Passover Seder - Maundy Thursday

The Baptist Faith and Message states:

The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the Church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

the word maundy means “the ceremony of washing the feet of the poor, especially commemorating Jesus's washing of his disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday.”

Seder is the Hebrew word for Order as the meal must follow the proper order

Turn with me to Matt. 26:26-29

Ex. 12:5-8; 11-15

According to Lev. 23:5

Leviticus 23:5 NASB95

‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.

First of the Feast

First Full moon of spring

Shows darkness at Calvary was from God

Whole Day of Preparation

Women washed the four sets of Dishes

First Set for Milk used throughout the year

Second Set for Meat used throughout the year

Third and Fourth Set used for Passover

Kitchen was sterilized

To get any yeast out

Mom would many times begin cleaning the home floor to ceiling weeks before; however, only the father could declare the house properly cleaned

Then whole house is purged of leaven

They would play a game

The mom would put little pieces of leaven somewhere in the house

The father would search for it with a feather, wooden spoon, and a white linen towel

he would sweep the crumbs into the spoon

wrap the feather and spoon in the linen towel

And throw it into the Fire

1 Corinthians 5:6–8 NASB95

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Really Purged the leaven to be pure

Leaven represented sin

Sin in the house

Aren’t we the temple of God

The Lighting of the Candle at night

Lit two white candles

Women were separated in worship

Passover Does not start until the Candle is lit

Always Done by a Woman

With a special prayer which said, “Blessed are you oh Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has set us apart by His commandment and commanded us to light the lights of passover”

For the Light was to be brought into the world by a woman

Showing Messiah’s Humanity

Christ was human

Jesus got tired

Hungry

Cried

Felt pain of crucifixion

Fully Human and Fully God

Passover can begin

There is a pillow on each chair

during the first passover they were to stand with rod in hand prepared to run if necessary.

Only free people were allowed to recline at dinner. This is to show their current freed state.

Four Questions are Asked

Youngest Child is to ask four questions

Sum up What makes this night different

From all other nights?

Father retells the exodus account in brief

The Blood of the Lamb

Protected the death of the first Born Child

Christ is the First and only born of God

Christ the pass over lamb would die

In our place

The door to a relationship

The First of the Four Cups and the Bread

Four cups; however each person only had one cup from which they would follow the four cups

First is the cup of Sanctification

They would sanctify all that was to take place during this passover meal

The first cup of the Blood of the Lamb

Bread is taken from the middle slot of a bag broken in half.

One half is placed back in the middle slot of the bag

The other half is wrapped in a white linen and buried out of sight by the father

I will speak on this more later

Cooked with out leaven

Looked something like a cracker

The Meal- The story of Deliverance from Bondage

Symbols of the Passover

Next two go together

Carpus - Parsley- Young and growing Israel

Dipped into the salt water

Salt Water- double meaning

The tears of life from the bitterness of bondage

Life without redemption is full of tears

But God pulled them out of bondage and brought them through crossing of the Red Sea

They eat showing they now partake of life by the mercies of Almighty God

Drishdan - Bitter Herbs- Brings tears- The Bitterness of Bondage

Usually horseradish

Break off a piece of unleavened bread and dip it and get anywhere from a teaspoon to a tablespoon on the bread to ensure tears come to the eyes.

This is a graphic reminder of the tears their forefathers shed while they were in bondage in Egypt.

One of you is going to betray me

Everyone of them dipped into the sop

However, Jesus handed this bread with Sop to Judas and immediately satan entered into him.

CHa-ro-seth - Spice Mix- Mortar to make the Bricks

Sweet spices as their own bodies sweat and blood

Even the bitterness of tears were made sweet when we know our redemption drew near

Even the bitter things we face in the world can be sweetened by the hope we have in God’s redemption

Ha-zare-it - Bitter Root - can be onion, romaine lettuce, radish...

This is only symbolic of the bitter root of life

The bondage of slavery or a life without Jesus

Hag-dee-dah - Brown Egg- Babylonian Exile- Not truly part of Passover

Refers to the sacrifice made at the temple

Egg is pealed and sliced then dipped into the salt water to represent tears

This represents the sacrifice which was no longer because of the destruction of the temple.

