Team Communion: Looking Back to Calvary, Forward to Hope ... English

We trace the Last Supper to the cross and sit with Paul’s call to “discern the Lord’s body,” turning communion from routine into focused remembrance. We look back with gratitude and forward with hope as we partake of the bread and the cup together.

• context of the Last Supper and foot washing 
• meaning of bread and cup as body and blood 
• looking back to Calvary and ahead to Christ’s return 
• discerning the Lord’s physical body, not drifting through ritual 
• detailed remembrance of suffering, sacrifice, and love 
• reading of 1 Corinthians 11 and instructions to partake 
• congregational prayer, thanksgiving, and participation

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Chapters

• 1:34 Opening Worship and Surrender
• 2:29 Setting the Last Supper Context
• 3:23 The Two Directions of Communion
• 4:35 Discerning the Lord’s Body
• 6:54 Calvary Remembered in Detail
• 8:05 Instructions from 1 Corinthians 11
• 9:13 Partaking of the Bread
• 9:43 Congregational Thanksgiving and Prayer
• 10:13 Partaking of the Cup and Closing Thanks

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:47

Andabaka Shandyandarashi Andorodukuriatyandabaka and obey when your spirit speaks to me with my grief, and my answer will be yes.

SPEAKER_01: 1:42

Shortly after Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, we see that Jesus broke bread with the twelve. You can be seated. This scene, also known as the Last Supper. The bread represented the body of our Lord that was broken, the fruit of the vine, his blood that was shed for our sins. When we partake of communion, we look in two directions simultaneously. We look backward to his death at Calvary with honor, with respect, with thanksgiving, and with love. And we look ahead to the coming of the Lord. Paul taught that we show his death until the Lord returns. There's a few things that stand out to me as I read Paul's instructions to the Corinthian church on how to partake in communion. In 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse number 29, it says that we are to discern the Lord's body. Now, when it says that we are to discern the Lord's body, we know that Paul refers to two different bodies in scriptures. He refers to the body of Christ, which is the church, and to the physical body of our Lord Jesus Christ. But Paul couldn't be referring to the body of Christ or the church when he says that we are to discern the Lord's body, because the body of Christ, the church, didn't suffer. The church didn't die on the cross. It didn't offer itself as a sacrificial lamb for the sins of humanity. When Paul says to discern the Lord's body in 1 Corinthians 11, 29, without a doubt, he's referring to the physical body of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are to discern the body that was broken at Calvary. One of the ways we eat of the bread and drink of the cup unworthily, Paul says. And he teaches us in the in the word of God, it's when we do not direct our thoughts to Calvary, when we partake of communion. We should never go just go through the motions as we participate in it, as we partake in the Lord's Supper. We cannot allow our thoughts to wander as we particular partake in communion. This is a solemn moment, this is a sacred moment. This is a kingdom moment. We must remember that at Calvary, Jesus was mocked. He was ridiculed, he was stripped of his raiment, they abused him, they mocked him, they put his body to shame, they pulled his beard, they put a crown of thorns on his head. The Bible says that he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of his peace was upon him. And the Bible says that he took his stripes on his back so that we could be healed. He was despised and rejected of men, he was acquainted with grief, he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. The Bible says that he could have called twelve legions of angels to come and rescue him, but instead he endured the cross. Why don't we just take one more moment here? He did this because he loved us. Thank you, Jesus, for what you endured on the cross. Thank you for your wounded body, Lord. Thank you, Jesus, for the stripes that you took on your back. Hallelujah for being acquainted with grief, despised and rejected of men. Jesus, we thank you. We do this in remembrance of you today, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Jesus. Hallelujah, Jesus.

SPEAKER_00: 5:56

Oh, thank you, Jesus. I am sorry. Oh shit. Oh, you tell the U Ramadarabasik.

SPEAKER_01: 6:40

Oh, she tarabaki tarada.

SPEAKER_00: 6:42

Oh, name of Jesus.

SPEAKER_01: 6:45

You tabashika tiadabaki.

SPEAKER_00: 6:47

In the name of Jesus.

SPEAKER_01: 6:50

Thank you, Jesus.

SPEAKER_00: 6:52

In the name of Jesus.

SPEAKER_01: 6:53

Thank you, Jesus.

SPEAKER_00: 6:56

In the name of Jesus.

SPEAKER_01: 6:59

Thank you, Jesus. Why don't you go ahead and open the top portion? Just hold on till I give instructions here. Thank you, Jesus. For I have received of the Lord Jesus that which was which also I delivered unto you. That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, Take and eat. This is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. Let's all partake of the bread, which represents the body that was broken at Calvary. Oh Baba Hika Babashitabashi. Also in the same manner, he took the cup when he had supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye as often as ye drink in remembrance of me. Let's all drink from the cup. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Thank you for Calvary. Thank you for Calvary. Thank you for your blood.