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Intro:
Good morning and welcome again to this gathering of Hope Bible Fellowship.
I am joyful that you have joined us and that we get to dive into the Word of God together.
Today is the Sunday that traditionally has been referred to as Palm Sunday in which we remember the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem before His crucifixion and resurrection.
We are actually going to look at the account of this event from the book of John.
Go ahead and open your Bible or scroll over on your device to John chapter 12.
As you read through the Gospel of John and come to John 12:12, there is a corner that is turned where everything moving forward in the account puts us on a trajectory toward the cross.
It’s this methodical march toward the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
The next week in the life of our church sort of mirrors this.
We start with Palm Sunday and then move toward Good Friday and culminating on Easter Sunday when we celebrate that the tomb is empty.
You have the city of Jerusalem filling with people to celebrate the Passover festival.
Jesus would have been the topic of conversation around the city.
The religious leaders had basically put out an arrest warrant for him.
News had spread from Bethany that Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead.
He was becoming famous for the miraculous.
So here is Jesus approaching Jerusalem.
It’s easy to see how the environment was explosive.
READ:
John 12:12–36 (ESV)
The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”
And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,
“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”
His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.
The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.
So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing.
Look, the world has gone after him.”
Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.
So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
“Now is my soul troubled.
And what shall I say?
‘Father, save me from this hour’?
But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
Father, glorify your name.”
Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered.
Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine.
Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.
So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever.
How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up?
Who is this Son of Man?”
So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer.
Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you.
The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”
When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
PRAY
Let me give you a little bit of context to set up what we are going to see today.
A crowd was there with Jesus because they heard about Jesus raising raising Lazarus from the dead.
This makes sense to us right?
If you hear about a man with that kind of power, you’re probably going to want to catch a glimpse of him if you can.
We also read that there were some Greeks among them who had gone up to worship at the festival.
Who had they come to see?
They had come to see a man who could perform amazing and mighty miracles.
They came to see something fantastic.
It sort of reminds me of that scene in the movie, The Incredibles where Mr. Incredible gets mad with his car and picks it up and there’s a little kid sitting there on his big wheel trike, staring at him.
Mr. Incredible asks, “Well, what are you waiting for?”
The little kid replies, “I dunno, something amazing I guess.”
They wanted to see the amazing and fantastical.
They were looking for a show.
The Jews were looking to a coming Messiah who would be a political ruler who would come forward and over- throw the Romans and establish a kingdom for the Jews.
They would be superior.
What they were expecting and what they actually got were two very different things.
They did not fully understand what the coming of Jesus was all about.
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The reception of a king.
(v.
12-19)
A. A kind of different arrival
On a donkey
no soldiers, no warhorse
To fulfill prophecy (v.
15) Zechariah 9:9-10 about the promise of the King who was coming
says a lot about the kind of King that was coming
different than the avg political ruler
Even the smaller prophetic details about the Messiah are fulfilled in Christ.
This is strong proof of Jesus’s claims about Himself.
B. The cries of the people
- the things the crowd says are biblical and accurate
- They quote Psalm 118:25-26
- Hosanna, meaning “Save us, now.”
- One scholar said this was like the fight song of the Jewish Independence Party
- They apply the next verse to Jesus.
Blessed...
- They understand who He is but their understanding of His kingship
is too narrow.
- What they want from a king and what the actual purpose of Jesus
was were far apart.
- the salvation He secures comes through meekness
His disciples didn’t understand these things yet.
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