Address—David So
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Two things.
I'd like to use this as a side comment.
Brother, you know that there's a prayer meeting.
Prior to this, for some of the counselors and a brother mentioned something that really touched my heart, he said tomorrow many of us will be going home and that let down is going to happen.
We have such a privilege.
These last few days to be in the company of Christians.
That we can encourage one another.
And he said that I thought perhaps I should add this comment. You know, I know what it's like. I've been a young people and it wasn't that long ago because I sometimes said to them, I am half as old as some of the older ones here, but I'm twice as old as many of you here. So you can figure that out. So I know what it's like when you leave a place like this. And I thought perhaps as a help.
That you can start off with a piece of paper, a blank one, perhaps the notepad you have.
A place where you'll find it easily and write two things down. One is.
What are the things that I should do that I have not been doing? Perhaps you can just put in a new habit. Perhaps you've been encouraged to read and to pray each morning. I thought if you write this down on it, it might help when you get home. Now, I was told this, that we all have habits. Good or bad, we have habits.
And you want to form a new habit, like I said, perhaps.
Praying early in the morning, reading early in the morning, whatever the case may be, I understand that if you can do it for 21 days in a row, it takes about 21 days to form a habit. Otherwise, we'll do it for three or four days and we stop now. The second thing I'd like you to write down and leave lots of room in between these two is.
Other habits that you think you should get rid of?
Write this down and you can exercise that now. Don't spend the time now to write those things down. You have lots of time this afternoon. I thought I would just offer that as a suggestion. A second side comment is that I noticed.
A lot of the older ones here are afraid of the young people, or maybe it is the other way around, I'm not too sure which. I didn't see a lot of young and old intermingling. Perhaps it was just me not noticing it properly and I thought we have a bit of time this afternoon.
Rather than spending time with those we already know well, perhaps I will challenge you to talk to someone you don't know, especially someone who's older now. I know the problem often is this. What do I say to them? Well, you can tell them who you are. I would love it when you folks come up and say hello to me, and perhaps even ask them what portion of scriptures they've been enjoying.
Or perhaps you can tell them the portion you have been enjoying and I thought maybe that would help.
Now let's get into what I have on my heart before me this afternoon.
As many of you know, today is the Lord state.
I'd like to perhaps take on the subject.
That would draw our heart closer to our Lord Jesus.
What I like to do?
Before I start the subject, I thought of something last night, I said.
Often it's hard to picture what a speaker is saying. I know sometimes I talk fast and I know that at times when I'm sitting there when a speaker talk very fast, I sort of go that was good and a few seconds later I have no idea what they told me. My mind, my short term or my recall is not very good. So I thought before I start the subject I want to offer some help for those who are visual.
Find a piece of paper.
Now I just want to prove this. I thought of this last night. It was so embarrassing that I couldn't find any piece of paper. So I grabbed one of these bank envelope that happened to be in my Bible case. So anything would do. And what I'd like you to do is go crosswise. I want you to make a chart with.
8 columns across.
And leave lots of room on the on the bottom of the column to take some notes. I want you to write a word Saturday on the 1St column. If you want to be lazy like me, just put in SAT. We really want to put in S the next column, put in Sunday or Lord's Day and just draw the week across starting Saturday.
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And I want you to end it on a Lord's Day.
So you should have a columns across. Can you picture that?
So you start off by Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Lords day.
Now underneath the first column that says Saturday, I want you to write down 9.
And then ten under Sunday.
11 under Monday. I'm pretty sure you can guess what the rest would be. 12/13/14 Fifteen 1617.
Are you with me so far?
Now I want you to go.
Backwards underneath Saturday.
I want you to write down one.
You go backward. I'm sorry. As I said, I meant to say Thursday underneath Thursday.
Right one Wednesday I want you to write.
Tuesday 345 and six. Now we're going to use this chart. I see a lot of puzzling faces already.
OK, we done on that. Now I'd like you to turn to Leviticus Chapter 23 and though often.
We're afraid to turn to passages as such. We mentioned that yesterday there are pages that are still glued together because we're afraid to turn to you and we shouldn't be with the word of God. They all when we want to study and through the help of the Spirit of God, He will reveal to us and there all seems to be a lot simpler than we think it is. I'm going to read a few verses and then we'll get back to the chart and hopefully we'll find that this charge become helpful.
Leviticus, chapter 23.
Beginning of verse four. These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocation, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
In the 14th day of the first month even is the Lords Passover, and on the 15th day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened bread unto the Lord. Seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation, Ye shall do no survival work therein, but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
Seven days in the 7th day is an holy convocation. Ye shall do no Sir vile work therein.
Verse 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall weep the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheave of the first fruits of your harvest.
Unto the priests. Now I don't know if some of you have seen the connections here already.
The few number of days here mentioned.
Let's go back to verse five. What day have you noticed?
And there he sat in the 14th day of the first month. Now if you were to look at your charge that you created.
Underneath that 14 perhaps you can put the word pass over.
Now do you see the purpose of that chart? For those who are visual, this is going to be come very handy.
Now in verse six we find that it sets on the.
15th day of the month you can write down unleavened bread.
Verse 10 We find that another day is mentioned here.
It really didn't say the day, did it?
Which sets that the first fruit. Well, we know. I'm sorry, I read the wrong verse. Actually, it's verse 11. In connection to that, let me read that. And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord to be accepted for you.
On the moral after the Sabbath, well, this is a little bit tricky. We know that the you go through scriptures in that we'll find that the 14th day, the 15th to the 16th day is the Sabbath, which is the Saturday.
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And the Morrow after would be what?
Would be Lord's Day on the Sunday. In fact, keep this ward the Morrow after on the next day. We will come run into this a number of times. So on the Sunday at the end of your chart, that will be the 17th day of the week. That will be the Feast of Firstfruits.
Now my thought tonight is this morning is not the seven feasts of Jehovah. It was really more so of the Passover. But I thought this is a nice way to introduce it because we get to learn more than one thing at the same time. As you know, the word of God often speak of the sevens and as a side comment too, as someone have commented before.
When you learn the seven feasts of Jehovah.
The seven parables in the Matthews Gospel.
And the seven churches.
And when you can tie the three together, that's when Christian knowledge begins.
So here I thought I just introduced you three of the four of the seven feasts and it's not difficult to learn four more, is it? And we have time, we might even touch on the 4th one after that.
Passover is the first feast. What is Passover? Well, many of us know the story. Let's go back to Exodus chapter 12. It gives us a little bit more detail of what a Passover is. Now don't put your chart away because we're going to refer to that.
These are well known verses, but let's read this to refresh our mind there Exodus chapter 12 we'll begin at verse two. This month shall be until you the beginning of months. Ye shall, it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto the congregation of Israel, saying, in the 10th day of this month, they shall take to them.
Every man a lamb, according to the House of the Fathers.
A lamb or an hose?
Let's go down to verse six is to save some time there and ye shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. Now some of you may have a little margin on the side of in the middle of the Bible there is this you look at it in the evening, it says between the two evenings. We'll get to that in a minute.
Because that is also very important. And we'll stop there for a moment. Passover, we notice when we read this time is very specific again. And I believe we often forget that the first mention of time is this. This month shall be unto you, the beginning of months. This is kind of interesting statement.
We all know that our calendar.
January 1St, we call that the new year, the beginning of the year.
July 1St, well, we just had that a few days ago in Canada. We have that as the celebration of the of the birth of the country where you focus folks a little bit behind you. Choose the 4th.
But if someone were to come to you and say, well, let's make July 1St the new year, how would you feel about that?
Because it's so important, we'll make that the new year. Well, here in the book of Exodus, the Lord actually said that. That's why it said this month, this is the month, if you have a chance to look up the Jewish calendar, is the month Abib, which really is the 7th month of the calendar year. And the Lord said this is going to be New year. So it's like us in July 1St, it's going to be the new year.
That's how important this event is.
That this month shall be until you the beginning of months. So if the Jewish system of calendars done properly, then the few days the month where the Passover month is the first of that month should be New year. We understand that the Jewish calendar did not follow that because Rosh Hashanah is still on the old calendar. In fact, this create a little bit of confusions for some of us studying.
