Question 81: Who may partake of the Lord's Table?

 

Question 81: Who may partake of the Lord's Table?

Answer: Those who detest their sins, believe that their sins are forgiven and their wickedness is covered by Christ's suffering and death, and desire to live a better life by strengthening their faith. But hypocrites and the unrepentant will eat and drink judgment upon themselves.

Those who believe that they died with Jesus and were resurrected with him can participate in the Eucharist because they are participants in the New Covenant. Those who do not participate in the New Covenant cannot participate in the Eucharist.

Those who participate in the New Covenant are freed from sin and, through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, receive resurrection life from heaven. Those who believe in resurrection after physical death have never received resurrection life in the present.

Jesus' death on the cross was not only to resolve the problem of sin, but also to grant resurrection life. Resurrection signifies a return to the kingdom of God where we originally belonged. In other words, the spirit imprisoned within the body returns to the spirit of an angel.

Luke 20:35-36 "But those who are considered worthy to obtain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, nor can they die any more, for they are equal to the angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection."

Ultimately, those who participate in the Eucharist realize that they are spirits who originally existed in the kingdom of God, that they were born into this world as humans after committing sin, and that they repent and return to God. This is the parable of the prodigal son.

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