Episode Details

Chapter 29: Of The Lord's Supper (Part 3)

Speaker: Reverend Joseph Poon

Website: http://www.bpcwa.org.au/

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Introduction - (00:00)

QUESTIONS

Q1. What does the Roman Catholic Church teach about keeping aside the elements in the Council of Trent, Session 13, Canon 7? Have their views changed today? What does that tell us?

Q2. What does the Roman Catholics typically practice regarding the cup? Why? Is it Biblical? Why?

WCF 29.5 and 6

Q3. What are the uses Christ set apart for each of the elements?

Q4. Is Christ truly present in the elements? Why do we call it the “body” and “blood of Christ” then? How is Christ present?

Q5. What is 'Transubstantiation'? Why is it erroneous? What does it lead to? Why is it so powerful for the Roman Catholic Church?

WCF 29.7

Q6. Does John 6:52-58 refer to the Holy Communion and hence mean eating Christ’s flesh and drinking His blood? Explain how we refute the Roman Catholic’s error from this passage.

Q7. What is 'Consubstantiation'? Who holds this view? Why is it erroneous? What are its dangers?

Q8. How does the communicant “receive and feed upon Christ” and what does it mean?

Q9. What are benefits of Christ’s death that we receive at the Holy Communion?

WCF 29.8

Q10. What does “worthy” mean? Can we make ourselves worthy to partake of the Holy Communion? Explain.

Q11. What are the warnings of partaking unworthily? How should it help me? Is this grace imparted? Explain.

Q12. What is damnation mentioned in 1 Corinthians 11:29? What about false believer’s partaking of the Holy Communion?

Q13. “But nothing happened to me though I was an unbeliever! I did not receive damnation!” Is that true? Explain.

Q14. What should you do if you know an unbeliever is partaking of the Holy Communion in our midst?

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CHAPTER XXIX OF THE LORD'S SUPPER

4. Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest, or any other, alone;7 as likewise the denial of the cup to the people;8 worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and the reserving them for any pretended religious use; are all contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the institution of Christ.9

7. I Cor. 10:6

8. Mark 14:23; I Cor. 11:25-29

9. Matt. 15:9

5. The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, yet sacramentally only, they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent, to wit, the body and blood of Christ;10 albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly and only bread and wine, as they were before.11

10. Matt. 26:26-28

11. I Cor. 11:26-28; Matt. 26:29

6. That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christ’s body and blood (commonly called Transubstantiation) by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense and reason; overthroweth the nature of the sacrament; and hath been and is the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries.12

12. Acts 3:21; with I Cor. 11:24-26; Luke 24:6,39

7. Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament,13 do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death; the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.14

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