the fourth cup bible study

We have betrayed our Master in how we’ve lived and in how we have failed to do what He has called us to do. 8:1-2). He seems to have been in full possession of himself as he realized that “all was now finished.” Whatever it is that “was now finished” seems to be directly connected to his utterance, which he spoke “to fulfill the Scripture.” More things fall into place upon reading what followed his expression of thirst: “A bowl of sour wine stood there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop and held it to his mouth” (19:29). That’s why this is so significant. He is the substitute under whose blood we are saved. The Fourth Cup not only tracks the author’s gradual conversion along the path of Evangelicalism to the doorsteps of the Catholic faith, but also explores the often obscure and misunderstood rituals of Passover and their importance in foreshadowing salvation in Jesus Christ. . It could have all seemed like an illusion, something that she had invented in her old age to console her in her declining years, except for that photo. At this point a significant problem arises. For one thing, Paul teaches that our redemption is not complete without Jesus being “raised for our justification” (Rom. He fulfills everything that Lamb pointed to. It will continue until he restores communion with each of his children through the Eucharist. Perhaps he was too upset to be bothered with liturgical precision in following the rubrics. No attempt has been made, however, to alter the basic extemporaneous delivery style, or to produce a grammatically accurate, publication-ready manuscript conforming to an established style template. 13:15). Three times altogether Jesus prayed for his Father to take away “this cup.” An obvious question arises: What cup was Jesus talking about? 7:27; 9:12, 26; 10:10). What it means when we say, “a means of grace,” it’s where God meets us. For full copyright, reproduction and permission information, please visit the First Presbyterian Church Copyright, Reproduction & Permission statement. When you come in a minute to drink the fruit of the vine, what you should hear ringing in your ears is, “I am safe in this household because the blood of the Lamb is over the doorposts.”. The occasion was the Jewish feast of Passover (Mark 14:12-16). And then the Passover concluded with the drinking of the fourth cup. And as Ed so beautifully expounded for us in those two sermons on union with Christ, when we come to this table in a minute, you are saying, “I am His. The clue, he contends, rest in the mysterious fourth cup that culminates the Jewish Passover meal. .” (Mark 14:26). Amen. Paul reinforces the reality of this communion elsewhere: “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation [koinonia] in the blood of Christ? I encourage multiple design projects—for example, an informational brochure alongside a promotional e … This is not just going to be a mere memorial service.” One of the shortfalls – I was talking with a friend about this recently – one of the shortfalls kind of in the reformed tradition is the way that we are kind of raised to do the Lord’s Supper is, you sit and when we’re going to sit down and the elders are serving the elements you either try really hard to feel bad about sin or you try really hard to like, picture Jesus suffering or something. The structure of the Passover seder, known as the Haggadah, appears to have been formalized long before the time of Jesus. And there was a liturgy to the Passover, a liturgy of four cups, each cup representing a part of the promise of Exodus 6, verses 6 and 7. All of them scattered in the very next chapter when they arrest Him. How do we balance those two? And betrayal plays a key part in this narrative. 51:17; Jer. Let’s pray before we hear God’s Word. At last I had an answer to my question. Bless us now as we come to Your Table. Can I get more than one type of design created? If Jesus’ offering has ceased, there would be no basis for his ongoing priesthood, but Jesus’ priesthood is said to be permanent and to “continue forever” (Heb.7:24). We’re coming here tonight saying there is a day coming when, because the Lamb of God spilled His blood for us, drank the cup of God’s fury, that we will be forever feasting with Him in a faint picture given to us tonight at the marriage supper of the Lamb, because we get to drink the cup of blessing because He drank the cup of wrath. I’m going home in a few weeks back to South Carolina, and to this day, when I walk through the front door of the house where I grew up, a wall of memories hits me when I smell that house because it smells exactly the same way it did when I was Garner’s age. Indeed, it will continue that way for God’s family forever into eternity. “He came to his own and his own received him not.” But He came to those who should have been His hosts and served them like His guests. 26:39). “I have never known Him!” And there’s Judas. Pilate’s cynical response is to dress him in a purple robe with a crown of thorns and to present him to his own unbelieving people: “Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. 22:1ff; Luke 22:15ff).]. I hope you love it. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. And every day that their wives or where they were, somebody baking bread, every time they smelled bread they would go back to this night. 