21st August 2022 Infill Service - Simon Chaffer - Communion, the last supper

Yeah. M hm hm hm m good morning. Today's message CONTI is the

same being were looking up for the last few weeks Communion. Today we're going

to spend a few moments talking about the Last Supper. M h You know

this book is a book of two covenants mm hmmmm. The covenant one covenant

cut in the blood of sheep and goats, and the other Governant cut in

the Brother of Jesus. And it's through the Brother of Jesus that we appropriate

everything that God has for us. And today we're gonna have a look at

that. It's a book written by Jews, it's a Jewish book, and

we need to we need God's help to understand it. There's things in here

which we read which we don't understand if you're Jewish. It's just it's his

second nature. So we're going to start in the Book of Exstus and then

move through into the New Testament. Look in the Book of Luke. I

will start with Extus twelve, verse service one through to fourteen. I'm reading

from the New King James version. Now, the Lord spoke to Moses and

Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying this month shall be your beginning of

months. It shall be the first month of the year. To you speak

to all the Congregation of Israel, saying, on the tenth of this month,

every man shall take for himself a lamb according to the house of his

father, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small

for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it

according to the number of the persons, according to each man's need. You

shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish,

a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or

from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the

same month. Then the whole assembly, the Congregation of Israel, shall kill

it at twilight, and I shall take some of the blood and put it

on the two doorposts and on the lintle of the houses where they eat it.

Then they shall eat it the flesh on that night, roasted in the

fire with the leaven bread and with bitter herbs. They shall eat it.

Don't eat it raw, no boiled or at all with water, but roasted

in the fire, its head and its legs and its entrails. You shall

not let you shall let none of it remain until morning. And what remains

of it until morning, you shall burn in the fire, and thus shall

eat it. And with a belt on your waist, and your hands on

your feet, and your staff in your hand, you shall eat, eat

in haste. It is the Lord's passover. Or I'll pass through the land

of Egypt on that night, and I'll strike all the first spawn in the

land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of

Egypt. I will execute judgment. And the Lord. Now the blood shall

be a sign for you on the house where you are. And when I

see the blood, I'll pass over you, and the plague shall not come

on you to destroy you when I strike a land of Egypt. So this

day shall be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it as a

feast for the Lord throughout your generations, shall keep it as a beast by

an everlasting ordinance. Extras. Twelve one to fourteen. There's a lot in

this verse, and haven't got time to go through everything. It's more like

a Bible. So this I've highlighted a couple of two or three points which

we need to look at this morning. If you notice in verse five it

says your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year. Now

this is a passover in Exodus is a shadow speaks of Jesus. Everything in

the Old Testament is a shadow of the New Testament. John the Baptist said,

behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

That's one John twenty nine. Behold the lamb of God who takes away the

sins of the world. Jesus was is the lamb of God who takes away

the sins of the world, God of the plan. Even back in Exodus

about bringing Jesus to light, the lamb was hidden for four days before he

was sacrificed during Passover. Those four days fulfilled were fulfilled by Jesus trying to

pass over. He took in Luke two. He was out and about in

public. He was seeing the temple. He was seeing in the temple courts.

That's Matthew twenty two, twenty four, and twenty six. Jesus with

a lamb without blemish. She was examined by the chief priests, the elders

Pilots and an ice Chaipers, who were both high priests at that time a

bit weird to high priests, the centurion, and lastly the thief standing on

the cross next to him, and he was found to be without blemish.

Let's read from verses twelve, Chapter twelve, verses twenty two to twenty three.

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them,

pick out and take lambs for yourselves, according to your families, and kill

the passover lamb. And you shall take a bunch of hissop, dip it

in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the linthols and the

doorposts the blood shove. Well, that's what. And you and none of

you shall go out of the door of the house until the morning, for

the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians. When he seize the blood

on the lintel on the two doorposts, Lord will pass over the door.

I will not allow the the straw to come into your houses and to strike

you. Hissop is a bit of herb. I don't like it. They

dipped it in the blood, struck the lint and the two doorposts. That

makes a triangle which points to Heaven. Psalm one hundred and twenty one versus

one who says, I lift up to my I lift up my eyes to

the mountain. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the

Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. Where does my help come from?

My help come from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

These is right from looking to God for their salvation. They're looking to God

for their way out, and we too need to look to God for our

way out. There is nothing too big for God beholding the Lord, the

God of all blesh Is there anything to harp for me? If recall these

rights? I cried out to God. That's in Exodus to twenty four,

and God had answered. When we cry out to God, God answers us.

We have a better covenant with better promises. Juliette made reference that earlier.

Let's go a litle bit further, and it came to pass as midnight.

