Summary
Today we mark another very important day in Holy Week, in the week of Christ's passion, Holy Week that service that never ends, that we never leave beginning with Palm Sunday, as we hear the shouts of Hosanna, God save us. And so we continue on in Holy Week, the service of Christ's passion, and we return to that Thursday evening, 2,000 plus years ago, when we find ourselves with Christ and His disciples in the upper room, if you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke, the 22nd chapter. I don't know that it's a saying anymore, but but when one person would make a covenant to another where they would say, my word is my bond and that could be trusted or perhaps a covenant to deal is made with a hand shake, a firm hand shake and it's known that because of the person shaking my hand, I can trust the promise being made. We've moved away from making covenants with and for and to one another and we've moved more into contracts and to making contracts because you see contracts, they can be amended, they can be changed, contracts can even be broken. Every week we come here and we come to the table and we pray and we make a contract with God that we repent of our sins, we make a contract that we're going to do better, that we're going to be better, that we're going to try harder, but we're just making a contract because we leave the doors and we enter into our daily lives and we find that that contract to repent, to do better, to be better, to try harder, well it's changeable. Then he took a loaf of bread and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them saying, this is my body which is given for you, do this in the remembrance of me and he did the same with the cup after supper saying this cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
Video citations
- "For You" 4-2-26 — There are many sweet, sweet words in Scripture. Off of the top of my head, I think of Psalm 23, and the beautiful beginning verse of the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. Or in the prophet…