Learning About The Lord’s Supper
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
October 2, 2022
This morning we are going to take advantage of the fact that we have just finished our study of 1 John and we are going to take the Lord’s Supper.
It is of absolute vital importance that we return here often
To remember what it is that the Lord has done for us.
AND THIS MORNING we are going to appeal to the book of 1 Corinthians
To learn a little bit about this ordinance and how we are to partake of it.
I was compelled to come to 1 Corinthians
Mostly because of the text we referenced here last week.
You likely remember that we studied 1 John 5:22
1 John 5:22 “Little children, guard yourselves from idols.”
And as part of our study we actually looked at a passage in 1 Corinthians
Where Paul referenced their partaking of the Lord’s Supper.
1 Corinthians 10:14-22 “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; you judge what I say. Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread. Look at the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?”
And to be perfectly honest it was my initial intent
To return here and just study that passage
As it seemed a perfect transition from idolatry to the Lord’s Supper.
But you know how rabbits can be chased when you begin to study the word of God.
Paul actually references the taking of the Lord’s Supper
3 times in the book of 1 Corinthians.
There is the passage I just read to you from 1 Corinthians 10 where Paul reminded us of the fellowship with Christ which is involved in partaking.
There is the passage we read to open our study this morning in 1 Corinthians 11 where Paul will discuss taking the Lord’s Supper in a worthy manner.
And it is referenced again in 1 Corinthians 5 during Paul’s discussion of the immoral brother in which Paul commands us to “Celebrate the feast…with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
AND IT IS OUR OBJECTIVE to look at all 3 of these this morning
To learn some valuable lessons
Regarding our participation in this holy ordinance.
BUT BEFORE we take a look at each of those texts,
I FIRST want us to examine for a moment the text we read to begin.
(23-26) “For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which 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 He took the cup also 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.”
You may or may not be aware, but most scholars agree that
1 Corinthians was written before any of the gospel accounts were written.
That means that this is the first written account of the Lord’s Supper.
Paul notes that “I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you”
Paul didn’t read Matthew’s gospel and give an account.
Jesus told Paul what happened that night.
Paul revealed that “He…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.”
This was during the Passover meal
That Jesus and His disciples were taking.
John MacArthur gives some helpful insight into what occurred in the room that night.
“The Passover meal began with the host’s pronouncing a blessing over the first cup of red wine and passing it to the others present. Four cups of wine were passed around during the meal. After the first cup was drunk bitter herbs dipped in a fruit sauce were eaten and a message was given on the meaning of Passover. Then the first part of a hymn, the Hallel (which means “praise” and is related to hallelujah, “praise ye the Lord”) was sung. The Hallel is comprised of Psalms 113-118, and the first part sung was usually 113 or 113 and 114. After the second cup was passed, the host would break and pass around unleavened bread. Then the meal proper, which consisted of the roasted sacrificial lamb, was eaten. The third cup, after prayer, was then passed and the rest of the Hallel was sung. The fourth cup, which celebrated the coming kingdom, was drunk immediately before leaving.”
(MacArthur, John [The MacArthur New Testament Commentary; 1 Corinthians; Moody Press; Chicago, IL; 1984] pg. 271)
During that meal the Jews ate unleavened bread.
• Leaven is of course like yeast which is an agent which makes bread rise.
• When a woman would make dough she would pinch off some and put it back to use in her next batch.
In Egypt they were commanded to make their bread without leaven,
Partly due to time, as they were in a hurry to leave.
But mostly because they were to leave the old behind.
Unleavened bread was a picture of new life; a pure life.
Jesus had already preached:
John 6:48-51 “I am the bread of life. “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. “This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
And now He says:
“This is my body, which is for you, do this in remembrance of Me.”
From now on, when the disciples partook of this meal
They were no longer to remember Egypt, they were to remember Christ.
• He is God made flesh.
• He took on human form.
• And in His flesh He fulfilled the Law and earned the righteousness He would
impute to us.
• And in His flesh He suffered becoming a merciful and faithful High Priest on
our behalf.
Jesus told the disciples that they should now partake
And remember His righteous life which provided righteousness for us.
This is “for you” He said.
All that He did, He did for those whom He redeemed.
MY BODY IS FOR YOUR LIFE.
LATER IN THE MEAL Jesus would interject some more profound truth.
(25) “In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
This would have been that third cup, after the meal.
And as Jesus passed this cup He once again redirected their worship.
• No longer focus on the Exodus, focus on Me.
• This cup represents My blood.
• More than that it represents His death, since the life is in the blood.
• It represents that Jesus would die so as to redeem us from the Old Covenant of the Law.
He would both fulfill our obligation through His righteous life
And He would pay our debt through His atoning death.
He would bring us into a New Covenant where righteousness is obtained FOR us and God’s Law would be written ON our hearts.
