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Mark 14:10 and Judas es scariot who was one of the 12 went off to the chief priests in order to betray him to them and they were glad when they heard this and
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promised to give him money and he began seeking how to betray him at an opportune time and on the first day of unleavened bread when the Passover Lamb
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was being sacrificed his disciples said to him him where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover and he sent two of his disciples and
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said to them go into the City and a man will meet you carrying a picture of water follow him and wherever he enters say to the owner of the house the
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teacher says where is my guest room in which I may eat the Passover with my disciples and he himself will show you a large Upper Room furnished and ready and
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prepare for us there and the disciples went out and came to the city and found it just as he had told them and they prepared the Passover let us
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pray Our Father it is indeed a truth that we have sung salvation Belongs to the Lord father it is to you to whom we look it is you to whom we give honor and
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praise because you have brought us together you have saved many of us from sin and from Evil and we ask father that
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you would draw all that are here to yourself and cause them to worship you cause them to know you and walk with you and we do ask that you would speak that
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you would speak by the Holy Spirit to our hearts that we might be given understanding of these words we might meditate upon on them we might learn to walk in them in Christ's name we pray
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amen there are final preparations being made in this passage in this section of scripture final preparations for the final hours of Jesus Earthly
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life and they've been in the works for some time if we go go back to Mark chap 8 just after the feeding of the
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4,000 Jesus began to teach his disciples that he must suffer he said to them the son of man must suffer the son
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of man must be rejected and be killed and after 3 days rise again in Mark chapter 9 he reiterates those statements and reinforces that the son of man he
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says is to be handed over to men and be killed and he will rise again and then in Mark chap 10 as there moving on their way to Jerusalem he says the son of man
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will be handed over to the chief priests and condemned and the Gentiles will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill him and three days later he will
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rise and then even in the parable of the vineyard owner vineyard owner in Mark 12 he tells of the vineyard owner's son who has come and
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representing his father and they kill him and throw him out of the vineyard and he quotes from Psalm 118 a stone which the builders rejected he has
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become the Chief Cornerstone and then of course in the olive discourse he's preparing them for the days that will come and the things that they will see
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and he says to them be on your guard for they will hand you over to the courts and then we've seen the
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preparation that Jesus claims for the woman at Simon the leper's house in Bethany the woman who came and poured this expensive perfume on Jesus
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head and there were those who were indignant with her snorting at her and Jesus told them including one Judas the scariot to leave her
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alone and he praised her and he said she has anointed my body beforehand for burial these are days of preparation
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these are days when Jesus is revealing to them what is about to take place but as we read these words in Mark 14 I think there is a kind of secret y
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here there's a a kind of indirection here that perhaps we're not ready for or thinking about as Believers in the 21st
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century when we read these words they sound pretty simple Judas went out and then Jesus then Jesus gave instructions for two disciples to
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go and prepare for the Passover but again I think there is something deeper going on here some things that we ought to see the secret of je Judas
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betrayal the secret of the rendevu with the men in the streets the man with the piter of water in the streets of Jerusalem and the preparation for the
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Passover in verse 10 we read of Judas es scariot Judas being the man of what some people believe Judas from kirth the city in Judea the non- Galilean among them he
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simply says he was one of the 12 there's an identity to Judas here and and if you think about it Judas began
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well did not Jesus stay up all night in prayer when he was deciding who the 12 should be and and judas's scarat being
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one of one of them Judas is a name taken from the word Judah which means the one who is praised and celebrated as we see in the Old
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Testament the celebrated Kings of Judah and Jesus had given his disciples did he not authority to go out and
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to exercise to cast out un clean spirits to heal every disease it says and every sickness and Judas was one of
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these and he was given responsibility for the money bag or some call it the box to keep the treasury for the disciples and he was responsible for
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making purchases for Jesus and the 12 as they traveled and then we read here that J Judas went off to the chief priests in
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order to betray him him to them he had begun apparently some secret discussions with the Sanhedrin some beli
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that as he was uh out doing the shopping he would slip into the courtyard of the high priest and he would meet with them
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secretly and it says he's seeking some opportune time to betray Jesus he's he's thinking of the when and the how
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and he made them happy verse 11 and they were glad when they heard this and promised to give him money one of the commentators say here are the men planning this clandestine
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action this murder and they're doing it in a very Orthodox way yeah we've got to pay this guy we got to make sure we're on the up and up there and he made them
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very happy in that but he began seeking how to betray
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Jesus one of the commentators Mr rollinson says this of Judas What Judas betrayed to the high priest was neither the secret of the messiahship nor the fact of the
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anointing at Bethany but the place where Jesus would be likely to be found at night where can these men find him to
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arrest him and take him off and kill him so what went wrong why would Judas one of the 12 one
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of the of the chosen why would he sell out the man that he knew as his Lord and Master and
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friend well many of the commentaries that I looked at and the thoughts that I had as well was covetousness that that he had this insatiable desire for G gain or wealth
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agreed perhaps he was disappointed in his role in within the apostleship perhaps he was frustrated at
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Jesus reaction to when he according to the other gospels seemed to be the ring leader in fussing over the woman and being
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his downfall John downfall John writes when Judas says about the woman why was this perfume not sold for 300 deneri and the proceeds given to the
