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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Before we come to the Lord's table tonight, I want to draw your attention back to Matthew 27.

And this will be a kind of meditation to prepare us for our time together in the Lord's

table.

I want to look in particular at just one brief section and that starts down in verse

45, Matthew 27, 45.

Let me read these verses to you.

Now from the sixth hour, darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour.

About the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, ali, ali, lama, sub-Aktani,

that is my God, my God, why have You forsaken me?

And some of those who were standing there when they heard it began saying, this man is

calling for Elijah.

He immediately one of them ran and taking his sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put

it on a reed and gave him a drink.

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