Communion / Lord’s Supper

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… When the outward service of the Church begins to flag and her holiness declines, you may be sure that her communion with God has been sadly suspended. Devotion …

Christ—the Fall and Rise of Many

Luke 2:34

… But man does not want to be near his God, and therefore he rails at the means provided for communion! Christ is the sign of the elect seed …

Jacob Worshipping on His Staff

Hebrews 11:21

… worship on the top of his staff at last, for on the paschal supper night, when the blood was sprinkled on the lintel and the side posts, they …

A Consistent Walk for Time to Come

Colossians 2:6

… truly, there are many who have received both Baptism and the Lord's Supper, yet, despite what any may say, we believe that they have not received Christ …

The Parable of the Wedding Feast

Matthew 22:2

… Jesus manifests himself unto us as he doth not unto the world, and the communion of the Holy Ghost abides with us. Our fellowship is like that of …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… But see how Baptism and the Lord's Supper, both of them (for I cannot now stay long to discriminate), have been misused. Whereas these are, both of …

Instability

Genesis 49:4

… How unfaithful we have been to our dedication vows! how negligent of close communion! How unlike we have been to holy Enoch! how much more like Peter, when …

Christian Baptism

Colossians 2:12

… He left the earth, instituted two ordinances, namely, Baptism and the Lord's Supper—ordinances which were to be observed by His disciples throughout every age on to …

Possessing Possessions

… God forbid that we should put a slight upon Baptism and the Supper of the Lord! Some have rejected these sacred institutions—and how they will answer for …

The Blessing of the High Priest

Numbers 6:22-27

… It is something like our Savior's Memorial Feast—we are nowhere told when and how often we are to celebrate the Supper of the Lord. Although it …

"I Will," Yet, "Not As I Will"

John 7:24

… I do not know how many minutes—I had better say minutes rather than hours—intervened between the Last Supper, the wonderful high-priestly prayer and the agonizing …

Christ's Perfection and Precedence

Solomon 5:10

… So, Beloved, let us study Christ as we come, again, to this Communion Table! You who love and fear Him, neglect not your Bibles. Neglect not that fellowship …

Faith in the Person of the Lord Jesus

… The outward sign saves not; but it sets forth to us our death, burial, and resurrection with Jesus, and, like the Lord’s Supper, it is not to …

One Greater Than the Temple

Matthew 12:6

… Supper, and does not believe in it. I am very sorry for him, for he loses a great privilege, but if I see that he has communion with …

"Rest in the Lord"

Psalm 37:7

… the sweet dessert of communion with Christ—a leaning of the head upon the bosom of the Lord as John did at the supper—delighting oneself in the …

The Power of Christ's Presence

John 21:7

… in keeping with holy fellowship and so, though we are coming to the Communion Table at the close of this service, I feel that I am only right …

Open House For All Comers

Luke 15:2

… A great king makes a supper, and oxen and fatlings are killed. Now for whom is a feast prepared but for the hungry? In the parables the feast …

"This Year Also"

Luke 13:6

… prepared, now, to hear the midnight cry and to enter into the marriage supper? The Judgment and all that will follow is surely the heritage of every living …

God Incarnate, The End Of Fear

Luke 2:10

… not rebelliously, "What is this Baptism for, and what is this Communion of the Lord's Supper for?" These two outward ordinances, whatever may be their excellent uses …

Love at Leisure

Luke 10:39

… There theymade Him a supper, andMartha served: andLazarus was one ofthem that sat at the table with Him. Martha served—she had not given that up. She was …

The Soul's Food and Drink

John 6:55

… and drink the blood of Christ when we come to the Communion Table. The Lord's Supper was not instituted at the time that our Savior spoke these …

Faith's Firm Resolve

Psalm 71:16

… any place between here and Paradise! I wish that we more often enjoyed communion with closed doors. We might. Why don't we? Whatever we gain by occupying …

The Christian's Motto

John 8:29

… He was, indeed, all-pleasing to the Father when rising up from supper He said, "Let us go hence," and He went without a murmur to be "obedient …

A Word for the Persecuted

1 Samuel 20:10

… Lord produces a sacred tonic which braces us for a higher life of communion with himself. Trials from the enemies of Jesus confirm our faith. Those who are …

The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit

Proverbs 18:14

… I like that picture—it is almost as grand as the group of Christ and His disciples at the supper table in the upper room. "He sat down …

The Necessity of the Spirit’s Work

… For instance, the two ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They are both made a rich means of grace. But let me ask you, is there …

Search the Scriptures

Isaiah 8:20

… I hold then, that none but believers have any right to the Lord’s Supper; that it is wrong to give the Lord’s Supper indiscriminately to all …

The Sine Qua Non

John 13:8

… We have a part with Him as His friends and as His chosen whom He has admitted into the most familiar communion with Himself. We are much deceived …

Our Lord's Prayer for His People's Sanctification

John 17:17

… After the closing supper, his public preaching work being ended, and nothing remaining to be done but to die, he gave himself wholly unto prayer. He was not …

The Approachableness of Jesus

Luke 15:1

… Baptism in outward type sets forth our fellowship with him in his death, burial, and resurrection—what can be nearer than this? The Lord's Supper in visible …

'Do I Love the Lord or Not?'

John 21:17

… Then Peter, turning about, seeing the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who also leaned on His breast at supper, and said, Lord, who is he that betrays You …

The Form of Godliness Without the Power

2 Timothy 3:5

… And there is the Lord's Supper, wherein, in type and emblem, he feeds upon Christ and sustains the life which came to him by fellowship with Christ …

Making Light of Christ

Matthew 22:5

… In was his marriage, and inasmuch as they absented themselves, they did dishonour to that glorious One in whose honour the supper was prepared. They slighted him whom …

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… They have had the bread and wine at the communion—will not that suffice? The whole thing generates formalism and eats out the soul of true piety. However …

"He Comes With Clouds"

Revelation 1:7

… At the Lord's Supper, there is no discerning the Lord's body unless you discern His First Coming—but there is no drinking of His cup to …

A Triumphal Entrance

Psalm 24:9

… what a mercy if you should sup with Christ! And what a blessed supper you would have! Why, when you woke tomorrow it would be to breakfast with …

For the Candid and Thoughtful

Mark 12:34

… We are not to give up the baptism of believers because of the unscriptural rite of infant sprinkling, nor to forsake the Lord’s Supper because of the …

Baptism’A Burial

Romans 6:3-4

… He who has eaten Christ’s flesh and blood spiritually is the man who can see this in the sacred Supper, and he who has been baptized into …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… THERE is something to be lamented in this state of mind, for if the Psalmist had maintained unbroken communion with his God, he would not have been so …

Additions to the Church

… Their own houses were houses of God, and their own meals were so mixed and mingled with the Lord's Supper that to this day the most cautious …