The Lord’s Supper

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good morning how are you this morning doing well good morning Dan it's good to

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see you I wasn't expecting you to be sitting there nice to see you well this morning as you can see we're

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gonna take the Lord's Supper and I don't know if you guys can hear that I'm a little hot on the mic just a little a

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little hot it's kind of getting a little feedback but we're gonna we're gonna observe the Lord's Supper and so what

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I'd like to do this morning is actually preach from the Word of God about the Lord's Supper and so I want to talk to

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you about this wonderful time of fellowship where the body of Christ is supposed to come together in unison and

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enjoy and remember and recognize and reflect on our own need for Christ and

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what he's done for us so but there's a lot of text in the Bible about this and there's some background we need to have

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in order to understand some of the New Testament teaching on the Lord's Supper so let's start with the word of Prayer

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and then we're gonna we're gonna if you would open your Bibles with me to Exodus chapter 12 so we're gonna start there

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that may seem weird you'll be like how is the Lord's Supper in the Old Testament I'll show you why we need to

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go there first but let's pray together Heavenly Father you are an amazing God

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you are a God of great wonder you are a God of great power

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father you are a God who has created everything that we see have created us

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the entire universe was created by you the all and majesty of what you've done

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is amazing father hopefully we never we

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never get tired of glorifying you and praising you for who you are and the God

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beyond your creation and just a magnificent works you've done it's amazing how you've worked through

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your son Jesus in Redemption and even

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before the foundation of the world God you caused the plan of redemption to to

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start and it continues to work today and father everyone here who has been

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converted and who is believed and trusted in Jesus has done the done so because you've guided them to do it

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you've caused us to believe and you've brought forth faith and he brought Jesus

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that he might redeem and purchased us away from our sinfulness free us from

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the bondage and the slavery of sin God let us reflect on that in the Lord's Supper today what Jesus has done he's

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asked us to do these things in remembrance of him so calls us to remember father ask that

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you bless each one has come today that you even now start to help us to remove and to repent of and to reflect on any

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sin that's in our heart any division that's in our heart and God that you

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will weed that out you will help us to repent and move forward reconcile God we

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love you we praise you blessed this time we pray in the name of Jesus amen

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okay Exodus chapter 12 so in the Christian Church and and most of you are

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probably aware of this if you've been in the church any any period of time at all there are two sacraments or two

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ordinances that we keep regularly baptism you're familiar with baptism and

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then the Lord's Supper why do we only keep two in in the mainstream Protestant

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denominations the ones that come out of a kind of a Puritan Reformation heritage because these are the two that the LORD

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commanded in the Word of God so we keep those two now baptism is a once and

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forever thing you want your once you were saved the Lord puts His Holy Spirit

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into you that's a spiritual baptism and then as a sign of that as a profession

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of faith publicly we get baptized in water don't we to identify with his

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death let me read to you a couple of passages here so that you can hear the Lord's command and then you can also

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hear a little bit about what baptism is so in Matthew 28 starting in verse 19

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this is the great commit last two verses of the book of Matthew go therefore and make disciples of all

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the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit so that's verse 19 notice

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that we are to make disciples of the whole world and then we are to baptize

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them in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit okay so that's the the Lord's command in the book of Romans

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chapter 6 starting in verse 1 it says this what shall we say then shall we

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continue in sin that grace may abound certainly not how shall we who died to

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sin live any longer in it or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized

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into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death therefore we were buried with him

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through baptism into death that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also

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should walk in newness of life for if we have been united together in the likeness of his death certainly we

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also shall be we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection knowing

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this that our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin might be done away with that we should no longer be

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slaves of sin for he who has died has freed us from sin so baptism has this

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pictorial effect there's a spiritual regeneration that takes place at

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conversion as God places his Holy Spirit inside of you and then we are water

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baptized to show as an outward sim outward symbolism of our identification

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with the death of Christ and the rising up from the dead with Christ in the

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newness of life okay so that's baptism now we could do a much more full study

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in the scripture on baptism but today it's the day to talk about the Lord's Supper so the Lord's Supper is a thing

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that we keep perpetually in the church and what do I mean by that we keep it as often now different churches have

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different methodologies you may know this you may not some churches keep the Lord's Supper every single time they

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meet every single week they have it as part of their regular service okay some

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just do it once a month other churches do it once a quarter it there there's no

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prescription for how often you should do it the Lord just said as often as you do

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it do it in remembrance okay so there is no prescription that's why the church is kind of land on different some feel it's

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it needs to be done all the time others feel like once in a while is enough and again as a church we can

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decide how it's done here in our local assembly but we are to keep it and it's

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perpetual okay so that is an important thing it's amazing to me too though if you hear sermons how many of you if you

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think about it if you hear sermons or teaching have heard way more sermons and teaching on baptism than you have on the

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Lord's Supper be honest that's it's pretty pretty true isn't it and I think

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part of the reason for that is baptism is a thing that's coupled with conversion right so as new people get

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saved so we see it a lot more often or should be seeing it a lot more often and I I think maybe that's one of the

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reasons that it gets emphasized over the other now in a healthy Church where they're actively taking the Lord's

