Sunday School Lesson

1. Matthew 21:1-11
More Than A Prophet
March 26, 2017
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

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What’s the number one thing?

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The Glory of God!

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1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV
31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you
do, do all to the glory of God.

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First Baptist Church Jackson Mission:
Multiply Disciples to Live Like Jesus.

6. March MemoryVerse:
Romans 12:2 ESV
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind, that
by testing you may discern what is the will of
God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

8. Sunday, March 26th
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

9. Community Dinners
Thursday, March 30th
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

10. Friday, March 31rd
Saturday, April 01st

11. Forgiven: A Celebration of the Cross
Sunday, April 09th
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

12. Matthew 21:1-11
More Than A Prophet

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14. Matthew 21:1-11 ESV
TheTriumphal Entry
1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and
came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives,
then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them,
“Go into the village in front of you, and
immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a
colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

15. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say,
‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at
once.” 4This took place to fulfill what was
spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

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6The disciples went and did as Jesus had
directed them. 7They brought the donkey and
the colt and put on them their cloaks, and He
sat on them.

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8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the
road, and others cut branches from the trees
and spread them on the road.

18. 9 And the crowds that went before Him and that
followed Him were shouting, “Hosanna to the
Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the
name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
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19. 10 And when He entered Jerusalem, the whole
city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And
the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus,
from Nazareth of Galilee.”
Matthew 21:1-11 ESV

20. Now, let’s go back to 1859 BC (over 3800 years
ago) and look at Jacob's Blessing in Genesis
49:8-11.

21. Genesis 49:8-11 ESV
8 “Judah (praise), your brothers shall praise you;
your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
your father's sons shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion's cub;
from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He stooped down; he crouched as a lion
and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?

22. 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him (until Shiloh/peace
comes);
and to Him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
11 Binding His foal to the vine
and His donkey's colt to the choice vine,
he has washed His garments in wine
and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
Genesis 49:8-11 ESV
• Jacob's Blessing (1859 BC)

23. Isaiah 46:8-10a, 11b ESV
8 “Remember this and stand firm,
recall it to mind, you transgressors,
9 remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,

24. 10a declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times things not yet done,
11b I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have purposed, and I will do it.
Isaiah 46:8-10a, 11b ESV

25. Now go to Zechariah’s final prophecies
(Zechariah 9-14) – which were made about
1379 years later (around 480 BC or shortly after
that).

26. Zechariah received a series of visions in which
God revealed His plan for the history and future
of the world, showing that He is ultimately in
control and He will fulfill the promises that were
made to their fathers and to Abraham.

27. Other visions Zechariah experienced reveal the
coming judgment of God and His victory over
sin; in these visions, everything is about the
Messiah and His coming (both of them).

28. Zechariah prophesied about the nations that
would oppress Israel, about there being a time
of destruction and later that they would come
to worship the Lord in Jerusalem.

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The prophet Zechariah spoke more about the
Messiah than any of the prophets, except for
Isaiah.

30. Zechariah 9:9 ESV
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

31. The King Rejected:
This promised King came and the religious
rulers conspired to kill Him.
He was a threat to their corrupt system then
and Jesus is also a threat to every corrupt
system now.

32. When any man or any system or any
government tries to get rid of Jesus Christ you
can be certain they are corrupt.
Their corruption is threatened by Jesus.

33. Zechariah 14:4, 5c ESV
4 On that day His feet shall stand on the Mount of
Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and
the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to
west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the
Mount shall move northward, and the other half
southward.
5cThen the LORD my God will come, and all the holy
ones (That would be us!) with Him.

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Mount of Olives

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Ray Stedman 1917-1992

38. Matthew 21:1 ESV
TheTriumphal Entry
1 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and
came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives,
then Jesus sent two disciples,

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Bethphage (BETHfahgee)
House of Unripe Figs

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When Jesus came, in fulfillment of the
prophecies that He would come as King, He was
not riding on a war horse but on a donkey, a
symbol of peace.

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His only scepter was a broken reed, His only
crown a crown of thorns, His only throne a
bloody cross.

44. Immediately after the “Triumphal Entry”, John
goes on to link it with another event which
probably occurred a day or two later in this
strategic week -- the visit of certain Greeks to
the Passover Feast found in John 12.

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46. John 12:20-26 ESV
Some Greeks Seek Jesus
20 Now among those who went up to worship at
the feast were some Greeks. 21 So these came
to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee,
and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and
Philip went and told Jesus.

