The Lords' Supper - In Rememberance of Me
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME 1/21/07 a.m.
1 Cor. 11:23-25. Gen.1 -3
1 Cor 11:2323 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME (bearing in mind, recalling to mind)
What is there to remember about Christ?
Let’s start at the beginning.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:14 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus is God Almighty
JOHN 1:3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
Jesus is the creator of all things
v3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
: spiritual illumination
: inner light
: enlightenment
: truth
2 Cor. 4:6 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
JOHN 8:12 12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
V6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament ……8 And God called the firmament Heaven.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas.
11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens …16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so.
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them,
2:15 Then the Lord God took 4the man and put him in the garden of Eden to 5tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you 6shall surely die.”
2:25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
THEN MAN SINS & HIS SHAME (NAKEDNESS) ARE EXPOSED
3: 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Nakedness = shame = sin
JESUS COMES TO US & CALLS TO US
3: 8 And they heard the 3sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day,…...
3: 9 Then the Lord God called to Adam …, ….
LUKE 19:10 10 for the Son of Man has come
LUKE 9:56 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.”
MARK 2:17 I … come to call ……. sinners, to repentance.”
MT. 11:15 15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
REV.2:7 7 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says ..
JESUS COVERS OUR NAKEDNESS – SHAME - SIN
3: 21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
LEV.17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.’
HEB.9:22 22 ….. without shedding of blood there is no 9remission.
HEB.9:12 with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
HEB.9:24 24 For Christ has …entered…into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;….., He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. ..
ROM.5:6-11 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly….. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation (atonement – covering).
ROM.4:77 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
And whose sins are covered;
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”
JESUS GIVES US ETERNAL LIFE & ACCESS TO THE TREE OF LIFE
3: 22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
JOHN 3:15 5 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
JOHN 3:16-17 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
REV. 2:7 7 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ’
This is the day of God’s rest, the 7th day,
What is there to remember about Christ?
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
JESUS COMES TO US & CALLS TO US
JESUS COVERS OUR NAKEDNESS – SHAME - SIN
JESUS GIVES US ETERNAL LIFE & ACCESS TO THE TREE OF LIFE
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4 Or Adam
5 cultivate
6 Lit. dying you shall die
3 Or voice
9 forgiveness