Jason Sobel: Jesus in the Passover 2025

April 16, 2025 | 115:39

Join Matt and Laurie Crouch as they sit down with Rabbi Jason Sobel for a special 2-hour Passover Seder event. Rabbi Sobel leads a reenactment and explanation of the sacred Seder steps, unveiling the deep meanings behind each tradition.

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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.
  • 00:13:34.036 --> 00:13:36.672
  • Amazing, amazing artist, singer, songwriter, and so glad
  • 00:13:36.772 --> 00:13:43.445
  • To be able to have you, to be able to interact with you.
  • 00:13:43.445 --> 00:13:46.148
  • 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.
  • 00:14:00.062 --> 00:14:02.598
  • 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.
  • 00:14:07.403 --> 00:14:11.807
  • 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?
  • 00:14:21.517 --> 00:14:23.519
  • Biblical holidays always begin in the evening because
  • 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.890
  • 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
  • 00:14:36.699 --> 00:14:40.202
  • 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
  • 00:15:01.156 --> 00:15:03.258
  • Universe, who has sanctified us by his commandments and has
  • 00:15:03.258 --> 00:15:06.929
  • 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
  • 00:15:15.304 --> 00:15:20.009
  • Reading out of a book.
  • 00:15:20.009 --> 00:15:21.410
  • 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,
  • 00:15:37.393 --> 00:15:40.829
  • 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.
  • 00:15:47.069 --> 00:15:48.303
  • This is known as a haggadah.
  • 00:15:48.404 --> 00:15:51.206
  • Haggadah means to tell.
  • 00:15:51.206 --> 00:15:53.142
  • This contains the seder.
  • 00:15:53.142 --> 00:15:55.144
  • 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
  • 00:16:03.285 --> 00:16:07.890
  • As we go forward.
  • 00:16:07.890 --> 00:16:10.159
  • Now with that, it is time to come to the first step
  • 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:17.166
  • In the passover seder.
  • 00:16:17.166 --> 00:16:18.567
  • It is known as the first cup.
  • 00:16:18.567 --> 00:16:20.769
  • Now you're gonna notice that
  • 00:16:20.769 --> 00:16:21.904
  • There are four cups here this evening.
  • 00:16:21.904 --> 00:16:24.940
  • 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.
  • 00:16:40.956 --> 00:16:42.791
  • I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great
  • 00:16:42.891 --> 00:16:46.195
  • Judgments, and i will take you for myself to be my people.
  • 00:16:46.195 --> 00:16:50.766
  • 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
  • 00:17:00.509 --> 00:17:04.179
  • Drink along and participate as much as you want, we always
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  • After we say the blessing,
  • 00:17:08.784 --> 00:17:10.452
  • When we drink it, we lean to the left.
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  • Now this has nothing to do with your politics.
  • 00:17:13.388 --> 00:17:16.158
  • Okay? just to be clear, we lean to the left because in ancient
  • 00:17:16.158 --> 00:17:21.196
  • 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.
  • 00:17:25.767 --> 00:17:31.707
  • To celebrate the fact that we are royalty, we recline at the
  • 00:17:31.707 --> 00:17:36.278
  • 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
  • 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:07.176
  • 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
  • 00:18:11.813 --> 00:18:15.651
  • 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
  • 00:18:27.663 --> 00:18:29.898
  • Cup, he offered a bracha, a blessing.
  • 00:18:29.898 --> 00:18:32.935
  • 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
  • 00:18:36.705 --> 00:18:40.008
  • 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?
  • 00:18:44.146 --> 00:18:46.648
  • 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.
  • 00:19:13.909 --> 00:19:16.078
  • Okay. everyone, lean to your left and drink.
  • 00:19:16.078 --> 00:19:20.816
  • 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
  • 00:19:28.690 --> 00:19:30.959
  • We are going to wash our hands.
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  • 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
  • 00:19:40.135 --> 00:19:43.805
  • 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
  • 00:19:47.009 --> 00:19:50.045
  • That yeshua jesus does something very significant.
  • 00:19:51.146 --> 00:19:56.051
  • Usually, the leader would wash his hands.
  • 00:19:57.019 --> 00:19:59.921
  • 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.
  • 00:20:06.895 --> 00:20:11.533
  • A great act of service, a great act of humility,
  • 00:20:11.633 --> 00:20:16.972
  • 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.
  • 00:20:22.778 --> 00:20:27.316
  • There is something deeper here.
  • 00:20:27.416 --> 00:20:29.918
  • Did you ever wonder why it is significant that of all the
  • 00:20:30.018 --> 00:20:33.388
  • Parts of the body that he could
  • 00:20:33.388 --> 00:20:35.190
  • Wash, he washes the feet of the disciples?
  • 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:40.996
  • Well, think about it for a moment.
  • 00:20:41.763 --> 00:20:43.932
  • 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
  • 00:20:49.271 --> 00:20:53.075
  • 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.
  • 00:20:59.514 --> 00:21:03.418
  • 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
  • 00:21:07.522 --> 00:21:08.457
  • Cleanliness is next to godliness.
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  • Doesn't it say that in the good book?
  • 00:21:10.158 --> 00:21:11.693
  • It doesn't say that in the good book.
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  • Okay? just to be clear.
  • 00:21:13.261 --> 00:21:14.763
  • It's not about physical cleanliness.
  • 00:21:14.763 --> 00:21:17.966
  • It is about spiritual
  • 00:21:18.533 --> 00:21:20.435
  • Cleanliness and about spiritual purity.
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  • It's about coming before the lord with clean hands
  • 00:21:23.705 --> 00:21:27.776
  • And a pure heart.
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  • It's about god washing away the dirt from the past,
  • 00:21:28.977 --> 00:21:33.281
  • And we need god to wash that away for us.
