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Open your Bibles to Mark 14:22-26.
•We’re continuing our study of the the Gospel of Mark.
•This morning we come to the portion of Mark’s Gospel that records the institution of the Lord’s Supper by Jesus Christ on the night of Passover.
This morning we find ourselves in one of the high points of Mark’s Gospel.
•We find ourselves in one of the richest texts in Mark concerning the atoning work of Jesus Christ.
•We find ourselves at the Lord’s Supper.
Now, the Lord’s Supper (or Communion) is something that we do each week in worship.
•And we do it each week because Jesus Christ commands us to do it.
It is an ordinance of Christ.
He has commanded it.
And so, we observe it.
•Jesus commanded His disciples, “Do this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19)
•And since it is commanded by Christ, we know that it must be important for us to do.
The Lord’s Supper is an incredibly important aspect of our worship of God.
•(And it’s my personal favorite aspect of corporate worship aside from the preaching of the Word.)
•The Supper is full of rich symbolism that we need to grasp so as to benefit more and more from it.
(Though it is more than a mere symbol.)
The Lord’s Supper preaches the Gospel to us if we understand it rightly.
•It is, as many theologians have rightly said, it is the Word of God made visible to our senses.
•And that is what our Lord intended when He instituted it.
•As we come to His Table each week, He wants us to behold His Person and work.
•He wants us to have our attention drawn to Himself.
•He wants us to lift our hearts to Him and renew our faith in Him and what He has done to save us.
There is beauty and glory and encouragement for the believer in our text this morning.
•And that’s because, in the Lord’s Supper, our Lord preaches the Good News to us, reaffirms His covenant promises to us, reminds us of His love for us, and feeds us with Himself.
There is so much that can be said about the Lord’s Supper.
•There are so many complex and deep things that can be taught about it.
•But this morning my goal is to simply show you what the Supper preaches to us as the visible Gospel.
•And, in doing so, I hope to show each of us how much we need Christ.
And also how Christ has met our need.
•May God bless us and teach us this morning.
If you would, and are able, please stand with me now for the reading of the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God.
Mark 14:22-26
[22] And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”
[23] And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.
[24] And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
[25] Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
[26] And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
(PRAY)
Our God and Father,
We thank you for this Lord’s Day and for all the blessing you have promised to us today.
We are glad to be among your People to worship you and be instructed by your Word and Spirit.
And we are excited to see what you will do in us today as sit humbly before the Word.
And so, we ask now that you would bless us as we consider the Scriptures.
Please, work in us this morning and grant us understanding, faith, and joy in what you have revealed in your Word.
Grant us to behold Christ with the eye of faith, revealed in the Scriptures, as our great God and Savior.
Teach us this morning.
And glorify yourself.
We ask these things in Jesus’ Name and for His sake.
Amen.
1.)
Our text begins with the words, “And as they were eating…”
•You’ll remember that Jesus and His disciples are celebrating the Passover meal.
•At this point, Judas the Betrayer is gone.
John 13:27 tells us that Jesus had sent him out.
And I believe that this occurred prior to Jesus instituting the Lord’s Supper.
•Only the faithful remain.
Only the believing disciples are left with Jesus at this point.
And, as I’ve already said, they are celebrating the Passover.
•They are having the meal that celebrated God’s work of redemption for Israel when He brought them out of slavery to Egypt.
•They are having a meal of remembrance about how God spared all houses of Israel from the death-plague.
And how God instructed the Israelites to put the blood of a lamb on their doorposts so that He would Pass-Over their houses and those inside would be spared.
They are celebrating a meal that ultimately looked forward to Jesus Christ and His work of salvation.
•Now, the disciples probably didn’t see this.
But the truth remains.
•The slaughtered Passover lamb pointed forward to the slaughtered Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who would make atonement by His blood for all who would believe.
•The freedom of Israel from slavery pointed forward to the freedom from sin for all who trust in Christ.
•The sparing of the Israelites from God’s wrath pointed forward to how those who trust in Christ will be spared from God’s wrath in the final judgment.
•And all of this because Christ would be made a sacrifice, as a substitute for all who believe on Him in all ages.
This Passover meal, instituted by God in the book of Exodus, commemorated God’s work of redemption for Israel out of their slavery to Egypt.
•It was a meal of remembrance about what GOD HAD DONE.
How God had worked salvation for an unworthy people.
How God had saved them and made them His own.
•It is in this context of remembering God’s work of redemption for Israel that Jesus does something new.
It is during this meal that Jesus institutes a new meal for the Church.
•He is going to institute a new ceremonial meal.
A meal that commemorates His work of redemption for His People.
•A meal of remembrance about what He was about to do to work salvation for those who trust in Him.
SEE ALREADY two things:
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The New Covenant organically grows out of the Old Covenant.
•The Old was full of promises concerning the Messiah and His work of redemption.
•The Old was full of type and shadows and things that pointed forward to Christ and the New Covenant.
•And the New Covenant, established in the blood of Christ, is the fulfillment of what God had promised since the Fall of Man in Eden.
•Brothers and sisters, the Bible tells ONE STORY.
And Christ is that story.
Christ is the sum and substance of the Scriptures.
It’s all about Him.
2.
See also that Jesus is God.
•God instituted the Passover.
And now Jesus is taking it and transforming it in the Lord’s Supper.
•Only God would have the prerogative to do such a thing.
If anyone less than God did this, if anyone less than God altered God’s own ordinance, it would be the height of blasphemy.
•So, we see here that Jesus is showing divine prerogative as God in establishing the Lord’s Supper.
•The Passover is finished.
The Lord’s Supper has taken it’s place because God has ordained it.
•The shadow is gone because the substance has come.
And the substance is Christ.
2.)
Now, before we get into the Supper itself, I want to take a moment and address an issue of controversy.
•I want to talk about the issue of symbolism in the Lord’s Supper and the word “is.”
Some, like the Roman Catholic Church, claim that “is” in our text means that the bread and wine are changed into the literal body and blood of Christ.
•They claim that when Jesus says, “This IS my body,” that “is” is basically an equal sign and, therefore, Jesus is saying that He has miraculously turned the bread and wine into His literal body and blood.
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