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*Slide 1*
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Jesus
Son of God
Angry young man
Injustice.
Wrongdoing.
*Slide 2*
*Mission* – combat wrongdoing and injustice
*Destiny* – to bring in God’s kingdom and to become God’s king
Just baptised
Time of tempting
Chance to short-cut his way to his goals
· Anointed king
· Receive worship
· Be adored by the crowds.
Examine in a little more detail.
*Slide 3*
1. Turn these stones into bread.
Don’t bother fighting injustice – just toss them some bread.
Instant popularity.
*Long hard road of obedience*
o Not a grand gesture – a life of self-sacrifice.
o Don’t dupe them with something that cost you nothing
o Share life with them
o And lay your life down for them.
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*Slide 4*
2.
Throw yourself off the temple
Temple – seat of religious power.
Status quo.
18,000 priests.
Controlled who got forgiven.
Who got access to God.
Opportunity to upset the status quo.
Do a showy miracle and parachute yourself into religious history
*Long hard road of obedience*
o Your life will be the sign
o You will become the sacrifice.
*Slide 5*
3. High mountain – worship me.
Seize political power.
Have the worship of everyone on earth.
*Long hard road of obedience*
o Your crown will be made of thorns
o You can’t tackle the injustice of the world by embracing its systems of power
o You are here to turn the power structures of the world upside down, not take them over.
But short-cuts are often dead ends.
Show how these would have been…
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So Jonty and Joe
*Show film – youtube clip*
You’ve embarked on a lifetime of discipleship
I hope someone told you it would be hard.
Jesus in the model – can’t take the easy way.
*Slide 6*
No shortcuts to a healthy body àlikewise, no shortcuts in this journey of discipleship.
Ahead lies the *long hard road of obedience*
Don’t be lured by the shortcuts the world offers.
à dead ends.
Temptations ahead – short cut to* Slide 7* intimacy, to *Slide 8 *happiness, to success.
*Slide 9*
Not for wimps.
Adventure.
Endurance.
Stamina.
Courage.
Strength.
Anything but boring.
Can’t trust your intuition!
The right way is often counter-intuitive.
Counter-cultural.
Radical.
The ride of your life!
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Gethsemene
*Show film – Passion of the Christ scene 1 (start at 4’25 finish at 6’57)*
This is where Jesus’ path of obedience took him
The easy path – flee or fight
The long hard obedient path of the cross.
Today’s message is
not a call to embrace martyrdom.
Not a call to hair-skin shirts and daily fasting.
Not a call to masochism.
*Slide 10*
An *invitation*
to enter by the narrow gate, and to walk the long hard obedient path which is filled with adventure and /life/.
An invitation to turn off the wide easy path which turns out to be a dead-end.
And the gate to the narrow path is the cross *of* *Jesus*.
And that’s why it mattered that Jesus was obedient.
So that you and I could get onto the narrow path, and off the short-cut that is really a dead-end.
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