Title Passover and Holy Communion
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Exodus 12
43. And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover: The Gentiles shall not eat it.
44. Every slave bought with money shall eat after being circumcised.
45. Foreigners and foreign servants shall not eat it.
46. Eat from one house, and no meat shall be brought out of the house, and no bones shall be broken
47. All the congregation of Israel shall observe this.
48. If any foreigner living with you wants to celebrate the Passover of the Lord, then all the males must be circumcised and approach him to keep it, so that he will become like a native, but the uncircumcised shall not eat it.
Luke 24
30. While he was eating with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to them.
31. Their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but Jesus was not seen by them.
32. And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?
33. He got up at that hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven apostles and those who were with him gathered together.
34. They say, “The Lord has indeed risen, and has appeared to Simon.”
35. Both of them told what had happened on the road and what was made known to them by Jesus breaking the bread.
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Subject: Passover and Holy Communion
Text: Exodus 12:43-48, Luke 24:30-35,
The Exodus process allowed the Israelites to experience many things. At the center is the experience of God passed down from our ancestors. Who is God to them in the field of history, and who are they before God? gave an answer to the question. That God is the master of creation and the master of history. God who called their father Abraham and promised blessings (Genesis 12:1-4) was the Creator. According to that promise, he was the master of history by ending slavery in Egypt and leading them to the promised land. The identity of Israel was to become a people for the fulfillment of this promise (Revelation 21:7b). It was the Passover ordinance that made us not to forget these two things (Exodus 12:1-51). He set the conditions for those who participated in the Passover as those who were circumcised (Ex 12:43-48).
It is one of the teachings of the rabbis. “Rather than the people of Israel kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath kept the Jews.” The Passover can be understood in the same way. What kind of God is to them, and what kind of people they are before God, so that they do not forget. Through life experience, some oblivion brings benefits to our lives. Losing dark experiences, unpleasant things, etc. is a blessing and grace in itself. However, some oblivion causes great loss in life. In the program to find the lost family, the thin memories become a clue to finding the family you dreamed of. Moreover, if the forgetting has to do with Satan's wiles, it will cause great loss. It can be the cause of unhappiness in this life as well as in the next life.
Among the diseases of forgetting among the saints, there is spiritual amnesia. The words of one saint. ‘We suffer from spiritual forgetfulness. We often forget what God has done for us and what promises He has made to us. And we conveniently forget that God wants us to be disciples of Jesus Christ. In other words, we forget who we are before the Creator God. There are ways in which God, who knows our ailments, reminds us who we are and who we should be’ (Stuki). These are the Passover in the Old Testament and the Lord's Supper in the New Testament. In the Old Testament era, the Passover was kept in normal times as well as whenever a new resolution of faith was needed. In the New Testament era, there is a record that the Lord's Supper was held whenever we met.
“Do this in remembrance of me!” (Luke 22:19), according to the word of the Lord. We know that the material of the Lord's Supper is bread and wine (Luke 22:14-20). But there is one more thing. This is a verse that includes a blessing prayer. On the morning of the Resurrection, there were two disciples who did not have faith even after hearing the news of the Resurrection and left Jerusalem and headed for Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). One person accompanies them, talks with them, and sits at the same table to have a special experience. It was also called the 'Holy Supper on the road to Emmaus'. The two disciples, whose eyes are opened, recognize the Lord of the Resurrection. On the road, when he was rebuked for being “slow to believe all that the prophets said” (Luke 24:25), he confessed that he had a burning heart and returned to Jerusalem to join the Resurrection Witnesses (Luke 24:35).