Maundy Thursday Service

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Good evening. Glad you made it to our Maundy Thursday service, and I get asked every year

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What what does Maundy mean? It's not the type of service that has been

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Typically used in our kind of churches and our circles and so forth.

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So a little unusual So I have every year I have to remind myself of what it's actually from a

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Latin word and the Latin word is mandatum Mandatum and That has to do with a mandate or a command so the connection between Maundy or mandatum and The night of the

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Last Supper is that in that upper room the Lord Jesus gave several commands

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So for example in John 13 verse 15 After the

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Lord had washed the disciples feet He said I have given you an example that you should do as I have done unto you but more

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Poignantly as far as a command goes in verse 35 He says by this all will know if you are my disciples if you have love one for another

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That's right after he gave the commandment a new commandment. He says I give to you that you love one another

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And there were a couple other places in That upper room when Jesus gave some commands chapter 14 verse 1 he said you believe in God Believe also in me and in verse 15.

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He says if you love me keep my commandments so because of the commands of that upper room evening the

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Lord Established those commands and Because of that in memory of that we have this particular service and of course that sir that evening was noted for much much more than those commands and We're gonna focus on on that tonight and what followed, you know in in Jesus public ministry

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People were drawn to him for all sorts of reasons Some were drawn to him because they had either seen him perform miracles or they heard about The powerful miracles that he had performed and so they wanted to see they wanted to see the spectacular

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And so they were drawn to him for that spectacular Those spectacular sights and experiences some were drawn to him

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Because they had received bread Remember the feeding of the 5 ,000 and after that they were drawn to him because they wanted more bread

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They were drawn to him as a provider to give him to give them what they wanted from him some were drawn to him because of his authoritative teaching and so he he was seen as a

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Prophet and maybe the prophet that was to come and so they were drawn to him to hear what he had to say here what he was teaching and Some were drawn to him because of their messianic hopes they thought maybe he is the

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Messiah, but their hopes of course were tied to the restoring of Israel as the

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As the nation of the world that would rule over all the other nations So they had this messianic hope of a revived kingdom and they were drawn to him because of that but that was all before the

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Ascension Since the Ascension those things are not the kinds of things that people are drawn to Jesus for I mean

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Nobody's gonna see Jesus performing any miracles. Nobody's gonna hear Jesus Publicly per in person doing any teaching and so on and so forth

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At some point during this passion week the Lord Jesus said this from John chapter 12

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He says now my soul is troubled and what shall I say father save me from this hour?

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But for this purpose I came to this hour father glorify your name

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Then a voice came from heaven saying I have both glorified it and will glorify it again

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Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered others said an angel has spoken to him

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Jesus answered and said this voice did not come because of me but for your sake

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Now is the judgment of this world now the ruler of this world will be cast out and I If I am lifted up from the earth

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Will draw all peoples to myself Jesus said that after he is

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Lifted up on the cross and then eventually lifted up in the Ascension. He would draw all men to himself

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Because of the cross this one thing the cross Would draw people to himself.

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He'd be drawn to him because of his death and atoning death a Substitutionary death a sinner's death.

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He died the death of a sinner. He died a cross death So to be drawn to Jesus is to be drawn to the cross and tonight.

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We want to follow the steps to that dreadful scene on Calvary Where the

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Savior's sacred head was wounded Let's begin with our hymnals and turn to number 241 our 241 in our

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Regular hymnal. I want to sing the hymn Oh sacred head now wounded

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Now scornfully Surrounded with thorns thine only crown

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Oh sacred head what glory What bliss till now was thine

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Yet though despised and gory My joy to call thee mine

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What thou my Lord has suffered

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Was all for sinners gain Mine mine was the transgression

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But thine the deadly pain Oh here

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I fall my Savior tis I deserve my place

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Look on me with thy favor

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Bout save me to thy grace What language shall

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I borrow To thank thee dear

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Lord Friend For this my dying song

