Sermon
The Lord's Supper | Matthew 26:1-29
Treeline Church
Speaker: David Livingston
April 8, 2024 · 39 min
Summary
Through Matthew 26's account of Jesus's final Passover meal, the pastor demonstrates how Jesus reinterprets the ancient Passover narrative—which commemorated Israel's deliverance from Egypt through the blood of a lamb—to reveal himself as the ultimate Passover lamb whose sacrificial blood saves believers from God's judgment. The sermon shows how Jesus's life, death, and the symbolism of communion retell not just one story of redemption but the central story of all Scripture.
Highlights
The reason that God is so specific with the rules and statutes that He's giving His people, the reason He's telling them you have to do this in this exact way year after year after year after year, is so that when Jesus Christ would be hung on the cross, 1,500 years later, the people who were watching that unfold, they would get it, and they would be able to see who He really is.
Jesus bore the judgment and death that we deserve. And if we cover ourselves under his blood, then the judgment of God will not destroy us, but it will pass over us.
There is a judgment of God coming to human beings for the way we've wrecked and messed up this world, but because God loves us, he sent his son to be put up on a cross so that those who cover themselves in his blood, they would not have to stand under the judgment of God themselves.