Passover: Passover Service 2012

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Given 05-Apr-12; 52 minutes

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John Ritenbaugh, reflecting that Christ's crucifixion was a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Greeks, revealed that crucifixion was a horribly painful, long lasting tortuous death (invented by the Persians but practiced by peoples of Israelitish descent)administered to non-Roman slaves, ending in agonizing asphyxiation. Neither the Jews nor the Greeks understood God's adamant insistence that the penalty for sin had to be death. Only a sinless substitutionary sacrifice could fulfill this demand. Never has so much been given for so little return. Christ made the commitment, knowing that it would be very painful to face. The broken bread symbolizes Christ's body beaten for us for our healing and the sharing of the body of Christ in communion with other believers. The wine symbolizes the sacrifice of Christ's blood redeeming us, reconciling us with God the Father, enabling us to become children of God. Jesus, in John 17, offers a moving prayer, on behalf us His disciples then and now, to be protected from persecution and temptation of the world. After the Disciples had sung a hymn, they departed into the Mount of Olives.




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