Fourth Drink... The Cup Of Praise!

Continue from my previous post on Third Drink… The Cup of Redemption, I continue to see Jesus' perfect execution of His Father's will in everything He had done... From the fourth drink point of view, this drink is supposed to be the Cup of Praise and it is drank while joining in responsive praise for various ways in which GOD has blessed the Jewish people and GOD had Himself their God and Jewish people His own people. The Passover meal is to be ended in praise with this drink until the next year's celebration.

From the account of the Gospel of Mark chapter 14 verse 26, it suggests that our Lord Jesus' special Seder that night did not include the fourth drink, the Cup of Praise. But for the previous two Passover meals with His disciples during His ministry on earth, He observed their custom by ending the Passover Seder with the Cup of Praise. In the Last Supper, as the name suggested, He adjourned straight to Gethsemane with Peter, James and John where He wrestled in prayer about the cup of suffering He was about to drink.

Mark 14: 26 ~ When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

He skipped the Cup of Praise and chose to drink the cup of suffering so that we can drink the Cup of Praise. He chose to drink the cup of suffering so that we Gentile can also become His people and He becomes our God. With this drink, we Gentile can also drink in responsive praise for the ways our Lord Jesus has bless us... He had made everything possible... and with that, He continued on with His Father's will to obsolete the old and bring forth the new...

Hebrews 8:6 ~ But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
Hebrews 8:7 ~ For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
Hebrews 8:8 ~ Because finding fault with them, He says: "BEHOLD, THE DAYS ARE COMING, SAYS THE LORD, WHEN I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH—
Hebrews 8:9 ~ NOT ACCORDING TO THE COVENANT THAT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS IN THE DAY WHEN I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND TO LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT; BECAUSE THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN MY COVENANT, AND I DISREGARDED THEM, SAYS THE LORD.
Hebrews 8:10 ~ FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS IN THEIR MIND AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
Hebrews 8:11 ~ NONE OF THEM SHALL TEACH HIS NEIGHBOR, AND NONE HIS BROTHER, SAYING, 'KNOW THE LORD,' FOR ALL SHALL KNOW ME, FROM THE LEAST OF THEM TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.
Hebrews 8:12 ~ FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE."
Hebrews 8:13 ~ In that He says, "A NEW COVENANT," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

He drank the cup of suffering so that we can drink the Cup of Praise!