? It's not very nice, unless you get very used to it. It's very difficult. I'll tell you some stories afterwards of my working on the dairy farm for a number of years. It's not pretty. It's not easy. The memories stick, unless you get very used to it. And then Adam had to do this. He'd never seen death before, and he knew the Word of God that he ought to have died and now this little lamb dies, and then the coat of skin that came off that lamb, and maybe another one, and another, so that they could be sewn together, and God said, take off those fig leaves, and I'm going to cover you with the coats of those lambs, and they never forgot that lesson either. A substitute for them to cover their shame and their nakedness. You aren't going to die. Someone else is going to die for you. And can't you see in this kindergarten lesson a grand hand of God pointing to the future? That a lamb can't do it, but there's another one who's coming who can. And he did. And that's whose death we commemorate today so that we never imagine that anything is going to cover us. except Him and His blood. People of God, don't run. Don't justify what you've done. Don't try to hide. Don't make excuses. Don't blame other people. Just come to God and say, I sinned. I'm a sinner and I'm ashamed. And God will cover you fully and freely. And then, then, once you know that, then you can start thinking about obeying your parents better and coming to church more diligently and reading your Bible more frequently. And stop doing this and start doing that. Then, then you may think of those things, but not before you understand that the covering that you need, that God provides graciously, is the covering of His own Son. With what will you be covered today? And with what will you be covered when you stand before the judgment seat right before you die? With your works and your efforts or with the blood of His Son? And we know the answer. Come to God and seek Him. Amen. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we thank thee for thy word. Oh, speak to our hearts. If any is here today who never has heard and believed the gospel, use it to work repentance and to create faith in a merciful and a gracious Savior, our Lord Jesus. In his name we pray, amen. Now let's turn to the form for the administration of the supper. In the back of the Psalter. And you'll find that on page 91. Beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ, attend to the words of the institution of the Holy Supper of our Lord Jesus Christ as they are delivered by the Holy Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 11, 23 to 29. 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 break 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 this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. that we may now celebrate the Lord's Supper to our comfort. It is above all things necessary, first, rightly to examine ourselves, secondly, to direct it to that end for which Christ hath ordained and instituted the same, namely, to his remembrance. The true examination of ourselves consists of these three parts. First, that everyone consider by himself his sins and the curse due to him for them. to the end that he may abhor and humble himself before God, considering that the wrath of God against sin is so great that rather than it should go unpunished, He hath punished the same in His beloved Son Jesus Christ with the bitter and shameful death of the cross. Secondly, that everyone examine his own heart whether he doth believe this faithful promise of God, that all his sins are forgiven him only for the sake of the passion and death of Jesus Christ, and that the perfect righteousness of Christ is imputed and freely given him as his own, yea, so perfectly as if he had satisfied in his own person for all his sins and fulfilled all righteousness. Thirdly, that everyone examine his own conscience, whether he purposeth henceforth to show true thankfulness to God in his whole life, and to walk uprightly before him, is also whether he hath laid aside unfeignedly all enmity, hatred, and envy, and doth firmly resolve henceforward to walk in true love and peace with his neighbor. All those then who are thus disposed, God will certainly receive in mercy, and count them worthy partakers of the table, of His Son, Jesus Christ, on the contrary, those who do not feel this testimony in their hearts eat and drink judgment to themselves. Therefore, we also, according to the command of Christ and the Apostle Paul, admonish all those who are defiled with the following sins to keep themselves from the table of the Lord and declare to them that they have no part in the kingdom of Christ, such as all idolaters, all those who invoke deceased saints, angels, or other creatures, all those who worship images, all enchanters, diviners, charmers, and those who confide in such enchantments, all despisers of God and of His Word and of the holy sacraments, all blasphemers, all those who are given to raise discord, sects, and mutiny in church or state, all perjured persons, all those who are disobedient to their parents and superiors, all murderers, contentious persons, and those who live in hatred and envy against their neighbors, all adulterers, whoremongers, drunkards, thieves, usurers, robbers, gamesters, covetous, and all who lead offensive lives, all these, while they continue in such sins shall abstain from this meat, which Christ hath ordained only for the faithful, lest their judgment and condemnation be made the heavier. But this is not designed, dearly beloved brethren and sisters in the Lord, to deject the contrite hearts of the faithful, as if none might come to the supper of the Lord, but those who are without sin, For we do not come to this supper to testify thereby that we are perfect and righteous in ourselves, but on the contrary, considering that we seek our life out of ourselves in Jesus Christ, we acknowledge that we lie in the midst of death. Therefore, notwithstanding we feel many infirmities and miseries in ourselves, as namely that we have not perfect faith, that we do not give ourselves to serve God with that zeal we are bound but have daily to strive with the weakness of our faith and the evil lusts of our flesh. Yet, since we are by the grace of the Holy Spirit sorry for these weaknesses and earnestly desire us to fight against our unbelief and to live according to all the commandments of God, therefore we rest assured that no sin or infirmity which still