1 00:00:01,167 --> 00:00:03,103 in chapter 26 of Matthew. 2 00:00:03,103 --> 00:00:06,072 That's where we are this morning. 3 00:00:08,241 --> 00:00:11,244 Chapter 26 is going to take us four weeks on all to get through. 4 00:00:11,244 --> 00:00:12,445 So this is week two. 5 00:00:12,445 --> 00:00:14,280 We got two weeks after this in chapter 26. 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:15,515 It's a big chapter. 7 00:00:15,515 --> 00:00:18,518 There's a lot there. 8 00:00:18,518 --> 00:00:19,753 But I want us to understand 9 00:00:19,753 --> 00:00:22,756 some of the profound things 10 00:00:22,889 --> 00:00:25,892 that are said about Jesus and that Jesus said 11 00:00:26,793 --> 00:00:29,796 some things that just. 12 00:00:30,397 --> 00:00:33,400 They're quite the claims. 13 00:00:34,834 --> 00:00:37,270 For instance, 14 00:00:37,270 --> 00:00:40,273 revelation 3138 15 00:00:41,174 --> 00:00:43,576 says that 16 00:00:43,576 --> 00:00:46,579 from the foundation of the world. 17 00:00:48,014 --> 00:00:50,884 It was decided 18 00:00:50,884 --> 00:00:53,219 by the father, agreed to and submitted 19 00:00:53,219 --> 00:00:56,556 by the son that Christ would be crucified. 20 00:00:57,657 --> 00:01:00,894 This was decided since the foundation of the world. 21 00:01:01,928 --> 00:01:04,931 What we know is crucifixion Friday 22 00:01:05,899 --> 00:01:08,902 didn't happen haphazardly. 23 00:01:09,369 --> 00:01:12,138 It wasn't concocted in the mind of man. 24 00:01:14,174 --> 00:01:15,875 It was predetermined since 25 00:01:15,875 --> 00:01:18,878 the foundation of the world. 26 00:01:20,413 --> 00:01:22,849 The desire of the father, the submission of the son 27 00:01:22,849 --> 00:01:25,852 in agreement with the father that he would be crucified. 28 00:01:26,953 --> 00:01:29,956 It's profound. 29 00:01:30,723 --> 00:01:31,891 Jesus would say in 30 00:01:31,891 --> 00:01:35,462 John ten, no one takes my life from me. 31 00:01:36,129 --> 00:01:37,497 I have the authority to lay it down. 32 00:01:37,497 --> 00:01:40,200 I have the authority to pick it back up. 33 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,403 Though the crucifixion happened at the hands of the Romans, 34 00:01:44,270 --> 00:01:47,407 at the request of the Jews, 35 00:01:47,874 --> 00:01:50,877 the Romans, the Jews were neither in control. 36 00:01:52,011 --> 00:01:55,014 Jesus was. 37 00:01:55,515 --> 00:01:56,683 The Bible says that 38 00:01:56,683 --> 00:02:00,053 when he uttered the words, it is finished, then he breathed his last. 39 00:02:00,053 --> 00:02:03,056 That was his choice. 40 00:02:03,223 --> 00:02:04,791 This all was orchestrated 41 00:02:04,791 --> 00:02:07,794 since the foundation of the world. 42 00:02:09,996 --> 00:02:11,831 Jesus knew exactly what he's doing. 43 00:02:11,831 --> 00:02:13,199 He knew exactly when he would do it. 44 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:16,736 He knew exactly how he would do it, and he knew why he would do it. 45 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:23,910 All of that was prefigured 46 00:02:23,910 --> 00:02:27,180 throughout the pages of the Old Testament. 47 00:02:28,047 --> 00:02:32,051 Throughout the festivals, the the things that God gave his people to, 48 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:34,754 to remember him and his kingdom. 49 00:02:34,754 --> 00:02:39,492 And it was it was really in full color through what we call the the Passover 50 00:02:39,526 --> 00:02:41,761 meal, 51 00:02:41,761 --> 00:02:43,296 the Passover meal, or what 52 00:02:43,296 --> 00:02:46,299 we have understood as communion 53 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:49,602 is what this portion of Matthew 26 is all about. 54 00:02:49,602 --> 00:02:52,405 And I want to unpack it for us 55 00:02:52,405 --> 00:02:55,408 so that we'll understand. 56 00:02:58,178 --> 00:02:59,779 As we bring me 57 00:02:59,779 --> 00:03:02,782 that little communion packet right there. 58 00:03:03,082 --> 00:03:06,085 I appreciate it. 59 00:03:06,219 --> 00:03:07,820 Yep. No, this is this one right here. 60 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:10,790 Nope. This one right here. Thank you. 61 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:13,126 When we celebrate this, 62 00:03:13,126 --> 00:03:15,962 the bread and the cup, 63 00:03:15,962 --> 00:03:20,967 we we we celebrate this because we understand what Scripture says 64 00:03:21,301 --> 00:03:24,404 about the Last Supper or communion and Jesus's 65 00:03:24,404 --> 00:03:27,674 instituting of what we celebrate 66 00:03:29,242 --> 00:03:32,278 in this day, how he instituted in Matthew 26. 67 00:03:32,278 --> 00:03:35,281 So this that's where we're it's a very small portion of Scripture. 68 00:03:35,415 --> 00:03:38,351 I'm going to go back to the Old Testament to give you the context 69 00:03:38,351 --> 00:03:41,521 and the promise of the New Covenant, and we're going to look ahead 70 00:03:42,288 --> 00:03:44,257 and the in the, in the New Testament as well. 71 00:03:44,257 --> 00:03:47,260 So we're going to be all over the Bible this morning. 72 00:03:48,761 --> 00:03:49,862 All the Scripture will look 73 00:03:49,862 --> 00:03:52,899 at is, is, is listed on your, on our app. 74 00:03:52,899 --> 00:03:55,902 So if you can follow along there it'll be helpful. 75 00:03:56,603 --> 00:03:59,772 But but in order to understand where we're headed this morning 76 00:03:59,806 --> 00:04:02,809 and in this portion of Matthew 26 with communion, 77 00:04:03,977 --> 00:04:06,846 I developed a big idea. 78 00:04:06,846 --> 00:04:10,550 Communion reminds us of Jesus's sacrifice for sin, 79 00:04:11,684 --> 00:04:14,687 the new covenant established through his blood, 80 00:04:14,887 --> 00:04:17,890 and the promise that he's coming back again. 81 00:04:18,057 --> 00:04:21,894 When we take the bread and the cup according to what Scripture House 82 00:04:22,262 --> 00:04:23,329 has instructed us. 83 00:04:24,297 --> 00:04:26,766 We're reminded of his sacrifice. 84 00:04:26,766 --> 00:04:29,769 Jesus is sacrifice for our sin of his body, his blood. 85 00:04:30,837 --> 00:04:33,840 We're reminded of this new covenant 86 00:04:34,207 --> 00:04:37,210 because of his blood through his blood, 87 00:04:37,210 --> 00:04:39,846 and we're reminded that he promises to come back again. 88 00:04:39,846 --> 00:04:42,849 It's a statement of faith. 89 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:44,317 In communion. 90 00:04:44,317 --> 00:04:47,287 His people look back to his sacrifice. 91 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:51,090 We celebrate the salvation that he's provided, 92 00:04:51,591 --> 00:04:53,159 and we look forward to his return. 93 00:04:53,159 --> 00:04:56,663 And so let me just unpack this portion of Matthew 26. 94 00:04:56,696 --> 00:05:00,333 If you have a Bible and you could follow along with us 95 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:04,437 just a couple verses at a time for 17, 18, 96 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:07,473 and 19 of Matthew 26. 97 00:05:09,976 --> 00:05:13,813 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, 98 00:05:14,213 --> 00:05:17,283 where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover? 99 00:05:17,283 --> 00:05:20,687 He said, go into the city to a certain man, 100 00:05:20,687 --> 00:05:24,590 and say to him, the teacher says, my time is at hand. 101 00:05:24,991 --> 00:05:27,994 I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. 102 00:05:28,194 --> 00:05:32,999 And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. 103 00:05:35,234 --> 00:05:36,969 The Passover meal was 104 00:05:36,969 --> 00:05:40,973 in memory of Jesus, of God's liberation of his people from Egypt. 105 00:05:40,973 --> 00:05:42,041 And we're going to go back 106 00:05:42,041 --> 00:05:45,511 to the Old Testament book of Exodus and look at that in just a moment. 