Forgetting and Remembering

Grace Bible Church

How wonderful it is to be gathered together around the Lord's Table to remember how He died to save us, especially after missing out last Lord's Day!Some false religions claim that this table forgives sins and is a propitiatory sacrifice. That is the blasphemy of the Catholic mass, that somehow Christ left some of our sins unforgiven when He died on Calvary's tree.Consider the Lord's Table and the Old Testament sacrifices. Hebrews tells us of the stark failure of animal sacrifices to take away sin, or to perfect the Lord's people.In the repetition of the animal sacrifices, there is a remembrance of sins. Not a remembrance of sins forgiven and cleansed, but rather a remembrance of sins left unatoned for.Not only did the worshippers remember they had more sins left, but God remembered their sins against them!This denied peace with God, since the sacrifices proclaim condemnation.The Romanist mass is a perfect example of the Old Testament sacrifices! Constant remembrance of sin, and judgment pending, and no lasting peace with God, and no end of wrath for sin.But the writer of Hebrews is contrasting Christ's one-time sacrifice with animal sacrifices, NOT building an analogy by suggesting any similarity between the two!Thus, the mass pictures the wrong sacrifice – not Christ's but Aaron's sacrifice under the law, the sacrifice that didn't work!Because the mass is a remembrance of unforgiven sin, it must be repeated over and over again. Were it the sacrifice of Christ, it would never be repeated again!The mass is the devil's counterfeit of the Lord's Table, because the mass is a remembrance of unforgiven sin.