Accompanying sermon text: 1 Samuel 7
When we worship God rightly, He fights for us. Part of worshipping God rightly is coming to His Table in faith. Faith is central to all we do, and without it no one can please God. Faith is the victory that overcomes God’s enemies. How do we worship by faith? We avoid coming to worship just out of habit or routine. Instead we remember and believe that God has already won the victory at the cross. That He conquered sin and death by offering as our mediator a perfect sacrifice: His own life and body. Jesus is not only our mediator. He is the sacrifice. He is the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. So this bread and wine remind us - as a memorial - of that sacrifice. They are not another sacrifice. They make up a fellowship meal of peace. This Communion is not another time to confess. We have done that and God has forgiven us. Now we gather around the table with no agenda, nothing to do, other than enjoy communion with the triune God, Father Son and Spirit, and with His Body, the Church.
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