The Scriptures Are About Jesus

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Welcome to the teaching ministry of Kungsvinger Lutheran Church. Kungsvinger is a beacon for the gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of northwestern

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Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone.

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And now, here's a message from Pastor Chris Roseberg. The Holy Gospel according to St.

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Matthew chapter 14 verses 13 through 21. When Jesus heard what had happened,

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He withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed

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Him on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them, and He healed their sick.

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As evening approached, the disciples came to Him and said, "'This is a remote place, and it's already getting late.

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Send the crowds away so that they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.' Jesus replied, "'They do not need to go away.

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You give them something to eat.' "'We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,' they answered.

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"'Bring them here to me,' He said. And He directed the people to sit down on the grass, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven.

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He gave thanks, broke the loaves, and then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

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They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of broken pieces that were left over.

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The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.'"

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In the name of Jesus. Now I once heard a liberal pastor preach on our gospel texts, and this particular pastor actually had a weird theology where he denied the existence of miracles, and therefore every time a passage that would teach that God performed a miracle, he would actually spend time in his sermons to try to explain away the miracle.

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This also includes on Easter Sunday, he would spend time trying to explain away the bodily resurrection of Jesus.

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That's kind of a fascinating theology, because 1 Corinthians chapter 15 says, "'If

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Christ has not been raised,' that means bodily, "'our preaching is useless, and so is your faith.

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More than that, then we are found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that He raised

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Christ from the dead. But if He did not raise Him, if in fact the dead are not raised, for if the dead are not raised, then

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Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile, and you're still in your sins.

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And then those who've fallen asleep in Christ, they're lost. And if only for this life we have hope in Christ, then we are to be pitied more than all men.'"

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Yeah, so yeah, kind of, you know, how do we put this? Denying the existence of miracles and being a

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Christian pastor doesn't make any sense. So back to our gospel text. This text teaches that Jesus miraculously multiplied a few loaves and fishes and fed a crowd of more than 5 ,000 people.

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And if you don't believe in miracles, what could this text possibly mean? Actually, good question is, even if you do believe in miracles, what does this text mean?

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But back to our story here. According to this liberal pastor, here's his explanation.

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You know, there were many people in the crowd, according to him, that must have brought their own loaves and fishes with them to hear

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Jesus preach and teach. But they were being selfish, and they didn't want to share their food with those who didn't bring food for themselves.

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So this liberal pastor then turns to John chapter 6, verse 9, which also covers the same miracle, and points out that there's a little detail here.

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We learn that the five loaves and fishes that Jesus multiplied in this miracle come from a small boy.

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Okay, in other words, some small boy's mom packed him a sack lunch. And so the way the story goes in this particular sermon, what happened is that the crowd, seeing this small boy willing to give up and depart with his sack lunch, felt so shamed.

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They were inspired then to break out the food that they'd been hiding in their coolers and share it with the rest of the people.

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As it turned out, there were 12 baskets full of leftovers. What a miserably sad way to read scripture.

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Yeah, because then that pastor then went on to basically explain, in the remainder of his sermon, the importance of generosity and sharing, as well as the evils of a capitalist society and the virtues of communism.

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Believe me when I tell you it was a breathtaking sermon to hear. Again, miserable and sad. Why? Well, number one, it's denying what scripture says.

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But number two, it's taking the glory away from Christ, and somehow moralizing the sermon, turning scripture into kind of like the spiritual equivalent of Aesop's fables, right?

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Remember Aesop's fables? You remember the story of the tortoise and the hare and things like that, right? They all have little morals at the end of it.

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So apparently, Jesus didn't really multiply these loaves and fishes, and this is all about the importance of generosity.

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Forget the fact that this passage itself says nothing about everyone was inspired to share the lunch that they had actually been hiding from other people.

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It doesn't say that, okay? Well, we believe that God does perform miracles.

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We do believe that Christ rose bodily from the grave. We do believe, teach, confess, and defend this text as a text that shows forth a miracle.

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Something that God actually did in human history, miraculously, right? But the question is, is that even if we believe this, what does it mean?

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Well, let me say this. This text in particular points us to the fact that all of the scriptures are about Jesus.

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That's really the meaning of this text. Now, Jesus himself makes this point several times.

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Let me give you a couple of examples. In John chapter 5, verses 39 through 40,

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Jesus, who in another one of his kind of, how should we say it, spirited conversations with the

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Jews? Jesus had a few of those, right? He says to them, you diligently study the scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life, yet these are the scriptures that testify about me, and yet you refuse to come to me so that you might have life.

