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Title: Are you a die hard fan?
Text: John 12-26
*Introduction*: Everybody loves a star.
We live in a celebrity driven and celebrity focused culture.
We are impacted by what a famous person does or says in some kind of way.
It is because celebrities have influence and don’t mind using it.
Their power of influence comes from their fan base.
A fan is an enthusiastic devotee.
Fan is short for fanatic which means marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion.
My boys are sports fans.
They will watch sports all day long because of their love for them.
They are what you call die-hards.
Each of them has their special team and player.
My brothers and sisters, over 2000 years ago, a real star was born who still uses His celebrity to influence devoted fans.
However, when some fans find out who He really is, they can not handle the commitment needed to be a true fan and fall off the bandwagon.
Our text opens as Jesus is entering into Jerusalem in time for the Passover Celebration.
Passover was kept in remembrance of the Lord’s passing over the houses of the Israelites when the first born of all the Egyptians were destroyed.
Crowds had already gathered there to commemorate the festivities.
Jesus had just left Larazus house, the man who Jesus raised from the dead.
It was at Larazus house that his sister Mary poured out a pound of expense anointing oil on our Savior’s feet.
Oil was used to prepare bodies for death.
This is appropriate for the time because it now time for our Lord was to end his public ministry.
He is about to enter the week of Passion, the week of pain and suffering not for what He has done but for we have done.
He is about to embark on fulfilling His purpose of salvation of the lost by dying of the cross.
As he was entering the city, he was received by a parade to honor him as a celebrity of that day.
*Parade: Fans line up to meet him.
v.
12*
It was like all the fans that line up outside of the red carpet on Oscar night to see there favorite celebrity.
If anybody is, was or will be deserving of a parade it is Jesus.
He should be sitting on a float and waving his hand.
He should be celebrated for all his accomplishment.
He is more beautiful in His countenance than a Ms. America.
He gives more joy to people than the floats of children’s favorite cartoon characters.
He should be admired more than any celebrity who won an award.
There is no sports team victory that can hold a match up to the His victory over death!
He deserves a parade!
This large crowd cut down branches of Palm trees and went out to meet him.
The cutting down of palms branches was a symbolic gesture.
They were used to celebrated military victories.
Waving palms would be equivalent of wearing you favorite team’s paraphernalia and going out to the parade to see them after a big victory like the Super Bowl, World Series, or NBA finals.
But there is something /all fans/ do when they see the one who they admire, they get excited and…
*Praise: Fans shout for their hero v. 13*
There is one thing you can expect when you go to a parade.
You will hear the cheers from the crowd toward the celebrities that they so admire.
The text says that as they came out they /cried/ out (krazo which is to vociferate) “/Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord./”
This was a quote from Ps 118 one of the Hallel psalms, a psalm of praise.
They saw Jesus coming and started praise.
They saw the one who healed the sick, opened blinded eyes and raised the dead.
They could not help but to give Him praise.
They cried out aloud! /Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord./
This crowd had the right attitude.
They had a mind-set of anticipation.
They expected that the Savior was coming and He was coming to do something.
Does anybody have a high expectation about Jesus coming in your life to do something that you need?
One thing about fans, they know how to put the one they love on a pedestal by what they say about them.
I need some fans of Jesus to put him on a pedestal by telling him about much you like what He is doing and you like how he makes you feel.
Real fans get ugly for the one who they love.
They will paint their face.
Do what they got to do.
They put the celebrity they love first in their lives.
O how I wish more of us can be a fan of Jesus.
In response to the fans parade and praise:
*Jesus fulfills a prophecy: vv 14-16*
Jesus responds to the /fanfare/ by finding a donkey and rides in to Jerusalem on it.
This fulfills the prophecy in Zech 9:9 “Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.
Aren’t you glad that Jesus fulfills promises?
Whatever God says, He means and will complete it in your life.
As this prophecy was being fulfilled his disciples did not know what was going on.
His disciples who were right there did not understand what was happening.
This tells us that we can be close to what Jesus is doing physically i.e. what he is doing in and through the church and not be close to him spiritually because a lack of understanding.
To fully have understanding of Jesus you must be filled with the Holy Spirit.
He disciples would not get it until He was glorified and the Holy Spirit descended.
But we are blessed now that we can receive the power of the Spirit now in His fullness to get understanding we need!
*Popularity vv.
17-18 *
After Jesus enters in Jerusalem on a donkey, John, the writer of the gospel wants to tell us why the crowd is so enthralled with Jesus.
He wants us to know where Jesus *popularity* was coming from.
The text says that crowd was there when he raised Larazus from the dead.
When others heard about it, they follow Jesus also.
This is reason why people followed Jesus.
It was do to his marvelous acts.
They became fans and followed Jesus because of his special abilities that no other can do.
He stood out among others and because of his superstar caliber, he developed a fan base.
*Protest v. 19*
But with all the popularity that a celebrity has, their will be some type of protest.
They will be some haters.
Look at the text.
The Pharisees say to one another, paraphrase “/nothing is going right for us, the whole world is going after him/.”
The Pharisee were losing there political control.
They were losing there influence.
Jesus has become the main attraction and the world knew it.
Anytime you become more popular than those who have been popular there will be some protest against who you are.
You will have haters.
But you can’t help the favor God has on your life.
Some people will hate you because they ain’t you!
The Pharisees hated Jesus.
But the world was excited because Jesus was the answer they thought they needed and wanted.
And the Pharisees could not do anything about it.
*The Problem*
But there is a major problem in our text today with the parade, the praise, and the crowd of people.
At first glance, I thought that these crowds of people were real true fans of Jesus.
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