Lamb of God
Series: The Gospel Can't Be Contained
March 13, 2022
Frank Foreman
Because our Lord knows our flaws and how weak we are, Christ is aware of how desperately we need to remember what He did for us? The Christian life is based on what Christ did. Salvation is not a truth you merely look back upon, but a truth you live by every day. We were saved by His grace, and we live by grace every day. God gave us faith and repentance, so we live by faith and repentance. ---------- When we daily remember just how sinful, defiant and lost we were, the more we become gracious with others who sin against us. When we remember just how sinfully messed up we were (and are), then we are more loving toward those who are still lost. When we recall His great sacrifice for us, then it encourages and motivates us to serve others. ---------- You and I must remember the cross of Christ--how He shed blood, suffered and died for our sins. Because we need help to remember, the Lord established Communion, the Lord’s Supper as we read about and as we will hear teaching on this Sunday from Mark 14.
Episode Notes
Galatians 6:14, But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ….
1st Corinthians 1:23, but we preach Christ crucified….
1st Corinthians 2:1-2, And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
John 1:29, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
(Journal) Mark 14:12-16
Big Idea: The Passover remembered temporary deliverance from bondage….
Communion celebrates eternal salvation from the power and penalty of sin.
Hebrews 10:4-10, For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins…. (Jesus) Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1. The Final Passover
(Journal) Mark 14:17-21
Exodus 12:11-13, In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD'S Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Acts 2:23, ….this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Hebrews 10:29-31, How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
2. The First Communion
(Journal) 22-25
1st Corinthians 5:7, Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed.
Matthew 26:28, ….for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
2nd Corinthians 5:21, For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Next Step: Do this in remembrance of Him.
1st Corinthians 11:23-25, For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when 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 also He took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
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