Welcome The King
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TODAY WE ARE CELEBRATING THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF JESUS INTO THE CITY..
IT IS NOT ABOUT THE DAY OF THE WEEK
BUT THE MESSAGE OF PALM SUNDAY
TODAY I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU....
THE WHOLE STORY OF THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
AND TO DO THIS...I WANT YOU TO IMAGINE...
A JOURNEY IF YOU WILL....
WE WILL END UP AT THE SUMMIT HOWEVER..
WE WILL BE KICKING OVER SOME ROCKS ALONG THE WAY...AND
WE ARE GOING TO DISCOVER SOME THINGS THAT...
I BELIEVE... MAY HAVE BEEN LOST OVER TIME
TURN WITH ME TO...
MATTHEW 21.
IN HIS WHOLE BOOK HE IS TRYING TO GET HIS READERS TO COME TO THE REVELATION THAT...
JESUS IS ISRAELS MESSIAH AND KING
JESUS IS THE MESSIAH THAT THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR AND...
HE IS THE KING FROM THE LINEAGE OF DAVID THAT HAS BEEN PROPHESIED THROUGH ALL OF SCRIPTURE
IN FACT,…..
ALL THROUGH MATTHEW WHEN...
PEOPLE WOULD GO TO CONFESS WHO JESUS IS IN PUBLIC
JESUS WOULD SAY....SHHHHH....
NOT NOW, KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF
MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME
DON’T TELL ANYONE....
THAT IS UNTIL WE GET TO THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
I WANT TO SET THE STAGE FOR YOU HERE TODAY...
RIGHT BEFORE JESUS RIDES ON THE BACK OF THAT DONKEY INTO THE CITY OF JERUSALEM
HE IS MET BY TWO BLIND MEN......
AND THEY SAY....JESUS WE WANT TO RECEIVE OUR SIGHT...
“JESUS, SON OF DAVID....HAVE MERCY ON US”
AND IT SAYS...JESUS, MOVED WITH COMPASSION FOR HIS PEOPLE....
HE HEALS THEM
AND ALL OF THIS TAKES PLACE...
RIGHT BEFORE HE GIVES REVELATION TO ALL OF ISRAEL ABOUT WHO HE IS.
Wow…
OH COME ON SOMEBODY....
GOD IS GIVING US SOME SPIRITUAL INSIGHT THROUGH THIS MIRACLE OF THE TWO BLIND MEN....
THAT HE IS ABOUT TO PULL BACK THE BLINDING SCALES FROM THE EYES OF ISRAEL...
AND REVEAL TO THEM....WHO HE REALLY IS
IT IS INTERESTING THAT MATTHEW IS VERY SPECIFIC IN MATTHEW 21....
WE SEE IN EZEKIEL 10 & 11...
IN 586 BC EZEKIEL HAS A VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD LEAVING THE TEMPLE....
LEAVING THE TABERNACLE IN JERUSALEM
IT DEPARTS....AND GOD JUDGES ISRAEL AND SAYS...
“MY PRESENCE IS NOT GOING TO BE IN THE TEMPLE ANYMORE”
YOU SEE......THE JEWS BELIEVE THAT IF YOU WANTED TO EXPERIENCE THE FULLNESS OF GOD..
YOU WOULD GO TO THE TEMPLE
SO EZEKIEL SEES THE GLORY OF GOD LEAVE THE TEMPLE AND GO TO SETTLE...
ON THE TOP OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.... EAST OF JERUSALEM
AND THE HE BEGINS TO PROPHESY IN EZEKIEL 11 THAT....
I AM GOING TO PUT A NEW HEART WITHIN YOU
I AM GOING TO PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN...
AND ONE DAY I AM GOING TO FORGIVE YOU OF ALL OF YOUR SINS
EZEKIEL SAYS THAT THE GLORY OF GOD IS NOT IN THE BUILDING BUT...
HOVERS OVER THIS ELEVATED HILL EAST OF JERUSALEM
BUT THEN....AT THE END OF HIS BOOK IN EZEKIEL 43...
