I look I've teased that we were going to hit this particular motif in Matthew chapter 28 for like two or three days.

We got a few things swirling around here right now

imagery wise as we are at the very end of the book of Matthew having worked

through it together one little chunk at a time for over three years and we've got a lot of imagery that is present.

There's a lot to soak in with just a few words here in this final scene.

Imagery number one that we've been talking about,

is the imagery of commissioning.

Yesterday I was talking about the Lion King

and Little Simba getting a three-part commissioning

from his father, Mufasa, the third of which comes from beyond the grave.

Stressing to Simba who has all kinds of doubt about himself,

about his relationship with his father, about the kingdom, about everything, Mufasa is stressing

to him, go and take your place and do the stuff that you need to do and he even gives him this assurance

that somehow the kings of the past that somehow Mufasa is going to be there in support of him.

Well, a similar assurance is something we're about to see here in Matthew chapter 28 in the third

part of a three-part maybe you can argue that it's even a larger multi-part

commissioning that we're getting from Jesus but this is going to be the final

restoration and commissioning.

And it's happening in a place that is associated with these kind of deep

meaningful conversations throughout the book of Matthew

and really throughout the whole Bible. You go up on the mountain to get the profound stuff of

God and that is the case here.

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