WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.500 If everyone would open up your Bibles to Matthew chapter 26, this morning we are looking at 00:00:09.500 --> 00:00:12.759 Jesus instituting the Lord's Supper. 00:00:12.900 --> 00:00:18.140 That's where he says, take eat, this is my body, drink this, this is my blood of the 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:18.640 new covenant. 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:30.560 And what I'm going to show you this morning is that what Jesus is essentially doing is 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:34.280 he is Christifying the Passover. 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:40.939 So if you turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 26, I'm just going to read through 20 through 00:00:40.939 --> 00:00:47.600 35 to give you a context that's significant. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:55.120 When it was evening, Jesus reclined at table with the 12 and as they were eating, he said, 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.320 truly I say to you, one of you will betray me. 00:00:58.820 --> 00:01:03.420 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, is it I Lord? 00:01:04.340 --> 00:01:08.740 He answered, he who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. 00:01:09.659 --> 00:01:15.579 The son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the son of man 00:01:15.579 --> 00:01:16.240 is betrayed. 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:20.219 It would have been better for that man if he had never been born. 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:26.159 Judas, who had been, who would betray him answered, is it I Rabbi? 00:01:27.339 --> 00:01:30.199 And Jesus said to him, you have said so. 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:35.719 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread and after blessing it, broke it and gave it to 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.060 the disciples and said, take eat, this is my body. 00:01:39.060 --> 00:01:43.920 And he took a cup and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them saying, drink of it all 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:45.040 of it all of you. 00:01:45.340 --> 00:01:49.780 For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of 00:01:49.780 --> 00:01:50.200 sins. 00:01:50.460 --> 00:01:55.099 I tell you, I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink 00:01:55.099 --> 00:01:57.939 it new with you in my father's kingdom. 00:01:57.939 --> 00:02:02.659 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:08.479 Then Jesus said to them, you will all fall away because of me this night, for it is written, 00:02:08.939 --> 00:02:12.500 I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:18.479 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee. 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:24.919 Peter answered him, though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away. 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:30.240 Jesus said to him, truly, I tell you, this very night before the rooster crows, you will 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:31.439 deny me three times. 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:36.020 Peter said to him, even if I must die with you, I will not deny you. 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.580 And all the disciples said the same. 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:42.060 May God bless the reading of his word. 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:48.060 Well, as you came in this morning, you probably saw the table set up. 00:02:49.539 --> 00:02:54.719 And you may have been asking yourself if you were here last Sunday, wait, wait, wait, wait, 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:55.020 wait, wait, wait. 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:57.240 Didn't we just do this? 00:02:58.319 --> 00:02:59.599 Didn't we just do this last week? 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:02.240 And yes, we did. 00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:10.680 Typically, we observe the Lord's Supper, aka communion, on the first Sunday of every month. 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:18.460 But given the passage that I just read to you, that we are actually going to hear Jesus institute 00:03:18.460 --> 00:03:24.740 the Lord's Supper this morning, we thought that it would be very appropriate to observe 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:28.500 it again as a response to the sermon. 00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:34.560 Now, if you've been around for a while, you know that different churches observe the Lord's 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:35.939 Supper in different ways. 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:44.139 But what is evident is that there's been a regular practice of the Lord's Supper by his 00:03:44.139 --> 00:03:48.400 people, the church, ever since Jesus walked the earth. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:52.560 It's been a practice that's been around for a long time. 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:58.300 And when it comes to practices that have been around for a long time, you just can't assume 00:03:58.300 --> 00:03:59.740 everybody knows what it means. 00:04:01.140 --> 00:04:03.180 So what's the big deal about communion? 00:04:05.060 --> 00:04:07.340 What's the big deal about the Lord's Supper? 00:04:07.340 --> 00:04:16.899 Now, I've got some people that will go unnamed, that growing up in the church, they viewed 00:04:16.899 --> 00:04:22.139 the Lord's Supper as the quote-unquote snack time during the service. 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:30.660 Personally, I grew up in a church outside of Chicago, and for the bread, our church served 00:04:30.660 --> 00:04:32.980 wonder bread, little cubes of wonder bread. 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:35.439 Incredibly malleable. 00:04:35.439 --> 00:04:38.160 It's amazing what you can do with a cube of wonder bread. 00:04:38.699 --> 00:04:44.339 And so I would sit as a boy during the service, they'd pass out the wonder bread communion bread. 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:51.160 And what I would do is I would go into art mode, sculpt mode, and I would form these little, 00:04:51.459 --> 00:04:57.620 very potent Chinese throwing stars and imagine myself doing all sorts of things with them. 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:04.959 And at that point, as all of you have just realized, I am not observing the Lord's Supper. 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:11.060 I am enjoying an art class during the service. 00:05:14.420 --> 00:05:17.420 What does this mean? 00:05:18.540 --> 00:05:19.819 Is it a snack time? 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:24.639 Is it a little break to have some art fun? 