The sermon presents Christ as the eternal Son whose obedient suffering and shed blood secure mercy for guilty sinners. Because believers are prone to forget Him amid earthly distractions, they must deliberately remember His person, temptation, suffering, and atoning death. Spurgeon treats the Lord’s Supper as Christ’s appointed sensory means of strengthening this remembrance, while warning against receiving it casually or hypocritically. Remembering Christ produces hope under guilt, endurance in suffering, and confidence in the face of death.
Theological center: Christ’s atoning death is the foundation of the believer’s hope, assurance, victory over sin, and confidence in death, and the Lord’s Supper visibly signifies that sacrifice.
Applications: Remember Christ deliberately · Receive the Lord’s Supper reverently · Consider Christian forgetfulness · Contemplate Christ’s person and sufferings
Primary texts: 1 Corinthians 11:24-29 · Luke 22:42 · Luke 4:2-4
“This do in remembrance of me.” 1 Corinthians 11:24 IT seems, then, that Christians may forget Christ. The text implies the possibility of forgetfulness concerning Him whom gratitude and affection should constrain them to remember. There could be no need for this loving exhortation if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous, and our remembrance superficial in its character, or changing in its nature. Nor is this a bare supposition, it is, alas, too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It seems at first sight too gross a crime to lay at the door of converted men. It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb should ever forget their Ransomer—that those who hav…