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Supper hopefully whoever's administering this you know a pastor or a brother in Christ someone who is administering the Lord's

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Supper to the to the congregation is taking the time to walk through at least

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at a high level some of what the Lord's Supper is and the warnings and commands associated with it we will do that today

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so the this is this is a great time to reflect and and as I prayed you probably

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heard I think even now knowing that this is coming you ought to start to reflect on your own person your own character

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your own inward thoughts and I'll show you why in the scripture we're commanded to do that it's going to be towards the

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end of the sermon but it's important and then as we move into the into the actual time of observance we'll take a moment

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to examine ourselves and be sure that we don't take this in an unworthy manner that's a it's a very big deal from the

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scripture so in our heritage I guess in

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the in the Christian Church in America here today we come out of a line of

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people that we let's just call them Puritans or Puritan reformers a lot of our churches come out

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of this lineage and they had two main things that they focused on primarily

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that were very important to them for having a healthy church and a healthy Christian community the first is

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preaching the Word of God and yes it means preaching like this corporately doing it well dividing the word rightly

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that kind of thing but it also means even in our lives you know speaking forth truth in our lives and preaching

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the proper administration of the word in the body of Christ and to the lost and the main one of the main reasons they

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thought this was important was this is the mechanism God uses to convert souls if you're not preaching the word well

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you're probably not converting souls well because it's not our fancy

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philosophy it's not you you hear how beautiful I speak how its flowering no

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it has nothing to do with the man it's not about me or you or how we say it or

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how we go about it it's the Word of God that brings life this can transform a

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heart this can actually do the work that you and I can't we just have to be

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willing messengers people willing to pick it up and speak it forth and live it out so that people can hear it okay

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that that's what we're to do and that's the Puritans took this very seriously the preaching of the word the second

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thing they were very very serious about was the proper administration of two

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sacraments the two we've just discussed baptism and the Lord's Supper the proper

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administration of these will create a healthy Church first of all the people

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in the church the people here should be if particularly if they're members now

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again these are public worship services and most churches are open to the public you can be here and be an unbeliever

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that's just fine hear the word of God but if you are to be plugged in and part of the body you are to be a baptized

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member of the body of Christ okay baptized because

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baptism doesn't save you we know that not not the water baptism anyway the spiritual one

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absolutely the water would know baptism is a symbol of your faith and you do

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that to express your conversion to other people but you the Puritans and a lot of

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church leaders today take this very seriously if you're not a baptized member of the body they many churches

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don't want you taking communion at all and again recognize a baptized member of

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the body I didn't say you had to be a part of this local church necessarily to do that but you do have to be a

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converted Christian okay so that was big to the Reformers and then the continual

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taking of the Lord's Supper the continual consumption of this and we'll

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get to the text in a minute all of the unity in the body in in Christ is drawn

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here and let me tell you and and you guys probably know this the church can't

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be healthy without a unified body here Jesus made the statement in another

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context that a house divided against itself can't stand a local assembly

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can't stand firm unless you're all in unison and unified on the Word of God

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the gospel who Christ is and what he's done and then our part in the body of

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Christ and the Lord's Supper draws you into that okay it's a very very critical

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thing in the and the Reformers the Puritan reformers were very very serious about this and I think in the church

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you're seeing it today you'll notice a lot of churches are now calling themselves reformed churches and

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what they're really trying to say is their doctrine and ideals and models follow what the Puritans were doing

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which they also and you know I believe two are dating back to the apostolic

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traditions that the Bible talks about making membership in the body of Christ

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a serious thing again okay let I'll stop her answering because there's more text

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and maybe I'll do some of that later let's let's look at this Exodus 12 so in order to understand the Lord's Supper we

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need to understand how he how he did this with the disciples they

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are actually partaking in the upper room the night when he was betrayed the night when he gets Cruces you know he was

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crucified the next morning you know he goes out in the garden and he gets he gets betrayed that night there in the

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Upper Room celebrating the Passover meal this is what the Jews do they were

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commanded perpetually to keep this year after year after year and that's what we're gonna look at next siddhis 12 this

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is its institution we need a little bit of this background in order to understand some of the things Jesus is

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saying and the things that are happening in the Lord's Supper in that Upper Room okay so let's look at Exodus 12 we're

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gonna go through about the first 27 verses and I'm only gonna highlight a few points here I'm not asleep on now

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the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying this month shall be your beginning of months it shall be the

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first month of the year to you something to point out there to you is the normal

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month for Jews the normal beginning of months or the thing they call Rosh Hashanah is is in September ish

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timeframe normally but this the Lord is telling Moses you're gonna make this the

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beginning of your months and the thing he's telling him is this sacred calendar that comes into play alongside the civil

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calendar that they already have is in the spring and you guys know this

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because the thing that the Bible calls the Passover we've returned in the modern church as Easter okay so that the

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celebration of Christ's death burial and resurrection we call that Easter in the Christian Church that is the Passover

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from the Bible okay Passover unleavened bread and first fruits the the first three feasts of the Lord from Leviticus

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26 well there's more to say about that but let's keep going I want you understand why he's telling them to do