HE SEE THAT THE GLORY OF GOD THAT HAD LEFT THE TEMPLE
THE GLORY THAT IS HOVERING OVER THE MOUNT OF OLIVES...
HE SEES IT DESCEND FROM THE EAST..
AND BACK INTO THE CITY OF JERUSALEM...INTO THE TEMPLE
THIS BRINGS US BACK TO MATTHEW 21...
WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT JESUS BEGINS HIS JOURNEY ON THE DONKEY BACK INTO JERUSALEM
HE STARTS FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES...
THE BIBLE IS THE MOST HYPERLINKED BOOK IN THE WORLD...
ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES AND BOOKS LINK BACK TO ONE ANOTHER AS WE SEE...
PROPHECY FULFILLED TIME AND TIME AGAIN...
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT...
MATTHEW’S AUDIENCE IS PREDOMINANTLY JEWISH CHRISTIANS
AND HE IS MAKING THE CASE TO THEM THAT THIS MAN WHO IS ON THE DONKEY...
THIS SAVIOR WHO IS ON THE COLT
WHO IS COMING AS SAVIOR AND KING...
IS NOT JUST AN ORDINARY RULER BUT...
HE IS TELLING THEM THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE GLORY OF GOD....
HE IS THE TABERNACLE OF GODS GLORY..
THIS IS WHY PAUL WOULD LATER WRITE THAT...
IN HIM DWELLS THE FULLNESS OF THE GOD HEAD BODILY
AND THIS MORNING CHURCH....YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT...
YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM
CAN SOMEBODY GIVE HIM A SHOUT OF PRAISE...
MATTHEW IS REVEALING JESUS AS THE....
KING OF GLORY IN CHAPTER 21.
THIS IS WHAT JESUS DOES...
HE LITERALLY ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM AS THE KING
YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS....
ALL OF THE KINGS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD DID 4 THINGS WHEN...
THEY ENTERED INTO A CITY THAT THEY HAD CONQUERED
WATCH THIS.....IT IS INCREDIBLE THE WAY JESUS DOES THIS....
JESUS IS VERY DELIBERATE IN MATTHEW 21.
ALL KINGS DID FOUR THINGS WHEN THEY ENTERED INTO A CITY THEY HAD CONQUERED..
JESUS DOES WHAT ANTONY DID WHEN HE ENTERED INTO EPHESUS
HE DOES WHAT TITUS DID WHEN HE ENTERED INTO ANTIOCH
AND EVEN WHAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT DID WHEN HE ENTERED INTO JERUSALEM..... A FEW HUNDRED YEARS EARLIER
WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE UNFOLD IN THIS TEXT IS NOT RANDOM....BUT
HIGHLY INTENTIONAL AND FULL OF SYMBOLISM TO THE JEWISH NATION THAT...
YOUR KING HAS ARRIVED
OH COME ON SOMEBODY....
LISTEN TO ME...
JUST LIKE JESUS RODE INTO JERUSALEM THAT DAY....
I HAVE A VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD MESSAGE FOR EVERY BELIEVER
JUST LIKE HE RODE INTO JERUSALEM AND BECAME THEIR KING
JESUS WANTS TO RIDE INTO YOUR HEART
INTO YOU HOME
INTO YOUR FAMILY
INTO YOUR MARRIAGE
AND HE WANTS TO BE KING OF YOUR LIFE AS WELL
TODAY I WANT TO WALK THROUGH THE 4 THINGS THAT JESUS DID ON THE DONKEY...
THE CONQUEROR IS ESCORTED INTO THE CITY BY THE CITIZENS OR THE ARMY OF THE CONQUEROR
1 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”
4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
5 “Tell the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your King is coming to you,
Lowly, and sitting on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”
THE TEXT SAYS THAT...
THEY LITERALLY TAKE JESUS AND SET HIM ON THE DONKEY
AND THEY LEAD HIM ALL THE WAY FROM BETHPHAGE (WHICH IS AT THE TOP OF MOUNT OLIVES)
INTO JERUSALEM...
