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Jesus in the Passover Live 2025 w/ Jason Sobel | Jason Sobel: Jesus in the Passover 2025 | April 16, 2025
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- I want invite you to join me
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- For a live interactive passover experience.
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- ♪♪
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- We'll share significance of the elements and invite you to
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- Participate in this special experience from your own home.
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- ♪♪
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- 2025 or what we say in the jewish calendar,
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- 5785.
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- Welcome to jesus in the passover.
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- Holy week starts with palm sunday.
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- We move through the week,
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- And there's a complex set of emotions, jason, that we find
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- Ourselves in thursday, you know, kind of the day
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- Before good friday.
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- And we're meant to remember, we're meant to reminisce, but
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- Interestingly, we're also meant to have a joyous occasion.
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- But there's some unique
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- Perspectives. help us explain to our audience the emotions
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- That are present tonight.
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- The passover is meant to be a remembrance, and we're
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- Remembering two things.
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- One, we were slaves in egypt and the sufferings that our
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- Ancestors experienced, and then
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- There's the joy of the redemption.
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- And in the same way, yeshua jesus, as the greater than
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- Moses, as the greater passover
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- Lamb, goes through the sufferings.
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- And so that is a somber aspect
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- For those of us that follow him.
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- But yet, even it says in the scriptures, for the joy set
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- Before him, he endured the cross.
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- But i think what's really important to get is that while
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- The passover and while communion, taking of the
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- Lord's supper, yes, it is a remembrance.
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- Do this in remembrance of me.
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- And he instituted it at a passover seder.
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- But the biblical holidays are not just mere remembrances.
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- There's something so much more.
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- And what's interesting is that the hebrew word for the
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- Biblical holidays, one of them is chag.
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- Can you say chag without-- gotta get the chag in there, else
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- You're wishing a hog, and that's not kosher, right?
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- That's a hog.
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- Right? so you wish chag sameach, happy holiday.
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- And so the word hog actually comes from the hebrew word for
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- Circle because there is a
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- Secular nature to biblical holidays.
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- We know they come every year.
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- Wow. over and over, you go through them.
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- And there's something dynamic about it.
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- And what is that?
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- They're not just meant to be mere remembrances.
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- They're actually meant to be reactivations.
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- Yeah, reoccurrence. and reoccurrences.
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- So what god did at that day and that time happens again
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- And again and again in our life
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- Because he's the god of the again.
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- It's not just about passover past,
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- It's about passover present.
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- Yeah. i just wanted to welcome everyone and have you be
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- A part of tonight.
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- We're gonna take communion here in a minute, and
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- I remember sitting with my little grandma and grandpa
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- Watching nights like this where
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- We would take communion together.
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- And i don't care if you've got a little club cracker or you've
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- Got a little saltine or a little wheat thin maybe in
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- Your pantry, orange juice, anything will do.
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- But get out a little bit of communion, and
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- Let's take it together here in a minute.
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- You know, everything we live for and we would die for
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- Is about this week.
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- Holy week.
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- This is what we believe with
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- All of our hearts that happened,
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- And that jesus came, but that he died, and then
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- That he rose again for us.
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- So this is a very special time.
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- So let's just enter in together and be together tonight.
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- We're gonna be together for two hours tonight, and we're gonna
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- Be going in and out of segments that we've produced.
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- Jason, in this first piece,
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- Break down what we need to know about these reoccurrences, that
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- We're not supposed to just simply look back to the table
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- That would have been set in an upper room two thousand some
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- Odd years ago and think about it as a historical event.
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- We're supposed to reactivate those things.
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- What do you mean by that?
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- Yeah. what god did through moses when he brought israel
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- Out of egypt, all of us have our own personal egypts, places
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- Of confinement and restriction that god wants to redeem us and
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- Rescue us and deliver us from.
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- All of us have areas of our life where we need freedom,
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- Where we need deliverance.
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- That began with moses and the coming out of the children of
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- Israel at this time.
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- But it culminates and finds his ultimate fulfillment in jesus,
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- His hebrew name, yeshua, who is the greater than moses.
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- And when he celebrated this meal with his disciples, when
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- He gave his life on that cross, when he rose again, and we do
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- This in remembrance of him, it's not a static remembrance.
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- It's a dynamic remembrance because god is the same
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- Yesterday, today, and forever.
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- And that salvation power of the cross, of his resurrection, of
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- The ultimate passover is just as powerful to reach into our
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- Lives today and to impact us,
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- To change us, and to transform us.
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- So we come to the passover, we come to the table, we come
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- To these elements with an
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- Expectation and with an anticipation
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- That the body and the blood of the passover lamb is going to
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- Reactivate, meaning that redemptive, transformative, new
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- Creation power is going to be released in our lives in a new,
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- Real, and tangible way.
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- It feels like in 5785
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- And sitting here today that we have
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- Had some kind of cyclical rebirth.
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- You were mentioning josiah.
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- Feels like we're living in some kind of a josiah type event
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- Right here, right now.
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- I was reading, ii kings chapter 22 in the story
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- Of one of the great kings of
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- Israel by the name of king josiah.
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- Many of the kings after solomon failed horribly and actually
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- Did not walk with god and led the people astray
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- Into idolatrous practices.
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- But josiah was one of the revival kings of israel,
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- One of the great kings of israel.
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- He decides-- you know, he wants to restore the temple.
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- And as they're fixing the temple, the scribe hilkiah
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- Comes across something that was hidden.
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- It's a scroll of the torah, of the five books of moses.
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- So it seems to imply, in some way, the torah had been lost.
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- It's found.
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- It's read.
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- It's read to him.
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- He's like, oh my goodness, we've made mistakes.
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- We have to return to god's word.
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- We have to bring reformation in our nation.
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- They begin to remove all of
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- This negative stuff from the land.
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- And then as part of that, they actually institute a passover,
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- And it leads to a passover revival.
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- And what's interesting is that the scriptures tell us in that
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- Passage that they had never celebrated passover in that
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- Way, on that level, with that degree of meaning and
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- Passion since the days of the prophet samuel.
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- I feel that is the moment in history that we are
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- Reliving right now.
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- There's a hunger and a desire and awakening to connect to the
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- Jewish roots, jew and gentile, old and new, which i think is a
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- Prophetic significance of preparing for a great revival
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- In our nation.
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- And then, of course, there was a reformation, and i see
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- A reformation beginning to happen in our nation.
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- Faith is no longer forced to be on the outside.
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- Right? it's coming front and center again.
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- Israel's coming front and center again.
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- There's a growing sense of optimism in our nation.
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- And i feel like we're on the verge, and we're beginning to
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- See reformation, renewal,
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- Like in the deja zion.
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- Which feels like one of the cyclical moments that you're
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- Talking about, that we're not celebrating something
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- That is just a dead
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- Historical event.
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- These events are alive.
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- They are meant to be celebrated that way.
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- And when you take communion with us here in a few minutes,
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- Get your elements prepared and all of that.
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- This is meant to be a right now thing.
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- What god did in those days,
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- He wants to do again in our lives today.
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- This is jesus and the passover 2025.
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- Join us for communion here in a little bit.
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- Get your elements prepared, and let's go into the seder meal
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- Service right now with jason sobel.
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- ♪♪
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- You know, many people know, but some don't, that the
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- Last supper was actually a passover seder.
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- And that's why this is so significant.
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- We can't fully understand what jesus, his hebrew name, yeshua,
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- What he was doing with his disciples as they gathered
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- Around the table on this very special evening in history.
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- Passover reminds us of the exodus, the coming forth out of
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- Egypt, but it also reminds us that what god did in the past
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- Is not just in the past.
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- The hebrew word for the holidays is the word chagim
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- Or the word chag, and it literally means a circle.
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- Why is there this connection between holiday and a circle?
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- Because what god did in the past, he wants to do again and
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- Again and again in our life.
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- Passover is not just a mere remembrance.
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- It is meant to be a reoccurrence because god is
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- The same yesterday, today, and forever.
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- And just like he brought redemption in the days of
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- Moses, just like he brought salvation through jesus, our
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- Messiah, and freedom as a result, so god wants to do
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- Something powerful in your life right now, this evening, at
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- This time, because this is literally on the biblical
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- Calendar, a season and a month of miracles.
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- So let's believe god to do
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- Something miraculous and supernatural.
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- So think about it for a moment.
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- Maybe some of you have seen that famous picture of da
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- Vinci's last supper, and maybe if you're like myself, you'll
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- Notice there are a few things
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- That are not quite kosher about it.
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- Did you notice the type of
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- Bread they're eating in the picture?
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- Big, fluffy, loaves of white bread.
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- If there's anything you don't eat at the feast of unleavened
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- Bread, it is wonder bread.
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- Okay? just saying.
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- Something else that's unusual about the picture is what
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- They're eating for the main course.
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- Listen. they should have been eating the passover lamb, but
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- They're actually eating fish because da vinci was a nice
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- Catholic boy, and you eat fish on fridays during lent.
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- Okay? and there's another mystery.
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- I'm not sure how today the passover lamb became the easter
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- Ham, but that is gonna be one of my first questions when i
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- Get to heaven for god to explain to me.
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- It's a mystery, but someday we'll figure it out.
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- But all that to say is that the picture didn't quite
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- Get it right, and we wanna get it right this evening.
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- We wanna see the bible in context, but more importantly,
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- We wanna see the scriptures in high definition.
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- And i believe that as we look through all the elements here
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- This evening, we are gonna see it come to life in a powerful
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- Way, maybe in a way you've never seen it before.
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- So i am super excited.
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- I am also blessed to have some very special guests with us
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- This evening.
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- First, we have pastor alan jackson
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- From world outreach church.
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- Thank you so much you're welcome.
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- For being with us.
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- You have such an incredible ministry impacting the world,
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- Part of the tbn family as well.
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- And your wonderful wife, kathy, is with us as well, she's gonna
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- Be helping me in a moment when we get started.
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- We got my friend, nicole c.
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- Amazing, amazing artist, singer, songwriter, and so glad
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- To be able to have you, to be able to interact with you.
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- I know you are passionate about going deep into the word.
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- And last but not least, my wife, miriam.
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- Some of you might know her as miriam webster.
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- She's a recording artist as well, but so glad that she is
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- Here with us here this evening.
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- Now as we begin the passover, we always begin with the
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- Lighting of the candles.
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- God is pictured in the bible as fire, as light.
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- By lighting the candles, we are gonna usher in the
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- Light of god's presence here this evening.
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- So i wanna ask you, cathy, would you please come and light
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- The candles for us?
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- Biblical holidays always begin in the evening because
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- Genesis 1:1 says this,
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- [speaking hebrew]
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- It was evening and morning the first day.
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- So just like the biblical day begins in the evening, so every
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- Biblical holiday begins in the evening as well.
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- Thank you.
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- And we are gonna say the blessing.
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- Blessed are you, oh, lord, our god, king of the living
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- Universe, who has sanctified us by his commandments and has
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- Commanded us to be a light to the nations and has given us
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- Yeshua the messiah, the light of the world.
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- Amen. you'll notice here this evening that i'll be
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- Reading out of a book.
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- Now i had a friend by the name of chris, who i went to college
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- With, and he saw me reading out of this book with my family.
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- Everyone had one around the table, and he said, jason,
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- I wanna come to your house for dinner.
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- I said, chris, you don't even know if my mom is a good cook.
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- He said, listen.
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- Any family that reads out of a menu around their dinner table,
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- I wanna go to their house.
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- I said, chris, i'm sorry to disappoint you.
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- This is not the menu for the evening.
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- We'd be eating a lot.
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- This is known as a haggadah.
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- Haggadah means to tell.
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- This contains the seder.
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- Seder means order.
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- This has the order of the passover for the evening,
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- All of the blessings, all of the readings.
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- So you'll notice that at times, i will be reading out of here
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- As we go forward.
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- Now with that, it is time to come to the first step
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- In the passover seder.
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- It is known as the first cup.
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- Now you're gonna notice that
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- There are four cups here this evening.
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- Why are there four cups?
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- Because in exodus 6:6 and 7, there are four things
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- God says.
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- He says, therefore, say to the children of israel,
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- I am adonai the lord.
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- I will bring you out of the burdens under the burdens
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- Of the egyptians.
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- I will deliver you, number two, from their bondage.
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- I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great
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- Judgments, and i will take you for myself to be my people.
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- The four i wills, the four aspects of redemption,
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- Exodus 6:6 and 7.
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- Hence, we have here the four cups.
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- Now, whenever we drink one of these cups and we invite you to
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- Drink along and participate as much as you want, we always
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- After we say the blessing,
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- When we drink it, we lean to the left.
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- Now this has nothing to do with your politics.
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- Okay? just to be clear, we lean to the left because in ancient
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- Times when we were in egypt, we had to eat at the beck and call
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- Of our master, and so we are now free men and women.
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- To celebrate the fact that we are royalty, we recline at the
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- Table as jesus and the disciples reclined at the
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- Tables to remember this.
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- This first cup,
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- The cup of sanctification, this first step known as kadesh,
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- We bless the cup.
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- We're saying, god, sanctify this evening.
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- Invest it with holiness.
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- Invest it with your presence.
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- Bring forth the depths of the meaning, and we fill the cup
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- To the brim because god doesn't
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- Want us to live out of the lack.
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- He wants us to live out of the overflow.
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- That god not only sets apart times and seasons, but he sets
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- Apart us to be part of his kingdom and to serve him.
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- We are part of his royal priesthood.
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- We are part of the holy nation in messiah, yeshua, jesus.
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- Amen. and when he had taken a
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- Cup, he offered a bracha, a blessing.
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- He said, take this and share it among yourselves, for i tell
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- You, i will never drink of the fruit of the vine until i drink
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- It in the kingdom of god.
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- Would you pour some grape
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- Juice, and would you raise your cup?
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- And i'm gonna say the blessing.
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- [singing in hebrew]
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- Amen.
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- Blessed are you, oh, lord our god, king of the universe,
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- Who brings forth the fruit of the vine.
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- Okay. everyone, lean to your left and drink.
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- Check your coordination.
- 00:19:20.916 --> 00:19:23.819
- And then we come to the second step of the passover seder
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- Known as [hebrew], and
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- We are going to wash our hands.
- 00:19:31.760 --> 00:19:36.331
- Part of the reason why we wash our hands is because we're
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- Wanting to prepare ourselves to partake of this wonderful
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- Evening here.
- 00:19:43.805 --> 00:19:44.940
- But what's really interesting,
- 00:19:44.940 --> 00:19:46.908
- It was at this point in the seder
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- That yeshua jesus does something very significant.
- 00:19:51.146 --> 00:19:56.051
- Usually, the leader would wash his hands.
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- But what does jesus do?
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- He actually gets down
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- And begins to wash the feet of the disciples.
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- A great act of service, a great act of humility,
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- A king washing the feet of his subjects.
- 00:20:17.906 --> 00:20:21.643
- But, of course, friends, there is something more here.
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- There is something deeper here.
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- Did you ever wonder why it is significant that of all the
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- Parts of the body that he could
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- Wash, he washes the feet of the disciples?
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- Well, think about it for a moment.
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- In the temple, before the priest could minister, before a
- 00:20:44.032 --> 00:20:49.271
- Sacrifice could be offered, before they could offer incense
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- Or praise to god, before they could do anything in service
- 00:20:53.075 --> 00:20:57.412
- To the lord, what did they have to do?
- 00:20:57.412 --> 00:20:59.414
- They had to wash both their hands and their feet.
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- Not at a concern for spiritual purity.
