This Do In Remebrance of Me

This Do In Remembrance of Me

1 Corinthians 11:23-32

5 Ways to look at the Lord's Supper

1. Look backward -"Look backward at the body Christ gave and the blood He shed."

Body:

 2 Corinthians 5:21

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Blood:

Hebrews 9:22

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

2. Look upward -"Look up and rejoice that we serve a risen Savior."

Colossians 3:1

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

3. Look around -"Look around at others, we have an obligation to care for one another"

Ephesians 2:19-22

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

4. Look within - "Look within for unconfessed sin in our hearts. Let us not make light of our own sin."

2 Corinthians 13:5

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

5. Look forward - "Look forward to Christ return" 

1 Corinthians 11:26

For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

~ Pastor Troy Shoaf
Notes taken from Sunday Evening Service March 31, 2013 (Lord's Supper Service)