Sermon Tone Analysis

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*Title:           *“Fervent Desire…!”

*FCF:            *to see Jesus as he really is

*D-Theme:   *Jesus is the Passover of God

*M-Thrust:   *his blood must be applied to our hearts

*App:*           His blood must be applied to our hearts because he is the Passover of God

*Comment:  *Latty was a wonderful experience for me.

Levi being there with his amens and encouragement really allowed me to preach!

And the decision to allow the congregation to remember their baptism was a good one as many came to the altar in commitment and dedicat

*Subject:     *Resurrection Sunday

*Date:          *C72C289AFFD04F7A9FBD6121724EE220

*Text:           *Luke 22:14-18 \\ *CTW:          *Exodus 12:21-28

 

14When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him.

15Then He said to them, “With /fervent/ desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; 16for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide /it/ among yourselves; 18for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

• Introduction

•   As I went to meet with Ron this week…

•   …thinking of what the message should be this morning…

•   …the verses that were read for the message…

•   …came into my mind…

•   As you know for the last several weeks…

•   …we have been considering the parable of the soils…

•   …and the desire and intent on the part of the sower…

•   …to receive fruit as a result of his sowing…

•   Jesus is looking for fruit and the people who will produce it…

•   And here he says…

•  I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes

•   Now chances are he is not referring to the fruit…

•   That comes from the seed of the Word of God…

•   But is making a literal statement about when…

•   …he will eat and drink again…

•   …neither of which occur until the coming of the kingdom…

•   But he makes the statement in conjunction with Passover…

•   Celebrating the meal with his disciples…

•   And instituting the Last Supper…

•   As Ron and I studied once again I was gripped by his words…

•  With fervent desire I have desired to eat *this* Passover with you…

•   …a kind of play on words… a Semitic idiom…

•   For in the Greek it is epitymia — epithymeō

•   And we might say “With desire I have desired…!”

•   “With longing I have longed…!”

“Hunger I have hungered…!”

•   Jesus endeavoring to say that this particular Passover…

•   He earnestly desired and longed for the eating of it…!”

•   And so I am drawn in by the emotion expressed…

•   Immediately asking myself… “Why Jesus…?”

•   Why such a longing to eat THIS Passover with them…?

•   And why so emphatic about not eating it again…

•   Or drinking of the fruit of the vine again…

•   Until they are fulfilled in the kingdom…?

•   Surely he had celebrated Passover with them before…?

•   …what about it made this Passover meal so important…?

•   “Why is this night different from all other nights?”

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•   …even from every other celebration of the Passover…

•   And Lord I am struggling to find what that is…

•   I believe Jesus’ longing to eat THIS Passover with them…

•   Is for them to see Jesus as he really is…

•   That Jesus is the Passover of God…

•   …not just or only the Passover Lamb…

•   …not the commemoration… but the Passover itself…

•   …the act and the means of God passing over…

•   And as Exodus Jews painted the doorpost of their dwellings…

•   …with the blood of the Passover Lamb…

•   …so that the destroyer would pass over them…

•   So his blood must be applied to our hearts…

•   …for the grip of eternal death to be broken…

•   …and for the power of eternal life to take hold…

•   …his blood must be applied to our hearts because…

• The Cross is the fulfillment of the Passover…

•   Jesus said in verse sixteen…

•  I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled…

•   So the question is when is the Passover fulfilled…?

•   Is it @ some future date—some day over yonder…

•   When God’s kingdom has fully come…

•   What does it mean for it to be fulfilled…?

•   In the original language it means to /cram full…/

•   Like the net the Lord told Peter to cast on the other side…

•   …which was full to the point of breaking…

•   So when is the Passover fulfilled…?

•   When you think of the imagery of the lamb with its blood…

•   …painted on the doors of the houses…

•   …with the angel of death then passing over…

•   When is the deliverance by the blood of the lamb…

•   Fulfilled in the Kingdom of God…?

•   When is that imagery full to the point of breaking…

•   When can it take no more…?

•   When can it yield no more…?

•   When we look to the Lamb of God…

•   …who takes away the sin of the world…

•   …as his life-blood pours out on the cross @ Calvary…

•   Now, I know what you are thinking…

•   Pastor, why didn’t you preach this sermon on Friday…!

•   This is a Good Friday sermon pastor…

•   All this talk of blood and STUFF…

•   Talk to us about the empty tomb pastor…

•   Talk to us about the promise of resurrection and life…!

•   that IS what I am talking to you about…

•   …from the perspective of the Passover meal…

•   What is Jesus saying to his disciples…?

•  With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; 16for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God…

•   Jesus had been eating the Passover meal since his youth…