Jerusalem

Jerusalem Luke 19:26-40

1. Jesus goes up to Jerusalem riding a donkey

• Jesus told the disciples two of them:”30 “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.”

• 1Ki 1:33,44), Solomon who would be King also rode in on the Kings Donkey

• It was prophesied that the king would ride in on a donkey Zec 9:9).9Rejoice greatly, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your kingB comes to you,righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey,

2. Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem was Joyful for his followers

• Disciples joyfully praise:”37the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:”

• There were joyful shouts of “Hosanna” “meant save now”

• Palm Branches were waving : Palm Branches meant victory or goodness also palm branches were inscribed on many buildings .1 Kings 6:29On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.

3. Jesus’s Entry into Jerusalem was joyful for Jesus

• His Heart His mind was steadfast towards this city "As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face steadfastly towards Jerusalem ..." (Luke 9:51). All things would be fulfilled, redemption completed, death, burial, and resurrection

• Entering Jerusalem was joyful it was the fulfilling of the word : everything was to be ful¬filled in the Holy City. "We are now going up to Jerusalem; and all that was written by the prophets will come true for the Son of Man" (Luke 18:31).

• Entering Jerusalem was joyful there were great cries of praise “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

• Entering Jerusalem was joyful for Jesus it was the city where God has lived bringing about miracles. In Jerusalem, he healed the blind, the lame, the death would hear, the dumb would speak, dead raised

4. Entering Jerusalem was not only joyful but it was also filled with jeopardy danger peril and risk

• Jerusalem would be the city that would reject Him it was his rejection that gave us redemption

• Jerusalem, Jesus encounters betrayal from the people of Jerusalem, from the religious leaders, and from his disciples. Jerusalem would be the sight he would be tortured

• Jerusalem he would encounter “the place of the skull .”Golgotha, the crucifixion , God took the Cross upon himself.

• In Jerusalem Jesus will encounter our victory, His resurrection, God rose from the tomb.

5. Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem was joyful for his followers, it was joyful for Jesus as well, His entry was also filled with jeopardy. We are the benefactors because of His entrance into Jerusalem:

• Jerusalem is joyful for his followers because we encounter John 3:16 For God so loved the world

• Jerusalem is joyful for his followers because here is where we become right before God “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

• Jerusalem is joyful for his followers because we receive the greatest gift offered Romans says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

• Jerusalem is joyful for the followers if we will just believe: Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.”