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this here think in your mind too about the idea of the springtime and new life

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springing up think about that idea of new life in the spring every spring

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after the winter aren't you excited to see the grass and the trees and the flowers and everything come come back

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into bloom and come to life again all been dead and dormant for the whole winter particularly up here in the north

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you know in in in the Midwest I guess we could call it here in Ohio we have a pretty decent winter and then we have a

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spring and everything comes back to life well Israel experiences the same thing you know so this is this is an important

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time of renewal and new life and you're supposed to get that idea from this all

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right verse 3 speak to all the congregation of Israel saying on the 10th of this month every man shall take

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for himself a lamb according to the house of his father a lamb for a household ok now I realize already that

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I've jumped over a big thing that let me just back up for one second this is in

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the book of Exodus and so I just presumed you understood the exodus of Egypt where God sent Moses to take his

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people out of the land of Egypt I shouldn't probably presume so I may spend a second here but God sent Moses

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and to Egypt to take the children of Israel out of Egypt right and they were headed to Mount Sinai when they exit

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well in the process of this the Lord decides to send ten plagues against

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Egypt to crush them not like it just came to his mind at that moment but you get the point he determines to send the

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ten plagues against Egypt the final one is where he's going to kill the firstborn in Egypt and so the whole

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model of this Passover and you'll you'll see it in the text as we go is to mark out the Jewish people the Israelites who

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God is going to protect under his blood covenant he's going to protect them

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while he slaughters the firstborn of Egypt and so that's the background historical narrative that we didn't read

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up to this point in Exodus I presumed you knew it but better to be safe than

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sorry so here in verse 3 we have this thing

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where they're told to take a lamb and you guys may have heard the stories over the years as you heard people preach but

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the Jews wouldn't would not only take that lamb on the 10th but many of them would take it into their homes and they

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would actually keep it much like a pet because there were a couple things they had to do they needed to fully inspect

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this lamb to make sure it was spotless which meaning which which in Jewish rabbinical

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speak means it couldn't have more than three black hairs on a white sheep three

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of its hairs if they even found three it was couldn't be considered to be pure

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okay but they would take this lamb into their homes and they would keep it as a

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pet from the tenth and you'll see in the text to the fourteenth and on the tenth

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I want you to get the picture in your mind as we move to the Lord's Supper of the final week of the Lord's life do you

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remember what took place on the 10th the first day of the week as Jesus was

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coming into Jerusalem let's look at a little bit of text here Luke 19 and you

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can really write this down or turn to it I'm just gonna read a quick passage Luke 19 37 through 40 then as he was now

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drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise

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God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen saying blessed is the king who comes in the name of the

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Lord peace in heaven and glory in the highest and some of the Pharisees called to him from the crowd teacher rebuke your

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disciples but he answered and said to them I tell you that if these should keep silent the stones would immediately

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cry out so one of the main factors that you ought to understand about this

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Passover here is that while it had a physical implementation here with lambs

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and blood from lambs here in Exodus this

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is a picture of the Messiah who would come and he would actually shed his own blood to cover sin and again there's a

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lot of the Bible talks about this but the Passover is about Jesus and Jesus on

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the tenth on the first day of the week which was the tenth of that week he fulfills this exactly he came in let me

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read you another verse just to get so you get the feel of the prophecies being fulfilled when he did that this is from

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Zechariah 9 this is a prophecy that predicted Jesus rejoice greatly o daughter of Zion shout o daughter of

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Jerusalem be hold your king is coming to you he is just and having salvation lowly and

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riding on a donkey a Colt the foal of a donkey you're familiar with the verse

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Jesus fulfilled many many prophecies as he rode into Jerusalem on that tenth day

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of NIH's on he's fulfilling this Passover prophecy here but he's also

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fulfilling Zechariah there and let me read you one more that you may not often think of the Book of Daniel chapter 9

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the 70 weeks prophecy from the end of the book of Daniel chapter 9 listen to

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this 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy holy city to finish the transgression to make an end

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of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and

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prophecy and to anoint the most holy know therefore and understand that from

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the going forth of the command to restore and build jerusalem until

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messiah the prince there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks the street

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shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times and after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off

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but not for himself and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary the end of it

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shall be with a flood until the end of the war desolations are determined I'll

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stop there there's more to it but you saw the part about Jesus there right you saw the part about the Messiah himself

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will show up from the command to rebuild until Messiah the Prince which is the

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day he's announced the tenth of NIH's on and we owe a great deal to a man named

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Sir Robert Anderson Freddy lived in the 1800s he he was he was a Scotland Yard

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director and he was also an amateur astronomer but he was a huge Bible I

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don't know if we maybe would today we'd call him a nerd he's he's a Bible he's a Bible guy he went into the the records

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the astronomical records that they had in the history that he had available to him at the time and he calculated the

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exact timing between the decree from from Cyrus sorry the decree from

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art exerts ease to the time when the Messiah would come in on that day we call the triumphal entry and that it

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works out exactly those 69 weeks of years those are 69 weeks of years

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exactly to that day man the fulfillment of that prophecy right there has caused

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so many people to late date the Book of Daniel believing that the prophet Daniel

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didn't write it because of the precision and the accuracy of these prophecies now

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of course you and I know better we know it was written by Daniel first of all Jesus affirms Daniel as the writer in

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the New Testament if you have faith in Jesus you'll trust Daniel in his word because his word is true it's in the

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Bible and Jesus affirmed it in the New Testament don't be don't be thrown off

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by all that late dating nonsense that is a very specific prophecy fulfilled in

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this coming of Jesus there and it's all it's all wrapped up in the commands

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given here for the Passover and the coming of the Messiah Jesus and again as

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you know there are seven feasts of Israel right if you're familiar with Leviticus 23 there's Passover unleavened

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bread and first fruits Jesus fulfilled those at his first coming there is the feast of weeks or we call it Pentecost

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which honestly is the great period of time of the church age between the two and then there's the Feast of Trumpets

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the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles that will happen and be part

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of the end time scenario when Jesus returns again the Feast of Trumpets most likely to me is and again this is all

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future so it's difficult for me to interpret it exactly but I believe that's the rapture of the church the Day

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of Atonement is his judgment we see it spelled out in the book of Revelation that wrath of God the report out and

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then Tabernacles is obviously the coming kingdom when the Lord will reign here on the earth there are two parts a first

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coming and a second coming and they're all modeled in these feasts so Passover

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here starts this is the first one and this is this is important for us to understand these details that's why I'm

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tying them into the New Testament so you get the back ground and I know I'm moving quickly and at some stage Lord willing we'll go

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through the details of these and more very you know fine grained detail but let's keep going in this text and if the

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household is too small for the lamb let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the

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persons according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb okay

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and your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year you may take it

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from the sheep or from the goats now this this verse here did you see what it says a lamb without blemish

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who is the sinless Lamb of God without blemish Jesus you see the figuring of

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Jesus to come I would love to preach to you right now from Hebrews 8 through 10

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and talk to you about the great high priest and the putting away of the bulls and the goats and all of their blood and

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the blood of Jesus perfecting but let's let's continue with this I don't wanna preach a second sermon on top of it it

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would be confusing verse 6 now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the

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same month then the whole Assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at Twilight now understand folks that

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14th day of NIH's on and again I'm using the name of the month I know the text doesn't say that but that's the month

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we're talking about that 14th day that's the day Jesus was crucified and and I

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have a whole study with with slideshow and everything detailing from the New Testament and

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using these Old Testament references exactly how Jesus fulfills this he is

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set apart as the Messiah and even the very rocks would cry out if the people held their tongues and then on the 14th

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he dies for sin on a cross that's this Lamb figured here okay verse 7 and they

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shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorpost and on the lentils of the houses where they eat it then

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they shall eat the flesh on that night roasted and fire with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it

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do not eat it raw nor boiled at all with water but roasted and fire its head with its legs and its entrails you shall let

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none of it remain morning and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire and

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thus you shall eat it with a belt on your waist your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand so you shall eat

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it in haste it is the Lord's Passover notice that word Lord there I want to

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teach you something about your Bible you may not know you some of you might some of you may not be aware anytime you see

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the word Lord like that and it's in all capital letters it doesn't actually say Lord in the text what it says is Yahweh

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the name of God it's the four-letter name of God every time you see Lord in

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all capital letters anywhere in the Old Testament it is translating the name of

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God so actually what it should say what you should read there it is Yahweh's

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Passover okay and I know to us it means the same thing but understand God is

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putting his name in the Word of God here in the Christian church we don't understand it as much because it's all

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been obfuscated away from seeing it in the text but this is the name of God you

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need to understand what's being said here okay little lesson sorry a little rabbit

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trail verse 12 for I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the firstborn in the land of

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Egypt both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment I am the Lord now the blood

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shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are and when I see the Blood I will pass over you and the plague shall

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not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt so this day shall be to you a memorial and you shall

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keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations you shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting

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ordinance seven days you shall eat unleavened bread on the first day you shall remove

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leaven from your houses for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day that person shall be cut

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off from Israel okay so we see two things here there is there is this

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everlasting perpetual keeping of the Passover ceremony with the Israelites they are commanded

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year by year to keep this thing that ought to start speaking to you a little

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bit you ought to start recognizing that when Jesus Institute's the Lord's Supper in the New Testament it's coming from

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this heritage this history the Jewish people sitting around that Lord's table

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all of his disciples that are there they know this better than you and I will

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probably ever know it as far as you know the details every word in here they were

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commanded to live by the law of God these details they had to observe them

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and keep particular about them notice here if they are if they consumed

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unleavened bread that's that's bread with yeast in it so you know how you buy

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a loaf of bread at the store and it's nice and puffy and soft well if you put leaven or yeast the stuff that causes

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that puffing thing up in there and you eat it during the first seven days of this feast the Lord will cut you off

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from Israel that's what they that's what they knew so I've heard and again we'll

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get to it as we get into the New Testament text but I've heard many people question you know the Lord

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doesn't say unleavened bread or not you better understand the background understand the history here no Jew would

