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Robert Jeffress - The Last Supper Before The First Easter

April 1, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Last Supper Before The First Easter
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Last Supper Before The First Easter | April 1, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • When god delivered the israelites from egypt, he
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  • Established an annual feast to commemorate that monumental
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  • Moment called the passover.
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  • Fourteen hundred years later and the night before he would
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  • Hang on a cross, jesus observed one last passover meal
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  • With his disciples.
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  • In doing so, he would transform the meaning of this
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  • Ancient tradition.
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  • My message is titled, "the last supper before the first easter,"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: whether you know it or not, you're in a battle.
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  • Satan has a strategy to attack your faith, disrupt your family,
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  • And derail your future, but god has given you everything you
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  • Need to fight back and win.
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  • In "the divine defense," dr. robert jeffress reveals six
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  • Practical strategies from ephesians chapter 6 to defeat
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  • Satan's destructive plan.
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  • When you put on the full armor of god,
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  • Satan doesn't have a prayer.
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  • Request "the divine defense" when you give a generous
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  • Ministry gift to "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: the atheist richard dawkins, an oxford scientist and
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  • Atheist, in his book, "the god delusion," explains why he can't
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  • Buy christianity.
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  • He said, "i just don't see jesus coming down and dying on a cross
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  • As worthy of that grandeur.
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  • If there is a god, it's gonna be a whole lot bigger and a whole
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  • Lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian or
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  • Any religion has ever proposed."
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  • Dawkins didn't know that trying to make the case against
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  • Christianity, he was actually making the case
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  • For christianity.
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  • You know, if christianity had been some manufactured myth, it
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  • Would have been a lot grander than the idea of god coming down
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  • And dying on a wooden cross in some obscure part of the world.
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  • But that is the message, and that message is foolishness,
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  • Paul said, to those who are perishing, but it's the power of
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  • God to salvation for those who believe.
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  • The message is god, in the form of jesus, did die on a wooden
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  • Cross for the forgiveness of our sins and he was raised again on
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  • The third day.
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  • And so today, we're going to look at that last supper jesus
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  • Had with his disciples, the last supper before the first easter.
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  • If you have your bibles, turn to luke chapter 22.
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  • Luke 22 records that final week that led up to the crucifixion
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  • And the resurrection.
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  • Let's look first at the betrayal preceding the passover.
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  • Luke 22 begins by saying, "now the feast of unleavened bread
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  • Which is called passover was approaching."
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  • This word "passover" is really a catch-all term for two important
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  • Holidays, occurrences, on the jewish calendar.
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  • There's the passover meal followed by the 7 days, the
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  • Feast of unleavened bread.
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  • And they both commemorated two important parts in
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  • Jewish history.
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  • First of all, the passover meal.
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  • Every year, perhaps as many as 2.5 million jews
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  • Would go to jerusalem for the celebration of the passover,
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  • Josephus tells us.
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  • The passover meal had begun 1400 years earlier
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  • To commemorate that event.
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  • Remember when god was trying to persuade pharaoh
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  • To let the israelites go to leave egypt where
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  • They had been for 400 years as slaves.
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  • And so god sends ten plagues, nine of them don't
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  • Change pharaoh's heart, but the tenth one did.
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  • It was god saying, i'm gonna send the death angel,
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  • And he will kill the firstborn of every household,
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  • And that includes the egyptians and the jews.
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  • He will kill the firstborn.
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  • But if you will take an innocent lamb and take its blood,
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  • And put it on the doorpost of the house,
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  • I will pass over you in judgment.
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  • I had a few minutes last night and tuned in to the movie
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  • "the ten commandments" with charlton heston.
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  • It was showing again on television.
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  • Cecil b. demille described that perfectly about
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  • What that must have been like and when pharaoh
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  • Lost his own firstborn son, that was enough
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  • To convince him to let the people go.
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  • Well, god knew what was gonna happen
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  • And he told them to break bread, but don't use any leaven in it.
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  • Leaven was used to make the bread rise.
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  • And when pharaoh's heart turned, the israelites needed
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  • To get out there as quickly as possible.
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  • So they used unleavened bread, flatbread that hadn't risen,
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  • And took it with them on their way to the promised land.
