#17 PASCHAL FAST ~ For HIS+ HUMILIATION Which HE+ Endured ~ Matthew 26 ~ # 17 Lenten Meditation ~ 3rd Hour Prayer Station

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  For the humiliation HE+ endured for our sakes, we give YOU thanks . . .

Matthew 26

⁵⁰ And JESUS said unto him [ judas ], Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they [ the Temple guard ], and laid hands on JESUS and took HIM+. . .

⁵³ Thinkest thou that I+ cannot now pray to My+ FATHER, and HE shall presently give ME+ more than twelve legions of angels? .  .  .

 

 

⁵⁶ But all this was done,

that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled.

Then all the disciples forsook HIM+, and fled.

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. . . and also, for the answers that HE+ gave to those who accused HIM+ wrongfully. . .

Matthew 27

² And when they had bound HIM+, they led HIM+ away, and delivered HIM+ to Pontius Pilate the governor. . .

¹¹ And JESUS stood before the governor: and the governor asked HIM+, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And JESUS said unto him, Thou sayest.

Heavenly FATHER, we thank YOU for the times HE+ gave no answer at all to His+ accusers . . .

¹² And when HE+ was accused of the chief priests and elders, HE+ answered nothing.

¹³ Then said Pilate unto HIM+, Hearest THOU+ not how many things they witness against THEE+?

¹⁴ And HE+ answered HIM+ to never a word;

insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.

 

John 19

¹⁰ Then saith Pilate unto HIM+,

Speakest THOU+ not unto me?

Knowest THOU+ not that I have power to crucify THEE+ and have power to release THEE+?

¹¹ JESUS answered,

Thou couldest have no power at all against ME+,

except it were given thee from above:

therefore he that delivered ME+ unto thee

hath the greater sin.

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Acts 8

³² The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

³³ In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

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Isaiah 53

⁷ HE+ was oppressed, and HE+ was afflicted, yet HE+ opened not His+ mouth: HE+ is brought as

a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so HE+ openeth not His+ Mouth.

 ⁸ HE+ was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His+ generation? for HE+ was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was HE+ stricken.

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Early Christians’ 3^rd Hour Prayer ( 9 a.m. )

at the time of the Morning Sacrifice in the Temple

Heavenly FATHER, we come before YOU at this 3^rd hour of the ancient day, the hour of the Morning Sacrifice in the Temple . . . that same hour that Your Beloved SON+, the LAMB+ of GOD that taketh away the sin of the world, was offered up on the Cross for our sakes.

We thank YOU for the Great Drops of BLOOD HE+ shed in the garden of Gethsemane, after praying all through the night . . . then facing the men who had come with swords and clubs to violently take HIM+.

Thank YOU, O Holy FATHER, that Your Beloved SON+, as the perfect  SON+ of GOD, revealed Your power,  saying “ I AM, ” causing the armed band of men to fall to the ground .

Yet, HE+ did not use this great power for HIMSELF+, revealing HIMSELF+ to be the obedient and perfect SON+ of Man . . . still loving His+ disciples to the uttermost, HE+ requested the armed men to “Let them go,” and thus, His+ frightened disciples could flee away.

For the humiliation HE+ endured for our sakes, we give YOU thanks . . . and also, for the answers that HE+ gave to those who accused HIM+ wrongfully.

Heavenly FATHER, we thank YOU for the times HE+ gave no answer at all to His+ accusers, as a Lamb led to the slaughter and as a sheep before his shearers is silent.

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We have MUCH to thank HIM+ for;

Have our thanks been adequate today ?