In this sermon, Pastor Albert N. Martin expounds on the meaning of the Lord's Supper, urging believers to remember Christ's death through seven 'facets' of its benefits. Drawing primarily from Galatians 3, 2 Corinthians 5, 1 Peter 3, and Titus 2, he details how Christ's death turns away God's wrath, procures perfect righteousness, opens the way to God, secures the Holy Spirit, effects a radical break with self-centeredness, sets believers apart for holiness, and ensures all things necessary for complete salvation. Martin uses the analogy of a diamond with seven facets to illustrate how these distinct benefits radiate from the singular work of Christ on the cross, calling communicants to fresh acts of faith, worship, and self-examination.
Primary Texts
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1 Corinthians 11:23-26This passage is the starting point, establishing the command to remember Christ's death at the Lord's Supper.
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Galatians 3:13-14This passage is central to two 'facets,' explaining Christ's curse-bearing and the securing of the Spirit.
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2 Corinthians 5:15-21This passage is central to two 'facets,' detailing Christ being made sin for us and our call to live for Him.
The Lord's Supper as a Supper of Remembrance Focused on Christ's Death0:05
Analogy of the Diamond with Seven Facets of Christ's Work4:15
Facet 1: Christ Died to Turn Away God's Wrath (Galatians 3:13)5:42
Facet 2: Christ Died to Procure a Perfect Righteousness for Us (2 Corinthians 5:21)9:48
Facet 3: Christ Died to Open the Way to God for Us (1 Peter 3:18)16:52
Facet 4: Christ Died to Secure the Gift of the Spirit for Us (Galatians 3:14)19:18
Facet 5: Christ Died to Effect a Radical Break with Self-Centeredness (2 Corinthians 5:15)27:27
Facet 6: Christ Died to Set Us Apart for a Life of Real Holiness (Titus 2:14)30:18
Facet 7: Christ Died to Ensure All Essential Things for Complete Salvation (Romans 8:32)34:21
Key Quotes
“Central then to this duty and privilege at the Lord's table, that of remembrance, is not a general remembrance of the Lord Jesus in all of the facets of the glory, of his person, and the manifold nature of his work, but he is to be remembered especially in his person and work as connected with his act of dying upon the cross.”
“And surely, if in coming to the table of remembrance, any thought ought to flood our minds and fill us with a fresh sense of wonder, it is that He became a curse for us.”
“He who alone of all who ever trod upon this earth was perfectly, perpetually, impeccably righteous. Yet he becomes sin that you and I might have a righteousness. That fully satisfies all the demands of God. And makes it right for God to declare us righteous.”
“As surely as those blessings could never be righteously ours. If Christ had not died. They would never become experientially ours. If the Spirit were not given.”
“there is no such thing as a true Christian who is not fundamentally and radically committed to live a life in which Jesus Christ and not self is the main goal of one's existence if self is the pattern of your existence face it you've never been united to Christ the virtue of His cross has never touched you”
“But where is the evidence that they live as a people who regard themselves as not being their own, but having been bought with a price? They are fully en toto, the property of another, and are zealous, boiling to do good works.”
“If God has given his son, that's the handful of diamonds. Everything else needed. And because he gave his son, he's committed for everything else to take us safely to heaven.”
Applications
All listeners
Allow the different facets of Christ's work in dying for sinners to flash forth from the Word of God and draw out fresh actings of faith, worship, love, and praise.
Store away these texts in your mind as a constant index, even memorizing them, to enhance your remembrance of the Lord's dying love.
Remember that Christ became a curse for us as you come to the table.
Remember that Christ was made sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him as you come to the table.
Remember that the Savior, by dying the righteous for the unrighteous, opens the way to God for you as you come to the table.
Remember that Christ died to secure the gift of the Spirit for us as you come to the table, acknowledging the Spirit's work in adoption, mortification, intercession, and conformation.
Ask if the end for which Christ died (not living for self) is being realized as fully in you as it ought to be, and identify subtle ways you please yourself instead of Him.
Pray for the Lord to show where you are frustrating the end for which Christ died by your dullness and willfulness, so you may increasingly live not to yourself but to Him.
Remember that Christ died to set us apart unto a life of real holiness as you come to the table.
Remember that Christ died to ensure we shall be given everything essential to complete our salvation as you come to the table.
