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0:00Luke chapter 22 verse 1.
0:02Now the feast of unleavened bread, which
0:05is called the Passover, was approaching.
0:08The chief priests and the scribes were
0:10seeking how they might put him to death,
0:13for they were afraid of the people.
0:15Now I've already said in the previous
0:17chapter that Luke is giving us a clue
0:20when he tells us that Jesus showed
0:22himself publicly in the temple, and in
0:25contrast [music]
0:26at nights he stayed on the Mount of
0:28Olives. And I believe that he's hinting
0:31[music] that the way Judas betrayed him
0:34was that he divulged to his enemies his
0:37whereabouts
0:38>> [music]
0:38>> when he wasn't in a public place and
0:40where they would be restrained by the
0:43crowds.
0:46The chief priests and the scribes were
0:47seeking how they might put him to death,
0:50for they were afraid of the people.
0:52And Satan entered into Judas, who was
0:55called Iscariot,
0:57belonging to the number of the 12.
1:00And he went away and discussed with the
1:02chief priests and officers how he might
1:05betray him to them.
1:08So how he might divulge, how he might
1:10deliver him over. How can I help you get
1:13him? Is basically what that means.
1:17When it says Satan entered Judas' heart,
1:20the word that they're using, Satan, it
1:22means accuser.
1:24So in a manner of speaking, you could
1:25say accusation entered [music] Judas'
1:28heart.
1:29He shifted from being a follower to
1:31being a judge, to being an accuser. And
1:34very soon after
1:36he's figuring out how he can deliver his
1:39Lord into the hands of his enemies.
1:42They were glad and agreed to give him
1:45money.
1:46So he consented and began seeking a good
1:50opportunity to betray him to them apart
1:54from the the
1:56So
1:58Jesus was not showing himself except
2:00among the crowds, and that's what
2:02restrained his enemies. He only came in
2:04a crowded place.
2:06And Judas is saying, "I think I can help
2:08you get him apart from the crowd." So,
2:11he's going to divulge his whereabouts.
2:15Then came the first day of unleavened
2:17bread on which the Passover lamb had to
2:20be sacrificed.
2:22And Jesus sent Peter and John saying,
2:25"Go and prepare the Passover for us so
2:28that we may eat it."
2:30They said to him,
2:32"Where do you want us to prepare it?"
2:34He said to them,
2:36"When you have entered the city,
2:38a man will meet you carrying a pitcher
2:40of water.
2:41Follow him into the house that he
2:43enters.
2:45And you shall say to the owner of the
2:47house,
2:48'The teacher says to you,
2:50"Where is the guest room in which I may
2:53eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
2:56And he will show you a large furnished
2:59upper room.
3:00Prepare it there."
3:02And they left and found everything just
3:05as he had told them.
3:07And they prepared the Passover.
3:10When the hour had come,
3:12he reclined at the table and the
3:14apostles with him.
3:16And he said to them,
3:18"I have earnestly desired to eat this
3:20Passover with you before I suffer.
3:24For I say to you, I shall never again
3:27eat it until it is fulfilled in the
3:31kingdom of God."
3:34So, whatever this Passover is,
3:37this partaking of bread, this drinking
3:40of wine,
3:42it is a shadow of a reality that is only
3:46going to be fulfilled, made full and
3:48real in the kingdom of God.
3:51And he's saying, "This is the last time
3:53I'm going to partake of this in the
3:55natural
3:56physical way."
3:59And when he had taken a cup
4:01and given thanks, he said,
4:04"Take and share it among yourself.
4:07For I say to you, I will not drink the
4:10fruit of the vine from now on until the
4:13kingdom of God comes."
4:15And when he had taken some bread
4:17and given thanks,
4:19he broke it and gave it to them saying,
4:22"This is my body
4:24which is given for you.
4:25Do this in remembrance of me."
4:29So, he's telling them that
4:31they're going to share the cup
4:34and they're going to share the bread
4:38in the future. But this is his last
4:41sharing with them in this physical form.
