Participants: Glenn Russell & Ranko Stefanovic (Host)
Series Code: MTBOTB
Program Code: MTBOTB000022B
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00:01 We're back. And let's remember
00:02 that Jesus caring protective compassionate heart, 00:06 had protected this woman Mary 00:08 from the accusations and the criticism. 00:10 He saw her purity of motives. 00:12 And that's a wonderful promise for each of us. 00:15 God knows your heart. 00:16 Jesus knows your heart, 00:18 and He will honor and respect that. 00:19 Now Judas on the other hand. 00:22 Judas hardens his heart, and he goes to the priests. 00:26 They now have what they've needed. 00:27 They've been wanting to get Jesus. 00:29 They needed somebody on the inside. 00:31 Now they have their man they have their opportunity. 00:34 Judas, he cared about money. 00:37 Jesus cared about human beings. 00:40 What is the difference? That's for sure. 00:43 Now let's go to the next great event during this week. 00:47 It says on verse 17, "Now on the first day 00:50 of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, 00:53 saying, "Where will you have us 00:55 prepare for you to eat the Passover?" 00:57 This Passover event is coming. 00:59 Tell us a little bit about the Passover. Yeah. 01:01 We know when the people of Israel were leaving Egypt, 01:06 God established a memorial of that exodus 01:11 to remind the people of Israel always throughout their history. 01:16 What God did for them and how God deliver them 01:21 from the land of Egypt 01:24 from that house of slavery, as the Old Testament say. 01:27 So every time when the people of Israel 01:30 celebrated the Passover, they will retell their children, 01:37 okay, that story what God did for them 01:41 and how God deliver them from the slavery of Egypt. 01:47 But the Passover also had the future indication. 01:50 So see it was reference to the past 01:54 but also reference to the future 01:56 that one day when the Messiah comes, 01:58 He will like that Passover lamb die for them, 02:02 as they were saved from the Egyptian slavery. 02:05 So actually one-- He will one day 02:07 save them from the slavery of sin. 02:10 And every Jewish believer felt that in a community sense 02:14 they had come out of Egypt. Yeah. 02:17 You see the Passover was not just memory of the past, 02:21 it provided the hope to the people of Israel 02:24 that God will intervene on behalf of them. 02:27 So the disciples-- And provide salvation for them. 02:29 The disciples are very used to keeping the Passover. 02:31 Oh, yes. One more occasion, 02:33 Jesus gave the instructions we should probably notice 02:36 that it says in verse 18, "Go into the city 02:39 to a certain one and say to him, 02:41 'The Teacher says, My time is at hand. 02:44 Time is significant here. 02:45 And I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples." 02:49 They come that evening. 02:53 Their expectations are probably for another worship service, 02:56 another time of fellowship but it all changes. 03:01 Jesus takes this event and transforms it. 03:04 So this is the last Passover that Jesus 03:08 was participating with His disciples 03:11 and actually he made very, very clear later to His disciples. 03:15 He said, "This is the last one. 03:17 Next one will be in the kingdom." Amen. 03:20 So that Passover in the kingdom 03:22 will not be for the future deliverance. 03:24 The reminder how the disciples 03:28 and all the rest of the redeemed are saved through the-- 03:32 by the blood of that Passover lamb. 03:35 You know that the main feature of the Passover was the lamb. 03:39 Yes. And the blood that they took 03:42 and marked the doorpost there as a token of the deliverance 03:47 and salvation that God has provided for them. 03:49 That's a beautiful, beautiful metaphor. 03:53 Now during the meal He sat at table with his twelve disciples. 03:57 Verse 21 of chapter 26. 04:00 And as they were eating, He said, 04:01 "Truly I say to you one of you will betray me." 04:05 It must have been a shocking statement. 04:07 They've seen the conflict from the priest 04:09 and the Pharisees and others, but now He says one of you. 04:12 Traitor is coming out to one of them. 04:14 And of course, their response is they turned to each other 04:17 and then they turned to Him and say, "Lord, is it I?" 04:19 Yeah. I would like to say something to the viewers 04:22 very often when we are talking about the Last Supper. 04:26 We are so much impacted by popular pictures 04:30 of famous artist about, you know, 04:32 Jesus sitting there at the table. 04:34 Actually the translation is here that Jesus was reclining. 04:40 They were there on the mat there, 04:41 okay, laying down supporting the heads 04:46 with the right hand with left they would eat there. 04:49 So the feet were, you know, out 04:53 and they were there looking towards each other. 04:55 Actually they were reclining not sitting at the table there. 04:59 Yeah. And Jesus says, 05:01 "The one who has dipped his hand." 05:02 It's such an eastern expression. Yeah. 05:03 "Dip his hand in the dish with me will betray Me." 05:07 No forks no spoons. You take the bread, you dip and you eat. 05:12 But to say, "Look one of you eating with me." Yeah. 05:14 Ranko, it's a pathetic thing to think 05:16 that we could eat with Jesus and betray Him. 05:18 Can you imagine the Judas made all those arrangements 05:23 to betray Jesus, and now 05:26 he's participating here at the supper? 05:31 So now what happen, we are coming 05:33 really to the climax of the entire event. 05:36 And Glenn, I would really like to ask you 05:39 if you can read from verse 21 to 30? 05:49 "As they were eating, He said, 05:50 "Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me." 05:53 And they were very sorrowful 05:54 and began to say to him one after another, 05:57 "Is it, I Lord?" And He answered, 05:59 "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with Me will betray me. 06:03 The Son of Man goes as it is written of Him. 06:07 But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 06:11 It would be better for that man 06:14 if he had not been born." 06:16 Judas, who betrayed him, said, "Is it I, master?" 