God prior to Leviticus Exodus time, you will find the 7th month and the first month reverse because we changed the calendar. So we understand that we'll find a little bit more understanding from the Word of God in regard to some of the events and some of His ways of doing things. So the first thing we have to know is He changed the calendar on them. This is the beginning of month. Now in regard to the Passover.
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They had to choose that lamb on the 10th day. Now, if you look at what we just drew in the charts there, the 10th day is what?
Is the Sunday before his suffering? Isn't that interesting? Now just to help with you the not that I would endorse this part, I have to say that the Catholic system actually have these done very well and some of you may heard phrases like Good Friday and prior to that they have a phrase called Palm Sunday.
Well, that's because they understand.
That the Lord Jesus was the true Passover Lamb will find the scriptures. Throughout scriptures, the Lord Jesus is the shadow and tight, and it fulfilled all of it.
Today's topic is Passover Lamb and we'll talk about that in specifically, but we see it fulfill everything.
The sacrifices of old, there were four sacrifices of five, depending on how you look at it. Who fulfilled that too. And we won't have time to go into this. So here we see. And what I like to do really is not look at Passover from just the gospel standpoint, but I like the trace.
The last seven or eight days of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the events that happened.
And the fact that He fulfilled Passover as the true Paschal Lamb of God. So here we find on the 10th day that to choose a lamb on the 14th day between the evening, they had to take that lamp and they had to slay that lamb. And we know the rest of the story, don't we? We will. Our time is going quickly here. We'll find out that yet. You take the blood of that lamb and put it on the doorpost, on the sidepost and the upper doorpost there.
And when the destroying Angel come by, it will say, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. In the meantime, there to celebrate inside this portion will read just briefly. Let's go down to verse 8, verse 8, Exodus chapter 12, verse eight. And they shall eat the flesh in that night rose with fire.
And unleavened bread, and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with water, but rose with fire, his head with his legs, and with the pertinence there are. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning. And that which remaineth of it until the morning, ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste.
It is the Lords Passover.
Oh, very specific instructions there to take that lamp.
They're gonna eat it. They're gonna partake of it. Here's a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. You're gonna partake.
Of that and how are they to eat it? Unleavened bread.
Self judgment.
Not to eat it raw nor sodden at all with fire, because this lamb, we have to remember, this lamb has to face the fiery judgment. So we are to eat, partake of the part remembering the part, the face, the fiery judgment rose with fire. We not just sodden it at all with water, Oh no, we can't. We have to remember that death, that suffering.
Of what our blessed Savior had the endure for us.
And you know, God even make profession, he says, let not of it, let nothing of it remain until the morning.
The Lord knows that there are certain parts that we probably do not enjoy, didn't understand it. Whatever the case may be, God said everything that is of Christ that's burned it because God.
Want it and accept it, every bit in part of our blessed Savior.
That is the Lord's Passover, isn't it?
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Yes, from the gospel standpoint, we often speak of that, of the blood, of that redemption, of that sheltering. But here we see death.
And bloodshed.
A picture of something that we mind us forever.
There is something else about the Passover. We find that the children of Israel were told that they are there to tell their children and the children's children.
This Passover.
Was instituted approximately 1500 years before Christ.
This is now the year 2005.
3000.
Years 3500 years later, we find that the children of Israel still.
Tell the children and the children's children. That's how important it is in God's eyes and that he wants his people to go on with this.
And then we said that was the Passover feast.
The reason they read the second phase is the two fees seems to intermingle because on the 14 days the Passover.
And the 15th day is the unleavened bread. They are the key bed for seven days.
On the 17th day is the feast of the first fruits. That's a picture of resurrection. You know, our brother mentioned about the four things I like to look at as the three things as our brother mentioned last night in regard to the work of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We find a cross.
We found the blood.
And we find that resurrection. How do we find it in this passage?
Passover.
The Lamb must be slain, the cross, the blood must be shed. Without the shedding of blood there is no remissions.
What's after that? The feast of the First fruit resurrection.