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Mother in our

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God, I pray tonight that as we reflect upon our Savior's steps from that upper room to Calvary's cross that we would both be humbled and Appreciative we would

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Mourn over sin and what it causes But we would also rejoice in the one who paid the sins debt

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Bless this service tonight. We pray and we ask it in Jesus name. Amen So we want to follow this

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Lord steps from the upper room to the cross through the gospel of Mark So we want to turn to Mark chapter 14 if you want to follow

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You're going to be reading chapters 14 and 15 Interspersing it with some hymns along the way

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Mark chapter 14 Want to begin reading verses 1 through 9

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Says after two days it was the it was the Passover and a feast of unleavened bread

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And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by trickery and put him to death

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But they said not during the feast. Let's there be an uproar among the people

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And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper as he sat at the table a Woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard

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Then she broke the flask and poured it on his head But there were some who were indignant among themselves and said why was this fragrant oil wasted?

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For it might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor and they criticized her sharply

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But Jesus said Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me

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For you have the poor with you always and whenever you wish you may do them good, but me you do not have always

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She has done what she could She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial

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Assuredly, I say to you wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world What this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her

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Let's take our hymnals again and turn to number 10 number 10 and I want to sing the first third and fourth stanzas of I will praise him stanzas 1 3 & 4 him number 10

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And I saw the cleansing fountain Open wide for all my sin

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Obeyed the spirits When he said without me

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I Will praise him and for sinners

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Give him away each stain

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Blessed be the name of Jesus I'm so glad he's forgiven my transgressions

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He has cleansed my heart from sin Praise him praise the lamb for sinners

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Glory to the father

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Glory to the son To the spirit for sinners

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Continuing to read in Mark chapter 14 Says then

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Judas Iscariot one of the twelve went to the chief priests to betray him to them When they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money

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So he sought how he might conveniently betray him Now on the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the

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Passover lamb his disciples said to him Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the

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Passover? And he sent out two of his disciples and said to them Go into the city and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water

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Follow him wherever he goes in say to the master of the house The teacher says where is the guest room in which

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I may eat the Passover with my disciples? Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared

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There make ready for us So his disciples went out and came into the city and found it just as he had said to them and they prepared the

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Passover In the evening he came with the twelve Now as they sat and ate

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Jesus said Assuredly, I say to you one of you who eats with me will betray me

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And they began to be sorrowful and to say to him one by one Is it I? And another said

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Is it I? He answered and said to them. It is one of the twelve who dips with me in the dish

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The son of man indeed goes just as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the son of man is betrayed

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It would have been good for that man if he had never been born Verse 22 begins and as they were eating

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So let's take our blue supplement books and turn to number seven and we want to prepare for Partaking of the elements of the

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Lord's table so if you have your little handy cup there you may want to Tear off that first top plastic piece to partake of the bread

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The way we'll sing this hymn the communion hymn is we'll sing stanzas one and two

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And then partake of the bread stanza three partake of the cup

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And then stanza four So number seven in our supplement behold the lamb

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Behold the lamb who bears our sins away slain for us

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And we remember The promise made that all who come in faith find forgiveness at the cross

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So we share In the spread of life and we drink

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Of his sacrifice as a sign

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Of our bonds of peace Around the table of the king

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The body of our savior jesus christ torn for you eat and remember

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The wounds that heal the death that brings us life paid the price to make us one

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So we share In the spread of life and we drink

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Of his sacrifice as a sign

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Of our bonds of love Around the table of the king

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So verse 22 says and as they were eating Jesus took bread and broke it and he gave it to them and said

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Take eat this is my body there on that third stanza

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The blood that cleanses every stain of sin shed for you

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Drink and remember He drained death's cup that all may enter in to receive the life of god

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So we share In the spread of life and we drink

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Of his sacrifice as a sign of our bonds of grace

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Around the table of the king verse 23 says then he took the cup and when he had given thanks he