Ask God to give you an eye to see more benefits of Christ's death in Scripture.
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The Lord's Supper as a Supper of Remembrance Focused on Christ's Death
The following message was delivered on Sunday evening, June 7, 1992, at the Trinity Baptist Church in Montville, New Jersey.
To all of you who are gathered here tonight, who have any acquaintance with the biblical teaching concerning the Lord's Supper, you are very much aware that the duty and privileges of coming to this table bring us to a very specific mental and spiritual activity designated in the original institution of this ordinance and then in the apostolic account of that institution in 1 Corinthians 11. And I refer to the mental and spiritual duty. The duty and privilege of remembrance. Almost without exception, each time we come to this Supper of Remembrance, one of the elders who leads at the table will direct our attention to the words of institution in 1 Corinthians 11. And there we are reminded month by month of the words of Jesus who said, This is my body which is...
For you, this do in remembrance of me.
As oft as ye drink it, you do it in remembrance of me. Central then to this duty and privilege at the Lord's table, that of remembrance, is not a general remembrance of the Lord Jesus in all of the facets of the glory, of his person, and the manifold nature of his work, but he is to be remembered especially in his person and work as connected with his act of dying upon the cross. For the symbolism of the bread is his body for us, of the cup his blood for us, blood poured out in a violent death, so that... That in verse 26 of that same passage we are told, As oft as ye eat this bread, that is, as oft as you do it, with the symbolism present consciously in your mind, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come.
So that this is not a Supper of Remembrance merely, of the person and the work of Christ, but uniquely of the person of Christ as giving himself to us in death, and the work that he accomplished in the pouring out of his blood on our behalf. And what I want to do tonight is simply to turn to several texts in the Word of God, which I trust will aid us, in our commitment to do exactly what the Lord Jesus intends we should do at his table, that is, to take the bread and the cup in remembrance of him, a remembrance which comes to focus upon his death for sinners. And I want you to liken what we're going to do to a diamond with seven major facets, Now I didn't ask the physicists and the engineers, and whatever else one would have to be to figure this out, whether it's geometrically possible to have in seven planes on a diamond, I imagine it would be, we'd have to get a geomnologist and check with him.
Analogy of the Diamond with Seven Facets of Christ's Work
But I'm sure you've seen these little trinkets and sometimes little decorating pieces, the pieces to put on desks, where someone takes some either unique or valued object, object and has it embedded in lucite or in plexiglass so that the item is clearly seen, but you can't touch it and get to it. It is seen through that plexiglass or through that clear plastic which is molded around it. And I would like you to think of our meditation tonight as the cross of Christ embedded in the heart of this diamond with seven facets. So it is the one work of Christ upon the cross, but when we turn that diamond, the different facet of the glory of the work of Christ in dying for sinners flashes forth from the Word of God, and I trust upon our spiritual eyes to draw out our hearts. Fresh actings of faith, of worship, of love, and of praise. And I hope in doing this it will not only enable us to do what we are commanded to do in coming to the table tonight, but that by underscoring these texts you will have a constant index stored away in your
Facet 1: Christ Died to Turn Away God's Wrath (Galatians 3:13)
mind of the kinds of scriptures that you ought to be very familiar with, even to memorize these. so that in the coming days your remembrance of the Lord in His dying love will be enhanced by a familiarity with these texts of Scripture. Conscious of the time constraints, and I am committed to being done at five after the hour, consider with me first of all the simple but glorious fact that He died to turn away the wrath of God from us. In Galatians 3 and verse 13, this glorious reality is stated in terms that are straightforward and clear. Galatians 3 and verse 13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For us. For it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.
All that the curse of a pure and holy and righteous God would have meant for us, this text says that He took upon Himself. He voluntarily, willingly took upon Himself. The exact equivalent of what the curse would have meant for us. He redeemed us from the curse of the law, not having become one who altered the law and its horrible sanctions against lawbreakers, its curse against those who do not obey it perfectly and perpetually. But the text says He redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. So whatever curse-bearing would have been for us, the people of God, all of that, nothing less, nothing more, He bore for us that we might never have to bear it. By strict, legal, divinely appointed, represented, suffering, and curse-bearing,
He has removed from us the curse which was our due. And surely, if in coming to the table of remembrance, any thought ought to flood our minds and fill us with a fresh sense of wonder, it is that He became a curse for us. And in all of His forsakenness, in all of the agony and suffering of body and soul, God was exacting no more than our sins deserved. And when we hear the shrill cry, My God, my God, why hast Thou abandoned me? We know that God was exacting nothing more than our sins deserved. And when He cried His finish, tetelestai, it hath been accomplished and stands accomplished. We bless God that He bore nothing less than all of the curse that was due to us.