4:45But he tells them in John that they
4:47don't understand what they're
4:48participating in. Because this is a
4:51symbol, it's an important symbol, but
4:53it's a symbol of something that is going
4:56to come later.
4:57According to Matthew, we know that the
4:59cup
5:00is the blood of his covenant. The blood
5:03of cleansing, the blood of forgiveness.
5:06We know that John says in his epistle
5:09that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from
5:12all sin.
5:14But how and when does that blood cleanse
5:16us? When we walk in the light as he is
5:20in the light, we have fellowship,
5:23koinonia, shared meal with one another,
5:27and the blood cleanses us from all sin.
5:30We know that this fulfills Jesus's words
5:32to the apostles when he says,
5:35"Whosever sins you forgive, they are
5:38forgiven."
5:39So, the way I see this is he's telling
5:41them,
5:43"I am going to be sharing this with you
5:46after the day of Pentecost because
5:48wherever two or three are gathered in my
5:50name, I'm going to be in your presence.
5:53And I'm going to be working through you
5:56to forgive one another. I'm going to be
5:58working through you to share the life of
6:01Christ through and to one another.
6:04But it's going to be in a different form
6:06and mode. It's going to be in the form
6:08of the body of Christ. And that's the
6:11that's the celebration of this after the
6:14kingdom that I believe he's talking
6:15about.
6:17And when he had taken some bread and
6:19given thanks, he broke it and gave it to
6:21them saying, "This is my body which is
6:24given for you. Do this in remembrance of
6:28me."
6:29And in the same way he took the cup
6:31after they had eaten saying,
6:33"This cup which is poured out for you is
6:37the new covenant in my blood."
6:40This is the new covenant Jeremiah spoke
6:42of in Jeremiah 31. "I will make a new
6:45covenant," says the Lord, "with the
6:46house of Israel, not like the one I made
6:49of old where they each said each one to
6:51his neighbor, 'Know the Lord.' The new
6:53covenant, they will all know me. They
6:55will all have fellowship, koinonia,
6:58communion, oneness with the Lord."
7:02This is the cup of the new covenant in
7:05my blood. Behold, the hand of the one
7:07betraying me is with mine on the table.
7:12In the other gospels, they ask, "Lord,
7:14is it I? Lord, is it I?" It says they
7:16all ask. And in the other gospels, it
7:19says he it gives another detail. It
7:21says, "The one who dips with me in the
7:24bowl."
7:25The one who's lost his honor. The one
7:27who's presumptuous. The one who doesn't
7:30wait his turn and let Jesus go first.
7:33The one who's doing it at the same time
7:35as the Lord. Now this time it says the
7:37one whose hand is on the table with me.
7:40It's a
7:41it's a subtle hint of the kind of
7:44brazenness that I think had come into
7:47the heart of Judas.
7:49Behold the hand of the one betraying me
7:52is with mine on the table. And indeed
7:54the Son of Man is going
7:56as it has been determined, but woe to
7:59that man by whom he is betrayed.
8:03And they began to discuss among
8:04themselves which of them it might be who
8:07was going to do this thing.
8:10And there arose also a dispute among
8:13them as to which of them was regarded to
8:16be the greatest.
8:18I mean, it never stops. Through every
8:21phase of his ministry, it always returns
8:24to which of us is the greatest. And that
8:27is a disturbing signal
8:30that what the church is going to battle,
8:33what's going to interrupt communion,
8:36is envy,
8:38self-seeking,
8:40competition.
8:41Who's going to be the greatest?
8:44It's not just
8:46It's not just a funny thing. It's It's a
8:48warning to us.
8:51And he said to them, "The kings of the
8:53Gentiles lorded over them,
8:56and those who have authority over them
8:58are called benefactors.
9:00So, it's interesting that
9:03in the Gentile form of authority,
9:07benefactors, people who give you money,
9:10are the ones exerting authority over
9:11you.
