WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.359 We're going to read from the New Testament together from the Gospel of Mark chapter 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:14.339 14 verses 12 to 25. 00:00:14.339 --> 00:00:17.800 This is God's word. 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:24.080 And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his 00:00:24.080 --> 00:00:29.719 disciples said to him, where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover? 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:34.960 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, go into the city, and a man carrying 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.600 a jar of water will meet you. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:42.879 Follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, the teacher says, 00:00:42.879 --> 00:00:48.519 where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples? 00:00:48.519 --> 00:00:51.799 And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:53.599 There prepare for us. 00:00:53.599 --> 00:00:58.320 And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:00.719 when they prepared the Passover. 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:03.640 And when it was evening, he came with the twelve. 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:09.879 And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, truly, I say to you, one of you 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:13.560 will betray me, one who is eating with me. 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:18.799 And they began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one after another, is it I? 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.240 And he said to them, it is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:24.240 me. 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:29.319 For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:31.399 of Man is betrayed. 00:01:31.399 --> 00:01:35.759 It would have been better for that man if he had not been born. 00:01:35.759 --> 00:01:40.759 And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it, broke it and gave it to 00:01:40.759 --> 00:01:45.159 them and said, take, this is my body. 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:46.159 And he took a cup. 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.359 And when he had given thanks, he gave it to them. 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:50.039 And they all drank of it. 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:56.000 And he said to them, this is the blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.520 Truly I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:04.160 I drink it new in the kingdom of God. 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:08.040 This is God's holy word. 00:02:08.040 --> 00:02:12.879 We're in the Gospel of Mark, and we're in the very last two days of Jesus' life. 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:14.560 So this is Thursday. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:16.439 He's going to die on Friday morning. 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:19.360 He's going to be crucified on Friday morning. 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:25.480 And the last days of Jesus' life mean so much. 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:29.040 These are the 48 hours that changed the world. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:34.680 And really, these 48 hours that we're looking at for the next few weeks are the reason that 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:37.280 we're here, the reason that we gather today. 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:41.640 And so there's a lot to say about the last couple days of Jesus' life. 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:48.160 In this passage, Jesus predicts that he's going to be betrayed by one of the twelve that followed 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:54.560 him most closely, and then he shares with them the very last supper before he dies. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.439 And that is the basis of the institution of the Lord's Supper. 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.199 We're going to celebrate the Lord's Supper in just a little bit. 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:04.159 And so here we come to find the meaning of the Lord's Supper in this moment, this very 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.479 last meal he eats. 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.240 And let's ask, what do we learn from it? 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.800 What do we learn about the Lord's Supper here? 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:11.800 And here's what we learn. 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:13.680 We learn what the Lord's Supper means. 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:19.760 The Lord's Supper means a lot, but the main thing in this passage that it's pointing us 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:25.640 to is that the Lord's Supper is all about the lamb, the roasted lamb on the table. 00:03:25.640 --> 00:03:27.840 And secondly, who is the Lord's Supper for? 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.760 And we learn in this meal that the Lord's Supper, I can say that supper, it's for the 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:35.200 people in the room that night. 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:36.920 It's for the people in the room. 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:38.800 Okay, so let's look at those two things. 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:43.040 I think those are the big two things the passage draws out for us. 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.439 First, what is the Lord's Supper about? 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:47.479 It's about the lamb, ultimately. 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:49.840 Okay, this is a meal. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.719 The Lord's Supper, the last supper, it's a meal. 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.120 And we're going to celebrate a meal in just a little bit. 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.239 And this meal exists to remember the Passover. 00:03:59.239 --> 00:04:05.000 So in Mark 14, Jesus celebrates the Passover meal with the disciples. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.639 And you can see in verse 12, it's the first day of unleavened bread. 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:10.680 Okay, that's Thursday night. 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.400 So for 1st century Jew, the day starts at sunset. 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.519 So days go sunset to sunset. 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:23.920 So day one of a week-long celebration of the Exodus story begins on Thursday at sunset. 