Joni Mannell – The Breaking Of Bread – Class 1 – In Remembrance of Me

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Invite our brother Johnny Manel
from the Walsall Ecclesia in

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England, under the theme of At
the Breaking of Bread.

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This is his first of his studies
entitled.

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In remembrance of me and we have
read, just read Luke chapter 22

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verse 15 to 19 for the Johnny
please.

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Well, brothers and sisters, in
fear that your lunch and the

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afternoon notorious hour for
drifting off to sleep takes over

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you, I’m going to begin by
asking you to use your

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imagination for a moment.
I know that’s a tall order right

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at the beginning of our
sessions, but I have confidence

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that you have the capacity to do
it.

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I want to use your imagination,
and I want you to imagine, first

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of all, that you are an
Israelite.

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You’re a member of an Israelite
family.

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You’re living in the land of
Goshen in Egypt, and it’s

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Passover night.
But more than that, you’re not

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just any member of the family.
You are the first born in your

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family and it’s Passover night.
And I just want you, if you can,

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just for a moment or two, to
stand in the sandals of the

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first born member of your
family.

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I don’t know how many of you are
first borns.

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Maybe for some of you, you’ll
have to really use your

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imagination.
For some of you who will come

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more naturally.
I’m not the first born in my

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house, so I’m in that category
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I don’t want you to think what
it would have been like on

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Passover night to have been the
first born in your family.

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Just just think for a moment of
all the experiences you’ve been

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through and all the things that
you’ve seen.

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You’ve seen the river Nile
flowing with blood.

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You’ve seen frogs like the earth
has never seen.

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Frogs jumping out of cupboards
out from under the bed, out from

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the the mugs on the table.
Frogs just that you would never

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have seen had it not been for
the finger of God.

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You’ve seen lice crawling
everywhere.

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You’ve seen flies more than even
you would see in Terranova

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National Park.
Flies that you would never have

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normally seen but were it for
the finger of God.

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You’ve seen hailstones that
could strip trees and take life.

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You’ve seen cattle dying with
with plagues and diseases.

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You’ve seen swarms of locusts
coming across the country and

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just taking what was left.
You’ve seen the men and women of

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Egypt suffering with boils from
head to toe.

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You’ve you’ve experienced and
witnessed the darkness that the

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Bible says could be touched and
felt for its thickness.

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And now you’ve seen Moses come
out from the court of Pharaoh

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for the last time.
And Moses has come and had a

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meeting with the elders of your
tribes and with the elders of

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your families and explained that
he’s not going to go in and see

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Pharaoh anymore.
This is it.

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This is the last one.
I don’t know whether you would

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have believed Moses or not.
I imagine if you were the first

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born in your home, it wouldn’t
really make a difference.

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You were going to listen pretty
carefully now as Moses explained

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what this last plague was going
to be on Egypt.

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And in fact, God had said to
Moses when he met him at the

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burning Bush, however many years
it was prior that if Pharaoh

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refused to let Israel go, who
God regarded as his first born

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son, then Pharaoh was going to
pay with the life of his first

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born son.
And now that day had come and

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Moses was given the instructions
to the elders of your tribes and

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the elders of your families,
because your first born son was

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going to be taken as well.
And if you were the first born

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son in your family, it was your
life that was now going to pay

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the price of freedom for the
families of Israel to be

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redeemed from from Israel unless
in faith you followed the

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instructions of Moses and you
took the lamb and you took its

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blood and painted it around the
doorposts and the lentil of your

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home.
And I imagine you would watch

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pretty carefully as you watched
your father.

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If you were the first born in
your family, taking that lamb,

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taking its blood and painting it
around the doorposts of your

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house, sharing the meal
together, I wonder how well you

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would have slept on Passover
night if you’d been the first

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born in in your family.
I I can tell you, I’m one of

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those people who can sleep
anywhere, anytime.

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You give me a pillow and I can
drop off pretty much instantly.

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But I can tell you if I’d have
been the first born in my house

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on Passover night, I’m not sure
it would have been that

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straightforward.
And perhaps you will be

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wondering why of all the things
God could have done to redeem

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his people from slavery and from
bondage in Egypt?

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That the blood of this lamb
would be the method.

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Why, of all the things God could
have employed, was He asking

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your Father to take this method,
this option for, for the sign,

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for the, for the memory, for the
token of redemption?

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Why of all the things God could
have done, this was the one.

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Nevertheless, you watched him
going through the motions, going

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through the ritual, doing the
process that Moses had

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described.
And I guess it would only be

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when morning began to break the
morning after Passover night.

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That you began to realise the
awesome nature of what had been

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achieved for you by God when you
just went to check that, you

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know, you pinched yourself, you
were still there, you were still

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alive.
And as you ran next door to

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check the families, because
they, I guess they would have

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lived in, in extended families,
wouldn’t they?

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And they went to check that no
other houses had lost a first

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born either.
And it would only when you heard

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the cries from every home in
Egypt, even from the court of

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Pharaoh himself, that you
realise the price God had paid

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for your freedom.
There wasn’t a home in Egypt

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where not one had lost their
life.

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I don’t know how you would feel
about that, Brent.

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And sisters, for those of you
who know your neighbors on the

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streets round where you live, I
mean, nobody wants to pay the

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price of freedom with your own
child, right?

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But how, if it was one of your
neighbors, how would you feel if

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it was under their children, who
was going to pay the price for

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your freedom?
Would would that feel better?

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How would you feel about that?
And and there wasn’t a there

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wasn’t one house in Egypt that
wasn’t crying over the loss of a

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member of their family in order
to pay the price for your

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freedom.
And, and you began gathering

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your things together and, and
Moses began arranging the people

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in their ranks of fives and 10’s
and 50s and hundreds with what

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belongings they could gather
together in order to begin their

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journey down towards the Red
Sea.

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And I just wonder if you can
imagine, Brent, this is the

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atmosphere that would have been
amongst the the men and women of

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Israel as they as they look back
on those homes in Goshen for for

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whom almost all of their lives,
they’d never known anything

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else.
They’d never known anything but

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slave lives there in those those
basic down to earth dwellings.

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That’s where they’d lived.
That’s all they’d known.

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That’s where they’d grown up.
That’s where they’d heard the

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stories of Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob just running down their

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generations.
And now in some way or another,

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it was now coming to pass in
their time in their lives, in

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the lives of their families.
And as they look back at for the

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last time at that that slave
home, knowing they were never

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going to see it ever again,
maybe they would begin to wonder

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why of all the things God could
have done to pay the price for

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their freedom, this had been the
method.

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And maybe some of those stories
would begin to come back to them

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that they’d heard in Sunday
school and they’d grown up with.

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Maybe they would remember the
time when Abraham had been asked

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to take his son and offer him as
a sacrifice.

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And do you remember the
conversation Abraham and Isaac

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had had?
It would have been in all of

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their Sunday school stories.
As they arrived at the top of

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the mountain and do you remember
Isaac posed his his father a

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question.
Father, I see we have the wood

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and the fire for the offering,
but where is the lamb?

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And you might remember Abraham’s
reply.

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My son, God will provide himself
a lamb for the offering.

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And it was now as if on a mass
scale, the offering that I,

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Abraham and Isaac, had gone
through together was now being

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fulfilled in the lives of the
men and women of Israel.

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God had provided a lamb, and it
had been the blood of that lamb

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that had paid the price for your
freedom.

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You personally, specifically the
first born, the one who should

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have given his life for the
family.

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It was your personal life that
had been spared, not just the

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life of your family, but yours
very personally and very

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specifically had not had to be
given so that the rest of your

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family could be spared and could
now walk free and make their way

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down to the water of the Red
Sea.

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Or what a night that would have
been as they all began to arrive

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on the on the shores of the Red
Sea.

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And it just looked for a moment,
actually, like everything was

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going to be lost.
They were hemmed in on either

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side with mountains.
There was the Red Sea in front

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of them.
And they heard, all of a sudden,

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in the background, the chariot
wheels of Pharaoh making one

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last attempt to recover his
losses as he made his way.

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Down to the Red Sea and they
could see the cloud of dust

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coming, and now they would
witness another great window

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that would never again in fact
be repeated ever in history as

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they saw Moses lift up the rod
of God.

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And the water of the Red Sea
began to part it.

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It’s almost beyond imagining,
isn’t it?

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I’m asking you to do it this
afternoon.

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I’m asking you to stand in the
sandals of those people and ask

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if you can actually be there.
But it’s almost beyond it, isn’t

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it?
To even begin to assimilate

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yourself into the circumstances
of all of those experiences.

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Having seen the river running
with blood and the frogs and the

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lice and the hail and the
locusts.

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To have experienced the the
death of the first born and now

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to be standing on the shores of
the Red Sea and watch the water

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stand up on either side with a
big enough channel for a million

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people to walk across dry foot.
And Can you imagine Bran

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sisters, the songs they will be
singing?

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Can you imagine the feelings
that would be running through

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their hearts and minds?
Can you imagine the adrenaline

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that would be pumping through
their blood and all the feelings

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and the thoughts that would be
going through their minds?

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Being a a part of a group of
people who would never again in

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history experience anything like
this on this kind of scale.

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And as they stood on the other
side of the Red Sea, knowing

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that they were destined for a
new life and a new land and

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everything to do with Egypt,
with everything that it stood

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for, everything that it
represented was now behind them.

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It was in the past.
God had washed it away forever.

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You would never forget that Bren
sisters, would you?

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There is never in a million
years you would ever be able to

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forget those experiences.
But they did, didn’t they?

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And we do, don’t we, Bren
Sisters?

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That’s that’s the great irony
and the great problem with human

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nature.
That’s why the Lord Jesus knew

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what he was doing when he said,
I want you to come week by week

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and I want you to sit down and
bolt yourself into the chair and

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never forget the blood of the
land that paid the price for

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your salvation.
Never forget the feelings that

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you had when you first realised
the awesome nature of that which

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God was doing for you.
That you might never forget the

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the experiences, the feelings
that you had.

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The awareness that you had of of
what your old life was like and

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what it was worth before you
came to an understanding of what

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God was willing to do for you.
Of how He set you on the road to

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a new life and to a new land.
How He stood you on the other

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side of the Red Sea with no way
back and sent you off on a

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journey through the wilderness
that would end in the promised

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land.
I know the wilderness journey

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wasn’t plain sailing, but what
an awesome thing God had done in

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standing you on the safe side
and sending you off on your

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journey in such an extraordinary
way.

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And I hope, brothers, sisters,
we share these sessions

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together, we can begin to sit
down and bolt ourselves into our

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chairs and remember and engage
in our minds and in our hearts

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with the extraordinary things
that the Lord Jesus asked us to

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remember.
And in this session

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particularly, what I want us to
think about.

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Where’s my thing, Gary?
Here it is.

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So our session is called in
Remembrance.

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And when, when the Lord Jesus
then came to sharing this meal

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with with the disciples, what
was it specifically is what I

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want to explore in this session
with you this afternoon.

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What was it specifically,
perhaps that he wanted you to

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remember, bearing in mind the
the introduction we’ve just

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shared together?
What was it that the Lord Jesus

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Christ wanted us week by week to
actually focus on, to remember?

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And also, why was it that he
said that he was desperate to

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share this meal with his
disciples before he suffered?

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And what I want us to do.
Together is really see if we can

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get into the mind and under the
skin of the Lord Jesus Christ

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and see and feel his own
demeanour and his own attitude

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when he came to that meeting.
I, I I.

