Churches follow various traditions when they eat the Lord’s Supper—Holy Communion. Some do it each week, some monthly, and some even annually. Whatever the frequency, they do it for the same basic purpose—to recall the death of Christ, which established the New Covenant. God established the Old Covenant at Mt. Sinai. It celebrated God’s delivering ancient Israel from Egyptian slavery. The people failed to keep the terms of the Old Covenant, so God promised to establish a new one. He did this through the death of His Son, Jesus Christ. We read in Luke 22 that as Jesus approached the Last Supper before He died, He said to His disciples, “I have been eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. For I tell you now, I will not eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then He broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this to remember me.” After supper, He took a cup of wine and said, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you.” Paul added this: “Every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until He comes again.” May we all remember our Lord’s sufferings in this way. When the time came, Jesus and the apostles sat down together at the table. Jesus said, “I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. Then he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. For I will not drink wine again until the Kingdom of God has come.” He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.” After supper he took another cup of wine and said, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you. “But here at this table, sitting among us as a friend, is the man who will betray me. For it has been determined that the Son of Man must die. But what sorrow awaits the one who betrays him.” The disciples began to ask each other which of them would ever do such a thing. bible.us/116/luk.22.14.nlt
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