If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 26. We continue our study in the gospel of Matthew today. You remember the last time we were in this gospel together, we were looking at Jesus’ institution of the Lord’s Supper. And at least in part, Jesus in that Lord’s Supper was pre-explaining to the disciplines the meaning of His death on the next day. He was telling them ahead of time the significance of His dying on the tree. Think of it. If the Lord Jesus had come into the world as the Messiah of God and died, and there had been no word of Scripture, no word from the Lord Jesus, no word from God explaining what that meant, we would have been clueless. We would have had no idea as to how to explain what it meant that the very sinless Son of God had…