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:28.199 And the very first way you kick off this whole week of unleavened bread is a feast, a seven-day 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:34.360 feast, is you have a Passover meal, which is specifically focused on the night that Israel 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.360 ran away from Egypt. 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:43.040 So it's the night that God said, if you want to flee Egypt, you've got to kill a lamb and 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.960 put the blood over your doorpost. 00:04:45.960 --> 00:04:51.520 And keep your belt on, keep your socks and shoes on, your sandals in their day, because 00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:54.400 you're going to, as soon as you eat this meal, you are going for it. 00:04:54.400 --> 00:04:56.040 You're getting out of here. 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.400 And that's the beginning of the Exodus story. 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:00.639 And so the Passover meal, Thursday night, marks that. 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.400 They would celebrate that meal from sunset all the way till midnight. 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:09.079 And so all afternoon on the day before the beginning of the feast, which is Thursday 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:16.599 afternoon, in Jerusalem, they would sacrifice thousands of lambs, little lambs. 00:05:16.599 --> 00:05:20.120 And that's all because they were preparing for the Passover meal that night. 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.120 So lots of people had to eat it. 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:25.919 And so they were getting ready, lots of lambs being sacrificed that day. 00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:29.000 Josephus, he's a first-century historian. 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:34.359 He tells us that in 66 AD, he said that there were two million people in Jerusalem for the 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:35.360 Passover meal. 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:39.680 Now, that's probably way more than it actually was. 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:41.800 He's writing much later than this. 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:47.800 Most scholars think that there was probably 250,000 people in Jerusalem, which is not 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:51.400 a huge city, space-wise, for this Passover meal. 00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:57.120 Now, if you've ever been here, like I have, and many of you have, right outside our door 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:03.680 on the royal mile in the heart of August, during the festival, that's what we're thinking. 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:09.360 It's so packed, there are way too many people in the city that has room for it. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:14.360 And that means that if you've come to Jerusalem and to eat the Passover meal, you must come 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:15.360 to Jerusalem. 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.519 You can't eat it outside the city gate. 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.399 That's the law from the Old Testament. 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:23.680 There's just no space. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:29.199 And so if you're going to eat the Passover meal in Jerusalem on the Passover night, you've 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:31.759 got to prepare, you know, you've got to make a booking. 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.439 You've got to get ahead of this thing and be in advance. 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:40.839 If you've ever wanted to go eat at one of the great restaurants in Edinburgh, you know 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.240 how this works. 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.000 We've got a gift card that somebody gave us at Christmas time to Six by Niko, one of 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.439 the great restaurants in the city. 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:54.759 And it's one of those things where if we say tomorrow, you know, it's a great day to go 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.599 eat a great meal, let's go to Six by Niko. 00:06:57.599 --> 00:07:00.599 We're going to call, and what are they going to say? 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:04.120 They're at least four weeks away from being able to come eat a meal here. 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:05.240 Well, that's the situation. 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:09.439 There are 250,000 extra people in a city that cannot hold that many people. 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:13.160 You can't just have the Passover meal. 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:15.400 They prepared for months for this. 00:07:15.400 --> 00:07:21.920 That's why it's so significant that Jesus on the day, on Thursday, sends two disciples 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.120 and says he's outside the city in Bethany two miles away. 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.920 He says, now go into the city, you're going to see a man. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:29.700 He's going to have a jar of water. 00:07:29.699 --> 00:07:31.719 Lots of people carry water, you know? 00:07:31.719 --> 00:07:36.399 He says, you just follow him and he will take you to a place that is completely ready for 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:37.399 us. 00:07:37.399 --> 00:07:42.560 Now, the only way you get a booking for the Passover meal on the day is if you're God. 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:50.120 You know, if you are in complete control, and that's the point that from verses 13 to 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:55.639 16, he's already got this set up even though he had done nothing. 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.879 And that's because he is God and he can do that. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.079 And they go into the city and the message that he is in complete control. 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:08.000 And the reason to say that now is because it's trying to say, Mark is telling us, Jesus 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.680 is in complete control of everything that's about to happen from here out. 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:16.120 There are no surprises coming to him. 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.360 Everything they're going to do to him, he's in charge of. 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.360 It's not an accident, he's not passive. 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:22.360 He's got it. 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:27.000 And notice, if you look at the passages real quick, he says, when you get into the city, 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:33.679 we're going to see a master and you can say, the teacher says, where is my guest room? 