Dale Ridge church of Christ

1. It is a rewarding privilege
2. If we don’t, we cast our vote to stop scheduling it.
3. Our influence and contributions to the Lord’s work is dependent on attending.
4. It helps lead the lost to Christ.
5. Jesus would attend if He were here.
6. It’s not optional.
7. It stabilizes our homes.
8. It part of the example we set.

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Material planned for this evening:

Peter’s Denial Predicted

Gethsemane

• Other versions – Distressed and troubled
• God laid the weight of all the sin of men on him
• Jesus was not joyful in the face of death
• He knew that to not sacrifice Himself would allow Satan to be Lord of man.

Jesus’ Arrest

• Guards were armed – John mentions lanterns and torches
• Peter struck Malchus – John 18:8
• Jesus asked them not to take the disciples per John
• They Fled

Sanhedrin

• This was the 2^nd trial Luke 22 records Jesus being brought before Annas
• Six total trials
  • Before Annas

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Material Covered in Bible Study last week….

Jesus last few days begins

• More space is devoted to these days in the Gospels than any other event.
• The events and circumstances are the most important in human history
  • The battle for human redemption was won
  • The seed of woman bruised the head of the serpent
  • Everlasting righteousness became available
  • Satan brought everything he had to bare to prevent these events.
• Consider that a single word could have stopped it, yet He went through it for sinful men.

The Plot of the chief priests v1-2

Jesus anointed for His burial v3-9
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• Signs of the destruction of the temple v14-23
  • v14 Double application to the destruction of Jerusalem and of Christ’s return
  • “Let him that read understand” Daniel 9:23-27 Chirst’s words, not Mark’s
  • The prophesy in Daniel pinpointed the date of the crucifixion.
    • In the seventh year of Artaxerxes, Ezra and his companions left Babylon and came to Jerusalem (for the purpose of rebuilding it, with the undeniable implication that the king had given such an order). That was in B.C. 458. Starting with this date, the end of the 490 years is A.D. 32, and the end of the 69 weeks

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• Apocalyptic Language?
  • Parallel reading Matthew 24 and Luke 21
  • A co-mingling of prophesy about the destruction of the temple and Christ’s second coming
  • All three accounts are needed to get the complete picture
  • It is not apocalyptic due to the lack of discussion of Satan, evil forces or final judgment
  • Mark’s readers were on the brink of persecution and should offer hope
• Jesus’ prophecy of the temple v1-2
  • The three parables were just told to the disciples and were still on their mind.
  • The parables could only point to Jerusalem
  • The temple had nearly 50 years labor in it
  • Blocks

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