  • 00:21:33.281 --> 00:21:36.852
  • And so jesus was washing the feet of his disciples.
  • 00:21:36.952 --> 00:21:40.655
  • Later, they would wash their hands
  • 00:21:40.655 --> 00:21:43.158
  • Because he was cleansing them and preparing them, and later
  • 00:21:43.258 --> 00:21:47.396
  • On would give them the holy spirit, the ruach of kodesh,
  • 00:21:47.396 --> 00:21:50.932
  • Because he was setting them apart to be part of his royal
  • 00:21:51.032 --> 00:21:54.136
  • Priesthood to serve him.
  • 00:21:54.136 --> 00:21:56.538
  • And, of course, there's more.
  • 00:21:56.638 --> 00:21:58.306
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 00:21:58.407 --> 00:21:59.908
  • Feet are associated with redemption.
  • 00:22:00.008 --> 00:22:02.477
  • Blessed are the feet of him who brings good news, who
  • 00:22:02.577 --> 00:22:06.581
  • 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
  • 00:22:21.763 --> 00:22:26.401
  • 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.
  • 00:22:33.408 --> 00:22:35.544
  • 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,
  • 00:22:49.558 --> 00:22:53.395
  • Take off your sandals, the hebrew word is na'alayim.
  • 00:22:53.395 --> 00:22:56.898
  • 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
  • 00:23:04.272 --> 00:23:07.409
  • 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.
  • 00:23:09.778 --> 00:23:10.712
  • I'm heavy of speech.
  • 00:23:10.812 --> 00:23:12.147
  • I'm slow of tongue.
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  • Send my brother aaron.
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  • You can't send me.
  • 00:23:15.016 --> 00:23:16.685
  • 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,
  • 00:23:26.695 --> 00:23:29.664
  • 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.
  • 00:23:42.644 --> 00:23:43.979
  • 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
  • 00:23:47.148 --> 00:23:51.386
  • Step in to the new.
  • 00:23:51.386 --> 00:23:52.654
  • ♪ a thousand generations falling down in worship to sing
  • 00:23:52.654 --> 00:24:12.407
  • ♪ the song of ages to the lamb
  • 00:24:12.407 --> 00:24:16.411
  • ♪ your name is the highest, your name is the greatest
  • 00:24:16.411 --> 00:24:26.121
  • ♪ your name stand above them all
  • 00:24:26.121 --> 00:24:31.560
  • ♪ and the angels cry holy, all creation cries holy
  • 00:24:31.560 --> 00:24:44.172
  • ♪ you are lifted high, holy,
  • 00:24:44.172 --> 00:27:52.160
  • ♪ 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.
  • 00:28:20.955 --> 00:28:24.058
  • And we are gonna take a piece of green, in this case,
  • 00:28:24.058 --> 00:28:28.062
  • 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
  • 00:28:29.364 --> 00:28:32.901
  • 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.
  • 00:29:20.448 --> 00:29:24.185
  • 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
  • 00:29:58.019 --> 00:30:01.189
  • 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.
  • 00:32:02.910 --> 00:32:05.179
  • That becomes what is known as the afikomen.
  • 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:08.683
  • Can you say afikomen?
  • 00:32:08.783 --> 00:32:10.151
  • [repeating]
  • 00:32:10.151 --> 00:32:11.319
  • But the question that we have to ask is why are there
  • 00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:14.889
  • Three pieces of matzah?
  • 00:32:14.889 --> 00:32:16.657
  • What does it refer to?
  • 00:32:16.657 --> 00:32:18.159
  • Some say it refers to the division of the people of
  • 00:32:18.159 --> 00:32:21.162
  • Israel, the priests, the levites, and the rest of
  • 00:32:21.162 --> 00:32:25.400
  • The tribes of israel.
  • 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:27.101
  • Others say it refers to abraham, isaac, and jacob,
  • 00:32:27.201 --> 00:32:33.908
  • 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.
  • 00:32:38.012 --> 00:32:39.247
  • So there's lots of opinions on what these three pieces
  • 00:32:39.247 --> 00:32:42.183
  • Of matzah mean.
  • 00:32:42.183 --> 00:32:43.051
  • But i want us to think about
  • 00:32:43.051 --> 00:32:44.452
  • The spiritual significance of this.
  • 00:32:44.452 --> 00:32:46.854
  • 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?
  • 00:32:51.325 --> 00:32:54.562
  • It refers to isaac.
  • 00:32:54.562 --> 00:32:57.765
  • Why is that significant?
  • 00:32:57.765 --> 00:32:59.434
  • Because think about it for a moment.
  • 00:33:00.268 --> 00:33:02.403
  • 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
  • 00:33:05.139 --> 00:33:09.177
  • 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,
  • 00:33:17.385 --> 00:33:21.689
  • That means you write numbers with letters.
  • 00:33:21.689 --> 00:33:23.424
  • So every word has a numerical value.
  • 00:33:23.424 --> 00:33:25.660
  • 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
  • 00:33:39.574 --> 00:33:45.146
  • Isaac is a picture of the messiah because these
  • 00:33:45.146 --> 00:33:50.518
  • Two matzahs point to the two messiahs.
  • 00:33:50.518 --> 00:33:52.787
  • Jews usually believe there's two messiahs.
  • 00:33:52.787 --> 00:33:54.822
  • Messiah, son of joseph, the suffering servant, and messiah,
  • 00:33:54.822 --> 00:33:59.527
  • 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
  • 00:34:02.396 --> 00:34:06.033
  • 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,
  • 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:16.277
  • 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.
  • 00:34:29.524 --> 00:34:32.426
  • Three pieces broken, wrapped away, brought back at the end.
