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I wanted to begin some reflections on Holy Week in both the east and the West. Holy Week begins to culminate with the commemoration of the advent of the Lord’s Supper. The so-called Last Supper, which is absolutely filled with meaning and significance and I want to go over with you six biblical themes that all converge in the Last Supper to further enrich or encounter with God this Easter season and here i’m reading from the Gospel of Mark chapter 14 on the first day of unleavened bread when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed. Jesus’s Disciples said to him where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover and he sent two of his disciples and said to them go into the city and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of. follow him and wherever he enters say to the owner of the house The teacher says Where is my guest room in which I may eat the Passover with my disciples and he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready and prepare for us.

There The Disciples Went Out And Came

to the city and found it just as he had told them and they prepared the Passover now when it was evening. Jesus came with the twelfth as they were reclining at the table and eating and Jesus said truly I say to you that one of you will betray me and they began to be grieved and to say to him one by one surely not I and he said to them. It is one of the twelve one who dips with me in the bowl for the Son of man is to go. Just as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It was been good for that man if he had not been born now.

While They Were Eating.

Jesus took some bread and after a blessing he broke it and gave it to them and said take it. This is my body when he had taken two cups and given thanks he gave it to them they all drank from it and he said to them. This is my blood of the Covenant just poured out for many truly I say to you I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God and after singing a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives. Now I want to look at six key themes that.

All Intersect In And Through Of

the Last Supper narrative. The first theme is of course the Passover sacrifice. The Last Supper should be read within the shadow of Jesus’s ministry in the Jerusalem Temple the fact that this is happening at the Passover Memes that Jesus is explicitly identifying himself with the Passover Meal and that he’s taking on the identity of the Passover Lamb that was slaughtered for the sins of the people and as such, he assumes the role of the temple as a place for the people of God. Encounter the fullness of the presence of God. There’s a scholar by the name of Rene Girard, who’s been perhaps the most influential scholar on the study of sacrifices, and he argues that every human society experiences some kind of entropy.

The Prophecies Of Social Degeneration Atrophy Corrosion

and Girard me the argument that in order to regenerate society something’s going to have to absorb these prophecies of deconstruction away from the community and so what sacrificial death involves is nothing less than the act of deconstruction at every social individual and conceivable level, which Gerard see is is essential to the maintenance of the life process of the community. Regeneration becomes possible only after its opposite degeneration has been separated from the social body as radically as possible now sacrifice does just that sacrifice in acts the aspect of destruction indicative of the frailty inherent in the social group for the purpose of separating those degenerative processes. from the community while at the same time nourishing the community with vital life prophecies Allah, most often with a sacrificial meal, so through sacrifice death transforms into life. Now Christ as the logos, who dies a death for the whole Cosmos and through his body and blood nourishes the cosmos back to life, which is effected through his own resurrection. So both the temple motifs and the Passover motif coalesce around Jesus.

He Is The Lamb Of God Who

takes away the sins of the world once and for all and thereby ushers us back into the presence of God. Jesus is the temple. He is the sacrifice and he is the high priest that offers that sacrifice up to God and thus draws the entire cosmos back into the presence of God so that’s the first theme. We see here in the in the Last Supper secondly Mark. suggests that this is a heavenly meal.

The Notice Theyre Eating In What She Calls

the upper room and this is a locative indicator which suggests the Messianic banquet of Isaiah 25 that’s eaten up high on on God’s Holy Mountain. In this sense I see the upper room as a new Holy of Holies with Christ functioning as the Shekinah Glory of God in the midst of his people thirdly the bread and wine are really important here because they harken back to the third day of creation. If you recall on the Genesis account on the third day of creation dry land appears from the depths of the water. Then the Bible says that the land produces two things grain and fruit, which when process of course give us bread and wine. Hence, when Jesus identifies himself with the bread and wine we see a miracle taking place.

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Before Our Very Eyes, The Grain And

fruit of the third day of creation are transformed into the bread and wine I done identified with the body and blood of Christ. Such that creation and incarnation come together to restore our communion with God and with one another and so in this messianic meal on this holy mountain the upper room as Jesus identifies himself with the grain and fruit creation. We’re seeing creation and incarnation uniting together to restore the totality of the cosmos. The fourth Biblical theme that we’re seeing here transmitted through the Last Supper. It’s the notion of Thanksgiving.

