Remembering Jesus' Death

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Big Idea: Communion shows our participation in both the guilt and the forgiveness as we remember Jesus death.

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Introduction

Short walk from the donkey ride to the tomb.
Sabbath day – Bethany with friends, over the next few nights came back to Bethany
Sunday – rode into Jerusalem – Zechariah 9:9 prophecy
Monday – clears the temple
Tuesday – teaching on the Mount of Olives – many parables
Wednesday – no real record
Thursday begins Passover – Lord’s Supper
Friday – Jesus taken, false trials, crucifixion, burial
Why did Jesus willingly go to the cross?

Punishment

Sin Requires Death

By one man sin entered the world, and by sin, death.
Romans 5:12 NIV
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—
Sin. My sin. Your sin. Inherited from Adam.
Understand that more than just death resulted from sin.
Adam was given authority for creation and in choosing to turn from God’s way, gave that authority to the tempter.
Wages of sin is death
Romans 6:23 NIV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In the Garden, God told Adam he would die if he disobeyed.
Sacrifice Required
First sacrifice - God covered Adam and Eve’s nakedness with animal skin.
God required people to make animal sacrifices, symbolic for the punishment being taken by the animal in man’s place.
The Passover Sacrifice - death angel passing over the firstborn in Egypt.

Voluntary Sacrifice

Jesus gave Himself willingly
John 10:11 NIV
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:18 NIV
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

Payment

Blood Atonement

Without the shedding of blood - giving the life
Hebrews 9:22 NIV
In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Jesus is that atoning sacrifice - covering
1 John 4:10 NIV
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
His blood purifies
1 John 1:7 NIV
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
the blood of Jesus purifies us all from our sin

Participation

Jesus celebrating the Passover meal with His disciples.
Washed their feet to teach them to serve each other.
Instituted the new covenant, a new symbolic observance.
Eating is participation. Eating rice to learn a language
Fellowship meal last Sunday - eating and relating
Fellowship = Communion
1 Corinthians 11:23-28
1 Corinthians 11:23 NIV
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread,
v.24 Sacrifice = bread
1 Corinthians 11:24 NIV
and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
The bread is a symbol reminding us of Jesus Christ’s body He willingly gave.
v.25 Atonement = cup, New Covenant
1 Corinthians 11:25 NIV
In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
The cup - blood poured out for covering,
Also, covenants sealed in blood. Jesus instituting the New Covenant, sealing it in His own blood.
v.24,25 Do this in remembrance of Me
1 Corinthians 11:26 NIV
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Proclaim His death = remember, identify
Communion = participation/fellowship
read John 6:48-58
John 6:48-58 I am the bread of Life. Participation. Whoever eats, lives.
Emphasize the participation
Participation in both guilt and redemption/forgiveness
Accept or receive responsibility of my guilt
Guilt of my own sin - sent Jesus to the cross in my place to take my punishment
Guilt of my sin - required the blood atonement or covering that Jesus provided
Accept or receive the forgiveness
We are crucified with Christ
Galatians 2:20 NIV
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Warning associated with Communion
v.27 unworthy manner = not recognizing/honoring the body and blood
1 Corinthians 11:27 NIV
So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
v.28 This is why we Examine ourselves
1 Corinthians 11:28 NIV
Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
and 2 Cor 13:5 are we in the faith?
2 Corinthians 13:5 NIV
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?
Examine = confess sin
1 John 1:9 CSB
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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