Jesus said when the disciples took the Passover
They should no longer focus on the Exodus but focus on Christ.
Paul summarized then the entire ordinance for the Corinthians:
(26) “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.”
At its core this is what we are doing every time we partake.
• We are proclaiming the reality and necessity of the atoning death of Christ.
• We are declaring our dependance on what He did for us.
The only shot we had of reconciliation with God
Is if Jesus Christ came in a human body
To fulfill the Law and then to die to pay the sin debt of men.
Without Him we are lost forever.
Without Him hell is our only destiny.
But He came and saved us.
We partake to remember the saving work of Jesus Christ.
We never grow tired of remembering what He did for us.
His life and death are at the center of this ordinance
And we never forget it.
BUT AS I TOLD YOU,
• This is not the only place Paul mentions the Lord’s Supper to the Corinthians.
• And that is not all he has to say even here in chapter 11.
The Corinthians were certainly partaking of the Lord’s Supper
But they were doing so on the wrong ways.
God was not pleased with the way in which they were partaking.
IN FACT, God was actually causing some of them to get sick and even some to die as a punishment for the way they were partaking.
AND WE ARE INTRODUCED TO THE REALITY THAT
IT MATTERS HOW WE PARTAKE.
We are talking about an ordinance meant to commemorate
The greatest work ever accomplished by any man ever.
It matters to God THAT we remember it.
It matters to God HOW we remember it.
SO THIS MORNING we’re going to look briefly at all 3 of the passages where Paul instructs the Corinthians.
AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO PARTAKE.
Well, let’s look at the first mention and we’ll talk about:
#1 THE IMPORTANCE OF PURITY
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
The first mention of the Lord’s Supper comes to the Corinthians
In chapter 5 where they were totally missing the point of their celebration.
You know the chapter as the one about the infamous sinning brother
Who was sleeping with his father’s wife.
The issue at hand, as it relates to the Lord’s Supper
Was not that the sin had occurred,
But that it had not been denounced.
(5:2) “You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.”
Paul’s call to the Corinthian church was to repent of their arrogance.
WHAT ARROGANCE?
The arrogance that would condone what God has condemned.
There is an entire lesson for the church
In the midst of our evil and perverse culture.
Never before in my lifetime has the church been more willing to succumb to social pressures and condone what God forbids than today.
WE THINK OF ALL THE SEXUAL SINS:
• Divorce
• Living together in adultery
• Homosexuality
• Then CHURCHES performing homosexual marriages
• Then CHURCHES ordaining homosexual clergy
OR WHAT ABOUT THE RISE OF THE NUMBER OF WOMEN PASTORS?
Such compromises with the world are not new,
It was occurring in Corinth.
In fact, in Corinth it had go so far that they were actually condoning things that even pagans knew were wrong.
IT WAS THEN AND IT IS NOW – NOTHING BUT ARROGANCE.
Isaiah 5:20 “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
No man has the right to tolerate or condone
Or approve of what God condemns.
That is extreme arrogance.
There should have been MOURNING over such sin
And DISCIPLINE even to the point of removing the sinning brother.
That is the biblical mandate for dealing with such sin.
IN FACT Paul made his stance abundantly clear.
(3-5) “For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present. In the name of our Lord Jesus when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
• Paul’s ruling on the matter is clear and firm.
• You cannot allow such unrepentant sin to remain in the church.
• It must be removed either by REPENTANCE OR DISCIPLINE.
And then Paul turns again to rebuke the Corinthians.
(6) “Your boasting is not good.”
First it was arrogance, now it is “boasting”
They actually took pride in the fact
That they condoned the sin of this man.
But there is a threat there that they have overlooked.
“Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?”
You certainly understand the analogy.
• Yeast spreads.
• Or as we like to say, “Sin splatters”
We saw our entire world go upside down as the issue and threat of CONTAMINATION covered the globe.
• Signs everywhere demanding that you stay 6’ away from every other human.
• Wear a mask, or wear 2.
• Stay away, don’t leave the house, don’t have people over.
• Wear gloves, don’t touch anything
• Go virtual
• Skip work, stay away from gatherings
There was literally no end to the insanity
And it all had to do with the threat of contamination.
But what you ought to really be concerned about is sin.
Sin is far more contagious than the coronavirus ever thought about being.
And there’s only one way to stop the spread – you’ve got to root it out!
(7) “Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.”
Here’s the first real theological point.
• Jesus Christ came to set you free from sin.
• He came as our Passover.
It harkens back to that first Passover in Egypt
When the Hebrews painted the blood of that lamb on the doorpost
So that the death angel might pass them by.
In the same way, it was the blood of Christ,
Which paid for our debt and satisfied the wrath of God.
It was an extremely high price that we might be cleansed of our sin.
Jesus took away our leaven; our sin.
