Lord Supper

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The Lord’s Supper is a memorial meal instituted by Christ for believers that is meant to proclaim the Gospel, serve as a covenant sign, provide spiritual nourishment, and promote the communion of the Church until Christ’s return.

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Luke 22:14-20 & 1 Corinthians 11:23-32
Foundations Sermon Series

Pray

God, we thank you for who you are. May our time together magnify your name and stir us up to pursue you deeper and deeper in the faith.
Father, we thank you for the ability to be able to worship together tonight. Thank you for the men and women you have used to secure that freedom for us. May we not take it for granted. Bless the efforts of those who cannot peacefully gather because of fear of persecution. Be with them as they seek to meet in Your name.
God, as I seek to preach your Word tonight, help me do so faithfully. If I say anything that is contrary to Your Word, erase it from the minds of all who hear it. But if I say anything that accord with your Word and glorifies your name, magnify it in the hearts and minds of all who hear this message.
We love you God. Thank you for showing your love for us in the death of Your Son Jesus. It’s in His name we pray by the power of the
Spirit….Amen.

Group Question 1

What’s the best meal you’ve ever had? Maybe it’s a particular cut of steak at a fancy steak house or maybe it’s just your favorite order at Chick-Fil-a. Whatever it is, talk with those around you for a couple of minutes and then we’ll get some answers.

Introduction

The best meal I’ve ever eaten was last July with Nathan Larson at Capitol Grille. Nathan has worked at the restaurant for a while and was going to step away when he headed off to college at Missouri State. Nathan’s managers and coworkers loved him and so to celebrate his last few days at the restaurant, they told him that he could bring a friend and the restaurant would essentially cover the meal. We just had to pay for a few cheap items. Nathan was gracious enough to invite me to join him. Over the course of the meal, tons of his coworkers came by to say goodbye. When the waiter came by to take our order, I planned to order one of the cheaper items on the menu. I never go to nice steak houses like that and even the cheapest items are pricey. But after Nathan and I ordered, one of the cooks, a friend of Nathan’s, came to our table and said to us, “Why did you order all of the cheap stuff? This meal is on us. Order whatever you want. Seriously. I mean it.” And so believe me, we did! We ordered the finest steaks and lobster, appetizers, and all of the sides and desserts you could imagine.
[PICTURES]The pictures you’re seeing are only the appetizers and the first course of the meal! It was incredible! I had leftovers for a week! It was hands down the best meal I’ve ever had and I didn’t even have to pay for it!

Lord’s Supper/Foundations Set Up

Tonight, we’re going to talk about the best meal we will ever eat this side of glory. Tonight, we’ll be talking about the Lord’s Supper. In order to do that, we’re going to primarily look at 2 passages to see what the Bible has to say about the Supper. I’m going to read them all of the way through and then we’ll break them down. First, let’s look at Luke chapter 22 starting in verse 14.
Luke 22:14-20 “And when the hour came, [Jesus] reclined at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves. For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” – Luke 22:14-20

1 Corinthians 11:23-32

Next, we’re going to read 1 Corinthians 11:23-32.
In this passage, Paul is writing to the church at Corinth the correct problematic practices in the life of the church, including problems related to the Lord’s Supper.
“For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 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.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.”

Intro

We just read a lot, so let’s summarize what those verses just said. I’ve summarized it in one main sentence.
The Lord’s Supper is a memorial meal instituted by Christ for believers that is meant to proclaim the Gospel, serve as a covenant sign, provide spiritual nourishment, and promote the communion of the Church until Christ’s return.
Let me read that one more time.
The Lord’s Supper is a memorial meal instituted by Christ for believers that is meant to proclaim the Gospel, serve as a covenant sign, provide spiritual nourishment, and promote the communion of the Church until Christ’s return.
Now let’s break that summary sentence down and see what the Bible tells us about the Lord’s Supper.

Memorial

First, one of the primary elements of the Lord’s Supper is that it’s a memorial meal. Jesus tells us to “Do this in remembrance of [Him].” ❖ We are called to remember Jesus incredible sacrifice and display of love at the cross. We’re called to remember and reflect on the Gospel in the Lord’s Supper.
The bread signifies Jesus’ body broken for us and the wine signifies Jesus’ blood poured out for us.
The Lord’s Supper is meant to consistently cast our minds back to the cross. ❖

Wedding video

It’s like when a couple watches their wedding video. They’re not literally re-living their wedding, but they are, for all intents and purposes, drawn back to that day in incredible clarity. When the couple comes together to watch the video, they are reminded of their incredible display of love for one another over the years and they can take part in this remembrance and celebration many times over. o In many ways, the Lord’s Supper is just like that.

