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Watch this carefully because this is way bigger than just bread and wine. This is about what Jesus was actually doing in the Last Supper.
What do Protestants get wrong about the Eucharist? You know more than me cuz you used to be a Protestant.
The vast majority of Protestants, at least in the United States, are essentially Zwinglians in their understanding of the Eucharist, which is, you know, Zwingli was a Swiss reformer who just said, "Ah, it's it's just it's all symbolic." What's wrong about that is that it drastically misses the centrality of the Eucharist to the whole plan of salvation in scripture. And looking it back on it, I'm floored that we didn't get this. It was like we fumbled at the 2-yard line cuz you follow the covenants, you got the Adamic covenant, Noaic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, the new covenant promised in the prophets. But then when it comes to the New Testament, we didn't look carefully at what Jesus himself identifies as the new covenant. At the Last Supper, he takes the chalice and says, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood."
So Jesus says, "This cup." He's talking about the contents of the cup. That's why he says then, "in my blood," referring to what's in the cup. I'm sure that when, you know, Peter and James and John and Philip, you know, gathered around the table, when they hear Jesus say, "This cup is the new covenant," they're like, "Did he just say what I thought he said? Are we doing this now? Is this going down here?" Because they've been waiting for 600 years for the new covenant. Back in 587, the year that Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians, the prophet Jeremiah, who's one of the three biggies, he prophesied Jeremiah 31:31, "The days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with them when I brought them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, and I had to show myself to be their master. But this is the covenant that I will make with them in those days. I will place my law within them." And he says, "not like the covenant that I made when I brought out of Egypt," which is clearly the Mosaic covenant. So this new covenant's going to replace the Mosaic covenant.
That's The Mosaic covenant is the basis of all of Judaism. It's like the whole religious system is based on the Mosaic covenant. So if you're going to introduce a new covenant, that's like turn everything upside down. It's going to like revamp everything because a covenant is an oath. But the point of offering covenants is that God is again and again inviting us into a family relationship with him. So Jesus is saying the new covenant, the new family bond, is this cup. It's my blood. So his flesh and blood is the family bond. Well, that makes Actually, that makes perfect sense because you are what you eat. So if you if you take his body and blood, you become his body and blood, you become him. And And then you share in his sonship with the Father. It's like And this is the one that supersedes the Adamic, the Noaic, the Mosaic, the Davidic. It's the new covenant. This is huge, and it's the Eucharist.