Weekly Bible Study – May 2, 2022; The Sword of the Spirit manifested in the Life of Jesus Christ, the Passover analogies. Part 2

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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, only if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life) John 3:16, John 6:47 as a few examples; it is very important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so the Holy Spirit can teach you as to what your reading or hearing is true or false. To be taught by the Holy Spirit you must be filled with the Holy Spirit which means abiding in Christ. To place yourself in fellowship with God the Holy Spirit [also called abiding in the Christ], take a moment to simply name, cite or acknowledge [confess] your known unconfessed sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father). Why? Because you cannot grow spiritually if you’re not abiding in Christ [in fellowship with Him] when you take in bible truth.

1 John 1:9, says: “If we confess [meaning to simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known unconfessed sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND; read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. Left click the following link to learn more and fully understand the doctrine of Rebound; which answers the question, why do I need to keep confessing my sins all the time? REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, the promised Messiah, as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to simply exercise faith alone in Jesus Christ alone eternal life; when you do, you will instantly receive Eternal Life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life." NKJV

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ¹⁸ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

Study to show yourself approved to God!

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The Sword of the Spirit manifested in the Life of Jesus Christ, the Passover analogies. Part 2

Week Ending 2-02-2014

The importance of memories and the importance of friendship. One of the most precious moments of our memory is that memory includes the concept of people living in your soul even when they are no longer here. It is the perpetuation of thinking about people you loved and are still loving. One of the true tests of love is that: Do you think of them when they are gone? You remember them in a very beautiful and wonderful way.

That is how much I love and remember my best friend, Ray Almeida Sr. When I think of Ray Almeida Sr. I think of someone who was a selfless, caring, humble and faithful friend who led me and taught me what a real man was.

If you have been as fortunate as I have this principle applies also to many of you because we all have a Ray Almeida Sr. in our life as well.

One of the main principles about having a true friend like Ray is that you can relax around your true friends and you don’t have to hide the real you. Ray was definitely like that. As a true friend, Ray was the type of individual that you didn't have to compete with, because true friends don't compete with you, and therefore they will never stab you in the back socially or economically. Your true friends, which is what Ray was, also will guard your privacy. They never gossip or malign you to others. True friends protect your back. You can be honest with your friends; you can level with them, and that is a part of you being faithful to them.

Cicero said, “A friend is, as it were, a second self”.

Aristotle asked a question, “What is a friend?” And then he answered by saying, “A single soul dwelling in two bodies”!

Pr 27:10, tells us about the attitude the son should have toward his father's friend when it says, “Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend.”

As we continue our service this morning we now come to our final part of the Doctrine of the Passover.

We will begin with a point-by-point review of what we have noted.

1. Passover began on the first month of the Jewish calendar, April 14, 1441 BC According to Exo 12:1-14; Lev 23:5.

God told the Jews that April should the first month because spring represents the beginning of life. Now, for the Jews, Passover doesn't just happen, it takes a lot of preparation. In preparation for the Passover, the house must be cleaned and sterilized in honor of this great occasion.

1. Therefore our second principle is that the house must be free of all leaven. And in the Bible, leaven is symbolic of sin or evil. This is why the Lord said, Mat 16:6, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Gal 5:9, a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough.

1. Principle number three: After the leaven is cleaned out, the next procedure in the preparation of the Passover is to get out the special white linen cloths that go with the meal. White linen is symbolic of perfect righteousness in the Bible.

2. In an orthodox Jewish home that follows the precise correct procedure, the table is set with a white tablecloth and white candles, and the father of the house wears a white robe called a kittel and a white crown.

He is to symbolize the high priest in the tabernacle who wore a pure white robe.

However, it really refers to the Lord Jesus Christ who glowed white after his resurrection.

We know that because Mat 17:1-2 says, And six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and brought them up to a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.

There are also white dishes used which were not used throughout the rest of the year.

The white linen, white plates, and white candles are used to create an atmosphere of purity.

1. Once the table is set and the father is ready, the candles are lit as the preparation continues. Interestingly enough, they are lit by a woman because it was a woman who brought us Christ, the light of the world.

Jn 8:12, the Lord Jesus Christ said, “I am the light of the world;”

God chose a woman, Mary, to bring us Christ our Passover, therefore a woman still brings the light to the Passover celebration.