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Remember the road to Emmaus story? It's a little out of season. Normally we read that sometime during the

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Easter season after Easter, but let me remind you how that story goes so you can kind of get the flow of what's going on here.

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This story about the feeding of the 5 ,000 is actually critical in understanding who

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Jesus is and why he came, but in order to understand that, we've got to get this in our head. The Bible's not about us.

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It's really about Jesus. In Luke chapter 24, we read this story that took place, the details of this took place on Easter Sunday.

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Now that same day, Easter Sunday, two of them, two of the disciples, were going to a village called

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Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.

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The women had come back, said he's risen from the grave, that men went and said, yeah, his body's not there, and they didn't know what to think about.

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So they're discussing this as they're going to Emmaus. Now as they walked and discussed these things with each other,

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Jesus himself came up and walked along with them, but they were kept from recognizing him.

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Another miracle here. Basically, the Greek here is actually kind of funny. The idiom says that their eyes were held.

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I love that idiom. I'm going to hold your eyes so you can't know who I am. Why? Because Jesus wants to teach them something.

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Well, let's learn what it is that he wanted to teach them. So Jesus asked them, hey, what are you discussing together as you walk along?

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And they stood still, and their faces were downcast. Now one of them named Cleopas, yes, the apostles, the church kept track of these guys, said, are you only a visitor to Jerusalem, and do you not know the things that have happened here in these days?

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And Jesus said, what things? Playing dumb, right? So they said, about Jesus of Nazareth.

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He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God, and all the people and the chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.

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But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. What a funny thing to say.

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Isn't that what he did on the cross, right? They didn't see it yet. They didn't understand. And what's more, it's the third day since all of this took place.

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In addition, some of our women, they amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning, and they didn't find his body.

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They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive, and then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.

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And so Jesus said to them, and they still don't know who he is, how foolish you are.

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How slow of heart to believe, catch this, all that the prophets had spoken.

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Did not the Christ or the Messiah, did he not have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?

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And then beginning with, get this, with Moses and all the prophets. That's right.

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Jesus opens up the Old Testament. He's got this thing memorized. And starting with Moses and the prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the concerning himself.

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And as they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus acted as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, stay with us.

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It's near evening and the day is far, far spent. So he went in to stay with them. And when he was at table with them, watch this, he took bread, gave thanks and broke it and began to give it to them.

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And at that point, their eyes were no longer held. It probably went something like this. And just as they're about to say

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Jesus, right? He disappeared from their sight. And they asked each other, were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the scriptures to us?

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Ah, great story. So their hearts were burning within them while Jesus opened the scriptures up to them.

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And who did Jesus talk about when he opened up Moses and the prophets to them? He talked about himself, right?

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Now in the Gospel of John, chapter 20, verse 31, it's kind of the thesis of the

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Gospel of John. But I would argue, along with other scholars, that this is the thesis of all of scripture.

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See if these words sound familiar to you. These things are written that you may believe that Jesus is the

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Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you have life in his name.

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That's the thesis of scripture. Scripture's all about Jesus. These things are written so that you may believe that he's the

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Christ, the Messiah, and that by believing you have life in his name. Now the same is true about our

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Gospel story that we're hearing today. It was written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the

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Christ, the Son of God, by believing you have life in his name. In fact, today's Gospel text and next week's

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Gospel text, they actually work together. And they share the same punchline. And in fact, the punchline that appears in next week's

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Gospel text, I'll share it with you today, but keep in mind, it's kind of like, you ever watch a television show where you have multiple parts and it says, to be continued?

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So today's Gospel text, think of it this way, when we finish it, to be continued.

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There's a little bit more to the story so that you can get to the punchline. But I'll tell you what the punchline is ahead of time, because I'm all about spoilers when it comes to Jesus.

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Now in order to see what Matthew was up to when he was penning this Gospel, we need to know a little bit of background information about this

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Gospel as a whole, the Gospel of Matthew. The church father, Papias, writing at the end of the first century, he told us that Matthew, the disciple

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Matthew, he wrote his Gospel before all the other Gospels were written, and that it was originally written in Hebrew, and it was written to the

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Jews, and that it was later translated into Greek and distributed out among the churches. This is what we know from the church fathers.

