December 9, 2019 – Luke 22:14

When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table.
—Luke 22:14

What further may be inferred from this sitting of Christ with his disciples at the table?68
First, there may be inferred from it the equality of all the saints. There were twelve apostles here. When the Lord’s supper was celebrated after all the apostles had gone to heaven, was there to be any alteration because the apostles had gone? Not at all. Believers are to do this in remembrance of their Lord until he comes.
It is only in the church of God that the words liberty, equality, and fraternity can ever be any more than a dream. You have them where Jesus is—not in a republic but in the kingdom of our Lord, where all rule and dominion are vested in him, all of us willingly acknowledge him as our glorious head, and we all are brothers and sisters. Do not think that what the Lord worked in the early saints cannot be worked in you. The grace of God sustained the apostles; that grace is not less today than it was then. There is the same table for you, and the same food is there in emblem, and grace can make you like those holy men, for you are bought with the same blood and made alive by the same Spirit.
Another inference is that the needs of the church in all ages will be the same, and the supplies for the church’s needs will never vary. There will be the table still, with the same provisions—bread still, nothing more than bread for food; wine still, nothing less than wine for drink. The church will always need the same food, the same Christ, the same gospel.
Lastly, there is in this truth a prophecy that this will be the portion of all his people forever. In heaven there cannot be less of privilege than on earth. It cannot be that in the celestial state believers will be degraded from what they have been below. What were they, then, below? Table companions. What will they be in heaven above? Table companions still, and blessed are they who will eat bread in the kingdom of God. And the Lord Jesus will be at the head of the table. Now, what will his table of joy be? Set your imagination to work, and think what will be his festival of soul when his reward will be all before him and his triumph all achieved. Can you imagine it? Whatever it is, you will share in it.
In the anticipation of the joy that will be yours, forget your present troubles, rise to the difficulties of the hour, and if you cannot rejoice in the present, yet rejoice in the future, which shall so soon be your own.
—C. H. Spurgeon