The Supper in Mark

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Psalm 119:25–32

25  My soul clings to the dust;

give me life according to your word!

26  When I told of my ways, you answered me;

teach me your statutes!

27  Make me understand the way of your precepts,

and I will meditate on your wondrous works.

28  My soul melts away for sorrow;

strengthen me according to your word!

29  Put false ways far from me

and graciously teach me your law!

30  I have chosen the way of faithfulness;

I set your rules before me.

31  I cling to your testimonies, O LORD;

let me not be put to shame!

32  I will run in the way of your commandments

when you enlarge my heart!

Introduction

I have heard of a priest, who took away the New Testament from a little Irish boy. The boy said, “There are ten of the chapters you cannot take away.” “Why?” asked the priest. “Because I have learnt them by heart.” And so, when you receive Christ into your heart, he cannot be taken away from you. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? There is such a union between Christ and the believer that there cannot be a separation between them without the destruction of Christ, and the man, too. They are so interwoven, intertwisted, and intermingled, that there is no possibility of separating them.

Text

Mark 14:12–25 NKJV

12 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?” 13 And He sent out two of His disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him. 14 Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’ 15 Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.” 16 So His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passover. 17 In the evening He came with the twelve. 18 Now as they sat and ate, Jesus said, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you who eats with Me will betray Me.” 19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to Him one by one, “Is it I?” And another said, “Is it I?” 20 He answered and said to them, “It is one of the twelve, who dips with Me in the dish. 21 The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had never been born.” 22 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” 23 Then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many. 25 Assuredly, I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Background

They were celebrating the Passover, the most sacred feat of the jewish people and as you can see that one thing that is not mentioned in our text is the lamb that they were to consume. Why because the Lion is the lamb, Jesus is the lamb at the table, whoes blood would be sheed.

This by the way connects the passover to the Lord’s supper, to the act of the crusfixion this Image that the passover shows is the very act of the Supper.

Verse 22

“He took the Bread”

He is of course JEsus. JEsus is the one who created this Ordnance/sacrament. He has the right to do so because he is The king of Kings, Phil. 2:9

Philippians 2:9 ESV

9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

He has the right to institute this action of faith.

Bread

Ever wonder why bread?

its a important symbol of God’s presense and actions

Jesus is unique in the Bible He is the Prophet, Priest, and King

this was prefigured all throughout the Bible

Genesis 14:18 ESV

18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

The Show Bread

1 Kings 7:48 ESV

48 So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,

The food given to Elijah

1 Kings 19:5–6 ESV

5 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.” 6 And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.

2. Bread is useful. This was and is one of th most common to find foods in all of history. You propbly have stories, or momments in which bread is present.

Pizza, my favorite food, is Flat bread, you may love sourdough, sandwiches, torrtillas, all breads.

Jesus is useful, just like how you need food, bread to live you need Christ to live.

John 6:57 ESV

57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

3. Bread is satisfying. If a man be hungry, bring him flowers or pictures, they do not satisfy, but bread doth. So Jesus Christ, the Bread of the soul, satisfies; he satisfies the eye with beauty, the heart with sweetness, the conscience with peace.

4. Bread is strengthening; “Bread which strengthens man’s heart,” Psa. 104:15. So Christ, the Bread of the soul, transmits strength. He strengthens us against temptations, and for doing and suffering work. He is like the cake the angel brought to the prophet, “He arose, and did eat, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights, unto Horeb the mount of God,” 1 Kings 19:8.

Blessed it

A Divine Cordial; The Saint’s Spiritual Delight; The Holy Eucharist; and Other Treatises The Mystery of the Lord’s Supper

(2.) Christ’s blessing the elements, signified his prayer for a blessing upon the ordinance. He prayed that these symbols of bread and wine, might, through the blessing and operation of the Holy Ghost, sanctify the elect, and seal up all spiritual mercies and privileges to them.

(3.) Christ’s blessing the elements, was his giving thanks. So it is in the Greek, “He gave thanks.” Christ gave thanks, that God the Father had in the infinite riches of his grace given his Son to expiate the sins of the world. And if Christ gave thanks, how may we give thanks! if he gave thanks who was to shed his blood, how may we give thanks who are to drink it! Christ also gave thanks, that God had given these elements of bread and wine, not only to be signs, but seals of our redemption. As the seal serves to make over a conveyance of land; so the sacrament, as a spiritual seal, serves to make over Christ and heaven, to such as worthily receive it.

Application:

Bless the lord for all your blessings, be like our God

Broke It

This is a image of what was to happen to him very shortly

Isaiah 53:10 ESV

10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

His body was

Isaiah 53:5 ESV

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

It as the writer of Hebrews said

Hebrews 9:7 ESV

7 but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.