On the 17th day, oh resurrection. We often preach the cross, but we'll forget. The resurrection is part of it. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart, watch that Christ die for us. I don't believe that's exactly how I was quoted. But believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead.
Oh, his resurrection isn't it? And thou shalt be saved. In fact, if you go through scriptures, you'll find resurrection is mentioned consistently.
And repeatedly.
Resurrection, if you were to go back and we won't have time to the 8th chapter of Genesis, we find the arch and perhaps we turn to that very briefly, just to encourage you into looking into the Word of God. Let's turn to Genesis chapter 8.
Verse 4.
And often reread and skim through it without seeing the details in the Word of God.
Genesis chapter 8, verse four. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the 17th day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Now what did we say about the 7th month before Leviticus time that was named as that first month?
The 17th day. Now look back down on your chart. What was the 17th day?
That was the feast of the first fruit, isn't it? 17th day in Scripture speaks of resurrection here from the very beginning, the seed plot in this Bible, God had resurrection in mind, the flood death. Ah, but resurrection is brought out to us. Death and resurrection. The feast of the first fruits. Now time is Afghan. I'd like to move on now let's go down to.
John's Gospel.
Chapter 11, I believe.
A. Chapter 12. Gospel of John, chapter 12.
Going to read just one verse for now.
John's Gospel chapter 12, then Jesus.
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Six days before the Passover came to Bethany.
Now there was a reason why I have you write that chart. If you remember I had you write down some funny number like Thursday was one. Do you remember that on your chart?
Now go backwards. What is 6 days? We know the Passover was on that Thursday.
If we go six days back.
That would take us to.
Saturday prior to that which is the 9th day of the month.
Now let's go down to verse 12.
On the next day.
So what day would that be?
That will be the 10th day, isn't it? Now, There was something about the 10th day, if you remember.
They are to choose that lamb.
Well, on the 10th day we find that our blessed Savior enter into Jerusalem. Let's read the rest of the verses. Verse 12. On the next day much people that would come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried Hosanna.
Blessed is the king of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
We know the story there, don't we? That he go in riding on the ass's coat?
He was setting himself up by God on the 10th day.
He was chosen.
As that Passover lamb.
Now let's go over to Mark's Gospel, Chapter 11.
The 11Th verse. What I like to do is tie that to the same time frame that we just had in John chapter 12 verse 12.
Mark's Gospel Chapter 11 verse 12 and I'm sorry verse 11 and Jesus enter into Jerusalem.
So now we establish that verse 11 is the 10th day of the month.
Verse 12.
And on the Morrow?
So what would that be?
That's the 11Th day. What did he do here? Well, what we'll find is that on the 11Th day, he recorded something of his activities and the 12 days, we're going to go into this in a minute with some record of his activities. I do not know of anywhere that mentioned the 13th day. And we see lots of activities in a minute on the 14th day and the 15th day. So let's go on verse 13 and seeing a fake tree. Now this is on the 11Th day.
And seeing a fig tree afar off, having leaved, he came, if happily he might find anything thereon. And when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for the time of the figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of the either after forever.
And his disciples heard it. So on the 11Th day, he cursed a fake tree. Now we'll find in scriptures that the fig tree is a picture of the nation of Israel. Israel was ready to be set aside as a nation before God.
Verse 20.
And in the morning?
What does that mean?
Another day gone by.
That's the 12 D.
And in the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dry up from the roots. Oh, how sad to see the nation of Israel. Here's a picture of it dried up. They didn't bear fruit for God. They were given up for a while.
Not forever. Now the Gospel of Mark actually time frame. Carry on. If you have time, you should read the rest of that, but we are very constrained with time here. The same time carry on right through the next couple of chapters and the next day begins in chapter 14. Let's go down to Matthew's Gospel, Mark's Gospel, chapter 14.
It begins by.
After.
Two days.
Was the feast of the Passover.
Now we have to learn to count the opposite weight. Here's the day. Two more days after that would be the Passover.
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Now you have to look at the chart again to Passover is on the 14th day, which we can relate to that as a Thursday.
So the 12 day of the Tuesday, if you add two more days after that will be the day you should be at.
