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Show A NEW TESTAMENT "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples. and said, "Take eat, this is my body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shedfor many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with YOIl in my Father's kingdom. "(Matthew 26: 2629) In the 0 ld various Testament, God used 1 0 plagues at the hand of His servant Moses to Pharaoh so get the attention of that he would let the 1 people of God go from bondage. There was e,r water turned to blood, frogs covmg the land, lice and gnats, swarms of flies, diseased livestock, boils, hail and fire, locusts, darkness, and death. The last of those plagues was the death angel set to start at the first born of every house. designed to get the attention of the people holding God in hondage. You might say they peoplerttlc + t wee hound-dogs for sin. These plagues were t All of us know that death /;..5 VMS no respect o! EW§PJ /!f£l!aene day die. in fact.the only eason will not die is any, of us that we are savedA1i']:; back to get His children. So how would the children of God be Jesus comes separated, be spared by that night riding death angel from the people of Pharaoh. 2 always provides. He provided a Passover lamb. The people would take a God male lamb of the first year without blemish and sacrifice it. Then the blood of the lamb would be struck on the two side post and the upper door post of the house. Then that night they would fire roast the lamb and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The death rider will see the blood and Passover that destroy the first born of that house. The people were to keep that Passover in memorial. They did it until house and not this above text. Jesus says, I have a new testament. A new agreement. A new covenant. This new testament is not based of any animal but on the blood The blood of The on Lamb of God. Jesus has settled the 3 issue once pay the God, and for all. He has bond, to settle to redeem That's us our from come to account with our sin. why we gather around this table with unleavened bread and the fruit of the vine. The fruit of the vine is the New Testament that the angel of death sins will pass over us. We accept the gift of His body and the His blood shed for our sins. He remits we owe for so our wrong doing and grants us a slate cleansed and without blemish. "For the our wages of sin is death, but the gift ofgod is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6: 23) 4 |
