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Prayer
For about 3 years, Jesus taught people and healed people all over the land of Israel.
Sometimes he was down in Jerusalem.
Sometimes he was in the Galilee area
He even ministered to the Samaritans and across the Jordan in the region of the 10 Greek cities, the Decapolis.
His popularity and fame has grown to the point that the religious leaders in Jerusalem are more and more desperate to get rid of him.
So he hits the road back to Jerusalem.
The Road back to Jerusalem
Going back to Jerusalem now was a shocking idea.
Even though the disciples were clueless to Jesus plain words about being killed and raising again,
still, they could foresee
real death awaiting Jesus
if he returned to Jerusalem before things had died down.
But Jesus will not be talked out of
going to Jerusalem now.
A change in his public image
In the fiction story, The Return of the King
Strider the Ranger finds it necessary to reveal is true identity as Isildur’s heir and the rightful king of Gondor.
That title changed things, changed relationships
That was fiction but in the real life
Jesus is heading toward Jerusalem
and blind Bartimaeus not only calls him Jesus
he also calls him
Son of David.
And Jesus accepted that title
doesn’t correct him,
doesn’t ask him to be quiet.
Why is that?
Because the time of revealing who he is has come.
Jesus is that promised Son of David
Now is the time for Jesus to be recognized as the king, coming to save his people
but not the way they think he is going to save them.
Let’s read from Mark chapter 11 now
Milestones
Milestones, stones marking a distance on a road have been around for a long time.
Every Roman mile was marked with a milestone and when we pass through significant events in our lives, we call them milestones too.
People like you and me, may go up and down the church aisle many thousands of times but certain times will be milestones for us.
Down the Church Aisle
It might be a milestone, the Sunday you come down the aile to nail something to the cross
and finally leave that problem there with God for good.
Perhaps a milestone in your life is when you came down to pray at the altar
you may have been confessing a sin or
you may have been saying yes to something you had been saying no to.
Your neighbor may have been weighted down with burdens, came to the altar to
lift those burdens up to God.
For some the milestone was their baptism, their childs baptism or dedication.
Graduates have been called forward to have that milestone in their life honored by the church
Your wedding, should be a milestone in your life where things change forever.
A Funeral or a memorial service may be the last milestone celebrating your life and walk with Jesus and
as the saying goes,
Don’t miss so much church the the only way you return is by six strong friends carrying you in one last time.
Milestones in Jesus Ministry
His birth in Bethlehem
The prophecies at his temple presentation
The flight to Egypt
The staying behind in the temple
His Baptism by cousin John
His 40 days in the wilderness
Calling of his disciples
Heading toward Jerusalem after the third time of predicting His death and Resurrection
And now, with the Triumphal entry
Jesus Public Announcement as the promised king
It seems appropriate for there to be some understanding of who Jesus was,
before he died on the cross to save the world.
The announcement that Jesus was the promised king of the Jews sparked quite a party and Great Expectations
Celebrating Jesus and his saving work
One way to celebrate Jesus is to obey him, even when his commands don’t make sense to us.
Obey Him
The disciples may have been clueless why Jesus sent then after a donkey,
or they may have remembered Zechariah 9:9
whether they understood or didn’t, they celebrated and honored Jesus by obeying him.
Like wise the owners of the donkey celebrated who Jesus was by helping him do his work,
they loaned him a donkey that Jesus used for the triumphal entry that announced who Jesus was
the promised King, the Son of David.
When the accompanying crowd, who had been hearing from Seeing Bartimeus that Jesus was the Messiah,
The Son of David prophesied.
When the crowds saw Jesus coming as their gentile king on a donkey
they risked their clothes
and their handiwork with palm branches to make
a royal road for Jesus to go do to Jerusalem on.
Those who knew the scriptures, celebrated God’s Messiah revealed in the Zecharia scriptures and others like
and
In celebration they gave something else too
they gave their voices in song
they sang praise
Mark11.9-10
“9 . . . .
, “Hosanna!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
10 “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!”
“Hosanna in the highest heaven!””
Great Expectations
How many of you ever read the book Great Expectations?
In that book Pip came from humble beginnings.
He was an orphan and someone sponsored his education.
He thought his sponsor was Miss Havisham, and that
once he proved himself, she would make him her hair and
open the way for Pip to marry her adopted daughter Estella
who look down on him.
Pip became more and more of a snob as he tried to raise to Estella’s station
It turned out Miss Havisham hated all men, starting with the one who jilted her at the altar.
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