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What is the Lord’s Supper?
by Scott Maze
Jesus never asked His disciples to remember His birth. But He did instruct them to remember His death and resurrection. He gave the church two visible symbols (called ''ordinances'') as reminders of His death. These two ordinances are: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is an object lesson that represents a great spiritual truth for believers. When I was a child growing up in church, I welcomed the times we took the Lord's Supper in my little church back in Kentucky. I did not welcome it because I was a super-spiritual teenager. I welcomed it because it cut-down on the amount of sermon from our pastor. I greatly...
The Lord's Supper
by Stan Coffey
It was the evening before His crucifixion, ''the night in which He was betrayed,'' that the Lord arranged to borrow an upper room on Mt. Zion to host His Disciples for the Jewish Seder meal at which He instituted a new supper to be done ''in remembrance of me.'' We call this memorial meal, ''The Lord's Supper.'' It is His andnot ours. He does the inviting. Whenever we partake in this act of remembrance we are invited guests, as were the Disciples in the upper room that fateful evening. Why have Christians been gathering in churches, in homes, in catacombs, in hidden basements, in prison cells, and a myriad of other...
The Power of Pruning: A Lord's Supper Message
by Ernest Easley
Now as we continue preparing to share in the Lord's Supper, take your Bible and turn with me once again to John 15 where we find Jesus illustrating truth through the allegory of the vine and the branches. You will notice that chapter 14 concludes in verse 31 by Jesus saying, ''Get up; let's leave this place'' (HCSB). Get up and leave what place? The Upper Room! Supper was over. Jesus has washed the feet of His disciples and then predicted the betrayal of Judas and the denials of Peter. He then promised them another comforter and His peace and then He says in 14.31, ''Get up; let's leave this place.'' Push...
The Lord's Supper
by Marvin D. Patterson
Recounting the significance of the Lord's Supper, reflecting on Jesus' final Passover meal transformed into the first Communion, emphasizing His sacrifice for sin through the breaking of bread and sharing of wine as symbols of His body and blood, ultimately calling for personal salvation and rededication to Christ in remembrance of His atonement.
The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper
by Charles H. Spurgeon
We have no respect whatever for the ordinances of men in religion. Anything that is only invented by churches or councils is nothing whatever to us. We know of two ordinances instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ-the baptism of believers and the Lord's Supper; and we utterly abhor and reject all pretended sacraments of every kind. And because we observe these two ordinances, and these two only, we are the more concerned that they should be properly used, and duly understood, and that they should minister to the edification of those who participate in them. We would have those who are baptized understand...
The Lord's Supper
by Jerry Vines
We will look at three Scripture references tonight. I want to talk briefly to you about three suppers to which all people are invited. The first one is in Luke 14, beginning in verse 16 through 23. ''Then said he (Jesus) unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come: for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to...
An Invitation to Supper
by Terry J. Hallock
You are invited to supper with a person you might not wish to be seen with, at a place you might not wish to go, and for a meal you might not wish to eat. The host of this supper is not attractive; some might call Him repulsive. It was once written of him, ''He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not'' (Isaiah 53:2b-3). His forehead has a circle of scars all the way around it as if a hundred sharp needles...
The Lord's Supper
by James Merritt
What we are about to do today is observe an event that is 2000 years old, but that event is based upon another event that is 1000 years older than that. I take you back 3000 years to the land of Egypt to an event known to the Jewish nation as ''Passover''. The God appointed leader of the nation of Israel was a man named, Moses. God had instructed Moses to go to Pharaoh, who was the leader of the Egyptian nation and command him to allow the Hebrews (that is the Jewish people) to leave Egypt so they could return to Canaan, which was the land that God had promised to Abraham and his descendants. Pharaoh repeatedly...
The Lord's Supper: We Do It to Remember Him
by Jerry Branch
Today, as all of us prepare our hearts to remember Jesus Christ through the observance of the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper, I'd like us to spend some time considering just what this service is all about. This may help each of us get even more out of this ordinance, in that we'll have our minds and thoughts more squarely upon our Lord, Jesus Christ. I'm afraid that too many times we come to the Table and haven't given enough thought as to why we are here, nor do we sometimes give enough time to prepare our hearts. The Lord's Supper is so much more than just another 'ritual' or just 'some quarterly add-on' to the...
