COMMUNION MEDITATION - Titwrsday, March 30, 1961

WE ARE GATHERED HERE THIS EVENING 10 CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE MOST

TRAUMATIC NIGHTS IN HISTORY.
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ESSION AND WITH SUCH IMPORTANCE THAT WE ARE LEFT SPEECHLESS AS WE SURVEY THEM.

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EVENING BEGAN
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WITH JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES GATHERING A ROU)
THEIR LAST MEAL TOGETHER |

OCCASION HAVE BEEN Y CHRISTIAN MEN

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THERE WAS THE A
PETER'S DENIAL.
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WHEN JESUS WAS ARRESTED ALL THE DISCIPLES FLED IN FRAI
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IT PROCESSION AS JESUS WAS TAKEN AWAY

FOLLOWED THE TORCH

WAITED IN THE COURTYARD WHILE
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JE0US WAS QUESTIONED AND MCG

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BY THE F | BUT THEM TRAGEDY STRUCK, A MAT) WHO HAD BEE
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EME DOUST HE TRIS) TO BE AS LNCONSPICUOUS AS POSSIBLE

THE EVENTS OF MAUNDY THURSDAY OCCURED IN SUCH RAPID SUCC#*

THE

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“FOR OUR LORD'S DEATH. AND THE |WORDS THE HE S°OKE ON THAT
FOR TWO THOUGAND YEARS. ZAFTER THE MEAL

AGONY OF GETHSEMANE, THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST, THE MOCK TRIAL AND LASTLY

BUT ona pata PETER ALONE

BY HIS CAPTORS, poss ALONE

(SD IN THE HOUSE OF THE HIGH

1 WATCHING HIM CLOSELY TOLD

WAS WITH HI | HOW SHOCKED PETER MUST HAVE BEEN AND BEFORE

1AVE HAD THLS EXPERTENCJ
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.3 HS WARMED HIMSELF —

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OF BEING SURPRISED BY

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REPLIED SHARPLY WITH A CURSE

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aYSS MET. WHAT A WELL OF EMOTION MUST HAVE PAS 4) SETWEEN
rT} TLANCE. JSS HAD SAID THAT BEFORE THE
r XJLD DENY HIS LORD, THE AGONY WAS UNeRipa-Le AND THE STRONG

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TRIG iJ WHILE THE OTHERS FLYD PETER

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BUT NOW, WHEN TH CHIPS
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AGONY AND ANXIETY.

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WAS SO HUMAN IN HIS FRAILITY.
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WE CANNOT BE TOO HARD

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COMPANIONS HAD LONG SINCE RUN FOR COVEi. ONLY PETER HAD THE COURAGE TO GO THIS FAR. HE

IS A GOOD CARICATURE OF ALL MANKIND/JOF US: HIS EARTHY HONESTY, HIS WELL MEANT
JUESTIONS, HIS OVER ENTHUSIAS! D His FALLING,
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AF ni SH eid 3 i( UR ULE J tou Hal) HANH) HIM BREAD AND SAID THis 1S MY SODY WHLCH Is
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sROK ‘OR YOU. AND SLOWLY, UNDERSTANDING CREPT THROUGH HIS
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LA tS WHAT T Li iwAS F T do As a | JiSU Pe KT
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Sot WOULD NOT Be GOOD & oucsid US KNW THAT WHA
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SYES MET JESUS. THERE WAS NO CONTEMPT @
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DENIED
AS HS LOOMED AT HIS DISCIPLE THAT REMNYED KNOWING HIM,/ ONLY

SUDDENLY REALIZ#D THAT HE HAD
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ALWAYS BE FORGIVE!