So this is on the 12Th day.
Now let's go to Luke's gospel.
Chapter 22.
We read this passage often.
Now.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread drew 9, which is called the Passover.
This is a little bit difficult to interpret and I stand corrected in this year.
The Jews when it comes to this standpoint.
They are quite mixed up for the Passover and the fees of the 11 bread.
We see here is that the Feast of Unleavened Bread draweth 9, which is called the Passover.
Now we learned from the Leviticus chapter 23 that these are two distinct events, isn't it?
But they lump it together as one often.
But what they really mean is that I believe here is that the Passover Day is at hand. That's the 14th day of the month now.
The lamb is to be killed in the evening or between the two evenings of the 14th day.
Well, we have to learn too. Is that?
We as North American make everything in reference.
To our standpoint, we think we are the center of everything. It's easy to prove that. Open up any Atlas. If it's printed in North America, chances are you'll find United States and Canada to be in the middle of the whole world.
What we have to learn is that in God's eyes, Jerusalem is the center.
What we also have to learn is the way we count things or look at things a different culturally.
We can't count things the way.
The Word of God does give you an example. You want to learn scriptures in regard to prophecies. The number of days per month is 30 days.
Don't get you over intelligent and use the 365 and a quarter dates to be exact.
You're right to be exact, but prophecy often referred to the month as 30 days. We won't have time to go into that, but it's something that you can look into some more. Now as to counting of days.
The Jewish system counted sometimes tricky to our eyes, because part of a day could be included and counted as a day.
Now being Chinese, I can understand this a little bit better because N Americans are backwards in everything.
Even the language is backwards.
In China, the camp birthday this way, because I think there's a lot of Jewish influence on that. If you were born, if you were born the day before New Year.
The day after New Year, you would be two years old.
Think about that, you were born last year and this is this year, so that's two. Now I say that for a reason because that's how we need to cancel of the date and that's why people have problem with the three days and three nights. So I want you to keep that in mind. In fact, your brother mentioned at one time he said in North America we really do do that. We only do it when it's our convenience. And this brother gave the example that he said sometimes people commit minor offenses.
And they are sentenced to jail on weekend. You heard of that, right? Where he said a good lawyer would tell you, well, weekend means this. You go in at 11:55 Saturday night and you come out early Sunday morning. That's two days because you serve Saturday and Sunday. You might say, but he was only in for a few hours. No, he was in for two days. So we do that in this land, too.
Now the other thing we have to learn about day in scripture is this.
We think a morning and an evening or day and night is a day.
And we read through Genesis carefully, it will say in the evening and the morning is the day because the night cometh, but the morning come the joy to finish the day. Now let's get back to our chapter, Luke chapter 22.
So now we know that on that day, on the 14th day.
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A blessed Savior.
Set to his disciples.
Let's read verse 7. Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread.
When the Passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John saying, Go and prepare us the Passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? And he said unto them, And behold, when ye enter into the city, there shall a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where he enter in.
And ye shall say unto the Goodman of the house.
Where is the guest chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples? And he shall show you a large upper room furnished there make ready. And they went and found, as He has said unto them, and they may ready the Passover. And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the 12 apostles.
With him. And he said unto them, With desire, I have desire to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
For I say unto you, I will not anymore eat thereof until we be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves, For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God shall come.
This is a very familiar passage, isn't it?
I don't know how many times I have read this and how many times I have heard this read on Lord's Day morning.
What a blessed passage. But here we find the Lord Jesus on the 14th day, the day before He suffered for you and I on that cross.
Such that his desire is to be with his own.
Not going to go through the details like we would have normally with this in regard to the Lord's Supper.
You all know the Lord's desire on that. We all know the picture. And I'm sure you heard of enough times of this man, the picture of the Holy Ghost carrying this picture of water, showing you the place where you are to be.
They are told to fine to the place for the Passover and let me share with you a couple of things that impressed me.
The question often asks, where do we go?
Well, we know when you heard the answer, but here the Lord gave a simple.
Answer to them.
You know, we know how we often look at a response or a request like that, and we raise a lot of questions, don't we?
