Victory

On a hill Your blood was spilled

Your brow, Your hands, Your feet

With nails and thorns the veil was torn

To make a way for me, You made a way for me

Jesus, Savior, my God, my King, my Lord

Jesus, Savior, the victory is Yours.

Wrapped and bound, they laid You down

A perfect sacrifice

But in three days, the stone was rolled away

Forever You’re alive

For You’re alive

Jesus, Savior, my God, my King, my Lord

Jesus, Savior, the victory is Yours

The victory is Yours

No Sacrifice

To You, I give my life

Not just the parts I want to

To You, I sacrifice

These dreams that I hold on to

To You, I give my life

Not just the parts I want to

To You, I sacrifice

These dreams that I hold on to

Your thoughts are higher than mine

Your words are deeper than mine

Your love is stronger than mine

This is no sacrifice, here’s my life

To You, I give the gifts

Your love has given to me

How can I hoard the treasures,

That you designed for free?

Your thoughts are higher than mine

Your words are deeper than mine

Your love is stronger than mine

This is no sacrifice, here’s my life

To You, I give my future

As long as it may last

To You, I give my present

To You, I give my past

Your thoughts are higher than mine

Your words are deeper than mine

Your love is stronger than mine

This is no sacrifice, here’s my life

Preparing for Holy Week

April 21, 2013

The reason we don’t benefit?

The reason we don’t benefit?

OUR ATTITUDE

The reason we don’t benefit?

OUR ATTITUDE

Reason we have wrong attitude?

The reason we don’t benefit?

OUR ATTITUDE

Reason we have wrong attitude?

WE DON’T UNDERSTAND VALUE

The reason we don’t benefit?

OUR ATTITUDE

Reason we have wrong attitude?

WE DON’T UNDERSTAND VALUE

The value?

The reason we don’t benefit?

OUR ATTITUDE

Reason we have wrong attitude?

WE DON’T UNDERSTAND VALUE

The value?

INFINITE & ETERNAL

What is ‘pascha’?

What is ‘pascha’?

PASSOVER

“On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household… Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it…

…It is the Lord’s Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.” Exodus 12:3-13

“that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His

sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.” Philippians 3:10-11

Each Day of Pascha Week

Morning Evening

1st hour 6 am 6 pm

3rd hour 9 am 9 pm

6th hour 12 pm 12 am

9th hour 3 pm 3 am

11th hour 5 pm 5 am

Each Hour of Each Day

1. Prophecy

2. Homily

3. Doxology of PaschaThine is the power, the glory, the blessing and the majesty forever, Amen…

4. Psalm

5. Gospel

6. Expositions

7. Litanies

Palm SundayGod Declares His Sacrifice

Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” Luke 19:41-44

Jesus came to receive hearts,

not praises

General Funeral= MY FUNERAL

Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live. I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel 37:4-6

“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves…

I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,” says the Lord.’” Ezekiel 37:11-14

MondayGod Prepares People for Sacrifice

God’s great anger is caused by God’s great love

“And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, please, between Me and My vineyard. What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned or dug, but there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.” Isaiah 5:3-7

TuesdayGod Invites Us to His Sacrifice

“Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:14

Two options in life: accept invitation or reject it?

“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Forsake foolishness and live, and go in the way of understanding.” Proverbs 9:5-6

“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever” Psalm 44:6

WednesdayPeople respond to His sacrifice

Betrayal Love

“And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.” Matthew 26:6-9

But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.” Matthew 26:10-13

“Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.” Matthew 26:14-16

“And let not your fastings be with the hypocrites, for they fast on the second and the fifth day of the week; but do you keep your fast on the fourth and on the preparation day.” Didache 8:1-2

“Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.” Psalm 41:9

“She has done a good work for Me”

Sunday: God DECLARES His sacrifice

Monday: God PREPARES people who will accept the sacrifice

Tuesday: God INVITES US to His sacrifice

Wednesday: People RESPOND to sacrifice

Thursday/Friday: God OFFERS sacrifice

How will you respond?