[em [ JESUS WAS DYING FOR HIM**FOR PET

NOW THE ANXIETY OF SORROW T

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NED TO ANXIETY OF ANTICIPATION

30! cou, f sasus WAS DYING

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STER WOULD FAIL, /

R DISDAIN IN JESUS EYES

THE TEND Bs

BEEN FORGIVENS THAT HE WOULD

"Rik POOR, SINFUL FIGI ERMAN,

GIN ANEW WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT NO MATTER HOW OFTEN HE MAILED HIS LORD WOULD FORGIVE .
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WITH A NEY FRESHNESS AND VITALITY PSTER LOOKED TO THE FUTURE, HS WOULD TRY HARDER THAN
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FOR

HIM. in: WAS THis FIST TO BOLT INTO TH’ MiPTY TOM,

svt SSUS BODY WAS BROKE!

HE WAS THE ONE TO STAND UP TO A HOSTLLE JESRING MOB AT PENT

ECOST AND DELIVER AN ORATION
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THAT

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THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. WITH A NW VIGOR PETER NOW SalD
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IN ALL THAT HE )Lof" MIs IO) IS MY BODY WHICH I GIVE TO YpU J

ty Ls Ss BAPERL ENCE THAT !

US TO THE COMMUNION TABLE ‘TD

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/ "THIS IS MY BODY THAT IS BROKE FOR eat

‘SIGHT IS WHAT WE NOW DO OURSKLYES. JESUS CHNIST INVITES

DINE WITH HIM, TO EACH ONE OF, US INDIVIDUALLE HE SAYS,

AT THT TABLE WE MAY FIND F.RGIVMIESS THAT HE ALONE CAH GIVE. OUR LORD KNOWS WE
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FUMELING, FAILING ATTEMPIS TO BE FAITHFUL. WHEN WE HAVE

DENIED HIM IN ONS WAY OR ANOTHER, IN SOME LITTLE UNTRUTH, DR IN AN UNTHINKING ACT
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THAT HAS HURT SOMEONE ELSE, OR Ww

HEN WE SIMPLY GO ALONG WITH THE CROWD TO AVOID BEING

CONSPICIOUS, JSSUS CHRIST LOOKS AT US TOO. HIS EYSS HOLD NO COMTEMPT FOR US RUGARDLSSS OF-

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JSHP FPOLGIV ENESS THAT OVERWHELEED PETER. HE DOES NOT TURN
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US AWAY FROM HIS TADLE: ALL HE ASKS IS THAT W { LIKE PETE [us i OUR Pas

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tEW oot f xs Wi MAY PARTAKE FULLY OF THE BODY THAT WAS BORKEN FOR US.
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EVEN THOUGH WE ARS RAPIDLY APPROACHING OUR LORD'S - THIS IS A ESYFUL OCCASION.

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AS W> PARTAKE O THE ELMENTS, KNOWING WE ARE FORGIVEN WE GAN FIND RENEWAL AND CONFIDBICE
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DINE WITH HIM WHO DIED THAT
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CAUSE OF OUR NEWNESS AND VITALITY. |

AND DETERMINATION TO STHIV# EVE) HARDER REGARDLESS OF OUR FAILINGS. WE ARE INVITED TO
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#& MIGHT nig fit IS THE SOURCE OF OUR i Is THE

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[ 807 LET US NOT Be SILENT GUESTS AT OUR LORD'S TABLE. 4S WE DINE LET US READILY
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RETURN THE CONVERSATION IN THE ONLY TERMS iaie US|PLEDGE ANEW OUR LOYALTY

TO THE CHRIS vf “T US BACH ONE PRESENT OUR LIVES TO HIM ANI§ JOYFULLY SAY BACK yf NTHIS
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LORD I5 MY LIFE WHICH I GIVE TO THEE, TAKE THEE, Ail OF IT |nf THIS IS THE TRUE MSANING

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JESUS CHRIST WITH OUR Ai ii. HE HAS GIVEN HIS BODY FOR UG, HE HAS FORGIVEN US FOR
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ALL THAT WE HAVE IONS: WILL WE DENY HIM AGAIN OR WILL WE RENEW OUR RELATIONSHIP wWiTH

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