The King is Coming!

Wish!

The Jesus that is expected is not always the Jesus that is accepted.

The Jesus that is expected

The Jesus that is accepted

V. 1-10 The Jesus that is expected

Jerusalem- Foundation of Peace

Bethphage - House of Unripe Figs

Bethany - House of figs - House of Sorrow

V.2 The two disciples

Perfectly excited predetermined plan

Go and Get that for me-

What has Jesus called you to do?

The Colt -

A young donkey

Zechariah 9:9 “9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

V.4 Untie it

Genesis 49:9–11 “9 Judah is a young lion— my son, you return from the kill. He crouches; he lies down like a lion or a lioness—who dares to rouse him? 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah or the staff from between his feet until he whose right it is comes and the obedience of the peoples belongs to him. 11 He ties his donkey to a vine, and the colt of his donkey to the choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine and his robes in the blood of grapes.”

- The Mother in Matthew

Any Animal used for religious service could not have been used as a secular service - Not a beats of burden

- A King only road on a horse or donkey that none else road on.

A king would ride a donkey for times of peace.

a Noble animal

Balaam and Balak - His donkey spoke to get his attention to what the Lord was trying to do.

V.7 Their Cloths

Bartimaus now everyone

2 Kings 9:13 “13 Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. They blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!””

Leafy Branches - Victory Wave them

Palm Branches from John

Mk 11:9–10 “9 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

Psalm 118:25–26 “25 Lord, save us! Lord, please grant us success! 26 He who comes in the name of the Lord is blessed. From the house of the Lord we bless you.”

The we looking for salvation to come to accomplish what they wanted They wanted to be saved from the oppression of the moment .

Immediate fulfillment

Immediate gatrification

Our sin and the immediate gratification

Salvation throguht Christ bring a saving fomr the pently of sin

Saving form the wrath of God

Saving for the longterm

People come to Jesus and want punishment and not the concequensises?

The Jesus that is accepted

Psalm 118:22 “22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”

He was no longer presenting himself as the teacher

The traveling Rabbi

He accepted the shouts and did not tell them to be silent

He has their eternity in mind.

Jesus was not accepted because he did not meet their anticipation

Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire

Simon - palm branches as he entered the city ready for war.

Somon the zellet and all of though t who were longing to see the tryump of King Jesus take the throne od david.

Rode in to Jerusalem Through the coths Down

One week later the would rip his off

Shouts of Joy and Praise

Shouds of condemnatio and insults

Waving Palm branches over head as rolylty and trumps

Waving whips at him as is he were a criminal

He is the creater and sustaner of all things yet humbled himself and became man

He was born and laid in a barrowd Manger

Did not have a house to call his own but satyed in others houses

Borrowed the donkey of another to ride into the Holy City

Was treated as if was a crimal yet commmed no crime

Was killed and placed into a borrowed tomb but did not reamin in that tomb

He aved his popel form the power of death and was raised on the third day