
The Lord's Table
By Andrew Murray
Part 2 - Chapter 10
Till He Come
"Ye proclaim the Lord's death till He come." "I say
unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until
that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom." "I
appoint unto you a kingdom, even as My Father appointed unto Me, that ye
may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom." –1 Corinthians 11:26;
Matthew 26:29; Luke 22:29, 30.
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the Supper, Jesus points us not
only backward, but also forward.
>From the suffering He points to
the glory; out of the depths He
calls to the heights. Because
the Supper is the remembrance,
the communion of Jesus, the
living Saviour, it sets Him
before us in all that He was,
and is, and shall be. It is only
in the future that we can expect
to have the full realization of
what is begun at the Lord's
Supper. The Supper begins under
the Cross with the
reconciliation of the world; it
is completed before the throne
of glory in the new birth of the
world. It is on this account
that faith, according as it has
experience of the power of the
heavenly food, is irresistibly
drawn on to the future. The true
Christian has still to wait for
his inheritance. "Till He come"
is his watchword at every
observance of the Supper. At the
table his Lord speaks of
drinking the fruit of the vine
anew in the kingdom of the
Father, and of eating and
drinking at His table in His
kingdom. The Supper, which is
itself the fulfillment of the
shadow of the Paschal Feast, is
again in its turn the shadow of
coming blessings, the pledge of
the time when they shall cry:
"Blessed are they that are
called to the marriage Supper of
the Lamb."
What a prospect is this. There
sin is for ever put away. There
the whole Church is eternally
united without fault or
division. There the whole
creation shares in the liberty
of the glory of the children of
God. There the eye sees the King
in His beauty; and we shall be
like Him, for we shall see Him
as He is.
Blessed thought: it shall not
always be as it is now. The
blessings of the Supper are mere
droppings. Jesus Himself comes
once for all. Then shall I sit
down with Him. Yes, He comes:
and I shall see Him and know
Him, and He shall see me and
know me. And when I fall at His
feet He will call me by my name
and let me rest on His breast,
and take me to be one with Him
inseparably and forever. |
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