Continued from Part III

Jesus confessed that he drank wine on the following occasion:

Luke 7:34

34: The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

Jesus used wine at the Passover and his Memorial:

It would be preposterous for Jesus to take the cup of Elijah/Messiah and pass it around the table and not drink thereof Himself. In 1 Corinthians 11:25, Paul said Jesus "SUPPED" from the cup. The requirement for Messiah was to drink from the cup. Jews only used fermented grape juice [fruit of the vine] for Passover. They never used grape juice at Passover. It was not available. Only recently do reformed Jews allow grape juice for children and those who may not for medical reasons take wine. Would Jesus serve His disciples something He wouldn't drink.

Jesus taught wine as a medicine:

Luke 10:34

34: And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

Jesus made wine:

John 4:46

46: So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine Jesus taught how to preserve wine:

WINESKINS HOLD NEW FERMENTING GRAPE JUICE

Mark 2:22

22: And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

Luke 5:38

38: But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. The Holy Ghost is the new wine:

FIRST MESSIAHIANS ACCUSED OF DRINKING WINE

Act 2:13

13: Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. Paul didn't say, "don't drink wine", he said don't get drunk:

DRINKING WINE TO EXCESS OR DRUNKENNESS FORBIDDEN

Ephesians 5:18

18: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the spirit.

Bishops are not to be given to wine (that is excess):

1 Timothy 3:3

3: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

The deacons were not to be given to much wine:

1 Timothy 3:8

8: Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre.

Aged women could drink wine (not to excess).

Titus 2:3

3: The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things.

Exegesis of the word *wine.*

The word wine in the New Testament, except for the passage in Acts 2: always uses the Greek work "oinos:"

Greek 3631. oinos, oy' -nos; a prim word [of perh. of Heb. or. [Heb3196]]; "wine" [lit. or fig.]:-wine. 

Hebrew3196. yayin, yah'-yin; from an unused root mean. to effervesce; wine [as fermented]; by impl. intoxication:-banqueting, wine, wine [-bibber].

Use of fermented wine is Biblical. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God does not have double standards. It is not a sin to drink wine for religious purposes if casual use was not prohibited by the Apostle Paul.

HOW PASSOVER WINE IS MADE

The grape harvest in Israel is usually in July. The grapes to be made into wine were carried to the winepress where they were pressed or stomped producing the juice. The natural leaven on the hulls and stems contaminated the juice and this began the cleansing or fermentation process.  If there has been no leaven in the juice the cleansing or fermentaion would not have begun.  The moment the grapes are pressed the cleansing starts.  This juice with the leaven and the cleansing begun, is placed into wineskins.  Here the cleansing completes its work in 12 to 14 days.  

The grape juice from this vintage had to be harvested prior to the feast of Tabernacles according to Deut. 6:13. This feast falls in late September or early October. Winter starts in October and grape harvest and wine making are over when it comes. Since the fresh grape juice cannot be used for religious purpose until it is over 40 days old, it cannot be used for any religious purpose until the next feast which comes six months later in March-April. This is Passover. By this time the juice has turned to wine. The first use of this "new wine" is Passover. The second use of new wine is Pentecost, 50 days later. The 120 were accused of drinking this new wine or fresh vintage from the prior year's harvest. No one has been able to keep *fresh grape juice* over this six months time period without it becoming wine. Grape juice becomes wine in less than 21 days. So 40 day old wine is fermented wine.

It is easy enough to see that if the Jews did not use boiled dead grape juice for Passover, in an effort to fake having fresh jucie, neither should we. The Passover is not about something fake, or a substitute. Dead boiled grape juice will breed corruption if it is not preserved with a canning process not known or available in those centuries. Boiled grape juice must not be used to represent the blood of Christ, for that is not only fake, it was not done for Passover. Jesus used the same type of Passover wine used for centuries. It was not grape juice made from fresh pressed grapes, boiled juice, or reconstituted jucie from jams, jellies, or syrup, as many falsely allege and practice. Passove wine was not juice preserved in Roman amphoras, thrown in fish ponds as some allege from Cato's tales. What Cato did is not what the Jews did.

