Luke 22:14-20 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.… I. THE ORDINANCE ITSELF. II. ITS CHARACTERISTICS. 1. A Divine ordinance. 2. A perpetual ordinance. 3. A binding and obligatory ordinance. 4. It should be a frequent ordinance. No Lord's Day without the Lord's Supper. III. THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT SHOULD BE OBSERVED. 1. Deep humility of mind. 2. Grateful love to Jesus. 3. Faith. 4. Love to all mankind. 5. Joyous hope. IV. THE ADVANTAGES ARISING FROM OBEDIENCE TO THIS COMMAND OF CHRIST'S. 1. The soul will be strengthened. 2. Christ will be increasingly precious. 3. Holiness will be increased. 4. Heaven will be desired. Application: 1. Address regular communicants. Come in a right spirit. Be watchful, humble, prayerful, etc. 2. Address irregular communicants. Why so? It is disobedience, inconsistency, injurious to yourselves, Church, world. 3. Those who never commune at all. (1) The conscientiously doubtful. Do you hate sin? Believe in Christ, etc. Are you willing to obey him? Then draw near, etc. (2) Those who are really unfit for the Lord's table, are also unfit for death, judgment, eternity. (J. Burns, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.WEB: When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. |
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