“This
cup is the blood
of the new covenant; do this, as
often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Luke 22.19; 1Cor 11.25
After
Jesus had his last Passover we read
in Luke 22.29:
“I
covenant to you a kingdom, as my Father covenanted one
to me.”
While
this is a more precise rendering of
the Greek, it’s made awkward by the fact that most of your translations don’t
have it.
Messianic Torah
Some
Rabbis, based on OT Jer. 31, taught
that among the many things the Messiah [the Moses redivivus] would bring was a
new Torah, i.e., revised, renewed or a spiritualized form of the current one.
Ezekiel 36 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
24 “I will take you out of those nations, bring you back to your own land.
25 I will wash away all your filth, the filth from those nasty idols.
26-27 I will also put a new spirit in you. [So] that you will
obey my laws and carefully obey my commands.
28 Then you will live in the land. You will be my people, and I will be your
God.
29-30 Land of “food and honey.”
Genesis: Sermon Mount
Jesus,
“Moses reborn,” does away with some of the Old Law by spiritualizing things like marriage and lethal violence in general
(“holy wars,” lethal self-defense).
Later
the Apostles at the Jerusalem council stop
enforcing Torah on new converts/proselytes via circumcision
(acc. Gen 17; cp. Paul in Gal 2-5; Phil 3 etc.).
·
Circumcision focused because = “the whole Torah,” i.e., pars pro toto [a part of the
whole], “a package deal”!
The
When and Who of Passover changed:
·
When? Sunday [11x[1]
in the NT; cp. Hos 6.2]. The Sabbath
has become “a shadow,” [Col 2.16-17] i.e., ineffective!
Communion not once a year!
Luke 22.19
“You
shall be doing this to commemorate
me.”
1Cor 5.8
“Let
us be celebrating (the continuous sense of the present tense
Greek verb)”
1Cor 11:18, 20, 33
“Whenever you meet together in church…”
·
Who? Anyone! Under the Old
Covenant you must be circumcised to eat the Passover meal: Ex 12.48!
Jew & Gentiles at a food laws free
fellowship table.
Wrong? “This
is true for the Temple.” And Gentiles can only
participate if they eat the unleavened bread, herbs, etc.
The point: The New Covenant is intimately tied to Jesus’ words, i.e., new laws regarding the
Gospel about the coming KOG on earth.
NOTE the contrast:
Mat 5.18
“Until
heaven and earth pass away, not one
stroke of a letter of Torah will pass away until all is fulfilled.”
Mat 24.35
“Heaven
and earth will pass away, but my words
will not pass away.”
So
if you’re holding on to OC laws “you
ain’t getting’ in!”
Ask someone to close with
prayer after…
Communion Service: the bread
1Cor 11.23 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.”
The
wine:
1Cor 11. 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.
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