As they ate, Jesus took the bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to his disciples. He said to them, “This is my body. Eat it.” Then taking the cup of wine, he gave thanks to the Father, he entered into covenant with them, saying, “This is my blood. Each of you must drink it in fulfillment of the covenant. For this is the blood that seals the new covenant. It will be poured out for many for the complete forgiveness of sins. The next time we drink this, I will be with you and we will drink it together with a new understanding in the kingdom realm of my Father.” Then they sang a psalm and left for the Mount of Olives.’Matthew 26:26-30
It was a time of transition for Jesus, the Last Supper where He was transitioning out of His earthly ministry to the cross, death and resurrection. This Last Supper changed everything. He was making it clear to His disciples that He was finished here. Did they get it? No, not truly all of what He was saying and doing, but they eventually did. The transition Jesus was stepping into wasn’t a dead end, it was the beginning of eternal life for all. Jesus would finish well, so extraordinarily well that the transformation from death to life would be the greatest ever known to mankind. Listen up to a 1 Minute Encouragement Video on Life Transitions
Remember, always remember what Jesus did for us, our Savior, our Redeemer. It is so good to partake in Communion in Remembrance of Jesus, of His Sacrifice for us. It is cleansing to our soul, it is powerful to our spirit as we partake of the body and blood of Jesus Christ in remembrance of Him. He came to us, purposefully so, this precious God of heaven came here to us, to give His life, so we might be saved. He enacted the greatest transformation ever known to mankind. Death To Life. Forever Life is now ours because of His suffering and death on a cross of calvary. He spoke these things at His Last Supper and they came into being shortly afterwards. This was His destiny and He yielded to God’s Sovereign Will.
Live Like Your Remember
Maundy Thursday called Holy Thursday, is a remembrance of the last supper of Jesus Christ just before His arrest, passion and death. A remembering of our truest salvation born out of the suffering of Jesus Christ, it is remembering the sacrifice of Jesus’s love, His blood poured out for us, the Son of God on the cross and the work of God’s kindness completed. It is finished and death no longer had a voice in our lives. This is a sweet remembrance of a beautiful agony that brought us eternal life. We remember all that Jesus did for us, we will never forget and we will live like we remember.
Kingdom perspective, this is what Jesus blessed us with. We learned of His Father God, we experienced His Kingdom through His Life, Words, and Actions. The Kingdom of God became personal, real to us, it became our reality of truth, as Jesus spoke and acted on behalf of the Father God. Jesus, He came to us, and what an incredible Great God Adventure it was. He loved, saved, delivered, and healed in that way only He could and poured His life and truth out on our world, pointing us to our real future and hope in His Kingdom. This place where we temporarily stay, it is not our home, we have a greater future and hope in Jesus. The things we do here, the things we say here, it is not about us, not for us, not for our temporal gain, but all about Jesus and His Kingdom. This was Him, this should be us. Jesus showed us the way life works best at His Last Supper, broken and poured out for all, this is life that transforms in that way only God can.
The righteousness that I have comes from knowing Christ, the power of his resurrection, and the participation in his sufferings. It includes being conformed to his death so that I may perhaps reach the goal of the resurrection of the dead. Philippians 3:10-11
I am wondering if the Disciples understood that was Jesus’ Last Supper, they heard it, but did they believe it? We do the same, we accept Jesus in our heart for Who He is, we believe Who He is, but do we believe Him? When He speaks, do we believe Him? The last supper was words spoken and actions taken, to show the disciples what was ahead. His body would be broken, His blood would be spilt for the forgiveness of our sins, all the sins of the world. Jesus was about to be broken and poured out for us all. How can we wrap our minds around this huge gesture of the Father God’s love and mercy?
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be blessed! On account of his vast mercy, he has given us new birth. You have been born anew into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3
All that time, with Jesus, experiencing all the miracles, having all those special moments together where He taught and they learned, yet they still resisted that He would be dying, this King of Heaven would be falsely accused and condemned by the very human condition, the very humans that He created. A very paradoxical situation was about to happen and they had no clue, because they had a different mind-set, that Jesus would come and overthrow the government and everything would be set right. God was showing them a new thing, a new way and they held on to the old. But nothing mankind does can ever change the destiny of us all, because all the best and worst of mankind can’t change the Sovereign Will of God that Jesus presented at the Last Supper on that eventful Maundy Thursday.
Jesus replied, “How can the sons of the bridal chamber grieve when the Bridegroom is next to them? But the days of fasting will come when the Bridegroom is taken away from them. And who would mend worn-out clothing with new fabric? When the new cloth shrinks it will rip, making the hole worse than before. And who would pour fresh, new wine into an old wineskin? Eventually the wine will ferment and make the wineskin burst, losing everything—the wine is spilled and the wineskin ruined. Instead, new wine is always poured into a new wineskin so that both are preserved. Matthew 9:15-17
There’s was a different culture, yet we can relate to them. Things did not go the way the Disciples thought it would go on Maundy Thursday, as the King of Heaven washed their feet, humbled Himself before them, He served them the Last Supper and told them that His body was to be broken, His blood was to be spilt out for them and for the world. He was to be the final sacrifice for all of our sins, yet they could not wrap their mind around it, they thought He was born to conquer this world, but He was born for a much higher purpose of suffering for the sins of the world, granting access for all of us to the Kingdom of God. This truth was a “Turbulent Wave Crashing On The Shore Of Their Soul” a reality of truth they did not want to face. We have all been there, and felt that at some time in our life. Listen Up and be encouraged by this 1 Minute Encouragement Video.
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