The Great Invitation Luke 14:15-24

The Great Invitation Luke 14.15-24

Fri, Mar 28, 2025 2:45PM • 36:42

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Luke 14, Great Invitation, banquet, excuses, Pharisees, kingdom of God, feast, salvation, religious humility, poor, maimed, blind, lame, marriage supper of the Lamb, Lord's Supper.

SPEAKERS

Josh Slater

I'm going to read our scripture this morning from Luke, chapter 14, verses 15 through 24 and it says this, when one of those who reclined at the table had heard him these things, or had heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is the one who will eat bread in the kingdom of God. Then he told him a man lived was living in a or giving a large banquet, and invited many. At the time of the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited come, because everything is now ready. But without exception, they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, I have bought a field and I must go and see it. I ask you to excuse me. Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I ask you to excuse me. And another said, I just got married, and therefore I am unable to come. So the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the household told his servant, go out quickly into the streets and the alleys of the city and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind and lame master. The servant said, what you ordered has been done and there is still room. Then the master told the servant, go into the highways and the hedges and make them come in so that my house may be filled For I tell you, not one of those people who were invited will enjoy my banquet. May the Lord bless the reading of His Word. So this past year, in November, at Thanksgiving time, I have the privilege and the honor to host Corey family for Thanksgiving. And I will tell you that it was some of the most anxiety inducing time in my life that I've ever had. And here's why. I've never done that before. I've never hosted a big family, and so for weeks leading up to it, I'm sure Cory got tired of me asking. I kept asking her, who's coming. When are they coming? How many are coming? So I knew that I had enough food now, how angry, frustrated, upset, sad would I have been if I had prepared all that food and nobody showed up? Or less people showed up than they told me they would leftovers. There you go. Levi, we could have had leftovers for days, right? But that day of Thanksgiving, I got together and I smoked a turkey and I baked a turkey, and I made some deviled eggs and some a potato salad, and I got it all together, and then if nobody showed up, I would have been heartbroken, upset and angry, and that's kind of the picture that we're getting here, except it's a lot deeper than just Thanksgiving dinner. There's a lot more going on. So just to kind of set the scene and remind us of what's happening here in Luke chapter 14. What has gone on is Jesus is at a feast. He is at a Pharisees house. He is eating dinner at a Pharisees house. And so far, here's what Jesus has done. He has healed somebody on the Sabbath, which was a big no no for the Pharisees that he was around, uh, humiliating them, because he even asked them, hey, is this lawful for me to do? Is it lawful for me to heal this man on the Sabbath? And they had no answer for him, so he healed him, and the man went away. So that's the first thing Jesus has done at this party. The second thing that Jesus has done at this party is he humiliated the guest who were seeking to find the best seats in the house. So they would go sit, find the best seats at the table, and he goes, No, go and sit in the lower spots and and then maybe the guest will elevate you to a higher station. The third thing he's done is he's instructed people on who should be invited to their parties. Now, if you're having a party, you're having a feast, you get to be the ones to invite. And Jesus says, Don't invite your friends. Don't invite your family, but invite the least of these. Invite those who are hurting, those who are Mame, those who are lame, those who are sick, those who are infirmed, invite them to eat. So He's instructing them on how to eat, or how to how to invite. Invite those who can give you nothing, those who have nothing to offer to you. Invite them to eat at your house. See what he's doing is he's standing in the face of these religious Pharisees, and he's telling them that what you're doing, all this religious stuff that you're doing, is not the kingdom of God. What you're doing, in fact, all this piety that you have, all this religious humility that you're you're exhibiting, isn't humility at all. In fact, it is you just trying to position and posture yourself to make sure that you are seen, to make sure that you are important, to make sure that you have a status in the community. So he's saying, humble yourselves. That's what he said. And I can tell you this, that Jesus has had many interactions with the Pharisees, and this interaction, you could probably cut the tension with a knife that there is something going on there that is disturbing those who are at the party. And so to in order to have some tension cutting, there's a guy who. At the table who says this in verse 15. He says, Blessed is the one who will eat the bread in the kingdom of God. So in order to kind of cut the tension and to make sure that everybody kind of relaxes, he just says, Hey, may the one who's going to eat at the table the kingdom of the God, may him be