Nourished In Our Lord's Supper

Our faith is strengthened in Christ’s Supper when we obey Christ’s command.
1. The Supper is by the command of our Lord; it is not first a matter of our pleasure or arbitrariness (Mark 14:22-24).
2. Our Lord and King lays His demand on us to administer it and to participate in it.
  1. It is Christ’s command (to partake and to do it in remembrance of Him).
  2. His command calls us to exercise faith in remembering and in discerning (I Cor. 11:24,29).
The Lord’s Supper nourishes us when we are instructed by the rich symbolism.
1. The symbolism itself.
  1. The simple and plain bread and wine.
  2. The Table conveys the idea of a meal.
  3. The elements are broken and poured.
  4. Christ’s appointed representative speaks His words of institution.
  5. The elements are taken to be eaten and drunk.
2. The Supper also instructs us concerning assurance.
We believingly embrace Christ and His finished work.
1. This begins with the confession of our sinfulness.
2. Also we confess that we belong to Christ and He to me.
3. Additionally, the believer grows more and more united to Christ, and lives as such.
4. Faith (even weak faith) gives us the right to partake, by which faith is strengthened.
Spiritual growth results.
1. A fruit is that we are governed by the Spirit as the body is governed by our souls.
2. And we are more and more united to Christ’s body, the church.