Given For You...
by Rev. Kirby Williams
Celebrating the deep significance of the Lord's Supper.
Text: Luke 22:19-20
Date: 08/03/2025, the Combined service.
Series: "Luke: Thy Kingdom Come" Part 204
Description:
After discreetly arranging for the location where He would enjoy the last Passover Meal with His disciples, Jesus dramatically changes the liturgy to institute the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. He adds deep significance to the bread and wine of the Passover meal by associating them with His own body and blood-- soon to be freely given as a sacrificial, substitutionary atonement on the Cross. At the same time, He inaugurates the New Covenant, consummating all the covenants that come before it in one of the most important events of Redemptive History. We will carefully analyze each of these elements, digging deep into their Old Testament imagery and probing the profound Theological, Christological and Soteriological meaning of each. But ultimately, we will celebrate the intensely personal nature of the sacrament by realizing that Jesus, through His Word, was speaking directly to each true believer when He said His body and blood were "given for you..."!
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I. Introduction
II. Exposition of the text, Luke 22:19-20.
A. Context
1. Revisiting the two intentions.
2. Setting the scene, Luke 22:14.
3. The love feast, Luke 22:15.
4. Focus on the eschatological feast, Luke 22:16.
5. Focus on the eschatological cup, Luke 22:17-18.
B. The institution of the sacrament of Communion.
1. The significance of the bread, vs. 19.
a. Describing the bread.
i. Unleavened bread, 1Cor. 5:8.
ii. Thanking God for His provision.
iii. A symbol of unity and grace.
iv. The Bread of Life, John 6:35,40,56.
v. The Bread of Remembrance.
b. The typology of the Bread.
i. Why the Passover?
ii. The need for a sacrifice.
1) God is holy, Isa. 6:3.
2) We are not holy, Gen. 6:5; Rev. 3:17, 18:5.
3) God is loving but just, 1John 4:16; Ex. 34:6-7.
4) The necessity of the sacrifice.
c. The symbolism of the Bread.
i. The Christology of the Bread.
1) The bread of sacrifice, 1Cor. 5:7; John 1:29, 6:51.
2) A personal sacrifice.
ii. The Soteriology of the Bread".
1) Sacrificial, Ex. 12:6; Gen. 3:21.
a) A live sacrifice forfeits their life.
b) A live sacrifice must be innocent, Ex. 12:5; 2Cor. 5:21.
2) Substitutionary, Isa. 53:5-6; John 6:47; 2Cor. 4:14.
3) Atonement
2. The significance of the fruit of the vine, vs. 20.
a. Continuing to set the scene.
i. Paralleling the bread, 1Cor. 11:25.
ii. The significance of "the cup".
b. The Old Testament imagery.
i. On blood and forgiveness, Heb. 9:22; Nah. 1:3.
ii. Finishing the discussion of atonement.
1) The atonement of the Passover lamb.
2) The idea of "propitiation".
3) The idea of "expiation", 1John 1:29; Isa. 53:12.
c. The efficacy of the blood.
i. The spilling of blood, John 19:34.
ii. A personal propitiation.
d. Inaugurating the new covenant.
i. A major event in Redemptive History.
ii. A Christological review of the covenants.
1) The Covenant of Works, Gen. 2:17.
2) The Covenant of Promise or Redemption, Gen. 8:21-22.
3) The Covenant of Grace, Gen. 15:6.
4) The Covenant of the Law, Ex. 19:5-6, 24:8; Heb. 10:4.
5) The Covenant of the King, 2Sam. 7:12-13; Luke 22:18.
III. Conclusion
