Presbytopia Session 8

Chapter 12 Baptism

Ken points out that Baptism throughout church history

And Baptism has had many different meanings

And because of this their has been many misunderstandings about Baptism.

Ken says their are three different headings.

Purification.

Initiation,

recipients

So question one asks

Q1. What are the Old Testament roots of Baptism concerning purification?

Purification involves washing.

And if we need a washing that means we are dirty correct?

The priests were to wash before entering the temple

Exodus 30:17-21 “The Lord said to Moses, “You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it, with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet. When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offering to the Lord, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die. They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.””

Levites were to be sprinkled with the water of purification

Num 8:5-7 “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the Levites from among the people of Israel and cleanse them. Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.”

God incorporated the use of water into cleansing his people from leprosy, bodily discharges, and other diseases.

In Lev chapters 14-15

Hebrews 9:10 “but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.”

The Greek Word here that is translated washings is literally called baptisms. (baptismois)

Ken points out on page 100 that many Christians like to argue baptism means immersion’

Rather Ken points out that the text uses it in a broader sense to describe ritual purification.

Or Rebirth which is taught in the Prophecy of Ezekiel

Found in Ezek 36:25-26 “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”

Ken points out that there is an existing vocabulary of sprinkling that is coupled with the language of a New Heart/spirit.

And this was to point to the reality that would apply to God’s people in the future.

Wasn’t that Nicodemus question that Christ answered. And Christ chastised him for not knowing and being a teacher.

John 3:10 “Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?”

Q2. What is Baptism’s connection with the remission of sins? Does it actually forgive sins?

Why ask a question like this?

Becasue many today that are Baptist’s or Anabaptists will accuse Presbyterians or those who baptise their infants of somehow thinking that we believe are children are saved from baptism.

Which is the farthest thing from the truth.

Ken points out Hebrews 10:22 “let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”

Ken points out that purification by cleansing with water should have got those who took part in these cleansings that they needed to have evil removed before God’s eyes.

Isaiah 10:22 “For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.”

Acts 11:18 “When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.””

2 Cor 7:10 “For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.”

1 Thess 1:9 “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,”

Ken points out that Christian Baptism is also accompanied by Baptism in Acts 2:38 “And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Ken answers the question on page 101 on wether Baptism actually forgives sins.

He says of course not.

But because it is associated closely with what happens in older believers that come to faith it is sometimes mistaken for something that saves by cults.

Like the Church of Christ - who holds to the teaching that one can only be saved if they are baptized in a Church of Christ church.

But we must look at the plain language of Scripture as we see in

Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,”

And the answer Paul gave to the phillipian Jailer’s question

What must I do to be saved?

Acts 16:30-31 “Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.””

Ken points out that Faith, which is the flipside of Repentance, was the instrument of Salvation for the jailor and his family.

Baptism then followed Faith, not as an instrument but as a sacrament.

We see this in

in Acts 16:32-33 “And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.”

Initiation - Christian Baptism also serves as a sacrament of initiation- You are not included in the covenant - and admitted into the visible church.

Which bring us to Question 3

Q3 What was the Old Testament counterpart of baptism as a rite of initiation? What were its sign and reality?

Abraham was given the Old Testament Counterpart of Baptism called Circumcision:

Which was the covenant between God and Abraham and his children.

According to Gen 17:10-11 “This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.”

So Circumcision was the sign of entering God’s covenant community - Just as Baptism is a sign of entering Gods covenant community today.

Ken points out that just as Baptism shows something God has done to ones heart through regeneration.

Circumcision shows the inward reality of regeneration. It was called “The circumcision of the heart”

The sign not only pointed to the Blessing of being one of the children of God.

But it also emphasized the curses as well.

Just as the foreskin was cut off - those who didn’t keep fully the rules of the covenant would be cutoff

Exodus 4:25 “Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!””

Therefore circumcision pointed to a new life or an untimely death.

Which leads us into question 4

Q4. What Happened to circumcision over the course of time? How was it fulfilled in Christ?

We see that the Circumcision community was to be a light to the gentiles in Isa 49:6 “he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.””

We also see just as the church today see’s some false converts in the church goats among the sheep.

The Old Testament church did as well.

Jer 9:25 ““Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh—”

They had the sign of the covenant of circumcision but were not actually converted.

And as Ken points out on page 102 - By the first century A.D. circumcision had become associated with cultural Judaism.