Proclamation of the Gospel

Next, and closely related, when we take the Lord’s Supper, we proclaim the Gospel.
Paul affirms this in 1 Corinthians 11:26 when he says, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
Every time we take the Lord’s Supper together, we should hear and proclaim the Gospel loudly as we celebrate it by taking the bread and the wine.

Covenant Sign

Additionally, the Lord’s Supper is a covenant sign.
Covenant signs are physical signs that represent a covenant. We see covenant signs every single day. For example, wedding rings are covenant signs. They are a physical sign and seal of the covenant vows made by the couple on their wedding day.
Physicals signs and actions help affirm the reality they signify. A handshake confirms a deal. A hug helps affirm affection. Would you not wear a ring and then tell your wife that your word is enough? No! A ring is a sign and seal of the covenant. The Lord’s Supper is like the ring and the Gospel is the promise. It’s a reminder of God’s promises to us.
Covenant signs are key elements to the story of Scripture.
We could talk about many examples, but let’s just look at one. After God makes a covenant with Noah in Genesis, he gives a covenant sign in the rainbow. The rainbow is a physical reminder of the covenant God made with Noah and mankind.
The Lord’s Supper is a sign of the New Covenant. Jesus explicitly tells us this when he says that the wine is the new covenant in His blood.
And covenant signs in the Bible are not a signifier of anything we do, but of what God does. The signs of the covenants in Scripture are always signs of Grace. When we take the Lord’s Supper, we shouldn’t be thinking, “Here’s 5 things I need to do.” No, we should be thinking, “God is remembering his promise!”

Meant for Believers

Next, the Lord’s Supper is meant for believers only.
Paul confirms this in 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 when he says, “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.”
We must be part of the body of Christ in order to partake of the bread of Christ.
One of the things that Paul means in 1 Corinthians 11 is that when unbelievers take the Supper they bring judgement upon themselves. ❖ Jesus instituted the Supper and we must take care to do it as He commanded.

Communion of Believers

Next, the Lord’s Supper is meant to foster the fellowship of believers. ❖ Paul tells us this in 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 when he says, “The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.”
We should feel a deepening of communion with fellow believers when we take the Lord’s Supper together.
In the same way you feel closer to a family when we share a meal with them, so we should have deep fellowship with believers when we share the Lord’s Supper with them.

Spiritual Nourishment

Next, we are given spiritual nourishment when we eat the Lord’s Supper.
When we reflect on the cross, our souls are fed. Reflecting on Jesus’ sacrifice for us is like receiving a spiritual steak. It’s sustenance for our hungry souls. And just like we need to eat often to be healthy, we should take the Lord’s Supper often in order to be spiritually fed.
Spiritual Nourishment can only come through faith. Therefore the supper is meant for believers.
But here’s the difference between the spiritual nourishment of the Lord’s Supper and the physical nourishment of food:
Do you know the only meal where gluttony is impossible? The only drink where temperance isn’t required? The only meal where moderation isn’t encouraged but discouraged? It’s the Lord’s Supper. It is impossible to get too much nourishment and sweetness and refreshment from the Supper.

Instituted by Jesus Perpetually Until His return

Finally, we are meant to take the Lord’s Supper until he comes again in glory.
Paul affirms this is in 1 Corinthians 11:26 when he says, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

Catholic View and Rebuttal

Now that we have a good summary of the biblical view of the Lord’s Supper, I think it’s important for us to make some important clarifications. Maybe the most important of those is to draw a distinction between the Catholic view of the Lord’s Supper and the Protestant view.
Before I do this, I want to make clear that neither I or anyone here at Twenty-Somethings seeks to be polemical. If you’ve been with us very long, you know that we value the fellowship of believers from different church backgrounds. We have at least 10 different churches represent here tonight. And at the heart of our ministry is a partnership between PV and LCF. So we value the fellowship of believers. We don’t all share the exact same theology, but we all share a belief in the Gospel. But sometimes, there are doctrinal differences that are so central and so important that they need to highlighted and explained. It’s important for us to know what we believe and why we believe it. That’s the point of this foundations sermon series.
So with that being said, I want us to briefly look at the differences between the Protestant and Catholic views of the Lord’s Supper because they are deep and important, and I think you’ll soon see why. Here’s my ask of you. Lean in and think deeply with me for the next few minutes. I’m going to read some official statements from the Catholic Church because I want to fairly and clearly articulate their position. Let’s dive in.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the most recent comprehensive explanation of the church’s doctrinal beliefs, the Lord’s Supper (or the Eucharist) is the “source and summit of the Christian life” The Council of Trent, another major Catholic explanation of doctrine, calls the Lord’s Supper the greatest of the sacraments.
If the sermon is the center of Protestant church services, the mass or the Eucharist is the center of Catholic services

