Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller.

Right now we're learning how to follow Jesus by working our way through the Gospel of Luke.

When Jesus wanted to give his first followers a better understanding of what his death meant, of what it accomplished.

He did not give them a theory.

He didn't give them a philosophical treatise.

He didn't give them something complicated at all.

Instead what he did is he gave them a story. I wish my seminary

professors had taken the Jesus route because I remember learning all kinds of

complicated theories about what Jesus' death accomplished. But Jesus he

gave his first followers a story, a story that explained their life, his death, and really the whole world.

And it was a story rooted all the way back in the book of Exodus. It was a story about the first

Passover meal. It was a story about how God had delivered Israel from slavery in

Egypt and the Lord gave the Israelites a meal to remember that,

to remember how God had intervened,

raised up a deliverer, brought them out of slavery, and into the promised land.

And specifically, the Passover meal remembered how God had passed over their house

and not taken the life of their firstborn son because they had

taken the blood of the lamb and put it on their door posts. Now the Lord's Supper

or communion is the transformation of that Passover meal.

Jesus isn't hiding the ball, it's pretty obvious.

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