2016.03.13 Jesus Predicts His Death
Luke 18: 31- 34
We are approaching Resurrection Sunday… Because we just
finished Ephesians I want to take this opportunity to look at the last week of
Jesus earthly ministry… In Luke ch 9 v 51… we read that… Jesus set His face toward Jerusalem… The cross moved Him in that direction… The cross is the purpose for which He
came… He said… The Son of man came
not to be served... but to serve… and to give His life a ransom for many… Matt
20:28… From the very beginning… The shadow of the cross was over the manger… He was Jesus…. Immanuel… God incarnate… He
came to save us from our sins… by offering the full and final and perfect
sacrifice for sin… Since the day He was
born… The Shadow of the cross was over his life… Jesus ministry has always been
about the cross…As we look at this final week in Jesus´ earthly ministry…
I want to ask us all a question…. What does it really mean to deny ourselves… and take up our cross daily
and follow Jesus… What does that mean
for us today here In Wiesbaden? Think about that as we study this morning…
I believe that we will learn some wonderful things about
our Redeemer this morning… After all…
That´s why we are here in the church… To get to know him better… And serve him
with our whole hearts… To proclaim the Good News to the lost… And of course to love and encourage each
other…
We will begin our study of the last week of Jesus´earthly
ministry… by looking at Luke ch 18 as Jesus predicts his death and resurrection…
Jesus has set his face toward Jerusalem…. He looks ahead now…
to Calvary and to the resurrection…
Listen to what He said... Luke 18:31…
Luke
18: 31- 34 NKJV
31
Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to
Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son
of Man will be accomplished. 32 For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and
will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. 33 They will scourge Him and kill
Him. And the third day He will rise again.”34 But they understood none of these
things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things
which were spoken.
Luke 18: 31- 34 Schlachter 2000
31 Er nahm aber die Zwölf zu sich und sprach zu ihnen:
Siehe, wir ziehen hinauf nach Jerusalem, und es wird alles erfüllt werden, was
durch die Propheten über den Sohn des Menschen geschrieben ist;
32 denn er wird den Heiden ausgeliefert und verspottet
und mißhandelt und angespuckt werden;
33 und sie werden ihn geißeln und töten, und am dritten
Tag wird er wieder auferstehen.
34 Und sie verstanden nichts davon, und dieses Wort war
ihnen zu geheimnisvoll, und sie begriffen das Gesagte nicht.
As we look at this prediction of Jesus suffering as the Lamb of God… I want us to notice 3 things……
1 Jesus
is Fulfilling every Prophesy…. Both of Suffering and Glory
2 Jesus
is accomplishing God´s plan from eternity past
3
Jesus will willingly lay down his life
Some so called theologians…. Unbelievers who became Bible
Critics… love to portray Jesus as a victim… they picture Jesus as a good man… As
someone who really wanted to liberate His people… But it
all ended in tragedy… Not way that He expected……
Well nothing is further from the truth……. He came into
this world….. a real human baby born in
a manger… He came to perfectly fulfill His Father's will…
Jesus
came to die… He knew every detail about His own death… He knew because He was God…
He knows the end from the beginning… This plan began in
the mind of the Trinity before time began… from before the foundation of the
world… Because He is the Lamb slain from
before the foundation of the world… Rev.13:8… He knew it because He knew
the scriptures… He understood perfectly the meaning of every prophesy… He came
to die as predicted… He came to fulfill every single detail…….
The Lord Jesus
laid out these details before they happened…
He made three specific references to His arrest and His death… His ministry on
earth is nearly finished…
In a few days He will enter Jerusalem…… and a week after
that He will die and rise again… This is the end… We have finally come to the great climax of the earthy ministry of the
Lord Jesus… Soon we will witness the
agony of His death on the cross…..
and the Glory that awaits Him in His Resurrection from the dead… And we
will see His great and final victory
over sin and death… The disciples are
the main focus of His ministry as He approaches the final events… He wants them
to know that… This death on the cross is
the plan… He speaks clearly of His
suffering… He
wants them to know the facts… So that they will not be surprised…
First let´s look at the plan of suffering, verse 31……
He took the Twelve aside…… pulling them apart from the
large crowd following Him……. He is accompanied not only by the Twelve but by a
very large crowd….. The crowd following Jesus is even larger than normal…
because this is Passover… and they are all headed to Jerusalem for the Passover…
Look at verse 31…
Luke
18:31 NKJV Schlachter 2000
31
Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to
Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son
of Man will be accomplished.