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Guess if you’re anything like me
and, and I’m pretty sure because

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we have, we’re, we’re all human,
right?

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One of the things I love about
travelling around the world and

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meeting different grand sisters
from different cultures, what

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you discover is that human
nature actually is universal.

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We might speak different
languages, we might come from

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different cultures, but our
universal commonalities are

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human nature and that affects us
all the same.

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It might have different
manifestations, but it affects

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us.
It affects us all the same and

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we have different ways I
suppose, and different times in

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our life, different
circumstances mean we come to

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remember the Lord Jesus Christ
on a Sunday or whenever it is

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we, we might do it with
different feelings, different

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attitudes, different approaches.
And I want to see if we can this

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afternoon understand what the
approach of the Lord Jesus

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Christ was.
What was his, what was his

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demeanour, what was his persona
as he sat around that table with

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those 12 men and broke the bread
and shared the wine.

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Let’s have a look at this, one
of the verses that we read

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together by way of introduction
in in Luke 22 with desire, I

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have desired to eat this
Passover with you before I

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suffer.
And one of the first questions I

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want to ask you is this.
Why was the Lord Jesus so

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determined to do this before He
suffered?

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Why not afterwards?
Wouldn’t it have made so much

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more sense afterwards?
If you could have sat down after

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the resurrection with the
disciples and said, now, now I’m

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going to share this bread with
you and I’m going to tell you it

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represents my body.
Now I’m going to share this cup

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with you and tell you that it
represents my.

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Blood.
Now you will have some

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understanding perhaps of, of
what I mean.

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Why didn’t the Lord Jesus do
that?

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When I approached this study, I
thought that surely that would

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have made more sense, right?
Wouldn’t it have had so much

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more meaning and so much more
impact to to sit down in those?

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40 days before his ascension,
and say, now let me explain to

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you the breaking of bread.
But the Lord Jesus didn’t.

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In fact, He was absolutely
determined to do it before he

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suffered, before these men
actually had any great

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understanding, thankfully, of
what the Lord Jesus was about to

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go through in the next day or
two following.

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And in fact, just to emphasise
that two of the other gospel

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writers pick up on those words
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This is what the apostle Paul
said in his account of the

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breaking of bread in One
Corinthians, the Lord Jesus, the

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same night in which he was
betrayed to bread.

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And can you see the emphasis?
That the Apostle Paul is making.

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He seems to be saying to me, so
determined was the Lord Jesus to

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share this meal before he
suffered, that the moment he

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chose to do it was the very
night in which he was betrayed,

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probably knowing he was going to
betrayed.

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I don’t know how you would have
done this, whether there?

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Would have been a whole host of
other things on your mind if

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you’d have been the Lord Jesus
Christ in that situation.

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And yet the apostle Paul says so
determined was the Lord Jesus to

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share this before he suffered.
The moment he chose to do it was

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the very night in which he was
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That’s that’s powerful stuff,
isn’t it?

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And notice what John says as he
introduces.

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John, of course, spends the most
time in the upper room in his

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Gospel.
And here in verse one of John 13

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when Jesus knew that his hour
was come, that he should depart

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out of this world unto the
Father.

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And of all the things that you
could have understood John for

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adding there, Jesus knowing that
his hour was come.

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Well, he decided to be on his
own and spend an evening very

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carefully on his own thinking
about himself.

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You could have understood John
saying that, couldn’t you?

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That’s not what the Lord Jesus
did.

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Having loved his own, which were
in the world, He loved them unto

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the end.
And of course John goes on to

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say he rised.
He rose from supper and took a

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towel and began to wash the
disciples feet.

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Isn’t that spine tingling of all
the things the Lord could have

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been doing the night he was
betrayed, the what?

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What he desired to do with
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I have desire to share this meal
with you before I suffer.

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And one of the things we really
need to somehow put straight, it

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seems to me, in our minds, is
why that determination of the

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Lord to do so before He
suffered.

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Coming me to Mark’s Gospel,
chapter 14.

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Mark chapter 14 and verse 12.
Here’s the lovely way in which

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the Lord approached this meal
with His disciples.

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You begin to get some really
lovely insights into what the

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Lord was thinking and how He was
feeling on the first day of

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Unleavened Bread.
Verse 12 Mark 14 when when they

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would normally kill the
Passover, His disciples said to

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him, where wilt thou that we go
and prepare that thou mayest eat

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the Passover?
I want to notice how carefully

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Mark recorded that.
Where do you want us to go to

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prepare the Passover for you to
eat it?

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They said.
And the reason they said that I

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think Ren sisters, was because
as we just remembered, the

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Passover was a family meal.
It was shared pretty much

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exclusively in families.
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then it would branch out to
extended families and and maybe

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to neighbors.
That was the rules back there in

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Exodus 12.
In Exodus 13, it was a family

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occasion.
And what I want you to notice

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here in Mark 14 is that the
disciples make no presumption

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that they’re going to be part of
that family.

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Where wilt thou that we go and
prepare that thou mayest eat the

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Passover?
They don’t say, where do you

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want us to go and prepare for
all of us to eat the Passover.

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They say, Lord, we know you’re
really busy.

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You’re not going to get chance
at this rate to be having a

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Passover meal.
Where do you want us to go and

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prepare so that you can have
somewhere to share Passover and

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they make no presumption to be
part of the family.

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Welcome down to verse 15.
What what was the Lord’s

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response?
He gave Peter and John, as you

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know, the instructions and he
says you, the man who you follow

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will show you a large upper room
furnished and prepared there

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make ready for us.
Isn’t that lovely?

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Jesus says, don’t worry, I I
know you’re not expecting to be

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sharing this meal with me
because I’m supposed to be

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sharing it with my family, but
you’re my family and we’re going

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to be sharing this meal together
and I’ve made special provision

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for us to do that.
And that’s a that’s a spine

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tingling thing actually, isn’t
it friend?

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Sisters, when we come on a
Sunday morning and we walk into

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the room and we sit down
together, blood ties no longer

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make a difference, do they?
It’s our relationship in the

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Lord Jesus Christ that counts.
And he has prepared for us to

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share a meal together as his
family.

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And that was the attitude, Brent
sisters, with which the Lord

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approached this meal.
Having loved his own, which

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we’re in the world.
He loved them to the end.

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And the Lord was going to have a
meal with the people he loved

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most in the entire world.
And Brent sisters, when we come

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to meet week by week, one of the
things we need to remember is

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that we are the people whom the
Lord loves the most in the

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entire world.
Sometimes we may not be the

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people who love each other the
most in the entire world, but

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what we need to remember is that
we are the people who the Lord

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loves the most in the entire
world.

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So why we’ve we’ve just started
then to explore this, this

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attitude, this demeanour of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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Why then was it so important for
the Lord that He shared it with

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them before He suffered?
Why not afterwards?

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I’ve desired with desire, I’ve
desired to share this Passover

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with you before I suffer.
Do it in remembrance of me.

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Well, if you’ve been a disciple
sitting there around that table

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and you’d heard the Lord say
that, do this in remembrance of

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me.
At that point in time, without

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any knowledge of what was going
to take place in the days and

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weeks and months following, what
would you be remembering if you

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cast your mind back?
Sometimes, you know, nostalgia’s

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a great thing in human nature.
Particularly I understand as you

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get older, you know, you start
thinking back to the good old

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days.
Well, if you’d been a disciple

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in the room with the Lord Jesus
Christ and Jesus had said to

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you, do this in remembrance of
me, what would you have been

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able to remember?
What kind of things would have

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been running through your mind
of the last three, 3 1/2 years,

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maybe longer?
If you’ve grown up in the

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vicinity of the Lord Jesus
Christ, what would you remember

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about him?
What are the kind of things that

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would be?
Etched forever on your memory at

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that point in time without
knowing all the things that

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we’re going to follow.
And I guess it would be things

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like this, wouldn’t it?
They would remember the man who

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when they thought they were
about to lose their lives in a

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storm on the boat.
A man who could stand up and

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command the sea in the waves.
A man who could touch leprosy no

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problem.
A man who could open the eyes of

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the blind and make the dumb sing
and the lame walk.

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A man whose eyes and heart could
penetrate the exterior.

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We were thinking about Matthew
in our exhortation this morning.

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A man who could see beyond the
tax collector to the man

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beneath.
A man who could see beyond the

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Pharisees to the men beneath.
A man who could feel anger and

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joy.
A man who could laugh and cry to

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what some people seem the most
obtuse things.

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That’s the kind of man they
would remember, isn’t it?

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A man who somehow had penetrated
the very deepest recesses of

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their hearts and their minds and
their souls in a way that they’d

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never experienced before.
That was the man they would

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remember.
Isn’t it and?

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It seems to me, brother and
sisters, that’s a really core

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reason why Jesus wanted to share
this meal with them before he

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suffered.
He was about to say to them,

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this bread represents my body.
He, he doesn’t say this bread

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will come to represent my body.
He says it does.

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It is my body.
And when you think of all the

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things that you know about me,
all the things that impressed

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you about me, all the memories
and the occasions and the

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circumstances that have left
their imprint on your mind,

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bring all those to bear when you
share this table with one

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another before I suffer.
And it seems to me, Brenton,

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that’s a really key reason why
the Lord wanted to do that

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beforehand.
He wanted to cement all their

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experiences and all their
understanding of the Lord Jesus

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Christ in everything that he’d
given of his life, of his

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circumstances, of his
personality, of his character in

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those days leading up to his
death.

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That’s what he wanted to focus
their mind on.

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Not the things that would be
etched on their memory

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afterwards, but those things.
All the things they’d.

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Seen and felt and heard and
touched and listened to in the 3

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1/2 years that they’d been with
him.

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Let’s have a look at some of the
statements of the Lord Jesus

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Christ as he, as he shared this
meal with with his disciples.

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You see Brent sisters, when I
when I was younger and I used to

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come to the breaking of bread
meeting sometimes on a Sunday,

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00:23:43,120 –> 00:23:45,560
sometimes I would leave not
quite knowing how I was supposed

448
00:23:45,560 –> 00:23:47,040
to feel.
Was I supposed to feel sad?

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00:23:47,880 –> 00:23:51,080
You know, was it, was it, whilst
it’s a solemn occasion, was I

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00:23:51,080 –> 00:23:57,200
supposed to leave feeling like
it had been a sad place to be

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that that what I was remembering
was a great moment of bitterness

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00:24:01,760 –> 00:24:05,160
and and unhappiness?
Well, what was the demeanour

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then of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Just have a look at some of

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these statements.
The reason I’m sharing this with

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you now, and these are all from
John’s Gospel in those moments

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in the upper room that John goes
into great detail to record.

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I’m telling you this before it’s
come.

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So that when it is come to pass,
you might believe.

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Can you sense the essence of
what the Lord Jesus is saying?

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He’s saying, I know that in a
couple of days time you’re going

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to be seeing things they’re
going to make you want to just

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abandoned your faith.
And when it does come to pass as

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want you to have a context to

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put this into.
That’s why I’m telling you these

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things and sharing with it with
you right now, because when,

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when the day comes when you see
some of the most miserable

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things in your.
Life.

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I want them to have a context,
and what was that context that

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the Lord was going to give them?
Listen to this.

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Let not your heart be trebled.
You believe in God, believe also

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in me.
I don’t know about you, brother

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and sisters.
When my heart is in turmoil and

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when my life is is falling apart
around my ears, I find it very

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difficult to say to other
people.