blessed. And then Jesus listens to this man, and he says, You know what? I've got a story to tell you. I've got a story to tell you. But before we get to the story that Jesus tells so he's this man's trying to salvage the dinner party. He's trying to make sure that everybody gets a little more comfortable. And he's saying a spiritual comment. He's He's saying something spiritual, may the one who is going to eat bread in the kingdom of God, may him be blessed. But essentially, what he's doing is he's assuming that he's going to be one of the ones at the party. He's assuming that he's going to be at the table. It's a it's an arrogance that he is showing he's like essentially what he's saying is, bless the ones who are like us. Bless the ones who are like me and my friends that we may feast in the kingdom of God. That's what he's saying. And so Jesus listens to this man, and he tells the parable. He says this, a man was giving a large banquet, verse 16, and invited many and at the time of the banquet, he sent his servants to tell those who were ready or who were invited to come, because everything is ready. The ancient custom here was that you would do a double invitation, kind of like we do for a wedding or for a big party. We send out an RSVP, you know, you say, Hey, make sure that you're saving the date for this, because this is an important day. Make sure that there's nothing that's going to conflict with you, especially if you're going to agree to come. So there would be that initial invitation, there would be that initial reaching out and saying, Hey, are you going to come? And you would say yes, and when they said yes, you were counted as one who was going to attend the party. But this parable isn't about a feast. It's talking about a feast. But that's not what it's about. It's about salvation. This parable is about what God has done throughout history. Yes, he's talking about a feast, but you know what feast he's talking about? He's talking about the feast at the end of time, the Feast of the marriage, supper of the Lamb. That's what he is focused on. And he's saying that those who he invited, they have a reservation, but are they going to show up? Are they going to be there? The banquet of the lamb will read about later in Revelation 19. So the characters in the story are three, right? There are three types of characters, I guess, the man who has the banquet, and that man represents the Lord, the father. The second one is the man, the servant who was sent out, and that servant represents Jesus Christ, the one who goes and tells them that the the table is set, the dinner is ready. And then the third are the men, or the people who are invited. Those would be at the beginning, the Jewish people. And so the first invitation was the promise of God. The promise of God that that he is going to fix what humanity is broken, that what's been broken since the garden when Adam and Eve rebelled against God, is going to be fixed, and there's going to be a feast. And who doesn't like a feast? That there is an entryway into the kingdom of God, that there is a way to get into the kingdom of God. That's what is the promise is. The second invitation is to follow God's son to follow the servant, to follow the one who has come to make the way to the party. But the men that are invited, their response to the invitation is found in verses 14 or verses 18 through 20. This is this. But without exception, they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, I have bought a field and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me. Another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen and I'm going to try them out. I ask you to excuse me. Then another said, I got, I just got married, and therefore I am unable to come. These men who were invited were full of excuses. And I like the old phrase, you know, excuses are like armpits. Everybody has them, and they all stink. That's, that's what's happening here, is they're they're making excuses the and these are sad responses to the invitation that that the servant is saying, Come on, dinner's ready. And they're saying, No, we got other things going on. We have plans. Yes, we've had this on our calendar for months, but we've got more and better things to do. It's disrespectful because they had already agreed upon coming to the banquet. The the man had already set the feast. He had already Slater. Slater the lambs, he had already set out everything. Everything was ready. All they had to do was come and eat. And through their excuses, they are disrespecting the man. They are dishonoring the man. They were rude and insulting the man. Now we've all been in places right, where we've had to excuse ourself from things that we have promised to go right, whether it's like an illness or somebody died, or somebody's hurt, there's an injury, but that's not what this is. This is akin to you saying, Oh, I've gotta go wash my hair that night, or I've I've got nothing to wear, or it's laundry day. These are just ridiculous, superficial excuses that these men have. Now there are only three men who are taught talked about here, but this is by and large. Jesus is using those three men as an example of the kind of excuses that were given. So the first man, he purchased the field. And what he's saying is, I purchased a field without looking at it. Now we know that that's probably not what happened. This man's already seen the field. He went to the field. He examined the field. In fact, as I was reading and