06:20 He said to him, "You have said so." 06:23 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, 06:25 and blessed it, and broke it, and gave it to the Disciples, 06:27 and said, "Take, eat, this is my body." 06:31 And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks 06:33 He gave it to them, saying, "Drink all of it, all of you, 06:38 for this is my blood of the covenant, 06:41 which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 06:45 I tell you I shall not drink again of this 06:48 fruit of the vine until that day 06:50 when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom." 06:53 Ranko, it just-- it moves your heart. 06:55 It is. To see Jesus' love and compassion. 06:59 "And when they had sung a hymn, 07:00 they went out to the Mount of Olives. 07:02 Then Jesus said to them, 07:04 "You will all fall away because of Me this night. 07:07 For it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, 07:09 and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.' 07:12 But after I am raised up, 07:13 I will go before you to Galilee." 07:15 Peter declared to Him, 07:17 "Though they all fall away because of You, 07:19 I will never fall away." Jesus said to Him, 07:22 "Truly, I say to you, this very night, 07:24 before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times." 07:26 Peter said, "Even if I must die with You, 07:29 I will not deny you!" And so said all the disciples." 07:33 Okay. There're number of points 07:35 that we really have to address and to mention here is. 07:40 So what are the two key elements 07:46 of this Lord's Supper that Jesus had with His disciples. 07:51 One is bread and the second one it says cup. 07:56 The Cup of the Covenant. So two things, 08:00 two things that were very significant for the Passover. 08:04 You know, Passover they had to slain the lamb to eat the meat 08:09 but the blood was supposed to be put on the doorpost. 08:13 So these two elements are crucial 08:15 here to the Lord's Supper. Why? 08:18 Jesus actually took this Passover event 08:22 and He transformed it into a new event. 08:27 So this event was not only a reminder of the deliverance 08:32 from Egypt, but now the deliverance from sin 08:36 and also an indication of foretells 08:40 or the foreshadow of that future great banquet. 08:45 Jesus talked about that banquet very very often. 08:48 When He said, "Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the apostles 08:54 and all the faithful of all ages will sit there 08:58 at the table there in the kingdom of God, 09:00 and finally participate in the great banquet. 09:03 Celebrating the great triumph. 09:06 But in this context, there is no triumph yet. Yes. 09:10 It's really a foretells of that death 09:13 that Jesus had to experience to die for human beings. 09:17 You know, it's a sad commentary that through the centuries 09:22 the Lord's Supper has become a point of argument rather than 09:26 a point of transformation as you've mentioned. 09:29 A different bodies of faith have fought 09:31 what exactly does it mean and so forth. 09:34 We've missed the central point, haven't we? 09:36 So the point number one is, Jesus requested us to do it 09:43 because He established this ritual this ordinance. 09:47 Number one, we learn something that the communion service 09:56 is an open communion. 09:58 Jesus did not exclude Judas even though 10:00 Judas was already out of the group. 10:04 So he participated that's number one. 10:06 Second one, we had to understand about the meaning 10:11 and the purpose of the communion service. 10:16 By the way the communion service is for the believers. Yes. 10:21 For those who have established their relationships 10:23 with Jesus Christ that Jesus Christ 10:26 knew that when we are baptized, 10:28 you know, we made our commitment to God. 10:32 From now on, baptism is actually a public announcement 10:38 that for the rest of my life I want to work with God. 10:41 But Jesus also knew that Christians 10:44 very often will experience false 10:49 and fearless in their walk with God. 10:52 But you see Jesus does not asks us every time 10:55 when we experience fall or we experience depart 11:01 from God's will that every time we have to be baptized. 11:06 This is the purpose of the Lord's Supper. 11:08 The Lord's Supper functions as a mini-baptism. 11:12 You see, with baptism we make a covenant with God. 11:18 With the Lord's Supper we renew that covenant. 11:22 Ranko, it might be helpful for us just very briefly. 11:25 Please. When you say covenant, 11:28 is that a deal that I make with God? 11:30 Actually yes, it's contract. 11:33 According to that contract, 11:35 God ask us to surrender our lives to Him. 11:38 That's my part. My part. 11:39 And then God makes then promise 11:41 that He will be with us and help us in the journey. 11:46 You see, we are the ones 11:48 who are breaking that covenant not God. 11:50 God is always faithful to that covenant, 11:52 but it is through the Lord's Supper, 11:55 okay, that we renew, 11:57 reestablished that covenant with God 12:00 that very often in our lives we break. 12:03 So Jesus Christ does not ask us to go for the second baptism. 12:07 No, in the same way I don't go every time-- 12:11 and my wife and myself we raise voice. 12:14 We have to go through the second wedding 12:16 or something like that. Okay, 12:19 Jesus Christ established the Lord's Supper 12:23 as the reestablishment of those broken relationships 12:26 that sometimes we experience in our relationships with Him. 12:31 The Lord's Supper is actually the mini-baptism, okay. 12:37 It has a past significance remind us 12:41 that we are saved through the blood of the lamb. 12:46 It reminds us also of that future 12:49 the second coming of Jesus Christ 12:51 when one day we will find 12:52 ourselves in His kingdom, 12:54 but it has also significance for our present reality. 12:59 Dear viewers, praise God 13:01 we have a wonderful savior He's with us. 13:05 And He understands us even if we experience false. 13:08 He wants to save us and one day to see us in His kingdom. |
Revised 2023-12-19