Passion 2013: Session 2
We Could Change the World by Matt Redman
Shout by Passion Band (theme song)
Here for You by Matt Redman
Only Jesus by Matt Redman
10,000 Reason by Matt Redman
The sermon seeked to explain the significance of the Last Supper, as in Matthew 26:17-30, 39. The speaker has participated in a few traditional Passover Feasts with conservative Jews, so the Feast has been largely kept the same for thousands of years. The people would recline on the floor around a low long table, which has roasted lamb, unleavened bread with horseradish sauce (wasabi), wine and lots of other food. (On the night of the Last Supper, there were two lambs, one on the table and one at the table.) The unleavened bread is meant to be dipped into the horseradish ("dipped his hand into the bowl with me"), and eaten until they cry, to signify the bitterness of slavery in Egypt. Also, their cups of wine will be lifted 4 separate times during the Feast, each time representing one promise that God made to the enslaved Israel (Exodus 6:6-7). The host will go around to pour wine into their cups before every lifting of the cups.
Cup 1: I will bring you out
Cup 2: I will free you from being slaves
Cup 3: I will redeem you
Cup 4: I will take you as my people
When Jesus broke the bread (there was no need to break the bread usually) it signifies the breaking of his body. And when Jesus lifted his cup and said, this is my blood, take of it, it was the third cup. The cup of redemption. See the significance? Also, instead of pouring wine into their cups, Jesus asked them to take and drink from his cup. Also verse 39, Jesus says, let this cup pass from me. The cup of redemption. But the cup will not pass from him, because the cup is Jesus' purpose. Verse 29, Jesus says that He will not drink of the cup again until they drink of it in Heaven together. Revelations 19 talks about God's Feast, when we will take that last 4th cup and we will become God's people.
Also, during the Passover Feast, the host will go around with a pitcher of water to wash the hands of his guests. Yet on that special night, instead of washing his disciples' hands, he washed their feet (John 13:3-5). And another thing, during the Feast, the host will recite what the Lord did for Israel while leading them out (parting the sea, surviving the wilderness, giving them manna from the heavens, leading them to the promised land) and the guests will reply after each line with "It would have been enough". It would have been enough. And God still did further more, it was not enough for Him. He gave Jesus. And only after Jesus died for our sins, it was enough.
Verse 30, they sang a hymn before leaving. And according to tradition, they would have sang Psalm 113 to Psalm 118. And Psalm 118:22-24. Within 24 hours, Christ will be crucified. And still he sings, this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad. The Gospel is the good news, yes. But is it glad? Good is merely a condition, but glad is an emotion. Are we glad?
Shout by Passion Band (theme song)
Here for You by Matt Redman
Only Jesus by Matt Redman
10,000 Reason by Matt Redman
The sermon seeked to explain the significance of the Last Supper, as in Matthew 26:17-30, 39. The speaker has participated in a few traditional Passover Feasts with conservative Jews, so the Feast has been largely kept the same for thousands of years. The people would recline on the floor around a low long table, which has roasted lamb, unleavened bread with horseradish sauce (wasabi), wine and lots of other food. (On the night of the Last Supper, there were two lambs, one on the table and one at the table.) The unleavened bread is meant to be dipped into the horseradish ("dipped his hand into the bowl with me"), and eaten until they cry, to signify the bitterness of slavery in Egypt. Also, their cups of wine will be lifted 4 separate times during the Feast, each time representing one promise that God made to the enslaved Israel (Exodus 6:6-7). The host will go around to pour wine into their cups before every lifting of the cups.
Cup 1: I will bring you out
Cup 2: I will free you from being slaves
Cup 3: I will redeem you
Cup 4: I will take you as my people
When Jesus broke the bread (there was no need to break the bread usually) it signifies the breaking of his body. And when Jesus lifted his cup and said, this is my blood, take of it, it was the third cup. The cup of redemption. See the significance? Also, instead of pouring wine into their cups, Jesus asked them to take and drink from his cup. Also verse 39, Jesus says, let this cup pass from me. The cup of redemption. But the cup will not pass from him, because the cup is Jesus' purpose. Verse 29, Jesus says that He will not drink of the cup again until they drink of it in Heaven together. Revelations 19 talks about God's Feast, when we will take that last 4th cup and we will become God's people.
Also, during the Passover Feast, the host will go around with a pitcher of water to wash the hands of his guests. Yet on that special night, instead of washing his disciples' hands, he washed their feet (John 13:3-5). And another thing, during the Feast, the host will recite what the Lord did for Israel while leading them out (parting the sea, surviving the wilderness, giving them manna from the heavens, leading them to the promised land) and the guests will reply after each line with "It would have been enough". It would have been enough. And God still did further more, it was not enough for Him. He gave Jesus. And only after Jesus died for our sins, it was enough.
Verse 30, they sang a hymn before leaving. And according to tradition, they would have sang Psalm 113 to Psalm 118. And Psalm 118:22-24. Within 24 hours, Christ will be crucified. And still he sings, this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad. The Gospel is the good news, yes. But is it glad? Good is merely a condition, but glad is an emotion. Are we glad?