He Came As He Said... A Promise: God's Word Given
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It Must Have Been Quite A Scene
It Must Have Been Quite A Scene
The same crowds that heard Jesus declare Himself as the living water at the Feast of Tabernacles are now back for the Passover Feast… Celebrating and cheering this Jesus who they believe to be the promised Messiah!
The disciples are elated and full of anticipation for what lay ahead
Jerusalem is preparing for it’s biggest celebration of the year…The Passover Feast!
The town is a buzz with the news that this Jesus everyone is talking about has raised Lazarus from the dead after FOUR DAYS in the grave
This is the same Jesus who fed 5000 people
They become excited… let’s make him our king!
A king to FREE them
A king to FEED them
A king to HEAL them
A King to even bring back the DEAD!
They hear He is coming to Jerusalem… He is ridding on a donkey! THIS MUST BE THE MESSIAH!!! Proverbs 13:12 (NIV)... a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Oh how they had longed for their messiah, One to come and sit on David’s throne…
They quickly lay down their cloaks, break off palm branches, cheer and sing
The excitement, the noise, all focused on this man Jesus!
They look on this man they want as king and sing from the well known Halle Psalms… (hallelujah) Psalms 113-118 (Psalm 118:26) A Song they ALL knew well!!!!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord; We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.
As we read our passage, and see, hear, and sense the emotion and excitement from the crowds… we see a contrasting emotion exhibited by Jesus
As we enter into this PASSION week I want us to focus on His PROMISE: His Word Fulfilled… read with me Luke’s account of this moment that begins this week of Passion Luke 19:35-44
They brought it to Jesus, and they threw their coats on the colt and put Jesus on it. As He was going, they were spreading their coats on the road. As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, shouting: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!” When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. “For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
A Promise
A Promise
Defined it means:
1 a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing something specified; to pledge to do, bring about, or provide
2: reason or grounds to expect something: to be assured or sure of something to come
Merriam-Webster, I. (2003). In Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. (Eleventh ed.). Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Giving ones word is a common way of declaring promise
Keeping ones word (or promise), Christ Himself told the people “let your yes mean yes and your no mean no” WHY?… because as God His very character is to keep His Word
“Your Word”… what is spoken or conveyed…
God gave His spoken Word
God gave His written Word
God gave us the Word in flesh
As you consider the Word coming as flesh… what made this day, this event of Jesus riding into Jerusalem so special?
Why was Jesus weeping?
Why was Jesus weeping?
He laments not over the crowds and disciples acknowledging Him as the Messiah, but rather over Jerusalem, all who do not believe...
Warren Wiersbe states well why Jesus wept…
No matter where Jesus looked, He found cause for weeping. If He looked back, He saw how the nation had wasted its opportunities and been ignorant of their “time of visitation.” If He looked within, He saw spiritual ignorance and blindness in the hearts of the people. They should have known who He was, for God had given them His Word and sent His messengers to prepare the way. As He looked around, Jesus saw religious activity that accomplished very little.
[i] [i] Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary (Vol. 1, p. 255). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
Jesus, in His lament, says “if you had known in this day”… What should have been known?
Who Jesus was… AND
When He would come
Scripture States WHO and even the WHEN!
Scripture States WHO and even the WHEN!
Luke begins his gospel going back to Adam and continues this line all the way to Jesus...
From the very moment God punished Adam and Eve in the garden…
God had been promising and foretelling of a Messiah who would come.
God promises that the seed of the woman would crush the serpents head In Genesis 3
In Genesis 12 we see Abraham, God promises him that He will bless all families of the earth through his seed… Jesus is a Jew
In Genesis 49:10 God narrows down the tribe of Judah as the one who would come to rule.
“The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
“Until Shiloh comes.” Many sources see “Shiloh” as a title of the Messiah. However, the Hebrew word šîlōh should be rendered “whose it is,” that is, the scepter will not depart from Judah … until He comes whose it (i.e., the scepter) is (or as the niv puts it, to whom it belongs). [i][i] Ross, A. P. (1985). Genesis. In J. F. Walvoord & R. B. Zuck (Eds.), The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures (Vol. 1, p. 98). Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
From the tribe of Judah would come King David son of Jesse from Bethlehem.
David was anointed king by Samuel… A man after God’s own heart
He wants to build a temple, a house for God, 2 Samuel 7:16 God has other plans...
“Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
In return God says He will establish David’s line/house forever!
David was God’s anointed King… The Hebrew word mashiyach means “the anointed” gradually over time this would become the title for God’s coming Savior-King … Messiah!
For centuries the people would wait and anticipate who from David’s line would become this King… this Messiah!
Luke in his gospel tells us Mary and Joseph, in the line of David
This baby Jesus the angel said would be called Emmanuel God with Us! When Jesus is born they know he will come from Bethlehem the city of David! The angels declare in Luke 2:14
“Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”
The Messiah had come in peace riding a donkey! Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Jesus comes riding the donkey… but the religious leaders want nothing of the people’s praises Luke 19:39-40
Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”
Why would the stones cry out?
Why would the stones cry out?
Daniel 9:24-26 Daniel is to “know” and “discern” some things…
“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. “Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.
A decree will be given that will start the clock 483 years to the Messiah’s coming!!!!
Nehemiah 2:1-6 444 BC in the month of Nisan issued the decree for the rebuilding of Jerusalem!!!
To the day, to the hour, I believe even to the minute!
If the people were not proclaiming it… THE ROCKS WOULD!
Was Jesus The Messiah?
Was Jesus The Messiah?
Preston is writing a college paper on this… he titled it An Answer Greater Than “Yes”
He sights in Luke where John the baptist is wondering “IF” Jesus is the promised One, The Messiah
Jesus gives a powerful answer Luke 7:22-23
And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them. “Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”
Jesus answers by telling John the Baptist to look at God’s Promised Word! Isaiah 61 declares that the promised One would do these things and the Gospels declare how Jesus did these and so much more!
These rulers, religious leaders, scholars could have, and should have, known to the month if not even to the day when the Messiah would come!
The religious leaders were looking… they just didn’t like what they found!
God’s Word is accurate and true
God’s promises are kept, His prophecies fulfilled
The power of the prophecies is this… it happened as God said it would, when He said it would, and Jesus was the Messiah
And if all that is true then what He did in His death and Resurrection has the power to save you and me!
This was God’s plan from the beginning; He knew He would send His Son to die for the sin of the World.
CONTEMPLATE: take this nail, keep it, remember to think about the promise God gave, the cost He paid, this week of remembrance…