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  • Luke 22:7-23

    How many of us have ever had someone we trusted sharing our lives, only to have them betray us? How did that feel? Were you hurt for trusting people? Have you ever reconciled with that person? Would you ever trust someone like you once trusted them?
    May I ask you another question? That was a rhetorical question I was going to ask anyway. Have you ever betrayed someone’s trust? Now, please think hard and long about that. Remember, last week, we concluded that we are liars, thieves, and murderers.
    There is a stark contrast between trust and betrayal. To enjoy the feast in Paradise, we must be trustworthy and obedient disciples of Christ. Without these two qualities, we are on a path to betraying our Lord and Savior.

    Trust:

    What is trust? Here are just a few of the definitions from Merriam-Webster. First, it’s assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something on which confidence is placed; dependent on something future or contingent (HOPE); lastly, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. The disciples Peter and John trusted the Lord and His word; therefore, they obeyed Him. Jesus commanded them to “…prepare the Passover.” They did not prepare easter eggs, get into bunny suits, and have baskets for the children. They prepared the Passover meal because Christ commanded them to do that. They only needed to know from Christ ‘where’ to prepare this meal.
    How many of us are willing to be as obedient as they were? How about Abraham? While he was still called Abram, God called him to leave his kinship and go where God was leading him.
    Jesus gave them instructions on finding the place- guess what? It was already prepared before they even left- and what to look for. Do we read that they questioned Him anymore? No! Verse thirteen says, “They left and found it like Christ said they would.” Are they obedient if they do not trust Him? Can there be faith without trust? No!
    Another interesting nugget is that Jesus sent them out in two. He did not send them out by themselves. Your walk with Christ is more corporate than individual. Are there times when it is personal? Yes. But doing life together is coming together and helping one another in our faith and obedience. Please hold onto that nugget for now.
    The opposite of trust is betrayal.
    Betrayal:
    Betrayal violates a person’s trust or confidence in a moral standard.
    I asked earlier how many of us have been betrayed and how many have betrayed someone. Now, with both of those definitions, would you change your answer?
    The Lord is establishing what we call the Lord’s Supper. He kept the Passover inside the walls of Jerusalem (which was the requirement). He is explaining the wine and bread, what they represent, and what He will and has done for them and us. And at the end, He makes this statement from Luke 22:21-22.
    Luke 22:21–22 ESV
    But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
    Verse twenty-three tells us the disciples wondered who would do such a thing.
    We all know that this is Judas Iscariot, but could it not be all of them? Matthew 26:14 tells us what Judas did. Matthew 26:25 spells it out that it was Judas. But I want us to look at the Greek word for “betray.” Παραδιδὀντος (paradidontos), which means to deliver, hand over, or betray for the profit of the individual or group. Now, with the Greek definition in hand, would you change your answer?
    Matthew 26:14 ESV
    Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
    Matthew 26:25 ESV
    Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.”
    You might wonder what the pastor is getting at. Was Judas the only one who betrayed Jesus that night? No!
    After His arrest, where were the disciples? Mark 14:50
    Mark 14:50 ESV
    And they all left him and fled.
    What about Peter (the rock or, should I say, pebble)? He denied Christ three times.
    Remember the question I asked, "Have you ever betrayed someone?” Every one of us in this room should have said yes. Why? Because we all have betrayed God when we did not accept Christ. We all betray Christ when we disobey Him and His Word. We all betray the Holy Spirit when we forsake the fellowship. We all betray one another when we gossip, backbite, or think highly of ourselves and do not lend a helping hand.           
    Do you want to enjoy the feast?

    Feast:

    Remember the story of the lady who needed help baking the bread and kept asking, and nobody helped? Allow me to refresh your memory.
    How about this: Matthew 7:21-23
    Matthew 7:21–23 ESV
    “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
    Paul said it best about the feast, 1 Corinthians 5:7-8
    1 Corinthians 5:7–8 ESV
    Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
    Why can we enjoy the feast? Because we have a Lord and Savior who we can trust who has never betrayed us!
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