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.019 Is it just something we throw in every month to make things interesting? 00:05:32.459 --> 00:05:38.000 This morning, I want to convince you of something before we take the supper. 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.300 I want to convince you of this. 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:49.219 That the Lord Jesus himself, he has given this to you to savor him. 00:05:49.220 --> 00:05:52.180 He wants you to savor his supper. 00:05:52.900 --> 00:05:57.980 He wants you to savor his work of salvation that he did on your behalf. 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.500 So here's how we're going to proceed this morning. 00:06:01.500 --> 00:06:06.839 I'm going to give you a brief history of the Lord's Supper, what's behind it, Passover. 00:06:07.100 --> 00:06:10.000 So historical context, that's the first stop. 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:14.379 The second stop we're going to make is a biblical context. 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:20.740 So I want you to see what's going on right before and right after the Lord institutes the Lord's Supper. 00:06:20.860 --> 00:06:21.620 It's significant. 00:06:21.620 --> 00:06:27.780 And then what we're going to do is I'm going to show you the actual content of the Lord's Supper. 00:06:28.180 --> 00:06:29.500 It's a Passover meal. 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:34.579 And according to the first century tradition, there was a lot going on in that Passover meal. 00:06:34.780 --> 00:06:39.879 And it will help you understand and savor the supper to have that as a backdrop. 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:48.060 So this morning, by the time we get here, I want you savoring the supper in a new way. 00:06:48.060 --> 00:06:52.120 So let's look at the historical context of the Lord's Supper. 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.839 We talked about it last week, but let me just remind you a little bit of it. 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:59.160 Jesus, in Matthew 26, is in Jerusalem. 00:06:59.980 --> 00:07:05.139 And he's in Jerusalem as the Passover has arrived as well. 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:07.639 And that is no coincidence. 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.840 So in verse 20, when it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. 00:07:12.259 --> 00:07:15.040 He reclined at table to celebrate the Passover. 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:17.040 That's what's going on here. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:23.640 Passover is a Jewish holy feast that started a week-long feast called the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:29.540 It was all to recognize God's deliverance of his people Israel out of Egypt. 00:07:30.020 --> 00:07:36.080 And in Jesus' day, there would be people, Jews, coming from all around that would make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 00:07:36.259 --> 00:07:40.860 It would swell the city from 30 grand to 180,000 people. 00:07:41.460 --> 00:07:43.680 It was a huge event in the life of Israel. 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:52.759 It commemorates the night that God delivered his people out of bondage to Egypt. 00:07:52.759 --> 00:08:05.199 And just getting back to kind of Exodus chapter 12, the Passover was the night in which God instructed his people to sacrifice an unblemished male lamb and then eat it. 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:19.319 On the night of the Passover in Exodus chapter 12, the blood of that sacrificed lamb was then wiped on the doorposts of God's people living in Egypt. 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:24.219 And that night while they were eating this roasted lamb that had been sacrificed for them. 00:08:24.219 --> 00:08:33.600 The angel of the Lord, the tenth and final plague on Egypt, it passed over them because they were under the blood of the lamb. 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:42.220 They were alive because that lamb had died for them. 00:08:42.220 --> 00:08:56.440 And those households in Egypt that were not covered by the blood of the lamb, the angel of death visited and took the life of all firstborn males, whether human or animal. 00:08:56.860 --> 00:08:59.160 And Pharaoh's oldest son was one of them. 00:09:00.220 --> 00:09:07.600 So on Passover night, there was great wailing in Egypt for those not under the blood. 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:12.460 But for those under the blood, great deliverance. 00:09:12.540 --> 00:09:20.639 A great deliverance to such a degree that God commanded his people to celebrate a Passover feast every year commemorating it. 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.960 He wanted his people to remember what he had done for them. 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.620 It was defining for his people. 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:34.920 And so Jews would come to Jerusalem every year to sacrifice an unblemished male lamb at the temple. 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:38.219 And then eat it as part of the Passover Seder. 00:09:38.599 --> 00:09:39.979 I'll come back and explain that. 00:09:41.379 --> 00:09:46.399 What you need to see is at the center of the Passover is the Passover lamb. 00:09:48.139 --> 00:09:50.519 That's what you've got to be paying attention to. 00:09:51.059 --> 00:09:55.899 And so it's no coincidence that when Jesus comes on the scene in the book of John, 00:09:56.219 --> 00:09:57.299 John the Baptist says, 00:09:57.419 --> 00:10:01.519 Behold, the Lamb of God who's come to take away the sins of the world. 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:11.879 What you're going to see here in this passage is that Jesus is going to bring a whole new reality to this Passover. 00:10:12.259 --> 00:10:14.639 He is going to Christify it. 00:10:15.199 --> 00:10:19.019 He's going to make it about him in a greater deliverance. 00:10:19.019 --> 00:10:23.539 Now the majority of us in this room are Gentiles. 00:10:23.659 --> 00:10:24.960 We don't have Jewish backgrounds. 00:10:25.139 --> 00:10:29.559 And so when we talk about a Passover feast, we're kind of like, oh yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh. 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:32.679 But it's kind of a cross-cultural experience for us. 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:39.299 But I want to help you understand it so that you can get the full sense of what's going on in Matthew chapter 26. 00:10:39.299 --> 00:10:49.740 Jesus makes the Passover a whole new deliverance. 00:10:49.859 --> 00:10:55.959 A new deliverance with a new Passover lamb, him, and that is really good news for you. 00:10:58.599 --> 00:11:00.939 So we've looked at the historical context. 