What are the purpose of memorials? What were some of the memorials in the Old Testament? What are the memorials for Christians. These questions are explored in today's lesson "The Memorial."

1. The Memorial
by
Brian Birdow
Sermon text:1 Corinthians 10:16
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2. Objective of Lesson
1. What is a memorial, why memorials?
2. Feast of Dedication.
3. The Passover.
4. The Lord’s Supper.

3. Memorial defined
• Something designed to preserve the memory of a
person or event.
• A monument or a holiday
• A ceremony or monument that honors a person who
has died or seven a a reminder of an event in which
many people died.

4. Why Memorials?
• Why know your history?
• So that you don't forget and repeat! Appreciation!
• Deuteronomy 6:1-12, 20-25..turn with me please..
• Judges 2:8-14 …turn with me please…
• DYK? That teaching the subject of the Holocaust
and the Nazi era is mandatory in Germany?

5. U.S. Memorial Day
• Is a federal holiday in the U.S. for remembering the
people who died while serving in the country’s armed
forces.
• Originated as Decoration Day after the Civil War in 1868,
when the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of
Union veterans, established it as a time to decorate the
graves of the Union war dead with flowers.
• Later Confederate holiday traditions came about so they
merged both and we honor all Americans who died in
military service.

6. Feast of Dedication
• John 10:22 - At the time of the Feast of Dedication took
place at Jerusalem. (Aka. Feast of Lights)
• King Antiochus IV transformed the temple in Jerusalem
into a center for a pagan cult!
• Maccabean revolt and Judas the Hammer
• Hanukkah in Hebrew, is the Jewish holiday which
celebrates the reconsecration (rededication) of the
Jerusalem temple and its altar to the traditional service
of the Lord.

7. The Passover
• Exodus 12:1-5, 11-14, 23-27…turn with me please
• Deuteronomy 16:1-4, 12…turn with me please…

8. Jesus, the Passover &
Lord’s Supper
• Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper during the
Passover.
• Luke 22:1-2, 7-11, 14-20 …turn with me please…

9. The Lord’s Supper is..
A Memorial (1a)
• Luke 22:19 And when He had taken some bread
and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them
saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do
this in remembrance of Me.”
• Hebrews 10:4-10 …turn with me please…
• We remember His body!

10. The Lord’s Supper is..
A Memorial (1B)
• Luke 22:20 And in the same way He took the cup after
they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out
for you is the new covenant in My blood.”
• John 19:34. But one of the soldiers pierced His side
with a spear, and immediately blood and water came
out.
• Hebrews 9:22 …without the shedding of blood there is
no forgiveness.

11. The Lord’s Supper is..
A proclamation (2)
• Proclaim (katangello) - to declare, to show, to indicate.
• 1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death
until He comes.
• Note: until He comes! So the grave did not keep HIM!
• We proclaim the Lord’s death!

12. The Lord’s Supper is..
A Communion (3)
• Communion (Koinonia)- a joint sharing a joint participation, a
fellowship.
• 1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it
not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which
we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
• 1 Corinthians 11:33 So then, my brethren, when you come
together to eat, wait for one another.
• (Note 1 Cor. 11:17,18, 19, 20, 30—collective not individual)