107 00:05:46,612 --> 00:05:50,516 But from the institution of this Passover meal 108 00:05:51,617 --> 00:05:54,620 up until this night, 109 00:05:54,921 --> 00:05:57,123 the Jews would celebrate this 110 00:05:57,123 --> 00:06:01,160 remembering God's deliverance, this miraculous deliverance, 111 00:06:01,928 --> 00:06:05,365 this this was not a dinner as we understand a dinner. 112 00:06:05,398 --> 00:06:09,402 This was a long, prolonged, multi-hour event 113 00:06:10,036 --> 00:06:13,740 and it had had to go through it went through careful preparation. 114 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:19,445 Now, when Jesus sends his disciples two into the city to prepare the room 115 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:23,983 for the Passover meal, he didn't tell all 12 of them to do this, he told two. 116 00:06:24,016 --> 00:06:27,019 We know this from other parts of Scripture, Peter and John, 117 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,323 and he told Peter and John in secret. 118 00:06:30,656 --> 00:06:33,893 Go into the city, you'll recognize the man. 119 00:06:33,893 --> 00:06:36,062 I'm going to orchestrate the whole thing. He's going to recognize you. 120 00:06:36,062 --> 00:06:39,165 You're going to ask him for the upper room to prepare the Passover. 121 00:06:39,198 --> 00:06:41,434 But he only told Peter and John. Why? 122 00:06:42,568 --> 00:06:44,570 Because he knew 123 00:06:44,570 --> 00:06:48,875 of Judas plot with the Romans to hand him over. 124 00:06:50,376 --> 00:06:53,312 Passover is to be celebrated at night, 125 00:06:53,312 --> 00:06:56,315 and it would have been very easy for Judas 126 00:06:56,449 --> 00:07:00,653 to orchestrate, knowing that what Jesus was going to do this Thursday evening, 127 00:07:00,686 --> 00:07:06,359 to work with the Romans, to hand him over at night so there would be no uproar. 128 00:07:07,093 --> 00:07:11,431 And so Jesus tells Peter and John, just those two go and prepare. 129 00:07:11,531 --> 00:07:13,166 Everyone else will meet you there later. 130 00:07:13,166 --> 00:07:17,804 So, so, so this is kind of a secret, clandestine preparation of the Passover 131 00:07:18,771 --> 00:07:21,941 on a Thursday night, not the Friday. 132 00:07:21,974 --> 00:07:24,977 Jesus is doing this early with his disciples. 133 00:07:26,212 --> 00:07:29,048 Somehow this this man in the city was 134 00:07:29,048 --> 00:07:32,051 it was a follower of Jesus. 135 00:07:33,119 --> 00:07:33,920 Was a friend 136 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,290 of Jesus and prepared allowed them to set the room up 137 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:40,526 for the Passover meal to be celebrated with Jesus and his disciples. 138 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,197 Now, because this was a multi hour event, 139 00:07:44,197 --> 00:07:47,300 there were a lot of things happening during this Passover meal. 140 00:07:48,534 --> 00:07:49,702 And the 141 00:07:49,702 --> 00:07:53,973 Gospels are not designed to be strict, chronologically aligned. 142 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,542 And so we go through multiple different 143 00:07:56,542 --> 00:07:59,645 of the four gospels to understand the totality of the night. 144 00:07:59,645 --> 00:08:02,815 And so I want to introduce you to some other things that were happening 145 00:08:02,815 --> 00:08:05,818 during this Passover meal as well. 146 00:08:06,018 --> 00:08:08,721 And for that, we need to go to the book of John. 147 00:08:08,721 --> 00:08:11,724 And in the book of John, chapter 13, 148 00:08:12,558 --> 00:08:15,561 let me just read part of what else was happening 149 00:08:15,561 --> 00:08:18,564 during this, this evening. 150 00:08:20,366 --> 00:08:21,767 Starting in verse one. 151 00:08:21,767 --> 00:08:26,572 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come. 152 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,343 Did you know that six times in the book of John 153 00:08:30,343 --> 00:08:33,312 it says, his hour had not yet come, 154 00:08:33,579 --> 00:08:35,982 but now it's come. 155 00:08:35,982 --> 00:08:37,183 We'll talk about it in a minute. 156 00:08:37,183 --> 00:08:37,617 But he 157 00:08:37,617 --> 00:08:41,220 he knows his hour had come to depart out of this world to the father, having 158 00:08:41,220 --> 00:08:44,891 loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 159 00:08:45,591 --> 00:08:50,596 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, 160 00:08:50,596 --> 00:08:54,834 Simon, son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the father had given 161 00:08:54,834 --> 00:08:58,037 all things into his hands, and that he had come from God, 162 00:08:58,037 --> 00:09:01,073 and is going back to God, rose from supper. 163 00:09:02,174 --> 00:09:03,576 He laid aside his outer 164 00:09:03,576 --> 00:09:07,280 garments and taken a towel, tied it around his waist. 165 00:09:07,647 --> 00:09:11,350 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet 166 00:09:11,350 --> 00:09:15,288 and wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 167 00:09:17,356 --> 00:09:20,059 This was a profound moment 168 00:09:20,059 --> 00:09:23,062 for the disciples. 169 00:09:23,462 --> 00:09:24,363 Culturally. 170 00:09:24,363 --> 00:09:28,768 In that day, there was usually a servant who was the foot 171 00:09:28,801 --> 00:09:32,838 washer of the men who would come into a room like this. 172 00:09:33,539 --> 00:09:37,410 It was the lowest of the low position, 173 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:41,380 doing the lowest of the low job, the foot washing. 174 00:09:41,614 --> 00:09:44,817 And the reason is, understandably in that culture, the walking around 175 00:09:44,817 --> 00:09:48,688 with sandals and very dirty roads amongst the dung of the of the mules 176 00:09:48,688 --> 00:09:51,257 and the all this stuff, and they just got filthy feet. 177 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:53,960 So especially when they would go to recline at the table 178 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,597 because they didn't sit in chairs like we do, they reclined on an elbow 179 00:09:57,930 --> 00:10:01,801 with the fetus further as furthest away from the table as they could. 180 00:10:02,735 --> 00:10:04,804 But even with that, they had to wash their feet 181 00:10:04,804 --> 00:10:06,405 because they were just so nasty. 182 00:10:06,405 --> 00:10:10,076 Apparently, in this context, there was no servant to wash the feet. 183 00:10:11,243 --> 00:10:13,879 You know what's interesting to me? 184 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:16,682 Any one of these men, had they been asked where to wash 185 00:10:16,682 --> 00:10:19,685 Jesus's feet, but none of them would have washed each other's. 186 00:10:23,322 --> 00:10:24,724 And so Jesus says, I'm 187 00:10:24,724 --> 00:10:27,727 going to show you my expectation of how you love each other. 188 00:10:31,230 --> 00:10:31,597 Though 189 00:10:31,597 --> 00:10:35,167 every one of them would have washed Jesus feet had they just been asked. 190 00:10:36,602 --> 00:10:39,405 Jesus, without being asked, washed their feet 191 00:10:39,405 --> 00:10:42,408 because none of them would have washed each other's. 192 00:10:45,911 --> 00:10:50,216 And he takes on the lowest role possible, 193 00:10:50,850 --> 00:10:53,853 doing the lowest service 194 00:10:54,086 --> 00:10:57,156 possible to show and emulate 195 00:10:58,958 --> 00:11:01,961 the one who lays aside his authority 196 00:11:02,361 --> 00:11:03,663 to become the servant. 