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Palm Sunday

Psalm 118

Happy Palm Sunday Church! This Sunday is the day we commemorate Jesus entering into Jerusalem, for His final week of ministry before His crucifixion.

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Authority- what a heavy word. We immediately think of people placed in charge, who have power and influence, who have backing to make decisions, to make changes, to execute justice. Those in authority are overseers and are responsible for others.

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Authority- what a heavy word. We immediately think of people placed in charge, who have power and influence, who have backing to make decisions, to make changes, to execute justice. Those in authority are overseers and are responsible for others.

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Last Sunday we entered into the final week of Jesus’ life on earth before His crucifixion. He and His disciples have set up temporary base in the village of Bethany, from which they travel into Jerusalem each day. The news of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in combination with the whole nation coming together for the Passover Celebration has created a big stirring amongst the people.

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Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest is what the people in the street cried out to Jesus the day after the celebration meal with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Hosanna literally means “oh save,” the word means salvation- “save us.”

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Have you ever felt judged for how you have chosen to serve the Lord? Maybe you have felt your particular giftings didn’t measure up according to other’s expectations? Maybe you’ve judged yourself and have been beating yourself up over decisions you were pretty sure God was leading you to make, but others reacted negatively to your choices? Jesus’ friend Mary, the sister of Lazarus, probably could have said yes to each of these questions.

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We had just looked at the story of Zaccheus, and addressed the issue of gossip, rumors, and slander. I encourage you if you weren’t here last week, get on our website and listen to that message. There in that story, when the people saw Jesus inviting Himself over to Zaccheus’ house they began to grumble and slander Jesus and Zaccheus.

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Today we get a close look at the story of Zaccheus, but before we read the passage together, I want to remind you of the encounter Jesus just had previously with blind Bartimaeus.

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his morning’s passage follows up right where we left off, at the end of Matthew 19, where Peter had come to Jesus saying “We have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us?” And Jesus replied that the disciples would one day sit on thrones judging the nation of Israel. And to everyone else who surrenders and follows Jesus, He promised them eternal life, and that what had been given up and lost in the surrender and following, would be given back to them and even more. And we ended with Jesus’ statement “But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.” 

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Last week, I argued for us to seek God’s perspective in scripture, and then note how our perspective differs, and for us to then aim to conform our perspective more to His. To see things more how He sees them. This morning we have opportunity to witness a real-life example of Jesus attempting to facilitate this process of “perspective moving” in a young man’s life. 

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Last Sunday we had looked at Jesus raising Lazarus back to life amid the questions, fears, and doubts of those around Him. This week as I have looked at delays, and funny timing of events, I have been reminded about Jesus’ love for Martha, Mary, and Lazarus- and that in that love He had delayed coming to them 2 days.

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I want us to read this passage about Lazarus straight through in its entirety, but first I want to begin with verses 5-6… You see, in reading this story, it’s easy to immediately question Jesus’ motives.

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Somehow in our chronological walk through the gospels, I missed an event that happened shortly after Jesus left the region of Galilee, on His way down to Jerusalem, which would end up being the trip to Jerusalem in which He would be crucified.

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Last week, as we were looking at Jesus’ teaching on money management, I mentioned another Pastor’s view that Christians, instead of saving for retirement or saving to benefit an heir, should rather aim to spend what they have for kingdom purposes before they leave this world.