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So you can go ahead and take
your copy of God's word and let's go to Mark chapter 14. Mark chapter 14. And today we'll start with verse
12. We'll go down to verse 21 as our text. Mark chapter 14,
beginning verse 12 and going down to verse 21. In the first day of unleavened
bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said unto him,
where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat
the Passover? And he sendeth forth two of his
disciples and saith unto them, go ye into the city and there
shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water, Follow him. Wheresoever he shall go in, say
ye to the goodman of the house, the master saith, where is the
guest chamber where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples? And he will show you a large
upper room furnished and prepared there make ready for us. His disciples went forth and
came into the city and found as he had said unto them, they
made ready the Passover. In the evening he cometh with
the 12. As they sat and did eat, Jesus
said, Verily I say unto you, one of you which eateth with
me shall betray me. They began to be sorrowful. and
to say unto him one by one, is it I? And another said, is it
I? He answered and said unto them,
it is one of the 12 that dippeth with me in the dish. The son
of man indeed goeth as it is written of him, for woe to that
man by whom the son of man is betrayed. Good were it for that
man if he had never been born. My message today is on the Passover
prepared, the Passover prepared. We're good Baptists. And so most
of the time, when we get into this text, Mark chapter 14, at
least for me, historically, as I've preached it, as I've looked
at it, we skip right on through this and get to the Lord's Supper. And that is important. And we're
going to get there. We're going to get there. And there are only two ordinances
that have been given to the Lord's church, baptism, and then the
Lord's supper. And it is here further on down
in the text. But before we get to that, here
in the context of this, we have the Passover and It is something that when we,
as a church, observe the Lord's Supper, this is something that
I try to remind the church of, that it did occur, that on the
night that he was betrayed at the conclusion of the Feast of
the Passover, which he and his disciples were celebrating, that
he took the bread and having blessed it, he break it and gave
to his disciples and said, this is my body, which is given for
you, this do in remembrance of me. So it's important that we
remember the context of when all this took place. But it's not too often that we, at least
for me, take a message and really slow down. And look at these
verses here. The Lord's Supper is important,
but so is the Passover meal as we consider it in the context. In fact, that's why it's mentioned
here. As Mark wrote, under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit, He says, the first day of unleavened bread
when they killed the Passover. The first day of unleavened bread
is how Mark describes the date. John MacArthur observed that
the Passover and unleavened bread were so closely associated that
both terms were used interchangeably to refer to the eight-day celebration
that began with Passover. Although unleavened bread is
used here, Mark's clear indication, his clear intention rather, is
the preparation for the Passover. when the King James translators
wrote here in our text, they killed the Passover. What they
mean is they sacrificed the Passover lamb. That's what's intended
in the Greek. This is what's intended here
in the text. They killed the Passover. They
weren't destroying the day. They weren't destroying the celebration. Rather, they were sacrificing
the Passover lamb. As disciples, said to him, where wilt thou that we go and
prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover? They didn't ask, are you going
to partake of this? They didn't say, Is this something
that you want to be a part of? No, no. They said, where wilt
thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover?
This was assumed. And the reason for this is all
the way back in the book of Exodus. And so let's, you can put your
ribbon here in Mark chapter 14. Since it's good for us to refresh
ourselves on this, let's go back to Exodus chapter 12 for just
a few moments this morning. Exodus chapter 12 and We'll begin
reading in verse one, and I want us to consider the text here,
as the Passover was instituted by God. The Lord spake unto Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be unto you
the beginning of months, shall be the first month of the year
to you. speaking unto all the congregation
of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall
take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for a house. If the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house
take it according to the number of the souls. Every man according
to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb
shall be without blemish. A male of the first year, he
shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats. You shall
keep it up until the 14th day of the same month, and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening, and they shall take of the blood, strike it on the
two side posts, on the upper door post of the houses wherein
they shall eat it. They shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs.