31 Er nahm aber die Zwölf zu sich und sprach zu ihnen:
Siehe, wir ziehen hinauf nach Jerusalem, und es wird alles erfüllt werden, was
durch die Propheten über den Sohn des Menschen geschrieben ist;
According to Marks account… The disciples are amazed and
afraid because the timing seems so bad…
Because all they can see everywhere is hostility… They still think He's
going to go to Jerusalem to establish His Kingdom… and it looks impossible… The
leaders of Judaism are trying to kill Him by now…. And so the 12 Follow Jesus reluctantly… They
are fearful… Please notice that there's no hesitation in His words…… Jesus tells them…..
We
go so that all things can be accomplished…..
It was all in God´s plan… It is God who is the primary
cause of the sufferings of Christ… The Jewish leaders and the Romans did the
work… but they were following God´s plan…
Jesus was not a victim…
Things did not go wrong… It was all planned by God… Everything was
prophesied and pictured clearly in the Old Testament…. Even in the sacrificial system… We can look in many OT
passages…
For
example… Isaiah 52 and 53… Which provides the most complete picture of the sufferings of the Lord Jesus on the
cross than anywhere in the Bible… Psalm 22, Zechariah 12, And others all provide details… In fact all the pictures of the Old Testament sacrifices
provide details… Pointing to a final complete Sacrifice… The suffering servant…
The Lamb of God… Jesus… Who once and for
all would be the Final sacrifice for sin… It's all part of the Fathers plan…
He knew exactly what Scripture said… He knows He is going to Jerusalem to lay down
His life…
Jesus made three specific prophesies of His own death… Jesus spoke about His coming suffering and
death to prepare the Disciples… Luke 9…
He is giving them lots of details…He has already said He
is going to be handed over… He's going
to be delivered to the leaders….. He's
going to suffer… And He's going to be
killed… And of course… He has told them that He is going to rise from the dead…
The heart of the
Christian faith is the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ… And
everything in the history of redemption moves toward the cross… Jesus truly
was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world… Rev 13:8… He is the
perfect sacrifice…
Let's talk more about God´s plan of suffering Luke 18… verse
31……
Luke
18: 31 NKJV Schlachter 2000
31
Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to
Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son
of Man will be accomplished.
31 Er nahm aber die Zwölf zu sich und sprach zu ihnen:
Siehe, wir ziehen hinauf nach Jerusalem, und es wird alles erfüllt werden, was
durch die Propheten über den Sohn des Menschen geschrieben ist;
He says it to them privately… They need to understand
this… They need to know that this is all part of God´s plan… He warned them to prepare them… Because all
things need to be fulfilled… He goes on
to tell them what is said through the prophets…
so there will be no mistaking that He knew every detail…
It was Passover season…... And every Passover everybody went to
Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover…..
So that is not unusual…… What
they didn't know was that this year….. He
would be the Passover Lamb… They did
not understand that He would be the final offering… And the only sacrifice
that would ever satisfy God… and that… by that sacrifice He would bring to an end the
whole sacrificial system… They need to
understand this… Because they will be His
first apostles and evangelists… and
they need to know that these things were planned and fulfilled exactly… One of the reasons they need to know it… Is
because it will be so hard for them to grasp the truth that Jesus the Messiah must
die… it wasn't in their plans…
They didn't get that part of the picture… And now with so much danger…. Why was it necessary
to go to Jerusalem for the Passover… The timing couldn't be worse… the leadership of Israel was more and more
and more hostile toward Jesus… And to be told that Jesus would be betrayed and
die there?... no way… They would not
let that happen…! Of course Jesus knows their fears… He knows their misconceptions… He knows they
haven't been able to grasp this whole concept of the cross… Even though he has
told them many times… They just don't get it…
So Jesus
understands that they are afraid… They
were confused… Because they understood that Jesus was walking right in to the
arms of His enemies…
So, Jesus pulls them aside and says… Listen don´t freak
out… I know it's a shock… but we're going up to Jerusalem… This is God's plan and Jesus knew it… He knew exactly that it meant His death on the cross… In fact that is
why He went…
We're going to fulfill prophecy… Prophesy
about the Son of Man… which is a
Messianic title pointing to His humanity… but the phrase Son of Man also points
to His deity… it's taken from Daniel
7:13 where it is the term used to refer to the Messiah……. In this text… the Son
of Man… receives His eternal Kingdom from the Father……. So it's not just a term of humility and
humanity…. it's also a term of exaltation and deity as well…….. He says we're going so that the Son of Man can
claim His Kingdom… This event, the cross… is the high point of
Scripture… It is the primary event in
biblical history… and therefore it is the primary event in all of history… And the Old Testament predicted it… and
predicted details about it that no one could know… Many of these things were
carried out by pagans who knew nothing about the Scripture… If we look back to the beginning…. To Genesis… We begin to see the first signs of the cross in Genesis chapter 3… As I said earlier… It is pictured in every animal
sacrifice in the scriptures….
