Sermon Tone Analysis

Good morning again.

So this fall, we been doing a series on the meals that Jesus eats with people in the Gospel of Luke which means that an end today we're on the last supper, which means that we are at the?

If you know of any of the meals, this is the one you knew was coming.

If only because we talked about it every week, he knew that we were going to be talking about this meal and it is arguably the most important meal that Jesus eats in the Gospel of Luke.

It's the one with which we are the most familiar.

And I think it's also the one that to me, I have seen the most differently.

the different just know the most differently because of this series cuz we call it the Last Supper we don't necessarily think all that much about that were last Maybe it just me and you obviously Jesus ate supper, and this is just the last one that he ate before he died, except that we have recognized, that Jesus is menaced in Jesus ministry, the meals that you ate were an important part.

And so, as we look at the Last Supper, The Last Supper doesn't necessarily stand on its own.

I just completely unique separate event.

It stands in a sequence of Jesus entire Ministry in which meals played a very important role.

So today, as we go into the Last Supper, we get to see it in a broader context of what it means, as a part of a Ministry of meals.

We're also going to look at the entire conversation that they have at the meal in the Gospel of Luke.

Because when we go to the Last Supper just looking for the Lord's Supper, then it can seem like everything else that follows in those conversations or just kind of tacked on things principles that are good, but you don't know but we don't necessarily know how they all float together.

But as you look at the Last Supper, as part of his ministry of Jesus, all the sudden that whole context, that whole sequence of conversations makes more sense.

So I'm going to start by reading the entire passage and then we are going to dig into the last supper.

And look at what we can learn from reading it in this context, for Luke 22, starting in verse

14.

When the hour came Jesus and his disciples were crying at the table and he said to them, I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I tell you, I will not eat it again.

Until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.

After taking the cup, he gave.

Thanks and said, take this and divided among you for I tell you I will not drink again from it in the fruit of the again from the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God comes.

And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying this is my body given for you.

Do this in remembrance of me in the same way.

After after the supper, he took the cup saying this cup is the New Covenant in my blood which is poured out for you.

But the hand of him who is going to betray me, is with mine on the table, but the son of man will go as it has been decreed.

But woe to that man.

Who betrays him?

Navigate to question about themselves, which of them, it might be.

Who would do this?

The disputer also arose among them as to, which of them was to be considered the greatest.

Jesus said to them, the king of it, the kings of the Gentiles Lord, it over them and those who exercise authority over them.

Call themselves benefactors.

But you are not to be like that.

Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules, like, the one who serves or, who is greater the one who's at the table, or the one who serves is a, not the one who was at the table, but I am among you as one who serves You are those who have stood by me in my trials and I confer on you, a kingdom, just as my father, conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on Thrones judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Simon.

Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat but I have prayed for you Simon.

That your faith may not fail and when you have turned back strengthen your brothers.

But he replied Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison into death.

Jesus answered, I tell you Peter before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that, you know me.

Then Jesus asked them when I sent you without purse bag or sandals.

Did you lack anything?

Nothing, they answered.

He said to them.

But now if you have a purse take it and also a bag.

And if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one, it is written and he was numbered with the transgressors.

And I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me.

Yes.

What is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.

The disciple said see Lord, here are two swords.

That's enough you replied.

Perhaps you may already see what I'm talking about in that passage that it it strikes differently as we reading in the context of a Ministry of meals, you may also seeing what I was talking about in that the flow of that conversation is not necessarily clear.

It kind of seems like one thing doesn't necessarily follow on the other if we're simply looking at the basis for the Lord's Supper

But as we place this meal in the context of Jesus's Ministry is sheds, a different light on what Jesus is doing throughout the course of this whole meal in every stage of this meal Jesus is doing the same thing, he is equipping, his disciples were the same mission.

First of all, we need to remember the context that we've looked at over the past three weeks that Jesus spent his ministry using his presence at meals to transform people remember way back in the first meal that we looked at with Levi.

We talked about how the difference between Jesus and the Levi and the between Jesus and the Pharisees.

The biggest difference was that the Pharisees simply told people what they needed to do to be better and waited for them to do it.

Where is Jesus actually claims to be the physician who could heal them with his presence or he prescribed his prescription to them was spend time with me and you will be transformed and that has been the theme from meal to meal to meal that the presence of Jesus actually makes a difference.

So the people can become the people that they were called to be by God.

Right?

So this has been a Ministry of presence that being with Jesus radically transformed people.

Last week, we compared, the Rich Young Ruler and Zacchaeus and how the Rich Young Ruler was seeking instructions to get to heaven.

And Jesus said, give away everything that might distract you from me and come follow me.

I need and he couldn't do it.

But Zach, he has sought to spend time with Jesus and through spending time with Jesus was transformed into someone who wanted to give to others.

It is the presence of Jesus, that makes the difference.

And when you remember that then it helps us to understand the significance of how Jesus begins the meal.

Put yourself in the position of a disciple, who follows a messiah who has been saying for three years.

That the hope for the world is in encountering him in his presence.

And that most often happens in a meal and then he says, I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I tell you I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.

Cuz I'm not going to eat Passover again until it's were filled in the kingdom of God.

Okay, maybe he's just talking about not eating that meal except that notice.

He says I

young say, we Jesus is leading the disciples in a movement and if he's saying hey the king is going to come before next Passover.

He would probably say something more like we're not going to eat Passover again until the kingdom comes.

but it's not just passed over because then he takes the cup and he says, take this and divided among you for I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes No, you're so mean it's important.

You would be amazed at how much wine they drank back then now because they all got constantly drunk but because they drank it all the time because they're their resources for drinkable liquids were very slim.

Think about what you have in your home that you could safely drink if it wasn't refrigerated and it didn't have preservatives in it.

Basically, you got water.

Milk within a certain amount of time frame after it's been because of milk.

And then whine because wine, the fermentation makes it safe.

It means they can store it and keep it, keep it drinkable for a long time.

That's why they drink wine at every meal.

So, Jesus is basically saying I'm not going to be participating in any meals until the kingdom comes.

It's the whole other end of the scale from just saying, I'm not going to pass over.

I noticed again, he's saying I not we What Jesus is saying is that he's not going to be participating in any more meals until the kingdom comes.

But your vocation is that the disciples will do is not saying the kingdom is coming before breakfast.

He's saying that he is no longer going to be participating in the Milton cell.

But there's an interesting thing that happened that he hadn't really noticed this.

Until this time, when I was studying, for the sermon, that he takes his cup, they all have a cup but he takes his cup and he handed to them and says, share this, you take this.

This is not the communion cup yet, but he said, take my portion and drink it yourself.

And what that communicating both from the symbolism of drinking a cup.

And from what's going to come next, is that Jesus is bringing them into his portion of the meal and his portion of the ministry of his portion of the mission.

You say, you take my portion, you take my role.

And what's happening here is that the Last Supper Jesus prepared his disciples to carry on his ministry without his physical presence.

There are going to be meals in the future where the disciples are present.

And Jesus is not And he's calling on them to lead those meals and to do his ministry.

Now, what's the problem with that?

What's the problem with being delegated a Ministry?

When the the relevant part of the ministry is Jesus's presents.

Probably is the presence of Peter doesn't save anybody.

Write the presence of John James.