The King of kings!
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Are you Strong or Weak?
Our King shows us who He is and how we should respond to Him!
Our King shows us who He is and how we should respond to Him!
Jesus enters as the Rightful King! (Mt 21:1-11)
Jesus enters as the Rightful King! (Mt 21:1-11)
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
Sent 2 unknown Disciples(Learners/Followers)
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.
If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”
Disciples obey Jesus & get donkey/colt!
This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,
“Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ”
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.
They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them.
Jesus rides colt
Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.
And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”
And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
Jesus judges as the Faithful King! (Mt 21:12-22)
Jesus judges as the Faithful King! (Mt 21:12-22)
And Jesus entered the temple 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.
He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
Jesus rearranges His Temple!
And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
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,
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’?”
And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
Blind/Lame
Children Praise Son of David!
Samaritans Purse
The world keeps putting itself in the place of god, God comes putting Himself in the place of a servant!
Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.
And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
Fig Tree
When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?”
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
How do you respond to Jesus the King?
How do you respond to Jesus the King?
Let us give Him praise: Gladly surrender to the King today.
Let us prioritize prayer: Continually seek this King everyday.
Let us bear fruit in our lives: This King desires - and deserves- more that hollow worship and hypocritical religion.
Let us have faith as His church: This King can - and will - do the impossible if we ask.
But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so.
What is our hope in life and death?
Christ alone, Christ alone.
What is our only confidence?
That our souls to him belong.
Who holds our days within his hand?
What comes, apart from his command?
And what will keep us to the end?
The love of Christ, in which we stand.
With Christ you will make it to the Finish Line. He has already won the race so trust Him completely.
“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.