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Now this is important information, and the reason why this is important, because if you know who the audience is, you can kind of get what

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Matthew's up to. And so here's the idea. When you study this text, you discover that what scholars have recognized and other people have recognized, that this

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Gospel was purposely written in a pattern that follows the Old Testament and assumes that the reader or the hearer has a good working knowledge of the

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Old Testament, and this is vital for understanding what's going on in today's Gospel text. Now let me kind of do, we'll do a quick sampling here.

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In Matthew chapter 1, we read about Joseph and the birth of Jesus.

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Here's what it says. This is how the birth of Jesus came about. His mother was pledged to be married to Joseph. Now Joseph, real quick, y 'all remember

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Joseph from the Old Testament? Does anyone remember what Joseph is known for? Remember, he was known as a dreamer?

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That dreamer of dreams, well it led to his demise, at least for a short amount of time. And Joseph himself is also almost single -handedly responsible, when you read the story, for taking the people of Israel into Egypt.

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So, keep that in mind. So imagine yourself as a first -century Jewish listener and you have a good working knowledge of the

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Old Testament, right? So here's what we read. So, Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the

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Holy Spirit because Joseph, her husband, was a righteous man, did not want to expose her to public disgrace. He had in mind to divorce her quietly.

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But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take

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Mary home as your wife. So now we've got another dreaming Joseph, right? And it's not an accident, okay?

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Because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit and she will give birth to a son and you are to give him the name

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Jesus because he will save his people from their sins. Now all of this took place to fulfill what the

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Lord had said through the prophet. The virgin will be with child and give birth to a son. They will call him Emmanuel, which means

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God with us, right? Fast forward just a little bit into chapter two. After the visit of the

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Magi, here's what it says. When they, the Magi, had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

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Here we've got, again, dreaming Joseph. If you're an old, if you're a first century Jew and you're hearing this, you're going, this sounds oddly familiar.

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And it's not an accident, right? So in a dream, the angel said, get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.

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Stay there until I tell you for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him. So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt where he stayed until the death of Herod.

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And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet, out of Egypt I called my son.

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So here we've got a dreaming Joseph who takes Israel into Egypt.

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And notice here, if you can read in your footnotes, you know, your cross -references, Hosea 11 verse 1 is what's being quoted by Matthew here.

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And what's fascinating is when you read Hosea 11 1, there's no indicator that it's talking about Jesus.

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But what Matthew is doing in his gospel is he's making it very clear that Jesus is like all of Israel squished down into one person, right?

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And this one person, this one Israel is going to fulfill the

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Mosaic covenant and the law and he's going to do it for us. So let me remind you of some other details here.

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Matthew chapter 4, it says, Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert or the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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After fasting for 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. Now if you think back, remember your

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Old Testament. How long did Israel spend in the wilderness? Forty years.

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And they were tempted. How well did their temptations go? Not so good.

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And don't say amen to that, right? So it didn't go so well for them. But where Israel, the nation, failed,

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Israel, the one Israel, Jesus, he succeeds. So again, if you're a

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Jew, you're listening to this, you're reading this, you're going, this is weird. Something's going on here, right?

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So then you think about the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapter 5. Now, here's what it says, now, when he,

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Jesus, saw the crowds, he went up on a mountain and sat down and his disciples came to him and began to teach.

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And now we receive the Sermon on the Mount. When Israel received the Ten Commandments and the

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Mosaic covenant, where did this take place? It took place on Mount Sinai. Moses ascended the mountain and received the tablets, right?

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And throughout the Sermon on the Mount, you hear these words from Jesus, You've heard it said, but I say.

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You've heard it said, but I say. And the question is, well, who does Jesus think he is, right?

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He's kind of full of himself. Well, yeah, he's God, right? So who does this guy think he is, right?

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And so he gives new commandments as if he's God. And kind of the kicker at the end, he talks about judgment and says that when people come to be judged, he's going to be the one doing the judging.

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I thought that's only God's prerogative. So Jesus acts like he's God, right? And so here we've got the new

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Mount Sinai, so to speak, the Sermon on the Mount. Now we come to our text here today, and this is going to be ringing in the ears of any

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Jewish person at the time, that this sounds a lot like, a lot like Numbers chapter 11.

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If you want to follow along, I'm going to be reading from Numbers chapter 11, starting at verse 4. See if you can see the similarities in the dialogue.

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See if you can see the similarities in the question. Now keep in mind, Israel, unlike Jesus, when they were tempted, they oftentimes, well, sinned in unbelief, okay?

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So this is another example of Israel acting in unbelief. And God's going to mercifully and graciously answer their petition, but there's kind of a sharp edge to it as well, but watch the details here.

