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His Purpose Revealed.
Good morning everyone!
I hope you’ve had a good week, it’s already the middle of October, each day passes quickly, doesn’t it.
I am reminded my friends that time is running out.
We all know someone who is ill, we know perhaps a person that has passed recently.
The Bible tells us in Job 14, verses 1 and 2
So we know that we are here for a little while, and then we are gone.
So I want to ask you the question… What are you doing while here?
Will you live your life for Jesus or will you live it for something else.
I sense a urgency to tell people that our time is running out… make the most of your time for Jesus.
And this fits for us today… in Matthew 16 we find Jesus in the passage right after the great confession, and there He shares the purpose of His coming and when the disciples hear it, its not popular to say the least.
But Jesus shares the urgency of His mission and friends, if Jesus reminds us that the mission is urgent, then we need to get busy.
So lets look at our text for today....
So let me point something out to you as we set the stage for this message.
The Bible tells us this at the beginning of verse 21 “ from that time....”
What is important about this.... this marks the stage for a shift in Jesus public ministry.
From teaching and going place to place preaching and teaching about the Kingdom of God, he now begins to say more about His up coming death, burial and resurrection,
It is all building toward the climax of that 3rd day....
I would remind you, our lives are moving forward, the end is coming… time is short.. we need to get busy.
So with that in mind my friends, let’s consider 3 thoughts.. the first one is this...
1. Jesus Purpose Revealed....
Up until this point in time, God has not allowed Jesus, His Son to reveal His purpose in coming into the world.
Jesus has kept this hidden from all, even the disciples.
Past Old Testament prophecies pointed the way, sharing the role of God’s Messiah, revealing His purpose when He came into the world.
But mankind didn’t understand the true nature of those purposes in their fallen state or nature.
Their own selfishness, and sinful nature has distorted and mis interpreted God plan.
And we get that, they as a people have suffered the oppression of invading nations, they have suffered because of their sin.
They were hoping and waiting for the Messiah to deliver them.
But here, Jesus begins to reveal that purpose.
What the Messiah has come to do in this world for the jewish community and also for the rest of the world.
So look back at the text...
So lets break down what’s being said here… The text says
So from this time..., here is the shift in His ministry in that while He is still teaching, healing and serving many, Jesus will begin His movement toward the cross, His death, burial and resurrection.
Then it says....
Jesus began to show them, referring to his disciples.
It’s not hard to predict that people wanted him dead, but Jesus didn’t come just to be killed, no He came to give his life as a ransom for sin.
Jerusalem is important, to go there is just the opposite of where the disciples would have gone.
The religious leaders are there, and its is there where the hostility against him would increase.
But its the city of God, the temple is there in this city and falling back to last week, remember Jesus was referred to as a Priest after the order of Melchizedek.
If you remember, Melchizedek was a king and priest of Salem, during the days of Abraham, Salem is the ancient name of Jerusalem.
Jesus is both king and priest of His Kingdom forever.
So he was established as a King and Priest
But Jesus greatest lessons would soon go beyond anything that those around him might think or consider.
The Fullness of His Mission...
Finally at the end of verse 21 we see, his purposes proclaimed to their fullest...
“…that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hand of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
So consider this… When you look back at all the instances of sin in the Old Testament, Sin has consequences....
Sin has to be punished, sin always divides and pulls people away from God, Sin always stains and darkens the life of the person.
Sin always leads to death.
Just as a lamb or young ram was offered in the OT for the sins of the people, soon Jesus would be offered up freely for the sins of the entire world, past, present and future.
It would be a necessary death to atone for the world to once again, His mission meant He would be the lamb of God like John the Baptist who takes away the sins of the world.
His purposes would make mankind whole, well and acceptable in front of of the Lord or God.
Jesus will be that sacrifice for sin… This would be the purpose of God’s only Son.
But honestly are the disciples to hear this news?
It was difficult to hear this....
So lets look at this second thought today...
2. Peter’s Rebuke....
I can only imagine how confused the disciples must have felt when Jesus begins to reveal the true purpose of the Son of God.
That He must suffer, die and rise again, didn’t seem to fit with the idea of the Messiah ...
How could Jesus die, they were just getting started and they were just beginning to understand His purposes and power
Many thought He would establish His kingdom right then… that they would be delivered very soon…
The people longed for that, they hoped and searched for that… and now they had found the Messiah and he tells them something that will just blow their minds..
What they didn’t understand was sin, and the power of sin in this world was a greater adversary than Rome and its oppression.
Man needed redemption, freedom from sin and the power of God living in them more than their next breath...
So as Jesus shares the purposes of God, Peter steps in very quickly to speak to Jesus.
Lets go back again to our text...
Peter, you know Peter, He always speaks up so quickly, and He shares kind of the collective thoughts of the disciples… He is bold enough to speak up.
But here is the problem, You know, it’s really un heard of for the disciple to correct His teacher, let alone rebuke him… but this is exactly what Peter does...
So Peter kind of crosses the boundaries if you will
He took Jesus aside.... Peter has just confessed who Jesus was, the was the Christ, the Son of the living God in verse 16… but here Peter does a complete about-face if you will…
Peter says “...Never.....
It is like how could you ever say such a thing, you cannot die, you cannot suffer… You haven’t helped us yet, you haven’t set us free.
You’re the Messiah for crying out loud.
You are the King, This shall never happen to you....
We need to get started on the kingdom building.,,
Lets me ask you a question, have you every felt like Peter?
Maybe you always having an opinion before really understanding the will and purposes of God.
My friends in their own desires, their own perceptions as to what the Messiah is to do, they forgot the OT has prophesied about this....
Isa 53:5 says
And then
We see similar texts in Psalm 22 and Ezekiel chapters 12 and 13..
It was foretold that the Messiah would come and suffer in the care of sinful men.
These were the plans of God since before the foundation of the world.
How wonderful to know that God’s plans have always been about redeeming man from their sin, from their lost and separated condition.
God’s plans were always about us!
And right now, Peter says this will never be....
Wait a minute… that’s not the plan, Jesus!
I would like you to stop and think for a minute my friends...
How would you feel if God said you have to hit the bottom before You can see deliverance…
Well, we would probably say, are you sure Lord?
I really don’t understand what you are saying right...
But I would challenge you, consider this…
Do you trust God?
Do you believe He can see you through any storm?
Do you believe He will never leave you or forsake you?
Do you know He loves you?
My friends I say this to tell you the ways of God are perfect, things happen in this life but regardless of what the world tries to hand out, His ways, His response, His actions are perfect!
He will deliver me according to His will and purposes and not by our will or purpose.
He is perfect.
So today you have to just tops and make up your mind.
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