Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:01 Welcome to Lent Meditation and Worship with Westside Church. As Lent comes to a close, we find ourselves in Holy Week or Passion week. This is Jesus last week on Earth before his death and resurrection. Each day this week, we'll be reading accounts from the Book of Luke about what took place. Let us immerse ourselves in the story of Jesus. See the things he sees, taste what he tastes, feel what he feels. Let's take a moment to close our eyes, open our ears, quiet our minds. Let the Holy Spirit speak and ask that he reveal new things about Jesus that you haven't seen before. Let's take a deep breath in and out and in and out.
Speaker 1 00:01:07 Luke chapter 22, verses 14 through 23 and verses 39 through 53. When the time came, Jesus and the apostles sat down together at the table. Jesus said, I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins for I tell you now that I won't eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the kingdom of God. Then he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. Then he said, take this and share it among yourselves, for I will not drink wine again until the kingdom of God has come. He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciple saying, this is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
Speaker 1 00:02:09 After supper, he took another cup of wine and said, this cup is the new covenant between God and his people. An agreement confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you, but here at this table sitting among us as a friend is the man who betray me. For it has been determined that the son of man must die. But what sorrow awaits the one who betrays him. The disciples began to ask each other who would ever do such a thing? Then accompanied by the disciples, Jesus left the upstairs room and went as usual to the Mount of Olives. There he told them, pray that you will not give in to temptation. He walked away about a stone's throat and knelt down and prayed. Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me, yet I want your will to be done, not mine, that an angel of heaven appeared and strengthened him.
Speaker 1 00:03:21 He prayed more fervently, and he was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood. At last, he stood up again and returned to the disciples only to find them asleep, exhausted from grief. Why are you sleeping? He asked them, get up and pray so that you will not give into temptation. But even as Jesus said this, a crowd approach led by Judas, one of the 12 disciples, Judas walked over to Jesus to greet him with a kiss, but Jesus said, Judas, would you betray the son of man with a kiss? When the other disciples saw what was about to happen, they exclaimed, Lord, should we fight? We brought the swords and one of them struck the high priest's slave slashing off his right here, but Jesus said, no more of this, and he touched the man's ear and healed him.
Speaker 1 00:04:29 Then Jesus spoke to the leading priests, the captains of the Temple Guard and the elders who had come. For him, am I some dangerous revolutionary? He asked that you would come with swords and clubs to arrest me. Why didn't you arrest me in the temple? I was there every day, but this is your moment, the time when the power of darkness reigns. Let's pray. Eternal God in the sharing of a meal, your son established a new covenant for all people and in the washing of feet, he showed us the dignity of service. Grant that by the power of your Holy Spirit, these signs of our life and faith may speak again to our hearts, feed our spirits, and refresh our bodies. Amen.