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- We all know the saying.
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- I grew up, my mom saying
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- Cleanliness is next to godliness.
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- Doesn't it say that in the good book?
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- It doesn't say that in the good book.
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- Okay? just to be clear.
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- It's not about physical cleanliness.
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- It is about spiritual
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- Cleanliness and about spiritual purity.
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- It's about coming before the lord with clean hands
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- And a pure heart.
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- It's about god washing away the dirt from the past,
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- And we need god to wash that away for us.
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- And so jesus was washing the feet of his disciples.
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- Later, they would wash their hands
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- Because he was cleansing them and preparing them, and later
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- On would give them the holy spirit, the ruach of kodesh,
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- Because he was setting them apart to be part of his royal
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- Priesthood to serve him.
- 00:21:54.136 --> 00:21:56.538
- And, of course, there's more.
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- Think about it for a moment.
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- Feet are associated with redemption.
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- Blessed are the feet of him who brings good news, who
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- Proclaims to zion, our god reigns.
- 00:22:06.581 --> 00:22:08.784
- And the first messianic prophecy in the bible was the
- 00:22:08.884 --> 00:22:12.187
- Seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent.
- 00:22:12.187 --> 00:22:16.024
- The messiah's feet would destroy the enemy.
- 00:22:16.024 --> 00:22:19.795
- And, of course,
- 00:22:19.895 --> 00:22:21.663
- Yeshua had his feet anointed by mary of bethany, and we see
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- This connection even to moses because when god appeared to
- 00:22:26.401 --> 00:22:29.905
- Moses in the burning bush, he said, take off your shoes.
- 00:22:29.905 --> 00:22:33.408
- You're standing on holy ground.
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- Even the redemption and the call to redeem israel from
- 00:22:35.644 --> 00:22:39.281
- Egypt began with taking off the shoes as a sign of preparation
- 00:22:39.281 --> 00:22:44.286
- That god was about to undo the past and to bring a new thing.
- 00:22:44.286 --> 00:22:49.558
- The hebrew word for sandals, when god says to moses,
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- Take off your sandals, the hebrew word is na'alayim.
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- Can you say na'alayim?
- 00:22:56.898 --> 00:22:58.200
- And the word for sandals actually comes from the
- 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:02.537
- Hebrew word for lock.
- 00:23:02.537 --> 00:23:04.172
- See, there were some things that was locking moses
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- Out of his destiny.
- 00:23:07.409 --> 00:23:08.510
- God, you can't use me.
- 00:23:08.510 --> 00:23:09.778
- I'm too old.
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- I'm heavy of speech.
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- I'm slow of tongue.
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- Send my brother aaron.
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- You can't send me.
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- Friends, all of us have those things that are like egypt's
- 00:23:16.685 --> 00:23:20.689
- That are locking us out of who god has called us to be and
- 00:23:20.689 --> 00:23:24.659
- What he wants us to become.
- 00:23:24.659 --> 00:23:26.595
- We have things from the old season, and god is saying,
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- Take those off.
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- Okay? you're about to step into something new.
- 00:23:30.732 --> 00:23:34.336
- You can't wear the sandals of the old season when god's
- 00:23:34.436 --> 00:23:37.706
- Called you to step up into something new.
- 00:23:37.706 --> 00:23:40.141
- So friends, there are some things you all need to leave
- 00:23:40.141 --> 00:23:42.644
- In egypt here this evening.
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- Okay? there are some things you need to leave at the lord's
- 00:23:43.979 --> 00:23:47.148
- Table as you step out of the old and you prepare to
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- Step in to the new.
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- ♪ a thousand generations falling down in worship to sing
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- ♪ the song of ages to the lamb
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- ♪ your name is the highest, your name is the greatest
- 00:24:16.411 --> 00:24:26.121
- ♪ your name stand above them all
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- ♪ and the angels cry holy, all creation cries holy
- 00:24:31.560 --> 00:24:44.172
- ♪ you are lifted high, holy,
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- ♪ holy forever
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- ♪ forever [applause]
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- Wow. god is so holy, so amazing.
- 00:28:01.903 --> 00:28:05.206
- We come to the next step in the passover seder that
- 00:28:05.306 --> 00:28:09.677
- Jesus would have celebrated with his disciples.
- 00:28:09.677 --> 00:28:12.013
- It is known as karpas.
- 00:28:12.013 --> 00:28:14.149
- Can you say karpas?
- 00:28:14.149 --> 00:28:15.550
- Karpas. karpas is actually a greek word that gets into the
- 00:28:15.650 --> 00:28:20.955
- Jewish seder, comes from the greek word fruit.
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- And we are gonna take a piece of green, in this case,
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- A piece of parsley.
- 00:28:28.062 --> 00:28:29.364
- I invite all of you to take your piece of parsley and dip
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- It in your saltwater.
- 00:28:32.901 --> 00:28:34.702
- Let me ask you a question.
- 00:28:34.702 --> 00:28:36.070
- When you think about saltwater, why do you think it represents
- 00:28:36.070 --> 00:28:39.541
- Here at the passover seder?
- 00:28:39.541 --> 00:28:41.409
- The tears of the slaves, the sweat of our brow, the
- 00:28:41.509 --> 00:28:46.314
- Saltiness of the red sea that god parted for our ancestors.
- 00:28:46.314 --> 00:28:51.186
- The green reminds us of the hyssop that we used to put the
- 00:28:51.286 --> 00:28:54.789
- Blood on the doorposts of our homes in egypt.
- 00:28:54.789 --> 00:28:59.060
- It also is a reminder of the fact that in ancient times,
- 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.764
- When you had a banquet that was with people of means, like you
- 00:29:02.764 --> 00:29:08.403
- Go to a fancy restaurant, you have a multi course meal.
- 00:29:08.403 --> 00:29:12.540
- And so you would begin by taking of a greenery like this
- 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:16.544
- Because it is meant to cleanse your palate so that you could
- 00:29:16.644 --> 00:29:20.448
- Prepare to eat of the different foods that are before us.
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- We're gonna take the karpas,
- 00:29:24.185 --> 00:29:27.188
- And we're gonna remember the suffering.
- 00:29:27.288 --> 00:29:29.290
- We're gonna remember the tears, and we're gonna remember the
- 00:29:29.290 --> 00:29:31.893
- Fact that just like god saw the tears of israel, he sees
- 00:29:31.893 --> 00:29:37.398
- Every one of your tears.
- 00:29:37.398 --> 00:29:39.767
- He knows every tear you've cried.
- 00:29:40.568 --> 00:29:43.338
- He knows every loss that you've ever gone through, and not
- 00:29:43.438 --> 00:29:49.010
- One tear will be forgotten.
- 00:29:49.010 --> 00:29:50.812
- It is remembered in heaven.
- 00:29:50.912 --> 00:29:52.814
- In one day, he will wipe every tear from your eye just like he
- 00:29:52.914 --> 00:29:58.019
- Wiped the tears from the children of israel's eyes when
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- After generations, he remembered and brought them
- 00:30:01.189 --> 00:30:04.759
- Forth at the land of israel.
- 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:07.095
- Let's say the blessing.
- 00:30:07.195 --> 00:30:30.585
- Say with me, blessed are you.
- 00:30:31.286 --> 00:30:33.688
- Blessed are you.
- 00:30:33.688 --> 00:30:34.222
- Oh, lord our god.
- 00:30:34.222 --> 00:30:34.956
- King of the universe.
- 00:30:35.523 --> 00:30:38.526
- Creator. creator.
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- Of the fruit.
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- Of the ground.
- 00:30:41.262 --> 00:30:42.597
- Amen.
- 00:30:42.897 --> 00:30:43.498
- Let's take and eat.
- 00:30:44.032 --> 00:30:45.333
- So we talked about the karpas,
- 00:30:45.433 --> 00:30:51.639
- But now we're gonna talk about one of the most
- 00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:56.411
- Spiritually significant
- 00:30:56.411 --> 00:30:58.446
- Moments that's gonna lead to an even more important
- 00:30:59.514 --> 00:31:05.386
- Deeper moment in the passover seder.
- 00:31:05.386 --> 00:31:07.422
- It's called yahash.
- 00:31:07.522 --> 00:31:08.890
- Can you say yahash?
- 00:31:08.890 --> 00:31:10.158
- You gotta get the without spitting on your neighbor.
- 00:31:10.158 --> 00:31:12.927
- Okay? making you jewish here this evening.
- 00:31:13.895 --> 00:31:16.431
- Okay? little israeli there.
- 00:31:16.431 --> 00:31:17.899
- This is known as a matzah tash.
- 00:31:17.899 --> 00:31:20.635
- Say matzah tash.
- 00:31:20.635 --> 00:31:21.903
- This is a matzah bag.
- 00:31:21.903 --> 00:31:24.672
- And in this matzah bag, there
- 00:31:24.772 --> 00:31:27.008
- Are actually three compartments.
- 00:31:27.008 --> 00:31:29.911
- And in each one of these compartments, there is a piece
- 00:31:30.011 --> 00:31:34.148
- Of matzah of unleavened bread.
- 00:31:34.148 --> 00:31:37.785
- And what we are going to do at this moment is that we are
- 00:31:37.785 --> 00:31:41.289
- Actually going to take here the middle piece of matzah,
- 00:31:41.289 --> 00:31:46.894
- And we are gonna break it in two uneven pieces.
- 00:31:46.894 --> 00:31:50.832
- And the smaller piece, we will put back into the middle pouch.
- 00:31:50.932 --> 00:31:55.536
- And the larger piece in a moment, we are gonna take and
- 00:31:55.636 --> 00:31:58.906
- Wrap up in a linen cloth, and then it would be traditional
- 00:31:58.906 --> 00:32:02.910
- To hide that middle piece of matzah.
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- That becomes what is known as the afikomen.
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- Can you say afikomen?
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- [repeating]
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- But the question that we have to ask is why are there
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- Three pieces of matzah?
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- What does it refer to?
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- Some say it refers to the division of the people of
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- Israel, the priests, the levites, and the rest of
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- The tribes of israel.
- 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:27.101
- Others say it refers to abraham, isaac, and jacob,
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- The three the three patriarchs.
- 00:32:33.908 --> 00:32:35.810
- Now you have to understand, where there's three jews,
- 00:32:35.810 --> 00:32:38.012
- There's six opinions.
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- So there's lots of opinions on what these three pieces
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- Of matzah mean.
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- But i want us to think about
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- The spiritual significance of this.
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- When they say abraham, isaac, and jacob, if we break the
- 00:32:46.954 --> 00:32:51.325
- Middle piece of matzah, then what does it refer to?
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- It refers to isaac.
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- Why is that significant?
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- Because think about it for a moment.
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- Isaac is a type of messiah.
- 00:33:03.071 --> 00:33:05.039
- God said, take your son, your only begotten son, and offer
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- Him on the mountain that i will show you.
- 00:33:09.177 --> 00:33:11.279
- Isaac carried his own wood like jesus carried his cross.
- 00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:15.683
- Think about it for a moment.
- 00:33:15.783 --> 00:33:17.385
- What's amazing here is that the hebrew's alphanumeric,
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- That means you write numbers with letters.
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- So every word has a numerical value.
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- The numerical value of isaac has the same
- 00:33:25.660 --> 00:33:31.799
- Numerical value of something also very significant as well.
- 00:33:31.899 --> 00:33:39.474
- And so what this ultimately points to is the fact that
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- Isaac is a picture of the messiah because these
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- Two matzahs point to the two messiahs.
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- Jews usually believe there's two messiahs.
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- Messiah, son of joseph, the suffering servant, and messiah,
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- Son of david, the one who's gonna rule and reign.
- 00:33:59.527 --> 00:34:02.296
- The numerical value of isaac has the same numerical value
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- Of son of joseph.
- 00:34:06.033 --> 00:34:07.401
- It points to joseph as the one who's gonna suffer.
- 00:34:07.401 --> 00:34:11.939
- In the first coming, jesus came as a suffering servant,
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- And he was literally what?
- 00:34:16.277 --> 00:34:17.278
- The son of joseph to die for us.
- 00:34:17.278 --> 00:34:20.414
- And the letters of isaac's name can be rearranged, the rabbis
- 00:34:20.515 --> 00:34:24.685
- Tell us, to make this hebrew phrase, [hebrew].
- 00:34:24.685 --> 00:34:29.423
- In the end, he will live.
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- Three pieces broken, wrapped away, brought back at the end.
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- Are you getting the picture?
- 00:34:36.898 --> 00:34:38.533
- The deep spiritual significance here.
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- This world, the world to come, the first coming of
- 00:34:40.801 --> 00:34:44.272
- The messiah, the second coming of the messiah.
- 00:34:44.272 --> 00:34:47.308
- And it also reminds us that god can bring wholeness
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- And blessing out of our brokenness.
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- If we give him the broken pieces, god can do something
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- Beautiful with it.
- 00:34:57.285 --> 00:34:58.853
- With that, we come to the next step in the passover seder.
- 00:34:58.953 --> 00:35:03.024
- It is known as the magid.
- 00:35:03.024 --> 00:35:05.026
- Can you say magid?
- 00:35:05.026 --> 00:35:06.394
- Magid. it is the telling of the passover story.
- 00:35:06.394 --> 00:35:10.164
- It is incumbent upon us in every generation to let our
- 00:35:10.264 --> 00:35:14.068
- Kids understand the meaning of the great redemption that god
- 00:35:14.068 --> 00:35:17.905
- Brought for our ancestors.
- 00:35:17.905 --> 00:35:19.807
- And one of the key parts of the magid is when the youngest
- 00:35:19.907 --> 00:35:24.579
- Member of the family recites
- 00:35:24.579 --> 00:35:26.447
- What is known as the four questions.
- 00:35:26.447 --> 00:35:29.150
- Let's watch this.
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- Why is this night different from all other nights?
- 00:35:40.328 --> 00:35:43.931
- On every other night, we eat on every other night, we eat
- 00:35:44.031 --> 00:35:48.636
- Either a leavened bread or unleavened bread.
- 00:35:48.636 --> 00:35:51.672
- But on this night, why do we eat only mata?
- 00:35:51.772 --> 00:35:54.275
- Unleavened bread.
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- On every other night,
- 00:35:56.577 --> 00:35:58.579
- We eat many different kinds of vegetables.
- 00:35:58.579 --> 00:36:00.681
- But on this night, why do we eat only maror?
- 00:36:00.781 --> 00:36:03.184
- Bitter herbs.
- 00:36:03.184 --> 00:36:04.719
- On every other night, we
- 00:36:05.319 --> 00:36:09.457
- We do not dip our vegetables even once.
- 00:36:10.424 --> 00:36:13.728
- So why do we dip them twice?
- 00:36:13.828 --> 00:36:17.465
- On every other night, we eat sitting or reclining.
- 00:36:17.565 --> 00:36:22.036
- But on this night, i do only reclining.
- 00:36:22.136 --> 00:36:38.252
- We were slaves to pharaoh in egypt, but the lord our god
- 00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:44.158
- Set us forth from there with a
- 00:36:44.158 --> 00:36:46.527
- Mighty hand and an outstretched dawn.
- 00:36:46.527 --> 00:36:50.031
- If the holy one had not set us forth from there, then we,
- 00:36:51.332 --> 00:36:57.405
- Our children, and our children's children would still be
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- Slaves to pharaoh and egypt.
- 00:37:00.808 --> 00:37:02.410
- So, to honor our redeemer,
- 00:37:03.077 --> 00:37:08.349
- We retell the story of our exodus each year on this night.
