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Introduction

Great depth of meaning it contains and soul-stirring experience.

Introduction: Great depth of meaning it contains and soul-stirring experience.

Communion is an vital part of Christian worship.

· Communion is an vital part of Christian worship.

Communion causes us to remember our Lord’s death and resurrection and to look for His glorious return in the future

· It causes us to remember our Lord’s death and resurrection and to look for His glorious return in the future

I. Passover Celebration

A. Gospel Accounts (Luke 22)

The eve of Jesus’ death on the Cross during the Passover

I. When – Eve of His death, during the Passover

Passover most sacred feast of the Jewish religious year

1. Passover most sacred feast of the Jewish religious year

Commemorated the final plague of Egypt where the first-born of the Egyptians died and the Israelites were spared b/c of the blood of a lamb sprinkled on their doorposts. The lamb was then roasted and eaten with unleavened (flat) bread.

a. Commemorated the final plague of Egypt where the first-born of the Egyptians died and the Israelites were spared b/c of the blood of a lamb sprinkled on their doorposts. The lamb was then roasted and eaten with unleavened bread

God’s command was that throughout the generations to come the feast would be celebrated.

Exodus 12:

b. God’s command was that throughout the generations to come the feast would be celebrated. ()

Exodus 12:14 NIV84

“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.

Jesus’ Passover celebration

Loaf of Bread – Broke it and gave thanks to God

Luke 22:19 NIV84

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.”

“This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me”

1. Lord’s Supper – Passover Celebration

Cup of wine

a. Loaf of Bread – broke it and gave thanks to God

This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you ()

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Luke 22:19 NIV84

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.”

Luke 22:20 NIV84

In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

Luke 22:20–21 NIV84

In the same way, 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.

i. This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you ()

Ended by signing a hymn and went out to the Mt. of Olives to pray

There Jesus was betrayed by Judas

i. There Jesus was betrayed by Judas

ii. Following day Jesus was cruficied

Following day Jesus was crucified

Accounts: ; ; ;

d. Accounts – ; ; ;

B. Paul’s Account (1 Corinthians 11)

Statements not in Gospel accounts

a. Statements not in Gospel accounts

“Eats or drinks the cup in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 11:27–29 NIV84

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.

1 Corinthians 11:27 NIV84

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

i. Eats + drinks unworthy

Partake of bread and cup in an unworthy manner

b. What does it mean to partake in unworthy manner

i. Partake of bread and cup in an unworthy manner

Disregard the true meaning of the bread and the cup and disregard the tremendous price Jesus paid for our salvation

ii. Disregard the true meaning of the bread and the cup and disregard the tremendous price Jesus paid for our salvation

Allow the ceremony to become a dead ritual

iii. Allow the ceronomy to become a dead ritual

To come to the supper with unconfessed sin

iv. To come to the supper with unconfessed sin

1 Corinthians 11:26 NIV84

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

1 cor 11:

c. Proclaim Lord’s death until he comes

Places time limit on ceremony – until Jesus returns

C. Take Away’s

From these two accounts we learn how Jesus used two of the frailest of elements as symbols of his body and his blood and established them to be a monument to His death.

From these two accounts we learn how Jesus used two of the frailest of elements as symbols of his body and his blood and established them to be a monument to His death.

From these two accounts we learn how Jesus used two of the frailest of elements as symbols of his body and his blood and established them to be a monument to His death.

Bread symbolized the body which was to be broken

Bread – body which was to be broken

Not a broken bone but so bruised/beaten that it was hardly recognizable (; )

Not a broken bone but so brused/beaten that it was hardly reconizble (

Wine symbolized Christ’s blood and the terrible death he would soon experience

He became fulfillment of countless OT prophecies (; ; ) concerning a redeemer

Do this in remember of me – a ceremony that must be continued in the future. /

Do this in remember of me – a ceremony that must be continued in the future.

Indicated also that the Passover, which required the sacrificing of a lamb, looked forward to the Lamb of God that was coming to take away the sins of the world

Take-Home:

The Lord’s supper or Christian communion, is a remembrance of what Christ did for us and a celebration of what we receive as a result of His sacrifice.