One Greater than Solomon
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· 12 viewsAs a connection to the end of my Kingdom Hearts series, this message is on Christ being greater than Solomon, Jonah, and the Temple.. His threefold office of King, Prophet, and Priest.
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At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry: how he entered the house of God, and they ate the bread of the Presence—which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests? Or haven’t you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent? I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Moving on from there, he entered their synagogue. There he saw a man who had a shriveled hand, and in order to accuse him they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
He replied to them, “Who among you, if he had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn’t take hold of it and lift it out? A person is worth far more than a sheep; so it is lawful to do what is good on the Sabbath.”
Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored, as good as the other. But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, how they might kill him.
Jesus was aware of this and withdrew. Large crowds followed him, and he healed them all. He warned them not to make him known, so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
Here is my servant whom I have chosen,
my beloved in whom I delight;
I will put my Spirit on him,
and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
He will not argue or shout,
and no one will hear his voice in the streets.
He will not break a bruised reed,
and he will not put out a smoldering wick,
until he has led justice to victory.
The nations will put their hope in his name.
Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to speak was brought to him. He healed him, so that the man could both speak and see. All the crowds were astounded and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
When the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man drives out demons only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”
Knowing their thoughts, he told them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is headed for destruction, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? For this reason they will be your judges. If I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. How can someone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house. Anyone who is not with me is against me, and anyone who does not gather with me scatters. Therefore, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the one to come.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit will be good, or make the tree bad and its fruit will be bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. A good person produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil person produces evil things from his storeroom of evil. I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching; and look—something greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here.
“When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any. Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ Returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person’s last condition is worse than the first. That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.”
While he was still speaking with the crowds, his mother and brothers were standing outside wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.”
He replied to the one who was speaking to him, “Who is my mother and who are my brothers?” Stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12B
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Last week, we finished our series “Kingdom Hearts,” where we looked at the first three kings of the nation of Israel. We’ve spent over a year learning about the beginning of the Israelite monarchy; the poor choices of the first king, Saul; the raising up of a new king after God’s own heart in David; the promises to David about how God would bless him and that his dynasty would last forever; then the rise of the nation of Israel to her greatest heights in worship, diplomacy, and economy under David’s son Solomon; and his subsequent fall into disobedience and sin. The nation of Israel would be split in two during the next generation, and would never truly recover.
But just because Solomon went this direction and which led to the downfall of the nation of Israel, that didn’t mean that God’s promises to David had failed. No, a new King would be born of the line of David. A King unlike any other king that had ever lived… A King who would never fail to walk faithfully with God.
That King is Jesus.
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As I was studying for this week’s message, I must admit: I had never noticed all three of these “greater than”
verses in Matthew before. I don’t know why, but I hadn’t ever taken note of all three of them. I knew a few weeks ago that at the end of Kingdom Hearts, I would bring a message based on , that Jesus is greater than Solomon, which I guess was the only “greater than” statement that I had stored in my mind and heart at that point.
But there are three of these “greater than” statements here: Jesus says that He is greater than the Temple, that He is greater than Jonah, and that He is greater than Solomon.
We’re going to intentionally work backwards through our focal passage today, and we’ll be considering what are called the three offices of Christ. In Jesus’s work of being the mediator between holy God and sinful man, He does so in three facets: as king, as prophet, and as priest.
Have any of you ever heard of this idea?
Today’s message is called “One Greater than Solomon,” just using one of those points today.
Points:
Points:
To set up our first two points, we need to keep verse 38 in mind:
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
Our first point is Jesus’ role as King.
These guys are asking that Jesus show them a sign to prove to them who He is. Just through this point in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus was, “healing every disease and sickness among the people” in Galilee, and people were bringing to Him, “all who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And he healed them.” ()
In , He had cleansed a man with leprosy (1-4), healed the centurion’s servant without even visiting him physically (5-13), healed Peter’s mother-in-law and many others in Capernaum (14-17), calmed the wind and the waves (23-27), and sent the legion of demons into a herd of pigs (28-32).
