We cannot truly love others unless we first know for ourselves that Jesus loves us.
Sermon Title: MAUNDY THURSDAY
Sermon Text: MATTHEW 26:26-28; 36-39 NIV
Sermon Series: LENT: JOURNEY TO THE EMPTY TOMB
By: PTR NESTOR SY
Sermon Notes:
MATTHEW 26:26-28 NIV
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
27 Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
MATTHEW 26:36-39 NIV
36 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”
37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
JOHN 13:34 NIV
34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
maundy | Latin: mandatum
“mandate”
I. IN THE UPPER ROOM
A. Remember Me
LUKE 22:19-20 NIV
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
1 CORINTHIANS 10:16 NIV
16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
participation | Greek: koinónia
“fellowship”
literally, “partnership ”
B. Serve One Another
JOHN 13:13-15 NIV
13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.”
“It is impossible to serve God without serving one another.”
Alistair Begg
C. Love One Another
JOHN 13:34 NIV
34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
II. IN THE GARDEN
JOHN 18:1 NIV
1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was an olive grove, and he and his disciples went into it.
MARK 14:34 NIV
34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” …
LUKE 22:44 NIV
44 And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.
MATTHEW 26:39 NIV
39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
JEREMIAH 25:15-20 NIV
15 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16 When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them.”
17 So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it:
18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin and an object of horror and scorn and cursing, as they are today;
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials and all his people, 20 and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod);
JEREMIAH 25:27-29 NIV
27 Then tell them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.’ 28 But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: You must drink it! 29 See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all who live on the earth, declares the LORD Almighty.’
PSALMS 75:6-8 NIV
6 No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt a man. 7 But it is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another. 8 In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.
REVELATIONS 14:9-11 NIV
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name.”
MARK 14:33 NIV
33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.
We cannot truly love others unless we first know for ourselves that Jesus loves us.
deeply distressed | Greek: ekthambeó
“sudden, shocking awareness.”
troubled | Greek: adémoneó
“to the point of sheer terror”
“I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.”
John Piper