Christ however accomplished what Israel failed to do;His light brought the uncircumcised Gentiles into the house of God according to Ephesians

Eph 2:11-22 “Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers …”

So now there is No distinction between Jew and Gentile according to Gal 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

And both those physically circumcised and uncircumcised are justified by faith in Jesus Christ according to

Rom 3:30 “since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.”

Christ’s sacrifice accomplished and fulfilled the Old Testament sacrament of circumcision. We see this taught in

Col 2:11 “In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,”

The circumcision was made without hands according to Mark 14:58 ““We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’ ””

Here Christs resurrected body is the replacement of the Old Testament Temple that would be destroyed.

And we see the Gospel so clearly in the ultimate circumcision

The cutting off of Christ on the cross in place of his covenant-breaking people. According to Col 1:22 “he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,”

Which leads us to Question 5

Q5. How does baptism point back to the Cross?

Paul shows us in Col 2:11

Col 2:11 “In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,”

And then verse 12 points to how baptism points to the cross.

Col 2:12 “having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.”

So circumcision pointed forward to the cross.

as Baptism points backward to the cross.

Jesus himself even referred to and tied baptism to his cross work in Luke 12:50 “I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!”

Ken points out that since Christians live on the other-side of the cross, there is no longer any need for circumcision. Baptism has replaced the old sacrament as a sign and seal of covenant inclusion.

Baptism also is commanded to be done to all believers in Christ in the great commission.

We find this in

Matt 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”

God’s name is written on us with water as a mark of ownership

Just like circumcision, Baptism involves and outward sign coupled to the inward reality of inclusion among God’s people.

We see this taught in 1 Cor 12:13 “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”

Next in question 6 Ken is going to give us not one not two but 6 reasons for baptising believers and their children.

Q6. Briefly summarize the six reasons for baptizing believers and their children?

Who should be Baptized?

Is this sacrament only for mature individuals who personally confess Christ?

Ken points out that of course there is evidence for this.

But he also points out that their is evidence for the children of believers being given the sign of the covenant as well.

On page 104- 106 Ken lists his 6 reasons out.

Number One

1. God’s Covenant with Abraham was also made for his children through circumcision.

Although Abraham BELIEVED before he was circumcised

We see this taught in Rom 4:9-11 “Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,”

Abrahams children were circumcised before they believed which we see in

Gen 17:10-13 “This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.”

2. In the Old Covenant God’s promises involved believers and their children

We see this taught in Isa 59:21 ““And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the Lord, “from this time forth and forevermore.””

Ken points out that the New Covenant uses similar language in the book of Acts

Acts 2:38-39 “And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.””

3. The Bible views children as part of the covenant community. Very young children were present at the covenant gatherings according to

Deut 29:10-13 ““You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water, so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is making with you today, that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

2 Chronicles 20:13 “Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.”

Joel 2:16 “gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.”

Jesus recieved children even infants as his peoplein Luke 18:15-16 “Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.”

Paul stated that children of even one believing parent are set apart according to 1 Cor 7:14 “For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.”

Ken points out that Paul in his letter to the Ephesians and Colossians Paul addresses children as members of the church along with their parents.

This doesn't mean they are automatically saved.

Rather they are included as God’s people and therefore subject to the sign and seal inclusion.

4. WHOLE FAMILIES Were Baptized in the New Testament.

These baptisms were based on the faith of the head of the household.

Just as Abrahams faith led to circumcision of his household.

So also the faith of these converts led to the baptism of their households.

The very fact that households are mentioned supports covenant continuity rather than discontinuity.

We see this in

Acts 10:47-48 ““Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.”

The Household of Lydia

Acts 16:14-15 “One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.”

The Household of the Philippian Jailer

Acts 16:30-33 “Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.”

Crispus and his Household

Acts 18:8 “Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.”

Stephanus and his Household

1 Cor 1:16 “(I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)”

5. The New Covenant is more inclusive than the old covenant.

In the New covenant unbelieving spouses are sanctified by believing ones.

1 Cor 7:14 “For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.”

Women are baptized along with men

Gal 3:27 “For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

If this is true which it is

Then it makes no sense to exclude those who were included under the old covenant sign of inclusion: believers and their children.

6. Refusing to apply circumcision to children meant breaking the Covenant.

In the Old Testament this meant death we see in Gen 17:13-14 “both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.””

