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Luke 22 1-6 THE HATCHING OF THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS 01 Luke 22 1-2 Worship Jesus for He is our Passover Lamb
📖 Luke 22:1-6
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Sun27Jun2021 - *Worship Jesus for He is our Passover Lamb* - _Luke 22:1-6_ - THE HATCHING OF THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS (01) – Bible reading: _Exodus 12:23-27_
We fall before our Lord Jesus in worship for He has placed on us, His blood. His blood has ensured that the angel of death passes over us and does not cut us off from God, who is our life.
If the blood of Jesus does not cover us, we are eternally cut off from God. This is the great work that Jesus has done for us and therefore we fall before Him in worship.
We are now at _Luke 22_, where we see the arrest of our Lord Jesus and the mockery of a trial that He went through before He was crucified. All of these happened very quickly before anyone could realise what was going on and therefore this was done in stealth and efficiency.
Dr Luke takes it upon himself to narrate to Theophilus, the unfolding of this deliberate and evil plan of the Jewish leaders, to kill Jesus.
_Luke 22:1-2 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover. (2) And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill Him, *for they feared the people*._
A plot was being hatched to kill Jesus. Why was it necessary for these Jewish leaders to hatch a plot to arrest and kill Jesus?
Jesus was in the temple every day. _Luke 21:38 Then early in the morning all the people came to Him in the temple to hear Him._ They could have arrested Jesus at any time._
It had to be a plot since the Jewish leaders did not want a social upheaval on their hands. They wanted to get Jesus as quickly and as quietly as possible, and have Him executed in quick time.
The people were captivated by the teaching of Jesus and they were beginning to adore Him. The Jewish leaders did not want to anger the people and they, therefore, wanted to have their plan executed without the multitudes being present.
_Luke 22:6 So he promised and sought opportunity to betray Him to them *in the absence of the multitude*._
As we look at history, we know that they were successful in executing their evil plot.
The feast of unleavened bread was also called the Passover. Let us now understand the Passover or the feast of unleavened bread.
_Exodus 12:23-27 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and *when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you*. (24) And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. (25) It will come to pass when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service. (26) And it shall be, when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?' (27) that you shall say, '*It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel* in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.' " *So the people bowed their heads and worshiped*._
A Passover animal was slain and the blood of this animal, which was without fault or blemish, was painted on the doorposts and the lintels of the homes of the Israelites. The angel of death would Passover and not bring death to all those in the house, because of the blood.
_Exodus 12:5-6 *Your lamb shall be without blemish*, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. (6) 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._
God, took on flesh and He became for us the Lamb that was slain as the Passover Lamb.
_John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! *The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world*!_
This statement of John to a Jewish audience would have their full attention. For the Jews, the Passover feast was crucial. This was their redemption from slavery and bondage.
They had trusted John and when John made this statement of Jesus, *they should have fallen before Jesus in worship*, for they knew that at the Passover they worshipped God, for *God had intervened into their predicament and made a way for them to saved from the destroyer*.
_I Peter 1:19-20 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. (20) He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you._
What happened at the cross was the sacrifice of our Passover Lamb. What should be our response? We fall prostrate before Jesus in worship.
*Thought to ponder*
```What man schemed to do in wickedness, God turned it for our good.```