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The Morning Devotional: WCF 29.5

by William Hill | Sep 22, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for September 22, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 29.5

V. The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, yet sacramentally only, they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent, to wit, the body and blood of Christ;^a albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly, and only, bread and wine, as they were before.^b

a. Mat 26:26-28. • b. Mat 26:29; 1 Cor 11:26-28.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 29.4

by William Hill | Sep 21, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for September 21, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 29.4

IV. Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest, or any other, alone;^a as likewise the denial of the cup to the people;^b worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and the reserving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the institution of Christ.^c

a. 1 Cor 10:6. • b. Mark 4:23; 1 Cor 11:25-29. • c. Mat 15:9

The Morning Devotional: WCF 29.3

by William Hill | Sep 20, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for September 20, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 29.3

III. The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers to declare his word of institution to the people, to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to an holy use; and to take and break the bread, to take the cup, and (they communicating also themselves) to give both to the communicants;^a but to none who are not then present in the congregation.^b

a. Mat 26:26-28 and Mark 14:22-24 and Luke 22:19-20 with 1 Cor 11:23-27. • b. Acts 20:7; 1 Cor 11:20.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 29.2

by William Hill | Sep 19, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for September 19, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 29.2

II. In this sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sins of the quick or dead,^a but only a commemoration of that one offering up of himself, by himself, upon the cross, once for all, and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same;^b so that the Popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominably injurious to Christ’s one only sacrifice, the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect.^c

a. Heb 9:22, 25-26, 28. • b. Mat 26:26-27; 1 Cor 11:24-26. • c. Heb 7:23-24, 27; 10:11-12, 14, 18.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 29.1

by William Hill | Sep 18, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for September 18, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 29.1

I. Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord’s Supper, to be observed in his Church, unto the end of the world; for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death, the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, their spiritual nourishment and growth in him, their further engagement in and to all duties which they owe unto him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with him, and with each other, as members of his mystical body.^a

a. 1 Cor 10:16-17, 21; 11:23-26; 12:13.

The Morning Devotional: WCF 28.6-7

by William Hill | Sep 15, 2023 | Morning Devotional

The Morning Devotional for September 15, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 28.6-7

VI. The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered;^a yet, notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghost, to such (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God’s own will, in his appointed time.^b

a. John 3:5, 8. • b. Acts 2:38, 41; Gal 3:27; Eph 5:25-26; Titus 3:5.