Transubstantiation

At the center of the Catholic view on the Lord’s Supper is a belief called Transubstantiation. Transubstantiation does not go back to the early church. It was not officially recognized by the Catholic Church until the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 A.D. and then more formally in the Council of Trent in the 1500s.
I’m going to read for you the Catholic Church’s most recent and official teaching on Transubstantiation from the 1997 Catechism of the Catholic Church. We’ll have these quotes on the screen for reference.
“(1374) In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained.” “This presence is called ‘real’—by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real’ too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.”
“1375 It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament." o “1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: “Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.”
That was a lot, so let me summarize it all. What the Catholic Church is saying is that they believe that in the Lord’s Supper, the bread and the wine are converted into the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ. So when a devout Catholic partakes in the Lord’s Supper, they are literally eating the body and blood of Jesus; not figuratively as we Protestants would say.
That is a huge claim and one we need to address because as we address it, you’ll see some important distinctions between the Protestant and Catholic views.
To be clear, we do not believe that when we take the Lord’s Supper that we are eating the literal body and blood of Jesus. We deny the doctrine of Transubstantiation. Let me give you just a few of the many reasons why.
The first, and maybe the most obvious, reason is this. When Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper and holds up the bread and wine and says “This is my body and blood” he is literally sitting in front of the disciples in bodily form. None of the discipled would have been confused. They would’ve have been saying, “Wait Jesus, is the bread your body or is your actual body your real body?” They would’ve understood that Jesus was making and illustrative point. You and I do this all of the time.

Picture Illustration:

Kevin DeYoung has a helpful example of this to make the point. Imagine we’re walking through your house or apartment and you show me a picture of yourself, maybe it’s you and your family on vacation or something. You can honestly say, “This is me at Disney World with my family,” but not for a moment would I believe that I could reach out and touch you in that picture. That picture is actually you, but it’s not physically you in the current moment.
The next reason is also based on common sense and it’s this: If the bread at the Supper is Jesus’s body and the wine is His blood, then that means His body and blood are separated. And this brings about the obvious point: if you separate someone’s body from their blood then they will die. So logically this doesn’t work.
The final of reasons I’ll mention is a touch more technical, but I think you’ll understand its importance. The Bible affirms that Jesus Christ is truly God and truly man. In light of this, church has held that Chrisyt has two nature: a human nature and a divine nature. We see this beautifully articulated in the Council of Chalcedon in A.D. 451. Jesus’s human nature is just like ours. He experienced weakness like us, temptation like us, he had a physical human body just like us, and so on. Jesus’s divine nature contains all of the divine attributes such as omniscience, omnipresence, omni-benevolence, absolute sovereignty, and more. Those two natures are not mixed or melded but are held together in the person of Christ. Jesus has always had a divine nature, but when he became incarnate here on Earth He took on a human nature just like ours.
Now, why do I lay all of that technical detail out? Because the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation totally confuses the Bible’s teaching about the two natures of Christ. The Bible says that after His resurrection, Jesus ascended bodily into Heaven. Jesus’ physical human nature is right now sitting at the right hand of the Father in Heaven. Yet, the Catholic Church says that physical human nature of Jesus is actually present at the Lord’s Supper, and not just in one place, but in tens of thousands of places across the globe at the same time wherever the Lord’s Supper is celebrated. Human bodies, human natures, can’t do that. Humans can only be in one place at one time.
After all of this technical language, some of you may wish your human nature and body could be someone, anywhere else, but unfortunately that’s not how it works. If Jesus’ human nature can be present at multiple places at once then it’s not a human nature. And here’s the real sticking point: If Jesus’ human nature is fundamentally different than ours, then it can’t rightly be said that Jesus fulfilled the law for us or took our place on the cross to pay for our sins because He wouldn’t be a suitable substitute for us. A non-human cannot take the place of humanity at the cross. And if this is all true then our salvation is broken, non-existent, and worthless. If this is all true, we have no hope and are all destined for Hell. This point may be technical, but I hope you can see that it’s important and relates to the very core of the Gospel. Yes it is true that Christ is present at the Lord’s Supper, but his presence is spiritual, not physical. Christ is spiritually present at the Lord’s Supper by His omnipresence and by His Holy Spirit in the hearts of believers.