197 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:06,599 The Bible says in Mark 1045, Jesus did not come to be served, 198 00:11:06,599 --> 00:11:09,435 but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom. 199 00:11:11,771 --> 00:11:14,774 It's amazing moment here for these disciples 200 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,678 and for Jesus's interaction with them. 201 00:11:20,513 --> 00:11:22,815 The Bible says, knowing 202 00:11:22,815 --> 00:11:25,818 that he was that he came from the father was going back to the father. 203 00:11:25,818 --> 00:11:30,723 Here's the thing when you know who you are and whose you are 204 00:11:31,757 --> 00:11:34,760 and where you're headed. 205 00:11:35,661 --> 00:11:38,631 You don't have to fight for authority. 206 00:11:40,199 --> 00:11:41,701 When you can live 207 00:11:41,701 --> 00:11:45,071 knowing whose you are and where you're going. 208 00:11:45,771 --> 00:11:48,607 You can live with nothing to prove 209 00:11:48,607 --> 00:11:51,610 and no one to impress. 210 00:11:55,448 --> 00:11:56,048 Jesus 211 00:11:56,048 --> 00:11:59,118 didn't have to act like he was somebody. 212 00:11:59,151 --> 00:12:01,620 He knew who he was. 213 00:12:01,620 --> 00:12:04,590 He knew where he was going 214 00:12:04,924 --> 00:12:07,927 so he could serve willingly. 215 00:12:08,894 --> 00:12:11,897 It's the insecure person 216 00:12:13,365 --> 00:12:16,368 who has trouble serving other people. 217 00:12:18,838 --> 00:12:20,206 Because they're so focused 218 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:23,209 on their own position and priority. 219 00:12:23,943 --> 00:12:26,512 And Jesus says he gives us that example. 220 00:12:26,512 --> 00:12:28,447 When you know who you are and where you're headed, 221 00:12:28,447 --> 00:12:30,416 you got nothing to prove and no one to impress. 222 00:12:32,451 --> 00:12:33,719 Serve love. 223 00:12:33,719 --> 00:12:36,722 And he does, in profound ways. And. 224 00:12:40,192 --> 00:12:40,860 And he came to 225 00:12:40,860 --> 00:12:44,063 Simon Peter, who said, Lord, you do, you wash my feet. 226 00:12:44,096 --> 00:12:45,097 Jesus answered him, 227 00:12:45,097 --> 00:12:48,934 what I am doing, you don't understand now, but afterward you will understand. 228 00:12:49,135 --> 00:12:51,937 Peter said to him, you will never wash my feet. 229 00:12:51,937 --> 00:12:54,940 Jesus answered him, if I don't wash you, you have no share with me. 230 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:58,878 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands in my head. 231 00:12:58,878 --> 00:13:02,848 Jesus said to him, the one who is bathed does not need to wash except for his feet, 232 00:13:03,249 --> 00:13:07,319 but it's completely clean, and you are clean, but not every one of you. 233 00:13:07,887 --> 00:13:10,256 For he knew was who was to betray him. 234 00:13:10,256 --> 00:13:12,892 And that's why he said, not all of you are clean. 235 00:13:12,892 --> 00:13:14,527 Peter says, you're not going to wash my feet. 236 00:13:14,527 --> 00:13:16,061 That's that's. No, 237 00:13:17,897 --> 00:13:18,697 just as unless 238 00:13:18,697 --> 00:13:21,700 I clean you, you have no part of me. 239 00:13:21,901 --> 00:13:25,070 So, Peter, being like, well, then wash, wash all of me then, like, 240 00:13:26,205 --> 00:13:29,475 it's like, relax, I've already cleansed you, 241 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:33,379 but you walk around in the dirty world 242 00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:36,916 and some of that dirt gets on you, and that needs to be cleaned up. 243 00:13:38,350 --> 00:13:40,286 You're good, Peter, 244 00:13:40,286 --> 00:13:43,289 but let me clean that dirty part of you. 245 00:13:43,622 --> 00:13:46,992 And the Bible says he knew that there was one at that table 246 00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:50,796 who was going to betray him, who was not cleansed by him. 247 00:13:52,198 --> 00:13:55,100 He knew what Jesus Judas was doing. 248 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:58,170 He knew what Judas was already had already instituted. 249 00:13:59,738 --> 00:14:01,273 That's all going on 250 00:14:01,273 --> 00:14:04,276 as we enter into this communion table. 251 00:14:05,010 --> 00:14:07,012 And there's so much more. 252 00:14:07,012 --> 00:14:09,381 There's so much more. But but I want to get back. 253 00:14:09,381 --> 00:14:12,718 I want to get back to, to Matthew 26, in verse 20. Now 254 00:14:14,653 --> 00:14:17,423 when it was the evening he reclined at table with the 12, 255 00:14:17,423 --> 00:14:21,660 and as they were eating, he said, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me. 256 00:14:21,894 --> 00:14:27,233 And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him, one one after another. 257 00:14:27,299 --> 00:14:29,101 Is it I, Lord? 258 00:14:29,101 --> 00:14:33,806 He answered, he who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. 259 00:14:34,540 --> 00:14:35,341 What's interesting? 260 00:14:35,341 --> 00:14:38,310 They're all going to dip their hand in the dish after him. 261 00:14:40,512 --> 00:14:43,182 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him. 262 00:14:43,182 --> 00:14:47,119 But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 263 00:14:47,486 --> 00:14:50,456 It would have been better for that man if he had not been born. 264 00:14:50,456 --> 00:14:53,459 Judas, who would betray him, answered, is it I, Rabbi? 265 00:14:54,293 --> 00:14:56,562 And he said to him, you've. You've said so. 266 00:15:01,967 --> 00:15:04,970 This Passover meal. 267 00:15:05,838 --> 00:15:08,841 As they recline at the table. 268 00:15:09,675 --> 00:15:11,677 This meal 269 00:15:11,677 --> 00:15:14,680 hearkens back 270 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,515 to the Old Testament, 271 00:15:16,515 --> 00:15:19,518 the book of Exodus, chapter 12. 272 00:15:20,586 --> 00:15:22,688 The is the Passover meal 273 00:15:22,688 --> 00:15:25,991 that they're celebrating one with another. 274 00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:30,195 The thing I love, one of the things I love about this passage, 275 00:15:30,262 --> 00:15:33,232 as Jesus says, one of you is going to betray me. 276 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:35,401 I think it's so beautiful. 277 00:15:35,401 --> 00:15:38,404 Do you notice what their question is? 278 00:15:39,004 --> 00:15:41,874 What's their question? 279 00:15:41,874 --> 00:15:43,976 Is it I 280 00:15:43,976 --> 00:15:44,443 notice? 281 00:15:44,443 --> 00:15:46,578 What is not their question. 282 00:15:46,578 --> 00:15:49,048 Is it him? 283 00:15:49,048 --> 00:15:49,648 They. 284 00:15:49,648 --> 00:15:52,651 There's no accusation of another. 285 00:15:52,918 --> 00:15:55,921 They don't accuse one another. 286 00:15:56,088 --> 00:15:57,623 Do you know why they don't accuse one another? 287 00:15:57,623 --> 00:16:00,592 Because they all know what they're capable of. 288 00:16:00,859 --> 00:16:03,729 They all know. 289 00:16:03,729 --> 00:16:05,431 I mean, if it were, 290 00:16:05,431 --> 00:16:08,300 honestly, if I was, I'd probably be like, I think I know who it is. 291 00:16:13,372 --> 00:16:15,441 I think it's Bill. 292 00:16:15,441 --> 00:16:17,910 You know, like, we wouldn't 293 00:16:17,910 --> 00:16:20,913 we wouldn't say it's probably me. 294 00:16:21,413 --> 00:16:23,849 It's so beautiful in this moment 295 00:16:23,849 --> 00:16:26,852 that they realize what they're capable of. 296 00:16:26,952 --> 00:16:29,421 Even those who promised they would never. 297 00:16:29,421 --> 00:16:32,391 Peter. 298 00:16:32,458 --> 00:16:35,461 End up betraying him. 299 00:16:36,595 --> 00:16:39,598 Do you realize what you're capable of? 300 00:16:43,802 --> 00:16:46,605 And the audacity 301 00:16:46,605 --> 00:16:51,143 for Judas to then ask, is it I, Lord, what a hypocrite! 302 00:16:51,176 --> 00:16:54,179 He had already agreed to it. 303 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:59,018 Can can you imagine? 