Shed for Many: The Passover

Shed for Many: Passover, Communion, and God’s Plan | Mark 14

In this week’s Gospel Portions episode, we are in Mark chapter 14, right in the middle of Passover and heading into Resurrection Day.

Jesus takes the bread and says, “This is my body.”
 He takes the cup and says, “This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.”

In this powerful chapter, we see the institution of communion during the Passover meal, the meaning behind the bread and the cup, and the sacred remembrance of Jesus’ body and blood given for us.

We also witness betrayal, Judas identifying Jesus with a kiss, yet even then, nothing was out of control. Jesus said, “The hour has come.”

Things were going according to plan.

This episode explores:

• The connection between Passover and Communion
• The meaning of “shed for many”
• Why communion is sacred and not casual
• How even suffering fits into God’s divine plan

As we move through Holy Week, we remember that God has a plan for our lives and no one can stop it because He is God Almighty.

Peace, and remember to love God, love you, and love people.

Transcript

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Hi everyone, it's Shira Shante, your relationship coach called by God in the summer of 2010 to help his people with relationships here with Gospel Portions Torah Tippets podcast.

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God is love.

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And we are studying love by reading the four gospels of Jesus Christ: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Yes, God is love, and he sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us, to die for our sins and our iniquities, and to get beaten and scourged for us and uh almost beaten to death. Uh, but uh he had to get on a cross. He got on a cross, hanged on a tree for us, cursed for us, and he died. He died for us, he died for you, he died for me. This is the uh holy week here in uh America, uh, in the United States of America. We have Easter coming up on Sunday. We are in the middle of Passover. Well, actually, Passover started yesterday, uh evening, and we're talking about the Passover here in the gospel portion. I love this, it's everything is like uh timing up, everything is coming together, things are going according to plan. I love that uh message that was given years ago uh by uh a great woman of God that I uh that I know things are going according to plan. And so the plan is we are reading and studying the gospel during this Passover week, during this Easter holiday week, the resurrection day. Some people may know Easter as resurrection day, it's the same activity where Jesus died for us. Oh, he was raised again on the third day, and uh sitting at the right hand of the father, uh making intercession for us, praying for us daily that we will make it to where he is, that we will become one with him. If you read John chapter 17, uh we he his prayer for us is that we will become one with him and the father as they are one. And so let me get to the scripture for today. It's Mark chapter 14. You can get the gospel schedule uh on my website. I created a schedule, what we're gonna be reading every week. We are on week number 23. Uh, Mark 14, one chapter this week. It's a long chapter. Uh and uh, like I said before, it talks about the Passover. You can download this gospel portions outline on my website, She Rashante.com. It's my name.com. There may be something wrong with the link right now. If you don't see gospel, the link is gospel at the top of the page or uh yeah, in the uh header. But if you don't see gospel there, just come back the next day. I I I'll fix it. Uh so just a heads up there. You're at the right page. I just have to get the link going. So uh shed for mini is the name of this portion, shed for mini, and I subtitled it Passover because we are in the Passover week. Uh I started celebrating Passover. Oh gosh, uh some years ago, not that many, not too too many years ago, like maybe like in 2010-ish in the 20 teens is when I officially started attending Passover Satyrs, where they would invite people who want to celebrate the Passover. You know, there were strangers who celebrated the Passover with the Jews as well. I need to get to the scripture, I'm talking too much. Okay, so let's read uh Mark chapter 14. Uh, verse, let's see, let's go right to the Passover, verse 22. And as they did eat, Jesus took bread and blessed and break it, and gave to them and said, Take eat, this is my body. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said unto them, This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many. Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. And so we see that the uh Jesus and his disciples instituted the Passover. This uh take, eat, this is my body, and they took the cup, and then this is my blood of the New Testament, uh, which is shed for many. This is him telling us about his death, that he his blood was going to be shed for many on the cross for all of the world, all of humanity. And you may have heard of communion. Communion is really the Passover, a wine from the Passover meal, and and the uh wafer. The matzah uh is his body, it's a symbolism, the wafer being a symbolism for his body. Uh, the matza is a symbolism for his the body of Jesus that was given for us, that was shed for us, that who died for us. And then the wine or the grape juice that you drink at communion is represents Jesus' blood. So the blood that was shed um on Calvary, on Golgotha, that mountain where he was uh crucified. And so that is a picture of Passover because sometimes, I mean not Passover, uh the communion. Sometimes when I take communion, this is the scripture that uh is used right here. Take, eat, this is my body, and then this is my blood, Mark chapter 9, verse 24 of the New Testament, which is shed for many. So there's different places in the New Testament where Jesus um where the Passover is talked about and where the communion is taken. And so communion is very important. Uh, I've been taking communion for years with at my home and private with my children, uh by myself at church corporately. Uh, communion is very important. Uh, communion it basically is remembering the body and the and the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for us uh on Passover, uh and or or if you're Christian on Easter or or the resurrection, resurrection day, trying to accommodate you know what different people call this holiday. And uh, and so uh during that uh feast, there was the drinking of the cups of wine, and that has been instituted into communion, which you should only take if you believe in Jesus Christ, if you believe in that he died for you and that he rose again, because there are some consequences for taking the communion in an unworthy manner, meaning you're not uh really signifying the Lord Jesus and his sacrifice for you, but you're just it's just another, you know, it's it's just you're not putting the uh holy meaning to the communion, and so there's there's consequences for that. So I don't suggest you take communion unless you are if you believe in Christ, then yes, definitely do. Uh it's something very supernatural about taking communion. Uh, like I said, I've taken it corporately by myself. It's something uh just a wonderful time uh to remember uh the Lord Jesus sacrifice for us, and so in Mark 14, it goes on to talk about um uh when they caught Jesus and they brought him in, when Jesus betrayed not Jesus, but Judas betrayed Jesus. Um and I'm just trying to see what else I should read. Here's something uh in Mark chapter 14, verse 41. And he cometh the third time and said unto them, Sleep on now and take your rest. It is enough. The hour is come, behold, the sun the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise up, let us go. Lo, he that betrayed me is at hand. And that's when Jesus is betrayed by Judas and uh oh Judas uh betrayed him with a kiss. He said in Mark chapter 14, verse 44, and he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whom some whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he. Take him and lead him away safely. So that is uh some of the story of the Passover. I suggest you read it. Uh, we're in that season right now as we speak. We're right on time, things are going according to plan. Uh actually, that was I'll tell you who that was. Joyce Joyce Rogers. She's a prophet, and and she was speaking at my church, West Angeles, Church of God in Christ, and she was actually mimicking George W. Bush, because there was uh we had entered a conflict. I don't know, I don't think that was that was not Iran Contra. I think that was before George W. But it was another conflict in the Middle East. Uh that and uh George W. Bush said things are going, things are going according to plan. And so Joyce Rogers took that as the title of her message at that that Sunday morning at West Angeles, and it was just a beautiful message, and I never forgot it, and it was so right now, and things are going according to plan, God's plan in your life, and my life. God has a plan and it will happen for his children, and no one will be able to stop it because he's God, he's God Almighty. So, Father God, thank you for the plan of the Lord in our life. Thank you for Passover, thank you for Resurrection Day, Easter coming up, Lord God. Let your people have a good family uh meetings and church meetings and let people get saved, thousands and thousands of people come to Christ this week, this holy week, this Passover, this Easter resurrection day, Lord God. Let let thousands and and millions hear the message of the Lord Jesus Christ and his suffering for us. Thank you, Lord, for being our savior. And remember to like, subscribe, and share this podcast. Thank you for joining me for Gospel Portions tour Tippets. I'm Sean Tay, Sheera Seuntay, your relationship coach, called by God in the summer of 2010 to help his people with relationships, peace, and remember to love God. Love you and love people.