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dare eat unleavened bread during the Passover meal there are sorry leavened

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bread during the Passover meal they are commanded to eat unleavened bread okay

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and then they are to keep this as a perpetual feast now we could go on there's more to this but let's turn to

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the New Testament if you would turn over to the to the to Luke chapter 22 with me

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please Luke 22 let's turn over here in

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the New Testament and I want you to see this text here if I can get to the spra

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starting verse sorry my pages are Luke 22 we're gonna start in verse 7 now

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listen to this text here then came the day of unleavened bread when the

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Passover must be killed and he sent Peter and John sang go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat

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so they said to him where do you want us to prepare and he said to them behold when you have entered the city a man

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will meet you carrying a pitcher of water follow him into the house which he enters then you shall say to the master

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of the house the teacher says to you where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples then he

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will show you a large furnished upper room there make ready so they went and found it just as he had said to them and

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they prepared the Passover notice this they're preparing for that upper room feast and it's the Passover meal being

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prepared when the hour had come verse 14 he sat down in the Twelve Apostles with

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him then he said to them with fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I

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say to you I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God then he took the cup and gave thanks

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and said take this and divide it among yourselves for I say to you I will not

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drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes and he took bread gave thanks and broke it and gave it to

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them saying this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of

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me likewise he also took the cup apt after supper saying this cup is the New

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Covenant in my blood which is shed for you and I could continue on from there

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and talk about Judas's betrayal but we mentioned that in a sermon a few weeks ago look at the Lord's look at what the

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Lord does here during this passover meal he takes this passover meal which they had celebrated every year of their lives

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every year without fail they would celebrate this by command and all sorts

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of things associated with it nobody in that room is unfamiliar with the process

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of the passover meal but look what the Lord does he starts to transform it

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slightly and he starts to prefigure some things that they're celebrating that

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they don't even fully understand yet look look at the first thing he says is

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he says I had a longing and desire to eat this Passover you know he's got a longing

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desire to celebrate this Passover why do you think that is think to yourself for

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a second why do you think that is this is the very day as far as calendar days

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go let me give you another little lesson in case you don't know we in the Western

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world most of the time divide our day and night at midnight right we put the

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division of a day like the date on the calendar happens at midnight okay in the

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Jewish world it doesn't work that way there night and day ends at 6:00 p.m. it's called the even it's referenced

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many times in the scripture and all of the stuff dealing with the Passover and all of the feasts of the Lord all just

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presuppose this understanding of how a day-and-night works when they celebrated

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that Passover meal in the Upper Room that evening it was a new calendar day

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because the day starts in the evening 6:00 p.m. a new calendar day now from

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the way you and I look at life it's the same physical day in that we got up that morning we went to work we did

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everything we would do at home and then we went somewhere to have a feast and a fellowship with people - to you and I

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they they worked and lived very much the same way we do you get up in the morning you do your stuff and in the evening but

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the calendar has flipped over to the next day and that's that's one of the

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things I think this confuses Bible scholars many times when they look at these things they don't realize that an

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actual calendar day has transpired when they started this and so it's it's a key

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jesus is fulfilling this on the very calendar day so he or he start he's

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leading this on the very calendar day that he will be crucified he is to be

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crucified the very next morning that's something you need to put in your mind and understand his longing and desire is

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not only is this going to be his last Passover before the kingdom comes he

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himself is going to be the Passover lamb on that very day

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this is critical to understand folks when you read these text that you know

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the history of Passover you know what that says so that you can understand what he's doing here

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so Jesus also says here he will not eat the Passover again until it is fulfilled

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in the kingdom notice that from the time he he finishes this Passover supper with

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the disciples he dies on the cross the next morning same calendar day but the next morning he will never take that

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again until the kingdom when he returns and sets up his kingdom on earth with us

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that is the Feast of Tabernacles by the way that is an unbelievable time that is

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yet future and coming now I want you to look at a couple other things this is what I meant earlier by the Jews didn't

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necessarily know everything they were celebrating here so during a Passover

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Seder and we're not going to do a full rundown because believe me I have an entire teaching on that and it's a it's

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I was gonna say amazing but I want to act pompous that's not what I meant it's good to understand what they do so that

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you can see some of the features in the text but let me give you just an insight here they have four cups that they take

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now sometimes it's just one cup that they take four separate times drinks out of this cup of wine during this process

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the first cup the Jews call sanctification and and their phrase I'm

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gonna do it in English not Hebrew I will bring you out that's cup 1 cup 2 is called plagues

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okay I will free you from being slaves that's the Hebrew that they that they

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say third cup redemption or salvation I will redeem you fourth cup completion I

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will take you as my own people so the Jews if you ever watch or observe a

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Passover Seder or read about it you'll see that they do all of this in the context of the Passover implemented in

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Egypt but I want you to see what Jesus does here at least from a textual

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standpoint now he may have very well observed all four of those just like they always do but the text only tells

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about to cup number one Jesus Jesus

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takes he takes the first cup he gives thanks then he tells his disciples to divide it among themselves as he will

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not partake until the kingdom of God comes this is him prefiguring sanctification

