Bible
Study - Are You Worshipping God In Spirit And In Truth?
Lesson 15
The Lord’s Supper
Christ instituted the Lord’s
Supper in order for us to remember the great sacrifice He
made for us and that we rely on Him and His sacrifice for
our salvation. He gave us this memorial so we would not forget
Him and what He did for us. In Luke 22:19, when Jesus instituted
the Lord’s Supper, He said, "Do
this in remembrance of Me." This is done to help
us remember the Lord and what He did for us.
The death of our Lord was
not an accident. It was in God’s eternal plan of redemption
for Christ to come to this earth and take our punishment for
our sins by dying for us so God can now be just in saving
us. In a number of places in the Old Testament, God foretells
the death of His Son for us. One place is found in Isaiah
53:5-6, "He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, and by
His stripes we are healed…And the Lord has laid on Him the
iniquity of us all." God and Christ are loving
and wonderful for what they have done for us.
In 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
we read of Jesus instituting the Lord’s Supper,
"The Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed
took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and
said, Take eat; this is My body which is broken for you; this
do in remembrance of Me. In the same manner He also
took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant
in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance
of Me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this
cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes."
This is how we remember the great suffering which
our Lord did for us. We proclaim our faith in this great and
wonderful deed to the world each time we partake of the Lord’s
Supper. There are those who partake of only the bread and
their priest partakes of the fruit of the vine. This is a
perversion of the Lord’s Supper. This is not doing it the
way the Bible instructs. But notice each Christian is to partake
of both the bread and the fruit of the vine.
When we partake of the unleavened
bread we picture our Lord’s body hanging there, suffering
in anguish and pain, taking the punishment that was rightly
due us. As we drink of the fruit of the vine we envision His
precious blood which was poured out for us to cleanse us from
all our sins. What great love and concern God and Christ have
for us! The Lord wants us to remember what He did for us every
first day of the week as the church did in the first century.
We are to remember that our
Lord gave up heaven to come to this earth for thirty-three
years, and then died for us. We remember the humiliation of
the mock trial, the crown of thorns and the terrible scourging
that left His back raw and bleeding. We remember the soldiers
gambling for the Lord’s only earthly possession, the clothes
on His back. Then we remember the nails as they were driven
into His hands and feet, and the cross as it was raised and
dropped into the hole.
We also remember the spirit
of forgiveness of our Lord, as He was being crucified,
when He said in Luke 23:34, "Father,
forgive them, for they do not know what they do."
We remember our Lord’s loud cry of loneliness
in Matthew 27:46, "My God, My
God, why have you forsaken Me?" We remember as
our Lord hung on the cross, how the people mocked, shamed,
and made fun of Him as He was dying not only for their sins
but the sins of all mankind.
We remember in Matthew 27:45,
"Now from the sixth hour until
the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land",
and in Matthew 27:51, "The veil
of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the
earth quaked, and the rocks were split." The sun
refused to shine and the earth shook because of the death
of the Son of God. We read in 1 Peter 2:24,
"Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness,
by whose stripes you were healed."
We must first examine ourselves
to determine whether we have the right attitude to partake
of this memorial. We must put all else from our minds. We
should make sure we have our minds centered on what Christ
did for us. We are told in 1 Corinthians 11:27-29,
"Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup
of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of
the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself
and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For
he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks
judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body."
We must clear our minds of all other thoughts and
center our minds on the sacrifice of our Lord, or otherwise
as 1 Corinthians 11:29 (KJV) says,
"We eat and drink damnation to ourselves."
Questions Lesson 15
The Lord’s Supper
(click on the button
of the answer of your choice)
1) (Luke 22:19) When Jesus instituted
the Lord’s Supper He said
He didn’t want to die.
Do this in remembrance of Me.
He did not want us to remember that He died for us.
2)
The Lord’s Supper is to help us remember what the
Lord did for us.
3) (Isaiah 53:5-6) In God’s
eternal plan of redemption
The death of Christ was part of that plan.
The death of Christ was not part of that plan.
God did not intend that Christ would die.
4)
God’s eternal plan was for Christ to come and set up
a kingdom here on the earth.
5) (1 Corinthians 11:23-26)
In partaking of the Lord’s Supper
We are to partake of only the bread while a priest
partakes of the fruit of the vine.
We are not to remember the death of Christ.
We are to partake of both the bread and the fruit
of the vine in remembering the death of Christ.
6)
As we partake of the Lord’s Supper we proclaim the Lord’s
death to the world until He comes.
7) (Luke 23:34) As Jesus
was being nailed to the cross He said
Father forgive them for they know not what they do.
Father I don’t want to die on the cross.
It doesn’t hurt.
8)
Jesus was not forgiving of those who nailed Him to the
cross.
9) (Matthew 27:46) As Jesus
was hanging on the cross
The angels ministered to Him.
God did not forsake Him.
God forsook Him.
10)
Jesus endured the cross alone.
11) (Matthew 27:45, 51)
When Jesus died on the cross
The sun refused to shine and the earth shook.
Nothing happened.
Jesus deserved to die.
12)
The sun refused to shine and the earth shook because
of the death of the Son of God.
13) (1 Peter 2:24) When
Jesus died on the cross
He died for His own sins.
He died for our sins.
He did not die for our sins.
14)
Jesus died for the sins of only some people.
15) (1 Corinthians 11:27-29)
We are to partake of the Lord’s Supper
Without thinking of the Lord’s death.
In an unworthy manner.
In a worthy manner.
16)
We partake of Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner when
we do not discern the Lord’s body.
