Christians have bad memories. Jesus in His mercy provided
a way for us to worship Him and have our blessed Lord's work to the forefront of
our minds. The closer we get to the world, or the more we give our hearts over
to worldly pursuits, the further our hearts are from God. One purpose of the
Lord's Supper is to see the Lord with eyes of faith, and remember what He did
for us. Our Lord Jesus has been gracious to us in giving us means to remember
him. This does not mean Christians forget Jesus exists, but rather Jesus is not
thought of as we go through our lives.
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| Vasily Polenov's The Lord's Supper |
God's people need to daily look to Jesus and remember our
sins, confess them, and then know that our sins were dealt with by the
sacrifice of Jesus. Remember, the Lamb of God came to lay down His life for His
people, to save them from their sins. Remember Christ shed His blood, the just
for the unjust. Remember Jesus shed his blood for the remission of your sins.
Remember, Jesus bled to purge and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Remember
that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins and this
real blood spilled from His real and true body. The same body that was beaten
and the same body in which the Lord bore our sins laid dead in the tomb. The
same body from which his life blood poured out, laid cold and dead and buried
for three days and three nights . Remember, that the same body which was broken
for you, and died for you, and was in the tomb for you, raised from the dead
for our justification.
Jesus said to take the Lord's supper in remembrance of
Him. This is a blessed gift to the Lord's church. Are you saved but deny
yourself the privilege of partaking of this Heavenly ordinance by not joining
the Lord's church? The Lord Jesus established a supper and uses it to draw our
hearts and minds to His sacrificial work on the cross; and will you forsake
this? For what? What could be so important? What other object in this world
could be so worthy of your time and your attention that you will forsake the
Lord's Supper for it? Don't discard the blessed means of remembrance. Do not
ignore or abandon the gracious invitation to fellowship with Christ. Do not
renounce the kind command given for your benefit. Do this. Do this for remembrance
– not for regeneration. These are memorial aids, not sacrificial offerings.
These are pictures of the Lord, not the Lord Himself. To say the Lord is
sacrificed afresh with each observance of the ordinance is blasphemy. You
cannot take the Lord's Supper in remembrance of the Lord if you have never come
to meet him the first time.
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