3^rd^ Commandment
Ezek. 3.16-21
Gal. 6.1
Matt. 18.10-18
Hebrews 10.25
Ap. XI De confessione 60-62: Our clergy instruct the people about the worth and fruits of the sacraments in such a way as to invite them to use the sacraments often…
^4^ The openly wicked and the despisers of the sacraments are excommunicated. We do this according to both the Gospel and the ancient canons.
^5^ But we do not prescribe a set time because not everyone is ready in the same way at the same time. In fact, if everyone rushed in at the same time, the people could not be heard and instructed properly. The ancient canons and the Fathers do not appoint a set time. The canon says only this: “If any enter the church of God and are found never to commune, let them be admonished. If they still do not commune, let them come to penitence. If they commune, let them not be permanently expelled. If they do not commune, let them be expelled.” Christ says (1 Cor. 11:29) that those who receive in an unworthy manner receive judgment upon themselves. Therefore our pastors do not force those who are not ready to use the sacraments.[1]
It must be noted that those who are so uncouth and wicked as to despise God’s word while they are in good health should be left unattended when they are sick unless they demonstrate their remorse and repentance with great earnestness, tears, and lamentation…Those who have been careless and negligent in these matters must account for themselves. That is their own fault. After all, we cannot set up a private pulpit and altar daily at their bedside simply because they have despised the public pulpit and altar to which God has summoned and called them (Luther, in TDP, p. 1102).
A lot of people…let a year, or two, three, or more years go by without receiving the sacrament, as if they were such strong Christians that they have no need of it. Some let themselves be kept and deterred from it because we have taught that no one should go unless he feels a hunger and thirst impelling him to it. Some pretend that it is a matter of liberty, not of necessity, and that it is enough if they simply believe. Thus the majority go so far that they have become quite barbarous, and ultimately despise both the sacrament and the Word of God. Now it is true, we repeat, that no one should under any circumstances be coerced or compelled, lest we institute a new slaughter of souls. Nevertheless, it must be known that people who abstain and absent themselves from the sacrament for such a long time are not to be considered Christians. For Christ did not institute it to be treated merely as a spectacle, but commanded his Christians to eat and drink it and thereby remember him (LC V 40-42).
Nagel: "The person scornful of the Lord's Supper says: 'I don't need to be given to.'"