Significance of the last supper - JSS2 Christian Religious Studies Lesson Note

1. The Lord’s Supper is significant in many aspects. It serves as a memorial of the vicarious suffering of Jesus Christ for our sins.

2. It is significant to believer’s anticipation and preparation for the coming of Christ.

3. The bread represented his body which would be broken at his death on the cross. The wine represented the covenant blood which God would use to establish the new covenant to give us the will to overcome temptations to sin. The wine also represented the atoning blood of Jesus to forgive us our sins.

4. The last supper therefore represents the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross which saves us from our sins. It also represents the establishment of the new covenant in which God promised to deliver us from the evil influence of the devil, and give us spiritual strength to overcome temptations and to do what we cannot do by our will power.