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Gave it to them and they all drank from it and he said to them This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many

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Drink you all of and the last

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And so with thankfulness and faith we rise to respond

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And to remember Her our call to follow in the steps of christ as his body here on earth

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In his suffering We proclaim Christ will come again and will join

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In the feast of heaven Around the table

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And then jesus said assuredly I say to you I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine Until that day when

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I drink it new in the kingdom of god And then verse 26

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When they had sung a hymn They went out to the mount of olives And when jesus and his disciples sang a hymn

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We should think of uh, we should think of that jewish hymnal, which is the psalms and so we have been blessed by The opportunity to purchase these psalters that you picked one up.

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I trust when you came in the red hymnal when you came in and so we in in Similarly to what they would have done when they sang a hymn they sang a psalm

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So I want to take that psalter and turn to number 19 number 19 19

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Is the hymn oh lord most high The tune you will recognize is the tune of the doxology old hundredth

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Oh lord most high Oh lord most high with all my heart

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Your wondrous works I will proclaim

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I will be glad and give you thanks

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And sing the praises of your name

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The lord the everlasting king Is seated on his judgment throne

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The righteous judge of all the world

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Will make his perfect justice Jehovah will a refuge prove

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A refuge strong for all oppressed

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Rest a safe retreat where weary souls

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In troubled times may surely All they oh lord who know your name

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For you have

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Brought your sing praises to the lord most high

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To his inside his mighty deeds abroad

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His deeds among the nation's Continuing in mark chapter 14 beginning in verse 27

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Then jesus said to them All of you will be made to stumble because of me this night for it is written

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I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered But after I have been raised

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I will go before you to galilee Peter said to him even if all are made to stumble yet.

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I will not be Jesus said to him assuredly. I say to you that today even this night before the rooster crows twice

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You will deny me three times But he spoke more vehemently if I have to die with you

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I will not deny you and they all said likewise Then they came to a place which was named gethsemane and he said to his disciples

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Sit here while I pray And he took peter james and john with him and he began to be troubled and deeply distressed

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Then he said to them My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even to death

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Stay here and watch He went a little farther and fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him and he said abba father

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All things are possible for you Take this cup away from me nevertheless

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Not what I will but what you will Then he came and found them sleeping and said to peter

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Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour? Watch and pray lest you enter into temptation

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The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak And again, he went away and prayed and spoke the same words

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And when he returned he found them asleep again for their eyes were heavy And they did not know

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What to answer him. Let's take our supplement books again number and turn to number 64

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Him written Uh in Light of this evening event in mount olive's tis midnight and on olive's brow number 64

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Is In the car

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The suffering Savior prays Alone It is midnight and from all

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Removed the savior Wrestles moan with fears

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Heeds not his master's grief and tears

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It is Midnight and for others guilt the man of Sorrows weeps in blood yet In Anguish knelt

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Is not forsaken By his god

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Tis Midnight and with traitor's kiss

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Betrayed is now the lord of bliss

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He now is led to grief and pain to earn

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Eternal Then he came the third time and said to them are you still sleeping and resting

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It is enough The hour has come Behold, the son of man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners rise.

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Let us be going See My betrayer is at hand And immediately while he was still speaking judas one of the twelve with a great multitude with swords and clubs

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Came from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders Now his betrayer had given them a signal saying

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Whomever I kiss he is the one sees him and lead him away safely And as soon as he had come immediately, he went up to him and said to him

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Rabbi rabbi and kissed him Then they laid their hands on him and took him

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And one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear

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Then jesus answered and said to them Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to take me?

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I was daily with you in the temple teaching and you did not seize me But the scriptures must be fulfilled

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Then they all forsook him and fled Now a certain young man followed him having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body

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And the young man laid hold of him and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked And they led jesus away to the high priest and with him were assembled all the chief priests the elders and the scribes

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But peter followed him at a distance right into the courtyard of the high priest And he sat with the servants and warmed himself at the fire

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Now the chief priest and all the council sought testimony against jesus to put him to death but found none

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For many bore false witness against him, but their testimonies did not agree Then some rose up and bore false witness against him saying

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We heard him say I will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days. I will build another made without hands

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But not even then did their testimony agree And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked jesus saying do you answer nothing?

