We're back. And let's remember
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that Jesus caring
protective compassionate heart,
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had protected this woman Mary
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from the
accusations and the criticism.
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He saw her purity of motives.
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And that's a wonderful
promise for each of us.
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God knows your heart.
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Jesus knows your heart,
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and He will
honor and respect that.
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Now Judas on the other hand.
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Judas hardens his heart,
and he goes to the priests.
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They now have
what they've needed.
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They've been
wanting to get Jesus.
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They needed
somebody on the inside.
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Now they have their man
they have their opportunity.
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Judas, he cared about money.
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Jesus cared about human beings.
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What is the
difference? That's for sure.
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Now let's go to the next
great event during this week.
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It says on verse 17,
"Now on the first day
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of the Unleavened Bread
the disciples came to Jesus,
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saying, "Where will you have us
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prepare for you
to eat the Passover?"
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This Passover event is coming.
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Tell us a little bit
about the Passover. Yeah.
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We know when the people
of Israel were leaving Egypt,
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God established a
memorial of that exodus
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to remind the people of Israel
always throughout their history.
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What God did for them
and how God deliver them
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from the land of Egypt
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from that house of slavery,
as the Old Testament say.
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So every time when
the people of Israel
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celebrated the Passover,
they will retell their children,
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okay, that story
what God did for them
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and how God deliver them
from the slavery of Egypt.
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But the Passover also
had the future indication.
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So see it was
reference to the past
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but also reference to the future
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that one day when
the Messiah comes,
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He will like that
Passover lamb die for them,
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as they were saved
from the Egyptian slavery.
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So actually
one-- He will one day
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save them from
the slavery of sin.
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And every Jewish believer
felt that in a community sense
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they had come
out of Egypt. Yeah.
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You see the Passover was
not just memory of the past,
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it provided the hope
to the people of Israel
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that God will
intervene on behalf of them.
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So the disciples-- And
provide salvation for them.
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The disciples are very
used to keeping the Passover.
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Oh, yes. One more occasion,
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Jesus gave the instructions
we should probably notice
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that it says in
verse 18, "Go into the city
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to a certain one and say to him,
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'The Teacher says,
My time is at hand.
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Time is significant here.
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And I will keep the Passover at
your house with my disciples."
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They come that evening.
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Their expectations are probably
for another worship service,
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another time of
fellowship but it all changes.
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Jesus takes this
event and transforms it.
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So this is the
last Passover that Jesus
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was participating
with His disciples
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and actually he made very, very
clear later to His disciples.
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He said, "This is the last one.
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Next one will be
in the kingdom." Amen.
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So that Passover in the kingdom
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will not be for
the future deliverance.
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The reminder how the disciples
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and all the rest of the
redeemed are saved through the--
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by the blood of
that Passover lamb.
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You know that the main feature
of the Passover was the lamb.
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Yes. And the
blood that they took
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and marked the doorpost there
as a token of the deliverance
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and salvation that
God has provided for them.
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That's a
beautiful, beautiful metaphor.
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Now during the meal He sat at
table with his twelve disciples.
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Verse 21 of chapter 26.
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And as they
were eating, He said,
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"Truly I say to you
one of you will betray me."
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It must have been
a shocking statement.
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They've seen the
conflict from the priest
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and the Pharisees and others,
but now He says one of you.
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Traitor is coming
out to one of them.
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And of course, their response
is they turned to each other
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and then they turned to
Him and say, "Lord, is it I?"
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Yeah. I would like to
say something to the viewers
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very often when we are
talking about the Last Supper.
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We are so much
impacted by popular pictures
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of famous
artist about, you know,
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Jesus sitting
there at the table.
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Actually the translation is
here that Jesus was reclining.
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They were there
on the mat there,
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okay, laying down
supporting the heads
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with the right hand with
left they would eat there.
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So the feet were, you know, out
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and they were there
looking towards each other.
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Actually they were reclining
not sitting at the table there.
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Yeah. And Jesus says,
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"The one who has
dipped his hand."
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It's such an
eastern expression. Yeah.
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"Dip his hand in the
dish with me will betray Me."
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No forks no spoons. You take
the bread, you dip and you eat.
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But to say, "Look one of
you eating with me." Yeah.
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Ranko, it's a
pathetic thing to think
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that we could eat
with Jesus and betray Him.
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Can you imagine the Judas
made all those arrangements
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to betray Jesus, and now
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he's participating
here at the supper?
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So now what
happen, we are coming
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really to the
climax of the entire event.
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And Glenn, I would
really like to ask you
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if you can read
from verse 21 to 30?
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"As they were eating, He said,
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"Truly I say to you that
one of you will betray Me."
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And they were very sorrowful
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and began to say to
him one after another,
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"Is it, I
Lord?" And He answered,
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"He who has dipped his hand in
the dish with Me will betray me.
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The Son of Man goes
as it is written of Him.
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But woe to that man by
whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
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It would be better for that man
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if he had not been born."
