“This do in remembrance of me.” (1 Corinthians 11:24,25)
Christ appointed that we call him into remembrance in the breaking of bread. The Corinthians were following these ordinances, for Paul praised them in their keeping the ordinances that he had delivered (1 Cor 11:2). But he also “praised them not” (1 Corinthians 11: 17, 22) for there were those in Corinth whose focus was not on the perfect life of Christ, his sacrifice, and his resurrection.
We read of the establishment of this ordinance in Luke 22. The account tells us that Christ eagerly desired to eat the Passover with his disciples, for “when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer” (Luke 22:14-15). Christ longed for this moment, even though he knew it came just before he was to suffer greatly and be crucified. After he had taken the bread and the wine and given it to them, he said, “this do in remembrance of me.” When we meet each week to partake of the emblems of the bread and the wine, do we do it with the same zeal and eagerness as that of Jesus?
Let us not be like those children of Israel who God, through the prophet Isaiah, chastised in the manner of their sacrifices and observances of the feasts and assemblies:
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.” (Isaiah 1:11-14)
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