1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lords death until He comes. It is not surprising that the Lord's Supper is a sermon, given that it is a sign intended to point us to certain truths concerning Christ and the Gospel. By being a sign, the Table is providing instruction to us about a direction to take or a destination to reach. Our text tells us also that in eating and drinking the meal, a proclamation is made concerning the death of Christ, and this is one of the topics that the meal declares very powerfully, as we shall see next time. We want to dwell for a few meditations on the concept that the Lord's Supper is a sermon. Although it doesn't speak, it does eloquently instruct us in several areas if we have ears to hear. We will see that the following topics are among them: The Lord's death - His broken body - His poured-out blood Our union with Christ Christ as the source of our life Our union with all the members of the body The sinfulness of sin The righteousness of God The justice of God The Love of God and of the Lord Jesus The grace and mercy of God The patience of God The faithfulness of God The one way of salvation Our redemption You will recognize that all the things pointed to by the Supper as a sign are likewise declared by it as a sermon, but there are many more also. It is sad that for many today the Lord's Supper is taken infrequently, so that there may be little opportunity for it to declare itself fully to us. For others, the meal is taken in a very quick and perfunctory manner, so that there is little time for the sermon of the Table to fill our thoughts. All too commonly, also, the Table is accompanied by music and other things that can impinge upon our senses and distract us so that we do not hear the sermon that is before us. There is so much of Christ and so much of Gospel declared at the Table that we should long for the opportunity, for sufficient time and for the appropriate environment in which to ponder the breadth and depths of the instruction that it contains! www.gcmodesto.org