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Remembering Jesus
This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me. Luke 22: 19In Luke 22 we see Jesus celebrating and reinterpreting the Passover. He is showing his disciples how to understand his death. He had predicted it (Luke 9: 22, 44 and 18:32-33). He saw it as the fulfilment of what the prophets had written. But now, probably for the first time, he explains why it is necessary for him to die and what his death will achieve. He also gives them a symbol to help them to remember it always.
The Passover celebrated God’s liberation of his people (Jewish) in the early days of the Bible. Here Jesus is reinterpreting it and reshaping it as a celebration of the founding (or re-founding) of God’s people and as an anticipation of his future reign. While the event is often called “the last supper”, Jesus speaks in verse 16 of eating it again in the kingdom of god. One of the effects of Jesus death is the establishment of God’s kingdom.
Taking the symbols of the Passover, the bread and the cups, he uses them to point forward to the kingdom and covenant that He (Jesus) will establish and the price he will pay on the cross. “The cross is for our forgiveness but much more, it is the great deliverance from sin, death and Satan the re-founding of God’s people.” Bishop Graham Cray.
Graham Kendrick song “I have put my faith in in a crucified man” is ridiculous and silly but at the same time gloriously true. It is the paradox of Easter.