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Revision as of 21:31, 30 March 2022
Theological Proposition/Focus: Jesus is the Messiah and offers people the choice accept or reject him.
Homiletical Proposition/Application: We need to accept Jesus as the Messiah he is not the Messiah we expect.
Contents
- 1 Introduction:
- 2 Body
- 2.1 Sovereign: Nothing catches Jesus by surprise because he is purposeful in all he does (28-34).
- 2.2 Messiah: There are two responses to Jesus (35-40)
- 2.3 God of Israel: Jesus wants his people to recognize him. (41-44)
- 3 Conclusion:
Introduction:
Image:
Need: Recognize Jesus for who he is and what he brings
Subject: Jesus, Messiah
Preview: In Luke 19:28-44 we are going to see that Jesus is the sovereign Messiah of Israel which warrants the question, what will you do with Jesus?
Text: Luke 19:28–44
Setting the Stage:
Body
Sovereign: Nothing catches Jesus by surprise because he is purposeful in all he does (28-34).
Jesus went to Jerusalem on purpose. (28-29)
Zechariah 14: The king conquers the enemies from the mount of olives
A reader of Luke might recall the prophecies of Zechariah 14 where the LORD himself fights against the enemies of Jerusalem standing on the Mount of olives. However, unlike the prophecies of Zechariah, King Jesus is coming not to deliver Jerusalem from her enemies but humanity from sin. Jesus will come again to fulfill the prophecies of Zechariah, but at this time Jesus has a far more important purpose in mind.
Jesus planned out even the small details. (30-31)
Look throughout the Gospels and what do you see Jesus doing? walking, but not here. Here Jesus makes a carefully calculated decision. In fulfillment of
Zechariah 9:9
Jesus instructs his disciples to travel to the village ahead and find a tethered colt. Horses were associated with war. According to Zech. 9:9 the dolt was associated with someone entering lowly, in the name of peace. The fact that no one else had ever ridden the colt before made it worthy of a king. Moreover, in his perfect knowledge, Jesus knew that his disciples would face questioning and encouraged them to simply respond that he (Jesus ) needed the animal.
Everything was just as Jesus had predicted (32-34)
Image: The Perfect Plan
MTR: Make this week a contemplative week.
This is Easter Week, later today many of us are going to participate in the Stations of the Cross walk. As you participate I hope you see that everything Jesus did was done with purpose. I think it is very easy for us to go through this entire week and then suddenly have Easter come upon us. My challenge to you this week is that you don't let Easter catch you by surprise but rather you carefully consider this week and walk alongside Jesus realizing that everything he did was on purpose.
Messiah: There are two responses to Jesus (35-40)
Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord (35-38)
The picture is a beautiful picture, the disciples prepare the colt and place Jesus on the colt, they enter the city and begin proclaiming Jesus as the king. The time has come and the crowd begins to build. People had heard that one day a king would come and here he was. Moroever, this was not just a royal figure, this was the people's king, his royal lowness rather than the pomp and circumstance usually associate with a royal highness.
In verse 37 we see that the crowd praised God because of the miricles they had seen. Little did they know that they had yet to see the greatest miricle of all, the forgiveness of sin.
Psalm 118:26
In Psalm 118 the praise came from the house of the LORD. Here the people themselves praise the Lord while the temple (and those in it) remain silent.
Peace
Importantly, the people use the word peace. What the people likely fail to realize is just what Peace Jesus is about to bring.
How dare you (39-40)
I can just picture this. The Pharisees are offended. Psalm 118 is a royal psalm and Zacheriah was clearly Messianic. To be alluding to both of these passages was explosive. In any case Jesus responds by stating that his arrival in the city will be recognized, if not by these then by the very stones.
Image: Trlema: Lord, Liar, Lunatic
C.S. Lewis stated
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God."