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Do you know what?
Just relax, everything’s going

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to be OK.
And the reason I’ve struggled to

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00:25:10,560 –> 00:25:12,800
say that is because I can’t say
it to myself.

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And here was the Lord Jesus
Christ with a composure and a

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demeanour in those moments in
the upper room that meant he

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00:25:21,880 –> 00:25:24,840
could say to these men, listen,
don’t let your heart be

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troubled.
And I wonder if you can imagine

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the way in which the Lord Jesus
said those words.

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Do you think he was distracted?
Do you think his mind was

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00:25:32,720 –> 00:25:34,280
somewhere else?
Do you think he was like

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forgetting things and getting
himself mixed up and muddled

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00:25:37,440 –> 00:25:43,200
because he was so his mind was
so uptight and worried about

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00:25:43,200 –> 00:25:46,200
what lay ahead of him?
You tend to discover that the

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only times when you can say to
other people, don’t let your

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heart be troubled is when you’re
in that place yourself.

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Don’t let your heart be
troubled.

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You believe in God, believe also
in me.

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How about this one?
This blows my mind.

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00:26:03,400 –> 00:26:09,200
Peace I leave with you.
My peace I give unto you.

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Let not your heart be troubled.
There it is again.

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Neither let it be afraid.
How about that?

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Can you imagine, Brent?
Sisters, the Lord Jesus having

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the composure and the strength
of mine and character to say

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00:26:22,880 –> 00:26:25,440
that?
Listen, I I’m going to leave

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with you my peace.
I don’t know if if any of you

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have ever met a man with the
kind of peace inside, with

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00:26:34,040 –> 00:26:38,160
himself, with his circumstances,
with the world around him, such

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00:26:38,160 –> 00:26:41,240
as the Lord Jesus Christ, such
as a man who could say, listen,

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00:26:41,240 –> 00:26:45,160
I want to give you a piece of my
peace of all nights in his life,

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00:26:45,160 –> 00:26:47,800
to be able to say that you would
have forgiven him for not being

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00:26:47,800 –> 00:26:49,040
able to say it this night,
wouldn’t you?

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00:26:50,920 –> 00:26:53,360
Peace I live with you, my peace
I give unto you.

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00:26:53,840 –> 00:26:56,840
Don’t be afraid, Don’t let your
heart be troubled.

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These things have I spoken unto
you that my joy.

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Now here’s a new concept, right?
That my joy might remain in you,

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and that your joy might be
fooled.

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Have you ever met anybody who
spoke about joy and everything

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00:27:12,200 –> 00:27:14,520
about their body language told
you they didn’t really know

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00:27:14,520 –> 00:27:17,560
anything about it?
Is that do you imagine that was

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00:27:17,560 –> 00:27:20,360
the Lord Jesus Christ here as he
said these words here in the

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00:27:20,360 –> 00:27:23,880
upper room, sharing the emblems
of his own body and his own

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00:27:23,880 –> 00:27:25,840
blood.
These things that I’m the reason

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00:27:25,840 –> 00:27:29,640
I’m telling you, he says is that
my joy might remain in you.

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Can you imagine, Bren sisters,
the Lord Jesus Christ feeling

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00:27:32,920 –> 00:27:37,000
and experiencing?
Joy on Passover night for him,

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00:27:37,000 –> 00:27:39,920
when he was going to be the lamb
whose blood was going to be

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00:27:39,920 –> 00:27:42,800
taken.
As the price and the payment for

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00:27:42,800 –> 00:27:44,880
redemption.
And yet here is the Lord Jesus

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00:27:44,880 –> 00:27:46,760
Christ saying, I want you to
have my joy.

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00:27:46,960 –> 00:27:49,680
I’m not just telling you that
I’m experiencing it and feeling

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00:27:49,680 –> 00:27:52,040
it.
I want you to have some of mine.

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00:27:52,040 –> 00:27:53,760
That’s why we’re sharing this
meal together.

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00:27:53,840 –> 00:27:57,360
That’s what this is about.
And somehow, bruh and sisters,

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as solemn rightly as as our as
our breaking of bread needs to

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be somehow for each and every
one of us, we need to understand

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00:28:04,400 –> 00:28:06,120
the context and perspective of
it.

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That means when we leave and we
start Monday morning.

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We’ve got some of the joy that
the Lord Jesus Christ wanted us

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00:28:13,000 –> 00:28:15,720
to take into our lives and to
experience.

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00:28:15,720 –> 00:28:17,760
Where did that come from?
What was driving that?

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These things Have I spoken unto
you that you should not be

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offended.
That was going to be very

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00:28:26,400 –> 00:28:30,000
poignant for those men, wasn’t
it, When in the garden only a

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matter of hours later, they were
all going to forsake him and run

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00:28:33,120 –> 00:28:34,960
away.
But the reason I’m sharing this

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00:28:34,960 –> 00:28:37,520
with you, and I don’t think
Jesus was just talking about

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that that following evening on
on in the garden of Gethsemane.

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00:28:42,040 –> 00:28:44,480
He’s saying in your life, the
reason we’re sharing this meal

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00:28:44,480 –> 00:28:45,600
together, the reason I’m trying
to.

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00:28:46,240 –> 00:28:49,040
Convey these things to you is
that so that you won’t be

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offended in me, that you will
understand what I’m doing, that

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00:28:52,200 –> 00:28:55,680
you’ll gain an appreciation of
what these symbols mean and how

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00:28:55,680 –> 00:28:58,440
important that they are, and
that you won’t be offended

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00:28:58,920 –> 00:29:02,680
because of me.
These things I’ve I’ve told you

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that you might remember that I
told you them.

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00:29:05,000 –> 00:29:08,400
When your life hits rock bottom,
which was going to happen, in

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fact in just a couple of days
time, when you’re sitting there

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00:29:11,080 –> 00:29:14,640
at the bottom of the barrel, you
might remember that I told you

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00:29:14,640 –> 00:29:17,440
these things and that I said
unto you at the beginning, I

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00:29:17,440 –> 00:29:19,400
couldn’t tell you then because I
was with you.

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But now I’m leaving you.
That’s why I have to share this

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00:29:22,480 –> 00:29:25,480
with you before I suffer because
now I’m going to rely on you.

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Everything that we’ve been
through together, all your

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00:29:27,880 –> 00:29:30,920
memories of me, of what I’m
about, of what I’ve done, of

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00:29:30,920 –> 00:29:34,520
what I can do, of what I stand
for, of who I’ve been, of what

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00:29:34,520 –> 00:29:37,400
I’ve said, of what I’ve taught
you when I’m no longer with you.

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The reason we have to do this
before I suffer is that when

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you’re standing there and you
feel like you’re on your.

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00:29:42,440 –> 00:29:46,480
Own you will remember that I was
with you and I told you all

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00:29:46,480 –> 00:29:48,640
these things.
Isn’t that a wonder of the Lord

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00:29:48,640 –> 00:29:50,160
Jesus Christ?
And brethren says sometimes when

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it feels like you’re standing on
your own and it’s Wednesday and

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00:29:53,920 –> 00:29:56,720
and things have just fallen
apart just since Sunday morning.

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Well, somehow we need to be able
to sit back in our seats and put

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the seat belt back on and
remember those symbols and what

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00:30:04,160 –> 00:30:07,280
they meant to us and what they
stood for and the challenge they

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00:30:07,280 –> 00:30:11,200
gave us and the motivation that
they were there for last one.

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And again, another seismic one.
Really, these things.

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Have I spoken unto you again?
That in me you might have peace

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in the world.
I know for sure you’ll have

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00:30:21,760 –> 00:30:23,800
tribulation.
But be of good cheer.

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00:30:24,320 –> 00:30:26,680
Isn’t that lovely?
Be of good cheer.

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00:30:27,280 –> 00:30:29,600
I’ve overcome the world.
When you’re standing in the

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classroom, when you’re sitting
in the car, when you’re, when

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you’re on the work floor,
wherever it might be, when

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00:30:35,120 –> 00:30:38,440
you’re at home, you know, and
you’ve just disciplined your

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00:30:38,440 –> 00:30:41,360
child for the 10th time running.
Be of good cheer.

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00:30:42,440 –> 00:30:45,160
All the things that the world
throws at you and stands for,

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00:30:45,840 –> 00:30:48,240
I’ve overcome them.
And you sit right back down and

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00:30:48,240 –> 00:30:50,920
you bolt back, you bolt yourself
back into the things we

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00:30:50,920 –> 00:30:53,160
remembered.
And be of good cheer.

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00:30:53,600 –> 00:30:55,400
Isn’t that lovely?
The demeanour of the Lord Jesus

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Christ I don’t sense but insists
in those passages.

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Though if if the Lord Jesus
could could have met with us

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00:31:01,120 –> 00:31:05,600
this morning that it would have
been a sad occasion as we shared

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00:31:05,600 –> 00:31:08,600
the emblems of his body and of
his blood, the Lord would have

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00:31:08,600 –> 00:31:10,320
wanted.
Us to take away the essence of

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00:31:10,320 –> 00:31:13,560
His, of his feelings and of his
state of mind.

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00:31:14,000 –> 00:31:16,120
Because what we’re going to
discover, Bensis is what this

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what this feast, this memorial,
this, this meal that he was

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00:31:19,800 –> 00:31:22,320
sharing with his disciples
represented for him was not

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00:31:22,320 –> 00:31:24,440
sadness.
This was the going to be the

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00:31:24,440 –> 00:31:27,600
greatest victory of his life.
This was going to be the

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00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:31,240
greatest moment of triumph for
him and his father that the

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00:31:31,240 –> 00:31:34,520
world has ever seen.
And he wanted us to sense that.

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He wanted us to be a part of it
and he wanted us to take a piece

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00:31:38,720 –> 00:31:41,720
of it away with him.
This is my body.

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00:31:42,200 –> 00:31:44,040
This is my blood.
And do you know, Bren sisters,

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00:31:44,040 –> 00:31:47,320
sometimes, maybe naturally,
because we’re human, we tend to

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00:31:47,320 –> 00:31:52,600
focus, I guess sometimes on some
of the hard things that the Lord

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00:31:52,640 –> 00:31:54,840
Jesus went through.
And yet, do you know, the weight

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00:31:54,840 –> 00:31:58,760
of emphasis in the Bible on the
Lord’s crucifixion and of his

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00:31:58,760 –> 00:32:01,120
suffering is almost non
existent.

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00:32:02,000 –> 00:32:03,560
I don’t know how much you’ve
ever thought about that.

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00:32:03,560 –> 00:32:06,720
Do you know all it says in the
record of Scripture is and they

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00:32:06,720 –> 00:32:10,320
crucified him.
That’s all it says.

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00:32:11,760 –> 00:32:15,520
God didn’t measure the nails.
He didn’t tell us about how

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00:32:15,520 –> 00:32:20,000
brutal the Romans were and what
lengths they went to to make

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00:32:20,000 –> 00:32:22,080
their victims of crucifixion
suffer.

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You don’t get any of that from
the record of Scripture.

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00:32:24,480 –> 00:32:26,200
History may be, but not
Scripture.

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00:32:26,880 –> 00:32:30,400
All the Bible says is and they
crucified him.

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And the Bible uses words like
victory, glorification, triumph,

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00:32:38,760 –> 00:32:40,760
redemption.
Here’s the here’s the ultimate

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one for the joy set before him.
He endured the cross.

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That’s what it says.
The thing that drove the Lord

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00:32:49,200 –> 00:32:52,160
Jesus Christ to be able to
manage the challenges of

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00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:55,720
crucifixion was the joy that was
set before him.