At the grape harvest those to be made into wine were crushed. That is why it is called a winepress. The juice is then placed into a proper container. It should be stored in a cool place. The cleansing of the grape juice to conquer the leaven in it begins the instant the grapes were crushed. The cleansing process is now called fermentation after the secret was discovered less than two hundred years ago. The cleansing process is the natural purifying and conquering of the billions of leaven cells in the fresh grape juice poluted with them. This fresh juice is not pure there are billions of leaven cells baptized into it. The cleansing changes the grape sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol. As the alcohol content rises the leaven is killed. Although alcohol can be addictive if abused, it represents *joy* in Scripture. And people get drunk on wine to reach some aspect of this warm feeling. What aspect the alcohol represents in the killing of sin baptized into the blood of Jesus, I will leave others to debate. I will also leave it to others to debate if Jesus drank wine, and if when he shed his blood the morning after drinking Passover wine, if there was present in his blood any alcohol that might have remained from that celebration.

When grape juice is squeezed out of the hulls and pulp, millions of tiny leaven yeast cells on the grapes and stems were immediately baptized into the juice. The grape juice is not pure. It is filled with leaven which many ministers see as a type of sin. Man has found no way to get the grape juice out of the grape without contaminating the juice with billions of these leaven cells. The only way the leaven is removed or canceled is through cleansing fermentation or by boiling over a fire with heat.

Like leaven in bread, the leaven cells change sugar into both carbon dioxide and minuscule amounts of alcohol. In bread, the carbon dioxide forms bubbles and causes the bread to rise. When bread is baked, the gas escapes leaving little empty spaces. The slight sour taste is the fermentation. In grape juice, the same process continues over a period of days. [In the days of Christ it was put into new wine skins and allowed to cleanse itself out of direct sunlight.] As the alcohol content increases, it kills off the leaven cells and their carcasses sink to the bottom as the dregs. The dregs are very bitter. [Psa. 75:8; Isa. 51:17,22] After 8-10 days of the cleansing process, the hulls and pulp should be carefully removed from the juice. The cleansing process should be allowed to continue. Anyone observing the juice will see the bubbles working from the bottom to the top. After a few days the cleansing process will slow down and stop. When the bubbles stop, the washing and cleansing effect on the juice is complete. The new wine is now purified and is poured off and sealed.

Nothing is added to the grape juice. You do not add yeast, sugar, or alcohol. In making Passover wine, God has seen to it that man needs to do nothing except have patience until it cleanses out the impurities in the juice. This is a vivid lesson that mans works do not produce salvation. Grape juice is not pure. It has billions of leaven cells in it. So the blood of Christ cleanses us of all our sins. Grape juice is not pure or cleansed. It is called "pure" on the bottle only because state laws prohibit fruit "drinks" from using the word "juice" if it is not made from 100% pure juice or juice concentrate. To say a juice is pure then only means it has no other juice or contents mixed with it. Not that it is without leaven. It takes about 21 days for grape juice to cleanse and purify itself.

As a historical requirement, Passover wine should be pressed out no later than 40 days before Passover. 40 days seems to be a Bible precedent for the time period to prove men and sincerity. So somewhere in ancient antiquity, 40 days became the requirement to "prove" fermented grape juice. Some wine after 40 days was rotten and no good. It failed to pass the test. It was discarded or allowed to make into vinegar. If you are unable to make your own Passover new wine because of circumstances, you may purchase Kosher Passover wine in any large grocery store. This wine has been made by the same methods I have described above. It has been made by the same methods of wine making for over 3000 years.

Some have supposed to make their own grape juice or buy some that has been boiled where the leaven carcasses are free floating throughout the juice. This juice is not cleansed or pure in any sense of the word as applied to the blood of Christ. This practice has no Biblical authority. But the Jews and Jesus never followed these methods. The month of Nisan is in the spring of the year. No fresh grapes for another six-seven months. No one has proved Jesus made a grape drink to be served at the Two Passovers he observed. Passover wine was available all over Jerusalem. But fresh or boiled grape juice was not anywhere to be found.

When Jesus told Peter and John to go prepare the wine and bread for Passover [Luke 22:8], we can be sure that they purchased these items because they didn't have a place to make them. Only two days before they were in Bethany eating, and there is no record these traveling men of God carried the Passover lamb and other supplies with them. They borrow a man's house [Luke 22:11-12]. It was this mans responsibility to provide the lamb for all those in his house.

To fuss about hand squeezed or boiled juice for Passover is needless contention. If the wine used for Passover is not 40 days old, it couldn't be used anyway. There are no fresh grapes grown in Israel in February or March to press them out 40 days before Passover. So Christ used the new wine that was made from the harvest just prior to the feast of Tabernacles in September-October. If the way the Jews made it was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for anyone. If you cannot prepare your own, which is preferable, then go buy it. Make sure to mix it with one third water. Passover wine was mixed with one third water. How this came into existence there is no conclusive answer. But it answers exactly the blood and water that came out of the side of Jesus. This is how to prepare the fruit of the vine for the Lord's Passover.

