The King Comes!
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What do you see?
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Movement of the King
Movement of the King
Journey to Jerusalem, through Jericho (19:29)
Jerusalem, with Mt of Olives
Jesus’ last trip to Jerusalem, up to the Triumphal entry
21:1 Bethphage and Mount of Olives
21:10 Jerusalem
21:17 Bethany
21:23 Temple / Jerusalem until on Mount of Olives 24:3
The Kings Arrival (1-17)
The Kings Arrival (1-17)
Riding on a donkey
Riding on a donkey
What do you call a donkey with one leg? A wonky donkey.
What do you call a donkey with one leg and a bad eye? A winky wonky donkey.
Donkeys have a reputation. They are not the grandest of animals. They are not a tall strong fast military horse… there are no fast cars named after donkeys… We have the big ford mustang, but no toyota donkey… Kulan concept all electric farm vehicle 2014! (Asian donkey)
They have a reputation for being stubborn…
What's the hardest key to turn? A donkey.
So, why?
It was foretold Humility
4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: 5 “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”
Isaiah 62:11 “11 The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.’ ””
9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. 11 As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
King comes… righteous and victorious… lowly/humble… proclaim/bring peace… freedom by the blood of the covenant
Righteous…
Psalm 72
Psalm 72
9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
Psalm 118… “his love endures forever!”
25 Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success! 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord we bless you.
Hosanna! - Lord, save us!… literally “save us, I pray” … became an exclamation of praise… Praise to the Son of David
Blessed is he… praised
The Son of David… 2 Sam 7 promised to David… Israel stripped of a King because of her sin… prophets looked ahead to the fulfilment of the promise… this day the crowds cried out in the fulfilment of that promise! A great time of joy
27 The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine on us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar. 28 You are my God, and I will praise you; you are my God, and I will exalt you. 29 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Stirred, the same word used at at Jesus birth with Jerusalem stirring, same word used Jesus’ crucifixion for the earth shaking
“Who is this?” … asked before 16:13-16… Do you know him? Do you trust him? Is he your king? Is he your Saviour? Will you listen to him?
The prophet… Dt 18:15 “15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.”
Temple - “My House”
Temple - “My House”
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Pragmatic, yes. Good, absolute NO!
As with many things Jesus addresses in his coming, this problem is not new! At the time of the exile…
11 Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
Here comes the Lord Almighty!
1 “I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty.
Direct challenge to the leadership… their practices, their teaching, their authority
14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. 16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “ ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
The blind and the lame… the weakest (2 Samuel 5:6–11 “6 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, “You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.” They thought, “David cannot get in here.” 7 Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David. 8 On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind’ who are David’s enemies.” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.” 9 David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward. 10 And he became more and more powerful, because the Lord God Almighty was with him. 11 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs and carpenters and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.”)
fulfilling Isaiah 35:5–6 “5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. 6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.”
But it was praise from children’s lips that got the leadership more angry… but the leadership were so wise that couldn’t see...
Now, there are times when kids don’t get it
Like when a four-year-old boy and his dad went to the beach. There was a dead seagull lying on the sand. The boy asked his father, "Dad, what happened to this bird?"
His dad told him, "Son, the bird died and went to heaven."
Then the boy looks up at his dad shocked, with sadness in his eyes, and says, '"And God threw him back down!"
Sometimes kids don’t get it… but not here! In fact they are doing what the stones would if everyone kept silent.
The leaders of the people, who should have got it, missed it, or should we say, missed him… And they missed him because...
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. 27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
As we have been looking at Matthew, we have already been asking, have you got too many adult hang ups that you are unable to humbly trust Jesus?
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Coming to Jerusalem and causing havoc in the temple sets off a series of interactions between the establishment (leaders of Israel) and Jesus.
The parable that Jesus tells at the end of this chapter makes very clear for us what is going on...
Matthew 21:33-46
The kingdom was taken from the establishment of Jesus day.
44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
If we get Jesus wrong, our end will not be pretty.