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And it seems to me, Brent says,
it’s some essence of that joy

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00:32:59,320 –> 00:33:01,920
that the Lord Jesus wants to
share with us week by week as we

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00:33:01,920 –> 00:33:05,040
come to share his memory.
Come with me to Psalm 118.

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This, this was for me one of the
one of the finest examples of

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00:33:09,760 –> 00:33:13,480
the the mindset of the Lord as
he approached these

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00:33:13,480 –> 00:33:15,480
circumstances.
Psalm 118.

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There’s no doubt that this Psalm
was in the mind of the Lord

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00:33:25,880 –> 00:33:30,800
Jesus Christ at at this time as
he as he made his way into

631
00:33:30,800 –> 00:33:33,480
Jerusalem for the last week of
his life.

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00:33:33,720 –> 00:33:36,600
And the reason there’s no doubt
about it is because if you

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00:33:36,600 –> 00:33:39,160
remember, as they lined the
streets of Jerusalem and laid

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00:33:39,160 –> 00:33:42,320
palm branches in the way and
cried out and sang on the

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00:33:42,320 –> 00:33:45,240
streets of Jerusalem, all those
hundreds of thousands of people

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00:33:45,240 –> 00:33:47,720
as they came out to meet him,
they were singing the words of

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00:33:47,720 –> 00:33:52,520
this song.
Here it is, Psalm 118, verse 25.

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00:33:52,880 –> 00:33:54,880
This is what they were singing,
save now.

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That’s the Hebrew word hosanna.
Save now we beseech the O Lord,

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00:34:00,120 –> 00:34:03,080
blessed be he, verse 26, who
comes in the name of the Lord.

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We have blessed you out of the
House of the Lord.

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00:34:05,840 –> 00:34:09,719
Save now hosanna, verse 26.
Blessed is he who comes in the

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name of the Lord.
And as you, you might remember,

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00:34:11,920 –> 00:34:14,239
as Jesus made his way into
Jerusalem for the last week,

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00:34:14,239 –> 00:34:18,560
that’s the song they were
singing, save now, blessed is he

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00:34:18,560 –> 00:34:19,960
who comes in the name of the
Lord.

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I don’t know how you’re doing.
It’s pretty warm.

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I’m going to ask you to use your
imagination again.

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00:34:24,159 –> 00:34:26,199
Can you imagine if you were one
of the disciples?

650
00:34:26,639 –> 00:34:31,080
Walking alongside that donkey as
Jesus made his way into the

651
00:34:31,080 –> 00:34:33,199
streets of Jerusalem, trying to
look into the eyes of the Lord

652
00:34:33,199 –> 00:34:35,120
Jesus Christ.
I mean, what an awesome

653
00:34:35,120 –> 00:34:37,560
experience.
Hundreds of people lining the

654
00:34:37,560 –> 00:34:41,719
streets of Jerusalem of all
cities, and they’re taking off

655
00:34:41,719 –> 00:34:44,760
their clothes and they’re
throwing them on the animal and

656
00:34:44,760 –> 00:34:46,800
they’re pulling down palm
branches and laying them in the

657
00:34:46,800 –> 00:34:48,520
way.
And hundreds of people are

658
00:34:48,520 –> 00:34:52,120
singing the song of Psalm 118.
Hosanna.

659
00:34:52,320 –> 00:34:54,639
Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord.

660
00:34:55,040 –> 00:34:57,240
I wonder if you can imagine
being a disciple of the Lord

661
00:34:57,240 –> 00:34:59,960
Jesus by the sisters.
Just wondering what on earth was

662
00:34:59,960 –> 00:35:02,920
going through the Lord’s mind as
he rode into Jerusalem on that

663
00:35:02,920 –> 00:35:07,520
donkey in those circumstances.
And I want to suggest to you,

664
00:35:07,520 –> 00:35:11,320
and this is just my imagination
and nothing else, that as they

665
00:35:11,320 –> 00:35:13,680
tried to look into the mind of
the Lord Jesus Christ and as

666
00:35:13,680 –> 00:35:17,760
they looked into his eyes, the
Lord Jesus was miles away.

667
00:35:19,160 –> 00:35:21,680
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen
that happen to somebody.

668
00:35:21,680 –> 00:35:24,240
You’re kind of having a
conversation and you look into

669
00:35:24,240 –> 00:35:26,680
their eyes and you realise that
although they’re there in body,

670
00:35:26,680 –> 00:35:29,720
they’ve gone.
You know, it happens to me a

671
00:35:29,720 –> 00:35:32,160
lot, particularly when I’m
speaking and I can see into

672
00:35:32,160 –> 00:35:34,160
everybody else’s eyes right
here, right now.

673
00:35:34,880 –> 00:35:37,080
You kind of know when people are
drifting away.

674
00:35:37,080 –> 00:35:39,440
They might be staring you right
in the face, but you can see in

675
00:35:39,440 –> 00:35:41,360
their eyes they’re miles away in
their mind.

676
00:35:41,880 –> 00:35:44,800
It happens a lot with children,
you know, short attention span.

677
00:35:44,800 –> 00:35:47,440
You’re chatting away and all of
a sudden you realise it’s pretty

678
00:35:47,440 –> 00:35:49,640
pointless.
The story of Incy Wincy Spider

679
00:35:49,840 –> 00:35:52,640
before you even get to him being
washed out the spout as he’s

680
00:35:52,640 –> 00:35:55,080
kind of gone and he’s now
watching the whirly thing in the

681
00:35:55,520 –> 00:35:58,920
in the ceiling.
And it seems to me in a way, but

682
00:35:58,920 –> 00:36:01,000
since it was like that as they
looked into the eyes of the Lord

683
00:36:01,080 –> 00:36:02,600
Jesus on this road into
Jerusalem.

684
00:36:02,840 –> 00:36:06,720
Hosanna, blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord, and the

685
00:36:06,720 –> 00:36:10,720
disciples just almost beginning
to feel, you know, a strange

686
00:36:10,720 –> 00:36:13,600
experience as they as they walk
into Jerusalem with with what

687
00:36:13,600 –> 00:36:16,680
could be their king.
And they look into his eyes, and

688
00:36:16,680 –> 00:36:19,360
he’s miles away.
Where was the mind of the Lord

689
00:36:19,360 –> 00:36:23,480
Jesus Christ bred sisters?
Well, just look earlier in this

690
00:36:23,480 –> 00:36:26,120
Psalm and I think we might just
get a feeling.

691
00:36:27,920 –> 00:36:31,040
Verse 14 Just have a look at
this and see if you can enter

692
00:36:31,040 –> 00:36:34,160
into the mind of the Lord Jesus
Christ as He was riding in

693
00:36:34,160 –> 00:36:37,400
Jerusalem, hearing them sing the
song of Psalm 118.

694
00:36:38,240 –> 00:36:42,840
The Lord is my strength and
song, and He has become my

695
00:36:42,840 –> 00:36:46,080
salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and

696
00:36:46,080 –> 00:36:48,160
salvation is in the tents of the
righteous.

697
00:36:48,880 –> 00:36:51,320
The right hand of the Lord doeth
valiantly.

698
00:36:52,120 –> 00:36:54,280
The right hand of the Lord is
exalted.

699
00:36:55,040 –> 00:36:56,600
The right hand of the Lord
doeth.

700
00:36:56,600 –> 00:36:58,400
Valiantly, that’s what was in
the mind of the Lord Jesus

701
00:36:58,400 –> 00:37:01,040
Christ and he was the right hand
of the Lord.

702
00:37:01,640 –> 00:37:04,840
And and as they’re all singing
Hosanna, blessed is he who comes

703
00:37:04,840 –> 00:37:07,000
in the name of the Lord Jesus,
thinking well.

704
00:37:07,840 –> 00:37:11,320
The Lord is my strength and
song, and his right hand is

705
00:37:11,320 –> 00:37:14,480
about to do valiantly.
And look where the mind of the

706
00:37:14,480 –> 00:37:15,960
Lord is.
Verse 17.

707
00:37:16,680 –> 00:37:22,720
I shall not die, but live and
declare the works of the Lord.

708
00:37:23,120 –> 00:37:25,760
Isn’t that a stunning insight
into the mind of the Lord Jesus

709
00:37:25,760 –> 00:37:29,240
Christ?
I shall not die, but live.

710
00:37:29,920 –> 00:37:32,720
As the Lord rides into Jerusalem
for the last week of his life,

711
00:37:32,960 –> 00:37:35,880
this is what was in his mind as
he heard them singing Hosanna.

712
00:37:36,080 –> 00:37:38,040
Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord.

713
00:37:38,240 –> 00:37:41,800
I shall not die, but live.
Notice the next verse, verse 18.

714
00:37:42,040 –> 00:37:46,120
The Lord has chastened me sore,
but he’s not given me over unto

715
00:37:46,120 –> 00:37:48,720
death.
Not given me over unto death.

716
00:37:49,320 –> 00:37:50,720
Is that what the Lord was
thinking?

717
00:37:51,080 –> 00:37:52,840
Yes, of course it was what He
was thinking.

718
00:37:53,040 –> 00:37:55,280
He has chastened me so.
But He’s not given me over unto

719
00:37:55,280 –> 00:37:57,480
death.
He’s given me over unto life and

720
00:37:57,480 –> 00:38:00,080
to your life and my life and
everybody else’s life.

721
00:38:00,280 –> 00:38:02,640
That’s what the Lord God is
doing with him right here, right

722
00:38:02,640 –> 00:38:05,920
now.
Open to me the gates, he says

723
00:38:05,920 –> 00:38:09,320
verse 19 of righteousness.
I will enter them and give

724
00:38:09,320 –> 00:38:11,440
praise to the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord,

725
00:38:11,440 –> 00:38:13,360
which are the righteous shall
enter.

726
00:38:13,360 –> 00:38:15,040
Don’t open to me the gates of
Jerusalem.

727
00:38:15,040 –> 00:38:20,240
He says, open to me the gates of
righteousness into which the

728
00:38:20,240 –> 00:38:22,120
righteous shall enter.
That’s you and me.

729
00:38:22,120 –> 00:38:23,800
That’s where the Lord was going
in his mind.

730
00:38:23,800 –> 00:38:28,040
Isn’t that lovely?
Just come down then down as they

731
00:38:28,040 –> 00:38:31,320
were singing.
Verse 25, Hosanna, verse 26,

732
00:38:31,320 –> 00:38:34,240
Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord.

733
00:38:34,240 –> 00:38:36,600
Verse 27, This is what the Lord
was thinking.

734
00:38:37,520 –> 00:38:40,520
Good.
The Lord is God, and He has

735
00:38:40,520 –> 00:38:44,560
showed us light.
Bind the sacrifice with chords,

736
00:38:45,440 –> 00:38:49,840
even to the horns of the altar.
You are my God and I will praise

737
00:38:49,840 –> 00:38:52,920
thee.
You are my God, and I will exalt

738
00:38:52,920 –> 00:38:55,720
thee.
Oh, give thanks unto the Lord,

739
00:38:55,720 –> 00:38:59,360
for he is good, for his mercy
endures forever.

740
00:39:00,240 –> 00:39:03,000
And that’s the mindset of a man.
Bren sisters, we need to learn

741
00:39:03,000 –> 00:39:07,400
about that’s that.
That’s the mindset of a man who

742
00:39:07,400 –> 00:39:10,600
when it feels like your life is
on a one way track to nowhere.