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Numbers chapter 11, verse 4, the rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the

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Israelites started wailing, and they said, if only we had meat to eat. We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost, and also the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, but now we've lost our appetite, and we never see anything except for this manna, right?

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Sounded like a bunch of kids, you know. Toddlers, eat your veggies, please, right?

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Okay, fast forward a couple verses. So Moses heard the people of every family wailing each at the entrance of his tent.

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What a pathetic sight, right? So a bunch of people, oh, there's turmoil in the camp, and everyone's, you know, can we please have something to eat except for manna burgers, please, right?

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So the Lord became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled, yeah, this is not going well, and asked the

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Lord, why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?

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Did I conceive these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms as a nurse carries an infant to the land you promised on oath to their forefathers?

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Where can I get meat for all these people? See the parallels?

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They keep wailing to me, give us meat to eat. I cannot carry all these people by myself. The burden is too heavy for me.

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If this is how you're going to treat me, put me to death right now. By the way, you know, being a servant of Christ and bringing the message of the good news, dangerous business at times, okay?

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Just kill me now. If I have found favor in your eyes, kill me and do not let me face my own ruin.

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Couple of verses ahead, it says, God says, tell the people, consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow when you will eat meat.

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The Lord heard you when you wailed. If only we had meat to eat, we were better off in Egypt.

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Now the Lord, Yahweh, he will give you meat, and you will eat it. And you will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten, or twenty, but for a whole month until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it, because you've rejected the

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Lord who is among you, and you have wailed before me saying, why did we ever leave Egypt?

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Now, here's the fun part, but Moses said, here I am among 600 ,000 men on foot, that's just the men, and you say

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I will give them meat to eat for a whole month? Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them?

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Would they have enough if all the fish of the sea were caught for them? And the Lord answered Moses, is the

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Lord's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you.

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So you'll notice that in this Gospel text, there's purposeful parallels going on.

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And it's not because Matthew is trying to be innovative, instead, this is what really took place.

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This is exactly what took place, and to the astute Jew who's hearing this text, they're going to see that there's a direct parallel.

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That's exactly what's going on here. In fact, when we read the account in the

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Gospel of John, chapter 6, of this same miracle, the people who were in the crowd, they knew exactly what was going on, and here's what it says in verse 14.

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When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, this is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.

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They went, aha! That's the one! He's the Messiah! This is the one whom

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God has told us to be looking for, right? Now kind of in the idea of what's going on here, it's also important that we understand in the

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Old Testament, there's types and shadows that point us to Christ, and in some sense kind of give us a map of where we're going today.

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I'd like to talk to you about the idea of wildernesses real quick, because this actually comes into play as we interpret this.

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If you've sat under a lot of preaching like I have, you've probably heard preachers talk about those times when we go through our lives where it seems kind of like a dry wilderness experience.

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Maybe your cat's barfing on the rug a lot, the kids are misbehaving, things aren't going so well at work, and you don't really feel the

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Spirit moving in your life. In fact, if anything, it feels like God's constantly against you, right? And so people interpret those as wilderness experiences, but in reality, that's kind of a too narrow view of wilderness.

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Now if you look at the Old Testament, and specifically the book of Exodus, it kind of gives us a map of the

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Christian life. And here's how the map goes. Remember, the children of Israel are born in slavery.

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They're held in bondage under a false god -king, Pharaoh, who in that story represents

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Satan, right? We, like them, are born dead in trespasses and sins, and in slavery to sin, death, and the devil, right?

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And then God rescues the people of Israel through mighty acts of judgment, which include the sacrifice of the

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Passover lamb and the death of the firstborn, all typologically pointing to Jesus.

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Jesus was the one, in a mighty act of judgment, died, the only begotten

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Son of God, the very Paschal Lamb Himself. He died on the cross for our sins.

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God judged Him in our place. And then from there, the people are set free, and they go to the

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Red Sea, where they're baptized. They're baptized in the Red Sea. We are baptized in the

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Red Sea, although our Red Sea is kind of small, okay? But it's red by virtue of the fact that Christ's blood is there to wash away our sins when we're baptized, right?

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And then the children of Israel from there go and spend pretty much one adult lifetime, lifespan, in the wilderness, waiting to go into the

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Promised Land. And it's not Moses, the law, that brings them into the Promised Land. It's Yahshua, Joshua, Jesus, who brings them into the

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Promised Land. Now, let's take a look at our lives. We're born dead in trespasses and sins, and bondage to sin, death, and the devil.

