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This Passover [just before our Lord’s sacrifice], after 1500-plus years of Passovers, was the last divinely sanctioned and authorized Passover ever held. Any Passover ever celebrated after this one is not authorized by God. It is a remnant of a bygone economy, of an extinct dispensation, of a covenant no longer in vogue. It is vestigial. It serves no significant purpose. Jesus here celebrated the Passover as a way to bring it to its end. The bell tolled in the upper room for the old economy. Christ ended the long years of Passover and began a new memorial feast which He begins to institute in verse 26 [of Matthew 26]. And this new feast is the feast not of the old economy but the new economy, not the old covenant but the new covenant, not the Old Testament but the New Testament, not looking to a lamb in Egypt but a Lamb of God on a hill of Calvary. So, Jesus ends the old before He begins the new. And after having drawn the curtain on the Passover of the old economy, He institutes the feast of the new.

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But it is far more common for the evangelical preacher to edit God’s Word: 1. By removing the text from its context, and using it to say what-ever the preacher likes, 2. By moralizing the text, so that it is reduced to an ethical maxim that ﬁts any religion, 3. By using the text to promote hobby-horses, and 4. By dogmatic insistence that the text says things it does not truly say. This homiletical hocus-pocus has subtle roots such as the desire to be clever and popular or synthetically relevant or intellectually respectable or to make the gospel more acceptable. But most often God’s Word gets watered down by the preacher’s laziness. He simply will not do the hard work to engage and preach a text in its context.

Kent Hughes

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Cheese and Fruit Kabobs

January 22, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Appetizer	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8	oz	Colby cheese; cubed
		Pear chunks
8	oz	Monterey Jack cheese; cubed
		Apricot chunks; kiwi slices
4	oz	Gouda cheese; cut in wedges
		Grapes; apple chunks

INSTRUCTIONS

Alternate cheesc and fruit on individual skewers. Arrange skewers on large
platter. Add Port Wine and Cheddar to complete the tray.
MILITARY FAMILY MAGAZINE
JANUARY 1996
Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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