As I mentioned in
the sermon, each person here is directly connected to Christ. That means that
they are also directly connected to His Church. Their primary connection is to
Christ and His Church. They receive nurture from God the Father, through God
the Son, by the means of God the Spirit, in the divinely instituted body of
Christ, His bride, the Church. The Church is located wherever God’s people are
gathered but is particularly revealed in the local church, the gathering of
particular saints at a particular place. This is vitally important.
It is these saints gathered here, from
the oldest to the youngest, from the greatest to the least, that are Christ’s
body to us who are gathered here. We gladly embrace all other saints who are in
Christ, but God has given us these particular saints to live with, suffer with,
rejoice with, weep with, commune with and die with.
As we look around we see not only forgiven
sinners gathered before the Lord but we truly see our brothers, our sisters, our mothers and our fathers in the faith. This is our fundamental family in the
Recreation, in the beginnings of the New Heaven and Earth. How then can we not
rejoice around so glorious a Table, in Jesus and His people?
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