And we are redeemed from the curse of the law because Christ became a curse for us. Remember this as you come to the table. Secondly, He not only died to turn away from us, but He died to turn away from us. Secondly, He not only died to turn away from us, Secondly, He not only died to turn away from us, but He died to turn away the wrath of God from us.
Facet 2: Christ Died to Procure a Perfect Righteousness for Us (2 Corinthians 5:21)
He died to procure a perfect righteousness for us. And here I direct your attention to II Corinthians chapter 5. Righteousness is what you and I need if we are to stand right before God. If God is to be right in admitting us into His presence, righteousness is the commodity we must have.
we must have if we are to be received by God. And yet according to the scriptures in our native condition, righteousness is what we utterly lack in ourselves. Romans 3.10 says as it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. And those things which we designate in ourselves and in others by nature as deeds of righteousness, God says in Isaiah 64.6 that all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. So if the best things we do that men regard as righteous deeds are as polluted, filed garments and rags in the sight of God, what about the things that even men will yet call deeds of unrighteousness? And yet in 2 Corinthians 5.21 we are given this amazing statement by the apostle, him who knew no
sin, that is the one who in his own person was utterly unacquainted with sin as to being tainted by it, as justly charged with any sin of thought, of motive, of desire, of intention, not to sin. When he spoke of words and deeds and actions, he knew no sin. There was no personal experiential acquaintance with sin. From the deepest springs of the first motions of the heart, called in Genesis 6, the thoughts of the imaginations of the heart. How can you go any deeper? Thoughts of the imaginations of the heart. Man was only evil continually Christ knew no sin.
In all the jostling and pressures of that large family, a relatively poor family, amidst all of the religious decadence, amidst all of the normal pressures that provoke even the most mild-tempered of our children to sin, patently and evidently at an early age, he knew no sin. The Bible also has this exercise written about the size and condition of some who are willing to sin. This is the mitzvah of the Old Testament. friendships between men and women. There not чисling.
You know sin in his childhood, in his pre-adolescence and through adolescence and into manhood. And then when so severely provoked throughout his manhood by the taunts of his enemies saying he had a demon, he was in league with the devil, saying on other occasions he was demented and out of his tree, on to the highest provocations culminating in the cross, when they taunt him at the most sensitive areas of his soul, he trusted in God. If God has any special relationship to him, let him show it now. Let him give him the ability to come down from the cross.
He saved others, himself he cannot save. Think of it, not for one millisecond did our Lord, did our Lord, experience in the deepest initial springs of felt consciousness anything that was a galaxy close to resentment, bitterness, self-pity. No, the disposition that pervaded every atom of his soul came to fruition in the words, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. He knew. He knew no sin. And yet it says in our text he was made sin on our behalf.
He knew no sin. That in itself should be an object of constant, the subject of constant wandering meditation to be in this world with all of the pressures upon him. And yet he knew no sin. But wonder of wonders.
He was made sin on our behalf. He was reckoned in the sight of God as sin itself. Though utterly untainted and unbefiled with our sins. So fully and truly legally reckoned to be our sin bearer.
That the text is bold to come to us in this language. He was made sin on our behalf. On our behalf to what end that in what the old theologians loved to call the great exchange that we might become the righteousness of God in heaven. He who alone of all who ever trod upon this earth was perfectly, perpetually, impeccably righteous.
Yet he becomes sin that you and I might have a righteousness. That fully satisfies all the demands of God. And makes it right for God to declare us righteous. Not merely pardoned.
Not merely those upon whom no curse should come. But those upon whom all the blessings of a title to heaven must come. When that righteousness is ours. God provides a righteousness in Christ that demands of God that we be admitted into his presence or God would cease to be righteous.
This do in remembrance of me. He was made sin for us. That we might be made, we might become the righteousness of God in him. He died to turn away the wrath of God from us.