studying for it. I I read this commentary that said they would actually walk through every square inch of the field making sure that it was all good, because they're going to use this field for their livelihood. They're going to use this field to to plant and to to to sow and to reap and to, you know, has as their income and as their food. So he's not going to blindly go by a field. The second man, he's like I bought five yoke of oxen. So that's 10 oxen that he went to go buy. And you're not going to buy 10 oxen without examining them first. So he's already examined them, but he's using that excuse, I gotta go examine them. This 10 oxen would have been enough to plow and to take care of 100 acres of land, which to many farmers in here, that doesn't sound like a lot, but when you have oxen, and that's all you're using to plant land, that's a lot of land, and land was very costly in Jesus's time and day in that area where they live, because there wasn't a whole lot of plantable land. He's saying, I've got 10 oxen, I've gotta go check out. The last man was like, Hey, I gotta go hang out with my bride. I just got married. Now here's the thing, they planned these weddings far out in advance. They planned this feast far out in advance. Either the man didn't know the day he was going to get married, or he is using that as, again, another ridiculous excuse to say, I don't want to come to your party. I don't want to be there. I think about these men. These men were going to be, well, would have been wealthy men. They would have had things that that could preoccupy them. And it reminds me of the parable that Jesus told about the rich man, the rich fool. Y'all remember that story a couple weeks ago, the man who built for his cells barns, he says, I'm going to build up in my own wealth, and I'm going to make my own statement of of my importance in this world. And then God says, No, I'm taking your life tonight. So these men are are putting their faith and their trust in these things, whether it be the oxen or the land, instead of in the promised invitation that they have received from the feast. And now these excuses, Jesus doesn't just choose these excuses at random. In fact, these excuses mirror some of the excuses in Deuteronomy that God gives for a man who is going off to war, that he can use to not go off in war. In fact, in Deuteronomy, chapter 20, verse five through seven, it says this The officers are to address the army. Has any man built a house, a new house, and not dedicated IT? So this mirrors the man who bought the land. Let him leave and return home, otherwise he may die in battle and another man may dedicate it. Verse six says, Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Which would been like the oxen let him leave and return home. Otherwise he may die in battle and enjoy another man may enjoy its fruit. Or has any man become engaged to a woman and not married her, let him leave and return home, being the man who just got married. Otherwise he may die in battle and another man may marry her. And what the reason why Jesus is using this is because he's talking to Pharisees. He's talking to these religious men who know this text, and he's using these ridiculous examples that mirror an excuse to not go to war, because going to a feast is not going to a war, right? Going to a feast is going to enjoy and to party and to celebrate the good things that the Lord has given. And they're using these same kind of excuses like, Hey, I just don't want to go to this party. The problem is these men have a skewed way of thinking. They have an a skewed way of understanding what's important. They don't want what this man offers instead. They they want to find what they find their own value in, which would have been the land and the oxen and the marriage. And I'm not saying any of those things are bad. Those things are good things, but when they become the most important things, that's where our excuses get skewed. They're preoccupied with their possessions, they're preoccupied with their wealth. They're preoccupied with their family, rather than enjoying the greater things of God. You see those Pharisees there would have known that Jesus isn't talking about. A meal, they they would have known that he's talking about the feast with the Lord. They would have seen those excuses in God, those are silly excuses. But each one of those men sitting at the table were having those same kind of excuses. They were trying to figure out a way to say that I don't want to follow Jesus because of this. I don't want to follow Jesus because He He heals men on the Sabbath. I don't want to follow Jesus because I don't agree with his teachings. I don't want to follow Jesus for whatever. And they're making the same kind of excuses, lame excuses. It would have been better if those men in Jesus's parable would have just said, I just don't want to go to this party, rather than just saying making these ridiculous excuses. I think part of what they were trying to do, that Jesus was trying to show is that they're trying to publicly shame this host, because what we talked about a couple weeks ago is that when you have a dinner during this time, it's a big to do. It's a who's who list of who's going to they're going to build alliances, they're going to network, they're going to do all these things to to help strengthen one another, and them saying that they're not going to show up to the party. Is them saying that they don't respect the man who is throwing the