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John 12:12-19
Palm Sunday has always been a special day to me.
I remember as a kid getting a palm branch to wave around in the service.
Just the idea of Jesus riding through Jerusalem midst a crowd of shouting worshippers is a thrilling thought!
But When you think that just a short time later these same people who were crying out “Hosanna”, would soon be crying out “Crucify!”
Oh how fickle men can be!
The crowd couldn’t see past the end of their own desires.
They desired a king to ride into town on a great White steed, but they would accept this Rabbi riding a donkey.
After all, this is the man who had power over death!
Some of them saw for themselves as Lazarus stepped out of that tomb.
Who better to be there king...
Now as long as he would go straight into Jerusalem and take the control from this foreign power that had seized them.
Little did they know that Jesus had His sights on a much more dangerous foreign power that was wreaking even more damage than that of Rome.
Jesus eyes were looking past the children’s songs,
past the peoples shouts of praise,
past the misguided hopes of the people,
past the fruitless tree withering,
past the money changers running,
past the scorn of the priests accusations,
past the pleading as the disciples slept,
past the coming shouts to crucify Him,
to the cry…the cry that would end the tyranny once and for all...”It is finished.”
But here he is riding this humble donkey into town, hearing the shouts of praise, but hears much more than just the shouts, He hears those Holy Spirit inspired words...
The words that if these people that were shouting them only knew what they really meant, they would follow him to the end.
Words that recognized His real purpose, His real personage.
This morning I want to take a closer look at these few simple words that the crowd shouted, and see what these inspired words recognize about Jesus.
Vs. 13
We see this morning that these words...
I. Recognized His Salvation
Hosanna - the word means “Save now”
These words proclaimed the fact that Jesus could save them.
A. The Temporal View
Their eyes were focused on the immediate need, but God had a purpose for them to be under the oppressive thumb of the Romans.
God often has a purpose for challenging situations that come, or even stay, in our lives.
But they were focused on the temporal…even though it was prophesied before his birth that He would be coming for the salvation from sin.
Sometimes we need to get our eyes off the trouble that is right before us, and look up!
See that God knows, but His promises are true!
he will make all things - ALL things - work together for good.
So do not be guilty like those shouting Hosanna, focusing on the temporal view, but instead see...
B. The Eternal View
God took the oppression of Rome and used it to spread the church, and thereby the Gospel, around the entire world.
We are know Christ today because the Jews lived under the oppression of Rome.
The cry of praise that was shouted that day, “Hosanna” spoke so much more than what they thought.
Jesus was the only one who could save them.
He was the Perfect Lamb that could wash away their sin.
John the Baptist recognized it early on...
If you do not know 100% sure that if you died today that you would spend eternity in Heaven, today you can cry out “Hosanna!” … “Save Me.”
He died for your salvation, Recognize His Salvation today!
Secondly the words that they cried out...
II.
Recognized His Worth
This is seen in the use of the word “Blessed” - Eulogemenos - (yoo-leg-eh-men-os)
The eulogia of God is His action or intervention in men’s lives to bring them into a desired relationship with Him.
Spiro Zodhiates, a native Greek - Greek scholar said, “This joyful salutation is used to indicate that the blessing of the individual is due to God’s intervention in his or her life.”
A. Jesus Was Blessed of the Father
The word speaks of the worth given to Jesus by God the Father.
Jesus throughout His ministry focused on honoring the Father.
But twice God the Father was so pleased with His Son that he couldn’t contain himself.
At Jesus baptism, God spoke from Heaven in a voice that was heard on Earth ...
Later in Jesus’ ministry Jesus took three of his disciples up high into the mountain.
And for just a few moments the veil that concealed Jesus’ glory was removed.
God, once again, could not contain his pleasure
It’s like the father in the stands watching His boy make the touch down.
I heard about a father in the stands just like that, and he was boasting about his son, just before he got brutally tackled.
The father sheepishly looked at the man next to him and said, “Well maybe he’s that other one, it’s hard to see from here.”
There was no opportunity for God the Father to be embarrassed about His Son!
Jesus was blessed by the Father, but because of Him...
B. We Are Blessed of the Father
Because of Him, the whole world would receive the blessing of God:
We are brought into a right relationship with the Father because of Jesus.
We were enemies with God - But Jesus changed all of that!
Now we are blessed by the Father through Christ!
As they shouted those praises to Jesus on the streets of Jerusalem, the words recognized so much more than they thought.
It Recognized His Salvation, His Worth, but also the words...
III.
Recognized His Royalty
The promise was made years before the birth of Jesus
He is king, not because they were trying to make Him king, but because He IS King!
But His kingdom is not of this world…as he would later tell Pilate, when Pilate asked him if he was the King of the Jews...
To this end He was born - to be King
For this cause He came into the world.
- To be King
But, not just King of Israel…but King of the entire world!
The Blessed and ONLY Potentate
The King of kings and Lord of lords
He is King!
This world denies that He is king today, but one day there will be no denial!
One day ...
Whose side are you on today?
Are you on the side of those who would mock, and ridicule and slander the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Or are you on the winning side.
Things may look dark in this world of darkness and sin!
We used to sing a song in our youth group growing up, called I’m on the winning side.
It’s an old down home country gospel song.
The third verse says...
I will never have a fear, for my Lord is ever near,
And in him so often I confide;
He's the keeper of my soul since I gave him full control,
And he placed me on the winning side
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