And here the Corinthians were
Willingly letting leaven right back into their midst.
So here’s the first command regarding the Lord’s Supper.
(8) “Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
The celebration of our Passover…
The partaking of the Lord’s Supper…
Is NOT a place where sin should be celebrated or overlooked or tolerated.
To partake in the ordinance that way
Is to totally miss the point of what Christ came to do.
IN FACT, IT IS ARROGANCE.
It is boastfulness that baffles the mind.
The entire purpose of the Hebrews eating unleavened bread at the Passover was because it symbolized a separation from the old life.
They were not to bring any of that old Egyptian leaven with them.
• Start fresh.
• Start new.
And every year when they took the Passover they were to throw out all that leaven again.
Exodus 13:7 “Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders.”
Get rid of the old and start new.
Throw out all those old starters you’ve got in the ziplock baggies.
It was symbolic of putting off the old life.
And I hope you realize that this is the calling of all Christians.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”
For which we are commanded:
Colossians 3:5-11 “Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.”
A Christian must take off the old and put on the new.
There is no place for holding on to sin,
Especially during the ordinance
Where we celebrate having been set free from it.
Do you see the hypocrisy in that?
To partake of the Lord’s Supper and celebrate being set free from sin
While having sin in my life that I won’t let go of?
Surely you understand the importance of purity as we partake.
• Repent of your sin.
• Confess your sin.
• Honor what Christ did.
“Celebrate the feast…with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
That’s the first lesson in 1 Corinthians.
The Importance of Purity
#2 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IDENTITY
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
This is the passage we touched on last week as we talked about idolatry.
The context is that some of the Corinthians were entering idols temples and eating the meat sacrificed to those idols.
Now their rationale to such behavior was simple.
• There is no such thing as those false gods
• So there is no way that the meat is tainted.
• Therefore it’s no big deal if we enter and eat or not.
Now one of the issues was that such behavior was causing their brothers with weaker consciences to stumble, and Paul addresses that.
But the other issue is that such a practice
Ran the risk of moving Christ to jealousy.
That’s why Chapter 10 begins with the devastating effects of making God jealous.
(READ 10:1-13)
Those are some of Israel’s most infamous crimes.
Those were times when they made God jealous with their idolatry.
• We read of the golden calf incident.
• We read of the intermarriage with the Moabites where God killed 23,000.
• We read where they questioned God’s provision and God killed them with
snakes.
• We read where they rejected God’s leadership and God destroyed them with
the destroyer.
It never went well for Israel when they provoked God to jealousy.
You should avoid that at all cost.
And with that backdrop Paul says in verse 14, “Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”
You just don’t want to even go there.
It’s not worth the risk.
And then he explains himself.
(16) “Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?”
The key word there of course is the word “sharing”.
It is the Greek word KOINONIA
It is also translated “fellowship” or “participation” or “communion”
Paul says that when you partake of the Lord’s Supper
It is far more than just a symbolic act,
It is an act of fellowship with Jesus Himself.
When you take this bread and drink from this cup
You are in that moment fellowshipping with Jesus,
You are communing with Him.
HOW?
Have you been apart from a loved one for an extended time and your heart sort of begins to miss them? And so you grab their picture and what happens? You flood your mind with memories, times of laughter, times of sadness.
• You may actually laugh as you remember…
• You may actually cry as you remember…
• You are fellowshipping and communing there.
The major difference here is that while the person in the picture is totally unaware of the gesture, Christ is with us as we commune with Him.
At the same time there is ALSO a fellowship with your brothers and sisters in Christ who partake with you.
(17) “Since there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.”
There is a unity and a fellowship with one another as we partake.
Galatians 3:26-29 “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.”
The cross is the great equalizer of all the redeemed.
At the cross we lose all sense of
Prior morality or goodness or worth or importance.
We may have sought to distinguish ourselves from one another under faulty assumptions of goodness.
• You know, “I was better than him or I was more important than her”
Yet, it required the same death of Jesus to save us both.
So whatever your imagined distinction of superiority was,
It wasn’t much because you cost the same price to save a they did.
And so there is a fellowship among ourselves when we partake.
But beyond even the communion and the fellowship
There is also an identification that occurs.
(18) “Look at the nation of Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?”
• There is a reason we eat.
• There is a reason we don’t just look at a picture.
Eating is an act of participation.
Eating is an act of ownership.
Eating is an act of identification.
When you ate that sacrifice of that sheep,
• You identified with that sheep in its death.
• You announce that you are the reason for the death of that sheep.
• It died for you.
This is what Jesus spoke of when He said:
John 6:52-59 “Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. “For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. “This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.” These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.”
HE WASN’T talking about the Lord’s Supper there, NOR was He talking about cannibalism where we’d literally eat His flesh and drink His blood.
• He was talking about identification.
• He was talking about ownership.