Facet 3: Christ Died to Open the Way to God for Us (1 Peter 3:18)
He died to procure a perfect righteousness for us. Now we turn to the third facet. He died to open the way to God for us. He died to open the way to God for us.
The first Adam was the original cause of our banishment from the presence of God. But the Lord Jesus as the last Adam. The last Adam has made that way open for us. Turn to 1 Peter chapter 3.
And notice the clear statement of this in verse 18. Because Christ also suffered for sins once. The righteous for the unrighteous. You notice the language of strict substitution in all of these verses.
A curse for us. Sin for us. Suffering for us. The righteous for the unrighteous.
To what end? In order that he might bring us to God. In order that he might bring us to God. He died to open the way to God on our behalf.
That no longer would we be banished, disinherited sons. But that we might be welcomed back into the presence and fellowship and communion of God. So that the central blessing of God's covenantal commitment. Whenever he makes his commitment to his people in saving mercy.
The crowning blessing of that covenantal commitment is. I will be their God. And they shall be my people. We are his inheritance.
And he is our portion forever. Remember this as you come to the table. This do in remembrance of me the Savior. Who by my dying the righteous for you the unrighteous.
Facet 4: Christ Died to Secure the Gift of the Spirit for Us (Galatians 3:14)
Will open the way to God for you. Turn again to the fourth facet. He died to secure the gift of the Spirit for us. Go back to the Galatians 3 passage.
He died to secure the gift of the Spirit for us. In the Galatians 3 passage. We focused our attention upon vicarious curse bearing. But in this setting.
There was a specific end in view in the apostles mind. Notice as I read again verse 13. But read on to verse 14. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Having become a curse for us. For it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. In order that. To this end.
That upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham. In Christ Jesus. That we might receive the promise. The promise of the Spirit.
Through faith. He died to secure the gift of the Spirit for us. Now what's the significance of this in terms of our salvation? Without I trust over simplifying and truncating our view of the Holy Spirit.
It is one of the major facets of his office and function. To communicate to the people of God. In their own experience. The blessings procured by the death of Christ.
If I may state it in a way that I hope will make it stick. Let me state it this way. As surely as those blessings could never be righteously ours. If Christ had not died.
They would never become experientially ours. If the Spirit were not given. We need not only the death of Christ. To procure those unique blessings.
But we need the Spirit of Christ to impart them. Those that have to do with Christian experience. We need the Holy Spirit to impart them. Therefore we this night as we come to the table of remembrance.
We have the Spirit of Christ given to us. As the Spirit of adoption. Galatians 4 verse 6. In the fullness of time God sent forth his Son.
Made of a woman. Made under the law. That he might redeem those that were under the law. And he goes on to say because you are sons.
He has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. Crying Abba Father that is. It is the Holy Spirit. Who enables us to lay hold of the reality.
That in Christ we are adopted sons and daughters. We do not merely sing and dance. As forgiven and pardoned criminals. We come into the very bosom of God.
Into the most intimate fellowship. And it is by the Holy Spirit that we are enabled. From the depths of our being. To embrace with joy and wonder.
The privilege of adoption. Is the spirit of mortification. Romans 8 verse 13. Having been brought to see our sins in the light of the cross.
We loathe them. We long to kill them. But we have no strength to do so in and of ourselves. But that text says.
If you by the Spirit. Do mortify the deeds of the flesh. You shall live. And it is the Spirit whose power enables us.
To slay our sins. He is the Spirit of intercession. For in that same chapter the Apostle says. We know not how to pray as we ought.
But the Spirit helps us. In this very infirmity. Of our felt weakness. And inability to pray.
As we ought. Romans 8 verse 26. In like manner the Spirit. Helps our infirmity.
For we know not how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself. Maketh intercession for us. With groanings which cannot be uttered.
I commend to you the recent reprint of Octavius. Winslow's marvelous treatment. Of Romans chapter 8. I've been reading it as part of my own devotional exercises.
In recent weeks. And his treatment of this text. Is profound. And yet beautiful in its simplicity.
Very pastoral. That paperback is in our bookstore. I commend it to you highly. As rich devotional material.
But think what it would be like. In all the complexity. Of what prayer is to be. Left at the mercy.
Of our own ignorance. But the Spirit has been given. To aid us. He is the Spirit of adoption.
