Everybody has different opinions
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on what the Lord's
Supper is all about.
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Join us today on
"Back to Our Roots"
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as we talk about this topic.
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Welcome once again
to "Back to Our Roots."
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I'm your host
Pastor Alex Schussler
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and my co-host-- Rachael Hyman.
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And we want to
welcome and thank you
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that you have joined us today.
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Our topic today we're gonna be
speaking about the Lord's Table.
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People also use
the term communion
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when they are talking in terms.
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Rachel, what-- I
know we've shared
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some pretty interesting stories.
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What was your
experience as a Jewish believer,
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the first time you
were introduced to that?
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Well, my mom actually
converted to Catholicism
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when I was about 12
years old when she remarried.
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Yeah, and for the
first time in my life
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we visited a Catholic Church
and I saw my mom open her mouth
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like this as the priest put this
round white wafer in her mouth.
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And I remember
participating with her
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because she
pressured us into it,
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but feeling like I
had absolutely no idea
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what I was doing and everybody
was just standing in line
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waiting for their
wafer and calling this
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somehow the body
of Christ somehow
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and to be honest I
was really weird it out.
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I was really weird it out.
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You know, what's interesting
is that, I have to say,
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my experience
was almost identical.
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It wasn't my mom, but
it was friends of mine
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that they also were
Catholics and, you know,
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I had gone to church with them
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and here I was a
nice Jewish boy from Miami
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going, you know,
to the Catholic Church
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and watching them.
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I sat in the back,
I didn't go forward.
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I sat in the back and I watched.
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You are a good Jewish boy
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Well. Unlike me.
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I watched them, you
know, take the wafer and drink
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and the whole body of
Christ thing, I was so confused.
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It's weird, huh?
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I didn't, what are
they talking about?
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It's like this little, you know,
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I know that there's so many
different ideas and concepts
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about the Lord's
table about communion,
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about its
origins, what really is it?
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What is it mean?
What can we draw from it?
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And we're going to be talking
about that great detail today
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and we are going to especially
take a look at the Passover
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because without really
understanding the Passover,
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I don't think that
we can fully understand
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what exactly happened,
especially when we go back
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talking in the context of Jesus
and the first Lord's Table,
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when He shared
with His disciples.
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So before we get too
deep into the program
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we want to invite our
friend Alexander Bolotnikov,
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Dr. Alexander
Bolotnikov. We call him Sasha.
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To join us he is our-- as
we say resident theologian.
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He brings a deeper
meaning to each topic.
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Yeah, good to see you,
Rachel. How are you doing buddy?
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Good to see you, Alex.
Good to see you, Sasha.
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So today, Sasha, we're
talking about the Lord's Table.
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And we are talking
about the Lord's Table
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and how it draws without a doubt
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its traditions from
what is know as the Passover.
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So, Sasha, why don't
we just jump into it?
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And we want to
share what we understand
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or what we know
about the Passover service
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to set the groundwork because
we're gonna refer to this
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quite a bit
through our talk today.
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One of the
things that's important
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I think for us to
understand is that
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the Jewish people are
very based on tradition.
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That, you can almost count on
that the things that were done
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hundreds and
hundreds of years ago
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are pretty much done even today.
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May be some differences
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but the elements
remain very much the same.
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Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
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And we will see in our program,
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in our discussion that
indeed they were the same
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at least in many ways as
we see them today in Judaism
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and basically first of
all we need to say that.
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What is known as
a Last Supper today?
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The story Jesus sat with
the disciples in the upper room.
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The Gospel of Matthew Chapter 26
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clearly speaks and
calls it a Passover.
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The disciples asks
Jesus specific question.
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When where shall we
prepare a Passover for you?
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Right, right.
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What confuses
many Christians is,
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they look at the Passover
described in the Book of Exodus.
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Exactly.
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Where Passover is the lamb.
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So many
Christians erroneously assume
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that disciples
actually killed the lamb
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and they were having a
sacrifice in the upper room.
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But you know as we talked
about in a previous program,
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we dealt with
Passover in detail.
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And we opened up
and explored the idea
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that Jesus was in
fact that perfect lamb
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that the time when the
lambs were being slaughtered,
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Jesus was dying
on the cross for us.
