THE TRIUMPHAL Porch
Matthew 21:1-11Key Verse: 21:9
"The crowds that went securely of him and populate that followed
shouted, `Hosanna to the Son of David! Delightful is he who
comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!'"
In the decisive canal Jesus over predicted his death and
reappearance. But his disciples did not know the meaning of Jesus'
death for the sin of the world and his victorious reappearance which gives us a living expectations, eternal life and the be given of God. So the disciples were justly hardhearted about his projection. They were subject in politics; on top two disciples, John and James were ardent to
consider the top positions in the lay Messianic be given they disturbance Jesus would variety. At a standstill, Jesus educated them with determination the meaning of his death and reappearance. In today's canal we learn why Jesus' foyer into Jerusalem is the triumphal foyer. We besides learn who Jesus really is past he was about to make the triumphal foyer into
Jerusalem. We besides learn the two disciples' indisputable loyalty to Jesus.
Initially, the Lordship of Christ (1-5). Look as if at verse 1. "As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Pony of Olives,
Jesus sent two disciples...." This verse tells us that Jesus traveled from Galilee and came to one of the satellite cities of Jerusalem.
Jesus came to Bethphage. It had been a want very much command for Jesus and the twelve disciples on stay on. Both Flash and Luke see Bethany and
Bethphage (Mk 11:1; Lk 19:28). At any time we study the synoptic gospels, we come to know that Bethphage is handy to Bethany on the Pony of
Olives. In Bethphage Jesus came to the height of the mutiny and trapped pointer of the Sacred City. Jesus was leaving to Jerusalem to blot the power of sin and death. At any time we read the presage of Isaiah, we see that God had a likelihood to make Jerusalem a Bible Concern for the whole world. Isaiah 2:3 says, "Heaps peoples confer on come and say, Improve, let us go up to the mound of the Lord, to the local of the God of Jacob. He confer on teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.' The law confer on go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." How sensational a likelihood God had made! But a want very much time had bygone. Jerusalem was not acclaimed as the Bible Concern for the whole world, but it had become a den of robbers and the refuge of Satan. In order to be suitable for the confer on of God for world help, Jesus had to fix into Jerusalem and blot the power of sin and Satan.
Look as if at verses 2-3. "...saying to them, Go to the settlement securely of you, and at as you confer on find a donkey fixed nearby, with her foal by her. Unscramble them and bring them to me. If qualities says no matter what to you, preach him that the Lord needs them, and he confer on send them appropriate to one side.'"
In the decisive part of verse 2, the sofa "The Lord needs them" has a very positive meaning in our Christian faith. At any time we review what Jesus assumed in verses 2-3, we find that it was a very several
adaptation to his two disciples. In in short supply, Jesus assumed, "Go and bring someone else's donkey and her foal." This donkey essential peculiar belonged to a widow. She dear her donkey in the manner of her own infant. Her joy was to believe and beat her back various time a day. As a widow, this vigor peculiar been her joy of life. One day the donkey gave physical to a foal. The widow was even above wispy. But Jesus instructed two of his disciples,
"Go to the settlement securely of you, and at as you confer on find a donkey fixed nearby, with her foal by her. Unscramble them and bring them to me. If qualities says no matter what to you, preach him that the Lord needs them, and he confer on send them appropriate to one side." This was a very fanciful immediate of Jesus to them. Jesus had educated them austerely about the sanctity of God, a hallowed life, a considerate core toward the poor and unsatisfactory, and healing and preaching. All of a jagged he assumed to them, "Go and bring someone else's donkey and her foal." It sounded very silly to his
two disciples and they may possibly not believe their ears. While is above, this adaptation didn't record his teaching, for it seemed to be an
adaptation to simmer another's foal and donkey. The disciples may possibly peculiar asked, "While line of adaptation is this?" or "Absolute us the meaning of it, we don't understand." But they didn't do so. They took Jesus'
words to core and obeyed.
The Lordship of Christ is the actual as the primacy of God. We
essential learn this; by, we cannot be children of God. In order to learn the Lordship of Christ, we essential be indisputable toward the word of God. We essential besides peculiar an indisputable guts toward the wisdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. For demand, in Genesis 1:1, it says that God
formed the way of being and the earth. We essential believe that nearby is God Almighty and that he through the way of being and the earth. If we don't believe this, we cannot believe no matter what that is in print in the Bible.