- 00:37:08.449 --> 00:37:13.854
- So part of the significance of the youngest child asking the
- 00:37:13.954 --> 00:37:19.160
- Four questions is that learning is meant to be dynamic.
- 00:37:19.160 --> 00:37:23.331
- It is not meant to be passive, but it's meant to be engaging,
- 00:37:23.331 --> 00:37:27.468
- Like going back and forth, and wrestling with the truth
- 00:37:27.568 --> 00:37:31.639
- Of god's word.
- 00:37:31.639 --> 00:37:32.773
- And it's such a powerful way to
- 00:37:32.773 --> 00:37:34.508
- See that in action at the passover.
- 00:37:34.508 --> 00:37:37.845
- And then we would tell the passover story.
- 00:37:37.945 --> 00:37:41.716
- You remember this story.
- 00:37:41.816 --> 00:37:43.017
- Right? the children of israel went down to egypt during
- 00:37:43.017 --> 00:37:46.787
- The time of famine.
- 00:37:46.787 --> 00:37:48.122
- There arose a pharaoh who did not remember what god had done
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- By helping to save egypt
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- Through joseph, the nice jewish boy.
- 00:37:54.895 --> 00:37:58.165
- He enslaved the children of israel.
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- And after hundreds of years, god remembered them.
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- He heard their cry.
- 00:38:03.637 --> 00:38:04.939
- He raised up moses to be a deliverer.
- 00:38:04.939 --> 00:38:08.075
- And moses went to pharaoh, and he said those famous words.
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- What are they?
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- Let my people go.
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- Let my people go that they might worship me.
- 00:38:15.149 --> 00:38:19.553
- And nine times, pharaoh hardened his heart and
- 00:38:19.653 --> 00:38:23.424
- Changed his mind.
- 00:38:23.424 --> 00:38:24.725
- And after the tenth plague, the worst plague, the death of the
- 00:38:24.825 --> 00:38:28.329
- Firstborn, he finally relented
- 00:38:28.329 --> 00:38:30.765
- And let the children of israel go.
- 00:38:30.765 --> 00:38:33.334
- They left quickly out of egypt, but then he changed their mind.
- 00:38:33.434 --> 00:38:37.438
- He changed his mind.
- 00:38:37.438 --> 00:38:38.139
- Said, listen,
- 00:38:38.139 --> 00:38:39.173
- Is gonna crumble.
- 00:38:39.640 --> 00:38:41.075
- The stock market, bitcoin, crypto, what's gonna happen
- 00:38:41.175 --> 00:38:45.012
- If we don't get those children of
- 00:38:45.012 --> 00:38:46.280
- Israel and bring them back to egypt?
- 00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:48.449
- And so he mounted the horses and the chariots, and he went
- 00:38:48.449 --> 00:38:52.052
- After them, and israel seemed
- 00:38:52.052 --> 00:38:53.654
- To be in a precarious situation.
- 00:38:53.654 --> 00:38:55.423
- The red sea on one side, the advancing army of pharaoh
- 00:38:55.523 --> 00:38:59.260
- On the other side.
- 00:38:59.260 --> 00:39:00.394
- But god can make a way when there seems to be no way.
- 00:39:00.494 --> 00:39:04.398
- And he parted the red sea, and he brought the children
- 00:39:04.398 --> 00:39:07.401
- Of israel through, and
- 00:39:07.401 --> 00:39:08.669
- He closed the waters on the oppressors, and god brought
- 00:39:08.669 --> 00:39:12.640
- A great deliverance.
- 00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:13.641
- Amen?
- 00:39:13.641 --> 00:39:15.009
- Amen. and that is in part what we celebrate here this evening.
- 00:39:15.009 --> 00:39:19.046
- We're also gonna talk about in a minute the yeshua jesus
- 00:39:19.146 --> 00:39:22.817
- Messianic part, but that is the foundation.
- 00:39:22.817 --> 00:39:25.920
- Now passover is all about the mouth.
- 00:39:26.020 --> 00:39:28.556
- Passover in hebrew, pesach.
- 00:39:28.656 --> 00:39:30.424
- Can you say pesach?
- 00:39:30.424 --> 00:39:31.659
- Pesach. can mean pesach.
- 00:39:31.659 --> 00:39:33.828
- Can literally mean the mouth speaks because there is
- 00:39:33.928 --> 00:39:38.532
- Power in our speech.
- 00:39:38.532 --> 00:39:39.934
- Life and death is in the power of the tongue.
- 00:39:40.034 --> 00:39:42.903
- God created the world with words.
- 00:39:42.903 --> 00:39:45.439
- Our words create worlds.
- 00:39:45.439 --> 00:39:47.408
- That's why proclaiming the gospel is what god uses to
- 00:39:47.408 --> 00:39:51.178
- Burst salvation in people, new creation.
- 00:39:51.178 --> 00:39:54.482
- And so listen, right now on the hebrew calendar, we are in
- 00:39:54.582 --> 00:39:58.319
- The decade of the pay, the decade of the mouth.
- 00:39:58.319 --> 00:40:01.889
- So listen, it pays to have a big pay in this decade.
- 00:40:01.889 --> 00:40:04.658
- If you got a big pay, this is your mouth.
- 00:40:04.658 --> 00:40:06.560
- This is your this is your time and season.
- 00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:08.162
- Okay? so part of what that means is that we have to
- 00:40:08.162 --> 00:40:11.532
- Use our pay to make some declarations.
- 00:40:11.532 --> 00:40:13.801
- So we are gonna make some declarations together.
- 00:40:13.901 --> 00:40:16.704
- Let's say it with our heart.
- 00:40:16.704 --> 00:40:18.405
- Say it like you mean it.
- 00:40:18.405 --> 00:40:19.807
- Let's believe that god has empowered us by faith and by
- 00:40:19.807 --> 00:40:23.511
- The spirit to call forth things that are not as if they were.
- 00:40:23.511 --> 00:40:26.914
- Okay? say this
- 00:40:26.914 --> 00:40:27.648
- With me.
- 00:40:27.648 --> 00:40:28.282
- I am coming out of egypt.
- 00:40:28.282 --> 00:40:31.151
- I am free. i am free.
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- I will possess.
- 00:40:37.191 --> 00:40:38.926
- I will possess. my promises in messiah.
- 00:40:39.026 --> 00:40:42.363
- I will stand for truth
- 00:40:42.930 --> 00:40:46.634
- I will stand for truth.
- 00:40:46.634 --> 00:40:48.035
- Justice. justice.
- 00:40:48.035 --> 00:40:49.770
- Righteousness. righteousness.
- 00:40:49.770 --> 00:40:51.639
- And freedom. and freedom.
- 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:53.407
- Today. today.
- 00:40:53.407 --> 00:40:54.975
- And every day, and every day.
- 00:40:55.075 --> 00:40:57.411
- I will declare, i will declare.
- 00:40:57.411 --> 00:40:59.647
- What messiah yeshua, what messiah yeshua,
- 00:40:59.647 --> 00:41:02.683
- Has done for me. has done for me.
- 00:41:02.783 --> 00:41:06.153
- Amen?
- 00:41:06.153 --> 00:41:08.289
- Amen. god is good.
- 00:41:08.789 --> 00:41:10.424
- Listen. as we said, god is the same yesterday,
- 00:41:10.424 --> 00:41:15.029
- Today, and forever.
- 00:41:15.029 --> 00:41:16.063
- It's not just about what he's done in the past.
- 00:41:16.163 --> 00:41:18.799
- It's about what he wants to do for you today in the present.
- 00:41:18.899 --> 00:41:22.636
- Egypt in hebrew is mitzrayim.
- 00:41:23.404 --> 00:41:25.539
- Can you say mitzrayim?
- 00:41:25.539 --> 00:41:26.907
- Mitzrayim. literally comes from the hebrew word, which means
- 00:41:26.907 --> 00:41:29.777
- A place of confinement or restriction.
- 00:41:29.777 --> 00:41:32.313
- Each one of us has our own personal egypts.
- 00:41:32.413 --> 00:41:35.449
- Each one of us has those things that wanna box us in.
- 00:41:35.549 --> 00:41:38.319
- But guess what?
- 00:41:38.319 --> 00:41:39.186
- God wants you to come out of the box.
- 00:41:39.186 --> 00:41:42.056
- Say, i am coming out of the box.
- 00:41:42.156 --> 00:41:44.158
- I am coming
- 00:41:44.158 --> 00:41:44.692
- Out of the box.
- 00:41:44.692 --> 00:41:45.392
- Turn to someone and
- 00:41:45.392 --> 00:41:46.293
- Say, you're coming out of the box.
- 00:41:46.293 --> 00:41:47.661
- You're coming out of the box.
- 00:41:47.661 --> 00:41:48.896
- He wants to bring you out of your personal egypts,
- 00:41:48.896 --> 00:41:52.800
- But we have a tradition.
- 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:54.401
- We have to do this.
- 00:41:54.935 --> 00:41:56.036
- Friends, you ready?
- 00:41:56.036 --> 00:41:57.338
- Okay. hold on here.
- 00:41:57.438 --> 00:41:59.039
- [rapping]
- 00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:00.274
- God brought us out of egypt land with a mighty arm and
- 00:42:00.274 --> 00:42:04.812
- With an outstretched hand.
- 00:42:04.812 --> 00:42:06.413
- He parted the sea with so much love and brought us through
- 00:42:06.413 --> 00:42:11.285
- With his grace from above.
- 00:42:11.285 --> 00:42:13.020
- Yo, ten plagues he brought upon egypt land.
- 00:42:13.020 --> 00:42:16.557
- And after all ten, pharaoh couldn't stand.
- 00:42:16.557 --> 00:42:19.927
- He wouldn't relent, and he would repent and let the
- 00:42:20.027 --> 00:42:24.164
- Children of israel go to their tent.
- 00:42:24.164 --> 00:42:26.767
- And he said, yo, israel, get out of here.
- 00:42:26.767 --> 00:42:30.304
- I don't want you no more in egypt.
- 00:42:30.404 --> 00:42:32.806
- I fear that if you stay, the land will be destroyed.
- 00:42:32.806 --> 00:42:37.177
- So please leave now or we'll be in trouble.
- 00:42:37.277 --> 00:42:40.447
- So israel left in great haste.
- 00:42:40.447 --> 00:42:43.784
- God parted the sea and water on the face of the egyptians.
- 00:42:43.784 --> 00:42:48.122
- In the sea, they did ground,
- 00:42:48.789 --> 00:42:50.557
- But israel went through on jagan.
- 00:42:50.557 --> 00:42:53.694
- Yo. god brought us out of egypt land with a mighty armor,
- 00:42:53.694 --> 00:42:58.899
- With an outstretched hand.
- 00:42:58.899 --> 00:43:00.567
- He parted the sea with so much love and demonstrated his
- 00:43:00.567 --> 00:43:05.272
- Mercy, goodness, and love.
- 00:43:05.272 --> 00:43:07.074
- Yo. and god said to us, yeshua, the messiah, when we believe
- 00:43:07.074 --> 00:43:11.779
- In him, yo, we will go higher in our soul.
- 00:43:11.779 --> 00:43:15.516
- He lights a fire.
- 00:43:15.516 --> 00:43:17.184
- He gives us the gospel so we could retire one day in
- 00:43:17.284 --> 00:43:22.022
- Heaven with him face to face and gives
- 00:43:22.022 --> 00:43:24.391
- Us the strength to run the good race.
- 00:43:24.391 --> 00:43:27.194
- So god brought us out of egypt
- 00:43:27.194 --> 00:43:29.763
- Land, redeemed us by yeshua's hand.
- 00:43:29.763 --> 00:43:33.567
- [applause]
- 00:43:33.567 --> 00:43:38.205
- Now we come to the second cup known as the cup of plagues.
- 00:43:38.205 --> 00:43:46.680
- And so significant, the cup of plagues, it reminds us of the
- 00:43:46.780 --> 00:43:51.385
- Ten plagues that god brought upon the egyptians.
- 00:43:51.385 --> 00:43:55.289
- He didn't just redeem us.
- 00:43:55.289 --> 00:43:57.024
- He redeemed us with great signs and with great wonders, and
- 00:43:57.024 --> 00:44:01.161
- There's so much deep spiritual significance in this cup.
- 00:44:01.161 --> 00:44:06.033
- Listen. the ten plagues that moses brought connects directly
- 00:44:06.033 --> 00:44:11.772
- To yeshua because moses tells us there's the prophecy that
- 00:44:11.772 --> 00:44:16.443
- The messiah was gonna be
- 00:44:16.443 --> 00:44:18.078
- The prophet that was greater than moses.
- 00:44:18.078 --> 00:44:20.414
- The rabbi say, as it was with the first redeemer, so will it
- 00:44:20.514 --> 00:44:24.785
- Be with the second redeemer.
- 00:44:24.785 --> 00:44:27.020
- So think about it for a moment.
- 00:44:27.020 --> 00:44:28.822
- When moses comes to redeem the children of israel out of
- 00:44:28.822 --> 00:44:31.892
- Egypt, he turns the water into blood for the first plague.
- 00:44:31.892 --> 00:44:37.664
- When messiah comes to redeem israel and the nations to show
- 00:44:37.664 --> 00:44:42.536
- To the world that he is the greater than moses, he does his
- 00:44:42.636 --> 00:44:45.539
- First miracle with what?
- 00:44:45.539 --> 00:44:46.907
- With water.
- 00:44:46.907 --> 00:44:47.841
- He turns the water not into blood.
- 00:44:47.941 --> 00:44:50.310
- He turns the water into wine.
- 00:44:50.310 --> 00:44:52.179
- Why? because he comes that we might have life and have it
- 00:44:52.179 --> 00:44:55.649
- More abundantly.
- 00:44:55.649 --> 00:44:57.284
- Amen? and think about it for a moment.
- 00:44:57.284 --> 00:44:59.887
- We can't get into the depths of it, but think about it.
- 00:44:59.887 --> 00:45:02.322
- The ninth plague on egypt was hoshek.
- 00:45:02.322 --> 00:45:04.925
- It was darkness.
- 00:45:04.925 --> 00:45:06.393
- When jesus hung there on the cross, there was how many hours
- 00:45:06.393 --> 00:45:10.697
- Of darkness?
- 00:45:10.697 --> 00:45:11.765
- Three hours of darkness.
- 00:45:11.765 --> 00:45:13.400
- Why? because there was three days of darkness on egypt
- 00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:18.071
- In that day.
- 00:45:18.071 --> 00:45:19.173
- And then he gives he's hanging there on the cross.
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- He dies at the time that the passover lamb was offered.
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- Think about it for a moment.
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- The ninth plague, darkness.
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- The tenth plague, the death of the firstborn.
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- That was god's firstborn son dying there on that cross for
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- Us as the passover lamb so that we could be set free as well.
- 00:45:36.657 --> 00:45:42.663
- So there's so much rich, spiritual, and messianic
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- Significance that points to our redeemer, yeshua jesus,
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- In this second cup.
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- I want you to think about it for a moment.
- 00:45:53.040 --> 00:45:56.543
- After yeshua celebrated the seder with his disciples,
- 00:45:57.678 --> 00:46:01.548
- He went to the garden of gethsemane.
- 00:46:02.416 --> 00:46:05.786
- I love taking people to israel on a rock road rabbi tours.
- 00:46:05.886 --> 00:46:10.290
- One of my favorite places to
- 00:46:10.290 --> 00:46:11.558
- Take them is the garden of gethsemane.
- 00:46:11.558 --> 00:46:15.629
- So powerful.
