The Last Supper Study

BJ McConnell Forum Owner Sept 28, 2019 2:32:20 GMT -5 Posts: 246 Amens: 13 Favorite Verse: 2 Cor 5:17 Bible Study Member?: Yes Born Again Christian?: Yes User Offline	The Last Supper Study Apr 6, 2020 3:44:44 GMT -5 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by BJ McConnell on Apr 6, 2020 3:44:44 GMT -5 The Last Supper Matthew 26:17-30, Mark 14:12-25, Luke 22:7-23 This study is now closed.
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Post by lorikay on Apr 7, 2020 8:09:01 GMT -5

Another one to imagine, being at the last supper and being told one of you would betray Jesus, Jesus! That you will hurt the one man who loved you unconditionally, but you can look at it as what we do to others who we say we love. We can hurt them without second guessing it then once it’s done guilt comes to the forefront just as Judas did. We can’t say we could imagine hurting Jesus but we can do it each day without question. When I think about that my heart breaks because I know personally I have and I know I’m human and make mistakes but it doesn’t change how I should act. I can only pray that my Father forgives me and I do better.

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The Last Supper Study Apr 7, 2020 20:25:32 GMT -5

Post by BJ McConnell on Apr 7, 2020 20:25:32 GMT -5

Apr 7, 2020 8:09:01 GMT -5 lorikay said:

Another one to imagine, being at the last supper and being told one of you would betray Jesus, Jesus! That you will hurt the one man who loved you unconditionally, but you can look at it as what we do to others who we say we love. We can hurt them without second guessing it then once it’s done guilt comes to the forefront just as Judas did. We can’t say we could imagine hurting Jesus but we can do it each day without question. When I think about that my heart breaks because I know personally I have and I know I’m human and make mistakes but it doesn’t change how I should act. I can only pray that my Father forgives me and I do better.

I don't think anyone could argue with your point here. It's pretty common for everyone that we always seem to be the hardest on the ones who love us most. I think it's just because we know we have that safety net, that whatever we say or do, they love us enough to overlook it or get over it eventually.

As most everyone knows, our communion service in the church was established from the last supper and for me, this is one of the hardest teachings in the Bible. I'm not alone in this I think because if we go back into the scriptures we see that Jesus lost a lot of followers when He introduced this teaching that we had to drink His blood and eat His flesh:

53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. 59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. (John 6:53-66)

Now, I'll grant you, I believe back in Jesus' time, the reason the people had a problem with this teaching was because they probably took the words of Jesus literally, so of course it would be hard because it sounds like cannibalism when you take it literally. My trepidations have always come from the words of Paul:

23 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. 27 Wherefore 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. (1 Corinthians 11:23-30)

Personally, I know that the blood of Jesus covers my sins; past, present and future. Yet still I continue to struggle with Paul's statement that when we take communion unworthily we are eating and drinking damnation to ourselves and that it is also a reason why so many in the church get sick or pass away. That's just a terrifying thought I've never been able to get past, so honestly, I pass on communion most of the time. I do pray that the Lord give me understanding on this because I want to "do this in remembrance" as Jesus put it, but it still scares me to this day.

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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8)

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