304 00:16:59,952 --> 00:17:02,955 What would have welled up in your heart if this were you 305 00:17:03,922 --> 00:17:04,590 being asked? 306 00:17:04,590 --> 00:17:07,593 Does it mean when you know they already had? 307 00:17:08,927 --> 00:17:11,930 And Jesus is so gentle 308 00:17:12,164 --> 00:17:13,799 in essence he says, Judas, you. 309 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:16,802 You've already said it. 310 00:17:17,569 --> 00:17:20,005 In essence, he's almost giving you 311 00:17:20,005 --> 00:17:23,008 this one last chance to repent. 312 00:17:24,676 --> 00:17:27,679 Judas, you've already betrayed me. 313 00:17:29,081 --> 00:17:30,249 Would you come back? 314 00:17:35,154 --> 00:17:38,157 This Passover meal. 315 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:43,195 Back to Exodus 316 00:17:43,195 --> 00:17:46,198 chapter 12. 317 00:17:52,771 --> 00:17:54,440 Exodus 12. 318 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,942 This is. 319 00:17:56,942 --> 00:17:59,044 This is when God's people are in Egypt. 320 00:17:59,044 --> 00:18:01,847 There's slaves there, there, there, there. 321 00:18:01,847 --> 00:18:02,714 Abused. 322 00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:06,752 They're living under incredible oppression of slavery. 323 00:18:07,553 --> 00:18:12,057 There have been crying out to God for 400 years for liberation. 324 00:18:13,125 --> 00:18:16,128 Finally, God has moved on their behalf. 325 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:21,633 Nine plagues that God sent upon the Egyptians, each one worse 326 00:18:21,633 --> 00:18:26,638 than the previous, each an attack and the destruction of the Egyptian gods 327 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,143 just prior to the 10th plague, which was the plague of the 328 00:18:31,176 --> 00:18:34,179 of the death of the firstborn. 329 00:18:34,646 --> 00:18:37,983 Unless the house of that firstborn 330 00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:42,087 had the blood of a lamb put over the doorway of the house. 331 00:18:43,055 --> 00:18:46,925 God said, unless I see that blood of the lamb on the doorway of the house, 332 00:18:47,192 --> 00:18:51,497 the death angel will come and kill the firstborn of every man and every 333 00:18:51,530 --> 00:18:52,798 animal in that home. 334 00:18:53,765 --> 00:18:55,234 That's the 10th plague. 335 00:18:55,234 --> 00:18:58,237 And right before that, God gives instructions. 336 00:19:00,572 --> 00:19:02,774 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, this is verse 337 00:19:02,774 --> 00:19:06,512 12 of Exodus in the land of Egypt this month shall be for you. 338 00:19:06,512 --> 00:19:10,115 At the beginning of the month it shall be the first month of the year of the. 339 00:19:10,215 --> 00:19:11,884 This will be the first month of the year for you. 340 00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:16,121 So this event resets their entire calendar. 341 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,558 The calendar of God's people will be set based on this event. 342 00:19:20,392 --> 00:19:23,862 So God says this is a brand new year for you now at the institution of this event. 343 00:19:26,098 --> 00:19:29,001 Tell the Congregation of Israel that on the 10th day of the month, 344 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:32,004 every man shall take a lamb according to their father's houses. 345 00:19:32,237 --> 00:19:36,175 A lamb for a household in the household is too small for a lamb 346 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:39,311 than he and his nearest neighbor shall take, according 347 00:19:39,311 --> 00:19:42,648 to the number of persons, according to what each of you can eat. 348 00:19:42,681 --> 00:19:44,917 You shall make your count for the lamb. 349 00:19:44,917 --> 00:19:48,921 So basically they said, listen, there can't be any leftovers. 350 00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:52,858 One lamb basically for ten people, 351 00:19:53,158 --> 00:19:55,494 because the whole thing has to be consumed. 352 00:19:55,494 --> 00:19:57,095 He's going to talk about how to prepare the lamb 353 00:19:57,095 --> 00:19:59,364 and how to eat the lamb and and all of this. 354 00:19:59,364 --> 00:20:02,768 So he said basically one one lamb per household. 355 00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:08,774 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male, a year old. 356 00:20:08,774 --> 00:20:10,175 You shall. 357 00:20:10,175 --> 00:20:13,312 You may take it from the sheep, from the goats, and you shall keep it 358 00:20:13,312 --> 00:20:16,248 until the 14th day of the month, when the whole assembly 359 00:20:16,248 --> 00:20:20,085 of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. 360 00:20:20,152 --> 00:20:23,722 Now he said, you get your lamb one per household, get your lamb, 361 00:20:23,855 --> 00:20:25,357 take it into your home. 362 00:20:25,357 --> 00:20:27,926 Let it live with your family on the 10th of the month, 363 00:20:27,926 --> 00:20:30,929 on the 14th of the month you're going to slaughter it. 364 00:20:32,564 --> 00:20:33,332 You're going to. 365 00:20:33,332 --> 00:20:36,335 This little lamb is going to live with you for four days. 366 00:20:37,836 --> 00:20:40,839 Do you know why he told him to do that? 367 00:20:41,273 --> 00:20:43,609 So that their hearts and the hearts of their children 368 00:20:43,609 --> 00:20:47,779 were to get attached to this little lamb, so they would feel the pain 369 00:20:48,981 --> 00:20:50,849 of death 370 00:20:50,849 --> 00:20:53,852 that sin caused. 371 00:20:56,255 --> 00:21:00,659 So they would realize the cost and the weight of sin 372 00:21:01,393 --> 00:21:04,396 that it would require blood. 373 00:21:10,168 --> 00:21:10,535 You know, 374 00:21:10,535 --> 00:21:13,538 it's interesting to I just realizing this 375 00:21:14,172 --> 00:21:17,175 in the Garden of Eden, that sin 376 00:21:17,542 --> 00:21:19,278 God killed an animal 377 00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:22,281 and gave so that they could be covered and closed. 378 00:21:22,881 --> 00:21:25,884 One animal for one person 379 00:21:26,251 --> 00:21:28,320 in the Exodus, 380 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,323 one animal for one family. 381 00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:33,659 On the high 382 00:21:33,659 --> 00:21:36,662 holy day of the year in Judaism, Yom Kippur, 383 00:21:36,995 --> 00:21:39,998 one animal for one nation, 384 00:21:40,699 --> 00:21:43,702 symbolically, and then with Jesus, 385 00:21:44,569 --> 00:21:47,572 one life for the world. 386 00:21:50,442 --> 00:21:53,478 Then they shall take some of the blood and of the lamb, and put it 387 00:21:53,478 --> 00:21:56,782 on the two doorposts and the lintels of the houses in which they eat it. 388 00:21:56,782 --> 00:21:59,751 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted with the fire, 389 00:21:59,818 --> 00:22:02,354 with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. They shall eat it. 390 00:22:04,923 --> 00:22:06,958 Says, listen, when you 391 00:22:06,958 --> 00:22:10,762 kill this lamb, you take the blood, and you put it over the doorpost. 392 00:22:10,762 --> 00:22:15,767 And then, and then this lamb is by fire to absorb. 393 00:22:15,934 --> 00:22:19,471 I mean, fire is a symbol of judgment, to absorb the judgment 394 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:23,175 that would have landed on your home in death. 395 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:25,911 And you're to eat it with unleavened bread. 396 00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:27,012 All through Scripture. 