The Light's House Podcast
July 2021 Communion Service | The Significance of the communion and July Prophetic Declarations
Matthew 26:26-30 26: As they ate, Jesus took the bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to his disciples. He said to them, “This is my body. Eat it.” 27 Then taking the cup of wine, he gave thanks to the Father, he entered into covenant with them,[q] saying, “This is my blood. Each of you must drink it in fulfillment of the covenant. 28 For this is the blood that seals the new covenant.[r] It will be poured out for many for the complete forgiveness of sins. 29 The next time we drink this, I will be with you and we will drink it together with a new understanding in the kingdom realm of my Father.”[s] 30 Then they sang a psalm[t] and left for the Mount of Olives.
When you read this, you will notice that Christ entered into a covenant with every believer through His blood. He says the blood seals the new covenant. A seal is anything that ratifies. A seal is a token that binds a covenant together. The seal is meant to remind you of the efficacy and the presence of the covenant. So, if two people are in an agreement, the token/seal reminds them of their responsibilities within the covenant.
In the AMP version, v28 reads: for this is My blood of the [new and better] covenant, which [ratifies the agreement and] is being poured out for many [as a [n]substitutionary atonement] for the forgiveness of sins.
So the blood of Jesus poured out al Calvary ratifies the agreement God made with us in the New Covenant. The New Covenant and its provisions will remain forever as long as the blood of Jesus exists – and that blood will exist forever. This means you have access to God’s provision for your lifetime. Why was the blood poured out? As a substitutionary atonement for the forgiveness of sins. In the TPT, it says for the complete forgiveness of sin.
The word “substitution” in the AMP simply means a replacement. How did the blood of Jesus become a replacement atonement for us? We can only understand this when we look at what happens on the Day of Atonement. On the day of atonement, the one who is offering the sacrifice usually lays his hands on the head of the sacrifice and by doing this, the one offering the sacrifice identified himself with it and through its death, it became an atonement or covering for his sin.
Because the unblemished sacrifice “covered” his sin, it placed the one offering the sacrifice in a right relationship with God, just as later under the new covenant the perfection and sacrifice of Christ would cover (atone for) the imperfection and sin of those who identified with Him and accepted Him as Savior.
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- 04 Jul 2021
Matthew 26:26-30 26: As they ate, Jesus took the bread and blessed it and broke it and gave it to his disciples. He said to them, “This is my body. Eat it.” 27 Then taking the cup of wine, he gave thanks to the Father, he entered into covenant with them,[q] saying, “This is my blood. Each of you must drink it in fulfillment of the covenant. 28 For this is the blood that seals the new covenant.[r] It will be poured out for many for the complete forgiveness of sins. 29 The next time we drink this, I will be with you and we will drink it together with a new understanding in the kingdom realm of my Father.”[s] 30 Then they sang a psalm[t] and left for the Mount of Olives.
When you read this, you will notice that Christ entered into a covenant with every believer through His blood. He says the blood seals the new covenant. A seal is anything that ratifies. A seal is a token that binds a covenant together. The seal is meant to remind you of the efficacy and the presence of the covenant. So, if two people are in an agreement, the token/seal reminds them of their responsibilities within the covenant.
In the AMP version, v28 reads: for this is My blood of the [new and better] covenant, which [ratifies the agreement and] is being poured out for many [as a [n]substitutionary atonement] for the forgiveness of sins.
So the blood of Jesus poured out al Calvary ratifies the agreement God made with us in the New Covenant. The New Covenant and its provisions will remain forever as long as the blood of Jesus exists – and that blood will exist forever. This means you have access to God’s provision for your lifetime. Why was the blood poured out? As a substitutionary atonement for the forgiveness of sins. In the TPT, it says for the complete forgiveness of sin.
The word “substitution” in the AMP simply means a replacement. How did the blood of Jesus become a replacement atonement for us? We can only understand this when we look at what happens on the Day of Atonement. On the day of atonement, the one who is offering the sacrifice usually lays his hands on the head of the sacrifice and by doing this, the one offering the sacrifice identified himself with it and through its death, it became an atonement or covering for his sin.
Because the unblemished sacrifice “covered” his sin, it placed the one offering the sacrifice in a right relationship with God, just as later under the new covenant the perfection and sacrifice of Christ would cover (atone for) the imperfection and sin of those who identified with Him and accepted Him as Savior.