HOW TO OBSERVE PASSOVER AT HOME

Modern Christianity either follows the Roman Catholic spirit of rejecting Passover on the correct day, or they have adopted their own New Year's eve celebration on the first day of the Roman god Janus. Very few observe the First Century practice of the Christian Passover. If you elect to return to the true tradition of Christian Judaism which I have pointed out to you, you may not find many friends for support. Ever since 325Ad and the Council of Nicaea, the spirit toward Christian Passover on the right day has always been cruel and hateful. Protestant daughters of Rome have inherited that spirit and attitude. Don't rely on them to praise you for choosing a Christian Judaism practice above the decrees of Nicaea or their own traditions. If you expect mockery, excommunication, and opposition, you will be strong in faith. If you think others will cheer you for your "purity in faith," your heart will be crushed and hurt. Although some can not prove their new years eve celebrations and want to continue that man-made fake practice, be warned that they will hate you if you try to convert them. They will accuse you of trying to take them back under the Law, when thy know all along that the Passover Memorial of Jesus has no connection to the Law at all, but is the certification of the New Covenant. But those of us who love this truth of the Lord's Passover will never go back under the decree of Nicaea, the authority for the Mass, or man's other fake substitutions.

You must make the decision to return to Passover observance based upon your own revelation of truth that man has nothing to do with. If you have received this blessing of God, you will quickly see that the Christian Passover should be obsereved on the true Passover exactly as Jesus, the Apostles, the first Christians, Polycarp, Polycrates, and the ancient Celts, stood for it against all governments and all religions.

If you feel keeping the Lord's Passover is unscriptural, then go back to the Mass, the New Year's Eve black-eyed pea and cornbread services, in memory of the first day of the Roman god Janus.

For those who have a Pastor or Church who will not return to the Faith, keep a sweet spirit. Do not be overly judgmental of those who refuse to believe. They are blinded by traditions of many centuries. Give them time to examine Church history for themselves and seek God for direction. There is hope until a person emphatically shows in spirit they will abide by the Council of Nicaea and will not observe the Passover and use fake excuse fro doing so until they die. In which case, if the Catholic Church is saved then they will be also.

I would not observe any Lord's Supper with anyone if they are anti-Passover. For if they believe it can be observed as often (at their whim) as they like, but are prejudiced against the actual day of Passover, then they have lied. Explain this to your Pastor or Church. Tell him you respect his choice not to return to Apostolic practice, however you will not partake of the Lord's Supper on any other day of the year if Passover is ignored. If you must, hold this Passover at your home.

PROCEDURE FOR OBSERVING PASSOVER AT HOME

1. Discuss Passover with your family and friends

2. Teach the history of Passover and how the papacy changed it in 325AD.

3. Pray for leadership in the Spirit that this celebration be conducted in honor.

4. On Passover evening make the unleavened Passover bread.

5. Make or purchase wine made for Passover.

6. Mix the wine with one third water (out of his side came forth blood and water).

7. Each husband should serve his wife and children then family and friends. The Passover may be eaten while reading the scriptures found in Matthew 26:26-29.

8. Wash one another's feet [Read John 13:4-17.

9.  Let everyone present give Jesus praise a praise offering for his great Covenant.

10.  End the Observance with "Next year Jerusalem." Next year the Messiah may return to restore Jerusalem to Christian Judaism.

THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN YOU OBSERVE THE LORD'S PASSOVER AT HOME

(This can be adapted for a Church Service.  Each person, husband, wife, or child who
partakes should make each and every aspect of this observance a part of their celebration.)

This is a celebration of the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Messiah!

The following is not a ritual. It can be changed in any manner and in different words.
This is just a guide of what should be covered at the Lord's Passover. I have put it
together for those who have never been taught who wanted a guide so they would know
what the observance should include.

As for the Lord's Passover, I would go get me some concord Passover
wine, buy or make me some unleavened bread, and then read the Matthew account of
the Lord's Passover, trial, and then the John account. Then I would say unto the
Lord:

By drinking this Cup Lord, we place all of our faith in the blood of the New Covenant.
By drinking this Cup Lord, we place all of our sins under the sanctified holy blood of the Cross.
By drinking this Cup Lord, we are willing to share the reproach of the Cross, the
shame of persecution, and the hate of all who hate thy name.

