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and then also to do this segment.

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That's right. So this is is
we're talking about today the last supper you

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know, in the in the scripture. That's right. So Desiree says,

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my question for you both is this
what would you want to have as your

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last meal? Oh? I gotta
tell you that's a tough one. First

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of all, that's like a death
row question. Well, that's exactly it.

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When if you read somebody on death
row, you always go last meal.

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Yeah, what would you like to
order? I don't know. She

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is like from anywhere anything. I
mean, I mean, I guess if

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it's a death row question, you're
allowed to request anything, allowed to request

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anything. Okay, So my default
is something with mashed potatoes. That's my

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that's usually. But if it was
my very last meal, I think I

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would want Connie's pizza from Chicago,
so of all the Chicago style pizzas,

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Conniess is my favorite, and everybody
else says that Connie's isn't the best,

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it's just dumb. And then I
would want to add to that a Ricabines

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bread and steak sandwich. And they're
rayed across, like just down the street

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from each other, so you could
get them both for me. Wow.

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Yeah, it's amazing. The bread
and steak sandwiches. They take an Italian

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roll, they slice it. They
take a pounded piece of steak that's really

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good, and they bred it and
then fry it, roll it. Yeah,

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and then they put sauteed onions and
peppers in a mozzarella melt on top.

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It's so good, and then they
throw it under the broilery real quick,

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put it back out. But oh
and the breaded steak is dipped in

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marinara. It's unbelievable sandwich. Wow. Yeah, as a matter of fact,

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you be an Italian. It's all
the things you like, right,

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it's just not in the meatball,
that's right, right. Wow, it's

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fantastic. So that's me. So
I would imagine that if I was on

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if I were on death row,
that the most significant meal for me would

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be a meal that brought me back
to my childhood, just my favorite meal

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as a child. So if my
wife were alive, I would request her

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to make it homemade. But if
that situation wasn't possible, and I would

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imagine if I'm on death row,
maybe it wouldn't be accommodating. But if

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she were willing to make it my
last meal, I would request homemade wedding

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soup for my wife. Yeah,
that's good soup. Who's who makes my

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moms? Who makes my grandma's?
Uh? And then also home made ravioli

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with some homemade met bolls. You've
mentioned ravioli a bunch of times. Yep,

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yeah, soul it was it was
the it was the meal of our

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youth. And so Christmas Christmas meal
or Thanksgiving Christmas meal. Yeah so uh

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so I would you know, spaghetti
more oftentimes than that. But but I

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would say, and then also if
if my wife weren't available because I was

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on death row, because I perhaps
maybe you know, murdered her, brilliant

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that's why you're on death row.
Maybe I don't know. So if she's

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not, you can't just be an
old man in the hospital. Note,

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you're on death row because he killed
your wife. That may be indicative,

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That may be indicative of what's going
on inside of scenario. And you said,

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yes, it's a death this is
going to turn into a true crime

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podcast is going to do? Uh? If my wife was not available for

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my last meal, I would do
it from Anton's from Youngstown, Ohio,

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who has phenomenal items that I've just
described. Okay, all right, which,

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by the way, Antone's would be
the place that I went the day

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I was saved. Oh well,
so the start of my start of my

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well, I just want to go
on the record to say, because I

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know Liz listens to this show,
I think Liz is more likely to kill

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you than you are to kill this
Yeah, that's a good call. That's

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a good call. As a matter
of fact, I wouldn't go home today

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if that's so funny. What do
you mean today's Valentie. I got to

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go home, not for our listeners. Vale great fun So watch out,

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Liz, I guess. So yeah. Wow. The good news is I'm

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not going to spoil Valentine later.
Yeah, that's right. You're gonna get

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in trouble later. Still be fine. That's that's right. She won't know.

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I won't. I won't tell her. That's hysterical, that's funny.

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very much. Well, we are
going to be reading today talking about what

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we call the Last Supper, and
this is where the idea of communion comes

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from these passages, and there's also
betraying here. So there's a lot to

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cover, that's right. So we're
going to get ready to it. There's

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a lot of verses to read.
Yep. But I think everybody understand why

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because it's Matthew, Mark Luke,
and John we cover all these things.

