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What's On Your Tree

October 27, 2019 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 21:17–46

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The revelation of the Old Testament is human need and the revelation of the New Testament is divine supply.

This is in the morning in the scene here is Monday, the last week of Jesus public ministry known as the Passion week of Jesus, where He will go to the Cross, suffer and die, be buried and rise again. He has made His triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Sunday and cleared out the temple and the money changers and then left to Bethany to the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. On Monday morning Jesus is heading back into the city.

He had been warmly embraced on Sunday. He rode His donkey into Jerusalem to the cheers of the crowd - but today is Monday and we see just how fickle people can be. One day is all it takes to go from Hero to Zero.

The Jewish leaders are determined to trap Jesus or discredit Him. The Temple is filled with tension. By the end of the day the Jewish religious establishment will solidify their decision to murder Jesus - and we'll find Jesus retreating to the Mount of Olives weeping over the rejection of the Jews and the destruction they will bring upon themselves.

This infamous Monday was the last time Jesus entered the Temple. It was the day the Jews rejected Jesus – and the day God rejected them.

Betrayed

March 8, 2020 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 26:31–75

What did Jesus say? “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me...” It would have been better for all the disciples to agree with Jesus than to think they could alter the course of human history. Everything we do in this life fulfills the Word of God one way or another. Instead of fighting God’s Word, we need to learn to surrender to it, to accept and understand Father knows best. No one has ever proven God wrong. Ever.

Remember Me

March 1, 2020 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 26

Jesus Christ is transforming an ancient “Seder” meal into a different meaning. No longer does this speak up the temporary physical bondage out of Egypt but the permanent spiritual deliverance from sin. It's my blood. It's my body that is broken. And Jesus said, "You will do this often and you will do it in remembrance of me.

Undenying Love

February 23, 2020 • Mike Osthimer • Matthew 26:14–35

14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests Judas as one of the 12 Only 12 people in human history had the privilege Judas had. Judas proved to be a bad man. English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon once said, "A bad man is worst when he pretends to be a saint." 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. What will you give me? What they offered Judas says everything about the worth the chief priests and elders placed on Jesus. 30 pieces of silver for a slave that was gored to death by an ox of a neighbor. Exodus 21:32 “If the ox gores a male or female servant, he shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned” Judas Iscariot put the value of Jesus equal to that of a gored slave. Wow! The sin of covetous. The ungodly desire for more. “When I want something more than I want God” All sin leads to death. First its spiritual death and then ultimately its physical death. The first thing that goes with the sin of covetousness is my personal relationship with Jesus. It no longer brings me pleasure, its no longer enough. I begin to compromise my relationship with Jesus for more of something else. The pursuit of wealth, the pursuit of a relationship, the pursuit of anything that causes willful disobedience to the Word and will of God for my life.