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that is going to come through the conversion of these people through his blood that he's going to sacrifice the

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next morning this wine prefigures the blood of Christ and we're gonna

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celebrate that part of it here in a minute that first cup he is about to die on the cross and he is going to bring

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Salva sanctification to these people through the work he's about to do okay

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he skips right over the second cup in the text did you note that there's no

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second cup here and we know that because the next cup that's mentioned he says that's the cup after dinner and in the

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Passover Seder the after-dinner cup is the third cup the second cup is skipped why it's called plagues this is when God

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pours his judgment out now when does that happen well that's an in times

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thing as far as if we're talking in the model of the Feast of the Lord that's the day of atonement that is the the

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stuff in Revelation that is really hard to read because God brings wrath to the

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earth okay Jesus skips right over that at this point now you may also be able

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to take that from a personal standpoint that God will judge you if you don't

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repent you know I guess you could kind of take it that way but I want you to see the grand scope here okay in the

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next one if the third cup that he takes after dinner this is Christ promising

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them Redemption and salvation through his blood and this is the one that he tells them to take this is important the

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fourth cup completion it's not completed yet Christ has not yet died on the cross

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neither has he returned and set up the final kingdom again the Jews do not put

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it in that kind of a model but you need to understand from the text that is what's going on here

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the Lord is pre configuring his death his salvation that he is bringing

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through his death and he's gonna do it on the very day where he implements this

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okay the next thing we see is he takes bread and he takes bread now again I

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already gave you a precursor here this is unleavened bread there would be no

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other bread at a passover meal the jews would never do that because again there

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the penalty for that is being cut off from your people this is unleavened bread and it figures

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Christ the unleavened bread that we celebrate again the Jews don't even

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understand why they do some of what they do but these were loafs of bread that were that were made they're different

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than the crackers in fact the stuff here is much closer to what it probably looked like it would be a thicker almost

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like a real loaf of bread just without yeast so it never Rises and puffs up so you have this this bread that is

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unleavened and it's one loaf and it's cut into pieces or broken by hand most

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the time I think they were breaking it which is why we call that breaking bread they took the one loaf and broke a piece

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off and ate it okay so that's what's that's what's happening here with the bread but this bread in ancient Israel

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was roasted over an open fire and so it was it was on a grill of source similar

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to what we do so it has stripes on it because of the grilling and then they

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pierce it to they they pierce the bread to make it cook evenly and that you know

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when you pierce food what it's effective they did the same thing they have no

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idea why they had it has stripes they have no idea why it has piercings I bet

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every one of you who knows the New Testament can tell me why it has stripes and it has piercings because Jesus had

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stripes and piercing think of his beatings and crucifixion stripes and

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piercing and that bread models that everything about this Passover meal

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figures Christ but the Jews don't even understand it I'm talking about worth

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the doc's Jews who don't believe Jesus is Messiah Messianic Jews absolutely in fact I learned most of this from

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Messianic Jews teaching this stuff Zola Levitt and guys like that over the years

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Arnold's fuckton bomb I mean Alfred edersheim if you guys very old name

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absolutely these people taught the Messianic nature of these things to the

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church what much of the church doesn't even know so let's keep going

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for turn with me to first Corinthians chapter 10 first Corinthians chapter 10

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and the way I've organized this is to show you the history and the in the book of Exodus I wanted to show you the

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implementation of it in the Gospel with Jesus and then I wanted to take you to the Pauline epistles first Corinthians

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specifically so that we could look at the meaning and the institution of this in the Apostolic period under the

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apostles okay so we're in 1st Corinthians 10 we're only gonna read two

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verses here look at verse 16 the cup of blessing which we bless is it not the

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communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ for we

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though many are one bread and one body for we all partake of that one bread so

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when we look at this we see this word communion in here and that word is used

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many times in in the church some people call this communion some people call it the Lord's Supper it both are okay in

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the greek the word that's underlying that is a word called Koinonia have you

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guys heard that word before Koinonia it means fellowship it means fellowship our sharing the whole idea is

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coming together in a fellowship and a sharing of the body in the blood of

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Christ that's what that's what I'm saying it said at the beginning is this

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whole thing that he's doing is trying to pull together and unify the body of

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Christ in in two main factors his body

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that not only he gay for us right and and was bruised and

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broken and striped and pierced but also the unification of his body the church

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here and then the blood of Christ which actually pays for our sin this is what

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Christ has done and and this is what we should be unified in the body and blood

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of Christ this is paramount to the Christian Church and if we're gonna have unity in

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the body of Christ it better be over the gospel if you're unifying and Christian

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religious works whatever you want to call it with people who have a different gospel a different body and blood of

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Christ or the fact that Christ isn't even necessary at all you're doing it wrong we have unity in who Christ is and

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what he's done for us this is what the Lord's Supper helps us to do and to continuously do draw us back this

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fellowship notice that though we are many and most of in your heads hopefully

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you're you're hearing Paul's other words about the body with its eye and its hands and all of its parts coming

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together and making one unified body everyone having separate functions or we

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could talk about the vine we've spoken of a couple weeks ago from John 15 that vine right or hear the bread the bread

