Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
In the upper chamber at the Passover meal on the night before His crucifixion, Jesus took the cup after supper as the new covenant in His blood shed for His disciples and for you. The juice of the vine stands for His blood spilled on the cross to save, as the broken bread stands for His broken body, and the cup must hold pure unfermented juice with unleavened bread to truly represent them. That night type met antitype, for the Passover lamb slain in Egypt prefigured the sinless Lamb of God, and when its pointing forward to His death ceased at Calvary He instituted the Lord's Supper during the meal as the memorial to replace it. It is to be kept often in all lands through all ages until He comes again, as a memorial of His betrayal, humiliation, crucifixion and death for the sins of the world, with foot-washing first to prepare the heart in humility. His atoning blood seals the new covenant for remission of sins, full and sufficient for every soul, and those who drink in faith show they receive Him as Saviour and continually depend on its cleansing power for pardon and redemption, for faith in His blood and righteousness alone is the title to heaven's blessings.
Setting and Cup Meaning
The words were spoken in the upper chamber at the Passover meal on the night before the crucifixion, in the few quiet hours between Jesus and Gethsemane as He prepared to suffer. That meal was virtually the last Passover ever to be celebrated. Those hours He spent for His disciples' benefit.
He spoke with heaviness and touching sadness and with troubled spirit, clearly foreseeing His near suffering and full baptism of suffering. He was grieved by the ingratitude and cruelty of those He came to save and by the terrible fate awaiting them.
The cup taken after supper is the new covenant, the new testament, in His blood, shed for His disciples and for you. His blood shed in sacrifice on the cross establishes that covenant and provides remission of sins, and His offering is full, free, abundant, perfect and sufficient, giving comfort and assurance to every soul in need of a Redeemer. The bread and wine belong together as the memorial service He left for His disciples.
The wine, the juice of the vine poured out, stands for His spilled blood shed on the cross to save. With it the broken bread stands for His broken body. By drinking the cup believers show they believe His blood was shed for them.
The cup must contain pure, unfermented grape juice, and the bread must be unleavened, because these alone correctly represent His blood and body. Fermented wine would spoil the symbol of His blood. This bread and wine He left to the church as a final legacy before His death.
Passover Fulfilled and Replaced
In keeping the Jewish law He observed its divinely appointed ordinances at the Passover meal, and by connecting the Lord's Supper with the Passover He identified Himself with the paschal lamb as its great antitype. This was virtually the last Passover ever to be celebrated, where type was to meet antitype in the slaying of the Lamb of God for the sins of the world.
The innocent lamb slain in Egypt, whose blood sprinkled on the doorposts caused the destroying angel to pass over the homes of Israel, prefigured the sinless, unblemished Lamb of God. The deliverance of the children of Israel commemorated by the feast typified the great salvation He brought. His merits and atoning blood alone avert the judgment and condemnation of fallen man.
The Passover pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice, and its significance ceased when He died at Calvary. That death fulfilled the type when the sinless Lamb of God presented Himself as the sin-offering, ending the sacrifices offered for four thousand years. At that last Passover before He suffered, Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper during the meal as the memorial to replace the festival that had pointed forward to His death. It takes the place of the Passover as the memorial of deliverance from the bondage of sin.
Memorial Observance and Promise
The Supper is a memorial of His betrayal and crucifixion for the sins of the world, of His humiliation, death, and sacrifice for the sins of the world and for final deliverance, of which Israel's deliverance from Egypt and from the bondage of sin was a type. It was instituted during the Passover meal to replace the festival that had pointed forward to His death, and it commemorates His death as the sin-offering. It was appointed to be observed often to keep His sacrifice and its solemn scenes of betrayal and crucifixion fresh in memory. It is to be observed in all lands and every country and through all ages until He comes again, as a duty Christ gave His people to practice more frequently, following His example as closely as possible with care and wisdom.