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  • So passover meal was both to celebrate the time when
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  • God passed over them in judgment,
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  • If they had the faith to put the blood on their doorpost
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  • And it was also the beginning
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  • Of the feast of unleavened bread.
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  • Now from that time forward the jews have celebrated
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  • The passover yearly as a remembrance
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  • Of what god did in their miraculous deliverance
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  • From pharaoh.
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  • Now, verse 2 says, "the chief priest and the scribes were
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  • Seeking how they may put him to death, for they were afraid of
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  • The people."
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  • While the jews were preparing for passover, the religious
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  • Leaders were plotting on how to get rid of jesus.
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  • They didn't like what he was doing.
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  • They didn't like what he was teaching.
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  • They wanted to kill him, but they also didn't want to incur
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  • The wrath of the people.
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  • So they were caught on the horns of a dilemma.
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  • How do we get rid of jesus, and a willing participant
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  • Volunteered his services.
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  • Look at verse 3: "and satan entered into judas who was
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  • Called iscariot."
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  • "ish" meaning "man," kerioth, the village he was from.
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  • "belonging to the number of the twelve."
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  • It was one of the disciples who would betray jesus.
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  • Now remember back in luke chapter 6, that it tells us that
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  • "jesus prayed for whom he should select to be an apostle and then
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  • He chose the twelve, the last one being judas."
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  • Now you read that and you think maybe jesus should have prayed a
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  • Little longer.
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  • I mean, that seems like a big mistake.
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  • But no, jesus knew exactly what judas was going to do.
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  • And this was all part of the plan to bring about his death
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  • And his salvation for those who would believe.
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  • Notice what it says in verse 3: "satan entered judas."
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  • How did he enter judas?
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  • Through his one weak spot.
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  • He probably had many weak spots, but this was the biggest one:
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  • His love for money.
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  • Look at verse 4: "and judas went away and discussed with the
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  • Chief priest and the officers how he might betray christ
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  • To them.
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  • And they were glad.
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  • They agreed to give him money.
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  • And so he consented and began seeking a good opportunity to
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  • Betray him to them, apart from the multitude."
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  • People ask the question, "was judas a christian?"
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  • Absolutely not.
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  • Not at all.
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  • He is what jesus called in his teaching a tare, false wheat.
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  • Jesus said, "there's the wheat and the tares."
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  • Tares look like wheat until the very end when they yield no
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  • Fruit, no produce.
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  • And that was judas.
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  • He was a fake christian.
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  • Now the stage is set for the observance of the passover.
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  • Let's look at the preparation for the meal.
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  • Verse 7: "then came the first day of unleavened bread on which
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  • The passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
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  • And jesus sent peter and john, saying, 'go and prepare the
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  • Passover for us so that we may eat it.'"
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  • For 1400 years, the passover was a reminder of god's physical
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  • Deliverance of the israelites from egyptian slavery.
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  • But now, jesus was going to transform the meaning: this meal
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  • That we call the lord's supper would be to celebrate our
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  • Deliverance from spiritual slavery through the death of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • Now, look at verse 14: "when the hour had come, jesus reclined at
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  • The table and the apostles were with him."
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  • Haven't you seen these pictures of the passover people seated,
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  • You know, banquet style and a u-shaped table, everybody in his
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  • Chair, you know, smiling for the painter, you know.
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  • That's not what it was.
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  • In jesus's day, the tables had no legs.
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  • They sat on the floor.
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  • And so that's why it says he reclined at the table.
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  • They rested probably on their left elbow so that they could
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  • Partake of the food with their right hand, and notice what
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  • Jesus said in verse 15.
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  • He said, "i have earnestly desired to eat this passover
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  • With you before i suffer, for i say to you, i shall never again
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  • Eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of god."
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  • Now, jesus wasn't saying, "i will never eat with you again."
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  • The fact is just a few days later after jesus's
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  • Resurrection, on three different occasions, he ate with his
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  • Disciples in his resurrected body.
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  • And isn't that good to know since we're gonna have bodies
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  • Just like jesus, we're gonna be eating in heaven?
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  • Did you know that?
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  • That's one of the ways we know it.
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  • And paul says, our--or jesus's body is a prototype of the body
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  • We will receive.
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  • He was going to eat with them again.
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  • But what he was saying was, "this passover meal that i've
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  • Transformed into a remembrance of me, i won't eat that with you
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  • Again until heaven, until the kingdom of god."