ALL OF THIS WAS DONE TO FULFILL THE PROPHESY THAT JESUS IS THE PROPHESIED KING
OH I WISH SOMEBODY WAS GETTING THIS...
THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO HEROD
THIS IS A CHALLENGE TO ROME
THIS IS A CHALLENGE TO EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD THAT CLAIMED TO BE KING
AND WHEN THEY PUT JESUS ON THAT COLT AND BEGAN TO LEAD HIM INTO THE CITY...
THEY WERE SAYING ROME IS NOT KING
HEROD IS NOT KING
JESUS CHRIST IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS
YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY THAT...
WHAT JESUS DID OVER 2000 YEARS AGO...
IS STILL A CHALLENGE TO EVERYTHING IN...
YOUR LIFE CLAIMING SOVEREIGNTY OVER...
YOUR FAMILY AND OVER YOUR SOUL
HE IS COMING INTO THIS ROOM LIKE HE CAME INTO JERUSALEM AND HE IS SAYING...
CANCER IS NOT THE KING
ILLNESS IS NOT THE KING
YOUR FAILURES ARE NOT THE KING
YOUR HURTS AND SETBACKS ARE NOT THE KING
THE MOMENT THEY PUT HIM ON THE DONKEY
THEY WERE SAYING JESUS.....IS.......KING
CAN SOMEBODY GIVE HIM SOME PRAISE TODAY
HIS KINGSHIP HAD A PURPOSE....
AND IT WAS TO BRING SALVATION
2. THE PROCESSION WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HYMNS AND ACCLIMATIONS
6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. 8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
“Hosanna to the Son of David!
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
Hosanna in the highest!”
I AM GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS MORE AT THE END OF MY SERMON BUT...
AS THE GATES OF JERUSALEM SWUNG OPEN WIDE...
AND THE CITY BEGAN TO SEE JESUS RIDING IN ON THE DONKEY
IF YOU CAN PICTURE THIS IN YOUR MINDS EYE...
PEOPLE BEGAN TO RUN TO TREES AND CUT DOWN BRANCHES AND...
RIP OFF LIMBS AND GRAB PALM LEAVES
AND THEY BEGAN TO WAVE THEM IN THE AIR AS THEY CELEBRATED JESUS...
THE THIRD THING THAT A KING WOULD DO WHEN ENTERING THE CITY IS....
3. EVERY STEP OF THE PROCESSION WOULD BE PLANNED OUT, THERE WOULD BE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS THAT WOULD DEPICT THE AUTHORITY OF THE RULER
IN FACT, IT WAS RELEVANT THAT PALMS WERE USED...
PALMS WERE A SIGN OF VICTORY
THEY WERE A SIGN OF THE MESSIAH
THEY WERE A DECLARATION THAT JESUS WAS NOT COMING IN DEFEATED
THAT JESUS IS NOT COMING AS A LOSER
HE IS COMING AS A CONQUEROR...
YES! IN A WEEK HE WILL BE CRUCIFIED
HE IS ABOUT TO BE LAID IN A BORROWED TOMB
YES THEY WILL WHOOP HIS BACK AND PUT A CROWN OF THORNS ON HIS HEAD
YES THE SOLDIERS WILL MOCK HIM
YES HE WILL BE TREATED LIKE THE WORST OF CRIMINALS
BUT JESUS IS MAKING A DECLARATION AT THE BEGINNING
AND THAT IS....THAT THE CROSS WILL NOT BE THE DEFEAT OF JESUS
IT WILL BE THE EXHAULATION OF JESUS
THAT THE BORROWED TOMB IS NOT GOING TO BE THE DEFEAT OF JESUS
BUT IT IS GOING TO BE THE PLACE THAT HE RULES AND REIGNS OVER THE EARTH...
HAVING DEFEATED DEATH...HELL...AND THE GRAVE
THE PALMS WERE VICTORY...
EVEN THE CLOTHES ON THE GROUND WERE A POWERFUL SIGN AND SYMBOL
THE CLOTHES TAKE US ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BOOK OF KINGS
EVERY COMMENTATOR WOULD AGREE
THAT THIS IS A THROWBACK TO THE BOOK OF KINGS
WHEN AHAB WAS DEFEATED...
