What Will You Do With Their Sacrifice?

Memorial Day holds profound meaning beyond barbecues and beach trips, especially for those who've lost brothers and sisters in combat. This reflection explores the powerful connection between a soldier's sacrifice and Christ's ultimate demonstration of love.

The staggering toll of American military sacrifice throughout our history—over 1.3 million lives—demands our solemn gratitude. Yet for Christians who have lost comrades, there's a unique perspective. Unlike those without faith who face only darkness on this day, believers find hope in knowing that fallen heroes are in a better place, their sacrifice redeemed by the One who demonstrated the greatest love of all.

The parallels between a warrior's sacrifice and Christ's atonement run deep. Both willingly place themselves in harm's way for others—known and unknown. Both demonstrate substitutionary sacrifice, stepping into danger so others might live. This reflection challenges us to consider: What are we doing with the freedom others purchased at such cost?

We confront uncomfortable truths about the modern church's amnesia regarding sacrifice. Too many congregations enjoy comfortable worship while forgetting the blood-bought liberty that makes it possible. The call rings clear: instead of passive remembrance, actively engage in meaningful service. From daily family worship to teaching children about real heroes to embracing discomfort for growth—we honor the fallen by living purposefully.

We are all participants in the largest rescue mission in history. Christ won the victory at Calvary, and now tasks us with rescuing those still imprisoned by darkness. Will you remain comfortable, or will you pick up the mission to pull others from the filth of sin and onto the life raft of salvation?

This Memorial Day, let their earthly sacrifice spur us toward heavenly obedience. Fight the good fight of faith, advance the gospel, and defend the vulnerable—all in Jesus' name.

Christian Warrior Talk is Sponsored by Trident Shield, your trusted ally in violence preparedness. Trident Shield helps safeguard your loved ones with expert training and consulting. Trident Shield, defending faith through empowered preparedness because together, we save lives."

Chapters

• 1:18 Memorial Day Remembrance
• 5:40 The Greatest Love and Sacrifice
• 9:35 Honoring Fallen Heroes
• 18:33 Christ's Example of Warrior Love
• 25:36 The POW Rescue Mission
• 31:45 Confronting the Ungrateful Church
• 35:20 Making Their Sacrifice Count
• 41:37 Forging Christian Warriors Today

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:39

All right, hello everyone, hope you guys had a meaningful Memorial Day weekend. We don't say happy Memorial Day. Some veterans get pretty offended at that. I don't, because my Memorial Days are happy, because I believe many of my brothers are in a far better place than we are today and that their sacrifices meant something, because, as we're going to see today, love covers a multitude of sins. But for those of you who don't know, memorial Day is when we remember those who didn't make it home, those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. That is what Memorial Day is for. Veterans Day is for those who are still here with us, those who served in our life.

Speaker 1: 1:31

Okay, so Memorial Day for many, many veterans is one of the darkest days of the year, right, particularly for nonbelievers, where they think this is the end. You know we still have massive veteran suicide rates and many on homeless and many on drugs and a million other things, and a lot of that is due to the loss of so many friends and a loss to so many friends by their own hand, and it can be really hard if you don't have Jesus to lean on. But for those of us who do, we know that love covers a multitude of sin, and we also know that no greater love is there than this to lay down one's life for one's friends and that veterans did. Okay, so let's get into this. This is going to be a start off as a solemn service and then it's going to go into a celebratory, more uplifting marching orders type service. So part one will be just remembering all the veterans who died and then part two will be what do we do with this freedom that they bought us? Okay? So welcome to Christian Warrior Mission. A home church. Yes, this is my home. It looks far grander than it is. This is a converted garage into a sanctuary and office and so on and so forth, but a home church, ministry farm forging Christian warriors for today's challenges.

Speaker 1: 3:28

So I'm not going to get into any announcements or any of that stuff. We're going to dive right in to the text. The text today is going to be the shortest text I've ever pulled from and it's going to be two verses, so it's going to be John 15, 12 through 13. This is my commandment that you love one another just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that one lay down his life for his friends, and Jesus spoke that to his disciples. So let's go ahead and let's bow our head in prayer and let's get into this, lord of hosts, supreme commander of heaven's armies. We assemble on this day to remember with solemn honor and joyful gratitude every American who fell in battle. We celebrate their courage, we thank you for their sacrifice. We confess that the freedoms we enjoy in this land you have blessed us to call home were purchased with their blood, their lives and their futures. Above all, we herald the massive demonstration of the greatest love, your son laying down his life for the world. Comfort the believed, draw the battle-worn to salvation and unite this church to live lives worthy of such valor In Jesus' conquering name. Amen. So part one solemn remembrance. Okay, now I'm going to do something just a little different. Amen. So part one solemn remembrance.

