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126. Signs of the End of the Age

Matthew 24:1-35

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... any helpful understanding of the essential point being made. The discussion that follows is offered from this perspective. 24:3–14 Jesus’ statement about the temple’s destruction undoubtedly surprised the disciples. They approached him as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives (a setting connected with apocalyptic expectations; cf. Zech. 14:4) and asked two questions: When will this happen? and, “How can we tell when You’re coming back and the world will come to an end?” (Beck). In the Greek text ...

127. The Lenten Season

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . Rome placed special emphasis upon the triduum: Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter. In the fourth century, the days of Holy Week were designated: Palm Sunday -- entry into Jerusalem Monday -- the cleansing of the temple Tuesday -- the Discourse on the Mount of Olives Wednesday -- Judas' agreement Maundy Thursday -- Upper Room meeting Friday -- Calvary Saturday -- the rest in the tomb The six days grew into 36 days, as a tithe of the 365 days of the year. By approximately 731, the time of Charlemagne ...

128. Masks Off!

John 7:25-45 and 8:11-59

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?” They replied, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.” Then they all went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to ...

129. The Gardener

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... emphasizes the importance of our hearts, not our physical lineage. He emphasizes our role in God’s vineyard, our dependence on God for our well-being, our humility. Yet we still don’t get it. Jesus spends numerous times in gardens. He loves the Mount of Olives, the garden of Gethsemane, the trees and mountains, and even in death, is “planted” within a garden. And he rises within a garden. He invites a thief beside him to join him in the “garden” of God –the restoration place, also known as the ...

130. The Passover and the Passion

Drama

Denny C. Wise

... Choir: "Were You There When We Failed to Take a Stand?" (Mary puts out two more candles.) Narrator: Jesus knew the time of his death was at hand, and so he arose from the table to go and pray in the Garden of Gethsemane, on the Mount of Olives. Jesus also knew that the disciples would desert him in the end, so even as they followed behind him, already he felt completely abandoned and alone. (All stand and leave except James the Just and Judas Thaddeus.) James the Just: (Judas Thaddeus stands with James.) I ...

131. John Prepares the Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... ). Mark's story begins and ends in Galilee! At the close of the story the young man at the tomb announces that Jesus' followers are to go to Galilee to see him even as he told you. Jesus told the disciples this during the night of prayer at the Mount of Olives. "... After I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee" (Mark 14:28). Geography plays an important part in the story of Mark's Gospel. The first ten chapters of the story take place in Galilee and focus on Jesus, the Sower of the Word. In Galilee ...

132. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of which they had just partaken. They had drunk a cup of the fruit of the vine which (in the other three Synoptic Gospels) Jesus said symbolizes the outpouring of His life in sacrificial love for them. Often, when they walked to and fro from the Mount of Olives, they had seen vines growing on the hillside. Every time they entered the Temple they had seen the symbol of the vine carved upon its gates, for the vine was an ancient symbol of Israel, the vineyard (people) of God. During the Maccabean period the ...

133. The Lamb

Luke 19:28-44, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and security and control and to “let go.” Understanding sacrifice as “letting go” is the key to Jesus’ actions in the last week of his life. In the scriptures today, we see Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. He is coming down from the Mount of Olives, where his disciples have prepared a donkey for him. But why is he doing this? For this, we need to look at the historical and cultural context. In Jesus’ day, all Jews came to Jerusalem for major Jewish festivals. The Festival of Passover was ...

134. A Personal History

John 18:1—19:42

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... it. The writer of Hebrews explains it. And you and I get to preach it today. Isaiah 52:13—53:12 On the eve of his death, Jesus invoked this passage of scripture. At the conclusion of the Last Supper, just before departing for the Mount of Olives with his disciples, Jesus said to them, “For I tell you, this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted among the lawless’; and indeed what is written about me is being fulfilled” (Luke 22:37). Perhaps that brief reference to this suffering ...

135. Personal History

John 18:1-11

Sermon

David J. Kalas

136. Just Know Him In His Visible Return

Revelation 1:7-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... dying for my sins. It would have been magnificent to have stood at that empty tomb when that stone was rolled away, and hear that angel preach the first Resurrection sermon: "He is not here, He is risen." It would have been breathtaking to have stood on the Mount of Olives and watched the Lord Jesus ascend into heaven in clouds of glory. But there is one thing I am not going to miss, that I am going to see, and that is the return of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. III. We Must Attest To the Victorious ...

137. How Do You Explain the Resurrection?

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is dead, and nothing more can be said. Unless Lazarus is a friend of Jesus. Without Jesus, death is terribly final. With Jesus...well, let us see. Jesus goes to Bethany, the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. It is just over the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem, about two miles from the Holy City. Bethany served as sort of a “bedroom community” for those who lived and worked in Jerusalem. When Jesus visited Jerusalem, he usually stayed in Bethany, and commuted into the Holy City from there. Jesus goes ...

138. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Wednesday,” or “Maundy Tuesday,” but I digress.) “Six days before the Passover” which occurred that year on the Sabbath (Saturday) was the preceding Sunday. On that day Jesus arrived in Bethany, the “bedroom community” of Jerusalem, just over the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem where Jesus often retired to rest during the hectic events of that last week in His life. Today, the village is called “el-Azariyeh,” from the Greek Lazarion, “the place of Lazarus.” The only people from Bethany ...

