Lesson 16: A Humanitarian by Giving Us His Supper
Art & Music That Matters
Take and Eat
Performed by Michael Joncas
Song Lyrics
I am the Word that spoke and light was made
I am the seed that died to be re-born
I am the bread that comes from heaven above
I am the vine that fills your cup with joy
Take and eat, take and eat
This is my body given up for you
Take and drink, take and drink
This is my blood given up for you
I am the way that leads the exile home
I am the truth that sets the captive free
I am the life that raises up the dead
I am your peace, true peace my gift to you
Take and eat, take and eat
This is my body given up for you
Take and drink, take and drink
This is my blood given up for you
I am the Lamb that takes away your sin
I am the gate that guards you night and day
You are my flock you know the shepherd’s voice
You are my own, your ransom is my blood
Take and eat, take and eat
This is my body given up for you
Take and drink, take and drink
This is my blood given up for you
℗ 1989 GIA Publications, Inc. Released on: 1989-01-01 Artist: Michael Joncas
Questions to Consider
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Jesus says to his people, “Listen, listen to me. Hear of my love for you in all that I have done for you. Hear once again of the way that I have rescued and redeemed you. I have done all of this for you because I love you.
There is nothing that sinful human beings could do for God; the doing had to be done by God. Humans are spiritual beggars in need of God-given out-of-this-world kind of sustenance.
God is a great giver, and in the sacrament, he gives of himself and sings a refrain for all to remember, Take and eat, take and eat. This is my body given up for you. Take and drink, take and drink. This is my blood given up for you.”
Illustrating Our Sin & Our Savior
Artwork by Chris Powers
Questions to Consider
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In the Lord’s Supper, with the bread and wine, Jesus gives his body and blood for the forgiveness of sins.
Sinful human beings bring nothing other than themselves and their sin to the table. “Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I cling.
In the sacrament, God gives peace and confidence by giving his Son’s body and blood which was sacrificed on the cross once for all people.
Jesus is coming to me in a very personal and tangible way in the Lord’s Supper and giving me the price he paid for my sins. That price is his true body and his true blood, which he gave into death and poured out on the cross. That price is what won for me the forgiveness of sins, which he now actually gives to me through his Word and his body and blood in the Lord’s Supper.
I hear the words. I receive his body and blood under the bread and wine. This is not a mere symbol or representation. It is not another sacrifice for my sins—that Jesus did once and for all on Good Friday.
Through this sacrament, in a miraculous and supernatural way, Jesus is giving me—yes, me, a lost and condemned sinner who struggles daily with the temptations of Satan and the guilt of my sins and the desires of my flesh and the pressures of this sinful world—his very body and blood for the forgiveness of my sins.