They shall eat it, eat not of it raw nor sodden at all with
water, or roast with fire his head with his legs with the pertinence
thereof. You shall let nothing of it remain
until the morning and That which remaineth of it until morning,
ye shall burn with fire, lest shall ye eat it with your loins
girded, your shoes on your feet, your staff in your hand, and
ye shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. For
I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will
smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast,
against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment. I am
the Lord. The blood shall be to you for
a token upon the houses where you are. When I see the blood,
I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you
to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. This day shall
be unto you for a memorial. You shall keep it a feast to
the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever. Seven days shall you eat unleavened
bread. Even the first day you shall
put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall
be cut off from Israel. In the first day there shall
be an holy convocation. In the seventh day, there shall
be a holy convocation to you. No manner of work shall be done
in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be
done of you. You shall observe the Feast of
Unleavened Bread. For in this selfsame day have
I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore,
shall you observe this day and your generations by an ordinance
forever. In the first month, on the 14th
day of the month at even, You shall eat unleavened bread till
the one and 20th day of the month and even. Seven days there shall
be no leaven in your houses for whosoever eateth that which is
leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation
of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born
in the land. You shall eat nothing leavened
in all your habitation, shall ye eat unleavened bread. Then
Moses, called for all the elders of Israel and said unto them,
draw out and take you a lamb according to your families and
kill the Passover. And you shall take a bunch of
hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Stride
the lintel in the two side posts with the blood that is in the
basin. And none of you shall go out at the door of his house
until the morning. For the Lord will pass through
to smite the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon
the lintel, On the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door
when I suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite
you. He shall observe this thing for
an ordinance to thee, to thy sons forever. It shall come to
pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you
according as he hath promised, you shall keep this service.
It shall come to pass when your children shall say unto you,
what mean ye by this service? You shall say it is by the sacrifice
of the Lord's Passover, who passed over this, over the houses of
the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians and
delivered our houses and the people bowed the head and worshiped.
The children of Israel went away and did as the Lord had commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they. This is the the Passover as it was instituted
by God. Jesus kept the law. He kept the
law perfectly. But understand something else,
something more significant, I think. This was the night right before he would
be betrayed and before he would die. How fitting the timing of
all of this. All along, the Passover lamb
had been a picture of Jesus. The types, the shadows, the figures,
though seen darkly, they were there, pointing ahead. Hold your place there in Exodus
and go to John 5. John 5, verses 45 through 47.
John 5. 45 through 47, Jesus said, do not
think that I'll accuse you to the Father, there's one that
accuseth you, even Moses in whom you trust. For had you believed
Moses, you would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if
you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?
To the Jews of that day, the law and the prophets, the Old
Testament scriptures would rise up in judgment against them because
they testified of Jesus. Moses was writing of Jesus. And
in this text, in the Passover, we see that. The Jews as well as the Gentiles were in danger. Left to themselves, there would
be death. The only way of escape, beloved,
was by divine appointment. And so there was a lamb that
was slain, a lamb without blemish. Exodus Chapter 12 in verse three,
he said, speaking unto all the congregation of Israel, saying,
in the 10th day of this month, they shall take them, every man
a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for
a house. Verse five, your lamb shall be
without blemish. A male of the first year, you
shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats. Couldn't just
be any old lamb. but it had to be a lamb without
blemish. There have been, throughout history, many men who have died,
some who have even died for others, but the only way of escape is
through Jesus Christ, the lamb, the perfect lamb of God. Indeed,
this lamb on the Passover had to be slain in verse six, Said,
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening. Had to be killed. Verse seven says, they shall
take the blood. The blood had to be applied.
They strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post
of the houses wherein they shall eat it. The blood had to be shed. The blood had to be applied.
And according to verse 13, The blood sheltered from judgment. The blood shall be to you for
a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood,
I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon
you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt. This isn't just words on a paper
of a historical event that happened thousands of years ago, although
it is that, but it's more than that. You see, praise God that
those babies were saved in those houses where the blood was applied,
but understand something in 1 Corinthians 5, 1 Corinthians chapter five and
verse seven. Purge out therefore the old leaven
that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened for even Christ
our Passover, even Christ our Passover lamb is sacrificed for
us. You see, this is the connection. Christ is the fulfillment of
that time. The shadow of the law, what was
going on there, this all pointed to something that was going to
happen. And year after year, as they
celebrated this, they were remembering what did happen, but also this
pointed to something future. And it was of no Coincidence. It wasn't fate, chance, luck
that all this happened. The time that Jesus himself would
go to the cross and die. It wasn't a coincidence that we find him instituting the Lord's Supper
for his church. We don't celebrate the Passover,
but we'll get to this, Lord willing, maybe next week, but there was
a church we gather for the supper. Go back to our text in Mark chapter
14. I hope we keep this in our minds
as we look at this, that just as the blood of the lamb was
applied to the houses, and there was life, so it is that where
the blood of Jesus is applied, there is life. You will not find
life any other way except in the blood of Christ, in the blood
of the Lamb. And so back into our text, Jesus, gives them direction in this
question that was asked. Where wilt thou that we go and
prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover? Verses 13 through 16. He sendeth
forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the
city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water.
Follow him, and wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the good
men of the house, The master saith, Where is the guest chamber
where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples? He will show
you a large upper room, furnished and prepared, and there make
ready for us. And the disciples went forth,
came into the city, and found, as he had said unto them, they
made ready the Passover. And so the directions are given. They are obedient to these directions.
