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Do you do you do you do you do

do you do If you're part of a local church you're no doubt familiar with communion, maybe you know it is the

Eucharist or the Lord's Supper, whatever you call it,

why is it so important for us as Christians to regularly participate in these sacraments

or ordinances?

We'll hear the answer today on Truth for Life weekend.

Halister Begg is continuing a series he's It's a word that entered theological parlance via the Latin

Vulgate and it literally means something

sacred something sacred. When Augustine defined the sacraments in history as, quote,

outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace.

He made it possible for people then to think of them

subsequently in terms of signs or symbols, external elements which point to a reality beyond themselves.

And it's important that we understand this, that the sign or the symbol,

whether it is water or bread or wine is not to be confused with the thing it signifies or symbolizes.

The sign or the symbol then is a visible object that points to the reality a reality that is different from and more significant than itself.

If we put it down at the most elementary thinking, we don't imagine that because we have seen on the highway a sign pointing to Chicago

that we have actually arrived in Chicago. All that we have seen is a sign that is pointing to a reality beyond itself.

And we could part by the sign and never ever be in Chicago.

So in the signs, the reality to which they point, and get this, is displayed not dispensed.

The blessing which is promised in the sacraments is not mechanically or automatically

conveyed in them. Now we ought to be surprised by that because that is just as true of

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