The Entrance Of The King

Luke 19:29,30  

And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, 

at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, 

Saying, "Go ye into the village over against you; in the which 

at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never 

man sat: loose him, and bring him hither."

                                             
         From Jerusalem to Jericho was only seventeen miles, and now Jesus had almost reached his goal. Jerusalem, His journey's end, lay just ahead. The prophets had a regular custom that they made use again and again. When words were no effect, when people refused to listen and understand the spoken message, they resorted to some dramatic action which put their message into a picture that none could fail to see. It was just such a dramatic action which Jesus planned now. He proposed to ride into Jerusalem in a way that would be an unmistakable claim to be the Messiah, God's Anointed King. Let's look at certain things about His entry into Jerusalem. 
        It was carefully planned. It was no sudden, impulsive action. Jesus never left any thing until the last moment, He Went by God's time clock. He had his arrangement with the owners of the colt. The Lord needs was meet a long time long ago. It was an act of glorious defiance and of superlative courage.
        By this time there was a price on Jesus' head. It would have been natural that, if he must go into Jerusalem at all, he should have slipped in unseen and hidden away in some secret place in the back streets. But he entered in such a way as to focus the entry upon himself and occupy center stage. It is a breath-taking thing to think of a man with a price upon his head, an outlaw, deliberately riding into a city in such a way that every eye was fixed upon him.
        It is impossible to exaggerate the sheer courage of Jesus. It was a deliberate claim to be king, a deliberate fulfilling of the picture in (Zech. 9:9).  "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." The ass in Palestine was not the lowly beast that it is in this country. It was noble. Only in war did kings ride upon a horse; when they came in peace they came upon an ass. So Jesus by this action came as a king of love and peace, and not as the conquering military hero whom the mob expected and awaited. However my friends, Christ' next entry will be the Conqueror of The World.
        Amen! 

Reading: (Luke 19:28-44)
               (Matt. 21:1-11)
               (Mark 11:1-11)
               (John 12:12-19)

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry