Sermon Tone Analysis

Welcome for the King of Kings

As we look at our text from the Gospel according to the ex-tax collector, Matthew, the setting is the beginning of Holy Week, the day we call Palm Sunday or the Triumphal Entry.

Did you know that the lion share of each of the synoptic Gospels is given to Holy Week?

From Palm Sunday to Easter just eight days, but those eight days changed history.

If you are a believer it changed your history.

John devoted half of his gospel to these eight days, Matthew ¼, /3, /5.

There are some writers who portray Jesus as a hapless victim of circumstances, but that is far from the truth of the Word of God.

If you look back to the previous chapter, (ESV) Jesus said,“even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

(ESV) No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.

I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.

This charge I have received from my Father.”

It was under the sovereign hand of God that He was to die for our sins.

Do you remember what Jesus said when Peter () cut off the ear of the high priest’s servant?

(ESV) “Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

54 But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

Our text was the Lord’s personal announcement and appeal to the Jews to receive Him as their Messiah.

John MacArthur, says that “ portrays the most significant coronation the world has seen, but there is a vast difference between it and all others.

It was the one that has changed the history of the world the most.”

A coronation was something that was understood in their culture, but not in ours.

I don’t know if any of us have ever seen the coronation of a real monarch.

When we visited the Tower of London we saw the great extravagance the English went to have a coronation.

Queen Victoria of England had a 309 karat diamond on her crown and a 519 karat diamond on her scepter at her coronation.

As we consider the welcome of the King of Kings I would first like you to consider that it was...

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

54 But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

It was His personal announcement and appeal to the Jews to receive Him as their Messiah.

John MacArthur, says that “ portrays the most significant coronation the world has seen, but there is a vast difference between it and all others.

It was the one that has changed the history of the world the most.”

A coronation was something that was understood in their culture, but not in ours.

I don’t know if any of us have ever seen the coronation of a real monarch.

When we visited the Tower of London we saw the great extravagance the English went to have a coronation.

Queen Victoria of England had a 309 karat diamond on her crown and a 519 karat diamond on her scepter at her coronation.

As we consider the welcome of the King of Kings I would first like you to consider that it was...

18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.

I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.

This charge I have received from my Father.”

It was His personal announcement and appeal to the Jews to receive Him as their Messiah.

John MacArthur, says that “ portrays the most significant coronation the world has seen, but there is a vast difference between it and all others.

It was the one that has changed the history of the world the most.”

A coronation was something that was understood in their culture, but not in ours.

I don’t know if any of us have ever seen the coronation of a real monarch.

When we visited the Tower of London we saw the great extravagance the English went to have a coronation.

Queen Victoria of England had a 309 karat diamond on her crown and a 519 karat diamond on her scepter at her coronation.

As we consider the welcome of the King of Kings I would first like you to consider that it was...

28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

It was His personal announcement and appeal to the Jews to receive Him as their Messiah.

John MacArthur, says that “ portrays the most significant coronation the world has seen, but there is a vast difference between it and all others.

It was the one that has changed the history of the world the most.”

A coronation was something that was understood in their culture, but not in ours.

I don’t know if any of us have ever seen the coronation of a real monarch.

When we visited the Tower of London we saw the great extravagance the English went to have a coronation.

Queen Victoria of England had a 309 karat diamond on her crown and a 519 karat diamond on her scepter at her coronation.

As we consider the welcome of the King of Kings I would first like you to consider that it was...

28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

It was His personal announcement and appeal to the Jews to receive Him as their Messiah.

John MacArthur, says that “ portrays the most significant coronation the world has seen, but there is a vast difference between it and all others.

It was the one that has changed the history of the world the most.”

A coronation was something that was understood in their culture, but not in ours.

I don’t know if any of us have ever seen the coronation of a real monarch.

When we visited the Tower of London we saw the great extravagance the English went to have a coronation.

Queen Victoria of England had a 309 karat diamond on her crown and a 519 karat diamond on her scepter at her coronation.

As we consider the welcome of the King of Kings I would first like you to consider that it was...

I.

The procession of peace.

Vs.1–3Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her.

Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” Matthew tells us that as Jesus and His disciples were finishing their 19 mile trek from Jericho they were getting close to Jerusalem, but stopped at the village of Bethphage.

That may not sound far, but it seemed like a very desolate drive when we drove it.

It must have been a difficult walk.

Jesus then sent two of His disciples on to the next village to pick up a donkey and her colt.

He told them how to deal with the objections from the animal’s owner.

A. The preparation plans.

Vs.2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her.

Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”

It appears that the Lord made precise preparation to appeal to the hearts of the Jews to receive Him as their King.

The first thing that I pick up about this event is it was a planned appeal.

Jesus was delivering a special message.

Only in His omniscience could Jesus have known that the donkey and her colt would at that moment be where they were, waiting to be found by the two disciples.

Just as Jesus saw Nathaniel under the fig tree before He ever was in his area so He saw the location of these two animals.

Both animals were brought because the colt would not have willing come without his mother.

B. The particular point.

Vs. 2b and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her.

Untie them and bring them to me.

There was a message Jesus was communicating in the choice of a donkey.

The horse was the symbol of power and a conquering king would ride into the city he had conquered on a white stallion.

Jesus chose the colt of a donkey the symbol of humility and peace.

Jesus came to break down the wall of hostility between God and people.

describes our status with God, before Christ, "For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son." Jesus was communicating that His reign in a life would bring peace with God and inner peace for that person.

says, "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."

It seems inappropriate that any king, much less the King of Kings should make his triumphal entry on a donkey instead of a white stallion or in a fancy chariot.

The message that comes forth so clearly is that His kingdom is like none other this world has ever seen.

It is a kingdom where those who are servants will be the greatest and those who are last will be first and those who lose their lives for Christ's sake and His kingdom will truly find life.

There is one other aspect that Jesus is communicating by riding on the donkey, and that brings to the next thing I would like for you to notice... II.

The promise from prophecy.

Let's read verses 4-7 together.

"This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: 'Say to the Daughter of Zion, See your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.'

The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.

They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them and Jesus sat on them."

[the cloaks not both animals].

Matthew just quoted the promise of the prophecy and not the response the people were to make to such good news.

What he left off was, "Rejoice greatly, 0 Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem!"