Passover Seader
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The First
The First
Today we celebrate together as a family the first Passover at Altared Doers Church. As we stand here tonight 1993 years ago in 33 ad Christ would have been on the Cross, the flesh would have been dead he would have been getting ready to be taken down by Joseph of Arimathea. Cool side note in Isaiah 53:9 says . and the bible tells us that Joseph of Arimathea was a rich man that put Christ in a borrowed tomb. but anyway we gather here today to mourned, to eat the bitter herbs of the sacrifice that he made for us. While also celebrating the fact that upon that cross we received salvation. While we were at Regal I prayed to God that we could have a building so that we could have a service actually on Passover. When we got the building, we were running around so much getting the building ready and getting ready for the 1st service that we forgot one of the main reasons that we wanted God to provide this building in this time frame, so that we could celebrate what God did for us on that Cross. Like I said Sunday we often mash this week into one service that just says he died and he rose, but really God wants us to mediate on the whole process the whole week of what he did for us. I can promise you I am beginning the planning for next year's Spring Feast Week right now and it will be a full week. But All Praises to The High that we have this day this week to celebrate what he did for us on that cross, so first lets start with The Seader
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with a rich man in His death,
although He had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in His mouth.
The Passover Seader
The Passover Seader
On last night Tuesday night Jesus would have met with his disciples to eat the Passover Seader. Now remember that the Hebrews, the bible starts the day in the evening Genesis 1:5
God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.”
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
See the bible says evening and morning was the first day. The day starts in the evening.
But here is that text from that Passover Seader, the last supper, the first communion Matthew 26:17-30
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’ ” So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.
When evening came, Jesus was reclining with the twelve disciples. And while they were eating, He said to them, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
They were deeply grieved and began to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?”
Jesus answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with Me will betray Me. The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
Then Judas, who would betray Him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?”
Jesus answered, “You have said it yourself.”
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Notice here again that the Messiah and his disciples are keeping the Passover. This is where the Lords Supper is instituted. and the reason why is because Christ the true Passover was about to be sacrificed the next day in the morning.
Eat his Bread and Body
Eat his Bread and Body
Now next here we see the Bread. We went over here a little bit Saturday. Christ says the Bread is his body, so where the law says that we should eat the lamb, we are eating the bread that represents the lamb, to eat that bread means this. We have to internalize his teachings. We have to read what he says and we have to take it to heart so that it changes us. Changes our minds and our hearts, our words and our actions, not only on the outside but more importantly on the inside. John 6:35
Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
We know that the Apostle John say if you say that you abide in him you should walk just as he walked 1 John 2:6
Even in the Old testament it has the same meaning
Your words were found, and I ate them.
Your words became my joy
and my heart’s delight.
For I bear Your name,
O LORD God of Hosts.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.”
So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
God tells both to eat the words to internalize the words, to not just be hearers, but to be Doers of the Words, we have to live the word. We have to make the word Part of us.
The angel tells John the same thing is Revelation . Revelation 10:8-11
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.”
And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.”
“Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.
And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
John is told to internalize these words, and they are bitter to his belly because of the Judgment that is in them both for the nations and for us if we don’t obey. When you first eat that bread, it should be bitter, because we are not worthy of Christ, we are not worthy of the sacrifice, we are not yet unleavened. When the Passion tells us that Christ took upon all the sin of the earth, you should look back at all that willful sin that you have done in your life and it should burn you on the inside it should affect you so much that you change your life. Now that doesn't mean that it stops being bitter when you change, because now comes the evangelism. The reason why it was bitter to John or Ezekiel was not because they were living in sin, but because they see the world living in sin and now we have a responsibility to call out that sin and to teach against it, but sometimes that hurts to see a person living in a way that separates them from God. But them the angel says that, it was like honey on their lips meaning the teachings are sweet, they are good, the results of our sin is bitter, but the rules, the gospel that we preach is sweet. Love you neighbor as yourself is sweet, take care of the widows and the Orphan is sweet, judge righteous Judgment is sweet all these this are sweet, when we don’t do them that is what becomes bitter. So when Christ says Matthew 26:26
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.”
Don’t look at it as just bread, he is not Saying just eat this bread, what he is telling you is to internalize his teachings and live them out.
Drink his blood
Drink his blood
Next the Messiah say to drink his blood.
Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
What does he mean by drink his blood, of course he didn’t mean it literally or he would be advocating for breaking the commandments of God Leviticus 17:10
If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
So he dosent want you to actully drink his blood, but what he means it revealed in the next verse Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
When we drink Christ blood, we take on his life. We become as Peter Says 2 Peter 1:4
Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
We have taken on the nature of Christ and left our old sinful nature behind Romans 8:6-10
The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Paul here says before you drink that blood, before you take on his life and you are still living in that Flesh you are hostile to God, you won't submit to God and his law but once you drink that blood, and you take upon the life of Christ, Christ lives in you, you now live in the Spirit and you are no longer hostile to Go, you live in communion with God in every way. You are no longer in rebellion to God. Before when you read not to covet you simply tried as hard as you could not to covet, but your heart still coveted. It made you covet more because your heart did not change, now when you see do not covet its not a burden and it doesn't make you want to covet you don't covet because you know this is something that God designed you to do.
Remember that you had to die, so that Christ can live in you. Your life was worthy of death, why because the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, when you drink his blood you take on his life in the most literal sense because of you were still in your life you would have to die and not just the first death, but the second death, the lake of fire. but you cannot take on the life of Christ and continue in your own life Galatians 3:13-15
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.
