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All right, good morning.

Welcome to episode, 30 of the plan.

We are going through the entire story of the Bible, and this is the 30th sermon in that series and we started in September with Genesis.

And now we are in the ministry of Jesus and we're actually beginning the journey towards the cross today in Palm.

Sunday, is next weekend Easter is the week after that.

So this is all coming to a climax very soon.

We'll go through, axon and Revelation in May but that the key moment is coming and where That Journey today and I'm really excited about seeing all these things from 30 servings coming together.

Before we get to that, we need to remind ourselves of the story that we've been telling over the past twenty nine weeks.

It was a story that we've seen scripture telling the Bible is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose, in his presence, but God made the world, he put people in it and he gave them a job.

Their purpose is to rule the world on his behalf, and then he came down to live with them.

And that was the seventh day.

That was the day that he blasts.

That was the goal.

But human beings messed it up and we can't mess it up and we kept messing up.

And it's clear that God needed to intervene.

And so he intervened through one family that we call the Israelites.

And he decided to make them a special example to the rest of the world of what God's plan is supposed to look like because people didn't understand who got is or what he wanted.

So he took this one people and he gave them one particular part of a piece of And he gave them a purpose to live out that he laid out explicitly in the law of Moses.

And then he came to live with them in the temple.

And saw you had this place where God's people are living out his purpose, in his presence.

And the whole world is supposed to be able to look at is real and understand what it is.

The god ones for the world.

They're supposed to get to know God through Israel, turns out, whatever's wrong with humanity is wrong with Israel to and they kept messing up just the way the rest of us did.

And so did eventually God had to say, all he got to end the Covenant.

He said the Covenant is broken because what they are doing does not represent.

My design.

Israel is not is not showing you what I want the world and Humanity to look like.

And so the only way he could reveal himself to the world was to say, I'm not that whatever I want.

It's not what they're doing.

There's been four or five hundred years since then and is real is still in Exile.

Some of them have come back to the promised land.

Most of them have not and they aren't in control of the land.

And they've been waiting for God to restore them.

And all of a sudden this Jesus fellow shows up, and he says that he God is restoring the world.

The real story is real to his plan and an ultimate for filling his plan through Jesus.

And we've been looking at his ministry over the past few weeks, to his ministry of, proclaiming that new self.

A few weeks ago.

We talked about how he went out and announce the good news to the world.

In the good news was that God is restoring Israel, the kingdom of God, that's what that means.

And so Israel is coming back into the plan and then the next week, we talked about how he went around for giving people and healing people and, and restoring people into into what gods we were supposed to look like, so, he's putting together a true Israel, that can be ready when Jesus restores is real to the plan.

And then last week we look, The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus, preached to the Jews.

Exactly what following God's plan would look like as opposed to what they were actually doing so that they would be able to get on board.

Cuz remember there's this ticking clock that Israel needs to choose to repent and follow God's plan before the path are on leaves into destruction.

But what Jesus hasn't really laid out for people is that Central thing that all of this revolves around which is, how is God going to restore his people cuz so far, he's been telling them, it's going to happen.

Get ready.

This is what it looks like to be ready.

But the question that we haven't been seen the answer to what?

Exactly is going to happen.

Is the Jews were all speculating about what is going to happen?

What's going to look like when God sort all this out?

They weren't spending quite as much time on.

How do we make sure we're ready for it.

So today what we're going to do is we're going to start looking at the time when Jesus begins preparing his disciples for what it looks like for the for Jesus to accomplish this Central thing that will restore the Kingdom.

So as we go into our opening passage, remember the way we keep our coordinates in a biblical story for the plan.

We're watching for four things.

Who is the story about where God's people, where is their home and what's their relationship with their home?

How can they meet with God? How they have access to his presence?

And finally, what did God tell them to do?

We're going to jump into the Gospel of Luke in a conversation that changes the whole trajectory of what's going on.

Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him.

He asked them who do the crowds say that I am, they replied, some say, John the Baptist other say, Elijah and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago, has come back to life.

But what about you?

He asked, who do you say that?

I am Peter answered, God's Messiah.

Jesus, strictly warn them.

Not to tell this to anyone.

This, this reminds us of a really interesting thing about when Jesus went around preaching the gospel, when we preach the gospel with, you can't do it without saying Jesus as the Messiah, but Jesus was not going around.

Announcing.

I am the Messiah, knowledged it to some of his to, his followers, in private and told them not to say anything.

Well, we actually knows that Jesus was not preach to the world is Messiah until after Easter.

But he does acknowledge to his disciples at this point that he is the messiah.

And that's a really big deal because the Messiah that means anointed one that basically means he is the heir to David.

He is supposed to be the next king.

So as we look at the our coordinates, we asked, who is the story about as it's been for the last few weeks.

It is about Jesus and the Jews.

The Jews are God's people and Jesus as their leader, and we've known that Jesus was their leader, but God has appointed a variety of types of leaders, Moses and Samuel and John the Baptist where leaders as profits.

We've known that Jesus is was proclaimed to be God, Son, but he was really explicit.

Lee says, I am the Messiah, the anointed one.

I'm going to be king.

That is my claim to leadership in Israel.

Where is their home?

Their home?

Right now?

We would describe as Galilee and Judea and this is the main obstacle facing anyone who claimed to be Messiah.

He's claiming to be king over Israel, but they're currently is a king over.

Israel is actually a seizure and he's divided the promised land into provinces Galilee and Judea to the Romans are the big obstacle to anyone claiming to be Messiah.

And by this point, they're actually really good at killing people who claim to be Messiah as they do it all the time and never been so many failed.

My size at this point because that's the main obstacle is the Romans.

At this point, how can God's people meet with God?

A lot of them think they can meet with God in the temple.

We actually know is that there were quite a few Jews, who weren't quite, sure, whether the second temple was legitimate.

And so, not all of them were super excited about the temple.

But if you were going to meet with God, that Temple is supposed to be the place for it.

From his God didn't come back to the temple, and but the good news is God's present is available in Jesus.

So, rather than finding God in the temple, you actually find got out in Galilee, and when you encounter Jesus, And the last question is, what did God what?

What instructions does God have for?

Jesus.

Doesn't speak in this passage.

But when Jesus says that he is the Messiah and he admits that, he's the Messiah.

He is essentially taking on a whole set of instructions.