Four Ways to Welcome the King
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Luke 19:28-40
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.
Welcome the King with Faith (Vs. 37-38)
Welcome the King with Faith (Vs. 37-38)
The chant of Blessed be the King that cometh int he name of the Lord was begun by those who truly trusted Him
The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest!”
hosanna (lit.=‘help’ or ‘save, I pray’
His disciples
True believers have trusted Christ as Savior by Faith
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary
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Lifting Power
The Panama Canal is a fascinating engineering feat that stands the test of modern engineering. A series of locks lifts a vessel from sea level over the continental divide. It requires seven hours for a ship to go through the locks—a distance of some fifty miles—and once committed, there is no turning back. It cannot go under its own power; it must be guided. Thus the terrain is made even by pushing up water through a series of chambers, connecting in a marvelous way the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Likewise, the committed person has been lifted by the grace of God to a new level of life.
Welcome the King with Obedience (Vs. 29-35)
Welcome the King with Obedience (Vs. 29-35)
The Disciples did as the were instructed
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Oswald Chambers
Obedience to Jesus Christ is essential, but not compulsory; he never insists on being Master. We feel that if only he would insist, we should obey him. But our Lord never enforces his "thou shalts" and "thou shalt nots"; he never takes means to force us to do what he says. He never coerces. In certain moods we wish he would make us do the thing, but he will not; and in other moods we wish he would leave us alone altogether, but he will not. If we do not keep his commandments, he does not come and tell us we are wrong. We know it, we cannot get away from it.
There is an ancient story of a sentry standing day after day at his post with no apparent reason for his being there. One day, a passerby asked him why he was standing in that particular place. "I don't know," the sentry replied, "I'm just following orders." The passerby then went to the captain of the guard and asked him why the sentry was posted in that place. "I don't know," the captain replied. "We're just following orders." This prompted the captain of the guard to pose the question to higher authority. "Why do we post a sentry at that particular spot?" he asked the king. But the king didn't know. So he summoned his wise men and asked them the question. The answer came back that one hundred years before, Catherine the Great had planted a rosebush and had ordered a sentry placed there to protect it. The rosebush had been dead for eighty years, but the sentry still stood guard.
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Next to the one who does not pay his bill, the doctor’s most annoying patient is the one who refuses to follow orders. Recently it was estimated that between 16 to 90 percent of all patients leave half-empty pill bottles, cheat on diets, continue to smoke, or never return for checkups despite careful prescriptions and cautious advice.
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Welcome the King with Gifts (Vs. 32-36)
Welcome the King with Gifts (Vs. 32-36)
The Owner of the Colt gave the Colt
The Owner of the Colt gave the Colt
“The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.’
The disciples gave the gift of their time
The disciples gave the gift of their time
Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
The Disciples gave of their resources
The Disciples gave of their resources
clothes as a saddle and a walk way
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
The disciples gave themselves
The disciples gave themselves
Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Welcome the King with Praise (Vs. 37-38)
Welcome the King with Praise (Vs. 37-38)
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord; We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.
“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Palms were an emblem of victory, and in John’s mention of them here we must detect a reference to the triumph of Christ.
Leon Morris
The palm branches represented their nationalistic desire to be delivered, for when Simon Maccabaeus delivered Jerusalem 150 years earlier, it was celebrated with praise, palm branches, and musical instruments (1 Maccabees 13:51)
R. Kent Hughes
“Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.”
Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, Praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord From this time forth and forever. From the rising of the sun to its setting The name of the Lord is to be praised. The Lord is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, Who is enthroned on high, Who humbles Himself to behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth? He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap, To make them sit with princes, With the princes of His people. He makes the barren woman abide in the house As a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!