Communion / Lord’s Supper

A Question for Communicants

Exodus 12:26

… You come to the Communion Table, then, to remember your absent Friend. You come, also, chiefly to remember His great deed of love. This supper is a memorial …

The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

… you may come to the Communion Table. But, if not, as the Passover was only intended for Israel, so is this supper a family feast for those who …

The Greatest Exhibition of the Age

1 Corinthians 11:26

… But the Lord's Supper is more than a memorial, it is a fellowship, a communion. Those who eat of this bread, spiritually understanding what they do—those …

Feeding on the Bread of Life

John 6:47

… A very blessed way of feeding upon Christ is pictured by our sitting together around this Communion Table. One person could not celebrate the Lord's Supper, for …

What the Lord's Supper Sees and Says

1 Corinthians 11:26

… Well, this is my preface to introduce you to this marvelous book—the Communion, the Feast of Love, the Lord's Supper. There is no teaching anywhere like …

The Objective of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… come to the Communion Table, but I do think they give us a hint that if we act rightly, we shall often observe this Supper of the Lord …

'In Remembrance'

1 Corinthians 11:24

… let us come to His Table as though our communion here were the first course of that Everlasting Supper to which we shall sit down with Him above …

Preparation Necessary for the Communion

1 Corinthians 11:28

… WE do not hold it right to admit all persons indiscriminately to the Lord's Supper—we believe the Lord's Table is the place of communion—and …

Fencing the Table

1 Corinthians 11:28

… Supper unworthily. We have known, to our great sorrow, of some who have been harboring an unforgiving spirit, yet who have dared to come to the Communion Table …

Examination Before Communion

1 Corinthians 11:28

… For in eating, everyone takes his own supper before others, and one is hungry, and another is drunken. They had such low notions of the communion that they …

The Lord's Supper—simple But Sublime!

1 Corinthians 11:25

… The second objective of this Communion Supper is THE SHOWING OF CHRIST'S DEATH TILL HE COMES. "Till He comes." I must not say anything about that except …

Communion With Christ and His People

1 Corinthians 10:16

… And we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it. I. The teaching of the Lord's Supper is just this—that …

The Lessons of the Foot-washing

John 13:3-5

… dispensation is a supper—"Blessed is he that shall eat bread at the marriage supper of the Lamb." We do not always view our communion with Christ in …

The Double Forget-me-not

1 Corinthians 11:24

… The two pictures are Believers' Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Because I am a child, therefore must I still have emblems and tokens, for these are more …

Communion With Christ And His People

… What does this supper mean? It means communion: communion with Christ, and communion with one another. What is communion? The word breaks up easily into union, and its …

Christ and His Table-Companions

… The other sacred institution, the Lord’s supper, like believers’ baptism, is simplicity itself. It consists of bread broken, and wine poured out, these viands being eaten and …

Christ and His Table Companions

Luke 22:14

… Now, He who ordained this Supper knew how it ought to be observed. And as the first celebration of it was the model for all others, we may …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, which are for the Lord's people only, are easy of observance and are for our help and comfort, but are …

The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… First, I have to try to show you WHAT THE LORD'S SUPPER SETS FORTH. It sets forth "the Lord's death." There is no ordinance to set …

The Father and the Son

1 John 1:3

… Do you not perceive the kinship of the two words, communion and communication, communion and conversation? This there must be or there will be no true fellowship. Now …

The Feast of the Lord

… I THINK we cannot too often explain the meaning of the two great Christian ordinances—baptism and the Supper of the Lord; for it is essential to our …

Christ's Rest and Ours

Isaiah 11:10

… I believe that the Communion is not the Lord's breakfast, but, "the Lord's Supper," so I like to take it in the evening. Though any time …

The Blood Shed For Many

Matthew 26:28

… The Lord's Supper was meant to be a frequent feast of fellowship. It is a grievous mistake of the Church when the communion is held but once …

All Things Are Ready, Come

Luke 14:17

… It is later in the day than when first the Lord was here and, therefore, the supper time is evidently closer at hand. The shadows lengthen, the sun …

A Straight Talk

Luke 14:20

… The first two sets of people who were invited to the supper said to the servant, apologetically, with some appearance of courtesy, "I pray you have me excused …

The Memorable Hymn

Matthew 26:30

… It was His farewell supper before a bitter parting—and yet they must sing. He was on the brink of that great depth of misery into which He …

Prefactory Note

… Spurgeon’s constant custom to observe the ordinance of the Lord’s supper every Sabbath-day, unless illness prevented. This he believed to be in accordance with apostolic …

Feeding on a Whole Christ

Numbers 9:11

… Ready-to-Halt, though he had never done such a thing before, danced without his crutches! It is wonderful what joy comes out of Christian communion and holy …

The Lord's Supper—a Remembrance Of Jesus

Luke 22:19

… Alas, how sadly have men forgotten this! The plain supper has not been a grand enough display. To break bread and to drink wine have not seemed to …

The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate

… Indeed, at the Lord’s supper, which is the embodiment of communion, we have ever been wont to make a special contribution for the poor of the flock …

Truly Eating the Flesh of Jesus

John 6:53-56

… the Lord's Supper, then it is certain that the dying thief could not have entered Heaven, for he never sat down at the communion table, but was …

Rejoicing and Remembering

Solomon 1:4

… of the Supper is that it should be taken while sitting around a table. It is not meant to be an adoration—it is a communion! We come …

Too Little for the Lamb

Exodus 12:3

… The new Jerusalem, according to them, was intended to comprise some little miserable hamlet, bounded on the North and East by a ditch of strict communion and on …

Preparation for the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:28

… It should always be the prelude to communion. Examination should preface enjoyment. You should see whether you ought to be there and have a right to be there …

The Memorable Hymn

… It was His farewell supper before a bitter parting, and yet they needs must sing. He was on the brink of that great depth of misery into which …

Evening, October 20

Is 43:6

… Neglect not the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper. You may be of a timid disposition, but you must strive against it, lest it lead you …

A Sore Grievance

Jeremiah 50:6

… At least there is truth in the first observation—it is a blessed supper Doctrine and Christ makes a blessed supper for us in life's end. There …

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Revelation 19:9

… But now, secondly, I have to speak a little upon THE MEANING OF THE MARRIAGE SUPPER—"Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the …

Meal-time in the Cornfields

… Let us not forget that there is one specially ordained meal-time which ought to occur at least once in the week—I mean the Supper of the …

Purging Out the Leaven

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

… In Him we have communion with God, and joy and peace through believing. We are to keep the feast by feeding upon Christ. The paschal lamb was not …