47. 23 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for
the Son of Man to be glorified. 24Truly, truly, I say to
you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and
dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much
fruit. 25Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever
hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and
where I am, there will My servant be also. If anyone
serves Me, the Father will honor him.”

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The disciples must have been amazed at this
reaction of our Lord.

49. These Greeks probably had come into contact
with the teaching of the OldTestament, drawn
by its purity, its monotheism, its clear message
of the nature and the greatness of God.

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Though they had not become Jews they did go
up to the Passover Feast to celebrate along
with the Jews.

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You remember that the outer court of the
Temple was called "the court of the Gentiles."

52. Many Gentiles would go up at times like this to
celebrate, although they could not go beyond
those courts on pain of their life.
These Greeks picked out the two disciples who
had Greek names, Philip and Andrew.

53. Philip, we are told, was from Bethsaida, on the
northern side of the lake of Galilee, the area
where the Gentiles had most fully settled.
These were sincere people, not curious tourists,
who said to Philip, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

54. Preachers often see this phrase written inside
pulpits, offered as a message that hopefully
reflects the desires of the congregation.
Ray Stedman says he has seen these words in
many pulpits and has been humbled and
challenged by them.

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John 12:21

56. Here, however, these words awaken an unusual
response from Jesus.
He has not been pleased by the triumphal
entry, but when He hears that a group of
Gentiles want to see Him, His response is
remarkable.

57. Immediately He declares, "The hour has come
for the Son of man to be glorified!"
Several times in the gospel of John we have
heard Jesus say "My hour has not yet come."

58. When His mother came to Him at the wedding
at Cana and asked Him to help with a problem
He said to her, "Woman, ... My hour has not yet
come," (John 2:4 RSV).
He did not mean He would not help her,
because He did.

59. He meant that what He would do would not
accomplish what she desired because His time
had not yet come.
On several other occasions, He made the same
point.

60. But the moment He hears of these Gentiles
wanting to see Him He responds in these
words, "The hour has come..."
Jesus goes on to utter words that Stedman has
described as the formula of focused attention:
"Truly, truly, I say to you."

61. When you see these words, pay close attention
to what follows.
"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and
dies, it remains alone."
What does He mean by that?

62. He is talking about Himself here and He is also
eventually talking about His followers.
He is the grain of wheat in this story.

63. Unless He is willing to die, unless He goes to the
cross, which He sees looming in the immediate
foreground now, His whole purpose in coming
to Earth will have been wasted, He will remain
alone.

64. "But if it dies, it bears much fruit."
He sees these Greeks as the first fruits, the
symbol of the great harvest of Earth for which
He came.
Perhaps He thought something like this: "These
Greeks have asked to see Me.What does it
mean to 'see Me'?"

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Picture a grain of wheat in your mind: can you
see that grain, so tiny?

66. Outwardly you can see what it is, but can you
really see it, its full potential?
No.
In order to see it you have to plant it in the cold,
dark earth.

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If you watch it, eventually a green sprout will
appear, then the blade, then the plant, then the
stem, and finally a head.

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At last it turns golden; the harvest has come;
but have you seen everything in that grain of
wheat?

69. No, not yet, you must plant those grains again
and again.
At last, when you stand one day beside a
shimmering field of wheat, rippling in the
breeze, golden in the sunshine, you can say you
have seen a grain of wheat.

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Shimmering Field ofWheat

71. You have seen all the possibilities of it; all of it
has been unfolded and now is visible to the eye
and that is what Jesus meant.
The world would not see the full outcome of His
work and His life until He went to the cross.

72. If He had not died we probably would not know
any more about Him than we know of any other
religious leader, like Buddha, Mohammed, or
Confucius.
It was His death that saved us, not His coming.

73. We may not have even heard of Him at all, so
meager were the results of His teaching that
only a relative handful stood with Him to the
end.
Because of the cross, He was able to do
something He could never have done
otherwise.

74. In dying, He was able to share His life with
millions of people.
How do we explain men like Luther, Knox,
Zwingli and others who changed the entire
Western world during their lifetime?

75. How do we explain the impact of men like the
Wesley brothers?
How do we explain the change in the hatchet-
man of the Nixon administration, Charles
Colson, who changed the prison system of this
country in the name of Jesus?

76. How do we explain Solzenityn and millions who
daily evidence an altered life, a changed
outlook?
Everything has come about because of the
cross of Christ and God is saying to us in this
account that the only way to true glory is to die.

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Jesus applies this to us in the next two verses in
John 12.

