We see the disciples prepare for the Passover as the Lord\u2019s Supper is celebrated for the very first time.\u00a0\u00a0What an awesome event.\u00a0\u00a0This is a great picture of the Old Testament lamb and New Testament lamb coming together.\u00a0\u00a0Today we take the Lord\u2019s Supper in remembrance of what Christ has done knowing Jesus anticipates taking of the Lord\u2019s Supper with us in Heaven!\u00a0\u00a0What a glorious event to anticipate every time we take of the holy table.<\/p>\n
The rest of this chapter speaks of what the disciples would see as complete disaster and failure.\u00a0\u00a0Peter is told he will deny Christ.\u00a0\u00a0The disciples cannot even pray for an hour with Jesus without falling asleep.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus is betrayed by Judas, one of the twelve.\u00a0\u00a0The disciples could not understand this trouble and the utter destruction of what they believed.\u00a0\u00a0What do you believe concerning the way Christ and the Christian life should be lived out?\u00a0\u00a0When our perspective is not anchored in all the words of Jesus and scripture, we too will fall apart in trouble.<\/p>\n
We need to challenge our phrases that we use too often as super erasers to wipe out what is taught in scripture.<\/p>\n
These are some of the permissive statements that help our flesh and push away the spirit:<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t believe that.\u00a0\u00a0As if our unbelief cancels out the truth.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think it is a sin.\u00a0\u00a0As if following Jesus does not mean everything that was said and taught in scripture.<\/p>\n
We all sin.\u00a0\u00a0This statement now gives us a license to choose a sin; giving the sin permission to imprison us.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re okay we just believe different.\u00a0\u00a0No one is okay if they do not believe in salvation the way God has presented it in Scripture.<\/p>\n
Without putting in the work to search out scripture to make sure what you believe is what God has taught, life will become frustrated when your \u2018god\u2019 fails you.\u00a0\u00a0Building your understanding on principled truths found and interconnected to all scripture will give you a true and living God that will sustain you in every difficulty.<\/p>\n
Verse 41- the spirit is indeed willing but the flesh is weak.\u00a0\u00a0Walk in His Spirit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mbcnewhaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}