Thus Enters the King of Glory - Mark 11:1-11

INTRO
Mark 11:1-11 Thus enters the King of Glory
Think along with me of some BIG EVENT you have either attended or even viewed on TV.
Something like a football game, a concert, a Boxing or MMA match up. Each of these
examples had at the start...the entrance of the team, the band, or the fighter... AND that
entrance was an opportunity for each to make a statement. Whether it was blasting
through a large banner bearing your name, exploding onto the stage from the floor as Garth
Brooks is so famous for OR having your prestigious entourage accompany you through the
masses with your choice song blasting the stadium as you approach and then enter the
octagon fighting arena. The entrance is that time a statement is made...for all to see before
the event began.
IN The Hunger Games movies...Katnis an Peta’s signature entrance where their garments
set ablaze while riding in a chariot pulled by sleek black horses at the ceremonial openings
of The Hunger Games captures this well...making a statement upon their entrance.
What we have before us this morning,..is,...I believe the greatest entrance in history
leading toward and event. The event is the coronation the inauguration of KING Jesus. All 4
gospels are sure to record this monumental account.
Jesus ‘makes a statement’ upon entering Jerusalem during Passover week
when The Inauguration ceremony of the King of Kings would take place on
Calvary where He is crowned with a crown of thorns. Thus enters Jesus as
King. As one commentary noted Christ was a King from this hour. In all the
parables from this point, HIS own Person is the centre. HE speaks and acts as
a KING. (We must distinguish between the time when the people heralded Him
as king, and when God lifted Him up to His throne: between Palm Sunday

which is where we are at here in the text right now....and the Resurrection which
takes place the following Sunday....1 week from this day....and the Ascension
of King Jesus...recorded for us in the book of Acts where Jesus is caught up
into the clouds and “..is seated on His throne at the right hand of the power of
God.” (Matthew 26:64, Mark 14:62, Luke 22:69). Christ was a King from this
hour. Lange, J. P., Schaﬀ, P., & Shedd, W. G. T. (2008). A commentary on the Holy Scriptures:
Mark (p. 112). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
In our course through the text which has some overlaying truths within it... Imagine us as
a bare boned wick having no wax on it whatsoever. As this

unclothed wick, my aim is to take us through this passage...DIP us thoroughly..if you
will....with each statement of truth revealed so that in the end we’ll have 3 distinct layers of
wax, 3 distinct truths of Christ that we are clothed in ourselves that we may from here
represent him to the world accordingly. THESE DISTINCT TRUTHS...the statements of
Truth made at the entrance of the King of Glory into the City of God...as described in the
OLD Testament... (Deuteronomy 16:2,6). “...at the place that the Lord your God will choose,
to make his name dwell in it, (Jerusalem) ....”. Thus enters the King of glory and the
statements of Truth made by HIS triumphal entry into Jerusalem are...
Jesus is a Humble King - Jesus is to be Worshipped as King - Jesus takes Inventory as
King.
BODY
OKAY, the first Statement of Truth made at King Jesus’s entry to Jerusalem. 1) FIRST POINT
- (Mark 11:1-8). Jesus is a humble king
Of first note I find it necessary to make a distinction as arrayed beautifully by our humble
KING Jesus. Jesus is ever so confident. HE has been instructing his disciples of the
suﬀering coming to him in Jerusalem...HE leads the journey there...walking ahead of the

disciples to their amazement (Mark 10:32), HE is not entering the city secretly but publicly
and cheerfully with acclamations of joy,...not fearing the evil that awaits him by whose
hands he would suﬀer severely and be delivered over to the Roman army to be crucified. I
like how Matthew Henry states it. “Though he was now but taking the field, and girding on
the harness, yet, being fully assured of a complete victory, he thus triumphs as though he
had put it oﬀ.” Isn’t that great?...
In other words.... “Before Jesus has spoken the words from the cross, ‘It is finished!’, HE
enters the battle field with a quiet confidence that it will be accomplished. Nothing will
deviate him from fulfilling the Father’s will.
Like Jesus, one can be confident and still humble. Such is a christlike attribute and there is
a diﬀerence in one who is confident and one who is arrogant. Confidence and humility go
together. Whereas arrogance accompanies Pride. Confidence has eyes on the Father in
heaven while arrogance has it’s gaze is fixed on self. It’s what the apostle Paul speaks of in
(2 Corinthians 3:4) when he says “Such is the confidence that we have