Speaker 1: 5:05

Okay, now I'm going to do something just a little different. You know I was thinking about a bell or something like that to do this, but I just wanted this to be different, without or meaningful, without. Usually, I just read off a bunch of numbers and I don't find that to be as impactful or as solemn as it should be. So I'm shuffling to the right because I got this anvil here and this hammer that I'm going to use. So I'm going to read off each war and there's going to be 15 lines of conflicts with combatants killed. I'm going to read them off and then we're going to say we remember. And then I'm going to clang it and there's going to be a pause and then I'm going to do the next one and we're going to repeat that 15 times. Okay, so let's go ahead and let's do that. So we're going to do we remember after each response, and then I'm going to strike the anvil once.

Speaker 1: 6:07

So the American Revolutionary War about 25,000 killed. We remember Northwest Indian War about 1,300 killed. We remember War of 1812, about 15,000 killed. We remember Mexican-American War 13,283,. We remember American-Indian Wars these are all of them combined about 1,000,. We remember American Civil War about 655,000. We remember Spanish-American War 2,446. We remember Philippine-American War 4,196.

Speaker 1: 7:23

We remember World War I 116,516 killed. We remember World War II 405,399. We remember 38,399. We remember Korean War 36,574 killed. We remember Vietnam War 58,209 killed. We remember Persian Gulf 4,492. And other theaters 76. Guild in action. We remember Other operations since 1975. Beirut sorry. Grenada, panama, somalia, haiti, bosnia, kosovo, et cetera, about 400. We remember Greater love is no one than this, that they lay down their lives for us In God's providence. He planted us in a nation of unique liberty, but that liberty was bought at the price of 1,354,664-plus American lives and 2,852,901-plus wounded. Their blood secured the rights we exercise this very moment.

Speaker 1: 9:28

Make it count From grave silence to gospel hope. First, thessalonians, that's one I will struggle with to the end of my life, 4.13-14. But we not want you to be uninformed brothers about those who are asleep, dead, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, god will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. In Jesus Church we have stood in sacred silence. Now hear the thunder of the empty tomb. The same Jesus who welcomed our fallen heroes home promises resurrection, life to all who trust him. Death is swallowed up in victory. With that hope ringing in our ears, we move from remembering their sacrifice to embracing the ultimate sacrifice of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, and the call it issues to every warrior, every woman, every child.

Speaker 1: 11:09

Make it count. Let what they died for drive us to the Savior who died for all, the Savior who died for all In Romans 5, 6-8, and again I'm reading out of the Legacy Standard Bible. For while we were still weak, at the right time, christ died for the ungodly, for one will hardly die for a righteous man though perhaps for a good man someone would dare even die but God demonstrates his own love towards us and that while we were yet sinners, christ died for us. This is important because the soldier who goes overseas dies for people he loves and he dies for people he hates, dies for people he doesn't even know. Who does that sound like, right? No, I believe few people understand Christ as much as the warrior does, who risks it all and serves with such finality. But if we look at Christ's sacrifice, it was substitutionary. He died in our place. What does the veteran do? Or what does the soldier do? Goes overseas to die in our place.

Speaker 1: 12:45

Initiatory Christ moved first while we were still weak, right, while we were still traitors. Christ moved first to save us. Well, we all are comfortable here in our lives, doing our own things, barbecuing, doing nothing whatever. The soldier is in the desert. The soldier is in the cold. The soldier is in the wet. The soldier is isolated and alone. The soldier is in the wet. The soldier is isolated and alone, demonstrative.

Speaker 1: 13:32

The cross is a public billboard of heaven's love. God loved you so much that he turned the most horrific. We know the cross is something totally different now, but it was a thing of shame. It's where criminals of the worst sort were executed and Christ turned something that was the most shameful into the greatest symbol of love that has ever existed. Now, not in trying to put our soldiers on par with Christ, no one is like that.

