Sermon Tone Analysis

expected.

Along with the word, which must accompany the observance of the sacrament in order to explain its meaning, the Lord’s Supper serves to strengthen believers and confirm their assurance of a share in the Covenant of Grace.

Cup that means participation - praying for that, in new way each time - tied to sacrafice on the Cross which it comemorates… Lord’s Supper as a transformation and fulfillment of the Passover celebration - in good sense OVERFLOWING!

picture it crushed grapes, forced out to overflow for the life of the WORLD -

cup of blessing is the third of four cups required in the ceremony of the Paschal meal.

It derives its name from the prayer offered over the cup: “Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine.”

Strengthening: expected.

Along with the word, which must accompany the observance of the sacrament in order to explain its meaning, the Lord’s Supper serves to strengthen believers and confirm their assurance of a share in the Covenant of Grace.

TO BLESS = almost carries the meaning to be thankful, but more to the communion prayer than gratitude = worshippers are to ask God to bless thewine so that it might fulfil its puropse ()

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I will pour out the cup of thanksgiving to Jehovah, because of aid vouchsafed.

In the prophets, Jehovah is sometimes represented as making the nations drink a cup of intoxicating wine (כּוֹס הַתַּרְעֵלָה), so that they rush reeling into destruction.

Isa.

51:17, 22; Jer.

25:15; 49:12; 51:7; Lam.

4:21; Hab.

2:16; Eze.

23:31, 32, 33; compare Apoc.

17:4; and as to the same image as used by the Arabic poets, see my Comment.

on Isaiah 51:17.—Elsewhere

cup is used metaphorically of lot, the image of a cup however being retained, Psalm 11:6; 16:5; compare Matt.

26:39; 20:22; and see my observations out of Arabic writers, on Isaiah 51:17

which is to convey encouragement through symbolism (11:24-25)

PRATT: In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “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 the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.

Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another— if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment.

About the other things I will give directions when I come.

Spiritual reality is what participation is, and what is about…

Passover meal isn’t the sacrfcice, but Christ = Robert Reymond is correct to draw attention to the fact that ‘our Lord used elements already normally employed in the Passover celebration’.

Indeed, as Roger Beckwith observes, ‘The only new thing which Christ instituted was his interpretation of the elements, i.e. his words of institution; for the thanksgivings, breaking of the bread and distributing of the elements took place at any formal meal, as the rabbinical literature shows.’71

The Passover commemorated the deliverance of the covenant people from God’s judgment on Egypt through the shedding of the blood of the lamb.

Thus when Paul states in ‘Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed’, he indicates that it is Christ in His sacrificial, atoning work who ultimately fulfils the Passover symbolism.

The Passover directed the attention of God’s people to the Lamb of God who truly takes away sin.

Richard Vines, a member of the Westminster Assembly, sums up, after comparing the Passover and Christ’s atonement,

And so much for the Passover as referring to Christ our Sacrifice, for that it does so is plain by this: that which is said of the Paschal lamb in is expressly applied to and fulfilled in Christ in [‘Not one of his bones will be broken.’].

So much for the Passover as a sacrifice, or as the figure of our sacrifice and theirs, Christ Jesus.

Covenant theologians, in opposition to Rome, assert that the sacrament itself cannot be a sacrifice.

THE CUP: .

I will pour out the cup of thanksgiving to Jehovah, because of aid vouchsafed.

In the prophets, Jehovah is sometimes represented as making the nations drink a cup of intoxicating wine (כּוֹס הַתַּרְעֵלָה), so that they rush reeling into destruction.

, ; ; ; ; ; ; , , ; compare ; and as to the same image as used by the Arabic poets, see my Comment.

on .—Elsewhere

cup is used metaphorically of lot, the image of a cup however being retained, ; ; compare ; ; and see my observations out of Arabic writers, on 15.

Wherefore glorify Jehovah in the valleys.

God’s benefits ought to excite us to gratitude, and we testify it by singing his praises.

“What return shall we make,” as David says, “for all the benefits which he has bestowed on us, but to take the cup of thanksgiving for salvation, and call on the name of the Lord?”