- 00:46:16.029 --> 00:46:17.965
- And in the garden, he prayed three times to the lord, what?
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- Take this cup from me.
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- What cup was he talking about?
- 00:46:26.907 --> 00:46:29.176
- I believe he was talking about the cup of plagues.
- 00:46:29.276 --> 00:46:32.613
- Because when he died there on
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- The cross, he took the judgment.
- 00:46:34.681 --> 00:46:37.451
- He took the plagues that we rightfully deserve.
- 00:46:37.551 --> 00:46:41.221
- He took the wrath upon himself.
- 00:46:41.321 --> 00:46:43.323
- And if you read the book of revelation, much of the
- 00:46:43.323 --> 00:46:46.159
- Judgment on the world actually
- 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:48.262
- Connects back to the plagues on egypt.
- 00:46:48.262 --> 00:46:50.764
- There's a direct correlation and connection back.
- 00:46:50.764 --> 00:46:53.767
- He was drinking the cup of judgment, so we didn't
- 00:46:53.767 --> 00:46:57.905
- Have to drink it.
- 00:46:57.905 --> 00:46:58.538
- And listen.
- 00:46:58.538 --> 00:47:00.474
- Why did he pray three times?
- 00:47:00.574 --> 00:47:02.542
- He was in the garden of gethsemane.
- 00:47:02.643 --> 00:47:04.678
- Gethsemane literally means the place of the olive press.
- 00:47:04.778 --> 00:47:09.783
- Olives go through three pressings.
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- The first pressing is just the
- 00:47:12.953 --> 00:47:15.389
- Weight of the olives themselves.
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- It's the purest.
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- Then weight is added.
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- More of the oil comes out, and then more weight is added
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- Until every ounce of oil comes out under the weight of
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- The crushing of the olive.
- 00:47:31.805 --> 00:47:33.907
- Yeshua was the olives in the olive press, and the weight of
- 00:47:35.142 --> 00:47:41.281
- The burden of our sin and of that of the world was being
- 00:47:41.281 --> 00:47:46.286
- Laid upon him until literally beads of blood began to
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- Come forth from him.
- 00:47:52.025 --> 00:47:53.593
- He was in the place of the crushing.
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- He was in the place of the pressing.
- 00:47:56.663 --> 00:47:58.865
- And he didn't wanna drink the
- 00:47:59.633 --> 00:48:01.568
- Cup, but he willingly drank the cup.
- 00:48:01.568 --> 00:48:04.137
- And listen,
- 00:48:04.137 --> 00:48:05.238
- Jesus didn't take a sip of the cup.
- 00:48:06.039 --> 00:48:09.176
- He didn't drink half the cup.
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- He didn't drink three quarters of the cup.
- 00:48:12.646 --> 00:48:15.549
- He drained the cup for you and me.
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- When he drank the cup in the garden, he was drinking your
- 00:48:20.187 --> 00:48:24.658
- Pain, and he was drinking your shame so you don't have to
- 00:48:24.658 --> 00:48:29.029
- Drink the pain and the shame anymore.
- 00:48:29.029 --> 00:48:32.032
- Would you give him your cup?
- 00:48:32.032 --> 00:48:34.334
- Would you give him your cup?
- 00:48:34.434 --> 00:48:36.737
- And so i just want to take a moment
- 00:48:37.537 --> 00:48:40.941
- And to talk about the pressing real quick.
- 00:48:41.908 --> 00:48:44.911
- And i just wanna ask my good friend, nicole c.
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- Listen. one of the lessons we have to learn, i want you
- 00:48:49.883 --> 00:48:53.954
- To say this with me.
- 00:48:53.954 --> 00:48:54.888
- Pressing leads to blessing.
- 00:48:54.888 --> 00:48:58.191
- He was pressed so that we could be blessed.
- 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:03.830
- Friends, have you ever felt like you've been pressed or
- 00:49:03.930 --> 00:49:06.533
- Crushed or maybe you're in a pressing or crushing season
- 00:49:06.533 --> 00:49:09.036
- Right now?
- 00:49:09.036 --> 00:49:09.803
- Listen. it's the only way to
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- Bring out the fullness of your potential.
- 00:49:11.138 --> 00:49:14.074
- And, nicole, i know we've all been through those seasons of
- 00:49:14.174 --> 00:49:18.678
- The crushing, of the pressing.
- 00:49:18.678 --> 00:49:22.049
- In those moments,
- 00:49:22.516 --> 00:49:25.986
- How were you able
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- To be sustained?
- 00:49:28.955 --> 00:49:30.290
- How did you find god?
- 00:49:30.290 --> 00:49:32.159
- What comfort?
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- What hope would you share about that?
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- Wow.
- 00:49:36.263 --> 00:49:37.964
- You know, i've gone through some crushings. and
- 00:49:38.065 --> 00:49:42.536
- I remember it was even back in, i think it was twenty two
- 00:49:42.636 --> 00:49:46.206
- Thousand seven or right before two thousand and seven.
- 00:49:46.206 --> 00:49:48.408
- And a good sister friend of mine said that the lord is
- 00:49:48.408 --> 00:49:51.078
- Going to take you through the olive press.
- 00:49:51.078 --> 00:49:53.080
- Wow.
- 00:49:53.080 --> 00:49:54.281
- And i remember saying to her, well, you don't understand
- 00:49:54.381 --> 00:49:57.284
- I've already been through it.
- 00:49:57.284 --> 00:49:58.418
- And she said, nah, nah, it's coming.
- 00:49:58.518 --> 00:50:01.288
- And lo and behold, that was a
- 00:50:01.388 --> 00:50:04.191
- Season of great crushing and breaking.
- 00:50:04.191 --> 00:50:08.328
- And it was honestly, rabbi, through that season and the
- 00:50:08.428 --> 00:50:11.898
- Season that kind of followed, that god began to get another
- 00:50:11.898 --> 00:50:15.769
- Kind of oil out of me.
- 00:50:15.769 --> 00:50:17.838
- And the crushing was not to mangle me.
- 00:50:17.938 --> 00:50:20.407
- It was not to destroy me.
- 00:50:20.407 --> 00:50:22.576
- I believe it was to make me.
- 00:50:22.676 --> 00:50:24.144
- It was to anoint me in another way.
- 00:50:24.144 --> 00:50:26.580
- And it was through that season that god taught me that one of
- 00:50:26.680 --> 00:50:30.283
- Our most expensive altars of worship or altars that require
- 00:50:30.283 --> 00:50:36.890
- The sacrifice of praise.
- 00:50:36.890 --> 00:50:39.159
- And what better time to praise him than when you're broken?
- 00:50:39.259 --> 00:50:43.163
- And it's in those broken times that we have a decision to say,
- 00:50:43.163 --> 00:50:46.166
- Either god, i'm going to say that you're not who you are, or
- 00:50:46.166 --> 00:50:50.137
- I'm going to declare that you are exactly who you
- 00:50:50.137 --> 00:50:53.273
- Said that you were.
- 00:50:53.273 --> 00:50:54.307
- You're god in the good times, you're equally god
- 00:50:54.407 --> 00:50:56.776
- In the bad times.
- 00:50:56.776 --> 00:50:57.944
- And it was in those seasons of crushing that god gave me
- 00:50:58.044 --> 00:51:02.282
- Songs like, when i call on jesus, all things are possible.
- 00:51:02.282 --> 00:51:08.054
- And he gave me songs like, i get on my knees.
- 00:51:09.022 --> 00:51:14.060
- I get on my knees.
- 00:51:14.060 --> 00:51:15.562
- And he gave me songs like, i know my redeemer lives.
- 00:51:15.662 --> 00:51:21.835
- They came out of the breaking.
- 00:51:22.536 --> 00:51:24.671
- And i think unless we are broken, the oil can't flow.
- 00:51:24.771 --> 00:51:27.774
- And so i even though would
- 00:51:28.408 --> 00:51:30.277
- I wanna go through some of that again?
- 00:51:30.277 --> 00:51:31.511
- No, i would not.
- 00:51:31.511 --> 00:51:33.046
- But do i love the results?
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- Yes, i do.
- 00:51:34.781 --> 00:51:35.815
- Because i was able to draw closer to him.
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- I was able to get to know him in a way that i didn't
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- Know him prior to.
- 00:51:41.021 --> 00:51:42.289
- And i was able to kind of in a small way identify with him in
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- His sufferings because he identified with me and mine.
- 00:51:47.894 --> 00:51:51.565
- And so i believe in those seasons, we're not to
- 00:51:51.665 --> 00:51:54.768
- Curse those times.
- 00:51:54.768 --> 00:51:55.802
- We're to use it as an altar to bless god.
- 00:51:55.902 --> 00:51:58.205
- I will bless the lord at all times.
- 00:51:58.205 --> 00:51:59.906
- His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
- 00:51:59.906 --> 00:52:03.009
- My soul shall make her boast in the lord.
- 00:52:03.009 --> 00:52:05.412
- The humble shall hear thereof and be glad.
- 00:52:05.412 --> 00:52:08.081
- So he takes us through.
- 00:52:08.682 --> 00:52:10.517
- So good.
- 00:52:10.517 --> 00:52:11.318
- Yeah. no.
- 00:52:11.318 --> 00:52:11.885
- I love it.
- 00:52:11.885 --> 00:52:12.452
- Amen? listen.
- 00:52:12.452 --> 00:52:14.588
- The crushing produces character.
- 00:52:15.388 --> 00:52:18.291
- It produces a depth of faith that nothing else can.
- 00:52:18.391 --> 00:52:23.763
- Even messiah himself
- 00:52:23.763 --> 00:52:26.032
- Had to go through affliction and suffering and endure
- 00:52:27.133 --> 00:52:30.637
- The cross for the joy set before him.
- 00:52:30.637 --> 00:52:32.772
- Not because it was pleasant to go through the cross, but he
- 00:52:32.772 --> 00:52:36.576
- Knew the results of what it would produce in our lives.
- 00:52:36.576 --> 00:52:40.814
- And so we praise him for that.
- 00:52:40.914 --> 00:52:42.816
- Okay. would you recite after me?
- 00:52:42.916 --> 00:52:46.553
- Okay. we're gonna take our pinky, and we are going to
- 00:52:46.553 --> 00:52:51.825
- Spill the ten drops together.
- 00:52:51.925 --> 00:52:54.160
- Okay. you ready?
- 00:52:54.160 --> 00:52:55.428
- Why do we spill ten drops?
- 00:52:55.428 --> 00:52:57.063
- Because wine or grape juice is a symbol of joy.
- 00:52:57.063 --> 00:53:00.800
- We can't rejoice in the suffering of our enemies even
- 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:04.771
- When it's to our benefit, so we diminish our joy tenfold.
- 00:53:04.771 --> 00:53:09.075
- We'll say it in english, and then you can attempt in hebrew
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- With me if you want.
- 00:53:12.145 --> 00:53:13.413
- Say blood.
- 00:53:13.413 --> 00:53:14.648
- Dam.
- 00:53:14.648 --> 00:53:16.383
- Frogs.
- 00:53:16.683 --> 00:53:18.952
- Sephardea.
- 00:53:19.319 --> 00:53:21.087
- Lice. kinim.
- 00:53:21.554 --> 00:53:24.090
- Beasts.
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- Arav.
- 00:53:27.160 --> 00:53:30.597
- Devar.
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- Boils. shechin.
- 00:53:32.766 --> 00:53:35.902
- Hail. barad.
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- Locust.
- 00:53:39.205 --> 00:53:41.074
- Arbe. darkness.
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- Chosek. death of the first born.
- 00:53:45.412 --> 00:53:49.182
- Yes. makat beharot.
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- You can lick your pinky if it's clean.
- 00:53:52.018 --> 00:53:55.288
- Friends, this is the original personality test.
- 00:53:56.323 --> 00:53:59.426
- You can look and see what
- 00:53:59.426 --> 00:54:00.393
- Patterns people made on their thing.
- 00:54:00.393 --> 00:54:02.762
- You can tell a lot about them by their drops on their plate.
- 00:54:02.762 --> 00:54:06.633
- We remember the third, second cup, and we'll bless it.
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- [singing in hebrew]
- 00:54:11.571 --> 00:54:18.011
- Amen.
- 00:54:18.011 --> 00:54:30.457
- Blessed are you, oh, lord, our god, king of the universe,
- 00:54:31.658 --> 00:54:35.161
- Who brings forth the fruit of the vine.
- 00:54:35.161 --> 00:54:37.163
- Let's lean to our left and drink.
- 00:54:37.163 --> 00:58:15.548
- Jesus said, what can a scribe who understands the kingdom
- 00:58:16.783 --> 00:58:19.152
- Of god be compared to?
- 00:58:19.152 --> 00:58:20.553
- Like a householder that brings forth treasures new and old.
- 00:58:20.653 --> 00:58:24.724
- Listen. many jews settle for the old.
- 00:58:24.824 --> 00:58:27.694
- Many christians settle for the new, but the full inheritance
- 00:58:27.694 --> 00:58:30.263
- Is old and new coming together.
- 00:58:30.263 --> 00:58:32.332
- Listen. don't settle for half an inheritance.
- 00:58:32.332 --> 00:58:35.802
- So say, i'm not settling for half an inheritance.
- 00:58:35.902 --> 00:58:38.538
- Okay? get the full thing.
- 00:58:38.538 --> 00:58:41.040
- And with that, i wanna continue to discuss what is on the
- 00:58:41.140 --> 00:58:45.511
- Passover seder plate.
- 00:58:45.511 --> 00:58:48.047
- You notice here that we have a bone.
- 00:58:48.147 --> 00:58:51.684
- Okay? this is a lamb bone.
- 00:58:51.784 --> 00:58:54.787
- In hebrew, it is known as zeroah.
- 00:58:54.887 --> 00:58:57.156
- Can you say zeroah?
- 00:58:57.156 --> 00:58:59.559
- Zeroah literally means arm in hebrew because god redeemed us
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- With a mighty hand and a an
- 00:59:04.030 --> 00:59:09.435
- Outstretched arm.
- 00:59:09.902 --> 00:59:11.804
- So this reminds us of the arm of the lord, of the great
- 00:59:11.904 --> 00:59:15.441
- Salvation that he brought for our ancestors, and the reason
- 00:59:15.441 --> 00:59:19.278
- Why it is a lamb bone, a lamb shank traditionally, is because
- 00:59:19.278 --> 00:59:24.417
- At passover, because of the tenth plague, they had to
- 00:59:24.517 --> 00:59:29.288
- Offer the lamb.
- 00:59:29.288 --> 00:59:30.423
- So historically, jews ate lamb at passover.
- 00:59:30.423 --> 00:59:33.426
- But since god's house, the temple in jerusalem, the place
- 00:59:33.526 --> 00:59:36.896
- Where jesus would often go as a child and go to celebrate the
- 00:59:36.896 --> 00:59:40.566
- Holidays with his disciples has been destroyed, many jewish
- 00:59:40.566 --> 00:59:45.071
- People no longer eat lamb on passover because we can't
- 00:59:45.071 --> 00:59:50.176
- Offer the actual passover lamb today.
- 00:59:50.176 --> 00:59:54.547
- So we have a reminder of the lamb that we ate in the temple
- 00:59:54.647 --> 00:59:59.652
- And of the redemption that god offered our ancestors here
- 00:59:59.652 --> 01:00:04.524
- With this passover lamb.
