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Some questions are truly important.
a. How did the universe begin?
b. When does life begin?
c. Why do bad things happen to good people?
2. Now other questions are not worth the energy it takes to ask them.
3. Tonight, we will study the question of all questions.
4. In Matthew 22:41-46, we will discover the one question that will bring us face to face with man’s failure and also God’s remedy; the God-man.
Matthew 22:41-46
Context
1. After the Triumphal Entry, Jesus returned to Jerusalem to teach the people in the Temple.
2. While in the Temple, Israel’s religious and political leaders challenged Jesus three times; each challenge was an attempt to trap Him into a making a mistake so that they had grounds to accuse and reject Him.
3. But Jesus knew what they were up to and gave them answers which revealed His wisdom and the foolishness of their rebellious, stubborn hearts.
4. So, it was His turn to ask them a question, one which left them speechless as they pondered its meaning.
I. “What Do You Think about the Christ?”
• It’s important to remember how Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and the message it sent.
o He rode into the city, from the Mount of Olives, on the foal of a donkey in fulfillment of Zechariah 9:9; a declaration that Jesus is the Christ.
o The crowd showed their allegiance by placing their garments and palm branches on the road while singing Psalm 118:25-26; a Psalm reserved for the Christ.
o In opposition, the Pharisees told Jesus to make the people stop but He refused and declared the stones would cry out if the people were silenced.
(Luke 19:40)
o Jesus then entered the Temple and overturned the tables of the money changers and of those selling doves because the Temple, “His house,” was to be a house of prayer, but they had turned it into a robber’s den. (Matthew 21:13)
o While in the Temple, Jesus healed the blind and lame while the children resumed singing Psalm 118.
o The chief priests were furious and demanded that Jesus silence the little children.
o Again, Jesus refused their request and allowed the children to publicly worship Him.
o Then He quoted from Psalm 8:2 to show that this too was a fulfillment of Messianic prophecy, that He is worthy to receive worship, “Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself.”
• The message couldn’t be clearer; Jesus is the Christ.
• But Israel’s leaders would have none of it.
• So, Jesus asked them one last question in order to confront the Pharisees with the reality of Who they were rejecting.
A. “Whose son is He?”
1. First, it is important that we notice the mission, “What do you think about the Christ?” (42)
2. The word “Christ” means that He is the One anointed by God to carry out a certain mission. What is that mission?
3. It is a divine mission, established before the foundation of the universe; that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity would come to earth and set free (redeem) people from their slavery to sin and the corresponding sentence of condemnation, an eternity in hell.
4. So, Christ’s mission was to fulfill a divine work which ultimately results in the salvation of men and women’s souls.
John 3:16-17, For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
In essence, Jesus was asking them, “Do you really see any need for this divine mission?”
• His question has important application for us as well.
• Do you recognize your lost condition?
• Do you recognize your need for One to come from the right hand of God to save your soul?
Romans 6:23, For the wages of sin, is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
5. “Whose son is He” was not only a question about a mission. It was a question about the identity of the Christ.
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