The Lord’s Supper and Transubstantiation

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• The Lords Supper is the greatest memorial ever
  given to man. It is a celebration of the death
  of the sinless Son of God and the declared
  anticipation of His return.

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• 26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread,
  and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the
  disciples, and said, Take, eat this is my body.
• 27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and
  gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it
• 28 For this is my blood of the new testament,
  which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
• 29 But I say unto you, I will not drink
  henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that
  day when I drink it new with you in my Father's
  kingdom (Matt. 26).

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Brief biblical facts
• Instituted by Jesus (Matt. 26 26-30).
• 2. Observance set forth (I Cor. 11 23-26).
• A. In remembrance (Luke 22 19).
• B. With anticipation (I Cor. 11 26).
• C. Self-examination (I Cor. 11 28).
• D. Worthily (I Cor. 11 27).
• 3. Place and time (Luke 22 29, 30 Acts 20 7).

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Brief biblical facts
• Purpose
• A. Declare Jesus death (I Cor. 11 26).
• B. Keep alive spiritually (I Cor. 11 29, 30).
• C. Keep Christ in memory.

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Division regarding the Lords Supper.
• It is regrettable that there is division over
  Jesus
• Memorial.
• 1. Division over frequency of observance.
• 2. Division over cup versus cups.
• 3.Division over open and closed.
• 4. Division over fermented/unfermented juice.
• 5. Division regarding transubstantiation and
• Consubstantiation.

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Transubstantiation defined
• the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole
  substance of the bread and the wine changes into
  the substance of the body and blood of Christ
  when consecrated in the Eucharist.

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Jesus did say
• 26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread,
• and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the
• disciples, and said, Take, eat this is my body.
  27
• And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it
• to them, saying, Drink ye all of it 28 For this
  is my
• blood of the new testament, which is shed for
• many for the remission of sins (Matt. 26).

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• A viewed supporting text
• 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I
• say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son
• of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in
• You (John 6, see vs. 27-58).

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• The consumption of blood forbidden.
• 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we Trouble
• not them, which from among the Gentiles are
• turned to God 20 But that we write unto them,
• that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and
• from fornication, and from things strangled, and
• from blood (Acts 15).

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Is there a contradiction between Matthew 26
• 28 and Acts 15 29?
• Consider
• 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons,
• the one by a bondmaid, the other by a
• freewoman.25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in
• Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is,
• and is in bondage with her children (Gal. 4).

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Jesus told them to eat of his body and
• drink of his blood when he was physically
• standing before them (Matt. 26 26-29).
• As they partook, he did not physically
• diminish!
• Metonymy The use of the name of one
• object or concept for that of another to
• which it is related, or of which it is a part
• (RHCD).

Matt. 26 29
Cp. I Cor. 15 50
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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• The Metaphor. Webster says of it A short
  similitude
• a similitude reduced to a single word or a word
• expressing similitude with the signs of
  comparison. Thus,
• that man is a fox, is a metaphor but that man is
  like a
• fox, is a simile, similitude, or comparison
  (Luke 13 32,
• dm). When the Saviour gave the institution of
  the
• supper, He did it in the most beautiful of
  metaphorical
• language (Matt. 26 26-28).Paul presents this
  thought
• without the use of the metaphor (I Cor. 10
  16).But in
• 11 23-25 he employs the same figure that the
  Lord did in
• Instituting it....

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• To say this is the communion of the body and
  blood of
• Christ, is metonymy of the agent to say that
  these are
• like the body and blood, would be a simile, but
  the
• beauty and strength would have been removed in
  that
• way hence the Master chose the form of the
  metaphor
• as the most expressive (Hermeneutics, pg.
  252-254,
• by D. R. Dungan).

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Agar stood for Mount Sinai in Arabia (Gal.
• 4 25, see vs. 21-31). After a similar
• fashion, the unleavened bread and the fruit
• of the vine stand for Jesus body and blood.
• The properties of the unleavened bread are
• indicative of purity and lack of corruption.
• The blood of the grape is the life of the
• grape and is pure and also without leaven
• or fermentation. Hence, perfect
• representation.

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Transubstantiation, its origin
• The formal belief of transubstantiation (when
• term used) appeared in the twelfth century and
• was initially associated with Hildebert.

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The Lords Supper and Transubstantiation

• Conclusion
• The unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine
• appropriately stand for the body and blood of
• Jesus. As the Christian partakes of each
• emblem, he is reminded of Jesus death. To
• make any more of the elements is to add to the
• teaching and introduce irreconcilable doctrinal
• conflicts between such verses as Matthew 26
• 27, 28 and Acts 15 29.