The Lord's Supper

1. 0:00The Holy Supper of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 28
2. 0:12How does the Holy Supper remind and assure you that you share in Christ's one sacrifice on the cross and in all his benefits?
3. 0:20In this way, Christ has commanded me and all believers to eat this broken bread and to drink this cup in remembrance of Him.
4. 0:29With this command came these promises: First, as surely as I see with my eyes the bread of the Lord broken for me and the cup shared with me, so surely His
5. 0:40body was offered and broken for me, and his blood poured out for me on the cross.
6. 0:45Second, as surely as I receive from the hand of him who serves and taste with my mouth the bread and cup of the Lord, given me as sure signs of Christ's body and blood, so surely he nourishes and refreshes my soul.
7. 1:00soul for eternal life with His crucified body and poured out blood.
8. 1:06What does it mean to eat the crucified body of Christ and to drink His poured out blood?
9. 1:12It means to accept with a believing heart the entire suffering and death of Christ, and in this way to receive forgiveness of sin
10. 1:20and eternal life. But it means more. Through the Holy Spirit, who lives both in Christ and in us, we are united more and more to Christ's blessed body. And so,
11. 1:34although He is in heaven and we are on earth, we are flesh of His flesh and bone of His flesh.
12. 1:39his bone, and we forever live on and are governed by one Spirit, as the members of our body are by one soul.
13. 1:49Where does Christ promise to nourish and refresh believers with his body and blood as surely as they eat this broken bread and drink this cup?
14. 1:57In the institution of the Lord's Supper.
15. 1:59The Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took bread.
16. 2:03And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "Take, eat.
17. 2:08This is my body which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
18. 2:14In the same way also he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
19. 2:21Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.
20. 2:25For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
21. 2:32This promise is repeated by Paul in these words: The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a part participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the
22. 2:45body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. Lord’s Day 28 begins our investigation of the Lord's Supper by asking us this question:
23. 3:03How does the Holy Supper remind and assure you that you share in Christ's one sacrifice on the cross and in all his benefits?
24. 3:13There are two things we should see about this question and answer.
25. 3:16The first is that it's intensely personal.
26. 3:19First-person pronouns are used 11 times in the answer to this question: "Christ has commanded me to eat this bread and drink this cup.
27. 3:30As surely as I see with my eyes the bread of the Lord broken for me and the cup shared with me."
28. 3:36It's intensely personal because faith is is intensely personal, but it's also very definitely Christ-focused.
29. 3:46The answer begins this way: How does the Holy Supper remind me of this and assure me of this?
30. 3:52In this way: Christ has commanded me and all believers to eat this broken vine bread and to drink this cup in remembrance of Him. With this command, this command from
31. 4:06Christ, come these promises, these promises from Christ to me. What does He give us?
32. 4:16He gives us, first of all, our catechism tells us, assurances of the great promises that He gave us in the preaching of the gospel. The gospel tells us that God forgives our sins,
33. 4:25God makes us righteous, God gives us eternal life in Jesus Christ.
34. 4:31The sacraments repeat this promise. We hear the gospel preached to us, but we see the sacraments.
35. 4:39These are signs that signify something. They are rites that point us to a reality.
36. 4:48Well, what is the rite? What is the sign that we are given by Christ?
37. 4:53The bread broken, the cup poured out. What is the reality that that's point to here?
38. 4:59Well, his body offered and broken for us, his blood poured out for us on the cross.
39. 5:06Christ wants us to understand that his body was broken and his blood was poured out, and he wants us to believe it, and he wants our faith in this fact to be strengthened and It's why He gave us the sacrament.
40. 5:22What's the other sign that He gives us?
41. 5:24Well, we receive. We receive the bread. We receive the wine.
42. 5:28And as surely as we receive them, as surely as we eat them, so surely does Christ nourish our souls.
43. 5:36So surely does Christ strengthen us.
44. 5:39us for our pilgrim journey.
45. 5:43Well, how is it that we receive Christ in the sacrament?
46. 5:48That's the second question we get in Lord’s Day 28.
47. 5:51What does it mean to eat the crucified body of Christ and to drink His poured out blood?
48. 5:56It means to accept with a believing heart.
49. 5:59We take hold of Christ not with our mouths, not with our hands, but with our faith, which is the hand and the mouth of our soul.
50. 6:12But more than that, we receive him through the Holy Spirit.
51. 6:16As we turn our eyes and the eyes of our hearts to heaven where Christ Jesus is seated at God's right hand. The Holy Spirit gives us Christ's
52. 6:25strength. He gives us Christ's vitality and makes us strong. You see, the Lord's Supper is not for strong Christians. The Lord's Supper is for weak Christians. Christ is a good shepherd, and he knows that his sheep,
53. 6:39are often weak. And so he gives us his supper to make us strong. And he invites us to say, with the words of the bride in the Song of Songs, "I am my beloved's and he is mine.
54. 6:54His body is mine. His blood is mine."
55. 6:59My beloved is mine.
56. 7:03He brought me to his banqueting table, and his banner over me is love.
57. 7:19Thank you.

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