I Will Drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom

Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, we gathered this morning to celebrate the resurrection. Jesus is alive! Yet the meal which we are going to enjoy at the conclusion of this service proclaims His death. Why is it appropriate to preach about the Lord's Supper at an Easter service? Because the Last Supper looks forward to the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb. This is an anticipatory feast. If you want to use the word, it's an appetizer designed to sharpen our appetite to drink wine new with Christ in His Father's Kingdom. But not only is it an appetizer for us; it's an appetizer for Him too. Indeed, what we will see about this meal this morning is that Jesus' ongoing abstinence from wine is His way of longing with us for the coming of God's Kingdom.