Speaker 1: 14:03

But they all sacrifice in their own way. They all demonstrate this when they raise their right hand and they go off and they leave their families and many of their marriages become shattered, even the ones who make it home, but the ones who don't. Those marriages are shattered. There are widows, widowers, there are orphans, fatherless, motherless children, and then there is the incalculable cost of that bloodline, that family snuffed out of the plan and of the earth. Forever the plan and of the earth, and you know, forever. You know. I think of a good friend of mine, mario, who died. Was a brilliant guy, great guy, handsome guy, and he would have been a great dad and he never got a chance to be a dad. I think of all the other veterans that I know that died, that didn't have families, and the ones that did, whose kids were still young and would never know their fathers. The cost is just horrible, horrible.

Speaker 1: 15:24

Every American who stepped into the kill zone for a neighbor and nation struck a note in the same thunderous chord of Calvary where our Lord and Savior died. Their blood preaches courage, bleeding before breaking, shielding before retreating, and it mirrors the captain of our salvation, because Christ's own blood undergirds theirs. That warrior love can drown a multitude of sins when grasped by repentant faith. Their warrior love can drown a multitude of sins when grasped with repentant faith. 1 Peter 4 says above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. The gospel's invitation to warriors, vets, first responders and every man and woman in the pew Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my load is light.

Speaker 1: 16:58

A lot of people read that and think, oh, when I become a Christian, jesus said it's going to be easy and light. No, that's not what he's saying there. And once you've lived a lie for forever, what's the most exhausting thing when you're a liar, remembering all your lies? When you walk in truth, you have to remember nothing because you walk in truth. All the burdens we carry, the hate, anger, some feedback, hate, anger, anger I got some feedback, wow Okay. Hate, anger and the poison that we inflict to ourself. When we come to Christ, that all goes away. We lay it down and we become lighter because it's ours not to carry Our sin. Once we give it down and we become lighter because it's ours not to carry Our sin. Once we give it to, christ is gone and it's off our backs. The mountain of guilt, the mountain of suffering, the mountain of self-loathing is gone. Wipe clean as snow. That's what he's talking about.

Speaker 1: 18:13

So whether you stacked on a door in Fallujah, hauled broken bodies from twisted metal as a cop, filed reports behind a glowing screen in a desk or sat polite in a church, pew Heaven's After Action Report reads the same, and it's in bold red All have sinned and all have fell short of the glory of God, romans 3.23. Rank ribbons and resumes cannot armor the soul. Sin coats. Every man, woman, operator, medic, mechanic, wife everyone, passive or warrior, like toxic dust. The shrapnel shows up in our visible scars, our hidden addictions, our silent shame. Yet the deepest fragments has pierced the heart. We stand condemned before a holy God and can only be saved by the blood of Christ.

Speaker 1: 19:20

1 Corinthians, 15, 3 and 4. For I've delivered to you, as the first importance, what I also received that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, and that he was buried and he was raised on the third day, according to the scriptures. At Calvary, our warrior king took the IAD, the improvised explosive device, the bullet for us, meant for us, absorbing God's wrath, disarming death, and then walked out of the grave with the keys of hell. That is the greatest act of valor in cosmic history. What do we have to do to receive it? Acts 3.19.

Speaker 1: 20:14

Therefore, repent and return so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. Salvation isn't earned by medals or church attendance. Lay down your weapons of self-righteousness, turn from sin and trust the living Jesus Christ. He'll swap your record of failure for his record of perfect obedience and grant you a new call. Sign Forgiven, forgiven, forgiven and grant you a new call sign forgiven, forgiven. What should we do with this? We must go from passive to warrior in Christ. Finally be strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength.

