Name: Read Scripture Series: Matthew Ch. 14-28
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The Gospel according to Matthew. In the
first video we saw how Matthew introduced

Jesus as the Messiah from the line of
David, and as a new authoritative teacher

like Moses, and also as Emmanuel which in
Hebrew means "God with us." After Jesus

announced and taught about the arrival of
God's kingdom and after he brought the

kingdom into day-to-day life among the
people of Israel, we saw that Jesus was

accepted by many but rejected by others,
especially Israel's religious leaders,

the Pharisees. And so the big question is, "How
is this conflict between Jesus and

Israel's leaders going to play itself
out?" The next large section, chapters 14

through 20, explore all the different
expectations people have about the

Messiah. Jesus keeps healing sick people
and twice he even miraculously provides

food for these huge crowds in the desert,
one made up of Jewish people and the

other is a non-jewish crowd. And this
sign is very similar to what Moses did

for Israel in the wilderness. And so are
these people are excited about Jesus,

they think he's the great prophet and the
Messiah, but not the religious leaders.

Their view of the Messiah is built on
passages like Psalm 2 or Daniel chapter 2,

about a victorious Messiah who is going to
deliver Israel and defeat the pagan

oppressors. And from their point of view,
Jesus is a false teacher. He's making

blasphemous claims about himself and so
there are stories here about them

increasing their opposition, hatching a
plan to kill him. And so in response,

Jesus, he withdraws. And he begins teaching
his closest disciples what it means for

him to be Israel's Messiah because it is
not what anybody expects. So Jesus asked

his disciples-- chapter 16-- he says, "Who do
you all say that I am?" And Peter comes up

with the right answer, it seems. He says,
"You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God."

But then it becomes clear that Peter's
thinking about a king who's going to

reign victoriously through military power. And Jesus challenges Peter, saying that

"Yes, I am going to become king, but
through a different way." And so Jesus

starts to teach on themes from the
prophet Isaiah who said that the

Messianic King would suffer and die for
the sins of his own people. And so Jesus,

he was positioning himself as a
Messianic king who reigns by becoming a

servant and who would lay down his life
for Israel and the nations.  Peter and

the disciples, they mostly just don't get it. And so Jesus enters into the fourth

block of teaching followed by a series
of teachings after that. And these are

all about the upside down nature of
Jesus' Messianic Kingdom--which turns

upside down all of our value systems. So
in the community of the servant king you

gain honor by serving others and instead
of getting revenge, you forgive and do

good to your enemies. And in Jesus'
kingdom you gain true wealth by giving

your wealth away to the poor. To follow
the servant Messiah, you must become a

servant yourself. In the next section we
watched the two kingdoms clash--Jesus'

kingdom and that of Israel's leader.
Jesus comes to Jerusalem for Passover

riding in on a donkey and the crowds are
hailing him as the Messiah. Jesus

immediately marches into the courtyard
of the temple and he creates this huge

disruption that brings the daily
sacrifices to a halt. His actions speak

louder than words here. As Israel's King,
Jesus was asserting his royal authority

over the temple, the place where God and
Israel met together. And in Jesus' view, the

temple was compromised by the hypocrisy
of Israel's leaders and so here he's

challenging their authority and
naturally they're deeply offended. And so

they try to trap Jesus and shame him in
public debate and they fail. So they end

up just determining to have him killed.
In response, Jesus delivers his final

block of teaching. He first offers
this passionate critique of the Pharisees

and their hypocrisy. And then he weeps
over Jerusalem and its rejection of God

and His Kingdom. Then Jesus withdraws
with the disciples and he starts telling

them what's going to happen. He's going
to be executed by these leaders, but in

doing so they're going to create their
own demise because instead of accepting

Jesus' way of the Peaceful Kingdom
they're going to take the road of revolt

Rome and so Jerusalem and its temple are
going to be destroyed. But Jesus says

He's going to be vindicated after his
death by his resurrection and one day

he'll return and set up his kingdom over
all nations. And so in the meanwhile, the

disciples need to stay alert and stay
committed to just announcing Jesus and

His Kingdom and spreading the good news. And so with all of that ringing in the

disciples ears, the story comes to its
climax. That night Jesus takes the

disciples aside and he celebrates the Passover
meal with them.

Passover retells the story of Israel's
rescue from slavery through the death of

the Passover lamb. And then Jesus takes
the bread and the wine from this meal as

new symbols showing that his coming
death would be a sacrifice that would

redeem his people from slavery to sin
and evil. After the meal, Jesus is arrested,

he's put on trial before the Sanhedrin, the
Council of Jewish leaders. And they

reject his claim to be the Messiah.
They charge him with blasphemy against

God. Then Jesus is brought before the
Roman governor, Pilate, and he thinks

Jesus is innocent, but he gives in to the
pressure from the Jewish leaders and he

sentences Jesus to death by crucifixion.  So Jesus is led away by Roman soldiers and

then crucified. Now you'll notice right
here in this section that, just like

Matthew did in the opening chapters, he
increases the number of references to

the Old Testament. He's trying to show
that Jesus' death was not a tragedy or

failure. Rather, it was the surprising
fulfillment of all of the old, prophetic

promises. Jesus came as the Servant
Messiah spoken of by Isaiah. He was

rejected by his own people but instead
of judging them, he is judged on their

bearing the consequences of their sin.
So the crucifixion scene, it comes to a

close, and Jesus' body is placed in a
tomb. But the book ends with a surprising

twist--the last chapter. The disciples,
they discover on Sunday morning that

Jesus' tomb is empty. And then all of a
sudden people start seeing Jesus alive

with the risen Jesus giving a final
teaching called the Great Commission.

Jesus says that he is now the true king
of the world and so he sends his

disciples out to all nations with the
good news that Jesus is Lord and that

anyone can join his kingdom by being
baptized and by following his teachings.

And echoing all the way back to his name,
Emmanuel, God with us, from chapter one,

Jesus' last words in the book to his
disciples are "I will be with you." It's a

promise of Jesus' presence until the day
he finally returns. And that's the Gospel

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