  • 00:34:32.527 --> 00:34:36.898
  • Are you getting the picture?
  • 00:34:36.898 --> 00:34:38.533
  • The deep spiritual significance here.
  • 00:34:38.533 --> 00:34:40.801
  • 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
  • 00:34:47.408 --> 00:34:51.579
  • And blessing out of our brokenness.
  • 00:34:51.579 --> 00:34:53.981
  • If we give him the broken pieces, god can do something
  • 00:34:54.081 --> 00:34:57.285
  • 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.
  • 00:35:29.150 --> 00:35:39.160
  • 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.
  • 00:35:54.275 --> 00:35:55.977
  • 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
  • 00:36:57.405 --> 00:37:00.808
  • 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
  • 00:37:48.122 --> 00:37:52.760
  • By helping to save egypt
  • 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:54.895
  • Through joseph, the nice jewish boy.
  • 00:37:54.895 --> 00:37:58.165
  • He enslaved the children of israel.
  • 00:37:58.165 --> 00:38:00.835
  • And after hundreds of years, god remembered them.
  • 00:38:00.935 --> 00:38:03.637
  • 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.
  • 00:38:08.075 --> 00:38:12.079
  • What are they?
  • 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:13.147
  • Let my people go.
  • 00:38:13.147 --> 00:38:15.149
  • 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.
  • 00:40:30.317 --> 00:40:37.191
  • 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
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  • In him, yo, we will go higher in our soul.
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  • 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.
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  • [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.
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  • 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.
  • 00:45:19.273 --> 00:45:22.142
  • He dies at the time that the passover lamb was offered.
  • 00:45:22.142 --> 00:45:25.913
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 00:45:25.913 --> 00:45:27.181
  • The ninth plague, darkness.
  • 00:45:27.281 --> 00:45:28.949
  • The tenth plague, the death of the firstborn.
  • 00:45:28.949 --> 00:45:31.785
  • That was god's firstborn son dying there on that cross for
  • 00:45:31.785 --> 00:45:36.657
  • 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
  • 00:45:42.763 --> 00:45:46.433
  • Significance that points to our redeemer, yeshua jesus,
  • 00:45:46.433 --> 00:45:52.039
  • In this second cup.
  • 00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:53.040
  • 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?
  • 00:46:18.065 --> 00:46:22.836
  • Take this cup from me.
  • 00:46:23.403 --> 00:46:26.807
  • 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
  • 00:46:33.313 --> 00:46:34.681
  • 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.
  • 00:47:09.883 --> 00:47:12.853
  • The first pressing is just the
  • 00:47:12.953 --> 00:47:15.389
  • Weight of the olives themselves.
  • 00:47:15.389 --> 00:47:17.291
  • It's the purest.
  • 00:47:17.391 --> 00:47:18.792
  • Then weight is added.
  • 00:47:18.892 --> 00:47:20.827
  • More of the oil comes out, and then more weight is added
  • 00:47:20.928 --> 00:47:26.633
  • Until every ounce of oil comes out under the weight of
  • 00:47:26.633 --> 00:47:31.805
  • 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
  • 00:47:46.286 --> 00:47:52.025
  • Come forth from him.
  • 00:47:52.025 --> 00:47:53.593
  • He was in the place of the crushing.
  • 00:47:54.428 --> 00:47:56.563
  • 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.
  • 00:48:09.276 --> 00:48:12.546
  • 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.
  • 00:48:15.649 --> 00:48:20.187
  • 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.
  • 00:48:45.946 --> 00:48:49.783
  • 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
  • 00:49:09.803 --> 00:49:11.138
  • 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
  • 00:49:26.453 --> 00:49:28.522
  • 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?
  • 00:49:32.259 --> 00:49:33.326
  • What hope would you share about that?
  • 00:49:33.326 --> 00:49:36.163
  • 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?
  • 00:51:33.146 --> 00:51:34.781
  • Yes, i do.
  • 00:51:34.781 --> 00:51:35.815
  • Because i was able to draw closer to him.
  • 00:51:35.815 --> 00:51:38.051
  • I was able to get to know him in a way that i didn't
  • 00:51:38.151 --> 00:51:41.021
  • 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
  • 00:51:42.389 --> 00:51:47.894
  • 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
  • 00:53:09.075 --> 00:53:12.145
  • 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.
  • 00:53:24.424 --> 00:53:26.860
  • Arav.
  • 00:53:27.160 --> 00:53:30.597
  • Devar.
  • 00:53:30.897 --> 00:53:32.299
  • Boils. shechin.
  • 00:53:32.766 --> 00:53:35.902
  • Hail. barad.
  • 00:53:36.303 --> 00:53:38.872
  • Locust.
  • 00:53:39.205 --> 00:53:41.074
  • Arbe. darkness.
  • 00:53:41.541 --> 00:53:44.644
  • Chosek. death of the first born.
  • 00:53:45.412 --> 00:53:49.182
  • Yes. makat beharot.
  • 00:53:49.282 --> 00:53:51.918
  • 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
  • 00:58:59.659 --> 00:59:04.030
  • 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
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  • Offer the actual passover lamb today.
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  • So we have a reminder of the lamb that we ate in the temple
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  • And of the redemption that god offered our ancestors here
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • Look. it's pierced.
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  • 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
  • 01:01:06.285 --> 01:01:11.524
  • 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
  • 01:01:38.885 --> 01:01:43.189
  • 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,
  • 01:01:48.394 --> 01:01:51.597
  • 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.
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  • [singng in hebrew]
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  • 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.
  • 01:03:41.540 --> 01:03:44.143
  • It is meant to be hot.
  • 01:03:44.143 --> 01:03:45.912
  • It is meant to bring tears to our eyes.