The Prophet therefore observes this order; having spoken of the restoration of the Church, he exhorts us to offer the sacrifice of praise.

SYMBOL: - a wine-cup (, ), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments.

All Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold ().

The cups mentioned in the New Testament were made after Roman and Greek models, and were sometimes of gold ().

CUP—a wine-cup (, ), various forms of which are found on Assyrian and Egyptian monuments.

All Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold ().

The cups mentioned in the New Testament were made after Roman and Greek models, and were sometimes of gold ().

The art of divining by means of a cup was practiced in Egypt (), and in the East generally.

; The “cup of salvation” () is the cup of thanksgiving for the great salvation.

The “cup of consolation” () refers to the custom of friends sending viands and wine to console relatives in mourning ().

In , the “cup of blessing” is contrasted with the “cup of devils” ().

The sacramental cup is the “cup of blessing,” because of blessing pronounced over it (; ).

The “portion of the cup” (; ) denotes one’s condition of life, prosperous or adverse.

A “cup” is also a type of sensual allurement (; ; ).

We read also of the “cup of astonishment,” the “cup of trembling,” and the “cup of God’s wrath” (; ; ; ; ; ; comp.

, ; ).

The cup is also the symbol of death (; ; ).

The “cup of salvation” () is the cup of thanksgiving for the great salvation.

The “cup of consolation” () refers to the custom of friends sending viands and wine to console relatives in mourning ().

In , the “cup of blessing” is contrasted with the “cup of devils” ().

The sacramental cup is the “cup of blessing,” because of blessing pronounced over it (; ).

The “portion of the cup” (; ) denotes one’s condition of life, prosperous or adverse.

A “cup” is also a type of sensual allurement (; ; ).

We read also of the “cup of astonishment,” the “cup of trembling,” and the “cup of God’s wrath” (; ; ; ; ; ; comp.

, ; ).

The cup is also the symbol of death (; ; ).

Death is the Passover not the Lord’s Supper: Another form of Passover interpretation is found in 1 Corinthians, where Paul says: “Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are.

For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Therefore let us keep the festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” ( NIV).

Here, Paul uses the word “unleavened bread” (and not the common term “bread”) and calls Jesus “our Passover lamb.”

It is the death of Christ, rather than the Last Supper, that is interpreted together with Passover.

Later on, when Paul talks about the eucharistic meal as “fellowship in the blood of Christ,” he refers to the cup as “the cup of thanksgiving”—a term also used for one of the cups of the Passover meal ()

HODGE: 4. By what other terms was it designated in the early church ?

1st.

“Eucharist,” from ευχαριστεω, to give thanks.

See .

This beautifully designates it as a thanksgiving service.

It is both the cup of thanksgiving, whereby we celebrate the grace of God and pledge our gratitude to him, and the cup of blessing, or the consecrated cup.

4. By what other terms was it designated in the early church ?

1st.

“Eucharist,” from ευχαριστεω, to give thanks.

See .

This beautifully designates it as a thanksgiving service.

It is both the cup of thanksgiving, whereby we celebrate the grace of God and pledge our gratitude to him, and the cup of blessing, or the consecrated cup.

15.

Wherefore glorify Jehovah in the valleys.

God’s benefits ought to excite us to gratitude, and we testify it by singing his praises.

“What return shall we make,” as David says, “for all the benefits which he has bestowed on us, but to take the cup of thanksgiving for salvation, and call on the name of the Lord?”

The Prophet therefore observes this order; having spoken of the restoration of the Church, he exhorts us to offer the sacrifice of praise.

Come to receive = not always heightened rapturous, sometimes distrccted, so much, queit waiting before, during… although some say epitome of whoel gospel, - focuson cetnral truths… preented.. Remember , proclaim, assurance -

= not self-atonement ; Christ atonement!; ie Pharisees thought - hatred not like murder, little sins as long as gave to the church sho9wed up for worship put their money in the offering… Jesus says no - What you think, what’s in your heart only diffresin degree, no in kind frorm what you actually do… your thought llife, google history… tells a story about your real relationships with the LORD and other..