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[188.48 --> 190.60] And Saturday, we had a bit of a family day. |
[191.06 --> 194.52] We hung out all day, did a bunch of stuff around the house, but then ran some errands. |
[194.52 --> 198.52] And then we watched a movie together as a family, had a little special dinner with that. |
[198.84 --> 200.54] And so it was very good. |
[200.76 --> 206.26] And then Sunday, of course, was worship and had an excellent Palm Sunday worship service here. |
[206.34 --> 207.36] We'll talk more about that later. |
[207.62 --> 209.14] But it was good. |
[209.20 --> 209.74] It was a good weekend. |
[209.90 --> 210.24] How about you? |
[210.40 --> 210.86] What did you do? |
[210.86 --> 224.50] Besides the stuff I'm going to get into for the moments in Mission, I spent a lot of time reading, spent a little bit of time in the sauna, and I just rested. |
[225.26 --> 225.62] Nice. |
[225.68 --> 230.50] I just needed the break from driving for work. |
[232.70 --> 237.14] Yeah, the labor that is my job and then doing adult stuff. |
[237.14 --> 241.66] So I had some coffee with some people, which was good, talking about some life stuff. |
[241.84 --> 245.64] It wasn't fun stuff, but it was good. |
[245.84 --> 246.60] Good conversation. |
[247.30 --> 248.58] Yeah, that was about it. |
[248.86 --> 249.12] Right. |
[249.54 --> 259.36] But that leads us into the actual topic and why we're here, which is your sermon on Matthew 21, which gets into a few very notable stories. |
[259.64 --> 263.44] And it asks possibly the deepest question on earth. |
[264.26 --> 266.00] Yeah, I think it does. |
[266.00 --> 268.26] That's a great way to jump in. |
[268.94 --> 274.54] So this weekend, as I said, was Palm Sunday in the liturgical season of the church. |
[274.64 --> 288.04] Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Good Friday and Easter, where we mark Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, surrounded by crowds of people who shout, |
[288.14 --> 289.58] Hosanna to the Son of David. |
[289.88 --> 292.22] Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. |
[292.22 --> 295.82] They shout his praise as he enters in. |
[295.94 --> 302.02] They cut branches off of the trees and lay them on the ground, or they lay their cloaks down for him to enter into. |
[302.56 --> 304.96] And so we mark that in our worship together. |
[304.96 --> 313.78] And the reflection for our Holy Week series this year is in Matthew. |
[313.92 --> 317.72] So we're looking at Matthew's account of the last days of Jesus. |
[317.72 --> 322.34] And to begin that this week started in Matthew 21. |
[322.34 --> 331.32] We read together from verse 23 through 27, which is when the elders and the chief priests, the teachers of the law, come to Jesus. |
[331.72 --> 337.78] And they ask him, like, by whose authority do you do these things? |
[337.78 --> 339.50] And who gave you that authority? |
[339.50 --> 342.70] And they challenge him, and then Jesus doesn't answer the question. |
[342.82 --> 345.48] We'll come back to that in our discussion, I think. |
[345.90 --> 352.44] And that was the way into the bigger picture that the triumphal entry sets up for us. |
[352.44 --> 366.42] Because after the triumphal entry, there's three or four interactions that Jesus has that show for us, model for us, kind of responses to the question, who is Jesus? |
[366.42 --> 383.74] And so my big theme, my big idea from Sunday was that the triumphal entry of Jesus announces him as Messiah King, and then invites people to see that truth and to respond. |
[383.74 --> 397.18] And the kinds of response that we see in Matthew 21 comes largely in three forms, and each one is an answer to a version of the question, who is Jesus? |
[397.18 --> 411.40] And so in the first place, you have the response that comes from the chief priests and the teachers of the law, who, after the triumphal entry, Jesus goes into the temple, and he clears out the temple. |
[411.96 --> 417.52] And the text tells us that they were indignant that he would do that. |
[417.54 --> 421.10] And they ask him, like, who are you? |
[421.16 --> 424.38] Who do you think you are that you would do this? |
[424.38 --> 436.42] And then we jumped ahead to the text that we looked at, or that we read before, with the questioning of Jesus' authority, which is another version of, like, who are you? |
[436.54 --> 439.22] Who do you say you are, and who sent you? |
[439.36 --> 443.68] Well, it's the accusative version of that is, who do you think you are? |
[443.74 --> 443.96] Yeah. |