We can learn the free belief of God out of order studying the complete Bible. God through fantasy and earth. He through fantasy. He besides acclaimed God's offspring amid Adam and Eve. To believe in God's founding of the place is the beginning protest of exclusive a child of God. The
primacy of God is besides well-explained in Acts period 9. This
period explains that the primacy of God and the Lordship of Christ
work together. As we know well, God had a world help likelihood. For this, God sent his one and austerely Son Jesus Christ to this world to deposit men from their sins. At any time the gospel take the stones out of was combine and was sprouting, and past the bottle green Christians began to draft, nearby was immense stalking from the traditional Jewish workforce from the time when Christians did not keep the Jewish tradition. Christians besides customary stalking from the Roman objective from the time when they did not admiration the Roman Royal leader as God. In this post nearby was one man named Saul who called himself, "The Make a recording." He began to oppress the offspring Christians. Currently he became a ringleader of persecuting the offspring Christians. He was on the way to Damascus to nitty-gritty out Christians nearby.
On the way the Lord, the Risen Christ, called to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you oppress me?" (Ac 9:4) Saul ax down from his horse's back and was blinded. Then the Risen Christ sent Ananias to remove mess of him.
Ananias was dull horrendous. But he went to Saul and delivered the
observe of the Risen Christ. Acts 9:15,16 says, "Go! This man is my designate wealth to shower my name earlier the Gentiles and their kings and earlier the workforce of Israel. I confer on existing him how notably he essential develop for my name." Saul was an unfriendliness of God. But the Risen Christ visited him and called him. He forgave all his sins and commissioned him as a accompany for the Gentiles. Fashionable the word "Gentile" is as good as with the whole world at the time
everyone prohibit the
Jewish workforce. It was the Lordship of Christ in God's free belief that he chose Saul to be the four-star general in evangelizing the
Gentile world, as well as the Roman Cultivation.
The Lordship of Christ sometimes looks silly to populate who are
living in this world austerely close. If the theorist Bergson, who
was a theorist of opposite, heard this story, he would say that
Jesus was only in the manner of him in his madness. But it is not so. Jesus is the Son of God and the Self-determining Emperor. He has the Lordship of Christ over our lives. Fashionable we can see a good demand. It is a man whose name was Job. This man was nice and upright; he feared God
and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters and he owned seven thousand stash, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and he had a heavily built reckon of servants. One day God endorsed Satan to test Job's faith. Sharply all of his children died, his natural world were all active to one side and he had prepare diseases. So he had to cut off his whole operate all day and night. Three Satans began to test him so as to moan to God. But he did not do so. He assumed,
"Unclothed I came from my mother's womb, and revealed I confer on become. The Lord gave and the Lord has active away; may the name of the Lord be praised."
In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with treachery (Job
1:21-22). Job upheld the primacy of God and he justly praised him
by saying, "May the name of the Lord be praised."
In the course of living in this world, assorted bad sound effects process to us. Then we don't know what to do. Bestow was a very muscular remedial doctor with a Ph.D. in pathology. He had three daughters and a son. The son was twelve existence old and very stabbing and desirable. But he limited bone malignancy and died at the age of fifteen. To us, he was so stabbing even to face at; how notably above to his parents! But his dawn Dr. Suh did not moan to God. He is maintenance up his period, delivering
Sunday messages and teaching the Bible to assorted students. It is tearful to judge about him and his son. Heaps workforce do not know what to say to him. But he justly comforts and encourages others who are overhanging surrounding him.
Bestow was a man named Dr. Coddington. He was a Christian medical wing choice. He had the supportive of Christ. So whenever he saw poor
workforce he gave them some lob and clothing from the medical wing supplies.
He gave to one side so notably that it was painstaking for the medical wing to run. So he was dismissed from the directorship of the medical wing. As exclusive dismissed from the medical wing directorship, he went to a coastline well-equipped with swimming facilities. He had three sons. His youngest son Philip drowned. But he did not cry; he prayed to God that God may use his youngest son's essence. Pronounce one hundred ministers attended the going-to-heaven grandiosity for his youngest son. No cleric enviable to preside or make a talking to at the grandiosity. As waiting ten proceedings, Dr. Coddington stepped out and assumed, "Bestow is no reduction with God.
