The Reformed Ninja

A.B. Simpson emphatically taught the Real Presence of Christ in the Lord’s Supper. It is uncertain if he was influenced by the Mercersburg Theology of Nevin and Schaff, who decisively repristinated the authentic Reformation doctrine of the Eucharist in America in the 19th Century, but it is certain that the authentic understanding of the classically Reformed and eminently Scriptural doctrine of the Lord’s Supper was heartily affirmed by Simpson. For not a bare, empty sign and symbol of an absent Christ, in the Eucharist one receives “a direct personal touch of God” (A.B. Simpson, The Significance of the Lord’s Supper, p. 9). The present study, then, will look at Simpson’s teaching on the Lord’s Supper as given in his short work, The Significance of the Lord’s Supper (abbreviated SLS ), and in his commentary on 1 Corinthians (from Chapter 8, on “The Ordinances of the Church,” from The Christ in the Bible Commentary , Book 3; abbreviated Ordinances ). To begin, it is worth noting that

As a normative principle, it is proper that we should ever begin: “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20 KJV). This is what I find most distressing, that people are not consulting the Scriptures for clarity about how to respond to plague and to the idea of forced vaccines. For we hear people say things like, "Love, Love," but I do not believe they are truly consulting Biblical love, which is always obedience to God's revealed will: “This is love, that we walk according to His commandments” (2 John 1:6 NKJV). If I may be permitted an interpretive paraphrase: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘ LOVE , LOVE ,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘ LOVE , LOVE , have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name [and healed many diseases]?’ And then I will dec