As we think about the Cross in the Scriptures… We are talking about the Doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement… We go to the Word of God… and think about the many atoning sacrifices… Beginning with Adam and Eve… we learned that sacrifice covers the guilt of
sin… The Lord himself covered their nakedness with the skins of animals… From
Abraham we learned that the proper sacrifice will be provided by God…... In the Passover
celebration… we learn that the sacrificial lamb must to be without spot or blemish…
and that The blood of the lamb protects all that are sheltered in the house…
The blood of the lamb saves them from death and produces life… And finally… from the central place of
sacrifices in the national life of Israel… There were sacrifices daily in the
temple… And so we understand… Through the sacrificial system… #1 the critical importance of sacrifice… and
#2 the reality that there never is a totally satisfying sacrifice… And all this prepares us for the one sacrifice which ends all sacrifices…
All these things were temporary… And they all pointed to the cross… They pointed to the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the World... The final permanent
sacrifice…. Offered by God's chosen substitute… The Lamb without blemish and without spot… He provides for us the only way to God…
and the only covering for the guilt of sin……
It
is Jesus the Messiah… The perfect sacrifice… He redeems us from our sin and
rebellion… He gives us eternal life…
The Lord Jesus knows all of this… He knows the scriptures… In fact… as we shall see later after the resurrection…… He says
to the disciples, "How is it that
you don't know what the Old Testament says?
That I must suffer." Ought
not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”
There were many Old
Testament prophecies about the Suffering
Servant….. The Messiah…… I'm not
going to go through all of them…. There are at least 365 of them…. One for
every day of the year…
But let´s look for a moment at a few of the passages
about the Suffering Servant of the Lord…
The Lamb of God… Psalm 22… Psalm
22 is a powerful Psalm…… It begins
this way, verse 1….
Psalm
22:1a NKJV Schlachter 2000
1a My
God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
2a Mein Gott, mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?
These are the very words that Jesus spoke on the cross…… Now look at verse 14…. It describes crucifixion…
Psalm
22: 14- 18 NKJV slt 2000
14 I
am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like
wax; It has melted within Me.
15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And My tongue clings to My jaws; You
have brought Me to the dust of death.
16
For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed
Me.They pierced My hands and My feet;
17 I
can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
18
They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots.
14 Sie sperren ihr Maul gegen mich auf wie ein reißender
und brüllender Löwe.
15 Ich bin ausgeschüttet wie Wasser, und alle meine
Gebeine sind ausgerenkt. Mein Herz ist geworden wie Wachs, zerschmolzen in
meinem Innern.
16 Meine Kraft ist vertrocknet wie eine Scherbe, und
meine Zunge klebt an meinem Gaumen, und du legst mich in den Staub des Todes.
17 Denn Hunde umringen mich, eine Rotte von Übeltätern
umgibt mich; sie haben meine Hände und meine Füße durchgraben.
18 Ich kann alle meine Gebeine zählen; sie schauen her
und sehen mich [schadenfroh] an.
What amazing details about the Cross… This deed was carried out by the Romans… They knew nothing
about Scripture… In Isaiah 52 and 53… We
have an awesome Messianic passage… We read about the Atonement… We see a
perfect substitute… The Lord Jesus… He would die in our place…..for sin… The
perfect and final sacrifice… Look with me at Isaiah 53… Starting at verse 4…
Isaiah
53: 4- 11 NKJV slt 2000
4
Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him
stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
6
All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And
the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He
was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as
a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He
opened not His mouth.
8 He
was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For
He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people
He was stricken.
9
And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because
He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make
His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11
He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My
righteous Servant shall justify many,
For
He shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53: 4- 11
Schlachter 2000
4 Fürwahr, er hat unsere Krankheit getragen und unsere
Schmerzen auf sich geladen; wir aber hielten ihn für bestraft, von Gott
geschlagen und niedergebeugt.