through Christ toward God.” A christian, walking in obedience with their eyes on JESUS
can be very humbly confident. JESUS, our confident humble KING arrays this
beautifully...Eyes set on fulfilling The Father’s will....HE is directing these events with
certainty as they draw near to Jerusalem......(verse 1) “To Bethphage and Bethany, at the
Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, ‘Go into the village in
front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has
ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’..say ‘The Lord
has need of it and will send it back here immediately.” King Jesus directs the events with
certainty acting as King. (Verse 4) “And they went away and found a colt tied at a door
outside in the street, and they untied it. And...sure enough as anticipated by King Jesus
(Verse 5) “...some of those standing there (the other gospels note them as the colt’s owners)
they said to them, to the disciples... ‘What are you doing untying the colt?’ And they..the
disciples..told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go.” Let’s hold up there a brief
moment.

NOW we really know nothing about this colt’s owners. Whether prearrangements were
made by Jesus OR if it’s God’s hand Sovereignly directing their hearts as HE does the
heart’s of kings like a stream of water; “turning it wherever he will” (Proverbs 21:1). With
either one,...though I would lean toward the latter....KING JESUS demonstrates his
Lordship over all. He is always in control...humbly confident and always in control (which
ought to serve as a comfort to us) and those standing there, the colt’s owners,...upon
hearing the disciples relay the words of KING JESUS...they don’t hesitate to have Jesus
borrow the COLT. Whom the disciples bring to JESUS (verse 7) and threw their cloaks on it
and he (Jesus) sat on it.”
Jesus is a humble King. He rode in on the foul of a donkey (As LUKE also makes known
to us in his account)...a colt that had never been ridden before...it’s still with it’s mother
and therefore yet to be used..... never been ridden. (It’s not a noble steed well groomed to
be ridden or to pull a chariot... NO, it’s a foul of a donkey.
The animal was not a beast of any recognition. A foolish one could make jokes about how
it appeared, awkward conformation, raggedy mane and poor gate. My daughter Grace
spends a length amount of time grooming and preparing her horse to ride. Every time.
Every time she saddles up much time is put into grooming the entire animal. This borrowed
colt comes to JESUS as is with no proper saddle even. The disciples cloaks serve as that. If
he was anything like our horse Smarty Pants he probably had earth all over him from
rolling on the ground multiple times a day...especially if he just had a BATH.

Now there is certainly nothing wrong with the proper care of a horse as my daughter
faithfully provides...that’s right and good...but the point is the humbleness of our King.
Kings were known to enter cities in splendor, especially during coronation or after a
victorious battle. It may not even have been a beautifully groomed steed being ridden on or
steeds plural pulling a chariot on which the king rode but instead..elephants accompanied
by troops bringing the king into the city making his loud and bold, statement about himself.
King JESUS...on the other hand...he enters Jerusalem as a humble King.
This is our King and henceforth the kingdom..the kingdom of God we are brought into by
faith in Him.)...God is a humble God, His servant King Jesus is a humble King, born in

humility, lived a humble life, depended upon others for his provisions during his earthly
ministry. (Luke 8:3), went upon the water in a borrowed boat, used others garments as a
saddle, on a borrowed colt, will soon eat the passover meal in a borrowed chamber, and will
be buried in a borrowed tomb.
Even that which adorned his entrance on the road...the decorations the trappings weren’t
extravagant makings but instead the common peoples garments and leafy branches they
cut in the fields....seen in (Verse 8). HE who is the creator of all things is humble through
and through.
AND He is to be worshipped. JESUS is to be worshipped as King. The 2nd statement of
Truth made at Jesus’s entrance into the city of Jerusalem.
2) SECOND POINT (Mark 11:9-10)- Jesus is to be worshipped as King
JESUS enters Jerusalem as it’s KING and the people accept him as such. returning to
(verse 8) and reading through (verse 10). - read
“Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” The messianic hope for the restoration
of the Davidic Kingdom was the people’s chief primer igniting the jubilee they were
expressing during this moment in the Passover celebration. But their understanding was
misplaced because their zeal was for a ruling Messiah and a political kingdom. NOT
realizing,......and as time will tell in the coming weeks where the same people cry out Crucify
him! Crucify him! (Mark 15:13-14, Luke 23:21) They were not accepting the fact that the
very one humbly entering the city of Jerusalem was indeed their Messiah. “The did not
know the time of their visitation.” (Luke 19:44, Matthew 16:3) Even though the very acts
they were witnessing and engaged in were fulfilled