1. After the woman lights the candle, she sings a certain song. What she said was, “Blessed art Thou O Lord our God, King of the universe, who has exalted us among all people and bade us to kindle the Passover lights.”

Four cups of wine will be drunk as part of the Passover ceremony. The cups should be filled by one of the servant’s representing leadership and freedom. The first cup is called the cup of sanctification and it simply sanctifies the table and all of the preparations. The drinking of this cup symbolizes approval and gives the blessing for the Passover supper to begin.

After the first cup, the father takes three loaves of the unleavened bread and places them in a special white linen envelope which has three compartments. Then, in a special ceremony of his own, the father removes the middle loaf from its compartment, breaks it, and then wraps it in a separate piece of white linen and hides it away or buries it somewhere.

This foreshadows the Lord jesus Christ being buried by His disciples in Mat 14:12, And his disciples came and took away the body and buried it; and they went and reported to Jesus.

The youngest member of the family who can read will ask four questions. The questions are very general and give the father a chance to tell the story of the Exodus.

1. The first question, why is this night distinguished from all other nights? On this night we eat only unleavened bread. The answer: That unleavened bread symbolizes purity from sin.

2. On all other nights we may eat any kind of herbs, but on this night only bitter herbs. Why? The answer: The bitter herbs remind the Jews of the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.

3. The third question: On all other nights we do not dip in the bowl, but tonight we dip twice. Why? The answer: This is the dipping, by which the Lord Jesus Christ identified His betrayer, Judas, when he said the “The one who dips with me shall betray Me”, and this has several meanings. Parsley is dipped twice in salt water.

The first dip represents Israel going into the Red Sea and coming out unharmed.

The second dip is for the Egyptian army who tried to follow them, the parsley is dipped and then immediately.

The New Testament commentary about this dipping is found in Mr 14:17-20, And when it was evening He came with the twelve. And as they were reclining {at the table} and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me one who is eating with Me.” They began to be grieved and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?” And He said to them, “{It is} one of the twelve, one who dips with Me in the bowl.”

1. On this night we all recline in our chairs at the table. Why? The answer: The reclining in the chairs has to do with freedom. The Jews are no longer slaves and so they can relax.

So as the story is told, the ceremonial foods on the center plate are eaten. For example, as the father is telling about the bitterness of slavery, he serves each person horseradish from the center plate and they take the bread and take a bite of the horseradish. And this brings tears and pain to their eyes! Then he pauses as they dip the parsley in the salt water. As he talks about the lamb, he gestures to the unbroken shank bone of the lamb which is on the plate.

Then there is the charose which was like a paste made thick to symbolize the clay or representing the mortar than Pharaoh made them make. It’s made of figs, dates, nuts and was to symbolize the sweetness or the pleasures of sin in the world.

Then there is a second cup at the Passover. The second cup is spilled into the individual plates in front of each person, a drop at a time. Each drop remembers a plague God visited upon Egypt while the implacable Pharaoh hardened his heart.

The ten red drops fall into the empty white plate in front of each person and they are clearly representative of those ten great plagues in Egypt. As this happens, the father chants the name of each plague, blood, frogs, gnats, insects, boils, locust, darkness, death etc.

It is a very melancholy moment but it is dispelled quickly as the main meal comes out. The meal is like a thanksgiving meal and the entire family is assembled. Now comes the most wonderful and touchingly symbolic part of all, the third cup, which is the cup of redemption. After this, they would eat the meal and after the meal was through, the father of the house would now go and get the piece of bread which he hid and a new cup of unfermented wine. And that is communion now as we know it.

It is now time to bring forth that buried loaf of unleavened bread that the father symbolically hid and buried, which will serve as the desert to the meal. The afikomin [desert], as it is called which means "the arrival" and it represents the Lord Jesus Christ, as the bread of life! The buried unleavened bread, the middle piece, is then eaten with the third cup of wine.

And that is where we get communion or the Lord’s supper.

The three loaves represent the Trinity, and the middle one represents God the Son. It was the Son who was broken for our sins, it was his body which was broken for you, however no bones were broken.

Jn 19:36, For these things came to pass, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “Not a bone of Him shall be broken.”

The bread was wrapped in white linen and buried, as was the body of Jesus. It is brought forth from the ground with the cup of redemption. The bread, which I told you was the desert, is the last thing eaten because it represents the fact that once someone partakes of the bread of life, they will be sustained forever.

