1 CORINTHIANS 11:24-25

‘ … and when He had given thanks, He broke the bread and said, “This is My body, given up for you - - do this in remembrance of Me.  Likewise, after supper, He took the last cup, saying, “This is the new promise in My blood - - do this when you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

JESUS' EARTHLY BODY SUFFERED MUCH

• He traveled long distances. 

• He was often hungry and thirsty

• He suffered harassment and rejection

• Because people focused more on themselves

• Than they did on God

Eventually, He was betrayed by a friend

• His body was tortured and beaten

• He was finally hanged on a cross

• Literally hanging from being nailed to it

Jesus was fully God 

• And He was fully man

• The God in Him suffered spiritually

• The man in Him suffered physically

BUT IT IS BECAUSE OF WHAT HE WENT THROUGH

• That He can now sustain us in Him

• so we don’t have to go thru the same punishment

His glorified body is different

• From His earthly body 

• It still bore the marks of His crucifixion

• But it also bears the glory 

Why did He go thru that for us?    

• So that we would depend on Him for our life

• And not upon the world

• For it cannot give life

What Jesus give us during the Lord’s Supper

• Is not just the bread and drink

• But the essence of His glorified body

The nourishment He gives

• are eternal, unchanging

• and adequate for our ever need

So, let us remember Him here …

• And carry that memory into our lives away from here

• So that we might glorify Him in all we do