Look, as a witness to this, I am giving you the same body to eat and the same blood to drink. When He offers us His body for food and His blood for drink, He is loudly calling to us: This is My body that I sacrificed, which I gave into death for your sins and this is My blood that I sacrificed, which I poured out for the forgiveness of your sins. So what, then, is the holy Supper that we are to celebrate? It is the seal of the validity of Jesus’ sacrifice of grace that He offered on Golgotha for our sins. And what is it, then, that we should do? Celebrate the Sacrament! That is, with our mouths eat and drink His true body and His true blood under the consecrated bread and wine. When the Savior says, do this in remembrance of Me, He tells us two things by it. That’s because they, first of all, show that this blessing is really in the Sacrament. These words, do this in remembrance of Me, deal with the blessing of the Sacrament-the forgiveness of sins. that all who come according to the Lord’s will unfailingly receive itġ. that we have great need of this blessing andģ. that this blessing is really in the Sacrament,Ģ. That the words: “do this in remembrance of Me” deal with the blessing of the Sacrament-the forgiveness of sinsġ. These words are the text of our confessional address. But which words of the Words of Institution show this to us? Among others, these words: do this in remembrance of Me. Yes, but what is this blessing? The forgiveness of sins. Whoever believes that Jesus Christ is true God and man, our Savior, our Brother, our Bridegroom, and that His words, this is My body, this is My blood, are true, that is, that in the Holy Supper under the bread and wine Jesus’ true body and true blood are truly present and are orally eaten and drunk by the communicants: must also acknowledge that there must be a blessing, in fact a great blessing in the sacrament. Luke 22.19- And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you do this in remembrance of Me." Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.Ģ6For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lords death until he comes.Ģ7Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.Ģ8Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup.Ģ9For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves.Magazin fuer ev. Do this in remembrance of me.Ģ5In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. 17Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.ġ8For, to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you and to some extent I believe it.ġ9Indeed, there have to be factions among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine.Ģ0When you come together, it is not really to eat the Lords supper.Ģ1For when the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk.Ģ2What! Do you not have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter I do not commend you!Ģ3For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread,Ģ4and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body that is for you.
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