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Yeah, and rightfully. So it
was a pretty important event. When it

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was evening, Jesus sat down at
the table with the twelve disciples and while

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they were eating, he said,
I tell you the truth. One of

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you will betray me. Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn, am

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I the One? Lord? He
replied, one of you who has just

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eaten from this bowl with me will
betray me? For the son of man

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must die, as the scriptures declared, long go, how terrible it'll be

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for the one who betrays him.
It'll be far better for that man if

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he had never been born. Judas, the one who would betray him,

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also asked, rab i, am
I the One? And Jesus told him,

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you've said it. As they were
eating, Jesus took some bread and

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blessed it, and then he broke
it in pieces and gave it to the

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disciples, saying, take this and
eat it, for this is my body.

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And he took a cup of wine
and gave thanks to God for it.

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He gave it to them and said, each of you drink from it,

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for this is my blood, which
confirms the covenant between God and his

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people. It's poured out as a
sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.

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Mark my words. I will not
drink wine again until the day I drink

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it new with you in my father's
kingdom. Then they sang hymn and went

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out to the Mount of olives.
That was Matthew chapter twenty six, verses

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twenty through thirty. Mark chapter fourteen, verse seventeen says in the evening,

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Jesus arrived with the twelve disciples,
and as they were at the table eating,

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Jesus said, I tell you the
truth. One of you eating with

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me here will betray me. Greatly
distressed, each one asked him in turn,

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am I the one? And replied, it is one of you twelve

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who is eating from this bowl with
me. For the son of man must

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die, as the scriptures declared long
ago. By how terrible it will be

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for the one who betrays him,
would be far better for that man if

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he'd never been born. As they
were eating, Jesus took some bread and

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blessed it, and then he broke
it in pieces and gave it to the

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disciples, saying, take it,
for this is my body. And he

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took a cup of wine and gave
thanks to God for it, and he

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gave it to them, and they
all drank from it, and he said

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to them, this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and

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his people. It's poured out as
a sacrifice for many. I tell you

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the truth. I will not drink
wine again until the day I drink it

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new in the Kingdom of God.
And then they sang a hymn and went

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out to the Mount of Olives.
Luke chapter twenty two, verse fourteen says

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when the time came, Jesus and
the apostles sat down together at the table,

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and Jesus said, I have been
very eager to eat this passover meal

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with you before my suffering begins.
For I tell you now that I won't

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eat this meal again until its meaning
is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.

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Then he took a cup of wine
and gave thanks to God for it.

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Then he said, take this and
share it among you, for I will

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not drink wine again until the Kingdom
of God has come. He took some

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bread and gave thanks to God for
it. Then he broke it in pieces

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and gave it to the disciples,
saying, this is my body which is

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given for you do this to remember
me. After supper, he took another

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cup of wine and said, this
cup is the new covenant between God and

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his people, an agreement confirmed with
my blood, which has poured out as

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a sacrifice for you. But here
at this table, sitting among us as

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a friend is the man who will
betray me. For it has been determined

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that the son of man must die. But what sorrow awaits the one who

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betrays him. The disciples began to
ask each other which of them would ever

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do such a thing. Then they
began to argue among themselves who would be

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the greatest among them. And Jesus
told them, in this world the kings

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and great men lorded over their people, yet they are called friends of the

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people. But among you it'll be
different. Those who are the greatest among

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you should take the lowest rank,
and the leader should be like a servant,

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who is more important the one who
sits at the table, or the

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one who serves the one who sits
at the table. Of course, but

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not here, for I am among
you as one who serves. You have

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stayed with me in my time of
trial. And just as my father has

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granted me a kingdom, I now
grant you the right to eat and drink

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at my table. In my kingdom, you will sit on thrones judging the

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twelve tribes of Israel. And then
in John thirteen, verse twenty one,

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it says, now Jesus was deeply
troubled and he exclaimed, I tell you

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the truth, one of you will
betray me. The disciples looked at each

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other, wondering whom he could mean. And the disciples the disciple Jesus loved

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was sitting next to Jesus at the
table. Simon Peter motioned to him and

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asked, who's he talking about?
So that disciple leaned over to Jesus and

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asked, Lord, who is it. Jesus responded, it is the one

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to whom I give the bread I
dip in the bowl. And then when

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he had dipped it, he gave
it to Judas, son of Simon,

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his carriot. When Judas had eaten
the bread, Satan entered into him,

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and then Jesus told him, hurry
and do what you're going to do.

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None of the others at the table
knew what Jesus meant, since Judas was

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their treasurer. Some thought Jesus was
time him to go and pay for the

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food or to give some money to
the poor. So Judas left at once,

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going out into the night. Wow. Yeah, that was a lot.

