The Week before Easter

If you only had a few days to live, what would you do? Would you be with family, travel, make things right with someone, go to Disney, skydive, etc? That is exactly what happened to Jesus. He knew that He was going to happen to Him. So what did He do?

(This list is not to make light or distract from scripture in anyway)

• The next day He clears the temple
• He curses a fig tree on the way
• He refuses to answer the High Priest question “by whose authority are you doing these things?”
• Tells the parable of the Tenants.
• Tells the parable of the Two Sons.
• Tells the parable of the Wedding Banquet.
• He puts the Pharisees to shame in their entrapping questions of:
       o Paying taxes
       o Marriage at the resurrection.
       o What’s The Greatest Commandment?
       o Whose Son is the Christ?
• Talks about the widows offering.
• Speaks about the signs of the end of the age.
• Gets anointed by a lady dumping very, very expensive perfume on Him.
• Judas plans his betrayal.
• Eats His last meal.
• Prays for Himself (to glorify the Father), disciples, and all believers.
• Judas betrays Jesus.
• Re-attaches an enemy’s ear.
• Gets arrested.
• Gets abandoned by His followers.
• Peter even denies knowing Him.
• Rooster crows.
• Tried illegally.
• Beaten beyond recognition.
• Mocked, spit on, and pierced with a crown of thorns.
• Carries cross to His own crucifixion.
• Crucified (the most excruciating and brutal deaths)
• After 6 hours gives up His life.
• Causes an earth quake tearing the veil separating the Holy of Holies.
• Buried in someone else’s tomb that is guarded by Roman soldiers.
• and that's not all, it is really the beginning!

He knew that He had to finish what the Father sent to do, to bore the world's sins past, present, and future. A totally innocent man be crucified for our sins. While in the garden of Gethsemane He struggles with the gravity of what is about to take place in
Matthew 26: 47-56.

To be Continued...
Pastor Steve