party. It's them saying they don't, they don't want to be seen with the man who is throwing the party. And it's easy for us to sit here and go, You know what? Those are lame excuses. Those are ridiculous excuses. I would never say that. And he would say, You know what, I and I identify with the men later in the story where I am going to go to that party, I am going to go to that feast, but anytime we read the scriptures, I think a good hermeneutic for us to read, which is hermeneutics just a way to read the scriptures, a good way for us to read the scriptures. It's for us to to not throw off the bad guys, but to identify with the bad guys, because typically, we are the bad guys. You know why I say that? Because we would all make excuses. They may not be the same kind of excuses, but we would all want to make excuses. It's easy to say, these are dumb ones, but we make dumb ones too, don't we? I gotta work harder. I got a job that just won't allow me to have free time. I've got a new boyfriend or girlfriend, I've got a family that I've gotta take care of. And all these excuses in light of the kingdom of God are minuscule and ridiculous. I want to ask you if you had Jesus standing in front of you today, and he said, Hey, I've got a party for you to go to. Do you want to come to this party with me? And you said, No, I've got more important things to do. And he said, What important things? He said, Well, I've gotta go my yard. I've gotta go take care of my I've gotta go feed my family. He's like, I've gotta feast for you here? I've gotta go, you know, sit on my couch and watch Netflix, whatever it is. With those excuses, really convince Jesus that you love him more than you love the things of this world. I'm too tired. God, I don't want to do it today. I gotta go take a nap. These are all excuses that we have used at one time or another. Maybe I've got too many responsibilities. My plates are overloaded. I've got too much going on. My wife, my kids, my family need me. I don't have time for Jesus. These may sound like good excuses, but to push Jesus to the side in light of eternity, it is they are truly dumb excuses. How insulting is it to the king of the world, the Lord of the universe, that we reject the beauty of what he's offered us, a meal that he has provided for it's a salvation that He has granted to us, and we want to hold on to the things that never satisfy, the things that never bring us joy. Jesus has offered us all of himself, and we would rather trade it for the filth of this world. You mean, Jesus, that to come to this party, I'd have to stop sleeping with my boyfriend or my girlfriend. You mean to come to this party or Jesus, I would have to submit my finances to you. I would have to make wise decisions with my money. You mean Jesus to come to this party, I would have to give my life away for the good of others. You mean to come to this party, I would have to serve the church and her people, Jesus, you mean that I'd have to forgive those who hurt me to come to this party. You know what? I'd rather just not go to the banquet. I'd rather not go to the feast. These this anger, this frustration, the sin that I'm holding on to. That's what I want to keep. It's so much more delightful. And Jesus saying, I've got a feast here for you. I've got something so much greater to offer to you. No, we're good. Just come on, pass on by Jesus. Too often, even those of us who profess to be followers of Jesus. We are more concerned about the things of this world than we are of the things of eternity. We care more about stuff than we do about the Lord who gave His life for us. We came care more about our bank accounts than we care about the sacrifice that Jesus gave, and it's because we forgotten the good news of the gospel. And the good news of the Gospel begins with bad news that you are a sinner, that you are wicked and in rebellion against God, and that you deserve God's wrath, that you deserve to be punished. But the good news is, is that Christ took that on our behalf, that he bore the wrath of God on the cross for your sins so that you could be forgiven, so that you could be clothed in his righteousness, you could be made right with God. That's what Jesus did. And we go, nah. I prefer my sin. I prefer the things of this world. I need a bigger house. I need a newer car. I need more things. Jesus saying I have something so much better to offer you. We need to have an attitude and an appetite for the things that are higher than the things of this world. Now, if all that exist in this world is stuff, then go for it. But I'm telling you, there's so much more to this world. There's so much more goodness and grace and forgiveness in this world that God has to offer you than just the stuff that exist here on this plane. Now you can profess that you came to Jesus. I you know, we witnessed some baptisms this morning, and it was a glorious thing. And some of us rest on that. We say we don't need to come to the banquet Jesus, because I've already got baptized. I'm good to go. Or, you know, I don't need to go to the banquet, Jesus, you know, I've already, I've already sat down, and I've had the Lord's Supper, and I'm good to go. Or, my parents already RSVPed a long time ago. They, they, they, they made sure that my RSVP was sent in. I don't need to go. You knew I was coming, but I decided not to. And those are all things that all excuses that we make. But that's just what they are, excuses. One of my my best friends, David Segura, at First