And Jesus is not concerned or worried or frantic about where
they would meet. He knows the end from the beginning.
He's got this all sorted out. And so he tells them, this is
where you'll go. And he directs them to where
they'll end up into a large upper room, furnished and prepared.
There, make ready for us. Interestingly enough, his church
would also later again meet in a large upper room. In Mark chapter 14, what we read,
we read of the upper room, and then again in Acts chapter two,
Acts chapter two and verses 12 through 14. sorry, Acts chapter one, verses
12 through 14. And prior to the day of Pentecost,
and we find the church meeting there in the upper room. And
it says there, then returned into Jerusalem from the Mount
called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.
When they were coming in, they went into an upper room were
abode both Peter and James and John and Andrew and Philip, Thomas,
Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
Zalotes and Judas, the brother of James. These all continued
with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women,
Mary, the mother of Jesus, with his brethren." And then you read
on down, you see that they had a business meeting, so on and
so forth. But we find them meeting as a church before Pentecost
There again, in an upper room. I bring this up only to suggest
that this is quite possibly the same upper room that we read
about in Mark chapter 14. Now, I don't know that for sure,
but it very well may have been. They had a place to meet, and
certainly it is possible that this is the same place. And so,
as we go back to Mark chapter 14 in our text, verses 17 through
21, and in the evening he cometh
with the 12, and as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, verily
I say unto you, one of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
They began to be sorrowful and say unto him one by one, is it
I? And another said, is it I? He answered and said unto them,
it is one of the 12 that dippeth with me in the dish. The son
of man indeed goeth as is written of him, but woe to that man by
whom the son of man is betrayed. Good were it for that man if
he had never been born. And so as they are eating, now
keep in mind, they're eating the Passover feast. The Lord's supper has not yet
begun. Jesus brings something up to
the 12. And this is that One of you which eats with me
will betray me. Now, if you read your Bibles,
as most everybody in this room, I assume does, you've been around
for long enough, you know who that is. It's very obvious he's
talking about Judas Iscariot. What is intriguing about all
this is that in this text, it wasn't obvious to them. It wasn't obvious at least to
11 of them. As hard as it is to imagine,
they didn't see it coming. They didn't see it coming. There was a question among them. Is it I? Is it I? And the reason
why they were all asking this question is they all knew their
own hearts. Beloved understands something.
There are depths of depravity within our own hearts. They had, and they had seen it amongst
themselves in their own lives, they knew, and you and I know. And so they couldn't imagine
who it might have been, and so they were asking, is it I? Am
I the one? There was, as the text says, they began to
be sorrowful. There was sorrow in the room. But Mark, well, if there was an outward display
of sorrow on Judas's face, it was not in his heart. He played the part. He was a
hypocrite, one who pretended to be someone that he was not
real. Go over with me to look at Matthew's
account in Matthew chapter 26. Matthew 26 in. The universe 20. Now, when the even was come,
he sat down with the 12. As they did eat, he said, Verily,
I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. They were exceeding
sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord,
is it I? And he answered and said, He
that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray
me. Son of man goeth as it is written
of him, but woe unto that man by whom the son of man is betrayed.
It had been good for that man if he had not been born. Then
Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He
said unto him, thou hast said. And so Jesus knew Judas's heart. Judas asked the question, and
Jesus called him out on it. You have said, you have said. There was no question that there were two people in
the room who knew what was going on, and that was Jesus and Judas. In John's gospel, there's a little
bit more information given. And so if you go over there,
John chapter 13, verse 21, When Jesus had thus said, he
was troubled in spirit and testified and said, verily, verily, I say
unto you that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples
looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. Now there was
leaning on Jesus bosom, one of his disciples whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter, therefore, beckoned
to him that he should ask. who it should be of whom he spoke. He then, lying on Jesus' breast,
said unto him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is, to
whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped it. And when he
had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of
Simon. And after the sop, Satan entered
into him and said, Jesus unto him, that thou doest do quickly. No, no man at the table knew
for what intent he spake this unto him. For some of them thought
because Judas had the bag that Jesus had sent unto him by those
things that we have need of against the feast, or that he should
give something to the poor. He then having received the sop
went immediately out and it was night. This is indicative of a couple
of things. Point one being that Judas Iscariot
was a man who didn't even know the Lord. He was a man who, though
he knew him physically, knew him intellectually, he was not
a saved man. He was reprobate. Satan entered
into him. And then, as we know from the
rest of scripture, he died without being saved. If you're a child
of God, Satan will bother you, tempt you. He may do all sorts of things
to you, but he'll not enter into you. There is such a thing as
demon possession and all of that, but child of God is not. in danger of that sort of thing. That can only happen when it
comes to lost people. And indeed, with Judas, he was
lost, and we know from the scriptures that he never repented of his
sins. He died in his sins. He was reprobate. Number two, and this is something
that is kind of interesting, Judas left the room before partaking
of the Lord's Supper. He had Passover with the other
apostles and with Jesus, but he clearly left. When you think about this, So as the Passover was prepared
and then as they partook of it. So notice what the last verse
in our text says in Mark chapter 14 verse 21, but you know, truly
Matthew repeated it and John did too. Very similarly, the son of man
indeed goeth as is written of him. But woe to that man by whom
the son of man is betrayed. Good were it for that man if
he had never been born. Beloved, it was intentional that
Jesus would die on the cross. This is what he had come to do.
