Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin
Deepen with Pastor Joby Martin

The Blood of Jesus Speaks a Better Word - Matthew S7E1

September 28, 2026

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The Blood of Jesus Speaks a Better Word

The night before his crucifixion, Jesus took a meal that every Jew had been celebrating for centuries—the Passover—and told his disciples that it had actually been about him all along. As Pastor Joby Martin puts it, imagine opening Christmas presents and someone says, "All of this is actually about me." That's the level of shock the disciples would have felt. The Passover commemorated Israel's rescue from slavery in Egypt, the most quoted event in the Old Testament. Jesus was saying that the lamb, the blood on the doorposts, the unleavened bread—everything had been pointing forward to what was about to happen on a cross.

The Meal That Transcends Time

The Passover meal was symbol-rich because the Israelites didn't have personal copies of Scripture. Every element served as a tactile reminder of God's work. The unleavened bread signified urgency—when death comes, you need to be ready to move. The wine represented the blood of the lamb smeared on doorposts. And here's a detail that deepens the symbolism: the way Hebrew homes were constructed, the doorposts would have formed a crossbeam, and the blood would have been painted in the shape of a cross.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:00) **The Blood of Jesus Speaks a Better Word** - The episode opens with the core thesis: the blood of Jesus speaks a better word over your life than your past, sin, and shame.
  • 2 (00:29) **The Passover to the Lord’s Supper** - The hosts begin discussing the connection between the Passover and the institution of the Lord’s Supper.
  • 3 (03:49) **Tactile Reminders and “Remembering”** - The conversation shifts to the importance of physical, symbolic actions for remembering God’s work.
  • 4 (10:12) **The Sacramental Pattern** - The hosts identify a four-part pattern in Jesus’ actions.
  • 5 (11:20) **Poor in Spirit vs. Assurance** - A discussion on the tension between being “poor in spirit” and having confidence in salvation.
  • 6 (13:50) **Faith Tested and One-Way Love** - The conversation explores the nature of tested faith and God’s unconditional love.
  • 7 (16:03) **The Prayer for Breaking and the Value of Suffering** - The hosts discuss the dangerous but powerful prayer for God to “bless us or break us.”

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Guests on this episode

Joby Martin

Show Notes

What does the Last Supper reveal about the cross, and what can we learn from Jesus and His disciples in the hours leading up to His arrest?

In this episode of the Deepen Podcast, Pastor Joby Martin and Vinke unpack Matthew 26, connecting the Passover to the Lord’s Supper, the disciples’ failures to the faithfulness of Jesus and the Garden of Gethsemane to our need for prayer and dependence on God.

From understanding the bread and the cup to walking in freedom from sin and shame, discover how the blood of Jesus speaks a better word over our lives and why our failures do not get the final word.

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00:29 How does the Passover connect to the Lord’s Supper?    Pasted text
04:59 What does it mean that Jesus’ body was broken for us?    Pasted text
11:19 How can we be poor in spirit while having confidence in our salvation?    Pasted text
23:22 Would you want Jesus to warn you about an upcoming failure?    Pasted text
26:39 How does Jesus care for and restore His disciples after failure?    Pasted text
29:38 What does the cross say about our sin and shame?    Pasted text
35:07 How does Jesus give comfort to His disciples before they fail?    Pasted text
37:24 What does Gethsemane reveal about the crushing Jesus experienced?    Pasted text
38:41 What does it tell us that Jesus asked people to pray for Him?    Pasted text
47:36 What does Jesus mean when He says, “Watch and pray”?    Pasted text
48:35 Can mountaintop moments cause us to neglect prayer?    Pasted text
53:46 Have you ever fallen asleep in a fight?
56:06 What does Jesus mean when He says, “The hour is at hand”?
59:09 How should we respond when Jesus says the time is now?

📌 Supplemental Resources From This Week:
• Sermon
• Death to Life Intro
• This Week’s Full Service
• Matthew Season 7

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