5 Doch er wurde um unserer Übertretungen willen
durchbohrt, wegen unserer Missetaten zerschlagen; die Strafe lag auf ihm, damit
wir Frieden hätten, und durch seine Wunden sind wir geheilt worden.
6 Wir alle gingen in die Irre wie Schafe, jeder wandte
sich auf seinen Weg; aber der Herr warf unser aller Schuld auf ihn.
7 Er wurde mißhandelt, aber er beugte sich und tat seinen
Mund nicht auf, wie ein Lamm, das zur Schlachtbank geführt wird, und wie ein
Schaf, das verstummt vor seinem Scherer und seinen Mund nicht auftut.
8 Infolge von Drangsal und Gericht wurde er weggenommen;
wer will aber sein Geschlecht beschreiben? Denn er wurde aus dem Land der
Lebendigen weggerissen; wegen der Übertretung meines Volkes hat ihn Strafe4
getroffen.
9 Und man bestimmte sein Grab bei Gottlosen, aber bei
einem Reichen [war er] in seinem Tod, weil er kein Unrecht getan hatte und kein
Betrug in seinem Mund gewesen war.
10 Aber dem Herrn gefiel es, ihn zu zerschlagen; er ließ
ihn leiden. Wenn er sein Leben zum Schuldopfer gegeben hat, so wird er
Nachkommen sehen und seine Tage verlängern; und das Vorhaben des Herrn wird in
seiner Hand gelingen.
11 Nachdem seine Seele Mühsal erlitten hat, wird er seine
Lust sehen und die Fülle haben; durch seine Erkenntnis wird mein Knecht, der
Gerechte, viele gerecht machen, und ihre Sünden wird er tragen.
verse 10 says He
would be a guilt offering…Then it says that God was pleased to crush Him… He will prolong His
days… This points to the resurrection… And as a result, verse 11, "Of the anguish of His soul will see it and be satisfied. And by His knowledge, the Righteous One, My
servant, will justify the many."
He will provide the sacrifice
that produces the justification of
everyone who repents of their sins and cries out to Him… and after
suffering a terrible death on the Cross…
He will rise from the dead and see the redemption of sinners… and be
satisfied… He will receive a portion
with the great because He poured out Himself to death and bore the sin of many…
Zechariah tells us about the cross too……
Zechariah
12: 10 NKJV
10
“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the
Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced.
Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him
as one grieves for a firstborn.
Zechariah 12: 10 Schlachter 2000
10 Aber
über das Haus David und über die Einwohner von Jerusalem will ich den Geist der
Gnade und des Gebets ausgießen, und sie werden auf mich sehen, den sie
durchstochen haben, ja, sie werden um ihn klagen, wie man klagt um den
eingeborenen [Sohn], und sie werden bitterlich über ihn Leid tragen, wie man
bitterlich Leid trägt über den Erstgeborenen.
Remember… The Jews didn't crucify people… They stoned
them to death… That is what the scribes and Pharisees wanted to do… They were
prevented from killing Jesus in this way… The death of Christ on the cross was not
an accident…… It is
the fulfillment of the very plan and purpose of God……
Turn to John 10…..verse 11….
John
10:11 NKJV Schlachter
2000
11
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
11 Ich bin der gute Hirte; der gute Hirte läßt sein Leben
für die Schafe.
Then in verse 17 we read….
John
10: 17,18 NKJV Schlachter 2000
17
“Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it
again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to
lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My
Father.”
17 Darum liebt mich der Vater, weil ich mein Leben lasse,
damit ich es wieder nehme.
18 Niemand nimmt es von mir, sondern ich lasse es von mir
aus. Ich habe Vollmacht, es zu lassen, und habe Vollmacht, es wieder zu nehmen.
Diesen Auftrag habe ich von meinem Vater empfangen.
He knew the kind of
death He would die… Because it was all part of God´s divine
plan…..
Peter wrote about the OT and the fact that the prophets
themselves wanted to understand what they were writing about… Especially when
they wrote about the Suffering´s of the Messiah… turn to… 1 Peter 1: 10….
1
Peter 1: 10,11 NKJV Schlachter 2000
10
Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who
prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching what, or what manner
of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified
beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
10 Wegen dieser Errettung haben die Propheten gesucht und
nachgeforscht, die von der euch zuteil gewordenen Gnade geweissagt haben. 11
Sie haben nachgeforscht, auf welche und was für eine Zeit der Geist des
Christus in ihnen hindeutete, der die für Christus bestimmten Leiden und die
darauf folgenden Herrlichkeiten zuvor bezeugte.