9:25-26). We use that phrase, “means of grace,” here a lot. Lord, we are about to hear the Word preached and then see the Word pictured in the sacrament You gave us of the Lord’s Supper. 11:29). Surely there is a connection here, but the connection seems less direct than does the primary link suggested by the Passover setting. We’re Judas. He pays a slave’s price for the King of the universe. The Passover meal was divided into four parts. About The Eucharist in Scripture In The Eucharist in Scripture, discover God’s plan as it is expressed through the Bible and the Mass. On the other hand, “every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer” (Heb. Recent study of biblical covenants by scholars such as D. J. McCarthy shows how such a covenant formed a sacred flesh-and- blood bond between Yahweh and Israel, making them one family. Someone could argue that it is anachronistic to retroject the seder liturgy from the Mishnah back to the first century. Bring them in. That’s why it’s a celebration. Let me walk you through it very quickly. He stated his intention not to drink wine again until he came into the glory of his Kingdom. And on the cross, Jesus drank the fourth cup. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him” (6:53-56). This is a cup of blessing for us tonight. And because of that, we’ll study this section here in Mark’s gospel when Jesus instituted what we’re going to observe later after we hear the preaching of God’s Word. First, the preliminary course consisted of a festival blessing (kiddush) spoken over the first cup of wine, followed by the serving of a dish of herbs. Because of our union with Christ, all that’s true of Him is true of us. 12:5, 46) was slain and eaten as a substitutionary sacrifice. THE FOURTH CUP UNVEILING THE MYSTERY OF THE LAST SUPPER AND THE CROSS. Jesus was thirsty long before this closing moment of his life. In fact, the Gospel accounts seem to assume its structure in narrating details of the Last Supper. The bread which we break, is it not a participation [koinonia] in the body of Christ?” (1 Cor. I couldn’t hear the rest of his sermon. That’s what we say when we have that cup. For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! We’re united to Him, and thus the Lord’s Supper looks back to what Jesus did. And as best as we can tell from historical documents and Jewish, rabbinical documents, documents that the rabbis wrote in the 1st century when Jesus would have celebrated this, the stewed fruit had the appearance of the kind of mortar that would have been used to make the bricks out of clay to remind them of their bondage in slavery and what God brought them out of. . And it’s important when we begin this whole description of the Passover to understand that Mark is very intentional in telling us when these things took place. The old person has died, no matter how much we have to live with that old person every day as we feel the pull of sin on our souls. David and I will serve this supper. Moreover, the Mishnah is not known for an innovative approach to liturgical reforms. Only John noticed that hyssop was used, the branch prescribed in the Passover law for sprinkling the blood of the lamb (Ex.12:22). After all, our everlasting blessedness is depicted in John’s vision of the New Jerusalem as “the marriage supper of the Lamb” (Rev. . In other words, he who is our celebrant priest and reigning king in the liturgical worship of the heavenly assembly also appears continually as the Passover Lamb of the New Covenant. All the altars that smoke with sacrifices and blood spilled upon them are no longer necessary because the true Lamb is here to die and shed His blood, which is the only blood that takes away sins.” That’s what He’s saying to them. During that fateful night, every firstborn son in Egypt perished except those in Israelite families where a lamb without blemish or broken bones (Ex. It’s the only table set by a King for those who would betray Him unto death because Jesus is the only King who dies for His servants who betray Him and then sets a table for them. And then the bitter herbs to remind them of the bitterness of slavery. And what I want to see this evening, briefly, are two quick points. For one thing, I sought confirmation and clarification elsewhere in Scripture for my conclusion regarding the inseparable connection between Jesus’ Passover sacrifice in the Eucharist and on Calvary. My mind began racing ahead in search of a solution. What is it saying to me?” And this is one of those texts where it’s very easy to answer the, “Where am I in this text?” question. God is sovereign. We’re going to drink a different fourth cup tonight. (4) The Fourth Cup (the hallel cup): This cup includes the recital - singing - of the Hallel Psalms (Psa. I got the urge to write about the Scripture study which led me into a Catholic understanding of the Holy Eucharist (and eventually into the Catholic Church) about five years ago. The occasion for the discourse is explicitly stated: “Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand” (6:4). In the middle of the message, he raised a simple question: “In John 19:30, what did Jesus mean when he cried, ‘It is finished’? I saw a similar outlook in the Epistle to the Hebrews. I learned Scripture teaches that the Passover sacrifice of the New Covenant began in the upper room with the institution of the Eucharist, not merely with Jesus being crucified on Calvary, as I was taught and had been teaching. And the difference between the two kinds of