Well, what if I can find that man? What if, What if, What if, What if?
But you know, these went out by faith.
And it would rather look at it from the standpoint of the answer and the result. Look at verse 13 carefully.
And they went.
And found.
As he had said unto them. Isn't that impressive? They didn't question him. They didn't waver. They went. They did. Exactly. We didn't have time. I should have mentioned earlier on, on the 10th day when they found that *** is cold. Imagine Lord told them to go fetch that and the only thing they have to say is the master have a need of it. You know, if I was the one to be asked to do that, it was. Yeah. But what if they say no?
Whatever. What if they say who are you? What if, What if? No, they went. You'll find when the Lord command us to do something, often if we obey, the result is very simple.
Obedience to the Word of God, dear young people, is important.
We don't need to doubt His word. And when we doubt his word.
That's when the intellectual side start to come in, and that's when we try to find things our ways.
We need a simplicity to believe that what He said we must do, and even if we did it wrong, I do believe that the Lord will correct it and He will lead us to the way we ought to be here. The response, the result is so dramatic. And they went and found.
As he had said unto them, and they made that Passover.
And then you know, another thing is God's word is sure we find it's just end when the hour was come, we'll find through all the gospel that they want to come get Jesus, they want to get him. But you'll see that often he says, but the hour was not yet count. But here is God's time when the hour has come, he sat down. Do you notice that the Lord was there before the rest, He sat down.
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And he said to them with desire, I have desire to eat this Passover with you.
Before I suffered.
Now I want to make this clear. This is not the remembrance of the Lord. We often read this. This is the Jewish passed over.
He has to fulfill.
Passover Here on the evening of the 14th day of the month, our blessed Lord Jesus was there with His own. Partake of the Jewish Passover with His own.
Now here's what we have to be careful when we read this. Notice in verse 19, there's a little.
There's a little bracket, there's really is a separation, perhaps a bit of time frame in between.
I believe up to this point, perhaps even one like Judas was in there partaking that.
Passover with our blessed Lord.
And I believe there's a little bit of time here, and perhaps this is when Judas went out and this is when the Lord Jesus instituted the Feast of remembrance to himself. So verse 19 as a new chapter, as a new section here sets. And he took bread and gave thanks and break it and gave unto them, saying, this is my body, which is.
For you this do in remembrance of me likewise also the cup after supper, saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood which is shed for you.
Oh, this is just hours before his death, before his sufferings, that he had you and I in mind.
That he instituted this feast so that we can remember him.
You know, you think of the Passover of old. They were to do it each year and young people, we have the privilege and the first day of the week, if not more often.
To remember what he has done for us.
Now some people may say well.
There were the 12, maybe really the 11 There. This is quite Jewish and character, isn't it? How come you come here and say you can remember the Lord this way? What give you the authority? Let's keep our fingers here, but go to 1St Corinthians Chapter 11. We read these verses often. First Corinthians Chapter 11 and verse 23 here. The apostle Paul, the one who have seen the Lord.
He said in verse 23 this is how he begins.
This he said, For I have received of the Lord that which also I deliver unto you. Oh, what powerful message. And often we read from the beginning of this verse. But I love, I mean often we read from the middle part of this verse, but I love the beginning part of this verse, the apostle Paul.
Have told us that he received this from the Lord, and now he delivered unto us as Gentiles.
What he what did he deliver unto us? The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread.
And when he had given thanks, he break it and said take eat, this is my body.
Which is broken for you.
This due in remembrance.
Of Maine.
Now you see why when someone used the phrase his dying request.
The night in which he was betrayed, not just any knight, but yet to think he knew what was before him.
His desire was to be with you and I.
What is our desire, young people?
What is our desire, brethren, when we come?
Do we really come? No, when we have been gathered here.
By our blessed Lord will fulfill his dying request.
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There to feast.
Let's go back to Luke chapter 22 after this feast was instituted.
We find that they left.
And they went out to this place.
Verse 39. Keeping in mind of the time frame, this will be Thursday evening.
The 14th night, the 14th day of that week, they had just finished.
The Passover feast.
