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Palm Sunday
Just this past Monday, April 4th…My son who is always awake before everyone jumped on our bed and said: “its my adoption day” and he was right, April 4th is a significant day for him
And I would love to tell you that this date is so significant for him because he felt the warmth and love of his family and maybe it is...
But that’s not the reason...
The reason is because one time I bought him a happy meal on his adoption day and ever since he has associated his adoption day with happy meals!
So of course he loves us…but to him the big question is am I going to get a happy meal on April 4th?
We all have these moments in our lives that are anniversaries …They remind us of Good things
Birth’s, adoptions, anniversaries…Your dog’s birthday
Sometimes we have days that remind us of hard things, the death of a dear friend or relative
or The day it all came tumbling down for you because you lost your job.
or a loved one died
But we all have these moments built into the year that remind us of something significant...
Today marks the beginning of one of these moments:
In a week’s time we will traverse through three of the great themes of the Bible
But more than that, we get to see the heart of God clearly on display for humanity
In Palm Sunday we see the Kingship of Jesus
In Good Friday we see the Forgiveness of Jesus
and in Easter Sunday we see the New Creation of Jesus
And ever year we go back over these themes because we need to...
Because they are powerful...
Because they shape us and mold us
So we have a lot to uncover today
But in order to get there
There is this video that an animation group called the Bible Project makes to kind of explain these three great themes.
I am going to let the guys at the Bible project do this today:
Messiah Video 5 min
This video is so Good
It reminds us:
We lost something in the garden!
Adam and Eve listened to the serpent!
and they lost their authority and did damage to the rest of humanity
SO your in your notes your first fill in is this:
The story of the Old Testament is about a coming king who will one day defeat sin and restore the human relationship to God
Ever since the garden of Eden, All of Israel is looking for the man who can defeat sin...
They are looking for the true king
And the whole Old Testament is pointing toward that day when God would come as king and save his people
And there is an impotrant twist in this story...
One that the video didn’t show us...
So let me just take you down a tiny rabbit trail because I want you to see how significant it is that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey...
Ok so a few thousand years before Jesus would come…Israel was escaping from Egypt in the dessert (its called the exodus)
There was this man named Balaam and he was a bad guy…The king of Moab had hired him to curse the Israelites.
And he went to go curse the Israelites…God intervened and Balaam just couldn't curse them…Because these were the people of God...
But when he looked out from Moab he says this:
So he see’s Israel all Stretched out over the dessert and he says...
Wow…This is a set apart people...
They are not like the other nations
these people are different
And what Balaam was speaking was true...
God always intended for Israel to be a set apart people, not like one of the nations
Then Israel sets up their nation
See if you read the Bible, in the story after the Exodus you will see that God sort of set up this way of governing his people...
There were this system of judges and priests, But God was always the King...
see when God structured this nation of Israel, he didn't have a standing army, he didn't have a centralized government, because he was the center of the whole nation
And Israel keeps having the same problem...
When they are disobedient and neglect God, then they get over run by the other nations who had fancy stuff like armies
Pretty soon, the people want an army…they want a king…they want to be like other nations
and then this happens:
Did you see what they said?
Appoint a king such as the other nations have!
These are words right from Numbers 23!
And then God’s response is to actually comfort Samuel...
He is like Samuel you have to understand…its Isn’t you that they are rejecting…its not because your a bad leader…They don’t want me as their king?
And something about this whole interaction reveals God’s Character: But I have always been fascinated by this: God gives Israel what they want even though it is not good for them.
What the people are saying in this whole exchange to God is we want our own authority
And God gives it to them even though it isn’t best for them.
Because it is what happens when we try and take God’s authority into our own hands.
See the central message of the Bible is that we need to be under God’s authority...
That we need to willfully place ourselves under his rule and reign
Some people figure this out the easy way…They come to find and follow Jesus and always live their lives under the authority of the King…and even though life isn't always easy, they thrive!
And some people learn this lesson the hard way:
They take authority into their own hands and are always fighting to keep it…Life is hard for them...
So God gives us what we want, even though at times its isn’t the best thing for us.
What Israel wants is to have a king who will raise up an army so that they can live however they want and feel protected from God’s judgment
So this is very impotrant to understand today
Israel rejected God as king
And you saw in the video how bad this went...
I mean David was a good king, and there were a couple of good kings mixed in there…But for the most part the kings of Israel kept spiraling out of control…they were bad guys
This is what happens when any human gets more power and authority than they could handle..
In the video we watched you saw how the kings were corrupted and the prophets kept talking about one of these coming kings:
One of those times was this
He talks about this victorious king who comes riding on a donkey!
A donkey is a symbol of peace and humility
What is crazy about this is that the historian Josephus records that 200 years after Zechariah wrote these words, Alexander the great rode into Jerusalem on a war horse…A white stallion...
And the people honored him by laying down their garments and shouting for joy when Alexander came in...
But Alexander was never a righteous king…He wasn't the king that Zechariah was looking forward to
He was the kind of king though that every Jew was looking for back then
See the kind of king that God wanted would have been a king who could defeat the garden serpent...
A kind of king who was righteous in everything he did
The kind of king who could absorb the sin of the world
The kind of king who could overcome sin and death
SO here are a couple of points for you to remember
Israel was supposed to be unlike other nations (Numbers 23:9)
Israel rejected God as King (1 Samuel 8:4-9)
The prophets always pointed toward the day when the righteous king would come (Zechariah 9:9)
I want you to see this as part of a larger story because it is so significant!
Ok Now Jesus is on the scene and he is just doing things like healing people
He is forgiving people
He is feeding people in miraculous ways
he is walking on water
He is making a lot of enemies because people are following him..
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