397 00:22:27,012 --> 00:22:30,248 Unleavened bread leavened is a sign of sin. 398 00:22:30,248 --> 00:22:32,484 Unleavened bread is getting rid of sin. 399 00:22:32,484 --> 00:22:35,487 And eat it with bitter herbs, 400 00:22:35,854 --> 00:22:38,857 so that you'll remember the pain 401 00:22:40,158 --> 00:22:42,894 that your slavery has caused 402 00:22:42,894 --> 00:22:45,897 and the pain of sin. 403 00:22:47,933 --> 00:22:50,302 Verse 12 for I will pass through the land of Egypt 404 00:22:50,302 --> 00:22:51,002 that night, 405 00:22:51,002 --> 00:22:54,473 and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. 406 00:22:54,473 --> 00:22:56,942 And on the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. 407 00:22:56,942 --> 00:22:57,776 I am the Lord. 408 00:22:57,776 --> 00:23:00,879 The blood shall be assigned to you on the houses where you are. 409 00:23:01,012 --> 00:23:05,016 And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague 410 00:23:05,016 --> 00:23:06,885 will befall you to destroy you. 411 00:23:06,885 --> 00:23:09,287 When I strike the land of Egypt. This is the Passover, 412 00:23:10,722 --> 00:23:12,991 he says, when I see the blood. 413 00:23:12,991 --> 00:23:14,593 I'm not looking for your faithfulness. 414 00:23:14,593 --> 00:23:15,727 I'm not looking for your activity. 415 00:23:15,727 --> 00:23:18,296 I'm not looking for what you say you believe. 416 00:23:18,296 --> 00:23:20,732 When I see the blood, my 417 00:23:20,732 --> 00:23:23,735 judgment of death will pass over you. 418 00:23:24,803 --> 00:23:27,806 And so for generations, the the, 419 00:23:28,206 --> 00:23:33,378 the Jews, the Hebrews, the Jew celebrated this in, in, in, in recollection 420 00:23:33,378 --> 00:23:37,249 and memory and gratitude for what God had done, the liberation done 421 00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:41,119 for the liberation of them from bondage and slavery and death. 422 00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:45,290 And it was their celebration of all that God had done. 423 00:23:52,130 --> 00:23:54,599 Now I want you to realize, 424 00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:57,602 as we put this together. 425 00:23:58,336 --> 00:24:00,472 That what was important in that 426 00:24:00,472 --> 00:24:03,608 moment was not what they said they believed was not how they lived. 427 00:24:03,608 --> 00:24:04,609 It was not how they had. 428 00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:08,113 The thing that was important was the blood that was shed 429 00:24:09,514 --> 00:24:12,517 applied to their life. 430 00:24:13,251 --> 00:24:16,354 So the death angel would pass over them. 431 00:24:18,557 --> 00:24:19,925 Here's what we've got to understand. 432 00:24:19,925 --> 00:24:24,362 Hebrews 922 without the shedding of blood, there's no forgiveness of sins. 433 00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:31,570 Unless blood is shed, 434 00:24:31,570 --> 00:24:34,573 the judgment of death remains. 435 00:24:34,773 --> 00:24:37,776 That's Passover. 436 00:24:38,009 --> 00:24:39,010 First Corinthians five 437 00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:42,013 seven For Christ are what 438 00:24:42,881 --> 00:24:45,851 our Passover lamb? 439 00:24:45,851 --> 00:24:47,519 The Bible says that Jesus 440 00:24:47,519 --> 00:24:52,657 is the Passover lamb, the one who was slain, 441 00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:56,728 the one whose blood applied to the life. 442 00:24:59,331 --> 00:25:00,198 Makes it so. 443 00:25:00,198 --> 00:25:03,635 The judgment of death passes over that life. 444 00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:07,472 So understand, I started this message 445 00:25:08,473 --> 00:25:10,575 with the affirmation of what the revelation 446 00:25:10,575 --> 00:25:13,578 13 says from the foundation of the world. 447 00:25:13,612 --> 00:25:16,615 This has always been God's plan 448 00:25:17,315 --> 00:25:19,217 submitted to by the son, 449 00:25:19,217 --> 00:25:22,521 that he would be the Passover lamb. 450 00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:27,125 Knowing that there's no forgiveness without the shedding of that blood. 451 00:25:28,660 --> 00:25:30,495 Think for a moment every 452 00:25:30,495 --> 00:25:35,100 year that Jesus, as a Jewish man, celebrates the Passover. 453 00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:39,004 What's going through his mind? 454 00:25:39,271 --> 00:25:41,339 This is not just the story 455 00:25:41,339 --> 00:25:44,276 of my father's liberation of our people from Egypt. 456 00:25:44,276 --> 00:25:49,714 This is my story that I will live out in my own body one day for you. 457 00:25:50,248 --> 00:25:53,251 Can you imagine? 458 00:25:53,919 --> 00:25:55,153 When they're solely 459 00:25:55,153 --> 00:25:58,256 focused on the thanksgiving of the liberation from Egypt? 460 00:25:58,290 --> 00:26:01,293 Jesus says, you have no idea. 461 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:05,096 This is my story. 462 00:26:05,096 --> 00:26:09,167 Can you imagine every year that goes by as it wells up more and becomes 463 00:26:10,201 --> 00:26:13,004 closer and closer to reality of his life? 464 00:26:13,004 --> 00:26:14,739 The emotional toll 465 00:26:14,739 --> 00:26:18,343 that this starts to take as he looks forward to now on this night. 466 00:26:18,376 --> 00:26:21,379 The hour has come 467 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,848 and he sits down with his disciples. 468 00:26:25,216 --> 00:26:25,750 And in 469 00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,887 essence, this is not the story of the Exodus any longer. 470 00:26:29,854 --> 00:26:33,358 This is a story of my life and my death 471 00:26:33,792 --> 00:26:38,630 for your liberation, not from slavery, but from sin. 472 00:26:38,630 --> 00:26:41,933 And it's going to come at the expense of my blood shed 473 00:26:41,933 --> 00:26:45,036 for you. Wow. 474 00:26:50,976 --> 00:26:53,979 And he's orchestrating this whole thing. 475 00:27:00,685 --> 00:27:03,688 Back to Matthew. 476 00:27:04,255 --> 00:27:06,591 Verse 26. 477 00:27:06,591 --> 00:27:08,126 Now, as they were eating. 478 00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:10,328 And it's interesting, this first Passover 479 00:27:10,328 --> 00:27:13,398 when God instituted this with this people, there were only three elements. 480 00:27:13,732 --> 00:27:16,401 The lamb, the bitter herbs and unleavened 481 00:27:16,401 --> 00:27:20,238 bread that now, as years went by, 482 00:27:20,338 --> 00:27:24,409 it became very elaborate and very symbolic in many different ways. 483 00:27:24,409 --> 00:27:27,412 But in the beginning, the Passover were these three things 484 00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:30,015 unleavened bread, 485 00:27:30,015 --> 00:27:31,816 bitter herbs, and the lamb. 486 00:27:31,816 --> 00:27:36,454 There wasn't even any wine, any cup in the first Passover. 487 00:27:36,888 --> 00:27:40,125 By the time we get to Jesus, there's four cups of it. 488 00:27:43,528 --> 00:27:44,529 And so, 489 00:27:44,529 --> 00:27:46,998 as they were eating, Jesus took the bread, and after a blessing, 490 00:27:46,998 --> 00:27:49,934 he broke it and gave it to his disciples, said, take, eat. 491 00:27:49,934 --> 00:27:52,937 This is my body. 492 00:27:54,773 --> 00:27:55,473 This was 493 00:27:55,473 --> 00:27:58,643 this was profound for Jesus to say 494 00:27:59,844 --> 00:28:02,580 all through the history of the Passover meal. 495 00:28:02,580 --> 00:28:05,550 The bread was a symbol of God's blessing. 496 00:28:05,550 --> 00:28:07,886 And when it would be broken and given it, it was. 497 00:28:07,886 --> 00:28:10,155 It was. God is blessing his people. 