The Lord’s Table

Five Facts

 

 

 

SCRIPTURES

 

1.     THREE PASSAGES ARE BASICALLY HISTORICAL.

 

Matthew  26:26-30

Mark  14:22-25

Luke  22:19-20

The body-given

The blood shed

 

2  THREE PASSAGES ARE BASICALLY DOCTRINAL

 

John 6:47-58

1 Corinthians 10:16-21

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

 

1  INTRODUCTION

 

This table was ordained of the Lord.

Matthew 26:26

1 Corinthians 11:23

The ordinance is not of man.  Paul did not conceive it.  Nor the church nor tradition.  Because it was ordained of the Lord it is called “The Lord’s Table.”  He invites us to His table.  No ordinance has been more perverted.  At the beginning it was but a simple rite.  This is not a virtuous feast.  There is no saving merit in it.  There is no healing in it.  There is no more virtue in these emblems than in the water in which you were baptized.  We do well to keep it simple and not add anything top it.

 

11  FIVE BASIC FACTS ABOUT IT.

 

1.     Jesus took bread and wine.

He said: “My body”, “my blood.”  Symbols surely.

Here is pictured the doctrine of the Incarnation.

By partaking you are saying “I believe Jesus Christ came.”

I believe  John 1:14

I believe  Hebrews 10:5

I believe 1 Timothy 3:16

Here we remember Christ’s birth.

 

Broken bread.  Wine poured out.  His body was broken.  His blood was shed.     Here is pictured the doctrine of the Atonement.

Hebrews. 9:22

1 Corinthians 11:26

1 Corinthians 15:3

Isaiah 53:3-6

When you partake, you say. I believe this!

 

3,  Eat the bread and drink the cup.

Both are  received.

Here is the doctrine of  Personal Salvation.

John 1 :11-13

John 3:1416

John 6 :51,58

Believing is receiving.  When one partakes of these emblems one is saying, “I have personally received Christ as my personal salvation

 

4.     We eat and we drink together.

We do not do this alone.

Here is the doctrine of  The Church.

1 Corinthians 12:13  one body

1 Corinthians 10:17  one body.

1 Corinthians 6:17-20

Here all are equal.  None above another

 

5.     We do this until Christ comes

Here is the doctrine of the Second Coming.

1 Corinthians 11:26

Matthew 26:29

This DO!  The only picture Christ left of Himself with us.  It makes the  historical Christ real.  It makes the risen Christ real.  It makes the coming Christ real to our hearts.  It makes our hearts better!