Baptist Church in Grenada, he says, we all have a pocket full of excuses, and it's time that we dump em out. It's time that we get rid of them. We leave those pocket full of excuses at the door and say, You know what, I'm not going to chase after the things of this world anymore. I want to chase after Jesus. I want to follow him. I want to I want to go to the banquet and I want to enjoy it. I want to feast with the Lord. Or you can continue with your excuses. You can keep with your excuses on why you don't want to attend. He's not going to force you to go. But what excuse is good enough? What excuse is good enough? Are they more important than eternity? Are they more important than your soul? What happens after these excuses happens in verse 21 through 24 and it says this, so the servant came back and reported these things to his master. Then, in anger, the master of the house told his servant go out quickly into the streets and the alleys of the city and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, lame master. The servant said, what you ordered has been done and there is still room. Then the master told the servant, go out into the highways and the hedges and make them come in so that my house may be filled. For I tell you, not one of those people who were invited will enjoy my banquet. Jesus here is giving a final invitation. It tells us that the servant comes back, and he tells the man that nobody wants to come to the banquet, and the man is angry. Why is he angry? What is he angry at? Remember that that first group of people who were invited represented the the religious Jewish men during the time those original guests that were invited, and the truth is, is that the man didn't have to invite anybody. He could've just enjoyed the feast himself. But he, in His grace and His kindness and His mercy, he invited these people to come, and they told them he was they were going to come, and they had his invitation, and they decided not to come. You see, for Jesus, it was these men who had the invitation of of God, that God had revealed Himself to them in the scriptures, that God had revealed Himself to them through the promises that He had made. And they go, No, I don't want to hear those promises. I don't want to know your word. I don't want to have that revelation anymore, and I want to reject the invitation Jesus. Says, coming is scattered all throughout the Old Testament. They had seen it. They had only read Isaiah, The Book of Isaiah. They had only read Isaiah 53 they would have known that Jesus was coming. And instead of listening to and seeing God's work in Jesus's life, they rejected him because they didn't think that he was the Messiah that was promised. He didn't think that he was the Savior that God had promised. And so they rejected him. He said, I don't want your invitation, Jesus. So this man, in his anger, decided to send out the servant to those who wouldn't reject the offer. He sent him first to go pick up the the what the lame and the maimed and those who are in the streets, in the alleys, the blind, and he goes, and he goes, go get those. This man is doing something so new in this parable that he's inviting those who the other people, the the religious Jewish men would have seen as rejects and not worthy of the love of God. He's creating a new community, inviting in those that the society would have pushed to the outside and said, You can't come to my party. And this is a fulfillment of what Jesus said earlier in in Luke, when he tells those at the party to not invite those who can do something for you, but to invite those who can't do anything for you. Right at the end of let's see verse 12, he also said to the one who had invited him, when you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, your brothers, your sisters or your relatives or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid on the contrary, when you host a banquet, invite those who are poor, mamed, lame and or blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you for what you have done. And Jesus is saying these men who are invited, the lame, the blind, the maimed, those who are coming, he knows they cannot offer anything, but he's creating a new community. The old invitation is cut off. The new community is coming in. He's inviting those who can't repay him. The group originally invited would have been shocked by this message. What do you mean? You're inviting those who are outside, those who don't matter, those who have been who they view as being sinful and being judged by God. How dare you invite those but he invited them. Jesus invites them. And I know I told you this last week, but that's exactly what Jesus does for us in that story. We are the lame, we are the maid, we are the blind, we are those who are so in our sin that we cannot offer Jesus anything except for the sin that deserves the wrath of God. He says, come, enjoy a feast. Come enjoy dinner. Come. But not just that. He goes, go and get those who are at the highways and the hedges, see those inside the walls, those who are the maimed and the blind, those would would have been those who, at least closely, in some way, identify with the religious elite because they have the same heritage. But those on the highways and the hedges, those are just passers by, and they would have been expected to deny the invitation. That's why Jesus says that you need to go compel them to come, that you need to instruct them to come. You need to convince them to come, because