The bible say here that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , the question is what law ? Here is the Law John 8:24
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
If you disobey God you will surly die, not just the first death, but the second death that eternal separation from God, but thanks be to God that He send his son to die on the cross to save us from that curse. He purchased us with your own blood. Acts 20:28
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
So when you drink the wine, understand that you are not just have a sip, but you are taking on the life of Christ, you are taking on the ways of Christ, you are making a commitment to live as he lived because he gave you eternal life.
The Cross
The Cross
Now I want you to see what this bread and this wine cost. This Blood and this body was not free. One of Christ disciples sold him out for 30 pieces of silver and his best friend denied him 3 times. Christ was arrested like a sinner. He was dragged into court and they tried to find people who to lie on him and they couldn’t. The only report that they could find was that said that he could destroy the temple and raise it up in three days even though he spoke of his body and they were only making that happen. This angered the High Preist and the Sanhedrin, they order him to answer are you the son of God or not and as normal he refuses to answer but answers them with the scripture he quotes The prophet Daniel and says that they said it he didn't, but you will see the son of man sitting at the right hand of The Most High and coming with the clouds of Heaven, they then say that he has committed blasphemy, this shows you something that a lot of people will hide the the jews in the 1st century understood this son of man in Daniel to be The Second Power, to be God and by Jesus clamming to be this Messiah this Son of God, he was clamming to be God. So After they tell him this they rip their clothes and say that he deserves to die and they spit on him and slapped him They blind folded him and said you are a prophet tell us who hit you, who spit on you. . and we went through all this for you. After this Peter denies him 3 different times, he says while Christ is being beaten and spit on that he does not know him 3 times. This happens at night in the morning he is deviled to Pilate. Now Jesus had broke no Roman law claiming to be the messiah, or claiming that he can destroy the temple and raise it up. So they deliver him on the only charge they can, that by claiming to be the messiah He is claiming to be king of the Jews and no one can be king but Caesar. Pliate then ask him are you the king of the Jews again the Messiah answers you said it I did not, Pilate then pleaded with him to defend himself but he never said a mumbling word like the prophet says he would not. Then Pilate offers the Jews to release Jesus, because it was the custom to release one to them on the feast, but they said no give us the muder and thief Barabas , the people who he came to save, his own people says give us the murder and the thief, then Pliate ask will what do you want me to do with Jesus, they say crucify him, he did nothing but heal and pray for and deliver and teach, but they say crucify him. Pliate says he wants nothing more to do with this and that he washes his hand of this. His wife had actually had a dream and told pilate to have nothing to do with this. But even then they said let the blood be on us and our Children. So they take him and they beat him more and they strip him naked, they mock him by placing that crown of thorns on his head and a purple robe on him. Pilate though this would appease the jews but it didn't they still said crucify him. Pilate tells them I have no charges to Crucify him on, but the Jews say we have our own laws and they he must be crucified according to our laws because he declared himself to be the son of God. Pilate pleas with Jesus please defend yourself I have the power to release you. Jesus says you have no power over me if it was not given by my father, but the ones who handed me over to you have never committed a greater sin. So Pilate brings him out again and says here is your King what do you want me to do and again they say crucify him. He who knew no sin was about to die a sinners death for me and for you, he never even tried to defend himself for you. Pliate gives him and delivers him to be crucified. He is forced to carry is cross after he has been beaten so bad you can't even tell if he is a man. they place nails in his hand and nails in his feet their is no sun shining from from 12pm to 3pm , they hang him beside two thieves one mocks him and says if you are the Son of God take all of us down, the other one accepts the gospel and proclaims that Jesus had no reason to be here but they did and that the other thief should be more respectful. and Jesus tells the man today you will be with me in Paradise. They do all of this in front of John and his mother and others, and while he is on the cross dyeing. He again says forgive them for they know not what they do. He tells John this is your mother now and to take care of Mary his mother. He ask for water and they give him vinegar, or sour wine. After this he gives up the Ghost. and even the roman solider says truly this was a righteous man Because the Sabbath of Unleavened bread is coming the Jews ask for them to be taken down, during a crucifixion to make sure that they are dead they break their legs, they do this to the other 2 that were crucified with him but when they get to Jesus they pierce him Side and water comes out so no bones were broken. The rich man Jospeh of Arithmea takes him off the cross and puts him in a borrowed tomb. and no normally the story would be over, and they though the story was over, but that's not how the story ends, the whole world weeps a righteous man is dead, but they don't know what we know. We know that he was in the belly of the earth taking the keys of Hell from Satan, His body stayed in the grave all night Wendsay Night all night Thursday night Friday night, he stays their all day Thursday, all day Friday, and all day staturday, but then something happens. It was after the Sabbath and the day dawned towards Sunday and Mary Magdalene was on the way to the tomb with some other woman to embomvb him, and the Pharisees had place a stone and guards infornt of the tomb, but a angel had come down and Rolled the stone away, When Mary sees this she wept, but the angel says to her not to weep because the man that she seeks is risen he is not dead, but he is alive. Jesus appears to her and to the disciples and gives them the great commission. and tells them to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit will come.
Now he went though all this for you , bled and he died for you, rose on the 3rd day for you and all he ask of you is to eat his flesh, that is internalized his teachings and drink his blood that is take on his life and his way and teaches other to do the same, that is our call, so as you go through out this year remember this and live out this life this bread and this wine is not just a ritual it is a reminder of a commitment that you have made, walk in it.
