Did Jesus ever do karaoke?

Big Ideas

• Mark 14:26, Psalm 113-118
• We see little snippets of God’s character in Jesus’ life
• Jesus sings
• This is how Jesus chooses to spend his last night, singing hymns with his friends
• Redemption started as a place that was safe for cynics and doubters (it still is). For a lot of us, it’s scarier to sing, to pray, to be vulnerable in our joy
• Traditionally, Jews sang Psalm 113-118. This is a good guess for the songs Jesus sang on this night.
• They say “Praise Yahweh” over and over
• Things were dark and hard, but they still sang Praise Yahweh
• These are songs of resistance
• In this moment, even if I don’t feel it, I believe God’s steadfast love endures forever.
• They sang with gusto, “this is the day the lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad”
• We feel things and say things in worship that we don’t think or say the rest of the week
• We are singing WITH Jesus

Questions

• Read these Psalms together
• What would it be like to sing these songs with Jesus?
• What does your heart grab on to in these psalms today?
• Challenge yourself if you don’t think you’re a singer. Apparently Jesus thinks you need to do this too.
• What are things you sing or think in worship that you don’t the rest of the week?
• What would change if you felt like you were singing WITH Jesus?
• Do you feel like you need this practice of singing hymns?