Faith Confirmed in the Lord’s Supper
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
9/10/2017 AM
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Text:
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Romans 9;
Lord's Day 28
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Psalters: |
394, 334, 357, 127 |
- The Lord’s institution.
- Jesus instituted it as a sacrament when celebrating the Passover feast the night before He was crucified.
- Jesus used the 13th of the 15 steps in a Jewish Passover as the opportunity to institute His sacrament.
- Jesus used some of the bread and the third cup of wine (not the lamb) of the Passover to institute the Supper.
- It is the Lord’s words which set these two elements apart as sacramental signs.
- First, Jesus command His disciples to partake.
- Second, He commanded them to do so in remembrance of Him.
- There are five parts of our Lord’s Supper.
- First, Jesus is the Host. He gives the elders as His appointed representatives.
- Second, the table conveys the idea of a meal.
- Third, there is the simple and plain bread and wine.
- Fourth, something is done to the bread and wine: broken and poured out indicating the sacrifice of Christ’s life.
- Fifth, we are to partake of the elements; they are to be taken, eaten and drunk.
- The proper partaker.
- Proper partaking requires the exercise of our spiritual life, i.e., faith.
- The Supper strengthens/confirms a believer’s faith in the fact that God has established a covenant relationship of friendship.
- However faith cannot sustain itself; it needs constant spiritual nourishment. And our faith often becomes weary.
- The Supper comforts and assures us intellectually and emotionally.