3/17/2023 0 Comments In remembrance![]() ![]() After the same manner also He took the cup when He had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in My blood: this do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” How very little there is here of anything like a grand ceremony!Īnd yet, mark you, there is a certain rubric with regard to the spiritual part of the Lord’s Supper which is not left toanybody’s choice. Nothing appears to be really essential to the right celebration of this Supper by Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ but just this–“Take, eat: this is My body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me. I have no doubt whatever that the disciples were reclining around the supper table in the usual Oriental manner, but Christ does not say that we are to recline, or kneel, or stand, or sit for the right observance of the ordinance. He has not even laid down any rule with regard to the posture that is tobe assumed by communicants. And these two things are to be done in remembrance of Christ. Nothing is here ordered to be done except the breaking of bread and the eating of it–and the pouring out of wine and the drinking of it. There is nothing at all resembling the various intricate rules that are laid down for the celebration of the “mass” in the Church of Rome, or even for the celebration of the communion in the Church of England. Observe that Christ does not prescribe anything in the Lord’s Supper by way of elaborate ceremonies. It is as simple and plain as it can possibly be–“This do in remembrance of Me.” Those who stumble here, stumble, surely, in the light–and their eyes must be blinded, for there are no stumbling blocks in the ordinance itself. There was nothing said by our Lord about any repetition of His one great Sacrifice by the offering of the unbloody sacrifice of the “mass” of which the priests of Rome make so much. It was not ordained at a great Temple festival, but at the Passover Supper, when Christ and His disciples were gathered around a table to feast together according to the ancient Jewish custom. It was not instituted in the Temple at Jerusalem, but in the upper room of a private house. In the institution of the Lord’s Supper there was not a solitary word said about the new rite being a sacrifice nor so much as a single syllable concerning an altar upon which it was to be offered. In neither case is there any excuse whatever for this perversion, for in each instance the regulations for its observance are perfectly simple and clear. And the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper has been quite as shamefully misrepresented. ![]() You know how the ordinance of Believers' Baptism has been perverted, twisted and turned aside altogether from its pristine use. IT is a wonderful proof of the deep depravity of human nature that men have made so much mischief out of the too symbolical ordinances which were instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ. “ This do in remembrance of Me…This do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.‘” ![]()
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