Title: Remember Me / Luke 22:14-20
Today we celebrate sacrament meeting.
We celebrate the Lord's Supper 4 times a year, but every time we do, we can't tell you what the Lord's Supper means. Today we want to make this communion even more meaningful by speaking specifically about the Eucharist.
So, for today's order, the Lord's Supper was assigned after this sermon.
The Lord's Supper is the ceremony of breaking bread and drinking wine. This is called a sacrament because it was established by the Lord.
The bread we eat at the Eucharist symbolizes the body of Jesus, and the wine symbolizes the blood of Jesus. We eat and drink this to remember and commemorate the cross of the Lord, who gave his body and shed his blood.
It is also called the Lord's Supper or the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper and the Lord's Supper are used interchangeably.
1. Origin of the Eucharist
The Lord's Supper is at the Passover table that started the Old Testament Exodus from Egypt.
The Passover table is the table the Israelites ate when they left Egypt when they were freed from slavery in Egypt. They slaughtered the Passover lamb, put its blood on the doorposts, and ate the meat.
And I made rice cakes and ate them, but I ate baked rice cakes without yeast.
This Passover meal symbolizes blood and suffering. And by eating it, a new life of liberation and freedom began.
They slaughtered the lamb and put the blood on the doorpost, so when the angel of death saw the blood, he passed over and was saved.
The blood-stained house passed over, but the bloodless house went in and took the first animals and the firstborn of men.
All the houses that slaughtered and shed blood were saved.
The Passover meal is the origin of the Lord's Supper to commemorate the Lord who shed His blood by raising us from the cross today.
So, in today's text, we prepared the Passover, and Jesus sat down there and said that we wanted to eat the Passover.
It is the place of liberty, liberty, and the grace of salvation.
2. Meaning (meaning)
The body and shed blood of Jesus on the cross are the beginning and symbol of salvation that renews us from the shadow of sin and death.
Through this sacrament we are to remember the Lord, remembering that we have been set free from sin and death and renewed.
It is said that Jesus broke bread at the beginning of this ceremony today and gave it to his disciples.
The bread of the Lord's Supper has the significance of all of us participating in the one body of the Lord. Just like the breaking of one loaf of bread, we are joined together in the one body of the Lord.
Now, through this ceremony, we are one with the Lord and we are all one body.
Because we have become one with the Lord, we must imitate the character of the Lord.
Because we are all one, we must have the significance of being one brother and a family.
In today's text, he said in verse 17, "Take this and divide it among yourselves."
This is the message for you to be together and become one.
So, when the early church celebrated the Lord's Supper, they first sang praises and gave thanks, gave a holy kiss to represent the reconciliation of the saints, shared bread, and drank wine.
This has disappeared because it can cause many misunderstandings and side effects as the culture spreads to other regions, but I hope that the meaning will be revived today and added with the belief that we are one family like the brothers and sisters of the early church who kissed us holy.
3. Purpose
The purpose of sacrament meeting is to celebrate.
To commemorate means to remember and to recall. In this way, we must remember the Lord and remind ourselves of His cross so that we can testify widely.
There are many views about the sacrament meeting.
Catholicism is a metamorphosis theory. In other words, it is the transubstantiation theory that this bread and cup will be transformed into the body of the Lord and into blood.
Luther argued for the common good. The communal theory means that we are to be together as 'the wealthy who should be in one Confucian'.
In other words, bread is bread, but the body of Jesus is there, and the blood of Jesus is also in the wine.
But no matter how much we look, we can't find anything to confirm the transubstantiation or communism.
Presbyterianism is a memorial. Among the commemorative theories, we have a spiritual presence theory. Here we are, through this remembrance, the body and blood of the Lord are together spiritually.
It is a ceremony to remember his death and to remember his body and blood. And spiritually, believe that the Lord is with you and participate in this ceremony with gratitude and joy with a humble attitude.
Today, in verses 19 and 20, he says.
19) And he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.
20) And in the same way with the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
The word to commemorate here is 'anamnesis', which means 'remember', and it means to vividly remember the life and cross of the Lord, not simply remember.
All Baptists are eligible to participate in Holy Communion.
The reason why it was limited to baptized members is that those who know its meaning and believe must participate.
I hope that all of us will participate in this ceremony that the Lord has established, humbly and with gratitude and joy, with a holy heart, believing that the Spirit of the Lord is with us, remembering His body that He tore for me, and remembering His blood that He shed for me.
I also hope that you will be baptized so that you can participate in this ceremony.
May the grace of the Lord be with you all on the cross.