He was by breaking the the bread showing this action to come. When you see the broken bread that is an image in your mind of The human body of Christ being broken for us.

Their are stories in history of Kings, and generals, ripping up their clothes and armor to provide turrnicates and bandages to help the common soilder. Famously one Roman emperor ripped his cloak to help is soilders.

Jesus was showing that he would have his body broken to heal us from our sin!

You know the verse well

John 3:16 ESV

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

He did this for us freely

John 10:17 ESV

17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

He did this while we were enemies at his table

Romans 5:8 ESV

8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

His body was given for us

Luke 22:19 ESV

19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Application:

If he did so willingly, your selfworth must be found in the Lord and not in this world. Your value is more then you can measure Christian. Don’t ;et the world constrain it.

Gave it to them

A Divine Cordial; The Saint’s Spiritual Delight; The Holy Eucharist; and Other Treatises The Mystery of the Lord’s Supper

“He gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat.” The sacrament is children’s bread. If a man makes a feast, he calls his friends. Christ calls his disciples; if he had any piece better than other, he carves it to them.

“This is my body which is given for you,”

Application:

Take

In most cultures the giving and sharing of a meal was to welcome a person into Friendship,

John 15:13 ESV

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus is doign that with us offering us the very bread of life

John 6:35 ESV

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Jesus is calling you to him, Take the body, take it!

Application:

When someone is offering you a gift you should take it. Don’t think yourself to good.

Jesus offers you himself willingly!

John 10:18 ESV

18 .... I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down,

Many look at themselves and see an inflated worthlessness of themselves!

Your Lord is handing you the bread. You may feel like the cripple at the table, the un-wanted, the black sheep and yet our Lord offers you his bread, offers himself to you.

Don’t me foolish, take it, take it from him. Don’t let those little voices, those paralyzing echos from your past, of those who would make you feel worthless stop you from reaching for the bread in your saviours hand. Take it, take the feast of your Lord, of Your God!

Eat

The King James and New King James have “Eat”

I’m in a room filled with Baptists I don’t think I need to expalin what eating is, but to my non-Baptist friends. It’s pretty great, we didn’t invent eating, but we know how to do it possibly better then anyone else! So give it a shot if you get a chance!

Eating is taking the food into yourself. The food becomes part of you, your bones, muscles, it gives you energy.

In the same way you must take in the Lord.

Chew on it

You must as with all food chew on it. We have eaten so much garbage, we have let our souls have ingested so much filth and posion. Unclean food is killing our bodies, How much more have we put into our spiritual body as well?

You must take Christ and chew on him, you must think about his ways had thoughts

Do you chew on th great doctrines? Chew on your prayers? do you have a taste for his word.

Application

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. XL “Take, Eat” (No. 2,350)

To eat, is the innermost kind of reception. It is taking into your very self the food set before you. Well, now, take Christ, you who are his disciples; take Christ himself, his work, his blood, his righteousness; take them right into you. Say, “This is for me; I take it for myself.” I have no partner in anything I eat; what I have eaten, I have eaten for myself. You cannot eat for your wife or your child; you have to do that for yourself. Now, dear heart, be brave enough to take Christ all to thyself! Say, “This dying Saviour is mine, this risen Saviour is mine. I hope that multitudes of others will have him; but, as for myself, I am going to have him.” When I eat, I am doing an action for myself; it must be so. And now, by faith, I take this blessed Son of God, who became man, living, dying, risen, I take him for myself unto myself. I beseech you to do that to-night. “It is a selfish action,” you say. Ah, but it is a necessary action! You have personally sinned; and you must personally take Christ. You are personally hungry; and you must personally eat. Who is to condemn you for that? You cannot act unselfishly towards others if you do not yourself eat, because you will not be alive long to be either selfish or unselfish. See you to this, then. “Take, eat.” Receive Christ by the innermost kind of reception.

Verse 23

I want to note about the cup.

The wine that they were drinking was most likely a red wine. If you know anything about wine, Red wine is stronger, it is dryer, can be more bitter.

I know about a church that uses wine (Expand)

The Bitterness of the wine is reflection of the Bitterness of the sheeding of the blood of Christ. Jesus is his obedience bore the wrath of God on his body and shed his blood on our behalf for the remission of our sins.

When you see the cup you’re looking at the spiritual cost of your forgiveness.

Application:

Approuch the Table Repentant.

Verse 24

This is what you need to know, that if you partake in faith you are part of his body

Application:

Verse 25

Promise of his return

Application:

Benediction

Say: As we close our service of worship dear brother and sister please stand for our benediction and receive by faith this blessing from God

Numbers 6:24–26 ESV

24 The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.