Passover 2022

1 Cor 11:27 Who ever eats this bread, & drinks this cup of the Lord, unworthily, will be guilty of the body & blood of the Lord

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You connect this only with unbelievers, but even believers can eat and drink unworthily. We all need to go into Passover with a reverent mind.

Verse 28 "Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup."

Without self-examination we may be caught unworthy. No one is ever worthy to take the Passover, but we can certainly eat and drink unworthily.


Here is a list I copied from my Church about examining ourselves. (Hope you don't mind me posting)

1. Are your prayers being answered? [1 John 5:14; John 14:13]
2. Is God healing you? [Ex. 15:26; Psalm 103:3]
3. How much prayer and study are you putting in? [2 Timothy 2:15]
4. Are you growing in will-power; self-control [Proverbs 16:20; Romans 7:7-8:2]
5. Are you able, and to what degree, can you put out wrong thoughts [2 Corinthians 10:3-5]
6. Do you enjoy hearing gossip or dirty jokes? [Proverbs 16:28; 1 Colossians 3:8]
7. What is your attitude towards offerings: how often and how generous are you in offerings? [2 Corinthians 9:7]
8. Do others come first in your life? [Philippians 2:3-4]
9. Are you receiving blessings? [Psalm 68:19; Psalm 103:2]
10. Are you having trials and are you passing? [1 Peter 4:12; 1 Peter 1:7]
11. Have you grown to see yourself more as time passes? Can you zero-in on your faults? [Galatians 5:19-21] Do you see more of those things?
12. Are you still repentant from the time of baptism? [Acts 2:37]
13. Do you still abhor yourself from baptism; disdain; reject; [Job 42:5-6]
14. Are you growing to love God’s law more [Romans 8:7; Psalm 119:97, 165]
15. Are you less easily offended / fall to stumbling blocks? [Psalm 119:165]
16. Can brush off insults?
17. Are you casting offenses / casting stumbling blocks?
18. How much of the fruits of God’s spirit do you have? [Galatians 5:22-23; John 15:8]
19. Are you more loving?
20. Are you more peaceful?
21. Are you able to suffer-long?
22. Are you gentle with other people
23. Are you good
24. Are you kind to others
25. Are you growing in faith and trust God?
26. Are you meek? Are you humble?
27. Do you have more self-control?
28. Are you growing in love for people? [1st John 4:18; 1st John 3:18]
29. Are you still periodically counting the cost since baptism? [Luke 14:28]
30. Do you question God? [Isaiah 45:7-10]
31. Do you have absolute confidence in God during a trial.
32. How do you react to correction; can you handle correction? How do you react if someone tells you you’re carnal [Proverbs 9:8]
33. Are you teachable [Matthew 18:3; Proverbs 10:8]
34. Are you governable?
35. Are you giving instead of getting
36. Are you trying to learn / emulate God’s Character
37. Do you love, live and walk in truth
38. Has anyone told you they see spiritual growth in you?
39. Do you truly give God credit for growth and success?
40. Do you see the cause and effect principle in your life? [Galatians 6:7; Proverbs 26:2; Proverbs 14:14]
41. Are you conquering double-mindness [James 1:8]
42. Are you willing to second guess your motives?
43. Is your whole heart in supporting the Work of God?
44. Do you have respect for the ministers of God?
45. Are you carefully making your call and election sure [2 Peter 1:10]
46. Do you regularly review your sermon notes?
47. Is your family relationship solid?
48. How often do you fast [Matthew 9:14]
49. What comes first to you?
50. Do you periodically reprove that this is the true church?
51. Are you consciously walking in the spirit and not in the flesh? [Gal. 5:16]
52. How much do you want to be with God’s people?
53. Does your mind look for loose doctrinal bricks [Gal. 5:20]
54. Do you strive about words? Do you focus more on the words rather than on the message?
55. Are you on the look-out for mistakes; overly critical in a unwanted and unwarranted way?
56. Do you like to quarrel over words?
57. Do you look for reasons to come Church or not to?
58. Do you avoid or dread the Sabbath?
59. What is your view of the Sabbath: is it a joy or a burden?
60. How easy is it to forgive and forget? [Matthew 6:9]
61. How often do you examine yourself thoroughly? [James 1:22]
    
    

BrotherJJ said:

Go to the link below: Then scroll to the bottom (Blog Description) for my 2022 Passover message

Feasts Of The Lord - Blog

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A problem with that is that Jesus was killed at evening on the preparation day, not the actual passover start of the feast that would begin at sunset, which was the high day. This why they rushed to bury His body prior to sunset. So the start of the 3 days and 3 nights countdown began at sunset on the high day.