Of mortification. Of intercession. And he is the Spirit of conformation. To Christ.
Second Corinthians 3.18. We all with open face. Beholding as in a mirror.
The glory of the Lord. Are being transformed. Into the same image. The same image.
From one stage of glory. To another. Even as from the Lord. The Spirit.
There is an actual work. Upon our moral constitution. That is making us. More and more.
Like Jesus Christ. There is real growth. In grace. As well.
As in knowledge. And all that you enjoy. As a child of God. We can worship nochtons in peace.
Be Tonight. Being able To call God your father. And know something of the joy of filial liberty. In your access to God.
You could not know that. Had the spirit of adoption not been given. And you would not have the spirit of adoption Had Christ not died. He bore the curse.
In order that we might receive the promise of the spirit by faith. Think of every sin that you may have incurred. sin that you've been able by the grace of God to mortify. You don't pat yourself on the back, but you give thanks to Him who has enabled you.
And every time you've known anything of coming away from the place of prayer with the confidence I've had dealings with God, you and I would come away utterly frustrated and confused and filled with shame did we not have the Spirit to help us in that infirmity. And if there is anything more of likeness of Christ in us today than there was a week ago and a year ago, it's because the Holy Spirit is actually transforming us into the moral likeness of Christ, imparting the very graces of the Son of God out of the fullness of Jesus by His own indwelling power. Remember this as you come to the table. He died to turn away the wrath of God from us He died to procure a perfect righteousness for us He died to open the way to God on our behalf He died to secure the gift of the Spirit for us Number five, we turn the diamond to another facet He died to effect in us a radical break with self-centered existence as a way of life He died to effect in us a radical break a radical break with self-centeredness as a way of life
Facet 5: Christ Died to Effect a Radical Break with Self-Centeredness (2 Corinthians 5:15)
2 Corinthians 5 and verse 15 the same chapter that says He became sin in our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him and I've not hinted that there is any true believer who has anything less than the very righteousness of God in union with Christ so just as infallibly He secures this end of His death verse 15 and He died for all that they who live they who receive spiritual life from the tap roots of His death and resurrection should no longer live unto themselves but unto Him who for their sakes died and rose again there is no such thing as a true Christian who is not fundamentally and radically committed to live a life in which Jesus Christ and not self is the main goal of one's existence if self is the pattern of your existence face it you've never been united to Christ the virtue of His cross has never touched you but when Christ's death for us is appropriated by faith that faith unites us to the Son of God
and the virtue of His death and resurrection means that His death for me spells my death to a life of self-centeredness this text says this was the end He had in view when He died He died for all that they who live should no longer live for themselves but unto Him who died for them and rose again remember this as you come to the table and ask is the end for which He died being realized as fully in me as it ought to be where have I found subtle little ways to please myself where I ought to be pleasing Him in the use of my time in my relationships to father and mother and brother and sister husband and wife in my work in the use of my substance O Lord show me as I come to the table where I say it reverently where I am by my own dullness and willfulness frustrating the end for which Christ died that I might pervasively and with ever increasing spiritual perception know what it is not to live to myself
Facet 6: Christ Died to Set Us Apart for a Life of Real Holiness (Titus 2:14)
not to live to a bunch of abstract rules but to live unto a person live unto Him who died for me and rose again for to me Paul said to live is Christ very quickly now the other two final facets He died He died to set us apart unto a life of real holiness we could look at Ephesians 5 but I pass over that passage in the interest of time and direct you to but one text again Titus chapter 2 and verse 14 after saying that when the grace of God comes it teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live a life of sobriety righteousness and godliness with hearts fixed upon the second coming of Christ it's as though someone anticipates or Paul anticipates someone asking the question and Paul why is such a radical detachment from the whole ethos and the whole framework of worldly existence and the whole framework of worldly existence and the whole framework of worldly existence and the whole framework of worldly existence why is this the thing the grace of God teaches us when it is taught to us by the Spirit
and we enter into possession of the salvation procured by the Lord Jesus and he says because anything less would undermine the very purpose for which he died verse 14 who gave himself for us here's the language of strict substitution again in order that he might retain he might retain us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a people for his own possession the zealous of good works you see when the grace of God is taught to us by the Spirit it not only teaches us on the threshold to deny anything of our own works as the ground of our acceptance with God so that we sin joyfully when we're brought in when we're brought in by the Spirit, not what my hands have done could save this guilty soul. No, he justifies the ungodly. Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I cling. If the Holy Spirit has taught us that truth, he always, inevitably, infallibly teaches a second truth. Having
brought us to renounce good works as the ground of our acceptance, he teaches us that good works done out of gratitude to God for his saving mercy in Christ are both the manifestation of the genuineness of our love to Christ and the validation of our professed faith in Christ.
