Question 47: Does the Lord’s Supper add anything to Christ’s Atonement?
No, Christ died once and for all. The Lord’s meal is a covenant meal that celebrates Christ’s work of atonement; it is also a way to strengthen our faith, as we see it, and a taste of the future banquet. But those who participate with an unrepentant heart eat and drink judgment for themselves.
- For Christ also suffered once for sins.
- The just for the unjust.
- To bring us to God; mortified.
- Indeed.
- In the flesh.
- But invigorated by the Spirit;.
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J. C. RYLE
May we resolve firmly in our minds that the Lord’s Supper was not given as a means of justification or conversion; the intention was never to give grace where there is no grace. Forgiveness cannot be offered where forgiveness is no longer appreciated. provide what is lacking in the absence of repentance to God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is an ordinance for the penitents, not for those who do not repent, for those who believe, not for the unbelievers, for the converted, not for the unconverse, who imagines taking a shortcut to heaven by taking the sacrament, without going beyond the past stages of repentance and faith, one day he will discover, to his detriment, that he has been totally deceived. to increase and help a person’s grace, but does not grant the grace he does not have. He certainly never intended to promote our peace with God, to justify or convert us.
The simplest statement of the benefit that a sincere communicator can expect to receive from the Lord’s Supper is the strengthening and renewal of the soul. A clearer vision of Christ and His Atonement, a clearer vision of all the functions that Christ performs as our mediator and advocate, a clearer vision of the complete redemption that Christ has obtained for us through his vicarious death on the cross , a clearer vision of our fullness and a perfect acceptance in Christ before God, new reasons for deep repentance of sin, new reasons to live the faith, new reasons to live a holy and consecrated life, like that of Christ. These are some of the main benefits the believer can confidently expect to gain from participating at the Lord’s Table. He who eats bread and drinks wine with the right spirit is drawn to a deeper communion with Christ, eager to know him more, to understand him better (?). By eating bread and drinking from the cup, that person will have his deepest repentance, his greatest faith, his greatest knowledge, and his holy habit of living strengthened. Will you notice more of the? Real presence? of Christ in your heart. As you eat bread by faith, you will feel closer to communing with the body of Christ. By drinking wine by faith, you will feel the closest communion to the blood of Christ. She will see more clearly what Christ means to her and what she means to Christ. You will understand more fully what it means to be “one with Christ and Christ one with her. ” You will feel the roots of the spiritual life of your soul watered, and the work of grace in your heart established, built and transmitted. All of these things may seem silly to the natural man, but to the true Christian these things are light, health, life, and peace.
LEO SCHUSTER
I recently saw a restaurant ad that simply had the name of the restaurant and the words Spiritual Dinner. I wondered if the best food would be more than just a material experience. It made me think of the Lord’s Supper, the ultimate spiritual food, and what it does and what it doesn’t do. In fact, what the Lord’s Supper does has three dimensions: past, present, and future. When Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper, he said to the disciples: “Do you do this in memory of me? (Lk 22:19), insisting that what he was about to do would remind them, remembering what he did for them. When we remember what Jesus did for us, we base our lives on His entire work. The Lord’s Supper is not a way to obtain salvation; it is a spiritual meal for those who are saved. It adds nothing to the finished work of Christ, his sacrifice once and for all, but it confirms and strengthens us in it. It becomes a kind of shortcut to the gospel, in which, as one ancient writer said, we first hear the gospel, then we taste the gospel, and so the gospel continues in our alternate lives. legs. As Paul said in 1 Corinthians, “Why, every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, do you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes? (11. 26). As Christians, we eat and drink to remember the triumph of Jesus. This is the last dimension.
Paul emphasizes the current dimension of the Lord’s Supper when he writes in 1 Corinthians: “Perhaps the cup of blessing we bless is not participation in the blood of Christ?Isn’t the bread we break in the body of Christ?(10:16). The term
When Jesus gave the cup to his disciples, He said, “And I say unto you that from now on I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it again with you in the kingdom of my Father?(Mt 26:29), with these words he directed them to the future dimension of the Lord’s Supper, as a sign indicating the great day we are waiting for, is a taste for the weddings of the Lamb and the eternal feast that believers enjoy with Christ in glory. We are now creatures broken by sin. Thanks to the broken body of Christ, we are restored. But in this life, we continue to experience the breakdown of our fallen condition. The future dimension of the Lord’s Supper points forward, waiting for the day when we are new and fully integrated and complete, in which we, our Savior, and others will enjoy the feast we will eat in the best companies.
Winner of death, we celebrate your finished work when we have the Lord’s Supper. May our food be a confession of faith, for although we are unworthy, we have been gathered with the dignity of Christ. Let us approach your table with repentant hearts, setting aside all pride and autonomy, enjoying the free grace you offer us. Amen.
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