The Lord told His disciples that He was going somewhere, and that the disciples could not come with Him. Instead of coming with Him, He commanded them to love one another—the new commandment. But Peter wanted to accompany the Lord, which was apparently far more appealing than loving the other disciples. So look around this …
The Answer to Sacrificial Crisis
The same night that the Lord Jesus established the Lord’s Supper, Matthew tells us that He sang with His disciples before He went to His betrayal. Because He established the Lord’s Supper at a Passover Seder, we know that He sang the Hallel Psalms (113-118). This means that He sang Ps. 116, which contains these …
Like Sheep In a Thunderstorm
At the first Supper, the Lord delivered a new commandment to His disciples – which was that they were love one another the same way He has loved them. He said further that this would be the mark by which they would be identified as His, by their love for one another, a love that …
He Hath Filled the Hungry With Good Things
Idolaters are hungry, and idolaters have the kind of hunger that cannot be filled. The prophet Isaiah says it this way: “The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh …
Come As You Are Told
When Jesus was assembled with His disciples at their last meal together, He identified the one who was to betray Him with a sop of bread. When He gave the bread to Judas, Satan entered into him, and Jesus said, “That thou doest, do quickly.” The Lord’s Supper is a sign and a seal of …
No Miser of Grace
Our Lord, who knew the hearts of men, served the Lord’s Supper to Judas, one in whose heart the devil was already at work. Not only this, but the Lord also took off His outer garments, took a basin, and washed the disciples’ feet, including the feet of Judas – the same feet that were …
That Strength is Here
All homes have places where discipline occurs. As I was growing up, it was the basement. When we were “sent to the basement,” this is where my father would admonish us, discipline us, pray with us afterwards, and graciously invite us to rejoin the fellowship of the family. In other homes, the place varies according …
Grace Is Dangerous
Jesus asked His disciples if they would also go away. “Where could we go?” Peter replied. “You have the words of eternal life.” He said this confessing that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God. And this is what we also confess. When we do, we are confessing what God has already …
Fussy With the Food
God delights to feed His saints, and yet His family, like all families, contains children who are fussy about their food. One of the perennial problems that parents have is that is getting children to eat what is set before them, gratefully and simply. It can be discouraging for parents when children won’t eat, or …
You Dear Little Fathead
Jesus delivered some hard sayings to His disciples concerning the eating of His flesh and the drinking of His blood. It says, “from that time many of his disciples went back.” But they went back, not because Jesus told them of the overwhelming works they would have to do in order to be worthy of …