The foot-washing ordinance was appointed to come first with the Supper, after the example of broken bread and cup, because pride, conflict, and desire for supremacy prevent fellowship with Christ and readiness to receive the communion of His body and blood. Together with the Supper it is to recall Christ's act and teach that true service requires humble, unselfish ministry. Following His example of taking the disciples away from others and giving the cup to His disciples alone, the communion is to be kept private among believers apart from unbelievers and the wicked, to keep reproach from God's cause. Shepherds must carefully follow this order and seclusion. Participation is not to be restricted, but each person publicly bears witness to accepting Christ as a personal Saviour who gave His life to rescue them from death and for the remission of sins.
Judas also partook of the bread and wine before leaving to carry out his betrayal. Though Jesus knew he would betray Him, He allowed him the emblems to hold out opportunity to receive Him, repent, and be cleansed from sin. His example teaches that those believed to be in error or sin should not be abandoned. Yet one who eats and drinks unworthily does so to his own condemnation, and even in closed observance God will quickly make him manifest and purge him from among Israel. By drinking the cup believers show they believe His blood was shed for them to save, repent of their sins, and receive Him as Saviour. Salvation depends continually on applying that cleansing blood to the heart, depending on its merits for pardon, remission, cleansing from sin, safety from Satan, and final redemption.
The new covenant is sealed by His atoning blood shed on the cross for the remission of sins. His offering is full, free, abundant, perfect, and sufficient, giving comfort and assurance to every soul in need of a Redeemer. Those who drink from the cup in faith receive its peace-making and soul-cleansing power, which restores the sin-stricken soul as the Holy Spirit applies the truth about Jesus to the understanding. His blood is the pledge and seal of His promise, and faith in His efficacious blood and His righteousness alone is the only hope and stronghold and the title to heaven's blessings. The Lord's Supper is the scriptural ordinance using simple bread and wine that remain bread and wine and are not changed into His actual body and blood. The claim that priests by ritual words convert them into Christ's actual body and blood is a senseless, blasphemous, idolatrous heresy replacing the ordinance with an idolatrous sacrifice, in which men pretend to create their Creator and insult Heaven, enforced at one time on pain of death, with those who refused to avow it given to the flames.
In the upper chamber at the Passover meal on the night before His crucifixion, Jesus took the cup after supper as the new covenant in His blood shed for His disciples and for you. The juice of the vine stands for His blood spilled on the cross to save, as the broken bread stands for His broken body, and the cup must hold pure unfermented juice with unleavened bread to truly represent them. That night type met antitype, for the Passover lamb slain in Egypt prefigured the sinless Lamb of God, and when its pointing forward to His death ceased at Calvary He instituted the Lord's Supper during the meal as the memorial to replace it. It is to be kept often in all lands through all ages until He comes again, as a memorial of His betrayal, humiliation, crucifixion and death for the sins of the world, with foot-washing first to prepare the heart in humility. His atoning blood seals the new covenant for remission of sins, full and sufficient for every soul, and those who drink in faith show they receive Him as Saviour and continually depend on its cleansing power for pardon and redemption, for faith in His blood and righteousness alone is the title to heaven's blessings.
Setting and Cup Meaning
The words were spoken in the upper chamber at the Passover meal on the night before the crucifixion, in the few quiet hours between Jesus and Gethsemane as He prepared to suffer. That meal was virtually the last Passover ever to be celebrated. Those hours He spent for His disciples' benefit.
He spoke with heaviness and touching sadness and with troubled spirit, clearly foreseeing His near suffering and full baptism of suffering. He was grieved by the ingratitude and cruelty of those He came to save and by the terrible fate awaiting them.
The cup taken after supper is the new covenant, the new testament, in His blood, shed for His disciples and for you. His blood shed in sacrifice on the cross establishes that covenant and provides remission of sins, and His offering is full, free, abundant, perfect and sufficient, giving comfort and assurance to every soul in need of a Redeemer. The bread and wine belong together as the memorial service He left for His disciples.
The wine, the juice of the vine poured out, stands for His spilled blood shed on the cross to save. With it the broken bread stands for His broken body. By drinking the cup believers show they believe His blood was shed for them.
