Jesus preaches his final public message to the public at large. And in that message, he has an incredible

exclamation point. What is the final thing that Jesus said to the crowd before he died? You'll find out on

today's episode.

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Now, let's join Kurt for today's episode. Hey, my friends, welcome back to today's episode of Everyday Truth. We are nearing the end of Matthew 23. And we're about to go into a prophetic

section in chapters 24 and 25.

Looking forward to that.

And then, wow, soon thereafter, we'll be right into the final couple days of Jesus' life and ministry,

and we'll say goodbye to this very special book where we've been learning that Jesus is king.

So Matthew has been writing this book to a Jewish audience,

and he has been very careful throughout the book to reference the Old Testament time and time again. It's been written. This is a

fulfillment of. He's showing that Jesus is not just a new concept, Messiah, but he is coming,

excuse me, in fulfillment of what God has been predicting it's always good to remember that

Jesus is the theme of the Bible when you think about the Bible in terms of redemptive

narrative you think about Jesus as the very embodiment of redemption Jesus is God's plan

Jesus is God's rescue plan for the world, for you and for me.

And how sad that those that should have known best, those to whom had been committed the

oracles of God. This was Paul's point in Romans 3. Yet with all of that extra revelation, with all of the experience that they had had with God,

they missed him.

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