The Lord's Supper
Jim Perdue
Luke 22:14-20
Intro/Attention
When Jesus was on the earth, we know from the Bible that He taught the disciples and instructed all Christians everywhere to observe two ordinances. First, Jesus taught, and even commanded that every believer make his or her faith in Christ public through believer's baptism. This is an ordinance that is to be observed at the beginning of your faith, and this only once. Jesus taught a second ordinance however, that is to be observed on a continuing basis as a remembrance of the work that He did for each believer on the cross.
According to the Apostle Paul, this is called the Lord's Supper, and the early church picked right up on our Lord's teaching and began observing it right away. The message of the Lord's Supper is the message of Jesus described by Peter in 1 Peter 2:24. READ 1 Peter 2:24 It is the message of the work that Jesus accomplished through His death on the cross.
In the Bible we see many different ways that this work is described; a substitution (the death of one on the behalf of many), a sacrifice (the shedding of His blood as the Lamb of God), a ransom (Paying the price to set us free from sin's slavery and penalty), a redemption (paying the price to gain release from the curse of sin), a propitiation (satisfying God's wrath against sinners), an expiation (the removing of sin by being punished and paying the penalty, and an atonement (two parties being reconciled by the making of amends; by the full satisfaction of the penalty so that an offense is removed and the relationship is restored). All of these words point us back to the cross, and that is what the Lord supper does as well, it points us back to the cross, to remember what has been done for us in real time and space history. This morning we are going to go to the Lord's Table, but before we do, let's stop and take a little time to reflect on what it really is.
What does our Lord teach us about the Lord's Supper in ...
Jim Perdue
Luke 22:14-20
Intro/Attention
When Jesus was on the earth, we know from the Bible that He taught the disciples and instructed all Christians everywhere to observe two ordinances. First, Jesus taught, and even commanded that every believer make his or her faith in Christ public through believer's baptism. This is an ordinance that is to be observed at the beginning of your faith, and this only once. Jesus taught a second ordinance however, that is to be observed on a continuing basis as a remembrance of the work that He did for each believer on the cross.
According to the Apostle Paul, this is called the Lord's Supper, and the early church picked right up on our Lord's teaching and began observing it right away. The message of the Lord's Supper is the message of Jesus described by Peter in 1 Peter 2:24. READ 1 Peter 2:24 It is the message of the work that Jesus accomplished through His death on the cross.
In the Bible we see many different ways that this work is described; a substitution (the death of one on the behalf of many), a sacrifice (the shedding of His blood as the Lamb of God), a ransom (Paying the price to set us free from sin's slavery and penalty), a redemption (paying the price to gain release from the curse of sin), a propitiation (satisfying God's wrath against sinners), an expiation (the removing of sin by being punished and paying the penalty, and an atonement (two parties being reconciled by the making of amends; by the full satisfaction of the penalty so that an offense is removed and the relationship is restored). All of these words point us back to the cross, and that is what the Lord supper does as well, it points us back to the cross, to remember what has been done for us in real time and space history. This morning we are going to go to the Lord's Table, but before we do, let's stop and take a little time to reflect on what it really is.
What does our Lord teach us about the Lord's Supper in ...
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