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it's one body it's one vine it's one loaf and who is that

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it's Christ it's the body of Christ coming together in unity this is what he

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what he wants I won't turn to read it but just write it down John 17 Jesus

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says a prayer there that is amazing to me he prays for all believers to be one

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as he and the father are one it's it's an amazing prayer you have the Son of

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God before going to the cross praying to the father that he will unify those in

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his body the church those that God has given to him into one faithful loaf one faithful

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vine one faithful body of Christ unified together

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is there any schism at all in the Godhead we believe biblically in a

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triune God don't we Father Son and Holy Spirit is there any division whatsoever between them

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absolutely not should there be any division between us absolutely not

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Jesus has prayed that we would be unified flip over to 1st Corinthians 11

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we're gonna start in verse 17 and we're getting very close to the end we're gonna read this passage talk about a few

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things and then we're gonna move into the observance ok verse 17 now in giving

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these instructions I do not praise you since you come together not for the better but for the worse for first of

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all when you come together as a church I hear and there are divisions among you and in part I believe it for there must

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also be factions among you that those who are approved may be recognized among you don't take that as meaning you

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should be contentious and create a faction in the church what he means is when outsiders and unbelievers and

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people like that come in they create factions that show the real Christians

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to be approved okay not that you and I should be dividing the church don't read that incorrectly verse 20 therefore when

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you come together in one place it is not to eat the Lord's Supper for in eating each one takes his own supper ahead of

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others and one is hungry and one and another is drunk what and notice that exclamation point in the New King James

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what do you not have houses to eat and drink in or do you despise the Church of

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God and shame those who have nothing what shall I say to you shall I praise you and this I do not praise you

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remember these are Paul's words and notice how pastoral they are how pastoral these instructions are here for

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I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which he was

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betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and said hey II this is my body which is broken for

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you do this in remembrance of me in the same manner he also took the cup after

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supper saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood this do as often as you drink it in

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remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you

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proclaim the Lord's death till he comes there I want I want to pause there for a

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second because I want to go back to something I said earlier I think I've glossed over the most important part of

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cup number two and it just hit me the plagues the judgment the wrath of God

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Jesus actually didn't mention that most likely because he is going to take the

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punishment for sin I I don't want to miss that I didn't want to gloss over it

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because I I in my preparation I I had that down here and I skipped right over the primary point of the cup of plagues

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he will personally take that one so there's no reason to have it listed in

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the text you and I will not suffer for our own sin if we're in Christ so notice

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that when you're preaching or when you're speaking publicly you can gloss right over something that's very important but I didn't want

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to leave that because that's an important point it's the most important point from that passage understand that

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Christ will take that that cup of plagues is going to be on him he will suffer that alone and if you are in

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Christ and you have been healed from your sins it's because of the word Christ did let's keep going verse 27

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therefore whoever eats this bread and drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the

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body and blood of the Lord but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of

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the bread and drink of the cup for he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to

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himself not discerning the Lord's body for this reason many are weak and sick

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among you and many sleep for if we would judge ourselves and we would not be

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judged but when we but when we are judged we are chastened by the Lord that we may not be condemned with

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world therefore my brother and when you come together to eat wait for one another but if anyone is hungry

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let him eat at home lest you come together for judgement and the rest I will set in order when I come and again

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this is pastoral instruction from Paul and let's let's look at it look at a couple of these things the very first

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part of this he is very harsh with them and the reason is they had here's what

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was happening just just so you get the background of what's going on in that text because again it may be confusing

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to you what do they mean by one's eating and then another isn't well in that culture and it's very similar in ours if

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we were doing this regularly say in the evening on a regular night like when everyone works the wealthy would almost

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always be the first to show up they either own their own businesses or run their own things or they have the most

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flexibility in the jobs they have their managers and supervisors and so they have a lot more flexibility than other

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people so they would show up and because of their station and their wealth and their money they would bring the best

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food but they would consume it and eat it before the next set of people would arrive the next set of people to show up

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would be like you and I most of us some of you may be wealthy I don't know but like most of us the middle-class we

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would show up and we I like the way that da Carson says this they would bring the

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chicken sandwiches you know we would bring the regular people food we would bring that food and but then of course

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we would consume it and then last of all who would show up well the slaves or the

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poorest the people who had to work and they couldn't leave their posts through their job or you know they didn't have

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the opportunity they had to clean the Masters house and finish his work and make him dinner before they could arrive

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to take fellowship with the rest of the body of Christ and guess what

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could the poor take the Masters food and just bring it to the fellowship or the slave could he take from the Masters

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cabinet and take that - probably not most likely not and so they would show

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up with nothing and then all of a sudden here's what you have you have well-fed wealthy people

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pretty well fed middle class people and the poor or the slave

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having nothing and so because again they were they weren't just doing this as a

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like we do kind of at the end of a service or maybe on a Sunday night they were having a full fellowship a

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gathering of the body together and and honestly church should be that church

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should be that it doesn't have to be the rigid way we do church today it should

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be much more of a fellowship and a family and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the way we're doing Church today don't please don't

