Wednesday, April 5, 2023

JESUS CHRIST, OUR PASSOVER LAMB…

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For THURSDAY, 6TH APRIL, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l


Topic: JESUS CHRIST, OUR PASSOVER LAMB…

MEMORIZE: “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:”  1 Corinthians 5:7.

SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 26:26-30

“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives."

EXPOSITION:

We have here the institution of the great gospel ordinance of the Lord's supper, which was received of the Lord. We Observe, The time when it was instituted – “as they were eating.” Christ is to us the Passover-sacrifice by which atonement is made (1Co 5:7); Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. This ordinance is to us the passover-supper, by which application is made, and commemoration celebrated, of a much greater deliverance than that of Israel out of Egypt. All the legal sacrifices of propitiation being summed up in the death of Christ, and so abolished, all the legal feasts of rejoicing were summed up in this sacrament, and so abolished. 

The institution itself. A sacrament must be instituted. Apostle Paul in the discourse in 1 Cor. 11:23-26, concerning the ordinance, all along calls Jesus Christ the Lord. “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: 24 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. 25 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. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.”  As Lord, he is Lord of the covenant, the Lord of the church, he appointed this ordinance. The body of Christ is signified and represented by bread; he had said formerly in John 6:35, “I am the bread of life,” upon which metaphor this sacrament is built which means, as the life of the body is supported by bread, which is therefore put for all bodily nourishment Matthew 4:4; 6:11, so the life of the soul is supported and maintained by Christ's mediation. 

1. He took bread, fit for the purpose; it was unleavened bread. His taking the bread was a solemn action, and was done in such a manner as to be observed by them that sat with him, that they might expect something more than ordinary to be done with it.  Thus was the Lord Jesus set apart in the counsels of divine love for the working out of our redemption. 

2. He blessed it; set it apart for this use by prayer and thanksgiving. This was like God's blessing the seventh day (Genesis 2:3), by which it was separated to God's honour, and made to all that duly observe it, a blessed day: Christ could command the blessing, and we, in his name, are emboldened to pray for His blessing.

3. He brake it; The breaking of Christ's body for us, that it might be fitted for our use; He was bruised for our iniquities, as bread-corn is bruised - Isa 28:28; though a bone of him was not broken (for all his breaking did not weaken him), yet his flesh was broken with breach upon breach, and his wounds were multiplied Job 9:17; 16:14, and that pained him. God complains that he is broken with the whorish heart of sinners Eze 6:9; his law broken, our covenants with him broken; now justice requires breach for breach - “Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.” Le 24:20, and Christ was broken, to satisfy that demand. 

The breaking of Christ's body to us, as the father of the family breaks the bread to the children is to facilitate the application; everything is made ready for us by the grants of God's word and the operations of his grace. 

4. He said, Take, eat; this is my body, Matthew 26:26 denotes acceptance of Christ as he is offered to you, receive the atonement, approve of it, consent to it, come up to the terms on which the benefit of it is proposed to you; submit to his grace and to his government." Believing on Christ is expressed by receiving him John 1:12, and feeding upon him, John 6:57,58. 

The blood of Christ is signified and represented by the wine; to make it a complete feast, here is not only bread to strengthen, but wine to make glad the heart Mt 26:27,28; He took the cup, the grace-cup, after giving thanks, according to the custom of the Jews at the passover; this Christ took and gave to his disciples, with a command, Drink ye all of it. It was intended for a cup of blessing  and therefore apostle Paul diligently distinguished between the cup of blessing which we bless, and that which they bless. He gave thanks, to teach us, not only in every ordinance, but in every part of the ordinance, to have our eyes up to God. 


PRAYER POINT: Thank you Lord Jesus for giving us your body and blood for our cleansing and redemption.


DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  1 Kings 17-19.

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