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Matthew 26
Matthew 26, and we're actually gonna start in verse 17.
Now remember last time.
We left off with all the discourse.
So so first before that Jesus condemned the Pharisees and the Sadducees in some of the harshest
words in Scripture.
Then.
After doing that He does the office discourse he talks about
some eschatology some eschatological things with his disciples.
He gives some parables talking about the kingdom and when it's divided At the
end of days sheep and goats wheat and tares etc, and then the chief priests and
the Pharisees and Sadducees and all of them want to kill him but because
the people love him so much they don't want to Do it during the feast and they don't want to do it
publicly they want to arrest him privately.
Claimed that he had some blasphemous charges saying there were two or three witnesses that that heard it and then
He could be put on the trial.
Now remember in general.
In.
General Romans did not allow their your conquered peoples to perform capital punishment so the
Romans did the capital punishment.
They kind of let the other Conquered people do whatever religious things they want to
do in trials, but not capital punishment kill people.
That was at least the idea.
So the Pharisees the Sadducees the Sanhedrin the religious leaders knew they had to
get.
Roman.
Government involved in the death of Jesus.
So at any rate Just look at a few things in Matthew 26, and this is verse 17.
Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus saying where will you have us prepare for you to
eat the Passover?
No, we're gonna call this.
This is often called the Lord's Supper or communion or the Eucharist or whatever
but what Jesus and his disciples were celebrating is the feast of unleavened bread and.
And.
On that in that week was Passover.
Passover was the Day before the first Sabbath that fell in the feast of unleavened
bread.
So Friday.
Now watch this.
Do you know what the feast of unleavened bread is.
Are you aware of what that is.
Do you know what Passover is?
Let's not just read past these terms if you're not sure what they are.
So This goes all the way back to Exodus.
That's where Passover was first celebrated.
And it what happened was they were getting ready to leave Egypt, but they had to leave in a hurry
now.
Joseph Abraham there was prophecy predictions that they would be able
to To loot to plunder the Egyptians.
And remember how they did.
The Egyptians just gave it to him.
They gave him all the gold all the silver and said just leave us alone.
But they had to leave in a hurry so they didn't have time to let the bread rise.
So let the yeast rise in the bread so they made bread without yeast in it was unleavened bread.
So it's called the feast of unleavened bread in every year.
This would be celebrated by the Jewish people to remember how God had rotted them away out of Egypt.
But.
Additionally in that week fell Passover.
Now This would have been the first month of the year the middle of the first month of the year on the
Jewish calendar and it still is.
And Passover Was where
Was where they celebrated God's deliverance of the Jewish people from the tenth plague.
So if you remember I'm a tenth plague it was the death of the firstborn.
The angel of death God himself was gonna kill the firstborn of
every living thing in the land of Egypt every animal.
Every living thing.
So he made a way of provision for the Jewish people.
He said Okay, once you take a lamb a lamb without spot or blemish take one of your
lambs.
I want you to kill it and put its blood on the doorpost of your house.
So when the angel of death comes to kill the firstborn the firstborn male of Each home in
the land of Egypt if he sees the blood of lamb in the door, he will pass over that house.
Well Passover
in what's amazing is if someone wasn't wealthy enough to own a lamb They would stay at the neighbor's house and
share and they would eat the lamb that night.
But the blood of that lamb would cover the doorpost an angel death the judgment would pass over
and so the.
The.
Importance of John the Baptist referring to Jesus as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world is this is the
final Passover lamb the blood of him covers
Covers us so that judgment the angel of death Jesus himself in the last day passes over
The sins because the blood of lamb covered their sins.
So they're celebrating this this feast right here.
And Jesus is celebrating it with his disciples before he
before he goes away before he dies.
And Jesus tells them one of you will
betray me.
They all say is it I is it I is it I.
And he answered he who has dipped his hand in the dish With me will betray me.
The Son of Man goes that is written of him.
But woe to the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
It would have been better for that man if he had not been.
Born.
Judas who would betray him answered is that I rabbi and he said to him you have said so.
Now the parallel accounts tell us that the other disciples didn't hear Judas say that.
But here's the institution of the Lord's Supper, and I'm just gonna read a few verses here.
Now as they were eating keep in mind they're eating celebrating God's deliverance out of the people of Egypt and
That God provided a way of deliverance from judgment with the
blood of the Lamb.
As They're eating.
Jesus took bread and after blessing it. He broke it and gave it.
Some says take eat this is.
My.
Body.
Soma maybe some of you have heard of a somatic response.
Soma means body.
And he took a cup and when he had given.
Thanks, I.