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.039 Jesus is saying, it's my room. 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:38.759 And then he says, we're going to eat my meal with my disciples. 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:40.600 He's owning this. 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:41.799 He's the host. 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:46.720 He's the ultimate host in total control of everything that's about to happen to him. 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:51.639 And that is why this Passover meal is all the more significant because Jesus knows what 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:52.639 he's doing. 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.279 He knows what he's giving. 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:57.600 And this is what he's giving, this meal. 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:04.079 Now from verse 22, if you just jump down to 22 to 25, this is the Passover meal, the 00:09:04.079 --> 00:09:08.519 Last Supper, the basis of the Lord's Supper. 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.000 And it's the Passover meal. 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:16.679 And at the Passover meal, it was very, very normal for the host, whoever the host was, 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:21.679 to stop the meal at certain points in a rhythm and to take the different elements on the 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.600 table and to talk about them. 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:28.000 So what Jesus does here when he stops the meal and he says, look at the bread, that's 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:29.000 normal. 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:30.759 Everybody would have done that. 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:33.040 They would have said, they would have picked up the elements. 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:34.040 What were the elements? 00:09:34.040 --> 00:09:39.759 The elements of the meal were always at least two things, unleavened bread and lamb roasted 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:42.279 in bitter herbs. 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:48.480 And we learn later in the tradition that wine became a staple of the meal as Israelite history 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:49.480 went on. 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:50.639 Okay, so these are the elements. 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.080 The host would stop and say, here's the bread and this is what it means. 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:55.399 Here's the lamb. 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:56.399 This is what it means. 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:57.399 Here's the wine. 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:58.399 This is what it means. 00:09:58.399 --> 00:09:59.399 Okay, so this is normal. 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:02.240 What would they say about it? 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:06.679 The host normally would take the bread and he would hold it up and he said, here's the 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:12.879 unleavened bread that in Exodus 12, God commanded us to eat on the night we run away from Egypt. 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:14.600 Why is it unleavened? 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.759 Because you don't have time to put yeast in it. 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:23.080 You got to wait for it to rise if you do that and you are about to be, you're slaves that 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:24.960 are about to be liberated. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.080 Tonight, you don't have any time for yeast. 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.639 And so you eat unleavened bread. 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:34.879 So it's a sign that you are being liberated, but it's also a sign at the same time that 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:38.279 you have not yet come to what you will come to. 00:10:38.279 --> 00:10:43.399 So the other sense of unleavened bread in the Old Testament is that leaven stands for the 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:45.600 fullness of time. 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:47.399 It makes bread rise up. 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:53.759 And one day you will eat leavened bread, bread with yeast, only in the promised land when 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:55.360 you come to full salvation. 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:56.360 Right? 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.439 Now is the time for unleavened bread because you're not yet where you will be. 00:10:59.439 --> 00:11:04.279 And then later in the Bible, just later in the Exodus story, the manna, this unleavened 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:09.279 bread came down from heaven and they ate unleavened bread in the middle of the wilderness while 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:10.639 they were being sustained by God. 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:11.879 It's the bread of heaven. 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:17.919 And later the unleavened bread became in the prophets to stand for the awaiting of the 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:20.399 leaven that is to come, the Messiah Himself. 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.759 And so unleavened bread means the Messiah has not yet come. 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:29.840 It reminds us that we wait the yeast, the fullness, the rising of the fullness of time 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:30.840 that is to come. 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:35.519 And so the host would pick up the unleavened bread and he would say, remember who you are. 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:37.279 You are people still in exile. 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.399 You are people that have not yet come to full liberation. 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:44.000 You are people that have not yet experienced the hope of the Messiah. 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:47.480 You're still unleavened waiting for the leaven that is to come. 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:48.480 All right? 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.360 Then the most important thing they would take, they would also take the wine and they would 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:53.919 say, what's the wine? 00:11:53.919 --> 00:12:00.519 The wine reminds us of the blood that was put over the door, the blood of the lamb. 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:04.559 But then the most important character of all at the meal is the lamb. 