He told a paralyzed man that his sins were forgiven right before He told the man to, “Get up, take your stretcher, and go home.” () He healed Jairus’ daughter and a woman who had been sick for twelve years (9:18-26). He healed two blind men (9:27-31), drove out a demon that made a man mute (9:32-34), and “healed every disease and every sickness,” in various towns and villages (9:35-46).
Before they asked for their sign in verse 38 of chapter 12, Jesus healed a man with a shriveled hand in the face of being set up by the Pharisees (12:9-13).
They want a sign?
Jesus gives them two existing signs that point to who He is and His roles.
Our first point is Jesus’ role as King.
1) Jesus is the greatest king
1) Jesus is the greatest king
Jesus is the greatest King of Israel. Greater than Saul in his primacy as the “first” king (which he really wasn’t… God was), greater than David in his pursuit after God’s heart, and greater than Solomon in all his wealth, splendor, and wisdom.
At the end of our focal passage, we saw Jesus say something interesting to the scribes and Pharisees about the Queen of the South, another name for the Queen of Sheba:
42 The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here.
1 When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, 2 telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there with her foal. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.”
4 This took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:
5 Tell Daughter Zion,
“See, your King is coming to you,
gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt,
the foal of a donkey.”
6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and its foal; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. 8 A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. 9 Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!
10 When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar, saying, “Who is this?”
You might remember that a couple of weeks ago, we looked at “Solomon’s Name & Fame,” and we read in about the visit to Solomon from the Queen of Sheba, which would have been a journey (one-way) of about 1,400 miles. She had heard of his wisdom and the wealth of Israel, and she had to come and see it for herself.
Jesus says that the Queen of Sheba, because of her example, would condemn the Pharisees of that generation for their unwillingness to listen to the words of the wisest King to ever live, who was right in front of them.
At the end of Jesus’ earthly ministry, as He came into Jerusalem for His final week before His crucifixion, Jesus fulfilled a prophecy about the King of Israel from as He rode into town on the first Palm Sunday.
1 When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, 2 telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there with her foal. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.”
4 This took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:
5 Tell Daughter Zion,
“See, your King is coming to you,
gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt,
the foal of a donkey.”
6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and its foal; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. 8 A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. 9 Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!
Jesus is the greatest prophet
Jesus is the greatest prophet
1 When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, 2 telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there with her foal. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.”
4 This took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:
5 Tell Daughter Zion,
“See, your King is coming to you,
gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt,
the foal of a donkey.”
6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and its foal; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. 8 A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. 9 Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!
10 When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar, saying, “Who is this?”
CLOSING
Mat 12:1
1 At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
3 He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry: 4 how he entered the house of God, and they ate the bread of the Presence—which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests? 5 Or haven’t you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
He is greater than the Temple itself. He is the Temple.
He is greater than the Temple itself. He is the Temple.
•Brothers and sisters, don’t be half-hearted like Solomon. Be more like Paul, who said, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” 2 Timothy 4:7 •Now, just to be clear: it is not our obedience that saves us. Our salvation is a work of God that we cannot earn and that cannot be “unearned” once it is received. However, we are called to live lives of obedience as a response of grateful love to our Father who has shown us such great love Himself in Christ. •This saved life begins with our surrender to God, believing in what He has done for us in sending Jesus to die in our place, so that we can be forgiven of our sins. Surrender to the Lord this morning. •If God is calling you to make another decision this morning: whether to formally join this family of believers at Eastern Hills, or if you have some issue in your life for which you would like to pray with one of us, we will be available during this time. •Call down the band. Pray. •Mention the parlor and the AAEO.
The shouting of the people, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” was a cry of “Save us, King of Israel!” They at least cheered (not the Pharisees, who told Jesus to quiet them down) as though they believed that Jesus was the long-awaited King from the line of David.
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.