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  • So this supper we're observing tonight, that's why you need to
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  • Be here to get in practice, because we're going to be using
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  • It and observing it throughout eternity as a memorial for what
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  • Christ had done for us.
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  • Now, the original passover meal that jesus shared with his
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  • Disciples and transformed was very complicated.
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  • It was an elaborate representation of what had
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  • Happened to israel in-- during their time in egypt and all of
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  • The elements of what we call the seder, or passover meal,
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  • Describe a part of that story.
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  • For example, they eat bitter herbs.
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  • That is a symbol of the bitterness of slavery they
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  • Endured for more than 400 years in egypt.
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  • Then they have a mixture of fruit, almost a paste-like
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  • Mixture of fruit, that is symbolic of the mortar that was
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  • Used to build the great pyramids at the hands of the
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  • Enslaved israelites.
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  • It was a hard work that they exerted.
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  • And then, of course, the lamb represented god's passing over
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  • Them in judgment.
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  • Jesus was willing to live the-- leave the glory of heaven.
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  • He was willing to give up all of the privileges of being the son
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  • Of god to come and have his body broken for us.
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  • And then the cup.
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  • Verse 20 says, "jesus took the cup."
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  • This is the third of four cups in the passover.
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  • And he attached a new meaning to that cup as well.
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  • Verse 20: "and in the same way, he took the cup after they had
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  • Eaten, saying, 'this cup which is poured out for you is the new
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  • Covenant, the new agreement, in my blood.'"
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  • The old agreement, the old testament, was this: here is
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  • My law.
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  • You keep it and if you keep it, you'll be righteous.
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  • The only problem was nobody could keep god's law.
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  • So in that old testament, that old covenant, was a provision
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  • For the broken law of god, and that was animal sacrifices.
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  • The only problem was they had to keep offering those sacrifices
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  • Year after year.
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  • They were ineffective.
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  • Again, the writer of hebrews says in hebrews 10, beginning
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  • With verse 1, look at this.
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  • "for the law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to
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  • Come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same
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  • Sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, they
  • 00:13:14.817 --> 00:13:19.288
  • Can never make perfect those who draw near.
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  • Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered?
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  • Because the worshipers having been once cleansed would no
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  • Longer have had consciousness of sins."
  • 00:13:28.697 --> 00:13:31.867
  • Now, that's a bunch of words.
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  • Let me summarize it.
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  • The writer is saying if the old testament sacrifices were
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  • Effective, the first time they offered a sacrifice, it would
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  • Have cleansed them from sin forever.
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  • But the fact is they had to keep making the same sacrifices year
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  • After year after year, proving those sacrifices couldn't take
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  • Away people's sins.
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  • Otherwise, people would be clean after one sacrifice.
  • 00:13:55.824 --> 00:13:59.395
  • And that's what verse 3 of hebrews 10 says: "but in those
  • 00:13:59.395 --> 00:14:02.531
  • Sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins year by year, for it is
  • 00:14:02.531 --> 00:14:07.870
  • Impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take
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  • Away sins."
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  • The reason god gave the sacrifices and made them do it
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  • Year after year after year was to create a longing in them for
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  • A one-time sacrifice that would satisfy the demands of a holy
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  • God forever.
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  • And that's the sacrifice jesus made.
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  • Not of the blood of bulls and goats, but he made a sacrifice
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  • Of his own blood.
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  • And he offered it not to some earthly priest, but to
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  • God himself.
  • 00:14:39.268 --> 00:14:40.936
  • And he has taken away our sins forever.
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  • Aren't you grateful for that?
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  • We have a high priest who has offered the once-for-all
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  • Sacrifice for our sins.
  • 00:14:49.812 --> 00:14:52.982
  • Remember exodus 12:13, what god said to the israelites on that
  • 00:14:52.982 --> 00:14:57.753
  • Night they were getting ready to leave before he sent his tenth
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  • And final judgment?
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  • He said, "the blood shall be a sign for you on the house where
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  • You live.
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  • And when i see the blood, i will pass over you."
  • 00:15:07.663 --> 00:15:11.667
  • That's where we get passover from.
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  • "i will pass over you and no plague will befall you to
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  • Destroy you when i strike the land of egypt."
