Passover
Service April 13, 2014 7:55 p.m.
Thank
you for coming to celebrate our Lord and Creator Passover. Let’s turn to:
(John
6:31-58 NIV) Our forefathers ate the
manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to
eat.'" {32} Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not
Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives
you the true bread from heaven. {33} For the bread of God is he who comes down
from heaven and gives life to the world."
{34}
"Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread." {35}
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will
never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
drop
down to verse 39
{39}
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he
has given me, but raise them up at the last day. {40} For my Father's will is that
everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and
I will raise him up at the last day." {41} At this the Jews began to
grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from
heaven." {42} They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose
father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"
{43}
"Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. {44} "No one
can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up
at the last day. {45} It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught
by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
{46} No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has
seen the Father. {47} I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting
life.
{48}
I am the bread of life. {49} Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet
they died. {50} But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man
may eat and not die. {51} I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If
anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which
I will give for the life of the world." {52} Then the Jews began to argue
sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to
eat?"
{53}
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. {54} Whoever eats my
flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last
day.
{55}
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. {56} Whoever eats my
flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. {57} Just as the living
Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me
will live because of me. {58} This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live
forever."
(Foot
Washing Service) Let’s turn to
(John
13:1-17 NIV) It was just before the
Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world
and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed
them the full extent of his love. {2} The evening meal was being served, and
the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
{3}
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had
come from God and was returning to God; {4} so he got up from the meal, took
off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. {5} After that,
he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them
with the towel that was wrapped around him.
{6}
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my
feet?" {7} Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I am doing,
but later you will understand." {8} "No," said Peter, "you
shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you
have no part with me." {9} "Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied,
"not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!" {10} Jesus
answered, "A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his
whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you." {11}
For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not everyone
was clean.
{12}
When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to
his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he asked
them. {13} "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is
what I am. (14) Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have
washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.
{15}
I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. {16} I
tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger
greater than the one who sent him. {17} Now that you know these things, you
will be blessed if you do them.
This
is one of the commands or example that Jesus told or showed us what to do, wash
each other feet.
At
this time, we will break and follow Jesus command to wash each other feet.
Instruction: men to somewhere, women to the other place
Washpans
and clean towels) “Wash hands”
Let’s
turn to
(1
Cor 11:23-26 NIV) For I received from
the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was
betrayed, took bread, {24} and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,
"This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."
{25} In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is
the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of
me." {26} For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim
the Lord's death until he comes.
(Luke
22:15-20 NIV) And he said to them,
"I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
{16} For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the
kingdom of God." {17} After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said,
"Take this and divide it among you. {18} For I tell you I will not drink
again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." {19} And
he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying,
"This is my body given for you; do
this in remembrance of me." {20} In the same way, after the supper he
took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is
poured out for you.
Here
we are given another command by Jesus to take of the bread and wine during the
Passover Service.
The Bread
(Mat
26:26 NIV) While they were eating, Jesus
took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying,
"Take and eat; this is my body."
We
become one Body by partaking of the bread of life.
Remove the
napkin from the bread and pray over it:
Our Heavenly
Father, we want to thank you for calling us during this age to be part of the
Body of Christ and asking you to bless this bread as a symbol of Christ’s
broken body, which our Lord and Messiah, Jesus Christ did for us.
We know he was
pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the
punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed.
He himself bore
our sins, our infirmities and our diseases in his body on the tree, so that we
might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds we have been
healed. We thank you for the opportunity
to take of the bread and what it means. (Through Jesus
Christ name, amen)
(Isa 53:5 NIV)
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our
iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his
wounds we are healed. (1 Pet 2:24 NIV)
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die
to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.(Mat
8:17 NIV)
Then
break the bread into small bits. After being served, each person should quietly
and solemnly eat the small piece of bread.
The Wine
(Mat
26:27-29 NIV) Then he took the cup, gave
thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. {28}
This is my blood of the covenant (New Covenant), which is poured out for many
for the forgiveness of sins. {29} I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of
the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my
Father's kingdom."
Then, uncover
and pray over the wine,
Our
Heavenly Father, we come again before your throne and bless this wine for this
very sacred Passover Service that the wine is a symbol of Jesus’s blood, which
he shed for the forgiveness of our sins.
We know all sin
we do is really is against you Father. The
new covenant which was in Jesus blood, was poured out for us, your body. We
know in Jesus we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in
accordance with the riches of your grace.
As we take of the wine, let us remember these things. (Through Jesus Christ name, amen)
(1 John 1:7
NIV) But if we walk in the light, as he
is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus,
his Son, purifies us from all sin.
(Eph 1:7 NIV)
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in
accordance with the riches of God's grace
(Luke 22:20 NIV)
In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This
cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Each
member should take a glass and quietly and reverently drink it. Replace the
glasses on the tray or table, cover them and the unused bread again with the
napkin.
Read
aloud portions from John 13:31 on through the 17th chapter of John.