prophecy of JUST THAT. (Zech. 9:9) “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O
daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is
he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
They were quoting (Psalm 118:25) Hosanna in the Highest - ‘’’save now’’’ The most lofty
salute to be given to Israel’s Promised deliverer. Blessing Him as God’s favored One.
Showing him honor and praise. In this moment fulfilling prophecy as they do when they

reject their Messianic King (Psalm 118:22) saying “we have no king but Caesar!” (John
19:15). JESUS is THE Messianic King...He and He alone fulfilled every OT prophecy about
Him.
Webster 1828- Define PROPHECY: A foretelling; a prediction; a declaration of
something to come. As God only knows future events with certainty, no being but God or
some person informed by him, can utter a real prophecy.
Every prophecy recorded in Scripture about the coming Messiah...JESUS fulfilled.
WE have some astute MATH students among us here..... Try this on for size...
Just a handful of the prophecies that Jesus fulfilled: He was born in Bethlehem (1),
preceded by a messenger (John the Baptist) (2), entered Jerusalem on a donkey (3), was
betrayed by a friend who received thirty pieces of silver (4), was silent before His
accusers (5), and died in the manner Romans used for criminals (crucifixion) (6), during
which they pierced His hands and feet (7).
Peter Stoner, in his classic book Science Speaks, calculated the chance of any man
fulfilling these prophecies, ( just the 7 mentioned...)even down to the present time, he
calculated it to be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 (10 to the 17th power).
To help us visually comprehend the staggering odds of this probability, Stoner proposed
that figuratively speaking it would be equivalent to taking many silver dollars and laying them
across the state of Texas. In doing so, we’d find they would stack up across the state two
feet deep. Now...we’re not done...take and mark one of the silver dollars, place it with the
others and stir up the entire mass of coins. Then blindfold an enthusiastic volunteer and tell
him that he can travel as far as he likes across Texas, but that he *must* pick out the
marked

silver dollar. THAT is how diﬃcult it would be for one man to fulfill these prophecies. Unless,
of course, he did so because of divine appointment.
Those are the odds of just 7 of the 300+ Old Testament prophecies being fulfilled by one

man. Make it 48 of the 300+ and the odds jumps from 17th power to 10 to the 157th power!
I’ve witnessed my children’s recent mental angst over diﬃcult mathematics or
chemistry..but they don’t even compare. Do you feel your head to either implode or explode
at the staggering facts. It ought to.
To summarize it in one word - Impossible...IMPOSSIBLE!...But, as we know from a few
weeks back (Mark 10:27) “With man it is impossible but not—with— God. For ALL things
are possible with God.” For Jesus is NOT just a man though he is fully man...he is also
GOD and therefore HE and HE alone is able to fulfill every prophecy written of Him.
And listen...Jesus knows every prophesy about him. He came to fulfill all
Righteousness...Indeed He is the Word of God that became flesh.
“This is my Son with whom I am well pleased.”
Israel’s Promised deliverer...Israel’s Hope...OUR Hope...OUR Deliverer.
God did what the law weakened by sinful flesh could not do. Make one perfect. God fulfilled
all the Righteous requirements of the Law through JESUS. It was the Father’s will to do
so...JESUS victoriously did it. With a humble confidence our promised deliverer comes
down the 300 feet from the mount of Olives into Jerusalem as a humble King riding on a
donkey to face our enemy and as stated by Tim Mackey “Jesus let evil...exhaust it’s power
on him using it’s only real weapon,....Death”. ...X2
Our King sacrificed His life that His people may be delivered...may be set free from captivity
to Satan, set free from a life of Sin, set free to....Worship Him who alone is deserving of our
worship.
CHURCH....Jesus doesn’t summon worship as if to say “please come here and worship
me.” NO...He receives it, ONE beacons others to come and worship (Psalm 95:6, 96:9, 98:8)
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.” “Worship
the Lord in the splendor of holiness.” All creation worships CHRIST. “Let the rivers clap
their hands; let the hills sing for joy together” “If these people were silent..Jesus said..in this
account noted by Luke....even the stones would cry out in Praise to the coming King. (Luke
19:40) And I personally don’t take that as a hyperbole...I believe that would have
happened.

