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We have reached not just that crucial last week that we often call “Holy Week” or “Passion Week,” but we’ve also reached that last crucial day. That last 24 hours before the crucifixion of our Lord. Jesus is emphasizing the immediacy of the events soon to come.  What does this mean for us? We need to Recognize Our Weakness and Marvel at Jesus’ Strength.

For over two years now, we’ve been following Jesus through the Gospel of Matthew, and we’ve now followed Him right up into that crucial, holy, last week. Today, we enter into that critical final 24 hours leading up to the crucifixion.

Turning the corner into the next section of Matthew, we turn back into the crucial events of Passion Week. In today’s passage, a women does a beautiful thing to Jesus.

For the last six weeks, we have been following Jesus up to the Mount of Olives where He has been teaching His disciples about his return. Jesus is teaching here on the doctrine of Last Things, on the End of the World, and on His return and we have reached the end today.

For the last 4 messages in our “Following Jesus” series through the Gospel of Matthew, we’ve been studying what Jesus taught about His own return. Matthew 24 and 25 is often called the Olivet Discourse because it was given on…