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And by a mighty act of judgment, and the death of the Paschal Lamb, the only begotten Son of God, we are set free from bondage to sin, death, and the devil.

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Our sins are washed away in the Red Sea. And now we are waiting to enter the

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Promised Land. And the Promised Land is not something here. This is the wilderness.

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This is not a good place to set up permanent shop, because this is a cursed creation. The Promised Land that we've been promised, it's the new heavens and the new earth.

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If you're confused about this, read the back of the book. Again, spoiler alert, it goes well for us. So when we talk about a wilderness experience then, let's look at it in light of the fact that currently we all are wandering and sojourning through this life.

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And that we're all just mist and vapor passing through. And that someday, many of us, well, we'll join those out in the graveyard.

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Nothing permanent about this life. This is no place to set up permanent shop. But a day is coming when

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Christ will return, new heavens, new earth, and we will be brought into the Promised Land, world without end, face to face with Jesus, and see

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His glory, and praise and adore Him forever and evermore, Amen. Good news. So as we look here, we see a pattern in Scripture.

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The pattern is that God, or Christ actually, in the Old Testament, in the wilderness feeds and sustains

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His people. This text that we read this morning about Christ points to the fact that He is the same God who fed the children of Israel in the wilderness.

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And now we in our, you have to kind of put it in air quotes, wilderness experience, which is this lifetime, as we wait to go into the

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Promised Land, Christ now feeds and sustains us in our faith and takes care of us as we wait to go into the true

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Promised Land, the one that was always the one that God had in mind, the new heavens and the new earth.

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And He sustains us by giving us His body and blood, in, with, and under the bread and wine in the

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Lord's Supper, through the hearing of His word, right? Okay, so you put all the pieces together, you kind of get the idea of what's going on, and, you know, like I pointed out, the people in those days, when they saw

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Jesus perform this miracle, they knew exactly who He was, and Matthew's hope that was by penning this miracle, the

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Jews whom he was writing to, that they would know exactly who Jesus is, and that they too would be brought to penitent faith in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins.

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And the punchline, which is coming next week again, remember these are two stories that work together, the punchline is found in Matthew 14, verse 33, which says, where the disciples say, truly you are the

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Son of God. That's why Jesus performed this miracle, to demonstrate who He truly is.

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In other words, the promised Messiah has come. He's crushed the head of the serpent, He's bled and died for your sins and for mine, and He's risen again victorious from the grave.

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And again, these things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you might have life in His name.

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So here's the question, do you believe? Do you believe that Jesus bled and died for you?

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Do you believe He's the one promised? Do you believe He's the prophet, the priest, the king, the

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Messiah who bled and died for you? Right? Now, this morning we read from Psalm 136, and we did it responsibly.

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Let me read to you a little bit more from that psalm, because it's so appropriate for what we're looking at today. Starting at verse 10, to Him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for His steadfast love endures forever.

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And brought Israel out from among them, for His steadfast love endures forever. With a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for His steadfast love endures forever.

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To Him who divided the Red Sea in two, for His steadfast love endures forever. And made

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Israel pass through the midst of it, for His steadfast love endures forever. But overthrew

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Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for His steadfast love endures forever. To Him who led

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His people through the wilderness, for His steadfast love endures forever. Now watch this, it is

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He who remembered us in our lowest state. Why? Because His steadfast love endures forever.

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He has rescued us from our foes, for His steadfast love endures forever.

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He who gives food to all flesh, why? Because His steadfast love endures forever.

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So give thanks to the God of heaven, for His steadfast love endures forever. And this morning

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Christ gives us His very body and His blood, in, with, and under the wine and the bread, for the forgiveness of our sins and the sustaining of our faith as we journey through this wilderness, this cursed creation, into the promised land of a new heaven and a new earth, a land that truly flows with milk and honey, why?

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Because His steadfast love endures forever. God is truly merciful, loving, and kind to you, to us.

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So are you hungry? Are you weary? Well, Isaiah said it this morning, come, everyone who thirsts.

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Come to the waters, and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

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Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, eat what is good, and delight yourselves in the rich food.

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Incline your ear and come to me, and hear, so that your soul might live.

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In the name of Jesus, Amen. If you would like to support the teaching ministry of Kungsvinger Lutheran Church, you can do so by sending a tax -free donation to Kungsvinger Lutheran Church, 15950 470th

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Avenue NW, Oslo, MN 56744 And again that address is

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Kungsvinger Lutheran Church, 15950 470th

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Avenue NW, Oslo, MN 56744 We thank you for your support.

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