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  • All god needed to see was the blood of that innocent lamb.
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  • But that blood of the lamb only exempted them from god's tenth
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  • Judgment that night.
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  • It didn't exempt them from the future that awaited them if they
  • 00:15:33.055 --> 00:15:37.393
  • Died without the sacrifice.
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  • And that is eternal separation from god.
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  • When we trust in jesus to be our savior, god places his blood on
  • 00:15:42.965 --> 00:15:49.805
  • Our lives.
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  • And when god looks at us, he no longer sees our sin.
  • 00:15:51.173 --> 00:15:54.843
  • He sees the blood of his own perfect son that was shed on
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  • Our behalf.
  • 00:15:59.248 --> 00:16:00.616
  • And that's why romans 8:1, paul says, "there is therefore now no
  • 00:16:00.616 --> 00:16:05.254
  • Condemnation awaiting those who belong to christ jesus."
  • 00:16:05.254 --> 00:16:10.025
  • God passes over us in judgment.
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  • We no longer have to feel hell and fear hell.
  • 00:16:12.594 --> 00:16:15.964
  • We can know that we will experience eternal life because
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  • Of what jesus has done for us.
  • 00:16:19.935 --> 00:16:22.571
  • That's the picture of the lord's supper.
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  • Now, we've talked about the preparation for this
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  • Last supper.
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  • We've talked about the partaking of the last supper.
  • 00:16:30.312 --> 00:16:33.315
  • Let's talk about the purpose of this passage, the purpose
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  • Of passover.
  • 00:16:37.653 --> 00:16:40.089
  • You know, it's so easy to do what i did this week and get
  • 00:16:40.089 --> 00:16:44.526
  • Caught up in the details of the passover and the four cups and
  • 00:16:44.526 --> 00:16:48.397
  • The seder and what they represent.
  • 00:16:48.397 --> 00:16:50.699
  • It's possible to get so tangled up in the details of this
  • 00:16:50.699 --> 00:16:54.103
  • Passage that we miss the point.
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  • We miss the whole purpose of this supper.
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  • We miss the purpose of this chapter.
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  • We miss the purpose of the bible.
  • 00:17:02.444 --> 00:17:04.546
  • We miss the point of human history when we get lost in
  • 00:17:04.546 --> 00:17:08.150
  • The details.
  • 00:17:08.150 --> 00:17:09.785
  • What is the purpose of this passover?
  • 00:17:09.785 --> 00:17:13.589
  • It's found in two words that jesus repeats.
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  • Look at verse 19: "and when he had given-- taken some bread and
  • 00:17:19.228 --> 00:17:24.466
  • Given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them saying, 'this is
  • 00:17:24.466 --> 00:17:28.570
  • My body, which is for you.'"
  • 00:17:28.570 --> 00:17:32.808
  • Underline that.
  • 00:17:32.808 --> 00:17:34.376
  • "this is my body, which is for you.
  • 00:17:34.376 --> 00:17:37.179
  • Do this in remembrance of me."
  • 00:17:37.179 --> 00:17:38.914
  • And then verse 20: "and in the same way, he took the cup after
  • 00:17:38.914 --> 00:17:42.017
  • They had eaten, saying, 'this cup which is poured out,'" there
  • 00:17:42.017 --> 00:17:45.487
  • It is again, "'for you is the new covenant in my blood.'"
  • 00:17:45.487 --> 00:17:51.894
  • That's the purpose of christ's death for us: for you.
  • 00:17:51.894 --> 00:17:56.632
  • For you.
  • 00:17:56.632 --> 00:17:58.066
  • That word "for," that preposition, is the greek word
  • 00:17:58.066 --> 00:18:01.737
  • "uper," u-p-e-r, uper.
  • 00:18:01.737 --> 00:18:03.105
  • Uper can mean "for the benefit of."
  • 00:18:03.105 --> 00:18:08.810
  • That's obvious.
  • 00:18:08.810 --> 00:18:10.145
  • God gave his body, he gave his blood, for our benefit.
  • 00:18:10.145 --> 00:18:14.883
  • But that preposition, uper, can also mean "in the place of."
  • 00:18:14.883 --> 00:18:20.489
  • In the place of.
  • 00:18:20.489 --> 00:18:22.791
  • That's what we mean when we talk about the substitutionary
  • 00:18:22.791 --> 00:18:25.928
  • Atonement of christ.
