The Lord's Supper as a Means of Grace (2)

In this part of the sermon: Martin introduces his thesis that the significance of the Lord's Supper can be captured in three words: recollection, participation, and declaration. He then expounds on…

The example of Peter calling to remembrance Christ's words after denying Him, illustrating how words can drift into deeper chambers of the mind until brought to a 'heightened concentrated present mental awareness,' which then breaks the heart.

of putting away sin because the sacrifices which brought sin to remembrance were continually offered and there was the annual day of atonement which in particular was a reminder that sin had not yet been fully finally irrevocably put away in the sight of God and so the contrast between remembrance is no more consciousness what's the opposite of no more consciousness it is the fresh heightened calling into the realm of one's mental and spiritual awareness that's what it is in its usage here in its verbal form is a helpful illustration of the use of this word in conjunction with Peter the Lord h...

18:05 - 19:33 Read in full sermon

The point: Stand in amazement at Christ's holy desire for the loving thoughts of His people, as displayed in the institution of the Lord's Supper.

A quotation from Andrew Murray's work on the Lord's table, explaining that Christ desires our love and remembrance because our love to Him is His happiness and joy, and He cannot endure to be forgotten.

but he there was no one who could not by no means not do this with the light of his own sweet meatballs and that he was in Jesus being of the of powerful, visual, tangible impetus to intensify thoughts of him, he says, this do in remembrance. In a choice little work by Andrew Murray, South African man of God of another generation, some of whose works I heartily endorse, others I have serious reservations about elements of mysticism and other things, but he was greatly used in his generation and his books continue to be greatly used in a lovely little monograph on the Lord's table.

26:51 - 28:14 Read in full sermon

The point: Recognize and be humbled by the retributiveness and forgetfulness of your own heart, which necessitates Christ instituting a means to remember Him.

An analogy of a man rescued from a fiery death by a brave soul who bears scars, used to highlight how much more we should remember Christ who rescued us at infinite cost, yet we often forget Him.

And so my first word of application is stand in amazement that Christ who gave himself for us, cherishes our loving, reflective thoughts, person, and his works, crucified. But then secondly, by way of application under this first head, it is an amazing, grievous, humbling display. It's an humbling display of the retributiveness of the hearts of his people. Should a man be found burning in a building or in a burning building, trapped in the firemen have said, we can't get. We can't get. We can't get to him.

29:29 - 30:26 Read in full sermon