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Q. 81. For whom is the Lord's supper instituted? A. For those who are truly sorrowful for their sins, and yet trust that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ; and that their remaining infirmities are covered by his passion and death; and who also earnestly desire to have their faith more and more strengthened, and their lives more holy; but hypocrites, and such as turn not to God with sincere hearts, eat and drink judgment to themselves. IntroductionI have already, two sermons ago, given you the context of this passage. So I will not repeat it. Suffice to say that it is not what some of us, perhaps, believed it to be. This evening, we will take a few moments and look at QA 81, in light of want you to notice, congregation, what our QA does NOT say. Our Answer does NOT say, "For those who KNOW thay are truly sorrowful for their sins, and yet KNOW that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ; and that their remaining infirmities are covered by his passion and death; and who also KNOW that their faith is more and more strengthened, and their lives more holy; but hypocrites, and such as turn not to God with sincere hearts, eat and drink judgment to themselves. Three times I inserted the work KNOW, where I think many of us do. The first is regarding or knowledge of our sorrow. It is not that you know, by some infaillible wittness, that you are truly sorrowful. But truly. That word truly is subjective. Truly sorrowful for sin. It can be ullustrated on a more common level. A husband in some way, wrongs his wife (it could also be the reverse). Upon reflection, he becomes solemn and serious, knowing he has sinned against her. He feels conviction of that sin against her, as he comes home from work, and sees her. Their relationship has been disrupted. He feels it was entirely his fault. So he begins to reason withing himself. "I am grieving over my shortness and temper toward my wife. I need to ask her for forgiveness." Just then, the phone rings, and it's his closes friend in the world. He answers, but distractedly so. "I noticed you were a little distracted today at work, is everyting ok? "No, not really", he answers. "I was short and illtempered with my wife, and I feel that I need to ask her to forgive me. So I need to go." "Just wait!", came the reply. "Don't hang up. Let's talk this through. How do you know tht your feeling of sorrow here is real? I mean, you don't want to be a hypocrite. It will only make things worse if she detects you don't really mean it." "Of course my feeling is real, what are you talking about?" Well, we know that our hearts are diecietful above all else, and desperatly wwicked", so how do you know that it's not playing a trick on you? That you are doing this for all the wrong reasons?" "That's redicolious, I know what I feel. I have sinned against her love." "But how do you know if you truly love her? Again, we are prone to presumption, so why don't you take some time and see if you truly love her, and then you can find out if you are truly sorry? That's the only way to know if what you want to do is the right thing." Some best friend. To try and convince any of you that because your hearts are tricksters, you don't really love your spouce is a deadend road. You know. But do you infallibly know? Well, I guess not infalibly. But as far as you can judge yourself, it is true. So ur fathers used the word "truly sorrowful for their sins." As much as they can understand it to be true, it is true. The second KNOW that is out of place is when I said, "and yet KNOW that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ." The actual wording is, "and yet trust that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ". They don't KNOW that they are forgiven, but they TRUST that they have been forgiven. Amlodipine besylate. Thatis a pill I take every day. When I first recieved the prescription I reasarched it on a medical website. Amlodipine besylate is chemically described as 3-Ethyl-5-methyl (± confidence interval symbol)-2-[(2-amino-ethoxy)methyl]-4-(2- chloro-phenyl)-1,4-di-hydro-6-methyl-3,5-pyrid-in-edicarbox-ylate, mono-ben-zen-esulphon-ate. Well that was helpful. But I took it. Why? I trusted my doctor. I trusted that what he was prescribing was good for my condition. There was a direct conection between my mind, and his degree of knowedge of the human body. Was I infallable sure it word work? No, but I trusted. So the Word of God tells us that we are to believe on the name of the LJC, and trust we shall be saved fron our sin. So the person for whom the LS was instituted, is first, sorrowful as far as they know, and second, TRUST that their sins are forgiven.The third way I changed this answer was to read it thusly, "and who also KNOW that their faith is more and more strengthened, and their lives more holy", when it actually reads, "and who also earnestly desire". Earnestly desire to have theirfaith more stengthened and live more holily. You know this desire, if it is in you. If you have no such desire at all, then the LS is not for you. It was not instituted for you. Not now. But the desire to have faith strengthened. Now you know if that desire is in your heart. "But how do I know it is a true desire?" Because you desire is for Christ.If Christ be truly thy desire, thou dost desire him for himself. He that truly makes Christ the desire of his soul, desires the person of Christ more than anything which comes along with the person. Abundance there are that desire Christ, not for his person, but for his portion. They desire him for that salvation and comfort which he