  • 00:18:25.928 --> 00:18:28.730
  • Christ is our sin substitute.
  • 00:18:28.730 --> 00:18:32.734
  • That means instead of directing god's wrath toward us, which we
  • 00:18:32.734 --> 00:18:39.508
  • Deserve, he directed his wrath toward his own son,
  • 00:18:39.508 --> 00:18:44.146
  • Jesus christ.
  • 00:18:44.146 --> 00:18:45.581
  • Jesus is the substitute for us.
  • 00:18:45.581 --> 00:18:48.984
  • He is the one who gave his body.
  • 00:18:48.984 --> 00:18:51.787
  • He is the one who gave his blood in our place.
  • 00:18:51.787 --> 00:18:55.557
  • That's what 2 corinthians 5:21 is all about when paul said,
  • 00:18:55.557 --> 00:18:59.528
  • "for god made him, jesus, who knew no sin to become sin for us
  • 00:18:59.528 --> 00:19:04.199
  • That we might become the righteousness of god in him."
  • 00:19:04.199 --> 00:19:09.037
  • All of the punishment we deserve was poured out on christ.
  • 00:19:09.037 --> 00:19:13.442
  • All of the righteousness and blessing we don't deserve was
  • 00:19:13.442 --> 00:19:16.878
  • Given to us because of christ.
  • 00:19:16.878 --> 00:19:20.415
  • That's what it meant.
  • 00:19:20.415 --> 00:19:22.050
  • This body, this bread, is for you.
  • 00:19:22.050 --> 00:19:25.721
  • It's given for you.
  • 00:19:25.721 --> 00:19:27.689
  • You know, we all need to hear that message.
  • 00:19:27.689 --> 00:19:31.193
  • But that night in the upper room, there are two men who
  • 00:19:31.193 --> 00:19:34.563
  • Desperately need to hear that message, that message of
  • 00:19:34.563 --> 00:19:38.433
  • Forgiveness that christ was about to make.
  • 00:19:38.433 --> 00:19:42.437
  • One was obvious: judas.
  • 00:19:42.437 --> 00:19:45.674
  • Here's a man that in a few hours after that dinner would betray
  • 00:19:45.674 --> 00:19:51.079
  • The lord jesus christ and deliver him over to
  • 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:55.050
  • Jesus's enemies.
  • 00:19:55.050 --> 00:19:57.085
  • That's obvious.
  • 00:19:57.085 --> 00:19:58.420
  • But there's somebody else who needed to hear the message
  • 00:19:58.420 --> 00:20:00.255
  • That night.
  • 00:20:00.255 --> 00:20:01.590
  • And that was simon peter, the leader of the apostles.
  • 00:20:01.590 --> 00:20:05.994
  • Remember what jesus said to him at that dinner?
  • 00:20:05.994 --> 00:20:08.297
  • Luke 22, verse 31: "jesus said, 'simon, simon, behold, satan has
  • 00:20:08.297 --> 00:20:14.469
  • Demanded permission to sift you like wheat.'"
  • 00:20:14.469 --> 00:20:18.573
  • Literally, to put you through the grinder.
  • 00:20:18.573 --> 00:20:20.876
  • That's what satan wants to do.
  • 00:20:20.876 --> 00:20:22.577
  • "but i have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.
  • 00:20:22.577 --> 00:20:27.282
  • And you, when once you have turned again, will strengthen
  • 00:20:27.282 --> 00:20:31.119
  • Your brothers."
  • 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:32.454
  • What jesus was saying was, "simon, satan is trying to
  • 00:20:32.454 --> 00:20:36.091
  • Destroy you.
  • 00:20:36.091 --> 00:20:38.193
  • He's trying to destroy you.
  • 00:20:38.193 --> 00:20:40.028
  • I'm praying that your faith will not fail, but it is going
  • 00:20:40.028 --> 00:20:44.733
  • To fail.
  • 00:20:44.733 --> 00:20:46.234
  • And what i'm praying for you is that when it fails, you will
  • 00:20:46.234 --> 00:20:50.072
  • Turn back to me and give courage to the others."
