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Ever since the night Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper, this sacrament has played a central role in the faith and practice of the church. That is why it is odd that many believers think so little of the Lord’s Supper. “They seldom observe it and assign to it little significance,” Richard D. Phillips writes. “They derive no assurance, and seek no grace, as they receive from the Lord’s table. How...

from the beginning had been pointing was about to be offered up. The old things were passing away; behold, all things were to become new.”6 The antitype having come, the type could no longer be fitting to set forth the reality now made new. A number of changes, Warfield notes, were linked to this great fulfillment and transition. The Jewish state was to be dissolved, along with the ritual law and its sacrifices. In keeping with the finished work of Christ’s atoning death, this new sacrament required
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