Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, December 12, 2021

Broken for our Brokenness.

Today Recreate Church is having our very first Lord’s Supper at our new building!

Michael is covering the very first Lord’s Supper.  It occurred during Passover, a very significant celebration to the Jews of the day. It commemorated how God brought His people out of slavery in Egypt.  This meal that He and His disciples were eating was part of the Passover meal.  Jesus was there with his twelve disciples, His “family”.  

Jesus is giving his disciples His bread, not because they are hungry…He is giving it to them as a symbol of something important. The breaking of the bread is symbolic of how Jesus was going to be broken.  The disciples at this point really didn’t understand the point of his point of Him about to be broken.  

Just hours after this He was arrested.  He was mocked and spit on and a crown of thorns pressed down on His head.  He was made to carry a heavy cross to the execution site and then nailed to that cross.  It was a way of shaming and embarrassing others from committing crimes.  

His life wasn’t taken.  It was given.

The sinless One was broken for us.

Then He took the cup and the symbolism is it is His blood, poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.

His brokenness is our healing.  

(ESV Systematic Theology Study Bible Notes) At the final meal Jesus shares with his disciples before his death, a first-century Jewish Passover meal, he institutes the Lord’s Supper. At the appropriate time, he takes a loaf of bread in his hand, gives thanks for it, breaks it, and gives it to his disciples to eat, saying, “This is my body” (v. 26). Similarly, he takes the cup, gives thanks, gives it to his disciples, and instructs, “Drink of it, all of you” (v. 27).

By means of this symbolism of eating and drinking, Jesus teaches his disciples something they will understand only after his resurrection—the most basic meaning of the Lord’s Supper is union with him in his death and resurrection. Even as the disciples consumed the bread and wine, so in the Lord’s Supper believers “feed” spiritually on Christ.

Additionally, alluding to Exodus 24:6–8, Jesus explains that the wine represents his “blood of the covenant,” his violent death on the cross, which brings “forgiveness of sins” (Matt. 26:28). When Jesus promises to drink new wine with them in the kingdom of God, he looks past the cross to his resurrection and second coming.

Today’s verses can be found at Matthew 26: 26-30 and Isaiah 53: 5-6.