Jn 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and He who believes in Me shall never thirst.”

The actual ceremony, the father breaks off pieces from the loaf and passes the pieces around the table. Each person eats his piece and drinks the third cup with it. Blessings are pronounced over the bread and wine individually which have great meaning for us. So when we celebrate the Lord’s supper, we are actually taken a part out of the Jewish Passover and celebrating it today.

So, when the Jews celebrate Passover, they are actually celebrating a part of the Lord’s supper.

This is the part of the Passover that the Lord took the bread and the cup and instituted what we call communion.

Mat 26:26, “and while they were eating [Passover], Jesus took bread, and having blessed it, He broke it and gave it to His disciples, and He said, `take, eat; this represents My body.”

It’s interesting because when it says that He blessed, the Jewish people know exactly what the Lord said and the Christian Church does not. He said a prayer which was commanded to be said at this time which is “Blessed art Thou O Lord our God, King of the universe who brings forth bread from the earth.”

So, He picked the bread from the floor, representing the earth, and said, “This is my body”, this was a prophecy of the fact that bringing forth bread from the earth represented our Lord's resurrection as the bread of life. He was actually saying to His disciples, if they try to bury My body this week, than just like this piece of bread, it will just come up again from the earth.

This is why He said, the night before His death, Jn 12:24, “truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

You cannot bury a kernel of wheat, the Lord said it will only come up again. And so our Lord said he was the bread of life, Jn 6:35, Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life”

He was born in Bethlehem which means house of bread. He was buried on the second feast, which was the feast of unleavened bread, which represented his impeccability as the Godman. And they would take the matzoh bread, which represents some interesting facets of our Lord’s body. The matzoh bread has stripes, and as Isaiah said “by His stripes we are healed”.

The bread is pierced through with wholes and as the O.T., which is also the Jewish Bible says, “they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced”. And of course, the matzoh bread is pure, containing no leaven (representing no sin.)

The third cup has every bit of significance as the bread. Remember that the Lord said in Jn 6:53, “truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.” He identified the wine as His blood. In Mat 26:27-28, and when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.” This is another one of those Jewish blessings. He said, “Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine.”

This is very meaningful to each one of us as members of the church, the future bride of Christ. The Lord was actually thanking the Father for bringing Him His future bride.

The following link is to a good news message describing how one can receive eternal life: Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about their eternal future.

Internet Church Service – May 1, 2022; The main reason why we have been created: The Angelic Conflict and the Gap Fact in GEN 1:1-2.

Please join us as we fellowship in the Word of God, listen to Christian Music, Pray in Christ’s Name, and Praise the Lord Our God in our Hearts and Minds.

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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, only if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life) John 3:16, John 6:47 as a few examples; it is very important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so the Holy Spirit can teach you as to what your reading or hearing is true or false. To be taught by the Holy Spirit you must be filled with the Holy Spirit which means abiding in Christ. To place yourself in fellowship with God the Holy Spirit [also called abiding in the Christ], take a moment to simply name, cite or acknowledge [confess] your known unconfessed sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father). Why? Because you cannot grow spiritually if you’re not abiding in Christ [in fellowship with Him] when you take in bible truth.

1 John 1:9, says: “If we confess [meaning to simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known unconfessed sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND; read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. Left click the following link to learn more and fully understand the doctrine of Rebound; which answers the question, why do I need to keep confessing my sins all the time? REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus, The Christ alone for eternal life [salvation] and you will be saved [receive Eternal Life] the very micro second you believe in Him:

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [Num 21:4-9], even so must the Son of Man be lifted up [the cross], that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

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The main reason why we have been created: The Angelic Conflict and the Gap Fact in GEN 1:1-2.

Moses was inspired by God the Holy Spirit, was told to teach the Jews that "the day they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in that day, dying spiritually they would also die physically."

1. The Creation of man and woman as stated in Gen 1:1 where we read that In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Jn 1:3 All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.

1. If we desire to know the main reason why we have been created, we are told about the Angelic Conflict and not the Gap Theory but the Gap Fact in Gen 1:2.

2. Between Gen 1:1-2, = undisclosed period of time when the earth was filled with darkness and one-third of all the angels were incarcerated for their rebellion against God, Gen 1:1-2.

There was a period of time in which Planet Earth was shut down completely under darkness.