At midnight, the Lord struck the firstborn in the land of Egypt,

from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the first

spawn of the captives was in the dungeon and the firstborn of the lifestock.

So Pharaoh arose in the night. He and his servants and all the Egyptians,

and as a great cry in the land of Egypt, but not a

house where there was one not dead remembered his covenant with Israel. The pastor

was observed as it is observed to this day as a memorial, and the

death angel passed over Israel. They were better covenant with better promises. The

brother Jesus cleanses us and it protects us h Like I said, there's a

shadow in the old covenant, and it's reflecting a new covenant. The covenant

is where there's an incision where blood throws, the Hebrews buried, and then

people exchange, like for instance, there's an exchange of gifts to an exchange

of clothes. Take a light and thendon that the bloody is cut. There's

a covenant meal using bread and wine. And then, for instance, in

a very crude sense, you can have one party who is weak that the

party is strong. Their weakness in one area is the strength of the person

of the area. When they come together, they are strong, so that

if he has a problem, he draws in his covenant and there's a covenant

cut. The covenant is in their foreskin because it's a it's a sign of

pride. But God didn't want to show a sign of price, so put

it where he couldn't show it. Because you can't do that. Canyon mh.

This is serious stuff. We read it, but we are not of

that mindset unless you're from the east. Let's look up to Luke twenty two

seven to thirteen. This is speaking of the preparation for Passover. Then came

the day of the leaven bread, when the passover must be killed. That's

speaking of the passover Lamb. And he sent Peter and John saying, go

and prepare the passover for us that when we eat. So they said to

him, where'd you want is to prepare? And he said to them,

behold, when you enter the city, a man will meet you carrying a

picture of water. Follow him into the house which he enters. Then you

should say to the master of the house. The teacher says to you,

where is the guest room where I make the passa with my disciples. Then

he will show you a large furnished upper room. Their mate ready. So

they went and found just as he said to them, and they prepared the

passover. So we all know that Passa will still celebrate today by by the

Jewish people, and by my mass and it Jews, and they remember the

extras from Israel. I want to imagine that upper room as we as we

look at the passover, they would recline in the pass I wouldn't sit at

the table and chair. They would recline. The tables would be down here.

It wasn't like getting eyes on forks out of it. It was a

different way of seating thick him at verse twenty two, fourteen to twenty.

When the hour at come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with

him, and he said to them, with fervent desire, I have desired

to eat this passer with you before I suffer. Before I say to you,

I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom

of God. Then he took the cup and gave thanks, and said,

take this and divide among yourselves, for I say to you I will not

drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God comes. And

he took the bread, gave thanks, and broke it and gave it to

them, saying, this is my body which is given for you do this

in remembers of me. LifeWise yours at the cup after suffer, saying this

cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you. Now,

that's a very familiar scripture which we've probably all read before and her quoted

before, and today I went to look at that scripture with a bit more

detail. We want to explore a little bit more of the class passover which

Jesus took before he suffered. I said, Her is a to still pass

over supper or meal that recounts the story of deliverance to Jewish people from Israel.

It's basically a scriptural liturgy of worship that takes place around the dinner table.

It's a Jewish tradition where the Jews remember the faithfulness of God and tell

the story and pass it down from generation to generations as Christians are passive.

Sada, He's all that, but it's more. It's not only about the

backdrop to the cross. It's also the content of the context of the first

Communion, the original lords of them. I've been to a number of saiders

over the years, so I'm going to share with you some of my experience

and how that light links to scripture. There are three talk about the bread.

There are three pieces of bread, which are called mossa. They can

be this big, they can do small crackers. Due tradition says that these

three pieces of bread will represent Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They're like pierced

with lots of little holes, and they're called massa or massa. They usually

wrapped in a napkin, or you can have a fancy bag, or you

put the three bits of bread in. It depends on the family, depends

who's doing it, whether the three pieces of bread or massa. I remember

once said the meal went to the Messonic believer who was was was doing doing

the meal. He says as a kid, he could never work out while

they always broke Isaac, because from the Jewish tradition it's Abraham, Isaac and

Jacob said, never work out while we broke Isaac. However, when he

became a mess On believer, he realized he wasn't Isaac. That the three

monsters represent the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. So when they

broke the bread, the third piece of bread and bill a piece of bread,

it wasn't Isaac, it was Jesus. When they break the bread,

the timent among the people, and then the piece left ever was called the

Afa coming. That was another back in the bag on the napkin, and

it's put aways hidden. Some people let their kids go and find it later

in the meal. Some people just whip it out the hidden The peace of

the of the Africomian speaks of Jesus death, burial, and resurrection. This

is what the Jews do everys he speaks to Jesus. The cup. In

our contemporary view of the Lord's Supper, there's like one cup. However,

it's been my experience with actually four cups. And these four cups that represent

four I wills declared in Exodus six six through seven, and today the reminders

of the journey has consecrated followers of Jesus Christ. There's a cup of scientification

