10/17/2023 0 Comments Take this bread in remembrance of me![]() ![]() I tend to be more concretely focused when I partake in the blood of Christ than when I partake in the body of Christ. When this morsel of bread transfers from your extended fingertips across the threshold of your teeth into your palate, what are you thinking about? ![]() It is finally time to partake in this common union with your Savior. You now hold a piece of bread in your palm. Your heart is ready, and your self-examination is complete (1 Corinthians 11:28). Do this in remembrance of me." This week, you have come before the Lord in prayer and repentance in anticipation of today's communion. Through the public reading of scripture, you recall our Lord's solemn words in Luke 22:19, which states, "This is my body, which is given you. After faithfully proclaiming the Word of God, the preacher ends his sermon with a heart-felt prayer and a hardy, "Amen." Now, you and the rest of the congregation transition from a time of receiving the gospel verbally (through preaching) to receiving the gospel visibly (through the elements of the Lord's Supper). It's Lord's Day, and you're attentively following along with today's message. Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this ordinance, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually receive, and feed upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally, but spiritually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses (2LBC 30.7 - Of the Lord’s Supper). ![]()
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