  • 01:03:46.012 --> 01:03:48.981
  • Traditionally, you're supposed
  • 01:03:49.081 --> 01:03:50.283
  • To eat half an egg's volumes worth.
  • 01:03:50.283 --> 01:03:53.786
  • This separates the men
  • 01:03:53.886 --> 01:03:55.554
  • From the boys, the women from the young girls.
  • 01:03:55.554 --> 01:03:58.591
  • Don't want anyone to hurt themselves.
  • 01:03:58.691 --> 01:04:00.192
  • Not saying you have to do that here this evening.
  • 01:04:00.192 --> 01:04:02.261
  • Okay? but in a moment, what we are gonna do is that
  • 01:04:02.261 --> 01:04:07.266
  • We are going to take some of what's
  • 01:04:07.266 --> 01:04:09.268
  • Known as the chadzeret, the lettuce.
  • 01:04:09.268 --> 01:04:12.104
  • We are going to you can now take some of that, dip it in
  • 01:04:12.204 --> 01:04:16.642
  • The, dip it in the maror that reminds us of the bitterness of
  • 01:04:16.642 --> 01:04:22.415
  • Slavery, and we are going to take and eat this together.
  • 01:04:22.415 --> 01:04:28.521
  • Okay? so we're gonna say the blessing.
  • 01:04:28.521 --> 01:04:50.476
  • Blessed are you, o lord our god, king of the universe,
  • 01:04:51.644 --> 01:04:53.813
  • Who sanctifies us by his commandments and commands us
  • 01:04:53.813 --> 01:04:56.916
  • To eat the bitter herbs.
  • 01:04:56.916 --> 01:04:58.684
  • Amen.
  • 01:04:58.684 --> 01:05:03.022
  • Now friends, of course, there's deep spiritual significance.
  • 01:05:04.290 --> 01:05:08.594
  • John thirteen says this,
  • 01:05:09.161 --> 01:05:12.331
  • On the night yeshua was betrayed,
  • 01:05:13.165 --> 01:05:15.267
  • [reading scripture]
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  • Friends,
  • 01:05:39.525 --> 01:05:40.659
  • The one who is gonna betray jesus, the one who's gonna
  • 01:05:41.827 --> 01:05:44.930
  • Dip in the sop, judas was dipping in the bitter herbs.
  • 01:05:44.930 --> 01:05:49.101
  • Yes. it reminds us of the bitterness of slavery, but it
  • 01:05:49.201 --> 01:05:52.905
  • Reminds us that a life apart from a relationship with jesus,
  • 01:05:52.905 --> 01:05:58.778
  • Yeshua as our messiah, is very bitter indeed.
  • 01:05:58.778 --> 01:06:04.950
  • Friends, life is bitter without the lord.
  • 01:06:05.051 --> 01:06:07.420
  • It's only him who takes the bitterness and transforms it
  • 01:06:07.520 --> 01:06:11.657
  • Into sweetness.
  • 01:06:11.657 --> 01:06:13.159
  • And we remember that in the next part of the eating of the
  • 01:06:13.259 --> 01:06:19.265
  • Passover seder, what we are
  • 01:06:19.265 --> 01:06:21.033
  • Gonna do is we are gonna make a sandwich.
  • 01:06:21.033 --> 01:06:24.703
  • This is known as hillel sandwich.
  • 01:06:24.804 --> 01:06:27.606
  • Hillel, the famous rabbi.
  • 01:06:27.706 --> 01:06:30.176
  • Okay? he would take two pieces of matzah, dip a little bit
  • 01:06:30.276 --> 01:06:36.916
  • In the horseradish, then he would take the haroset.
  • 01:06:36.916 --> 01:06:41.387
  • Can you take say haroset?
  • 01:06:41.387 --> 01:06:43.089
  • The haroset is this other mixture.
  • 01:06:43.189 --> 01:06:46.292
  • It's meant to remind us of the mortar that we use to make
  • 01:06:46.392 --> 01:06:50.329
  • Bricks in egypt, but it actually is not bitter.
  • 01:06:50.329 --> 01:06:54.567
  • It actually tastes sweet.
  • 01:06:54.567 --> 01:06:56.535
  • It's made out of apples and
  • 01:06:56.635 --> 01:07:00.072
  • Walnuts and grape juice and cinnamon.
  • 01:07:00.072 --> 01:07:04.210
  • And the reason why is because when we knew the bitterness
  • 01:07:04.310 --> 01:07:09.014
  • Of slavery was coming to an end,
  • 01:07:09.014 --> 01:07:11.283
  • Even the bitterness became sweet.
  • 01:07:11.283 --> 01:07:14.053
  • So make your sandwiches, and after you have made your
  • 01:07:14.053 --> 01:07:18.791
  • Sandwiches, i just want to invite you to take and eat
  • 01:07:18.791 --> 01:07:26.065
  • Of the sandwich.
  • 01:07:26.065 --> 01:07:26.899
  • Hello, sandwich.
  • 01:07:26.899 --> 01:07:30.002
  • Friends, the word for the passover, the lamb, the word
  • 01:07:31.137 --> 01:07:35.674
  • For what we're celebrating here this evening is passover
  • 01:07:35.674 --> 01:07:40.446
  • In english, but i want you to say,
  • 01:07:40.446 --> 01:07:42.648
  • Pesach.
  • 01:07:42.648 --> 01:07:44.450
  • The numerical value of passover is one hundred and forty eight.
  • 01:07:44.450 --> 01:07:50.523
  • You know why that's significant?
  • 01:07:50.523 --> 01:07:52.324
  • It's the same numerical value of the word [hbrew]
  • 01:07:52.424 --> 01:07:56.028
  • In hebrew. can you say--
  • 01:07:56.028 --> 01:07:58.330
  • Means victory.
