{"id":37090,"date":"2022-09-13T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-is-the-significance-of-holy-communion-to-the-believer\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:23:44","slug":"what-is-the-significance-of-holy-communion-to-the-believer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-is-the-significance-of-holy-communion-to-the-believer\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the significance of holy communion to the believer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The last supper was the only event that Jesus asked his followers to annually celebrate:&nbsp; &quot;The Lord Jesus took a loaf and after thanking God he broke it, saying, &#039;This means my body broken for you.&nbsp; Do this in memory of me.&#039;&nbsp; In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, &#039;This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.&#039; &quot;&nbsp; I Corinthians 11:24, 25&nbsp; Moffatt Translation<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him.&nbsp; The death He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life He lives to God.&quot;&nbsp; Rom. 6:9, 10&nbsp; NIV&nbsp; This tells us that the remembrance of the Lord&#039;s supper celebrates the <strong>one and only time Jesus died for the sin of all mankind<\/strong>, guaranteeing their resurrection.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of keeping this memorial of Jesus&#039; death include a <strong>closer union with our Lord and a more fervent love and deeper appreciation of God&#039;s gift of &quot;His only begotten son<\/strong>, that all who believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.&quot;&nbsp; John 3:16<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last supper was the only event that Jesus asked his followers to annually celebrate:&nbsp; &quot;The Lord Jesus took a loaf and after thanking God he broke it, saying, &#039;This means my body broken for you.&nbsp; Do this in memory of me.&#039;&nbsp; In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, &#039;This cup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-is-the-significance-of-holy-communion-to-the-believer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the significance of holy communion to the believer?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}