498 00:28:10,155 --> 00:28:13,191 And now Jesus says it's not just about God's blessings, people, 499 00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:16,194 because he has this is my body now 500 00:28:16,294 --> 00:28:19,597 that I'm giving for you not just God's blessing, but my very life. 501 00:28:20,198 --> 00:28:23,835 There's an unfortunate mistranslation of the King James Version that says 502 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:28,373 that Jesus took the bread and broke it and said, this is my body broken for you. 503 00:28:28,406 --> 00:28:30,275 That's a that's an unfortunate mistranslation. 504 00:28:30,275 --> 00:28:32,644 Jesus's body was never broken. 505 00:28:32,644 --> 00:28:36,915 There's a prophecy in Psalm 22 that says not a bone of his will be broken. 506 00:28:36,981 --> 00:28:40,719 And actually, the command in the Passover that God gave his people for the 507 00:28:40,752 --> 00:28:42,687 killing of the Passover lamb. 508 00:28:42,687 --> 00:28:44,823 This is not a bone of the lamb is to be broken. 509 00:28:44,823 --> 00:28:47,559 So Jesus's body was never broken. 510 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:50,662 It was crushed as you would have grape 511 00:28:50,695 --> 00:28:53,698 to produce wine, but it was never broken. 512 00:28:53,932 --> 00:28:56,768 When they came to make sure he was dead on the cross, and the soldiers wanted 513 00:28:56,768 --> 00:29:00,739 to break the the femurs of the of of the criminals so they would die faster. 514 00:29:00,772 --> 00:29:03,608 They came to Jesus to break his legs, and he was already dead. 515 00:29:04,776 --> 00:29:07,712 Because the Bible says not a bone will be broken. 516 00:29:07,712 --> 00:29:10,181 So the bread was broken 517 00:29:10,181 --> 00:29:13,284 and Christ gave and said, this is now my body. 518 00:29:13,284 --> 00:29:16,287 That's I'm giving for you. 519 00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:19,390 Every time you take this, I want you to remember my life. 520 00:29:19,691 --> 00:29:23,328 And then he says something profound again. 521 00:29:23,661 --> 00:29:25,096 And he took the cup. Verse 27. 522 00:29:25,096 --> 00:29:26,965 And when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, 523 00:29:26,965 --> 00:29:30,535 drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, 524 00:29:30,535 --> 00:29:33,538 which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 525 00:29:34,372 --> 00:29:35,340 There were four. 526 00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:38,610 Generally we understand there were four cups during the community. 527 00:29:39,043 --> 00:29:42,046 The first cup was the cup of sanctification 528 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,683 that that that that by God were made holy. 529 00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:50,455 The second cup was a cup of deliverance that God would deliver his people. 530 00:29:51,556 --> 00:29:53,658 The third cup 531 00:29:53,658 --> 00:29:55,860 was the cup of redemption. 532 00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:59,731 That at the cup of redemption that the at the third cup after the supper, 533 00:29:59,764 --> 00:30:04,135 they would, they would celebrate the fact that that they had been redeemed. 534 00:30:05,103 --> 00:30:08,606 And at the end of it there was a fourth cup, the the cup of praise. 535 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,676 And they were actually seeing Psalm 536 00:30:11,676 --> 00:30:15,713 5115 through 118 together, the fourth cup. 537 00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:18,716 This cup we know from other parts of Scripture 538 00:30:18,716 --> 00:30:20,752 was the cup after supper, which would make it 539 00:30:20,752 --> 00:30:24,556 the third cup of communion, which is the cup of redemption. 540 00:30:25,089 --> 00:30:27,258 He says, this is the cup of my blood. 541 00:30:27,258 --> 00:30:30,261 My blood is for your redemption. 542 00:30:30,728 --> 00:30:33,965 It's by my blood that I'm redeeming your life and your soul. 543 00:30:35,033 --> 00:30:37,435 Do you understand? 544 00:30:37,435 --> 00:30:41,039 And he says, this new, this cup is the new covenant, the my blood, new covenant. 545 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:42,207 What are you talking about, a covenant? 546 00:30:42,207 --> 00:30:44,809 We don't make a covenant with God. God makes a covenant with us. 547 00:30:44,809 --> 00:30:46,110 And all of a sudden Jesus says, no, no, 548 00:30:46,110 --> 00:30:49,714 I am making a covenant with you because I am God. 549 00:30:50,248 --> 00:30:54,419 And what is referring to is, is, is is back in the book of Jeremiah. 550 00:30:54,919 --> 00:30:57,622 All this is firing through their heads. 551 00:30:57,622 --> 00:30:59,757 In the book of Jeremiah, this is what Jesus, 552 00:30:59,757 --> 00:31:01,926 this is what God says through the prophet Jeremiah. 553 00:31:01,926 --> 00:31:04,963 Tell the congregation of Israel that on the 10th day of this month 554 00:31:04,963 --> 00:31:07,565 every man shall take a lamb, according. I already read that one. 555 00:31:08,633 --> 00:31:11,636 Go to Jeremiah. 556 00:31:12,337 --> 00:31:14,205 Behold, the days are coming, declares 557 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:17,208 the Lord, and I will make a what? 558 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:19,510 The new covenant 559 00:31:19,510 --> 00:31:21,379 with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 560 00:31:21,379 --> 00:31:23,514 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers 561 00:31:23,514 --> 00:31:26,551 on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. 562 00:31:26,618 --> 00:31:30,321 My covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 563 00:31:30,321 --> 00:31:33,324 That covenant was the mosaic covenant, the covenant of law 564 00:31:33,324 --> 00:31:36,561 written on stone tablets that they had to obey. 565 00:31:36,995 --> 00:31:38,930 Do this. Don't do that. 566 00:31:38,930 --> 00:31:40,732 And by your obedience you'll be blessed. 567 00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:42,200 By your disobedience you'll be cursed. 568 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,203 It was the old covenant, the covenant of law. 569 00:31:45,803 --> 00:31:49,841 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. 570 00:31:49,841 --> 00:31:54,846 After those days, declares the Lord, I will put my law not on stone, but where 571 00:31:56,514 --> 00:31:57,215 I'm going to put it 572 00:31:57,215 --> 00:32:00,218 inside them by my spirit, 573 00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:04,455 and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, 574 00:32:04,455 --> 00:32:05,556 and they will be my people. 575 00:32:05,556 --> 00:32:09,360 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor, and each his brother, 576 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,497 saying, know the Lord, for they will all know me, 577 00:32:13,197 --> 00:32:15,533 from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. 578 00:32:15,533 --> 00:32:18,403 For I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sins no more. 579 00:32:18,403 --> 00:32:21,406 He said, there's coming a day of a new covenant, 580 00:32:21,472 --> 00:32:24,676 when the old covenant is gone, and this new covenant is ushered 581 00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:28,046 in, that by my spirit I write my law on their hearts, 582 00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:30,581 and they will each know me personally. 583 00:32:30,581 --> 00:32:33,885 No longer will they have to have someone to tell them, this is how you know God. 584 00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,720 Now you will know me personally. 585 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,088 And when that happens 586 00:32:37,088 --> 00:32:40,091 with that new covenant, when you enter into that new covenant, 587 00:32:40,258 --> 00:32:41,392 I will be your God. 588 00:32:41,392 --> 00:32:43,594 You will be my people, and I will forgive their iniquity. 