Moses almost died because he did not circumcise his son in Exo 4:24-26 “At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.”

Ken points out that while this is an extraordinary judgement

It still shows the seriousness of administering a sacrament to its proper recipient.

So what is our application?

Baptize your babies and children because your commanded to.

Chapter 13 Lord’s Supper

Q1. What are the Old Testament roots of the Lord’s Supper concerning sacrificial meals? How were they fulfilled in Christ?

Ken points out that the Gospel presents the Last Supper as a Passover, one of the sacrificial meals of the Old Testament.

Matt 26:17-29 “Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’ ” And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.” 26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” 27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, 28 for 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 again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

This account of the Last supper is also located i Mark 14:12-25 and Luke 22:7-22

The Passover involved 3 things

sacrificing

and eating a Lamb.

Spreading the blood on the door frames of a home as a propitiation.

The Peace Offerings

It involved sacrificing part of an animal

Giving a portion tom the priest

Then eating the rest

We see this in Lev 7:19-21 ““Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh, but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people. And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.””

In the New Testament these types and shadows are fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Christ is the true passover lamb that turns away the wrath of God

We see this taught in

1 Cor 5:7 “Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.”

and

Heb 10:1-7 “For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ””

Q2. What are the Old Testament roots of the Lord’s Supper concerning spiritual feeding? How were they fulfilled in Christ?

God provided Mana to his people after delivering them from Slavery.

It sustained them during their time in the wilderness according to Exodus 16

Ken points out that even thought they did not always appreciate the meal. They recieved it until they entered the land of Canaan.

We see this fulfilled as when Jesus referred to himself as the true mana who gives life from heaven in

John 6:31-35 “Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

Then as Ken points out the imagery took an even more radical turn in John 6:53-56 “So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.”

Which leads us into question 3

Q3. Should Christ’s words concerning the bread and wine be taken literally or figuratively? Why or why not? Give examples of various approaches.

Ken points out that some people thought they were listening to a cannibal.

And that Jesus uses similar language at the last Passover with his disciples in the book of Luke.

Let’s look at Luke 22:19-20 “And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”

This should be obvious to those who are believers

But many in the church see things differently.

Roman Catholics hold to Transubstantiation

That the Bread and the wine are actually transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ.

Such an understanding would make Jesus’s words “THIS IS BECOMING MY BODY”

Lutherans believe in Consubstantiation

which teach’s that Christs Body and blood are IN, WITH, and UNDER the elements.

This would make Jesus say “THIS ACCOMPANIES MY BODY”’

Others Understand Jesus words in a figurative sense.

Examples are Deut 16:3 “You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.”

The bread didn’t cause his people affliction rather it represented it.

In a similar way Jesus words can be understood in a figurative way in John 6:53-56 “So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.”

and Luke 22:19-20 “And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”

If his Words are figurative then does this mean they are only Symbols of the body and blood of Christ?

Ken points out that This is what many contemporary Christians believe.

Ken points out that Christ said do this in rememberance of me in Luke 22:19-20 “And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”

Did Christ mean a bare remembrance?

Was Jesus saying he would be absent from the sacrament?

THE ANSWER IS OF COURSE NO

Paul taught the opposite in 1 Cor 10:16 “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?”

Its not participation

The Greek Work Koinonia in 1 cor 10:16 elsewhere is translated

as FELLOWSHIP or COMMUNION

And Fellowship is not Subjective

But rather it is an Objective State. The supper rather expresses UNITY IN JOY AND SUFFERING WITH CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE.

1 John 1:3 “that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.”

2 Cor 1:7 “Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.”

2 Cor 8:4 “begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints—”

Ken says this should bring up a question in our minds.

So how can Gods people have fellowship with their risen Savior?

The answer is by the power of the Holy Spirit who is in Christ’s presence in the World.

John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”

Therefore Remembrance speaks not of absence but of of worship.

Its a proclamation of the Lords Death until he comes.

1 Cor 11:26 “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

And it points to the future Glory of God’s people when they feastwith their risen Savior Luke 22:18 “For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.””

Q4. Briefly summarize the expectations for participants in the sacrament.

They Must be Baptized

Member in a Gospel Preaching Church.

Be able to Self Examine themselves along with Repentance, Love and New Obeidiance.

Pages 110-112 for explanation.