Wed. at evening = Jesus killed per the evening sacrifice requirement in Leviticus 23 and Exodus 12. His body buried prior to sunset that day.

Wed. sunset began Thursday (Hebrew reckoning for a day then was from sunset to sunset, not midnight to midnight per the Gregorian reckoning we use today). From Thurs. beginning at sunset to Thurs. dawn was 1st night.

Thurs. dawn to Thurs. sunset = 1st day.

Friday which began at Thurs. sunset was Friday night to Friday dawn = 2nd night.

Friday dawn to Friday sunset = 2nd day.

Friday at sunset began Saturday. Saturday night to Saturday dawn = 3rd night.

Saturday dawn to Saturday sunset = 3rd day.

Saturday sunset began Sunday. Some time after sunset, Jesus rose Sunday morning.

Davy said:

Saturday sunset began Sunday. Some time after sunset, Jesus rose Sunday morning.

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I would suspect that if Christ died at 3pm Wednesday, the time when the sacrifices started at the temple, then he would have rose Saturday around 3pm. If Christ was to be exactly 3 days and 3 nights, not a minute more, not a minute less, then somewhere around 3pm Saturday, he rose. It sounds like in your post you said Christ rose after sunset, but it would have been a smidge before. Not sure if meant that or not.

Also @BrotherJJ - I absolutely agree that we cannot attain salvation through works and that we should be mindful of why we take the bread and wine; what it represents and not to enter into the Passover with an irreverent attitude.

Let me quote a post I made in another thread, as it's relevant to this discussion.

Isaac Aldermann said:

• Philippians 2:12 "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling"
• Isaiah 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
• Matthew 15:9 "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

We all need to seek out our own salvation with fear and with trembling. Philippians shows that it is impossible to acquire salvation without the Fear of God. Although salvation is a free gift, being flippant against God can cause one to lose that free gift of salvation.

However, we must be careful that our Fear of God is not taught by the precept of man, but that God teaches us the Fear of Him. Isaiah and Matthew show that it's possible to worship God in vain by only providing lip-service, yet having hearts far removed from God.

• Psalms 103:17-18 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children's children, to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them.

• Proverbs 16:6 In mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity; and by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil.
• Matthew 22:36-37 "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Fearing the Lord means:

• Keeping His Covenant
• Remembering His Commandments
• Doing the Commandments
• Departing from Evil
• Loving God with all our Heart, Soul and Mind

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So although no one can be saved by merit and our works will never bring us towards salvation (which is why we needed Christ to be our Passover Lamb and our atonement for sin) we should be striving to emulate Christ. Will marking of 61 boxes save you?, nope! Not all! You're completely right there. But being able to view a list and see where we need to grow so we can be like Christ--as that is a Christian's duty--is beneficial.

We are to grow in grace and knowledge, and we are to overcome. We need to examine ourselves daily to see our faults. And every year when we take of the bread and wine we need to remember that it was our sins which caused His suffering and His death. We should be striving to refrain from sin, so that we are not, in a sense, crucifying Christ over and over.

Ezekiel 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

God/Christ speaks of being broken because Israel departed from the Lord, worshiped idols, and committed all forms of evil. Even though that was for Israel it still holds true for us today that Christ can feel broken when we depart from Him. And it should be our goal not to grieve Him, and the way we do that is departing from evil and keeping the commandments.

So I think a checklist is a good and beneficial thing to help us keep track of ourselves; be able to see ourselves in a honest light and know where we need to improve in Christian lives. Passover time is a time of reflection both for what Christ has done for us and how we can improve so that we are not continuously grieving Him with our sins.

The Days of Unleavened Bread exemplifies that by removing leaven (sin) from our lives. And no matter how hard you try to remove all the leaven from the house, you will surely find leaven somewhere. You will have missed it somewhere. The Days of Unleavened Bread is a physical ritual for a spiritual lesson. No matter how hard we try to remove sin from our lives, somewhere a crumb is going to pop up, but what is our mindset? That as soon as we find the leaven we remove it, or say, ah, well, there's only a few hours left 'til sunset it doesn't matter?

Isaac Aldermann said:

It sounds like in your post you said Christ rose after sunset, but it would have been a smidge before. Not sure if meant that or not.

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No, I meant what I said. Jesus rose at sometime after sunset Saturday, which began Sunday. I did not say exactly the hour when Jesus rose, we do not know that, you do not know that either, but can only speculate. What we do know per Scripture is that He rose 'sometime after sunset' which was on a Sunday, and when Mary had bought spices after the Saturday sabbath, they then went to Jesus' tomb and found the stone already rolled away.