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Watching for Yeshua Ha-Mashiach
Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) suffered for us in the month of Nissan.
So, too, may we reckon all time beginning at the point of our redemption from sin and death.
Nissan is truly a new beginning for Jew and Gentile.
Those who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus saw His hours of agony and heard Him cry out in a loud voice,
“It is finished!” as He gave up His spirit (John 19:30). His final words from the cross were not a cry of painful
defeat but a shout of triumph, because He had accomplished all that the Father sent Him to do. When Jesus died,
He shared in what all of us must experience. But far beyond that, He did what none of us can do. He paid the
price for our sins that we might be forgiven and have eternal life through faith in Him.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy 2:5-6 KJV
Maundy Thursday till It is Finished !!!
Matt 5:6
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.
Maundy Thursday is observed during Holy Week on the Thursday before Easter. Also referred to as "Holy Thursday" or "Great Thursday" in some Christian denominations, Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus shared the Passover meal with his disciples on the night before he was crucified. In contrast to joyful Easter celebrations when Christians worship their resurrected Savior, Maundy Thursday services are typically more solemn occasions, marked by the shadow of Jesus' betrayal.
While different denominations observe Maundy Thursday in their own distinct ways, two important biblical events are the primary focus of Maundy Thursday solemnizations:
Before the Passover meal, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. By performing this lowly act of service, the Bible says in John 13:1 that Jesus "showed them the full extent of his love." By his example, Jesus demonstrated how Christians are to love one another through humble service. For this reason, many churches practice foot-washing ceremonies as a part of their Maundy Thursday services.
During the Passover meal, Jesus took bread and wine and asked his Father to bless it. He broke the bread into pieces, giving it to his disciples and said, "This is my body, given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." Then he took the cup of wine, shared it with his disciples and said, "This wine is the token of God's new covenant to save you--an agreement sealed with the blood I will pour out for you." These events recorded in Luke 22:19-20 describe the Last Supper and form the biblical basis for the practice of Communion. For this reason, many churches hold special Communion services as a part of their Maundy Thursday celebrations. Likewise, many congregations observe a traditional Passover Seder meal.
What Does "Maundy" Mean?
Derived from the Latin word mandatum, meaning "commandment,"
Maundy refers to the commands Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper:
to love with humility by serving one another and to remember his sacrifice.
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“This is my commandment: that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this – that he lay down his life for his friends.”
– The Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 15:12,13
Maundy Thursday, the fifth day of Holy Week, is known by a variety of names throughout Christianity - including "Holy Thursday," "Covenant Thursday," "Great and Holy Thursday," "Green Thursday," and the "Thursday of Mysteries," which is perhaps my favourite name for the day. The name by which it is most famously known in the English-speaking world, however, is "Maundy Thursday," which comes from the Latin word "mandatum," which is the first phrase of the above passage from the Bible, when Christ spoke to the Apostles at the Last Supper, saying: “This is my commandment: that ye love one another, as I have loved you." (Or, in Latin, "Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos".)
Known as "Maundy Thursday" throughout the Anglo-Norman world, the Thursday of Holy Week is a busy day scripturally - for it marks the Last Supper (and thus the institution of Christianity's most important Sacrament - Holy Communion), Jesus's sorrow in the Garden of Gethsemane, the "Judas Kiss," Christ's arrest, His brutalisation by the Sanhedrin's soldiers and His first interrogation.
Historically, Maundy Thursday has given rise to a number of interesting traditions and practices. Bulgarians traditionally paint their Easter Eggs on Maundy Thursday, whilst Swedish children dress-up and go "trick or treating" in search of money or sweet for Easter Sunday. In the Philippines, where Holy Week is celebrated with special intensity, all newspapers cease publication between Maundy Thursday and Black Saturday, whilst most businesses also close down, going into a form of mourning, and in Slovakia, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic, Catholic churches cease to ring their bells until dawn on Easter Sunday. Many Christians also go on a form of pilgrimage on Maundy Thursday, moving between seven churches across the course of the day - a practice which has its origins in Rome, where, on Maundy Thursday pilgrims progress between Saint Peter's itself, the Papal Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, Santa Maria Maggiore, the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, the Basilica of the Holy Cross-in-Jerusalem and San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas. In 2000, Pope John Paul II changed the final church from San Sebastiano to the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Divine Love, but most pilgrims still prefer to visit San Sebastiano, as their ancestors have done for centuries.