The cup must contain pure, unfermented grape juice, and the bread must be unleavened, because these alone correctly represent His blood and body. Fermented wine would spoil the symbol of His blood. This bread and wine He left to the church as a final legacy before His death.
Passover Fulfilled and Replaced
In keeping the Jewish law He observed its divinely appointed ordinances at the Passover meal, and by connecting the Lord's Supper with the Passover He identified Himself with the paschal lamb as its great antitype. This was virtually the last Passover ever to be celebrated, where type was to meet antitype in the slaying of the Lamb of God for the sins of the world.
The innocent lamb slain in Egypt, whose blood sprinkled on the doorposts caused the destroying angel to pass over the homes of Israel, prefigured the sinless, unblemished Lamb of God. The deliverance of the children of Israel commemorated by the feast typified the great salvation He brought. His merits and atoning blood alone avert the judgment and condemnation of fallen man.
The Passover pointed forward to Christ's sacrifice, and its significance ceased when He died at Calvary. That death fulfilled the type when the sinless Lamb of God presented Himself as the sin-offering, ending the sacrifices offered for four thousand years. At that last Passover before He suffered, Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper during the meal as the memorial to replace the festival that had pointed forward to His death. It takes the place of the Passover as the memorial of deliverance from the bondage of sin.
Memorial Observance and Promise
The Supper is a memorial of His betrayal and crucifixion for the sins of the world, of His humiliation, death, and sacrifice for the sins of the world and for final deliverance, of which Israel's deliverance from Egypt and from the bondage of sin was a type. It was instituted during the Passover meal to replace the festival that had pointed forward to His death, and it commemorates His death as the sin-offering. It was appointed to be observed often to keep His sacrifice and its solemn scenes of betrayal and crucifixion fresh in memory. It is to be observed in all lands and every country and through all ages until He comes again, as a duty Christ gave His people to practice more frequently, following His example as closely as possible with care and wisdom.
The foot-washing ordinance was appointed to come first with the Supper, after the example of broken bread and cup, because pride, conflict, and desire for supremacy prevent fellowship with Christ and readiness to receive the communion of His body and blood. Together with the Supper it is to recall Christ's act and teach that true service requires humble, unselfish ministry. Following His example of taking the disciples away from others and giving the cup to His disciples alone, the communion is to be kept private among believers apart from unbelievers and the wicked, to keep reproach from God's cause. Shepherds must carefully follow this order and seclusion. Participation is not to be restricted, but each person publicly bears witness to accepting Christ as a personal Saviour who gave His life to rescue them from death and for the remission of sins.
Judas also partook of the bread and wine before leaving to carry out his betrayal. Though Jesus knew he would betray Him, He allowed him the emblems to hold out opportunity to receive Him, repent, and be cleansed from sin. His example teaches that those believed to be in error or sin should not be abandoned. Yet one who eats and drinks unworthily does so to his own condemnation, and even in closed observance God will quickly make him manifest and purge him from among Israel. By drinking the cup believers show they believe His blood was shed for them to save, repent of their sins, and receive Him as Saviour. Salvation depends continually on applying that cleansing blood to the heart, depending on its merits for pardon, remission, cleansing from sin, safety from Satan, and final redemption.
The new covenant is sealed by His atoning blood shed on the cross for the remission of sins. His offering is full, free, abundant, perfect, and sufficient, giving comfort and assurance to every soul in need of a Redeemer. Those who drink from the cup in faith receive its peace-making and soul-cleansing power, which restores the sin-stricken soul as the Holy Spirit applies the truth about Jesus to the understanding. His blood is the pledge and seal of His promise, and faith in His efficacious blood and His righteousness alone is the only hope and stronghold and the title to heaven's blessings. The Lord's Supper is the scriptural ordinance using simple bread and wine that remain bread and wine and are not changed into His actual body and blood. The claim that priests by ritual words convert them into Christ's actual body and blood is a senseless, blasphemous, idolatrous heresy replacing the ordinance with an idolatrous sacrifice, in which men pretend to create their Creator and insult Heaven, enforced at one time on pain of death, with those who refused to avow it given to the flames.