procures to them that possess him. This is not to desire Christ, but to desire comfort and salvation. He that desires Christ for anything but himself, for anything above himself, doth not at all desire Christ. The desires of the Church were right, , “The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.” Christ's name is Christ himself; the person of Christ is more desirable than the patrimony of Christ, though that also be marvellous great. If the name of Christ be not the chief and principal object of thy desires, Christ is not truly thy desire. (2.) If Christ be thy desire, thou wilt universally desire him. The apostle saith that Christ is a Prince and a Saviour, . Many desire Christ as a Saviour that reject him as a Prince ; but he that truly desires him, desires him as a Prince as well as a Saviour. Do you desire his commands as well as his promises? Do you desire his holiness as well as his happiness! Do you desire the spirit as well as the merit? Do you desire the water as well as the blood? Where he is not universally desired in one office as well as another, he is not indeed at all desired. He that desires Christ dividedly, desires not the Lord Christ, but a Christ of his own devising. (3.) If Christ be truly thy desire, thou wilt diligently make use of all means which may help forward communion with Christ. He that truly desires any object, cannot but desire to have the nearest union that is possible with it; and in order to that he desires everything which may perfect and help on the union. ‘Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest,” saith the Church, . All holy ordinances, all Divine helps, which Christ hath ordained for the begetting, confirming, increasing communion between himself and his people, will be conscionably used, delighted in, pursued by all those to whom Christ is desirable. Every ladder by which he may climb up to Christ, he will be sure to stand at the foot of it. Every spiritual glass in which he may see the face of Christ, he will be daily looking in ; every sycamore tree in which there is any hopes of seeing Christ, he will be ascending as oft as he can. And he is not satisfied with any ordinance unless he can find Christ in it. (4.) If Christ be truly thy desire, thou wilt desire him above all other objects. David professeth that he ‘preferred Jerusalem above his chief joy,' Psal. cxxxvii. 6. Christ, where he is truly desirable, is preferred above the chiefest joy. Gold, silver, raiment, friends, relations, are willingly slighted, deserted for the enjoyment of Christ. “I account all things but loss,’ saith the apostle, ‘that I may gain Christ, . He that doth either equalize any    

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10:59 AM (2 minutes ago)��📷Reply📷to me📷 Q. 81. For whom is the Lord's supper instituted?A. For those who are truly sorrowful for their sins, and yet trust that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ; and that their remaining infirmities are covered by his passion and death; and who also earnestly desire to have their faith more and more strengthened, and their lives more holy; but hypocrites, and such as turn not to God with sincere hearts, eat and drink judgment to themselves. IntroductionI have already, two sermons ago, given you the context of this passage. So I will not repeat it. Suffice to say that it is not what some of us, perhaps, believed it to be. This evening, we will take a few moments and look at QA 81, in light of 1 Cor. 11:   I want you to notice, congregation, what our QA does NOT say. Our Answer does NOT say, "For those who KNOW thay are truly sorrowful for their sins, and yet KNOW that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ; and that their remaining infirmities are covered by his passion and death; and who also KNOW that their faith is more and more strengthened, and their lives more holy; but hypocrites, and such as turn not to God with sincere hearts, eat and drink judgment to themselves. Three times I inserted the work KNOW, where I think many of us do. The first is regarding or knowledge of our sorrow. It is not that you know, by some infaillible wittness, that you are truly sorrowful. But truly. That word truly is subjective. Truly sorrowful for sin. It can be ullustrated on a more common level. A husband in some way, wrongs his wife (it could also be the reverse). Upon reflection, he becomes solemn and serious, knowing he has sinned against her. He feels conviction of that sin against her, as he comes home from work, and sees her. Their relationship has been disrupted. He feels it was entirely his fault. So he begins to reason withing himself. "I am grieving over my shortness and temper toward my wife. I need to ask her for forgiveness." Just then, the phone rings, and it's his closes friend in the world. He answers, but distractedly so. "I noticed you were a little distracted today at work, is everyting ok? "No, not really", he answers. "I was short and illtempered with my wife, and I feel that I need to ask her to forgive me. So I need to go." "Just wait!", came the reply. "Don't hang up. Let's talk this through. How do you know tht your feeling of sorrow here is real? I mean, you don't want to be a hypocrite. It will only make things worse if she detects you don't really mean it." "Of course my feeling is real, what are you talking about?" Well, we know that our hearts are diecietful above all else, and desperatly wwicked", so how do you know that it's not playing a trick on you? That you are doing this for all the wrong reasons?" "That's redicolious, I know what I feel. I have sinned against her love." "But how do you know if