Lords Supper 20230721

Good morning and welcome to the LORDs Supper. Today I am going to go through a well known passage of the Samarian women in the well. I do not expect you to go with me there.

Jn 4:10 “Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.””

When looking at the Lords Supper, we are reminded that our Lord speaks of Himself as being both God and Man.

He was first of all the gift of God—the One God gave to be the Savior of the world, His only begotten Son. But He was also a Man—the One who, wearied with His journey, asked her for a drink. In other words, if she had realized that the One to whom she was talking was God manifest in the flesh, she would have asked Him for a blessing, and He would have given her living water.

Rom. 5:15 “But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.”

The free gift is the marvelous manifestation of the grace of God abounding to a race of sinners. It is made possible by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ.

God chose to dwell amongst rebellious mankind. He lowered Himself to relate with us to give us abundant life. He did this and proved Himself as God by the signs and wonders He accomplished. By going along with the road of the cross and by brutally being beaten on our account, Jesus conquered sin, death and the grave by being resurrected from the dead. He became a channel of blessing to others.

John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.””

Living water implies inner life that with flow of streams of help to others. We receive this when we believe in Him.

Jn 4:13-14 “Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Jesus died for you and me so that we may find salvation. Jesus’s road to the cross was to rescue sinners from their sin. As we all know, the wages of sin is death so we need to die to our sin and follow Christ. When we do that we find attonement and redemption.

The water which Jesus gives truly satisfies. Whoever drinks of Christ’s blessings and mercies will never thirst again. Not only do His benefits fill the heart, but they overflow it as well. They are like a bubbling fountain, constantly overflowing, not only in this life but in eternity as well. The expression springing up into everlasting life means that the benefits of the water which Christ gives are not limited to earth, but will go on forever.

John 6:35 “And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.”

Now Jesus stated the truth simply and clearly. He is the bread of life. Those who come to Him find enough in Him to satisfy their spiritual hunger forever. Those who believe on Him find their thirst forever quenched.

We have Jesus and the Word. We truly find sustenance in what Jesus did for us and the privilege of entering into His Word. We celebrate and commerate this in the Lord’s Supper.

Jn 4:22-24 “You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.””

Now those who believe on the Lord Jesus can worship God at any time and in any place. True worship means that a believer enters the presence of God by faith and there praises and worships Him.

We worship Him because we love Him but He loved us first. But through the Cross, Jesus could promise that we will enter into His rhelm at the conclusion of our life. We too inherit the promises of God. We will receive a Heavenly body with our own domain and reward for what we have done in response to His great sacrifice. Jesus truly is the one to restore mankind back to their creator. Of course in the act of creating the WOrld and Galaxies, we were thought of and designed to bring much glory to our Father in Heaven.

As we find repentance and remission of sin and obey God in our baptism He will make us holy or set apart to pursue all that God has called us too. That could not take place outside of what Jesus did on that cross.

2 Corinthians 3:17 NKJV

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

So let us be joyful and receive God’s promises as we reflect on His great sacrifice to free of of our sins and to enter into an eternity with Him.

Let us pray for the bread:

Dear Lord, thank you for your ultimate sacrifice on the Cross. By dying on that cross, your work was finished in supplying mankind with reconciliation back to the Father. Satan growed ascendancy in the garden but Lord you truly are the much awaited Messiah, the 2nd Adam, making a way for us back to God. Thank you for your humility in suffering unjustly at the hand of rebellious sinners, those that claimed they belonged to you but truly were not. We celebrate this day in that you bring the gospel to the Jews and also the gentiles. We thank you that for your stripes, we can become well.

Let us take the bread.

Finally, we thank you for your blood that takes a way the sins of the world. Thank you that you atone for our sins and that we get to live with you for eternity. We truly can offer nothing in return except by the life that you have promised us and given us your Kingdom for eternity.

Let us take of the fruit of the vine