Why Bread and Wine in Holy Communion? Why not Just 1 thing to eat?

  • Why Bread and Wine Both in Holy Communion?
  • It would’ve been easy if just one right?
  • Jesus told us to remember. Why Remember? What to Remember?
  • Here you go!!!

Two Deaths mentioned in Bible

  1. Physical Worldly Death (Genesis 3:19)
  2. Second Death, in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:14)

Jesus want us be remember that, we’ve been redeemed from Both death

  • Bread represents redemption from physical Death.
  • Wine represents redemption from Second Death

Representation

  • Bread always represents Physical Healing, leading us to the everlasting life on earth, without Physical Death
  • Forgiveness of sins, leads us to the everlasting life in Heaven

1. First Death

Genesis 3:19

New King James Version (NKJV)

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”

John 6:58

New King James Version (NKJV)

58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

  • forever in Hebrew : αἰῶνα (aiōna)
  • Means : Worldly Live forever
  • http://biblehub.com/greek/165.htm

2. Second Death

Revelation 21:8

New King James Version (NKJV)

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

John 6:54

New King James Version (NKJV)

54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

  • eternal in Hebrew : αἰώνιον (aiōnion)
  • Means: Heavenly Live forever
  • http://biblehub.com/greek/166.htm

Covenant in Bible means?

  • Covenant is same like an agreement, which we use recent times.
  • Covenant looks something like this

Old Covenant Example

Covenant between God and Man at Mount Sinai

10 Commandments

  • You shall have no other gods before Me.
  • You shall not make idols.
  • You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
  • Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  • Honor your father and your mother.
  • You shall not murder.
  • You shall not commit adultery.
  • You shall not steal.
  • You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  • You shall not covet.

If I fail in anyone of these, I shall die.

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  • “Sin” in Hebrew : Chata’
  • In Hebrew, Sin Means : Missing the Mark
  • Missing any of the above 10 Marks means : you sin : makes you sinner

http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/chata.html

James 2:10

New King James Version (NKJV)

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.

Romans 6:23

New King James Version (NKJV)

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Signature : Boasting on their Self Righteousness

Exodus 19:8

New King James Version (NKJV)

Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

Exodus 24:3

New King James Version (NKJV)

So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the Lord has said we will do.”

Will your sins be forgiven by confessing your sins?

No!!

  • It says, whosoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
  • It doesn’t say that it will make them holy/righteous
  • It doesn’t say that it will forgive all their confessed sins.

Proverbs 28:13

New King James Version (NKJV)

13 He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

Without Holiness, no one can see the Lord

Hebrews 12:14

New King James Version (NKJV)

14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Without Shedding of Blood there is no forgiveness of sin

Hebrews 9:22

English Standard Version (ESV)

22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

How you became a Sinner? by Sinning? NO

Romans 5:19

New King James Version (NKJV)

19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

How you became a Sinner?

  • You became a sinner NOT because of your sins
  • You became a sinner because of one man’s disobedience : Adam
  • Wages of sin is death.

So, How you became Righteous after:

From the above verse  “by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous”. Who’s Obedience? JESUS

  • By Jesus’s obedience we became righteous.
  • Jesus died for us and by believing on HIM we became Righteous, and shall have everlasting life
  • Believing that Jesus died for *all our sins ( *all : past, present and future sins)
  • So it’s nothing to do with us to become the Righteousness of God,
    • example: seek ye first the Kingdom of God and HIS righteousness
    • We are the Righteousness of God in Christ : when we believe on that and on His love towards us, actual sins(missing the mark) will automatically becomes repulsive.

John 3:16

New King James Version (NKJV)

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

2 Corinthians 5:21

New King James Version (NKJV)

21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Other Related verses

Proverbs 20:9
New King James Version (NKJV)

9 Who can say, “I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin”?