We have spoken the words with our mouths and we have believed in our hearts, that Jesus Christ is Lord. We have entered into a relationship…with Jesus. We have followed His example and we have been baptized, signifying our death to the old ways, the burying our sins, and our resurrection into a new life. Now what?
We want to know Him, to know more about Him. We begin to read, to learn from, to take root in His Word. We realize what His instructions are, and we make an effort to obey His commandments. One of those commandments is to remember Him in the partaking of the Lord’s Supper. In Luke 22:19Luke 22:19
English: Contemporary English Version (1999) - CEV
19 Jesus took some bread in his hands and gave thanks for it. He broke the bread and handed it to his apostles. Then he said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Eat this as a way of remembering me!”
WP-Bible plugin, Jesus took break and gave thanks for it. He passed it to the disciples, saying “Take, eat, for this is my body, broken for you. This do in remembrance of me.”
Just as we wash our hands before we sit down to eat a meal, we need to examine our lives and be sure that we ask forgiveness for anything that stands between Jesus and ourselves. We need to know that we are cleansed of any known or unknown sin before we partake in the body and blood of Christ at the Communion table. No longer is it necessary for us make atonement for our sin by slaying a lamb as a sacrifice. Jesus, the Spotless Lamb of God, did it all for us at the Cross. We have been reborn into a new covenant with God! I believe that when we join together in the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, we are gathering around a family table. We have been made blood relatives, in the true sense of the word, by the blood Jesus shed at Calvary. . It is solemn time of unity each of us who believe. It is a time of reflecting, remembering, the sacrificial act of our Brother and Lord. It is an intimate time that believers share together in Christ.
The scriptures say that he who eats the bread or drinks the cup in an unworthy manner is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. (1Cor 11:27) We believers, also, must be sure that we are partaking with the correct examination of our selves, for the Word tells us that ” he eats and drinks judgment unto himself if he has not judged his body rightly.” 1 Cor 11: 281 Cor 11: 28
English: Contemporary English Version (1999) - CEV
28 That's why you must examine the way you eat and drink.
WP-Bible plugin. When we come to the table of the Lord’s Supper, let us come, with no sin, no grudges against another, no unfinished business with the Lord. We are united by His blood, by His Spirit…one with God. Let us live the oneness that we have together as family members.
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