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Judas, who betrayed
him, said, "Is it I, master?"
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He said to him,
"You have said so."
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Now as they were
eating, Jesus took bread,
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and blessed it, and broke it,
and gave it to the Disciples,
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and said, "Take,
eat, this is my body."
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And He took a cup, and
when He had given thanks
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He gave it to them, saying,
"Drink all of it, all of you,
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for this is my
blood of the covenant,
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which is poured out for many
for the forgiveness of sins.
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I tell you I shall
not drink again of this
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fruit of the vine until that day
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when I drink it new with
you in My Father's kingdom."
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Ranko, it just--
it moves your heart.
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It is. To see
Jesus' love and compassion.
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"And when they had sung a hymn,
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they went out to
the Mount of Olives.
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Then Jesus said to them,
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"You will all fall away
because of Me this night.
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For it is written, 'I
will strike the shepherd,
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and the sheep of the
flock will be scattered.'
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But after I am raised up,
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I will go
before you to Galilee."
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Peter declared to Him,
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"Though they all
fall away because of You,
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I will never fall
away." Jesus said to Him,
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"Truly, I say to
you, this very night,
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before the cock crows,
you will deny Me three times."
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Peter said, "Even
if I must die with You,
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I will not deny you!" And
so said all the disciples."
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Okay. There're number of points
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that we really have to
address and to mention here is.
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So what are the two key elements
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of this Lord's Supper that
Jesus had with His disciples.
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One is bread and the
second one it says cup.
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The Cup of the
Covenant. So two things,
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two things that were very
significant for the Passover.
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You know, Passover they had to
slain the lamb to eat the meat
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but the blood was supposed
to be put on the doorpost.
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So these two
elements are crucial
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here to the Lord's Supper. Why?
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Jesus actually
took this Passover event
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and He transformed
it into a new event.
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So this event was not only
a reminder of the deliverance
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from Egypt, but now
the deliverance from sin
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and also an
indication of foretells
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or the foreshadow of
that future great banquet.
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Jesus talked about that
banquet very very often.
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When He said, "Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, the apostles
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and all the faithful
of all ages will sit there
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at the table there
in the kingdom of God,
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and finally participate
in the great banquet.
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Celebrating the great triumph.
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But in this context,
there is no triumph yet. Yes.
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It's really a
foretells of that death
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that Jesus had to experience
to die for human beings.
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You know, it's a sad commentary
that through the centuries
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the Lord's Supper has become
a point of argument rather than
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a point of transformation
as you've mentioned.
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A different bodies
of faith have fought
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what exactly does
it mean and so forth.
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We've missed the
central point, haven't we?
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So the point number one
is, Jesus requested us to do it
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because He established
this ritual this ordinance.
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Number one, we learn something
that the communion service
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is an open communion.
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Jesus did not
exclude Judas even though
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Judas was
already out of the group.
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So he
participated that's number one.
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Second one, we had to
understand about the meaning
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and the purpose of
the communion service.
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By the way the communion service
is for the believers. Yes.
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For those who have
established their relationships
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with Jesus
Christ that Jesus Christ
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knew that when we are baptized,
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you know, we made
our commitment to God.
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From now on, baptism is
actually a public announcement
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that for the rest of my
life I want to work with God.
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But Jesus also
knew that Christians
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very often will experience false
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and fearless in
their walk with God.
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But you see Jesus
does not asks us every time
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when we experience
fall or we experience depart
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from God's will that every
time we have to be baptized.
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This is the purpose
of the Lord's Supper.
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The Lord's Supper
functions as a mini-baptism.
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You see, with baptism we
make a covenant with God.
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With the Lord's Supper
we renew that covenant.
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Ranko, it might be helpful
for us just very briefly.
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Please. When you say covenant,
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is that a deal
that I make with God?
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Actually yes, it's contract.
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According to that contract,
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God ask us to
surrender our lives to Him.
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That's my part. My part.
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And then God makes then promise
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that He will be with us
and help us in the journey.
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You see, we are the ones
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who are breaking
that covenant not God.
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God is always
faithful to that covenant,
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but it is through
the Lord's Supper,
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okay, that we renew,
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reestablished
that covenant with God
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that very often in
our lives we break.
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So Jesus Christ does not ask
us to go for the second baptism.
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No, in the same way
I don't go every time--
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and my wife and
myself we raise voice.
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We have to go
through the second wedding
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or something like that. Okay,
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Jesus Christ
established the Lord's Supper
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as the reestablishment of
those broken relationships
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that sometimes we experience
in our relationships with Him.
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The Lord's Supper is
actually the mini-baptism, okay.
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It has a past
significance remind us
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that we are saved
through the blood of the lamb.
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It reminds us
also of that future
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the second
coming of Jesus Christ
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when one day we will find
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ourselves in His kingdom,
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but it has also significance
for our present reality.
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Dear viewers, praise God
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we have a wonderful
savior He's with us.
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And He understands us
even if we experience false.
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He wants to save us and one
day to see us in His kingdom.
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