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.679 You may have heard the phrase before, the paschal lamb. 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.159 And paschal in Greek means Passover. 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.959 So the paschal lamb is the Passover lamb. 00:12:13.959 --> 00:12:18.159 The word paschal is used right in this passage a couple of times. 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.719 And there would come a moment, the climax of the meal, where the host would lift up the 00:12:22.719 --> 00:12:29.719 roasted lamb and say, this is the lamb that was slain. 00:12:29.719 --> 00:12:32.799 This is the lamb by whose blood we were freed from Egypt. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:35.279 So what happened that night in the Passover? 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.159 The Passover in Exodus 12 and 13, what happened? 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:42.600 God sent judgment down upon Egypt. 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:46.120 And the angel of death came to deliver Egypt to judgment. 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:51.679 Her sons, but also the text tells us in Exodus 12, her gods were to be judged too. 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:55.720 But when you read the Exodus story carefully, what you realize is that the death that came 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:03.360 down to Egypt that night was not just for Egypt, but it was for Israel too. 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.840 In other words, there was an equality. 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.960 It was saying that all of you deserve judgment. 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:15.039 Israelites and Egyptians alike, and you might remember in Deuteronomy and other places, 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:20.879 God said to Israel, when I take you out of bondage and save you, do not think that I 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.200 showed you mercy because you're better. 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:27.920 Don't think that I released you from bondage because you're great, you're moral, and the 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:29.399 Egyptians were the bad guys. 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:33.080 No, he says you're all equal. 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.160 Really sinful, equally deserving of judgment. 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:41.040 And the only way on the Passover night you're going to escape death is if you slay a lamb 00:13:41.040 --> 00:13:46.520 and pour the blood over the doorpost of your home to say that the blood of the lamb has 00:13:46.520 --> 00:13:52.879 substituted, has died in my place this night, so that I might be a slave that will be liberated 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.920 from bondage, a slave liberated from death forever. 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:05.360 And so the host of the meal would stand up and say, here is the lamb. 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:08.759 By whose blood we were saved. 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:12.079 We were once slaves in Egypt, now we've been liberated. 00:14:12.079 --> 00:14:17.439 We were sinners deserving of the judgment of death in Egypt, and God sent us to salvation 00:14:17.439 --> 00:14:19.199 by the blood of the lamb. 00:14:19.199 --> 00:14:22.439 All sorts of ways they would say it, but that's what the host would do. 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:30.480 Now that is why this moment is so surprising because the disciples who do not have eyes 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:34.080 to see yet, as we've seen in the last couple of weeks, they're sitting there at this meal 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:39.920 and they expect Jesus, the host, to do the exact same thing that every other host would 00:14:39.920 --> 00:14:42.000 do on the Passover night. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.480 He'd stand up and say, this is the bread, this is the unleavened bread that we ate the 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:47.640 night we ran from Egypt. 00:14:47.640 --> 00:14:49.640 He doesn't do it. 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:54.679 He stands up and says, this unleavened bread, you see this, verse 22, he says, this is my 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:56.600 body. 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.199 Take it and eat it. 00:14:59.199 --> 00:15:00.879 And what is he saying in that moment? 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:07.679 Well, if you put all the pieces together, he's saying, this bread means that I, I, my 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:13.600 body standing before you right now is the bread of heaven that sustains you in the wilderness. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:18.679 My, you know, I, I am the thing that's about to happen. 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.079 But you know, he, he snaps it in half the bread. 00:15:21.079 --> 00:15:22.079 He breaks it. 00:15:22.079 --> 00:15:25.639 He says, my, this bread, my body is about to be broken. 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:29.519 And at that moment, unleavened bread is going to become leavened for you. 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:34.239 You know, he, he was saying, I am the very thing that the unleavened bread has always 00:15:34.239 --> 00:15:35.359 been about. 00:15:35.359 --> 00:15:39.719 The hope that one day a Messiah would come, the bread of heaven that would feed every 00:15:39.719 --> 00:15:42.479 spiritual hunger and ache you've ever had. 00:15:42.479 --> 00:15:45.000 And he said, this is me, this bread. 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.399 And then he got up and he said, you see this wine? 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:48.879 It's the blood of my covenant. 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.840 And in the Old Testament, the wine has two, two main images. 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:55.360 I've already mentioned one, the negative side. 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.439 It is that it's the blood that got poured over the doorpost. 00:15:58.439 --> 00:16:04.919 It's the blood that was sprinkled in the blood right in the temple for purification, saying 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.279 that we don't deserve God's mercy. 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:09.919 There has to be blood in our place. 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:13.960 There has to be sacrifice on our behalf or we will die before the Lord. 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:15.879 And Jesus says, this is it. 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.720 My blood is the blood of purification. 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:20.559 My blood is the blood that can cleanse you. 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:22.919 My blood is the blood that can sanctify you. 