We bless this Cup O Lord, for it represents the most holy sacrifice ever offered upon the earth.
We bless this Cup O Lord, for in it is represented eternal life.
We bless this Cup O Lord, because it represents the fruit of thy own life for the 33 and 1/2 years
you were the Messiah upon the earth.

Look at your wife and say to her:
Sweetheart, my handmaiden, I place all of your sins under the blood of Jesus never to be remembered
against you forever. I place my own sins under the blood of Jesus never to be remembered
again for ever. I place all of our children's sins under the blood.

The wife should look at her husband and say the same things.
Sweetheart, my husband, I place all of your sins under the blood of Jesus never to be remembered
against you forever. I place my own sins under the blood of Jesus never to be remembered
again for ever. I place all of our children's sins under the blood.

Together, you place under the blood of the covenant all sins of those who may have sinned
against you.

This is a night of freedom, a leaving behind of all that was bondage to us, that held us as slaves,
and now we are free, we begin our alijeh, the rest of our journey for God, with love for
each other, and together our love for God.

The Lord's Passover is an exemption from the future wrath and judgment of God; Even as the
first Passover was an exemption of the first born from God's wrath and judgment. And even as
much as Jesus died in our place to exempt us from the judgment of our sins we celebrate that
through the covenant of our baptism we were first exempted. And it is to be discussed that
each and every sin a person may do during the coming year, if they repent, it will be placed
under the covenant of baptism and covered by the blood of that Covenant. Since this celebration
concerns the flesh and blood of our Lord, and since it is in baptism that we first received the
grace and merits of his blood and death, this celebration is a time to reaffirm our day of baptism.

Then drink to the New Covenant in the blood of Jesus Messiah! (When you drink from this New
Covenant Cup, you are not drinking to one single law of the Old Testament therefore you are
not drinking to Law observance in any form or fashion).

Like wise the unleavened bread:

By eating this Bread Lord, we place all of our faith that you are of the seed of David
and the Messiah of Israel.
By eating this Bread Lord, we acknowledge your flesh as the incarnation of God
Almighty.
By eating this Bread Lord, we accept upon us the fellowship of thy Word as the
only Truth we will follow.

We bless this Bread O Lord, for it represents the 33 and 1/2 years of your life as
the Messiah of Israel.
We bless this Bread O Lord, for it represents your sinless life undefiled by sin.
We bless this Bread O Lord, because it represents you who died in our place and
took our judgment of sin upon yourself .

Then let each eat the unleavened Bread.

I would sing Psalms 34:1-4

I will bless the Lord at all times
His praise shall continually be in my mouth
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord
The humble shall hear thereof and be proud

O Magnify the Lord with Me
And let us exalt his name together
I sought the Lord and he heard me
And Delivered me from all of my fears

Brother you and your wife are to wash one another's feet Pray and consecrate the water of
feet washing. Then wash feet in plain water and bless your spouse's feet to take her/him
in paths of righteousness; bless her/his feet to take her/him to the house of God;
bless her/his feet to take her/his in the way of Truth; bless his/her feet to be a witness
of the Kingdom of God whithersoever she/he may go; and bless her/his feet to worship the
Lord in the beauty of holiness. Then dry her/his feet.

I believe children even babies should have a drop of wine on their tongue and a piece of the bread
and have their feet washed.

You can sing the above song of praise and worship again or another one.

You could at this time enter into worship and prayers of consecration rededicating your
lives to the Kingdom and to the spread of the Apostolic Messianic Truth.

Then, in faith and hope that Jesus will return to Jerusalem at his second coming, we conclude
by saying to each other:

NEXT YEAR JERUSALEM!

 HOW TO MAKE THE LORD'S PASSOVER BREAD

Unleavened bread must not contain leaven [yeast]. Make unleavened bread using unleavened flour. For a small portion use one cup of flour. Add one egg and one fourth stick of unleavened margarine. Mix this with whole milk. Stir or mix until it blisters adding flour until the stickyness is gone and it has the consistancy of pie or bread dough. Roll this out until about one quarter inch thick. Take a small bowl and use it as a cookie cutter and cut out a circular portion. You may remix the remenant and roll it out and make another or one smaller. Slighly grease a baking pan with unleavened corn oil and bake at 350 until crisp and brown around the edges. Since it does not have yeast, it may take a little longer to bake. Unleavened bread is to be a bit crunchy but it is delicious. You may bake it less time if you prefer to have it more soft. I suggest you try this several times before you finalize you own recipe. You may also use whole-wheat unleavened flour if you prefer. There is no evidence Jesus had white skin any way. And even then, white flour is brown after it has been baked. Keep sanctity in the event and arguments and contention away from the bread or it is defiled and not sacred for use in the Memorial.

