Matthew 26:1-16
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Last week we looked at the last part of chapter 25, finishing up the Olivet discourse...
we looked at that passage that talks about the separation of the sheep and the goats and how…
It was talking about the faith people had demonstrated by their care and treatment of other people...
We looked at how it was different then the white throne judgement because of...
Where it takes place
Its place in the divine timeline
it’s audience
the way they were judged...
Remember that many people believe it is a judgement that focuses strictly on the gentiles...
“nations”- v.32
We looked 3 points regarding the reward of the sheep
1. The blessing of the Lord
2. The inheritance into of the kingdom
3. Communion with the hidden God
We also looked at 6 points about the conduct of the sheep:
Feeding the hungry v.35
Watering the thirsty v.35
Housing the stranger v.35
Clothing the naked v.36
Visiting the sick v.36
Coming to the prisoners v.36
And we noted how service is both inside and outside of the church… this passage specifically talks about serving outside the church...
serving the community like they are Jesus...
as a result of what he has done for you!
V.1-5
V.1-5
History:
As we enter into this passage we embark on what is affectionally known as passion week...
for us passion week falls between March 29th and April 5th…
it is the week before Easter Sunday and marks the events leading up to His crucifixion.
Many people believe that Passion gets its name because of the Latin word Passio means “to suffer”.
And the idea of this week is the suffering of Jesus… that is its name...
Here at the beginning of this chapter it tells us that it is two days before passover...
now...
Last year in April we actually studied this passage on the same day it is talking about…
So we are going to go through this passage but touch on some other parts of this passage...
Matthew 26:1 “Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, that He said to His disciples,”
Jesus finished what he had to say about the end times...
there wasn’t anything left out in what Jesus had to teach us about the times to come...
And not only did Jesus finish his Olivet discourse about the end times here… but
He actually finished his public teaching as a whole… this was the last public teaching that Jesus gives.
He taught the people, corrected the religious leaders and prophesied about what was to come and now it was time for him to fulfill his work on the cross...
v.2 “Passover”
Who knows what the passover is?
Exodus 12
A lamb taken in 10th day of 1st month
slaughtered at twilight on 14th day of month
blood applied to the mantle of the door and the door posts
the Lord would see the blood and pass over
the Lord would kill the firstborn of all the land who was not covered under the blood
remove all leaven from house
eat unleavened bread for week
it was a powerful picture of Christ’s atoning work on the cross...
his blood spilled that we may be covered by the blood and the wrath of God for our sins would be settled.
Paul said...
Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
And John the baptist when Jesus came on the scene said...
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
The question for you today is are you covered in the blood?
imagine you are in one of the homes in Egypt, laying on your bed...
Soon the Lord is going to pass by and kill every firstborn...
have you applied the blood onto your doorposts?
Has God passed over your sins?
What does that look like for us today?
The blood is applied today by faith...
Look to Jesus today, believe that he died for your sins, he rose again, and make him the master over your life.
Death comes for us all one day… but are you covered in the blood?
protected under the blood of the lamb
Some people have said there are inconsistencies in the timing of Jesus’ crucifixion...
Why are there inconsistencies in the crucifixion of Jesus and it’s relation to the passover?
The inconsistencies that they are talking about is that...
in the synoptic gospels ( mat, mark, luke) Jesus is crucified after passover, the day after...
but in john’s gospel it seems like Jesus is crucified the day before passover...
This is just a seeming contradiction… in all four gospel accounts it says that Jesus was crucified on the day of preperation:
Matthew 27:62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:14
The Sabbath was a day where the jews could do no work and so everything had to be done the day before… therefore the day before was the “day of preparation”
Sabbath was on Saturday and so the day of prep was Friday...
In John 19:14 it says … “Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover.”
It agrees that it was preparation day like all the other gospels but it simply means that was the preparation day that was happening during the week of passover...
not that it was the day to prepare for the passover meal which was much earlier in the week...
it also says that the jews wanted to eat the passover meal that day but during that week there was a meal every night and so they were going to eat the passover meal for that Friday night not the specific proper passover meal that would happen on the first day of the week.
v.5
why would killing Jesus during the feast cause an uproar among the people?
This was a time of emotional turmoil, a sensitive time as people remembered the passover.
Similarly why so many people get crazy around Christmas time...
they would be at an emotionally unstable state where they were more likely to stone the pharisees if they tried to crucify Jesus...
but because it was Jesus time, they ended up crucifying Him during passover anyways...
v.8
“indignant”
Webster dictionary- “feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy”
Without love and the motivation of love
you become angry easier, annoyed, disgruntled...
Why?
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
If you are indignant and focused on the practical then peter says you are shortsighted… blind… you’ve forgotten and lost sight of the “knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” and “that you were cleansed from old sins”.
