Session 3
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The
Lord Jesus, blessed is his name, said that He did not come to eradicate
the law but to fulfill the law. That was including the celebration of
the feast of the Passover. He knew quite well that He was the real Passover,
and that through His own sacrifice and His death on behalf of mankind
He fulfilled the Passover meaning. But as a human, He had to celebrate
the Passover, and He had to eat from the lamb. The Lord Jesus is God coming
in the flesh and here we see the difference between the divine nature
of God (or the essence of God) who revealed Himself in Christ and His
human nature, His body which is like any other human body except that
it was without sin. He is the only one who did not sin and had no guile
in his speech. We already covered this issue in detail in the tape "Greater
Than Man" It is a free tape that we send to anyone who requests it. |
| Can
you please clarify the story of the Passover lamb, and how we can relate
it to the fact that Lord Jesus Christ is God coming in the flesh? |
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story of the preparation for the feast of the Passover, that we have already
discussed, says that the Lord Jesus sent out two of His disciples and said
to them, "Go to a city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher
of water; follow him. Wherever he goes in, say to the master of house, 'The
Teacher says, "Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover
with My disciples?"' "Then he will show you a large upper room,
furnished and prepared; there make ready for us." So His disciples
went out, and came into the city, and found it just as He said to them;
and they prepared the Passover. (Mark 14:13-16) Here we see that the Lord
Jesus knew the future because He was already far from the city. How did
Jesus, all Glory belongs to Him, knew that? How was He able to tell the
exact timing in order for the disciples to go to the city and meet the man
carrying the pitcher of water? This man was not just any man because the
Lord told them that by following him, they will meet the host or the one
who has the place to celebrate the Passover. God is one and has no partner
or similar; the essence of God in Jesus, Blessed is His name, knew the future.
But the fact that Jesus ate the Passover lamb, it shows that He needed as
any other human being to eat and drink except that His body was without
sin. God is the one who there is no god but He, the Living, The Self-support
no slumber can seize Him nor sleep. As for the body of Jesus it needed all
these things. |
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Chapter 14 and verse 17 from the Gospel of Mark, the story of the cross
begins. But, of course, as you already knows, that some people do not believe
that Christ was crucified at all. What would you say to such people who
do not believe in the cross of Jesus? |
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In
the beginning, I would like to tell every one, who does not believe in
the cross of Jesus for one reason or another, that if your own beliefs
or your religion or your book said that the Lord Jesus was not crucified,
I would like to encourage you to continue listening to this part from
our studies according to the book of Mark about the cross of Jesus because
it is very important for your life and eternity. I ask you to open your
heart and mind to the Almighty until you are able to realize what is said
for any fanatic attitude will hinder your understanding to this crucial
part of the gospel. I would like to tell you here that, if God did write
in His own book that the Lord Jesus came to earth and lived and died and
crucified, and tens of thousands believed Him and paid their life defending
this truth, then after 600 years someone came or another book came and
denied those facts saying that this messenger did not die crucified. How
would you reply? I think the best way would be to look for some evidence
that lead to believe or reject the theory, and this is what we encourage
you to do during this study. |
| After
the disciples found the man who was carrying a pitcher went home and prepared
for the feast of the Passover, the Bible says that the Lord Jesus told them,"
Assuredly, I say to you, one of you who eats with Me will betrayed Me."(Mark
14:18) How did the Lord Jesus know that this was going to happen? |
| In this particular chapter from the book of Mark is full of evidences that the Lord Jesus, blessed is his name, knew what was going to come. He knew the future. In the beginning of the chapter, we see Him telling the multitudes that He was going to die, and that He was not going to be embalmed as common in the Jewish tradition. Then He told them that the gospel, or the good news, is going to be preached in all the nations, which in those days was not possible as we see it today. Today, we have TV, the Internet and the satellite. The fact that He told them ahead about the man carrying the pitcher of water, and that He was going to betrayed by one of his disciples and handed Him over to the Jews, indeed knowing the future; as no one knew except Judas and the Chief Priests and God himself. But the disciples knew nothing about this subject. |
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do we know that none of the disciples knew already? |
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the story says that they started to grieve, and each one said "Is it
I?" They kept wondering until the Lord Jesus said, "It is one
of the twelve, who dips with Me in the dish." Then He added a very
serious statement, "The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written
of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would
have been good for that man if he had never been born."(Mark 14:21) |
| Why was it that serious, and why He said," The Son of man indeed goes just as it is written of Him." |
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It
is serious because it clarifies that the Son of Man i.e. the Lord Jesus,
all Glory belongs to Him, was predestined to the Cross. He uses the term
"Son of Man "because the essence of God that is in Christ cannot
be delivered to the hands of men for the One who is sitting on his throne
is untouchable. Here I would like to repeat that all this has been covered
in great detail in the tape "Greater Than Man." As for what
the Lord Jesus said, we can see that what led to the death of Christ was
not the chief priests or their hatred for Him or the betrayal of Judas
But it was already predestined from the beginning of the ages, and the
Lord Jesus accepted it in order to redeem humanity and to save them from
their sins. |
| Dr.
Nagy, can you please clarify why, since it was already predestined, as you
say, was Judas guilty? |
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It
was necessary that Jesus would be handed over to the Jews, but Judas chose
willingly to betray the Lord Jesus and to hand him over to the Jews. The
fact that the Bible wrote about Jesus being betrayed, it was a prophecy
that Judas fulfilled by his own free will. And Jesus, all Glory belongs
to him, is ready to receive and restore every sinner who repents from
all his heart going back to Him even if this person was the same one who
betrayed Him. |