HOW THE AMF OBSERVES THIS CELEBRATION

The week prior to Passover the Pastor should teach on the subject and announce the day the observance will take place. He should use this or another lesson and teach the spiritual truths connected to the Lord's Passover as well as a history of how it was altered by the Catholic Church and other man-made traditions that have crept in.

Towels, pans, and communion supplies should be obtained. The Church may purchase its own which is preferable. But if need be, each family could bring one or two metal or plasctic wah basins and towels. They should donate them to the Church for future use.

The Pastor himself should make the unleavened bread and provide the wine as the Minister of Jesus. He may elect to make his own wine or purchase Passover wine and prepare it by the proper mixing of water.

In our Church which has chairs, tables are brought in and set up and covered with a purple satin table cloth. The Passover emblems are positioned at the head of the table where an empty throne chair is positioned. The first chair at the right hand of Jesus is reserved for the Pastor or if in a home setting, the husband. Before his place is his Bible. Everyone somes this night with their Bible. Chairs are placed around these tables enough to seat those expected in attendance. Other chairs are placed along the walls leaving five or six feet space all around the Lord's Table. Church members sit in these chairs until invited to the Lord's Table.

The service commences with prayer, the annoucement of the occasion. And the declaration that anyone who has not repented and who has not been baptized by faith according to Acts 2:38 may not participate in this celebration.

Everyone, including children, who have at least been baptized and who are seeking or who have been filled with the Holy Spirit should be allowed to observe this Memorial in all of its aspects, cup, bread, and foot washing.

It should also be pointed out that this is not a religious ritual this is our faith and a tribute to Calvary in its most sacred observance. All present must confess Jesus is the Messiah without mental reservation or equivacation.  Those who have met these qualifications (for the apostles met all of these not having been baptized with the Holy Spirit yet), should then be invited to the table and those who do not come should be excused to leave and not permitted to remain.

Traitors like Judas are always exposed at the table and it is the Minister or husband's place to insure that no antichrist of any description is allowed to feast with the saints or remain in the room at the celebration from this time until it is fulfilled.

Under no circumstances should anyone be permitted to be present or to partake who has not confessed that Jesus is the Messiah.  When in doubt, the following confession should be recited by all in attendance:

I confess that Jesus is the Messiah and that through his sacrifice on Calvary both Jew and Gentile have salvation and redemption.  I confess without mental reservation or equivocation that there is salvation in none other.  As a token of my faith and a seal of my confession, I hereby renounce all alliegance to any other religion, any other oaths, and any other superior: with the solemn pledge that if I should partake of this celebration in falsehood in any manner, that I have damned my soul in taking the emblems of the body and blood of the Lord Jesus unworthily.

There have been times when apostates from witchcraft, Judaism, Catholicism, governments, and other antichrist groups have come in among the people of God to spy Christians out and under their breaths curse those who are in attendance at the Lord's Memorial. Some will come in as wolves in sheep clothing and take a mental oath that although they will eat the bread and drink from the cup, it will be done with a secret oath to destroy the faith of all those in attendance, and if possible even the very Pastor and the Church (See the Jesuit Oath).  Many men, women, and children have been killed after letting spies come in and dwell among them and then leaving out of the midst to betray them to death.  While I am not a supporter of David Koresh or his doctrines, it was done against him and look at the human carnage of innocent women and children, all justified by the deceived in America who are supposed to believe in and support freedom of religion.  Those who betrayed these ate with them and in falsehood acted like friends escaping for their own lives before the fateful day of hatred upon these people.

The above confession once recited by everyone at their respective places at the Lord's table may not alter a reprobate spy, but it will serve to damn such an one from ever having salvation then afterward if they eat unworthily and bring harm upon the people of God.

The Pastor or husband should conlcude the confession of all in attendance with a prayer that the Lord Jesus preserve those who have the true faith and damn all those who may be present whose purpose is not the observance, but are enemies of the Cross and of the true faith and have come to bring harm to the people of God.