- 01:00:04.524 --> 01:00:05.925
- And in fact, there's a great rabbi by the rabbi by the name
- 01:00:05.925 --> 01:00:09.062
- Of hillel, and he said, any person who does not teach his
- 01:00:09.062 --> 01:00:13.933
- Children the meaning of three things, the first is the
- 01:00:13.933 --> 01:00:17.637
- Pesach, the passover lamb, and the second is the matzah.
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- Okay? so the matzah is the unleavened bread.
- 01:00:25.078 --> 01:00:29.182
- This is known as the bread of affliction, the lechemoni,
- 01:00:29.282 --> 01:00:32.785
- But it also reminds us of redemption.
- 01:00:33.653 --> 01:00:36.389
- The reason why we eat unleavened bread is because,
- 01:00:36.389 --> 01:00:39.559
- One, it reminds us of our slavery.
- 01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:41.661
- Look. it's pierced.
- 01:00:41.661 --> 01:00:43.196
- It's striped.
- 01:00:43.196 --> 01:00:44.030
- It's broken.
- 01:00:44.030 --> 01:00:45.264
- It looks like it's got sunburn from being in the oven.
- 01:00:45.264 --> 01:00:47.633
- It's like the back in the bodies of our ancestors and
- 01:00:47.633 --> 01:00:51.704
- What they went through in egypt.
- 01:00:51.704 --> 01:00:54.307
- It is a tangible reminder of the physical sufferings our
- 01:00:54.307 --> 01:00:59.145
- Ancestors experienced, their affliction.
- 01:00:59.145 --> 01:01:02.682
- But it also reminds us the fact god brought us out of egypt so
- 01:01:02.782 --> 01:01:06.285
- Quickly that as their bread did not have time to rise, so we
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- Eat unleavened bread as they ate unleavened bread.
- 01:01:11.524 --> 01:01:15.661
- And it is this matzah that jesus would have ate at the
- 01:01:15.762 --> 01:01:20.299
- Passover with his disciples as they were gathered around the
- 01:01:20.299 --> 01:01:24.704
- Table, and we're gonna look and see the much deeper
- 01:01:24.704 --> 01:01:28.941
- Significance of the matzah here in a minute.
- 01:01:28.941 --> 01:01:32.845
- But it's so amazing because we
- 01:01:32.945 --> 01:01:35.515
- Say that this is the bread of affliction.
- 01:01:35.515 --> 01:01:38.785
- The word for affliction in hebrew, is
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- Also used in isaiah 53.
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- He was pierced for our
- 01:01:47.160 --> 01:01:48.394
- Transgression, crushed for our iniquities,
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- And the affliction that we deserved was upon him.
- 01:01:52.665 --> 01:01:56.169
- As we're gonna see, he literally is the bread of
- 01:01:56.269 --> 01:02:00.573
- Affliction for you and for me.
- 01:02:00.573 --> 01:02:05.178
- And then we're going to take a
- 01:02:06.012 --> 01:02:08.681
- Piece of this matzah here in moment.
- 01:02:08.681 --> 01:02:10.950
- Everyone get out some matzah if you have your matzah.
- 01:02:10.950 --> 01:02:13.686
- We're gonna take some of the matzah.
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- We are going to bless the matzah together
- 01:02:16.022 --> 01:02:21.694
- And remember what god did for our ancestors.
- 01:02:22.695 --> 01:02:25.898
- [singng in hebrew]
- 01:02:25.898 --> 01:02:50.056
- Blessed are you, oh lord, our god, king of the universe,
- 01:02:50.056 --> 01:02:54.393
- Who brings forth bread from the earth.
- 01:02:54.393 --> 01:02:58.731
- Amen. let's all take some of the matzah and eat it and
- 01:02:58.831 --> 01:03:02.768
- Remind us of a reminder of what god has done for us.
- 01:03:02.768 --> 01:03:07.006
- Okay? amen.
- 01:03:07.406 --> 01:03:12.912
- Friends, if you eat matzah for seven days, you'll know the
- 01:03:14.146 --> 01:03:17.650
- Meaning of let my people go.
- 01:03:17.650 --> 01:03:20.620
- And then we have to remember one of the key bitter herbs.
- 01:03:21.821 --> 01:03:28.094
- The bitter herb known as maror.
- 01:03:28.895 --> 01:03:32.665
- Can you say maror?
- 01:03:32.665 --> 01:03:34.300
- This is represented by the horseradish on your plate.
- 01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:38.905
- This is meant to remind us of
- 01:03:38.905 --> 01:03:41.540
- The bitterness of slavery in egypt.
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- It is meant to be hot.
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- It is meant to bring tears to our eyes.
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- Traditionally, you're supposed
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- To eat half an egg's volumes worth.
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- This separates the men
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- From the boys, the women from the young girls.
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- Don't want anyone to hurt themselves.
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- Not saying you have to do that here this evening.
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- Okay? but in a moment, what we are gonna do is that
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- We are going to take some of what's
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- Known as the chadzeret, the lettuce.
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- We are going to you can now take some of that, dip it in
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- The, dip it in the maror that reminds us of the bitterness of
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- Slavery, and we are going to take and eat this together.
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- Okay? so we're gonna say the blessing.
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- Blessed are you, o lord our god, king of the universe,
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- Who sanctifies us by his commandments and commands us
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- To eat the bitter herbs.
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- Amen.
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- Now friends, of course, there's deep spiritual significance.
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- John thirteen says this,
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- On the night yeshua was betrayed,
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- [reading scripture]
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- Friends,
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- The one who is gonna betray jesus, the one who's gonna
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- Dip in the sop, judas was dipping in the bitter herbs.
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- Yes. it reminds us of the bitterness of slavery, but it
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- Reminds us that a life apart from a relationship with jesus,
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- Yeshua as our messiah, is very bitter indeed.
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- Friends, life is bitter without the lord.
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- It's only him who takes the bitterness and transforms it
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- Into sweetness.
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- And we remember that in the next part of the eating of the
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- Passover seder, what we are
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- Gonna do is we are gonna make a sandwich.
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- This is known as hillel sandwich.
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- Hillel, the famous rabbi.
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- Okay? he would take two pieces of matzah, dip a little bit
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- In the horseradish, then he would take the haroset.
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- Can you take say haroset?
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- The haroset is this other mixture.
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- It's meant to remind us of the mortar that we use to make
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- Bricks in egypt, but it actually is not bitter.
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- It actually tastes sweet.
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- It's made out of apples and
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- Walnuts and grape juice and cinnamon.
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- And the reason why is because when we knew the bitterness
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- Of slavery was coming to an end,
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- Even the bitterness became sweet.
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- So make your sandwiches, and after you have made your
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- Sandwiches, i just want to invite you to take and eat
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- Of the sandwich.
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- Hello, sandwich.
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- Friends, the word for the passover, the lamb, the word
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- For what we're celebrating here this evening is passover
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- In english, but i want you to say,
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- Pesach.
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- The numerical value of passover is one hundred and forty eight.
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- You know why that's significant?
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- It's the same numerical value of the word [hbrew]
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- In hebrew. can you say--
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- Means victory.
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- It is by the passover lamb in his blood, 148,
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- That we have victory.
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- Amen? say, i've got
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- Victory in messiah.
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- It's also the numerical value
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- Of the hebrew word for strength.
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- It's also the numerical value of the word for plague
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- And for promise and for children of god.
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- Because when we believe
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- In yeshua 148, he gives us the
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- One forty eight, to have the victory, one forty
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- Eight, to overcome the plague of judgment, one hundred and
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- Forty eight, and he gives us a promise, one forty eight, that
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- We might become the children of god,
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- One hundred and forty eight.
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- Turn to
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- Someone and say, you're a child of the king.
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- You're a child of the king.
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- Friends, what god has done
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- For us is overwhelming through jesus.
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- It's so good.
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- It seems like it's science fiction.
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- We have on our seder plate a few other things.
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- One is an egg.
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- Why an egg?
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- It reminds us of the other festival sacrifices
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- Offered in the temple.
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- Why is it round?
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- Because it's round like the circle of life.
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- Life comes from an egg.
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- In the old testament, it says, without the shedding of blood,
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- There'll be no remission of sins, and so sacrifices helped
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- Cover the sin and bring life until messiah came.
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- We'll talk more about that.
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- Brown because the sacrifices were roasted.
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- And so we have all of these things on our plate to remind
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- Us of what god did.
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- And at this point, it would be time to have the big festive
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- Passover meal, and it's called shulchan erez.
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- And it would be a multi course meal.
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- It would be a feast.
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- Jesus would have done this with his disciples.
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- And what it's meant to be, it was meant to be a sneak preview
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- Of the marriage supper of the lamb in the messianic kingdom,
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- Which all of us will be able to experience one day.
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- I can't wait.
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- I don't know about you, but i'm looking forward to that day.
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- That is gonna be one good meal.
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- Better than any michelin- rated restaurant.
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- So one of the things we have to understand is that after the
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- Meal is eaten, what we have to understand is that the kids
- 01:10:32.284 --> 01:10:37.289
- Would then go searching from room to room to find that
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- Hidden piece of matzah that was broken earlier
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- And that was placed away.
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- So i want you to think about the significance of this
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- Middle piece of matzah.
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- This is known--
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- Can you say, afikomen?
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- Think about it for a moment.
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- This is unleavened bread.
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- In the bible, leaven is synonymous of sin.
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- Beware of the little leaven of the pharisees.
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- A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.
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- Okay? so this bread is sinless.
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- It is pierced.
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- It is striped.
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- It is bruised.
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- It is broken.
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- It is isaiah 53, pierced for our transgressions,
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- Crush for our iniquities, and by his stripes, we are healed.
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- It is wrapped away just like yeshua was wrapped away, and
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- He was in the tomb wrapped in linen cloth just like we
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- Wrapped this piece of matzah in
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- A linen cloth here this evening.
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- Three pieces of matzah, father, son, and holy spirit.
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- It is the middle piece of matzah representing the son
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- That was broken for you and for me.
- 01:11:53.665 --> 01:11:58.604
- What a powerful image of the death, burial, and resurrection
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- Of our messiah.
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- This is called safun, which means hidden because messiah
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- Was hidden away, and messiah is still hidden to this day.
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- From many jewish people, they have not recognized that he is
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- The one spoken of by moses and the prophets.
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- But one day his their eyes will be opened just like it was
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- For joseph's brothers.
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- They rejected him, but the second time they came down to
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- Egypt, he spoke to them in hebrew, took off his egyptian
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- Garb, and he said to nehoshaph, and they recognized,
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- You are our brothers.
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- At the first coming, they didn't recognize yeshua, but
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- At the second coming, every eye will see, recognize,
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- And receive him, both jew and gentile in messiah.
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- And this is the afikomen.
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- Some scholars believe the afikomen means he has come
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- Or he will come again.
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- This bread declares the messiah
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- Has come, and he is going to return.
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- Amen? and listen.
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- You can give it a hand.
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- Alright? what's
- 01:13:12.945 --> 01:13:14.913
- Amazing is this.
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- There is no agreement.
- 01:13:18.150 --> 01:13:20.519
- There is no real understanding of jewish tradition.
- 01:13:20.519 --> 01:13:23.522
- Where does this tradition come from?
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- From breaking a middle piece of matzah after supper and giving
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- It special spiritual significance of eating it.
- 01:13:29.428 --> 01:13:33.165
- Because traditionally, the last thing we would eat at
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- The passover seder would be the passover lamb.
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- So that the taste of redemption
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- Should be the last thing on our lips.
- 01:13:42.641 --> 01:13:45.911
- But today, the last thing we eat even after dessert is
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- The afikomen, the middle piece of matzah.
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- Because the last thing that we should taste is the
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- Redemption that our messiah has brought for us.
- 01:14:00.325 --> 01:14:02.661
- And i believe the first person in history to do this act was
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- Yeshua, jesus, and the jewish community, i believe, got it
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- From the first jewish followers of messiah
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- And don't even remember where it came from.
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- This is my theory, but that's what i believe.
- 01:14:19.678 --> 01:14:22.214
- But we see what a powerful image of what messiah has
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- Done for us.
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- Listen. messiah himself said, i am the bread of what?
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- I am the bread of life.
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- Listen, we talked a lot about numbers.
- 01:14:35.527 --> 01:14:37.930
- Well, guess what?
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- Bethlehem equals 490 in hebrew.
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- Beit lechem literally means house of bread.
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- Nativity equals four hundred ninety in hebrew.
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- Tamim, to be perfect or complete equals 490
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- In hebrew.
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- Yeshua jesus was the perfect, spotless, sinless passover
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- Lamb, four ninety, born four ninety, in bethlehem, four
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- Ninety, to bring freedom and forgiveness, which is
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- Tied to 490.
- 01:15:05.891 --> 01:15:07.092
- How many times did jesus tell peter he had to forgive?
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- Seventy times seven, four hundred and ninety.
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- Because bread and forgiveness are tied together.
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- Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our
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- Trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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- When we withhold the bread of forgiveness, it's like we're
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- Telling a starving person go and die on a spiritual level.
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- So we remember the messiah's body that was broken for us.
- 01:15:35.887 --> 01:15:40.425
- And when we celebrate communion, it is the afi komen
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- That is the reminder, the portrait, the picture of what
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- Was done for us in messiah, yeshua.
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- Amen? so i'm gonna take a piece of the afikomen.
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- And then it's time to look here
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- At the third cup.
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- The third cup is known as the cup of redemption.
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- Can you say cup of redemption?
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- Why is the third cup the cup of redemption?
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- I want you to think about it for a moment.
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- When god told the children of israel, place the blood on the
- 01:16:19.264 --> 01:16:22.434
- Doorpost of their house, how many sprinklings were there?
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- Three on the top and on the two sides of the pass of the
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- Doorpost in egypt.
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- So the reason why there are three sprinklings of blood is
- 01:16:31.309 --> 01:16:34.680
- Because it reminds us of the passover lamb, and that's why
- 01:16:34.680 --> 01:16:40.018
- The third cup is set aside as the cup of redemption.
- 01:16:40.018 --> 01:16:44.923
- And i want you to think about three and redemption
- 01:16:45.023 --> 01:16:49.194
- Throughout the bible.
- 01:16:49.194 --> 01:16:50.028
- Think about it for a moment.
- 01:16:50.028 --> 01:16:51.530
- God raised up moses, aaron, and miriam to lead the children
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- Of israel out of egypt.
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- The plagues are break broken into three distinct sections
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- In jewish thought.
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- Okay? the three sprinklings of the blood of the passover lamb.
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- When yeshua comes and he does his first miracle, he does it
- 01:17:09.915 --> 01:17:13.318
- On what day of the week?
- 01:17:13.318 --> 01:17:14.653
- The third day of the week.
- 01:17:14.653 --> 01:17:17.355
- He was crucified at what hour?
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- The third hour.
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- There were three crosses.
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- There was darkness for three hours.
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- He raised from the dead on the third day.
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- Friends, this number three throughout the bible is
- 01:17:29.768 --> 01:17:32.637
- Associated and connected to redemption, and god is
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- Three yet one.
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- It points the passover to the
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- Blood of the greater passover lamb.
- 01:17:43.915 --> 01:17:46.084
- Did you ever wonder why jesus had to die on the cross?
- 01:17:46.184 --> 01:17:50.856
- Think about it for a moment.
- 01:17:51.523 --> 01:17:53.024
- How did sin enter the world?
- 01:17:53.024 --> 01:17:55.160
- We took from a tree in the garden of eden.
- 01:17:55.260 --> 01:17:58.530
- So god put his son, the messiah, back on the tree for
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- You and me to undo the sin of the first man and woman to
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- Make a restoration for what we couldn't do.
