Jesus as the Center

The New Testament is all about Jesus Christ and what He did for us on the cross. Everything from before the Resurrection to the end times, it all builds up to his death and that affects everything else. The worship of the New Testament is centered on the Lord's Table. Our worship is lifted up to God because of what begun at the Lord's Table before Christ went to the cross. Reference is given to Jesus and the cross many times after He died and resurrected. Paul speaks of Jesus and the cross in Galatians 6:14," God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Paul did not want what he was teaching to the people, to glorify him. Paul wanted what he taught to bring glory back to what Jesus did on the cross. 

When we look at Jesus as the central point of the New Testament, we see the Lord's Table and the centerpiece is the bible itself. With Jesus as the central point, we know that He was God in the flesh. He was God. It says in Colossians 1:19, "For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.” God came to the earth as Jesus, why wouldn't we focus on Him as the center point? 

Communion is where Jesus met with his friends, his disciples before he was taken to the cross. It was at the Lord's Table that Jesus foretold them was about to happen. It is where he broke the bread and told them that the bread represented Jesus' body that was about to be broken for the sins of the world. And he told them the wine represented Jesus' blood that was about to be spilled for the sins of the world. His body and his blood were the instruments that purchased and secured eternal salvation for all who will come to him. In John 6:56, Jesus says, "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him."

Jesus came as the Word, and the Word was good. Jesus says in John 5:39, "...it is the scriptures that bear witness about me." The words in the bible are not just words. They are the inspired words of God. Scripture is how the Holy Spirit speaks to us and it is an essential part of the Trinity. And throughout the entire bible, through prophecy in the Old Testament, and fulfillment in the New Testament, the Messiah is key to it all. Christ is the Word and the Word is good.