Crowned Humility: Behold THE King Triumphant Through Sacrifice.

Class Outline:

Sunday April 13, 2025

 

Set the stage: Jesus awoke that morning knowing that it was finally the day to present Himself as the King Messiah, publicly. 

 

Up to now Jesus has told them to tell no one, but now He is declaring it. 

 

MAT 9:30

And Jesus sternly warned them: "See that no one knows about this!"

 

MAT 16:20

Then He warned the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ. 

 

1. Procession: 

 

Waving palms and laying their garments down are signs of honoring a visitor. 

 

Also honoring Him is the singing of the final psalm in the Hallel; PSA 118:1-29. It is antiphonal. 

 

Jesus raised Lazareth just a few days prior.

 

2. Why the procession? Why in this way? 

 

Though He knows He will not be received, Jesus presents Himself as King to His capital city because He must. 

 

Why must He? He is THE King of Israel and every nation and tongue. So, He enacts His victorious approach and entrance to Jerusalem. 

 

Just like Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great?

 

Jesus is doing the same thing - marching on His capital city as King and conqueror. But He is very glaringly doing so in different way. 

 

This is the one day He will approach and present Himself - there is no other day, no other attempt. This day, this one, has been foreordained for this purpose eons before the world even began. 

 

Hence, if no one hails Him, the rocks will. 

 

Why like this? It was prophesied; ZEC 9:9 [MAT 21:1-5]. 

 

But when following prophecy, He is not concerned with letter only. He is not in His head thinking, “I have to do this cause the Father said, so let’s get to it” (with a humph). There is a spirit to prophecy. God has planned and He will do it. 

 

ISA 62:11. 

 

If ever the world was to have a Savior, He must be like this - and not just the letter of its prophecy but in the spirit of it (like SOM is the spirit of the Law). Not just the letter (ZEC 9:9; ISA 62:11). 

 

Main Idea: If ever the world was to have a Savior, He would triumphantly present Himself as a humble sacrifice, and we must see this clearly. 

 

Victorious and meek. He receives the triumph rather than taking it. He enters to save all who will come to Him in faith. 

 

[Theme] The Son glorifies the Father by giving Himself to build His kingdom: Peace, justice, love where the subjects are all like Him in perfect virtue, love joy, power, satisfaction, mercy, poverty (earthwise), peace, pure harmony, submission, all like this, like Him in their hearts, without sin, never a moment of a thought of rebellion, all forever as one, new, eternal life. 

 

He doesn’t come to conquer them and make them submit by His limitless power (Jewish Christology, including the disciples at the time). 

 

He would offer Himself so that all sin would be judged on Him, ZEC 9:9; ISA 62:11. All to make the kingdom described. So, a Savior King would have to approach and enter His capital in this way. 

 

3. So, when He paused at the, He wept. 

 

LUK 19:41-44

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. 43 "For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, 44 and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation." 

 

What makes for peace? A King wearing a crown of thorns. 

 

“Hidden from your eyes.” Isa 6; Mat 13. 

 

His prophetic eye can see what is coming upon them because they have rejected and will reject THE King. 

 

Jerusalem under siege. Josephus Wars 5.6.2

“But the famine was too hard for all other passions, … insomuch that children pulled the very morsels that their fathers were eating out of their very mouths, and what was still more to be pitied, so did the mothers do as to their infants; and when those that were most dear were perishing under their hands, they were not ashamed to take from them the very last drops that might preserve their lives:” [if the people saw your door shut they knew you took something to eat and they burst in and would kill you to take it. That was the reality in Jerusalem when the Romans surrounded her - “barricade against you.”]

 

The failure was not to see.

 

Application: What does the procession of Palm Sunday got to do with you? 

 

See the crown of thorns and see the victory crown in heaven. 

 

The spirit of them both must be in your heart every day. Sacrifice and victory: example Tribulational saints. 

 

REV 7:9-12

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; 10 and they cry out with a loud voice, saying,

 

"Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb." 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying,

 

"Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen." 

 

In all you are and do, honor the Lord Jesus Christ. 

 

Humbly submit to the Lord. 

 

Have the spirit of prophecy in your heart. 

 

The spirit of prophecy is putting yourself in the grand story of the glorification of God and the redemption of man.