00:11:01.219 --> 00:11:05.159 Now let's talk about the immediate biblical context. 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:08.379 You may have heard this when I read through it. 00:11:08.819 --> 00:11:15.219 What happens with Judas before the institution of the Lord's Supper, and then what happens with his disciples. 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.519 Let me just read both of them for you. 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:23.179 When it was evening, that's verse 20, he reclined at table with the 12. 00:11:23.319 --> 00:11:27.620 And as they were eating, he said, truly I say to you, one of you will betray me. 00:11:28.500 --> 00:11:29.720 He's making an announcement. 00:11:30.419 --> 00:11:31.839 It amounts to a prediction. 00:11:32.379 --> 00:11:33.519 Something that's going to happen. 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:34.679 What's going to happen? 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:38.100 One of the 12 is going to betray him that night. 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.039 Now would you look up in verse 31. 00:11:41.779 --> 00:11:47.139 Then Jesus said to them, his disciples, probably 11 at this point, probably Judas is gone. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.399 You will all fall away because of me this night. 00:11:52.079 --> 00:11:52.939 It's another prediction. 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:54.539 It's another announcement. 00:11:55.519 --> 00:12:00.000 Judas is going to betray him, and all of his followers are going to desert him. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:06.379 So already you have a sense that surrounding the Lord's Supper is major human failure. 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:09.600 Let's go on. 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:22.480 The immediate response of the disciples in verse 22 when they hear about a betrayer, they're very sorrowful, and began to say to Jesus, one after the other, is it I, Lord? 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:23.460 Is it me? 00:12:24.220 --> 00:12:25.560 Surely it's not me. 00:12:26.340 --> 00:12:29.500 And so their immediate response is, oh, no, could I be the one? 00:12:30.040 --> 00:12:31.120 Notice what they don't do. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:36.480 They don't get words of the betrayer, and they're like, Judas. 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:39.940 They don't know who the betrayer is. 00:12:41.220 --> 00:12:42.620 It's not obvious to them. 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:43.580 It's Judas. 00:12:45.299 --> 00:12:46.259 They don't know. 00:12:50.340 --> 00:12:53.320 But the response is one of looking inward. 00:12:53.320 --> 00:13:00.820 In verse 23, Jesus says, he who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.760 We're going to come back to what that dish actually is in a minute. 00:13:05.280 --> 00:13:09.020 But what you need to realize, here are these men sharing a meal together. 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.940 They've all been eating from table together and dipping in a bowl together. 00:13:13.220 --> 00:13:18.140 And what Jesus is saying, one of you who's dipped your hands in with me will betray me. 00:13:18.420 --> 00:13:19.880 It gets even more personal. 00:13:20.260 --> 00:13:21.740 And you know what the response would have been? 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:23.639 Wait, we've all done that. 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.019 We've all dipped our hands into the bowl with you. 00:13:30.180 --> 00:13:35.360 And then Jesus says in verse 23, he who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:42.039 And then Jesus in verse 24, he makes this prediction promise. 00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:44.299 It's going to happen. 00:13:44.860 --> 00:13:46.080 Because he backs it. 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:47.480 He grounds it in the scriptures. 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:48.440 Look what he says. 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.360 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him. 00:13:51.740 --> 00:13:54.560 Reference to Isaiah 53, the suffering servant. 00:13:55.500 --> 00:13:58.440 But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 00:13:58.700 --> 00:14:03.039 It would have been better for that man if he had not been born. 00:14:03.580 --> 00:14:05.259 Jesus is saying it's going to happen. 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:07.220 I'm going to be betrayed. 00:14:08.019 --> 00:14:11.180 And that is the fulfillment of Psalm 41.9. 00:14:11.860 --> 00:14:15.759 Not only would he die, but he's going to be betrayed to his death. 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:17.519 It all fulfills the scriptures. 00:14:20.659 --> 00:14:23.399 Now let's look at back in verse 31. 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:29.519 Jesus has announced to the disciples after the institution of the Lord's Supper. 00:14:30.220 --> 00:14:33.179 He says, you all follow me because of me this night. 00:14:33.319 --> 00:14:34.259 So it's another prediction. 00:14:34.980 --> 00:14:37.759 And then he grounds it again in the Bible. 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:42.779 For it is written, I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will scatter. 00:14:45.460 --> 00:14:46.919 That's Zechariah 13. 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:53.179 Not only is it prophesied that Judas is going to betray him unto death. 00:14:53.740 --> 00:14:58.080 But it's prophesied that his disciples are going to desert him. 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:03.840 So we have this huge moral lapse. 00:15:04.259 --> 00:15:08.639 These failures on either side of the institution of the Lord's Supper. 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:11.379 And it's all by the will of God. 00:15:12.700 --> 00:15:16.520 It's all under his sovereign oversight and direction. 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:20.600 And so all of a sudden, here we are talking about the Lord's Supper. 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:23.060 And we have this snapshot of what we're going on. 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:25.700 But we enter into a great mystery, don't we? 00:15:25.700 --> 00:15:31.160 Because here is God's sovereignty as well as human responsibility. 00:15:32.580 --> 00:15:34.500 Because Judas isn't left off the hook. 00:15:36.040 --> 00:15:40.720 Jesus tells him, he says, woe to the man that betrays me. 00:15:41.740 --> 00:15:44.320 It would be better for him if he had not died. 00:15:46.020 --> 00:15:48.660 And comes that pronouncement. 00:15:50.620 --> 00:15:55.140 Jesus says, it would have been better for that man if he had not been born. 00:15:55.700 --> 00:16:01.600 He says, this betrayer, he is going to be cast away from God's presence for eternity. 