Point this out every time we do the Lord's Supper at our service at our church.
Paul on first Corinthians 11 appears to be quoting Luke.
In his account on the night Jesus was betrayed
he gave thanks.
You know We can be real ungrateful sometimes.
Can't we?
Can't we be so ungrateful?
Well every time you have a list in Scripture of what the unsaved What the last days will be
like ungratefulness is typically in that list.
Our Lord sets an example for us here on The night he was betrayed
Stopped And gave thanks to God for what he had.
How little has to happen to you in your life for you to be ungrateful?
Gratefulness is.
One of the true signs of a spiritually mature Christian.
Gratefulness looking back looking forward Jesus says
Drink it all of you for this is the blood of the covenant.
That is the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
I Will tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine.
That's that's wine.
That's that's great.
Until the day when I drink it new with you and my father's kingdom and they
sung a hymn see Jesus is still praising.
He's still worshiping.
Even in the midst of death.
And we still praise can we still worship?
When we have a flat tire when our air goes out Jesus still praising and worshiping even in the
midst of death.
Torture betrayal.
Loneliness anxiety depression all the things that came on Jesus that night.
They sung a hymn To God and they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Then Jesus said you will all we always like to pick on Peter and it says you will all fall away tonight
because of me.
For it is written.
Why will they all fall away?
Gar for it is written.
I will strike the separate and the seat will be scattered.
We've seen this.
Everything is always pointing back to the reason something's happening is So that the scriptures may be fulfilled
so that the scriptures may be fulfilled.
The reason things happen so that the scriptures might be fulfilled if God said it would happen.
It's gonna happen no matter what.
But listen to Jesus.
Jesus's response, but after I am raised up I will go before you to Galilee by my
account.
This is the fourth time Jesus has explicitly said that he will rise again, but
see Matthew says that from then on he began to tell them how he'd be delivered over.
Put in the grave and three days later rise up so he said it a bunch of times.
But here's the last time a few hours for his death.
He says but after I'm raised up I'll go before you to Galilee, which of course he did.
Peter answered him though.
They all fall away because of you.
I will never fall away.
Jesus said to him truly I tell you this night before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.
Peter said to him even if I must die, I will not deny you and all.
The disciples Said the same thing.
Not just Peter.
In Luke Jesus tells Peter something else.
He says Simon Simon Satan has desired to sift you like wheat.
This is a loop 2132.
I think it is.
But I have prayed for you that your strength may not fail in when you return to strengthen your brothers.
When the sign of a true Christian is not that they never fall so they get back
up when they do.
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane.
And he said the disciples sit here while I go over there and pray and take him with him.
Peter and two sons of Zebedee.
That's James and John.
That's the inner circle.
That's the ones that went with them on the Mount of Transfiguration.
He began to be sorrowful in trouble he said that my soul is very sorrowful even the death remain here and watch with me.
And going on a little further.
He fell on his face and prayed my father if it is possible.
Let this cup pass for me.
Remember before he's already referred to drinking the cup as being a wrath of God as bringing
a trial.
But you must go through.
Remember he said you're not ready was it wasn't to the Sons of Thunder.
Was it to James and John then he said when they asked to sit at his right hand.
He said you don't know what you're asking.
You can't drink the cup.
I'm about the drink.
Jesus saying if there's any other way let this cup pass for me as he's sweating as drops of blood
nevertheless not as I will not as I want.
But as you will as you want.
We could just end right here.
I'm not going to but here's the question.
What is more important to you?
To do what you want or to do what God wants.
Do what you want or to do what God wants and let your actions be the indicator of that question.
What's more important to you to do what you want or do what God wants well?
The more mature you become as a Christian the more of a false dichotomy that question will be.
What amoeba that is the more your desires will be conformed to his desires so that they're always one in the
same.
As you move in sanctification as you move in spiritual maturity your desire should be so conformed to his.
That they're one in the same.
That's the goal of sanctification that you learn more and more to love the things that God loves and hate the things that God hates.
Not as I will but as you will.
I'm reminded of what John the Baptist said when?
Jesus was to take over his ministry and John was supposed to slink back.
John the Baptist said in John 3 30 he must increase and I must decrease let that be a call for our life.
Verse 40 and as he came to disciples and found them sleeping.
He said to Peter so you couldn't watch me for one hour.
This happens two or three times.
And they keep going to sleep and he says basically rest later.
We got to go.
While he was still speaking Judas came one of the twelve and with a great cloud crowd.
I'm sorry with swords and clubs from the chief priests and the elders of the people.
Now the betrayer had given them a sign saying the one I will kiss is the man sees him.
