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Well, it is good to be here with
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It's it wasn't my plan to be in 
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weeks ago I was working on some 
things and, and felt this nudge.

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I don't know if you ever felt 
that this kind of a nudge to go 

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should go to Ontario. 
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things I could do there and and 
my wife was going to be in 

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Ontario anyways visiting her 
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And I thought, well, if I maybe 
it'll work out. 

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And so we kind of planned this 
trip and then some things 

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happened here. 
And then I went, oh, that's, 

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that's part of it. 
And we're here. 

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I wish we were, it's much better
circumstances, but we are, we 

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work together. 
And part of the the Evangelical 

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Midnight Conference is, is it 
that we're a network of churches

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and we work together and we 
support you guys and we want to 

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see you guys thrive and do the 
mission that you're called to. 

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And so we want to be supportive 
to you and to your pastor and, 

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and do what we can. 
So I'm happy to be here and be 

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be part of, of today. 
I actually noticed in the 

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bulletin that the, the title is 
slightly different. 

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One of us made a typo, either 
what I sent or what got printed 

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because it says in your 
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wonder of Psalms Sunday. 
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a better title. 
And so if, if you have any back 

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next year Palm Sunday, I'm going
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going to be a different title 
because I think it's a better, a

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better title. 
But it is Palm Sunday as as Jake

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read, and we're going to be 
looking at Mark Chapter 11 as we

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look at this being Palm Sunday, 
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what we celebrate is Easter. 
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told in all four of the gospels 
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Mark, Luke and John. 
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in and, and goes through 
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course, rested and later 
crucified. 

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I've been watching the my kids 
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last couple of weeks to see the 
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The new season is, is this part 
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And so this has been what I've 
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weeks is Jesus coming in and 
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has with the Pharisees in these 
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And the part I like about the 
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disciples being completely 
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why these things are happening 
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And in a lot of what we do in 
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whether we want to admit it or 
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time going, what's, what's Jesus
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Like, what's, what's up with 
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Why is why are these things not 
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ought to work? 
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Palm Sunday story, this Jesus 
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people just not understanding, 
but God working behind the 

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scenes and doing something that 
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thoughts or dreams. 
So Mark records it this way. 

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Mark Chapter 11. 
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You can kind of read some of the
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start in verse 7. 
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Jesus and they threw their cloak
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And many spread their cloaks on 
the road and others spread leafy

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branches, palm branches that 
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And those who went before and 
those who followed were shouting

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these words. 
Hosanna, blessed is he who comes

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in the name of the Lord. 
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literally means save us. 
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It's kind of 2 words that are 
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So this is a call because you 
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people that that are going 
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They're people that are that are
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normally do. 
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restricted. 
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And if you really look at it, 
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they're under or these these 
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Passover week being the week 
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we have is Easter is something 
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Jewish community for about 3000 
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meal and, and the whole meal is 
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tradition. 
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to tell a story. 
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has done in the past to the next
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remember. 
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with Charleston Heston in 1956, 
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Commandments. 
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And because a lot of you are 
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never seen that before, but this
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And this scene right here is the
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And if you know the story from 
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Moses through the burning Bush, 
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I want you to free my people. 
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Pharaoh let my people go. 
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it and goes, no, I don't think 
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then flies, and then the 
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there's boils and then there's 
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and then there's darkness. 
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the first born of every family 
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something through Moses and he 
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to do some very odd things. 
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chapter 12, verse one, God gives
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instructions. 
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everything. 
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your own. 
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says this, he says this month 
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of months. 
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calendar. 
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he changes the calendar and he 
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this a month of Nissan or Nissan
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the, the new year being right 
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now, right around March, April. 
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Nissan. 
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going to be the beginning of 
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And every Jewish festival now 
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It shall be the first month of 
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the congregation of Israel that 
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every man shall take a lamb 
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a lamb for the household. 
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this. 
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day of the month to go and get a
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kill a lamb or I want you to go 
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grocery store. 
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living lamb. 
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something very peculiar. 
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into the house, to stay in the 
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family, if you will. 
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they're going to inspect this 
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bones over a three day period. 
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you'll, you'll see on the 10th 
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The next three days, the lamb is
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It, it's in the home. 
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being inspected to see if it's, 
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requirements. 
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last part of the, the 14th day 
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again, he goes into very detail 
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He says, I want you to cook it 
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So they were to, to be all fully
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but dressed and ready to go. 
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weaponry on coat pulled up, 
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they were to eat it quickly. 
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happened that night was with the
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important. 
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blood from the lambs and put it 
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Now again, if you're in that 
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this isn't, this isn't normal. 
Like we, we've never done this 

