The New Passover Celebration

The New Passover Celebration

Even celebrating Passover as though Christ had not come can be a denial of Him.  Many Jews who have not trusted Him, are still celebrating His future coming, as though He had not yet fulfilled His promise.

When Christ died and was resurrected, He left us with one ceremony to observe  commemorating His coming and that was the Lord's Supper.  

The Passover was for the Jews, looking forward to the Messiah to come, now as believers we have the Lord's supper to commemorate that He kept that promise and He said on the cross...."It is finished."  

All had been fulfilled. Now we celebrate the Lord's supper in commemoration of that fulfillment.  The Passover can be a powerful teaching tool, however our focus ought to be that which God commanded in His Word.....the New Covenant.  

The New Passover meal commemorating that Christ had fulfilled His mission is now in place and is not celebrated once a year, but every time the believers come together.

1 Corinthians 11:23–26
"23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 
24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 
25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes."

The Passover was observed by Christ while He was on earth, and in the form of the Lord's Supper, which was given to show that His mission was about to be fulfilled. Before He died and rose from the dead, the New Passover was instituted in the form of the Lord's Supper, to be observed every time believers came together.

We have neglected this ordinance in many, if not most gatherings. The Lord's supper is often done in the evening when most people don't attend and only once a month, rather than every time they meet. Some gatherings only celebrate it once a year, and others not at all.

As believers, we ought to celebrate the death, burial and resurrection often, since without that shedding of blood, we would not be forgiven for our sins.

Hebrews 9:22 "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."

If we desire to obey Christ, we will set aside all pagan rituals and observe that which He commanded to observe.

There is not need for a special "resurrection day", if we are observing the Lord's Supper, it is the "resurrection celebration" that Christ gave us, let us remember that the devil desires that we not remember the Lord in the way that Christ gave us, so He prompted men of disobedient hearts, to make their own observance apart from Christ's command.  

When man makes his own holiday, apart from the commands of Christ, they eventually become perverted because they are not blessed by God. This is what has happened to "resurrection day" and "Easter."   Man attempted to do his own way, when Christ commanded already what was to be done, in the Lord's Supper.

Let us go back to the Word, prayerfully seeking to obey what Christ gave us, rather than clinging to our own man made traditions to impress God.