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:28.279 My blood is the blood that was smeared over the doorpost. 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:29.879 It was always about this moment. 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:32.879 Now this is, this is what that means. 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:40.120 The bread, the lamb, the wine, the herbs, the Exodus story, the Passover, the sacrificial 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:41.960 system. 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:47.320 Take a story in the Old Testament, pick a symbol in the Old Testament. 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:51.759 It was always about Jesus. 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:57.360 Before Jesus ever came, everything that happened in the Old Testament was all about getting 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.160 to Him. 00:17:00.160 --> 00:17:05.000 Every symbol instituted in the Old Testament was pointing to this moment. 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:12.119 It's not that these symbols, bread, wine, lamb from the Old Testament give meaning to Jesus, 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:17.160 but that God from all of eternity looked at Jesus in the middle of history, and He is 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:20.400 what gives meaning to those symbols in the past. 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:21.759 You see? 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:24.119 It's not that He gets His meaning from those symbols. 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:30.119 It's that bread and wine and the lamb all get their meaning from Him in the middle of 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:31.160 human history. 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:32.960 It was always about this moment. 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:34.200 That's what it ultimately means. 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:37.720 Now we need to move on, but what's missing? 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:41.440 Jesus stands up and says, this is the bread, it's my body. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:46.759 This is the wine, it's my blood, but do you notice what's not there? 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:50.640 The most important character in the Passover feast is what? 00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:52.400 The lamb. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:57.120 And there is no moment where Jesus says, now in here is the roasted lamb. 00:17:57.120 --> 00:17:58.120 Remember the Passover night? 00:17:58.120 --> 00:17:59.160 He never says it. 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:00.160 He never does it. 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:04.160 He says, there's bread, there's wine, there's body, there's blood, but where's the lamb? 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:06.360 And, you see why? 00:18:06.360 --> 00:18:09.440 Because the lamb is the host, and the host is the lamb. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:13.960 The lamb is the speaker himself. 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:18.560 That's why when John the Baptist sees Jesus in the Gospel of John, he lifts up his head 00:18:18.560 --> 00:18:19.560 and says what? 00:18:19.560 --> 00:18:24.880 Behold, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.440 The lamb was in the room. 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:32.240 You see, it's not that the lamb of the Passover in the Old Testament is the meaning that makes 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:37.039 sense of Jesus, it's that Jesus was always the one who made sense of the lamb. 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:40.720 It had always been that way. 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:43.480 So that means that the Last Supper is about the cross. 00:18:43.480 --> 00:18:45.640 It's about Jesus' body being broken. 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.720 It's about his blood being poured out. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.079 It's that he is the bread of heaven. 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.759 He satisfies every spiritual hunger. 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:54.039 Are you spiritually hungry? 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:59.079 He alone can give you the satisfaction you need for that ache. 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.000 And he is the wine, the other side of the wine. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.839 He's the wine of the feast. 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:09.640 You see, the wine means blood, but the wine also means feasting, festival drink. 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:14.400 It's about celebration and sorrow simultaneously. 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:15.400 The bread is snapped. 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:16.400 You know, it's the bread of heaven. 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.279 It gives you life, but the bread has to be snapped. 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:24.279 His body has to be broken if it's going to become for you the bread that gives you life. 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:27.799 His blood has to be poured if it's going to become the wine for you that brings you to 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:31.000 the festival, festival joy. 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:37.160 And here at the very end of this institution of the Lord's Supper, you see what he says, 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.319 he calls the wine the blood of my covenant. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:45.400 And then he says, truly I say to you, I will not drink it again until I drink it anew in 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:46.400 the kingdom of God. 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:48.720 So at the very end, he makes this oath. 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:50.480 He swears. 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:52.119 He makes a vow. 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:56.920 And he says, I will not touch the wine again until it's all accomplished. 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:02.759 Now that vow and the phrase he uses, blood of the covenant is taking us back to the Old 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.039 Testament to one different moment. 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:09.160 And that moment is in Genesis 15. 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:12.519 So what does he call this blood, the blood of the covenant? 00:20:12.519 --> 00:20:18.320 In Genesis 15, God had made his covenant with Abraham and he said, Abraham, I'm going to 00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:21.880 save the world through you and your people. 