Council of Trent Re-Sacrifice

Like I said, I know these points are technical, but I believe you can handle them and I believe that you can see why they relate so centrally to the Gospel.
There’s so much more that could be said about the Catholic view of the Lord’s Supper, but I just want to draw your attention to one more key Gospel point before we can take our deep thinking caps off.
In order to make this point, I want to draw your attention to an important council that I’ve mentioned previously tonight. It’s called the Council of Trent. The Council of Trent is one of the most significant councils in the history of the Catholic Church. Before the twentieth century, the Council of Trent was arguably the most comprehensive explanation of the Catholic Church’s teaching. The Council of Trent took place in the middle of the 16th century in response to the Protestant Reformation. It took place over the course of 17 years and was meant to clarify the teachings of the Catholic Church in distinction from the Reformers.
I’m going to read one of the decrees from the Council of Trent directly related to the Lord’s Supper.
It says this: “And inasmuch as, in this divine sacrifice which is performed in the mass, that same Christ is contained and immolated in a bloodless manner, who once offered Himself in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross; the holy synod teaches, that this sacrifice is truly propitiatory, and that by means thereof this is effected, that we obtain mercy, and find grace in convenient aid, if we draw nigh unto God, contrite and penitent, with a true heart and upright faith, with fear and reverence….Wherefore, not only for the sins, punishments, satisfactions, and other necessities of the faithful who are alive, but also for those who are departed in Christ, and who are not as yet fully purified, is it rightly offered…”
What’s the Council of Trent trying to say? It’s saying that because of Transubstantiation, the Lord’s Supper is essentially a re-sacrifice of Jesus at the cross. What’s more, it’s saying that this re-sacrifice is genuinely efficacious for us right now to save us from our sins. Furthermore, Trent says that the re-sacrifice of the Lord’s Supper can also be effective for Christians who have died and those who are in purgatory.
To be clear, the modern Catechism of the Catholic Church doesn’t say go quite this far. They don’t seem to explicitly state this claim. They take one slight step back from this, but the modern catechism follows the Council of Trent at essentially every other point and cites Trent at virtually all of the statements of doctrine on the Lord’s Supper along the way. The Council of Trent is the foundation for the modern catholic Church’s understanding of the Lord’s Supper. And Trent makes a gigantic claim that Jesus is re-sacrificed at every Lord’s Supper. And that gigantic claim is in direct contradiction to Hebrews 10.
Hebrews 10:10-14 says – “We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. "
Jesus’ death at the cross was a one-time sacrifice for sin that is effective for all time. We don’t need more sacrifices for sin. Jesus’s death at the cross was enough.
This is absolutely a Gospel issue and we should take it seriously. The Catholic Church certainly does. Listen to these direct claims from the Council of the Trent that the modern Catholic Church has never renounced and therefore still hold to. These canons are called anathemas meaning that whoever holds to these false beliefs is damned to Hell.

Council of Trent Anathemas

CANON I. If any one shall say, that in the mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God; or, that to be offered is nothing else but that Christ is given unto us to eat; let him be anathema (damned to Hell).
CANON II. If any one shall say, that by those words, Do this in remembrance of me, Christ did not institute the apostles priests; or, did not ordain that they, and other priests, should offer His own body and blood; let him be anathema (damned to Hell).
CANON III. If any one shall say, that the sacrifice of the mass is only a sacrifice of praise and of thanksgiving; or, that it is a bare commemoration of the sacrifice offered on the cross, but not a propitiatory sacrifice; or, that it avails him only who receiveth; and that it ought not to be offered for the living and the dead for sins, punishments, satisfactions, and other necessities; let him be anathema.
CANON IV. If any one shall say, that, by the sacrifice of the mass, a blasphemy is thrown upon the most holy sacrifice of Christ offered on the cross; or, that it is thereby derogated from; let him be anathema.
CANAON V. If any one shall say, that it is an imposture to celebrate masses in honour of the saints, and for obtaining their intercession with God, as the Church intends; let him be anathema.
CANON VI. If any one shall say, that the canon of the mass contains errors, and is therefore to be abrogated; let him be anathema.
According to the Catholic Church, we are all damned to Hell….Think about that.
This is why doctrine matters. We have to know what we believe. o Now, if you walk into a local Catholic church, will the local priest treat you like this? Probably not. But according to the official teaching of the Catholic Church, this is true.
Ok, now you can take a mental breath. We’re done with the technical stuff.

The Lord’s Supper is meant to be about communion of believers, not about division.

