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The New Testament

Text: Luke 22:18-20

The Passover was instituted in Exodus 12:1-11. It began with the blood of a lamb that protected your house from death. That evening they would break unleavened bread together and eat a meal together.

Some of the words associated with the Lord’s supper are brake, gave, my blood shed for you, my blood shed for many. We’re given a little more detail about the Lord’s emphasis on service night of the Lord’s supper in John 13.

Jesus washing others’ feet (John 13:12-17) example to you, happy if you do them (God’s order is not God’s chastisement)
Not everyone here is participating in this sacrifice (John 13:18-30)
Love one another (John 13:31-35)
Some think they’re following but will be proven otherwise (John 13:36-38)

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

His sacrifice was sufficient

once suffered for sins
One offering forever versus daily offerings under the Old Testament
The power of once
You ate yesterday, you’ll eat today, and you’ll have to eat tomorrow. Because one meal isn’t sufficient.
You went to work last week. You’ll go to work next week. Because one day of work isn’t sufficient.
But this man, Jesus Christ, laid down his life ONE time and it was sufficient. It was exactly what was needed for the forgiveness of sins.
Once means it is eternally effective. Think of that. Can you imagine saying I do this ONE time and I will NEVER have to do this again?

His sacrifice was substitutionary

the just for the unjust

Bro Wesson died saving 3 boys in the Dominican Republic as a missionary. Leaving behind four children. He was my age. I saw that and my heart sank on that Friday. But then I thought, what a heritage to leave your children. A substitutionary and sacrificial death.
Now Jesus Christ really had every right to say, I don’t deserve this. Not only did he have the right, he had the power to change his situation. He had the ability to make a choice not to sacrifice his own life.
Paper illustration
- For he hath made him to be sin FOR us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- But we see Jesus, who …by the grace of God tasted death FOR every man.

His sacrifice was Spiritual

that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but resurrected by the spirit
Christ would bring us to God in two very big ways
Jesus Christ’s death addressed the consequences of sin which was death.
- We are dead in sin before coming to Jesus Christ. We are like cows being fattened for slaughter. We feed our appetites and feed our appeties
- Jesus’ death proved to be the most real spiritual event when three days later he rose from the dead. What Jesus Christ was doing transcended any physical descriptions or measurements. It was spiritual.
The second thing is it provided the highest example of love for all of God’s people who would follow Jesus Christ.
- To sacrifice your life to the will of God means your life will bear more fruit and is truly a life worth living.
- Jesus Christ’s sacrificial love was so far beyond his own appetites and desires and he shows us how to live to God.
- Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- Let this mind be in your which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5-10)

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.