Gospels (59) - Luke 22:14-18 & John 13:1-11

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
​Series: Gospels

Rusty's Notes

• We can base what we believe (faith) on our feelings & opinions
• Then what do we have?
• We are spending so much time on the Passover (Seder) Meal because it matches with the Gospels that we are studying.

Four Cups

• 1) The Kaddeish: The first cup of wine:

The Cup of Blessing, or, The Cup of Sanctification

• 2) Maggid: The Passover Story

Current practice: Maggid means “telling the story”

• The actual Passover story is told (Mishnah)
• From Abraham to Jacob
• From the enslavement in Egypt to the liberation of the Jews
• Important for the children to hear the story.
• 2nd cup is poured out (10 drops=10 plagues)

1) Water to blood
2) Frogs
3) Gnats or lice
4) Flies
5) Sick Cattle
6) Boils
7) Hail
8) Locusts
9) Darkness
10) Death of first born
Hallel is read (Psalm 113 & 114)

• 3) Bareich: The grace said over the third cup

Current practice: Bareich is the “cup of redemption”

• 4) Hallel: The singing of the Psalms 113-118

Current practice:

• These Psalms sung over the 4th cup (cup of praise)

 

1. The Kaddeish (Ka-dish): The first cup of wine:

The Cup of Blessing, or, The Cup of Sanctification
Current practice: Kaddeish means "sanctification,"

• Lighting of two candles soon after nightfall
• Special blessing is pronounced over the feast day
• blessing over the first cup of wine
• No wine allowed between the first & second cups.
• Occurs soon after nightfall, while the children are still alert – well before they become drowsy enough to fall asleep.

Luke 22:14-18 - 14 When the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. 18 For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine (alcoholic from natural fermentation) until the kingdom of God comes.” [1]

• According to Jewish tradition – there was a specific amount of wine poured into each cup so as to prevent participants from becoming drunk.
• Therefore, you can conclude that the wine actually contained alcohol.

 

1. The Urchatz (urhotz): The washing of the hands

Current practice: urchatz means "and wash,"

• Fingers dipped into water

John 13:1-11 - Before the Passover Festival,

• Leviticus 23:4-6 - 4 “These are the Lord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5 The Passover to the Lord comes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month. 6 The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the Lord is on the fifteenth day of the same month.

Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father.  Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

• John 6:37 - 37 Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out.[2]

2 Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.

• Jesus knew His identity
• No problem humbling himself to wash the disciples feet.

4 So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself. 5 Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.

• The creator submits to the created… just as Jesus did with His parents.

6 He came to Simon Peter, who asked Him, “Lord, are You going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered him, “What I’m doing you don’t understand now, but afterward you will know.”

• Remember what it was like before Google maps?
• You actually had to read a map.
• You estimated how long it would take.
• You had no idea what traffic there was.
• You never knew what time you would actually get there.
• What about meeting people?
• Big difference in what we knew then vs what we know now.

8 “You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.

• Peter… the same one who jumped out of the boat with no fear… the same one who later told Jesus he would never deny Him… the same one who grabbed a sword and cut off the ear of the soldier when they came to arrest Jesus.

Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”
10 “One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

• Public bathhouse – but you still had to walk home
• Crecelius wedding yesterday… I kept my shoes dust-free and tried not to get sweaty… ha!
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - 9 Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males, 10 no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. [3]
• This includes those getting drunk at the Lord’s Supper and the dude sleeping with his mother-in-law.
• When was I washed?
• “But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified” – Past tense… done deal.
• Completed action – cannot be improved on.
• Not just “declared”… but made that way…
• Ephesians 1:4 – God made me holy – past tense.
• Colossians 2:10 – I was made complete – completed action
• Romans 8:30 – I was made glorified.
• Hebrews 10:10 – I was made perfect.
• Hebrews 10:14 – I was made sanctified and perfect.
• 1 John 2:12 – I was forgiven.
• 2 Corinthians 5:21 – I was made righteous, the righteousness of God Himself.
• That happened when I was 8 years old.
• This is not a position that I hold, waiting to die to receive the fullness of these verses.
• THIS IS WHO I AM!
• Why do you think we keep teaching identity over and over again here at Leavener?

11 For He knew who would betray Him. This is why He said, “You are not all clean.”
This is a good indication that Judas was not a believer.

[1] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Lk 22:14–18). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (Jn 6:37). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] Christian Standard Bible. (2017). (1 Co 6:9–11). Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.