589 00:32:43,594 --> 00:32:45,363 Remember, there's no more can you imagine? 590 00:32:46,698 --> 00:32:47,498 And Jesus 591 00:32:47,498 --> 00:32:51,803 institutes that new covenant on this night of communion, this covenant, 592 00:32:52,103 --> 00:32:55,073 a new covenant of my blood, 593 00:32:55,073 --> 00:32:58,009 so you can know me, 594 00:32:58,009 --> 00:33:00,878 so you can follow me. 595 00:33:00,878 --> 00:33:03,881 So my spirit is on your heart. 596 00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:06,651 You don't have to ask someone else what I'm like now. 597 00:33:06,651 --> 00:33:08,519 You can know me. Why? 598 00:33:08,519 --> 00:33:11,522 Because Jesus shed his blood to start this new covenant. 599 00:33:18,129 --> 00:33:21,132 See, without the shadow of blood, there's no forgiveness. 600 00:33:21,299 --> 00:33:24,302 And Christ as our Passover. 601 00:33:26,871 --> 00:33:27,839 And it's amazing to me 602 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,842 that he says, I will not drink of this cup again, 603 00:33:31,042 --> 00:33:34,645 of the vine again, until I do it in the kingdom of my father. 604 00:33:35,646 --> 00:33:36,848 This was at the third cup. 605 00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:39,250 The fourth cup is the cup of praise, he said. 606 00:33:39,250 --> 00:33:40,952 There's coming a day when I come back 607 00:33:42,553 --> 00:33:43,721 and my father's kingdom is 608 00:33:43,721 --> 00:33:46,958 established that will have another Passover meal, 609 00:33:48,059 --> 00:33:51,062 and during that meal will be the cup of praise, 610 00:33:51,963 --> 00:33:54,966 the cup of the kingdom. 611 00:33:56,567 --> 00:33:59,570 Now all of this in Matthew, 612 00:33:59,971 --> 00:34:03,374 this was written somewhere around 80 to 90 A.D. 613 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:08,446 and so Matthew doesn't go through a lot of the explanation of community. 614 00:34:08,446 --> 00:34:12,450 He just says the what Jesus said about the bread and the cup and kind of moves on. 615 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:16,454 Paul wrote the book of First Corinthians 616 00:34:16,454 --> 00:34:20,258 in about 55 A.D., long before the book of Matthew was ever written. 617 00:34:20,758 --> 00:34:23,761 And Paul gives us instruction 618 00:34:24,162 --> 00:34:25,630 on communion. 619 00:34:25,630 --> 00:34:29,300 And so Paul's writings, the church kind of knew already. 620 00:34:30,101 --> 00:34:32,236 So Matthew doesn't have to explain it all. 621 00:34:32,236 --> 00:34:35,239 But Paul gives us explanation 622 00:34:35,339 --> 00:34:37,742 when we approach this, how we do this 623 00:34:38,743 --> 00:34:39,677 and this is important. 624 00:34:39,677 --> 00:34:41,879 Let me, let me just 625 00:34:41,879 --> 00:34:44,882 let me walk you through this real quick. 626 00:34:45,183 --> 00:34:48,152 First Corinthians chapter 11. 627 00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:53,091 If we're going to take communion, here's the instructions 628 00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:56,160 starting in verse 27. 629 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,764 First Corinthians 1127 whoever therefore eats the bread 630 00:34:59,831 --> 00:35:04,202 or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty 631 00:35:04,202 --> 00:35:07,205 concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 632 00:35:08,172 --> 00:35:12,677 Let a person examine itself then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 633 00:35:12,677 --> 00:35:16,514 For anyone who eats or drinks without discerning the body, 634 00:35:16,581 --> 00:35:19,550 eat and drinks judgment on himself. 635 00:35:20,751 --> 00:35:22,453 When I was little in church growing 636 00:35:22,453 --> 00:35:26,290 up, I vividly remember I was walking in the alley 637 00:35:26,324 --> 00:35:30,094 or the alley, the lobby of our church, and they had a little communion. 638 00:35:30,361 --> 00:35:33,297 You a little gold, little communion plate with the little tiny 639 00:35:33,297 --> 00:35:34,932 little communal wafers. 640 00:35:34,932 --> 00:35:37,235 And I'm like, looks pretty good. 641 00:35:38,836 --> 00:35:41,472 I took when I ate it, 642 00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:44,475 I thought, oh no, I'm going to hell. 643 00:35:44,542 --> 00:35:47,111 That was so messed up. 644 00:35:47,111 --> 00:35:49,313 I just judgment on myself. 645 00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:52,483 And seriously, I still think of that today thinking, Lord, 646 00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:55,486 please. 647 00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:58,256 Whoever eats of the bread and Jesus cup of Lord, 648 00:35:58,256 --> 00:36:01,259 an unworthy manner guilty of sinning 649 00:36:02,493 --> 00:36:05,496 will be guilty concerning the body and the blood of the Lord. 650 00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:08,733 Examine yourself then eat here. 651 00:36:08,733 --> 00:36:11,402 Here's what that means. It does not mean 652 00:36:11,402 --> 00:36:15,206 that if you have sin in your life, you cannot take immune in that. 653 00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:17,542 If you have sin in your life and you take them into your guilty 654 00:36:17,542 --> 00:36:20,178 against the body, that's not what that means. 655 00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:22,914 Here's what it means. 656 00:36:22,914 --> 00:36:25,917 To take communion is to acknowledge 657 00:36:26,117 --> 00:36:28,686 that because our sin were separated from God, 658 00:36:29,754 --> 00:36:31,489 and that we need the blood of 659 00:36:31,489 --> 00:36:34,492 the lamb to reconcile us to God, 660 00:36:35,326 --> 00:36:38,329 that's what communion reminds us of, 661 00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:41,399 to take communion with the heart 662 00:36:41,399 --> 00:36:44,402 that says, I'm not submitted to God. 663 00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:48,239 I don't need him in my life, 664 00:36:48,639 --> 00:36:53,411 is guilty against what communion testifies to. 665 00:36:53,444 --> 00:36:56,447 Do you do you follow? 666 00:36:58,015 --> 00:37:01,018 And when I pretend? 667 00:37:04,088 --> 00:37:05,323 That I understand 668 00:37:05,323 --> 00:37:10,895 my need of the blood of Jesus, of my life, and I've never attributed that to my 669 00:37:10,995 --> 00:37:16,801 except that to myself, I make a farce of the bread and the cup. 670 00:37:18,302 --> 00:37:21,272 It's unworthy. 671 00:37:21,872 --> 00:37:24,442 And so that's why we say that those who have a relationship 672 00:37:24,442 --> 00:37:27,778 with Jesus can take the bread and the cup, as they acknowledge that I admit 673 00:37:27,778 --> 00:37:31,582 I'm a sinner and I need the blood of Jesus to cover me. 674 00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:34,819 Forgive me of my sin so I can be right with the father, I admit that. 675 00:37:36,020 --> 00:37:37,054 Am I perfect yet? 676 00:37:37,054 --> 00:37:39,357 Not by any stretch of the imagination. 677 00:37:39,357 --> 00:37:42,326 So examine yourself, acknowledge your sin, confess it, 678 00:37:42,326 --> 00:37:45,329 and then take communion. 679 00:37:46,397 --> 00:37:47,365 And then Paul says, 680 00:37:47,365 --> 00:37:50,368 if you do this in an unworthy way, you're 681 00:37:50,534 --> 00:37:53,371 guilty against the blood, the body and blood of Jesus. 682 00:37:53,371 --> 00:37:56,374 And and look at what he says in verse 30. 683 00:37:59,076 --> 00:38:00,111 This is why. 684 00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:03,481 That's why many of you are weak and ill 685 00:38:03,481 --> 00:38:06,484 and some have died. 686 00:38:08,019 --> 00:38:10,688 Because you took communion in an unworthy way. 687 00:38:10,688 --> 00:38:13,691 This is why I was so petrified as a child. 