21 Now when
they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then
Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of
you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie
them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say,
‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” 4 This took place to
fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
5 “Say to
the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold,
your king is coming to you,
humble, and
mounted on a donkey,
on a colt,1
the foal of a beast of burden.’”
6 The
disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey
and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8 Most of the
crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees
and spread them on the road. 9 And the crowds that went before him and that
followed him were shouting, x“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” 10 And when he entered
Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the
crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
Jesus
Cleanses the Temple
12 And Jesus
entered the temple2 and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he
overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of
prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
14 And the
blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when
the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the
children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were
indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And
Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
“‘Out of the
mouth of infants and nursing babies
you have
prepared praise’?”
17 And leaving
them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
This is the
first time that Jesus publicly proclaims himself to be the Messiah, to the
people he healed on the side of the road.
Jesus arranges
his triumphful entrance. He sends the disciples
into Bethpage and Bethany to the place where he raised Lazarus from the dead to
get a donkey. It’s not normal for
someone to just go to a town and ask for a donkey but people know Jesus there
and they believe in him there. Jesus
knows when he sends his disciples there that those people will follow him or be
there for his arrival in Jerusalem. Scripture
says that the crowd is around and behind him; they are following him into
Jerusalem.
Jesus chooses
a donkey to ride in on, servants ride donkeys.
He doesn’t choose a war horse or anything prestigious. Jesus is sending a mixed message; he is king,
but riding in on a donkey. Verse 5 it
says- behold your king comes to you gentle.
Jesus is
tremendously humble but not modest. He
continually makes incredible claims. He
goes into God’s house and says it’s his house.
He says crown me or kill me and he says it to everyone.
Jesus isn’t magical
power- if you aren’t submitting and obeying and delighting in the Lord he is
nothing. He is not magic he is king.
Any general
who rides into battle on a donkey is going to be slaughtered, Jesus comes in on
a donkey meek and vulnerable.
Money
changes- using God instead of letting God use them.
Gospel- Sin
is putting yourself in the place of the king, salvation is the king putting
himself in the place of the servant.
We are not
saved by strength and our own efforts we are saved by grace.
You’ll be
bold but not humble, because you believe think you’re living up to standards
You’ll be
humble not bold, because you feel like you’re not living up to standards
If something
bad happens in your life you’ll either think, well yeah I deserved that because
I wasn’t living up to a standard or you’ll be angry with God because you
believe you were living up to a certain standard and you don’t deserve bad
things to happen to you.
You have to
see that when bad things happen it is God doing something in your life through
it. Recognize you are a sinner but you
are saved by grace.
Palms- when Jesus
comes back completely, when his kingship is absolute this world will burst into
all of what it’s supposed to be.
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