A Prelude to the Passover: Anointing, Betrayal, Supper

Now this fact emphasizes the fact that God, through his holy spirit, who inspired the writing of scripture, wants the world to know the historical facts concerning Jesus' death and resurrection and the importance of it. Right? That is the core and the basis for the gospel. Without Jesus' death and resurrection, there would be no salvation. [00:36:47] (25 seconds)  #HistoricalGospelTruth

That's prescribed by God in the Old Testament for Israel to remember and to celebrate how God delivered them out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt by the last plague when the death with the death of the firstborns of every living being in the land. The angel of death, however, passed over the homes of the Israelites in Egypt who had, in accordance with God's directing, taken the blood of the lambs that they had sacrificed and smeared it over their doorpost. Their firstborns were spared. And as a result of this plague, then the Egyptian pharaoh finally told Israel that they could leave. [00:42:00] (37 seconds)  #PassoverRemembrance

Well, back to our text. Verse two, Jesus said that it was on that on Passover, the son of man will be delivered up and crucified. Of course, this is providential. This wasn't accidental. This was God's ordained plan from the foundation of the world. The one who was introduced, think about it, to Israel by the his forerunner, John the Baptist, as the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, would be slain on Passover, like the Passover lambs, which were but a foreshadow of him. [00:43:52] (32 seconds)  #PassoverFulfilled

Notice the word gospel, though, in verse 13. Notice that Jesus says, wherever this gospel is proclaimed. You know, that's the word good news. Right? The gospel. The good news begins with Jesus' death on our behalf. And so as Jesus said, what she did, whether knowingly thinking about it this way or not, was to help prepare Jesus for his upcoming death and burial. Perhaps she was one who actually was listening to Jesus when Jesus said repeatedly, I'm going to be crucified. I'm gonna die. Sometimes the women are a little quicker to listen than the men. Right? No comments needed there. [00:52:29] (40 seconds)  #GospelBeginsWithHisDeath

Judas Iscariot knew, as most everyone did. Right? Word was out. The chief priest wanted to arrest Jesus. Being the disloyal thief that he was, who wasn't truly believing in Jesus, he decided to cash in on his inner circle status. And so the chief priest gave him 30 pieces of silver. This is the equivalent to about four months wages for the common labor. In our day, about $15,000. It was something, but it wasn't like setting Judas up for life or anything like that. Sadly, of course, this and his dis his unbelief cost him his life forever. [00:53:35] (41 seconds)  #BetrayalForThirtyPieces

``Well, Jesus will be the final and once and for all sacrificial lamb, the fulfillment of the prophecies and the ceremonies, of course, surrounding the Passover. Eternal death will pass over all who believe in Jesus because of his death in our place. Just as the Passover lambs then were killed as a substitute on behalf of the people of Israel, his death has propitiated, that's a bible word that means satisfied God's wrath for sin. [01:04:49] (33 seconds)  #OnceForAllLamb

And so he established his redemption plan in that way, and it was written. God said, the son of man goes. God said, this is how it's going to go. He's going to go, and he went. He went to the cross. He was betrayed. He died, but for a purpose, to establish a new covenant, purchased with his own righteous blood, his holy blood, which was poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. And that's what this is leading to. [01:12:09] (30 seconds)  #NewCovenantPurchased

And so, of course, most of you here have, but if there are any that have not repented then and believed, if you've turned from waywardness, turned at this living if you're the ultimate authority of your life or believing some other false religion or works based religion, but rather believing that, no, you can't measure up and that you need Christ's righteousness accounted to you. You need that propitiation of your sins that Jesus provides. You need your sins atoned for. You need your guilt covered, and that's what Jesus came to do. [01:12:39] (36 seconds)  #ReceiveChristsRighteousness