SEASONS - SPRING STARTS WITH A FAMILY PASSOVER CELEBRATION - (PART SIX)

THE FOURTH CUP -THE CUP OF THE KINGDOM

We pour the fourth cup – The Cup of the Kingdom – but we do not drink it.

 

This is traditionally a time of song. 

We usually sing a song called the Dayenu. 

Dayenu means “it would have been enough."

Is God enough for you? 

Are you content with the things that God has put before you?

 

Are you content to live out your life growing and blooming in the place where He has planted you to grow? 

Dayenu is about contentment with God’s will for your life. 

It is about being happy and joyful and thankful for whatever blessings God chooses to provide for us.

 

It is about not wanting more than He intends for us.

 

It is about being content with His will.

DAYENU

Had He brought us out of Egypt but not split the sea before us,
brought us out of Egypt, well then da-ye-nu
split the sea before us, well then da-ye-nu
fed us with the manna, well then da-ye-nu
brought us to Mount Sinai, well then da-ye-nu
given us commandments, well then da-ye-nu
led us into Israel, well then da-ye-nu
given us the prophets, well then da-ye-nu
built for us the Temple, well then da-ye-nu.

Had He split the sea before us but not fed us in the desert,

Had He fed us with the manna but not brought us to Mount Sinai,

Had He brought us to Mount Sinai but not given us commandments,

Had He given us commandments but not led us into Israel,

Had He led us into Israel but not given us the prophets,

Had He given us the prophets but not built for us the Temple,

Had He built for us the Temple but not promised the Messiah,

What ever The LORD choses to do for us – it is always enough!

I love how the word is portrayed in this video production called:

DAYENU

BY

THE FOUNTAINHEADS

It is copied from You-Tube here for you.  Enjoy!

When The Disciples had drank the third cup, they sang a hymn, and they went out into the Mount of Olives. 
The fourth cup was never drunk, not by Jesus and perhaps not by His disciples. 

From the upper room Jesus went out of the city where He spent time in prayer at The Garden of Gethsemane. 

The name “Gethsemane” means “oil press” in Hebrew.  

“Oil” is used in the Bible to symbolize the Holy Spirit, it may be said that the garden was where “The Spirit of God was crushed.” 

Here Jesus was betrayed and arrested. 

The next morning Jesus, battered and bruised, dehydrated and exhausted, was taken in front of Pontius Pilate. 

Jesus was tried and condemned to scourging and crucifixion. 

The soldiers mocked Him, spit on Him, and beat Him. 

They struck Him with a heavy leather whip again and again across His shoulders, back and legs and head. 

They braided flexible branches with long thorns and thrust them into His scalp.

“And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet.  They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. 

And sitting down they watched him there.  And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

The fourth cup, the Cup of the Kingdom, reminds us that Jesus did not drink the wine offered to Him as He was dying. 

Let us not drink of the fourth cup. 

Let us wait to have this special cup with our Savior. 

 After Christ’s return we shall partake with Him in His physical presence – in the Kingdom. 

BLESSED BE YOU, LORD OUR GOD, KING OF THE UNIVERSE, WHO HAS SHOWN US A GLIMPSE OF YOUR INFINITE GRACE AND MERCY.  THANKS BE TO YOU FOR YOUR SON, OUR ETERNAL REDEEMER AND SAVIOR, THE TRUE AND PERFECT LAMB.

Our Family Passover Seder was concluded.

And All Said:

          NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM!!!!!