9:13So, he's tying the
9:16welfare state to authoritarianism
9:19here.
9:20But he says, "But it is not this way
9:22with you,
9:23but the one who is the greatest among
9:25you must become like the youngest.
9:29And the And the leader like the servant.
9:33For who is greater?
9:35The one who reclines at the table, or
9:37the one who serves?
9:40Is it not the one who reclines at the
9:42table?
9:44But I am among you as the one who
9:46serves.
9:49You are those who have stood by me in my
9:52trials.
9:54And just as my father has granted me a
9:56kingdom,
9:57I grant you
10:01that you may eat and drink at my table
10:05in my kingdom, and you will sit on
10:08thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.
10:11So in this, I think he's saying, first
10:14he's clearly telling us that the way
10:17authority works in the church is going
10:20to be utterly
10:21different than the way authority works
10:23in every other paradigm of authority.
10:27It's not lording it over people. It's
10:30earning people's trust through your love
10:33service to them.
10:35And you can lead them if they trust your
10:37love.
10:38And that he is taking the servant role.
10:41He's taking the role of feeding. He's
10:43taking the role of washing. And that's
10:45the role that leadership must fulfill.
10:48It's a total inversion of power
10:51dynamics. Everything they're seeking is
10:54not what they're going to find.
10:56But he tells them,
10:58"You are those who have stood by me in
11:00my trials."
11:02And that's an incredible compliment.
11:04He's saying, "Y'all have been with me."
11:06But he's about to say, "You're all going
11:08to flee. You're all going to run. You're
11:10about to encounter
11:12the one thing you don't yet have grace
11:14to withstand, and that is the imminent
11:17threat of death."
11:19He says, "Just as my father has granted
11:21me a kingdom, I grant you."
11:24So he's not saying, "I've got a kingdom
11:26and you're going to have one, too." He's
11:28going to say He's saying the authority
11:30that was given the son of man, the
11:32kingdom, the reign, the dominion that I
11:34have exercised throughout my whole
11:36ministry, I'm giving you that reign and
11:39dominion that you're going to exercise
11:41also, but it's not going to be the
11:43authority of the Gentiles, it's going to
11:45be the reign and the dominion of
11:47service.
11:48That you may eat and drink at my table.
11:51So that that you may have communion
11:53with Jesus through the Holy Spirit.
11:56Behold, I stand at the door and knock,
11:58he says in Revelations, if anyone opens
12:00to me, I will come in and dine with him.
12:03So this is the idea that we can have
12:05ongoing communion with Jesus,
12:08but it's the communion in the kingdom.
12:11That you may eat and drink at my table
12:14and you will sit on thrones judging the
12:1512 tribes of Israel.
12:18This represents that the 12 apostles of
12:20the lamb,
12:22their names are inscribed on the
12:24foundation of the new city. Their
12:26sacrifice, their ministry, their
12:28example, and their teachings are the
12:31standard and judge for the new kingdom
12:35that we are part of to this day.
12:37And then his very next words, verse 31,
12:40Simon, Simon,
12:42behold, Satan has demanded permission to
12:46sift you like wheat.
12:49But I have prayed for you
12:51that your faith may not fail.
12:54And you,
12:56when once you have turned again,
12:58strengthen your brothers.
13:01This is deeply disturbing because
13:04the immediate
13:08precursor to this
13:10is that one of you is a betrayer.
13:13And then they all ask, Lord, is it I?
13:16And then the first person to get singled
13:18out is Simon.
13:21And he
13:22Satan has entered somebody's heart and
13:25Jesus is saying to Simon, Satan has
13:28asked to sift you like wheat."
13:31But he says, "But
13:33I have prayed for you that your faith
13:36would not fail."
13:37This is actually telling us what went
13:40wrong with Judas.
13:42What went wrong with Judas is not that
13:45he was too weak. Peter was as as weak.
13:48What went wrong with Judas is not that
13:50he fell into temptation. Peter fell into
13:52temptation.