See now they're gonna arrest him with the crowds on away because they found him in the forest in the garden of Gethsemane.
Now I.
Won't read through the part where Peter cuts off the guy's ear and we even get the name of the slave who he cut off.
And we find out it's Peter later on but Jesus
says I don't need your help.
I could call twelve legions of angels right now.
But then he says this in verse 64.
But if I did that how then should the scriptures be fulfilled?
I could get out of this right now.
Peter called twelve legions of angels kill all.
But then the scriptures want to be fulfilled.
See the scripture said that I have to do this.
So the scriptures will be fulfilled.
Jesus is.
How should we say this.
His main goal what he desires most He is.
What he's fixated on is that the scriptures be fulfilled.
That is far more important to him than anything else.
I Think there is a lesson there for us that the scriptures be fulfilled that God's will be shown in my
life.
Now Jesus says to the crowds of people the chief priests and the Romans who have come to arrest him.
Have you come out against me as a robber.
Come out as against the robber with swords and clubs to capture me day after day.
I sat in the temple teaching and you didn't seize me, but all this has taken place that the
scriptures of the prophets might be Fulfilled that the graph a the graph are the
scriptures might be fulfilled and look what happens.
All the disciples left and fled.
There it is.
That just said a couple hours ago, I'll never leave you all of them not just Peter they've all left now.
Peters following them from a distance.
And they're in the courtyard and they went inside and They're trying to seek
false testimony.
They they are trying to seek false testimony Against you so they put him to death.
Two guys come forward two witnesses say I heard him say he will destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.
Now if you remember when he said that Jesus said He didn't say I am able to destroy this
temple and rebuild three days.
He said destroy this temple and I'll raise it back in three days.
He was speaking of his body.
Now Jesus doesn't answer this accusation because Isaiah 53 says he wanted to fulfill the scriptures.
But then The high priest says this.
I Adore you.
I Command you by the Living God.
Tell us if you are the Christ the Son of God.
Jesus said to him you have said so.
But I tell you from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand power and coming on the clouds of heaven
real amazing verse here.
It's a mixture of Psalm 110 and Daniel 7.
Set up my right hand so I'll make your enemies my footstool and Daniel 7 the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven is given
authority in a kingdom that shall never pass away.
Those are both seen as divine figures.
Those are both seen as.
God.
Those were both understood that way by the Jewish people.
Well, Jesus quotes both of them the first both Psalm 110 and Daniel 7.
And what's amazing is the next time the Sanhedrin hear someone say this.
It'll be in Acts chapter 7 or I guess it's 6.
What is 7.
Where Stephen says as they're about the stone and Paul is holding their clothes so they can throw the rocks harder.
Stephen says I See the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
When they heard those words, I bet you just a few months earlier. They remembered what Jesus had said.
That he'd be at the right hand of God.
And they wanted to shut that up and they stone Stephen and killed him.
When he said those words because it recalled into this moment.
I can make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Then the high priest doors rose and said he has uttered blasphemy.
What further witnesses do we need.
You have now heard his blasphemy?
What is your judgment they answered he deserves death.
They spit in his face and struck him.
Some slapped him and said prophesied to us Christ who has struck you.
All right.
Now here is where Peter denies Jesus three times.
And if you read the parallel accounts you get the full story.
So a.
Serving girl comes up and said you were with Jesus the Galilee and he denied it for all them.
I don't know what you mean verse 71.
And then he went out in the engines.
Another serving girl Solomon.
She said to the bystander.
This man was with Jesus and Nazareth and again, he denied it with an oath.
I don't know the man with an oath by the way.
After a little while the bystanders came to Peter.
Certainly you two are one of them.
For your accent betrays you.
Now listen to this.
Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and swear.
Let me put that in modern vernacular and I can't quote it directly.
I Swear to.
You.
Blank.
God, I don't know him.
That is the equivalent of what Peter said.
Luke tells us that when Peter said that Jesus from the courtyard Turned and looked down.
Can you imagine? the heart sinking feeling Peter had.
Bible says He remembered what Jesus had told him that before the night was over.
In three times and he went out and wept bitterly.
Wept bitterly.
No.
We're.
Next chapter.
We're in the crucifixion.
That's just a few highlights from Chapter 26.
Hey, I hope in some way this has been official to you guys.
I still have fun doing it, even though sometimes I mess up the technology part of it.
I want to make this as applicable and as helpful and as Beneficial to you guys as
possible.
So tell me how I need to do it different and change it up Matthew 27 next time.
I'm glad to be back.
Until next time.
God bless.