03/31/2026
Most Christians take Communion every single week.
The bread. The cup. The words they have heard a thousand times.
This is my body broken for you.
This is my blood of the new covenant.
They bow their heads. They take the elements. They sit back down.
And most of them have no idea what they just participated in.
Not because they do not care. Not because their faith is weak.
But because nobody ever told them what was actually happening at that table.
The Last Supper was not just a meal.
It was a Passover Seder.
And for every single person sitting at that table with Jesus that night, the Passover was not a church tradition. It was the most sacred meal of their entire year. A ritual their people had been performing for 1,500 years. Every element of it carried meaning that every Jewish person at that table had known since childhood.
The lamb that was slaughtered. The unleavened bread. The bitter herbs. The four cups of wine. Each one told the same story. The story of God rescuing His people from slavery in Egypt. The story of the blood on the doorpost that caused death to pass over. The story of the night everything changed.
They had done this every year of their lives.
They knew every word. Every symbol. Every cup and what it meant.
And then Jesus picked up the bread.
And He changed everything.
He took the bread that for 1,500 years had meant one thing and He looked at His disciples and said this is my body broken for you.
He took the cup that for 1,500 years had pointed to one moment in history and He said this is my blood of the new covenant poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
He was not just sharing a meal.
He was sitting inside a 1,500 year old story that God had been writing specifically to point to this moment. And He was telling the people at that table that every single thing they had been celebrating their entire lives had been about Him all along.
The lamb was Him. The blood on the doorpost was Him. The deliverance from death was Him.
The entire Passover was a picture God had been painting for fifteen centuries so that when this night arrived His people would understand exactly what was happening.
Most Christians have sat through Communion their entire lives and never understood that.
Not because they do not love God. Not because they are not trying.
But because nobody ever gave them the context that transforms a quiet moment with bread and a small cup into one of the most staggering things that has ever happened in human history.
Jesus shared bread and wine with His disciples before He died.
When He lifted that cup His disciples would have recognized it immediately as the third cup of the Passover Seder. The cup of redemption. The one that came right after the declaration that God had rescued His people from death.
He chose that cup on purpose.
And people have been taking Communion their entire lives without ever knowing that.
It isn’t their fault.
Nobody has ever given them the context.
The cup of redemption. He chose the cup of redemption. And some of us have been taking that cup for 40 years and never knew what it was called or what it meant
Did you know that when Jesus cried out from the cross My God my God why have you forsaken me He was quoting the opening line of Psalm 22? That the people standing at the foot of that cross would have recognized those words immediately and known that the entire Psalm was being fulfilled in front of them? That Psalm 22 describes the crucifixion in specific detail, the piercing of hands and feet, the casting of lots for clothing, the mocking crowd, written by David a thousand years before crucifixion even existed as a form of ex*****on?
Did you know that the curtain in the temple tore at the exact moment the Passover lambs were being slaughtered in the temple courts below? That the priests would have heard the sound of it. That they would have known exactly what it meant.
Context changes everything.
Jesus did not choose that night by accident.
He did not choose that meal by accident.
He did not choose that cup by accident.
God had been building toward that table for 1,500 years.
Do not spend another year taking Communion without understanding what you are holding in your hands.
JOIN US for an observation of the Passover Seder with the CONTEXT that will change your perspective and deepen your appreciation for our PASSOVER LAMB, our REDEEMER!!
Saturday, April 4th at 6:00. Please, RSVP by Wednesday, April 1.