13:54What went wrong is that he lost his
13:57faith. He gave up on that confidence,
14:01that assurance, that conviction that God
14:04was in control even when everything was
14:07going awry.
14:09And Jesus is telling him, "You're going
14:11to be sifted.
14:13But what's going to be taken out
14:16is not the germ of your faith in God.
14:20What's going to be taken out is all the
14:21chaff of your faith in self.
14:24And what's going to be left is your
14:26faith in God."
14:28"Simon, Simon, Satan [clears throat] has
14:30demanded permission to sift you like
14:32wheat, but I have prayed for you that
14:34your faith may not fail. And you, when
14:37you have once turned again, strengthen
14:40your brothers." So he's telling him,
14:43"You're going to be sifted, but I'm
14:45telling you right now, you're also going
14:47to come through.
14:49And when you come through, you're going
14:51to be the one to help your brothers. You
14:53think I'm singling you out. You think
14:55I'm saying you're the weakest one in the
14:57bunch, but you're actually going to be
14:58the first to strengthen them because
15:01you're going to get rid of the chaff of
15:03your self-confidence."
15:06But he, Peter, said to him, "Lord,
15:09with you I am ready
15:12to go both to prison and to death."
15:16Here's the self-confidence.
15:18"I am ready."
15:20You are not ready.
15:22And he said, I say to you, Peter,
15:26the rooster will not crow today
15:29until you have denied three times that
15:32you know me.
15:35And he said to them,
15:36when I sent you out without money belt
15:38and bag and sandals, you did not lack
15:41anything, did you?
15:43They said, "No, nothing."
15:47And he said to them,
15:48"But now, whoever has a money belt is to
15:51take it along.
15:53Likewise also a bag. And whoever has no
15:56sword is to sell his coat and buy one.
15:59For I tell you that this
16:02which is written must be fulfilled in
16:04me.
16:06And he was numbered with transgressors.
16:10For that which refers to me has its
16:13fulfillment."
16:15They said, "Lord, look, here are two
16:17swords." And he said to them, "It is
16:20enough."
16:22So he says,
16:23"I have been the manifestation of God's
16:27spirit while with you. I've been with
16:30you.
16:31But my spirit is not yet in you.
16:33So now that I'm going to physically be
16:35taken away, you need to go back to the
16:38crutches you once leaned upon without
16:40me.
16:41Because there's no hope of walking
16:43faithful when I'm not physically being
16:46that help to you because you haven't yet
16:48received the Holy Spirit. It hasn't been
16:50internalized. As he would say in John's
16:53gospel about the Holy Spirit, he has
16:56been with you, but he will be in you. So
16:58here he's saying, go back. Go back to
17:01your reliance on money. Go back to your
17:03reliance on violence.
17:05And he's saying it as a he's bewailing
17:08this fact. He's not celebrating it. He's
17:11not sanctioning the use of violence.
17:13He's saying, "Because this is going to
17:15happen, I'm going to be numbered with
17:18transgressors.
17:19This is you turning back to sin.
17:22This is you He's no more sanctioning
17:24this than he is sanctioning Peter's
17:26betrayal. He's declaring it as an
17:29inevitability.
17:31You see?
17:33For I tell you that this
17:35fulfills what is written, he will be
17:37numbered with the transgressors. So,
17:39he's even indicating that this is how
17:41Peter's going to fail.
17:43When Peter reaches in his
17:46belt and pulls out his sword and cuts
17:48off the servant's ear,
17:50Peter is entering into temptation.
17:53The very thing Jesus said, pray lest you
17:55enter in. He's entering into it. He's
17:57going to enter into it worse at
17:59Caiaphas's courtyard, but he's entering
18:01into that reliance on the flesh. And
18:04it's specifically the sword usage
18:07that Jesus marks as transgression.
18:11Numbered with the transgressors.
18:14And he came out
18:16and proceeded,
18:18as was his custom, to the Mount of
18:20Olives. And the disciples also followed
18:22him.
