“Enter into Christ”Main point: We enter into the death of Christ and hear the last words he said.INTRODUCTIONAs we walk through Holy Week we step in the footprints left by Jesus as he lived his final days on Earth. We tread where he has trod. Even in his death.We say along with St. Paul in the 3rd chapter of his letter to the Philipians…I want to know Christ and share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him. Our salvation and the reason we trudge through the events of Holy Week is to know Christ, to get into Christ, to be in Christ. And such is our opportunity tonight.Friends, I invite you into Christ tonight. Earlier today by walking through the stations of the cross. Tonight through hearing his passion. Through contemplating the cross as it processes before our eyes. Like putting on new clothes or being welcomed into a dinner party.I invite you to enter into him now as we read his passion.[SING GOSPEL ACCLAMATION]GOSPELJohn 18 and 191 [Jesus] went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place because Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” 5 They answered, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus replied, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they stepped back and fell to the ground. 7 Again he asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” 8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these people go.” 9 This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken, “I did not lose a single one of those whom you gave me.”

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