Sacred Supper
Stephen Whitney
I Corinthians 11:23-30
From the steeple of Saint Mary's Church in Cracow, Poland a bugle has sounded every day over the last 700 years. The last note is always muted and broken, as if some disaster happened to the bugler as he was playing.
This 700-year commemoration is in memory of a heroic bugler who one night sounded a blast on his trumpet to summon the people to defend their city against the invading Tartars, who were warriors from the east. As he was sounding the last blast on his trumpet, an arrow struck and killed him.
Why do we have memorials and why are they important?
We need to be reminded of the past because we so quickly forget.
1. We tend to focus on the present instead of the past.
2. We are busy living our everyday lives.
3. We naturally forget as time passes.
REMEMBER HIS SACRIFICE :23-26
His truth :23
Paul was only giving them what the Lord had given to him - he was not added anything to it. His account is the same as what is in the gospels (Matt. 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:17-20).
His person :24
Jesus took the leavened bread which had been part of the Passover meal and says this is ''my body.'' The bread was not his physical body because he was talking with them. So, he had to mean that this bread which for centuries had represented Israel leaving Egypt was now to represent his body meaning his life.
Broken for you - Christ died on the cross as our substitute for our sins so that we would not have to die for our sins. The theological term is substitutionary atonement as Christ died to pay for our sins.
I Peter 2:24 Christ himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.Peter used the reflexive pronoun himself to emphasize the factthat Jesus did not die for himself, but for us.
John Calvin - ''Under the Law, the sinner, that he might be released from guilt, substituted a victim in his own place; so Christ took on himself the curse due to our sins, that he might atone ...
Stephen Whitney
I Corinthians 11:23-30
From the steeple of Saint Mary's Church in Cracow, Poland a bugle has sounded every day over the last 700 years. The last note is always muted and broken, as if some disaster happened to the bugler as he was playing.
This 700-year commemoration is in memory of a heroic bugler who one night sounded a blast on his trumpet to summon the people to defend their city against the invading Tartars, who were warriors from the east. As he was sounding the last blast on his trumpet, an arrow struck and killed him.
Why do we have memorials and why are they important?
We need to be reminded of the past because we so quickly forget.
1. We tend to focus on the present instead of the past.
2. We are busy living our everyday lives.
3. We naturally forget as time passes.
REMEMBER HIS SACRIFICE :23-26
His truth :23
Paul was only giving them what the Lord had given to him - he was not added anything to it. His account is the same as what is in the gospels (Matt. 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:17-20).
His person :24
Jesus took the leavened bread which had been part of the Passover meal and says this is ''my body.'' The bread was not his physical body because he was talking with them. So, he had to mean that this bread which for centuries had represented Israel leaving Egypt was now to represent his body meaning his life.
Broken for you - Christ died on the cross as our substitute for our sins so that we would not have to die for our sins. The theological term is substitutionary atonement as Christ died to pay for our sins.
I Peter 2:24 Christ himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.Peter used the reflexive pronoun himself to emphasize the factthat Jesus did not die for himself, but for us.
John Calvin - ''Under the Law, the sinner, that he might be released from guilt, substituted a victim in his own place; so Christ took on himself the curse due to our sins, that he might atone ...
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