AND THEY ANOINTED THIS MAN BY THE NAE OF JEHU
HE WAS A CAPTAIN WHO WAS BRAVE AND SO THEY ANOINTED HIS HEAD...
THEY THREW CLOTHES AT HIS FEET
AND AS HE WALKED INTO THE CITY
HE SAID....”SOMEBODY GO FIND JEZEBEL AND THROW HER TO THE GROUND AND KILL HER BECAUSE HER DAYS OF RULING ARE OVER”
AHAB AND JEZEBEL IN THE BOOK OF KINGS WERE EVIL AND TWISTED PEOPLE THAT TOOK PEOPLE AWAY FROM GOD
THEY BROUGHT IN BAAL WORSHIP
THEY TOOK PEOPLE AWAY FORM THEIR CONSECRATION
AND THEY BROUGHT EVIL AND PERSECUTION
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THEY...SILENCED THE MOUTH OF THE PROPHET....WE TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK
HOW ELIJAH HID HIMSELF OUT OF FEAR
THESE PEOPLE SILENCED AND QUENCHED THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT
AND THEY BROUGHT THE WRATH AND JUDGMENT OF GOD UPON ISRAEL
AND AS THE PEOPLE THREW CLOTHES AT JEHU’S FEET
JEHU SAID...SOMEBODY TELL JEZEBEL THAT HER DAYS ARE NUMBERED
AND JUST LIKE JAHU IN THE BOOK OF KINGS
AS THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO THROW CLOTHES AT THE FEET OF JESUS FOR THE DONKEY TO WALK ON
JESUS IS GETTING READY TO CRUSH THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT
HE IS GETTING READY TO DESTROY THE POWER OF THE DEVIL
THE MOST IMPORTANT SYMBOL THAT WE SEE IS...
THE ANIMAL THAT JESUS IS RIDING ON
HE IS RIDING A DONKEY
AND THE DONKEY IS A SIGN OF PEACE
ANOTHER PROPHECY FULFILLED...
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.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.’
WHEN A KING RODE INTO A CITY
IF HE CAME ON A HORSE...
IT MEANT THAT WAR WAS COMING
IT MEANT THAT CONFLICT WAS ON IT’S WAY
BUT IF A KING RODE IN ON A DONKEY OR A COLT
IT WAS A SIGN THAT HE HAD ALREADY WON
IT WAS A DECLARATION THAT...”I’VE ALREADY FOUGHT IT, I’VE ALREADY WON IT”
AND I AM BRINGING PEACE TO YOU
IT WAS A SIGN THAT THE AGE OF RESTORATION HAD COME...
PEACE IN THE BIBLE MEANT MORE THAT JUST THE ABSENCE OF CONFLICT
IT WAS THE HEBREW WORD....SHALOM
BIBLICAL PEACE WAS MORE THAN JUST...THE WAR WAS OVER
THE IDEA OF PEACE IN THE BIBLE IS THE IDEA OF RESTORATION
IT IS THE IDEA OF RECONCILIATION
IT WAS ABOUT REBUILDING WAS HAD BEEN BROKEN DOWN
RESTORING WHAT HAD BEEN LOST
TAKING WHAT WAS BROKEN AND SCARRED AND MAKING IT WHOLE
OH COME ON SOMEBODY..
AS JESUS RODE INTO JERUSALEM HE WAS FULFILLING ISAIAH 9:6 BY DECLARING HIMSELF TO BE THE PRINCE OF PEACE...
6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
CHURCH....JESUS IS THE KING OF RESTORATION
OH MY LORD HELP ME....
I CAME TO PREACH TO SOMEBODY TODAY
WHO FEELS LIKE IT IS A WAR
WHO FEELS LIKE ITS A FIGHT
BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT WHEN JESUS COMES INTO YOUR LIFE
HE COMES TO CALM EVEN THE ROUGHEST WINDS AND WAVES OF YOUR SOUL
THE OLD SONG SAYS...