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Yeah, and so a lot of
significant moments here. And where do

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you want to start? Man?
We should start with explaining what this passover

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is perhaps, yeah, because all
the other elements are built around this passover.

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Yeah, sure, well g is
so, I mean it comes from

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Exodus chapter what was it, I
don't know, fifteen or so. I

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don't know when the tank commandments are
given in chapter twenty, So it's before

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that where the children of Israel were
delivered out of Egypt. And it was

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really a symbol of the last plague. The last plague was God said he's

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going to come down and he's gonna
take the first born unless you put the

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lamb over the door. So they
basically kill everybody, killed a lamb who

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believed and actually put it on the
posts on the side and across the top.

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And then when I don't know,
it was God who actually went through

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that, and actually when he saw
the lamb, he would pass over them.

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When he saw the blood of the
lamb spilt, he would pass over

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them. And so that was a
picture of Jesus, right, So the

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picture of Jesus is blood on the
posts of the cross. When his blood

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is shed and sacrificed, just like
the sacrificial lamps, then the judgment for

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sin will be passed over us because
it's paid for and sacrificed for by the

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blood of the lamb. So here
they are celebrating this, I mean,

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just thousands of years later, and
still it carries the significance. And so

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imagine that. So this thing gets
put into place thousands of years earlier,

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but for God, who exists out
of time, for him, it's a

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blip, right. But yet his
children, you know, his children,

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the children of Israel, they've celebrated
this for thousands of years. And then

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appropriately Jesus has come about to give
his life and he's pouring out communion and

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only he realizes the significance of this
moment. That's right, that's right.

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It's crazy. Yeah, So that
lamb had to be the perfect lamb,

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right, had to be without blemish. And then this idea was when the

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death Angel came, that he would
pass over the homes to whom you know

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on the door posts and on the
mantle above which kind of forms a cross

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by the way, which is an
interesting thing, and he would pass over

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those homes. But the homes that
were not covered in the blood, then

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the firstborn would die and that was
the judgment of God. And then this

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symbolized their freedom because this was when
Pharaoh finally surrendered and said, okay,

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God's people can go. And he
now instead of just letting them go,

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he demands they leave. And so
then freedom comes because of what happened here.

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So the instructions from God it passed
over was that they were supposed to

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sacrifice this lamb, use the blood, you know, use a branch to

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put the blood on the door posts, and then they were to roast the

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lamb, and then they were to
make this very specific meal. They made

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the bread without any leavin in it. They didn't have time to let it

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rise, right, so you're not
going to take hours and hours to make

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it. You're gonna make a flat
bread essentially, And so they made a

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flat bread, and then they had
these different bitterers essentially, these different kinds

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of herbs and things in the meal. And so it was a very precise

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meal that for thousands of years,
that passover style meal was exactly the same

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without and they still do it today, right, and so it was very

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very precise. So this meal for
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the celebration of the fact that they
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was a celebration of the fact that
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people didn't have to die all those
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as we might celebrate Thanksgiving right,
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it. So every family has their
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Thanksgiving, and you look forward to
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know what the meal is going to
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and Dad's, I know what we're
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you go, and I get excited
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Because so the passover meal for every
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So when he takes this bread and
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it to everybody, this would have
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to a cracker, right, But
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Right. That's why he's saying,
this bread represents my body. I'm sin

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less, right, So when you
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gave my body for you. My
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pay the price for your sin because
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then the same thing the blood,
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I'm paying the price for you,
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paid the price, which is consistent
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very beginning of jesus ministry, and
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who takes away the sin of the
world. It's pretty amazing this picture

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that God has been creating. He
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all this time they were reminding themselves
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understand it. And then finally Jesus
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picture that God was trying to tell
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was in Bible College, I wrote
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thesis papers on this idea of communion
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what different denominations believe, but communion
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by almost all churches as an ordinance, and some people are pretty confused by

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it. So I just want to
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fancy word called transubstantiation that or priests
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believe that they have the power to
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and cup into flesh and wine or
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different belief than what I believe.
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mean, I mean, I don't
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but that that's sort of like we're
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that was what I sort of grew
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uh and and And it's based on
the fact that Jesus says, this

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is my body, this is my
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speaking in metaphors of course, because
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as wine. Even after he says
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of this wine again, right,
I will not drink of wine again.