743
00:39:11,240 –> 00:39:14,400
This is the power of what your
mind can do when it’s focused on

744
00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:16,320
the things of God and the Lord
Jesus Christ.

745
00:39:16,880 –> 00:39:19,720
The Lord might have chastened me
sore, but he’s not given me over

746
00:39:19,720 –> 00:39:22,080
unto death.
The Lord is good.

747
00:39:22,080 –> 00:39:25,800
Bind the sacrifice with corn,
with hooked cords, even to the

748
00:39:25,800 –> 00:39:28,160
horns of the altar.
You are my God, and I will

749
00:39:28,160 –> 00:39:31,240
praise you.
You are my God, and I will exalt

750
00:39:31,240 –> 00:39:32,960
you.
O give thanks unto the Lord.

751
00:39:32,960 –> 00:39:35,800
For he is good, for his mercy
endures forever.

752
00:39:35,800 –> 00:39:38,920
That’s that’s a perspective on
death, brethren, sisters, that I

753
00:39:38,920 –> 00:39:43,800
suspect well is a challenge to
us to rise to in our minds,

754
00:39:43,800 –> 00:39:45,960
isn’t it?
Open to me the gates of

755
00:39:45,960 –> 00:39:49,960
righteousness and I will go in
bind the sacrifice with cords

756
00:39:50,280 –> 00:39:52,840
even to the horns of the altar.
And that was the demeanour Bren

757
00:39:52,840 –> 00:39:55,520
sisters, the Lord was trying to
impress on his disciples in

758
00:39:55,520 –> 00:39:57,160
that.
Upper Room, in a couple of days

759
00:39:57,160 –> 00:39:59,600
time you’re going to see me on
that cross and you’re going to

760
00:39:59,600 –> 00:40:02,600
think everything is everything
has collapsed, everything has

761
00:40:02,600 –> 00:40:06,080
fallen apart, everything’s gone
wrong and that’s not it, says

762
00:40:06,080 –> 00:40:09,560
the Lord Jesus Christ.
You are my God and I will exalt

763
00:40:09,560 –> 00:40:10,960
you.
You are my God, and I will give

764
00:40:10,960 –> 00:40:13,680
thanks to the Lord, for He is
good.

765
00:40:14,160 –> 00:40:17,320
For his mercy endures forever.
And despite all the challenges

766
00:40:17,320 –> 00:40:20,840
of crucifixion and the trials of
death and suffering, I want you

767
00:40:20,840 –> 00:40:26,320
to have my joy and my peace.
I want you to to not be afraid,

768
00:40:26,320 –> 00:40:28,960
but be of good cheer, said the
Lord Jesus Christ.

769
00:40:28,960 –> 00:40:32,720
And may, brother and sisters,
week by week, as we come into

770
00:40:32,720 –> 00:40:34,760
the presence of the Lord Jesus
Christ, take some of that

771
00:40:34,760 –> 00:40:38,280
mindset away with us.
And in fact, here are a couple

772
00:40:38,280 –> 00:40:41,160
of statements of the Lord Jesus
Christ as to how he was going to

773
00:40:41,160 –> 00:40:45,000
describe what he was about to
achieve.

774
00:40:45,520 –> 00:40:49,200
And you won’t hear anything
about the size of the Roman

775
00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:51,280
nails or the challenges of
crucifixion.

776
00:40:51,280 –> 00:40:53,800
You just listen to the language
of the Lord Jesus Christ.

777
00:40:54,720 –> 00:40:59,280
The hour has come and you’re
expecting sadness and misery,

778
00:40:59,280 –> 00:41:03,160
aren’t you?
The hour has come that the Son

779
00:41:03,160 –> 00:41:08,280
of Man should be glorified.
That’s what was in the mind of

780
00:41:08,280 –> 00:41:10,520
the Lord Jesus Christ when I
said how else can you cope with

781
00:41:10,920 –> 00:41:12,960
crucifixion unless that is your
focus.

782
00:41:13,360 –> 00:41:16,440
How else will you be able to
challenge the ups and downs of

783
00:41:16,440 –> 00:41:18,520
your life unless this is your
focus?

784
00:41:19,000 –> 00:41:22,000
It’s in those moments, for
instance, that we are glorified

785
00:41:22,200 –> 00:41:24,480
in the eyes and in the in the
mind of God.

786
00:41:24,480 –> 00:41:27,200
The hour has come that the Son
of Man should be glorified.

787
00:41:27,400 –> 00:41:30,120
And this for me, this question.
Now that the Lord Jesus poses,

788
00:41:30,280 –> 00:41:32,440
it’s not often you get an
insight into what the Lord was

789
00:41:32,480 –> 00:41:35,440
actually thinking.
And John just opens a window

790
00:41:35,440 –> 00:41:38,160
just for a moment on the mind of
the Lord Jesus Christ and tells

791
00:41:38,160 –> 00:41:40,160
you what he was thinking.
And this is what he was

792
00:41:40,160 –> 00:41:41,960
thinking.
Now, is my soul troubled?

793
00:41:42,240 –> 00:41:45,720
And what shall I say, Father,
save me from this hour?

794
00:41:46,000 –> 00:41:47,960
Is that what you want me to be
asking for?

795
00:41:48,120 –> 00:41:49,840
Is that what I should be asking
for?

796
00:41:49,960 –> 00:41:52,360
That’s what I would have been
asking for, right?

797
00:41:53,520 –> 00:41:55,320
Given the choice in that very
moment.

798
00:41:55,320 –> 00:41:57,800
That would have been my
question, Father, is it possible

799
00:41:57,800 –> 00:42:00,480
to be saved from this hour?
Is that what I should be saying?

800
00:42:00,480 –> 00:42:04,040
Says the Lord Jesus Christ.
No way.

801
00:42:05,400 –> 00:42:06,760
That’s not what I’m going to ask
for.

802
00:42:07,960 –> 00:42:13,040
I came for this hour, for this,
’cause I came to this hour.

803
00:42:13,040 –> 00:42:16,920
Father, glorify your name.
That’s what I want to do.

804
00:42:17,240 –> 00:42:21,080
That’s what this meal is about.
It’s about glorifying God and

805
00:42:21,080 –> 00:42:24,480
His purpose.
It’s about me being glorified by

806
00:42:24,720 –> 00:42:27,640
achieving the greatest victory
for mankind that could ever be

807
00:42:27,640 –> 00:42:31,000
possibly imagined.
And it’s that glory and it’s

808
00:42:31,000 –> 00:42:34,240
that victory, and it’s that joy,
brethren and sisters, says the

809
00:42:34,240 –> 00:42:37,920
Lord Jesus, that I want you to
be thinking about as you share

810
00:42:37,920 –> 00:42:40,040
together this meal that you can
be a part of.

811
00:42:40,040 –> 00:42:43,760
That that I did this for you,
and that it’s the best moment of

812
00:42:43,760 –> 00:42:47,400
my life for this ’cause I came
to this very hour to give you

813
00:42:47,400 –> 00:42:50,160
this bread and to pour out this
wine.

814
00:42:50,720 –> 00:42:55,800
Father, glorify your name.
You might remember this one from

815
00:42:56,400 –> 00:42:59,680
the Lord’s Prayer in John 17.
Jesus lifted up his eyes to

816
00:42:59,680 –> 00:43:02,960
heaven.
Father, the hour has come, and

817
00:43:02,960 –> 00:43:05,560
again, you’re almost expecting
something difficult and

818
00:43:05,560 –> 00:43:06,800
something problematic, aren’t
you?

819
00:43:06,800 –> 00:43:09,680
In those words.
Father, the hour has come.

820
00:43:10,280 –> 00:43:15,000
Glorify your Son, that your Son
also may glorify thee.

821
00:43:15,000 –> 00:43:18,360
And now, Father, glorify me with
the glory which I had with you

822
00:43:18,920 –> 00:43:20,960
before the world began.
That’s the quote, isn’t it?

823
00:43:20,960 –> 00:43:23,440
There from John 17.
And that’s what was in the mind,

824
00:43:23,440 –> 00:43:25,000
Bren, sister of the Lord Jesus
Christ.

825
00:43:25,520 –> 00:43:27,880
And I challenge you, Bren
sisters, week by week to come

826
00:43:27,880 –> 00:43:30,960
and bolt yourself into that
chair and get into the mind and

827
00:43:30,960 –> 00:43:35,280
into the the perspective of the
heart and the purpose of the

828
00:43:35,280 –> 00:43:38,640
Lord Jesus Christ.
Glory, redemption, victory,

829
00:43:38,640 –> 00:43:40,560
triumph.
I have overcome.

830
00:43:40,760 –> 00:43:44,200
Take my peace, take my joy.
Don’t be troubled, don’t be

831
00:43:44,200 –> 00:43:47,800
afraid, be of good cheer.
I’ve done all these things for

832
00:43:47,800 –> 00:43:49,320
you.
And as they leave the upper room

833
00:43:49,600 –> 00:43:51,600
and make their way, oh, sorry,
one more thing.

834
00:43:53,080 –> 00:43:55,880
Just before we go into the upper
room, where was the Lord Jesus

835
00:43:55,880 –> 00:43:58,400
going?
Right as he sits in that upper

836
00:43:58,400 –> 00:44:03,400
room and he shares this this
meal with the disciples before

837
00:44:03,400 –> 00:44:07,920
they head out into the into the
Mount of Olives, Jesus makes it

838
00:44:07,920 –> 00:44:09,920
abundantly clear where he was
going.

839
00:44:10,160 –> 00:44:12,640
And you would expect him to be
saying, now listen, this is

840
00:44:12,640 –> 00:44:14,640
what’s going to happen.
I’m going to be arrested.

841
00:44:14,640 –> 00:44:16,840
I’m going to be put on trial.
I’m going to be flogged.

842
00:44:17,040 –> 00:44:18,520
I’m going to be beaten almost to
death.

843
00:44:18,720 –> 00:44:20,320
Then they’re going to hang me on
a stake.

844
00:44:20,920 –> 00:44:24,200
That’s where I’m going.
That’s not where the Lord was

845
00:44:24,200 –> 00:44:27,320
going.
Bren sisters that might have

846
00:44:27,320 –> 00:44:32,600
been on the journey, that might
have been part of the process,

847
00:44:33,280 –> 00:44:35,040
but it certainly wasn’t the
destination.

848
00:44:35,480 –> 00:44:40,640
I scan, read through John 13,
through John 17, and I count at

849
00:44:40,640 –> 00:44:44,760
least 10 times and they’re here
on the screen 10 times in four

850
00:44:44,760 –> 00:44:48,720
chapters where the Lord makes it
abundantly clear where he was

851
00:44:48,720 –> 00:44:51,640
going.
Jesus knew that he would depart

852
00:44:51,640 –> 00:44:55,320
out of this world.
Where to be with the Father.

853
00:44:55,720 –> 00:44:57,280
Jesus knowing that he was come
from.

854
00:44:57,280 –> 00:44:59,840
God.
And was about to go and be with

855
00:44:59,840 –> 00:45:03,240
God in my father’s house.
Here’s the famous one and many

856
00:45:03,240 –> 00:45:05,240
mansions.
If it were not so, I would have

857
00:45:05,240 –> 00:45:07,800
told you.
And I’m going to prepare a place

858
00:45:07,800 –> 00:45:11,200
for you in my father’s house.
Isn’t that lovely?

859
00:45:11,360 –> 00:45:14,000
I go to the Father, I go my way
to him that sent me.

