Courageous Faith Matt 21

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Courageous Faith Matt 21

• The Triumphal Entry
• Cleansing the Temple
• Barren Fig Tree
• The Authority of Jesus
• Parable of Two Sons
• Parable of the Landowner

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The Triumphal Entry

• Entering on a donkey
• Zechariah 99 (Messiah)
• 1 Kings 132-34 (Solomon)
• Clothes and branches
• Hosanna!
• Salvation!Hebrew transliterated into Greek
• Psalm 118

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Cleansing the Temple

• Overturning the tables
• Money changers
• Dove sellers
• Den of robbers - not house of prayer
• Healing
• Indignant priest and cheering children
• Out of the mouth of babes

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Barren Fig Tree 2118-22

• Cursed never to bear fruit
• Faith to move mountains

Authority of Jesus 2123-27And Parable of Two
Sons 2128-32

• Chief priest and elders challenge
• Jesus asks about John the Baptist
• Parable of I will
• Refusal to believe John

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Killing the Owners Son 2133-46

• Abusing and killing the owners slaves
• Abusing and killing the owners son
• Severe punishment
• The stone the builders rejected
• Psalm 118
• Kingdom taken away given to others
• Chief priest and Pharisees understand and want to
  seize Jesus

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Heaven and Earth Matt 22

• Come to the Feast
• Render to Caesar.
• In the Resurrection
• The Greatest Commands
• Who is the Christ

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Come to the Feast Matt 221-14

• Refusing the kings invitation
• Unwilling to come going their own ways
• Mistreating and killing his servants
• The wrath of the king
• Sending an army to destroy burn city
• The kings new invitation
• Going to the highways and bringing in all sorts
  of people
• Outer darkness for disrespectful guest
• Many are called, but few are chosen.

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Render Unto Caesar What Is CaesarsAnd Unto God
What Is GodsMatt 2215-22

• Pharisees and Herodians seek to trap Jesus with
  tax question.
• Whose image and inscription?

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In the ResurrectionMatt 2223-34

• Sadducees riddle about no resurrection
• Jesuss correction
• "You are mistaken, not understanding the
  Scriptures nor the power of God.
• No marrying in the Resurrection
• Like angels
• The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the God
  of the living, not the dead
• Pharisees notice he silences Sadducees

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Mt 2235-40 Greatest Commands

• Love God completely.
• Love neighbor as self.

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Who Is the Christ?Matt 2241-44

• Jesus asks the Pharisees
• They say the son of David
• Jesus says, Then why does David call him Lord?
• Psalm 110
• They dont answer or question any more

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Showy Worship 231-6

• Chief Seats
• Broad phylacteries
• Long Tassels
• Pretentious Doctrine
• Imposing heavy burdens
• Not lifting a finger themselves
• Do as they say and not as they do.

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Religious Snobbery 236-12

• Honored seats at banquets and in synagogues
• Respectful greetings in public
• Rabbi
• Father
• Leader (Master)
• Servant

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Eight Woes to Pharisees 2313-36

• Excluding self and others from kingdom
• Devouring widows houses while making long
  street-corner prayers
• World-wide proselytizing to make worse sons of
  hell
• Making meticulous exceptions for oaths
• Neglecting weightier measures justice, mercy,
  faithfulness - to tithe spices. (strain out a
  gnat and swallow a camel)
• Cleaning outsides of dishes with robbery,
  self-indulgence, inside.
• White-washed sepulchers full of dead mens
  bones outwardly beautiful, unclean inside.
• Building monuments to prophets and killing
  prophets.

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Jerusalem, Jerusalem 2337-39

• I wanted to gather your children like a hen
  gathers her chicks.
• You were unwilling
• Your house is being left desolate
• You wont see me till my return.