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8 How Often Should We Partake of the Lord's Supper?
longer do we kill a lamb and eat it, since the Lamb of God
has been sacrificed once and for all. Instead, we take the
bread, symbolizing His broken body, and the wine, sym–
bolizing His shed blood, as a memorial, looking back to His
death.
How Often Observed?
Now notice Exodus 13:10, speaking of the Days of
Unleavened Bread: "Thou shalt therefore keep this ordi–
nance in his season from year to year." The time is once a
year, at night, after the sun has set in the beginning of the
14th of Abib.
Jesus set us an example
(I
Peter 2:21), observing it at
this set time once a year (Luke 2:42).
Suppose the Israelites in Egypt had observed this
ordinance at some other than this set time? They would
not have been saved when the death angel passed by that
night! God does things
ON TIME.
He had given us an exact
time for this ordinance. Jesus instituted it "when the hour
The Ordinance of Humility
In giving us the account of the instituting of the
"Lord's supper" ordinance, Matthew, Mark and Luke
describe the taking of the bread and wine. But John
relates another part of this ordinance.
It
is in the 13th chapter of John. Verse 1 shows the
event is the last Passover. And,
I
the supper being ended)
(verse 2), Jesus took a towel (verse 4) and began washing
His disciples' feet (verse
5).
"So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his
garments, and was set down again, he said unto them,
Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and
Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
If
I then, your Lord and
Master, have washed your feet;
ye also ought to wash one
another's feet.
For
I
have given you an
example, that ye
should do as I have done to you"
(verses 12-15).
Many today do not want to humiliate themselves by
washing the feet of their church brethren. Some argue
that Jesus commanded only the disciples to wash one