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The King showed also, that the Kingdom of heaven will be established only through a King who must also become the Savior of those who will be its citizens...Only then will they enjoy such righteousness, love, and perfection.
Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives,
As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.
When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:
“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.
The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
(Luke 19:28-44) NIV
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The Arrival of HRH King Jesus into Jerusalem
Palm Sunday reminds us of the Lord’s entry into Jerusalem. The crowds were praising and adoring Him. Matthew records this event as the royal entry into Jerusalem. He came as King riding on a donkey. The countdown to the cross has begun.
His kingdom is connected to the cross, but how can this be, how can we have a dead king reigning? Yet the Scriptures remind us, the main purpose of His kingdom was the cross. His Kingdom was not a political Kingdom but a Spiritual Kingdom.
The King showed also, that the Kingdom of heaven will be established only through a King who must also become the Savior of those who will be its citizens...Only then will they enjoy such righteousness, love, and perfection. That day will be fully realized at His Second Advent, yet we are called in this life to be its citizens and live out it’s principles in our daily lives, till the day when our salvation will be fully realized and complete. Till that day we live by faith in His sacrificial work.
Although acclaimed by the excited crowds He was the rejected King for the official representatives of the nation gave Him no welcome. Even the Hosanna shouting garland waving crowds answered in terms of rejection as to the question of who He really was, instead of the promised King – Messiah, Jehovah Jesus, and God Saviour. They shouted “Jesus the prophet of Nazareth”
As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, shouting:
“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord;
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” (Luke 19:37-38)
Although He was a prophet as Mark records for us in His anointing for this office (Mark 1:9-11) He was also the Servant King.
Isa 42:1 reminds us- “Behold My Servant, Mine Elect, My Spirit shall be upon him He shall bring judgment”
The Servant King came in humiliation and grace, He would bring Salvation and liberation to the captive soul, He was the Obedient Servant. He thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation and became obedient to death on the cross. And yet He was the exalted Servant of the Lord. (Phil.2:6-8)
The Sermon on the Mount has been rightly accorded a chief place in the teaching of our Lord. It carries the weight of authority. It reveals to us the heights and depth of the perfect life which is nowhere surpassed in the gospels.
The Messiah King fulfilled the law, confirming and emphasizing its deeper meaning. By doing so He condemned every natural and spiritually un-renewed man, speaking of the helplessness of sin, and of man’s utter condemnation in the sight of God. It also speaks upon the insistence upon the necessary of the cross
God’s answer to man’s fall and his estrangement from Him, is found at Calvary. He provided the lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The offering up of Isaac in Genesis Chapter .22 prefigures this grace of God. The ram caught in the thicket reminds us of the substitution nature of Calvary
“He who knew sin became our substitute and took upon him our sins and our estrangement. Not only was the Lord a substitute but also a ransom (2 Cor.5:21)
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. (Isaiah 53:6)
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. God was in Christ, by his own will and design used His Son, the only acceptable and perfect sacrifice as the means to reconcile sinners to Himself. God through this act of grace initiates a change in the sinner’s status, in that He brings him from a position of alienation to a state of forgiveness and right relationship with Himself.
Therefore our faith is not blind but active, it is based on the Kingdom blessing of Calvary; we have the confidence to live out the principles of the kingdom because of the sacrificial work of Calvary. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we seek to exercise our faith based on the work and teachings of Jesus Christ, Which is aligned with the ideals and the example of the life of Jesus. We seek by God’s grace and mercy to know and become obedient to God. To the Christian, faith is not static but one which causes us to consciously learn more of God and grow spiritually in our daily lives, and have its origin in God.
Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King
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