139. The Commissioning of the Disciples

Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... the promise in Acts 2:1–4 that it becomes clear that the “power from on high” refers to the Holy Spirit, bestowed by the ascended Jesus (Acts 2:33). 24:50 the vicinity of Bethany. Acts 1:12 locates the event more broadly on “the Mount of Olives,” on the eastern slope of which Bethany is located. he lifted up his hands and blessed them. Compare the priestly blessing in Leviticus 9:22. This is the only time Jesus is recorded as pronouncing a formal blessing on anyone (cf. Simeon’s blessing on ...

140. Even God Can Change His Mind

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... things, but God is with us, enduring the same things that you and I have to endure. You can see the difference in comparing the scene of Moses on Mt.Sinai, before this incident, getting an all-powerful God to change his mind, and Jesus, on the Mount of Olives, asking God to "let this cup pass from me." The difference is that God being with us will not alter the circumstances that we have to go through. God did not rescue Jesus from the cross, but will stay with him to redeem the situation. Because God ...

141. Eye Exercises

Matthew 6:25-33

Sermon

Mark Trotter

142. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Zechariah 14:1-21, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... reading throws the lection into a Christian perspective (although this was not in the prophet's mind, of course), because it begins at the place where, according to Luke, the ascension of Jesus took place: "On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east." Zechariah could have been speaking to Christians, not only to Jews, when he described what "that day" would be like. Indeed, it will be glorious, "and the Lord will become king over all the earth; on that ...

143. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... Avenue before our church (Lakewood, Ohio) was once a Pony Express route, carrying mail toward Detroit City in Michigan. That route was earlier an Indian trail through forest lands. So it was with the road that came from Bethany, climbed across to the Mount of Olives, snaked down into the Kidron Valley, moved through the region of the Garden of Gethsemane and finally made a steep climb to the Compassion Gate of Jerusalem. That road’s history went back before David’s choice of Jerusalem for his temple ...

144. Beneath The Shadow Of The Cross

Mark 15:16-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... you and for many for the forgiveness of sins." They ate and drank but they weren't really sure what was going on. D. By the time they finished, the whole place was somber and introspective. In that mood, Jesus got up and quietly lead them to the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane so he could pray. On the way he asked Peter, James and John to go pray with him. They did but they had difficulty staying awake. While they were fighting sleep and while Jesus was praying great drops of blood, a commotion ...

145. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.” (John 11:1, ESV) When you go to Israel one of the neatest places you get to visit is the little village of Bethany. Which is just across the Kidron Valley from Jerusalem not far from the Mount of Olives about two miles walking distance. This family had adopted Jesus and this is where Jesus would stay whenever He went to Jerusalem. Lazarus is sick and it’s not just a cold or a touch of the flu, he’s deathly ill. So the sisters send for Jesus ...

146. A Divided Family

Mark 3:20-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... story of Jesus’ family’s embarrassment over his ministry, that makes it even more thrilling to read in Acts 1:12-14 that on the day Christ ascended to be with his Father, “the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and ...

147. Beneath The Shadow Of The Cross

Mark 14:1--15:47

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... you and for many for the forgiveness of sins." They ate and drank but they weren't really sure what was going on. By the time they finished, the whole place was somber and introspective. In that mood, Jesus got up and quietly lead them to the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane so he could pray. On the way he asked Peter, James and John to go pray with him. They did but they had difficulty staying awake. While they were fighting sleep, while Jesus was praying great drops of blood, a commotion broke ...

148. Not Blind but Seeing

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... . As he does so, "he came back seeing." (v. 7) The one who was blind from birth, who never saw color, form, motion, sky, earth, faces, who never saw the sun rise or set over his native Jerusalem, who never looked out over the walls to the loveliness of the Mount of Olives, or to the east to see the deep reddish hue of the hills of Moab in the late afternoon sun - this man was given sight by the Son of God who is the light of the world. What should now follow? Surely this. Let the people around him rejoice ...

149. The Way Things Are

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... Jordan River at his word the waters would divide and they would walk across on dry land. Thousands followed him to disappointment. Less than a decade later, an Egyptian claiming to be a prophet persuaded 30,000 to accompany him to the Mount of Olives with the expectation that at his word the walls of Jerusalem would collapse! These were certainly fervent expectations. But as far as we know, none of the common Jewish expectations included looking for a messianic figure that would come as a suffering servant ...

150. The Trials of Peter and of Jesus

Luke 22:66--23:25, Luke 22:63-65, Luke 22:54-62

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... s abbreviated account speaks only of the final stage of that process in the morning. Interpretive Insights 22:54 seizing him, they . . . took him into the house of the high priest. The actual arrest is mentioned only at the conclusion of the scene on the Mount of Olives. Matthew and John tell us that the high priest was Caiaphas, whom Luke has mentioned in 3:2 (cf. Acts 4:6) but does not name again now. As chairman of the Sanhedrin, he would supervise the action taken against Jesus. Peter followed at a ...

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