Luke 22:14-20 (Msg) - “When it was time, he sat down, all the apostles with him, and said, “You have no idea how much I have looked forward to eating this Passover meal with you before I enter my time of suffering. It’s the last one I’ll eat until we all eat it together in the kingdom of God.” Taking the cup, he blessed it, then said, “Take this and pass it among you. As for me, I’ll not drink wine again until the kingdom of God arrives.” Taking bread, he blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, given for you. Eat it in my memory.”He did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the NEW COVENANT written in my blood, blood poured out for you.” 

Three Steps to a NEW DAY:

1. “New covenant”: Receive YOUR FORGIVENESS.

1. A “covenant” is a sworn oath. It is becoming one with another person. Everything that’s yours become theirs and vice-versa.  
2. “New covenant” is replacing the Old Covenant or the Old Testament. 
3. “In MY BLOOD, poured out for you.”
   1. It is not just a “sworn oath,” it is a “blood oath.” Jesus has sealed His promises in the New Testament with His very own blood.
   2. Jesus didn’t just “forgive us of all our sins.” He PAID FOR ALL OUR SINS.  
   3. Heb. 10:12—“But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.”

2. “New commandment”: Restore YOUR RELATIONSHIPS.

1. “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (Jn. 13: 34-35) 
2. “Just as I HAVE LOVED YOU, YOU ARE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.” This was also a “new commandment,” a servant love. 
3. This is a NEW KIND OF LOVE. In the Old Testament, it was an “eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” Jesus was telling us to “love your enemies, pray for those who despitefully use you.”

3. “New commitment”: Surrender YOUR WILL

1. “And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will” (Mk. 14:36)
2. “Abba, Father” is a tender word a child uses for their Papa, their Daddy.  
3. All things are possible for you.” When we obey His will, “all things are possible for Him.” He can do miraculous things through a life that is yielded completely to Him.
4. “REMOVE this cup from me.” Jesus felt the same way we do about obeying difficult instructions. He was fully human and was offering up “loud crying and tears.”

4. “YET NOT WHAT I WILL”—He made the COMMITMENT.

1. The WILL is where we make our choices, our decisions. We either surrender and submit or we fight and resist.