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“For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till He come” (1 Corinthians 11:26).
There are some things that the Lord has told us to do until He comes, and this is perhaps the most important of them. Before He went to the cross, the Lord Jesus showed His disciples how to remember Him, using a loaf of bread and a cup of wine. Later, the Apostle Paul was given a further revelation, telling us that when we remember the Lord, we “show the Lord’s death,” and that we are to do this until He comes. This is a real privilege for all of us to do.
We show the Lord’s death to this world, and because we show His death, we give witness to the fact that He is risen. We cannot show the death of someone who is dead, for they are dead. But we show (or announce) the death of one who died, but who is now alive.
Also, we are to do it until the Lord comes. Surely the Lord will make this possible for us, and provide for us a place where we can remember Him in the way that He has asked us to do.
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