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before. 
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This is kind of strange. 
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what God said and that God was 
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said to do. 
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on the lamb or the blood of the 
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They go in, they eat this lamb 
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And that night, it says the 
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land. 
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name, anywhere where it saw the 
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homes and went to the next. 
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time to move. 
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head out into the wilderness. 
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From that point on, they 
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mostly unchanged except for a 
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Few things got added, few of the
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of got kind of settled over the 
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bread of affliction. 
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comes from what, what was later 
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Deuteronomy 16 and three. 
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shall eat no leavened bread with
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meal seven days, you shall eat 
it with unleavened bread, The 

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bread of affliction for you came
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haste. 
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And when you look at the Bible, 
Bible has these images that it 

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continues throughout the Bible. 
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is a symbol of, of sin, not that
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bad. 
It was just a symbol of sin 

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because yeast puffs up and, and 
most sin is us being puffed up 

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thinking we're better or that 
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And so they developed this over 
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Mennonites would. 
They developed a, a recipe that 

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gets passed down generation to 
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And so today, if you were to go 
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have enough Jewish people in the
community, you could find this 

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in your grocery store. 
In the bread section, there'd be

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a box that's labeled matzo. 
And if you open it up, it would 

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look something like the picture 
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It's a square loaf, has all 
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And it has these lines because 
it's cooked over, theoretically 

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over an open fire. 
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you begin to look and you go, 
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This seems a little bit like 
what Isaiah talked about, that 

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Jesus was pierced for our 
transgressions. 

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He was crushed for our 
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The punishment that brought us 
peace was on him. 

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And he by his wounds or by his 
stripes, we are healed. 

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So it's seems like even from the
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that he was working in. 
The second thing that got at it 

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is, is what's called the cup of 
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And this comes from a prophecy 
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Malachi being one of the last 
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And and Malachi had this 
prophecy that there would come a

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day what he called the great day
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And he says this in Malachi 
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He says, behold, I will send 
Elijah the prophet before the 

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great and awesome day of the 
Lord comes, and he will turn the

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hearts of the fathers to their 
children and the hearts of the 

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children to their fathers. 
That's like common, I strike the

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land with the decree of utter 
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So after Malachi's prophecy, 
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this cup, and it was a very 
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It was a cup that nobody drank 
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And So what they would 
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the customs that developed, is 
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place setting for Elijah. 
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households, when, when it comes 
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they'll send usually the 
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children to the front door. 
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they're asked, do you see 
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And that place setting remains 
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Nobody touches that place 
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when Elijah shows up on the 
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Lord. 
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they've incorporated. 
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that they call their, it was 
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Now, if you're a farmer, you're 
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If you require every year 
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white without blemish, what's a 
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going to breed? 
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pure white that has very few 
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So through the years, you, the 
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these, these lambs and create a 
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white and, and without blemish, 
without spot, so that they could

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be used for the Passover 
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Because as Israel expanded and 
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dispersed, the men would still 
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Passover and they would need a 
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could pass inspection. 
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temple, go to the temple, buy 
your lamb, make the sacrifice. 

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It's a win win for everybody, 
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became very lucrative for them, 
of course, as we see in the time

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of Jesus when he clears the 
temple. 

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So we go to this Passover week, 
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It's a big deal for everybody 
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So what happens at that week is 
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are out in the grazing and they 
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these these lambs are paraded in
through the city. 

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and they're going. 
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That's a symbol of our freedom. 
That's what delivered us. 

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So they would have this 
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So crowds would gather for the 
parade of the lambs. 

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So the way the chosen presents 
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then Jesus comes right in 
behind. 