KING JESUS is to be worshipped. (Psalm 86:9) And.. “All Nations that He has made shall
come and worship Him and shall glorify His Name.” Either NOW in joyful submission to His
rule and reign in their hearts. While those who remain unrepentant...they PRAISE GOD in
His wrath executed by Jesus Christ the righteous. (Psalm 76:10) “Surely the wrath of man
shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.” GOD’S attributes of
Justice, Righteous and Wrath is praised by condemning unrepentant sinful man for all
eternity to hell. (Philippians 2:10-11) “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” Every eye will see the King of Glory at
His second coming whose brightness will bring to nothing the lawless one...satan and all
his forces of evil (2 Thessalonians 2:8)....Hear me friend...
Every soul will glorify God either as a vessel of mercy harmonizing together their songs of
deliverance as one song sung for all eternity in heaven OR as a vessel of wrath prepared for
destruction glorifying God in receiving their just do eternal punishment. (Romans 9:22)
JESUS is to be worshipped as KING who...as we move on to our final verse in
consideration this morning...Takes inventor as King.
3) THIRD POINT (Mark 11:11) Jesus takes inventory as King
(Verse 11) - read
Jesus takes inventory as King. He takes it all in; “All is naked and exposed before the eyes
of him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:12-13). It’s important to not overlook
the significance of this moment...of Christ coming to the temple...God’s Passover Lamb
himself going to the very place where sacrifices oﬀered to God were made...The Lamb of
God,...as John the Baptist referenced him...does a wide and silent survey of how it is being
used. God only knows what was going through Jesus’s heart and mind in that moment.
Considering the glory and magnificence of the Old Covenant and his mission to bring in
the NEW with it’s surpassing glory. (2 Corinthians 3; Galatians 4:21-31). The mediator of
the New Covenant (Hebrews 9:15)......(Romans 7:6) “releasing us from the law...going to the
cross to die to that which held us captive, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit
and not in the old way of the written code.” KING JESUS, On the precipice of that moment.
Can you imagine the emotion He was experiencing?

As one commentator noted. Schleiermacher - “What thoughts touching the past must have
arisen, and how deep must His emotions have been, in the consciousness of what He
came to do, when He compared the magnificence

and glory of the old covenant with the spiritual life of the new covenant, which, far
removed from all outward demonstration, unseen and unpretending, was creating for itself
its own form in sweet and gentle silence; when He compared the magnificence and glory
of the external temple with the spiritual temple built of living stones, in which His spirit
should dwell, and where should be established for ever the worship of His heavenly Father
in spirit and in truth!
Lange, J. P., Schaff, P., & Shedd, W. G. T. (2008). A commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Mark (p.
111). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
I dare not try to rephrase that.
With such contemplations likely in the heart and mind of Jesus, He takes inventory of the
temple; it’s current use and function as to whether it’s being used as God intended...He
takes it all in. And though it was all very disgraceful...the practices going on in the
temple....He Doesn’t give full vent in that moment despite the displeasure within him sure
to be great.
He processed it, slept on it and deals with it the following day as we will see next week.
He retires to Bethany most likely the home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus (John 11:1), which
generally served as Jesus’ abode when He was in Judea (Mark 11:11).
He retires there for the night with the twelve after taking inventory of the temple to see
whether it’s being used as God intended as He still does today for every Born again
believer who’s body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:19). Each “living stone
(you and me) (Peter 2:4-5) the temple being built not by the hands of man but by God as a
spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood to oﬀer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ.”

He takes inventory of his chosen and precious living stones...whose body is the temple of
His Spirit. As we should ourselves take inventory... (2 Corinthians 13:5) “Examine
yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this
about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?— unless indeed you fail to meet the test!”
We’ll conclude with some considerations for each us, I pray, to seriously take to heart that
ultimately we would not be condemned but rather lovingly challenged where scores are
low BUT also encouraged where they are strong. The examining of ourselves ought to bring
about BOTH. Aﬃrming evidence of the Spirit of Christ in you and also giving attention to
where reform is needed.

