Sermon Tone Analysis
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Introduction
Palm Sunday may represent the greatest missed opportunity in all of history.
God paid a visit to his home town.
An cross-shaped exit sign hangs ominously over Jesus triumphant entrance to Jerusalem.
The crowds hail the Lion of Judah but reject the Lamb of God.
They want salvation but not this kind.
Not salvation that comes with a cross.
We could just as well call Palm Sunday ‘Coronation Day’.
It is the day when God became King.
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Analysis
Note how specific Jesus’ instructions are.
He wants His entrance into Jerusalem to be highly symbolic, but symbolic of what?
Mathew 21
Matthew 21:1-
Zechariah wrote this during the Babylonian exile.
It is a “return from exile” prophecy
Matthew 21:6-
It indicates the return of the Davidic King and the restoration of Israel
Note how excited the disciples were and that it was based all the “mighty works that they had seen”
Luke 19:36-
Matthew 21:6
They had become convinced that Jesus was the returning King
This no doubt explains their brutal disappointment after the crucifixion
This day must have been truly triumphant for this rag-tag band of Jesus’ followers
Hosanna literally means “Save us”.
Matthew 21:9
When we hear this we tend to immediately think “Save us from our sins.”
but it is highly unlikely that anyone shouting Hosanna on that fateful day was thinking in those terms.
So what were they crying to be saved from?
Political oppression
Religious oppression
Injustice
Poverty
Sickness
Matthew
Matthew 21:9
Luke 19:41
Luke 19:43
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