The apostle Paul said that we are sons of light; 1Th 5:5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;

In Gen 1:2 we read that something happened that caused complete darkness and that our Lord had to solve the problems of man; Jer 4:23-28.

Even though man had not been created as of yet, we do know he was created some time between Gen 1:1 to Gen 1:2.

God disciplined one-third of all the angels and sent them into darkness 2Pe 2:4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;

1. Gen 1:22, where we have a challenge to humanity and the authority of man to rule over the creation; Gen 1:22.

This is found in Gen 1:22 where we read "And God blessed them saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

1. Gen 1:26, the Trinity is revealed and we are told that the Lord gave us the authority to man to be responsible to our Lord; Gen 1:26-27.

"Divine Authority" is what man needs to exercise the dominion over the creation; Gen 1:26.

1. Then we introduced the creation of man and the woman and the fact that there is an Angelic Conflict as Gen 1:27 says.

Gen 1:27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

1. In Gen 1:28, the Lord reveals the greatness of His grace and love to us.

2. Still in Gen 1:29, God the Holy Spirit, who is our teacher reveals to mankind that man can have the authority to bless others and also the authority to receive from others; Gen 1:29-30.

3. The Lord completed the work that mankind needed for the Divine Blessings; Gen 2:1-4.

4. These things were written not in chronological order but in the perfect order of the Trinity to worship our Lord; Gen 2:7.

Gen 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

1. Gen 2:15, the "Divine Commands" are given to man; Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

2. We have the commands and love from our God given to man in the beginning of the human race, with the freedom to choose either to follow our Lord or to live for self; Gen 2:15.

3. We are also given the freedom to reject or accept the plan of God for our life; Gen 2;16-17.

4. We also have the love and the guidance given to man and why it is not good for man to be alone; Gen 2:18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

5. The Lord "has" and "will have" the Divine Design given to mankind for the "Divine Purpose" of glorifying the creation of our Lord; Gen 2:18.

6. The first operation on man's body that ever took place is found in Gen 2:21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He [the doctor] took one of his ribs.

7. The first woman that our Lord created in Gen 2:22 And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

8. The excitement of the man receiving a grace gift from the Lord to honor God; Gen 2:23 And the man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."

9. The Lord instituted the gift of marriage to both the man and the woman; Gen 2:24 For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

10. From this section of the Word of God, we are warned about Heylel or Satan and his kingdom of darkness which he is said to be subtle and deceitful; Gen 3:1.

11. Gen 3 = introduced to another creation, the serpent and his kingdom of darkness; Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

13. In GEN 3:3 we are warned about disobeying the Lord and following the wrong principles = "But from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, lest you die."

14. Satan uses friends and family to entice us to rebellion against the Lord, Gen 3:6.

Our Lord died, He actually died two deaths, first, a spiritual death for the sins of the world and this was followed by a physical death.

Weekly Bible Study – April 25, 2022; The Sword of the Spirit manifested in the Life of Jesus Christ, the Passover analogies.

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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, only if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life) John 3:16, John 6:47 as a few examples; it is very important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so the Holy Spirit can teach you as to what your reading or hearing is true or false. To be taught by the Holy Spirit you must be filled with the Holy Spirit which means abiding in Christ. To place yourself in fellowship with God the Holy Spirit [also called abiding in the Christ], take a moment to simply name, cite or acknowledge [confess] your known unconfessed sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father). Why? Because you cannot grow spiritually if you’re not abiding in Christ [in fellowship with Him] when you take in bible truth.

1 John 1:9, says: “If we confess [meaning to simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known unconfessed sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND; read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. Left click the following link to learn more and fully understand the doctrine of Rebound; which answers the question, why do I need to keep confessing my sins all the time? REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God, the promised Messiah, as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins; the issue for you is to simply exercise faith alone in Jesus Christ alone eternal life; when you do, you will instantly receive Eternal Life: John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47, 20:30, 31.

John 6:47 says: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life." NKJV

Notice again what Jesus said in John 6:47: "…he who believes in Me (Jesus Christ) has everlasting life." It doesn't say, "will have"; it says, "has." Therefore, the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ for His promise of everlasting life, you have it (it's really just that simple; nothing more and nothing less), and it can never be taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift (Ephesians 2:8c) of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-15, 16, 17, 18, says: "¹⁴ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. ¹⁸ He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for worship and learning God's Word. If there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

Study to show yourself approved to God!

