COMMUNION
OLD CUP LOT IN LIFE
Isa 51:17 So wake up! Rub the sleep from your eyes! Up on your feet, Jerusalem! You’ve drunk the cup GOD handed you, the strong drink of his anger. You drank it down to the last drop, staggered and collapsed, dead-drunk.
“This cup of suffering”
Jer 25:15 This is a Message that the GOD of Israel gave me: “Take this cup filled with the wine of my wrath that I’m handing to you. Make all the nations where I send you drink it down.
JESUS CUP
Matt 26:42 He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, “My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I’m ready. Do it your way.”
NEW CUP FOR US NOW
Luke 22:20He did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant written in my blood, blood poured out for you.
1 Cor 11:25After 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. KJV
1 Cor 10:16The cup of blessing [of wine at the Lord’s Supper] upon which we ask [God’s] blessing, does it not mean [that in drinking it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the blood of Christ (the Messiah)? The bread which we break, does it not mean [that in eating it] we participate in and share a fellowship (a communion) in the body of Christ?
17 For we [no matter how] numerous we are, are one body, because we all partake of the one Bread [the one Whom the communion bread represents].
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1 Cor 10:16When we drink the cup of blessing, aren’t we taking into ourselves the blood, the very life, of Christ? And isn’t it the same with the loaf of bread we break and eat? Don’t we take into ourselves the body, the very life, of Christ?
BREAD
Isa 30:20 And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide Himself any more, but your eyes will constantly behold your Teacher.
Deut 16:3 You shall eat not leavened bread with it; for seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction–for you fled from the land of Egypt in haste–that all the days of your life you may [earnestly] remember the day when you came out of Egypt. OUR MEALTHEN-SUFFERING, WRATH, ADVERSITY, AFFLICTION
NEW BREAD JESUS
John 6:35Jesus replied, I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to Me will never be hungry, and he who believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Me will never thirst any more (at any time).
John 6:48I am the Bread of Life [that gives life–the Living Bread].
Ex 25:30 And you shall set the showbread (the bread of the Presence) on the table before Me always. EMMAUAL
1 Cor 11:27Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. KJV
DISCERN- If we get this straight now, we won’t have to be straightened out later
if we discerned ourselves;” examined and formed a right estimate.
The Four Cups of wine used in the Passover to symbolize the four distinct redemptions promised by God
(1) “I will take you out of Egypt”,
(2) “I will deliver you from slavery”,
(3) “I will redeem you with a demonstration of my power”,
(4) “I will acquire you”.
Luke 22:19 Then He took a loaf [of bread], and when He had given thanks, He broke [it] and gave it to them saying, This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.
20 And in like manner, He took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament or covenant [ratified] in My blood, which is shed (poured out) for you. AMP
REMEMBRANCE-Animal sacrifices made one remember sin but now putting in our mind Jesus