  • 01:07:58.764 --> 01:08:00.666
  • It is by the passover lamb in his blood, 148,
  • 01:08:00.766 --> 01:08:06.405
  • That we have victory.
  • 01:08:06.405 --> 01:08:08.274
  • Amen? say, i've got
  • 01:08:08.274 --> 01:08:10.276
  • Victory in messiah.
  • 01:08:10.276 --> 01:08:11.777
  • It's also the numerical value
  • 01:08:11.777 --> 01:08:15.648
  • Of the hebrew word for strength.
  • 01:08:15.648 --> 01:08:18.184
  • It's also the numerical value of the word for plague
  • 01:08:18.284 --> 01:08:23.022
  • And for promise and for children of god.
  • 01:08:23.022 --> 01:08:25.658
  • Because when we believe
  • 01:08:25.658 --> 01:08:27.893
  • In yeshua 148, he gives us the
  • 01:08:27.893 --> 01:08:31.897
  • One forty eight, to have the victory, one forty
  • 01:08:31.897 --> 01:08:35.401
  • Eight, to overcome the plague of judgment, one hundred and
  • 01:08:35.401 --> 01:08:39.405
  • Forty eight, and he gives us a promise, one forty eight, that
  • 01:08:39.405 --> 01:08:43.509
  • We might become the children of god,
  • 01:08:43.509 --> 01:08:45.411
  • One hundred and forty eight.
  • 01:08:45.411 --> 01:08:48.314
  • Turn to
  • 01:08:48.314 --> 01:08:49.381
  • Someone and say, you're a child of the king.
  • 01:08:49.381 --> 01:08:51.784
  • You're a child of the king.
  • 01:08:52.451 --> 01:08:54.954
  • Friends, what god has done
  • 01:08:55.054 --> 01:08:56.789
  • For us is overwhelming through jesus.
  • 01:08:56.789 --> 01:09:02.261
  • It's so good.
  • 01:09:02.695 --> 01:09:04.296
  • It seems like it's science fiction.
  • 01:09:04.396 --> 01:09:07.299
  • We have on our seder plate a few other things.
  • 01:09:07.399 --> 01:09:10.903
  • One is an egg.
  • 01:09:10.903 --> 01:09:11.904
  • Why an egg?
  • 01:09:11.904 --> 01:09:13.005
  • It reminds us of the other festival sacrifices
  • 01:09:13.005 --> 01:09:17.142
  • Offered in the temple.
  • 01:09:17.142 --> 01:09:18.177
  • Why is it round?
  • 01:09:18.277 --> 01:09:19.678
  • Because it's round like the circle of life.
  • 01:09:19.778 --> 01:09:22.548
  • Life comes from an egg.
  • 01:09:22.648 --> 01:09:24.917
  • In the old testament, it says, without the shedding of blood,
  • 01:09:25.017 --> 01:09:28.554
  • There'll be no remission of sins, and so sacrifices helped
  • 01:09:28.554 --> 01:09:32.391
  • Cover the sin and bring life until messiah came.
  • 01:09:32.391 --> 01:09:36.395
  • We'll talk more about that.
  • 01:09:36.395 --> 01:09:38.163
  • Brown because the sacrifices were roasted.
  • 01:09:38.264 --> 01:09:42.534
  • And so we have all of these things on our plate to remind
  • 01:09:42.635 --> 01:09:46.639
  • Us of what god did.
  • 01:09:46.639 --> 01:09:48.040
  • And at this point, it would be time to have the big festive
  • 01:09:48.140 --> 01:09:51.410
  • Passover meal, and it's called shulchan erez.
  • 01:09:51.410 --> 01:09:55.814
  • And it would be a multi course meal.
  • 01:09:55.914 --> 01:09:59.018
  • It would be a feast.
  • 01:09:59.018 --> 01:10:00.653
  • Jesus would have done this with his disciples.
  • 01:10:00.653 --> 01:10:03.922
  • And what it's meant to be, it was meant to be a sneak preview
  • 01:10:04.023 --> 01:10:08.527
  • Of the marriage supper of the lamb in the messianic kingdom,
  • 01:10:08.527 --> 01:10:13.966
  • Which all of us will be able to experience one day.
  • 01:10:14.066 --> 01:10:17.336
  • I can't wait.
  • 01:10:17.770 --> 01:10:19.104
  • I don't know about you, but i'm looking forward to that day.
  • 01:10:19.104 --> 01:10:21.073
  • That is gonna be one good meal.
  • 01:10:21.073 --> 01:10:24.043
  • Better than any michelin- rated restaurant.
  • 01:10:24.143 --> 01:10:27.313
  • So one of the things we have to understand is that after the
  • 01:10:28.580 --> 01:10:32.284
  • 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
  • 01:10:37.289 --> 01:10:43.062
  • Hidden piece of matzah that was broken earlier
  • 01:10:43.062 --> 01:10:47.700
  • And that was placed away.
  • 01:10:47.700 --> 01:10:49.301
  • So i want you to think about the significance of this
  • 01:10:49.401 --> 01:10:52.771
  • Middle piece of matzah.
  • 01:10:52.771 --> 01:10:53.906
  • This is known--
  • 01:10:53.906 --> 01:10:54.773
  • Can you say, afikomen?
  • 01:10:54.773 --> 01:10:56.175
  • Think about it for a moment.
  • 01:10:56.275 --> 01:10:58.544
  • This is unleavened bread.
  • 01:10:59.144 --> 01:11:01.080
  • In the bible, leaven is synonymous of sin.
  • 01:11:01.180 --> 01:11:05.417
  • Beware of the little leaven of the pharisees.
