Revisiting the Lord's Supper Conclusion Part 1

Revisiting the Lord’s Supper Part 13  Conclusion  Part 1 

Conclusion?   This is very simple.  You are the conclusion and so am I.  Where each of us needs to grow in our hearts with God is where the Lord’s Supper is the table He set for our nourishment.  It is the feeding ground where what the Word instills in the mind, the Holy Spirit carries to the heart. 

If we really consider it, the Lord’s Supper is a meal for the heart.  The heart is the most tender part of our spiritual anatomy (mind, heart, spirit).  It needs the most care and nourishment.  Why?  Jesus confronts us with His view of the fallen human heart, “It is not what goes into man that makes him unclean…for from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly (Mk.7:20-23).”  

The heart needs help!  Perhaps that’s a heads up to take the Lord’s Supper more seriously. If it is not just a worship experience but also a lifestyle teaching then it needs far more attention. Notice its frequency as Paul quotes the Lord, “Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me (1Cor.11:25) and then comments “For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do show the Lord’s death until He comes (vs.26).”  We literally take to heart the sacrifice Jesus made on the Cross for us.  It’s holy, it’s humbling and it’s honoring.  We take it often.  We need to be reminded of His death because the cross He calls us to bear is the cross of faith for every next moment.  Our worldly heart needs to die to its sinfulness and the Lord has provided a way for that to be understood, the Lord’s Supper taken often to remember His death and His Resurrection.  For when we take it we are not only conscious of our need for Him, He is present in it and among us as He promised.  It’s the covenant given in His blood, a blood covenant He alone could seal. 

The Lord recognizes our personal need for spiritual growth.  His deepest teaching on the Holy Spirit who makes that work is in John’s Gospel, Chapters 13-17.  It’s in those chapters that He gives a condensation of the Gospel beginning with a foot washing to place all His Passover teaching in the context of humility before the Father.  He is the new Passover meal to feed the heart.  It is the Holy Spirit who is His agent for maintaining His presence in our hearts and keeping us aware of His uniqueness as Savior and Lord.  In the process He lifts up our uniqueness, our confidence, and strengthens us to be His witnesses in the world. 

We have seen something new and more intriguing about the Lord’s Supper.  It draws us, confronts us, feeds us and calls us to a worship that may start with a group of two or three.  It reveres relational honesty, consciousness of the Lord’s presence and a lifestyle reflecting the Lord Himself.  Reminding us of His Cross, it lifts out the sin that binds us and assures us of the grace, love and forgiveness He covers us with, when we repent.  Every time we receive the bread and wine we exchange the world’s grave clothes for His grace clothes.

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