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Exodus: Key to the Last Supper
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Great article. I like how all the pieces of Christs covenant and sacrifice are enacted in the Exodus. How especially for Jews but also Christians these patriarchs represented the promised saviour, the ultimate sacrificial lamb of the Passover.
This was in every step towards Christ a lived out and real experience handed down and when we follow this it leads to the last supper and the cross on calvery.
In fact I believe the act of the Eucharist just as it was in the breaking of the bread this takes us to the foot of the cross. Theres no escaping and in doing so we enter the covenant made by Christ. In doing so we are ourselves made a sacrifice in partaking of the bread and wine.
This single act brings us right to the heart of the matter of making the gospel real. It all comes from this. The meal is beautiful and I wish this was still part of worship as I think it allows for sharing in Christ which I think was a big part of who Christ was. There was a buildup and relationship developed that went into making Christs covenant and sacrifice real.
I think it can ground us especially in todays world where there are so many distractions and rationalisations about how to worship and what counts as worship and trying to make it fit the world rather than Christs actual covenant and what that represented in the gospel and really the single any only truth to base worship on.
Its ok to have praise and singing and sharing. But without this core aspect of worship that grounds us to the cross, at the feet of Jesus and called to participate ourselves in that covenant in response to such an act. To come face to face with Jesus in the upper room like he is making the covenant with us.
The disiciples understood. Well they didn't really at first. All that Christ said to them was in their heads but it had not yet been fully understood. Nevertheless Christ fullfilled His side.
But soon they would realise and I could imagine afterwards meeting in the upper room and other secret places having a meal in reenacting what Christ said and had done. Each time bring Christ into the room.
Now the disiciples and followers were commiting to Christ and likewise sacrificing themselves for Christ.
Paul mentions that he was a minister who was bringing the gentiles to Gods alter as a pure sacrifice in Christ (which was also prophesised). Now it was open to all. Anyone could come into the upper room and break bread with Christ.
This was in every step towards Christ a lived out and real experience handed down and when we follow this it leads to the last supper and the cross on calvery.
In fact I believe the act of the Eucharist just as it was in the breaking of the bread this takes us to the foot of the cross. Theres no escaping and in doing so we enter the covenant made by Christ. In doing so we are ourselves made a sacrifice in partaking of the bread and wine.
This single act brings us right to the heart of the matter of making the gospel real. It all comes from this. The meal is beautiful and I wish this was still part of worship as I think it allows for sharing in Christ which I think was a big part of who Christ was. There was a buildup and relationship developed that went into making Christs covenant and sacrifice real.
I think it can ground us especially in todays world where there are so many distractions and rationalisations about how to worship and what counts as worship and trying to make it fit the world rather than Christs actual covenant and what that represented in the gospel and really the single any only truth to base worship on.
Its ok to have praise and singing and sharing. But without this core aspect of worship that grounds us to the cross, at the feet of Jesus and called to participate ourselves in that covenant in response to such an act. To come face to face with Jesus in the upper room like he is making the covenant with us.
The disiciples understood. Well they didn't really at first. All that Christ said to them was in their heads but it had not yet been fully understood. Nevertheless Christ fullfilled His side.
But soon they would realise and I could imagine afterwards meeting in the upper room and other secret places having a meal in reenacting what Christ said and had done. Each time bring Christ into the room.
Now the disiciples and followers were commiting to Christ and likewise sacrificing themselves for Christ.
Paul mentions that he was a minister who was bringing the gentiles to Gods alter as a pure sacrifice in Christ (which was also prophesised). Now it was open to all. Anyone could come into the upper room and break bread with Christ.
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