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What is it these men testify against you? But he kept silent and answered nothing

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Again, the high priest asked him saying to him Are you the christ the son of the blessed?

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Jesus said I am and you will see the son of man sitting at the right hand of the power and coming with clouds of heaven

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Then the high priest tore his clothes and said what further need do we have of witnesses? You have heard the blasphemy.

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What do you think? And they all condemned him to be deserving of death Then some began to spit on him and to blindfold him and to beat him and to say to him prophesy

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And the officers struck him with the palms of their hands Now as peter was below in the courtyard

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One of the servant girls of the high priest came when she saw peter warming himself. She looked at him and said

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You also were with jesus of nazareth But he denied it saying I neither know nor understand what you are saying

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And he went out on the porch and a rooster crowed And the servant girl saw him again and began to say to those who stood by this is one of them

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But he denied it again and a little later those who stood by said to peter again Surely you are one of them for you are a galilean and your speech shows it

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Then he began to curse and to swear I do not know this man of whom you speak second time the rooster crowed

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Then peter called to mind the word that jesus had said to him before the rooster crows twice you will deny me three times

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And when he thought about it He wept And our hymnals turn to number 407.

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Shall we? 407 my faith looks up to thee peter's response when he wept

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Was to look unto jesus 407 My Faith looks up to thee

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Thou lamb of calvary Savior divine

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Now hear me while I come this day be holy

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May thy rich grace impart

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Strength to my fainting heart my zeal inspire

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On that last stanza on the fourth when ends life's transient dream

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And death's cold solemn streams Or me

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Then in love fear and distrust Chapter 15

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Immediately in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council

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And they bound jesus led him away and delivered him to pilot Then pilot asked him Are you the king of the jews?

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He answered him answered and said to him it is as you say And the chief priests accused him of many things, but he answered nothing then pilot asked him again saying

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Do you answer nothing see how many things they testify against you? But jesus still answered nothing so that pilot marveled

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Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them whomever they requested And there was one named barabbas who was chained with his fellow rebels they had committed murder in the rebellion

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Then the multitude crying aloud began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them But pilot answered him saying do you want me to release to you the king of the jews?

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For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he should rather release barabbas to them

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Pilot answered and said to them again What then do you want me to do with him whom you call the king of the jews?

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So they cried out again crucify him And pilot said to them why what evil has he done?

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But they cried out all the more crucify him So pilot wanting to gratify the crowd released barabbas to them

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And he delivered jesus after he had scourged him to be crucified Then the soldiers led him away to the hall called praetorium

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And they called together the whole garrison and they clothed him with purple They twisted a crown of thorns put it on his head

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Began to salute him Hail king of the jews Then they struck him on the head with a reed

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And spat on him And bowing the knee they worshiped him And when they had mocked him they took the purple off of him

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Put his own clothes on him And led him out to crucify him Then they compelled a certain man

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Simon a cyrenian the father of alexander and rufus as he was coming out of the country passing by to bear his craws

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And they brought him to the place golgotha which is translated place of a skull Then they gave him wine mingled with myrrh to drink, but he did not take it

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And when they crucified him they divided his garments casting lots for them to determine what every man should take

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Now it was the third hour And they crucified him And the inscription of his accusation was written above the king of the jews

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In our blue supplement books, let's turn to number 26 Number 26

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The hymn he was wounded By Can it be who would believe our promised prince lacked majesty stricken hard Grotesquely scarred no face was there.

