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Sixth Sense
Old Bruce Willis movie (1999)!
If you haven’t seen it you’re 20 years too late and I’m going to wreck it for you with no feelings of personal guilt.
Basically you watch the whole movie thinking Bruce Willis is helping this child who sees dead people, only to realise at the end the child really does see dead people and Bruce Willis is actually dead.
Brilliant.
Totally unexpected.
Totally ruined for you if you haven’t already seen the movie.
What we see today in Jesus is a bit of a twist.
One man brings the kingdom of God in himself and we recieve that through faith.
That’s not exactly what we’re expecting.
Certainly it wasn’t what the people of Jesus’ day were expecting.
They were expecting the rebuilding of the nation of Israel.
But actually what comes is a better and more brilliant fulfilment of all the promises of God.
And actually, just like the 6th Sense.
After it’s happened.
After we see who Jesus is and what he does.
Just like after we realise Willis is dead, We can see that if we’d had eyes to see it was there for us to notice the whole time.
OT ends with the Prophets - Judgement and Hope.
The OT ends in anticipation.
Though they may be back in the land, spiritually speaking they are still in exile, waiting for God to return to them and fulfil all the promises of hope the prophet’s have reminded them off.
The last prophet in the OT Malachi says:
How does the NT start?
Mark
Mark tells us that this is John the Baptist
And then Jesus comes and proclaims
The time has come!
The kingdom of God has come near.
Repent and believe.
The hope the prophets foretold is come.
Not by God returning to a box in a rebuilt temple
But by God coming in the flesh.
In John’s gospel we read
“made his dwelling among us” literally tabernacled among us.
God comes to be with us in Jesus.
And it is in Jesus that all that the OT was looking forward to is fulfilled.
Vaughn Roberts
“All the promises of the kingdom of God are fulfilled in Christ; he is God’s people, GOd’s place and God’s rule and blessing.”
Let’s have a look and see how it is that Jesus does this:
God’s People
We’ve seen how God’s people have failed.
Adam in the garden of eden in Gen 1, failed in his role as the man God created in his image to rule.
Kicked out of the garden.
Israel, called to be God’s holy people failed to obey the law and were sent into exile.
Jesus succeeds where Adam and Israel failed:
True Adam
He is a real human being in every way.
He was a baby, he slept, wept, got tired.
He even died.
He has ancestors.
Luke 3 and start of Matthew’s gospel.
But unlike Adam he does not sin.
He never succumbs to temptation.
He is the only one who perfectly obeys God, his Father.
He is therefore the only person to have lived who does not deserve to be banished from God’s presence as we’ve seen happen to humanity time and time again since the garden of eden.
Paul talks about Jesus in these terms in Romans 5.
True Israel
In Matthew’s gospel we read how Jesus flees to Egypt for safety, to avoid being killed by Herod.
Sound like God’s people fleeing to Egypt to avoid dying in a famine?
(Jospeh and his brothers in Genesis).
Matthew says
Jesus is called back to the promised land by God, just as Israel was.
Jesus is then tempted in the wilderness in Matthew 4. Just as Israel was.
Yet unlike Israel who build a golden calf and fail to trust God again and again.
Jesus does not fail.
Then as Jesus returns from the wilderness at the end of Matthew 4.
He calls his first disciples.
He calls 12 disciples.
Sound familiar?
He is making a deliberate statement.
This is the foundation of the new covenant people of God.
Just as the twelve tribes of Israel were the foundation of the Old covenant people of God.
Later in Matthew Jesus says
Matthew 21:43
The people of Israel have continued to reject God.
Just as they have throughout the OT.
God is no longer going to fulfil his promise to Abraham through all of his descendants.
But through one.
Jesus.
And through him will Abraham give birth to a spiritual nation of all tribes and tongues.
Jew or Gentile who trust in Jesus by faith.
Paul says:
God’s place
How does Jesus fulfil this promise of the kingdom?
Remember Adam and Eve in the garden enjoyed God’s presence with them.
So too did the Israelites did in the Tabernacle/Temple.
Jesus is not just the true human being.
He is also the true God.
In Christ, God himself has come near to us.
The true temple/tabernacle
He tabernacled among us.
But also in Jesus’ ministry we see this fleshed out more.
When Jesus clears the temple his is challenged by what authority he cleared the temple of the corruption.
Jesus says
What did Jesus mean?
John helpfully spells it out
Jesus is the temple.
The place where people go to meet with God.
In fact in John 7:37-38 at the festival of booths Jesus says he is the one who will cause living water to flow from those who believe in him.
He is connecting himself to the prophecy of Ezekiel 47.
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