JESUS, MEEK AND WILD (5 OF 8)
by Will McGee
Scripture: Mark 11:1-7, Mark 11:9-25
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Jesus, Meek and Wild (5 of 8)
Series: Death Brings Life
Will McGee
Mark 11:1-25
INTRODUCTION: When I was a freshman in college, I transferred schools after my first semester.
- Being a freshman in college and meeting new people/making friends is hard enough.
- But when you transfer schools in the middle of the year, it is even that much more difficult.
- So, I remember being lonely. I was desperate for friends.
- Then one day at the library, this guy begins talking to me. ''You look like a nice guy.''
- We really hit it off. He was a nice guy. I got excited, I had a made a friend... So when he invited me to hang out that weekend, I was looking forward to it.
- He told me we were going to be ''going to a thing'' with his co-workers.
- It didn't take long after I arrived to the ''thing'' that I had been had. We ended up in a conference room at a Best Western.... Where his ''co-workers'' tried to persuade me to join a pyramid scheme.
- I knew right away that I had been duped. I left disappointed.
- My expectations for that evening... Were that I was going to be forging a friendship, meeting new people.
- His expectations were that he could convince me ''to get in the ground floor of a great money making opportunity.''
- My agenda was friendship. His agenda was money.
It reminds me a lot of our passage today... People's expectations of Jesus versus his expectations. MARK 11.
- The triumphal entry, as it is called, is about two very different agendas clashing on the road into Jerusalem.
- There was the crowd's expectations. They had their own ideas of what the Messiah was going to be, what kind of king he would be and what they expected him to do for them.
- He would destroy enemies. Bring political revolution.
And there was Jesus' plan.
- To come and die to bring life to those that cursed him. Build a kingdom of love, sacrifice, mercy.
This passage is normally taught on Palm Sunday which is two weeks away. But as we are stu ...
Series: Death Brings Life
Will McGee
Mark 11:1-25
INTRODUCTION: When I was a freshman in college, I transferred schools after my first semester.
- Being a freshman in college and meeting new people/making friends is hard enough.
- But when you transfer schools in the middle of the year, it is even that much more difficult.
- So, I remember being lonely. I was desperate for friends.
- Then one day at the library, this guy begins talking to me. ''You look like a nice guy.''
- We really hit it off. He was a nice guy. I got excited, I had a made a friend... So when he invited me to hang out that weekend, I was looking forward to it.
- He told me we were going to be ''going to a thing'' with his co-workers.
- It didn't take long after I arrived to the ''thing'' that I had been had. We ended up in a conference room at a Best Western.... Where his ''co-workers'' tried to persuade me to join a pyramid scheme.
- I knew right away that I had been duped. I left disappointed.
- My expectations for that evening... Were that I was going to be forging a friendship, meeting new people.
- His expectations were that he could convince me ''to get in the ground floor of a great money making opportunity.''
- My agenda was friendship. His agenda was money.
It reminds me a lot of our passage today... People's expectations of Jesus versus his expectations. MARK 11.
- The triumphal entry, as it is called, is about two very different agendas clashing on the road into Jerusalem.
- There was the crowd's expectations. They had their own ideas of what the Messiah was going to be, what kind of king he would be and what they expected him to do for them.
- He would destroy enemies. Bring political revolution.
And there was Jesus' plan.
- To come and die to bring life to those that cursed him. Build a kingdom of love, sacrifice, mercy.
This passage is normally taught on Palm Sunday which is two weeks away. But as we are stu ...
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