They went out in verse 39 and they came out and went as he was once to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples also follow him.
And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down and prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless not my will but thine be done.
And there appear an Angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him, and being in agony, he pray more earnestly. And his blood and his sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood.
Falling down to the ground.
Our Lord was still in full communion with his father.
Pray in earnest.
What blessedness to see the dependency have for the Father even before those hours.
What did he find? His own. And when he rose up from the prayer, he was come to his disciple.
And found them sleeping for sorrow.
Do we not find that?
Let's go further down in the chapter. We know that Judas came and he betrayed him with a kiss.
Verse 54 And they and took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest house.
Then we find Peter denied him thrice.
Verse 66 and as soon as it was day, now the next day.
Now we're into the 15th day. Friday morning, perhaps still late Thursday evening, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together and led him into the council.
And we find that from that point on, he was going from judgment hall to judgment hall. I'd like to turn to John's gospel.
Chapter 19. I want to make one more time reference a couple more time references here.
Before I go into the verse, I would explain one more thing. You'll find perhaps inconsistency with the time referred to in John's Gospel as in Matthew Gospel. Here we find it's not the inconsistency what it really is. The fact that we didn't understand the time engine in John is same as our time, the time mentioned in Matthew and Mark.
Is the Jewish time the Jews calendar time by sun up sunrise, the sundown. So when you see the six hour it means 12:00. They start at 6:00 at this time of the year. But when you see in John's gospel when they say the 6th hour you mean 6:00.
So we have to keep those references in mind. That's why you find with the Lord when and find that woman at the well.
It was in the morning.
It wasn't 12 noon because often people get mixed up and they say 6:00. No, it was six in the morning. And to think the blessed Savior travel all night.
To me, that one soul at the well here. Let's get back to John chapter 19. John's Gospel chapter 19. I'd like to go to verse 14 first and then we'll go back a little bit. John's Gospel chapter 19. And it was verse 14 and it was the preparation of the Passover.
And about the six hour.
So now we know we're into the next day to 15 day. They're still preparing for the Passover.
The reason for that was remember they have between the evenings from the 14th of the evening before the evening of the 15th.
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Evening often start at 3:00. It's hard to say that because it depends on a different time of the year. They go by sundown. I remember we got invited to a Jewish Home one time. One of our client wanted us over for supper and we got there at about 6:30 and he was a little upset because that time of the year, the sunset at around 5:45 and we were not supposed to be there after.
And I was interested to see his calendar to see that they like.
They like summer better than winter because in the summer the sun doesn't set until around 839 o'clock, so the day is longer before the Sabbath begins in the winter of an hour way. By about 5:00 the Suns already darkened in the winter, so the day is shortened.
So here we find that 6:00 in the morning. So here's our time reference. But what happened prior to this? Let's go back to first verse one of the chapter. Oh, throughout that night, early, early in the morning, way before this reference of 6:00 in the morning, then Pilate therefore took Jesus.
And scourged him, and the soldiers planted a crown of thorns.
On his head, and they put on him a purple robe, and said, Hail king of the Jews, and they smoked him with their hands. We know the story here. To him we were reminded with that thorn of crown, and he was even being mocked. Verse 5 Then Jesus came forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said unto them, Behold the man.
And when the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, crucified Him, crucified him.
Perhaps a good on a verse A1 pilot therefore heard that saying he was more afraid.
Verse 10 Then set Pilate unto him. Speakest thou not unto me?
Knowest thou not unto me? No, I'm sorry, speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee and have power to release thee? And Jesus answered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me, except it was given thee from above. I was going to make another reference to the hour, but our time is going. We know that after that.
They crucified him, we know that. We will remind it last night.
For righteousness sake of the hands of man.
And then from the 6th hour to the 9th hour, from 12 noon to three in the afternoon, a blessed Savior suffered on that cross.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Even so must the Son of man be lifted up. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. There He bared your sins, my sins, on his own body on that tree.
We know the story well after that, they found him dead already.
We won't have time to go into the seven utterances, but that's another beautiful portion to go into. We have time.
