Hartland Spring Convocation 2019: Ye Shall be Witnesses

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Hartland Institute of Health and Education

Jay Gallimore

Eight Days That Changed The World

8 days that changed Western civilization.

8 days that you wouldn't be here if those 8 days had not happened.

We should spend time contemplating the life of Christ.

So I want to talk about that week that's often called the Passion Week, or the week of the crucifixion and the resurrection.

And just about, not just about, all of the New Testament books spend a large chunk, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, spend a large chunk of their gospel talking about those 8 days.

A lot of times the parables and things that we talk about we don't realize are actually coming out of those 8 days.

We don't realize sometimes that Matthew 24 comes out of those 8 days.

We don't realize that a lot of the great teachings of Jesus come out of those 8 days.

Now there's a lead up to those 8 days, and I want to go to the scripture and give you the text, and then we'll move into the prep of those 8 days.

Jesus is moving with his disciples toward Jerusalem.

They're going to come back and they're going to go again And they don't want to go this time because they're saying to Jesus, they're going to kill you if you go.

And Thomas says finally in a resignation, he says, well let's just go with him and we'll die with him.

That's how much forward they look going to Jerusalem.

Jesus sets his face toward and they followed him afraid the scripture says.

And when they were following him the theme of their subject was who is going to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

This was a big discussion among the disciples, and we'll see that it actually invades the Last Supper when we get there.

This is when John and James' mother goes to him.

This is a ministry that needs a lot of helpers.

And these women are contributing a significant part to the ministry of Jesus.

So the mother of James and John goes to Jesus and wants to know if Jesus would allow 1 to sit on his right hand and 1 on his left.

And this stirred up a big deal among the disciples.

Now that happens just after the verses that I'm going to read you.

I'm sorry, in Mark chapter 10 verse 33 and 34.

Jesus pulls his disciples aside and talks to them and says this to them.

As I read this, Ask yourself, what part of this could the disciples miss?

Behold, Jesus is talking, verse 33, We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priest and the scribes.

And deliver him to the Gentiles or to the Romans.

So we know who's going to crucify him and what kind of death it will be because the Gentiles crucified the Jews stoned and 34 And they will mock Him and scourge Him and spit on Him and kill Him and the third day He will what?

It wasn't the first time that Jesus had told them that.

And as I read this, these are disciples that love Jesus, maybe except for Judas.

Yes, I know Peter would deny Him and that's a case for all of us to remember that we don't even understand ourselves.

But they were so saturated with the popular theology that they couldn't figure it out.

They just had to have a Messiah who would come as the lion of the tribe of Judah instead of a lamb, particularly a sacrificial lamb.

The world, by the way, has it turned around this time.

They want Jesus to come like a lamb, you know, for a thousand years of peace.

But the Adventists are telling everybody, our friends, we're telling our Catholic friends, we're telling our Muslim friends, we're telling our evangelical friends, we're telling our Baptist friends, we love them all, don't we?

We're telling our Hindu friends, we're telling everybody, Jesus is coming again in power and great glory.

But it's very hard for them to clamor over.

That's because they had a theology that appealed to their carnal earthly nature.

Now 2 great things have happened before that week starts.

1 of those is the resurrection of Lazarus.

The resurrection of Lazarus sent shockwaves through the Jewish leadership.

It sent shockwaves through the Pharisees because they knew His mighty miracles, but they weren't prepared for the resurrection of a man who had been 4 days dead.

And the Sadducees, who had not paid so much attention to Jesus, now became very threatened.

Because now Jesus had resurrected somebody from the dead that no 1 could deny.

I put that in quotes and I say that with tongue and cheek, hallelujah it's wrong, but they had a theology they embraced and that was that there's no resurrection of the dead.

Now these Sadducees were kind of like deist, not exactly but pretty much.

They believed that God had just kind of created everything.

And they didn't have any interest in anybody else either, except themselves.

That's why they didn't have any compassion.

Jesus had just kind of walked off and the laws of Moses were given so they can live a good life now.

They were strict adherents because they thought they got benefits out of it.

But when the resurrection of Lazarus came, just barely 5 miles from Jerusalem, and Lazarus is walking around, and I don't know how many people are out there to see the resurrection of Lazarus, but a lot of people, and that was taken right back to them, They're threatened.

And then after the feeding of the 5, 000, He refused to be a king.

And then He later gave them, He says, Look, He says, you know, You're going to have to eat my flesh and drink my blood.

Of course, he's talking in symbols and they really understood that.

But he lost a lot of disciples and he turned to his own disciples, the 12.

And they said, No, Lord, where would we go?

And he is more popular than he's ever been before.

There are thousands upon thousands of people headed to Jerusalem for the Passover week.

The Passover week is the biggest event in the Jewish calendar.

So thousands of people are pouring on everybody's lips.

You know, everything from feeding 5, 000, feeding 4, 000, healing the blind.

He just performed the miracle of blind Bartimaeus in Jericho with thousands of people in attendance.

And the hopes are building that He is indeed the Messiah of the world.

And the Jewish mentality, the Messiah, is the promise that is the center to not only their culture, but to their faith and to the Scriptures.

It's the only hope they see for themselves.

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