18:24When he arrived at the place,
18:27he said to them, "Pray [clears throat]
18:29that you may not enter into temptation."
18:34And he withdrew from them about a
18:35stone's throw, and he knelt down and
18:38began to pray, saying, "Father,
18:41if you are willing,
18:43remove this cup from me.
18:45Yet not my will,
18:47but yours be done."
18:50Now an angel from heaven appeared to him
18:51strengthening him.
18:53And being in agony, he was praying very
18:57fervently.
18:58And his sweat became like drops of blood
19:02falling down upon the ground.
19:05When he arose from prayer, he came to
19:07the disciples and found them sleeping
19:09from sorrow.
19:10And said to them,
19:12"Why are you sleeping?
19:14Get up and pray
19:16that you may not enter into temptation."
19:19This reveals the essence of the cross.
19:23The surrender of our will to God's will.
19:27To do it God's way.
19:29To do it no matter the cost. This is the
19:31real death
19:33that he suffers.
19:34And and the whole process in the garden
19:37is to not enter into temptation,
19:40which is to say, the devil has a series
19:44of
19:45temptations for Jesus that are about to
19:47begin.
19:49And the essence of the devil's
19:51temptation is to see
19:54whether Jesus is controlled through his
19:57fear of death
19:58like every other creature controlled by
20:00Satan is, like Peter still is.
20:04And so, in all the prompts, in all the
20:08the taunting, the mockery, the spitting,
20:10the punching, the beating his head with
20:12a reed, smashing a crown of thorns onto
20:16his brow, nailing him to a tree, is
20:19Jesus
20:21is Jesus going to react and reveal that
20:25he is that caged animal
20:28or is he going to reveal that there is a
20:30trust that supersedes
20:33all the torments of the devil and that
20:35he is not
20:37bound and controlled as a slave to his
20:40fear of death.
20:42That is the essence of Satan's control.
20:45So, that is the essence of the
20:46temptation that he is prevailing to
20:49overcome in the garden. He is saying,
20:52"Your will be done, even if your will is
20:57me submitting to something that is
20:58unjust.
21:00Even if it's me submitting to liars, to
21:02blasphemers, to haters, to mockers, come
21:05down from the cross."
21:07The essence of the cross is saying,
21:10"God, I'm going to let you win
21:13through my surrendered will, even in
21:15this counterintuitive way."
21:18It says that he prayed fervently until
21:21his sweat
21:23became like great drops of blood falling
21:26to the ground. And
21:28when someone exerts intensely, the blood
21:32vessels in their skin will sometimes
21:35burst.
21:36And there can be blood mixed with sweat
21:38through an incredible exertion.
21:41But his exertion was not an exertion of
21:43human will. It was an exertion
21:46to crucify the human will, to lose the
21:49human will in surrender to the divine
21:51will.
21:53While he was still speaking, behold, a
21:56crowd came.
21:58And the one called Judas,
22:00one of the 12,
22:02was preceding them.
22:04And he approached Jesus to kiss him.
22:07Judas is the only one of the 12 who is
22:10not from Galilee.
22:12He's from a region in Judea
22:14[clears throat]
22:15that is pious and zealous.
22:19And so he's he's superior to the rest.
22:23And his name is Judah, Yuda, meaning
22:27Jew. And so he represents the betrayal
22:32of
22:33God's people against the Lord. He
22:36represents
22:37as when Joseph's brothers sold him for
22:4030 pieces of silver. Judah was the one,
22:45you know, who was who was allowing that
22:46to happen. And and in the same way, he
22:50is betraying him. He is
22:52he is saying, "Our people, our system
22:56that was
22:58created by God, loved by God, covenanted
23:00with God, it is rejecting God.
23:04>> [snorts]
23:04>> And he comes
23:06and he approaches Jesus to kiss him.
23:10And this is in Luke's version, it just
23:12means a a show of affection.
23:15So, he he's basically coming and saying,
23:17"I still love you. I'm just doing what
23:19is right, right?"