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So what they are doing is--
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it is what we would
know as a Seder. Exactly.
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Okay, but it wasn't
the slaughter of the lamb.
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This is-- this has nothing to do
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with the temple
Passover sacrifice.
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Exact. So let's
talk this a little--
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Even though it was
on the same exact time
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as the regular Passover
or it was little earlier?
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It was on the day exact--
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Well, we have-- it's
a good question, Rachel.
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We have to see the progression.
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We're talking 14th of Nisan.
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On the 14th of
Nisan people of Israel
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had this last
night with their belts
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and their clothes with
their shoes on with the sock--
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Now, we're talking in
the context of the Exodus.
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Yes, that's-- Okay.
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Well, what happens next,
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this is one time
event in history.
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What happens next the
Book of Deuteronomy comes in.
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1 Deuteronomy
16 strictly forbids
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to kill any lamb
in the house. Right.
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And that's why we have
in the temple tradition,
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a commemoration of Exodus
through sacrificial service.
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And really that
becomes the basic concept
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of the Passover
itself is that it is now
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a ritualistic commemoration
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remembering those
things that happened
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as God drew the
people out of Egypt.
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And that's why Leviticus 23
sets up the Passover sacrifice
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which is different than what
was happening actually in Egypt.
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So--but as Alex explained it out
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what Jesus and disciples did
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happened before and, you know,
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basically a day ahead
of the Passover sacrifice.
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In other words it happened at
the beginning of 14th of Nisan
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while the Passover
sacrifice at the temple
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is at the end of 14th of Nisan.
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So, you know, this I
may be stating the obvious
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but remember that
we're reckoning time
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from sun down to sun
down, that represents a day.
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Right.
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Not as we would
in Western culture
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think it's when
the sun comes up,
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that's the beginning of a day.
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So they were having the Seder
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when they were
supposed to be having a Seder
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and Jesus died when the
lamb was supposed to be saved.
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Exactly, but
that's what you mentioned.
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The Seder is just
a commemorative meal.
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Ritualistic meal.
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Yeah, not even the
ritual but commemorative.
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Ritual was at the
temple that was at--
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Yeah, but I think
that we could say,
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'cause there
were specific things
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that we need to
talk about real quickly,
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that God commanded
that there were elements
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that we, that the Jewish
people needed to bring in,
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things that
needed to be present.
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Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, absolutely.
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So let's talk about
that a little bit, Sasha.
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So in the first century I know
that things were added later.
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But in the first
century what can we--
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for the most part
understand were the elements
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that were used in
that ritualistic meal,
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what we know as a Seder.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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What we see very
specific traditional
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is usage of the wine.
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Okay, so there is a
wine, there is also--
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Unfermented of course.
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Well, some
people would say that.
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Well, that's another discussion.
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That's another
discussion. For another program.
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Yeah, let's not
discuss that part right now.
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And I don't think
that's the point, this point.
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So what are the
elements do we have, Sasha?
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We have the wine.
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So we have wine and that's what
sets it apart form Exodus 12
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which never
talks about the wine.
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So we have
particularly four cups of wine
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which are may be like this
its kind of a large cups and--
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We have some herbs.
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Yeah, the bitter herbs,
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the unleavened
bread know as Matzah.
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And the, well,
they had some sweet.
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You know, today it's used
it's what's called Kharoses,
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I don't know how to explain it.
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Well, yes, it's basically
apples and honey and nuts mixed.
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And raisins may be.
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Yeah, mixed
together in like a little--
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Sort of
remembering this hard labor,
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the mortar they
did for the bricks.
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You know, so this is
the element, major element.
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But in the context
of the Lord's Table
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and in the
context of the discussion
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that we have
here, the two things
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that are definitely
come up is the Matzah
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and the cups of
the fruit of the wine.
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And the bitter
herbs. Because they dip.
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Yeah, they dip.
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And you remember how
Jesus dipped the Matzah
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into the bitter
herbs and gave it to Judas.
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And well, he said, yeah,
the one who eats after this
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is the one that's
going to betray me.
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Yeah. So--
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So, but the cups--
this is how we know
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that it was
traditional rabbinic Passovers.