they would go ahead and ignore the invitation. And I think what's interesting here is that in this parable, we don't get that the servant actually goes out to go into the highways, into the hedges, we don't get a fulfillment of that part of the parable. And I wonder if Luke is doing something spectacular here, where he's talking to the listeners of this book, those who have been invited in. And he's saying now it's for those who have been invited to the party to go and compel those who haven't been invited yet. What I mean is this, maybe, what he's saying is that for you and me, those who have trusted in Jesus, it is our turn to go and compel others to come to the feast, that there is a evangelical demand here for those of us, for you who have placed your faith in Jesus, for those who have declared their faith in Jesus this morning in baptism, for those who have been walking with Jesus for ages like are you inviting people to the banquet? Are you telling people that there is a feast to have, that the things of this world, though they may satisfy you temporarily, there is something so much greater to have, because the reality is, is that those who reject the invitation will not be invited. There's only one way to get to the Lord. There's only one way to get into heaven as. Through following Jesus, through placing your faith and trust in Him, there's only one invitation. There's not a lot of invitations. It's not by your own work, it's not by your own good deeds that you get into heaven. The only way that you get to the Lord is through Jesus, the invitation that he has extended. So for you today, that invitation is there. Will you follow Jesus? Will you give your life to Him? Because the beautiful thing is that the Lord wants his table to be full. The Lord wants his table to be full. He wants his house to be packed. I'm going to read from Revelation, chapter 19. Real quick Revelation, the last book of the scriptures. There's this beautiful scene at the end in chapter 19, at this supper that Jesus is talking about here, says this. John writes, after I heard something like a loud voice of a vast multitude in heaven saying, Hallelujah, salvation, glory and power belong to our God, because his judgments are true and righteous, because he has judge the notorious prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants that was on her hands a second time they said, Hallelujah, her smoke is sins forever and ever. And then the 24 elders and the four creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, Amen, hallelujah. A voice from the throne said, praise our God all his servants and those who fear Him, both great and small. Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, like the rumbling of a loud thunder, saying, Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty reigns, let us be glad, rejoice and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come and His Bride is prepared. She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure, for the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, right Blessed are those who those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb. He also said to me, these words of God are true. Each one of you, if you have not given your life to Jesus, has been invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And you can choose to accept that invitation. We can choose to reject that invitation. And one of the things we're going to do this morning, that we do at the first Sunday of every every month, is we're going to take the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is an opportunity for those who have professed Christ, those who have accepted the invitation to follow Jesus, to celebrate what the Lord has done this Lord's Supper. What it does is it reminds us of the sacrifice of Jesus, his body that was broken, his blood that was shed. That's what it reminds us of but it also helps to point us forward to the marriage supper that we will have with the lamb. It helps us to have our hope anchored in the truth of what God has revealed that one day, there will be a feast, a feast unimaginable for us, and we will sit at the table with the Lord our God. I look forward to that day. I hope you do too. I'm going to pray real quick if my deacons can come down and and help pass out this Lord's Supper, Father God. Thank you so much for this morning. Thank you for this opportunity that we have to hear Your word and to be challenged by it, Lord as well. I pray that if there's anybody in here who hasn't given their life to You, Lord, that they would do that this morning, that they would offer their lives as a living sacrifice as we partake in this Lord's Supper, Lord, I pray that we would be mindful and thoughtful about the the what it means to look on the blood that was shed by Jesus and the body That was broken by Jesus so that we could be washed clean, so we could have Forgiveness. We pray all this in Jesus. Name, Amen. You. Thank you guys. Go ahead. All right, I'm going to read from First Corinthians, chapter 11, verses 23 through 26 this is what it says For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread and when He had given thanks, broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of Me, the body of Christ broken for you, I in the same way, he also took the cup after supper and said, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of Me, For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes, the blood of Christ poured out for you. Let's pray.