688 00:38:14,725 --> 00:38:17,662 Here's what you're saying. 689 00:38:17,662 --> 00:38:20,631 When we live in rejection of Jesus, 690 00:38:21,232 --> 00:38:24,235 in unrepentant and unforgiveness, 691 00:38:24,602 --> 00:38:27,605 there will be times when the father 692 00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:31,475 disciplines. 693 00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:35,212 This is corrective discipline by a loving father 694 00:38:35,212 --> 00:38:39,483 and sometimes it takes physical form and manifestation. 695 00:38:39,550 --> 00:38:40,284 Now, I'm 696 00:38:40,284 --> 00:38:44,121 not at all saying that every sickness is due to someone's personal sin. 697 00:38:44,121 --> 00:38:47,091 That's not what the Bible teaches, but the Bible does give us warning. 698 00:38:48,092 --> 00:38:49,093 Now, in the 699 00:38:49,093 --> 00:38:51,962 church in Corinth, they made a mockery of this whole thing. 700 00:38:51,962 --> 00:38:54,765 They got drunk at communion. They abused people at communion. 701 00:38:54,765 --> 00:38:57,868 They made people starve who were hungry at communion, they didn't share 702 00:38:57,902 --> 00:39:00,871 with like it was a mockery, the whole thing. 703 00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:03,808 And just because you made a mockery 704 00:39:03,808 --> 00:39:06,444 of my son 705 00:39:06,444 --> 00:39:09,513 and his life and his death and his resurrection, his promise return 706 00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:11,115 because you've made a mockery of the whole thing. 707 00:39:11,115 --> 00:39:13,551 Refuse to acknowledge your into your future. 708 00:39:13,551 --> 00:39:15,252 You continue to abuse the people. 709 00:39:15,252 --> 00:39:15,653 Yeah. 710 00:39:15,653 --> 00:39:18,656 He will discipline you severely. 711 00:39:20,691 --> 00:39:23,694 So get this stuff right. 712 00:39:24,462 --> 00:39:27,431 Do you follow? 713 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,535 Confess what needs to be confessed? 714 00:39:31,535 --> 00:39:33,738 Repent what needs to be repented of. 715 00:39:33,738 --> 00:39:37,174 Acknowledge that is through Christ, in him alone and his blood shed on the cross, 716 00:39:37,174 --> 00:39:39,243 that you can only be made right with the father. 717 00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:44,048 Have a seriousness about this. 718 00:39:44,615 --> 00:39:47,551 It's not magic, 719 00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:50,354 but is eternal. 720 00:39:50,354 --> 00:39:53,791 Please don't be fooled as some of my Roman Catholic friends are. 721 00:39:53,791 --> 00:39:54,392 And I love them. 722 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:56,994 But some of them are fooled. 723 00:39:56,994 --> 00:39:59,830 They believe in this thing called transubstantiation, that they believe 724 00:39:59,830 --> 00:40:03,634 that the bread actually changes substance and becomes actual flesh, 725 00:40:05,035 --> 00:40:08,272 and the cup actually changes substance and becomes actual blood. 726 00:40:08,272 --> 00:40:11,442 That's why they don't allow anybody but their priest to administer 727 00:40:11,442 --> 00:40:16,847 the elements, because they afraid some, some might drop the blood of Jesus. 728 00:40:16,881 --> 00:40:17,415 It's. 729 00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:20,418 There's nowhere in the Bible that says that at all. 730 00:40:23,754 --> 00:40:25,756 The importance of this 731 00:40:25,756 --> 00:40:29,126 is that I acknowledge my sin, I acknowledge the payment of my sin, and 732 00:40:29,126 --> 00:40:32,596 I honor Christ because he paid the price as my Passover lamb. 733 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:36,233 And he leaves us a promise I will eat this again. 734 00:40:36,233 --> 00:40:39,737 Finally, in the kingdom of my father, I'm coming back. 735 00:40:40,538 --> 00:40:43,607 So if church, every time we eat this, every time we drink 736 00:40:43,607 --> 00:40:46,610 this, it's the acknowledgment 737 00:40:47,845 --> 00:40:50,781 of what Jesus did for us. 738 00:40:50,781 --> 00:40:54,552 And it's the celebration of what he's done in us, a new covenant. 739 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:58,155 And it's an anticipation that he's coming back for us. 740 00:41:00,357 --> 00:41:03,360 Do you follow? 741 00:41:04,962 --> 00:41:08,799 In, in reflection of that kind of love? 742 00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:13,204 What's your response? 743 00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:20,110 I want to invite you in this moment 744 00:41:20,377 --> 00:41:23,481 so that you can, in a worthy manner, take communion. 745 00:41:24,415 --> 00:41:27,418 As a follower of Jesus, 746 00:41:27,518 --> 00:41:30,521 I want to invite you into this prayer right now. 747 00:41:34,291 --> 00:41:34,859 Would you say, 748 00:41:34,859 --> 00:41:37,862 father, I admit that I'm a sinner 749 00:41:38,095 --> 00:41:41,098 and I've lived life on my own terms. 750 00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:44,835 Jesus, I believe that you died 751 00:41:44,835 --> 00:41:48,739 for my sin because of my sin and that you were raised to life. 752 00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:52,443 Save me. 753 00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:55,446 I commit to turn from my sin, 754 00:41:55,479 --> 00:42:00,251 and I dedicate my life, and I dedicate my allegiance to you and you alone, 755 00:42:01,752 --> 00:42:04,522 and power me to love you with my whole heart and soul 756 00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:07,992 and mind and strength, without delay 757 00:42:08,058 --> 00:42:11,061 and without hesitation. 758 00:42:11,161 --> 00:42:14,164 Fill me with your spirit right now. 759 00:42:14,999 --> 00:42:16,300 Clothe me. 760 00:42:16,300 --> 00:42:19,770 Cover me with the power of your spirit to live a holy life. 761 00:42:21,872 --> 00:42:24,875 I give myself to you 762 00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:25,843 and your name I pray. 763 00:42:25,843 --> 00:42:28,112 Amen. 764 00:42:28,112 --> 00:42:30,180 Friends, 765 00:42:30,180 --> 00:42:33,150 I want to invite you back to the heart of worship, 766 00:42:34,018 --> 00:42:35,252 the remembrance of Jesus, 767 00:42:35,252 --> 00:42:38,255 his body and his blood 768 00:42:38,489 --> 00:42:41,492 date the bread. 769 00:42:41,692 --> 00:42:43,460 This is his body. 770 00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:45,563 It's been given for you. 771 00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:48,566 Do this and remember him. 772 00:42:51,769 --> 00:42:54,538 Take the cup. 773 00:42:54,538 --> 00:42:57,541 This is the new covenant of his blood 774 00:42:58,175 --> 00:43:01,178 shed for the forgiveness of sin. 775 00:43:01,178 --> 00:43:01,612 Do this. 776 00:43:01,612 --> 00:43:04,615 Remember him. 777 00:43:09,753 --> 00:43:12,756 Case going to lead us in a very appropriate song 778 00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:14,325 called The Heart of Worship, 779 00:43:16,093 --> 00:43:19,096 where everything else is stripped away 780 00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:22,099 and it's simply about him. 781 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,169 We will have people up front and in the back and outside 782 00:43:25,169 --> 00:43:29,273 to pray with you, as you need prayer as that would 783 00:43:29,940 --> 00:43:33,077 as you repent, as you give yourself to him as your pleasure allegiance to him. 784 00:43:33,077 --> 00:43:36,080 Would you confirm that with someone in prayer 785 00:43:36,647 --> 00:43:39,550 during and after we've seen the song, we lead us in that. 786 00:43:39,550 --> 00:43:40,150 Thank you.