THE LORD'S SUPPER

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THE LORDS SUPPER

• TRADITION OR TRUCE?

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JESUS METAPHORIC LANGUAGE

• MATTHEW 2626-28
• And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
  blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the
  disciples, and said, Take, eat this is my body.
  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it
  to them, saying, Drink ye all of it For this is
  my blood of the new testament, which is shed for
  many for the remission of sins.

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MULTITUDE BREAD OR BENEFIT

• JOHN 61, 2, 12-14
• After These things Jesus went over the sea of
  Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. And a
  great multitude followed him, because they saw
  his miracles which he did on them that were
  diseased. When they were filled, he said unto his
  disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain,
  that nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered
  them together, and filled twelve baskets with the
  fragments of the five barley loaves, which
  remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
  Then those men, when they had seen the miracle
  that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that
  prophet that should come into the world.

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ELLEN G. WHITE, DESIRE OF AGES, p. 377

• But the miracle of loaves appealed to every one
  in that vast multitude. All were sharers in its
  benefit. In the days of Moses, God had fed Israel
  with manna in the desert and who was this that
  had create from five barley loaves and two
  fishes, food sufficient to feed thousands of
  hungry people. The disciples had long hoped for a
  popular movement to place Jesus on the throne
• JOHN 615, 26, 27
• When Jesus therefore perceived that they would
  come and take him by force, to make him king, he
  departed again into a mountain himself alone.
  Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I
  say unto you, You seek me, not because ye saw the
  miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves,
  and were filled. Labour not for the meat which

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• perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto
  everlasting life, which the Son of man shall
  give unto you for him hath God the Father
  sealed.
• Four kinds of followers
• Political King
• Miraculous Signs Wonders
• Prosperity Get not Give
• Bread Body Blood

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FOLLOWERS SEEK AFTER A SIGN

• JOHN 630, 31
• They said therefore unto him, what sign shewest
  thou then, that we may see, and believe thee?
  What dost thou work? Our fathers did eat manna
  in the desert as it is written, He gave them
  bread from heaven to eat.

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A TRADITION OR A TRUCE?

• JOHN 651-59, 60, 63 LIVING BREAD
• I am the living bread which came down from
  heaven if any man eat of this bread, he shall
  live for ever and the bread that I will give is
  my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
  world. The Jews therefore strove among
  themselves, saying, How can this man give us his
  flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily,
  verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh
  of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have
  no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and
  drinketh my blood, Hath eternal life and I will
  raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is
  meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He
  that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,

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• dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living
  Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father so
  he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This
  is that bread which came down from heaven not as
  your fathers did eat manna, and are dead he that
  eateth of this bread shall live for ever. These
  things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in
  Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when
  they had heard this, said, This is an hard
  saying who can hear it? It is the spirit that
  quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the
  words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and
  they are life.

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THE LORDS SUPPER WILDERNESS

• DEUTERONOMY 83
• And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to
  hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou
  knewest not, neither did thy fathers know that
  he might make thee know that man doth not live by
  bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out
  of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
• Physical Food Manna
• Spiritual Food WORD OF GOD
• MATTHEW 56
• Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
  after righteousness for they shall filled.

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MULTITUDE OF FOLLOWERS OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT

• OLD TESTAMENT
• ISRAEL EXODUS 1237
• MIXED MULTITUDE FOUR KINDS EXODUS 1238
• POLITICAL REASONS EXODUS 1412 EGYPTIANS
• MIRACULOUS REASONS NUMBERS 114 WHO WILL GIVE
  US MEAT?
• PROSPERITY REASONS NUMBERS 114-6 INTENSE
  CRAVINGS
• BREAD BODY AND BLOOD

• NEW TESTAMENT
• DISCIPLES JOHN 670
• GREAT MULTITUDE FOUR KINDS JOHN 61-71
• POLITICAL REASONS CFO
• MIRACULOUS REASONS JOHN 61-71
• PROSPERITY REASONS JUDAS GREED AND MONEY AND
  THE GREAT MULTITUDE
• BREAD BODY AND BLOOD