Application of Point 1:
Application of Point 1:
So what about us? Do we see Jesus as a King, specifically as the greatest King to ever live, a gentle King who would lay Himself down for us on the battlefield of our salvation, dying in our place so that we could be saved? If He is King, then He is also Lord, and to Him we owe our allegiance, and in fact, our very lives. Will the Queen of Sheba get to stand and condemn us for our unbelief in the face of One greater than Solomon?
Jesus is the greatest King, but He is also the greatest prophet:
2) Jesus is the greatest prophet
2) Jesus is the greatest prophet
Mediator of the New Covenant
14 When the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. 18 For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 And he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Jesus is the greatest prophet
Jesus is the greatest prophet
Jesus is the greatest prophet
Jesus is the greatest prophet
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
39 He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. 41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s preaching; and look—something greater than Jonah is here.
The role of the prophet is to share the truth of the God: it’s to speak “thus saith the Lord.” Sometimes this would be in the context of telling the people what God had thought about what they had done, sometimes it was in telling the people what God’s thoughts and actions were about what they were doing, and sometimes in telling the people what God intended to do, or warning the people what He wanted them to do.
Jesus here tells the scribes and Pharisees that they would be given a sign, but one that looked a lot like a sign they already had: the story of Jonah. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the fish for 3 days and 3 nights, so Jesus (the Son of Man) would be in the “heart of the earth” for a similar amount of time.
Keep in mind that “a day and a night” was a common ancient Hebrew idiom for an entire 24 hour day or any portion thereof. Jesus was saying that He would die and be buried, but his comparative to the story of Jonah includes one additional aspect: Just as Jonah would not remain in the fish, so the Son of Man would not remain in the heart of the earth. The “sign of Jonah” included Jesus’ resurrection!
Jonah was a prophet who was tasked with preaching to Nineveh about their impending destruction because of their wickedness. Jonah’s message was a simple, yet powerful word from the Lord: “In forty days Nineveh will be demolished!” Like the Queen of Sheba, the people of Nineveh in Jonah’s day would condemn the Pharisees of that generation for their refusal to listen to the message of the Lord, spoken through the greater prophet, Jesus.
The prophet was to speak for the Lord, so he was to speak the Word of God. While Jesus certainly did that, there was another layer to what Jesus did: or more accurately, who Jesus is:
He is not just a prophet who speaks the Word of God.... He IS the living Word.
He is not just a prophet who speaks the Word of God.... He IS the living Word.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in his name, 13 who were born, not of natural descent, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God.
14 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
14 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways. 2 In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things and made the universe through him. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
When Jesus spoke the Word of God, He spoke about who He is. So He is greater than any other prophet who has ever lived.
1 Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways. 2 In these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son. God has appointed him heir of all things and made the universe through him. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Application of Point 2:
Application of Point 2:
Do we see Jesus as a prophet, one who spoke the very Word of God? Or do we simply see Him as a good man, a moral teacher, or a political activist? Even more than that, Jesus’s role as prophet was more about who He IS than what He DID. He IS the living Word of God, the exact expression of the nature of God, and by His word, He holds all things together. But we can’t lose sight of the fact that Jesus said that He would die and be buried, and spend at least a part of each of three days in the grave, but that He would rise again! Yes, Jesus was crucified, but that wasn’t the end. Like Jonah being spit back out onto the beach, so the grave would have to give Jesus back to the living!
But there is one more aspect we need to consider this morning:
3) Jesus is the greatest priest
3) Jesus is the greatest priest
Jesus is the greatest priest
Jesus is the greatest priest
Greater than Saul, greater than David, greater than Solomon
42 The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look—something greater than Solomon is here.
Now, I could honestly preach just a sermon from just this passage, but we don’t have time for that today. I wanted to read all 8 verses to keep them in context, but we’re really just going to consider verse 6.
Matthew 21:
1 When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, 2 telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there with her foal. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.”
4 This took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:
5 Tell Daughter Zion,
“See, your King is coming to you,
gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt,
the foal of a donkey.”