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Well, this also
becomes then evidence
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I believe that, yes
one Jesus and His followers
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were in fact
celebrating a Passover Seder
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without a doubt
based on the set up,
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the elements and everything.
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The other thing just as
a little sidebar, Sasha,
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and I wonder what
your feelings about this.
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I've always
thought that this picture
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that we have
like Leonardo Da Vinci
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paints of the last supper.
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You know, of all these
men sitting at the table.
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You know, straight across
in a line is not true at all.
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This is like--
this is like a picture
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of the dining room
of Italian convent.
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So, I think more
likely they were sitting in
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like a horse shoe type of shape,
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the tables would have
been more like that maybe.
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It was very low
because first of all
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they were kind of
sitting down on the floor.
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And they were
supposed to recline,
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you know, you got your--
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That's how we know
that when it talks about
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how John laid his
head on the bosom of Jesus.
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You know, he did like in
the chair pulled Jesus over
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and no, because of
how they were laying
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and it was very easy for him
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just to lay back
in there, he was.
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You lean your right elbow
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against the left
knee of your body.
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And what is
that symbolize again?
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Unity. Well, and being free.
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Two, it's a symbol of
freedom. Yeah, exactly.
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That a rich man ate reclining
while a poor man ate standing.
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Yeah, that's right. It's a--
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And the other thing
is that-- I also think
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that there was way more
than just the disciples there
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because I think Jesus is acting
as the leader of their family,
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their group and Passover
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and the Seder
meal is a family event.
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It centers on the
children, teaching them,
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passing on the
story of what happened.
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So there would have been
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women and children
in the picture as well.
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You know, in Deuteronomy,
you teach it, you teach it,
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when your child asks that's and
they even haven't, you know--
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The four questions.
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Which is part of
the service today. Yeah.
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So, we've already
talked about the ritual
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based on Exodus Chapter 12
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and we kind of
brought it up-to-date.
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But let's really focus now
on what exactly Jesus is doing
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because we don't want
to short cut any of that.
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We want to be
able to take our time.
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What we can see,
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there are four cups
during the Passover Seder.
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Even today. Yeah, even today.
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And those--I'm sorry, those
come directly out of Exodus.
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Those are the
promises that God made,
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that I will promises, right.
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Yeah, they are
based on Exodus 6.
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"That I will
take you out of Egypt.
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I will make you my children.
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I will free you
from the bondage."
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So this is kind of
base, it's more or like
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may be a homiletical base,
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that each cup
symbolizes the act of God,
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the redemptive act
of God during Exodus.
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And it's important that
the Jesus does it as Exodus
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because we got to
remember especially
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in the Gospel of
Matthew and Gospel of John.
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Jesus has viewed as this
leader of a new spiritual exodus
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from the bondage of sin.
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And so, what happens
is, we see Gospel of Luke.
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In the Gospel of
Luke Chapter 22--
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So let me read this real quick.
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Gospel of Luke Chapter 22.
I'm gonna begin at verse 17.
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"And He took the
cup, He being Jesus.
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"He took the cup and when
He had given thanks He said,
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"Take this, and
divide it among yourselves.
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For I tell you that from now on
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I will not drink of
the fruit of the wine
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until the kingdom of God comes."
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Okay. So let's stop right there
and let's talk about the cup
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because the next thing
as He is going to go on
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and He is going to
talk about the bread.
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Exactly. Right.
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This is what makes it very
unconventional for many people
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because everybody especially
in Protestant tradition know
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you take the bread first
and then you take the wine.
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And in Luke verse
17, he takes the cup
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and then he takes the
bread, it's in reverse.
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But if you read next verse
20, then it's again the cup.
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So you have two cups,
this is definitely the hint.
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It's a very strong
hint that there were other,
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you know, we'll see another cup.
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So we have two cups out of four.
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What these two cups are?
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This one cup
which is in verse 17,
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this is a cup of plagues.
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That's the time when
they drink this cup of wine
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and they read the story.
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You know, today they
take, they dip the finger
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and they remember the--
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Put a drop as we
remember each one of the plague.
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Each of the plagues, so
they read how God rescued Israel
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with wonders and
signs and things like this.