I wrote down, so quote this one. I will bring you out from

under the burden of all the Egyptians. There's a cup of judgments. I'll

deliver you from their bondage. There's a cup of redemption. I will redeem

you with an outstretched arm and with the great judgments. And the cup of

praise. I'll take you for my people, and you will be and I

will be your God. All these four cups, and that's only part of

the pass ever story total part of our story with Christ. There's another cup

which is called the Cup of Elijah. And this cup is usually poor at

the end of the Sada, and it's only Elijah or something come in the

spirit of Elijah can drink it. I Jesus is sure. I'm a shier.

I'm going back to Luke twenty two. Jesus and his disciples already partaken

of the first two cups and enjoyed the passover meal out of the third cup

after the Apo comin representing his body, the cup of redemption that Jesus took

after supper. So when he broke the bread that was the Apo coombe,

it had taken out, which would represented his body. So his body broken.

That's what he passed around and they took the third cup, a cup

of redemption. He said, it's a new covenant in my blood which is

poured out for you. And the during the Jewish mindset new covenant. What

does that mean? They knew about the cups all their lives. He took

the third cup, it's the new covenant. But the words she was going

to cut the covenant in his blood, not in the butther of sheeps and

of goats, but his blood, and they died in the cross. There

were three bits of blood like on the doorpost. There's the lintel in the

doorpost. He pointed up. Now there three which pointed down. God came

down from heaven to earth to die on a cross, to cut a new

covenant that we might have a relationship with him. Hebrews eight eight says that

he's the mediator of a better covenant established with better promises my paraphrase. So

it's a better covenant with better promises. Like I said, a covenant's cut

between two parties, in this case, between God the Father and God the

Son. He has cut once in his blood, and that bud has taken

from the mercy seat in heaven. And I said to Mary, do not

touch me, because I ascend it to my father and your father. And

they said later, I alan a flesh and bone, because he's buds in

heaven on a mercy seat. Sue, as believers, we need to recognize

our covenant benefits when we give our lives to him. When we pray that

prayer, not only are our sins forgiven once and for all, we are

healed. We have his peace we have his joy, we have his provision.

Many people just go for step one mm. They received him as their

Lord and as their savior. They don't go to the next step and the

next step and the next step. John ten ten says, the thief comes

not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come.

They might have life, life to the full soil it overflows, the

amplifier says, or a dood life. You haven't abundant life unless you appropriate

your covenant benefits. M hmmm hm. This book is a book of two

covenants, the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. This book records what our

covenant benefits are. We appropriate them by faith. So next time we take

communion, let's consider the meaning and the wider context of communion. We just

see one cup and some bread, But in reality, that one piece of

bread was the after coming, and that one cup there's a cup of redemption.

M. It's a stretch in faith to believe and receive what God is

appropriated for us through the blood of his son. If you don't know him

today, you can do. That's the first part, isn't it. Jesus

take my life, give him my sins. Come into my life. Film

with your holy spirits. As simple as that. That's the first part.

The second part is receiving his peace, his forgiveness, is blessing his wholeness

true the worst of I thought thought saying, the spirit of healing here today

to heal people. If you're listening online, God is a spirit. You

can do your business with him. Reach out in faith and receive your healing

from him this morning in this room you can reach out of faith or turn

something next you ask him to pray for you. Glad it's here by his

spirit today he wants to do something different that must take it to the next

level. Are you willing to respond to God this morning? If you have

a need, he want you to reach out and see that need. Mess.

Jesus died a very grizzly yeah, mm hmm, and he was disgorged.

What's good, So it's probably his August would probably showed when he walked

to the cross. H Those nails in his in his hands and his feet

were very big nails. You can see through them. He did that for

you, and he did that for me. Mhm. So that you can

be whole, so that you can be free. Yeah. So today have

a need, reach out to Jesus in faith, in prayer. Don't look

at me, focus on what, Focus on Him. If you've got a

need m hm, and release your faith and believe to receive that need.

God, there's a spirit Jesus wants to meet your needs and they make you

hope. I wanted to be a want to bless you because then the people

around you will see you and ask you what is it about you? But

it's different. So I'm gonna close a preach now. Trust God to meet

you and a where a part of your need mhm, mhm m. Thank

you for the spirit for flowing through our Mother's i to feed us with the

truth that sets us free. It's only the truth that we've had and believed

and used that will set us free. If we leave it on the shelf,

it will not touch our buddies. Thank you, sir,