Monday, April 14, 2014

Resurrection Week #1




Going to take a week break from the "Follow Me" series and remind us of why this week is important to our faith. Each day I want to remind you what Jesus was up to some 2000 years ago to show His love for you and I.



Starting with yesterday (Sunday April 13, 2014) which we call Palm Sunday:



Matthew 21



The Triumphal Entry


21 Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came 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 find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Loose them and bring them to Me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

5 “Tell the daughter of Zion,‘Behold, your King is coming to you,Lowly, and sitting on a donkey,A colt, the foal of a donkey.’”

6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. 8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 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!”

10 And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?”

11 So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”



The beginning of the end has started as this Holy Week was kicked of by Jesus coming to Jerusalem where He knew what was going to take place but yet He was willing to take our sin upon Himself. Notice the multitudes praising Him now but in a few days notice how many were standing up for Him when He is arrested and tried! Most had disappeared or even turned against Him demanding His crucifixion, talk about flip-flopping!



He then went and spent night in Bethany.



On Monday: the two main points that I grasped that happened are these two:





Luke 19:41-44


Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem


41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”





Matthew 21:12-17



Jesus Cleanses the Temple



12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’”

14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”

And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read,

‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise’?”

17 Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.



Jesus knows the Jews are and will reject Him as Savior, which cause Him great pain, and destruction is coming thus He weeps.



Jesus sees how the temple is being sinful. Folks are selling sacrifice animals at high prices, and in many cases the animals are not blemish free, thus they are thieves before God!



Then once again He leaves Jerusalem and spends night in Bethany after healing some folks in the temple.



Soak all this in, for followers of Jesus this is the most important week of our faith. Share with others where your hope lies....in Jesus!



Tom

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