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To: DouglasKC

The relevant question is whether He said to remember His death on Passover, and on no other day.


131 posted on 04/10/2009 2:31:09 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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To: Petronski
The relevant question is whether He said to remember His death on Passover, and on no other day.

That's certainly what he meant and what the early disciples thought he meant.

1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

A couple of points here. This was written to a predominantly gentile church. The context is clearly during passover and the days of leavened bread. The instruction is to celebrate, observe, the feast of passover and unleavened bread.

Later in the same letter:

1Co 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

Passover, the day that Jesus died, is an annual observance. Passover, the day that Jesus instituted the Lord's supper of wine and bread, was the days that his followers partook of the Lord's supper.

To believe that the Lord's supper was not intimately linked with Passover is to deny scripture, history and the culture of the time. The Lord's supper as practiced today has deviated greatly from how the Lord and his original disciples practiced it.

136 posted on 04/10/2009 2:46:45 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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