It is the knowledge and communion I have with Christ before the act of eating the Lord’s Supper, which will give me a condition of soul for my remembrance of Him. Instead of remembering Him generating a condition, my remembrance of Him will be in accordance with my condition of soul.
Thus, a babe in Christ will only remember Him as far as a babe’s knowledge has reached—a young man’s and a father’s remembrance will be according to their knowledge of the person they are remembering. I must know a person in order to remember him. I could not be called upon to remember a person with whom I am unacquainted. We know a living Christ, and we remember Him at the moment of His betrayal and death.
The offerings-burnt offering, meat offering, peace offering, sin offering, and trespass offering-give us the varied apprehension of each person who eats; each has his own note of praise when the heart is awakened: and, like a chord of music, all is in perfect harmony and unison. Hence the individual state of each is the preparation to the united condition of the assembly.
Romans 6:2222But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. (Romans 6:22): If we live unto God, there will be a knowledge of what good and evil is in the eye of God. Not simply that you live to Christ as to outward devotedness, but you will get your heart withdrawn from the influence of the things which drew it formerly away from Him. Therefore, in plain, common life,. O let God be everything! Be not like one slipping and getting on, and slipping and getting on-as Christians often are-but be advancing quietly and steadily; increasing in separation to God: then you will have “fruit unto holiness,” yourselves being servants to God.