Do this in remembrance of Me'" (Luke 22:19). Then Jesus "took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, 'This is My body, which is given for you. Around the table he shared the Passover meal with his closest friends. It would be their last time together before he was hauled away by Jewish and Roman authorities to be crucified. On the night before Jesus was executed he gathered with his disciples for a final meal together. When we share in the bread and cup we have not only the responsibility of receiving but also remembering. But the Lord's Supper is more than a meal. Just as we take the elements and receive them into our bodies, we have taken Jesus Christ and received him into our lives. The Lord's Supper is a meal that we receive. The Lord's Supper is not a battle cry, but it, too, is a call to remembrance. Other battle cries have marked our nation's two-hundred-year history such as "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember the Maine!" Roosevelt called the day of the sneak attack, "a day of infamy." The national battle cry with which the United States entered World War II was "Remember Pearl Harbor!" The battleship went down in eight minutes, entombing 1,177 sailors. The boilers, oil tanks, and munitions magazine exploded. The USS Arizona took a bomb down its stack. Two hundred American planes were destroyed and 3,581 servicemen were killed or wounded. Eight battleships and 10 smaller warships were sunk or put out of commission. Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 11 IntroductionĪt sunrise of Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, 350 Japanese war planes flew through a mountain pass over the island of Oahu and rained death and destruction on Pearl Harbor.
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