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Tonight, we shall celebrate Passover, our most important festival of the year. After sunset we shall first have our Memorial service remembering Jesus’ last supper and the agony he had to bear after that last gathering in the upper room in Jerusalem.

In a way people might find it strange that we come together tonight to have a nice meal, and will take a lot of time to chat with each other about lots of things. At the memorial service all attention or focus is directed to the gathering in the upper room for the Pesach evening meal, followed by looking at the imprisonment and execution of our master.

Erev Pesach does not mean all bad news, because, by the death of Jesus Christ, we remember that he gave his body as a lamb and sacrificial offering to break the curse of sin and to liberate mankind from the curse of death. for us Jesus is a man of flesh and blood who like us had feelings and as such could also feel pain, agony and suffer.  Even though Jesus was often tested, he never walked into the trap that others had set for him. Always faithful to his heavenly father, he succeeded in never telling lies but always adhering to the truth. those who wanted to catch him lying did not fall for it. Some wished to catch him putting himself equal or even above God, but Jesus knew all too well his position before the One God of Israel.

Tonight we remember how Jesus prayed in agony to his heavenly Father, the Only One True God of Israel. We do know that there are Christians who think Jesus is God, which would make the whole situation in the Olive Garden and at Golghota a whole farce, because there Jesus cried to God, and in case he would be God, Jesus would then ask himself why he would have abandoned himself. Today there are still loads of people, even many calling themselves Christian, who reject what Jesus really did, namely putting his own will aside to give himself in the hands of his God as a ransom for many.

We do know and accept the Bible teaching that Jesus is the son of God, who was born and died there on Calvary, the “place of the Skull” or “a Skull”. (Remember that God has no birth and no death.)

That is the beauty of tonight, that we have a human being who was willing to die for other human beings. In coming together today, we follow his request to do that gathering with that sharing of bread several times to remember him.

It is an incredible thing what Jesus was willing to do for others, even people he did not know personally and even had yet to be born. Yes, in fact, his sacrificial act still applies to us too. His shed blood also washes us white and qualifies us to be under the New Covenant made there that night.

Reason enough, therefore, to go into this evening with joy, because we realise how lucky we are that someone wanted to take on this tough task.

Have a nice memorial service and lovely gathering in brotherly love.

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Preceding

A voice cries out: context

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Additional reading

1. Jesus son of God
2. Jesus son of God or god the son
3. Jesus son of God
4. Jesus Christ (the Messiah)
5. Jesus surrendering his life
6. Redemption #4 The Passover Lamb
7. Jesus at the Passover meal speaking about two covenants
8. Today’s Thought “God’s salvation shall be for ever, and His righteousness shall not be abolished” (June 26)
9. Rejected and Despised by Men
10. Not dragged unwillingly to death
11. Jesus surrendering his life
12. A particular night to share unleavened bread and red wine
13. Inauguration of the New Covenant
14. The Memorial Supper

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