remaineth against our will in us, can hinder us from being received of God in mercy, and from being made worthy partakers of this heavenly meat and drink. Let us now also consider to what end the Lord hath instituted His supper, namely, that we do it in remembrance of Him. Now after this manner are we to remember Him by it. First, that we are confidently persuaded in our hearts that our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the promises made to our forefathers in the Old Testament, was sent of the Father into the world, that He assumed our flesh and blood, that He bore for us the wrath of God under which we should have perished everlastingly from the beginning of His incarnation to the end of His life upon earth, and that He hath fulfilled for us all obedience to the divine law and righteousness, especially when the weight of our sins and the wrath of God pressed out of him the bloody sweat in the garden, where he was bound that we might be freed from our sins, that he afterwards suffered innumerable reproaches that we might never be confounded, that He was innocently condemned to death, that we might be acquitted of the judgment seat of God, yea, that He suffered His blessed body to be nailed on the cross, that He might fix thereon the handwriting of our sins, and hath also taken upon Himself the curse due to us, that He might fill us with His blessings, and hath humbled Himself unto the deepest reproach and pains of hell, both in body and soul, and the tree of the cross, when he cried out with a loud voice, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, that we might be accepted of God and never be forsaken of him? And finally, confirmed with his death and shedding of his blood, the new and eternal testament, that covenant of grace and reconciliation, when he said, It is finished. Secondly, and that we might firmly believe that we belong to this covenant of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ in his last supper took bread and when he had given thanks, he break it, gave it to his disciples and said, take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of me. And like manner also after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks and said, drink ye all of it. This cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins. This do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me. That is, as often as ye eat of this bread and drink of this cup, ye shall thereby, as by a sure remembrance and pledge, be admonished and assured of this my hearty love and faithfulness towards you. that whereas you should otherwise have suffered eternal death, I have given my body to the death of the cross and shed my blood for you. And as certainly feed and nourish your hungry and thirsty souls with my crucified body and shed blood to everlasting life, as this bread is broken before your eyes and this cup is given to you and you eat and drink the same with your mouth in remembrance of me. From this institution of the Holy Supper of our Lord Jesus Christ, we see that He directs our faith and trust to His perfect sacrifice once offered on the cross as to the only ground and foundation of our salvation, wherein He has become to our hungry and thirsty souls the true meat and drink of life eternal. For by his death he hath taken away the cause of our eternal death and misery, namely sin, and obtained for us the quickening spirit, that we by the same who dwelleth in Christ as in the head and in us as his members might have true communion with him and be made partakers of all his blessings of life eternal, righteousness and glory. Besides, that we by this same spirit may also be united as members of one body, In true brotherly love, as the holy apostles saith, for we being many are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. For as out of many grains one meal is ground and one bread baked, and out of many berries being pressed together, one wine floweth and mixes itself together, so shall we all who by a true faith are engrafted into Christ, be altogether one body, through brotherly love, for Christ's sake, our beloved Savior, who has so exceedingly loved us, and not only show this in word, but also in very deed toward one another. Here to assist us, the almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, through his Holy Spirit, amen. And now that we may obtain all this, let us humble ourselves before God and with true faith implore His grace. O most merciful God and Father, we beseech Thee that Thou wilt be pleased in this supper in which we celebrate the glorious remembrance of the bitter death of Thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to work in our hearts through the Holy Spirit That we may daily, more and more, with true confidence, give ourselves up unto thy Son, Jesus Christ. That our afflicted and contrite hearts, through the power of the Holy Ghost, may be fed and comforted with his true body and blood. Yea, with him, true God and man, that only heavenly bread. And that we may no longer live in our sins, but he in us, and we in him. and thus truly be made partakers of the new and everlasting covenant of grace, that we may not doubt that thou wilt forever be our gracious Father, nevermore imputing our sins unto us, and providing us with all things necessary as well for the body as the soul, as thy beloved children and heirs. Grant us also Thy grace that we may take up our cross cheerfully, deny ourselves, confess our Savior, and in all tribulations, with uplifted heads, expect our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, where He will make our mortal bodies like unto His most glorious body, and take us unto Him in eternity, Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Strengthen us also by this holy supper in the Catholic undoubted Christian faith, whereof we make confession with our mouths and hearts, saying, I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost. I believe in Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. That we may now be fed with the true heavenly bread, Jesus Christ, let us not cleave with our hearts unto the external bread and wine, but lift them up on high in heaven, where Christ Jesus is our advocate, at the right hand of his heavenly Father, where all the articles of our faith lead us, not doubting that we shall as certainly be fed and refreshed in our souls through the working of the Holy Ghost with his body and blood. as we receive the holy bread and wine in remembrance of him.