Worship Guide for Maundy Thursday

The page below combines music, Scripture, and brief clips from Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ as a opportunity to spend time focusing on Christ Jesus and what it cost Him to offer Himself as our substitute, we who truly deserve the Almighty’s wrath and judgment on sin.  Please proceed prayerfully.

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“What Wondrous Love Is This”

Who believes our report?
To whom is the arm of Adonai revealed?
For before him he grew up like a young plant,
like a root out of dry ground.
He was not well-formed or especially handsome;
we saw him, but his appearance did not attract us.
People despised and avoided him,
a man of pains, well acquainted with illness.
Like someone from whom people turn their faces,
he was despised; we did not value him (Isaiah 53:1-3).

Jesus continued, “Then he will say to those on his left,
‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
I was a stranger and you did not welcome me,
naked and you did not clothe me,
sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’
Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’
Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you,
as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

When Jesus had finished all these sayings, He said to His disciples, “You know after two days the Passover is coming — and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” (Matthew 25:41 – 26:2)

“Here Is Love”

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Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot,
went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver Him over to you?” (Matthew 26:14-15)

And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray Him (Matthew 26:16).

Although he had done no violence
and had said nothing deceptive,
yet it pleased Adonai to crush him with illness,
to see if he would present himself as a guilt offering.
If he does, he will see his offspring;
and he will prolong his days;
and at his hand Adonai’s desire
will be accomplished.
After this ordeal, he will see satisfaction.
“By his knowing [pain and sacrifice],
my righteous servant makes many righteous;
it is for their sins that he suffers.
Therefore I will assign him a share with the great,
he will divide the spoil with the mighty,
for having exposed himself to death
and being counted among the sinners,
while actually bearing the sin of many
and interceding for the offenders” (Isaiah 53:9-12)

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 

“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is,
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”
And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to Him to drink.  But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit.

And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened.
And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

When the centurion and those who were with Him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, 

“Truly this was the Son of God!”

(Matthew 27:45-54)

“O the Blood” (Selah)

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I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave Himself for me (Galatians 2:20).

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Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you,
which you received,
in which you stand,
and by which you are being saved,
if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received:

that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
that He was buried,
that He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and
that He appeared to Cephas [Peter], then to the twelve.
Then He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
Last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared also to me (1 Corinthians 15:1-3).

“The Look” (Sovereign Grace)

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Now,

 

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Scriptures taken from

• Complete Jewish Bible. © 1998 David H. Stern. Messianic Jewish Publishers.
• The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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