I KNOW THE PEACE SPEAKER
YES HE MAY FLIP SOME THINGS UPSIDE DOWN IN YOUR LIFE
YES HE MAY TIPS SOME TABLES OVER BUT HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU BROKEN
HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU IN THE DARKNESS OF YOUR DISMAY
JUST AS EASILY AS HE CAN SAY TO THE WIND AND THE WAVES....PEACE BE STILL
HE CAN SPEAK TO YOUR MARRIAGE
HE CAN SPEAK TO YOUR FAMILY
HE CAN SPEAK TO YOUR HEART AND YOUR MENTAL HEALTH
HE CAN SPEAK TO YOUR ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM WHO HAVE LIVED THEIR WHOLE LIFE WITH WOUNDS AND SCARS
BUT IF YOU WILL LET HIM....
KING JESUS WILL COME AND HE CAN HEAL YOUR HEART AND MAKE YOU WHOLE
CAN SOMEONE GIVE HIM PRAISE
HE BRINGS RECONCILIATION
IF YOU WILL LET HIM HE CAN HEAL YOUR RELATIONSHIP
HE CAN RESTORE WHAT IS BROKEN IN YOUR LIFE
THIS IS NORMALLY WHERE THE STORY ENDS..
BUT THIS IS NOT WHAT KINGS DID..
THEY DID NOT JUST COME WITH SYMBOLS OF THEIR RULE AND REIGN AND THEN...
EXIT STAGE LEFT
THE FOURTH THING THAT A KING WOULD DO...
4. THE KING WOULD TAKE HIS PROCESSION ALL THE WAY TO THE TEMPLE WHERE HE WOULD PERFORM A RITUAL OF APPROPRIATION
ALEXANDER THE GREAT..
PERFORMED A SACRIFICE
THIS TAKES PLACE IN THE TEMPLE
WHERE THE RULER APPROPRIATES THE CITY AND EXECUTES HIS RULE
AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT JESUS DOES IN MATTHEW 21.
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”
And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read,
‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have perfected praise’?”
WHEN A KING WOULD COME IN...
HE WOULD GO ALL THE WAY TO THE TEMPLE
JESUS WALKS RIGHT INTO THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE
AND HE DOES NOT COME WITH A LAMB BECAUSE HE IS THE LAMB
HE DOESN’T COME WITH A BURNT OFFERING
BECAUSE HIS BODY WAS ABOUT TO BE OFFERED UP AS ONE
HE DID NOT COME WITH INCENSE BECAUSE HE DID NOT COME TO GIVE WORSHIP
HE WAS THEIR TO RECEIVE WORSHIP
JESUS’S RITUAL OF APPROPRIATION WAS...
HE FLIPPED TABLES AND HE BROKE CAGES
AND HE USES A WHIP TO DRIVE THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE COURT
YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS...IN THAT DAY..
THE SICK, THE LAME, AND THE BLIND WERE NEVER ALLOWED IN THE TEMPLE
THEIR BROKENESS KEPT THEM FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD
THEIR WOUNDS AND THEIR SCARS AND THEIR INJURIES...
KEPT THEM FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD
BUT THEN JESUS SHOWS UP AND CLEARED THE WAY FOR EVERYBODY
HE SAID IF YOUR BROKEN COME
IF YOUR CRIPPLED COME
IF YOUR LAME OR BLIND COME
YOU COME INTO MY COURTS
YOU COME INTO MY PRESENCE
AND WHEN YOU DO...
YOU WILL NOT STAY THE SAME
HE LAID HANDS ON THEM AND HE HEALED THEM
HE IS SAYING....DON’T LET YOUR BROKENNESS
YOUR PAIN AND YOUR SCARS KEEP YOU FROM MY PRESENCE
COME ON IN....YOU ARE WELCOME IN MY HOUSE
HE SAID THERE IS A NEW RULE
THERE IS A NEW REIGN
IF YOUR BROKEN....COME
IF YOUR AN ADDICT....COME
IF YOUR AN OUTSIDER....COME
COME AND YOU WILL BE HEALED
JESUS IS INVITING YOU TODAY INTO HIS PRESENCE.....
....WORSHIP TEAM COME.....