- 01:18:09.274 --> 01:18:13.311
- Why are his hands pierced?
- 01:18:13.945 --> 01:18:15.781
- Because it is our hands that stole from the tree.
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- Why is his side pierced?
- 01:18:18.650 --> 01:18:20.652
- Because it was the woman, eve, the one taken from the side
- 01:18:20.652 --> 01:18:24.389
- That led adam into temptation.
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- He's dying on the cross as the second adam, but also
- 01:18:26.691 --> 01:18:30.829
- Making redemption for eve.
- 01:18:30.829 --> 01:18:32.697
- Why were his feet pierced?
- 01:18:33.331 --> 01:18:35.033
- What's the first messianic prophecy?
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- The seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent.
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- The enemy is original gangster.
- 01:18:40.806 --> 01:18:42.774
- He's like, you think you're gonna crush my head?
- 01:18:42.774 --> 01:18:45.410
- I'm gonna nail your feet to a tree, and let's see how
- 01:18:45.510 --> 01:18:49.147
- You're gonna defeat me now.
- 01:18:49.147 --> 01:18:50.415
- He was mocking the promises of god.
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- He was trying to foil the plan of god, but he didn't realize
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- He wasn't foiling it.
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- He was actually fulfilling it.
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- Listen. there'll be people who mock the promises,
- 01:19:00.659 --> 01:19:03.762
- But god's got a plan.
- 01:19:04.329 --> 01:19:06.665
- And on his head, he had a what?
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- Crown of thorns.
- 01:19:09.768 --> 01:19:11.536
- Why a crown of thorns?
- 01:19:11.636 --> 01:19:13.338
- What's the sign of the curse of creation?
- 01:19:13.438 --> 01:19:16.174
- The ground will produce thorns and thistles.
- 01:19:16.274 --> 01:19:18.910
- He's literally taking the curse of creation on his head to
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- Break it and to restore god's blessing.
- 01:19:23.448 --> 01:19:27.319
- This is good news.
- 01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:29.154
- Amen?
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- Communion at the last supper,
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- It was with the third cup, a remembrance of the passover
- 01:19:38.563 --> 01:19:43.902
- Lamb because he was saying, i am the greater passover lamb.
- 01:19:43.902 --> 01:19:49.674
- It wasn't enough to slaughter the lamb.
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- Mean, it took great faith to offer the sacrifice because
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- It was one of the deities of egypt.
- 01:19:55.780 --> 01:19:58.216
- But the blood had to be applied by faith to the doorpost.
- 01:19:58.316 --> 01:20:01.286
- Listen, jesus died, but each and every one of us has to
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- Make a personal decision by faith to
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- Receive his death, burial, and resurrection.
- 01:20:10.528 --> 01:20:15.333
- And when we apply that blood to our life by faith, just like
- 01:20:15.433 --> 01:20:20.572
- They had to apply the blood to
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- The doorposts of the houses of egypt.
- 01:20:22.407 --> 01:20:24.643
- It was only when god saw the blood that he passes over.
- 01:20:24.643 --> 01:20:29.080
- Listen, it's only because of the blood of jesus as the
- 01:20:29.080 --> 01:20:33.785
- Passover lamb that sin is not held to our account, that we
- 01:20:33.785 --> 01:20:39.024
- Don't have to go through judgment, that we go from death
- 01:20:39.024 --> 01:20:42.560
- To life, but we have to receive it and apply it by faith.
- 01:20:42.560 --> 01:20:48.033
- Amen?
- 01:20:48.033 --> 01:20:48.667
- So it's this third cup that we're gonna bless here in
- 01:20:49.801 --> 01:20:53.271
- A moment, and then we're gonna worship.
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- [singing in hebrew]
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- Blessed are you, oh, lord, our god, king of the universe,
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- Who brings forth the fruit of the vine.
- 01:21:13.825 --> 01:21:16.161
- Amen. we're gonna worship and then we're gonna invite you to
- 01:21:16.261 --> 01:21:20.398
- Take the bread and the cup together in a moment.
- 01:21:20.398 --> 01:24:09.334
- So, jason, please just kinda take over and step us through
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- Actually communion here in 2025.
- 01:24:14.139 --> 01:24:17.642
- Yeah. as we've seen, you really can't understand the depth or
- 01:24:17.642 --> 01:24:22.780
- See communion, the lord's supper in high definition
- 01:24:22.780 --> 01:24:27.552
- Unless you see it in the context of the passover.
- 01:24:27.652 --> 01:24:30.655
- Right. and of the entirety of biblical history.
- 01:24:30.655 --> 01:24:32.891
- I mean, you know, we don't even ask the question, you know, why
- 01:24:32.891 --> 01:24:37.162
- Would jesus even institute something like eating of the
- 01:24:37.262 --> 01:24:43.301
- Bread and the drinking of the
- 01:24:43.301 --> 01:24:45.937
- Grape juice or wine at the passover?
- 01:24:46.037 --> 01:24:48.540
- Why is that the thing that we do in remembrance of him?
- 01:24:48.540 --> 01:24:52.310
- Well, think about it for a moment.
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- How did sin come into the world?
- 01:24:53.945 --> 01:24:56.414
- We ate from the tree. wow.
- 01:24:56.514 --> 01:24:59.150
- And that brought the fall.
- 01:24:59.150 --> 01:25:01.052
- And so, in a sense, we're making a correction, a repair.
- 01:25:01.152 --> 01:25:05.023
- Just like sin came through eating, the fall came through
- 01:25:05.023 --> 01:25:08.526
- Eating, redemption is going to come through partaking.
- 01:25:08.526 --> 01:25:13.398
- Beautiful. partaking of the fruit.
- 01:25:13.398 --> 01:25:15.433
- But this time, it's the fruit of the vine that represents
- 01:25:15.533 --> 01:25:19.070
- Jesus as the passover lamb.
- 01:25:19.070 --> 01:25:22.173
- And, you know, the old adage, you are what you eat.
- 01:25:22.273 --> 01:25:27.145
- So when you eat something, it breaks down.
- 01:25:27.145 --> 01:25:29.714
- And on a molecular level, it literally gets absorbed into
- 01:25:29.814 --> 01:25:33.518
- Your so when we're taking communion, it's like we're
- 01:25:33.518 --> 01:25:37.789
- Literally absorbing what jesus has done for us by the breaking
- 01:25:37.789 --> 01:25:44.929
- Of his body and by the shedding of his blood.
- 01:25:44.929 --> 01:25:48.032
- And on a spiritual level, it's becoming part of our dna
- 01:25:48.032 --> 01:25:53.538
- To transform us from the inside out.
- 01:25:53.538 --> 01:25:56.140
- I mean, i think that's a really
- 01:25:56.140 --> 01:25:57.508
- Deep and beautiful and powerful thought.
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- Wow. and what's interesting is the rabbis tell us that we're
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- To eat of the passover as if we were actually there when
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- Our ancestors came out of egypt.
- 01:26:09.687 --> 01:26:11.456
- We're meant to become part of the divine drama.
- 01:26:11.456 --> 01:26:14.559
- And so this is again, this isn't just a memorial.
- 01:26:14.659 --> 01:26:18.429
- There's something spiritually powerful.
- 01:26:18.529 --> 01:26:21.766
- There's something prophetically significant about partaking of
- 01:26:21.766 --> 01:26:27.639
- These elements together.
- 01:26:27.639 --> 01:26:30.275
- So as we get ready to do this together, if anyone is in
- 01:26:30.275 --> 01:26:35.780
- Need of healing or wholeness in the one of these four areas,
- 01:26:35.780 --> 01:26:39.884
- Just believe god that he is going to show up and to bring
- 01:26:39.884 --> 01:26:46.658
- His healing touch, his redeeming touch, his
- 01:26:46.658 --> 01:26:50.028
- Transformative touch right now.
- 01:26:50.028 --> 01:26:52.530
- So let's begin and prepare ourselves to partake together.
- 01:26:52.530 --> 01:26:57.902
- First, we're gonna do the bread.
- 01:26:57.902 --> 01:27:00.805
- On the night that our lord was betrayed, he took the bread.
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- He blessed it.
- 01:27:06.577 --> 01:27:24.429
- Blessed are you, o lord our god, king of the universe, who
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- Brings forth bread from the earth.
- 01:27:29.934 --> 01:27:33.037
- Jesus is the bread of life.
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- He took it.
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- He broke it.
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- He said, take and eat.
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- This is my body broken for you.
- 01:27:39.510 --> 01:27:43.781
- Join us as we partake of the body of messiah together.
- 01:27:43.781 --> 01:27:53.591
- In the same way,
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- He took the third cup,
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- And he raised it, and he blessed it.
- 01:27:59.430 --> 01:28:19.317
- Blessed are you, oh, lord, our god, king of the universe,
- 01:28:20.518 --> 01:28:23.888
- Who brings forth the fruit of the vine.
- 01:28:23.888 --> 01:28:26.591
- Yeshua jesus said, this is my blood poured out for you for
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- The forgiveness of sin.
- 01:28:31.262 --> 01:28:33.030
- Let's believe him now for healing and wholeness, power
- 01:28:33.030 --> 01:28:37.935
- In the blood of the lamb, the blood of yeshua jesus.
- 01:28:37.935 --> 01:28:40.905
- Amen. beautiful.
- 01:28:40.905 --> 01:28:42.106
- So abba father, we just come before you in the name that
- 01:28:43.307 --> 01:28:47.578
- Is above all names.
- 01:28:47.578 --> 01:28:49.680
- And we declare in the name of yeshua jesus, spiritual,
- 01:28:49.781 --> 01:28:56.320
- Emotional,
- 01:28:56.687 --> 01:28:58.289
- Relational, and physical wholeness through your son,
- 01:28:59.390 --> 01:29:04.429
- The abundant life.
- 01:29:04.429 --> 01:29:05.797
- Those that are spiritually
- 01:29:05.897 --> 01:29:07.165
- Struggling, god, encounter them now.
- 01:29:07.165 --> 01:29:09.801
- For those, god, that are struggling on an emotional
- 01:29:09.901 --> 01:29:13.438
- Level, whether it's fear or anxiety or whatever it is
- 01:29:13.438 --> 01:29:18.009
- They're going through, we thank you, god.
- 01:29:18.009 --> 01:29:19.811
- The one whom the son sets free is free indeed.
- 01:29:19.811 --> 01:29:23.815
- Bring freedom of the mind.
- 01:29:23.915 --> 01:29:26.517
- Bring freedom of the emotions.
- 01:29:26.517 --> 01:29:29.554
- For those, god, that are struggling because there's
- 01:29:29.654 --> 01:29:32.323
- Broken relationships, we ask, god, that you would intervene
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- Between spouses, between parents and children, between
- 01:29:36.761 --> 01:29:40.531
- Siblings, between family members, between friends.
- 01:29:40.531 --> 01:29:43.134
- You came to bring reconciliation and restoration.
- 01:29:43.134 --> 01:29:46.437
- Restore in the name of yeshua, jesus.
- 01:29:46.437 --> 01:29:49.674
- And we pray for those that are struggling with
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- Physical ailments now.
- 01:29:53.144 --> 01:29:54.278
- There is no sickness.
- 01:29:54.278 --> 01:29:56.147
- There is no disease that you can't heal and overcome.
- 01:29:56.147 --> 01:30:00.151
- So we lay, god, whether it's cancer, whether it's heart
- 01:30:00.151 --> 01:30:04.522
- Issues, whether it's pains in the joints or pains in the
- 01:30:04.522 --> 01:30:08.926
- Body, whatever it is, we pray,
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- The jews sent a complete
- 01:30:17.301 --> 01:30:18.903
- Healing speedily from heaven now.
- 01:30:18.903 --> 01:30:21.439
- In the name of the lamb of god, by his stripes, by his blood,
- 01:30:21.539 --> 01:30:25.409
- We find healing and wholeness in the name of yeshua, jesus
- 01:30:25.409 --> 01:30:29.413
- Our messiah, amen.
- 01:30:29.413 --> 01:30:31.916
- Beautiful.
- 01:30:32.016 --> 01:30:33.551
- To think that we are not only remembering, do this in
- 01:30:33.651 --> 01:30:38.656
- Remembrance of me, but
- 01:30:38.656 --> 01:30:41.259
- Reoccurrence, man, jason, that is just to think that
- 01:30:42.393 --> 01:30:47.932
- We're not just remembering
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- Something, we're experiencing something.
- 01:30:49.700 --> 01:30:51.936
- Re experiencing.
- 01:30:51.936 --> 01:30:53.104
- We are re experiencing jesus in the passover 2025.
- 01:30:53.104 --> 01:31:00.111
- God is good.
- 01:31:00.511 --> 01:31:01.512
- Right? yes.
- 01:31:01.512 --> 01:31:02.847
- Give god a hand.
- 01:31:03.281 --> 01:31:04.181
- Give the lord a hand.
- 01:31:04.181 --> 01:31:05.283
- Come on.
- 01:31:05.283 --> 01:31:05.950
- He's so good.
- 01:31:05.950 --> 01:31:07.552
- So listen, at this point, it would be customary for the
- 01:31:07.652 --> 01:31:12.023
- Children to open the door and to see if elijah was
- 01:31:12.023 --> 01:31:17.061
- Standing outside there.
- 01:31:17.061 --> 01:31:18.796
- Because we know based upon the prophet malachi, it says this,
- 01:31:18.896 --> 01:31:22.934
- Behold, i am going to send elijah
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- The prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day
- 01:31:26.938 --> 01:31:30.508
- Of adonai, and he will turn the hearts of the fathers of
- 01:31:30.508 --> 01:31:34.312
- The children and the children to the fathers.
- 01:31:34.312 --> 01:31:38.916
- Listen, i believe just like elijah prepared the way for the
- 01:31:39.016 --> 01:31:45.957
- Messiah, at the first coming, john the baptist came in
- 01:31:45.957 --> 01:31:49.760
- The spirit and the power of elijah.
- 01:31:49.760 --> 01:31:51.562
- He was an elijah-like figure.
- 01:31:51.562 --> 01:31:54.332
- And in the same way we know there are gonna be these two
- 01:31:54.432 --> 01:31:57.134
- Witnesses in the book of revelation, maybe they're
- 01:31:57.134 --> 01:31:59.637
- Elijah and enoch, the two men that never died.
- 01:31:59.637 --> 01:32:02.940
- Maybe it's elijah and moses, the two men that were on the
- 01:32:02.940 --> 01:32:06.310
- Mount of transfiguration, or maybe they're just two men
- 01:32:06.310 --> 01:32:09.447
- That come in the spirit and the power of elijah.
- 01:32:09.447 --> 01:32:11.916
- Who knows?
- 01:32:11.916 --> 01:32:13.451
- But they're gonna do elijah like things, like shut the
- 01:32:13.551 --> 01:32:16.320
- Heavens and, like, elijah
- 01:32:16.320 --> 01:32:18.289
- Called down fire on mount carmel.
- 01:32:18.289 --> 01:32:20.658
- It talks about fire emanating forth from them if those
- 01:32:20.658 --> 01:32:25.062
- Tried the individuals try to harm them.
- 01:32:25.062 --> 01:32:26.564
- So they're this elijah like figures that are coming to
- 01:32:26.564 --> 01:32:30.901
- Prepare the way for the messiah.
- 01:32:30.901 --> 01:32:32.403
- And listen, i believe that we are living in a day that is
- 01:32:32.403 --> 01:32:36.574
- Coming speedily and soon.