Please
turn to John 13:31
(John 13:31-38 NIV)
When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified and
God is glorified in him. {32} If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the
Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. {33} "My children, I will be
with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the
Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come. {34} "A new
command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one
another. {35} By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love
one another." {36} Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you
going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but
you will follow later." {37} Peter asked, "Lord, why can't I follow
you now? I will lay down my life for you." {38} Then Jesus answered,
"Will you really lay down your life for me? I tell you the truth, before
the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!
(John 14 NIV)
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God ; trust also in me.
{2} In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told
you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. {3} And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be
where I am. {4} You know the way to the place where I am going." {5}
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can
we know the way?" {6} Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and
the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. {7} If you really knew
me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have
seen him." {8} Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will
be enough for us." {9} Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even
after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen
the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? {10} Don't you believe that
I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are
not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
{11} Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or
at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. {12} I tell you
the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will
do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. {13} And I
will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the
Father.
(John 14 NIV)
{14} You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. {15}
"If you love me, you will obey what I command. {16} And I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- {17}
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him
nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. {18}
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. {19} Before long, the
world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also
will live. {20} On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you
are in me, and I am in you. {21} Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is
the one who loves me.
He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I
too will love him and show myself to him." {22} Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot)
said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the
world?" {23} Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my
teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home
with him. {24} He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words
you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. {25} "All
this I have spoken while still with you. {26} But the Counselor, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and
will remind you of everything I have said to you. {27} Peace I leave with you;
my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be
afraid. {28} "You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to
you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the
Father is greater than I. {29} I have told you now before it happens, so that
when it does happen you will believe. {30} I will not speak with you much longer,
for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, {31} but the
world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father
has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.
(John 15 NIV)
{8} This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing
yourselves to be my disciples. {9} "As the Father has loved me, so have I
loved you. Now remain in my love. {10} If you obey my commands, you will remain
in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
{11} I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be
complete. {12} My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. {13}
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
{14} You are my friends if you do what I command.
(John 15 NIV)
{15} I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his
master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I
learned from my Father I have made known to you. {16} You did not choose me,
but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last.
Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. {17} This is my
command: Love each other. {18} "If the world hates you, keep in mind that
it hated me first. {19} If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its
own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world. That is why the world hates you.
Please go to verse 23
{23} He who hates me hates my Father as well. {24}
If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of
sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and
my Father. {25} But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They
hated me without reason.' {26} "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send
to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he
will testify about me. {27} And you also must testify, for you have been with
me from the beginning.
(John 16 NIV)
{7} But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away.
Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send
him to you. {8} When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to
sin and righteousness and judgment: {9} in regard to sin, because men do not
believe in me; {10} in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the
Father, where you can see me no longer; {11} and in regard to judgment, because
the prince of this world now stands condemned. {12} "I have much more to
say to you, more than you can now bear. {13} But when he, the Spirit of truth,
comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will
speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. {14} He
will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.
{15} All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will
take from what is mine and make it known to you.
Please go to verse 23
{23} In that day you will no longer ask me anything.
I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. {24}
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive,
and your joy will be complete. {25} "Though I have been speaking
figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language
but will tell you plainly about my Father. {26} In that day you will ask in my
name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. {27} No, the
Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I
came from God. {28} I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am
leaving the world and going back to the Father."
{29} Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now you are
speaking clearly and without figures of speech. {30} Now we can see that you
know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions.
This makes us believe that you came from God." {31} "You believe at
last!" Jesus answered. {32} "But a time is coming, and has come, when
you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I
am not alone, for my Father is with me. {33} "I have told you these
things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But
take heart! I have overcome the world."
(John 17 NIV)
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: "Father,
the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. {2} For you
granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all
those you have given him. {3} Now this is eternal life: that they may know you,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. {4} I have brought you
glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. {5} And now, Father,
glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world
began. {6} "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the
world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.
{7} Now they know that everything you have given me
comes from you. {8} For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted
them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you
sent me. {9} I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you
have given me, for they are yours. {10} All I have is yours, and all you have
is mine. And glory has come to me through them. {11} I will remain in the world
no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy
Father, protect them by the power of your name--the name you gave me--so that
they may be one as we are one.
{12} While I was with them, I protected them and
kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one
doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. {13} "I am
coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so
that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. {14} I have given
them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any
more than I am of the world. {15} My prayer is not that you take them out of
the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
{16} They are not of the world, even as I am not of
it. {17} Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. {18} As you sent me
into the world, I have sent them into the world. {19} For them I sanctify
myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. {20} "My prayer is not for
them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
{21} that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in
you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent
me. {22} I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as
we are one: {23} I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity
to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have
loved me.
{24} "Father, I want those you have given me to
be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because
you loved me before the creation of the world. {25} "Righteous Father,
though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have
sent me. {26} I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you
known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself
may be in them."
Please
turn to Mat 26:30
(Mat
26:30 NIV) When they had sung a hymn,
they went out to the Mount of Olives.
sing
a hymn,
This
song was taken from John 14, “Let there be Peace on Earth”
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