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And as the people are there to 
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John the Baptist said, the Lamb 
of God who takes away the sins 

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comes riding in and you go. 
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he would pick that day at that 
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temple. 
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young priests would, would 
inspect these lambs one after 

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another to, to give them the OK 
that they would give them the 

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priestly blessing so that they 
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So go back to the story in Mark,
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They're shouting this as they 
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Jesus comes in as one who's just
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Word about him has been 
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The raising Lazarus from the 
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in Bethany was a huge event. 
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being something spectacular, not
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definitely a king, the 
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to bring salvation. 
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he was going to bring? 
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lambs, they begin to cheer. 
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Hosanna. 
Blessed is he who comes in the 

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name of the Lord. 
Lord save us, we pray, and here,

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here he is. 
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chart. 
Remember on the 10th day of the 

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of of of Nissan that the lamb 
was to be in the first Passover 

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was to be brought into the home.
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day of the Nissan they would 
parade in with the lambs. 

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The day Jesus comes into 
Jerusalem is 1/10 day of the 

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month, 10th day of Nissan. 
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they declare these words the day
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Lamb of God who takes away the 
sins of the world comes riding 

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in. 
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comes riding in? 
Where does he go? 

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Now if you read your gospels in 
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Matthew record this, he does 
something very specific. 

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Matter of fact, they go to great
lengths to say this that he came

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in and he went immediately to 
the temple. 

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Now he goes the temple one, one 
account is he goes the temple 

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and he clears the temple. 
And the other account is he goes

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the temple and he leaves and 
then he comes back the next day 

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and he clears the temple. 
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discrepancy there, but what we 
see is that he goes to the 

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temple as the first thing he 
goes and subjects himself to be 

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inspected. 
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that in this, at that time, a 
1500 year tradition, the story 

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that gets told generation to 
generation about God's 

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liberation from slavery, this 
great day, Jesus Christ as the 

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Son of God begins to live out 
the story all over again in real

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life. 
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preparing to do a symbolic meal 
to talk about the liberation of 

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God don't realize the extent 
that Jesus is in their midst and

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he's, he's bringing liberation 
to them. 

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So you go to that chart and you 
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especially Mark records that 
Jesus went back to the temple 

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every day. 
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showed up and he clears the 
temple. 

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The next day, the 12th, he shows
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elders confront him. 
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whose authority are you doing 
these things and who gave you 

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the authority to do them? 
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authority, you begin to see the 
testing taking place. 

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On the 13th day He comes back 
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And it says these words that the
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nothing to accuse him of. 
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So they've been inspecting him 
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fault. 
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they could find no fault with 
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disqualify him. 
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the same thing. 
Pilate actually says words. 

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I don't, I don't find anything 
wrong with this. 

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So he's tested by the Jews, the 
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Gentiles. 
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him. 
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blemish. 
So what Jesus does is after the 

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third day of the inspection in 
the temple, Jesus celebrates 

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Passover meal with his disciples
a little early. 

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But you'll notice he waits till 
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went down. 
Then it says then they celebrate

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it, which in Jewish thinking, 
we, we think, well, the next day

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starts when the sun comes up. 
But in Jewish thinking, the day 

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starts when the sun goes down. 
So he's, he's jumping in right 

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at the very front of the day to,
to play on the rule that you 

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could have it the day before 
under certain circumstances. 

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And that's what he does. 
So he jumps in basil law and 

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they have this Passover meal and
you know the story how they set 

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this all up and it says that 
sunset, which was the beginning 

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of the next day, Jesus sat down 
with the disciples to celebrate 

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Passover. 
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chapter 14 where he says, where 
will you have us to go to 

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prepare the meal for the to eat 
the Passover? 

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And they were going to do this 
1500 year tradition exactly the 

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way every one of them had grown 
up doing it. 

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But here's what happens is Jesus
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we don't pick up on it. 
But if you were Jewish, you'd 

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pick up on it really quick 
because here's one of the things

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he does. 
Jesus actually takes the bread 

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of affliction and he holds it 
up. 

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Now there's this pouch that they
would have, and in the pouch 

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there'd be 3 pockets. 
And the one pocket they take the

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bread out and they break it and 
they give it to everybody. 

