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… and he gave it to his disciples and said, take, eat, this is my body given for you. Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink from it, all of you for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it in you with my father's kingdom. This is the word of God for you all the people of God. Thanks be to God. this summer we have looked at passages in which Jesus is either at a meal or describing a meal and throughout these different passages we have seen a variety of different realizations and impact it had in Jesus's time and for us together we've sung along to Brandi Carlisle's song crowded table in which we yearn for a table that is wide and open for everyone and we've noticed that Christ's table always has room for the people we least expect. …
… like the lamb in Egypt, but on the inside, he was pure and spotless. My blood, which is poured out for you. Matthew says of that verse, then he took a cup and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Now he's going to say it plainly for the forgiveness of sins. How do you get forgiven? By being good? No. By having the blood of the Lamb of God over the doorpost of your life. By putting your faith in the finished work of Jesus and believing that the Passover Lamb has come. This is how your sins are forgiven. It is not by praying a prayer, raising your hand, or attending a church, or trying to do good, or being better than the next person. It's by having the blood of the Lamb of God over the doorpost of your life. He says, I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on. In other words, this is the last Passover, people. That's what he's trying to tell his followers. This is the last time we're doing this. We've done it for centuries, but this is the last sacrifice. I'm not going to drink from the fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. …
… You're about to make a life-altering mistake. one of you will betray me. Now, you and I know what the apostles in the room didn't know. We know it's Judas. We know before they get to the upper room that Judas is going to betray him. because we have the benefit of a literary device that biblical writers employed called dramatic irony. Let the church say dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when a writer gives you information as a reader that the characters in the story don't know. Dramatic irony is when you know something that the people in the story do not know. When you have information that they do not have. Let me give you an example. It's like if you went to see Avengers Endgame. And when they began telling you who's in the movie, Thor and Captain America and Incredible Hulk, and they then said in Iron Man, who's going to die at the end? Now you already know that Iron Man's going to die, even though all the other characters do not yet. …