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The broken body and shed blood of Christ, which we celebrate when we partake of the Lord’s Supper, is God’s solution for sin.
We read of two primary sin problems in the Bible: universal sin that is inherited by all the descendants of Adam, and individual sins. The Bible nowhere says that people are delivered from the condition they inherited from Adam, unless the statement in II Cor. 5:17 that everyone who is in Christ is a new creation is referring to being delivered from this condition. But the Bible is abundantly clear that each person commits sins that Christ bore to the cross in his body.
In fact, according to Isa. 53, Christ bore to the cross in his physical body all the griefs, sorrows, transgressions, iniquities, sins, and sicknesses of every person who ever lived, and shed His blood unto death for the forgiveness of all sins. Our salvation depends on the broken body and shed blood of Christ.
When we partake of the Lord’s Supper, we proclaim that we have died and risen with Christ, that we have partaken of the divine nature, that we are in union with the broken body and shed blood of Christ. When we partake of the Lord’s Supper, we proclaim that we value the broken body and shed blood of Christ, that our salvation depends on the body and blood of Christ, and we are grateful to Christ that He has given us His body and blood.