This should signal the opening of the Scriptures to the Matthew text of the observance and commence the public reading.  At our Passover table each person is given an opportunity to read (not mandatory) and this passes around the table from Pastor counter clock wise to him again. Going from Gospel account to Gospel account until the whole is completed. Then the text in Corinthians is also read. Upon conclusion of this, the Pastor then ask each at the table to examine themselves and if they desire in their soul and in their heart to observe this celebration as a commitment to the New Covenant without mental reservation or equivication and that they believe the Scriptures as read.  

If all sit at the table it is the Minister or husband's place to then announce that all present are celebrating this memorial in honor of the New Covenant and should anyone there have reserved a secret oath that he or she is not eating in faith and in honor of the Lord Jesus as just read in the Scriptures, such secret oaths are revoked and canceled and by a person's presence at the table to eat or drink, there is either a blessing or damnation unto their souls.  There is absolutely no reason that fear should not be a part of the observance, such was the case when Jesus said one at the table would betray him, and feel came upon them until they asked: "IS IT I".  Only when Judas was gone did the fear in the others depart.  To take this fear out to the Lord's Communion is not Scriptural and in fact negates the entire observance.  Why would Paul say to examine yourself, unless it was to show that one should fear to partake who was not worthy?

Now it is time to discuss the provisions of the New Covenant for which Jesus was crucified and for which the cup and the bread represent. First, the Passover if observed in faith is an exemption of the wrath of God. Even as the first Passover in Egypt was an exemption, so the Passover of Jesus is an exemption. Passover is a time to remember deliverance. That is the day of a person's repentance and baptism are to be recalled at the Lord's table for it was because of what we are observing that repentance and baptism have their merit. Each person is admonished that it is the Passover that brought the hope of an eternal inheritance even as the first Passover was the hope of the Jews for a land of promise. And finally, we are to observe this Memorial Passover until the Lord comes again. And so all of our faith is focused upon this celebration and its emblems. With our salvation firmly placed in the total work of Calvary, and out faith fully in the New Covenant, we are not ready to bless the bread and the wine. As Pastor I bless these emblems and I bless those who are committed to the New Covenant. Then breaking off the first piece of unleavened bread and then breaking it further into smaller pieces sufficient to serve those present, I pass the gold bread plate around the table with the words of our Lord: *Take and eat this is my body.* In our Church I bless the one cup of the Lord and then pour from this into smaller Communion cups and these are served by myself as Minister to each Brother, Sister, or Child at the Lord's table. Then with everyone with their Passover cup, I repeat the words of out Lord: *Drink ye all of it for this cup is the New Testament in my blood.* This being concluded. As Pastor I rise and lead in a song of worship and praise. Each are encouraged to say to one another *Happy Lord's Passover.* And then upon all I place the Lord's blessings upon their homes, their family, bless them in their giving in tithes and offerings for the coming year, their jobs, their health, and whatsoever they do in the name of Jesus Messiah, may it be blessed. And then I bless the Church and its work that we may abide in the doctrine of Messiah and should there be any teaching or doctrine not in harmony with that of Jesus we pray his mercy and his grace until that is fully revealed to us so that by faith we may walk fully in the unity of the Word. We then divide the men from the women and prepare for the washing of one another's feet and concluding of the celebration with congregational singing and some times additional worship and preaching. If a service begins after sundown on Passover it can reasonably continue right on till the midnight hour depending upon the number celebrating this great feast of out Lord.

The Passover service has for its entire theme "Remembrance":

Remember when you received the gospel.

Remember when you believed.

Remember when you repented.

Remember when you were baptized.

Remember when you received the Holy Ghost.

Remember when you were saved.

Remember the teachings of Scripture where God showed you the Christian life style.

Each person should contain their testimonies to these areas. If anyone present has sinned against Jesus or his Messianic truth, standards, holiness, the Ministry, or another saint, they should be reconciled, before partaking of the memorial. This is a day to utilize the grace of God. It is a day to extend fellowship to all. This is the Spirit Jesus demonstrated when he imparted the first New Testament Communion.

As in the case with Judas, there may always be someone present who does not intend to live for God. To drink from the cup with a backslid heart is certain destruction.

The Pastor should preach on the Lord's Passover. His text should be confined to exalt Christ and the power of God which the observance brings upon the people of God. He should call for a season of prayer around the altar.

The men and women should gather in separate places for feet washing. They should wash one another's feet. No person is qualified to wash anyone's feet if they are not in harmony and agreement with the Pastor and the Church family.

Having concluded, the Church members should return to the service. The last and final testimony service should take place.

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