WE-04-13-2022 – “From Passover to the Lord’s Supper”
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April 15, 2022
(Wednesday Evening Bible Study)
“From Passover to the Lord’s Supper”
About 1500 years before the birth of God’s Son, God delivered the Israelites
from 400 years of slavery under Pharaoh, using Moses and Aaron and a series of
ten devastating plagues, brought upon the Egyptians.
See Exodus 12:1-13,
1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.
4 Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.
7 Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
8 They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.
10 And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.
11 Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste--it is the LORD’S Passover.
12 For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments--I am the LORD.
13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; 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.
Exodus 12:29-32…
29 Now it came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.
31 Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the LORD, as you have said.
32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”
The people were to acquire a year-old male
lamb without defect, it was to be taken from either sheep or goats.
On Sunday, Nisan 10,
a lamb was selected and brought home for four days.
Guess what?
Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Nisan 10 (a Sunday), and for four days
Jesus (the Lamb of God, John 1:29) enjoyed the favor of the people, loving them
and being praised by them.
John 1:29
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
On Thursday, Nisan 14,
just after sunset, God’s Lamb [Jesus Christ] celebrated
Passover with His disciples; and at the close of the meal,
He changed Passover’s meaning and message forever
(see Matthew 26:26-29).
26 While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”
27 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you;
28 for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.
29 But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
Ephesians. 1:7,
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
1Peter. 1:19,
19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
Hebrews 9:22,
22 And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
During the Passover meal the cup of wine is called the “cup of blessing,”
symbolizing God's covenant requirement be fulfilled by the shedding of blood.
Matthew 26:28
28 for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.
In Matthew 26:28, it is not the blood of an animal Jesus is talking about,
“this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.”
Luke 22:20
20 And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.
Luke 22:20 records that, “He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, ‘This
cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.’”
On Sunday (Nisan 10) of passion week
Jesus rode into town on a donkey’s colt,
He was praised and honored by the people; and it would seem that they
acknowledged Him as their Messiah, their Savior.
On Monday and Tuesday
Jesus proclaimed, with great compassion, God’s
message of love and forgiveness to all who would listen.
On Wednesday
the narrative seems to go silent, perhaps a day of rest in
preparation for what was to come.
On Thursday (Nisan 14)
Jesus changes the meaning and message of Passover,
personalizing the lamb sacrifice and shedding of blood to Himself.
But the Lamb of God was not slain by a priest in the normal manner, Jesus
willingly gave up His own life, so that we might now be able to approach God.
Jesus Christ, God’s Son, made total and eternal payment for sin
(see Hebrews 9:24-28;
24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
25 nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.
26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Hebrews 10:1-10).
1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.
4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5
Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED,
BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME;
6
IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.
7
“THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME
(IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME)
TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’”
8 After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),
9 then He said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Ten years before any Gospel accounts of the Lord’s Supper were written, Paul
provided divine instruction concerning the Lord’s Supper.
Read 1Corinthians 11:23-26…
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;
24 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.”
25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
Paul is teaching is God’s revealed Word,
reminding the Corinthians what he had already taught them.
The first Passover’s bread represents Christ’s body
(1Corinthians 11:24),
24 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.”
(1Corinthians 11:25),
25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
The old covenant remembered the deliverance of Israel from Egypt; the new
covenant is a remembrance of our deliverance from sin’s punishment.
Jesus says (1Corinthians 11:26),
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
We don’t smear the blood of a lamb on our door frames to protect us from the
Death angel, for we are under the new covenant, instituted and ordained through
the shed blood of Jesus: the Lamb of God.
See Hebrews 10:11-12,
11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
Hebrews 10:14,
14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Hebrews 10:17-18…
17
“AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS
I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.”
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Passover celebrated the Israelites being freed from slavery.
The Lord’s Supper celebrates all believers and followers of
Christ being freed from the penalty of sin forever.
John 14:1-6,
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
4 And you know the way where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Jesus alone provides forgiveness for sins, He is the only way to heaven.
Romans 6:23,
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 4:12,
12 And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
Joel 2:32,
32
“And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD
Will be delivered;
For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who escape,
As the LORD has said,
Even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
Acts 2:21,
21
‘AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.’
Romans 10:13,
13 for “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”
1John 5:11
11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
1John 5:12
12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
1John 5:13
13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
Pastor Mike
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