• He was talking about admitting that I am the cause for His death.
• He was talking about trusting in His sacrifice on my behalf.
When we partake of the Lord’s Supper we declare all of those things.
We are coming to this table to commune with the Lord.
We come and say to Him, “I need You, I trust You, I’m devoted to You”
• It is an intimate moment.
• It is a sacred moment.
And THAT is what made what the Corinthians were doing so detestable.
WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
Well, they were going to church and partaking of the Lord’s Supper and declaring their devotion to Christ.
Then they’d go to an idols temple and in effect do the same thing there.
(READ 19-22)
I told you last week, you can kiss your spouse and speak of how important it is and then go kiss your neighbor and try to explain to your spouse how it didn’t mean anything when you kissed your neighbor, but your spouse is quite likely not to agree.
If we might put it another way.
It’s like a man who orchestrates an elaborate ceremony where he can renew his vows to his wife, but later that night he goes out and has an affair.
WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT THE VOW RENEWAL SERVICE?
Do you understand what you are doing
When you partake of the Lord’s Supper?
It is like an intimate vow renewal service with the Lord.
It is personal as you commune with Him.
You are in effect again saying, “I take You, forsaking all others”
You don’t put on a ring,
Instead you eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
That ring doesn’t make you married, it symbolizes your devotion to the marriage,
But if you wreck that covenant it will become a symbol of betrayal.
Taking the Lord’s Supper doesn’t make you saved,
But it is a symbol of love for and trust in Christ.
IF YOU DO IT, MAKE SURE HE IS YOUR ONLY TRUST.
• There is no room for SIN and partaking of the Lord’s Supper.
• There is no room for IDOLATRY and partaking of the Lord’s Supper.
You are one with Christ, and only Christ.
The Importance of Purity The Significance of Identity
#3 THE EXPECTATION OF SOBRIETY
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
We already read part of this text where Paul gives the account
Of Christ actually giving the first Lord’s Supper.
But in these verses now we get the backstory.
• The church would meet for their Love Feast which was something similar to our potlucks and at the end would have the Lord’s Supper.
• But the problem in Corinth is that the wealthy people who brought the food wanted to make sure they got the food they brought and so they’d hurry in and eat it all before the poor people who could not bring food arrived.
• Not only was it gluttony and drunkenness, but it was a horrible display of a lack of love and charity.
It missed the point of what we just read about
The fellowship between brothers of the Lord’s Supper.
And Paul rightly rebuked them for such a terrible demonstration.
In fact he said YOU AREN’T eating the Lord’s Supper when you do that.
WHY?
(READ 23-26)
Paul said (20) “when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper”
WHY?
Because the Lord’s Supper is all about Christ.
“do this in remembrance of Me”
AND YOU HAVE MADE IT ALL ABOUT YOU.
The Lord’s Supper is about proclaiming Christ’s death.
You have made it about gratifying your appetite.
You have totally misunderstood the reason for which Christ died.
And so Paul calls for them to EXAMINE THEMSELVES as they partake.
(READ 27-33)
The call is to question your motives when you come to partake.
• Why are you doing this?
• What are you declaring when you do this?
• Are you partaking because everyone else is partaking?
• Are you partaking because you thought it would be fun?
• Are you partaking because it’s something else to do?
Or are you examining your motives?
• Are you making sure that you are doing putting away sin when you do this?
• Are you making sure that Christ is your only love when you do this?
• Are you making sure that you are honoring Him as you do this?
THERE IS A SOBRIETY HERE.
Not just a lack of drunkenness, but a seriousness about this.
Why do I say it is serious?
Because God was making the Corinthians sick and killing some of them for their lack of reverence.
• Your MOTIVE matters.
• Your SINCERITY matters.
• Your BROTHERLY LOVE matters.
• Your FAITHFULNESS matters.
• Your FOCUS matters.
When we gather here to partake
We are here to commune with Jesus, to declare our need for Him,
To honor what He sought to accomplish with His sacrifice,
And to proclaim the glory of what He did.
IT IS A SACRED TIME.
• DON’T arrogantly partake while living in sin.
• DON’T hypocritically partake while holding idols.
• DON’T lightly partake while focusing on yourself.
What Jesus did, He did for you, but we do it in remembrance of Him.
Isaiah 53 “Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth. But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.”
So now we’ll have a time of preparation and then we’ll partake of the table of the Lord.
LORD’S SUPPER
Colossians 1:19-20
“For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.”
Give bread to deacons
Deacon prayer
Deacons pass out bread
1 Corinthians 11:23-24
“For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which 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.”
Take bread
Colossians 2:13-14
“When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”
Give juice to deacons
Deacon prayer
Deacons pass out juice
1 Corinthians 11:25-26
“In the same way He took the cup also 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.”
Take juice
Parting hymn
