LESSON 27

SUPPER WITH JESUS

3/10/05

YOU’RE THOUGHTS: What room do you and family mostly hang out in?

What does practicing Communion mean to you?

`MY THOUGHTS: Call me old fashioned, but I feel the best room in the house is the kitchen. If you like to eat like I do, choosing this room as the best room makes a lot of sense, but sitting down and eating the food is more enjoyable when you are eating with your friends and/or family. In this lesson I want us to imagine sitting at the table with Jesus and His disciples in the upper room listening intensely to His teachings.

Tradition dictates that this would be a special evening for you and the disciples because it is an evening in which you would be prepared to celebrate the Jewish Passover. This is a very holy time for the Jewish nation because they are reminded of when God spared them from the plague of death on every firstborn child in Egypt.

This evening becomes even more special when you and your friends carry out the instructions that Jesus gave you in preparing a table in which you will embark in great food and good fellowship with Jesus and His disciples.

Your finished preparing for the feast, now you and your friends are lounging comfortably at the table probably enjoying the conversations exchanged among men with different points of view on things or you may be a recipient of some practical joke somebody played on you or perhaps you may be the one playing that joke on somebody else. Mean while Jesus is watching lovingly at all that is going on, knowing that He will have to interrupt the fun with serious facts that you and the disciples need to know.

One of the facts that Jesus brings to your attention is that He was glad to have this Passover feast with everybody before he suffers. You sit there completely astonished at what was said, “before He suffers”? What does this mean? Then you take a deep breath and sit back and wait, after all you and the disciples have been with Jesus for many days and He has surprised you many times before . So the thing that you learned when this happens was to trust in what he is saying and wait, for there is usually more to come.

Your right, there is more to come. Jesus goes on to demonstrate a very important practice that you must perform in remembrance of Him. He picks up the bread from the table blessed and broke it and gives it to you and tells you to eat ,for this is His body. Then he takes the cup and gives that to you and tells you to drink, for this His blood. At that time while Jesus is there within your sight you are not to clear on what He is saying but when He’s gone then it all makes sense to you.

Before the evening in the upper room comes to an end Jesus predicts two important events that will occur. One is that your fellow companion name Peter will deny knowing Him three times before the rooster crows in the morning and that somebody in this room will betray Him. He also taught a very important lesson that must be practiced in the Christian life and that is we must serve others more then expecting others to serve us.

After experiencing these events you have to ask yourself these questions. How many times have you denied knowing Jesus . How many times have you betrayed Him ? How many times have you controlled a situation so that it was to your benefit instead of trying to help somebody else even though it may be inconvenient to you. If your answer to those three questions is many times, fear not, when Jesus spoke of His body broken and His blood spilled for all to see, He was speaking to you in love. It’s because of His great love for you and me that He fulfilled all that He predicted at the last supper on that terrible day when He hung on that cross. While you and me are busy practicing the very important lesson that was taught in the upper room Jesus is preparing our first and many suppers with Him in Glory. God Bless and Amen.

Scripture Ref : Matt 26: 17-20, 26-28

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