The Daily Word

 

When Jesus initiated the Remembrance Feast we will join in and celebrate this morning, it was in the Upper Room before He went to Calvary. The Disciples must have been mystified to see the significance of the actions He took and the words He spoke, because the crucial event had not happened at that time and they really had absorbed little of what Jesus had told them about His death and resurrection during His ministry up to that Upper Room get together.

Paul, In Corinthians 11 can look back and when he takes us through the Last Supper actions of Jesus and the words that he spoke, Paul adds there what the other Disciples now knew, “As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes”.

So the essential theme of our meeting is to remember the Lord’s death, His sacrifice. But we don’t remember this as an event in history as we would remember the battle of Hastings, another event in history. We ‘proclaim’ or in other versions it says ‘show’ . What we are more importantly remembering is the effect that Jesus’ death and resurrection has had on us. Because Paul is very critical about not recognising Jesus and warns of a weakening of our witness for Him if we do not see the significance.

So it is essential this morning that we remember our salvation and all that Jesus means to us now. Even the fact that Paul writes about in Galatians, that we too no longer live but Christ lives in us!

Article written by Brian Preston, Elder @SFGH Church