Christ said in Matthew 26:26-30 that the bread represents His body and the wine represented His blood. Verse 28 states that Christ’s blood was given for the forgiveness of everyone’s sin. When we partake of the Lord’s Supper, we not only “remember” Christ’s sacrifice, what He went through that we might be saved, what salvation means to us, and what we need to do to be more like Him. By participation in the Lord’s Supper we are making known to others the victory of Christ’s death. Our participation testifies of our faith in the forgiveness of sins that Jesus provided through His death. The frequency of partaking in the Lord’s Supper, is the matter of the participant’s heart. We are warned in 1 Corinthians 11:27 not to partake it “in an unworthy manner.” We should never approach the Lord’s Supper carelessly.
The Lord’s Supper began
with the last supper Jesus ate with His friends before His death. This final supper is described in Scripture
as a Passover meal. The Passover was an
annual meal that the Jews participated in to commemorate God’s mercy in the
past when He passed over the houses of their forefathers in
Matthew 26:26-30
Mark 14:22-25
Luke 22:14-20
John 6:42-58
Acts
1 Corinthians 10:16-17,