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bit in our theology of fasting when we looked at what’s called Eucharist” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Eucharistic ethics. Thanksgiving in Scripture involves glorifying God as our Creator and our sustainer and the original sin of Adam and Eve involved taking food for which they could. Not give thanks the Apostle Paul on his first letter to the Corinthians. He sees pagan cultic meals in many respects as extensions of this original sin to sail yer to give God the glory through Thanksgiving for Paul Paton sacrifices orient the world away from God and towards demons. This is why paganism was considered so evil.

Its Not That Paganism Was Just

wrong paganism perverted the cosmos. It was an extension of the original sin through its own sacrifices and Coltec meals that oriented the world away from God and towards demons now when we look at our texts, we see that Christ takes the cup and as it says he gives thanks to God. Now Apostle Paul interprets Christ Thanksgiving in the Lord’s Supper in an amazing way and that Christ Thanksgiving in effect reverses Adam and Eve failure to give thanks and that such reorients the world back to God. Christ Thanksgiving is part of the Lord Suppers. Therefore the means by which the entire Cosmos arrested away from the is arrested away from the control of demons and restored back to God reversing the original sin of Adam and Eve.

This Is Why We Call The Lords Supper

the Eucharist, which is Greek for Thanksgiving the world is restored back to God as our creator and sustainer. The fifth theme of the Lord’s Supper is what Jesus called his blood of the new Covenant Drink of this all of you. This is the blood of the new Covenant. Now. This reference that Jesus makes to the new Covenant is a reference to an Old Testament prophecy from the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 31 verses 31 to 34.

There We Read That God Promises To Make

a new covenant with the people of God. Israel as the means by which to overcome the perennial problem of disobedience. So all throughout the Old Testament. God is in covenant with Israel to bless and preserve Israel. But Israel responds by largely response largely only by sinning and turning away from God and this is why I think the betrayal of Judas here is so key for it to affect the last act of the Old Covenant, which was marked by the perennial problem of Israel’s sin, which became a living embodied picture for the world of atoms original sin in the garden In betraying Jesus.

Judas Is Taking Something That Does Not.

belong to him now the key promise of this Jeremiah promised New Covenant is that God will forgive the sins of his people and remember them no more and then in turn provide the divinely ordained resources by which people might live out faithful and God glorifying lives which, according to Ezekiel is the gift of the Holy Spirit that recreates us and sanctifies Us Jesus and the Lord’s Supper is now making clear but the Jeremiah promised new Covenant has arrived. He is that fulfillment his obedience is now our obedience. He is the new Covenant and his blood shed for us as the Passover sacrifice is the means by which God remembers our sins No more. The sixth and final theme is the Messianic banquet which we alluded to earlier.

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Mark that Jesus makes clear this is an anticipatory meal when he. says truly I said you I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God. If you this promise anticipates the future messianic banquet in Isaiah 25 or what is also called the marriage supper of the Lamb in Revelation 21 and 22. Now this by the way is how Shakespeare’s comedies always end with a great banquet.

This Is A Prefiguring Of The

Messianic banquet. The culmination of the whole of human history. The end of the human story is not a tragedy for the triumph because of Christ and So the Lord suffered roars into itself. All of time notice how Paul interprets the me of one of my favorite passages.

In First Corinthians 11 26 As Often As

we eat it as bread and drink This cup in the present we proclaim the. Lord’s death in the past until he comes again in the future Did you notice that the Lord’s Supper binds all of time together past present and future, and thereby sanctifies the totality of time in and through Christ and so as we prepare for Holy Week and the the day of all days. Easter morning we can reimagine our world as incorporating the transformative life death and resurrection of Christ in the celebration of the Lord’s Supper and is there for the whole world is therefore comparably transformed. Christ is now our Passover Lamb who draw us into the presence of God.

He Brings Us Into The Heavenly Realms

through the upper room. He identifies himself with grain and fruit and thereby unites himself with the totality of creation. He reverses the fall of the garden by offering up the entire creation Thanksgiving.

Summary

Holy Week begins to culminate with the commemoration of the advent of the Lord’s Supper . The so-called Last Supper is filled with meaning and significance and I want to go over with you six biblical themes that all converge in the last Supper to further enrich or encounter with God this Easter season . Here i’m reading from the Gospel of Mark chapter 14 on the first day of unleavened bread when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed . Jesus took some bread and after a blessing he broke it and gave it to them and said take it. This is my blood of the Covenant just poured out for many truly I say to you I will never again drink it.& While they were eating. Jesus said truly I . say to them that one of the twelve one who dips with me in the bowl for the Son of man is to go.& It was been been good for that man if he had not been born now. If he had . not been there,…. Click here to read more and watch the full video