Sermon Tone Analysis

I. Jesus Embraced His Future (Mark 14:12-16)

1.

The Plan of God

1 Corinthians 5:7– “Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened.

For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.”

John 1:29– “The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

2. The fears of our hearts

3. The control of Christ

Hebrews 12:2– “looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

1 Peter 1:20–“He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you”

II.

Jesus Endured Betrayal (Mark 14:17-21)

Psalm 41:9– “Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.”

1 John 1:9– “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

III.

Jesus Served to the End (Mark 14:22-25)

Jeremiah 31:31-34– “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts.

And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord.

For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Luke 22:20– “And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”

1.

Taken as a symbol (Mark 14:22-23)

1 Corinthians 11:26– “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

2. Instituted by Jesus (Mark 14:22-24)

3. Taken to remember Christ (Luke 22:19)

Luke 22:19– “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.””

4. Taken until He returns (1 Corinthians 11:26)

1 Corinthians 11:26– “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

5. Taken after self-examination

1 Corinthians 11:28-29– “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.”