The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.And the multitudes that went before him, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
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… cut branches from trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of them and those that followed shouted, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. You know, Palm Sunday is a moment of celebration. Picture it. The streets are full in Jerusalem. The atmosphere is charged. The crowd is there with expectation and anticipation of a king to come. And Jesus enters Jerusalem. And the people respond with a cry that captures the longing of a human heart. They shout, Hosanna. Which means, save us. Save us now. And they're not wrong for praising. They're not wrong for asking for saving. They're not wrong for asking Jesus to save them. But there is a tension in the moment. There is a tension in the air that they do not yet understand how that salvation will come to pass in a few days. They're asking a big ask. And sometimes if we're honest, that's just not their story in the city of Jerusalem. …
… and spreading them on the road. Then the crowds went ahead of him and those who followed all shouted, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest heaven. And I just wanna take a moment, church. Can we just celebrate the triumphal entry of our savior, of our king? Can we just shout, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, to come this way, Lord Jesus. Find in me a heart that celebrates your victory, Jesus. That's what we're here to do on Palm Sunday. Or you can grab a seat. Hopefully you're sitting next to somebody that you like. If you don't like them, it's too late now. You're locked in. As a church, we've been in a season in a series called Killing You Softly. And if you've been here, you know we've been walking through the seven deadly sins. And it has been a ride. It's been a ride. I don't know about you, but each week I have left church realizing I am more jacked up than I realized. It's like, man, I'm a pastor and I'm a sinner at the same time. What is happening here? …
… A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest heaven. When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, who is this? The crowds were saying, this is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee. This is the word of God for you, the people of God. Thanks be to God. Palm Sunday is part spontaneous parade, part protest march. When Jesus rides into Jerusalem beside a donkey, residents of the city begin to whisper. They elbow each other. They point. They quote scripture. Remember that passage from Zechariah? the one that says your liberating king will show up riding a donkey. The warrior who will chase away your oppressors will enter town on the most humble of steeds. The crowd squints. …
And I say this just for authenticity's sake. Matthew chapter 21, verses 1 to 17. Matthew covers this from his eyes, Matthew. And then Mark's gospel, Mark 11, verses 1 through 11. Mark sees it and records it through his eyes. And then Dr. Luke, medical doctor, the gospel of Luke. Luke from chapter 19, verses 29 onward, he records it. And that's the chapter or the book I've selected for today. And then, of course, John chapter 12, verses 12 to 19. John records it from his eyes. Why is this important? I don't want to get too much into this, except that the Bible says that before two or three witnesses, the truth shall be established. Which, by the way, if you're an attorney, or maybe you're a judge, or maybe you're involved in law, did you know that our jurisprudence of the United States of America is founded upon the biblical requirement of you not being able to be convicted without multiple witnesses? Did you know our founding fathers got that from the scriptures? …
… and spread them on the road. The crowds that went ahead of him and those that follow shouted, Hosanna. Would you go back to verse number eight, please? Verse number eight, Matthew 21. Let's read together with all of the enthusiasm you can muster. Come on, everybody. A very large crowd. Amen. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees I want to preach today using as a subject I'm not gonna stay broke I'm not gonna stay broke would you just take your neighbor by the hand shake that hand and tell them I gotta promise you something as God is my witness I am not gonna stay broke My dear friends, might I say to you without fear of contradiction, there's no greater agony than being broke. and I don't want you to think for a moment that you are the first. The word bankrupt comes from the Italian word bancarota, meaning broken bench because during the renaissance, Italian moneylenders did business while sitting on benches. …
… All right. Hosanna to the Son of David. Son of David is a royal term as well. It was the term for the Messiah. Hosanna means save us now, rescue us. Hosanna in the highest heaven. All right. So that leads me, so who is Jesus? He is our king. What's he like? He's humble. He comes caring for the lowly, and he wants us to be humble too. And that leads us finally to this last piece, and that is what he does once he gets down to Jerusalem. So, you know, he makes his way down the Mount of Olives, makes his way to the temple courts. When he gets inside the temple courts, what he finds is there is a marketplace set up in the halls of prayer. So people are supposed to be coming there to pray, and in particular, the hall of the Gentiles, where anybody could come to pray. But they've set up a market there, and they're selling stuff. And if you could just imagine a bazaar, like, you know, even in Jerusalem, the old city of Jerusalem, there are these bazaars where people are shouting things and buying things. Or if you've ever been to the fish market in Seattle, it's kind of that sort of thing. And so people are shouting and they're selling and buying things in the temple courts of prayer. And he comes in and he's so mad. And part of the reason why he's mad, Matthew tells us that there are two kinds of merchants there. One are the money changers. So you had to offer, …
… Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out saying, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved saying, who is this? So the multitude said, this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. Y'all see that? I want to talk about the destiny of a donkey. The destiny of a donkey. I started to call it the destiny of a jackass but I thought that might not be a good way to put it some of y'all might not get past that so it's the destiny of a donkey it is it is historically as I grew up in church it is the Sunday that we used to do this many years ago we stopped we used to pass out these palms and we stopped passing out palms for two reasons first of all we stopped passing out the palms because we had to clean up half of them out in the parking lot so we stopped buying them just to have to pick them up and put them in the trash. But secondly, in this story here, the people who laid the palms down worshipped him and one week later they said crucify him. I don't want to be in a crowd that one moment is praising him and the next moment is crucifying him. …