You’ve lost sight of the Love.
You’ve lost sight of the Cross the greatest display of that Love.
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
“Why this waste?”
The estimation of Jesus
The waste of worship
the waste of Service
the waste of prayer...
why this waste of time?
why this waste of effort?
why as Christians do we waste our time at church?
why was it not a waste for Mary to pour out her “very costly fragrant oil”.
Why not put our efforts towards something more practical for the kingdom of God?
we could've- “sold for much and given to the poor”
Our role is not just seeking the best practical benefit for our boss Jesus...
Our role involves something much more nuanced and unique...
Love.
Why did I buy my wife flowers on valentines day?
I could have bought her a oil change for her car?
If our only motivation behind doing things is the success of life, the success of ministry or the work of our hands for the glory of God its still devoid of the most important aspect...
Love.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
No matter the tremendous undertaking we do for the Lord if it is lack of this necessary motivation then it is an empty gesture.
Here is a story for you to illustrate the point:
There was once a beautiful young woman, full of joy and peace. She loved to sit by the willow tree’s in the evening and read stories as the sun set and the cool breeze flowed through her hair.
it wasn’t long when the young woman and her husband had a baby…and they named her Autumn.
Autumn was a quite and kind girl who also loved the outdoors and deeply loved her mother …
One day there was a old guard of the kingdom that they lived in… he was a lazy man, always complaining about his life....
One day the guard heard a cry from the nearby forest…
People around him looked at him to do something..
and forced by his responsibility to act began to slowly walk in the direction it came from… muttering something under his breath.
At the same time Autumn who was considerably farther away heard the familiar scream and ran...
When the guard arrived, It was Autumns mother, she had been bitten by a snake under the willow tree... she was cold, breathing fast and shallow… and she didn’t have much time to live...
the guard lifted her up a with a sigh and brought her slowly to the doctor who said that without the snake they could not find the cure to save her…
the tired guard just hung his head and said .. “then there is nothing we can do…”
She was soon to die...
Just then the door burst open… a girl… pale, bloody and limping walked in… she too had been bitten by the snake and she slammed the creature on the table and passed out on the ground.
Autumn in her love for her mother, went down to the willows, found the snake, wrestled it till it had gave up and getting bitten twice in the process, retrieved the creature, and saved her mother’s life...
There is a difference between a person who is forced by duty and responsibly to act and the one who disregards self and circumstance because of love...
Today it is time to consider which one we are?
Do you go along with the church scene because its your duty and responsibility or because you are moved and motivated by a deep love?
Mary in this passage was certainly motivated by the latter and you could see it in the way she approaches Jesus.
It was not the mechanic movements of someone going through the motions but someone who’s life was dripping with gratitude for what He had done… and from a love that is eternal.
v.7
“alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil”
what was the worth of this oil and why?
a whole years wages
she was sacrificing everything...
What was this oil like?
the smell filled the room
v.10
“Trouble”
what does it mean?
Who are we troubling?
Are you troubling yourself?
“Good work”
This is not useless, meaningless or a waste of time
this is our good work...
our true purpose and meaning.
Man, When you give your life to Jesus, poured out as an offering it is never a “waste”
when you offer your life in the service of faith He will never discard it...
That is what happened to me some 9 years ago...
I layed it all down… I surrendered and gave it all
and it was the best decision I could have ever made...
It made my life so full, harder but more beautiful, and covered by the blood...
I was at peace with God!
Opportunity for you to do that today...
V.14-16
V.14-16
Judas Iscariot...
The betrayal of Jesus begins...
Psalm 41:9 “Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.”
Psalm 55:12–14 “For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; Then I could bear it. Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me; Then I could hide from him. But it was you, a man my equal, My companion and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked to the house of God in the throng.”
It is interesting that in John 12:4 it says, “But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said,”.
So it was actually Judas Iscariot who made the accusation that worshipping Jesus was a waste
it is interesting because in John 17:12 it actually calls Judas a “Son of Perdition”-
Perdition meaning destruction or waste...
So Judas Iscariot actually becomes the very thing that He is claiming to save the disciples from...
Waste.
“Son of Waste”
That is a warning to all who would consider the service and praise of the saints as a waste...
you yourself will find yourself slowly falling down a similar path of perdition.
And find yourselves becoming “son’s of waste”
A word of exhortation to you my beloved friends:
Do not waste your life...
Judas wasted his life because he ran from the call of God and threw his life in the toilet for 30 pieced of silver...
you wanna know what you can do with your life apart from Jesus?
30 pieces of silver...
There is your trade, 30 pieces of silver and you get to call the shots.
Judas realized it wasn’t worth it and killed himself a few days later...
Or a life laid down in the service of Christ as my Lord because he died to make me whole...
But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
