Take, Eat; This is My Body

A true believer in Christ has come to understand that Christ will be with them all through this life. They believe that it will be Christ Himself, who will by His grace, bring them into the final and eternal blessedness of beholding the glory of God, to be with Him forever. These blessings, they know, have come to them by the exercise of faith, and not by partaking of the Bread and the Cup. But these words that I have read to you show us that the Supper has a glorious purpose; to strengthen us, as a further means of grace to us as we walk through this life. Now, this afternoon, I want to speak to you about the simplicity and beauty of the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance feast of Christ’s death and what it has most certainly accomplished. I want to show you that it was our Lord’s explicit command here, for every believer to remember Him, and His death for them, as often as they partake of these elements of the bread and the cup. “Take eat” are the words which we have been given. Let us ask ourselves some important questions of what this means. 1st of all – How is the Passover linked to the Lord’s Supper? 2nd – What is meant by eating this bread, and drinking this cup? And 3rd – What does Christ mean when He says, “Until I drink it new with you in the kingdom of God?