betrayers, which we all are tonight, is those who like Peter will run to this table. Think about how shocking that would have been to a group of Jewish men in the 1st century whose entire lives, who parents’ entire lives, whose grandparents’ entire lives, whose great-grandparents’ entire lives were centered around the temple and sacrifices and this high feast day and going up to Jerusalem singing the Psalms of Ascent that we find – Psalm 120, 121 – singing all those psalms. But she kept this photograph so that when McGrath and his siblings found it, it was all crumpled up, barely recognizable. Mark 14 beginning at verse 12. That’s not what He’s saying to us. Little did I know. We deserve that fury. It’s a cup of protest to the selfishness that engulfs our lives and it says we are identified with another – our sin-bearing, wrath-bearing, grace-bringing substitute, the true Passover Lamb, Jesus. . The Passover lamb, you can read about it in Exodus 12, roasted whole, and with bitter herbs and stewed fruit. Then Moses led Israel out of Egypt to Mount Sinai, where the Law was given and the covenant was sealed between God and his people through sacrifice and communion. . We are not your hosts. Nobody said, “You know what?” and John leaned over to Peter and goes, “I’ll bet it’s Judas.” That never happened. That’s what we deserve. That’s the cup the Savior prayed over and sweat great drops of blood, as it were. Gabe Fluhrer on Rooted in Scripture and ingrained with lively history, The Fourth Cup delivers a fascinating view of the bridges that span old and new covenants, and celebrates the importance of the Jewish faith in understanding more fully Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. The preacher happened to be a fine Scripture scholar as well as one of my favorite seminary professors, so I was taken aback when he proceeded to show quite convincingly that Jesus could not have meant that. He draws a symbolic parallel to the Last Supper and Christ's death on Calvary. Death was only one.aspect of the sacrifice. “I will bring you out. John realized that the sixth hour was when the priests were prescribed to begin slaughtering lambs for the Passover. “Communion bread and wine,” writes McGrath, “like that photograph, reassure us that something that seems too good to be true, the Gospel, something that we might even have to be suspected of having invented, really did happen.” Let’s go together and gaze upon God’s photograph for us. This will happen. and the “bread of life” (6:35), drawing a parallel with Moses, through whom God supernaturally fed manna to the Israelites while forming a covenant with them right after the first Passover (Ex. It’s meant to arrest all five of our senses. It became evident that Jesus deliberately used the strongest language to convey the connection between his sacrifice as the Passover Lamb and the Eucharist, even in the face of unbelief and scandal (6:60-69). Jesus then identified himself as the “true bread from heaven” (6:32ff.) They all looked like they were going to stay loyal. It says, “This is what the Lord did for me.” For me. Part memoir, part detective story, and part biblical study, Scott Hahn's The Fourth Cup opens up new vistas on ancient landscapes while shedding light on his own enduring faith journey. We’re the betrayers of Jesus. That photo reminded her that she really loved someone and was loved in return.”. Though I’m gone, I’m with you.”, And when He says, “This is my blood,” He is saying there will never be a need for sacrifices ever again. Listen to a sample from The Fourth Cup Ministers grace to us in the present. Or does it not assert that Jesus’ sacrifice, precisely because of its “once for all” character, has become the one perfect and perpetual offering he continually presents in heaven on our behalf? That is because the Lamb is sitting with them. This came as a surprise, since I had always taught, as I had been trained, that Hebrews, more than any other New Testament book, contradicted the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist as a sacrifice. 16:8; Hos. And each had a symbolic meaning in the feast. On the other hand, some of my parishioners and students were ex-Catholics, and a few of them began warning me about certain “Romish” tendencies they detected in me. I swear to My own hurt, as the Son of God,” is what He’s saying to them, “that this is going to come to pass.”. In particular, the cup blessed and distributed by Jesus is identified as the third cup in the Passover Haggadah. Rooted in Scripture and ingrained with lively history, The Fourth Cup delivers a fascinating view of the bridges that span old and new covenants, and celebrates the importance of the Jewish faith in understanding more fully Christ’s life, death, and resurrection. It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.’, And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, ‘Take; this is my body.’ And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And then the Passover concluded with the drinking of the fourth cup. "Jesus said, "It is finished". That is important because Jesus is telling us that this now, “The people I am gathering around Me, this is the true family of God. And the difference is, with God, it makes perfect sense. The heads of these households are gone from their families. The ultimate goal is restoring communion, which is accomplished by the Eucharist. 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