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Matthew
Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 4, 2025 (message contributor)
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1. A Deliberately Staged Demonstration
Contributed on Jun 4, 2025
Main thought: This morning we will look at the set up for a confrontation between Jesus and the rulers and authorities, as well as the Jewish concept of a Messiah who would bring deliverance from Roman oppression.
Background to passage, Matthew 21:1-11: Jesus has been moving toward Jerusalem for some time now. He has come down from Galilee on his final approach. From Jericho (their last stop), it would have been a 6-8 hr walk uphill covering 15 miles and over 3000’ of elevation. He had predicted his death ...read more
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2. What Makes Jesus Angry?
Contributed on Jun 4, 2025
Main thought: we will look at the things that brought Jesus to a righteous anger and another demonstration of his messiahship.
Background to passage, Matthew 21:12-17: The day following the triumphal entry. Passover. Last week of his life. Began to open the can on Sunday. Full on charge today against the establishment. He said early in his ministry that he was Lord of the Sabbath, take he says he is Lord of the ...read more
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3. Wrath Upon A Fig Tree
Contributed on Jun 4, 2025
This morning we will look at a living parable with two meanings for us.
Background to passage, Matthew 21:18-19: Last week of Jesus’s life. Major confrontation with the religious establishment. Two demonstrations of his messiahship publicly, and now one with the disciples even more pointed than the first two. With this prophetic parable, Jesus completes his claim as ...read more
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4. Qq & Aa
Contributed on Jun 4, 2025
This morning we are going to see some truths that get to the heart of the religious establishment’s problem with Jesus: his authority.
Background to passage, Matthew 21:23-27: Last week of Jesus’s life. Follows Sunday’s prophetical and demonstrative entrance into Jerusalem, Monday/Tuesday’s indictment of the temple practices, the living parable of the cursing of the fig tree, and now he is teaching in the temple on Tuesday ...read more
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5. "i Call It Like I See It" --Jesus
Contributed on Jun 4, 2025
Today we must see that even those entrusted with the Kingdom can lose their focus and fail to produce the fruit in the Master’s Vineyard.
Background to passage, Matthew 21:33-45: Remember this is the last week of Jesus’s life (and with conversations like this, it’s not surprising). Do know that everything happened just as God foreordained from before the foundation of the world. Jesus has been challenging the Jewish leaders from ...read more
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6. Save The Date
Contributed on Jun 4, 2025
This morning we will see how God deals with three kinds of responses to the offer of salvation.
Background to passage, Matthew 22:1-14: the third parable in a trilogy of direct assaults in his two-day confrontation with the religious leaders of Jerusalem at the beginning of the last week of his life. Opening illustration: I get official invitations to events at UT with the College of ...read more
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7. Catch-22
Contributed on Jun 9, 2025
You can never trap Jesus
Background to passage: Continued confrontation during Holy Week, probably on Tuesday. This time it was the disciples of the Pharisees and the Herodians sent to trap him. Just a couple of off the top notes before we talk about God’s stuff and man’s stuff Hollow flattery doesn’t get you anywhere with ...read more
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8. Seven Husbands In Heaven?
Contributed on Jun 9, 2025
The Sadducees question Jesus about resurrection
Background to passage: Jesus has been attacked about the basis of his authority, about his position on paying taxes to Caesar, and now a theological question about life after death. These questions and accusations have been launched from the elders and chief priests, disciples of the Pharisees and ...read more
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9. Mic Drop
Contributed on Jun 9, 2025
Final clash in the debates between Jesus and the religious establishment. Who is the Messiah?
Background to passage: This is final exchange in the volley between Jesus and the religious leaders since he entered Jerusalem as a king on a donkey a few days earlier. Jesus will give a couple of long sets of teaching (chapters 23-25) before the events directly leading to his death commence. ...read more
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10. The Greatest Of Loves
Contributed on Jun 9, 2025
Continuing Matthew on Mother's Day, text about the Great Commandment
Background to passage: to lay the context again, this is Jesus’s last week of his life. He has come into Jerusalem on a donkey to much fanfare and celebration that would be due the messiah. He has also cleansed the temple in rather dramatic fashion. He has be questioned about his authority, about ...read more