78. John 12:25-26 ESV
25Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever
hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal
life. 26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me;
and where I am, there will My servant be also. If
anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

79. Here is the great Christian paradox, the
unmistakable mark of an authentic gospel: It
begins with dying, with a cross.
If the gospel that you hear preached on the
radio, the television, or wherever, does not
begin with a cross, does not begin by telling you
that something in you has to die, it is not the
true gospel.

80. This is the identifying mark.
How these words of Jesus cut across the
philosophy of life today!

81. Television programs, magazines and popular
songs, present the philosophy, "Your life is your
own! Live it the way you please!Watch out for
No. 1! Do your own thing! Live so that you can
join with Frank Sinatra singing, 'I Did It My
Way'!"

82. But Jesus declares that if you follow that
philosophy you will lose everything.
Life will slip through your fingers no matter
what you do.

83. You can gain all the material abundance you
could ever wish for, the plaudits of the crowd,
recognition by the whole world, but if you live
that way you will end up with nothing; your life
will be a total waste of time.

84. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates
his life in this world will keep it for eternal life."
That doesn't mean you have to hate yourself.

85. It means you must recognize that living for
yourself will never supply what you really want
out of life.
Only as you surrender to the Lordship of Christ
can that be brought about.

86. From
Success
to
Significance
to
Surrender.

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90. Surrender is a huge part of the true Gospel and
it includes a cross, and that’s why the cross has
become the symbol of Christian faith.
If the message you are hearing today does not
begin there, then it's a false gospel, a fake
gospel.

91. If you are being told that the way to gain a deep
and wonderful sense of self-esteem is to simply
come to Jesus and let Him build you up and
make you feel good about yourself, you are not
hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

92. It does not begin that way, it starts with a cross.
Dr. A.W.Tozer, the great preacher of a few
decades ago said:The cross is the symbol of
death. It stands for the abrupt, violent end of
the human being.

93. The man in Roman times who took up his cross
and started down the road had already said
goodbye to his friends. He was not coming
back!
He was not going out to have his life redirected,
he was going out to have it ended.

94. The cross made no compromise, modified
nothing, spared nothing. It slew all of the man
completely and for good. It did not try to keep
on good terms with its victim. It struck swift
and hard and when it finished its work the man
was no more.

95. That evangelism which draws friendly parallels
between the ways of God and the ways of man
is false to the Bible and cruel to the soul of the
hearers.
The faith of Christ does not parallel the world, it
intersects it.

96. In coming to Christ, we do not bring our life up on to
a higher plane.We leave it at a cross. (Gal 2:20)
The grain of wheat must fall into the ground and
die.
That is the beginning of the Gospel.
Also, it's not the end.

97. The end is, "If it dies, it bears much fruit."
That is where life begins.
There is a life we are all born with that must
end.

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99. It is a self-centered life, that thinks only of itself,
seeks advantage for itself, is ambitious and
proud.
That life has to die.
That is the beginning of the Gospel.

100. But if it dies, then another life takes its place, a
life that is gracious, loving, lovely, peaceful,
filled with joy, gladness and a deep sense of
self-esteem, knowing who it is and what it was
made to be.
That is the rest of the Gospel.

101. You cannot reverse these two, although people
try to.
They jump immediately to the end of the
gospel -- life in Christ -- without first going to
the cross.
But that cannot be.

102. Jesus said so:
"If any one serves Me he must follow Me, and
where I am there shall My servant be also. He
must go where I've gone."

103. In terms of daily, practical experience, what
does Jesus mean, "He who comes after Me
must deny himself and take up his cross daily
and follow Me"? (Luke 9:23).
What does it mean to bear your cross daily?

104. It means two things:
First, it means a once-for-all decision; and
secondly, a continuing series of choices.
That is what the cross stands for:
First, it is a surrender of the rule of your life to
Jesus. It is a recognition that your life is not your
own.

105. The key words of the Christian faith are, "You
are not your own, you are bought with a price,"
(1 Corinthians 19b-20a).
Actually, you never were your own.

106. That is an illusion that the world is perpetrating
upon us through the media.
They tell us that we belong to ourselves, that
we have a right to ourselves.
That is a lie.
It's not true.

107. It never was. "You are not your own; you are
bought with a price."
This is the beginning of true life:
To recognize that fact, to surrender your claim
to yourself, to give up your right to run your
own affairs, and to surrender to the Lordship of
Jesus, to do what He says, and to stop what He
says to stop.

108. That hurts!
It cancels out your own plans.
It confounds your ambitions at times, it feels
like death.
It is death; it's a form of dying.

