Unworthy guests at the Lord’s Table are those, who do not consider their sins to be damning sins, and who do not consider the Lord Christ’s work of redemption to be indispensible. They do not therefore believe that Christ has paid their debt of sin, and that in this Sacrament He gives them His body and blood as a pledge and seal of this forgiveness. If such people nevertheless partake of the Lord’s Supper, they eat and drink to their damnation.
Joh. 3:18: He that believeth not is condemned already.
1 Cor. 11:27-29: Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of he Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