Grace Bible Church Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries

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The Tree of Life is a weekly teaching summary: God’s Word is taught Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday

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The Sword of the Spirit manifested in the Life of Jesus Christ, the Passover analogies.

Week Ending 1-26-2014

Jn 6:3, And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. In spite of the distractions and the deceptions that come from Satan and the Kingdom of darkness, we have been noting the doctrinal analogies concerning the unveiling of our hearts while the Jews have a veil over theirs with regards to the Lord Jesus Christ.

We know this because the apostle Paul tells us in 2Co 3 that we live in the dispensation of the unveiling glory of God while the Jews are still living in the dispensation of the veiled glory of God because of their arrogance and rejection of the lord Jesus Christ. This produces hardness of the heart as well as scar tissue of the soul. This is why we have passages like Jn 12:40 which says, “He has blinded their eyes, and He hardened their heart; lest they see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and be converted, and I heal them.”

Rm 11:25, For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles has come in; And then of course this principle is found in 2Co 3:14, But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him, and this is the reason why the Jews have developed hardness of the heart as well as scar tissue of the soul.

Scar tissue of the soul attacks the left lobe of the soul, which is the self-consciousness, mentality, volition, emotion, and the conscience. Hardness of the heart is the result of the scar tissue of the soul in the left lobe (mind), causing the right lobe (heart) to reject gnosis, (knowledge), from becoming epignosis, (wisdom), and therefore the heart becomes hard and filled with darkness.

It is also the main reason they cannot see the difference of the unveiled glory of God for the Church-age believer verses the veiled glory of God for the Jews. And so because of these principles, we have begun to take a look at some of the functions, which take place at a Jewish Passover and the tremendous analogies pointing to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember that the Jewish people could not discern that the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world in (Jn 1:29) is actually present with them because they are blinded by arrogance and the hardness of the heart and they have a veil over their heart.

In 2 Co 3 Paul is going to open up on the subject of the unveiled glory as it relates to the angelic conflict. And as he begins he opens with sarcasm. For example in 2Co 3:1, Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? You are our letter or our Epistle, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; The believer’s life is both observed by unbelievers and believers as well as the fallen and the Elect angels, Mat 5:16; Eph 3:10; 1Pe 1:12.

So, the human race is observing you. You are a battleground, you have the tremendous potentiality for glory, and that glory was unveiled at the beginning of the Church Age. Paul goes on to say in 2Co 3:3-11, being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. And such confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. But if the ministry of death which had an inherent glory, Glory of TLJC , in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, how shall the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory.

For indeed what had glory [which is the Torah, the Mosaic Law found in Old Testament], in this case has no glory on account of the glory [the New Testament] that surpasses it. For if that which fades away was with glory [a reference to the Old Testament or the Mosaic Law which reflected TLJC Who is the Shekinah glory, or Emmanuel, God is with us] 2Co 3:11 goes on to say, much more that which remains is in glory. The phrase much more here means a ministry which is even greater than the Law, a ministry which produces righteousness, grace, mercy, goodness and love. Therefore that which remains is the ministry of God the Holy Spirit and what He produces, which is +R, grace, mercy, goodness and love. And this is a reference to the unveiled ministry of God the Holy Spirit in the New Testament where He produces what Gal 5:22-23, says, the fruit of the Spirit which is love, grace, mercy, inner happiness, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control; against such things there is no Mosaic law. 2 Co 3:11-18, For if that which fades away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory. Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

So, in Jn 6:4 we read. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Passover began on the first month of the Jewish calendar, April 14, 1441 BC According to Exo 12:1 14; Lev 23:5. God told the Jews that April should the first month because spring represents the beginning of life. Without a doubt, the Jewish Passover is the oldest celebration that we have today, 3,500 years old. And this feast portrayed the work of Christ on the cross with emphasis on redemption. For the Jews, Passover doesn't just happen, it takes a lot of preparation. This is why we read in Mat 26:17-18, Now on the first {day} of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” And He said, “Go into the city that is Jerusalem to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand; I {am to} keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.’”

The certain man is an unknown man but we do know from Mk 14:13 and Lk 22:10, that in this city there were two million people and among them the disciples were to look for a man carrying a pitcher of water on his head. A man hardly ever carried water in the ancient world, so this was a strange sight and something anyone would notice. It just so happened that this man who carried the water was a believer who had responded to the Lord's message. Can you imagine what a privilege it must have been for this man to humble himself and then be identified and acknowledged by the Lord Jesus Christ.

