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Intro
We have embarked on a journey.
Previously we have talked about what every church needs to be.
However, those characteristics need to translate into actions.
There are things that the Bible tells us that we should do.
In some churches they call them the Holy Sacraments.
They are as follows:
Penance (or repentance) - We provide opportunity for people to reconcile with God.
Eucharist - Communion - We provide opportunity for a person to remember all that Christ did for us and the covenant bad between us.
Baptism - We provide opportunity for a person to demonstrate their commitment by symbolically and decisively dying to self and raising to a new life in Christ.
Confirmation - We provide opportunity for people to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit
Anointing of the Sick - We provide opportunity for the sick to come and receive prayer for healing - in their body, mind, and spirit
Marriage - We provide opportunity for people to be married and thereby demonstrate the unity not just between the couple, but also between Christ and the Church.
Holy Order: We provide opportunity for training and sending people for works of ministry.
Intro 2
When I was younger, I had to go through this series of things.
One of them was first communion.
It was a right of passage on your journey towards adulthood in the church where my grandma took me.
Now I am convinced that was not the intention of the practice, but that is how I took it.
As I grew older I left that church and went my own way, but after I recieved the Lord I went to another church.
We practiced communion very similar to how we do.
Once a month we share the bread and the cup and we did that in remembrance of what Jesus did.
But quite honestly it was just as ritualistic as the first time.
Some times I would “feel” like God was in it.
Other times it didn’t mean much at all.
But to the early church it was a main thing.
Acts teaches us the 1st church they basically did 4 things.
They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching.
They devoted themselves to fellowship.
They devoted themselves to prayer, and they devoted themselves to the breaking of bread.
It was so paramount that they did it daily in each other’s homes.
I think we miss the emotion and the meaning behind the communion.
Exp
Today I want us to take a solid look at the eucharist, communion, the breaking of bread and bring home what actually happened on the day the Lord instituted it as a thing we do.
Lk 22:7-23
Feast of Unleavened Bread and Passover
The Lamb
2 years old
No Blemish
1 per family and shared with closest neighbors.
1 lamb about 45 people
There were about 600,000 men (not including women and children under 20 - for the sake of argument lets stick with 600,000)
600,000/45 = 13,334 lambs on the day of the first exodus
How prepared.
Slit the throat.. drain the blood ----- 13,334 lambs
Roast all of it’
Use only bitter herbs
How eaten
cloak tucked into your belt, sandals on your feet, staff in your hands.
Eat it fast.
Unleavened Bread (Matzah)
Recipe is simple
A little flour, a little salt, a little water
NO YEAST
Roll it out and on a flat surface cook it till it starts to form air pockets, flip it and it will make a pillow.. your done.
Apparently its delicious when cooked fresh.
When we have communion later it will be kinda crackery.
Other Rules.
On the 1st day hold a sacred assembly
All household must empty their house of all yeast.
anyone with yeast found in their house must be cut off.
Hyssop as a paintbrush
The Symbolism.
The Spotless lamb - purity, holiness point to an opportunity to make our hearts clean before the Lord.
Only something pure can take the sacrifice of things so impure.
Laying on of hands - Traditionally speaking what would happen is the head of the house hold wouldn’t just hold the lamb....
He had to put all his weight on it… this was to symbolise the crushing weight of sin placed upon something that didn’t deserve it.
The lamb takes the weight of our sin upon itself gives it’s life without regret.
Yeast always symbolizes sin.
It puffs things up making it bigger that it is.
It draws attention away from what is real.
Yeast is a distraction from the thing that gives life.
It doesn’t take much
The tucked in tunic, sandals, and staff...
Be ready because when rescue comes, it’s IMMEDIATELY time to move on.
The time for deliverance is NOW.
On the day the Israelites were rescued, the bread wasn’t even cooked yet… they had to bring it with them.
Eagerly anticipate your deliverance… and when it comes… don’t look back.
I Have Eagerly Desired
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On the Streets
The Israelites were under oppression from the Romans.
Worshiping God could be seen as political unrest and you could be crucified.
It was the Week of Passover so it City of Jerusalem would have swollen to some estimate at least 2 million Israelites.
(almost 45000 spotless lamb)
There would have been tremendous political unrest.
The soldier population would be tremendous.
About Jesus
Just abt 3 yrs earlier the 1st prophet in 400 years stated, “Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!” ()
Just a few days earlier He was welcomed into the city with people shouting, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.
Peace in Heaven and glory in the highest!” ()
He was teaching at the temple every day and people were hanging on his words...... THEY KNEW THE MESSIAH, THE REDEEMER, THE SAVIOR HAD COME.
I eagerly desire ()
Lk 22:15
Capture the incredible emotion.
millions of people swelling the city around.
miraculously Jesus tells them how to find a place that was already prepared for them.
Upon arrival the king prepares himself and washes the feet of every disciple there.
When its time to eat, it’s not this every-one-mind-your-manners event.
Every one was comfortable.
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