  • 00:20:50.072 --> 00:20:54.976
  • Two men who needed forgiveness that evening, two men who were
  • 00:20:54.976 --> 00:21:00.048
  • Offered forgiveness that evening, but note their
  • 00:21:00.048 --> 00:21:05.020
  • Different responses.
  • 00:21:05.020 --> 00:21:07.389
  • Judas heard the offer but he turned away from it.
  • 00:21:07.389 --> 00:21:10.826
  • Peter heard the offer and he turned toward god's forgiveness.
  • 00:21:10.826 --> 00:21:17.366
  • This body, this blood, is for you.
  • 00:21:17.366 --> 00:21:21.470
  • You may be saying, "pastor, you don't understand what i've done.
  • 00:21:21.470 --> 00:21:24.439
  • God could never forgive me."
  • 00:21:24.439 --> 00:21:28.243
  • Just think, the apostle paul was a blasphemer, a persecutor, a
  • 00:21:28.243 --> 00:21:34.783
  • Murderer of christians.
  • 00:21:34.783 --> 00:21:37.486
  • Yet he said, "i found forgiveness.
  • 00:21:37.486 --> 00:21:40.288
  • I'm exhibit a of god's willingness to forgive anybody
  • 00:21:40.288 --> 00:21:43.792
  • Who will simply ask.
  • 00:21:43.792 --> 00:21:45.160
  • I'm the chief of sinners."
  • 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:47.529
  • Peter denied jesus.
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  • I bet you've never done that.
  • 00:21:48.964 --> 00:21:51.099
  • Once, twice, three times.
  • 00:21:51.099 --> 00:21:54.603
  • But god forgave peter.
  • 00:21:54.603 --> 00:21:56.371
  • Made him the greatest spokesman for the christian faith ever.
  • 00:21:56.371 --> 00:21:59.207
  • Made him the leader of the church.
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  • If god can forgive paul, if he can forgive peter, he can
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  • Forgive you.
  • 00:22:05.981 --> 00:22:07.349
  • And ladies and gentlemen, that's what this supper is all
  • 00:22:07.349 --> 00:22:10.886
  • About tonight.
  • 00:22:10.886 --> 00:22:12.387
  • This is what this book that contains the gospel of jesus is
  • 00:22:12.387 --> 00:22:16.892
  • All about.
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  • This body that is broken for you, this blood that has been
  • 00:22:18.727 --> 00:22:22.063
  • Shed for you, is not just for somebody else.
  • 00:22:22.063 --> 00:22:26.368
  • It is for you.
  • 00:22:26.368 --> 00:22:28.937
  • For you.
  • 00:22:28.937 --> 00:22:30.305
  • For you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • To die, not for his sins, but for ours, so that we might spend
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  • Jeffress: the lord's supper is so much more than a
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  • Religious ritual.
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  • It's a 3400-year-old jewish tradition that jesus himself
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  • Transformed into an ordinance and a simple practice that would
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  • Memorialize his sacrificial death on the cross.
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  • Will inevitably disappoint you.
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  • Next time we'll look at the shocking moment when jesus was
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  • Betrayed by one of his closest companions.
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  • Jeffress: the psalmist said: sorrow endures the night.
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  • But joy comes in the morning.
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  • There is something about night time,
  • 00:26:00.048 --> 00:26:02.717
  • Something about the darkness
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  • That intensifies whatever struggle we're experiencing.
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  • Today we're going to look at the longest night
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  • In jesus's entire life.
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  • "the longest night," here on "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: alaska is unlike any other place on earth, and this
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  • Is your chance to witness god's masterpiece and america's
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  • Priceless treasure june 13 through 20, 2026.
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  • Jeffress: you know, i can hardly wait to show you alaska.
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  • I've been there before.
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  • And every time i witness those massive glaciers and towering
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  • Mountains, i'm reminded of how incredibly creative our god is.
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  • Announcer: picture this: waking up to snow-capped peaks outside
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  • Your window, then heading to your refreshing breakfast
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  • Knowing that all your meals are prepared for you.
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  • The world-class service means that you can truly relax.
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  • Jeffress: we'll explore charming villages together; we'll stroll
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  • Alongside the still waters of the mountain stream; and yes,
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  • We'll see god's artistry at every turn.
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  • Announcer: reserve your spot on the 2026 pathway to victory
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  • Cruise to alaska by calling ...
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  • Or visit ptv.org.
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