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22他们吃的时候，耶稣拿起饼来，祝了福，就擘开，递给他们说：“你们拿着吃，这是我的身体。”23又拿起杯来，祝谢了，递给他们，他们都喝了。24耶稣说：“这是我立约的血，为多人流出来的。25我实在告诉你们：我不再喝这葡萄汁，直到我在 神的国里喝新的那日子。”26他们唱了诗，就出来，往橄榄山去。
今天，当我读到这些经文的时候，让我印象深刻的是，圣餐礼是多么简单。耶稣没有规定一些复杂的仪式。我们吃饼喝酒，同时领受基督的身体和血。除了圣洗礼，没有比这更简单的事了 。
圣餐礼以奇妙的方式将我们与耶稣联合在一起。耶稣说这是立约的血，这让我们回想起耶利米书31:31-34，耶和华描述了他将与以色列家所立的“新约”。这个约有一条保底的条款，”我要赦免他们的罪孽，不再记念他们的罪恶”。当我们在圣餐礼中领饼和杯的时候，我们是在庆祝耶稣与我们所立的约。
圣餐礼也指向了将来。耶稣说他不会喝这葡萄汁，直到他在神的国里喝新的。每当我们领受圣餐，这也提醒我们将来的事。我们在圣餐中所经历的联合，预示着我们将来在天堂与耶稣的联合，以及与所有圣徒的联合。
圣餐礼如此简单，却意义深远。通过这个圣礼，耶稣赦免了我们的罪，并保证我们将来也参加天上的宴席。
祷告:主耶稣啊，感谢你赐给我圣餐礼，使我的罪得赦免，并提醒我在天堂与你永远同在。阿们。
Mark 14:22-23: While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.” 23 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them. 25 “Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” 26 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. (NIV)
What strikes me today as I read these words is how simple the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper is. Jesus does not prescribe some complicated ritual. We eat the bread and drink the wine while at the same time receiving the body and blood of Christ. You cannot get much simpler than that, unless it is the washing of water in Baptism.
This sacrament unites us with Jesus in a wonderful way. Jesus says that it is the blood of covenant, which takes us back to Jeremiah 31:31-34. There the Lord describes the “new covenant” that he will make with the house of Israel. The bottom line of that covenant is this. “I will forgive their iniquities and remember their sins no more.” Whenever we eat the bread and drink the cup, we are celebrating that covenant which Jesus has made with us.
This sacrament also looks ahead to the future. Jesus says he would not drink from the fruit of the vine until he drinks it new in the kingdom of God. Whenever we partake of the Lord’s Supper, we are reminded of what is yet to come. The communion we experience in the Lord’s Supper is a foretaste of the communion we will celebrate with Jesus in heaven together with all the saints.
This sacrament is so simple, yet deeply meaningful. Through this sacrament, Jesus forgives our sins and assures us of our place at the table in heaven.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you for this blessed sacrament through which my sins are forgiven and I am reminded of my place in heaven with you. Amen.