THIS IS WHAT PALM SUNDAY IS ALL ABOUT...
IT IS GOD DESCENDING ON JERUSALEM
AND BECOMING OUR KING
TAKING ALL OF THE SHAME
BRINGING US PEACE
BRINGING US HOPE
BRINGING US WHOLENESS
BRINGING US NEW LIFE
SO WHAT IS THE RESPONSE TO ALL OF THIS...
LET’S LOOK AT THE BIBLE....WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY...
9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
“Hosanna to the Son of David!
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
Hosanna in the highest!”
15 The children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant
THE TERM HOSANNA IS NOT A DECLARATION OF PRAISE
IT IS NOT A CRY OF WORSHIP
WE USE IT FOR THAT..
BUT IT IS ACTUALLY A CRY FOR SALVATION
THE HEBREW WORDS...
YASHA AND ANA MEAN
I BEG YOU....SAVE ME
TO FIND THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD HOSANNA WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO 2 KINGS 6:26
YOU SEE KING BEN-HADAD BESEIGED THE CITY OF SAMARIA...
HE CUT OFF THEIR WATER AND FOOD SUPPLY
AND THERE WAS THIS HORRIBLE FAMINE
AND PEOPLE WERE RESORTING TO CANNIBALISM
THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF A WOMAN WHO MADE A HORRIFIC AGREEMENT WITH HER FRIEND
TODAY WE WILL EAT MY BABY
AND TOMORROW WE WILL EAT YOURS
AWFUL....WE CAN’T EVEN FATHOM THIS KIND OF DESPERATION
26 One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, “Please help me, my lord the king!”
HOSANNA, MY LORD THE KING....
I BEG YOU TO HELP ME
CHURCH THIS IS WHAT THE WORD HOSANNA MEANT THROUGH OUT THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL UNTIL...
WE GET AROUND THE TIME OF PSALM 118
THE WRITER OF PSALMS 118....THROUGH HIS PROPHETIC WRITING OF SCRIPTURE
SAW THE SAVOR, MESSIAH..
RIDING INTO JERUSALEM ON THE DONKEY
TO BECOME THE FINAL PASSOVER OF THE LAMB
HE SAW A SAVIOR, SURROUNDED BY WORSHIPING THRONES OF PEOPLE
WHO WERE EXCLAIMING SHOUTS OF PRAISE
AND THERE IS THIS WILD WAVING OF PALM BRANCHES AND DANCING IN CELEBRATION
AS FAMILIES CAST THEIR ROBES ONTO THE GROUND
AND THE PSALMIST OVERCOME BY THIS VISION AND OVERWHELMED AT THE SIGHT OF THE SAVIOR...
BEGINS TO PROPHESY AND WRITE....
24 This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. 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.
THIS IS WHAT THE CROWD IN MATTHEW 21 WAS SAYING TO JESUS..
THEY SAID...
HOSANNA! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
THEY WERE SAYING THE SAME THING BUT..
IT FELT TOTALLY DIFFERENT
THE VERY SAME WORD THAT MEANT SPIRITUAL CALAMITY
BECAME A WORD THAT WAS SHOUTED IN VICTORY
AT SOME POINT THEIR PLEE BECAME A PRAISE
THEIR CRY BECAME A SHOUT
THE LAST DITCH PRAYER OF A BROKEN HEART BEACME A SHOUT OF VICTORY
OH COME ON CHURCH….STAND TO YOUR FEET ALL OVER THIS HOUSE
DAVID SAID...
I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
OH COME ON CHURCH JUST BEGIN TO PRAISE THE LORD
THE KING IS HERE
VICTORY IS HERE
NO LONGER DO WE HAVE TO BE CONTROLLED BY SIN AND SHAME
BECAUSE THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE
BLESSED IS HE WHO COME IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
OH COME ON
LETS WELCOME THE KING WITH SOME PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Closing….
Help DOESNT always come how we expect it.
if you give your heart to the Lord and your situation doesn’t change right away
Don’t give up, don’t lose hope
We no longer have to be slaves to send
We can choose life through Jesus Christ