860
00:45:14,200 –> 00:45:16,960
I’m going to be with the Father.
I leave the world and go to the

861
00:45:16,960 –> 00:45:20,480
Father and these last two from
John 17 as as the Lord speaks

862
00:45:20,840 –> 00:45:22,920
very.
Personally, to his father, I’m

863
00:45:22,920 –> 00:45:25,040
no more in the world than I’m
coming to be with you.

864
00:45:25,680 –> 00:45:28,000
Can you imagine, Brent, this is
a better place to be.

865
00:45:28,520 –> 00:45:31,000
Can you imagine a better
destination for the journey of

866
00:45:31,000 –> 00:45:33,520
your life?
And Brent says what the Lord

867
00:45:33,520 –> 00:45:37,200
wanted to impress on the
disciples in the upper room is

868
00:45:37,200 –> 00:45:41,200
that that’s where he was going,
so that when they saw him

869
00:45:41,200 –> 00:45:45,800
crucified, when they saw him
suffering and in pain, they

870
00:45:45,800 –> 00:45:48,200
might remember that he told them
where he was going.

871
00:45:49,040 –> 00:45:52,640
I’m not going to Calvary.
That’s not where I stop.

872
00:45:53,240 –> 00:45:56,680
That’s not my destination.
That’s not the ultimate place.

873
00:45:57,520 –> 00:46:01,720
I’m going to be with the Father.
Isn’t that lovely, Bren Sisters?

874
00:46:01,720 –> 00:46:06,560
And I wonder, Bren sisters, if
the destination of our lives is

875
00:46:06,560 –> 00:46:09,000
the same place.
I wonder if our determination to

876
00:46:09,000 –> 00:46:13,680
be there can week by week, as we
come and remember the resolve of

877
00:46:13,680 –> 00:46:17,120
the Lord Jesus Christ, be
brought into line with his.

878
00:46:17,440 –> 00:46:21,080
I’m going to be with the Father.
And here’s the lovely thing,

879
00:46:21,080 –> 00:46:24,120
John 14.
I’m going to prepare a place for

880
00:46:24,120 –> 00:46:28,400
you.
That’s where I want the ultimate

881
00:46:28,400 –> 00:46:31,600
destination of your life to be.
I want you to come with me not

882
00:46:31,600 –> 00:46:34,560
to Calvary, not to Calvary.
That’s a that’s a unique

883
00:46:34,560 –> 00:46:37,680
stopping place for me in order
to get you there.

884
00:46:38,000 –> 00:46:41,360
I don’t ask you to go there with
me, but I’m going to prepare a

885
00:46:41,360 –> 00:46:44,320
place that you might be with the
Father.

886
00:46:44,320 –> 00:46:48,080
I I don’t know about you that
that just raises all the hackles

887
00:46:48,080 –> 00:46:51,320
on the back of my neck when I
think about the demeanour of the

888
00:46:51,320 –> 00:46:54,760
Lord Jesus Christ, a man who
could face the the most intense

889
00:46:54,760 –> 00:46:56,480
human suffering that you could
ever describe.

890
00:46:56,480 –> 00:46:58,360
And yet these were the things
that were flowing through his

891
00:46:58,360 –> 00:47:00,760
mind.
And Bren sisters, when life gets

892
00:47:00,760 –> 00:47:03,720
turned upside down, if you can
learn from the perspective and

893
00:47:03,720 –> 00:47:06,800
the demeanour and the attitude
and the mind of the Lord Jesus

894
00:47:06,800 –> 00:47:11,280
Christ, it will turn your life
right back the right way out and

895
00:47:11,280 –> 00:47:13,640
set you back on the journey to
be with the Father.

896
00:47:15,720 –> 00:47:18,600
And so as they left that upper
room and they enter the garden

897
00:47:18,600 –> 00:47:19,960
and this is just where I want to
end.

898
00:47:20,280 –> 00:47:23,000
I know I’m pushing you on our
first afternoon, or although

899
00:47:23,040 –> 00:47:24,880
maybe it’s the best afternoon,
you wouldn’t want this on the

900
00:47:24,880 –> 00:47:28,000
last afternoon, would you?
I just want us to end in the

901
00:47:28,000 –> 00:47:31,360
Garden of Gethsemane and
understand what was going on,

902
00:47:31,360 –> 00:47:34,600
particularly with Peter, James
and John as the Lord Jesus took

903
00:47:34,600 –> 00:47:38,200
them to witness his prayers to
the Father.

904
00:47:38,200 –> 00:47:41,560
And what I want you to remember
as we just go into the garden

905
00:47:41,560 –> 00:47:44,560
with the Lord Jesus Christ was
that this is the statement at

906
00:47:44,560 –> 00:47:48,160
the end of John 16 as the Lord
is about to enter Gethsemane.

907
00:47:48,160 –> 00:47:50,600
This is His statement to His
disciples.

908
00:47:50,960 –> 00:47:53,240
You will be scattered, every man
to his own, and you will leave

909
00:47:53,240 –> 00:47:55,400
me alone.
And yet I want you to remember

910
00:47:55,400 –> 00:47:56,840
this.
When that happens, even when

911
00:47:56,840 –> 00:48:00,360
that happens, Peter, in in three
days time, when you’re weeping

912
00:48:00,800 –> 00:48:04,120
and bitter because of your own
failings, this is what I want

913
00:48:04,120 –> 00:48:06,800
you to remember.
Peter, I wasn’t alone.

914
00:48:07,600 –> 00:48:10,840
You didn’t leave me alone
because the Father is with me.

915
00:48:11,480 –> 00:48:13,840
And these things I’ve spoken
unto you, that in me you might

916
00:48:13,840 –> 00:48:15,280
have peace.
Be of good cheer.

917
00:48:15,560 –> 00:48:18,600
I’ve overcome the world.
And I suppose one of the great

918
00:48:18,600 –> 00:48:21,160
problems now in seeing the Lord
Jesus go into the Garden of

919
00:48:21,160 –> 00:48:25,000
Gethsemane and get down on his
knees in prayer is it just looks

920
00:48:25,000 –> 00:48:27,800
like for a moment that
everything is has the potential

921
00:48:27,800 –> 00:48:31,040
to to come apart at the seams.
Just when you’ve heard these

922
00:48:31,040 –> 00:48:33,200
statements.
Listen, I know what’s going to

923
00:48:33,200 –> 00:48:34,560
happen.
You’re all going to scatter.

924
00:48:34,680 –> 00:48:36,600
You’re going to leave me.
And yet I want you to remember

925
00:48:36,600 –> 00:48:39,440
I’m not alone.
The Father is with me and I have

926
00:48:39,440 –> 00:48:42,240
overcome the world already.
Isn’t the?

927
00:48:42,240 –> 00:48:45,920
Isn’t the.
The the, the, the tense of that

928
00:48:45,920 –> 00:48:46,800
statement.
Lovely.

929
00:48:46,840 –> 00:48:50,320
I have overcome the world.
Not I’m about to not I will.

930
00:48:50,440 –> 00:48:53,240
It’s done, the work is finished.
I’ve done it.

931
00:48:53,320 –> 00:48:56,960
It’s over.
I have overcome the world.

932
00:48:56,960 –> 00:49:00,280
I want you to remember that as
we go now into the garden.

933
00:49:00,280 –> 00:49:24,520
Let’s have a look in Matthew 26.
So Matthew 26 and 36, you know

934
00:49:24,520 –> 00:49:26,000
the story well.
They enter the garden of

935
00:49:26,000 –> 00:49:32,280
Gethsemane.
Then cometh Jesus with them unto

936
00:49:32,280 –> 00:49:34,520
a place called Gethsemane.
And said to his disciples, Sit

937
00:49:34,520 –> 00:49:38,840
here while I go and pray Yonder.
And he took with him Peter, the

938
00:49:38,840 –> 00:49:41,720
two sons of Zebedee, and began
to be sorrowful and very heavy.

939
00:49:42,080 –> 00:49:44,520
And he said to them, My soul is
exceeding sorrowful, even unto

940
00:49:44,520 –> 00:49:48,440
death.
Tarry ye here and watch with me.

941
00:49:49,200 –> 00:49:52,760
So we see the Lord Jesus
entering the garden. 8 disciples

942
00:49:52,760 –> 00:49:55,680
are left some distance away,
Judas already having gone of

943
00:49:55,680 –> 00:49:59,120
course, and now Peter, James and
John go with him a little

944
00:49:59,120 –> 00:50:01,160
further.
And Jesus says, I want you to

945
00:50:01,160 –> 00:50:03,840
wait here and watch with me.
And my last question for you

946
00:50:03,840 –> 00:50:06,120
this afternoon, brother and
sisters, is why?

947
00:50:07,960 –> 00:50:11,440
Why was it so important to the
Lord Jesus Christ that Peter,

948
00:50:11,440 –> 00:50:16,640
James and John specifically were
watching and witnessing here in

949
00:50:16,640 –> 00:50:18,240
the garden with the Lord Jesus
Christ?

950
00:50:18,240 –> 00:50:22,680
What was it that Jesus wanted
them to take away from this

951
00:50:22,680 –> 00:50:27,680
moment?
And one of the problems for me

952
00:50:27,680 –> 00:50:29,600
anyway, Maybe you haven’t had
this problem.

953
00:50:29,840 –> 00:50:33,040
Maybe you have one of the
problems for me of this prayer

954
00:50:33,040 –> 00:50:35,920
that the Lord Jesus gives on
this occasion.

955
00:50:35,920 –> 00:50:38,320
There it is, verse 39.
He went a little further and

956
00:50:38,320 –> 00:50:41,080
fell on his face and prayed,
saying, my Father, if it be

957
00:50:41,080 –> 00:50:43,000
possible, let this cup pass from
me.

958
00:50:43,800 –> 00:50:46,880
The cup is unidentified in
Scripture.

959
00:50:46,880 –> 00:50:49,160
We’re not told what it’s
symbolised for the Lord Jesus

960
00:50:49,160 –> 00:50:52,440
Christ.
I know we we naturally and

961
00:50:52,440 –> 00:50:55,720
automatically take it to me in
the suffering that the Lord was

962
00:50:55,720 –> 00:50:58,600
about to go through all I all
I’m suggesting to you is that’s

963
00:50:58,600 –> 00:51:01,160
not identified.
That’s not explicitly told us in

964
00:51:01,160 –> 00:51:04,040
the record.
It’s understandable that we we

965
00:51:04,040 –> 00:51:06,120
interpret it that way and I’ve
no problem with it being

966
00:51:06,320 –> 00:51:07,960
interpreted that way.
I don’t want to take anything

967
00:51:07,960 –> 00:51:11,240
away from the suffering and the
problem that the Lord Jesus as

968
00:51:11,240 –> 00:51:13,800
any man would face going through
what he was about to go through.

969
00:51:14,080 –> 00:51:17,160
All I’m saying to you is it’s
not expressly told us in the

970
00:51:17,160 –> 00:51:20,000
record that that’s what the
represented for the Lord Jesus

971
00:51:20,000 –> 00:51:21,640
Christ.
And what I want to share with

972
00:51:21,640 –> 00:51:24,360
you just for the last 5 minutes
is that I think there was more

973
00:51:24,360 –> 00:51:26,680
in it for the Lord Jesus Christ
than just that.

974
00:51:27,240 –> 00:51:29,720
Not taking away anything of the
suffering of the Lord.