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Right and what
about the second one?
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The second cup is
called the cup of redemption.
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And that's interesting
because when they take--
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no that's the third cup.
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Right, right.
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You know, that's
the cup of redemption.
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So the second cup.
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So the second cup
is the cup of plagues.
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Okay, what about the first cup?
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The first cup is called
the cup of sanctification.
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Okay, so we are going to jump--
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Where are you
getting all of that from,
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is that like tradition?
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This is--its drawing
from Exodus Chapter 6. Okay.
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And then its rabbinic
tradition applying the things,
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the promises that
God made to the Hebrews
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in the context of the Passover.
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In the Gospel of Luke
and the Gospel of Matthew
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prove that this was the
case because what you have,
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if you go sequence
you read this gospel in,
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you drink the first cup
that's the sanctification.
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You read the prayer of blessing.
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You do the washing of the
hands and by the way John 13
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describes how everybody fights,
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who is gonna wash
the hands of Jesus
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because that's the
best disciples, you know,
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mother of John and James
wants some of them close by
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and Jesus said
nobody washes my hand,
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I'm gonna wash everybody's feet.
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Right. Which He takes
on whole another thing.
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So that's the one thing He
definitely uses and changes.
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And then you
have cup of plagues,
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that's when you read the
story of Exodus and after that--
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Now we get to the third cup.
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Now, the third cup,
Sasha, let me interject.
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I think is it more than likely
at the point of this narrative
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that this is where we are.
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Exactly. That
we're at the third cup.
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That's the third
cup of redemption.
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'Cause this is when He
says, I'm not going to drink it.
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And again this is one of those
things that so touches my heart
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that here is Jesus saying,
take this cup and drink it
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but in the order of the service
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this in fact is
the cup of redemption.
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That's the cup of
redemption and that's the cup
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that represents His blood.
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But let's talk
about the bread too.
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Right, well-- So wait.
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Did Jews today have
that third cup and to them
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does that signify
redemption as well?
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It is still redemption,
yeah. It is still redemption.
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Looking for the
coming of the Messiah.
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Of the Messiah, exactly.
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So if we continue reading
it says, "And he took bread,
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and when he had given thanks,
he broke it, gave it to them,
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saying, 'This is my
body, which is given for you.
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Do this in remembrance of me. "'
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Now, one of the things
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also that I
think most Christians
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miss out on is that, you know,
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the little pieces of
bread or wafers or whatever
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unleavened bread that goes
out usually comes out in a tray
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and everyone
takes a little piece
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but what we are missing here
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is that Jesus would have taken
this one piece of flat bread,
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okay that He's saying,
this represents my body.
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He would have broken that
one piece and I imagined Him
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passing it to the left
and passing it to the right
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and each one of them
breaking a piece off of the one
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which really is way more
symbolic of the idea that, look,
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this is my body that's
gonna be broken for you
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and He doesn't
say, this is my body.
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So do this in remembrance of me.
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And even Paul in Corinthians
comes back and reiterates this.
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That whenever you eat
or you drink you know,
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you remember the death of
the Lord until He returns.
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And that's exactly the meaning
of the communes of remembering.
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So in remembrance
so-- the Bible does say
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or Jesus does really
say, I'm in this bread.
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No, what's important is,
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the reason why
they used the Seders
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to show that there is no temple
sacrificial symbolic in it.
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It's all symbolic and
if you go to Matthew--
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if you go to Matthew
it's very interesting.
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Matthew 26 it
says, Jesus it says that.
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Matthew 26:26
"As they were eating,
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after that He haven't
eaten Jesus takes the bread."
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This is what
happens at the Seder today,
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after there is a
meal, there is a Seder
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and then there is
what's known as Afikoman.
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Right, the last
thing that you eat.
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Afikoman, it's a
Greek word for dessert.
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But they didn't have this cake
and stuff like this back then
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for them dessert was aftertaste.
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So this they break this
little bread, little Matzah
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and they eat it to
create the aftertaste.
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Aftertaste is the
good memory trigger
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and so Jesus takes this Afikoman
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and He says, that's my body,
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that's what has to
be your aftertaste,
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that's what has to
stay in your memory,
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the fact that I'm dying for you.
