The Pains he had to bear

Like everything else in the Mosaic law, the passover feast was pointing to something greater, something more significant. The paschal lamb was pointing the Jews to their Savior, who would in every way save them from those destroying angels of sin and death. For centuries the Jews celebrated this feast as they anticipated their Saviors heroic arrival, which was to be followed by their glorious emancipation from Roman oppression. How dreadful it was that they had "looked beyond the mark" and did not recognize the mission of Jesus of Nazareth.

As the paschal lamb caused the Jews to look forward to the Messiah, the Sacrament of the Lords supper was instituted so you and I could look back and remember our Messiah. Each week we partake of the emblems of that supper and remember that sacrifice the Savior made of his own flesh and blood. We remember that great and last sacrifice that ransomed us from awful fates that sin and death imposed upon the children of men. We remember the portal that Jesus Christ opened, allowing us to re enter the presence of our Heavenly Father. We remember the inexplicable suffering and power of the wine press, Gethsemane. We remember that it was there where he suffered pains, sicknesses, disease, and heartaches of every kind so that he would "know how to succor his people."  We remember his trial. We remember that he was mis judged by the two groups of people who we renowned for their jurisprudence. We remember that his own people chose a false Jesus;they suffered Barabbas to live. We remember the thronging, the crown of thorns, and the haunting journey toward Golgotha. We remember that he was crucified between two thieves and then buried in a rich mans tomb, this only validating Isiah's vision that "he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death." We remember that, in the end, death would have no power of him and that he became "the first fruits of them that slept" as he rose on that resurrection Sunday. 

As you and I remember these things each Sunday we partake of those emblems and renew our pledge to Him, our pledge to always remember Him and keep His commandments. As we do this we not only qualify for the companionship of the Holy Ghost, but we also renew the blessings of that atonement. Our sins our washed away with each worthy renewal of this covenant. Thanks be to God that he sent us his Son to overcome the malignant vicissitudes  of mortality. Thanks be to the Son that he was perfectly obedient to the will of our Father and protected us from those destroying angels of sin and death.