God is good. My youngest son Philip is with my Inception in the be given of God. Let's glory." At his words, assorted ministers and all other
followers to the grandiosity began to cry, not from the time when of the son but from the time when of Dr. Coddington's faith in the Lordship of Christ.
Look as if at verse 5. "Say to the Outcome of Zion, `See, your king comes to you, little and riding on a donkey, on a foal, the colt of a donkey.'" Zechariah 9:9-10 explains this verse exquisitely: Earliest, our Lord Jesus' humbleness as our spiritual king. Zechariah 9:9 says,
"Glory admiringly, O Outcome of Zion! Sob, Outcome of Jerusalem!
See, your king comes to you, immediately and having help, little and riding on a donkey, on a foal, the colt of a donkey." Jesus was leaving to make a triumphal foyer into Jerusalem. But he was not leaving to fit a white horse in the manner of a triumphal general inside the foremost city at the rear delighted assorted immense victories. Jesus enviable to fit a donkey to fix into Jerusalem. This shows that Jesus is a demean king, not in the manner of a winning king of the world. Secondly, Jesus is the King of coolness but is mighty. Zechariah 9:10 says, "I confer on remove to one side the chariots from Ephraim and the war-horses from Jerusalem, and the crusade bow confer on be demoralized. He confer on state coolness to the nations. His belief confer on volunteer from sea to sea and from the Conduit to the ends of the earth." Standing Jesus that he is a demean King! Standing Jesus that he is a King of coolness, but is mighty a lot to blot the refuge of Satan,
Jerusalem.
Twinkling, the two disciples' loyalty (6-11). By the use of the disciples'
loyalty we can learn the Lordship of Christ. Verses 6-7 say, "The
disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the foal, and placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them." Figuratively, it was as yet Pope John Paul II stole a
neighbor's dog and cat and gave them to Jesus to present with. It was a immense knock for six for the two disciples to sense Jesus' immediate. But they obeyed and went down to the settlement and brought someone else's donkey and foal. The two disciples were very fair. At any time we study the Bible, we can see that loyalty and lapse underneath the world. As
we know well, God through the world and fantasy within it, and
acclaimed a offspring of God. The family's husband Eve was very rich.
At any time the woman Eve saw the velvety serpent, she was admiringly concerned due to her rich revere. As a complete, a consult started amid
them. As without delay as she was tempted, Eve took the fruit of the restricted tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree was a symbol of the order amid God and man and the world. Nevertheless, Eve
defiled the holy immediate of God. As a cotton on, man lost fantasy and may possibly not but take place in a cursed world. At any time we study the Bible ploddingly, we learn that we essential curb God as a apprehension of first spot. Deuteronomy 6:5 says, "Dearest the Lord your God with all your core and with all your essence and with all your might." In obeying God, we essential use not austerely our ears, but besides our hearts and souls and might. We essential curb God with all our might. To curb God or not to curb God's word determines our venture. Bestow were three remedial doctors.
They came as UBF missionaries to Chicago. But past their leader
fashionable, they all ran to one side so as not to develop in fake the work of God. The lead was sorrowful about them and did not bless them. Then without delay one of the doctors, who was an anaesthesiologist, overdosed a tolerant for an exploit and the tolerant died. So he lost his remedial doctor's influence. Now he is functioning a grocery store very unpleasantly.
Just starting out one, converted by American relativism, cursed the servant of God. Then he not here UBF. As various existence, he was in a grim car reduction. His operate was utterly milled and his hands and feet were paralyzed. The third one got a clothed job. But he has rheumatism in his appropriate leg and in his not here hand. He suffers day and night. All these events happened past they took God's word merrily. This is to say that past we curb God's word, God blesses us; past we halt, God does not bless us.
We can find a very sensational demand past we read John period 2.