Speaker 1: 21:08

Christ doesn't just forgive, he forges. He hammers the passive man into a vigilant protector, temples the battle-scarred veteran into a shepherd guard and retrains their distracted dad into a priest of his household. He purifies the sensual woman into a covenant, loyal wife and steals fragile daughters into resolute shield maidens. In Christ's ranks, warrior is never toxic. It is a sacrificial leadership patterned after the lion lamb who bled for his bride, that being us. Isaiah 53, 4 through 5 says Surely, our griefs he himself bore and our sorrows he carried. Yet we ourselves esteemed him. Stricken, smitten of God and afflicted, but he was pierced through for our transgressions. Afflicted, but he was pierced through for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The chastening for our peace fell upon him and by his wounds we are healed. Our call to action is simple make it count. Brothers and sisters, report to the king's banner today. Whether you see yourself as a warrior ready to lead or a passive longing for courage, christ will forge you into a warrior servant. Lay down pride, lay down shame, take up the cross and rise a new creation. Make their sacrifice count, repent, believe, be baptized and enlist in the greatest commission ever. We are on the largest prisoner of war POW rescue mission of all time. Jesus won the war when he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. We are now tasked with rescuing the POWs.

Speaker 1: 23:20

Do not sit at home and do nothing. You are on a mission to pull up the next person. Picture the blackest, most filthy, polluted sea, full of sewage and oil and chemicals, and around you everyone is drowning in it. And you're floating on this pristine life raft, white, glorious life raft, and you just got pulled up onto the deck and you're saved out of that filth. Your job is to turn around and pull the next one up and the next one up, and the next one up and the next one up. It's that simple. Now you can't save them by jumping back into the sin, like so many do.

Speaker 1: 24:26

I'm going to go to the bar scene and I'm going to try, or the strip club or wherever it is where your crutch was. I'm going to go hang out with all the drug addicts and I'm not going to fall back into being a drug addict. I'm going to hang out with all the alcoholics. I'm a former alcoholic. It doesn't work that way. You get pulled back into the sewage, stay on the life raft of Christ, cling to it with all you have and pull up the next one.

Speaker 1: 24:58

The next thing I'm going to cover is I want to confront the ungrateful church. 1 John, 3, 17 through 18. But whoever has the world's goods and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but not in deed and truth. Our church should be court-martialed. They have three charges that I want to bring up against them Historic amnesia. Our church.

Speaker 1: 25:39

In America we treat liberty like tap water, always on no cost, cost forgotten. Every time I walk into a church and I hear a pastor say I'm not a citizen here, fine, go Get out. Get out of my America. Men died so you could get up there and say that Get out. If you're so bold and you're an alien here on earth, go do it in Yemen. Go do it in Saudi Arabia, go do it in China. It's really easy for you to act all tough and act like you're a man of God in the most comfortable nation ever.

Speaker 1: 26:23

We must teach the next generation names and numbers and narratives of sacrifice. You were blessed to be born in America. You were blessed to be born in the greatest nation in the history of this world. You could have been born anywhere. You were born here, where you have reach through the Internet to reach anyone. Nothing holds you back here. You can do whatever you want if you work hard enough and make good decisions. You have been entrusted with great opportunity and great power. What are you going to do with it?

Speaker 1: 27:11

We have to teach our children that there are girls, little girls, overseas that have to walk around covered head to toe in black, and I won't even go into some of the things they have to do as child brides and other horrific things around the world. Girls aren't allowed to read or be educated. No, our church dances on the deaths of veterans and forgets about the sacrifice in their lives of comfort Church two comfort, drunk worship. We recline in padded pews with coffee served in the foyer. I've been to some of these megachurches where the welcoming area is bigger than most 100,000 feet of just welcoming space and there's multiple coffee bars While our warriors bleed, in dust and snow and sand, we become too soft, the slightest discomfort we go away from.

Speaker 1: 28:32

We must embrace discomfort Fast. Pray, do hard things, go to the gym, work out hard, get uncomfortable, for only in discomfort do we grow. In no way, in no place, anywhere, do you get better being comfortable, you don't. You get softer by the minute. You don't get smarter because you're not working your brain hard. You get fatter and softer and lazier until that's all you have. You can't move anymore because you stopped moving. You can't do anything hard anymore because you've forgotten how. We have to start doing hard things all the time. Men's ministry Men don't need to be entertained anymore. Women don't need to be entertained anymore.

