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God’s Own Interest
When our Lord Jesus asked His disciples in , “Who do you say that I am?”
Matthew 16:
Jesus explained that this truth was revealed to Peter from His Father who is in heaven.
As Jesus continued the conversation, He came to verse 21 where Matthew explains that things changed in the teaching.
And I want you to look at the exchange and notice something very significant.
Matthew 16:21-23
Peter was not thinking about the “God’s concerns, but man’s.”
He was not concerned with God’s Own Interest.
This was the very problem in the Upper Room.
The disciples had faulty perspectives.
They were looking at Christ’s death from their own viewpoint, giving little thought to God’s perspective of the death of Christ.
They were weak in faith, selfish, and they wanted Jesus to stay with them and take care of them.
When it comes down to it, they weren’t much different than the multitudes who followed Jesus to be fed.
For the disciples, it was their problems, their expectations, their hopes, their ambitions, and their desires.
Their desire was humanistic of sorts, but certainly not desiring the will of God.
We tend to respond the same way when bad things happen, especially with the death of loved ones.
We may wonder, “Lord, why did you take my loved one?”
But when a Christian dies, sorrow is normal, tears are healthy, God did not make us not to grieve — but we are not to grieve like the world grieves.
We know that the death of a Christian is the ultimate release from the body of sin, eternal joy, and an uninhibited view of God’s glory.
Jesus’ death on the other hand, was no release from a body of sin.
He was sinless, but ravished by the curse of sin.
He bore the sins of the guilt of His people, “who for the joy set before Him endured the cross.”
He would be under the wrath of God, a payment for the sins of His people of all time.
He suffered triumphantly as we saw this morning.
And He anticipated it all willingly in obedience to His Father.
As the cross drew near, He revealed to His disciples the fullness of God’s Own Interest.
John 14:
It must have been a jolt when Jesus said, “If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.”
If they had been more concerned with God’s interest, rather than man’s they might have learned the reasons for His joy.
4 triumphs won at the cross.
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He would be Fully Glorified.
“I am going to the Father.”
We do understand that before His incarnation, our Lord Jesus is in utter perfection of eternal glory.
He was in perfect fellowship with His Father with a perfection and intensity we cannot possibly comprehend.
But He left His glory behind and came to earth, not as a conquering king, but as a baby born in a humble stable.
He lived modestly.
He suffered hatred, even from the religious leaders.
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It’s incomprehensible to our human understanding that the Lord of Glory was willing to humble Himself so completely.
Philippians 2:
He condescended to share His riches with us.
2 Corinthians
Because the Son humbly obeyed the Father, Paul continues in
He is to be worshipped as God specifically because He humbled Himself, He is exalted to the uttermost and ultimately every knee will bow before Him and confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
There has been much confusion and twisting of verse 28.
He did not refer to His essential being as the Father being greater, but rather His role as humbled servant.
He subjugated Himself to the Father’s will.
“Your will be done.”
This is why He told Philip, “Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father.”
He approached the cross knowing what lay ahead.
He knelt and prayed to His Father in
He was looking ahead to the full expression of His glory and so found joy as He approached the cross.
Listen to what He told His disciples in .
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The Truth would be Documented.
He knew that even the 11 didn’t fully believe everything about Him.
And He did one thing to strengthen their faith — He Predicted events.
One prophecy after another came true.
It happened just like He said.
Fulfilled prophecy is the greatest proof that God’s Word is true.
Only someone who has an agenda to reject the truth dismisses the fulfillment of Prophecy.
There is deep significance in His words.
The translators add a word at the end or the verse.
They add the word “He.”
The text literally states — “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am.”
He was using the name God gave to Moses at the burning bush — I am.
From Peter’s denial of Christ, to all of them leaving Him to Judas.
Think of what He told them about Judas Iscariot.
Their minds must have flashed back as they sat in the room at Pentecost thinking about it all, when the final promise to send the divine Helper and suddenly He came.
And listen to Peter.
Acts 2:14-
One by one every promise Jesus gave His disciples came to pass.
The fulfillment of His prophecies fully documented the truth that He is God.
Christ being fully glorified and the truth being documented reveal God’s Own Interest.
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Satan would be finally defeated.
John 14:
The devil tempted Adam to sin and fall into a state of sin and rebellion.
Christ had to defeat Satan decisively and He told them this was what He would do.
Notice He refers to the devil as “the ruler of the world.”
That’s because the world is Satan’s domain and it’s his evil system in place as the whole world is oppressed by the ancient serpent.
Jesus had overcome Satan in God’s provision to flee to Egypt and escape Herod’s slaughter.
He overcame Satan by resisting the three great temptations.
He overcame the Devil by not reviling against the wicked religious leaders and the Roman government.
From the night of His birth to the night of His death, Satan fought against Christ.
Finally, His death resolved the ancient conflict that began with Lucifer’s rebellion against God.
The outcome would be decided on a Roman cross.
He went to the cross knowing it was the final blow that would wipe out Satan’s power.
When the mob came to arrest Him in the Garden, Jesus asked them,
This dominion of darkness or power of darkness is reference to Satan.
Jesus understood the cross as the conflict with Satan, fulfilling the prophecy of
Christ became man with the express purpose of destroying the devil and his works.
That was God’s Own Interest.
And since the cross, the power of Satan has been broken.
This was cause for His disciples to be joyful not grievous.
So, His leaving them would bring victory over the devil and joy to their hearts.
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