Istar- Fertility god

Easter vs. First Fruits

Zwroh-ah - Shank Bone of a Lamb- Sacrifice for Passover

Only symbolic of the Lamb which died and the continued sacrifice made in the temple

Picture of our Deliverance from Bondage

Bitter herbs- Life before Christ

Galatians 5:1 NASB95

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Mortar- Workers of satan

Ephesians 2:2 NASB95

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

Bone of Lamb- Christ’s Sacrifice

Ephesians 5:2 NASB95

and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world

Parsley- Young and Fresh Christian

Dipped into the

Salt Water- Baptism

New life in Christ

The second cup- The cup of the Plagues

Finger dipped into the cup 10 times with a Drop spilt onto their plate, one for each plague

The Meal- Two Hours have Gone by

The time it takes to eat

at the end of the meal the father will say Go and search for the Alhf-ay-co-men or the buried piece of bread.

The Lord’s Supper begins

The Motz-zah-tah - three slot bag representing unity

Rabbi’s were not sure what it was to represent so they would say either the patriarchs Abraham, Issac, and Jacob or the Worship system Priest, Levite, and people. However, they cannot explain why the second piece is broken, buried from sight and brought back and broken and eaten

However, if they Father, Son, and Holy Spirit then it becomes clear why this is done.

The buried Bread is searched for and brought back into sight usually by the children with the promise of a reward such as a dollar.

Where we pick up with Christ in Matthew 26:26

Father breaks off a piece of this bread for everyone present and distributes it to them

Blessing of the Bread

What did He say,

Blessed art thou oh Lord our God, King of the universe who bringest Forth bread from the Earth

This is my Body, broken for you

If they bury this body it will come up again

Look at the bread

Unleaven – Without sin

2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB95

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Flour – Beaten and Ground

Isaiah 53:5 NASB95

But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

Pierced – In order to cook

Zechariah 12:10 NASB95

“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

Grilled- Stripes- Strips are we healed

Isaiah 53:5 NKJV

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

Then the Third Cup – The cup of Redemption

The cup Jesus is offering this cup Gave thanks

Blessed art thou oh Lord our God, King of the Universe, who bringeth Forth the fruit of the vine

Jesus is the True vine

We produce the fruit

Represents the New Covenant

Only one Old Testament passage references the New Covenant directly found in Jer. 31:31

Jeremiah 31:31–34 NASB95

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

This is fulfilled at that moment in their presence

Picture of a wedding that is to come

Thanking God for His Bride

Wedding

Man who wants to marry

Men would come with a price

Poured cup of wine

Placed in front of woman

Asking to marry

Take it and Marry

Leave it and Refuse

If she drinks it

Man say’s

I go to prepare a place for you at my fathers house.

Bride had to have an oil lamp by her bed

She had to wear a Vail and was set apart

For she was bought with a price

1 Corinthians 7:23 NKJV

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

He would come in the night

Bride did not know when He would come

Father set the time

When the room was ready

Groom did not know when the day is

When it was finished

Set forth to get his bride

Normally get their in the middle of the night

So a call would come out

Saying Behold, the bride groom cometh

Oil is the Holy Spirit

1 Thessalonians 4:16 NASB95

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Psalms 113-118 is sung by all present climaxing Psalm 118

Psalm 118 (NASB95)

The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone. This is the Lord’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it. O Lord, do save, we beseech You; O Lord, we beseech You, do send prosperity! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;

Fourth cup- the cup of Praise

Closed with Next year in Jerusalem

Next year in new Jerusalem

Next year the Messiah will come in Jerusalem

Cup of Elijah

A cup is set out for the return of Elijah.

For when he comes back the Messiah will come

Possibly He will come

Father will say to the Children to go and open the door to see if he is there

All of those at the table will rise to welcome him and say, “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”

They close with the oldest Hebrew melody known today

Elijah the Prophet

Elijah the Tishbite

Elijah the Gilliadite

Come even in our days and bring with y0u Messiah, the Son of David