Or it may mean to allow the ceremony to become a dead and formal ritual or to come to the Lord’s Supper with unconfessed sin. We may ask what it means to partake of the bread and the cup “in an unworthy manner.” It may mean to disregard the true meaning of the bread and cup and to forget the tremendous price our Savior paid for our salvation. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself” (1 Corinthians 11:27-29). A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. Paul includes a statement not found in the Gospels: “Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. The apostle Paul wrote concerning the Lord’s Supper in 1 Corinthians 11:23-29.
The accounts of the Lord’s Supper are found in the Gospels (Matthew 26:26-29 Mark 14:17-25 Luke 22:7-22 and John 13:21-30). It was there that, as predicted, Jesus was betrayed by Judas. He concluded the feast by singing a hymn (Matthew 26:30), and they went out into the night to the Mount of Olives. As He broke it and gave it to His disciples, He said, “‘This is my body given for you do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you’” (Luke 22:19-21). The story is recorded in Exodus 12.ĭuring the Last Supper-a Passover celebration-Jesus took a loaf of bread and gave thanks to God.
God’s command was that throughout the generations to come the feast would be celebrated. The lamb was then roasted and eaten with unleavened bread. It commemorated the final plague on Egypt when the firstborn of the Egyptians died and the Israelites were spared because of the blood of a lamb that was sprinkled on their doorposts. The Passover was the most sacred feast of the Jewish religious year.
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