23:22Jesus said to him,
23:24"Judas,
23:25are you betraying the Son of Man with a
23:27kiss?"
23:30When those who were around him saw what
23:32was going to happen, they said,
23:34"Lord, shall we strike with the sword?"
23:38And one of them
23:40>> [clears throat]
23:40>> apparently didn't wait for his answer,
23:42struck the slave of the high priest and
23:44cut off his ear.
23:47But Jesus answered and said, "Stop."
23:51So, before that he could even answer,
23:53Peter
23:54used his sword.
23:55Jesus answered, "Stop. No more of this."
24:01And he touched his ear and healed him.
24:04Then Jesus said to the chief priests and
24:06officers of the temple and elders who
24:08had come against him,
24:11"Have you come out with swords and clubs
24:14as you would against a robber?
24:16While I was with you daily in the
24:18temple, you did not lay hands on me,
24:21but this hour
24:23and the power of darkness are yours."
24:28So, he's acknowledging, "I am
24:30encountering the power of the devil
24:33through these people. It's not just the
24:35hour of darkness, it's the hour and the
24:37power of darkness are yours."
24:40Having arrested him,
24:42>> [clears throat]
24:42>> they led him away and brought him to the
24:44house of the high priest,
24:46but Peter was following at a distance.
24:49After they had kindled a fire in the
24:51middle of the courtyard and sat down
24:54together, Peter was sitting among them.
24:57And a servant girl seeing him as he sat
25:01in the firelight and looking intently at
25:03him said, "This man was with him, too."
25:08But he denied it saying, "Woman, I do
25:11not know him."
25:13There's the first time.
25:15A little later another saw him and said,
25:18"You are one of them, too."
25:21But Peter said, "Man, I am not."
25:26After about an hour had passed, another
25:28man began to insist saying, "Certainly,
25:31this man also was with him, for he is a
25:34Galilean, too."
25:36But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what
25:39you are talking about."
25:42Immediately, while he was still
25:44speaking, a rooster crowed.
25:47The Lord turned and looked at Peter.
25:52And Peter remembered the word of the
25:55Lord, how he had told him, "Before the
25:58rooster crows today, you will deny me
26:01three times."
26:02And he went [music] out and wept
26:04bitterly.
26:06Now the men who were holding Jesus in
26:08custody were mocking him and beating
26:11him. And they blindfolded him and were
26:14asking him saying, "Prophesy, [music]
26:17who is the one who hits you?"
26:19And they were saying many other things
26:22against him, blaspheming.
26:27Jesus turned and looked at Peter.
26:30Not to say, "I told you so."
26:33But to say, "Peter,
26:35you're astonished.
26:37You're disappointed, but I'm not.
26:40I know who you are, and I called you,
26:44and I knew this was going to happen, but
26:46I also know you're going to come through
26:47this."
26:49And Peter went out and wept bitterly,
26:52and this is the [music] weeping of
26:53repentance.
26:54The crashing and crumbling
26:57of the edifice of self, self-strength,
27:00self-confidence, [music]
27:02self-evaluation.
27:04That's what's breaking in Peter.
27:06And that's what, thank God, he never
27:08recovers.
27:11When it was day,
27:13the council of elders of the people
27:15assembled, both chief priests and
27:17scribes, and they led him away to their
27:20council chamber, [music] saying,
27:23"If you are the Messiah, the Christ,
27:25tell us."
27:26But he said to them, "If I tell [music]
27:28you, you will not believe.
27:31And if I ask a question, you will not
27:33answer.
27:34But from now on,
27:36the Son of Man will be seated at the
27:38right hand of the power of God."
27:41And they all said, [music]
27:43"Are you the Son of God, then?"
27:46And he said to them, "Yes, I am."
27:48[music]
27:50Then they said, "What further need do we
27:52have of testimony?
27:54For we have heard it ourselves from his
27:57own mouth."
28:00>> [music]
28:07[music]

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