Speaker 1: 29:36

When we look back in history, this time we're going to be like the people in Wally who just floated around in chairs, locked onto their TVs or their computer games or their cell phones or their whatever, and did nothing. We were distracted from everything. Everything. Rewarding is hard. Building a house rewarding hard. Being a good friend inconvenient is hard. Building a house rewarding hard. Being a good friend inconvenient hard. Getting in shape uncomfortable hard. Being a good father ultimately inconvenient hard. Being a good mother even more so. Being a good husband, being a good wife, being a good friend, being a good neighbor. We all fail at those things all the time. But when we do get it right, what are we going to notice? That we're uncomfortable doing it? We could be sitting in the chair, we could be doing whatever our brain-deadening thing is to escape our lives, instead of serving in the moment, rising to the occasion, making it easier for somebody else other than yourself, making it easier for somebody else other than yourself. George has forgotten that We'll send people to Haiti for a weekend or a week. Meanwhile, those people don't know their neighbors, they don't know anyone around them. They haven't helped anyone in their own hometown or own city Nothing. They get to go pretend to be a Christian for a week, where they blackmail people with clean water and good food, and then they leave and go back to being a part-time Christian on Sunday. The church will do that, while gold star widows mow their own lawn, while they sip their caramel lattes in their lobbies. We need to start making a difference here. Yes, with gold star families, but our neighbors and our communities.

Speaker 1: 32:04

My friend Mario died on July 3rd. I think it was 1146 pm. I remember saying that I was going to live because he couldn't. I was going to try to be the best man that I could be to honor him and all my other friends that I've lost. Since then I try to do good. I probably don't do it as well as he would have. He was already a Christian then. I wasn't even close, not even close. But already a Christian then I wasn't even close, not even close. But we've got to all make a difference.

Speaker 1: 32:48

People didn't die overseas, never to have children or to leave shattered families behind so we could do nothing. Christ didn't come down from heaven to be murdered and tortured and deal with the entire balance of the wrath of God for you, for you to do nothing. Proverbs 22, 20, sorry, 20,. 28 says loving kindness and truth. Guard the king and he upholds his throne by loving kindness and truth. Guard the king and he upholds his throne by loving kindness. Show loving kindness. A church that preaches truth but withholds covenant love is a bunker with no ammo, sound but useless in a fight. We are called to the battle line. Sound but useless in a fight. We are called to the battle line Warriors. If we will not shoulder the burdens of the bereaved, we are spiritual deserters. Repent, step up and make you count. Other men, passive men, as I would call you Christ can forge you.

Speaker 1: 34:11

Start by doing something hard. Today, it starts with doing one thing hard. Maybe it's getting up early. Maybe it's going for a walk, maybe it's going for a run. Maybe it's getting up early. Maybe it's going for a walk. Maybe it's going for a run. Maybe it's hitting the gym, maybe it's beating a heavy bag. Maybe it's not doing anything that you want to do and doing something that everyone else wants to do. Start now.

Speaker 1: 34:37

Entire church needs to lead from the front and turn Memorial Day gratitude into daily family level action. Leading from the front. Make it count. Here's how you make it count by doing daily family worship. Tell the next generation the stories of faith and valor. Read scripture, pray, sing around the table, open your house for hospitality. We form relationships around our tables. It's always been that way. But how often do we do it now? It's rare. Why? Because you have to clean your house before you get stranded in your house, and it's the process and all these things. We've got to open our own homes to non-Christians so they can see how Christians live. Be that light. We need to teach our children and our families skills.

Speaker 1: 35:45

So, on Saturdays, teach your children first aid, flag etiquette and humble service. Pair each lesson with a matching scripture text. Let our kitchen tables and living rooms preach louder than any hashtag, cs Lewis said. Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you will be making their destinies not brighter but darker. So often we look to superman, we look to aquaman, spider-man, whatever wolverine, when the reality is in real life there are real heroes. Teach your children history, teach them the people who made a difference. Teach them about your local heroes, the police officers, the firefighters, doctors, medics and just kind people who do kind things. Celebrate them. This house of God must be the forge where children hear brave knights, ancient martyrs, modern soldiers, and see the courage in our deeds. Romans 12, 1-2. Therefore, I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice, living, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship, and do not be comforted to this age or conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, spiritual drills forging you into Christlike leaders.

