The Messiah and His Disciples
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Introduction
Introduction
Back in Matthew...
Last teaching / discourse was chapter 13, parables of the Kingdom.
53 When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there.
So, now narrative, people coming to terms with Jesus, the king of the kingdom, will those hearing Jesus come to the king? Will they enter the kingdom?
18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”
Who will be your teacher? (1-12)
Who will be your teacher? (1-12)
Demand for a sign… (1-4)
Demand for a sign… (1-4)
They can interpret the weather, but not the times!
Why does Jesus call them wicked and adulterous? Jesus takes up language similar to Moses relating to unfaithful Israel during the Exodus.
1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. 2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. 3 I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! 4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. 5 They are corrupt and not his children; to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.
It has come before - Mat 12:38 “38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.””
And there, as here, Jesus says the only sign they will get is the sign of Jonah.
39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Don’t listen to blind guides… (5-12)
Don’t listen to blind guides… (5-12)
5 When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. 6 “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 7 They discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.”
13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Yeast - Mat 13:33 “33 He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.””
Here though, yeast is part of a warning for his disciples.
Feeding of of the five thousand and the four thousand… Jesus feeds his sheep, his people… what is their food? The very words that come from his mouth!
Listen to the Messiah
Listen to the Messiah
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
Messiah… Psalm 2:6-7 “6 “I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.” 7 I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father.”
2 Samuel 7:12-14 “12 When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 14 I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.”
Son of the living God… in contrast to the so-called gods of the world, the idols… God is living, he is active, he is involved, he creates, he promises, he fulfils, he is working to bring salvation… Jesus is not the son of some worthless, inactive, dead, or mythological god, no he is the son the of the living God.
If the Pharisees and the Sadducees had their eyes and ears open, instead of being calloused, they too would see Jesus as Peter did… but this was a divine revelation...
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
Two views… our perspective and God’s… the fundamental perspective though will always be God’s. He is sovereign!
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So, in contrast to the blind guides, the pharisees and saducees, listen to the Messaiah, the Son of the living God!
Our blind guides…
those who replace Jesus with other ‘teachers’,
those who replace the grace and the mercy of God with merit, works, inner fulfilment, a religious pathway,
those who replace the word of God with the words of men, new teachings or even old ones that do not adhere to the word of God
those who seek their own glory rather than the glory of God, lifting their own name up, rather than the name of Jesus Christ
Is there anyone else we should listen to?
Jesus establishes his apostles to teach his message...
18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” 20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
Rock? Peter? The confession of Christ? Christ himself?
6 I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Mt Sinai / Horeb is the rock from which God spoke to Moses, from which God provided for his people Israel.
Jesus is the rock from which God speaks to his disciples and continues to speak to his people.
So, Peter would be the ‘rock-let’, a small rock pointing to the Rock.
Church? Denomination? Anglican? Baptist? Roman Catholic? Christians in Culburra Beach? Assembly of Jesus’ people?
10 The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.
Jesus would gather his people around the rock, himself, through the preaching of teaching of the apostles, preaching and teaching that is focused on Jesus himself.
19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
20 “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
The Key is the Message of the King, the gospel, it either opens or closes...
7 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
The heart of the Message
The heart of the Message
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” 23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
28 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”