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He doesn't say blood again, right
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time, and so I always I
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But I always say, Jesus said
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not a physical door that you cannot
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Right, Jesus said, I am
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gate. Jesus said, I am
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right, And so it's just all
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was referring to the cup representing the
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the same way that the rock had
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of the door. So so anyway, all that to say, you know,

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when we observe communion, what we
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reflect on because he says, as
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in remembrance of me. And what
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to remember the sacrifice that has made
you know for you, his blood was

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shed for you, right, like
there's a price for your sin, right,

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and it's been paid. You know, there's there's a price that was

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paid for your sin by his flesh, you know, being torn up and

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and being ripped apart, just as
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sacrificed for you. And then my
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because he says, as often as
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left up to you, as as
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wish to observe it. Because he
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often as you do this. Yeah, his assumption would be because he's talking

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to Jewish Men, his assumption would
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passover. So there's some people say, oh, no, you have to

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do it every Sunday. Some people
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month, right, Some people say
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these guys would be next passover,
just remember passovers all about me, and

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then your next passover, just remember
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was an annual event for them,
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certainly, and so and so,
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it more than once a year,
that's it's not what Jesus was thinking at

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the moment, right, But it
happens to fit inside of the statement as

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often right whenever, whenever you do
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people who grew up with a tradition
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and since our church and they'll be
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attend Heritage our church. The last
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six times a year, so every
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exactness to that, but we do
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utilize and really teach on it and
actually plan around the moment. So the

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Last Supper or the Lord's Supper or
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and so you don't celebrate Thanksgiving dinner
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thought of it as anything other than
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get it. The bread represents Jesus
body, right, and the wine represents

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Jesus blood. Yeah, because because
even today if and we're about to do

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this with the elders, right,
when you have a person for instance,

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it was always for us the Jews
for Jesus where they come and they lay

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out a perfect passover meal, and
then you begin to understand the significance of

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the rituals that everything laid God or
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now has representation. They're connected to
they're connected the prophecies, and they're connected

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to everything that Jesus fulfilled and represents. And then you know not to make

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light of it, but it does
mention that Jesus says, hey, one

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of you is going to betray me? How devastating is this? Right?

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Oh yeah, And they're all whispering, is it me? Is it?

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Me? Is me? And I
love John right? So of all of

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them. So, so all four
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Mark is writing from Peter's perspective.
Right we we've already established that he

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was probably Peter's secretary. Luke is
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he he's followed up and interviewed people
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John's writing from his perspective, and
he goes in the disciple Jesus loves right

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right, which is him? It
is so funny, is right, right,

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He can't say and I right because
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Peter is also mentioned, which is
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and Peter is the oldest of the
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funny. Here he goes, so
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him at the table. As a
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it says he was reclining on Jesus
boosom, right, So he was leaning

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up against Jesus, right, right, They would have been sitting on the

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floor, that's right. So they're
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up against Jesus, you know,
and whatever. And Peter goes, hey,

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what was he talking about? You
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no, no, Peter, Peter, Simon. Peter motion to him,

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who's he talking about? And Peter
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right, Yeah, Hey, Jesus, who is it? So? And

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then Jesus answers him. Jesus is
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hand, the one who I dip
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And then it's Simon. It's Judas
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us that it was called sop,
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like it's like a dip. It's
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and they put the little spices in
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take it and you dip it in. Well, this probably would have been

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more with like a bitters is what
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oily and like an oil with a
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yeah yeah, and so yeah.
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gives it to Judas and then he
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not to be born. So there's
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Satan entered into him in that moment. Right. So it's interesting everything that

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Judas has done up to this point, while Satan might have been tempting him,

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he was choosing to do it himself. This is his own choice.

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And then at this point the Bible
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what you're gonna do, go do
quickly, and I almost you know,

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my mind goes to the spiritual realm, you know, in the battles where

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it's like it's like Satan's observing maybe
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he finds out Jesus knows right,
and he's like, I'm not going to

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let this opportunity pass. So Satan
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I don't know. I just I'm
supposing obviously. And now we're kind of

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racing through these stories. So tomorrow
Jesus is going to predict Peter's denial,

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and yeah, we're going to hitdle
all these stories that you know about the

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end of jesus life here on Earth
before his resurrection. Yeah, well that

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looks like our time, And so
we covered a whole heck of a lot,

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didn't we We did. Yeah,
just we kind of really just kind

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of skimmed it is what we did. Yeah, we did. But we'll

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see you next time on the Bible, guys,