Lord’s Day 29

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The Shepherd’s Heart Covenant Reformed Church
78. Q. Are then the bread and wine changed
into the real body and blood of Christ?
A. No. Just as the water of baptism is not changed
into the blood of Christ and is not the washing
away of sins itself but is simply God's sign and
pledge, 1 so also the bread in the Lord's supper
does not become the body of Christ itself, 2
although it is called Christ's body 3 in keeping
with the nature and usage of sacraments. 4
 Ephesians 5:26
26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the
washing with water through the word,
 Titus 3:5
5 he saved us, not because of righteous things
we had done, but because of his mercy. He
saved us through the washing of rebirth and
renewal by the Holy Spirit,
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given
thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this
is my body.”

27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to

them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the
covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I
tell you; I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until
that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Matthew 26:26-29
 1 Corinthians 10:16-17
16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a
participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread
that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17
Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body,
for we all share the one loaf.
26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the

Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning
against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Everyone ought
to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and
drink from the cup.

1 Corinthians 11:26-28
 Genesis 17:10-11
10 This is my covenant with you and your descendants after
you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you
shall be circumcised. 11 You are to undergo circumcision,
and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt,
your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it
is the Lord’s Passover.

12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every
firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all
the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on
the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

Exodus 12:11-13
10 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers
and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and
that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all
baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all
ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual
drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that
accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

1 Corinthians 10:1-4
79. Q. Why then does Christ call the bread his body and the cup his
blood, or the new covenant in his blood, and why does Paul speak of a
participation in the body and blood of Christ?
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A. Christ speaks in this way for a good reason: He wants to
teach us by his supper that as bread and wine sustain us in
this temporal life, so his crucified body and shed blood are
true food and drink for our souls to eternal life. 1 But, even
more important, he wants to assure us by this visible sign
and pledge, first, that through the working of the Holy
Spirit we share in his true body and blood as surely as we
receive with our mouth these holy signs in remembrance of
him, 2 and, second, that all his suffering and obedience are
as certainly ours as if we personally had suffered and paid
for our sins. 3
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread
will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world.”

52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son
of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh
and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

John 6:51-55
 1 Corinthians 10:16-17
16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a
participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread
that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17
Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body,
for we all share the one loaf.
 1 Corinthians 11:26
26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united
with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him
so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be
slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know
that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery
over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to
God.

11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:5-11
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