Communion Basics

As we come to this Table weekly, we must be careful to remember the basics.

This Communion is meant to picture before us the Body of Christ, ripped and torn, as the bread is. The blood of Christ, flowed from His Body, as the wine flows into our mouths. This ritual act is meant to picture His sacrifice on the cross, and our resulting union with Jesus by the Spirit, who gives us faith to believe this. As we eat and drink the bread and wine, we profess that we need to receive Him as our life and nourishment. We profess that Jesus is the life. But this sacrament is not merely a profession of ours. Jesus instituted this meal, and He wasn’t just making a statement about what He believed. He was about to die.

Only those in Noah’s ark survived the flood. Only those in a house with blood on it survived the angel of death passing over them in Egypt. Only those united with Jesus Christ, with His blood covering their sin, only those in Jesus Christ survive the Father’s wrath against our sin. This is the picture that we act out here. And the acting isn’t empty symbol. Acting it out, taking and receiving bread and wine confirms the truth of it to us. This is true nourishment for our souls.

5/30/21