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Luke 22

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 3:09PM

Luke 22 is the climax that leads to the crucifixion of Christ. It covers everything from Jesus’ last Passover meal with His disciples to His arrest and mock trial before the religious leaders. It ends just a few hours before His death on the cross. It’s easy and familiar to look at this chapter from our perspective, which in truth makes it very difficult for us to understand the reality of the situation. The Passion of Christ movie is a sobering reality check for each of us as it graphically displays the drama and horror of the last 12 or so hours of Jesus’ life. The suffering of Christ is more than we could ever imagine. I often think, “What if I was in Jesus’ place? Would I be able to do what He did?” My answer is always no. But I’m not asked to take His place – He took mine.

Let’s look at this from a different point of view. It’s actually the perspective that more closely relates to our own. What’s going on with the disciples? What were they thinking? Their story is quite interesting. As far as the disciples go, this was not their finest hour. Actually, it was their worst. This was their greatest moment of cluelessness. I don’t think they had any idea what was happening. Even after multiple warnings, they had no clue. This is the viewpoint I best relate to.

One of the greatest traps I find myself in is familiarity. Being familiar with something sounds like a good thing – and it is, but then that’s what makes it so dangerous. Familiarity is when my guard is at its lowest. I’m not careful and the enemy can attack without warning – or at least I don’t see the warning.

This is where the disciples were. They were neck-deep in familiarity. The Passover was a religious celebration they had participated in their entire lives – and so did everyone else around them. There was a truth and purpose behind it, but had they forgotten some of it? How much of it was just a ritual to them? Think about how Christmas is for us. Ok, so we recognize it being the birthday of Jesus, but think about all the other add-ons that we do. How many of us know why we have Christmas trees? Where did that come from? If you don’t know, why do you do it? We do it because we’ve always done it – it’s familiar – and familiar is comfortable.

Well, this Passover was different because the disciples were with Jesus and it was only their third Passover with Him. That’s true, but they were up to at least 1,095 days with Him non-stop. And it was intense – lesson after lesson, miracle after miracle, sermon after sermon, parable after parable. Over 1,095 days. Familiarity had set in. Look at what happens at the Passover meal. The meal is normal, but then Jesus changes a few things. He talks about it being His last Passover meal, I’m about to suffer, this is my body, this is my blood, one of you is about to betray me. Some pretty serious items, but what do the disciples end up talking about – which of them is going to be the greatest?! What? Were they not just listening to what Jesus was saying? Oh, they heard it. But they were familiar with it. “Just another one of those parables about Him suffering over something… blah, blah, blah.” They were clueless.

It continues. Jesus tells Peter that Satan wants to sift him like wheat. That sounds serious. Peter basically says bring it on, but Jesus says I don’t think you’re listening to me. Jesus tells them to get their necessities together and be ready to go, but all they hear is, “Get your sword ready.” Peter’s ready to die for Christ in a battle, but that’s not what Jesus is preparing him for. Dying in battle would have been easy compared what was in store for these guys. They still thought this was all about the physical. Jesus told them over and over about the spiritual, but they were clueless.

They go to the garden late at night to pray, which they were familiar with by the way, and Jesus asks them to stay awake and pray. He goes to pray and then returns to find them asleep – multiple times. Jesus’ intensity had to be obvious – HE WAS SWEATING BLOOD! I’ve never seen anyone sweat blood before and I think I would be quite alarmed. I don’t think I would be sleeping. I would be scared. But not these guys. They were cool. They were veterans. They were VERY familiar with all the Jesus stuff – walking on water, feeding the 5,000, raising Lazarus from the grave, calming the winds, showing the evil spirits who’s boss, sweating blood, on and on…no big deal…He’ll be fine, whatever…it’s been a long day, I’m tired. Once again, they were clueless.

They woke up when Jesus was arrested! But they still had no idea what was about to happen. No way! Jesus die? Are you kidding? Peter was still ready to die in battle. He cuts off someone’s ear, but Jesus puts a stop to it. Peter continues. He’s like a spy, hanging out in the shadows of the crowd (the same crowd that came out with the chief priests to arrest him), in position, being Jesus’ wingman, ready for another opportunity to strike. He is so intent on being in the right place at the right time and staying under cover that he completely forgets what Jesus said only minutes earlier. When someone predicts that you are going to do the opposite of what you are intensely wanting to do, you do everything you can to make sure that person is NOT correct. I think you can easily say that Peter was very competitive and very serious about doing what he says he’s going to do. Yet he was even more intense on not blowing his position to fight for his leader. We can ask Peter when we get to Heaven, but I don’t think he denied Jesus three times just to avoid arrest. I think he still wanted to fight and he did not want to lose his position to protect his leader. His mind was still on the physical. He was clueless.

The disciples were confident that they knew what was up. They were very familiar with what they knew and they took it for granted – so much that many of the words of Jesus were going in one ear and out the other. This night turned their world upside-down. They had no idea what was happening. They were in shock. They were suddenly thrown into a very unfamiliar world – and their lives were never again the same.

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