This Do In Remembrance of Me

This whole book that we call the Word of God is, in fact, a testimony to CHRIST, Who is from everlasting. CHRIST is from Genesis to Revelation. But how many realize that CHRIST was ordained, called, established, appointed, predetermined, declared, confirmed in eternity before creation. We must understand that God, in His Omniscience, knew the beginning and the end of what He would do. That is, His Divine plan and purpose would require, by His own design, a creation of life, a corruption of that creation, a Law to condemn the corruption, an atonement for that corruption, a people called out of that corruption for His own possession, a sacrifice called out of His people that would overcome the corruption, so that He could bring about His New Creation. That is over-simplified I know. Each theme there is a Bible study of its own. 

The work of redemption was the calling of the Christ. That “anointing” before any creation, was taken on by God the Son. I believe the Godhead to be God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. In Genesis chapter 1, it is the Godhead working and creating. In Genesis 2:4 we are introduced to Jehovah, God the Son, LORD (all caps) as the Redeemer with a special relationship to man.

“Jehovah is distinctly the redemption name of God the Son.” ~C.I. Scofield

Jehovah is also "He Who reveals Himself."
God reveals Himself to humanity, and indeed ALL of creation, in a singular, supernatural way surpassing understanding, as the CHRIST. CHRIST encompasses the revealing God, the revelation itself, redemption, and the transformation as the new man.

This is not Jesus yet, because flesh and blood cannot be pre-existent. Jehovah is Who is made flesh (Jesus)  in John 1:14. So John 1:1 requires a more perfect understanding than what has been traditionally taught.

We gather together every Sunday morning to remember everything... all that we can about God and especially, the Lord Jesus. In 1 Cor. 11 beginning in verse 23 we read...
The Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread: And when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is My body, which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner also He took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new testament in My blood: do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

I’d like us to consider the word “betrayed.” The betrayal goes all the way back to Genesis 3:6. In verse 17 the LORD God said, “Because you have harkened and obeyed the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.”
Because Adam obeyed Eve rather than God, he betrayed God. Sin is a betrayal! Throughout the Old Testament record, God has been betrayed, primarily by Israel because they were/are His covenant people, to this day. But God cannot betray Israel. Yet has He set them aside and has established a new covenant with the Gentiles.
Romans 11:11 says, Have they (Israel) stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their transgression, (i.e., rejecting their Messiah) salvation has come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them (Israel) to jealousy.

As often as we break the bread and drink the cup, we do it always in remembrance of Jesus Who was betrayed and yet He endured the hostilities and suffering to the end... REMAINING FAITHFUL.
To whom was Jesus faithful? Jesus remained faithful to the Father, and to Israel. He was their Messiah and He had to endure the prophecies of His sufferings for Israel and the sins of the world.

Rom. 3:21-22 says, The righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by the faithfulness of Jesus the Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.
The “righteousness of God IS  Christ Himself Who is called “imputation” and is made unto us – “righteousness” (James 2:23)  by the act of God. ~C.I. Scofield

In Acts 2:42, we read about the early church how they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Do we understand this phrase, “continued steadfastly?” It means to be in constant readiness; faithfully persistent; continually devoted; incessantly diligent, and relentlessly determined. The key words are “constant” and “devotion.”

And Acts 2:46 says, Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart.
How have we deteriorated from the purity of this communal fellowship?

In 1 Cor. 11:26 Paul writes, For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. But who do we “proclaim” it to? We’re not out on the sidewalk eating the bread and drinking the cup. No, but we assert it; we affirm it; we declare it among ourselves; that Jesus died for the forgiveness of our sins. We declare it as a memorial, which literally means “in memory of.” He bore our sins in his own body on the cross, and suffered, and satisfied the requirements of the Law to God for us. His body was as spiritual food for our faith when we reflect on it, which will not fail to bring to our remembrance the love of God.

Remembrance brings to mind that which we already know, but we are reminded also that there is much we do not know. 1 Cor. 8:2 says, The one who thinks that he knows anything, knows nothing yet as is necessary for him to know. So what is it that we come together for? To remember His death or to remember Him? It is, of course, understood and accepted that His death is why He came. But it was His LIFE that made His death acceptable to God. The answers to a great many questions can be found in the persons of Adam, the son of God, Luke 3:38 and Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Matt. 16:16. The first tells us what went wrong; the last tells us how it was made right.