00:16:02.140 --> 00:16:03.360 The son of perdition. 00:16:07.900 --> 00:16:11.300 But look up in verse 32. 00:16:12.060 --> 00:16:15.720 When he's talking to the disciples, he says, 00:16:16.100 --> 00:16:19.960 but after I'm raised up, I will go before you to Galilee. 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:24.100 That's a different kind of tone. 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:28.900 To the betrayer, he says, woe to you. 00:16:30.420 --> 00:16:36.040 To his disciples who will desert him, he says, but we're going to be reunited. 00:16:39.379 --> 00:16:40.540 We're going to come together. 00:16:40.660 --> 00:16:42.180 I'm going to meet you in Galilee. 00:16:42.179 --> 00:16:42.799 I'll see you there. 00:16:43.979 --> 00:16:45.019 I'll see you there. 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:51.479 One is a word of a pronouncement of judgment and hopelessness for the son of perdition. 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:57.620 And the other, to his disciples who are going to desert him, he speaks a word of hope. 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:01.620 I'm going to see you in Galilee. 00:17:03.059 --> 00:17:04.240 I'm going to be betrayed. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:04.319 I'm going to be denied. 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:05.880 I'm going to be denied. 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:07.779 I'm going to be denied. 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:09.319 I'm going to be crucified. 00:17:09.779 --> 00:17:10.980 I will be raised. 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:13.960 And I will meet you, go before you to Galilee. 00:17:14.120 --> 00:17:14.839 I'll see you there. 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:25.599 On either side of the Lord's Supper is tremendous human failure. 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:27.579 Betrayal. 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:29.579 Desertion. 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.200 Denial. 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.960 And it's all surrounded by God's sovereignty. 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:36.420 It is written. 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.420 It is written. 00:17:39.059 --> 00:17:42.420 God has made, he's purposed this to happen. 00:17:45.660 --> 00:17:50.180 It makes you start asking, well, what's the difference between, what's the difference between 00:17:50.180 --> 00:17:51.720 Judas and the rest of the disciples? 00:17:52.600 --> 00:17:53.860 What accounts for that? 00:17:54.019 --> 00:17:55.440 Why is one the son of perdition? 00:17:55.559 --> 00:18:00.039 And why are the other 11, why are they going to meet Jesus up in Galilee? 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:00.980 Why the hope? 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:02.340 And why the hopelessness? 00:18:02.539 --> 00:18:03.400 What's going on? 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:04.980 Let me give you a subtle clue. 00:18:07.120 --> 00:18:10.720 In verse 20, when it was evening, he reclined at table with the 12. 00:18:11.100 --> 00:18:15.400 And in verse 21, truly I say to you, one of you will betray me. 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:21.160 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after the other, is it I? 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:23.200 What's the next word? 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:24.640 Lord. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:29.500 Now look down to Judas' response in verse 25. 00:18:30.460 --> 00:18:36.100 Judas, who would betray him, answered, is it I, Rabbi? 00:18:36.099 --> 00:18:38.980 Is it I, Lord? 00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:41.919 Is it I, Rabbi? 00:18:41.919 --> 00:18:45.659 At this point, Judas has already cut the deal. 00:18:46.139 --> 00:18:47.699 He's already given Jesus up. 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:49.619 He's already agreed on the price. 00:18:49.980 --> 00:18:51.119 30 silver pieces. 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:53.679 It was the cost of a common slave. 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.279 The priests and the elders didn't think much of Jesus. 00:19:00.840 --> 00:19:02.120 Judas already knows. 00:19:02.779 --> 00:19:05.460 And he's trying to skate by Jesus right here. 00:19:05.980 --> 00:19:08.640 And so when he says to Jesus, is it I, Rabbi? 00:19:08.820 --> 00:19:10.320 He's not calling him Lord. 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:10.439 Lord. 00:19:11.339 --> 00:19:16.359 Nowhere in your Bible is it recorded of Judas calling Jesus his Lord. 00:19:17.019 --> 00:19:17.399 Nowhere. 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:22.799 And Jesus says to him, you have said so. 00:19:22.879 --> 00:19:25.960 It was a Semitic way of turning it back on the one speaking. 00:19:27.019 --> 00:19:31.519 It's kind of like our somewhat sarcastic expression of saying, whatever you say. 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:33.939 Whatever you say. 00:19:33.980 --> 00:19:34.779 It's your decision. 00:19:35.139 --> 00:19:35.879 You're responsible. 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:37.179 That's what Jesus is doing. 00:19:37.859 --> 00:19:39.539 I'm reading right through you, Judas. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:41.559 Whatever you say, buddy. 00:19:46.159 --> 00:19:47.399 It's quite a difference. 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:52.679 The difference is between one who betrayed him, who doesn't consider Jesus his Lord, 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:55.079 despite being with him for three years. 00:19:55.460 --> 00:19:59.399 And the difference is with the other 11 who called Jesus their Lord. 00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:00.980 That's the difference. 00:20:04.639 --> 00:20:09.679 And maybe you're in this room this morning and you're like, man, I have deserted Jesus. 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:11.940 I have denied him to people's faces. 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:17.259 I mean, Peter was the one who denied Jesus to the face of three people. 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:19.740 And denial is worse than desertion. 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.240 It's actually saying, I don't know him. 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:29.059 And he didn't just do it once, but three times. 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:37.440 What I'm taking so much time to show you is that what's surrounding Jesus in the institution 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:45.019 of the Lord's Supper is dramatic human betrayal, desertion, and denial. 00:20:45.019 --> 00:20:46.019 It's going to happen. 