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In Jacksonville, FL, back in 1953 a new restaurant opened named Insta-Burger King
This was a time when fast food was becoming a “thing” and hamburgers were truly king
In fact just two years later, in 1955, a new franchise would begin that has truly become king, a little place called McDonalds
Burger King’s slogan Have It Your Way, was created in 1974.
Some of you, may remember the commercial we just saw, as well as many others based on this theme in the ‘70s.
It was a response to the success of McDonalds.
Burger King was number 2, and McDonalds led the fast food burger wars.
So, advertising executives tried to hit on something that was viewed as a weakness in the McDonald’s system.
When you ordered a burger at McDonalds, you got what they gave you.
You could certainly ask to leave off the mustard, or the pickles, but there was a sense when you did that, that this was a pain for them to do.
But not at Burger King.
This became their theme, and it’s a theme they still use today, more than 30 years later.
And as a slogan was born but so was a mindset.
Over the years this way of thinking has permeated our culture
So much so that, as a society, we have become entitled thinking that everything should be our way
This has even overflowed into our approach to the Bible and the truth about who God is.
It has become popular to take the truth of the gospel (Christ’s life, sacrifice, death and resurrection) and formulate it to be about how it can best serve me
So scripture isn’t so much about how it points me to Christ but about how it can best suit my thinking.
And so we begin to move away from the true intention of Scripture (pointing us to Christ) and begin to adapt it to what we want it to say or what we think it should say.
Mark 11:1-11
For the better part of three years Jesus has kept a low profile but the Triumphal Entry marks for the first time, Jesus' public declaration to Israel that He has come as their Messiah.
Zechariah 9:9, a prophecy viewed as messianic by Jesus' contemporaries, predicted that Israel's future king would come “righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
The action of the crowd in spreading garments and palm branches in the road before Christ reflected the kind of homage usually paid to royalty (cf. 2 Kings 9:13).
At this point in the Gospel of Mark we’re entering into something really significant.
Chapters 1 through 10 describe Jesus’ earthly ministry, a period of three years.
Now chapters 11 through 16, describe Jesus’ last week on earth.
Ten chapters devoted to three years versus six chapters devoted to one week.
Everything happening has been leading up to this: Jesus entering into Jerusalem to be God’s one and only spotless lamb, who takes away the sins of the world.
This is the climax to His story of redemption.
1. Jesus and His disciples draw near to Jerusalem
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By way of Bethany ("house of dates") and Bethphage ("house of unripe figs")
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Two small villages near the Mount of Olives between Jericho and Jerusalem
2. Jesus arranges for two disciples to get a colt - Mk 11:1-3
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A colt on which no one sat
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By foreknowledge or previous arrangement, Jesus knows the owner will consent
3. The disciples get the colt just as Jesus predicted - Mk 11:4-6
4. Jesus mounts the colt - Mk 11:7
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It is brought to Him, clothes placed on it, and He sits on it
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Many spread their cloths on the road, others cut leafy branches and place them on the road before Jesus on the colt - Mk 11:8
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Many praise Jesus as He rides the colt - Mk 11:9-10
a. Crying "Hosanna!"
("Save!" or "please save!") - Ps 118:25
b. "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!" - Ps 118:26
c. "Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that comes in the name of the Lord!"
d. "Hosanna in the highest!"
7. Jesus enters Jerusalem - Mk 11:11
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He goes straight to the temple, and looks around
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But the hour is late and so He does not stay
At first glance, everything seemed to be in line with what should be happening.
Jesus is entering into Jerusalem to fulfill what He came to accomplish.
He was the Messiah that had been promised for centuries, finally there to be the salvation of His people.
Having the benefit of knowing the end of the story, we know all what’s happening.
But the crowd here, at least on the surface, also seemed to know.
They saw Jesus and start shouting, “Hosanna, Hosanna!”, meaning, “Save us, rescue us!”
It all seemed like the proper coronation for their King Jesus.
The crowd loved Him.
They were passionately singing and worshipping Him.
But something was deeply wrong.
Why?
What was happening at the heart level, below the surface?
When Jesus entered into Jerusalem, the crowd thought He was finally accepting His Messiahship and was going to destroy and conquer Rome, kill all their enemies and establish an earthly kingdom.
When they were crying out, “Hosanna”, they didn’t have their personal salvation from sin in mind, but a national restoration, a political revolution.
This had been their Messianic hope all along.
So when they saw Jesus wasn’t going to give them what they wanted, they realized He wasn’t the Messiah they had been waiting for.
They dispersed, many even turned violently against Him.
Through the Old Testament, we see the Israelites constantly not getting it, complaining and not trusting God.
Not realizing what God had done for them.
In the New Testament, we see the disciples constantly failing over and over, arguing about who among them is greatest, while Jesus is going to the cross.
Our first response is they’re all stupid.
But then the Holy Spirit speaks and we realize that’s us too.
The crowd was worshipping a Jesus of their own making.
They were trying to have Jesus their way
These pilgrims knew their Bible, they knew the prophecy of the Messiah
But they became selective in their Scripture reading, picking and choosing for themselves what they liked about Jesus.
They liked all the prophecies about a promised one coming to establish a kingdom and rescue them.
But they didn’t like Isaiah 53:5-8
This was against their expectation for a Messiah to suffer.
He was supposed to rule, reign and conquer.
But Jesus came and HIs message was completely different from what they would expect
Matthew 16:24-26 (ESV)
They didn’t like hearing Him say this.
It went in one ear and out the other.
Jesus just said that if we want to follow Him and live, we must die.
If we want to keep our life, we have to lose it.
It goes in one ear and out the other, because it’s against our expectation.
For the Jews, it was against their expectation to have a Messiah that was not going to establish an earthly kingdom.
But for you and I, we tend to do the same thing
It’s against our expectation to have a savior that not’s going to make us happy and give us what we want.
We all want Jesus to fit into a box
We want a Jesus of our own making
How do we know we have a Jesus of our own making?
We have a savior of our own making if:
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