His reward is given in such passages as Mat 10:42, “And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you he shall not lose his reward.” So in Mat 26:19, And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover. Notice the importance of the proper procedure and the preparations that were involved. This falls under the principle that the right thing must be done in the right way. Also, notice the Lord’s confidence in this man to be faithful to fulfill the details concerning the Jewish Passover.

This is the manifestation of what many of you live in as Mat 25:21 states that the master said to his slave; “Well done, good and faithful slave; you were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things, enter into the joy of your master.” Entering into the joy of the master is enjoying the results of the faithfulness that many of you portray as servants of God, your master. This is revealed by your dedication and devotion that you reveal with how you give and use your time, talent, and treasure.

The joy that we enter into through our dedication and devotion with reference to how we use our time, talent and treasure is revealed by Ac 20:35, where our Lord said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Now, in preparation for the Passover, the house must be cleaned and sterilized in honor of this great occasion. Specifically, the house must be free of all leaven.

Leaven is simply yeast used to make bread rise and is found in bread, cakes, cookies etc. And in the Bible, leaven is symbolic of sin or evil. This is why the Lord said, Mat 16:6, “Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Gal 5:9, a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. So, in preparation for the Passover, the Jews had to get rid of all the leaven from their home. There could be no yeast and the leaven would be burnt in the fire representing the judgment of sin. This caused Paul to write in 1Co 5:7, Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. This is an appeal to us to be pure for the celebration of the Lord’s Supper through rebound. After the leaven is cleaned out, the next procedure in the preparation of the Passover is to get out the special white linen cloths that go with the meal. Remember that white linen is symbolic of perfect righteousness in the Bible. Rev 19:7-8, “Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready. And it was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.”

In an orthodox Jewish home that follows the precise correct procedure, the table is set with a white tablecloth and white candles, and the father of the house wears a white robe called a kittle and a white crown. He is to symbolize the high priest in the tabernacle who wore a pure white robe. However, it really refers to the Lord Jesus Christ who glowed white after his resurrection. We know that because Mat 17:1-2, And six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and brought them up to a high mountain by themselves. and He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light. There are also white dishes used which were not used throughout the rest of the year. The white linen, white plates, and white candles are used to create an atmosphere of purity. Once the table is set and the father is ready, the candles are lit by a woman as the preparation continues. A woman lights the candles because it was a woman who brought us Christ, the light of the world. After the woman lights the candle she sings a certain song. What she said was, “Blessed art Thou O Lord our God, King of the universe, who has exalted us among all people and bade us to kindle the Passover lights.” Four cups of wine will be drunk as part of the Passover ceremony.

The cups should be filled by one of the servants representing leadership and freedom. The first cup is called the cup of sanctification and it simply sanctifies the table and all of the preparations. The drinking of this cup symbolizes approval and gives the blessing for the Passover supper to begin. After the first cup, the father takes three loaves of the unleavened bread and places them in a special white linen envelope, which has three compartments. Then, in a special ceremony of his own, the father removes the middle loaf from its compartment, breaks it, and then wraps it in a separate piece of white linen and hides it away or buries it somewhere. Now, the youngest member of the family who can read will ask four questions. The questions are very general and give the father a chance to tell the story of the Exodus:

The first question, why is this night distinguished from all other nights? On this night we eat only unleavened bread. The answer is that unleavened bread symbolizes purity from sin.

The second question: On all other nights we may eat any kind of herbs, but on this night only bitter herbs. Why? The answer to the second question, The bitter herbs remind the Jews of the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.

The third question: On all other nights we do not dip in the bowl, but tonight we dip twice. Why? This is the dipping, by which the Lord Jesus Christ identified His betrayer, Judas, when he said the the one who dips with me shall betray Me, and this has several meanings. Parsley is dipped twice in salt water. The first dip represents Israel going into the Red Sea and coming out unharmed. The second dip is for the Egyptian army who tried to follow them, the parsley is dipped and then immediately.

The fourth question: On this night we all recline in our chairs at the table. Why? The reclining in the chairs has to do with freedom. The Jews are no longer slaves and so they can relax. And so as the story is told, the ceremonial foods on the center plate are eaten. For example, as the father is telling about the bitterness of slavery, he serves each person horseradish from the center plate and they take the bread and take a bite of the horseradish. And this brings tears and pain to their eyes!

