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If you don’t realize who you are talking to, sometimes it can come back to bite you, big time!
For example:
There was a company that was considering closing down one of its offices, and so the office manager was called in to give a report to his company’s regional manager.
The man showed up, early, hoping to make a good impression.
He walked in, saw a lady standing over by the coffee table, and said:
“Hey darling, if you could fix me up a coffee real quick, I have a meeting with he regional manager in like 5 minutes.”
The women just stared at him for a moment, and then coldly said:
“I am the regional manager.”
Oops...
A man once arrived at at a large speaking event, and when he went to go in, the security guard rudely stopped him and said:
“What on earth do you think you’re doing?
Don’t you realize you need a ticket?
Where is your ticket?”
The man responded, “Sorry no, I don’t, I’m..”
“Then you have to leave!”
The guard barked.
The man then calmly replied: “Well, if I leave, then so does everyone else, since they are all here to hear me speak.”
Oops...
There once was a women who was called into her professors office an account of art plagiarism.
After sitting her down, the professors gave her a big talk about how seriously it was to steal another person’s work of art.
By the end, she was in confused and crying explaining that she had no idea what they were talking about and never intended to copy anyone’s work of art.
Believing she was lying, they produced the art she had copied, which was a one for one replicate.
There was no question, it was the same work of art.
However, they felt a little foolish when the young lady pointed out that it was actually her art from her own website that had shown up in the Google image search...
Oops...
One more:
There once was a man, who came healing the sick, raising the dead, and casting out demons.
He lived a perfect life, without any sin at all!
And yet, despite all of this, do know what they said?
They said He was of the devil.
They said He was a blasphemer,
A man who was guilty because He hung around with sinners.
And yet, He was none other than God’s servant - the Messiah - the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Big oops.
And yet, as we’ll see this morning, this failure to recognize the king’s identity led them to respond wrongly to Him
And because they responded wrongly to Him, it led to their catastrophe.
And so for us this morning, if we are to avoid their fate, we must recognize the king so we can respond properly to Him.
And so to do that we must do 3 things:
To respond properly to the King we must recognize:
His Arrival
His Power
His Pardon
If we were to summon up Matthew’s Gospel, we could rightly say that Matthew wants us to recognize the identity of the Messianic King.
Messianic?
What does that mean?
It means, as we saw last week, God’s chosen servant who would will bring hope, not just to the Jewish Nation, but to ALL THE NATIONS of the world!
And what kind of hope?
Not just hope of good jobs,
Good education,
Low crime rates,
And good living hospitals,
Hope of everlasting life!
Back in Genesis chapter 3, Adam and Eve sinned which brought pain and death into our world.
And every since then, we’ve been looking in hope to be set free from this curse by the One Whom God promised would come and break the curse.
The One Who would heal us forever - once and for all.
The One Whom would wipe away every tear so that there would be no more crying, pain or death!
And how?
By living the perfect life we could never live,
by dying the death we deserved,
and rising again on the 3rd day into glorious life,
and then offering the same glorious life to all who would recognize His identity, repent of their sin, and trust in His saving Name!
And so Matthew has told us all about the arrival of this great Savior - Jesus of Nazareth - the promised Messianic King!
He told of His Miraculous birth,
Of His Baptism, where the Holy Spirit descended upon Him and the Father spoke from heaven saying: “This is my beloved Son with Whom I am well pleased - LISTEN TO HIM!”
He told of us Jesus’s Divine teaching on the sermon on the mount - which was like no other man’s!
He was a compassionate and caring King, who who would not break any bruised reeds, or put out any smoldering wicks.
Instead, He loved sinners as He dined and ate with them, unwilling to turn them away as He healed their sick, raised their dead, and cast out their demons!
For The King of Love our Shepherd is, Who’s goodness reigns forever!
And yet how did the religious leaders respond to Him?
They hated Him, so much so that after He corrected their wrong unbiblical view of the Sabbath, they began plotting to kill him.
They began plotting to utterly destroy Him!
And all because they stubbornly failed to recognize their King’s arrival, when they absolutely should have.
And so coming to our passage this morning, we see that the question of Christ’s identity comes up again after He shows loudly and clearly Who He truly is.
Look at verses 22-23 with me:
Son of David?
What does that mean?
It’s a Messianic title taken from a prophecy given in 2 Samuel chapter 7:12-16, which speaks of God’s promise to King David that He would raise up a King from His line who’s kingdom would never end.
A King who wouldn’t just be David’s Son, but God’s Son too.
And so throughout the book of Matthew, when we see people calling out “SON OF DAVID HAVE MERCY ON ME” it’s an expression of their faith in Him that He was the Messiah.
Which is why Jesus says: “Your faith has made you well,” as He proceeds to heal them.
Which is a physical demonstration - or picture, of their spiritual healing
And so in verse 23, after Jesus miraculously heals the blind and mute man brought before Him, the crowd was so amazed and said: “Can this be the Son of David?”
And they ask this because it was so clearly an act of God to heal a blind AND DEAF demon possessed man.
This was unheard of!
And so when the religious leaders saw this, in the face of absolute proof, they refused to believe, and instead, as verse 24 says, they responded to the crowd saying:
“It is only by Beelzebul the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”
And Oops
Right there, as verses 31 & 32 tell us, they committed the unpardonable sin.
And why?
Because not only did they fail to recognize their King’s arrival, but secondly, they failed to recognize His Power - which leads us to our second point:
To respond properly to the King we must recognize:
His Arrival
His Power
Now, why is the crowd still hesitant about whether or not Jesus is truly the Messiah?
They are hesitant because Jesus’s arrival didn’t match their expectations.
And what did they expect?
A conquering King, not a meek and mild caring servant.
And yet, despite all of that, they see Jesus’s mighty works and recognize that it comes from God, and so they ask: “Can THIS truly be the Son of David”
It’s like they are saying: “REALLY?! HIM?!?!?!....”
And so recognizing that crowds are starting to question this, the Pharisees realize they gotta shut this down, and they gotta shut this down hard, RIGHT NOW before it gets out of hand.
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