The Upper Room:

For nearly a year three of we guys have been hanging out with the Lord Jesus and the Apostles.  We have been meeting once a week for a time of study on the Life of Christ.  Last night we were in the upper room as Jesus transformed the Jewish Seder, the commemoration of the great Old Testament deliverance, into the Lord's Supper, the symbol of the even greater deliverance which Jesus was about to accomplish.  The Apostle Paul tells us that"

". . . as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes." (1 Corinthians 11:26)   

As I read through the gospel accounts of this final meal, I was again reminded of the humanness of what went on--the jostling for positions (Luke 22:24). the unwillingness of the Apostles to take the servant role (John 13), and of course the bluster of Peter.

You and I would have been right at home.

The meal that these men were sharing is a powerful communication of Christ giving Himself as the sacrifice for sin, thus becoming the Savior of sinners.  It is significant that He did not share this "Last Supper" with idealized, airbrushed stand-ins, but real people.

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