00:20:46.019 --> 00:20:48.480 And it's all according to God's will. 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:56.099 We're all betrayers. 00:20:56.839 --> 00:20:59.059 We're all deserters. 00:20:59.579 --> 00:21:01.759 We're all deniers. 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:05.539 That's the very reason Jesus came. 00:21:05.539 --> 00:21:14.059 In the midst of this darkness, Jesus sets out a new covenant. 00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:26.539 In the midst of all this human unfaithfulness, Jesus is faithful to his mission to save his people from their sins. 00:21:26.539 --> 00:21:31.720 Do you see the context? 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:36.500 It's going to make the Lord's Supper pop. 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:46.319 Because Jesus, despite human unfaithfulness and disobedience, he remains faithful. 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.539 He dies for the very ones who deserted him and denied him. 00:21:50.539 --> 00:21:58.139 Let's turn now to talking about the content of the Lord's Supper. 00:21:58.259 --> 00:22:01.159 We looked at a little bit of the historical backdrop, the context. 00:22:01.539 --> 00:22:04.579 We've seen the biblical context, what comes before and after. 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.299 Now let's look at the words of institution themselves. 00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:11.319 In verses 26 through 29, let me read them for you. 00:22:11.399 --> 00:22:16.279 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it, broke it and gave it to the disciples, 00:22:16.700 --> 00:22:18.759 and said, take, eat, this is my body. 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:24.539 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, drink of it, all of you, 00:22:24.619 --> 00:22:28.900 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:36.579 I tell you, I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 00:22:36.579 --> 00:22:49.519 What we are stepping into right now is we're stepping into Jesus and his disciples observing the Passover meal. 00:22:50.439 --> 00:22:56.639 And so what I want to help you understand is where in the meal they are, and what is this meal? 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.740 What were the stages of it? 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:07.300 Because as you understand the stages of the Passover meal, you're going to fully appreciate what Jesus is actually saying. 00:23:07.299 --> 00:23:24.019 So the Passover meal was a meal designed to instruct God's people, to teach them what these different foods represented in the life of God's faithfulness to his people. 00:23:24.019 --> 00:23:35.940 And the goal of the Passover meal was to transport the participants from there into Egypt to experience what that first night would have been like. 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:44.119 And so the point of the Seder is to get God's people thinking and experiencing the Passover. 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:56.699 And throughout the Passover meal, the head of the family, in this case Jesus, the head of his household, the disciples, would instruct those participating with God's word. 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:04.019 And of course, what I want to reiterate again is central to the Passover meal is the Passover lamb. 00:24:04.019 --> 00:24:14.400 The meal itself consisted of drinking four cups of wine that served as markers that progressed the Passover meal. 00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:18.379 And so what I'm going to do for you right now is we're going to walk you through the four cups. 00:24:21.779 --> 00:24:30.859 Robin Rutledge wrote an article on the Lord's Supper in 2002, and I have leaned on him heavily to help us understand what was actually happening. 00:24:30.859 --> 00:24:36.339 First century, first century, first century, in Jerusalem, with the observance of the Passover. 00:24:38.219 --> 00:24:44.859 Now these four cups that I'm going to show you correspond to four promises that God made his people. 00:24:45.379 --> 00:24:49.319 And they're pulled out of Exodus chapter 6, verses 6 through 7. 00:24:49.419 --> 00:24:51.279 There are four promises there. 00:24:51.939 --> 00:24:54.399 Each cup is representative of one of those promises. 00:24:55.399 --> 00:24:58.699 The first cup was called the cup of sanctification. 00:24:58.700 --> 00:25:02.500 And it was tied to Exodus 6, 6. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:06.340 I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians. 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:14.140 Now the head of the household would take this first cup and speak a word of blessing to begin the Passover meal. 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:15.259 This is where it started. 00:25:15.420 --> 00:25:20.100 So after taking a sip, he would pass that around for everybody else participating to take a sip. 00:25:20.099 --> 00:25:29.659 Now following the drinking from this first cup, there was a ritual washing of hands before participating in touching the food. 00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:35.519 It would have been at this point something very unusual happened. 00:25:36.779 --> 00:25:38.539 Matthew doesn't record it. 00:25:39.539 --> 00:25:40.980 But John does. 00:25:40.980 --> 00:25:47.920 Where everyone would normally wash their hands, Jesus does something surprising. 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:50.480 Do you remember what happens in John 13? 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:53.019 Jesus disrobes. 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:55.980 He grabs a bowl and a towel. 00:25:56.660 --> 00:25:59.319 And he proceeds to wash the feet of all of his disciples. 00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:03.180 It happened in the context of the Passover meal. 00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:11.259 He's getting, helping his disciples think about the kind of cleansing they really need. 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:18.060 Not to mention it was a very effective lesson on servant leadership by the Passover lamb himself. 00:26:20.320 --> 00:26:26.660 So here we are at the very beginning of the Passover, and Jesus is already Christifying it. 00:26:27.360 --> 00:26:28.880 He's making it about him. 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:32.180 He's washing his disciples' feet. 00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:38.759 So at this point, there would be a dipping of green herbs and vegetables into bowls of salt water. 00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:43.900 Intentionally make them bitter to recall the tears of slavery. 