Jesus celebrates the Passover Meal

1. Lesson (based on Luke 22:7-23, 1 Cor 11: 24-25)

Props needed: bread and cup (we will take communion together as a class)

• Jesus had been preparing for His death since He came into Jerusalem on a donkey.
• Then came the time for the Passover Feast.
• A major annual Jewish celebration
• To remember the time God delivered the Israelites from Egypt
• God told the Israelites to prepare the Passover meal — lamb and unleavened bread — and to spread the blood of the lamb on their door posts so that the angel of death will pass over them.

A. Initiation of the New Covenant

• Jesus told His disciples to go make preparations for the Passover meal.
• As they were eating at the table, Jesus did 2 things:
•  Took the BREAD and broke it, giving it to His disciples
•  He said:  “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
• Took the CUP, gave to His disciples
•  Saying: “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. Do this in remembrance of me.”
• Jesus was foretelling His disciples that He was going to die; and when He died, He was cutting the New Covenant with God. 
• Man could not keep the Old Covenant with God, so Jesus had to come to fulfill the Old on our behalf and start the New.

Know our Covenant Benefits — David & Goliath

1. Story:

• Tell the story of David & Goliath based on 1 Sam 19.

• God deals with His people through covenants
• Covenant = promises between 2 parties to become 1 (e.g. a marriage) — “you = me”; whoever touches you, touches me; till death do us part.
•  The Israelites were part of the covenant God made with Abraham. They were circumcised — a mark of the covenant. They belonged to God. But sometimes they forgot that.