The Simple Truth About the Lord's Supper (12 of 15)
by Richard Bradley
We should answer several questions this morning before looking at what Paul wrote about the simple truth of the Lord's Supper. 1- Where did the Lord's Supper come from? The Lord's Supper came from the Jewish celebration of Passover. That last night with His disciples in the upper room Jesus gave new meaning to this most significant and oldest of Jewish traditions. Jesus would now be their true Passover lamb. 2- How often should we celebrate the Lord's Supper? A good question. Some celebrate the Lord's Supper every week; some once a quarter; some whenever they want to; some only once a year...
Looking to Jesus in the Lord's Supper (1 of 3)
by Patrick Edwards
Last week we discussed the meaning of Jesus' words here in John 6 where He invites us to feed on His flesh and drink his blood. We saw that true salvation requires our total identification with Jesus in His death and resurrection, and that this comes through the grace of God by the gift of faith and should lead to our complete allegiance to Him. At the same time, this language of eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus is also meant to make us think of the ordinance of the Lord's Supper. In other words, though it is not the primary point of John 6, this chapter is intended to lead us to consider how the Lord's Supper is...
Sacred Supper
by Stephen Whitney
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...
How to Receive the Lord's Supper
by Tony Nester
I've always enjoyed inviting people to Holy Communion. I've seen people come to Communion with tears in the eyes - sometimes tears of sorrow after losing a loved one; sometimes tears of joy because of the arrival of an unexpected blessing. I've seen couples holding this sacrament in their hands while asking God to heal their marriage. I've watched elderly people who can barely walk hobble down the aisle, open their hands to receive the sacrament, and with a smile on their faces say, "Praise God!" I, too, know what it means to take the bread and wine in my hands, clutch them in faith - sometimes in fear - and ask God to...
The Lord's Supper
by Jim Perdue
Three times a month, Jermaine Washington and Michelle Stevens get together for what they call a ''gratitude lunch.'' With good reason! Washington donated a kidney to Stevens, whom he described as ''just a friend.'' They met at work where they used to have lunch together. One day Michelle wept as she spoke about waiting on a kidney donor list for 11 months. She was being sustained by kidney dialysis, but suffered chronic fatigue and blackouts and was plagued by joint pain. Because Washington couldn't stand the thought of watching his friend die, he gave her one of his kidneys. When you have a reason to be grateful...
The Lord's Supper
by Jerry Branch
Today, I wanted us to completely, from start to finish, to focus on the Lord's Supper, and what it should mean to us. In so many churches, even Southern Baptist Churches, when the people gather to celebrate and remember the Lord Jesus Christ's suffering, His sacrifice, His death, and His resurrection, too often the Lord's Supper is just sort of 'tacked on,' if you will, to the end of the service. It seems almost like, ''oops, we need to do the Lord's Supper today.'' I don't know if any of you have ever experienced that or not, but it becomes painfully obvious to most believers, as they listen to a short scripture read...
Taken into a New Covenant
by Tony Nester
Why does God insist on covenants? Why did Jesus die on the cross to form a new covenant? This we need to know before we take the bread and drink the wine of Holy Communion. Communion is a covenant-making event. Do you remember how you made really big promises to your friends when you were a child? Some of us crossed our hearts and said words like these: "Cross my heart and hope to die / Stick a needle in my eye". It means we were serious about our promise. If we didn't keep our promise we accepted death or having our eyes poked out. We made it clear we meant what we said. God insists on...
The Christ of the Passover: A Seder Service (5 of 7)
by Roger Thomas
With those words the New Testament describes the origin of the on-going practice of the communion or the Lord's Supper. It began at a Jewish observance of the Passover. Communion has continued through the centuries as an important part of Christian worship. To appreciate the Passover is to better understand the meaning and significance of the Lord's Supper. On the night before the cross, Jesus gathered his little family of disciples in an Upper Room to celebrate the Jewish Passover. As they entered, he washed their feet, a humble act of service that confused and bewildered them. During the evening...
The Lord's Supper
by Jim Perdue
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...