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OLD TESTAMENT APOSTASY

• ZECHARIAH 711, 12
• But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the
  shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they
  should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as
  an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law,
  and the words which the Lord of hosts.
• APOSTASY BETRAYAL EXODUS 321-4
• 2 CHRONICLES 3615, 16 JERUSALEMS FALL
• And the LORD God of their fathers sent them by
  his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending
  because he had compassion on his people, and on
  his dwelling place But they mocked the
  messengers of God, and despised his words, and
  misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord
  arose against his people, till there was no
  remedy.

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NEW TESTAMENT APOSTASY

• JOHN 658, 64, 66, 71 APOSTASY BETRAYAL
• This is that bread which came down from heaven
  not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead
  he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
  But there are some of you that believe not. For
  Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that
  believed not, and who should betray him. From
  that time many of his disciples went back, and
  walked no more with him. He spake of Judas
  Iscariot the son of Simon for he it was that
  should betray him, being one of the twelve.

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• Olivetan said, There are but two religions in
  the world. The one class of religions are those
  which men have invented, in all of which man
  saves himself by ceremonies and good works the
  other is that one religion which is revealed in
  the Bible, and which teaches man to look for
  salvation solely from the free grace of God.
• GREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 219-221

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A CLASS OF RELIGION THAT MEN HAVE INVENTED

• ELLEN G. WHITE, GREAT CONTROVERSY, pp. 280-281
• But many of the revivals of modern times have
  presented a marked contrast to those
  manifestations of the divine grace which in
  earlier days followed the labors of Gods
  servants. Popular revivals are too often carried
  by appeals to the imagination, by exciting the
  emotions, by gratifying the love for what is new
  and startling. But where, in the popular churches
  today, is the spirit of consecration for God? The
  converts do not renounce their pride and love of
  the world. The power of godliness has well-nigh
  departed from the churches

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• Picnics, church theatricals, church
  fairs, fine houses, personal display, have
  banished thoughts of God. Lands and goods and
  worldly occupations engross the mind, and things
  of eternal interest receive hardly a passing
  notice. Before the final visitation of God's
  judgments upon the earth, there will be, among
  the people of the Lord, such a revival of
  primitive godliness as has not been witnessed
  since apostolic times. The Spirit and power of
  God will be poured out upon his children. At that
  time many will separate themselves from those
  churches in which the love of this world has
  supplanted love for God and his Word. The enemy
  of souls desires to hinder this work and before
  the time for such a movement shall come, he will
  endeavor to prevent it, by introducing a
  counterfeit. In those churches which he can bring
  under his deceptive power, he will make it appear
  that God's special blessing is poured out there
  will be manifest what is thought to be great
  religious interest. Multitudes will exult that
  God is working marvelously for them, when the
  work is that of another spirit.

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RELIGION OF THE BIBLE LORDS SUPPER

• ELLEN G. WHITE, MANUSCRIPT 81, 1906 33, 1911.
• A HEAVEN-SENT TEACHER.
• I am the bread of life, the Author, Nourisher,
  and Supporter of eternal, spiritual life. To eat
  his flesh and to drink blood means to receive him
  as a heaven-sent teacher. Belief in him is
  essential to spiritual life. Those who feast on
  the Word never hunger, never thirst, never desire
  any higher or more exalted good.

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EATING AND DRINKING REPRESENTS NEARNESS TO
CHRIST

• His statement regarding eating and drinking the
  blood of the Son of God, is to be taken in a
  spiritual sense. We eat Christs flesh and drink
  his blood when we by faith lay hold upon Him as
  our Saviour. The temporal food we eat is
  assimilated, giving strength and solidity to the
  body. In a similar manner, as we believe and
  receive the words of the Lord Jesus, they become
  a part of our spiritual life, bringing light and
  peace, hope and joy, and strengthening the soul
  as physical food strengthens the body.