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And of course we
have to also remember
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that in the Jewish
tradition there is a cup
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sitting on the
table that old book.
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Nobody drinks and the Elijah--
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It's a long story
but to make it short,
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of course Elijah didn't die.
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So Jews believe that
Elijah may actually come--
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Come back. And visit them.
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And even drink
the Passover Seder.
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I remember as a kid being
asked to get up at one point
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in the Seder in the
meal and go and open the door
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and everyone waits for a moment
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to see if Elijah
is going to come.
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But it is interesting
that the coming of Elijah
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is described in the last Book
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of the Old
Testament the Malachi.
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And it says
that, when Elijah comes
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that's when the day of the
Lord comes, awesome and fearful.
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And so nobody dare to
drink that cup of Elijah
00:22:07.28\00:22:11.13
because that's the
old judgments, you know,
00:22:11.16\00:22:15.00
and look what
happens in Gethsemane.
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Jesus sweats with
blood and He says,
00:22:17.99\00:22:22.56
"Lord, Father, may
take this cup passover Me.
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" Notice that, may
this cup passover Me.
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He uses the passover.
Really? Yeah, the word--
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Basically save me
like you saved them or--
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Yeah, but then He
says not thy will.
00:22:36.51\00:22:39.22
Let your will be
done. Not my will.
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Now I'm going to drink the
Cup of Judgment upon myself.
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I don't want to
drink that Cup of Judgment.
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I want that passover
me, but it's not happening.
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But that wasn't what
He was brought to do.
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Now, let's, you know, there's
still one cup left, right?
00:22:52.88\00:22:56.98
Because we've
talked about three cups.
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Yeah, we talked about
Cup of Sanctification,
00:22:58.82\00:23:02.79
Cup of the Plagues, after that
they eat the meal and Afikoman,
00:23:02.82\00:23:08.79
then Cup of Redemption.
00:23:08.82\00:23:10.19
Which is the one He's
saying take the sins--
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That's the blood
and then the fourth cup.
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And then the fourth cup
He doesn't drink, right.
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But, everybody else did.
00:23:17.09\00:23:18.12
Everyone else but He says I
will not drink again with you.
00:23:18.15\00:23:21.17
That's the Cup of Praise.
00:23:21.20\00:23:22.76
Right, until I
return, right. Awesome.
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Which, yeah, it's awesome.
00:23:26.54\00:23:27.57
So we're gonna drink
that fourth cup with Jesus?
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So that's the one that
He's looking forward to
00:23:29.19\00:23:32.39
sharing with us when He comes
00:23:32.42\00:23:35.47
in the clouds
and comes to return.
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So, you know, as you listen
to this on today's program.
00:23:37.74\00:23:42.65
I hope that this has
inspired you and moved you.
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Rachel and I
have a song to share.
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And we're going to get ready
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and Sasha is going to
tell us about the song.
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Well, this is an
interesting song from Psalm 22.
00:23:55.44\00:24:02.20
And it's
actually a prophetic song
00:24:02.23\00:24:05.26
in which David portrays himself
00:24:05.29\00:24:09.66
is portrayed as a
suffering Messiah,
00:24:09.69\00:24:11.90
who is suffering
the agonies of death
00:24:11.93\00:24:15.67
and that's one of the words,
00:24:15.70\00:24:18.09
"In you our fathers trusted,"
and we're now let sing.
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[Singing in foreign language]
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Well, amen and amen.
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Listen, I really hope
00:27:34.77\00:27:36.82
that you have enjoyed
our program today that,
00:27:36.85\00:27:39.47
you see through
that Passover celebration
00:27:39.50\00:27:42.65
how Jesus revealed Himself.
00:27:42.68\00:27:45.13
May the Lord bless
you and may He keep you
00:27:45.16\00:27:46.85
and may the Lord make
His face to shine up on you
00:27:46.88\00:27:48.77
and be gracious to you.
00:27:48.80\00:27:50.33
May the Lord lift
His countenance upon you
00:27:50.36\00:27:52.49
and bring you His peace.
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Thank you and join us
again on "Back to Our Roots."
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