Look Who's Coming to Town (Palm Sunday)
Mike Stone
Luke 19:28-48
Luke 19 speaks of a day we call ''Palm Sunday'' and an event we call ''The Triumphal Entry.'' It's the Sunday before Passover, most likely in the Spring of 29. The Lord Jesus enters Jerusalem amidst waving palm branches and shouts of ''Hosanna.'' But within days the desire for a coronation will be changed into the demand for a crucifixion.
I want you to sit on the side of that Jerusalem street with me. Look past the palm branches and the lifted arms. Listen for something that's deeper than the emotional cries of a fickle crowd. Today I invite you to look beyond the political parade and you will see your God on a donkey's colt as you ''Look Who's coming to town.''
In 1882, Mark Twain's, The Prince and the Pauper, was published. It's a classic story of mistaken identity. A prince and a beggar meet by chance, discover they look like twins, and decide to trade places. Part of the storyline is that everybody thought the beggar was a King and the King was a beggar. The whole nation had a case of mistaken identity.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Dr. Luke wrote about another case of mistaken identity. A royal King had made Himself of no reputation, taking on a veil of flesh and a robe of humanity, ''He came unto His own and His own did not receive Him.''
Like Prince Edward out of Twain's novel, Jesus is not truly recognized. Even though they shout and hail Him as King, even though they give Him the royal treatment...even though they wave their palm branches and laud Him as Lord, Jesus knows they are woefully mistaken about His true identity.
Oh, He is a King. But He is a very different kind of king than the one they are seeking. Markedly different than the one they think they see. For His kingdom is not of this world. As He rides in on a donkey's colt, don't let the common clothes of a peasant carpenter fool you. For there, mounted on that beast of burden is the One who has come to bear your s ...
Mike Stone
Luke 19:28-48
Luke 19 speaks of a day we call ''Palm Sunday'' and an event we call ''The Triumphal Entry.'' It's the Sunday before Passover, most likely in the Spring of 29. The Lord Jesus enters Jerusalem amidst waving palm branches and shouts of ''Hosanna.'' But within days the desire for a coronation will be changed into the demand for a crucifixion.
I want you to sit on the side of that Jerusalem street with me. Look past the palm branches and the lifted arms. Listen for something that's deeper than the emotional cries of a fickle crowd. Today I invite you to look beyond the political parade and you will see your God on a donkey's colt as you ''Look Who's coming to town.''
In 1882, Mark Twain's, The Prince and the Pauper, was published. It's a classic story of mistaken identity. A prince and a beggar meet by chance, discover they look like twins, and decide to trade places. Part of the storyline is that everybody thought the beggar was a King and the King was a beggar. The whole nation had a case of mistaken identity.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Dr. Luke wrote about another case of mistaken identity. A royal King had made Himself of no reputation, taking on a veil of flesh and a robe of humanity, ''He came unto His own and His own did not receive Him.''
Like Prince Edward out of Twain's novel, Jesus is not truly recognized. Even though they shout and hail Him as King, even though they give Him the royal treatment...even though they wave their palm branches and laud Him as Lord, Jesus knows they are woefully mistaken about His true identity.
Oh, He is a King. But He is a very different kind of king than the one they are seeking. Markedly different than the one they think they see. For His kingdom is not of this world. As He rides in on a donkey's colt, don't let the common clothes of a peasant carpenter fool you. For there, mounted on that beast of burden is the One who has come to bear your s ...
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