Palm Sunday 2022
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Looking Back
Looking Back
I was looking back at the ground that we have covered. We have:
affirmed the person and work of Christ
His divinity
We walked alongside him as he went across the mid-east. Seeking, Saving, and Securing people who believed.
Jesus never was very shy about telling people what he was doing… “Bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to The earth.”
God, the Father sent God the Son to reorient the world. God told the Jews through the Prophets multiple times that their sacrificial language was NOT what would save them.
God desired and then demanded obedience from his people. God’s desire was that the sacrifice the focus of Jewish worship for thousands years… BE STOPPED!!
God’s demand and God’s desire was to send God the Son, Jesus to REDEEM THE WORLD!
Jesus As Redeemer
Act as a kinsman-redeemer”
No one knows everything about us, about how we think, act and move.
Except for someone who has:
Lived,
Breathed
Ate
Slept
Who has suffered
Who has experienced EVERYTHING temptation that we have… Without sinning
Except Jesus
Being human… That was Jesus.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
He took the title “Kinsman Redeemer.” He chose that specifically to reach back into the Old Testament the story of Ruth… Listen
13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
14 Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!
15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
God provided in the line of King David, someone prominent, someone who is willing and someone who is sensitive to God.
That was Boaz and Ruth who married, had children and are part of the history of God dealing with His people who don’t willingly follow him.
Draw your attention to the Book of Matthew.
5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
6 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,
In this genealogy we are two generations away from King David.
It’s interesting that Ruth, the Grandmother of King David was a foreigner, a Moabite woman. She was not a Jew.
The Gospel is for everyone, even foreigners, even Moabites.
King David of course was a precursor of Jesus. We have not realized Jesus on David’s throne... yet
We will see that when Jesus returns
21 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Jesus is coming to occupy His throne
We, believers in the Son of God, will as Jesus said “sit with me on my throne.”
That’s what awaits us… That’s who we are. If we are followers we are Heaven bound and there is a place for us in throne room of God.
There is redemption in Jesus Christ.
That’s good stuff… There is redemption in Jesus Christ. He is our ONLY redeemer.
We have some tough stuff to get through in the next 2 weeks… Every time this season comes. I get a lot of mixed feelings.
Jesus was a great guy, He is my best friend. Jesus and I would have hung out, we might have even went to Varietal or Blue Moon and had a beer or a glass of wine.
I don’t want to see one of my best friends:
** Put on trial… He was guilty of the charges, but the charge was “Jesus, the King of the Jews.”
** Beat and tortured within an inch of His life
** Forced to participate in his own cruxifixction.
** Stripped of dignity, Disrespected in death.
But that is the fate of the Jesus over these next 2 weeks.
Praise God that Resurrection Day is just over the horizon.
This is the beginning of Holy Week, or Passion Week.
Our Good Friday service will be held at the Christian Reformed Church at 7PM next Friday.
Our worship team is participating and I’m doing part of the service with Pastor Joel. Join us… please!
BIG IDEA: How should we understand The Passion of Christ?
Let’s get to the scriptures this morning
This is the area that we are talking about… Jerusalem in the south and Capernaum in the north.
This is the site in which the Passion of Christ occurs.
29 When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,
30 saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.
31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’ ”
32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them.
33 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
34 And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”
35 And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.
36 And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.
37 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,
38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Just a couple of general thoughts about this passage before we dig in...
** This is a very different reception received by the disciples and apostles than the one that happens in a few days… Beginning on Thursday.
** There is respect and honor for the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords
** There is an expectation that the throne will become Jesus’ place and that he would change the world.
Well… None of that happened! Instead he was tried found guilty of being the Son of God and crucified on a tree in a garbage dump called Golgotha, which means “place of the skull.”
Let’s look a bit more closely at the scripture
29 When he got near Bethphage and Bethany at the mountain called Olives, he sent off two of the disciples with instructions:
30 “Go to the village across from you. As soon as you enter, you’ll find a colt tethered, one that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it.
31 If anyone says anything, asks, ‘What are you doing?’ say, ‘His Master needs him.’ ”
This idea that Jesus is riding on a colt that has never been rode has its roots deep in the scripture.
Ridden or not, yoked or not.. it was always set aside for the Holy
Numbers 19:2 (ESV)
2 “This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.
1 Samuel 6:7 (ESV)
7 Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.
Let’s continue
32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them.
33 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
34 And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”
The Passion Week begins with Jesus, going deep into the Old Testament for an explanation. He uses those connections to draw the Jews, including the members of the ruling class the Pharisee’s and Saduccess into faith in Christ… It didn’t work, in most instances.
The Passion: Jesus never stops reaching out and proclaiming that He is the Christ. And He follows a pattern of drawing others to Himself.
35 And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.
36 And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.
They are giving Jesus the red carpet treatment in the only way that they understood to treat a King
13 Then in haste every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”
The Passion: The Passion week has a connection to the Old Testament.
37 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,
38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
Everyone present began praising The King. The King who comes in the name of the Lord. They were nearly in a frenzy.
The Apostles and Disciples knew what these things meant. King Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem. To occupy David’s Throne.
The Passion: Your relationship with Christ includes you saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.”
In whatever way, using those or similar words we need to see our past, current and future relationship with Christ in the terms “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord.”
39 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
The Passion: There is ALWAYS someone that is going to try and kill your joy.
The ever present Pharisee, the enemy of the Gospel and of the Christ wanted to stop the fever that was overtaking the crowd. Their zeal, their happiness and commitment to Jesus was soaring.
The Pharisee saw his influence falling away and being replaced with commitment and devotion to Jesus.. That was NOT acceptable to them.
In our case it’s someone in our close circle of family and friends who look cross-eyed at you when you have the “Joy of the Lord.”
It includes those who are continuing to pass judgement on those who are celebrating… God help them.
I want to deal with this final verse...
Jesus said...
40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Jesus is making it VERY clear...
That this excitement, this Jesus movement, these disciples, apostles and the many many others that had gathered
WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!!
And if they are… Even the very “stones will cry out!”
The Passion: Don’t let anyone steal your joy in Lord. If they do… Climb on your donkey and keep Praising the Lord!
It is a very different scene this week than we will see on Friday night. Good Friday!! Once again we are celebrating alongside the folks at Christian Reformed Church at 7 PM.
On Sunday morning… Easter morning will be be having our regular 10 AM services. Be ready to “Praise the Lord.”
Let’s Pray!