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:53.240 And it was most likely this dipping in the bowl of salt water that Jesus is referring to when he says to his disciples that one of them would betray me. 00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:55.299 He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me. 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:57.299 And don't miss the irony. 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:01.779 Sharing in the bitterness of betrayal. 00:27:03.180 --> 00:27:09.820 Following the dipping into these bowls of salt water, three loaves of unleavened bread called matzah would be uncovered. 00:27:11.180 --> 00:27:16.680 The unleavened bread was used to remind God's people that the meal was made and eaten in haste the first time around. 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:19.279 It wasn't enough time for the bread to rise. 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:24.339 They also symbolized God's unity of God's people. 00:27:25.660 --> 00:27:30.279 So it was at this point in the Seder, which literally means order. 00:27:30.859 --> 00:27:35.480 So a Passover Seder means Passover order, design purpose. 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:48.539 At this point, with the bread, with the bitter herbs, the roasted Passover lamb that had been sacrificed would be brought out to the table. 00:27:48.539 --> 00:27:55.579 Jesus would have been sitting in the middle of a U-shaped table with his disciples. 00:27:56.059 --> 00:27:57.180 There were no chairs. 00:27:57.299 --> 00:27:58.339 They would have been reclining. 00:27:58.759 --> 00:27:59.920 Heads towards the table. 00:28:00.099 --> 00:28:01.759 Feet away from the table. 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:12.440 But mind you, there's no mention of a roasted Passover lamb here in Matthew 26. 00:28:14.019 --> 00:28:18.559 Nor is there any mention of a roasted Passover lamb in any of the other Gospels. 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:25.159 Apparently, the roasted Passover lamb is missing at this Passover meal. 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:29.779 At this point, the second cup was poured. 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:31.879 The second cup was called the cup of freedom. 00:28:32.700 --> 00:28:36.179 It's tied to the second promise in Ezekiel 6, Exodus 6. 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.419 I will deliver you from slavery to them. 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.619 And what would happen before the second cup was drank, 00:28:44.619 --> 00:28:51.199 the head of the household would provide an exposition of Deuteronomy 26, 5 through 10. 00:28:51.399 --> 00:28:56.879 It's a little history of God's faithfulness to his people from Abraham to Exodus. 00:28:57.239 --> 00:29:05.099 Now, I don't know about you, but I would have loved to have been in the upper room to hear Jesus himself give an exposition of Deuteronomy 26 00:29:05.099 --> 00:29:09.919 of his faithfulness to his people from Abraham to Exodus. 00:29:10.139 --> 00:29:11.639 I think that would be really interesting. 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:25.780 But following that exposition, all those participating in the Seder would sing Psalm 113 and sing Psalm 114. 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.800 And then they would drink the second cup, the cup of freedom, all the participants. 00:29:32.080 --> 00:29:37.600 It was after the second cup that the actual meal began, the meal proper. 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:42.639 And it started with the breaking of the bread and the passing it to its participants. 00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:45.919 The breaking of the matzah, the unleavened bread. 00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:50.959 And that's what you see happening in chapter 26, verse 26. 00:29:51.379 --> 00:29:54.299 Now, as they were eating, Jesus took bread. 00:29:55.199 --> 00:29:57.500 It's the three loaves. 00:29:58.039 --> 00:29:59.179 It's on the table. 00:29:59.180 --> 00:30:04.460 And after blessing it, broke it and gave it to the disciples. 00:30:07.100 --> 00:30:09.340 And here's where Jesus goes off script. 00:30:10.580 --> 00:30:13.799 He starts bringing something in more so. 00:30:14.860 --> 00:30:20.820 I mean, these disciples, how many Seders have they been to year after year? 00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:26.939 And this was going to be the first time they've heard anybody reference the bread to themselves. 00:30:27.779 --> 00:30:29.759 It was completely surprising to them. 00:30:31.299 --> 00:30:33.579 Jesus says of the bread, take, eat. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.539 This is my body. 00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:39.439 Luke 22 records that. 00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:41.000 This is my body given for you. 00:30:41.179 --> 00:30:42.500 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:43.759 This is my body. 00:30:44.019 --> 00:30:45.359 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:30:45.579 --> 00:30:46.740 Do you see what Jesus is doing? 00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:49.799 He is Christophying the Passover. 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:51.619 He's making it about him. 00:30:52.639 --> 00:30:53.839 And there's a reason for that. 00:30:56.659 --> 00:31:01.440 When Jesus breaks the bread, it's a dramatic symbol of his death. 00:31:02.500 --> 00:31:07.119 Jesus is saying that his death gives this bread a whole new meaning. 00:31:07.220 --> 00:31:08.759 He's going to die in 12 hours. 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:14.000 He's Christophying this. 00:31:15.159 --> 00:31:16.700 It represents him now. 00:31:16.700 --> 00:31:22.660 One could say that the Passover bread finds its fulfillment in Christ. 00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:31.420 What God set in motion centuries before with his Passover feast, it was designed to remind them of his great deliverance from Egypt. 00:31:31.779 --> 00:31:32.900 But it was pregnant. 00:31:34.019 --> 00:31:41.720 God always intended it to ultimately point to the great Passover lamb, Jesus, and the giving of his body. 00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:50.480 So when Jesus says, take, eat, we're to participate in it. 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:58.500 We're to partake of Christ's death on our behalf by faith. 00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:08.740 If bread represents Christ's body, the eating of the bread represents personal faith in Christ. 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:10.920 That's how we consume it. 00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:18.720 We take Christ's substitutionary death onto ourselves by believing it. 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:21.240 By trusting in it. 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:30.039 So at this point in the Passover meal, traditionally, the main dish would have been served. 