Sermon Tone Analysis

DON’T LET A ROCK TAKE YOUR PLACE

I. Jesus Wept over Superficial Religion

II.

Jesus Wept over Passing Opportunity

III.

Jesus Wept over Smoldering Judgment

Conclusion

Good morning everyone.

Glad to see you this morning on Palm Sunday.

If you don’t know what Palm Sunday is you will by the end of the service today.

We are taking a break from the Book of Genesis since we have Easter coming up next week.

if you have your Bible you can turn to the Book of Luke and we will be in .

The Sunday before Easter Sunday, today is called Palm Sunday.

And it is the week before 5 days before they would crucify Him and a full week right before He comes out of the grave.

Now why should you care about Palm Sunday?

Who cares right as long as he came out of the grave, and we get to hunt easter eggs its good in the hood.

Well it should matter because it is a very important event, maybe the most significant in the history of the world.

Apart from the Birth of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus.

Because we are going to see the Jewish People should have understood what this means but they missed it and it had catastrophic consequences for their nation.

This is the last week of Jesus ministry.

It culminates in the ancient city of Jerusalem the most important city in scripture.

The reason I have spent so much time in Genesis is to set you up to understand the precious promises of scripture more fully.

I didn’t get very far but I got far enough to where we got to Abraham who is the progenitor, the father of the Jewish nation, and through Him all the nations of the world might be blessed.

The reason why it is important for you to understand the covenant and the promise that was given to Abraham and the Jews, is because if you turn your heart over to Jesus then you as a Gentile become one with the Jews in the Promise of salvation.

The reason why it is important for you to understand the covenant and the promise that was given to Abraham and the Jews, is because if you turn your heart over to Jesus then you as a Gentile become one with the Jews in the Promise of salvation.

Think about this, what is it about Jesus that is so important from man’s perspective?

I mean he didn’t have all the modern luxuries that the world says you need to be big time… His ministry only lasted 3 years.

He was born to an obscure family in a desert over in the middle east.

He walked everywhere he went.

He had a rag tag group of followers made up of misfits.

He had an itinerant ministry where he often slept out doors or wherever he could find a spot?

So why is it that two thousands years later we are not only talking about Him but worshipping Him.

Millions will worship him, and today thousands will be saved?

It is because He is the promised Deliverer.

The Promised Messiah

Maimonides, whose writings are foundational to Orthodox Judaism, said in the twelfth century, " I firmly believe, in complete faith, in the coming of the Messiah, and although he may tarry, I daily wait for His coming"

3 Different Offices were anointed with oil

1. - Kings were anointed

2. High Priests were Annoited

3 Different Offices were anointed with oil

- Kings were anointed

High Priest were Anointed

High Priest were Anointed

And Prophets were occasionally anointed

and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.

3.

And Prophets were occasionally anointed

And Prophets were occasionally anointed

The Stones would cry out!

Now turn your bibles to

Luke 19:28-

Luke 19:aRE YOU GOING TO LET A ROCK TAKE YOU PLACE

aRE YOU GOING TO LET A ROCK TAKE YOU PLACE

So in Judaism the Teaching of this coming Messiah was foundational in their teaching.

And the Old Testament prophets told us many things about the Messiah.

And as we will see today they even told us down to the very day when the Messiah would come, hundreds years in advance.

The Stones would cry out!

Luke 19

Was Jesus just using hyperbole?

I mean do you think that the very stones would began to cry out!

Yes I believe that it would.

You need to understand this wasn't just some great man.

Some great prophet This was the promised deliverer the promised Messiah.

God incarnate God clothed in mans flesh.

The great deliverer!

This was the One that God had been promising from the very beginning of time when man fell from grace and ushered sin and death into the World

The one who Paul writes in Galatians 4:4

The one who was the fulfillment of the Old Testament, of the Law and the Prophets.

This was the King!

So if they kept quiet do you think the Rocks would began to cry out!

Yes and Yes… Because He is not only mans great deliverer but all of creations great deliverer!

You say do you really believe that?

Yes I do with every fiber within me.

You say that is foolish, I say it is faith.

And faith is something that God gives.

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.

Who gives this assurance, who gives this evidence?

None of then God’s Holy Spirit.

So do I think the rocks would cry out!

Yes!

One thing that I have been disillusioned with in Christianity is the Luke warmness of the church.

We come to church when its convenient for us.

We give when its convenient for us.

We worship when it is convenient for us.

We serve when it is convenient for us.

And when somebody truly on fire begins to cry out, they get the stank eye.

And o they will calm down.

There is a parable about his that Jesus gave, where a rich man was putting on a great banquet

Luke 19

Here as Jesus is riding into this city, it said that he is weeping.

Now the word here does not simply mean that he was crying, but that he wept out loud.

Hiis heart is broken, He is convulsed, He is broken, and Great tears are coursing down the cheeks of the Son of God

Luke 19:42

Luke 19

Luke 19:

We should be people of great simple joy.

But Jesus was also a man of tears.

3 times in scriptures it said that Jesus wept.

He wept a Lazarus funeral- those were tears sympathy.

When you weep Jesus Weeps.

with you.