975
00:51:30,080 –> 00:51:32,160
But I want to suggest to you
just as our final thought, that

976
00:51:32,160 –> 00:51:37,080
there was more to it for the
Lord than just his physical

977
00:51:37,600 –> 00:51:40,560
suffering.
And the reason I say that is

978
00:51:40,560 –> 00:51:45,880
this. 10 times we just saw a
moment ago, 10 times he’s just

979
00:51:45,880 –> 00:51:47,640
said I’m going to be with the
father.

980
00:51:47,640 –> 00:51:50,400
That’s where I’m going.
My mind is absolutely fixed on

981
00:51:50,400 –> 00:51:51,960
that.
Make no mistake about it.

982
00:51:52,120 –> 00:51:54,160
We’ve just walked into the
garden and he said this.

983
00:51:54,320 –> 00:51:56,680
I’m not alone.
The Father is with me.

984
00:51:56,800 –> 00:51:59,320
Be of good cheer.
I have overcome the world.

985
00:51:59,600 –> 00:52:02,080
And it almost seems strange in a
way, doesn’t it, that having

986
00:52:02,080 –> 00:52:05,520
just said that literally moments
before, the Lord Jesus now gets

987
00:52:05,520 –> 00:52:07,760
down in prayer and says, I know
I’ve finished the work that you

988
00:52:07,760 –> 00:52:10,040
gave me to do.
I know I’m coming to be with

989
00:52:10,040 –> 00:52:11,920
you.
But if it’s possible, can we?

990
00:52:11,920 –> 00:52:16,280
Can we find a way?
Out and whilst I don’t doubt

991
00:52:16,280 –> 00:52:19,480
there was a a natural human
element of that, I want to

992
00:52:19,480 –> 00:52:23,400
suggest to you bun sisters,
there was something more and the

993
00:52:23,600 –> 00:52:26,640
the clue it seems to me is in
the men who Jesus chose to took

994
00:52:26,640 –> 00:52:30,840
with him Peter, James and John
three times.

995
00:52:30,840 –> 00:52:34,320
Of course you’ll remember Jesus
takes Peter, James and John with

996
00:52:34,320 –> 00:52:36,760
him to experience very specific
things.

997
00:52:37,200 –> 00:52:39,800
The first time was the
resurrection of Jairus daughter.

998
00:52:40,600 –> 00:52:42,480
The second time was the
Transfiguration.

999
00:52:43,120 –> 00:52:46,440
And here was the third time here
in the garden to witness this

1000
00:52:46,440 –> 00:52:48,280
prayer.
And I want to suggest to you

1001
00:52:48,280 –> 00:52:51,080
that the first two occasions
were to prepare Peter, James,

1002
00:52:51,080 –> 00:52:55,840
and John for this one, the
resurrection of Jairus daughter.

1003
00:52:56,880 –> 00:53:00,080
My little lamb, arise.
You know the power of

1004
00:53:00,080 –> 00:53:03,200
resurrection and the glory that
they saw there on the mount of

1005
00:53:03,200 –> 00:53:06,360
Transfiguration that they might
understand what was now

1006
00:53:06,640 –> 00:53:08,280
happening here.
And I want you to turn with me

1007
00:53:08,280 –> 00:53:12,120
to Luke Chapter 9, because Luke
adds something in the in the

1008
00:53:12,120 –> 00:53:14,320
record of the transfiguration
which is unique.

1009
00:53:16,200 –> 00:53:30,000
Just have a look at it here.
Luke Chapter 9 and verse 30.

1010
00:53:30,440 –> 00:53:32,360
This is Luke’s account of the
transfiguration.

1011
00:53:32,360 –> 00:53:35,720
Peter, James and John are there,
and Luke adds a unique detail.

1012
00:53:37,040 –> 00:53:40,160
Behold, they’re taught Luke 9,
verse 32, men with the Lord

1013
00:53:40,160 –> 00:53:43,720
Jesus Christ, which were Moses
and Elias, who appeared in

1014
00:53:43,720 –> 00:53:47,840
glory, and spake of his decease,
which he should accomplish at

1015
00:53:47,840 –> 00:53:50,400
Jerusalem, and that last little.
Bit there is unique to Luke’s

1016
00:53:50,400 –> 00:53:52,880
gospel.
Luke tells us what Jesus was

1017
00:53:52,880 –> 00:53:57,640
talking to Moses and Elijah
about the the conversation,

1018
00:53:57,640 –> 00:54:01,640
verse 31 was about Jesus’s
decease that he was going to

1019
00:54:01,640 –> 00:54:04,440
accomplish at Jerusalem.
That’s interesting, isn’t it?

1020
00:54:04,720 –> 00:54:09,520
What would Moses and Elijah have
said to Jesus about his decease?

1021
00:54:09,720 –> 00:54:13,120
And that word deceased there in
verse 31 is really interesting.

1022
00:54:13,120 –> 00:54:16,400
It’s the it’s the Greek
equivalent of the of the Hebrew

1023
00:54:16,400 –> 00:54:21,520
word Exodus, his departure.
All right, now what was it?

1024
00:54:21,520 –> 00:54:24,440
What was the commonality between
Moses and Elijah and their

1025
00:54:24,440 –> 00:54:27,680
departure that they could have
had a conversation with the Lord

1026
00:54:27,680 –> 00:54:30,880
Jesus Christ about?
Because whilst there may be lots

1027
00:54:30,880 –> 00:54:33,880
of similarities about Moses and
Elijah, there are some very

1028
00:54:33,880 –> 00:54:37,080
specific similarities about
their decease, about their

1029
00:54:37,080 –> 00:54:38,320
departure.
Do you remember them?

1030
00:54:39,000 –> 00:54:41,720
Moses, of course, was taken by
God up onto the mount.

1031
00:54:41,720 –> 00:54:45,400
Abraham, as you, you’ll
remember, and God buried him

1032
00:54:45,400 –> 00:54:47,920
there silently.
Nobody saw it, nobody witnessed

1033
00:54:47,920 –> 00:54:50,080
it.
And you’ll similarly remember

1034
00:54:50,080 –> 00:54:53,880
the death of Elijah.
He was taken up by a whirlwind

1035
00:54:54,080 –> 00:54:57,840
by God into heaven, and only
Elisha was there witnessing his

1036
00:54:57,840 –> 00:54:59,560
departure.
Nobody saw him buried.

1037
00:54:59,800 –> 00:55:01,920
Nobody saw him die.
It was a private thing.

1038
00:55:02,520 –> 00:55:06,000
And now these two men are going
to talk about some circumstances

1039
00:55:06,000 –> 00:55:09,360
of their own departure.
I suggest that we’re now going

1040
00:55:09,360 –> 00:55:11,280
to be similar in some way to the
Lord Jesus Christ.

1041
00:55:11,600 –> 00:55:13,600
And very quickly I want to share
with you what those might have

1042
00:55:13,600 –> 00:55:16,640
been.
Moses and Elijah are appearing

1043
00:55:16,640 –> 00:55:19,200
here in glory with the Lord
Jesus Christ and there’s a

1044
00:55:19,200 –> 00:55:23,120
really lovely moment in both of
these men’s lives that happened

1045
00:55:23,120 –> 00:55:26,480
just before their departure.
And, and here’s we don’t have

1046
00:55:26,480 –> 00:55:28,520
time to look at it now because
I’m way over and you’re being

1047
00:55:28,520 –> 00:55:31,120
very patient with me in Numbers
27.

1048
00:55:31,680 –> 00:55:34,160
Look at it in your own time or
we can talk about it afterwards.

1049
00:55:34,440 –> 00:55:37,240
God comes to Moses and says, now
listen Moses, the day has come.

1050
00:55:37,600 –> 00:55:40,000
I want you to climb Mount
Abraham and I’m going to, you’re

1051
00:55:40,000 –> 00:55:41,680
going to die there and I’m going
to bury you.

1052
00:55:43,040 –> 00:55:45,360
That’s it.
That’s all God said, and you

1053
00:55:45,360 –> 00:55:47,680
could understand Moses going
back to God or and saying

1054
00:55:47,680 –> 00:55:50,520
something like, listen, hang on
a minute, is there any way we

1055
00:55:50,520 –> 00:55:53,320
can negotiate this?
There’s still some things I’d

1056
00:55:53,320 –> 00:55:56,120
like to do, all the things Moses
could have said.

1057
00:55:56,600 –> 00:55:59,960
In the in the very next.
Verse for after God having said

1058
00:55:59,960 –> 00:56:01,840
to Moses, listen, you’re going
to climb this mountain, you’re

1059
00:56:01,840 –> 00:56:03,320
going to die there, your time
has come.

1060
00:56:03,680 –> 00:56:07,920
This was what Moses said to God
and it’s it’s beautiful.

1061
00:56:08,800 –> 00:56:11,600
Moses said to the Lord, let the
Lord, the God of the spirits of

1062
00:56:11,600 –> 00:56:15,880
all flesh, set a man over the
congregation that that the

1063
00:56:15,880 –> 00:56:19,120
congregation of the Lord be not
a sheep which have no shepherd.

1064
00:56:19,480 –> 00:56:20,680
I don’t know about you, Bren
Sisters.

1065
00:56:21,040 –> 00:56:25,800
For the 120 years that Moses had
been through with these people,

1066
00:56:26,320 –> 00:56:28,760
with the ups and downs and the
challenges that they’d given

1067
00:56:28,760 –> 00:56:30,120
him.
And if ever you need an

1068
00:56:30,120 –> 00:56:31,560
exhortation, it includes your
life.

1069
00:56:31,840 –> 00:56:35,080
You just listen to these words
of Moses after all that he’d

1070
00:56:35,080 –> 00:56:37,200
been through with these men and
women in the wilderness.

1071
00:56:37,840 –> 00:56:40,480
This is Moses concern as he’s
about to die.

1072
00:56:41,160 –> 00:56:44,600
What’s going to happen to these
sheep who have no shepherd?

1073
00:56:46,840 –> 00:56:49,840
If you take me and I climb this
mountain now, what will happen

1074
00:56:49,840 –> 00:56:52,760
to them?
Having lived his own, which were

1075
00:56:52,760 –> 00:56:55,360
in the world, he loved them to
the end.

1076
00:56:56,120 –> 00:56:58,040
And this was the concern of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

1077
00:56:58,040 –> 00:57:01,160
Brethren, sisters, just note the
contrast, Matthew’s account of

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00:57:01,160 –> 00:57:03,800
the Last Supper.
Jesus said to them, You will all

1079
00:57:03,800 –> 00:57:05,760
be offended because of the me
this night.

1080
00:57:05,760 –> 00:57:09,720
For it is written, I will smite
the shepherd, and the sheep of

1081
00:57:09,720 –> 00:57:12,720
the flock will be scattered.
And you can imagine, I don’t

1082
00:57:12,720 –> 00:57:14,000
know, maybe it’s just me, Brent,
sisters.

1083
00:57:14,000 –> 00:57:16,120
And you tell me afterwards if
I’m taking these too far.

1084
00:57:16,360 –> 00:57:19,360
I can just imagine Moses saying
there, whether it be vision or

1085
00:57:19,360 –> 00:57:20,960
whatever, it might have been
there on the mount of

1086
00:57:20,960 –> 00:57:24,360
Transfiguration.
Listen Jesus, I want to tell you

1087
00:57:24,360 –> 00:57:28,960
about how I felt the day God
told me my exodus had come and I

1088
00:57:28,960 –> 00:57:31,480
prayed that God would set a man
over the congregation.

