How many, how suitable, how sovereign are the supports our heavenly Father affords to His afflicted children! They make the affliction, which in itself would seem heavy and tedious appear to be light, and but for a moment. It is happier to be in the furnace of affliction with these supports than to be in the highest prosperity without them! Blessed with the hopes and comforts of Christ! The true Christian would prefer the lot of Lazarus, with all the poverty and distress which he endured to the lot of the rich man, who, amidst all the splendor and affluence which this world could afford – lived a life of alienation from God, and destitute of the sovereign supports which can only be enjoyed, by those who love and fear Him.
John Fawcett

COMMUNION of the Lord

COMMUNION of the Lord

COMMUNION of the Lord’s Supper

  1. Prefigured # Ex 12:21-28 1Co 5:7,8
  2. Instituted # Mt 26:26 1Co 11:23
  3. Object of # Lu 22:19 1Co 11:24,26
  4. Is the communion of the body and blood of Christ # 1Co 10:16
  5. Both bread and wine are necessary to be received in # Mt 26:27 1Co 11:26
  6. Self-examination commanded before partaking of # 1Co 11:28,31
  7. Newness of heart and life necessary to the worthy partaking of # 1Co 5:7,8
  8. Partakers of, be wholly separate to God # 1Co 10:21
  9. Was continually partaken of, by the Church # Ac 2:42 20:7
  10. UNWORTHY PARTAKERS OF 10a) Are guilty of the body and blood of Christ

    # 1Co 11:27

10b) Discern not the Lord’s body # 1Co 11:29 10c) Are visited with judgments # 1Co 11:30