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And that symbolizes one thing. 
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bread out of the second pocket 
and they would pass that around 

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the bread from the third pocket 
nobody touches. 

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It was this tradition that was 
part of the Jewish culture for 

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for thousands of years and 
nobody really fully understand 

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it. 
But Jesus takes out this bread 

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of affliction and he holds this 
up. 

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Now if you're there, you're 
going, wait a minute. 

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This isn't part of the this 
isn't part of the ceremony. 

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What are you doing touching 
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And he holds this up. 
Remember the words. 

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He says, this is my body that's 
broken for you. 

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This is my body that's going to 
be afflicted for you. 

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He says, I want you to eat it. 
The first time these guys had 

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ever eaten that bread was that 
night that they celebrated with 

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Jesus. 
And he takes his bread 

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reflection and he makes it very 
clear, this is me. 

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And we read that in Peter. 
Peter understood this. 

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Later on, Peter writes this. 
He himself bore our sins and his

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body on the tree that we might 
die to sin and live in, but to 

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righteousness. 
By his wounds you have been 

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healed. 
By his afflictions, you've been 

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set free. 
And Peter knows that now. 

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But that night, there's that 
confusion. 

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I don't know what he's doing. 
I don't know if this is right, 

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but then Jesus takes it even 
further because it says, and 

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you, you know this part, but it 
says he took the cup. 

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Now it's important to notice 
that it doesn't say he takes a 

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cup, it says he takes the cup. 
It's a very subtle inflection 

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that points us to something 
without saying it, that the cup 

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that he took was the cup that 
nobody touches, which would be 

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the cup of Elijah. 
And he takes that cup and that 

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cup that Malachi prophesied that
when Elijah comes who who they 

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said John the Baptist was. 
But that's that's kind of 

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unpackaged that. 
But he takes this cup that was 

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to usher in the great day of the
Lord and he says what? 

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This is my blood that's being 
shed for you. 

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This is my blood of the new 
covenant of the new start or the

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fresh start, the great day of 
the Lord. 

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And again, these guys are 
sitting around going. 

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Nobody touches that, but the 
ones who would catch on would 

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go. 
This is the day. 

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This is significant. 
This is the great and awesome 

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day of the Lord that Malachi 
talks about Paul the apostle 

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Paul. 
He writes about this when when 

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he talks about communion service
that Last Supper Paul got it 

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because he says in the same way 
he he took the cup after supper 

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saying this cup, this cup is the
new covenant in my blood. 

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Do this as often you drink in 
remembrance of me and he took 

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that and ushered in the great 
and awesome day of the Lord. 

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So after the meal, Mark says 
this in in in Mark 14. 

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And when they had sung A hymn, 
so you you got to think of Jesus

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singing. 
That's remember thinking about 

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that. 
And when I never thought of him 

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singing. 
But for Jewish people songs was 

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was a great thing. 
Jesus sings with his disciples. 

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Then he went out to the Mount of
Olives and the story unfolds. 

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And and it's what we will 
celebrate on Good Friday and 

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what we'll celebrate on Easter 
is within 12 hours of Jesus 

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celebrating this Passover meal 
with his disciples, he's going 

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to be arrested and tried and 
beaten and hung on a cross and 

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will die and he'll die as a 
sacrificial lamb. 

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And Mark records it this way 
because Mark gives you details. 

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And when something's there in 
the Bible, it's not there just 

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by chance or it's just not there
for no reason. 

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It's there for a very specific 
reason because Mark says this. 

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And when it was 1/6 hour had 
come, that's noon, there was 

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darkness over the whole land. 
That's the middle of the day. 

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And at the 9th hour, which is 
about 3:00 in the afternoon, 

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Jesus cried out with a loud 
voice, My God, my God, why have 

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you forsaken me? 
And some of the bystanders 

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hearing it says, behold, he is 
calling Elijah. 

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And Jesus uttered a loud cry and
he breathed his last, and he 

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died 3:00 in the afternoon. 
And you go, well, that's 

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interesting, but irrelevant 
unless you know what happens in 

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the temple at 3:00 in the 
afternoon. 

