The Lord's Supper Part 2

The Lord’s Supper is not simply a sacrament of commemoration. It is much more. Our Lord instituted it as a sign and seal of God’s covenant with his people. Meaning, it is “sign” to us and the world of unbelievers that we are citizens of the commonwealth of God under his kingdom domain, submitted to the sovereign rule of his King (Jesus). It commemorates the “seal” of the covenantal blessings we have received granted through the body and blood of Jesus that he sacrificed for our salvation, thus Jesus own words to his disciples on that very night he instituted it (Mt 26:28), “…for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
 
The Lord Supper is a means of grace, for God uses to strengthen our faith in his character and promises. We respond to these good gifts by living out our faith as signified by this sacrament. The Corinthian saints demonstrated a lack of understanding of these truths by how they observed the Lord’s Supper. Paul’s aim is to provide corrective teaching on this matter, so they would recover faithfulness in how to observe such Christian rites and experience its blessings.

Focus Scripture: 1 Corinthains 11:23-26

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