Perhaps one of the most interesting Maundy Thursday customs originates here in the United Kingdom, when the monarch bestows alms or "Maundy Money" on a group of pensioners - one for each year of the Sovereign's life. A special church service is held in a cathedral in either England or Wales, where the Queen hands out specially-minted coins to a group of pensioners, who have been invited to the service by local authorities. (In 2008, the Maundy Thursday service was held in Northern Ireland for the first time, at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh.) The custom itself dates back to the time of King Edward I, who ruled England from 1272 until his death in 1307. He was also the conqueror of Wales, hence the custom of using Welsh cathedrals for the Maundy services as well. From then, until the deposition of King James II in 1688, the main part of the tradition was for the monarch to humble his- or herself by washing the feet of the twelve local paupers who had been gathered for the service, along with bestowing generous amounts of charity upon them. The washing of the feet was done to imitate Christ's act of loving humility, when He washed the feet of His own apostles at the Last Supper. Bearing in mind how filthy the feet of a pauper in the Middle Ages would have been, the royal Maundy traditions indicate just how passionate a hold Christianity had over the hearts and minds of people in that era. One of the most diligent practitioners of the Maundy Thursday washing of feet was apparently Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558 - 1603) and it was from her reign that we owe an image of the custom being carried out, painted by the great female artist, Levina Teerlinc. Elizabeth who, as ever, wore black to church during Lent, had a white apron tied around her waist by a lady-in-waiting and would kneel at the paupers' feet, washing them with water from a silver ewer and bowl, whilst dispensing a large amount of alms to them - the precise amount of which had been set during her mother's time as queen. Elizabeth, who was a devout Anglican, would "take her almost mystical role in this ritual very seriously".
In its original form, the practise was last carried out in England on Maundy Thursday 1688, by King James II, a pious but unpopular Roman Catholic and his lovely Italian queen, Maria-Beatrice of Modena. When James was deposed by his Protestant nephew, William of Orange, the washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday was discontinued by the new King, who apparently regarded it as sentimental nonsense of little practical value to any 'real' Christian. Aside from anything else, "people skills" were not one of William's strong points and he was uncomfortable around strangers and it was William's wife and co-ruler, Queen Mary II, who instituted the current tradition of the money being handed out to the elderly, rather than the poor, which continues to this day.
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Being an Accessory to Another's Sin
The other morning while having breakfast with a good priest friend the topic came up of the sense of sin among Catholics, or more appropriately the lack thereof. Failing to do an appropriate examination of conscience we judge ourselves as "good" by the simple fact of being nice. We have all heard people excuse different forms of behavior (or done so ourselves) by something to the effect of "well at least I didn't shoot anyone," or "it's not like I robbed a bank" as though those were the only ways we could sin against those respective commandments. But in addition to the ways we can commit a sin personally, there are nine ways we can be also be an accessory to another's sin.
1. By Counsel
2. By Command
3. By Consent
4. By Provocation
5. By Praise or Flattery
6. By Concealment
7. By Partaking
8. By Silence
9. By Defense of the Ill Done
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WE ALL “HAVE SINNED” AND COME SHORT
Rom 3:9-26
All Have Sinned (Ps 14:1-3; 53:1-4)
9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.
10 As it is written:
"There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one." 13 "Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit"; "The poison of asps is under their lips"; 14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace they have not known." 18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
God's Righteousness Through Faith
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
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PRACTICING RIGHTEOUSNESS
1 John 3:7-8
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil
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2 Cor 10:4-5
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
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Col 3:5-6
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience
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Gal 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like;
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ROMANS 12
ROMANS 13
FORGIVENESS
2 Cor 7:1
Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
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Eph 5:27
that He (JESUS) might present her (THE BRIDE) to Himself a glorious church (PHILADELPHIA),
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish
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Harrowing of Hell or Christ's descent into Limbo
On Holy Saturday we meditate on one of the most obscure lines in the Apostles' Creed: "
he descended into hell." What does this part of the Creed refer to? Is it biblical?
Moreover, what does it mean to say Christ "descended into hell"? Did he experience the torments of wicked?
Christ and the "Spirits in Prison"
In 1 Peter we read that Christ continued to save souls--even after his death.
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
20 who formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark,
in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. (1 Peter 3:18–21)
According to this passage, after he died, Christ went to those who died in the flood judgment.
Where were these figures? The "hell of the damned"? Well, not quite.
Let's look at this passage in light of ancient Judaism.
Life After Death in Ancient Judaism [...]
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Lamb Food
Jesus said to him, “Feed My lambs.” [Saint John 21:15]
Joining the one holy catholic and apostolic Church of every age, we confess that our Lord Jesus Christ,
in His state of exaltation, descended into hell to proclaim victory over the devil.
Saint Peter writes:
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which He went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison.”
[1 Peter 3:18-19]
The Apostles’ Creed confesses this truth as follows:
I believe ... in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who ... was crucified, died and was buried.
He descended into hell.
Our Lutheran forefathers add:
“In this Confession Christ’s burial and descent to hell are distinguished as different articles. We simply believe that the entire person (God and man) descended into hell after the burial, conquered the devil, destroyed hell’s power, and took from the devil all his might. We should not, however, trouble ourselves with high and difficult thoughts about how this happened. ... We are simply to believe it and cling to the Word.” [Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration, IX]
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Glorifying God
Into this world are born many of great strength and resolve, who become our inspirations in the work
of daily life in Glorifying God by the work we do and in our faith in His works. In this post, I would like
to remember one such patriot, Ramona Lisa Estrada Docteur, a patriot, a child of God, who left this
earth too soon for us, but perfectly in His time. [...]
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Amish Grace (1:28:58)
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