Then he pauses as they dip the parsley in the salt water. As he talks about the lamb, he gestures to the unbroken shank bone of the lamb, which is on the plate. Then there is the charose (harosis) which was like a paste made thick to symbolize the clay or representing the mortar than Pharaoh made them make. It’s made of figs, dates, and nuts and was to symbolize the sweetness or the pleasures of sin in the world. Remember that the Bible teaches that sin will give you pleasure for a season. Then there is a second cup at the Passover. The second cup is spilled into the individual plates in front of each person, a drop at a time. Each drop remembers a plague God visited upon Egypt while the implacable Pharaoh hardened his heart. The ten red drops fall into the empty white plate in front of each person and they are clearly representative of those ten great plagues in Egypt. As this happens, the father chants the name of each plague, blood, frogs, gnats, insects, boils, locust, darkness, death etc. It is a very melancholy moment but it is dispelled quickly as the main meal comes out.

The meal is like a thanksgiving meal and the entire family is assembled. Now, comes the most wonderful and touchingly symbolic part of all, the third cup, which is the cup of redemption. After this, they would eat the meal and after the meal was through, the father of the house would now go and get the piece of bread which he hid and a new cup of unfermented wine. And that is communion now as we know it. It is now time to bring forth that buried loaf of unleavened bread, which will serve as the desert to the meal. The afikomin [desert], as it is called which means the arrival and it represents the Lord Jesus Christ, as the bread of life! The buried unleavened bread, the middle piece, is then eaten with the third cup of wine. And that is where we get communion or the Lord’s supper.

The three loaves represent the Trinity, and the middle one represents God the Son. It was the Son who was broken for our sins...it was his body, which was broken for you. And the bread was wrapped in white linen and buried, as was the body of Jesus. Now it is brought forth from the ground with the cup of redemption. And the bread, which I told you was the desert, is the last thing eaten because it represents the fact that once someone partakes of the bread of life, they will be sustained forever. Jn 6:35, Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me shall not hunger, and He who believes in Me shall never thirst.” In the actual ceremony, the father breaks off pieces from the loaf (the size of an olive" says the haggadah) and passes the pieces around the table. Each person eats his piece and drinks the third cup with it. Blessings are pronounced over the bread and wine individually which have great meaning for us. So when we celebrate the Lord’s supper, we are actually taken a part out of the Jewish Passover and celebrating it today. And when the Jews celebrate Passover, they are actually celebrating a part of the Lord’s supper.

This is the part of the Passover that the Lord took the bread and the cup and instituted what we call communion. Mat 26:26, and while they were eating [Passover], Jesus took bread, and having blessed it, He broke it and gave it to His disciples, and He said, “take, eat; this represents My body.” It’s interesting because when it says that He blessed, the Jewish people know exactly what the Lord said and the Christian Church does not. He said a prayer which was commanded to be said at this time which is “Blessed art Thou O Lord our God, King of the universe who brings forth bread from the earth.” So He picked the bread from the floor, representing the earth, and said, This is My body, this was a prophecy of the fact that bringing forth bread from the earth represented our Lord's resurrection as the bread of life. He was actually saying to His disciples, if they try to bury My body this week, than just like this piece of bread, it will just come up again from the earth. This is why He said, the night before His death, Jn 12:24, “truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” You cannot bury a kernel of wheat, the Lord said it will only come up again. And so our Lord said he was the bread of life, Jn 6:35, Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life;” He was born in Bethlehem, which means house of bread. He was buried on the second feast, which was the feast of unleavened bread , which represented his impeccability as the God-man. So they would take the matzo bread, which represents some interesting facets of our Lord’s body. The matzo bread has stripes, and as Isaiah said by His stripes we are healed in Isa 53:5. The bread is pierced through with wholes and as the O.T., which is also the Jewish Bible says, they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced. And of course, the matzo bread is pure, containing no leaven (representing no sin.) The third cup has every bit of significance as the bread.

Remember that the Lord said in Jn 6:53, "truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves." And He identified the wine as His blood. In Mat 26:27-28, and when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.” This is another one of those Jewish blessings. He said, “blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, Creator of the fruit of the vine.” However, this is very meaningful to each one of us as members of the church, the future bride of Christ. The Lord was actually thanking the Father for bringing Him His future bride.

