THE FATHER’S BUSINESS
Sunday
Morning: March 28, 2004
Text: Luke 2:46-49 "And it came to
pass, that after three days they (Joseph and Mary) found him
(Jesus) in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing
them, and asking them questions. 47. And all that heard him were
astonished at his understanding and answers. 48. And when they saw him,
they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt
with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. 49. And he
said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist [know] ye not that
I must be about my Father's business?"
John
4:34 "Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do
the will of him (the Father) that sent me, and
to finish his [the] work."
John
5:30 "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I
hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of the Father which hath sent me."
Acts
2:23 "Him, being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain:"
Philippians
2:6-9 "Who, being in the form of God, thought
it not robbery to be equal with God: 7. But made himself of no
reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself, and became obedient unto death [thanatos], even [de<, in opposition, “but also”] the death of the cross.
9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which
is above every name:"
Luke
18:31-33 "Then he took unto him the
twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all
things that are written by the prophets concerning
the Son of man shall be accomplished. 32. For he shall be
delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and
spitted on: 33. And they shall scourge him, and put him to
death: and the third day he shall rise again."
Acts
3:17-18 "And now, brethren, I wot [know]
that through ignorance ye did it (crucified), as did also
your rulers. 18. But those things, which God before had showed
by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer,
he hath so fulfilled."
Isaiah
50:6 "I gave my back to the smiters,
and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not
my face from shame and spitting."
Isaiah
52:14 ". . . his visage was so marred
more than any man, and his form more
than the sons of men:"
Isaiah
53:8-9 "He was taken from prison and
from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off
(died) out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people
was he stricken (lxx: he was led to death, thanatos). 9. And
he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death
[deaths, plural]; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit
in his mouth."
Acts 8:32 "The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was
led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb
before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:"
Isaiah 53:7 "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to
the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth."
Hebrews
2:9 "But we see Jesus, who was made a
little lower than the angels for the suffering of [the] death
[thanatos], crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God
should taste (the) death [thanatos, of the cross]
for every man."
Matthew
16:20-21 "Then charged he his disciples that they
should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. 21. From that time
forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go
unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests
and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the
third day."
Luke
9:51 "And it came to pass, when the time
was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his
face to go to Jerusalem,"
Matthew
20:17-19 "And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took
the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, 18. Behold, we
go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief
priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to
death, 19. And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge,
and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again."
Mark
8:31-33 "And he began to teach them, that the
Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the
chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32. And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him,
and began to rebuke him. 33. But when he had
turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee
behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the
things that be of men."
Mark
10:32-34 "And they were in the way going up to
Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed,
they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and
began to tell them what things should happen unto
him, 33. Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall
be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and
they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: 34. And
they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon
him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again."
Luke 24:24-27 "And certain of them which were with us went to the
sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw
not. 25. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26. Ought
not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27. And
beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded
unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."
Luke 24:41-43 "And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he
said unto them, Have ye here any meat? 42. And they gave him
a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. 43. And he took it,
and did eat before them."
1 Samuel 14:27 "But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with
the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his
hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and
his eyes were enlightened."
Luke 24:44-45 "And he said unto them, These are the words which I
spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be
fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in
the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45. Then
opened he their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures,"