36. The names are used interchangeably in Titus 1:5,7; Acts 20:17,28.
37. Baptism (Acts 2:41; 9:18; 10:47- 48; 19:4-5). The Lord’s Supper (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 10:16-17; 11:23,26).
38. It is primarily the remembrance on the part of those who partake of it of the fact that Jesus gave His body and shed His blood in death to redeem His own (1 Cor. 11:24-25; Luke 22:19-20).
In the second place it is a witness to the world of the fact that Christ has died. We show His death (1 Cor. 11:26) It was the death of Christ that ended man’s probation before God. All ended in the death of Christ. Now there remains for the world nothing but certain judgment, save as individuals in it seek escape through the efficacy of this same dead and risen Christ.
In the third place the supper is the expression of the fellowship of believers. The word translated “communion” in 1 Corinthians 10:16 is elsewhere rendered “fellowship” (for example Gal. 2:9). There is no fuller expression of fellowship than eating the Lord’s supper together.
In the fourth place the supper is the expression of the unity of the Church of God, the body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:17). The unbroken loaf speaks of the perfect unity of the body of Christ which is the Church, (Eph. 1:22-23) composed of every believer in the world (1 Cor. 12:13). As each one partakes of that loaf broken, he thus expresses his part in that one body.
39. Only those who know themselves saved and who are living in separation from evil (1 Cor. 5:11-13; 2 Tim. 2:22; 2 Cor. 6:14).
40. He should examine, or judge himself that he may not be guilty of approaching the table of the Lord with unjudged sin in his life, and so bring upon him the hand of God in discipline (1 Cor. 11.27-32).