  • 01:11:05.517 --> 01:11:07.820
  • A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.
  • 01:11:07.820 --> 01:11:11.190
  • Okay? so this bread is sinless.
  • 01:11:11.290 --> 01:11:14.326
  • It is pierced.
  • 01:11:14.760 --> 01:11:16.061
  • It is striped.
  • 01:11:16.161 --> 01:11:17.563
  • It is bruised.
  • 01:11:17.663 --> 01:11:19.098
  • It is broken.
  • 01:11:19.198 --> 01:11:20.833
  • It is isaiah 53, pierced for our transgressions,
  • 01:11:20.933 --> 01:11:25.304
  • Crush for our iniquities, and by his stripes, we are healed.
  • 01:11:25.404 --> 01:11:30.676
  • It is wrapped away just like yeshua was wrapped away, and
  • 01:11:30.776 --> 01:11:36.915
  • He was in the tomb wrapped in linen cloth just like we
  • 01:11:36.915 --> 01:11:40.886
  • Wrapped this piece of matzah in
  • 01:11:40.886 --> 01:11:42.688
  • A linen cloth here this evening.
  • 01:11:42.688 --> 01:11:45.557
  • Three pieces of matzah, father, son, and holy spirit.
  • 01:11:45.657 --> 01:11:49.895
  • It is the middle piece of matzah representing the son
  • 01:11:49.895 --> 01:11:53.565
  • 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
  • 01:11:58.704 --> 01:12:04.176
  • Of our messiah.
  • 01:12:04.276 --> 01:12:06.078
  • This is called safun, which means hidden because messiah
  • 01:12:06.178 --> 01:12:10.015
  • Was hidden away, and messiah is still hidden to this day.
  • 01:12:10.015 --> 01:12:14.286
  • From many jewish people, they have not recognized that he is
  • 01:12:14.286 --> 01:12:17.890
  • The one spoken of by moses and the prophets.
  • 01:12:17.890 --> 01:12:21.427
  • But one day his their eyes will be opened just like it was
  • 01:12:21.527 --> 01:12:26.165
  • For joseph's brothers.
  • 01:12:26.165 --> 01:12:27.666
  • They rejected him, but the second time they came down to
  • 01:12:27.766 --> 01:12:31.537
  • Egypt, he spoke to them in hebrew, took off his egyptian
  • 01:12:31.537 --> 01:12:35.774
  • Garb, and he said to nehoshaph, and they recognized,
  • 01:12:35.774 --> 01:12:39.411
  • You are our brothers.
  • 01:12:39.411 --> 01:12:41.180
  • At the first coming, they didn't recognize yeshua, but
  • 01:12:41.280 --> 01:12:44.383
  • At the second coming, every eye will see, recognize,
  • 01:12:44.383 --> 01:12:48.387
  • And receive him, both jew and gentile in messiah.
  • 01:12:48.387 --> 01:12:53.158
  • And this is the afikomen.
  • 01:12:53.258 --> 01:12:55.461
  • Some scholars believe the afikomen means he has come
  • 01:12:55.561 --> 01:13:01.033
  • Or he will come again.
  • 01:13:01.033 --> 01:13:03.235
  • This bread declares the messiah
  • 01:13:04.036 --> 01:13:06.205
  • Has come, and he is going to return.
  • 01:13:06.205 --> 01:13:09.775
  • Amen? and listen.
  • 01:13:09.775 --> 01:13:11.810
  • You can give it a hand.
  • 01:13:11.810 --> 01:13:12.945
  • Alright? what's
  • 01:13:12.945 --> 01:13:14.913
  • Amazing is this.
  • 01:13:14.913 --> 01:13:17.583
  • 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?
  • 01:13:23.522 --> 01:13:25.791
  • From breaking a middle piece of matzah after supper and giving
  • 01:13:25.791 --> 01:13:29.428
  • It special spiritual significance of eating it.
  • 01:13:29.428 --> 01:13:33.165
  • Because traditionally, the last thing we would eat at
  • 01:13:33.165 --> 01:13:35.934
  • The passover seder would be the passover lamb.
  • 01:13:35.934 --> 01:13:40.305
  • So that the taste of redemption
  • 01:13:40.405 --> 01:13:42.541
  • 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
  • 01:13:46.011 --> 01:13:50.516
  • The afikomen, the middle piece of matzah.
  • 01:13:50.516 --> 01:13:54.286
  • Because the last thing that we should taste is the
  • 01:13:55.387 --> 01:14:00.325
  • 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
  • 01:14:02.761 --> 01:14:08.634
  • Yeshua, jesus, and the jewish community, i believe, got it
  • 01:14:08.634 --> 01:14:13.705
  • From the first jewish followers of messiah
  • 01:14:13.705 --> 01:14:17.676
  • And don't even remember where it came from.
  • 01:14:17.676 --> 01:14:19.578
  • 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
  • 01:14:22.314 --> 01:14:27.819
  • Done for us.
  • 01:14:27.819 --> 01:14:29.054
  • Listen. messiah himself said, i am the bread of what?
  • 01:14:29.054 --> 01:14:33.659
  • I am the bread of life.
  • 01:14:33.659 --> 01:14:35.427
  • Listen, we talked a lot about numbers.
  • 01:14:35.527 --> 01:14:37.930
  • Well, guess what?
  • 01:14:38.030 --> 01:14:39.197
  • Bethlehem equals 490 in hebrew.
  • 01:14:39.197 --> 01:14:42.034
  • Beit lechem literally means house of bread.
  • 01:14:42.034 --> 01:14:45.170
  • Nativity equals four hundred ninety in hebrew.
  • 01:14:45.270 --> 01:14:48.607
  • Tamim, to be perfect or complete equals 490
  • 01:14:48.707 --> 01:14:52.277
  • In hebrew.