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:27.120 In fact, there's going to be one son that comes from your lineage that will be the leaven, 00:20:27.120 --> 00:20:30.240 that will be the sea, that will be the hope of the world. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.080 And he said, but today we make a covenant. 00:20:33.080 --> 00:20:34.920 I promise to you, I will do this. 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:38.920 And Abraham, you promise to me that you will follow me. 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:43.880 And when it came time, it was very common to make covenant ceremonies in the Old Testament. 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:46.760 The way God said it is what we're going to do is we're going to cut all these animals 00:20:46.760 --> 00:20:49.320 into two pieces in half. 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.439 And we're going to make an aisle like this aisle right here in front of me. 00:20:52.439 --> 00:20:57.119 And there would be animals cut in half along each side and the blood would be all across 00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:58.679 the ground. 00:20:58.679 --> 00:20:59.679 That's how it worked. 00:20:59.679 --> 00:21:01.919 It was a big mess. 00:21:01.919 --> 00:21:06.439 And when it came time to make the ceremony, you say, I promise to you, God, I will follow 00:21:06.439 --> 00:21:10.200 you because you've promised to me you will save me. 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:12.720 And both parties have to pass between the aisle. 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:13.720 And what are you saying? 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:17.439 You're saying, Abraham would have said, when I pass through the aisle, I'm promising, 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:20.279 Lord, I will follow you. 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:25.680 Or may I become like one of these animals snapped into blood on the ground. 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:33.600 And when it came time, God put Abraham to sleep and God passed between the pieces twice. 00:21:33.600 --> 00:21:39.480 And he was saying, if Abraham, if any human being, you know, I promise to save humanity, 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:43.080 but if any of those humans fail, they don't follow me. 00:21:43.080 --> 00:21:44.480 They don't keep the terms of the covenant. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:51.440 God was saying, may I become snapped in half like these animals. 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:55.640 May I experience the blood on the ground, my blood. 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:57.759 It's a scandalous promise. 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:01.440 God was saying, if you fail, may I die. 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:06.880 And in Jesus Christ on this night, he says, look, my body's going to be snapped, cut in 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:08.319 half. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:13.599 And I promise I vow like Genesis 15 that I will not drink the festival drink wine again 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:15.839 until it's all done. 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:18.759 It's the fulfillment of Genesis 15. 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:21.839 Who is this supper for, lastly, briefly? 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.599 Now this is the meaning of the supper. 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:26.159 Who is it for? 00:22:26.159 --> 00:22:29.119 And the answer is, it's for the people in that room that day. 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.719 It's for the people in the room today. 00:22:32.719 --> 00:22:34.000 We see that. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.759 Maybe you look at all this. 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:42.679 There's been 17 minutes of talk about blood so far and sacrifice and lambs and smearing 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:45.759 over doorposts and the temple and all sorts of things. 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:49.120 And you say, I'm a modern person. 00:22:49.120 --> 00:22:50.920 And this is old religion. 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:56.759 Sacrifice, blood, justice, offering, all this sort of stuff. 00:22:56.759 --> 00:23:00.400 And even if you're a Christian today, you look and read about this in the Old Testament. 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.400 You read about this and you say, it's a foreign aspect to me. 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:08.840 This idea of sacrifice and the blood of the lamb being poured in my place. 00:23:08.840 --> 00:23:11.240 And I just want to say, hold on for just a second. 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:14.680 Some people we say, look, the Lord's Supper, it's about community building. 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:18.440 It's about strengthening the people that will love one another more. 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:19.440 That's true. 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:20.519 That's an element. 00:23:20.519 --> 00:23:21.519 But hold on a second. 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:25.880 It's more, here's, look, we all have a sense, I think all of us, no matter what you might 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:34.859 believe in today, that when a great injustice is committed, there has to be an act of justice. 00:23:34.859 --> 00:23:39.380 When a great wrongdoing happens, punishment becomes necessary. 00:23:39.380 --> 00:23:44.320 We know that our society cannot function unless we know that, unless there's a moral order 00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:48.040 in place that when we act against it, we deserve punishment. 00:23:48.040 --> 00:23:51.840 We know that instinctively, we know that as human beings. 00:23:51.840 --> 00:23:54.200 And let me just ask you just to look for a second. 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:58.040 Who is at this table at the Last Supper? 00:23:58.040 --> 00:24:00.200 Well, look at how the passage set up. 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:02.360 We skipped over 17 to 21. 00:24:02.360 --> 00:24:08.840 And in 17 to 21, we learned that it's the betrayer at the table, Judas. 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:09.959 One of you is about to betray me. 00:24:09.959 --> 00:24:15.599 It's a person who I am dipping my hand into the roasted lamb and all these things. 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:17.279 We're sharing the meal together. 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:18.439 You're going to betray me. 00:24:18.439 --> 00:24:23.119 Now, we'll come back to Judas next week in the Garden of Gethsemane. 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:29.240 But if you look down just after the Lord's Supper, if you have a Bible in verse 27, 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:32.799 after the Lord's Supper's Institute, Jesus turns to the rest of the people at the table 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:38.079 and says, every one of you is going to fall away and betray me. 