Institution of the Supper
After repeatedly announced to the apostles that up to Jerusalem, there was going to be delivered to the Gentiles, to suffer and be killed, it is time for Jesus to serve a concrete meaning and spiritual significance of the sacrifice that was to be His. If it has in itself no virtue, a sign appears in the Scriptures as being from God, the means by which it illustrates the truth is both explained and assimilated by the person who participates: the Passover, circumcision, baptism, the Last Supper. Participation in the sign is a way God wanted it to seal in a practical, committed membership of the person to reality it covers. It is a position which we owe to God, being God, by the sign, the one who calls us to join the alliance that it expresses.
The new covenant that God initiates, through Jesus Christ with all people through the latter's death, it was necessary that the sign that represents it illustrates the sacrifice made by the Lord to make operative. The sign set up here, the broken bread in remembrance of the Lord's body broken for our sin, the blood shed in His death reminder of their need for atonement, and reminded us that, more than the Lord's life, His miracles, His speeches and all the other signs that he has demonstrated throughout His pilgrimage to prove His Messiahship, His death on the cross, followed by His resurrection, is and remains for all time the culmination of his work and the first that we have to let the world know about Him: 1 Cor 2.2; 15.1-4 .
One thing which every day we have to testify and that, as Christians, we must remember is that Jesus, the Son of God, died for our sins and that, through His broken body and shed blood, God made a covenant with us! Jesus reminds clearly in the few words he said to explain the symbolism of the meal that he takes with His people: to you is that my body is broken and my bloodshed, and for you to remember that a permanent J establishing it now this meal: 1 Cor 11.23-26 . Whether it is fundamental to the gospel every day and remains the heart of our faith!
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