Palm Sunday (2)
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Missing Your Opportunity
Missing Your Opportunity
Beau, are there people that don’t like God?
Holy Week or Passion Week:
Eight day span From Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday
A great portion of the gospels are dedicated to this one week
We have:
Palm Sunday: The Triumphant entry
Monday: Jesus cleanses the temple
Tuesday: The Pharisees and people are amazed at the wisdom and teachings of Jesus
Wednesday: Mary anoints Jesus for burial
Maundy Thursday: Jesus demonstrated the full extent of His love to His disciples by washing their feet and giving them the gift of the Last Supper.
Good Friday: Jesus lays down his life and becomes the final sacrifice for us all
Saturday: He lay sin the tomb
Sunday: He is risen
I encourage you to read Luke 19-24 this week and follow along with the story
This morning I want to focus on the first two day:
Palm Sunday-The Triumphant entry
The cleansing of the Temple
The First cleansing of the temple (Mark 11)
Sandwiched in between the cursing of the FIG TREE
ON the outward the tree looked like it was supposed to be bearing fruit
But it just looked pretty
We are going to start in Luke 19:28-31
28 When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 And it came to pass, when He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet, that He sent two of His disciples, 30 saying, “Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. 31 And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’ ”
NO one has ever sat on:
I don’t know if you know about horses and colts
But they don’t just magically want to carry you on their backs
I like to think Jesus’ first ride on this Colt looked like this
VIDEO
The owner of this video:
“I'm raising men here so I don't want to hear any belly aching from you city slicker, want-to-be, horse trainers”
I just imagine Jesus strapping up His Birkenstocks with spurs on them and dusting off His stetson for his triumphant entry into town
Jesus hadn’t been in Jerusalem in quite a while
There is no indication that He had made any previous arrangements with anyone in Jerusalem about this colt
This is probably a word of knowledge through the Holy Spirit
And for Him to just get on an unridden Colt was a miracle in itself
But maybe it wasn’t that Jesus was good at breaking colts, maybe it was because:
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
Maybe that Colt recognized the sound of their creator’s voice
32 So those who were sent went their way and found it just as He had said to them. 33 But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?”
34 And they said, “The Lord has need of him.”
Fulfilling a Prophecy from:
9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.
Lord and Owner there in Luke are the same word: koo'-ree-os
He to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master, lord
the possessor and disposer of a thing
In vs 33 and 34 Owners and Lord are the same word
Power of deciding, master, you can choose what to do with it
A title given to the Messiah
Maybe they were aware of scripture and gave up the colt knowing that they were fulfilling prophecy
But the bigger question is, what do you do when God asks you to give up something that you see as yours?
We steward the ownership to His Lordship
It’s all His anyway
We are borrowing it to give it back to him
Don’t argue with Him when He uses it for His glory
35 Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. 36 And as He went, many spread their clothes on the road.
37 Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen,
John’s Gospel says they laid palm branches down at His feet:
palm branches symbolized goodness, well-being, grandeur, steadfastness
In ancient Jewish culture, palm branches were a widely recognized symbol of victory, triumph, and God’s glory
King Solomon had palm branches carved into the doors and walls of the Temple
They used palm branches to praise Kings
This is PROPHETIC IN NATURE
9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
We will once again
Now as all the people gathered into Jerusalem, Pilgrims came from far and wide to celebrate passover a huge event that everyone showed up for
Here is Jesus entering into town as people for the very first time
Acknowledge Him as the Messiah
The coming one
They are with a loud voice praising God saying:
13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out:
“Hosanna!
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
The King of Israel!”
They are quoting:
25 Save now, I pray, O Lord;
O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity.
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.
Hosanna: SAVE NOW
Acknowledging not just a prophet but a KING
But it wasn’t the kind of saving they were thinking of
The Religious people of the day didn’t recognize Jesus riding in on a prophecy in front of their face
Shut these people up Jesus!
The religious people were Jealous of the gifting on Him
When you are insecure about your leadership position you want to silence the opposition
When you’re secure in your leadership, you wash peoples feet
Jesus weeps for the city
42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Their Messiah looked differently
They wanted someone to overthrow the government
They wanted someone to save them from their troubles
They wanted someone to fix their economy
They wanted God on their terms
But what was God to them at this time?
We don’t have to look much further than the temple for that answer
45 Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
The temple became a place where people bought and sold sacrifices to be offered
They chose convenience over sacrifice
They turned a place of Prayer and worship into a place of
During the second condemning of the temple
Jesus again rejected the Jewish system of money making from God's Passover.
He overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
The temple was to be known as a house of prayer, not as a place where merchants took economic advantage of people.
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Jesus’ rebuke to the Pharisees:
Matthew 23 Contemporary English Version:
2 The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law are experts in the Law of Moses. 3 So obey everything they teach you, but don't do as they do. After all, they say one thing and do something else.
4 They pile heavy burdens on people's shoulders and won't lift a finger to help. 5 Everything they do is just to show off in front of others. They even make a big show of wearing Scripture verses on their foreheads and arms, and they wear big tassels[a] for everyone to see.
13-14 You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. You won't go in yourselves, and you keep others from going in.[b]
15 You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You travel over land and sea to win one follower. And when you have done so, you make that person twice as fit for hell as you are.
27 You're like tombs that have been whitewashed.[c]On the outside they are beautiful, but inside they are full of bones and filth. 28 That's what you are like. Outside you look good, but inside you are evil and only pretend to be good.
37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Your people have killed the prophets and have stoned the messengers who were sent to you. I have often wanted to gather your people, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you wouldn't let me. 38 And now your temple will be deserted.
The religious people overcomplicated everything:
Instead of it God being relational
They used him for gain in prestige and honor
People feared the pharisees
They loved it
But nothing of God was in their Heart
The same way they killed and mocked the prophets before them, they did the same thing to Jesus
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. 31 And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
They wanted vengeance and Christ offered forgiveness
They wanted to Rule-Jesus offered to serve
They wanted a Palace but rejected the chief Cornerstone
They wanted to be saved while he was offering salvation
They wanted gold crowns and the best seats at the parties
While Jesus worn a crown of thorns and was hung on a cross
23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
But they did not understand the time of their visitation
Word of Knowledge
Give you an opportunity:
Don’t miss your time this morning
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
1. Believe in Him a step of faith
Take another step of faith Commit to Him and watch what happens in your life
2. Get out of your chair and meet me down here