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Explore The Word With Pastor Robert Hemsath

The Body and the Blood

10/16/2019

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Stir Up Some Conversation:

I hope that my post today will stir some conversation regarding the topic and how we use said topic.

For us Lutheran Christians, the topic of the Lord's Supper is the most intimate gift that God gave to us. For we believe that Jesus' body and blood are truly present in the Sacrament of Holy Communion. We believe that Jesus' body and blood mysteriously and miraculously occupy the same space and time as the bread and wine. We believe that we receive Jesus' body and blood in order to receive forgiveness of our sins.

Why Do We Believe This?

​                                               Because He said so.

Please listen to St. Paul recount what Jesus said from 1st Corinthians 11:24-26.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when He was betrayed took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way also He took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup in the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. (the emphasis is mine)

"The cup" refers to the cup of wine used in Jesus' Last Supper with His Apostles. It was wine used in the original Passover meal that celebrated the remembrance of God's deliverance of the nation of Israel from their slavery at the hands of the Egyptians.

So the Lord's Supper is connected to the deliverance of people. Specifically, it is Jesus' body and blood that delivers us from sin, death, hell, and the influence of Satan. 

The Bottom Line:
Jesus says that the bread and wine and His body and blood are together. When we receive it we proclaim Jesus' death until He returns. And what did Jesus' death do? It forgave our sins. It is as simple as that. 

Do you have any thoughts? Comment? Let's get a conversation started.



2 Comments
gary
10/20/2019 04:58:02 pm

I have repeatedly asserted that the biggest weakness in the evidence for the alleged resurrection of Jesus is the fact that most historians and scholars doubt the eyewitness/associate of eyewitness authorship of the books that tell this tale (see here). For all we know, these stories are the theological or literary inventions of their non-eyewitness authors. But what if these four authors did profess to be eyewitnesses to multiple back-from-the-dead Jesus sightings? Should we believe them?

No.

Here’s why: https://lutherwasnotbornagaincom.wordpress.com/2019/10/19/why-we-should-not-believe-the-resurrection-stories-even-if-they-were-written-by-alleged-eyewitnesses/

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Pastor Robert link
10/21/2019 08:45:40 am

Gary,

How many witnesses will it take for you to accept the truth of the resurrection, along with all the miraculous accounts of the Bible?

In legal systems, at least two. Three is better. Jesus Himself said, when teaching how settle disputes, if you can't resolve the issue one on one, then bring in two or three witnesses. (Matthew 18:15-20)

We have twelve eye witnesses to what occurred with Jesus. Four of the eye witnesses wrote down their accounts.That is good enough for me.

All the current historians that "doubt" the written evidence don't seem to opine that the accounts are reliable. I have four accounts that say the same thing. And these accounts have stood the test of time, 1900 plus years of scrutiny to be exact.

That is good enough for me.
Pastor Robert


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    Pastor Robert Hemsath joined Faith Lutheran Church and School as the Senior Pastor in January 2017. Pastor Hemsath comes to FLC from Christ the King Lutheran Church in Waxahachie, TX. He has also served congregations in Aberdeen, ID and Pocatello, ID. He has been a Lutheran pastor for the past 20 years.

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