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Feasting on Freedom

Old Made New Pt.

8: Lev 11

Pastor Tim Brisson

Intro

announcements

Easter

Baptism week after Easter

Ever feel out of place at a fancy dinner?

Offerring

First meal goes wrong

THE EYES OF BOTH OF THEM WERE OPENED - TO SHAME

they tried to cover themselves

Passover meal

Exodus 12:11–13 (NRSV)

11 This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly.

It is the passover of the Lord.

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.

13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

the blood is a covering

No sin is mentioned here

the covering is part of their salvation, their rescue

so they are prescribed a detailed menu, no room for error

and they eat it in a hurry

each family around a table

covered by the blood of the lamb

while God is executing judgement

we will pick up this theme at Easter

Exodus 12:14 (NRSV)

14 This day shall be a day of remembrance for you.

You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

remember this meal and what happened on this day

Let’s turn to tonight’s text

Clean and Unclean Foods

very little guidance on what is clean

largely a list of unclean foods

interspersed with broad categories of what is permissible

but God never exactly tells us WHY

but He seems to tell us it is about the food, but its NOT about the food

he is teaching us table manners

Main text

Leviticus 11:41–47 (NRSV)

41 All creatures that swarm upon the earth are detestable; they shall not be eaten.

42 Whatever moves on its belly, and whatever moves on all fours, or whatever has many feet, all the creatures that swarm upon the earth, you shall not eat; for they are detestable.

43 You shall not make yourselves detestable with any creature that swarms; you shall not defile yourselves with them, and so become unclean.

44 For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy.

You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.

45 For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.

46 This is the law pertaining to land animal and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms upon the earth, 47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

PASSOVER HAD A STRICT MENU AND INSTRUCTIONS

we are now charged with making the distinction between the clean and unclean

we must be holy

we must make ourselves other than, sanctified, set apart for God’s purposes

the priests are now charged with guiding the Israelites in making these distinctions

but we are priests of our holy temple

so we set our own table

PARENTS - EVER WATCH YOUR KIDS SET THE TABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME?

GOD’S THEME HERE:

WE ARE TO SANCTIFY OURSELVES

WE ARE NOT TO DEFILE OURSELVES

FOR GOD RESCUED US FROM OUR EGYPT, OUR OWN SELF-IMPOSED SLAVERY

SO WE SHOULD BE HOLY AS HE IS HOLY

AND THIS ALL POINTS TO HOLY WEEK

LUKE LOVED HIS TABLES

THE LAST SUPPER

WHO IS AT THIS MEAL?

IN JOHN’S ACCOUNT, THIS IS THE FOOT WASHING

MANDY THURSDAY EVENTS SHOW THE COMPLETE UPSIDE DOWN NATURE

FEEDING THE 5,000

Luke 9:13–17 (NRSV)

13 But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.”

They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”

14 For there were about five thousand men.

And he said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

15 They did so and made them all sit down.

16 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

17 And all ate and were filled.

What was left over was gathered up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.

WE ARE TO DO LIKEWISE

WHO WAS THERE?

ANY SINNERS?

HE HAS THEM ALL SIT DOWN AND SET THERE OWN LITTLE PICNIC TABLES OF 50 EACH

JESUS BLESSES WHAT THEY HAVE, AND BREAKS BREAD WITH EVERYONE

AND HANDS THE BREAD TO THE DISCIPLES TO GIVE OUT

AND WE ARE TO DO LIKEWISE

WE ARE TO BRING OTHERS TO THE TABLE

WE ARE TO BREAK BREAD WITH OTHERS

THE ROAD TO EMMAUS

Luke 24:28–31 (NRSV)

28 As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on.

29 But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.”

So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

31 Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.

IT IS AROUND THE TABLES THAT WE SEE THE LOVE OF GOD, THE GOODNESS OF GOD

BUT BREAKING BREAD MOVES US TO WITNESS

Luke 24:33–35 (NRSV)

33 That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.

34 They were saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!”

35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.