The sad part about all of the doctrinal differences that we talked about is that the Lord’s Supper was never meant to divide the Church. It was meant to unite believers. Like we saw from 1 Corinthians 10, the Lord’s Supper is meant to promote fellowship between Christians as they celebrate and remember Jesus’s sacrifice at the cross in the Gospel. This is meant to be a warm, family meal.

The feast before the great wedding feast

Satan loves to divide the church, but God intends the Supper to unite the Church. In fact, as theologian Derek Kidner points out, the Lord’s Supper is meant to reverse the work of Satan. Think about it. Cast your mind back to the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit from the tree. And what is it that Satan tells Eve to do with the fruit? He tells her to “Take and eat.” And with that, sin was devastatingly ushered into the world. Many years later, Jesus would sit at the table with his disciples and he would hold up the bread and wine and what would he say? “Take and eat.” And with that, Jesus would point them to the very way that the curse of sin would be undone forever at the cross. And from that point forward, “Take and eat” went from verbs of destruction to verbs of salvation.
The church gets to celebrate this great salvation every time she takes the Lord’s Supper.
God has always given His people meals to celebrate His love and salvation for them. In the Old Testament, God gave His people the Passover to celebrate His love and salvation for them in the Exodus. In the New Covenant, God has given us the Lord’s Supper to celebrate His love and salvation for us at the cross.
The Lord’s Supper is a meal that points us back to God’s displays of love, but it also points us forward to another meal displays God’s love: the great wedding feast of the Lamb in Revelation 19. This is the great wedding feast at the end of time that celebrates the spiritual consummation of the marriage of Christ and His Church. And that spiritual marriage is made possible by the very thing we celebrate in the Lord’s Supper: the cross.
Reflecting on all of this, Sinclair Ferguson draws out a beautiful point. He compares the Lord’s Supper to a rehearsal dinner. The rehearsal dinner is the feast before the great wedding feast. And the father of the groom pays the price for the meal. The wedding reception is the fullest and final fest to celebrate and the father of the bride pays the price for the meal. The Lord’s Supper is the rehearsal dinner. It’s the feast before the great wedding feast. And the Father of the Groom Jesus has paid the price. The Marriage Feast of the Lamb at the end of time is like the wedding reception, and the Father of the Bride, the Church, has paid the price for the meal. And in this case, the Father of the Groom and the Father of the Bride are the same. And God paid the price for both meals in Jesus at the cross.
Ferguson continues his analogy of the Lord’s Supper to a wedding by saying that every time we remember and affirm the Gospel in the Lord’s Supper, it’s as if we’re taking our wedding vows again saying “Forsaking all others, we will take Jesus as our lawfully wedded husband.” And then we have a feast in honor of it.

Most romantic meal ever

The Lord’s Supper is the most romantic meal you will ever eat… o Not because there are rose petals on the table or because it’s a candle lit dinner, or because there’s Barry White playing in the background, but because in the Lord’s Supper, Jesus is reminding you how much He loves you.
The Lord’s Supper is like an anniversary dinner for a married couple. At the dinner, the husband deeply, continually, and clearly reminds of his great love for her. And at the dinner, the husband draws his wife’s attention to a gift and a letter that show and describe His love for her. That’s exactly what Jesus does in the Lord’s Supper and in His Word. He is draw our attention to the gift He gave us at the cross when He gave Himself for our salvation. And he wrote all of this down in His Word; His love letter to us.
The Lord’s Supper is one of the most beautiful experiences of the Christian life. It should never grow old and we should never take it for granted. In it we get to taste and see that the Lord is good. In it we get to reflect on Jesus’ love for us. In it we are reminded of Jesus’ great salvation He offers to the world. In it we can almost hear God’s Words in Isaiah 55:1
Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."- Isaiah 55:1
And that price was paid for by Jesus.

Maundy Thursday next week

Now after a whole sermon on the Lord’s Supper you’d probably expect for us to take the Lord’s Supper together right now. But that’s not what we are going to do. We are actually going to text the Lord’s Supper next week on Maundy Thursday, a date where the church has traditionally celebrated the Lord’s Supper as a way to kick off Holy Week. It’s common in the history of the church for congregants to be give early notice of the Lord’s Supper so that they can prepare their hearts and minds to take and enjoy the Supper. That’s what we’re going to do for you all. As you go throughout this next week, prepare your hearts and minds to take and enjoy the Lord’s Supper together next week. May you prepare to feel the gravity and beauty of the Supper in a way you may never have felt before. Let’s pray and then we will stand and sing.

Pray

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