Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for April 25, 2021

Do This in Remembrance of Me

Luke 22:14-20

1. Context

• plot to kill Jesus (1-2) and betrayal by Judas (3-6, 21-22)
• Passover preparations (7-13) and biblical backdrop for 14-20

2. The Earnest Desire of Jesus 14-15

• to eat this Passover with you before I suffer
• redemption through substitution (Jn. 1:29, 1 Cor. 5:7, 2 Cor. 5:21)

3. The Specific Declaration of Jesus 16-18

• not eat it until it is fulfilled…
• And He took a cup…
• foretaste of a greater gathering (Rev. 5:9-10, 19:6-9)

4. The Sovereign Design of Jesus 19-20

• institution of the Lord’s Supper
• bread: My body
• cup: My blood (Ex. 24:8)
• take and eat (Mt. 26:26-28)
• verbs of salvation

5. So What?

• Because the sacrifice of Jesus is the sacrifice to which all sacrifices point, receive and remember it.
• Bank your hope on the body and blood of Jesus.
• Magnify the ministry of the Lord’s Supper to your own soul.
• “He took my sins and my sorrows, He made them His very own; He bore the burden to Calvary, And suffered and died alone…” (Gabriel)
• “Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more…” (Cowper)