[444.36 --> 444.60] Yeah. |
[445.24 --> 445.96] Yeah, exactly. |
[445.96 --> 458.08] And then back a story to the story of the fig tree, where Jesus curses the fig tree, and then it says, the disciples were amazed, and they asked, like, what kind of man is this? |
[458.48 --> 458.62] Right? |
[458.62 --> 465.68] Who is this that, you know, even the trees and the tree responds to his voice? |
[465.68 --> 477.84] And so we sort of circled around that, looking at indignation, at skepticism, at questioning, and then ultimately at wonder and worship, asking in response to the question, who is Jesus? |
[477.84 --> 478.28] Yeah. |
[479.18 --> 479.82] Yeah. |
[480.02 --> 486.72] And I mentioned before, but we wanted to discuss, like, is this the most important question? |
[487.20 --> 499.88] Is figuring out who Jesus is, you personally, and also as humanity, is recognizing who Jesus is, as this passage continuously brings up, is that the most important question? |
[499.88 --> 508.26] Because I think it is, because it's, you have to get to know the God that you're falling in love with. |
[508.92 --> 509.28] Yeah. |
[509.44 --> 511.64] How do you do that unless you don't know? |
[512.14 --> 512.36] Yeah. |
[512.42 --> 513.46] Unless you know who he is. |
[513.56 --> 513.72] Yeah. |
[514.66 --> 519.38] Well, and I think, so on one level, I think that's true, right? |
[519.38 --> 527.10] Like, even on the top level, the surface level of that question, I think that's absolutely true, right? |
[527.10 --> 534.38] Like, you have to get to know the God who you're falling in love with, or the God who loves you so much that he came into the world to save you from sin. |
[535.44 --> 536.40] And I think that's right. |
[536.66 --> 539.18] I think that's one of the reasons why it's the most important question. |
[539.18 --> 557.00] I also think it's the most important question because, like, I'm trying to remember if it was Leslie Newbigin who puts it in this way, but he talks about this being the most important question because Jesus is like the hinge of history. |
[557.00 --> 560.44] He's the center on which the world turns. |
[560.56 --> 568.96] Like, he's the purpose for which, you know, creation is redeemed and the exaltation of him, right? |
[569.02 --> 579.62] That we read in Philippians 2 that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and every tongue confess in heaven and on earth and below the earth that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. |
[579.62 --> 580.06] Yeah. |
[580.52 --> 591.52] And so the question of who is Jesus is not just a personal question for you to decide, but it is quite literally like the purpose of creation, right? |
[591.56 --> 596.62] The exaltation of Jesus, the glory of God the Father through him. |
[596.62 --> 610.70] And so I said it on Sunday that I don't think I can overstate that this is the most important question because it's actually so much bigger than you and me. |
[611.40 --> 614.74] It's the entirety of the cosmos, right? |
[614.82 --> 620.02] That is Psalm 19 singing praises to our God and Savior. |
[620.02 --> 620.66] Yeah. |
[621.08 --> 630.86] And so we opened up with that passage, the authority of Jesus questioned by the chief priests and the elders in the temple when Jesus is there. |
[631.00 --> 635.70] And they ask him, by what authority are you doing these things and who gave you this authority, right? |
[635.70 --> 639.08] So they're asking that question, but he doesn't answer them. |
[639.98 --> 640.50] Why? |
[642.54 --> 643.02] Yeah. |
[643.02 --> 655.74] And so I think, well, first of all, let's say that he doesn't answer them explicitly here, although he has been answering that question from the beginning. |
[655.86 --> 656.30] Yeah. |
[656.38 --> 656.58] Right? |
[656.66 --> 658.16] And we traced a bit of that, right? |
[658.16 --> 671.06] So if the triumphal entry announces Jesus as Messiah King, the triumphal entry is the kind of culmination of a theme that has been running through the Gospel of Matthew from the beginning. |
[671.06 --> 671.62] Mm-hmm. |
[671.94 --> 672.20] Right? |
[672.26 --> 679.22] Right at the beginning, even, in the genealogy, Matthew is at pains to connect Jesus to the line of David. |
[679.58 --> 679.84] Yeah. |
[680.16 --> 680.46] Right? |
[680.54 --> 685.78] And so already you're saying, oh, there's a kingship theme that's coming through. |
[686.40 --> 686.56] Mm-hmm. |
[686.56 --> 690.40] Matthew is making the point that Jesus is king, right? |
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