1089
00:57:31,480 –> 00:57:35,040
And in fact, the very, very next
verse, Numbers 27, verse 18, God

1090
00:57:35,040 –> 00:57:37,680
says to Moses, I want you to
take Joshua, a man in whom is

1091
00:57:37,680 –> 00:57:40,920
the Spirit and appoint him.
And I can imagine Moses saying

1092
00:57:40,920 –> 00:57:44,240
to Jesus, listen, I pray to God.
And he, he resolved my concern.

1093
00:57:44,600 –> 00:57:46,280
I was so worried what would
happen to these sheep.

1094
00:57:46,280 –> 00:57:48,960
And he and he allowed me to
appoint Joshua a man who would

1095
00:57:48,960 –> 00:57:51,960
carry on after me.
Well, wouldn’t that wouldn’t

1096
00:57:51,960 –> 00:57:53,760
that be a lovely conversation
for the Lord Jesus Christ.

1097
00:57:53,760 –> 00:57:56,720
What about Elijah Just note
these really carefully Bren

1098
00:57:56,720 –> 00:57:58,560
sisters and and follow them up
in your own time.

1099
00:57:59,160 –> 00:58:03,640
Elijah said to Elijah Tara here,
I pray thee and Elijah said to

1100
00:58:03,640 –> 00:58:06,080
him, as the Lord lives and as
your soul lives, I will not

1101
00:58:06,080 –> 00:58:08,320
leave you.
This is second Kings chapter 2

1102
00:58:08,640 –> 00:58:12,320
and Elijah is about to be taken
from Elijah and three times

1103
00:58:12,320 –> 00:58:14,360
Elijah says listen, wait here
for me.

1104
00:58:14,560 –> 00:58:17,120
Please don’t come any closer but
wait.

1105
00:58:17,960 –> 00:58:20,080
And they were the exact words of
the Lord Jesus Christ there in

1106
00:58:20,080 –> 00:58:21,840
the Garden of Gethsemane.
And do you know when it says

1107
00:58:21,840 –> 00:58:24,480
three times Elijah said that to
Elijah.

1108
00:58:24,640 –> 00:58:27,640
You follow them up in second
Kings two and three times Elijah

1109
00:58:27,640 –> 00:58:29,840
comes back with this lovely
statement as the.

1110
00:58:29,840 –> 00:58:32,840
Lord lives and as your soul
lives, I will never leave you.

1111
00:58:33,520 –> 00:58:34,800
Isn’t that lovely?
Do you?

1112
00:58:35,120 –> 00:58:37,200
Do those words have an echo in
the New Testament?

1113
00:58:38,040 –> 00:58:40,680
I will lay down my life for your
sake, says Peter.

1114
00:58:40,800 –> 00:58:42,160
When Jesus says listen, I need
to.

1115
00:58:42,160 –> 00:58:44,600
Go and I want you to wait for
me.

1116
00:58:44,840 –> 00:58:47,720
Peter says Lord, I will lay down
my life for your sake.

1117
00:58:48,120 –> 00:58:49,400
And this was the contrast in
Peter.

1118
00:58:49,400 –> 00:58:50,840
Do you remember what the Lord
said to him?

1119
00:58:51,720 –> 00:58:57,760
The cock will not crow until you
have denied me 3 * 3 times.

1120
00:58:57,760 –> 00:59:01,360
Elisha had said I will never
leave you 3 times.

1121
00:59:01,360 –> 00:59:05,960
Peter had said it three times.
He would ultimately deny him

1122
00:59:06,400 –> 00:59:10,760
last one.
Do you remember this occasion as

1123
00:59:10,760 –> 00:59:14,400
Elijah is about to be taken?
Elijah said to Elijah, ask what

1124
00:59:14,400 –> 00:59:16,080
I will do for you before I’m
taken.

1125
00:59:16,800 –> 00:59:19,600
And Elijah asked this lovely
request, Let a double portion of

1126
00:59:19,600 –> 00:59:22,120
your spirit be upon me.
Isn’t that lovely?

1127
00:59:22,120 –> 00:59:25,200
Elijah says, listen, I know I’ve
got to fill the shoes of a big

1128
00:59:25,200 –> 00:59:27,720
man.
I need a double portion, Elijah

1129
00:59:27,720 –> 00:59:30,040
of your spirit if I’m going to
carry on the work that you’ve

1130
00:59:30,040 –> 00:59:32,360
started.
Notice what the Lord Jesus

1131
00:59:32,360 –> 00:59:35,040
Christ said, Bren sisters to the
disciples in the upper room.

1132
00:59:36,240 –> 00:59:39,120
Whatever you ask the Father in
my name, he will give it to you.

1133
00:59:39,480 –> 00:59:43,880
So far you haven’t asked.
If you ask, it will be given

1134
00:59:44,640 –> 00:59:47,440
whatever you need to carry on
the works as the Lord Jesus

1135
00:59:47,440 –> 00:59:49,920
Christ in my name, it will be
given to you.

1136
00:59:50,960 –> 00:59:54,080
So the reason, it seems to me
the Lord Jesus took Peter and

1137
00:59:54,080 –> 00:59:57,120
James and John with him into the
garden was because they were the

1138
00:59:57,120 –> 00:59:59,760
ones that the Lord wanted to
rely on to carry on the work

1139
00:59:59,760 –> 01:00:04,040
after he’d finished.
Tara, ye here and wait with me,

1140
01:00:04,040 –> 01:00:07,880
watch with me, watch as I pray,
because I need you 3 to be with

1141
01:00:07,880 –> 01:00:11,400
me, to be the closest with me in
my suffering, to understand

1142
01:00:11,400 –> 01:00:14,800
what’s happening and and to be
there in on the morning of

1143
01:00:14,800 –> 01:00:16,480
resurrection.
To be the ones who will rally

1144
01:00:16,480 –> 01:00:19,480
the troops, to bring everybody
together, to tell them to not be

1145
01:00:19,480 –> 01:00:22,840
afraid, to be of good cheer, to
have my peace in themselves.

1146
01:00:23,480 –> 01:00:26,720
And three times, Bren sisters,
the Lord Jesus Christ came back

1147
01:00:26,720 –> 01:00:29,360
from prayer three times.
Why did he do that?

1148
01:00:29,520 –> 01:00:31,720
The prayer was almost identical
every time.

1149
01:00:32,000 –> 01:00:34,280
Why did the Lord come back to
them three times?

1150
01:00:34,520 –> 01:00:38,400
It why, why didn’t he just stay
there the whole time and just

1151
01:00:38,400 –> 01:00:40,920
keep praying the same prayer?
Why did he keep going back to

1152
01:00:40,920 –> 01:00:44,240
the disciples, finding them
asleep, going back and praying

1153
01:00:44,240 –> 01:00:47,760
again, going back, finding them
asleep, going back and praying

1154
01:00:47,760 –> 01:00:50,560
again?
And I want to suggest to you,

1155
01:00:50,560 –> 01:00:54,080
Bren sisters, the reason was.
That the Lord wanted to see his

1156
01:00:54,080 –> 01:00:58,520
prayer answered in those men.
Every time he went back, it was

1157
01:00:58,520 –> 01:01:00,240
to see if his prayer might be
answered.

1158
01:01:01,320 –> 01:01:03,560
That’s why he kept going back
three times.

1159
01:01:03,720 –> 01:01:06,680
Peter, couldn’t you watch with
me for one hour?

1160
01:01:07,360 –> 01:01:10,000
I thought you would lay down
your life for my sake.

1161
01:01:11,120 –> 01:01:14,520
And he went back three times to
see if his prayer would be

1162
01:01:14,560 –> 01:01:15,760
answered.
And his prayer was this.

1163
01:01:15,760 –> 01:01:19,320
Father, if it be possible, let
this cup pass from me.

1164
01:01:20,480 –> 01:01:22,240
And I want to suggest to you,
Bran sisters, that what the Lord

1165
01:01:22,240 –> 01:01:25,880
Jesus meant was let this cup
that I’m about to drink that

1166
01:01:25,880 –> 01:01:29,320
I’ve shared, which is the
victory and the salvation and

1167
01:01:29,320 –> 01:01:32,680
the joy and the the power of the
resurrection of your only

1168
01:01:32,680 –> 01:01:35,360
begotten Son.
Let it be shared with these men.

1169
01:01:35,360 –> 01:01:37,880
May they understand it, may they
feel it, may they know what it

1170
01:01:37,880 –> 01:01:40,280
means.
And one of the great challenges,

1171
01:01:40,280 –> 01:01:42,800
Bran sisters, of the Lord’s life
was his loneliness.

1172
01:01:43,160 –> 01:01:46,680
It seems to me that there were
very few men and women around

1173
01:01:46,680 –> 01:01:51,160
him in the entire universe who
understood on anything like the

1174
01:01:51,160 –> 01:01:54,720
same level of himself the things
that he was about to do.

1175
01:01:56,240 –> 01:01:59,560
Well, brothers, sisters, what
was it then that the Lord Jesus

1176
01:01:59,560 –> 01:02:03,480
wanted us to remember it?
Do this in remembrance of me.

1177
01:02:05,120 –> 01:02:10,040
Was it about pain and suffering?
Was the Passover meal to be a

1178
01:02:10,040 –> 01:02:13,640
reminder to the children of
Israel of the sadness of death

1179
01:02:13,640 –> 01:02:16,360
and sorrow?
It wasn’t, was it?

1180
01:02:17,160 –> 01:02:19,120
It was to be a reminder of their
redemption.

1181
01:02:19,920 –> 01:02:23,600
Of the joy, of freedom, of the
wonder of what God had done for

1182
01:02:23,600 –> 01:02:25,120
them.
And whilst death was a part of

1183
01:02:25,120 –> 01:02:28,560
it, the purpose was redemption.
The Lord God, with a strong hand

1184
01:02:28,560 –> 01:02:31,600
and an outstretched arm, brought
his people out of slavery and

1185
01:02:31,600 –> 01:02:33,480
has given us liberty and
freedom.

1186
01:02:33,600 –> 01:02:35,880
Jesus Christ, for instance, is
not a dead man.

1187
01:02:36,360 –> 01:02:38,280
He’s a triumphant man.
He’s victorious.

1188
01:02:38,280 –> 01:02:39,840
He’s our conquering and risen
Lord.

1189
01:02:40,000 –> 01:02:43,520
He is with the Father right now
for us, preparing for us a

1190
01:02:43,520 –> 01:02:45,480
place.
And you know, if, if anything’s

1191
01:02:45,480 –> 01:02:49,040
worth remembering in life week
by week, then may it be that.

1192
01:02:51,280 –> 01:02:54,960
And as I take the bread of
heaven and share in the royal

1193
01:02:54,960 –> 01:02:59,440
cup of the King week by week, I
reflect on the mindset of a man

1194
01:02:59,440 –> 01:03:02,960
who could rise above all of
life’s circumstances in the

1195
01:03:02,960 –> 01:03:05,440
pursuit of filling the purpose
of God in his life.

1196
01:03:06,560 –> 01:03:10,880
I acknowledge my own weaknesses,
sure, but I celebrate His

1197
01:03:10,880 –> 01:03:14,400
victory, and I thank Him deeply
that He did so for me.

1198
01:03:14,400 –> 01:03:18,960
And I determine to find some of
His strength inside myself to

1199
01:03:18,960 –> 01:03:22,680
deviate my attitude in the
everyday circumstances of my

1200
01:03:22,680 –> 01:03:23,080
life.