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At 3:00 in the afternoon, all 
those lambs that have been 

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inspected are taken by the 
priest and they're slaughtered 

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00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,600
beginning exactly at that time 
because the law said to do it 

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between the the evenings and 
this was the time between the 

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evenings and at exactly the time
those lambs are being killed in 

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the temple courts. 
Mark makes it very clear that 

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Jesus utters his last and he 
dies. 

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This picture that gets presented
is this, this powerful picture 

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00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,960
that that we see in stained 
glass sometimes of, of this lamb

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that is is pictured as a 
conquering lamb. 

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This meek, insignificant animal 
is pictured as this conquering 

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leader. 
And Jesus who's so meek and so 

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loving and so kind, lays down 
his life for the sins of the 

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world. 
Jesus, the Lamb of God, who came

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at the direction of His Father, 
who so loved the world that He 

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sent His Son, that whoever 
believes in him will never 

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perish but have eternal life, 
would be set free. 

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Now those are the two things 
that Jesus did. 

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What about the third thing? 
This is purely theory. 

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You can do with this what you 
want. 

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This is, this is the word, 
according to Andy, which you can

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take or reject. 
I just find this curious. 

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00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,000
Remember the ceremonial flock? 
I want you to think of the 

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Christmas story. 
Remember the Christmas story 

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Luke records in Luke chapter 2? 
And lo, there are angels in the 

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fields keeping watch over their 
sheep at night. 

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Now here's the theory. 
Who were those shepherds and 

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why'd the Angel show up to those
shepherds? 

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Could it be, take it for what 
it's worth, that the shepherds 

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that the Angel appeared to were 
the shepherds of the ceremonial 

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flock that are out in Bethany 
outside of Bethlehem in the 

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lowlands where the sheep are, 
are grazing. 

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The sheep that would be taken 
into Jerusalem and and 

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00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,440
slaughtered as sacrificial 
lambs. 

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That the Angel would appear and 
say, hey guys, this flock you're

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watching over. 
If you come with me, I'm going 

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to show you the real lamb, the 
lamb that's going to completely 

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00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,720
change everything that these 
lambs that you have to raise 

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00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,720
every year. 
This one is going to do 

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00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,120
something once and for all 
that's going to completely 

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00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:04,080
change everything. 
That's one of those things in 

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00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:11,600
the story that makes me go, what
was God up to and how great is 

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00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:19,960
this story that pulls together? 
So Mark says there in Mark 11790

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00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,280
save us, we pray. 
Blessed is he who comes in the 

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00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,120
name of the Lord. 
And when those people shouted 

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00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,320
that or chanted that or sung 
that because it's a it's 

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actually a song and the song 
that they begin to spontaneously

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00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,560
sing as a group as Jesus comes 
in following these lambs are the

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00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:46,680
words of David from Psalms 118 
and Psalms 118 at verse 25 it 

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00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,360
says this and these words is 
hosanna. 

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00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:56,560
But it save us, we pray, O Lord,
oh Lord, we pray, give us 

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00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,920
success. 
Blessed is he who comes in the 

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00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,320
name of the Lord. 
We bless you from the House of 

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00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,120
the Lord. 
The Lord is God, and He has made

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00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:10,480
his light to shine upon us. 
Now here's your homework. 

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Read the verses that precede 
that, the verses that that come 

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00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:21,600
before this passage, and then 
read the verses that come after 

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00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,480
because this psalms ends with 
this line. 

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00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,840
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for
he is good for his steadfast 

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00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:36,960
love endures forever. 
Here's the thing. 

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00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:44,640
In the everyday things of life, 
in the rituals and the customs 

508
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:50,560
that you have for Easter, in the
everyday encounters of work or 

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00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:56,640
school or or whatever you're 
doing in your routine, you 

510
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:03,040
realize that God can intervene 
in that and show up in something

511
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,760
that seems so mundane or so 
ordinary. 

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00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:15,240
So what we want to be is people 
who understand that God steps 

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00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,320
into our lives and reveals 
himself because he loves to do 

514
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,960
that. 
And in the times where we're 

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00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,360
most confused or we don't know 
what's going on, the times where

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00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,320
we feel so oppressed, we feel 
like everything is is is is 

517
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,800
falling apart is a time that the
Lord is most likely to show up 

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00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,000
to say, let me show you 
something. 