When we study Messianic Prophesy… There are these 2 categories that the prophets wrote about.......
#1suffering and #2 glory…… You can go through the Old Testament and find lots about the Messiah´s Glory… The Messiah King and His Kingdom… It's in here… Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah and many other
places speak of the Glory of the Messiah… The sufferings are here too… Generally speaking the Jews had a hard time
with the suffering parts… They could not understand them… Even though the
entire OT system of sacrifice pointed to the final atonement of Christ… Even
today… They seem leave out the suffering parts of the prophesies of the
Messiah…
There
are some people who think that Jesus came to offer a Kingdom to Israel… and if
Israel had accepted Him as Messiah….. there wouldn't have been a need for a
cross….. No! It was not the kingdom or the Cross… It was the cross…
He came to offer a Kingdom through… or by way of… the cross… His entry into Jerusalem is
described in Zechariah 9… even down
to the colt that He would ride on… The rage and hatred of His enemies is
described in Psalm 2… His desertion by His friends is in Zechariah 13:7… "When the Shepherd is smitten, the sheep
are scattered… Zechariah is talking
about how the disciples will all flee…
His betrayal for 30 pieces of silver is stated in Zechariah 11:12… And as I
read, His piercing in Psalm 22… Exodus 12:46 and Psalm 34:20 says, "Not
a bone of His body would be broken," and we know that was fulfilled… They didn't break His legs… which they
usually did to speed up death, because He was already dead… Psalm
22:18 said they would cast lots for His garments…… Psalm
69:21 says they would give Him vinegar to drink…... Psalm 22:1, as I read you, "My God, My
God, why have You forsaken Me," indicates His cry of distress…
All these things are laid out in the scriptures… And the OT also prophesies that He would rise
from the dead, Psalm 16:10, "Thou
would not allow Thy Holy One to see corruption, but will show Him the path of
life… It was
John the Baptist who announced Jesus with these words…"Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the
sin of the world…
That's chapter 1 of John……. It was clear to John… And it
was clear to Jesus that He was the Lamb
slain from before the foundation of the world…
So that's the plan….. The Son of man will suffer and die…
Back to Luke 18… We will look again at Jesus prophesy of his suffering and
death…. And resurrection… look at verses 32 and 33……
Luke
18: 32, 33 NKJV Schlachter
2000
32
For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and
spit upon. 33 They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will
rise again.”
32 denn er wird den Heiden ausgeliefert und verspottet
und mißhandelt und angespuckt werden; 33 und sie werden ihn geißeln und töten,
und am dritten Tag wird er wieder auferstehen.
look at the details here….. "He
will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and mistreated and spit
upon. After they have scourged Him, they
will kill Him and the third day He will rise again."
So when He says it's time for the Son of Man to go to
Jerusalem so everything can be fulfilled… He is right on schedule…They had a
fake trial… then they Condemned Him to death… they
couldn't kill Him so they had to deliver
Him to the Gentiles… The Romans had the power to execute Him… And once the Gentiles followed through… He
was mocked… spit on… beaten and finally killed…
And third day He arose again… Jesus prophesies perfectly… Just exactly the
way it happened…
Well… The disciples followed Jesus to Jerusalem… And in
time… They also picked up their crosses and followed Him… Many of them suffered
and died for the sake of the Gospel… Heaven is full of great men and women of God
who gave everything for Him… Turn to Hebrews in closing today….
CLOSE
Hebrews
12: 1- 3 NKJV
12
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let
us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God.
3
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest
you become weary and discouraged in your souls.
Hebrews 12: 1- 3
Schlachter 2000
1 Da wir nun eine solche Wolke von Zeugen um uns haben,
so laßt uns jede Last ablegen und die Sünde, die uns so leicht umstrickt, und
laßt uns mit Ausdauer1 laufen in dem Kampf, der vor uns liegt,
2 indem wir hinschauen auf Jesus, den Anfänger und
Vollender des Glaubens, der um der vor ihm liegenden Freude willen das Kreuz
erduldete und dabei die Schande für nichts achtete, und der sich zur Rechten
des Thrones Gottes gesetzt hat.
3 Achtet doch auf ihn, der solchen Widerspruch3 von den
Sündern gegen sich erduldet hat, damit ihr nicht müde werdet und den Mut
verliert!
As I began this sermon today… I asked the question… What
does it mean to deny yourself and take up your cross daily? I think that this sermon and this text from Hebrews gives us a start in the right
direction… Let´s pray…
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