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:43.439 You see, the story, the way the Last Supper worked was, betrayal, I'm going to die for 00:24:43.439 --> 00:24:46.480 you and all of you are going to betray me. 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:49.720 Betrayal, Jesus for me, betrayal. 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:54.039 It's sandwiched in betrayers all around it. 00:24:54.039 --> 00:24:59.159 And Mark is trying to communicate something, I think, to us in the way he set that up. 00:24:59.159 --> 00:25:05.519 You know, you say, is the justice of the blood of Christ God sent his only son to die in 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:08.639 my place really necessary? 00:25:08.639 --> 00:25:10.680 And you know, I'm a good person. 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:11.839 I'm a normal person. 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:14.960 I'm not Judas. 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.039 You know, I'm not in the prison. 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:19.720 I'm not murdered anyone. 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:26.839 You know, I can see this level of sacrifice for Nero and for Caligula and for the great 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:27.879 evil of history. 00:25:27.879 --> 00:25:31.039 But I mean, I'm a normal person. 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:32.720 Sure I've made mistakes. 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:34.440 And you see what Mark's doing? 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:40.480 He's saying, yeah, sure Judas, but don't you see that Jesus then turns to these fishermen, 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:45.000 to these very normal lower middle income people and just says, every single one of you is 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:46.240 going to betray me. 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.120 And so I'm going to die for you. 00:25:48.120 --> 00:25:52.559 And what he's trying to say to us is that when you come to the table today, you've got 00:25:52.559 --> 00:26:01.600 to be willing to say, Christ Jesus died for the sinners, not out there, but in the room. 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:05.839 He died that night for the men in the room, the women in the room. 00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:09.639 He died today for the men and women in the room. 00:26:09.639 --> 00:26:11.399 It's personal. 00:26:11.399 --> 00:26:13.959 It's for every one of us individually. 00:26:13.959 --> 00:26:15.119 That's what he's saying here. 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.079 The God of all the earth made every single one of us. 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:21.919 And he said, my friend, my son, my daughter, I love you. 00:26:21.919 --> 00:26:23.959 I want to be in forever relationship with you. 00:26:23.959 --> 00:26:25.119 And we betrayed. 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:27.000 We left. 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:30.319 And he was surrounded by a bunch of betrayers. 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:35.439 And he said, and so I'm coming down my body snapped and my blood poured for you. 00:26:35.439 --> 00:26:43.720 Do you know that the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ died for every single one of us individually 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:52.639 and corporately that it's so personal that Jesus, the son from eternity, knows you by 00:26:52.639 --> 00:26:59.759 your name from forever and came to die for you that personally because your sin is so 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:02.480 personal towards him? 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.400 Because we betrayed him so personally. 00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:08.039 That's how real it is, friends. 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:11.079 Our blood is required of us, yet he gave his for us. 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:17.640 One of my favorite, as we come to a close, one of my favorite moments in all of literature 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:21.879 is in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce. 00:27:21.879 --> 00:27:25.079 This is a book about heaven. 00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.079 It's a hypothetical image. 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:29.599 Don't study it to learn the theology of heaven. 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:33.679 It's more of a thought experiment. 00:27:33.679 --> 00:27:40.159 And what happens in it is people from below, from earth, come up on a bus, a tour bus into 00:27:40.159 --> 00:27:43.000 heaven and they're given a tour of heaven. 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:47.439 It's kind of modeled after Dante's books. 00:27:47.439 --> 00:27:54.639 And this very early in the book, chapter four, this unnamed man, it gets off the tour bus 00:27:54.639 --> 00:27:55.639 in heaven. 00:27:55.640 --> 00:28:00.520 He's walking, he's coming through heaven and he's like a ghost to heaven. 00:28:00.520 --> 00:28:02.020 He's like a spirit. 00:28:02.020 --> 00:28:05.240 He's unnamed, I'll just give him the name Tom because it makes it easier to talk about. 00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:06.880 This is a paraphrase. 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:13.280 Tom is touring heaven and he meets a man who he knew from his life on earth named Lynn. 00:28:13.280 --> 00:28:19.880 And Tom is very, very angry to see Lynn in heaven because Lynn had committed a murder 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:21.240 in his earthly life. 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.640 He had murdered a man named Jack. 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:26.880 And they all worked together, Tom and Lynn and Jack. 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.160 And this is what angry Tom says to Lynn when he sees him in heaven. 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:34.480 He says, it isn't right that you were here, Lynn. 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:35.480 What about old Jack? 00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:41.400 You murdered him and Lynn said, I did, but it's okay now. 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:42.400 I'm forgiven. 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:45.120 Jack is here too, actually. 00:28:45.120 --> 00:28:49.840 And Tom said, what I don't understand is why you're here and I'm not here. 00:28:49.840 --> 00:28:51.800 Aren't you ashamed of yourself? 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:55.720 Personally, I think you and I should be the other way around. 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:56.720 I should be up here. 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:57.839 You should be down there. 