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How Often Should We Partake of the Lord"s Supper? 9
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another's feet. But they willl\admit it was a command to
them. Very well; turn to Matthew 28:19, 20:
"Go ye therefore," Jesus said to these same disciples,
"and teach all nations, baptizing them ... teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you."
So they were
to
teach us to observe all things whatsoever
He commanded them. Surely God is no respecter
of
per-
Kept Once a Year in the
Apostolic Church
Now notice I Corinthians 5:7, 8: "Christ our passover
is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with
the old leaven ... but with the unleavened bread of sincer–
ity and truth."
Paul gives directions regarding the Lord's supper in
the 11th chapter of I Corinthians. Some have misunder–
stood verse 26, which says: "As often as ye eat this bread
and drink this cup," and interpret it to say "take it as
often as you please." But it does not say that!
It
says "as often" as we observe it, "ye do show the
Lord's death
till he come." And Jesus commanded, "This
do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in
remembrance
of me" (verse
25). We do it in remembrance of
THE
LoRn's
DEATH
-a
memorial of His death. And memorials of momentous
occasions always are observed annually, once a year, on
the anniversary of the event they commemorate. That
is
the way we observe the 4th of July,Armistice Day, etc.
Jesus instituted this New Testament ordinance on the
eve of His death.
It
was the 14th Abib, Hebrew calendar.
He was our Passover, sacrificed for us - and He was
sacrificed on the same exact day of the year that the
Passover lambs always had been slain. As the Old Testa–
ment Passover commemorated Israel's deliverance from
Egypt, a type of sin, so the New Testament Lord's supper
-
a continuation of the Passover
with different emblems
- commemorates Jesus' death, and our deliverance from
sin. Immediately after that last supper, Jesus and His
disciples went out to Gethsemane, where, later that night,
Judas Iscariot led the bloodthirsty mob who seized Jesus,