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Good Friday Order of Service 2022
-Worship: Opening Song
-Welcome & Invocation:
-Anointed for Death: Bethany
Matthew 26:6-13
Extinguish candle 1
-Betrayed: Ruth
Matthew 26:14-16
Extinguish candle 2
-The Passover Meal: Dave
Matthew 26:17–19; 26-30
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
He replied, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My appointed time is near.
I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.’
” So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.
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While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he 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 from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
Every year faithful Jewish people from all over would make a pilgrimage to Israel to celebrate one of the major festivals.
Jerusalem would swell with people.
The passover festival was one of the biggest, it commemorated a time when God was judging pharoah in Egypt with a series of 10 plagues.
Each of the first 9 plagues only affected the Egyptians but the 10th plague affected everyone...
It was the plague of the firstborn...
Because Egypt was holding God’s firstborn captive God would take the life of all of the firstborn’s in the land.
The only way to be saved was to take an unblemished lamb and to sacrifice it in your place...
To take the blood of that lamb and wipe it above the doorpost…And thus you were saved from death by the blood of the lamb
In addition to that it wasn't just that you were saved from death, but then the Israelites became free after this meal as well
And ever year the Jews would gather to have this meal to declare that they were saved by the blood of the lamb.
Little did they know that they would be eating this meal with the true lamb of God.
When Jesus gave instructions to plan for this meal, it revealed that he was fully in control.
Jesus knew that this would be his last meal.
It was just another step toward the cross.
He would complete the mission that his father gave him
The appointed time for him was near.
But then Jesus would redefine the meal that they were eating together
For thousands of years this meal symbolized the time that God saved his people from an oppressive leader…But now Jesus will utterly redefine this meal.
Because this meal was now about consuming the life of the living God.
Jesus would say that it is actually his body that would be broken for them, it is his blood that would be poured out for them
And the bread was familiar to them, it was used in the passover ceremony
But then Jesus would lift the cup and declare that this cup was his blood…It was his blood that was a new covenant poured out for the sins of the world
It was his body that would free them from the ultimate slavery of sin
I have often wondered: FOR the disciples who were there at this meal…Who had not yet seen their messiah bear the cross...
Was this meal powerful in its significance when Jesus was doing it…or did it take on a whole new meaning when they saw their messiah hanging on the cross, with his blood poured out
And I wonder for us too
You are now invited to the table of Jesus
When you approach the table of Jesus you eat with one who bore the full weight of your sin
You are invited to the table
When you approach this meal do you realize that you are eating of the living God?
Take Communion
He is the passover lamb
His blood is on the doorpost of the universe
With the finishing of this meal it was yet another step toward the cross.
The lamb of God the light of the would, would soon be extinguished…The disciples sitting around that table did not yet know that darkness couldn’t contain him...
But with this meal, Jesus walked one step closer to darkness
Extinguish Candle 3
-Communion: Dave
-Worship & reflection: One Song
-Denied: Evan
Matthew 26:69-74
Extinguish Candle 4
-Worship & Reflection: One Song
-Jesus on Trial: Beth Hieb
Matthew 26:57-68
Matthew 27:1-2;11-14;22-23
Extinguish candle 5
-Beaten & Mocked: Jeremiah Wenneker
Matthew 27:27-31
Extinguish Candle 6
Crucifixion & Death: Dave
45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.
46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”
(which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
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47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.”
48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge.
He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink.
49 The rest said, “Now leave him alone.
Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”
50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
You know, reading this this week I had a couple of just fresh insights that I wanted to share with you
And the biggest one is this.
I have often preached along with multitudes of others that a Holy God can not be in the presence of sin
While I still believe that Our God wants to purify us and cleanse us of all sin
I realized this week that one of the main criticisms of the pharisees was that he eats with sinners,
When he was crucified he had two other criminals on his right and his left
When he was carrying his cross he had mockers all around him
Jesus’ entire ministry was to be in the presence of a sinful people showing them the way and on the cross he is in the middle of sin, bearing all of our sin
Jesus on the cross is the greatest picture we have of a God who is fully in love with a sinful humanity.
Beckoning us toward him
So a Holy God can not be in the presence of sin…I don’t know now…Tell that to Jesus on the cross
Every moment of Jesus on the cross is symbolically impotrant.
From the soldiers gambling for Jesus’ clothes to the drinking of wine mixed with vinegar
But I want to point out when Jesus cried out “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
I think we have tended to look at Jesus saying this as God turning his back on his son on the cross because he couldn’t bear to see the sin that was heaped onto his son at the moment.
But I have a different theory of what Jesus was doing.
Often Rabbi’s had a call and response system of training their disciples.
So this is where.
A rabbi would say the first few lines of a Psalm…And then the disciples would repeat the rest of the Psalm.
What If Jesus was showing his disciples that this moment must take place?
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