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:02.559 You know, I wasn't a religious man and I don't, but I would never say, and I don't say I 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:06.359 had no faults, but I've done my best in all of life. 00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:07.359 That's what he says. 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:08.359 That's what Lewis writes. 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:10.599 I did my best by everyone. 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:13.159 I never asked for anything that wasn't mine by rights. 00:29:13.159 --> 00:29:16.279 You know, I took my wages only if I'd done the job. 00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:18.720 You see, that's the sort I was. 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:20.639 I'm only asking for my rights. 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.600 I got to have my rights, you see. 00:29:23.600 --> 00:29:28.000 And Lynn said, oh no, I didn't get my rights. 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:29.680 He said, I haven't gotten what I deserved. 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:35.800 If you would give yourself away, you would get something far better than your rights, 00:29:35.800 --> 00:29:38.960 far better than what you deserve. 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.880 And Tom said, I always did my best. 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:43.640 Why should I not be here when a murderer like you is? 00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:45.560 I'm not asking for anybody's charity. 00:29:45.560 --> 00:29:48.560 I don't come for charity. 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.000 And Lynn said, well then do ask for it. 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:53.319 Ask for God's charity. 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:54.480 Everything's awaiting you. 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:55.579 Everything is here for the asking. 00:29:55.579 --> 00:30:02.440 If you would just ask and receive, take and eat, we might say. 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:03.879 Why should I ask for charity, Tom said? 00:30:03.879 --> 00:30:04.879 I'm a decent man. 00:30:04.879 --> 00:30:06.440 I did my best. 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:09.960 And then Lynn says, you are not a decent man. 00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:11.879 You did not do your best. 00:30:11.879 --> 00:30:15.839 And if you just think about it, friends, if you just think about it for a moment today, 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.720 no matter what you believe, this is what Lynn says, it's true of all of us. 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:21.519 He says, if you think about it for a moment and you really look at your heart, you will 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:25.119 know you did not do your best. 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:28.839 And Lynn says to Tom, you know, I murdered you every day in my heart because you were 00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:30.319 cruel. 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:32.399 You were a cruel boss. 00:30:32.399 --> 00:30:33.599 You were hard on your wife. 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:35.199 You were hard on your family. 00:30:35.199 --> 00:30:37.279 You were hard on everybody. 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:38.559 You did not do your best. 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:40.240 And Tom says, that's private. 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:41.319 That's my private business. 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:47.480 Lynn says, there is no such thing as a private affair before the Lord. 00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:49.519 And he said, but forget about that now. 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:56.000 Ask for the charity of God, and I will show you the joy in the mountains. 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:58.279 And Tom said, I will not go. 00:30:58.279 --> 00:31:03.359 I will not be a man who snivels along for charity. 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:08.480 Now listen, in Acts 2, as we close, Peter says, you crucified Jesus Christ. 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.599 He says it to people who were not present physically for the crucifixion. 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:13.680 All of us, our sin, put him there. 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:15.039 It's that personal. 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:19.599 And he's saying that sometimes we minimize that as modern people by saying, yeah, I've 00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:20.599 made mistakes. 00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:22.799 Of course, everybody makes mistakes. 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.759 But when you really look down, when you really consider, when you really look at your heart 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:28.440 this morning, are you willing to say it's personal? 00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:29.960 I put him there. 00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:31.480 What do you do? 00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:33.000 What do you do right now? 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:34.000 You listen to Jesus. 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.720 He said, take, receive. 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:39.680 Ask for charity. 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.880 Take and receive and eat this morning. 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:47.319 This is the meal for people who know they need redemption. 00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:53.360 This is the meal for people who can say today, I was once a slave, and now I've been redeemed 00:31:53.360 --> 00:31:55.720 by the blood of the Lamb. 00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:56.720 Let's pray together. 00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:03.279 Lord, we ask that as we come to the table that we would know the condition for our coming, 00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:10.119 that we would never stand on our rights, that we would never say we're good people. 00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:16.240 The condition we come on today is that Jesus pulled up a chair for us at the table. 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:21.119 The condition we come on today is that Jesus said that is his body broken, that he, his 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:24.399 body, his blood really is the feast. 00:32:24.399 --> 00:32:28.440 And so because this has already happened in the past, we come today to drink the festival 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:30.200 wine. 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:33.480 And we pray that you would make it powerful unto us in Christ's name. 00:32:33.480 --> 00:33:01.559 Amen.