That's why he says, faith without works is dead. And the amazing thing to me is the multitudes who think they've been taught by the Spirit. spirit, the grace of God leading to salvation, because they say, my works can never save me. I trust only in Christ. But where is the evidence that they live as a people who regard themselves as not being their own, but having been bought with a price? They are fully en toto, the property of another, and are zealous, boiling to do good works. That's the concept of zealous, boiling. They are passionate to live a life of good works, works defined by God as good, done out of a right motive, done by a right rule, done in the strength of Christ, but zealous of good works. In other words, he died to
Facet 7: Christ Died to Ensure All Essential Things for Complete Salvation (Romans 8:32)
set us apart unto a life of real holiness, a holiness that is not merely negative, merely good. mortification of sin and conformation to the image of Christ. But it is not passive. It is a holiness that is active so that we become like our Lord of whom it is said he went about doing good. It's amazing how those phrases and terms in our day in evangelical circles have fallen to bad times. May God grant that they are not so here. And finally he died to ensure that we shall be given everything essential to complete our salvation. He died to ensure that we shall be giving everything essential to our complete salvation.
Romans 8.32. He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him freely give us all things and in the context of all things.
There's not every car you want and every house you want and every new suit of clothes you want. It's everything I need to get me safely to heaven.
If he died, the old illustration, if a wealthy man were prepared to give you a handful of diamonds, surely you would not scruple to ask him for a paper bag in which to hold for fear he might be too stingy. If God has given his son, that's the handful of diamonds. Everything else needed. And because he gave his son, he's committed for everything else to take us safely to heaven.
Remember this when you come. Nothing profound dear people. Just simple, basic, nuts and bolts text. But as we come to the table of remembrance, here are just seven. There are many more. And ask God to give you an eye to see them. And when you see one, say, oh, I want to see more. And ask God and ask him to give those to you. You have a choice. You have to receive it.
The world will take you. No matter where you're at, let the world come to you. It's very easy. It's very easy.
It's the only way to get you. It's the only way you can go. Do you love it? That's the only way you can go to the world.
It's easy to be here. But you can't go to me like that. Listen, the only way you can go to the world is that God knows where you are, what you're looking at every day. The only way you can go to heaven, it's that you are in the place.
If you ask Him to give you the gold, increases the value of your business. when you have made us wealthy in him. Lord, take your word and use it to help us that as we come to this supper of remembrance, our hearts may swell with gratitude, may be overwhelmed with a sense of wonder, and that we shall with new and with spirit quickened understanding remember our Lord Jesus in the way of his appointment. We ask you his name. Amen.
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Passages Expounded
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
This passage is the starting point, establishing the command to remember Christ's death at the Lord's Supper.
Galatians 3:13-14
This passage is central to two 'facets,' explaining Christ's curse-bearing and the securing of the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 5:15-21
This passage is central to two 'facets,' detailing Christ being made sin for us and our call to live for Him.
Texts Expounded
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This passage is cited as the foundational text for the institution and apostolic account of the Lord's Supper, emphasizing the duty of remembrance.
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This verse is the first 'facet,' explaining that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, turning away God's wrath.
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This verse is the second 'facet,' demonstrating that Christ, who knew no sin, was made sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
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This verse is the third 'facet,' showing that Christ suffered for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring us to God, opening the way to His presence.
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This passage is the fourth 'facet,' explaining that Christ bore the curse so that the blessing of Abraham and the promise of the Spirit might come to us through faith.
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This verse is the fifth 'facet,' stating that Christ died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him, effecting a radical break with self-centeredness.
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This verse is the sixth 'facet,' explaining that Christ gave Himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people zealous for good works, setting us apart for holiness.
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This verse is the seventh 'facet,' arguing that if God did not spare His own Son, He will surely freely give us all things essential for our complete salvation.