The Bible makes it clear that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was for the forgiveness of

the sins of all who would believe in Him, one sacrifice for all sins for all time.

So what's the purpose of communion?

That's our focus today on truth for life.

The Bible is a message titled, the nature and meaning of the Lord's Supper.

Both of them were appointed as a mode for publicly professing our faith in the gospel.

When the ordinances are the sacraments of the church are made to teach us other things

than what the Bible teaches us, then we have to be very, very careful.

What you have in the Bible is the truth of God verbally.

What you have in the ordinances or the sacraments is the truth of God visibly.

And the truth of God visibly conveyed by means of symbols does not contradict the truth

of God verbally conveyed in the truth of the Bible.

So when you find a teaching that grants to the visible elements, that which calls in question

what we have verbally in the testimony of Scripture, then you will have to make a decision.

Are we going to embrace the cry of the Reformation, solar scripture so that this is our authority

for understanding what the church is to be and how the church is to operate or is the

scriptures just one of another source by which we may make our pilgrimage through our

spiritual existence.

In the doctrine of transubstantiation, there is the worship of the host.

And I do not mean in any sense to denigrate the sincerity, the love, the devotion, the

commitment, the earnest longing that is represented in the hearts of many, many people

for whom this is their standard pattern through life.

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