IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME



 

 

IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME

 

 

Now… in Lk22:19, when Jesus is sharing Passover telling the disciples to “do this IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME”, is He wanting them to remember themselves and their performance?...

                …or… is He wanting them to remember Him?

 

 

Paul recounts this Passover “communion” in 1Cor11:27-32…

…and the literal Greek definitively reads with the intent of REMEMBERING CHRIST.

·         VS27: Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an “unworthy manner” [To test and not value corresponding to the top of its worth]

will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

·         VS 28: But let a man “examine himself”, [Let each man, himself, examine - put to the test to reveal what is genuine]

…and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

·         VS29: For he who eats and drinks in an “unworthy manner” [To test and not value corresponding to the top of its worth] eats and drinks judgment to himself,

not “discerning” [diakrinon - to separate and investigate thoroughly all the parts… distinguishing amongst them and then judge]

…the Lord's body.

·         VS30: FOR THIS REASON many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep (are dead).

·         VS31: For if we would JUDGE [diakrino – see above] ourselves, we would not be judged.

LITERAL GREEK: “If FOR OURSELVES we were judging…”

·         VS32: But when we are “JUDGED” (krinomenoi – we are judging in a continuos manner),

we are “CHASTENED” (paideuo- educated, instructed as a child under development with strict training)

“BY” (hypo – under authority… working directly as a subordinate under)

…THE LORD,

that we may not be condemned with the world.”

 

 

This paints a vivid picture that we are neither to be examining… nor judging… OURSELVES… but rather…

·         EACH ONE OF US is to examine “dokimazo” [to try (test) to show something is acceptable (real, approved, genuine)]

FOR OURSELVES…

what was accomplished in the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

·         EACH ONE OF US is to judge “diakrino” [to separate and investigate thoroughly]

FOR OURSELVES…

the actual supreme value of what was completed in Christ, Himself.

 

 

Once we esteem what HE FINISHED… AT THE TOP VALUE OF ITS WORTH…

THEN we truly partake… as Christ said…

 

                                …IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.

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