But all that being said, man is held responsible for the things
that he does. And he says, good word for that
man if he had never been born. What man? The one by whom the
son of man is betrayed. Judas Iscariot can't go before
God and say, well, God, you are gonna die anyway. This had to
happen. It's not my fault. No, no. No,
no. It was better for Judas to have
never been born. Think about this. So terrible
was his crime, and so awful will be his punishment. Imagine. Judas was not betraying Jesus
from the outside. This was an insider. Imagine. He was not ignorant of who Jesus
was. He knew, not of him, he knew
him physically. He knew him intellectually. He
had shook hands with him, hugged him. He had sat under his preaching
and teaching. He knew him intimately as far
as one can physically go. only to be revealed as a rebel,
an imposter, and a betrayer. To be so close to Jesus, so close
to the Savior, and yet to die in his sins. Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7. Begin in verse 15. Beware of
false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but
inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their
fruit. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even
so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth
evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down
and cast into the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits ye
shall know them. Let me pause here for just a
moment. Now imagine being the other 11. Judas not only had
been sitting under the preaching and teaching of Jesus, but as
an apostle, he had no doubt preached messages himself. Perhaps even
performed miracles. such that there was no suspicion
by anybody who was among them. They could have looked back on
his life and said, well, maybe he's an all right guy. Jesus says here, they'll come. as wolves in sheep's clothing. And he said, you'll know them
by their fruits. A good tree brings forth good
fruit. A corrupt tree brings forth corrupt, evil fruit. A
good tree can't bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt
tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore, by the fruit you shall
know him. The fruit of his life was shown forth there. And while some may say, well,
I remember hearing Judas preach, and I remember hearing Judas
say this, and I remember the works that he did, you went even
on into the judgment there's gonna be people like that. Because
Jesus goes on to say, not everyone that sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say unto
me, in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? Thy name hath cast out devils, and thy name done many
wonderful works. And then while I profess unto
them, I never knew you, depart from me, ye that work iniquity. And someone could say, I suppose,
well, Judas was doing the will of God. You know, the will of
God says, you shall do no murder. I shall not kill. He betrayed Jesus. He broke God's
law. or silver. Can I serve God in mammon? And indeed, there will come a
day, a time, when judgment will happen. The Bible does talk about
hell as a place where the worm dies not. It said before the Jews, the
Old Testament scriptures will rise up in judgment. Those passages of scripture that
they knew from a child, they missed Jesus, they rejected Jesus. Or what about someone like Judas
who was there with Jesus and rejected him? Those memories,
those things, they keep coming up that he can't get rid of. There's no forgotten memories
in hell. There's no dementia, no Alzheimer's,
nothing. There's people may wish for it,
but it's not there. And those memories of these things
keep coming back. And the burning and the torment
goes on and on forever. And so it is. There are others who believe,
even in our country, just because they wave an American flag and
go to church every once in a while, voted for Trump, that they're
going to heaven. not unless they've repented and
trusted in Christ. There has to be the blood applied,
you see. Repent of your sins and believe
in Jesus this very hour. This is the message from the
beginning to the end. Without the blood, there is no
life. And you and I, we can't stand
before God on our own works. It just won't happen. And so we thank God for the Passover. We praise the Lord for this text. And we thank Him that Jesus Does
indeed, as he said in Mark 14 and 21, the son of man indeed
goeth as is written of him. This was prophesied. This was
where he was headed. He was born to die and thank
God he was faithful even unto death, to the death of the cross.
He was buried and he rose again for the sins of his people. What
a great savior we have. May God add a blessing to the
preaching of his word.
The Passover Prepared
Series The Gospel of Mark
As good Baptists, we often get into Mark 14 and go straight for the Lord's Supper, but the Passover is also important. And it is here in this text.
| Sermon ID | 11172491458711 |
| Duration | 45:46 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Mark 14:12-21 |
| Language | English |
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