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  • Yeshua jesus was the perfect, spotless, sinless passover
  • 01:14:53.545 --> 01:14:57.816
  • Lamb, four ninety, born four ninety, in bethlehem, four
  • 01:14:57.816 --> 01:15:02.287
  • Ninety, to bring freedom and forgiveness, which is
  • 01:15:02.287 --> 01:15:05.891
  • Tied to 490.
  • 01:15:05.891 --> 01:15:07.092
  • How many times did jesus tell peter he had to forgive?
  • 01:15:07.092 --> 01:15:10.062
  • Seventy times seven, four hundred and ninety.
  • 01:15:10.062 --> 01:15:16.134
  • Because bread and forgiveness are tied together.
  • 01:15:17.202 --> 01:15:19.938
  • Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our
  • 01:15:20.038 --> 01:15:23.175
  • Trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
  • 01:15:23.175 --> 01:15:27.913
  • When we withhold the bread of forgiveness, it's like we're
  • 01:15:28.013 --> 01:15:31.383
  • Telling a starving person go and die on a spiritual level.
  • 01:15:31.383 --> 01:15:35.787
  • 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
  • 01:15:40.525 --> 01:15:44.663
  • That is the reminder, the portrait, the picture of what
  • 01:15:44.663 --> 01:15:49.635
  • Was done for us in messiah, yeshua.
  • 01:15:49.635 --> 01:15:54.039
  • Amen? so i'm gonna take a piece of the afikomen.
  • 01:15:54.139 --> 01:16:01.747
  • And then it's time to look here
  • 01:16:02.514 --> 01:16:05.817
  • At the third cup.
  • 01:16:06.284 --> 01:16:08.120
  • The third cup is known as the cup of redemption.
  • 01:16:09.154 --> 01:16:12.190
  • Can you say cup of redemption?
  • 01:16:12.190 --> 01:16:13.692
  • Why is the third cup the cup of redemption?
  • 01:16:14.660 --> 01:16:17.162
  • I want you to think about it for a moment.
  • 01:16:17.162 --> 01:16:19.164
  • 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?
  • 01:16:22.434 --> 01:16:25.771
  • Three on the top and on the two sides of the pass of the
  • 01:16:25.771 --> 01:16:30.008
  • Doorpost in egypt.
  • 01:16:30.008 --> 01:16:31.309
  • 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
  • 01:16:51.530 --> 01:16:56.068
  • Of israel out of egypt.
  • 01:16:56.068 --> 01:16:58.704
  • The plagues are break broken into three distinct sections
  • 01:16:58.804 --> 01:17:04.409
  • In jewish thought.
  • 01:17:04.409 --> 01:17:05.777
  • Okay? the three sprinklings of the blood of the passover lamb.
  • 01:17:05.777 --> 01:17:09.915
  • 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?
  • 01:17:17.456 --> 01:17:19.758
  • The third hour.
  • 01:17:19.758 --> 01:17:21.293
  • There were three crosses.
  • 01:17:21.893 --> 01:17:23.729
  • There was darkness for three hours.
  • 01:17:24.529 --> 01:17:26.531
  • He raised from the dead on the third day.
  • 01:17:26.531 --> 01:17:29.768
  • Friends, this number three throughout the bible is
  • 01:17:29.768 --> 01:17:32.637
  • Associated and connected to redemption, and god is
  • 01:17:32.637 --> 01:17:39.678
  • Three yet one.
  • 01:17:39.678 --> 01:17:40.979
  • It points the passover to the
  • 01:17:41.079 --> 01:17:43.915
  • 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
  • 01:17:58.530 --> 01:18:03.401
  • You and me to undo the sin of the first man and woman to
  • 01:18:03.401 --> 01:18:09.274
  • 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.
  • 01:18:15.781 --> 01:18:18.650
  • 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.
  • 01:18:24.389 --> 01:18:26.691
  • 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?
  • 01:18:35.033 --> 01:18:37.169
  • The seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent.
  • 01:18:37.269 --> 01:18:40.705
  • 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.
  • 01:18:50.415 --> 01:18:53.018
  • He was trying to foil the plan of god, but he didn't realize
  • 01:18:53.018 --> 01:18:56.521
  • He wasn't foiling it.
  • 01:18:56.521 --> 01:18:58.056
  • He was actually fulfilling it.
  • 01:18:58.056 --> 01:19:00.559
  • 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?
  • 01:19:07.399 --> 01:19:09.334
  • 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
  • 01:19:18.910 --> 01:19:23.448
  • 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?
  • 01:19:29.154 --> 01:19:32.958
  • Communion at the last supper,
  • 01:19:33.658 --> 01:19:37.362
  • 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.
  • 01:19:49.774 --> 01:19:52.344
  • Mean, it took great faith to offer the sacrifice because
  • 01:19:52.444 --> 01:19:55.780
  • 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
  • 01:20:01.286 --> 01:20:06.658
  • Make a personal decision by faith to
  • 01:20:06.658 --> 01:20:10.528
  • 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
  • 01:20:20.572 --> 01:20:22.407
  • 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.
  • 01:20:53.271 --> 01:20:55.206
  • [singing in hebrew]
  • 01:20:55.206 --> 01:21:10.956
  • Blessed are you, oh, lord, our god, king of the universe,
  • 01:21:10.956 --> 01:21:13.825
  • 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
  • 01:24:10.568 --> 01:24:14.139
  • 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.
  • 01:24:52.310 --> 01:24:53.945
  • 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.
  • 01:25:57.508 --> 01:26:00.178
  • Wow. and what's interesting is the rabbis tell us that we're
  • 01:26:00.178 --> 01:26:03.648
  • To eat of the passover as if we were actually there when
  • 01:26:03.648 --> 01:26:09.687
  • 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.
