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Dave’s Foreknowledge (Kids)

I have here a sealed Guess as to the final number.

Kids, pick a number 1-10

Multiply it by 2

Multiply that number by 5

Divide by your original number

Subtract 7

What is your Answer

Let’s see if I guessed right.

It says 3, was that your answer?

I knew it would be because the series of steps will always bring you to 3.

God knows everything, even our thoughts before we think them.

In todays lesson for the adults,

Jesus told two disciples to:

look for a man carrying water,

follow him home and

speak to the master of the house about an upper room for

Jesus and his people to celebrate Passover.

They went and found things exactly as he said,

because Jesus foreknew:

what the man would be carrying,

where he would walk,

where he came from,

what the house was like and

that the owner would be agreeable.

But Jesus foreknowledge didn’t force the man to do anything good or bad.

Jesus knows if you will be good or bad today.

Because He knows you so well.

But he doesn’t make you be good or bad.

Let’s Pray

Father I thank you that even though you know the bad things that we have done and will do,

and the good things we will do, you love us anyway.

Give us the strength to live our lives for you and to trust in your

knowledge even when it doesn’t make sense to us,

like finding a man carrying water.

Less than a week ago, in this holy week narative Jesus told the disciples to look for a colt, the foal of a Donkey, untie it and what to say when the owner ask about it.

Now he is demonstrating again his foreknowledge by sending 2 disciples into town to look for a man carrying a jar of water.

In the ancient near east, who carried jars of water?

The women

So a man carrying a jar of water would be noticeable.

Otherwise it would have been an impossible task.

I wounder what kind of questions the disciples may have had:

what man

where

Is he tall, medium height or short

fat or skinny

bald or hairy

Whether they had questions or not,

they had learned to follow Jesus instructions and obey them.

It didn’t say, kind-of like Jesus described

It didn’t say they failed to find the man

It says

They left

They found things just as Jesus described

And they prepared for Passover.

By the way, you may be wondering, who were these two disciples called to kitchen duty this day.

It was Peter and John

We know that because Luke tells us in chapter 22 of his Gospel.

Why all this secrecy?

It’s because Judas had decided to betray Jesus and Jesus still has some things he wants to do

before his arrest, trials, crucifixion and death.

Jesus needs to be arrested this night

for the fathers timing to work out but

Being arrested during the passover meal wouldn’t do

where his introduces them to sharing the bread and the wine in remembrance of Jesus suffering for us

Being arrested during his final teaching and worship through song wouldn't do

his last set of instruction before He was no longer physically living with them and teaching them

Being arrested during his time of prayer where he prayed through

prayed past his human desire to avoid the crucifixion wouldn’t do

Jesus needed to be arrested this night but not until He had done all these final things

and was prayed up and prepared for what was coming.

And so the meal was at a secret place and the other 10 disciples only got there because Jesus lead the way.

Passover was a wonderful time of remembrance of all God had done for Isreal and a night of fellowship as families were gathered indoors together.

But Jesus had some disturbing news

Can you imagine the scene as around the room each man asks

Surely you don’t mean me?

How sad it would be,

to look around the room at these men,

knowing one of them was a traitor

And Jesus knew who the traitor was from the very beginning.

It’s a testimony to Jesus love and Goodness to treat Judas with the same love and respect he gave to all of his disciples, all the time knowing Judas would never fully believe in his mission, his suffering service and that Judas would ultimately betray Jesus to his death.

I couldn’t have been so loving and kind

I couldn’t have overlook what was coming

Without a sharp word here,

a bit of sarcasm there.

How about you, can you be loving and kind

even when you know it won’t be repaid.

God help us to be better followers of your example.

When all had asked their master, “is it me?”

Jesus went on to say

Since Jesus has to specify,

“It is one of the Twelve”

that tells me other followers were there, not just the 12 disciples.

If you go to Jerusalem today, there is a place or places supposed to be the upper room with estimates that 120 people could have been in there.

Likey some of Jesus other disciples, his other followers were there.

Jesus felt sorry for Judas,

the man who the Father would use to bring the guards and arrest Jesus.

Judas had chosen his side and he would have to live with the consequences.

but Jesus still loved him.

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