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Mark 14 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's Word. Together
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  at 72 verses Mark chapter 14 is easily the longest chapter in
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  the book and it covers some serious ground.
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  In this chapter we see Jesus being anointed with a bottle of
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  costly perfume. Then Judas planned to betray
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  Jesus and Jesus and his disciples taking the Passover
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  meal together all the way to Jesus praying and being arrested
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  in the Garden of Gethsemane and standing before his accusers.
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  And finally, at the end of the chapter, we see Peter's three
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  denials of Christ. Like I said, a lot of ground.
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  I want us to take a minute, though, to look at the Passover
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  meal that Jesus shares with his disciples in verses 17 through
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  26. Listen to those verses.
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  When it was evening, he came with the 12.
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  As they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said,
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  Truly, I say to you that one of you will betray me, one who is
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  eating with me. They began to be grieved and to
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  say to him, 1 by 1, surely not I.
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  And he said to them, It is one of the 12, one who dips with me
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  in the bowl. For the Son of Man is to go,
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  just as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the
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  Son of Man is betrayed. It would have been good for that
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  man if he had not been born. While they were eating.
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  He took some bread and after a blessing he broke it and gave it
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  to them and said, Take it, this is my body.
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  When he had taken a cup and given thanks, he gave it to them
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  and they all drank from it. And he said to them, This is my
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  blood of the covenant which is poured out for many.
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  Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the
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  vine until that day when I drink it new in the Kingdom of God.
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  After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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  If you remember your Old Testament, you'll remember that
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  this Passover meal was first prescribed all the way back in
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  Exodus chapter 12, when God delivered the final plague on to
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  Pharaoh and the Egyptians before the people of Israel were set
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  free from their slavery. God commanded the people of
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  Israel to cover the doorposts of their homes with blood from the
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  unblemished lamb, and to eat inside and haste because they
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  would soon be set free and they needed to be ready to go.
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  During the night, God killed the first born of all the Egyptians,
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  but all those who had their doorposts covered with blood, He
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  spared. And now in Mark chapter 14,
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  Jesus and his disciples are celebrating this annual feast
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  together. But realize what's happening
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  here. Exodus 12 was pointing us to a
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  deeper reality, the truth that the blood of the spotless lamb
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  was the covering required to escape God's righteous judgement
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  on sin. During the meal, Jesus takes
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  bread, breaks it and gives it to his disciples, saying take it,
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  this is my body. And he does the same with the
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  wine. He gives thanks, gives it to
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  them, and they drink it. And he said, this is the blood
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  of the covenant which is poured out.
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  For many, the true Passover lamb was not being eaten that night
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  at the table. The true Passover lamb would
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  hang from a cross On the very next day.
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  Jesus, the spotless Lamb of God, would have his body broken and
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  his blood spilled so that men and women from every tribe and
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  tongue and nation could be made right with God, so they might be
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  forgiven of their sins and given a forever relationship with God
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  Himself. All of the imagery, all of the
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  foreshadowing of Passover was coming to fruition here in the
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  God man, Jesus Christ. And just as surely as those
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  Israelites who stayed in homes whose doorposts were covered by
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  the Lamb's blood escape God's judgement, so too will all those
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  who turn from their sin and trust in Jesus, trust in his
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  death as payment for our sin, and be saved.
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  Hallelujah. What a savior.
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  Yeah.