  • 01:27:00.905 --> 01:27:06.144
  • He blessed it.
  • 01:27:06.577 --> 01:27:24.429
  • Blessed are you, o lord our god, king of the universe, who
  • 01:27:25.663 --> 01:27:29.934
  • Brings forth bread from the earth.
  • 01:27:29.934 --> 01:27:33.037
  • Jesus is the bread of life.
  • 01:27:33.037 --> 01:27:35.239
  • He took it.
  • 01:27:35.640 --> 01:27:36.908
  • He broke it.
  • 01:27:37.008 --> 01:27:38.276
  • He said, take and eat.
  • 01:27:38.276 --> 01:27:39.510
  • 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,
  • 01:27:54.025 --> 01:27:55.827
  • He took the third cup,
  • 01:27:56.394 --> 01:27:58.596
  • 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
  • 01:28:26.691 --> 01:28:31.262
  • 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
  • 01:29:32.323 --> 01:29:36.661
  • 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
  • 01:29:49.774 --> 01:29:53.144
  • 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,
  • 01:30:08.926 --> 01:30:16.734
  • 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
  • 01:30:47.932 --> 01:30:49.700
  • 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
  • 01:31:22.934 --> 01:31:25.670
  • 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
  • 01:32:58.929 --> 01:33:02.933
  • 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.
  • 01:36:16.260 --> 01:36:18.896
  • Can you say halal?
  • 01:36:18.896 --> 01:36:20.297
  • Halal. psalms 113
  • 01:36:20.397 --> 01:36:23.300
  • 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.
  • 01:36:45.656 --> 01:36:49.393
  • It says this,
  • 01:36:49.393 --> 01:36:54.231
  • The stone which the builders have rejected has become the
  • 01:36:55.432 --> 01:37:00.137
  • Chief cornerstone, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
  • 01:37:00.137 --> 01:37:04.909
  • 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,
  • 01:37:11.916 --> 01:37:16.553
  • 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
  • 01:37:27.765 --> 01:37:32.403
  • 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
  • 01:37:38.008 --> 01:37:42.413
  • That when jacob left to flee for his life and he laid down,
  • 01:37:42.413 --> 01:37:47.651
  • He put stones around his head at bethel, beit el.
  • 01:37:47.651 --> 01:37:52.923
  • And when he awoke in the morning, it says he anointed
  • 01:37:53.023 --> 01:37:56.427
  • 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,
  • 01:38:05.135 --> 01:38:09.606
  • 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
  • 01:38:16.947 --> 01:38:22.953
  • Is a picture ultimately of the anointing of our messiah and of
  • 01:38:22.953 --> 01:38:28.325
  • Psalm one eighteen, the stone which the builders rejected
  • 01:38:28.325 --> 01:38:32.896
  • 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.
  • 01:38:40.070 --> 01:38:43.474
  • 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
  • 01:38:55.386 --> 01:38:57.388
  • 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?
  • 01:39:19.643 --> 01:39:24.014
  • Amen? the cup of praise.
  • 01:39:24.014 --> 01:39:27.384
  • This
  • 01:39:27.651 --> 01:39:28.685
  • Is the cup of the kingdom.
  • 01:39:29.319 --> 01:39:32.489
  • Listen, we're not gonna drink
  • 01:39:33.190 --> 01:39:34.525
  • 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
  • 01:39:54.812 --> 01:40:01.051
  • 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
  • 01:40:09.259 --> 01:40:14.198
  • 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,
  • 01:40:22.139 --> 01:40:25.776
  • Every tongue, every nation united in messiah,
  • 01:40:25.776 --> 01:40:30.481
  • 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]
  • 01:42:34.538 --> 01:43:09.072
  • Hey!
  • 01:43:09.072 --> 01:43:10.540
  • 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.
  • 01:43:18.181 --> 01:43:22.686
  • On earth.
  • 01:43:22.786 --> 01:43:23.787
  • On earth.
  • 01:43:23.887 --> 01:43:24.554
  • As it is.
  • 01:43:24.655 --> 01:43:26.657
  • In heaven.
  • 01:43:26.156 --> 01:43:27.357
  • In heaven. [hebrew]
  • 01:43:27.891 --> 01:43:29.726
  • 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.
  • 01:44:58.148 --> 01:45:00.951
  • 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.
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  • So think about it for a moment.
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  • 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.
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  • Okay? and so doors biblically represent transition.
  • 01:46:25.802 --> 01:46:30.474
  • Last year was a transitional year.
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  • It's like when you step out the door, you're stepping out from
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  • The private to the public.
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  • When you shut the door, it's like shutting the
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  • Old chapter in your life.
  • 01:46:43.653 --> 01:46:44.921
  • So when israel stepped out that door, they went literally
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  • At the tenth plague from slavery
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  • To a new identity and to a new destiny as being chosen by
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • So he's opening these windows of opportunity.
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  • And think about it.
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  • Redemption began with the door.
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  • Blood on the doorposts last year.
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  • But the possession of the promise, of israel actually
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  • 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?
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  • Rahab. and the sign was that god was going to deliver her
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  • And her family but not the rest of the city was hang
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  • 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.
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  • There is this window of opportunity that god is
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Breeze, to be refreshed.
  • 01:48:23.787 --> 01:48:26.423
  • What's interesting is that this connects also to the number
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.
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  • Would you just declare with me, lord.
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  • Lord.
  • 01:50:26.810 --> 01:50:27.277
  • I trust you.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • ♪♪
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  • ♪ we are blessed, we're blessed in the city
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  • ♪ 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
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  • ♪♪
  • 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
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  • ♪♪
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