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So cruelly marred Ostracized he was despised as one from whom men hide their eyes beauty free a brittle tree

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Yet through him god's strong arm, we see He was wounded

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He was wounded Praise those urban sacrifice

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We are healed by jesus stripes

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Though he groaned with pain his own our griefs and tears he bore alone

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He was scourged as scoffers urged and by his blood our guilt was purged

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Soldiers done god hid the son and then his precious son

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For the sin of sheep like men god chastened god our peace to win

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He was wounded He was wounded Praise our servant

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Sacrificed by jesus stripes

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Though distressed by men oppressed he uttered near a world protest

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Said not to those he might have damned Innocent his soul was rent

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Eternal wrath on him was spent in a cave

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A borrowed grave he lay for those he came to save He was

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Praise our servant sacrifice

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Jesus As god willed his blood was spilled the guilt he spared the guilt was killed

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Heaven's king for heaven's sting was poured out as an offering

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Jesus died was satisfied and many shall be justified

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Throne restored his prayers outpoured soon all shall bow to christ the lord

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He was Dead he was Sacrifice With him they also crucified two robbers one on his right and the other on his left

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So the scripture was fulfilled which says he was numbered with the transgressors And those who passed by blasphemed him

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Wagging their heads and saying aha you who destroy the temple and build it in three days save yourself

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And come down from the cross Likewise the chief priests also mocking among themselves with the scribes said

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He saved others himself. He cannot save let the christ the king of israel descend now from the cross that we may see and believe

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Even those who were crucified with him reviled him now when the sixth hour had come

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It was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour And at the ninth hour jesus cried out with a loud voice saying

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Eloi, eloi lama sabba sabba can I Just translated my god my god.

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Why have you forsaken me? Some of those who stood by when they heard that said look he's calling for elijah

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Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine and put it on a reed and offered it to him to drink saying

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Let him alone. Let us see if elijah will come to take him down And jesus cried out with a loud voice

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And breathed his last Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom

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So when the centurion who stood opposite him saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last he said

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Truly this man Was the son of god last hymn.

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We want to turn to number 59 in our supplement book the power of the cross number 59

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Do you stand with me as we sing number 59

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Oh to see the dawn Of the darkest day

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Christ on the road to calvary Tried by sinful men

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Torn and beaten then Nailed to a cross of woe good

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This the power Of the cross

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Christ became Sin for us

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Took the blame Bore the wrath we stand forgiven at oh to see the pain

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Written on your face Bearing the awesome weight of sin

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Every bitter thought Every evil deed

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Crowning your blood -stained brow This the power

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Of the cross Christ became

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Sin for us Took the blame

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Bore the wrath we stand forgiven Now the daylight flees

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Now the ground beneath Quakes as its maker bows his head

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Curtain torn in two Dead are raised to life

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Finished the victory Christ became

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Sin for took the blame

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Bore the wrath we stand forgiven Oh to see my name

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Written in the wounds For through your suffering

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I am free Death is crushed to death

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Life is mine to live One through your selfless love

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This the power Of the cross

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Son of god Slain for us

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What a love What a cost we stand forgiven

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So father tonight we are so grateful that as we stand here in this room separated by a couple of millennia

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And thousands of miles from that room Which jesus gathered at the table with his disciples

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And gave them that emblem of what was to come within 24 hours

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Father we are grateful that we can stand here forgiven because of that work on the cross because jesus god in flesh

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Gave that flesh to be broken Gave his blood to be shed

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To pay the atoning penalty of our sin debt on that cross

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Oh father, we are grateful tonight for that gracious saving work

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Of the lamb of god who is slain for us

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Thank you father that we can stand forgiven at the cross

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And now oh lord as we go our ways tonight And we reflect on what our savior did

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On that cross on that friday a couple thousand years ago May we go grateful humbled and truly truly rejoicing

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In who he is and what he did And then also anticipating the glory

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And the power That was manifested in the open tomb the empty tomb

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When he who died on that cross rose again So bring us together again on the lord's day when we can celebrate that event and rejoice

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In serving a living savior And we pray this in jesus name