Bestow was a wedding celebration. At that time, consistently, wedding celebrations continued for five days. In Cana, Galilee nearby was a wedding and the principal cook was Jesus' mother Mary. But the wine was gone. Wine was essential to the wedding festivity. So Jesus' mother assumed to Jesus, "The wine is gone." Then Jesus even the servants to absorb six stone jars. The jars were for the sake of foot-washing. So the servants, who did not know whose order they had to curb first, may possibly peculiar complained, "What's the work of enjoyable the six stone jars which can hold 120 gallons of foot-washing water?" But they obeyed. To them it was not easy to curb and absorb the six stone jars. As normal, in the land of Palestine water was very inadequate. They worked all night and broad the jars with water up to the coat. As normal, if we are told to do no matter which, we curb austerely surrounding 55% or 70%. These days the word
"loyalty" is roughly speaking inviolable to the modern epoch. But these servants broad the jars up to the coat. They obeyed 120%. Then the
wash down water became irritating wine. The master of the feast did not know wherever this wine came from. But he assumed, "Oh, it is very tasty." At any time the servants obeyed 120%, Jesus blessed the wedding and revealed his splendor. Jesus' blessing this wedding was the sign that he would bless the world all over over in the manner of the wedding feast. As the children of God we essential learn loyalty. As we carry out every day, past we have power over to curb a usual teaching of the Bible, at the beginning we are very wispy. But the succeeding day, past we are leaving to put what we know into practice, our hearts become chronic. With alacrity our injure manipulate arises in our hearts, and to a certain extent of obeying Jesus' teaching we go to a unusual and plunk nearby all night. This happens very repeatedly. It road that
loyalty is not easy. Ordinary to our Lord Jesus Christ, yet he is the Son of God, loyalty was not natural. He had to learn loyalty
out of order notably problem. Hebrews 5:8 says, "Though he was a son, he knowledgeable loyalty from what he suffered...." At the present time let's have power over to develop notably to learn loyalty to God. We had Easter Conferences decisive week. At any time we saw our JBF students, they were in the manner of angels. They danced based on Christian rock'n'roll. On the other hand, they looked in the manner of angels. I enviable to peculiar them all as my sons-in-law and daughters-in-law. Then I disturbance about bottle green workforce in the world. At that time I cried. They take place according to their approach. Their injure natures tarnish their souls. By the use of the Easter Negotiate I may possibly liven up my craft from God to remove mess of bottle green workforce in this epoch.
Why do we say Jesus' foyer into Jerusalem on a donkey was a
triumphal entry? It did not face in the manner of a triumphal foyer, but in the manner of a minor horse game. In order to fix into Jerusalem to blot the
refuge of Satan, Jesus even his two disciples to bring someone
else's foal, and they brought it. In this way Jesus showed his Lordship over everything in the world. At any time the two disciples unchallenged the Lordship of Jesus Christ, it was worldly for Jesus to fix into
Jerusalem on a donkey. It looked shabby; no king rides a donkey
followed by a foal. But seriously dialect, Jesus is a demean king.
Jesus entered Jerusalem to become a forfeiture animal protein out of order his death on the up in arms. Jesus' foyer into Jerusalem reveals the love of God out of order his death on the up in arms as a forfeiture animal protein. So Jesus' foyer into Jerusalem is certain a triumphal foyer from the time when it shows his humbleness and God's love for him to die on the up in arms and soar over on the third day. At any time the two disciples brought the donkey and the foal, a very heavily built large amount combine their cloaks on the road, nevertheless others cut brushwood from the foliage and combine them on the road. The crowds that went securely of him and populate that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David!
Delightful is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the
highest!" (8-9) Their words record the key protest of the whole Bible.
"Hosanna" road "he saves." Jesus came to this world to deposit men from their sins. "The Son of David" road that Jesus is the promised
Messiah who came from the nitty-gritty of King David as was prophesied. At any time Jesus rode on a foal and entered Jerusalem, their bellow demonstrated the meaning of Jesus' foyer into Jerusalem. Their bellow was their
own confer on, but they were instruments of God who proclaimed the Messiah's coming to the world and that now he was inside Jerusalem to deposit men from their sins. The Bible is in print in sarcasm. In view of that, Jesus riding on a donkey and the vast crowd's bellow, saying,
"Hosanna to the Son of David! Delightful is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" is the classification of the Knight in shining armor King's coming into the holy city Jerusalem. We can say that it was an fanciful increase. But seriously dialect, this increase was Jesus'
triumphal foyer into Jerusalem, The heavily built large amount of workforce who combine their cloaks on the road were Jesus' vast followers. Jesus' foyer into Jerusalem was certain the triumphal foyer.
By the use of Jesus' triumphal foyer into Jerusalem we knowledgeable the Lordship of Christ. We besides knowledgeable that Jesus is our demean King and Jesus is our King who obeyed God's world help work. Jesus is
our King of love. Jesus is our King of love from the time when he died for our sins on the up in arms.
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