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misunderstand I just mean the original ideas of the body of Christ are a family

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they are one and unified but if you show up at these fellowships and you do all

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your own things and you don't think anything about the the poor people who are gonna show up later in that fellowship and you've eaten everything

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and you know you've already had all the real fellowship they're showing up and not getting fed and they're showing up

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not experiencing the same thing that you are and Paul is being very again I'm

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just gonna say pastoral here he's correcting them harshly because of their

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bad behavior let's not be those type of people let's make sure that everybody in

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the body of Christ has an equal share an opportunity okay now we can't change

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everybody's life situation that's got in God's hands but we can definitely make

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them a full on part of the body of Christ and meet their needs and help them and make them a part of the

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fellowship okay it's very critical then as we move on Paul received this

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instruction from the Lord notice verse 23 he's not making this up and again we

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read this right out of the gospel the very words he quotes we just read them in the thin Luke didn't we

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Paul received this not only in the Word of God but I also believe directly from the Lord these are commands of God this

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is important this isn't Paul just making something up he clarifies those things when he does that doesn't he he'll say

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that he'll say that this isn't a command from the Lord but this is something that I are the church's say you know he'll

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say something like that not a command from the Lord he distinguishes the two this was received from the Lord verse 24

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said and this gets to the heart and the point of how we do this this is a

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remembrance of what Christ has done through his sacrifice on the cross the

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body of Christ being crucified verse 25 this is a remembrance of the shed blood

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of Christ atoning for our sin the blood of Christ being spilled paying for sin

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establishing the text says the New Covenant in his blood

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next thing verse 26 if you're trying to understand what the Lord's Supper is and

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why it's important and what it means take it straight from the text look at verse 26 this is a proclamation of our

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Lord's death until he comes in his kingdom okay so it's a remembrance of

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the body it's a remembrance of the blood it is the remembrance of the New Covenant that

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Jesus is established and all the things associated with that salvation freedom from sin all of it unification in the

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body but it's also a proclamation of the death of Christ until he comes right

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from the text and that last bit 27 through 34 these are warnings and I want

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to do this I'll do this right from here and then I'll step down and we can observe the Lord's Supper but I want to

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do the warning part right here it's part of the sermon but take heed how you or

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if you take the Lord's Supper there are warnings here to do it in a worthy

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manner not an unworthy manner now you may be asking what does that mean first

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and foremost let me be very clear about this if you are not a believer please do

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not partake in the Lord's Supper if you have not professed faith in Christ and

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have not been in dwelt with His Holy Spirit do not take this this is

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something for the body of Christ you are absolutely welcome to observe us doing

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it I don't mind that at all but don't or take if you are not a converted

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Christian okay that's warning number one that you need to think about and let me read you why

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because again I know the text said it but let me just put it all in a little summary here you you are if an unworthy

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manner means you are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord you could bring judgment to yourself

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possible weakness possible sickness or potentially even death for doing this in

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an unworthy manner that's what the text said I didn't make that up reread the verses don't do this in an unworthy

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manner unbelievers the next thing are you an active member serving in the body

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of Christ I don't necessarily just mean here anywhere are you an active

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plugged-in member of the body of Christ if you are not you're breaking the unity

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that is supposed to be here in this supper so think very carefully before

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you observe the Lord's Supper if you're not an active member of the body of Christ okay if you think you're the one

1:00:33

person who can be separated from the body that branch fallen on the ground down here and still be okay with the

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Lord no you need to be part of the body part of that vine part of this loaf you

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need to be active and being nourished and sustained from the Lord and from his

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church okay have you committed

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unrepentant sin if you are harboring or living in a lifestyle of sin or

1:01:04

harboring unrepentant sin do not take this repent of that immediately and then

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observe you know that repentance can happen in your heart and most likely most of the time that that leads me to

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the next thing are you living in any practices of sin regularly that you know

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of if you're living a lifestyle and practice of sin in general and you know

1:01:30

it don't take of this cleanse that sin out of your life

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you do this okay are you holding a grudge against somebody in the body of

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Christ is there division among you if you are don't take this those warnings

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are to the body you get that right those warnings are to the body they aren't to

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unbelievers those warnings and those punishments that's two people in the

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body doing this unworthily I don't know if that's a word but you get my point

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and again I already said that so if you answer yes to any one of those please don't partake please get your situation

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in your life right with the Lord and with the body of Christ and reconcile those divisions and then then absolutely

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be part of this alright let's move into a time let me close us with a word of

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Prayer here but then we're going to go into the actual observance of the Lord's Supper and I've already asked Tom and

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Mike to come forward and help me with this so to administer this with me let's try

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Heavenly Father we thank you again for your word and how potent it is how sharp

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it is sharper than any two-edged sword God it cuts right to the heart right to

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the intent of our hearts father help us to see the body of Christ as a unified

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whole and not some fractured divisions let us partake of the Lord's Supper in

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true healthy faithfulness and unity God

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give to us wisdom that we might examine ourselves give to us a boldness to

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confront sin in our lives and even gently in other people's lives

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father we long for you to be glorified we pray all this in the name of Jesus

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