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:31.079 The bread has been broken. 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.279 It's been passed around. 00:32:32.420 --> 00:32:33.940 Jesus said, this is my body. 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:35.960 Broken. 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:38.480 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:40.620 Distributes it. 00:32:40.619 --> 00:32:46.799 And at this point in a classic Passover meal, they would begin to eat the Passover lamb. 00:32:48.679 --> 00:32:51.379 But there was no Passover lamb present. 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:53.279 Not a roasted one. 00:32:56.119 --> 00:32:56.939 Why not? 00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:03.179 Why isn't there a roasted Passover lamb on the table in front of Jesus? 00:33:03.180 --> 00:33:09.320 Jesus, the Passover lamb at this table is not on the table. 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:12.320 He's reclining at table. 00:33:14.140 --> 00:33:16.240 Jesus is the Passover lamb. 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:21.539 And he has inaugurating the greatest of all Passover meals. 00:33:21.820 --> 00:33:23.640 And he calls it the Lord's Supper. 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:27.500 It was his sacrifice. 00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:31.039 The lamb of God that would take away the sins of the world. 00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:36.759 He, at this moment, was surrounded by would-be deserters and a would-be denier. 00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:42.200 They proved themselves terribly unfaithful. 00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:51.819 But this Passover lamb, he would voluntarily, faithfully lay down his life in less than 12 hours. 00:33:52.139 --> 00:33:57.460 Not only for the deserters and the denier, but for all others who would eventually come 00:33:57.460 --> 00:34:01.100 and respond in faith to Christ. 00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:11.639 In 33 AD, that April, in this upper room, 00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.079 the traditional Passover lamb was indeed missing. 00:34:16.099 --> 00:34:18.400 But there was a far better Passover lamb. 00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:26.539 There, reclining and willing to be offered for the forgiveness of sins of all who would believe. 00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:31.820 It's all after the second cup. 00:34:34.179 --> 00:34:36.559 Following the traditional eating of the Passover lamb, 00:34:36.720 --> 00:34:38.579 it was then that the third cup was poured. 00:34:39.740 --> 00:34:41.420 It's called the cup of redemption. 00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:46.579 It's tied to Exodus 6, 6b. 00:34:46.579 --> 00:34:50.219 I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment. 00:34:50.380 --> 00:34:54.299 I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment. 00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:59.980 It's widely believed that it was this third cup, the cup of redemption, 00:35:00.539 --> 00:35:03.360 that Jesus took in verse 27 and 28. 00:35:03.360 --> 00:35:06.240 And he goes off script. 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:12.480 He takes the cup and when he gave thanks, he gave it to his disciples saying, 00:35:12.820 --> 00:35:16.160 Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:19.500 which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 00:35:19.500 --> 00:35:31.820 Jesus here is claiming that the wine in the cup represents his blood, my blood. 00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:40.619 Blood that would establish a covenant, a new covenant between God and man. 00:35:40.619 --> 00:35:46.799 Behind this is a prophecy. 00:35:48.299 --> 00:35:49.639 Jeremiah 31. 00:35:50.739 --> 00:35:56.380 Where Jeremiah prophesies of a time where God would establish a new covenant with his people. 00:35:57.339 --> 00:35:58.599 A wonderful covenant. 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.279 A covenant that would bring forgiveness of sins. 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:08.200 The Mosaic covenant was graciously established between God and Israel. 00:36:08.540 --> 00:36:09.880 And it required loyalty. 00:36:10.140 --> 00:36:11.820 And it resulted in blessing and curse. 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:14.300 And Israel failed miserably. 00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:20.220 And so now a new covenant offered to all people in Christ is being established. 00:36:20.700 --> 00:36:22.080 Through the blood of Jesus. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:27.440 He would shed his blood in just less than 12 hours. 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:36.579 So that any sinner from any place at any time could come into a life-giving relationship with God. 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:44.000 The blood of the Passover lamb was shed to cover over the sins of many. 00:36:45.659 --> 00:36:49.260 And in this case, to satisfy the wrath of God. 00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:53.079 Jesus is the Passover lamb. 00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:56.460 And he fulfills Exodus chapter 12. 00:36:56.460 --> 00:36:59.460 And he's the one who fulfills Exodus chapter 12. 00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:03.860 Is also the suffering servant of Isaiah 53. 00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:07.220 By his stripes you were healed. 00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:10.340 Now I don't know about you. 00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:18.559 But when I start hearing about the significance of what goes into the bread and the cup. 00:37:18.720 --> 00:37:21.340 I start looking at these a little differently. 00:37:23.740 --> 00:37:26.380 It makes me savor it more. 00:37:26.460 --> 00:37:29.860 It makes me delight in it more. 00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:33.059 It brings me to the supper. 00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:36.360 That night in 33 AD. 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:41.119 It makes me think about what Jesus has done for me. 00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:45.519 The great redemption he accomplished through his blood. 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:50.159 After the third cup had been drunk, the fourth cup was filled. 00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:53.500 This fourth cup was called the cup of praise. 00:37:54.119 --> 00:37:56.759 It's tied to the last promise in Exodus 6. 00:37:57.179 --> 00:38:00.360 It says, I will take you to be my people and I will be your God. 00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:01.539 You are mine. 00:38:01.539 --> 00:38:06.960 This was tied to God's victory over his enemies. 