- 01:32:36.574 --> 01:32:39.644
- And it says, he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the
- 01:32:39.644 --> 01:32:43.080
- Children and the children to the fathers.
- 01:32:43.080 --> 01:32:44.515
- One of the things that i believe that means
- 01:32:44.515 --> 01:32:48.753
- Is that god will turn the fathers, meaning the jewish
- 01:32:49.887 --> 01:32:53.157
- Fathers, the jewish people who were the foundation of faith to
- 01:32:53.157 --> 01:32:58.929
- The children, believers in messiah, and believers in
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- Messiah back to the jewish people so that there could
- 01:33:02.933 --> 01:33:06.637
- Be unity in him.
- 01:33:06.637 --> 01:33:08.406
- Listen, i believe god is wanting to open the hearts
- 01:33:08.406 --> 01:33:11.509
- Of jewish people and bring them to faith.
- 01:33:11.509 --> 01:33:14.812
- Because we know there's gonna be a great revival before the
- 01:33:14.812 --> 01:33:17.782
- Lord comes among israel and the nations.
- 01:33:17.782 --> 01:33:20.418
- But i believe one of the keys to that, one of the reasons why
- 01:33:20.518 --> 01:33:24.388
- Jewish people have not believed is because they've been
- 01:33:24.388 --> 01:33:27.324
- Persecuted in the name of jesus.
- 01:33:27.324 --> 01:33:30.428
- I know, pastor allen, you have a heart for israel.
- 01:33:30.528 --> 01:33:35.433
- Why do you think it's so important for believers to
- 01:33:35.533 --> 01:33:39.136
- Stand and pray with the jewish people at this time and season?
- 01:33:39.136 --> 01:33:42.707
- Well, that's such an important question.
- 01:33:42.707 --> 01:33:44.508
- First of all, we owe a
- 01:33:45.076 --> 01:33:46.510
- Tremendous debt to the jewish people.
- 01:33:46.510 --> 01:33:48.012
- Romans tells us that.
- 01:33:48.012 --> 01:33:49.547
- Without the jewish people, have no scripture, we have no
- 01:33:49.647 --> 01:33:52.016
- Prophets, we have no law, we have no messiah.
- 01:33:52.016 --> 01:33:54.685
- Our messiah is an observant jewish rabbi.
- 01:33:54.685 --> 01:33:57.788
- So, we are tremendously indebted to the jewish people.
- 01:33:57.788 --> 01:34:02.093
- Anti semitism, the hatred of the jewish people, we thought
- 01:34:02.193 --> 01:34:05.062
- It was buried at the end of world war ii, and we are
- 01:34:05.062 --> 01:34:08.399
- Surprised to find it is alive and well, not someplace else
- 01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:13.070
- In our own nation.
- 01:34:13.070 --> 01:34:14.238
- And, i think it's important for the people of faith to
- 01:34:14.338 --> 01:34:16.440
- Understand that anti semitism, it's a fancy word for the
- 01:34:16.440 --> 01:34:19.410
- Hatred of the jewish people.
- 01:34:19.410 --> 01:34:21.045
- I believe what fuels that is the spirit of anti christ,
- 01:34:21.145 --> 01:34:24.014
- The spirit that hates the messiah.
- 01:34:24.014 --> 01:34:25.916
- And that it was it was first shouted in the streets of
- 01:34:27.051 --> 01:34:30.654
- Jerusalem, crucify him, through the covenant people of god.
- 01:34:30.654 --> 01:34:35.059
- But, through the centuries of the church, it's been under the
- 01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:38.662
- Organization of religion that
- 01:34:38.662 --> 01:34:39.897
- We have persecuted the jewish people.
- 01:34:39.897 --> 01:34:41.932
- And most of us in the church don't know our own history.
- 01:34:42.032 --> 01:34:44.835
- But, it is that same spirit of antichrist delivered through
- 01:34:44.935 --> 01:34:47.438
- Religious persons, and it will turn on every person that
- 01:34:47.438 --> 01:34:50.641
- Believes in the messiah.
- 01:34:50.641 --> 01:34:52.409
- So, we stand with the jewish people as a means of standing
- 01:34:52.510 --> 01:34:55.646
- With the covenants of promise because it's only through we
- 01:34:55.646 --> 01:34:59.884
- Belong to christ, but we're abraham's seed and heirs
- 01:34:59.884 --> 01:35:03.020
- According to the promise.
- 01:35:03.020 --> 01:35:04.555
- Without the covenant people, we have nothing.
- 01:35:04.655 --> 01:35:07.191
- We've been grafted in.
- 01:35:07.191 --> 01:35:08.659
- So, we stand with the jewish people because that's where
- 01:35:08.659 --> 01:35:11.662
- Our deliverer came from.
- 01:35:11.662 --> 01:35:13.164
- What you've reminded us so beautifully of tonight, with
- 01:35:13.264 --> 01:35:16.934
- The passover meal all the way through the one that jesus
- 01:35:16.934 --> 01:35:19.270
- Invited all of us to, is that we stand together in the
- 01:35:19.270 --> 01:35:22.540
- Promises of god, the covenant he made with abraham, and the
- 01:35:22.540 --> 01:35:25.776
- Freedom that's ours in christ.
- 01:35:25.776 --> 01:35:27.812
- So, it's not just some political assignment, but the
- 01:35:27.912 --> 01:35:31.182
- Way we honor the lord is to honor the jewish people.
- 01:35:31.182 --> 01:35:33.951
- And, we will do that gladly and loudly and wherever the lord
- 01:35:34.051 --> 01:35:38.155
- Gives us the opportunity.
- 01:35:38.155 --> 01:35:40.057
- So, i think for people of faith to go back to the word of god
- 01:35:40.157 --> 01:35:42.393
- And our assignment, psalm one twenty two, is to pray for
- 01:35:42.393 --> 01:35:45.196
- The peace of jerusalem.
- 01:35:45.196 --> 01:35:46.530
- We could stand united together on the authority of scripture
- 01:35:46.530 --> 01:35:49.266
- And make that proclamation on behalf of our brothers and
- 01:35:49.266 --> 01:35:51.635
- Sisters on a daily basis.
- 01:35:51.635 --> 01:35:53.137
- So good.
- 01:35:53.137 --> 01:35:54.138
- So good.
- 01:35:54.438 --> 01:35:55.706
- And that was paul's burden.
- 01:35:55.806 --> 01:35:57.908
- You've got the heart of paul.
- 01:35:58.008 --> 01:35:59.376
- He says, i, myself, wish that i could be a curse for the sake
- 01:35:59.376 --> 01:36:02.780
- Of my brethren according to the flesh.
- 01:36:02.780 --> 01:36:05.182
- Do we have that heart for the
- 01:36:05.182 --> 01:36:06.884
- Salvation of god's chosen people?
- 01:36:06.884 --> 01:36:09.787
- Amen? amen.
- 01:36:09.787 --> 01:36:10.654
- So good.
- 01:36:10.654 --> 01:36:11.789
- And with that, we would
- 01:36:11.789 --> 01:36:12.890
- Continue with what is known as halal.
- 01:36:12.890 --> 01:36:16.160
- And halal are psalms of praise.
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- Can you say halal?
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- Halal. psalms 113
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- Culminating in psalm 118.
- 01:36:23.300 --> 01:36:26.036
- Listen. it says in the gospels that after supper, they
- 01:36:26.036 --> 01:36:31.008
- Went out singing hymns.
- 01:36:31.008 --> 01:36:33.043
- And these are the hymns, the psalms that they would have
- 01:36:33.143 --> 01:36:36.914
- Been singing along with what is known as the grace after meals.
- 01:36:36.914 --> 01:36:40.684
- And what i love about this is think about the deep
- 01:36:40.784 --> 01:36:45.656
- Significance of psalm one hundred and eighteen.
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- It says this,
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- The stone which the builders have rejected has become the
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- Chief cornerstone, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
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- This is from the lord.
- 01:37:05.009 --> 01:37:07.578
- Wow. they're sitting there at the passover seder.
- 01:37:07.678 --> 01:37:11.815
- They're quoting at the end of the meal, psalm one eighteen,
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- And it's actually referring to yeshua, and the meaning of that
- 01:37:16.654 --> 01:37:22.259
- Verse is about to be played out with the betrayal of yeshua,
- 01:37:22.259 --> 01:37:27.665
- With his arrest, with his rejection, with his death
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- As he is nailed there on that tree.
- 01:37:32.403 --> 01:37:35.172
- It's absolutely incredible.
- 01:37:35.272 --> 01:37:38.008
- In fact, it says that in jewish tradition, the rabbis tell us
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- That when jacob left to flee for his life and he laid down,
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- He put stones around his head at bethel, beit el.
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- And when he awoke in the morning, it says he anointed
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- The rock and built an altar there to the lord.
- 01:37:56.527 --> 01:38:01.031
- And some of the rabbis make a comment that the three stones
- 01:38:01.031 --> 01:38:05.135
- Supernaturally became one stone,
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- And it was anointed.
- 01:38:10.140 --> 01:38:11.608
- It's a picture of the godhead, the three that are one.
- 01:38:12.776 --> 01:38:16.947
- In the anointing of that stone that becomes an altar by jacob
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- Is a picture ultimately of the anointing of our messiah and of
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- Psalm one eighteen, the stone which the builders rejected
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- Has become the chief cornerstone.
- 01:38:32.896 --> 01:38:34.531
- Listen, wherever there are people doing god's will,
- 01:38:34.531 --> 01:38:38.435
- You're always gonna have your haters.
- 01:38:38.435 --> 01:38:40.070
- You're always gonna have your judases, but that's okay.
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- Okay? be a dreamer.
- 01:38:43.574 --> 01:38:45.776
- Don't worry about the haters.
- 01:38:45.776 --> 01:38:47.411
- God's got you.
- 01:38:47.411 --> 01:38:48.412
- Amen? and so he is worthy of our praise.
- 01:38:48.412 --> 01:38:54.952
- And then we come
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- Near to the end of our passover seder.
- 01:38:58.288 --> 01:39:01.825
- We come to the fourth cup, and this fourth cup is known as
- 01:39:01.925 --> 01:39:07.931
- The cup of praise or the cup of acceptance.
- 01:39:07.931 --> 01:39:11.802
- After we have his redemption and he accepts us as his sons
- 01:39:11.902 --> 01:39:17.041
- And daughters, what else can we
- 01:39:17.041 --> 01:39:19.643
- Do but praise him and thank him?
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- Amen? the cup of praise.
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- This
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- Is the cup of the kingdom.
- 01:39:29.319 --> 01:39:32.489
- Listen, we're not gonna drink
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- The fourth cup here this evening.
- 01:39:34.525 --> 01:39:36.326
- It's traditional to drink the fourth cup.
- 01:39:36.326 --> 01:39:40.397
- But i'll tell you something.
- 01:39:41.065 --> 01:39:43.333
- When i read the gospels,
- 01:39:43.901 --> 01:39:47.071
- I believe it was over the fourth cup
- 01:39:47.905 --> 01:39:50.941
- That yeshua said these words,
- 01:39:51.642 --> 01:39:54.711
- I will not drink of this fruit of the vine again until i
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- Drink it with you anew in my father's kingdom.
- 01:40:01.051 --> 01:40:04.688
- I believe that the next time we will drink this fourth cup, the
- 01:40:04.788 --> 01:40:09.259
- Cup of praise will be at the marriage supper of the lamb
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- When we're sitting at the table with god, and we are praising
- 01:40:14.198 --> 01:40:19.036
- Him face to face,
- 01:40:19.036 --> 01:40:22.139
- Jew and gentile, every tribe,
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- Every tongue, every nation united in messiah,
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- The pain having passed, the joy having come, and what a time
- 01:40:30.581 --> 01:40:35.786
- Of praise that would be.
- 01:40:35.786 --> 01:40:36.887
- Amen? amen.
- 01:40:36.887 --> 01:40:38.722
- So we leave the fourth cup standing here this evening as
- 01:40:38.822 --> 01:40:42.392
- I believe yeshua left the fourth cup standing.
- 01:40:42.392 --> 01:40:47.297
- And so with that, it would become time to come to the end
- 01:40:47.397 --> 01:40:52.169
- Of the passover seder.
- 01:40:52.269 --> 01:40:54.071
- You've made it all the way through.
- 01:40:54.071 --> 01:40:56.039
- It is the last step known as a nirzah.
- 01:40:56.039 --> 01:40:59.910
- It is the conclusion of the passover seder.
- 01:41:00.010 --> 01:41:04.314
- Listen. we are in the decade of
- 01:41:04.314 --> 01:41:06.049
- The pay, the decade of the mouth.
- 01:41:06.049 --> 01:41:08.385
- This is a time to come out of egypt and use the power of
- 01:41:08.385 --> 01:41:13.524
- Our pay to declare the promises of god.
- 01:41:13.524 --> 01:41:16.894
- Amen? amen.
- 01:41:16.894 --> 01:41:17.928
- And there is this song.
- 01:41:17.928 --> 01:41:19.263
- It goes like there's this phrase that we say.
- 01:41:19.263 --> 01:41:21.532
- Say,
- 01:41:21.532 --> 01:41:22.132
- [speaking in hebrew]
- 01:41:22.132 --> 01:41:27.437
- Next year. next year.
- 01:41:28.038 --> 01:41:29.640
- In jerusalem.
- 01:41:29.640 --> 01:41:32.242
- It's the messianic expectation that next year we will eat the
- 01:41:30.908 --> 01:41:35.279
- Passover face to face with the
- 01:41:35.279 --> 01:41:37.781
- Messiah in the messianic kingdom.
- 01:41:37.781 --> 01:41:40.684
- Amen?
- 01:41:40.684 --> 01:41:41.718
- Amen. let's make some final declarations.
- 01:41:41.718 --> 01:41:44.521
- Repeat after me.
- 01:41:44.521 --> 01:41:46.056
- This is the promise of passover.
- 01:41:46.156 --> 01:41:49.059
- [reading, audience repeating]
- 01:41:49.059 --> 01:42:31.435
- Would you sing this with me or clap along?
- 01:42:31.535 --> 01:42:34.538
- [singing in hebrew]
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- Hey!
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- One more thing to say.
- 01:43:10.540 --> 01:43:14.344
- Repeat after me.
- 01:43:14.778 --> 01:43:16.346
- May his kingdom come.
- 01:43:16.446 --> 01:43:19.549
- And his will be done. and his will be done.
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- On earth.
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- On earth.
- 01:43:23.887 --> 01:43:24.554
- As it is.
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- In heaven.
- 01:43:26.156 --> 01:43:27.357
- In heaven. [hebrew]
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- Come, yeshua.
- 01:43:30.160 --> 01:43:31.662
- May this be the year of your return.
- 01:43:31.762 --> 01:43:34.765
- Come quickly, we pray.
- 01:43:34.765 --> 01:43:36.533
- Bless israel.
- 01:43:36.533 --> 01:43:37.801
- Bless the nations.
- 01:43:37.801 --> 01:43:39.436
- Bless the palestinians and the arab world.
- 01:43:39.536 --> 01:43:41.838
- Unite us in the shalom of our messiah.
- 01:43:41.938 --> 01:43:45.342
- Amen to amen.
- 01:43:45.442 --> 01:43:47.277
- Thank you.
- 01:43:47.277 --> 01:43:48.278
- [applause]
- 01:43:48.278 --> 01:43:51.915
- I'm not sure we could have foreseen
- 01:43:51.915 --> 01:43:55.252
- The connection that these evenings, jesus in the passover
- 01:43:56.453 --> 01:44:02.326
- Was going to have with the tbn audience globally.
