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哥林多前书：10:14-17：14我所亲爱的弟兄啊，你们要逃避拜偶像的事。15我好像对明白人说的，你们要审察我的话。16我们所祝福的杯，岂不是同领基督的血吗？我们所擘开的饼，岂不是同领基督的身体吗？17我们虽多，仍是一个饼、一个身体，因为我们都是分受这一个饼。          

明天我们会考察主的筵席与远离偶像崇拜之间的联系。今天，保罗给我们讲了很多关于圣餐的事。我们领杯的时候是在领基督的血。我们领饼的时候是在领基督的身体。保罗明白无误地告诉我们，当我们来领圣餐的时候，我们同时领受了饼和酒以及基督的身体和宝血。马丁·路德说得好，他说基督的身体和血，与饼和酒的关系是， “在其内、连同、和在其下”，来描述圣餐中的真实临在       

圣餐礼是多么美妙的事情！在这个圣礼中，耶稣以一种特殊的方式将自己给了我们，向我们保证藉着他在十字架上的牺牲我们的罪得赦免。当牧师对我说我的罪被赦免，我的理性可能会告诉我他是对别人说的，不是对我。但当耶稣藉着圣餐礼临到我们身边，他是临到我们个人的。他在我的心里对我说我的罪被赦免了，那些和我一同领受圣餐的人也罪得赦免，他们和我在信心中联合成为一体。每次我来领圣餐时，基督亲自向我宣告罪的赦免的信息，这是多么美妙啊。  

祷告：主耶稣，谢谢你赐下的圣礼，藉着你的身体和宝血，在这里我不仅和你相交，也和所有相信你的人相交。你献上身体、流出宝血，为的是让我们罪得赦免。让我带着一颗悔罪的心来领受圣餐，当我离开的时候，我带着赦免和更新的灵离开。祷告奉你的名。阿们。

1 Corinthians 10: 14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.  (EHV)

Tomorrow we’ll look at the connection between the Lord’s Table and fleeing idolatry. But today, Paul speaks volumes to us about the Lord’s Supper. The bread is a participation in the body of Christ. The cup is a participation in the blood of Christ. Paul so clearly tells us that when we come to the Lord’s Table, we receive both bread and wine and the body and blood of Christ at the same time. Luther said it well when he said that the body and blood of Christ are “in, with, and under” the bread and wine.         

What a wonderful thing this is! Jesus gives himself to us in a special way in this sacrament, assuring us that our sins are forgiven through his sacrifice on the cross. When the pastor tells me that my sins are forgiven in the absolution, I might reason to myself that he is speaking to someone else, but not to me. But when Jesus comes to us in the sacrament, he comes to us personally. He tells me in my heart that my sins are forgiven, even mine, together with all who join me at this table and have become one with me in faith. What a beautiful sermon Christ preaches to me every time I come to us table!  

Prayer:   Lord Jesus, thank you for this blessed sacrament, in which I am connected with you and all believers in you through your body and blood, given and poured out for us for the forgiveness of our sins. Let me come to your table with a penitent heart. and leave with a heart that is forgiven, restored, renewed, and refreshed. In your name pray. Amen.