Speaker 1: 37:47

Discipline Warrior, rationale Discipline, family worship Warrior starts at the dinner table. Lead prayers, read scripture and sing Lord's Day loyalty. Plant the family flag in worship every week. Declare whose kingdom you serve. We see this time and time again. Where it's sports season, so your family doesn't do church, right, they don't even try. It's baseball season, it's soccer season. Do you think it's any surprise why kids don't know what their parents believe and why they go off into the buzzsaw of college and come back devil-worshiping atheists? People think that's a contradiction, but it's not. You're serving the same thing contradiction, but it's not serving the same thing.

Speaker 1: 38:46

Spiritual memory and prayer Load mental magazines these are your mind with truth. If you're not reading your word, you have nothing to stand on. You don't know what's true. This book is true. Fight cultural amnesia at the dinner table. Okay, you're sitting around the table. Your wife is labored, created a masterful feast.

Speaker 1: 39:15

Talk about godly things. I know it's hard. I know you want to do other things. I know your mind is racing. You want to see the news. That's me. You got work to do. You got these things. Whatever it is that you have, you got to check it and find the moments to disciple your family around the table, and I'll leave the other ones for another time.

Speaker 1: 39:41

Proverbs the horse is prepared for the day of battle, but salvation belongs to Yahweh. Charles Spurgeon said if a soldier fights for his country, he does well, but if a soldier on the cross fights for his Lord, he does best. We do not diminish the valor of the fallen. They did well and we stand free because of it. Spurgeon's challenge simply reminds the living that temporal courage finds its highest fulfillment in eternal allegiance. Let their earthly sacrifice spur us to heavenly obedience, to fight the good fight of faith, advance the gospel. Let their earthly sacrifice spur us to heavenly obedience, to fight the good fight of faith, advance the gospel and defend the vulnerable in Jesus' name. They bought us time, our soldiers fighting al-Qaeda, isis, all these things. They bought us time. They bought us time. Police officers here buy us time by putting criminals off the street. What are you going to do with that time? Are you going to turn to Christ? Now? Anything can happen. Now's the time.

Speaker 1: 40:58

Psalm 110.1. Yahweh says to my Lord sit at my right hand until I put your enemies as a footstool for your feet, revelation 12.11,. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, because of the word of their witness and they did not love their life even to death. Love their life even to death. Christ reigns now. His gospel advances in every nation, often watered by the blood of patriots and martyrs.

Speaker 1: 41:30

Memorial Day is not despair. It is a forward lean into Isaiah 2.4. When swords become plowshares because the world has been discipled and there is no more war, let's go to the Lord's Supper. 1 Corinthians 11, 28. But a man must test himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup. Before we partake, let us bow before the King of glory. Warriors, veterans, first responders, families, search your hearts, confess sin, lay down your burdens and prepare to eat and drink in a manner worthy of the Lord. Go ahead and do that.

Speaker 1: 42:45

Almighty God, lord of hosts, we approach your table not because we are worthy, but because Jesus Christ is worthy. We come not trusting in our own righteousness, but clinging to his alone. We remember his body broken, his blood poured out for the new covenant. Sanctify this bread and this cup and sanctify us as we proclaim the death, resurrection and coming kingdom of Jesus Christ, our warrior king, amen. 1 Corinthians 11, 23, 24.

Speaker 1: 43:16

The Lord Jesus, in the night for which he was betrayed, took bread and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said this is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Remember his body pierced, beaten and sacrificed for you. Brothers and sisters, let us eat together in remembrance of Christ's body broken for us. Go ahead and eat In the same way. He took his cup, also after supper, saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. Remember this blood poured out purchasing forgiveness and sealing the everlasting covering. Let us drink together in remembrance of Christ's blood shed for us. Go ahead and drink, for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. Christ has died. Christ has risen. Christ will come again. We are soldiers in his everlasting kingdom.

Speaker 1: 44:31

Let us pray, brothers and sisters, lock your shields and go forth as soldiers of Christ, armed with faith, wrapped in hope, blazing with love. May the Lord of hosts go before you to lead you, beside you to guard you, beneath you to sustain you and with you to strengthen you. Remember every fallen warrior. Honor their legacy by rescuing the lost, discipling the passive and forging warriors for Christ. Advance the kingdom until America and every nation bows gladly to our King. Stand firm, hold the line, fight the good fight, finish the race, keep the faith until we stand before the King and hear well done, good and faithful servant. Grace be with you all in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right, thank you everyone.