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1. Christians may forget Christ. It seems at first sight too gross a crime to lay at the door of converted men; but if startling to the ear, it is, alas! too apparent to the eye. Forget Him who never forgot us! Who loved us even to the death! The incessant round of world, world, world; the constant din of earth, earth, earth, takes away the soul from Christ. While memory will preserve a poisoned weed, it suffereth the Rose of Sharon to wither.

2. The cause is apparent. We forget Christ, because regenerate as we are, still corruption remains. Consider —

I. THE GLORIOUS AND PRECIOUS OBJECT OF MEMORY.

1. Christians have many treasures to lock up in the cabinet of memory. They ought to remember their election, their extraction, their effectual calling, their special deliverances. But there is one whom they should embalm in their souls with the most costly spices. One I said, for I mean not an act, but a Person.

2. But how can we remember Christ's person, when we never saw it? Well, it is true we cannot remember the visible appearance, but even the apostle said, though he had known Christ after the flesh, yet, thenceforth after the flesh he would know Christ no more. You may know Him after the spirit; in this manner you can remember Jesus as much now as any of those favoured ones who once walked side by side with Him.

3. Let us remember Him in His baptism, in the wilderness, in all His daily temptations and hourly trials, in Gethsemane, in Pilate's hall, at Calvary. You can very well carry all this away, because you have read it often; but you cannot spiritually remember anything about Christ, if you never had Him manifested to you. What we have never known, we cannot remember.

II. THE BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED FROM A LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF CHRIST. It will tend to give you —

1. Hope when you are under the burden of your sins.

2. Patience under persecution.

3. Strength in temptation.

4. Victory in death.

III. A SWEET AID TO MEMORY. Behold the whole mystery of the sacred Eucharist.

1. The power to excite remembrance consists in the appeal made to the senses. Here the eye, the hand, the mouth, find joyful work, and thus the senses, which are usually clogs to the soul, become wings to lift the mind in contemplation.

2. Much of the influence in this ordinance is found in its simplicity. Here is nothing to burden the memory. He must have no memory at all who cannot remember that he has eaten bread, and that he has been drinking wine.

3. Note — The mighty pregnancy of these signs. Bread broken — so was your Saviour broken. Bread to be eaten — so His flesh is meat indeed. Wine poured out, the pressed juice of the grape — so was your Saviour crushed. Wine to cheer your heart — so does the blood of Christ. Wine to strengthen and invigorate you — so does the blood of the mighty sacrifice.

4. But before you can remember Christ, you must ask the assistance of the Holy Spirit. There ought to be a preparation before the Lord's Supper. Take heed to yourselves (ver. 27); mind what you arc doing! Do not do it carelessly; for of all the sacred things on earth, it is the most solemn.

IV. A SWEET COMMAND. It is important to answer this question — "This do ye." Who are intended? Ye who put your trust in Me. "This do ye in remembrance of Me." Christ watches you at the door. Some of you go home, and Christ says, "I thought I said, 'This do ye in remembrance of Me.' "Some of you keep your seats as spectators. Christ sits with you, and He says, "I thought I said, 'This do ye in remembrance of Me.'"

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

WEB: When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."