109. It also means to daily follow up on that
decision.
Keep doing what is right.
Stop doing what is wrong, and do it all in the
strength of Jesus' love and companionship!

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The result is that you will truly begin to live.
New power will come, to do what is right.

111. New joy will be yours, an inner peace that
nothing can take away, a new ability to love
even those you could not love before, because a
new life is yours.
You have found a new Lordship and a new life.

112. Our Lord uses this symbol of a grain of wheat
not only of Himself but of everyone who follows
Him.
Have you ever heard a grain of wheat talking to
itself?

113. Stretch your imagination a little and imagine a
grain of wheat looking at itself, admiring itself.
So round, so brown, so fully packed, and saying to
itself, "This philosophy I hear asks me to fall into
that dark, cold ground and lose myself. I don't
want to do that. I like myself. I want to stay what I
am. I want to hang on to myself, I want to be
myself."

114. Does that sound familiar?
If the grain of wheat wants to remain the same,
it has that right.

115. But, according to the word of Jesus, it will never
change.
4500-year-old grains of wheat discovered in the
tombs of the Pharaohs were found to be
absolutely the same as any grain of wheat
today.

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But when they were planted, these old grains began
to grow!
They had been totally unchanged for 4,500 years
but now they began to change - radically!

117. But suppose the grain of wheat said, "Well, I'm
told there is more to come, a lot more than I'm
experiencing, and the only way I can have it is
to fall into that dark ground and die. So, I'll do
it."
And it does so.

118. It falls into the ground and is covered up and
dies.
It's dark and unpleasant there.
The grain of wheat begins to think, "What a fool
I was!Why did I ever listen to that idea? Look
what's happened to me! I don't like this at all."

119. But then it begins to feel a tickle on its back.
It turns around and sees a white sprout coming
out.

120. It says, "What is this that's happening? I didn't
anticipate this at all. I've got to hold a
committee meeting with myself and decide
what to do about this. I'm used to being in
charge. I've got to determine whether that
thing is going to go sideways, up or down, or
whatever."

121. While it's trying to determine that, it discovers
there is a lordship which began to take over the
moment it fell into the ground.
This lordship directs the process quite apart
from what the grain of wheat may feel,
directing that a certain part goes down, while
another part goes up and soon breaks through
into the sunlight.

122. Then the grain begins to say, "Oh, this is much
better. I'm beginning to enjoy this. It's not as
bad as I thought."
The sprout comes, then the blade, then the
stalk, and finally the head.
The grain of wheat says, "I feel fulfilled. I’m
bearing fruit!"

123. Then those grains in the head fall into the
ground and they go through the process again
and again until at last a great, shimmering field
of wheat is growing, beautiful, rippling and
golden in the sun.

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The grain of wheat says, "Ah, this is life as it was
intended to be."
Fruitful -- that is what the end of the Gospel is.

125. If you belong to Jesus, every day will have its
cross, every day will have something you ought
to do but you don't feel like doing.
That is your cross. "He who follows Me must
take up his cross daily and follow Me," Luke
9:23.

126. Every day has its bit of death in order that it
might bring forth life.
The end result is a life so glorious, so complete,
so obviously what we were made for that it is
hard find the words to describe it.

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The testimony of millions is that it's all true.

128. You will find this thought everywhere in
Scripture.
It doesn't make any difference whether it's the
OldTestament or the NewTestament.
But you will find this only in the Bible!

129. No other book on Earth will tell you that this is
the way to life; only the Bible, only the words of
Jesus.
But His word is true, as He has demonstrated,
and as the testimony of over 2,000 years bear
witness, He brings life through death.

130. This is the choice that lies before us.
If we choose to die with Him, then we shall live.
"Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat
falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone;
but if it dies, it bears much fruit."

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Sunday

132. Matthew 21:33-45
If I Reject Jesus?
April 2, 2017
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

133. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 ESV
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life.”
John 14:6 ESV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

134. Romans 3:23 ESV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a ESV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death,
died in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

135. Revelation 21:8 ESV
8 “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as
for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters,
and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns
with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b ESV
23b but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

136. Romans 5:8 ESV
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 ESV
7 "The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will
be his God and he will be my son.”
Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be conquerors.

137. Romans 10:9-10 ESV
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is
Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes and is justified, and with the mouth one
confesses and is saved.
Romans 10:13 ESV
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved.”

138. If you have questions or would like to know more, Please,
contact First Baptist Church Jackson at 601-949-1900 or
http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/