you truly love her? Again, we are prone to presumption, so why don't you take some time and see if you truly love her, and then you can find out if you are truly sorry? That's the only way to know if what you want to do is the right thing." Some best friend. To try and convince any of you that because your hearts are tricksters, you don't really love your spouce is a deadend road. You know. But do you infallibly know? Well, I guess not infalibly. But as far as you can judge yourself, it is true. So ur fathers used the word "truly sorrowful for their sins." As much as they can understand it to be true, it is true. The second KNOW that is out of place is when I said, "and yet KNOW that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ." The actual wording is, "and yet trust that these are forgiven them for the sake of Christ". They don't KNOW that they are forgiven, but they TRUST that they have been forgiven. Amlodipine besylate. Thatis a pill I take every day. When I first recieved the prescription I reasarched it on a medical website. Amlodipine besylate is chemically described as 3-Ethyl-5-methyl (± confidence interval symbol)-2-[(2-amino-ethoxy)methyl]-4-(2- chloro-phenyl)-1,4-di-hydro-6-methyl-3,5-pyrid-in-edicarbox-ylate, mono-ben-zen-esulphon-ate. Well that was helpful. But I took it. Why? I trusted my doctor. I trusted that what he was prescribing was good for my condition. There was a direct conection between my mind, and his degree of knowedge of the human body. Was I infallable sure it word work? No, but I trusted. So the Word of God tells us that we are to believe on the name of the LJC, and trust we shall be saved fron our sin. So the person for whom the LS was instituted, is first, sorrowful as far as they know, and second, TRUST that their sins are forgiven.The third way I changed this answer was to read it thusly, "and who also KNOW that their faith is more and more strengthened, and their lives more holy", when it actually reads, "and who also earnestly desire". Earnestly desire to have theirfaith more stengthened and live more holily. You know this desire, if it is in you. If you have no such desire at all, then the LS is not for you. It was not instituted for you. Not now. But the desire to have faith strengthened. Now you know if that desire is in your heart. "But how do I know it is a true desire?" Because you desire is for Christ.If Christ be truly thy desire, thou dost desire him for himself. He that truly makes Christ the desire of his soul, desires the person of Christ more than anything which comes along with the person. Abundance there are that desire Christ, not for his person, but for his portion. They desire him for that salvation and comfort which he procures to them that possess him. This is not to desire Christ, but to desire comfort and salvation. He that desires Christ for anything but himself, for anything above himself, doth not at all desire Christ. The desires of the Church were right, Isa. xxvi. 8, “The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.” Christ's name is Christ himself; the person of Christ is more desirable than the patrimony of Christ, though that also be marvellous great. If the name of Christ be not the chief and principal object of thy desires, Christ is not truly thy desire. (2.) If Christ be thy desire, thou wilt universally desire him. The apostle saith that Christ is a Prince and a Saviour, Acts v. 31. Many desire Christ as a Saviour that reject him as a Prince ; but he that truly desires him, desires him as a Prince as well as a Saviour. Do you desire his commands as well as his promises? Do you desire his holiness as well as his happiness! Do you desire the spirit as well as the merit? Do you desire the water as well as the blood? Where he is not universally desired in one office as well as another, he is not indeed at all desired. He that desires Christ dividedly, desires not the Lord Christ, but a Christ of his own devising. (3.) If Christ be truly thy desire, thou wilt diligently make use of all means which may help forward communion with Christ. He that truly desires any object, cannot but desire to have the nearest union that is possible with it; and in order to that he desires everything which may perfect and help on the union. ‘Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest,” saith the Church, Cant. i. 7. All holy ordinances, all Divine helps, which Christ hath ordained for the begetting, confirming, increasing communion between himself and his people, will be conscionably used, delighted in, pursued by all those to whom Christ is desirable. Every ladder by which he may climb up to Christ, he will be sure to stand at the foot of it. Every spiritual glass in which he may see the face of Christ, he will be daily looking in ; every sycamore tree in which there is any hopes of seeing Christ, he will be ascending as oft as he can. And he is not satisfied with any ordinance unless he can find Christ in it. (4.) If Christ be truly thy desire, thou wilt desire him above all other objects. David professeth that he ‘preferred Jerusalem above his chief joy,' Psal. cxxxvii. 6. Christ, where he is truly desirable, is preferred above the chiefest joy. Gold, silver, raiment, friends, relations, are willingly slighted, deserted for the enjoyment of Christ. “I account all things but loss,’ saith the apostle, ‘that I may gain Christ, Phil. iii. 8. He that doth either equalize any     📷Click here to Reply or Forward130.22 GB (42%) of 304 GB usedManageTerms - PrivacyLast account activity: 0 minutes agoOpen in 2 other locations  Details📷📷Notes

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