(a) Gentile Christian

Passover Haggadah 2012

The Four Questions and  The Four Sons

Leader: The Passover is an important celebration for children. Through it they gain

wisdom and insight into the redemptive nature of God. So at this time the children will

learn the meaning of Passover by asking the traditional four questions. Listen closely

to the questions and make each question a personal challenge.

Why is this night different from all other nights?

In Judaism, there is a teaching story about four Jewish sons.    Here's an outline of a story about 4 Gentile sons.  Each has distinctly different beliefs, and each will be in the future Kingdom of God.

A Gentile at the time of Messiah (perhaps A.D. 35), had 4 sons.

1. One gentile son did not keep the Jewish law, did not know Jesus, did not know the Noahide laws, but this son WAS A LAW UNTO HIMSELF.

2. One Gentile son kept the Noahide Laws.  This son is not a Gentile Proselyte to the law or Gentile Christian. This son is a Noahide.

3. One Gentile son did not know Jesus, but attached himself to Israel, keeping all the Jewish law.  This son was a Gentile proselyte to the law.

4. One Gentile son understood Jesus was the Jewish Messiah.  He Trusted Jesus was YHVH.  He abstained ONLY from 4 things.  This son was grafted into Israel as described in Romans chapter 11. This son is a Gentile Christian.

Each of these sons has a part in the future Kingdom of God. 

In order to avoid confusion, you must SEE and UNDERSTAND the difference between a proselyte to Judaism and a Gentile Christian.  Note that a Gentile could be a Jewish proselyte before the cross - as were some in the wilderness - or after the cross as even today.  However, before the cross, no one, Jew or Gentile, could be a Christian.

IF YOU SAY THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE, YOU (may, depending on your heart) BELITTLE AND BLASPHEME THE SACRIFICE OF Y'SHUAH THE MESSIAH.

To those that reduce The Favor of The God to something common (such as to say familiar, "renewed")

This is what God says:

"A fearful thing to-fall-into hands of-a-living God." - Hebrews 10:31

This is the specific context:

Hebrews 10v28 Some-one having-disregarded (a) law of-Moses, upon two or three witnesses if-dying-off separate-from pities;
10v29 To-how-much of-worse vengeance are-YOU-thinking will-he-be-thought worthy, the (one) having-trodden-down the Son of-the God and having-considered the blood of-the covenant, in which he-was-made-holy, common, and having-insulted-within the Spirit of-the favor?

Why is this night different from all other nights?

BECAUSE, the Israelites were slaves unto Pharaoh in Egypt, and The Eternal our GOD brought them out with His strong arm. Blessed is GOD, Who gave The Children of Israel The Word of GOD (Torah).

             Child: On all other nights we eat

             either leavened or unleavened bread; on this night, why do we eat only unleavened

             bread?

Father: We eat unleavened bread to remember that the children of Israel, in their

 haste to leave Egypt, had to take their bread with them before it had time to rise.

             Child: On all other nights we eat herbs of every kind; on this night, why do we eat

             only bitter herbs?

Father: We eat the bitter herbs to remember how bitter it is to be enslaved.

             Child: On all other nights we do not dip even once; on this night, why do we dip twice?

Father: By dipping we remember life in bondage is bitter, but that even the harshest

              bondage is sweetened by God's promise of redemption.

             Child: On all other nights we eat either sitting or reclining; on this night, why do we

             all recline?

Father: Once we were slaves, but the Lord in His goodness and mercy redeemed us

            with a mighty hand and outstretched arm. We recline to recognize Him for the rest

            He has given to us.

Leader: It is the Lord who brings us each out of Egypt/the World/Sin. It is He alone who redeems

            us. Man cannot save himself. Therefore, in gratitude and recognition, let us recount

            the story of Passover.