- 01:44:02.426 --> 01:44:06.596
- But it feels like we found this amazing theme, this kind of
- 01:44:06.697 --> 01:44:12.202
- Reactivation, this reoccurrence.
- 01:44:12.202 --> 01:44:15.205
- It's a reset.
- 01:44:15.639 --> 01:44:16.907
- We feel a reset in 2025.
- 01:44:16.907 --> 01:44:20.077
- We, you know, are seeing prayer
- 01:44:20.177 --> 01:44:23.080
- In places we didn't normally see prayer.
- 01:44:24.014 --> 01:44:26.650
- We've seen cabinet meetings starting in prayer.
- 01:44:26.650 --> 01:44:29.786
- We have, you know, one of our own tbn family now presiding
- 01:44:29.786 --> 01:44:35.392
- In israel as the ambassador in israel, mike huckabee.
- 01:44:35.392 --> 01:44:41.064
- And so, there's just much to be grateful for.
- 01:44:41.064 --> 01:44:45.535
- There's much to be remembered, but there's much to be
- 01:44:45.535 --> 01:44:50.173
- Experienced now.
- 01:44:50.273 --> 01:44:52.175
- So just your final thoughts, in regard to tonight, and,
- 01:44:52.275 --> 01:44:58.048
- Grateful to be here and to sit with you tonight.
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- Yeah. i mean, first, i just wanna say to dahobah, thank you
- 01:45:00.951 --> 01:45:04.521
- To you both for allowing me to be part of this and to the
- 01:45:04.521 --> 01:45:10.560
- Entire tbn family because it truly has been a joy and a
- 01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:14.765
- Blessing and a highlight of the year to be able to do this.
- 01:45:14.765 --> 01:45:19.302
- And i do think there's a lot to be hopeful about and to have
- 01:45:19.403 --> 01:45:23.407
- Expectation about.
- 01:45:23.407 --> 01:45:24.775
- And as we kind of bring it to the moment that we're in right
- 01:45:24.775 --> 01:45:29.079
- Now, what's interesting is that, you know, we're in the
- 01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:32.149
- Year 2025, but it's also the hebrew year 5785.
- 01:45:32.149 --> 01:45:37.220
- And i want us to think about the significance of the five
- 01:45:37.320 --> 01:45:41.525
- For a moment.
- 01:45:41.525 --> 01:45:42.793
- And one of the interesting things about the five is that
- 01:45:42.793 --> 01:45:46.263
- The five represents the window.
- 01:45:46.263 --> 01:45:48.432
- So on the hebrew calendar,
- 01:45:48.532 --> 01:45:50.534
- This is the year of the open window.
- 01:45:50.534 --> 01:45:53.570
- Ok.
- 01:45:53.570 --> 01:45:54.805
- And what's interesting is that last year was the year of
- 01:45:54.805 --> 01:45:58.942
- The open door.
- 01:45:58.942 --> 01:46:00.177
- And i was sharing with someone about that.
- 01:46:00.277 --> 01:46:03.079
- He was like disappointed.
- 01:46:03.079 --> 01:46:04.281
- He's like, you spoke about the year of the open door.
- 01:46:04.281 --> 01:46:06.283
- It was such a blessing.
- 01:46:06.283 --> 01:46:07.284
- I don't want that door to close.
- 01:46:07.284 --> 01:46:09.052
- He's like, don't worry.
- 01:46:09.152 --> 01:46:10.520
- I said, windows are better than doors.
- 01:46:10.520 --> 01:46:12.889
- Got it.
- 01:46:12.889 --> 01:46:13.723
- So think about it for a moment.
- 01:46:13.723 --> 01:46:14.791
- What's interesting in the door is that the redemption from
- 01:46:16.026 --> 01:46:20.063
- Egypt began with the blood on the doorpost of the home.
- 01:46:20.163 --> 01:46:25.702
- Okay? and so doors biblically represent transition.
- 01:46:25.802 --> 01:46:30.474
- Last year was a transitional year.
- 01:46:30.574 --> 01:46:33.810
- It's like when you step out the door, you're stepping out from
- 01:46:33.910 --> 01:46:37.914
- The private to the public.
- 01:46:38.014 --> 01:46:39.916
- When you shut the door, it's like shutting the
- 01:46:40.016 --> 01:46:43.653
- Old chapter in your life.
- 01:46:43.653 --> 01:46:44.921
- So when israel stepped out that door, they went literally
- 01:46:44.921 --> 01:46:47.891
- At the tenth plague from slavery
- 01:46:47.891 --> 01:46:50.961
- To a new identity and to a new destiny as being chosen by
- 01:46:51.061 --> 01:46:57.067
- God as a royal priesthood and a holy nation.
- 01:46:57.067 --> 01:46:59.769
- So we've been in this transition, but now there is a
- 01:46:59.769 --> 01:47:04.441
- New thing that god is doing, because when it says when
- 01:47:04.541 --> 01:47:07.077
- God closes a door, he opens a window.
- 01:47:07.077 --> 01:47:09.012
- So he's opening these windows of opportunity.
- 01:47:09.012 --> 01:47:14.184
- And think about it.
- 01:47:14.284 --> 01:47:15.552
- Redemption began with the door.
- 01:47:15.652 --> 01:47:19.656
- Blood on the doorposts last year.
- 01:47:20.457 --> 01:47:23.293
- But the possession of the promise, of israel actually
- 01:47:23.393 --> 01:47:29.533
- Going in and taking the land, is connected to the window.
- 01:47:29.533 --> 01:47:35.539
- Think about it for a moment.
- 01:47:35.639 --> 01:47:37.140
- Because when they went in to take the land, who hid them?
- 01:47:37.140 --> 01:47:41.978
- Rahab. and the sign was that god was going to deliver her
- 01:47:42.078 --> 01:47:47.517
- And her family but not the rest of the city was hang
- 01:47:47.517 --> 01:47:50.887
- The cord in the what?
- 01:47:50.887 --> 01:47:52.055
- In the window.
- 01:47:52.155 --> 01:47:53.390
- Okay? so from doors to windows.
- 01:47:53.390 --> 01:47:58.061
- And i believe that's the transition that we're in.
- 01:47:58.161 --> 01:48:01.331
- There is this window of opportunity that god is
- 01:48:01.431 --> 01:48:05.135
- Opening for us.
- 01:48:05.135 --> 01:48:05.936
- And there's only a few doors in
- 01:48:05.936 --> 01:48:07.904
- A home, but there are many windows.
- 01:48:07.904 --> 01:48:10.540
- There are way more windows in a home.
- 01:48:10.540 --> 01:48:13.276
- But one of the things that the window does, it allows
- 01:48:13.276 --> 01:48:17.514
- The fresh air to come into the home.
- 01:48:17.514 --> 01:48:20.684
- Gotta open the window for the air to come in, to get the
- 01:48:20.784 --> 01:48:23.787
- Breeze, to be refreshed.
- 01:48:23.787 --> 01:48:26.423
- What's interesting is that this connects also to the number
- 01:48:26.523 --> 01:48:29.693
- Five, which is represented by the letter hey.
- 01:48:29.693 --> 01:48:32.295
- The hey is literally the it's the breath.
- 01:48:32.395 --> 01:48:36.199
- And god says he created the heavens by the breath of his
- 01:48:36.199 --> 01:48:41.037
- Mouth, with the host of heaven, the stars in the sky, made.
- 01:48:41.037 --> 01:48:45.542
- And so this is the year of the divine breath.
- 01:48:45.642 --> 01:48:48.178
- So this is a year that god wants to breathe new life into
- 01:48:48.278 --> 01:48:52.682
- Our promises, new life into by the way, connected to the
- 01:48:52.682 --> 01:48:57.654
- Passover, yeshua jesus breathed upon the disciples at the last
- 01:48:57.654 --> 01:49:02.425
- Supper in the upper room, symbolic of the holy spirit
- 01:49:02.425 --> 01:49:06.396
- That was going to empower them to step into what god has
- 01:49:06.396 --> 01:49:10.300
- Called them to do.
- 01:49:10.300 --> 01:49:11.635
- I believe god is breathing upon us in new and powerful ways.
- 01:49:11.635 --> 01:49:17.641
- Thank you, lord.
- 01:49:17.641 --> 01:49:18.475
- I want you to pray in a moment.
- 01:49:18.475 --> 01:49:20.677
- Well, just love the scripture,
- 01:49:20.777 --> 01:49:22.078
- Won't i open up the windows of heaven and
- 01:49:22.078 --> 01:49:25.782
- A pour you out a blessing you cannot contain.
- 01:49:25.782 --> 01:49:27.651
- I love that.
- 01:49:27.651 --> 01:49:29.319
- Whoo. ready.
- 01:49:29.319 --> 01:49:30.654
- You know what's so amazing about this entire jesus in the
- 01:49:30.654 --> 01:49:34.391
- Passover thing is to think that the disciples were just about
- 01:49:34.391 --> 01:49:39.562
- To experience the darkest day.
- 01:49:39.562 --> 01:49:41.831
- Jesus took the greatest defeat in history and turned it
- 01:49:41.931 --> 01:49:45.301
- Into the greatest blessing.
- 01:49:45.301 --> 01:49:46.670
- And that's what this represents for our lives, that god can, if
- 01:49:46.770 --> 01:49:50.640
- He can take his own death and turn it into life for us for
- 01:49:50.640 --> 01:49:54.444
- Eternity, it's proof that he
- 01:49:54.444 --> 01:49:57.280
- Knows how to turn things around.
- 01:49:57.280 --> 01:49:59.516
- Isn't that beautiful?
- 01:49:59.516 --> 01:50:00.784
- It's just, that's what this whole thing, and that's the
- 01:50:00.784 --> 01:50:03.386
- Cyclical thing we want.
- 01:50:03.386 --> 01:50:04.788
- We want to go from death to life in dreams, in business
- 01:50:04.788 --> 01:50:09.659
- Opportunities, in all sorts of
- 01:50:09.659 --> 01:50:11.695
- Things that god's called you to do.
- 01:50:11.695 --> 01:50:13.029
- Whatever god's called you to
- 01:50:13.029 --> 01:50:14.397
- Do, let's breathe on that in prayer.
- 01:50:14.397 --> 01:50:17.801
- Just pray for the audience.
- 01:50:17.901 --> 01:50:19.002
- Take us out, in a beautiful declarative prayer.
- 01:50:19.002 --> 01:50:22.906
- Would you just declare with me, lord.
- 01:50:23.773 --> 01:50:26.810
- Lord.
- 01:50:26.810 --> 01:50:27.277
- I trust you.
- 01:50:27.277 --> 01:50:28.945
- Even if the doors don't open,
- 01:50:28.011 --> 01:50:31.214
- I believe that you are gonna open a window for me,
- 01:50:32.315 --> 01:50:36.820
- Windows of blessing, windows of opportunities,
- 01:50:37.821 --> 01:50:43.660
- Windows of breakthrough in my life now in the name of yeshua.
- 01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:50.934
- In the name of jesus.
- 01:50:51.034 --> 01:50:53.036
- Lord, breathe upon me.
- 01:50:53.136 --> 01:50:56.306
- Fill me with your divine breath.
- 01:50:56.406 --> 01:50:59.809
- Breathe into my promises.
- 01:51:00.410 --> 01:51:02.879
- Breathe into my potential.
- 01:51:03.513 --> 01:51:05.815
- Take me from barrenness to birthing.
- 01:51:05.915 --> 01:51:10.553
- May now be the time that i bring forth the promise that
- 01:51:10.653 --> 01:51:15.024
- You have spoken over my life.
- 01:51:15.024 --> 01:51:17.327
- In the name of the messiah, jesus.
- 01:51:17.327 --> 01:51:20.597
- I declare, lord, this is gonna be a season of change.
- 01:51:20.697 --> 01:51:25.902
- Things are going to be different.
- 01:51:26.636 --> 01:51:28.972
- I'm not gonna remain stuck.
- 01:51:29.639 --> 01:51:31.307
- I am coming out of egypt.
- 01:51:31.307 --> 01:51:33.343
- I am going from slavery to
- 01:51:33.443 --> 01:51:35.779
- Freedom, from restriction to expansiveness
- 01:51:35.779 --> 01:51:40.083
- Through the power of the blood of your son, yeshua jesus.
- 01:51:41.284 --> 01:51:46.723
- I thank you, god, for what it is that you're gonna do and
- 01:51:46.823 --> 01:51:51.594
- Believe that you are gonna act powerfully for my sake.
- 01:51:51.694 --> 01:51:56.533
- We ask all these things in the matchless names of yeshua,
- 01:51:56.533 --> 01:52:01.304
- Jesus our messiah.
- 01:52:01.404 --> 01:52:02.639
- I will possess my promise in you, jesus.
- 01:52:02.639 --> 01:52:08.411
- Amen. amen.
- 01:52:08.411 --> 01:52:10.146
- Wow.
- 01:52:10.413 --> 01:52:10.947
- Beautiful.
- 01:52:10.947 --> 01:52:15.151
- ♪ may his favor be upon you and a thousand generations
- 01:52:15.151 --> 01:52:21.491
- ♪ and your children and their families and their children
- 01:52:21.491 --> 01:52:27.330
- ♪ may his favor be upon you and a thousand generations
- 01:52:27.330 --> 01:52:35.271
- ♪ and your children and their families and their children
- 01:52:35.271 --> 01:52:42.245
- ♪ may his presence go before you and behind you and beside you
- 01:52:42.245 --> 01:52:49.853
- ♪ all around you and within you he is with you
- 01:52:49.853 --> 01:52:57.160
- ♪ weeping and rejoicing he is for you
- 01:52:57.160 --> 01:53:09.339
- ♪ he is for you, he is for you, he is for you
- 01:53:09.339 --> 01:53:24.921
- ♪ everyobdy say blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed,
- 01:53:24.921 --> 01:53:39.869
- ♪ we're blessed in the city, blessed in the field
- 01:53:39.869 --> 01:53:45.074
- ♪ we're blessed when we come and when we go
- 01:53:45.074 --> 01:53:51.047
- ♪♪
- 01:53:51.047 --> 01:54:00.323
- ♪ we are blessed, we're blessed in the city
- 01:54:00.323 --> 01:54:03.359
- ♪ blessed in the field
- 01:54:03.359 --> 01:54:05.862
- ♪ we're blessed when we come and when we go
- 01:54:05.862 --> 01:54:10.333
- ♪ we cast down every stronghold
- 01:54:10.333 --> 01:54:18.107
- ♪ the devil is defeated, we are blessed
- 01:54:18.107 --> 01:54:21.911
- ♪ everyobdy say blessed, blessed, blessed, blessed,
- 01:54:21.911 --> 01:54:36.759
- ♪ in the midnight hour it's gonna work in your favor
- 01:54:36.759 --> 01:54:43.099
- ♪ late in the midnight hour, god's gonna turn it around
- 01:54:43.099 --> 01:54:50.840
- ♪ and around and around
- 01:54:50.840 --> 01:54:56.212
- ♪♪
- 01:54:56.212 --> 01:55:13.930
- ♪ we're blessed in the city, blessed in the field
- 01:55:13.930 --> 01:55:19.035
- ♪ we're blessed when we come and when we go
- 01:55:19.035 --> 01:55:23.473
- ♪ we cast down every stronghold
- 01:55:23.473 --> 01:55:29.379
- ♪ the devil is defeated, we are blessed
- 01:55:29.379 --> 01:55:35.685
- ♪♪
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