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.340 The final vindication and blessing of his people. 00:38:09.340 --> 00:38:11.519 It had everything to do with future promise. 00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:19.539 And it's this cup, this fourth cup, that Jesus abstains from at the supper. 00:38:19.539 --> 00:38:21.800 He doesn't drink of it. 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:24.199 Look at verse 29. 00:38:24.199 --> 00:38:35.179 I tell you, I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 00:38:35.179 --> 00:38:44.219 It's a powerful promise of the messianic banquet awaiting us in glory. 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:45.819 Here's what Jesus is saying. 00:38:47.019 --> 00:38:51.559 He's going to come back and when he comes back, he's going to establish a new heavens and a new earth. 00:38:51.699 --> 00:38:57.299 And there's going to be a messianic banquet for all of us to come together and enjoy together in his presence. 00:38:57.300 --> 00:39:05.700 And on that table will be the fourth cup with new earth wine in it. 00:39:07.640 --> 00:39:12.519 And he's going to drink it deep with us. 00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:19.660 Jesus Christifies the fourth cup by abstaining from it. 00:39:20.600 --> 00:39:22.880 He aims us at what's to come. 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:26.500 There's a better feast coming. 00:39:27.300 --> 00:39:34.060 Instead of the fourth cup, Jesus will drink another cup in 12 hours. 00:39:36.260 --> 00:39:38.400 A cup that you were meant to drink. 00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:40.940 A cup that I was meant to drink. 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:49.820 And we hear, we see him speaking of it, actually praying about it in verse 39. 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:53.519 Gethsemane, we'll look at this next week. 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:58.519 My father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. 00:39:58.739 --> 00:40:02.159 Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:03.820 What cup is this? 00:40:03.820 --> 00:40:06.740 It's the cup of God's wrath. 00:40:10.820 --> 00:40:18.240 You see, for those of us who claim Jesus as Lord and partake in his death, 00:40:19.580 --> 00:40:21.580 we drink from the cup of redemption. 00:40:21.579 --> 00:40:27.059 Christ's blood shed for the forgiveness of our sin. 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.420 God has passed over us. 00:40:30.500 --> 00:40:32.500 His wrath has passed over us. 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:34.539 Satisfied in Christ's blood. 00:40:35.019 --> 00:40:41.559 But here, Jesus will drink of the cup of God's wrath that was meant for us. 00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:48.239 He took it to himself instead of it being poured out on you. 00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:55.219 The fourth cup that Jesus abstains from reminds us of a future feast of the messianic banquet. 00:40:57.139 --> 00:41:00.420 And following the fourth cup, the disciples sing a hymn. 00:41:00.500 --> 00:41:01.599 You see that in verse 30. 00:41:01.699 --> 00:41:04.559 It would have been Psalms 115 through 118. 00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:07.619 And they depart for the Mount of Olives. 00:41:09.059 --> 00:41:10.920 This morning, we've covered a lot of ground. 00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:13.000 A little history. 00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:22.000 We've gotten some biblical framework to see that this institution of the Lord's Supper is surrounded by human failure. 00:41:22.299 --> 00:41:24.460 It's under the sovereignty of God, though. 00:41:25.619 --> 00:41:27.119 And now we've just walked through the Seder. 00:41:27.980 --> 00:41:30.579 And it's all about Jesus. 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:34.099 He is the Passover Lamb. 00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:37.340 Where is the Passover Lamb of Matthew 26? 00:41:38.219 --> 00:41:39.139 It's Jesus. 00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:43.460 Savor the Supper. 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:49.340 Jesus is Christifying the Passover. 00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:51.759 It's about Him. 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:57.880 Christ provides a greater deliverance from a greater slavery by a greater sacrifice. 00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:00.079 And He offers it to all. 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:03.119 This Supper points back to Christ's death. 00:42:03.460 --> 00:42:05.940 And it points forward to the messianic banquet. 00:42:06.319 --> 00:42:07.119 We live in between. 00:42:08.659 --> 00:42:14.619 This Supper is for all who call upon Jesus as their Lord and partake in their death. 00:42:14.980 --> 00:42:17.299 It's the difference between Judas and the disciples. 00:42:17.300 --> 00:42:22.660 So if you're a deserter in the room, if you're a denier, and I would add myself to that. 00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:23.800 I've denied Jesus. 00:42:24.700 --> 00:42:26.160 His blood covers me still. 00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:28.580 And it covers you still. 00:42:29.120 --> 00:42:30.760 That is good news. 00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:35.960 So we savor the Supper by calling on Jesus our Lord. 00:42:36.100 --> 00:42:38.440 Even though we're deserters and deniers. 00:42:39.500 --> 00:42:42.040 It's for you because of that. 00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:44.580 He's not looking for perfection. 00:42:45.420 --> 00:42:46.440 He is. 00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:52.760 The Lord's Supper defines us. 00:42:53.500 --> 00:42:55.980 It defined Israel as God's delivered people. 00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:59.860 It defines us as God's new delivered people by the blood of Jesus. 00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:02.920 And the Supper unites us. 00:43:04.200 --> 00:43:06.000 In just a second, we're going to take this together. 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:11.579 And we're saying simultaneously, Jesus is our Lord. 00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:15.239 And we participate with him in his death. 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:17.599 And we are so grateful for it. 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:21.539 The Lord's Supper is not about a snack time. 00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:23.699 It's definitely not a craft time. 00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:28.239 It's a time to savor our Lord Jesus Christ together.