THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM
Keith O’Connor
Woodland Church
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
(Matthew 21:1-11, ESV) Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’” The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
(Matthew 20:19, NLT) “They will hand Him over to the Romans to be mocked, flogged with a whip, and crucified.”
(Matthew 20:19, NLT) “On the third day He will be raised from the dead.”
(Ephesians 1:11, NLT) “He makes everything work out according to His plan.”
(Isaiah 46:10-11, NLT) “Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish. I will call a swift bird of prey from the east—a leader from a distant land to come and do my bidding. I have said what I would do, and I will do it.”
(Acts 9:15-16, NLT) “Go, for Saul is my chosen instrument to take my message to the Gentiles and to kings, as well as to the people of Israel. And I will show him how much he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
(Matthew 21:3, ESV) “If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”
1. Jesus fulfilled prophecy
(Matthew 21:4, ESV) “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”
(Zechariah 9:9, NLT) “Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey—riding on a donkey’s colt.”
(Zechariah 9:9, NLT) “Look your king is coming to you, He is righteous and victorious, yet He is humble, riding on a donkey, riding on a donkey’s colt.”
(Matthew 21:9, ESV) “And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
(Psalm 118:25-26, ESV) “Save us (Hosanna), we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.”
(Luke 19:41-44, ESV) “And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side and tear you down to the ground, you, and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
(Daniel 9:24-25, ESV) “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.”
2. Children recognized Jesus as the Messiah
(Matthew 21:15-16, ESV) “The children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, and they 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 infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’”
(Psalm 8:2, ESV) “Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.”
(1 Corinthians 1:27, ESV) “But God chose what is foolish to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.”
3. Scripture is greater than opinion
(Isaiah 55:8-9, NLT) “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
Book Suggestions
1. Bible Prophecy Answer Book – Ron Rhodes
2. Jesus’s Final Week – William F. Cook III
3. Jesus: The God Who Knows Your Name – Max Lucado