6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and its foal; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. 8 A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. 9 Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!
10 When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar, saying, “Who is this?”
Jesus is the greatest priest
Jesus is the greatest priest
1 At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”
3 He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry: 4 how he entered the house of God, and they ate the bread of the Presence—which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests? 5 Or haven’t you read in the law that on Sabbath days the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
He is greater than the Temple itself. In fact, He referred to His body as the Temple in . But what was the Temple? The Temple was a physical representation of the presence of God and the centerpiece of worship for the people of Israel. But now, in declaring Himself as greater than the Temple, Jesus is saying that He Himself is the physical presence of God, and the centerpiece of worship.
As the high priest was the human mediator of the worship of God (people would bring their sacrifices to the priests who would perform them on their behalf), so now Jesus is the human mediator of the worship of God:
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.
During His earthly ministry, Jesus was a human being just like us. He got hungry. He got thirsty. He was tempted as we are tempted, yet never gave in to temptation and sin. But this isn’t the only reason that Jesus is the greatest priest.
The high priest would offer sacrifices for the people. Yes, Jesus as our high priest offered a sacrifice, but the sacrifice that He offered was a perfect sacrifice: and He Himself was the sacrifice. In one way, as I mentioned when looking at Jesus as the greatest King, Jesus laid down His life for our rescue.
But as the greatest priest, the image shifts to one of payment and atonement. We owed a debt of sin that we could not pay, and Jesus took that sin on Himself as our sacrifice, and gave us His perfection in place of our sinfulness.
In doing this, He became the mediator of the New Covenant, which we will celebrate momentary as we take the Lord’s Supper together. Look at what He said at the Lord’s Supper:
Mediator of the New Covenant
14 When the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 Then he said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. 18 For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 And he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way he also took the cup after supper and said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
“This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.” Jesus was the sacrifice we needed, the only sacrifice that was enough to cover our sin. Because of the death of Jesus, we can be forgiven.
Application of Point 3:
Application of Point 3:
Jesus died to pay for my sin and your sin. He is not only the high priest who makes the sacrifice on our behalf, but He Himself IS the sacrifice. When we surrender our lives to Him in faith, we are given His righteousness in place of our sin because of the perfect payment He has made for us. He is the greatest priest.
Closing:
Closing:
Jesus is the greatest King, greater than Solomon. He is the greatest prophet, greater than Jonah. He is the greatest priest, greater than any priest to ever serve in the Temple, and He now stands as the centerpiece of worship, greater than the Temple was while it still stood.
Before we take the Lord’s Supper, I want to invite you to respond in faith to the truth of what Jesus has done for us as our King, prophet, and priest. Wave the white flag to the King and surrender your life to Him this morning. I, Trevor, Camille at the front, Joe & Kerry at the back to pray and receive you as you come and make your decision to give up your life to God public this morning.
If God is calling you to be a part of this church family, you can come and share that with us as well.
If there is some other thing that you need to share, or if you need prayer for something this morning, we will be glad to pray with you.
Invite up the band. Pray.
Lord’s Supper:
Lord’s Supper:
Instructions: I want to make it clear the that Lord’s Supper is for believers only. This isn’t to be exclusive, but in the Lord’s Supper, we give remembrance to what Jesus has done for us. If you have never placed your faith in Christ for your salvation, please do not take the Supper this morning, but by all means, stay and witness the meaning of the Supper for the church body.
If you are a believer, then you are welcome to take the Supper with us today, even if you are not a member of Eastern Hills. This is a special time of worship for the church family. Please take a few moments to examine your hearts as the deacons come to prepare for the Supper.
Jesus gave thanks for the bread before giving it to His disciples.
Jesus said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Also, Jesus gave thanks for the cup before giving to His disciples.
Jesus said, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
Ending Stuff:
Ending Stuff:
Invite guests to the Parlor.
Turn over to Wayne to pray for the offering.