Throughout the life of Christ, He suffered many things, before His public and overt sufferings began. We see His deep grief revealed in the garden of Gethsemane, which was immediately followed by His betrayal and arrest. This betrayal by Judas doubtless added to His grief, and itself caused a grievous, but temporary desertion by the rest of His disciples. But prior to all of this, and in stark contrast to desertion, we see Christ together with His disciples, eating the Passover meal. A highpoint of fellowship together, as they sit with Christ at the table. Let us learn some lessons from these historical occurrences, as we come to the Lord's Table: 1) The Self-Awareness of the Disciple of Christ 2) The Self-Denial of the Disciple of Christ 3) The Self-Preparation of the Disciple of Christ
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Rev. Paul A. Backhurst was born in Cyprus in a British Forces hospital, and grew up in Liverpool in the North West of England. Educated at Liverpool Blue Coat School, Wavertree, he later studied Classics at King's College London. In 2002, he relocated to Nijmegen in the...