They came, we read that yesterday the soldier came. They found him dead already. So they break not his leg, but with the Spears it pierced his side. And it says forthwith came blood and water.
And we find that because it was the Sabbath that is to come.
They have to take his body down.
With the preparation of the Sabbath.
It was interesting too. It was 3:00. Now if some of you would have studied the Jewish traditions from the word of God, you find that there is a burnt offering to be made twice a day, evening and morning. And the evening burn offering happened to be around 3:00. Here our blessed Savior fulfill that blessed perfect burnt offering, the sweet smelling savour to God. He fulfill the perfect.
Paschal Lane.
We find in Corinthians there says Christ I will Passover.
Was sacrificed for us. There you fulfill it all because of your sins and my sins.
His body was taken down that night, that Friday night, the Friday afternoon, I should say after 3:00, he was put in a grave where no man had laid before. This morning one of the brothers talked about touch and he used the example of he said.
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This man was dead and there was Barry and a touch the bone of Elijah and he came back to life. And I believe that's one reason why Scripture save God that he was put in a tomb when no man had laid before.
Lest the Jews can say that perhaps his resurrection is touching of Elijah's bones, because God wants to make sure that man knows that death did not overcome him. He's the one that says He laid down his life for us here. He said this is the commandment of the Father. He said He lay down his life that he may take it again. He has the power to lay it down and He has the power to take it up again because the power of.
Is what make us with our faith into believing in that Christ die for us, and that he rose again from the dead, otherwise our faith would be in vain. There in the night of Friday, he laid in the tomb Saturday.
The 16th day, the Sabbath day for the Jews, He was there in the tomb. But what do we read early?
The next morning early when they came to that tomb, they found just the linen cloth. They learned that why seek ye the living among the dead? They learned that the Angel saying that he is not here, he is risen. And dear brethren, dear young people, we have a risen Savior, and God safeguard that through our Scriptures.
Resurrection.
Or if you have a chance, look up the 17th day of the month in Scripture. Sometimes it's not clear. We even go and go into the book of Ruth. You'll find that when Naomi returned back to the land, he says that it was the beginning of barley harvest. And you'll find that the feast of the first fruit more likely was the barley. With farmers here, I know there are many farmers, You'll find that in April, May time frame, there are really not too much first.
To offer, but barley is a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ, something that is lowly, something that man didn't really want. It was animals feed something lowly. But I understand barley was laid through all the winter and when spring come was the first fruit that came up. Oh, we'll find them. That's why that boy with a body loaf was important to see. That's a picture of Christ of that lowly one, the one who took the seven steps down.
Who became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross? And then we find with the Resurrection afterwards. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. And there will be that day coming soon, that every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess him as Lord at the meantime.
He gave us this privilege each.
And every Lord's Day, if not more often, to remember him.
And he gave us the privilege to remember him.
Until he comes back for us.
So we go on. Let's go back to Corinthians, First Corinthians Chapter 11.
We read only the 1St 2520. I think we read verses 22 and 24. Let's read verse 25 on and after the same manner also he took the cup when he has stopped saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood, which this do ye as OFT as you drink it.
In remembrance of me.
For as often as he eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lords death till he come. Oh, what blessedness, what preciousness that He brought us. He gather us here.
So that we can remember him in his death.
Verse 28 Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
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No, we're not just to come.
We had to come and examine ourselves.
And we find we're not worthy, we stay away.
Such you.
No, I set that wrong purposely.
You do find some that says I'm not worthy this morning, no.
Examine yourself. What does he say here? And so?
Let him eat that bread and drink of that cup. What privileged brethren, we have to be gathered to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Like this thing just.
Won him before enclosing 245. Perhaps we'll sing just the last verse of that hymn. Perhaps we'll I'll read verse four. We'll sing verse five. We know they now as risen, the first born from the dead. We see thee now ascended the churches glorious head in thee by grace accepted the heart and mind set free.
We think of all thy sorrow, and thus.
Remember thee. You know this last verse we often sing, but not value it. It is till until He comes for us in glory. There's another portion here.
That which you remember is the second last stanza. More to thy death conformeth. Whilst we remember thee, let's commit ourselves, blessed Lord.