The Institution of the Lord's Supper

In this part of the sermon: This section examines the specific circumstances surrounding the Lord's Supper: Jesus's control despite impending betrayal, the Supper's institution within the existing Passover…

Judas's physical departure into the night symbolizes his spiritual darkness and impending eternal darkness, emphasizing the gravity of his betrayal.

That one of the twelve will betray Him. And according to John 13 verses 21 to 30 Judas has been singled out as the betrayer To the mind and understanding Of Peter and of John And has left the inner circle Of the twelve and the company of our Lord And in John we are told He goes out and it was night. And from that in the night To accomplish his deed of betrayal Judas is still In the horrible night Of spiritual darkness Awaiting the hour When he shall be cast Into the eternal night Of outer darkness Forever and forever. But the eleven are left there With their Lord. They are stunned with the rea...

9:31 - 10:59 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There is only one rational, sane conclusion to which anyone sitting there would come, and that is this, that the Lord is using a common figure of speech. This represents or stands for my body.

Comparing unleavened bread to a chapati helps the audience visualize the flat, torn bread Jesus would have used, making the scene more tangible.

the bread, the unleavened bread, it would be perhaps the thing that most of us, have seen that's closest to it, like a chapati, very flat, without any leaven, and it would be torn in pieces and distributed as He holds that piece in His own hands. And apparently they hold that they have broken off in their hands, He says, this my body. Now what would the disciples conclude? There before them reclining in the ordinary fashion was their Lord in the full integrity of His truth, true humanity.

26:37 - 27:19 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There is only one rational, sane conclusion to which anyone sitting there would come, and that is this, that the Lord is using a common figure of speech. This represents or stands for my body.

Martin explains that the disciples, seeing Jesus's intact body, would have understood 'This is my body' as a figure of speech, not a literal transformation, to counter transubstantiation.

Every single finger was in place, every single hair in place, His ears were in place, His toes stuck through the sandals. When He said, this is my body, integrity of His humanity with all His faculties and the members of His body intact, they did not suddenly see a finger drop off and disappear and say, oh, the finger must be the bread. They didn't suddenly see an ear drop off and say, oh, when He said, this is my body, maybe the ear has become the bread. There is only one rational, sane conclusion to which anyone sitting there would come, and that is this, that the Lord is using a common figu...

27:19 - 28:16 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There is only one rational, sane conclusion to which anyone sitting there would come, and that is this, that the Lord is using a common figure of speech. This represents or stands for my body.

The phrase 'The White House has reported' is used to illustrate metonymy, a common figure of speech where a word stands for a signified thing, supporting the symbolic interpretation of 'This is my body'.

A figure of speech that can be called a metaphor or more properly a metonymy in which we use a word for a thing, signified, we hear on the news, the White House has reported. Does that mean that suddenly the White House developed a larynx and a tongue and all of the essential for speech and the reporters stood there and the White House spoke to them? No, what they mean is the White House, that is, the President or his representative or some official spokesman of the White House. We use that kind of language all the time.

28:18 - 28:56 Read in full sermon

Driving home: I profess that in the Mass is offered to God an propitiatory sacrifice, that is, a sacrifice which satisfies the justice of God and offsets the penalty due to sin, for the living and the dead, and that in the most holy s…

Martin uses the analogy of a handkerchief magically becoming a watch to explain the Roman Catholic concept of transubstantiation, highlighting the idea of a complete change in substance despite unchanged appearance.

Let me try to illustrate it this way. This is my walk. This is my handkerchief. If I could trans-substantiate my handkerchief into a watch by doing some magical thing, what would happen is the whole substance of the handkerchief would become the whole substance of the watch.

54:56 - 55:14 Read in full sermon

The point: God help us if we cease to pray for our Roman Catholic friends and neighbors and relatives for what they are if believing this dogma they are lost salvation it's salvation by the open mouth and by the active gullet inste…

A personal anecdote about a neighbor's excitement over her eight-year-old grandson receiving his first holy sacrament illustrates the practical, damning implications of Roman Catholic dogma, showing how it fosters a false sense of salvation through ritual.

And dear people, even when they speak in tongues and they stretch out their hands like Mother Teresa while they believe this blasphemy,

65:24 - 65:39 Read in full sermon