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00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:43,200
So this Easter season, go in 
with the attitude of Lord, I 

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00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,920
need to see something. 
I need to see your hands upon 

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00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,440
this. 
I need to see your fingerprints 

522
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,960
on my life. 
I need to see that what I'm 

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00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,480
doing is not in vain. 
I need to see that you're still 

524
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,080
there. 
I need to see that there's hope 

525
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:05,720
that as we cry out, Lord save 
us, that our faith says there he

526
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:12,200
is and see Jesus in the story of
our lives and see Jesus in the 

527
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:20,200
practices that we have as we 
begin to trust the sacrificial 

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00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,760
lamb. 
It's not just for our salvation.

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00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:28,640
That's the big part that that 
while we were yet sinners, Jesus

530
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,760
came, that he said his whole 
mission was to seek and to save 

531
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,680
the lost. 
And we would look and say, those

532
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,680
who don't know Jesus, the lamb 
is, is the way to know Jesus. 

533
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,120
But I know most of you know 
Jesus. 

534
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,880
But sometimes in our knowing 
Jesus, especially if we've known

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00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:53,800
Jesus all of our lives, 
sometimes we forget that Jesus 

536
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,240
does interact in the everyday. 
And we haven't had that fresh 

537
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,760
encounter. 
We haven't had those fresh 

538
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,600
moments. 
We've had the traditions, we've 

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00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,720
had the customs, we had the the 
rituals that we do. 

540
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:15,480
But maybe this year we need to 
see Jesus in a brand new way and

541
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:20,320
he needs to disrupt a little bit
so that our attention not goes 

542
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,720
not just to what we're doing, 
but to who he is. 

543
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,160
So take everything that's going 
on and and yeah, we will deal 

544
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,720
with this, but take everything 
that's going on. 

545
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,400
But make your prayer. 
Lord, save us. 

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00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,360
Show yourself to us that we can 
follow you. 

547
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,720
And that's my prayer for you 
guys that that that there would 

548
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,560
just be this. 
There he is. 

549
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,200
There he is. 
I see it. 

550
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,920
Got a glimpse of it. 
And that will stir your faith to

551
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:02,880
keep going, to keep trusting. 
Are you willing to trust him for

552
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,240
the first time? 
Are you willing to trust him all

553
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,000
over again? 
Are you willing to trust him 

554
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,480
when you have no idea what's 
going to happen? 

555
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,400
Are you willing to trust that 
the Father loves you so much 

556
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,760
that he would send his son and 
his son loves you so much that 

557
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,320
he says, I will send my spirit 
who will be with you always to 

558
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:33,800
the very ends of the age right 
here, right now that we just 

559
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:39,960
need to pause and say, Lord, we 
want to see you, we want to feel

560
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:44,000
you, we want to know you and we 
want to follow you. 

561
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,000
Let's pray together. 
Lord, we thank you for your 

562
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:54,360
steadfast love. 
That doesn't it doesn't wane, 

563
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,840
but sometimes we get callous, we
get cold, we get we get settled.

564
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,760
So Lord, we pray that we don't 
turn away from You when times 

565
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,880
are difficult, but we turn to 
you in desperation, like the 

566
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,400
crowd that recognizes that thing
that just went by is good, but 

567
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,840
it's not Jesus. 
And that we would celebrate you,

568
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,640
Lord, and we would look to you, 
and we will listen for you, and 

569
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:29,120
we'll follow you, and we will 
enjoy the presence of your 

570
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:35,320
Spirit. 
Guide us Lord as a church, guide

571
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:40,280
us as a conference, guide us as 
individuals that we can radiate 

572
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:45,240
your glory, that we can live out
your salvation and we can be the

573
00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:47,680
light that others need to find 
you. 

574
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,280
So Lord, may you bless his 
congregation, bless the people 

575
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,560
that are here, bless those that 
are wandering even now. 

576
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,960
And Lord, may we all come 
together in the unity of the 

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00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:04,800
Spirit and bring glory to you. 
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.