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*The Greater Exodus*
*Luke 22:7-20*
 
v    My top drawer in my desk contains, among other things…
Ø     A broken men’s cufflink case
§        Cufflinks, etc.
Ø     A broken, rusty pearl handled penknife
Ø     A pair of old horn-rimmed glasses
Ø     Cross nickel
Ø     Personal correspondence
§        They are rather ordinary things
·        Things that most people would open and be tempted to throw most of the things away
¨     But to me they are priceless!
Ø     Because they have meaning beyond what you see
 
§        Cufflink case
·        Given to me upon my father’s death when I was 15
§        Broken pearl handled knife
·        My Grandfather Pappy’s penknife
§        Horn rimmed glasses
·        Grandmother Doddy’s
¨     Who was a second mother to me
§        Cross nickel
·        My call into ministry 15 yrs ago
§        Personal correspondence
·        Love letters from my wife
 
v    These are ordinary, everyday things to most people
Ø     But to me they are very, very dear
§        Because they represent something to me beyond what they are to everybody else
·        When I look at these objects I think of…
¨     My grandparents, my Father, my Wife, my call
 
v    In our text today…
Ø     Jesus takes 2 very ordinary things…
§        Bread and wine
·        And places meaning on them that transcends the ordinary
¨     Meaning for people with eyes to see and hearts to understand
 
v    *The Preparation*
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*READ v. 7*
v    This is Thursday, the day of Unleavened Bread
Ø     It is the day when two things happen…
§        *First*, every household must rid itself of every bit of yeast from their house
·        In remembrance of the exodus from Egypt
¨     When they left in such a hurry they did not have time to bake bread with yeast
·        But also because yeast represents sin
¨     The people are ridding themselves of sin
Ø     Cleansing themselves
 
§        *Secondly*, the lambs were slaughtered at the temple for use in the Passover feast that night
·        Between 3 and 5pm people would bring their perfect little lambs to be sacrificed by the priests
¨     At 6 pm the new day for the Jew started and they ate the Passover meal that night
 
v    Many things had to be prepared for the Passover meal
Ø     So he sent John and Peter to make preparations…
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*READ v. 8*
v    Not only did the lamb have to be ritually sacrificed at the temple
Ø     But the unleavened bread had to be bought…
Ø     The bitter herbs had to be gathered…
Ø     The fruity mixture Charoset had to be made…
§        All this the two disciples knew…
·        But they didn’t know one all-important thing…
 
*READ v.9*
 
v    Passover was one of the great 3 pilgrimage feasts
Ø     Passover, Weeks (50 days later) and Tabernacles (7 months later)
§        Harvest feasts
Ø     All men in Israel had to come to Jerusalem
§        Estimates from that time are that anywhere from 200,000 to 3MM people were in Jerusalem at Passover
·        In other words…
¨     The disciples ask a very pragmatic question…
Ø     Where are we going to find a room at this late hour?
§        *Illustration:*
·        It’s like coming to the island in July~/august without a reservation!
v    So Jesus says…
*READ v. 10-13*
 
v    What becomes obvious from this text is that Jesus had planned this night meticulously
Ø     He had pre-arranged with one of his followers that lived in Jerusalem to wait by the gate holding a water jar on Thursday morning of the Passover
§        The reason the disciples could find this man is that…
·        He would stick out like a sore thumb because only women carried water jars in that culture
 
Ø     *Aside:*
§        Many times Jesus asks us to do things as a Christian that we feel uncomfortable doing
·        This man must have been embarrassed doing a woman’s work
¨     Like Jesus asking us to…
Ø     Man: carry a purse, wear nylons
·        So many times Jesus asks us to do things that are outside our comfort zones for his sake
¨     Doesn’t he?
 
Ø     So he asked this man to hold a water jar as a signal
§        And lead the disciples to an upper room in his house
·        It was there that Jesus was to have his last meal with his beloved disciples
 
v    One of the major points this part of the passage reveals is that…
Ø     */Jesus was on his own timetable!/*
§        So many times we are tempted into the thought process that…
·        Jesus was caught in a grand Satanic plot
¨     That Satan won, but that God redeemed the situation
¨     That the events of the week forced Jesus’ hand
Ø     But that is not it at all
§        Jesus had all this planned
§        Jesus was totally on his own timetable
§        He gave himself for us
·        It was not taken from him
¨     *Gal 1:3-5*
Ø     /Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, *who gave himself for our sins* to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father/
§        Eph 5:2; 1 Tim 2:6; Titus 2:14
·        All say ~~ ‘Who gave himself up for us’
·        We see this divine timetable again in Gethsemane
¨     *Matt 26:23 ~~ In Garden after disciple cuts off ear*
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