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Then we're not finishing something today, so it's like an opportunity to do with do anything today, so and I was thinking about what to do today.

I get an ID and I've got now, I'm just not feeling that.

Now, I'm not feeling that not feeling it.

And then there was this idea.

It's the last time either months, or we're going to have communion, that's how we rise up church.

Has been approaching communion once a month on the last Sunday of the month.

And we always when we have communion, You see same words at least almost always from 1st Corinthians chapter 11 to introduce our communion time.

But we're often moving pretty fast and it would be nice to just take a little more time with those communion words and think about those words and then celebrate communion.

So all the voices in my head, there are several Said yes to that one, one voice is the one that says, John, can you pull this off?

That boy said?

Yes, the voice that says, John, do you want to do this?

That boy said.

Yes, that voice.

By the way, doesn't have to say.

Yes, sometimes of John does what that voice doesn't want to do.

But that boy said yes, then the third voice that I attribute to God.

It's it often is not words, it's maybe a feeling and I might be wrong at times about whether it's got any idea?

What that voice, that I attribute to God, that boys seem to say, yes, I would I felt like Jesus was saying, I would like to have a little more leisurely conversation with my people at rise up church about what the Lord's Supper is and what it means.

So I would like to do that this morning and then we're going to end that by celebrating Lord's.

Supper the words that I was talking about our 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verses 23 through 26 and let's start by reading them.

Sorry, I got it.

Turn that on.

For I received from the Lord.

What I also passed on to you, the Lord Jesus on the night, he was betrayed took bread.

And when he had given thanks, he broke it.

And said, this is my body, which is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.

In the same way after supper, he took the cup saying this cup is the New Covenant in my blood.

Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me.

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim, the Lord's death until he comes.

Those are the words.

I'm going to park there at that first verse and we're just going to hang out with it for a while.

Okay, so first thought is, this is in the book of Corinthians 1st Corinthians chapter 11 and if you've been at rise up Church in the last six months, you know, about the church in Corinth to whom the book.

1st Corinthians was written as a letter, we were setting the book of Acts.

We met the Apostle Paul, we saw the Apostle Paul on a journey starting churches, go to the city of Corinth.

And they're in Corinth.

We saw him meet a couple Aquila and Priscilla are their names, and they became friends and co-workers.

They, they've all made his living by making 10th and Aquila, and Priscilla made their living by making tense.

So they became friends and co-workers together.

When Paul left Corinth and went to Ephesus Aquila and Priscilla also went along, he left the two of them.

They were good leaders.

He left the two of them in Ephesus and he went away.

And then he came back to Ephesus later on, and he seems to be writing a letter to the church in Corinth from the city of Ephesus, probably when he came back later.

So, that's what we have here.

And what's significant about that is that that makes this description of the Lord's Supper, probably.

The earliest description of the Lord's Supper.

Historically, speaking in writing, 1st Corinthians is one of the first books of the Bible in terms of When It Was Written.

There's the Lord's Supper story in the gospels.

Matthew Mark, Luke but those were written later.

So, when was the first description of the Lord's Supper put down in writing.

Probably it's here.

The pollen make it up.

He is.

Passing along what he's received.

Okay.

There's some interesting, a second kind of moving on, their second idea.

There's some interesting word play in.

What's up there on the screen, the word play isn't an English.

The word play is in Greek because the New Testament of the Bible is written in Greek.

So, I'll describe it to you for.

I received that Greek word is para, La Mano para means alongside lembah.

No means to take, I took alongside for I received what I also passed on to you, that word is para that same word alongside ditto, me.

That's the Greek word for

What I, what I took alongside myself, I gave alongside to you.

So those words sound similar cuz they're using that that word para at the beginning of them.

But then he goes on the night on which he was betrayed, that's what our English.

Translation of the Bible says, but the word that's translated here, betrayed is the same word as received.

I'm sorry, the same word has passed on, from before what I received, I passed on that's para dito me.

I passed on to you tonight on which Jesus was paradiddle.

Mead, The night in which Jesus was passed on, would be an appropriate way to translate it.

If you were going to just translate it kind of as straight as possible.

The English translators were wanting us to know that he's talking about that evening when Jesus was arrested and when Judas handed him over, so they've inserted the word betrayed and I was thinking about, okay, well, that's interesting that word play, but what would it mean?

It seems that it's on purpose because Paul's words are quite bare, almost poetic here.

So he's, he's very likely.

Passing on a Consolidated way of describing the Lord's Supper that's been in the oral tradition of the church up to this point.

So, I think it's on purpose.

So what would it mean that I passed on to you?

That went on the night, Jesus was passed on by Judas to the people who arrested him.

How would that be a meaningful comparison and I couldn't really think of anything

until doing some more exploring and realizing Yes, Judas passed Jesus on to those who arrested Jesus, but the Bible also talks about God passing, his son on Judas did it, but you just didn't do it without God's permission.

In fact, God, used Judas to accomplish what God wanted to do.

So let me show you that in Romans 8:32.

It says, he who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all.

How will he not also along with him?

Graciously, give us all things, the phrase gave him is our word paradidomi.

He who did not spare his own son, but was willing to pass him on for us all God.

Passed on Jesus, in that moment.

When Jesus was handed over to those who arrested him.

It's best if it's that same word that Paul's using, and then here's another example, okay?

Just a little technical, sorry about that.

But this is from the Old Testament of the Bible, which is not written in Greek, it's written in Hebrew.

So it's not the word play.

But it's the idea now that we're kind of following Isaiah is talking about this suffering servant, that is to come in the future Isaiah's, writing about six hundred years before Christ, and but he's writing about the suffering servant that is Jesus.

And he says he's got this description, I will give him this suffering servant apportioned among the great and he will divide the spoils with the strong because he poured out his life unto death and was numbered with the transgressors for, he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressions.

I'm thinking about the third line because he poured out his life unto death.

God passed on his son, he didn't spare him, but passed him on for us and Jesus himself.

As this suffering servant that the Old Testament, had talked about did not spare himself, but poured himself out even unto death.

So, let's go back to those words for I received from the Lord.

What I also passed on to you, the Lord Jesus on the night.

He was passed on, Paul's thinking about how God didn't spare his son, but passed him on for us, thinking about how Jesus didn't try to spare himself, but passed himself on for us.