CONCLUSION
Returning to the imagery of a wick, I pray now clothed with the 3 Statements of Truth
revealed in the passage...the 3 distinct truths of Christ seen in His Triumphal entry....we
may now examine ourselves in our shared eﬀorts to represent him to the world accordingly
as His loyal subjects.
STARTING WITH As a prideful man or woman do you pursue humility by the grace of God? Would you agree
with A. W. Pink who says “Humility is not the product of
direct cultivation, rather it is a by-product. The more I try to be humble the less shall I attain
unto humility. BUT....if I am truly occupied with that One who was “meek and lowly in heart,”
(KING JESUS) if I am constantly beholding His glory in the mirror of God’s Word, then shall
I be “changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of The Lord” (2
Corinthians 3:18)
In John the Baptist’s words “He (Jesus) must increase, I must decrease.” (John 3:30)
Or the Apostle Paul’s words to “....no longer live for ourselves but for him who for our sake
died and was raised.” (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)

Are you in stride with this and does your life accordingly make the statement: (I belong to
The King)? A Statement made when you...
...enter your workplace; enter a class room; enter your own household or other’s
household; enter the wrestling mat; enter a swim meet; enter a conversation, an
argument a business transaction. Wherever you enter and with whom ever...Is the humility
of Christ present with you and in you?
When you enter a diﬃcult situation of any sort...marriage trouble, a health crisis, financial
crisis...can you humbly seek help and receive it from whom God would provide it through?
REMEMBER, King Jesus entered Jerusalem on a borrowed colt, ate the Passover in a
borrowed chamber, was buried in a borrowed tomb... HE received help. Are you willing to
be humble like him and receive help yourself?
Doing so...embodying the humility of Christ sounds forth your WORSHIP of him. They are
linked...not able to be separated. The by-product of Humility by truly being occupied with
the ONE who was “meek and lowly in heart,” Sounds forth the statement of Truth of your
worship of Him as King!
Do you see that?

Stating plainly that U love Jesus / U love His word / U love His people..the church / U are
on mission for His kingdom - IN SHORT...In the words of GOD (Titus 2:10) Such is the life
that “adorns the gospel of His son”? Whose accolades alone you care to hear at the
entrance into His Kingdom.
“Well done good and faithful servant, enter in to the joy of your
master” (Matthew 25:21,23 / Luke 19:17)
Do these Christ exalting qualities register to you about your life? Do you take inventory...do
you monitor whether or not these are regularly seen in your life? Failures, faults,
shortcomings in them present,...yes...BUT are they on your radar...are you mindful of them?
Do you care whether or not these Christ exalting attributes are exhibited from your life?
Giving thought to them... examining yourself...taking inventory of your life...a living

stone...the temple of the Holy Spirit is itself a christian virtue...a quality signifying that you
indeed belong to the King whose lives in word and deed proclaim the excellencies of His
name. (1 Peter 2:9) who called us out of darkness into His glorious light.”
- PRAY
Humble King Fulfilled Prophecy Take inventory
COMMUNION
Thus enters the King of Glory who won the victory over satan, sin and death on the cross
on Calvary. “When Jesus had received the sour wine (while nailed to the cross) he said, “It is
finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”
The King of Glory died, gave His life for His loyal subjects to set them free. And now those
here who are free to worship God in Spirit and in Truth through faith in His Son Jesus whom
they believe and trust in for forgiveness of sin. The sacraments are prepared this morning.
The BREAD representing his body that was broken and the CUP representing his blood that
was shed for the forgiveness of sin. They are prepared for the believer to partake in this
morning as a memorial. A memorial for King Jesus’s life he laid down of His own accord
that we may have forgiveness of sin and the hope of life eternal with Him in His Kingdom.
We do this as a memorial till our risen King returns to take us home to forever be with him.
While the music teams leads us in a few more songs. As the Spirit prompts, come forward
and partake.
Benediction (2 Peter 1:3-11)

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GOD’S TRUTH

February 9, 2020

Risen Jesus is the King of Glory!

Key Verse
Family
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“Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is
the King of glory.”
Psalm 24:10 (ESV)

1. Read out loud and give deep
contemplation to Psalm 47 as it
speaks of our risen King Jesus.
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Psalm 47

Scripture Memory: James 4:10
“And these words that I command you today shall be on
your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your
children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your
house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign
on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your
eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your
house and on your gates.” - Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (ESV)

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