The Turning Point
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Leicester re-lockdown - Vox Pop - ‘They’re picking on us’
The Greek Tragedy - prologue - complication
Turning Point
In the disciples’ understanding & faith
In the geographical direction of travel
Necessary preparation for what He knew lay ahead
An Indictment
An Indictment
Against the disciples
Mathematics - long division
Leaven
Exchange in the boat - feeding 5000, 4000 - baskets left
Hardness of heart, again
Ignorance - superficiality - dogmatism - legalism - literalism
This is superficiality - jigsaw pieces individually - not assembling it
9 questions - addressed to the whole person - hearts, eyes, ears, minds/memories
Pause for thought - ourselves?
An Illustration
An Illustration
Men like trees, walking
Power failure?
Establishes authenticity
Deliberatly placed
Peter is about to see something for the first time
But we immediately learn he isn’t yet seeing perfectly
Pause for thought - conversions - ‘testimonies’ - spiritual progress
All Jesus’s work
Phil 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
An Insight
An Insight
The method - vox pop first - then brings it home
Christ - Messiah - Anointed One
OT: prophets, priests, kings were anointed
God’s covenant with David, 2 Sam 7
And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
“As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”
I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
Messianic expectations
Not associated with the suffering Servant
Hence command to silence
Another Indictment
Another Indictment
First of 3 predictions of the cross
Shadow has loomed from early on eg Mk 2:20 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Peter’s rebuke
Jesus’ response - a bit harsh?
Ralph Martin: “For Peter, the indication that the Son of man will die is unthinkable. For Jesus, it is inevitable’
Paul in 1 Cor 1:23 ‘we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles’
Discipleship - costly, sacrificial, selfless
Application
Application
The gospel question: ‘Who do you say that I am?’
‘What think ye of Christ? is the test/To judge both your state and your scheme/You cannot be right in the rest/Unless you think rightly of him
John Butler on You Tube - ‘Are these flagstones Jesus? Are the trees Jesus?’
The decision we make has eternal repercussions
Mk 8:38
‘…me and my words’
‘I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father except through me’ John 14:6
1 Cor 6:9-11 Aug 2021 ed Evangelicals Now: Evensong from Selwyn College, Cambridge - omitted certain sins it is unfashionable to name as such
"Jesus! And Shall It Ever Be"
by Joseph Grigg, c. 1722-1768
1. Jesus! and shall it ever be
A mortal man ashamed of Thee?
Ashamed of Thee, whom angels praise,
Whose glories shine through endless days?
2. Ashamed of Jesus? Sooner far
Let evening blush to own a star.
He sheds the beams of light divine
O'er this benighted soul of mine.
3. Ashamed of Jesus? Just as soon
Let midnight be ashamed of noon.
'Tis midnight with my soul till He,
Bright Morning Star, bids darkness flee.
4. Ashamed of Jesus, that dear Friend
On whom my hopes of heaven depend?
No; when I blush, be this my shame,
That I no more revere His name.
5. Ashamed of Jesus? Yes, I may
When I've no guilt to wash away,
No tear to wipe, no joy to crave,
No fears to quell, no soul to save.
6. Till then--nor is the boasting vain--
Till then I boast a Savior slain.
And oh, may this my portion be,
That Christ is not ashamed of me!