Palm Sunday
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Buff Jesus
Buff Jesus
I brought a little prop with me. This sets in my office.
I got this from Bridge of Faith Thrift store. Someone donated it.
I latched on to it because it is the most buff Jesus I have ever seen.
I am not a big picture or image of Jesus guy. I saw this guy and thought I have to have him.
This Jesus is ripped. Look at him. This guy benches well over 300lbs. His arms are ripped. He is pretty swole in the neck.
He has Tim Tebow size thighs. They are gut. Yes I did look but I will spare you from that this morning.
This dude is cut. He brings a whole new image to Jesus being a carpenter.
Zachariah 9 prophesies about the coming Savior.
Listen as I read to some of the details of this Savior. We know how the story goes, but many had a whole different idea of this coming Savior and what he would accomplish
9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; He is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The bow of war will be removed, and He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless cistern.
12 Return to a stronghold, you prisoners who have hope; today I declare that I will restore double to you.
13 For I will bend Judah as My bow; I will fill that bow with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece. I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
Christ fulfilled these scriptures, but He did not do it the way they had in their minds.
Today we celebrate Palm Sunday and I encourage you to go read about the triumphant entry in Matthew 21:1-11.
I want to look at Isaiah 53 and the prophecy of our coming Savior. Christ fulfilled Zechariah’s words as he came into the city.
Isaiah 53
Dr. Bob Utley says...
“Jesus did not come as the conquering military figure of Jewish expectation, but the Suffering Servant of Isa. 53 riding on the colt of a donkey.” – Dr. Bob Utley
13 See, My Servant will act wisely; He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
14 Just as many were appalled at You — His appearance was so disfigured that He did not look like a man, and His form did not resemble a human being—
15 so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him, For they will see what had not been told them, and they will understand what they had not heard.
v.15
See that is observe or watch. My servant will act wisely.
He will be raised up
Resurrection
He will be lifted up
Ascension
Acts 1
Greatly Exalted
Seated at the right hand of God the father
Ephesians 1:20-23
1 Who has believed what we have heard? And who has the arm of the Lord been revealed to?
To paraphrase Who could have believed that this was the Arm of the Lord?
10 The Lord has displayed His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Be Comforted Chapter Eleven: Climbing Mount Everest (Isaiah 52:13–53:12)
When God made the universe, He used His fingers (Ps. 8:3); and when He delivered Israel from Egypt, it was by His strong hand (Ex. 13:3). But to save lost sinners, He had to bare His mighty arm! Yet people still refuse to believe this great demonstration of God’s power (Rom. 1:16; John 12:37–40)
2 He grew up before Him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He didn’t have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at Him, no appearance that we should desire Him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.
v. 2
Jesus was indeed human the Incarnation of Jesus that is he came as fully God and fully man and tabernacled among us.
He grew up before them like a young plant
Like a root out of dry ground
How many roots come out of dry ground?
Jesus our Savior was unexpected like a root out of dry ground.
How attractive is a root? How attractive is a root out of dry ground?
I read this and think of mowing my parents yard. I never really noticed the roots of a tree on the top of the ground. One day I hit them and blew the motor up on my mower. I started to notice that root after that.
This scripture came to mind every time I passed this root coming out of the ground.
He had no form or beauty that we should look at him.
no appearance that we should desire Him.
v.3
He was despised and rejected by men
He was a man of suffering and knew what sickness was.
People turned away from him
He was despised and we didn’t value him (he was sold for 30 pieces of silver)
Be Comforted Chapter Eleven: Climbing Mount Everest (Isaiah 52:13–53:12)
They were ashamed of Him because He did not represent the things that were important to them, things like wealth (Luke 16:14), social prestige (14:7–14; 15:1–2), reputation (18:9–14), being served by others (22:24–27), and pampering yourself (Matt. 16:21–28). He is rejected today for the same reasons.
4 Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.
6 We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.
Look at our responsibility of this passage
our sicknesses
Our pains
We considered him stricken, struck down by God and afflicted
Our transgressions: Rebellion against God, that is daring to cross the line that God has drawn
Our Iniquities: Crookedness of our sinful nature
We went astray like sheep
We turned to our own way
Look at Christ in this passage
He bore our sickeness
He Carried our pain
21 Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the Israelites’ wrongdoings and rebellious acts—all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the man appointed for the task.
22 The goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land, and he will release it there.
5 But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds.
6 We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.
He was pierced
He was crushed
Punishment for our peace was on Him
We are healed by his wounds
He was punished for the iniquity of us all
Substitution Illustration
Volunteer (to arm wrestle) Loser gets a pie in face
We arm wrestle and you lose. Steve Conner says I will take the pie for you
7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter and like a sheep silent before her shearers, He did not open His mouth.
8 He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
9 They made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man at His death, although He had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully.
v.7
The nature of sheep is stressed here in verse 7. Sheep are quiet and gentle.
Jesus was oppressed and afflicted yet he did not open his mouth.
Jesus quietly submitted as the Lamb of God to His death
He did not try and stop them who opposed Him; He remained silent
63 But Jesus kept silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “By the living God I place You under oath: tell us if You are the Messiah, the Son of God!”
14 But He didn’t answer him on even one charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.
Jesus willingly went to death because He knew it would benefit those who would believe. Jesus was different than an animal sacrifice. Animals didn’t have a choice in the matter.
Jesus volunteered to die in order to benefit us. Jesus was fully aware of the decision to die for our sake.
8 He was taken away because of oppression and judgment; and who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
9 They made His grave with the wicked and with a rich man at His death, although He had done no violence and had not spoken deceitfully.
v.8
21 He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
This is the most injust piece of history. Jesus who was sinless was taken away because of oppression and Judgement.
No one had compassion for him when this took place. The crowd shouted for Barrabas to be released instead of Jesus.
He was cut off from the land of the living (He died). God struck His own so because of their rebellion. Jesus took the striking from God that was well deserved for us.
v.9
They desired to bury Him with the wicked. They buried him with the rich
57 When it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.
58 He approached Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Then Pilate ordered that it be released.
59 So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in clean, fine linen,
60 and placed it in his new tomb, which he had cut into the rock. He left after rolling a great stone against the entrance of the tomb.
10 Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely. When You make Him a restitution offering, He will see His seed, He will prolong His days, and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.
11 He will see it out of His anguish, and He will be satisfied with His knowledge. My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will carry their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion, and He will receive the mighty as spoil, because He submitted Himself to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet He bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
v.10
His death and burial appeared to end His existence (He was “cut off,” Isa. 53:8), but in actuality because of His resurrection Jesus will see His offspring (those who by believing in Him become children of God, John 1:12) and He will prolong His days (live on forever as the Son of God). He will be blessed (prosper; cf. Isa. 53:12a) because of His obedience to the will (plan) of the LORD.
v.11-12
13 See, My Servant will act wisely; He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
11 He will see it out of His anguish, and He will be satisfied with His knowledge. My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will carry their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion, and He will receive the mighty as spoil, because He submitted Himself to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet He bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
To have a portion and divide of the spoils pictures a general, after winning a battle, sharing goods taken from the enemy.
Jesus is exalted because he submitted Himself to death
He bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels