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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word

Before we begin, only if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life) John 3:16, John 6:47 as a few examples; it is very important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so the Holy Spirit can teach you as to what your reading or hearing is true or false. To be taught by the Holy Spirit you must be filled with the Holy Spirit which means abiding in Christ. To place yourself in fellowship with God the Holy Spirit [also called abiding in the Christ], take a moment to simply name, cite or acknowledge [confess] your known unconfessed sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father). Why? Because you cannot grow spiritually if you’re not abiding in Christ [in fellowship with Him] when you take in bible truth.

1 John 1:9, says: “If we confess [meaning to simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known unconfessed sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND; read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. Left click the following link to learn more and fully understand the doctrine of Rebound; which answers the question, why do I need to keep confessing my sins all the time? REBOUND

If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus, The Christ alone for eternal life [salvation] and you will be saved [receive Eternal Life] the very micro second you believe in Him:

John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV

Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.

John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [Num 21:4-9], even so must the Son of Man be lifted up [the cross], that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV

Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:

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The Doctrine of the Sins of the Tongue. Point 3.

Point 1 dealt with definition and classification and we noted that first of all, sin is a violation of the law or standards of God and these divine standards are revealed in the Word of God.

(1) The area of weakness. (2) The area of strength. (3) The trends of the sin nature: (4) The lust pattern of the OSN [old sin nature].

1. First, emotional sins. For instance, sins related to fear, which includes worry and anxiety. Sins related to hatred, which includes anger, violence, and murder. Sins related to self-pity and guilt.

2. The second category of sins are mental attitude sins. These include arrogance, pride, jealousy, implacability, bitterness, vindictiveness, inordinate ambition and inordinate competition, all motivational sins, and sinful thoughts.

3. The third category is our subject verbal sins which include gossip, maligning, slander, judging, lying, and verbal deception.

4. And then the fourth category is overt sins They include chemical sins, sexual sins, criminal sins.

Now, all of this information leads us to Point 2. - The source of verbal sins.

All verbal sins originate from mental attitude sins, Which lead to motivational sins; Which lead to the sins of the tongue; Which ar

Point 3. Out of the seven worst sins from God's viewpoint, not man's but Gods' three are related to the tongue as verbal sins, Pr 6:16 19.

A right lobe that devises evil plans [anti-authority sins, conspiracy, and revolution], feet which run rapidly to evil [a trouble-maker], a false witness who utters lies [perjury], and a person who spreads strife among the brethren [gossip, slander, maligning, judging]."

Point 4. The double standard related to the sins of the tongue. Psa 12:2 "They speak emptiness one to another with flattering lips; and with a double standard they speak."

Point 5. There are Blessings From Avoiding The Sins of The Tongue.

The SOT [The Sins of The Tongue] often arises from hatred within.

The SOT's can result from idleness.

We are told that those who are classified as wicked are addicted to the sins of the tongue; Psa 50:20.

Hypocrites are addicted to the SOT; Pr 11:9.

The SOT was the main characteristic of the devil; Rev 12:10.

They who indulge in the SOT are said to be fools, Pr 10:18.

Women are especially warned against the SOT, Titus 2:3; Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips, nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

Our Lord Jesus Christ was exposed to the SOT constantly; Mat 26:60.

Rulers are exposed to the SOT, Jud 1:8.

Point 6. The believers attitude toward the Sins of the Tongue.

1. The believer should keep his tongue from it; 1Pe 3:10.

2. Strive to lay them it aside; Eph 4:31.

Believers should be warned against it; Tit 3:1-2.

Believers are told to return good for it; 1Co 4:13.

1Co 4:13 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.

Believers are blessed in enduring the SOT; Mat 5:11.

Mat 5:11 "Blessed are you when men cast insults at you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me.

They should not be listened to; 1Sa 24:9 "And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to the words of men, saying, behold, David seeks to harm you'?"

Believers should be angry against the slanderer; Pr 25:23.

The reason is that slander separates friends; Pr 16:28; 17:9.

The believers reaction to verbal sins also should be that he realizes that the SOT produces deadly wounds; Pr 18:8; 26:22.

It causes divisions among brethren; Pr 6:19 "A false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among brothers."

The SOT can even produce murder: Psa 31:13 "For I have heard the slander of many, terror is on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they schemed to take away my life."

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