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poor John adds this commentary now Judas said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and as he kept the money box he used to steal
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from what was put into it perhaps he fell into temptation all this money he's carrying around this desire for
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desire for wealth fraudulently appropriating for himself what was meant for others some call this covetousness Judas
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resetting sin and honestly we do read in 1 Timothy chap 6 about this Paul tells Timothy that people will fall into this
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temptation to have money to have wealth he says to him but those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare
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and many foolish and harmful desires will plunge men into ruin and destruction For the Love of Money is a root of all
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sorts of evil and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many a Pang does that not sound like what happened to
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other reasons perhaps it became clear to Judas that Jesus was not the Messiah he was
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looking for German Theologian Martin Noth writes the expectation of the old Jewish Pro prophets which centered on a future
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Messianic King had developed during the long period of foreign domination into a hope of a political Liberator and the greater the resentment of the Roman
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government of the country the more the picture of a Messianic conqueror who would destroy the hateful foreign power filled their
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filled their minds by that standard Jesus could not be Judas be Judas Messiah he would have been a fraud he would have been an
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impostor but do you not know people today who say this when they either read the Bible or we try to tell them about
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Jesus who he was that he was the Christ he was the anointed one he was the Messiah they have this same attitude that's not what the Messiah
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ought to ought to be and they're really literally saying I think What Judas may have said I've come to understand that this
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is not the Messiah I'm looking for and so yes we we ought to guard our hearts with all diligence we ought to be
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free from the Love of Money which causes all sorts of evil but we also ought to free ourselves from expectations interpretations of
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God's Providence that are not revealed to us in scripture there are times when when we we want to say well this is what God is doing and perhaps that's where Judas
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fell expecting one thing to happen and not realizing who Jesus
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was and even in the passage which I read from 1 Timothy 6 after he explains to Timothy teach them about the love of money being this root of many kinds of evil he doesn't leave them there he
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doesn't leave them in a vacuum he says flee these things and pursue righteousness faith love perseverance and
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gentleness and then there was the secret rendevu in verse 12 we read that the disciples came to Jesus they're still in Bethany as I can understand it here but all the Jews knew
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that you had to celebrate if you were within 15 miles of Jerusalem you had to go into the city to celebrate the Passover and so they simply ask him
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where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover and Jesus sends two of his disciples the other uh gospel tell us
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tells us that it was Peter and John and he gave them Specific Instructions but again there seems to be on the part of Jesus a deliberate
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indirectness in these instructions and what was the meaning of this is it some sort of miracle that Jesus performed that he
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knew there would be a man that was a woman's job to carry the water there would be a man who would be somewhat conspicuous in the city of
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Jerusalem but remember when this was the the Passover was at Hand by one conservative account Josephus looking at the number of lambs
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that were that were slaughtered and one lamb typically went from for 10 or more people there could have been upwards of
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2 and5 million people in Jerusalem that day so finding the one man to follow was it a miracle or was it a
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plan how how did he know the man with the water would be there was it by Supernatural force or some preconcerted some preconcerted effort to conceal
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it was there some Supernatural Insight of Jesus or did he work all of this out
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secrecy why why didn't they say well there's plenty of people places in Jerusalem you could go and everybody would know and just set up a time to meet well I believe it was to thwart the
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betrayer he wouldn't know the place where Jesus was until he actually got there for the meal and he would not be able to lead the enemies there if they
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went to a house of another disciple a house that they may have frequented together in their time in Jerusalem Judas would lead the enemies there he
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was watching he was waiting he had begun to seek an opportune time would that not have been a good time when he knew where Jesus would
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Jesus would be but is that all is Jesus just trying to save his own life is he just trying to make sure that the enemies don't find
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him well I ask that question because I think the answer is
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no when we turn to the Book of John Chapter 13 and our our brother Chuck has taught us beginning of chapter 13 is a is a book end to chapter 16 and and what are those bookends about
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well yes Jesus is telling us or John is telling us about Jesus understanding that his time had come that he he must go to the cross and
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and yet what is that message in those chapters 13 14 15 and 16 in the upper room John tells us having loved his own
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who are in the world he loved them to the end the end there there's a Love Of Christ for his men here in taking them privately Away
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by himself that they would eat together that they would have a place where just they could gather on his last night before he was
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betrayed he is going to establish the New Covenant in his blood he is going to establish that new right for the kingdom of God and it's important to to him to
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do it with them at that time but I believe also and this is getting a little ahead of ourselves next week for next week but to show the Jews
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this connection between his death and really the Providence of God and everything building up to this moment and the Passover with they which they were about
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to celebrate the the antitype has come to show what the type was really all
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but wait I I believe there is more that all of this secrecy all of this buildup IS to show the voluntary
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nature of his death Jesus chose to be betrayed his will and his desire was to
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lay down his life for his brethren for his children but in the father's timing the the events that show that
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this one this son of man who would as the writer in coloss Paul writes in Colossians says the man who would come
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to have first place in everything was Lord of all arranging all
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events and knowing that his time was at hand he knew how his love for his disciples the desire to usher in the New Covenant the kingdom of God and to
