Introduction:
When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will >ind a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me. 3 “If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.” 4 This took place to ful>ill what was spoken through the prophet: 5 “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold your King is coming to you, Gentle, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ” 6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them, 7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on them; and He sat on the coats. 8 Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road. 9 The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest!” 10 When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.” —Matthew 21:1-11
1. Jesus the
King v1-3
John 1:47-49 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and He said regarding him, ‘Here is truly an Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!’ Nathanael said to Him, ‘How do You know me?’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the Big tree, I saw you.’
Matthew 9:3-4 And some of the scribes said to themselves, ‘This man is blaspheming!’ And Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, ‘Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?’
John 4:16-19 He said to her, ‘Go, call your husband and come here.’ The woman answered and said to Him, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her, ‘You have correctly said, “I have no husband”; for you have had Bive husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this which you have said is true.’
2. Jesus the
King v4
Luke 4:16-21
Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfil.
Luke 24: 25-27 And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 26 “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” 27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
John 5:39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me.
3. Jesus the
King v5-7
Zechariah 9:9-10
Is 62:11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, “Lo, your salvation comes; Behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”
Matthew 11:29-30 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will Bind rest for your souls. 30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
4. Jesus the
King Luke 19:37
Luke 19:37
Matthew 8:26-27 Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm. The men were amazed, and said, ‘What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?’
Mark 5:25-30 A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years…after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak…and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. 30 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?”
Luke 4:36 And amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with one another, saying, ‘What is this message? For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!’
John 11:43-44 He cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ Out came the man who had died, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’
5. Jesus the
King v8-9
John 12:12-13 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.”
Luke 19:38 Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest!
Mark 11:9-10 Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting: “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; 10 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest!”
Psalm 118:25-26 O Lord, do save, we beseech You; O Lord, we beseech You, do send prosperity! 26 Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord; we have blessed you from the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king.
6. Jesus the
King v10-11,15; Luke 19:39-41
Luke 19:39-41
Matthew 12:15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant.
John 12:19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.” John 1:11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.
Is Jesus your
? YES or NO
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 for a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord. —CS Lewis