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Vocabulary for Lesson 22 (Vocab Quiz/Test 6.1)
Write each bold word in the Vocabulary section of your notebook with room for a 2-3 line definition.
- the Passover
- The feast that celebrates God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt, when the blood of the lamb was smeared upon the doorposts of their homes, so that the Angel of Death "passed over." This Old Testament feast corresponds to and is fulfilled in the Gospel Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. This Old Testament deliverance included both the action of God to save His people and the meal He provided them to receive that deliverance. The blood of the lamb was shed and smeared on the lintels and doorposts of their homes so that the Angel of Death would "pass over," and the roasted lamb was eaten with unleavened bread by all the faithful who believed in the Lord's deliverance; thus it pointed forward to and was fulfilled in the death of Christ and the Lord's Supper. [187]
- New Testament (or New Covenant)
- The promise of the Lord's Supper that the blood of Christ was shed in our place (vicarious atonement) for the forgiveness of sins, in order to satisfy God's just demand for the death of sinners. This word of promise guarantees that all the benefits of Christ's death for our sins are distributed in His body and blood in the Sacrament of the Altar. [188]
- the real presence
- That the true body and blood of Christ are present and distributed to every communicant in the Lord's Supper, along with the bread and the wine, because of the word and promise of Christ, "This is My body, which is given for you....This cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins." [189]
- Holy Communion
- The term for the Lord's Supper that underscores the reality that in receiving Christ's true body and blood we share in and receive all that He is and has done for us in His death and resurrection, so that in this sacrament we are in fellowship with God and one another in the forgiveness of sins. [190]
- the Lord's Supper
- The term for the Sacrament of the Altar which speaks of it as the food which Christ gives to the Christian to strengthen and preserve him in Christ and the true faith to life everlasting. [191]
- the breaking of the bread
- The New Testament term for the Lord's Supper used in the book of Acts and the early church. [192]