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*Intro* – A mother introduced her 5-year-old Alexis to a friend.
The friend said, “Beautiful name.
Why did you call her Alexis?”
“Because if I hadn’t had her, I’d be driving one.”
Everything worthwhile comes at a price, right?
No free lunches.
So, no surprise the thing most worth having in the whole world comes at the highest price of all – forgiveness from sin.
To be truly saved involves an infinite cost to God the Father, to Jesus and to us.
In Lu 9:18-27 Jesus hammers that point home to a group of disciples who just didn’t get it.
In v. 20 Peter makes the great confession that Jesus is the promised Messiah.
That warms Jesus’ heart.
But He knows their definition of Messiah is incredibly short-sighted.
They expect political deliverance -- NOW!
They got the deliverance part.
But they were clueless about the cost.
They are stunned when Jesus responds to Peter’s confession, “Right on Peter.
That’s exactly who I am.
But the next step is I’m going to Jerusalem to suffer and die.”
Wow, the air went out of that balloon!
But they must understand – before the crown comes the cross.
He must suffer, be rejected, die and rise again.
*II.
What It Cost Jesus*
*A.
Suffering* – was necessary to prepare Jesus, as a man, to obey God’s ultimate will, the cross.
Years of obedience prepared Him to pay the price of His Father’s rejection to pay the penalty for our sin.
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Rejection*
V. 22 “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes.”
Being rejected isn’t much fun, is it?
Not for Jesus either, but He ran right into it.
Mt 16:21, “From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things.”
Jesus must go to Jerusalem, walking right into the arms of His bitterest enemies.
He doesn’t hide or stall for time.
He is not run down in some far-off hideout.
He intentionally places Himself at the disposal of His worst enemies.
He tells His disciples in Lu 13:33, “Nevertheless, I must (it is nec) go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.”
Imagine Gnrl Eisenhower, having shown His superiority at the D-Day landing, suddenly instructing his driver to Berlin to capitulate to Hitler.
Unthinkable.
Yet – for our sake – Jesus is about to turn off His power, go to Jerusalem in complete humility and pay the price for our sin.
Do you see, friends, salvation is costly.
So who are the elders, chief priest and scribes who will reject Him? Elders are national leaders who have reached the pinnacle of authority as judges – like our Supreme Court.
The high priests were religious leaders.
Scribes were ordained experts in OT Scriptures and rabbinic tradition.
Together they formed the 71-member Sanhedrin – the ruling body of Israel.
These should have been the first to recognize the Jesus’ legitimacy as Messiah.
They knew the OT and should have welcomed Him with open arms.
Instead, they are His most adamant opponents.
They officially reject Him!
The word “reject” (ἀποδοκιμάζω) means “to discard after submitting to a test, to declare unworthy.”
It was used of counterfeit coins.
It is an official opinion of unworthiness based on examination.
The most worthy man to ever walk the earth is about to be declared “unworthy” by the elite rulers.
Human wisdom discarded perfection.
The perpetrators of this outrage were Israel’s leaders.
They discounted Jesus like a cheap counterfeit.
Peter had just proclaimed Him Messiah.
Jesus responded, “That’s right Peter.
That’s me.
But official rejection is just around the corner.”
While some individuals accepted Him, the nation as a whole officially rejected their own Messiah.
Now, we gotta go deep.
Jesus’ rejection shows salvation is always by grace alone – never merit.
Israel began around 2,000 BC.
God saw a world gone mad with evil.
In Egypt, Assyria, Chaldea, everywhere, He saw His previous revelation perverted in idolatrous systems that worshiped the creation rather than the Creator.
So He chose a pagan Gentile named Abraham, moved him from Chaldea to Canaan, promised him land, descendants and blessing to all nations thru him.
What did Abraham do to merit this favor?
Nothing!
This Abrahamic Covenant was unconditional.
God promised to do all this regardless of the performance of Abe or descendants.
Fast forward 400 years.
Abe’s descendants have been captive in Egypt and God uses Moses to deliver them.
He gives Moses the Law -- the Mosaic Covenant.
This shows the people how to live a life aligned with God.
It promises blessing if they kept the commands and judgment if they do not.
It includes a sacrificial system that provides forgiveness “on credit”, anticipating some undefined ultimate sacrifice.
Now the promised Messiah, the perfect keeper of God’s Law and the ultimate sacrifice for sin – stands personally before the leaders of the nation.
But rather than follow Him, they charge Him with blasphemy and kill Him.
They declare Him worthless.
In rejecting Him, they reject 2,000 years of preparation by God.
The nation, by this official act, demonstrates that it is unworthy of salvation.
It is no better than those pagan nations it was originally created to bless.
It has committed spiritual suicide.
So, God is done with Israel, right?
It’s all over for them as a nation, true?
Not by a long shot.
This is where we part company with our dear amillennial friends.
God is not done with Israel.
Why?
One simple but profound reason.
Because He made an unconditional promise to Abraham and He will not break it!
He’s put Israel aside for a time.
Jesus Himself predicted that she would be destroyed by the Romans as she was in 70 AD.
2,000 years of humiliation, dispersion and persecution followed.
But God is not thru with Israel.
Gal 3:17-18, “ This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.”
Israel failed the Mosaic Law.
If salvation comes by law, Israel is dead.
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