在本期视频中，魏泰德牧师谈论关于圣餐礼，它是基于基督复临安息日会基本信仰第16条。

圣餐礼是耶稣的身体和血的象征，对祂的信心表现。在这经验中，基督与祂的子民同在并坚固他们。当我们领受圣餐的时候，我们是“表明主的死，直等到他再来。”(哥林多前书11:26)。

为圣餐礼所做的准备包括自我反省、悔改和认罪。这些体现在洗脚礼上，表示重生的洁净和愿意以基督的谦卑互相服事，用爱把我们的心联合起来。

当耶稣像仆人一样为门徒洗脚时，圣餐礼就是表明了耶稣的爱,由此给我们做了榜样——仁慈和无条件的爱。“我是你们的主，你们的夫子，尚且洗你们的脚，你们也当彼此洗脚。我给你们作了榜样，叫你们照着我向你们所做的去做。”(约翰福音13:14-15)。

除了彼此洗脚，圣餐礼的三个重要部分还包括吃无酵饼和喝葡萄汁。所有这些都象征着基督为拯救我们而牺牲，以及祂为我们树立的仆人般的榜样。

同样，这些行为是遵循了耶稣对门徒所说的话:“你们也应该如此行，为的是记念我。”（路加福音22:19）

这饼代表基督为我们而破碎的身体。“ 他们吃的时候，耶稣拿起饼来，祝福，就擘开，递给门徒，说：‘你们拿着吃，这是我的身体’。”(马太福音26:26)。

耶稣在约翰福音6:48说:“我就是生命的粮。”在51节，他继续说，“我是从天上降下来生命的粮；人若吃这粮，就必永远活着。我所要赐的粮就是我的肉，为世人之生命所赐的。”

为什么在圣餐礼中使用的饼是不经发酵的?

在逾越节期间，上帝指示以色列人在法老允许他们离开埃及的时候做好准备。于是，他们烤无酵饼。多年来，他们用无酵饼庆祝逾越节，以纪念他们离开埃及。

同时，使徒保罗赋予此另一个层面的意义：“你们既是无酵的面，应当把旧酵除净，好使你们成为新团；因为我们逾越节的羔羊基督已经被杀献祭了。所以，我们守这节不可用旧酵，也不可用恶毒、邪恶的酵，只用诚实真正的无酵饼。”（哥林多前书5:6-8）

另一方面，葡萄树的果实象征耶稣的血“为多人流出来，使罪得赦”(马太福音26:28)。“若不流血，罪就不得赦免了。”(希伯来书9:22)

在逾越节使用的葡萄树的果实，是未发酵的葡萄汁。耶稣在马太福音26:29说：“从今以后，我不再喝这葡萄汁，直到我在我父的国里同你们喝新的那日子。”

因此，圣经责备发酵的葡萄酒。在箴言20:1，我们读到：“酒能使人亵慢，浓酒使人喧嚷；凡因酒错误的，就无智慧。”还有：“酒发红，在杯中闪烁，你不可观看，虽然下咽舒畅，终久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。”（箴言书23:31-32）

因此，只有从新鲜的葡萄树上榨出纯净的葡萄汁，才符合基督完美的血的象征。

耶稣设立圣餐礼来纪念我们从罪中被拯救。正是新约仪式延续了逾越节的庆祝。

圣餐礼是我们思考如何在基督里成长和用生命荣耀祂的最佳时机。

In this episode, Pastor Ted Wilson talks about the Lord’s Supper based on the sixteenth fundamental belief of the Seventh-day Adventists.

The Lord’s Supper is a participation in the emblems of the body and blood of Jesus as an expression of faith in Him. In this experience, Christ is present to meet and strengthen His people. And as we partake in it, we “proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes” (1 Corinthians 11:26).

Preparation for this communion includes self-examination, repentance, and confession. These are manifested in the service of foot washing, signifying renewed cleansing and willingness to serve one another in Christlike humility and unite our hearts in love.

The Lord’s Supper follows Jesus’ demonstration of love when He washed His disciples’ feet like a servant. By doing this, He showed an example of kindness and unconditional love. “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you” (John 13:14-15).

Aside from washing one another’s feet, the three significant parts of the communion service involve eating unleavened bread and drinking grape juice. All these are symbolic of Christ’s sacrifice to save us and the servant-like example He set.

Also, these actions follow Jesus’ words to His disciples: “Do this in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19).

The bread represents Christ’s body broken for us. “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body.’” (Matthew 26:26).

Jesus said in John 6:48, “I am the Bread of life.” In verse 51, He continued, “I am the living Bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

This bread, as used in the communion service, is unleavened. Why?

During the Passover, God instructed the Israelites to get ready to leave Egypt soon as Pharaoh permitted. So, they baked unleavened cakes of dough. Through the years, they used unleavened bread in celebrating the Passover as a reminder of their exodus from Egypt.

Meanwhile, Apostle added another meaning to this. “Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore, purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump since you truly are unleavened. For indeed, Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:6-8).

On the other hand, the fruit of the vine symbolizes Jesus’ blood “which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28). “Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22).

This fruit of the vine, as used in Passover, was unfermented grape juice. Jesus said in Matthew 26:29, “I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

With this, the Bible condemns fermented wine. In Proverbs 20:1, we read that “wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.” Also, “do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly; at the last, it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper” (Proverbs 23:31-32).

As such, only pure grape juice, freshly squeezed from the vine, fits the symbol of the perfect blood of Christ.

Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper to commemorate our deliverance from sin. It is the new covenant service that continues the Passover celebration.

The communion is the perfect time to think about how we can grow in Christ and honor Him with our lives.