Daily Devotion With Pastor Dan Nickerson – January 29th, 2024
Let’s address three truths concerning communion that every Christian should realize
- Communion is a proclamation that Jesus is the Perfect Substitute for the sinner – He died in our place
- As a substitute He bore our sins – (1 Peter 2:24-25) (Hebrews 9:28)
- As a substitute He carried our guilt – (Isaiah 53:4, 5, 8, 12) (Galatians 3:13)
- As a substitute He died our death – (Hebrews 2:9)
- As a substitute He became the sin-offering for us
- Read: (2 Corinthians 5:21) (1 Corinthians 1:26-31)
- So it is preached from the Lord’s table – Jesus became a curse in our place
- He bore the wrath of God’s judgment and the necessary penalty of our rebellion in His own body
- His innocent life was given – His flesh was torn like a veil – His righteous blood was poured out
- All so that you and I who are guilty might live forever
- Communion is a proclamation that God is satisfied with Christ’s substitution
- We call this propitiation – which refers to the work of God in setting His Son as the satisfactory ransom to settle justly His wrath against sin-offering
- Our sin – is an offense – is an insult – and is rebellion – against God’s character
- It is a strike – without limits against His holiness – which has produced a necessary wrath
- His holy wrath must be infinitely satisfied before God’s love can be expressed justly
- Man’s dilemma is that he is guilty before God’s law and doomed to pay an eternal debt
- His only hope is that God would show him mercy
- In His own flesh and blood – Jesus bore the full penalty of Divine wrath
- By His death – God remains righteous – and yet is able to pardon the sinner who believes God
- Read: (1 Peter 1:18-21) (2 Corinthians 5:17-19) (1John 4:10)
- Communion is a proclamation that man can now be declared righteous by faith – because God is satisfied with Christ’s substitution
- The word for this is justification – (dikaioo) {dik-ah-yo-o} – means – just – innocent – aquited – free – cleared from any charge
- Listen to how the ESV states – (Acts 13:39)
- Read: (Romans 5:17-21) (Romans 5:8-11) (Romans 3:23-26) (Hebrews 10:1-18)