What does First B Jackson teach about last supper?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the Last Supper is taught as the moment where the weight of the whole Passover story comes to rest on Jesus himself. Pastor Brian walked through how the bread and the cup already carried centuries of meaning, the blood of the lamb, the covenant sealed year after year, and then Jesus pointed to himself and said that is me now. My body, my blood, once for all time. The old symbols did not disappear; they were fulfilled. Brian also paused on what it meant that Jesus went into that meal knowing he would be betrayed and abandoned by the people sitting with him, and said that resolve is the shape of his unconditional love and his unwavering commitment to reconcile us back to God.
Pastor Carl and Pastor Ryan both drew the congregation into the supper through the question each disciple asked when Jesus said one of them would betray him: 'Surely not I, Lord?' Ryan made the point that for the eleven who meant it, that question was actually a humble one, the posture of someone who does not want to be the one who fails his Lord, who hopes it is not him, who asks to be shown his own missteps. Judas asked the same words but said 'Rabbi' rather than 'Lord,' and he already knew the answer. The contrast between those two ways of asking the same question was where both messages kept landing.
The teaching also returns to what Jesus did before the meal began. He washed his disciples' feet. Ryan put it simply: if you knew you had one day left, Jesus washed feet. He served. Carl drew out that when Jesus sent Peter and John to prepare the upper room, everything was already in place exactly as he had said, and the point he made from that is that when Jesus gives a command, he has already gone before you to prepare the way. Together the messages ask the congregation to sit with the same question the disciples asked and to answer it honestly.
Taught from Matthew 26 · Mark 14:1-26 · John 13:5-20 · Luke 22 · 1 Corinthians 11
The passage taught · John 13
1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
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