Matthew 26:26-29

 ²⁶ And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” ²⁷ Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. ²⁸ For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. ²⁹ But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

Commentary

With Judas’ departure, the Lord Jesus will now institute what we call and observe as the Lord’s Supper. Therefore, with the fulfillment of the Passover soon to be at hand (by the Lord’s own Crucifixion death), the foretold and promised New Covenant will be enacted for all who believe in Him. Therefore, in preparation of this, of setting up a remembrance of His Crucifixion death that all disciples are to observe, the Lord Jesus Christ now says to the disciples, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Having done so Jesus then takes the cup and giving thanks gives it to the disciples saying to them, “Drink from it, all of you. ²⁸ For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. ²⁹ But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.” ^{vs. 28-29}

The Lord Jesus Christ’s broken body and shed then by is the only means by which we have remission of all our sins and everlasting life (Acts 4:12). Anything else then added to it, or taken from it, from what the Lord Jesus accomplished for us all at Calvary on the Cross, is only the works of man, and or the doctrines of men, and is not the grace of God, and thus is to be rejected by all who believe Him. Therefore, in observing the Lord’s Supper, one does not receive salvation for themselves by doing so, rather by doing so we are remembering just how our salvation and eternal redemption was purchased and secured; by the Broken Body and the Precious blood of the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now in instituting the Lord’s Supper Jesus also tells the disciples that the next time He will drink of the fruit of the vine it will be when we all drink of it together in the Kingdom of heaven. For it will only be then when we all who believe in Him will eat and drink at the Lord’s Victorious Table in forever celebration and bliss.

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The New King James Version. (1982). Nashville: Thomas Nelson