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Moving through the events of Passion Week, we come to Jesus’ prayer on the Mount of Olives. This is one of the most emotionally charged moments as the Son of Man struggles with the task in front of him as the disciples are sleeping at a distance. In it, we see what it means to submit to God’s will as well as the necessity of prayer for an enduring faith.
This week we discuss the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples. In this crucial moment before his arrest, Jesus establishes a practice that we obediently observe to this day. The text gives us a fuller understanding of the meaning behind communion by showing that the meal points us backward, forward, and up.
Over the next month, we will be examining the week leading up to Christ’s death and resurrection. These are the events that lie at the center of our faith. This week, we looked at the Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem and what it tells us about him.
The passage for this week takes us through a significant time of crisis in the life of the early church. The death of James and the arrest of Peter threatened to throw the church in Jerusalem into uncertainty. But what we see is another demonstration of God sovereignty and the triumph of the Gospel.
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