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show that he was the true Passover land all of these things came together for Jesus at this time Alexander McLaren
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wrote Judas the priests pilate the soldiers were swept by a power which they did not know to Deeds which they
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did not understand all of these things instituted by God to show us the glory and the majesty and the necessity
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for this for this time and notice the authority that Jesus has his claim on all that went before when they were to go and follow
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this this man this water carrier to this house and the homeowner came to the door they were to say the teacher says he would recognize the master
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somehow he knew this teacher this man was the master and the man the homeowner responds immediately and he says where is my
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guest room my guest room in which I may eat the Passover with my disciples there there's an authority here there there is a presence here of Christ there there is
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this idea remember back when they began to arrive in Jerusalem the disciples looked at jesus' face and and they could
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tell something was different that face set Like Flint to do the work that the father sent him to do and here I think they recognize this is the
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man and Jesus uses the means at his disposal these disposal these men these ones that were set
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aside to prepare the place for him to be and yet it is all under his absolute Authority in in the midst of his moving
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toward the cross Jesus still cares about those who are his we we see that in the care he's taking to set his disciples apart but but notice he says my guest
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room he would have his last night with his own to eat with them alone but I believe that he also had
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disciples there that the apostles didn't know he has many faithful people in the city he sees their faith he sees their
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desire to serve and I think the home owner is one of them and perhaps even the water carrier as well he kept Jesus secret just simply by
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doing his duty being in the streets carrying the water and leading them to the home owner and for us it is to be ready for
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whatever God calls us to do some I read I can't remember who it was described the Christian Life as quote preparing to
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obey you're preparing your children to walk as adults we are preparing as Christians to obey the Lord and his
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his own even on this night in which he is about to be betrayed and then there is the secret
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preparation they were to say to the home owner the teacher says where is my guest room they had asked Jesus where where do you wish for us to go and he had sent
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them there assuming that when they got there they would have to set up they would have to figure out all the preparations for the Passover and and Jesus tells Jesus tells them ask for the guest room where is my
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my guest room well the guest room was connected to a courtyard where The Travelers would would their animals
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would be there and they would take off their Dusty and grimy traveling clothes and their baggage and they would place them in this Courtyard where the mangers were for feeding the animals and they
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would go to a tiny little room off of that and that's what Jesus asked for it's the same word that's used in the gospels when it says Joseph and Mary
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when she was great with child went to the Inn they went to find a guest room a place where she could be alone and what
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does it does it say the time came for her to be delivered and there was no room in the guest room and so she had the baby and laid
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him in the manger in that little Courtyard Jesus was born in this situation he was willing to celebrate the Passover with his disciples on his
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last night in this same situation but the homeowner shows him the mega room the mega upper room I I
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it's the best place in the house it's the most comfortable place in the house it was the most quiet place and private
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place in the house and Jesus anticipated that he'll you'll ask for the little one he'll give you the big one the large upper
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room and there you should go and prepare the Passover for us and the disciples went out came to the city and found it just as he had
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told them and they prepared the p Passover but what did they find they found the room ready and they found it
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furnished and they found it re everything there ready to go furnished means that they had moved
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in the in the couches because they knew that they had to You Know da Vinci got it wrong he has them seated they weren't seated they were reclining at table that's what they
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did at the Passover so they moved in the couches and they moved in the rugs and they moved in the cushions so that they could lie down on one elbow and eat why because it symbolize in the Passover
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safety and rest and Liberty and they found it already ready the house owner had already arranged these things and it says it was ready I
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don't know perhaps it's a speculation on my part but all the provisions for the feast I believe were already there the wine the unleavened bread the bitter
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herbs and for the evening service the incense all of these things gave evidence to the disciples that Jesus had already seen to all the
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details they met the water carrier just as Jesus said they found the house with the house owner and the house owner didn't give them the little room he gave them the large upper room just as he
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said and they saw the upper room furnished and furnished and ready but more importantly I think and these are the words of Alfred ederson
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and I think he hits it but this preent of Christ afforded only further evidence that what he had told of his impending
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crucifixion would also come true see all of the things that Jesus told them I must go to Jerusalem and there I will be handed over to men and I
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will be betrayed and the Gentiles will mock me and spit on me and eventually I will be killed but I will rise on the third day I believe that it's beginning
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to hit home with his disciples and now it was time for them to come to the table the table that he had prepared for
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them and all that awaited was one thing the arrival of the Lamb let us
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pray our heavenly father again I ask that you would help us to meditate upon these things that you would help us to to read them to study them to think about them in this
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great night in in which Our Savior was betrayed and yet we know in your history and in your design all of
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this was this was necessary father he was the Messiah that we ought to be looking for he is the only one the only name given among men
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under Heaven by which we must be saved and so we ask father that we would come to the table we would come to him we would sit at his feet and learn of him and
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celebrate what you have done through Jesus Christ Our Lord in Christ's name we pray we pray amen please rise for the
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benediction from 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us Eternal comfort and Good Hope by Grace come comfort and strengthen
