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*/Awaiting Our Exalted Savior/*
Philippians 2:5-11; Mark 11:1-11
April 9, 2006
Open by talking about the wait at an airport for someone you are picking up.
What do you think about?
Often I find myself thinking about the person I’m picking up.
The last time we were together.
Things we did in the past.
Things we are planning to do in the future.
Certain characteristics about the person.
Funny things they have said or done, etc.
Why I’m waiting for them, I’m often thinking of them.
But is that all I think about?
No.
I get distracted.
There are a lot of people at airports.
There is a lot of activity at airports.
I’m a busy individual with lots of things going on.
My mind wanders to the tasks I have left to do or people I need to contact or whatever.
I wonder how that works for us, as we wait for the Lord?
Here we are just a week away from Easter, this, the last week of lent, today Palm Sunday!
We wait – not for the Easter of the past, but for the Easter to end all Easters!
Where are our minds as we wait for Jesus to return?
What is it that consumes us?
Ultimately, what is it that defines us today as we wait for Jesus?
There are a lot of things that can define us, or are trying to define us today:
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Our status
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Our style
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Our wealth or lack of it.
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Our theology
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Our future and plans
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Our fears
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Our past – either failures or accomplishments
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Our heritage
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Our Education
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Our family.
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Our Church
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Our Faith.
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Begin with Jesus – He is on the road to the cross.
Read Mark 11:1-11
/1As Jesus and his disciples approached Jerusalem, they came to/ /the towns of Bethphage and Bethany, on the //Mount of Olives//.
Jesus sent two of them on ahead.
2// “Go into that village over there,” he told them, “and as soon as you enter it, you will see a colt tied there that has never been ridden.
Untie it and bring it here.
3// If anyone asks what you are doing, just say, ‘The Lord needs it and will return it soon.’//
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/4// The two disciples left and found the colt standing in the street, tied outside a house.
5// As they were untying it, some bystanders demanded, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” 6// They said what Jesus had told them to say, and they were permitted to take it.
7// Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it, and he sat on it./
/8// Many in the crowd spread their coats on the road ahead of Jesus, and others cut leafy branches in the fields and spread them along the way.
9// He was in the center of the procession, and the crowds all around him were shouting,/
/“Praise God!// Bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord!/
/10 Bless the coming kingdom of our ancestor David!
Praise God in highest heaven!”/
/11// So Jesus came to //Jerusalem// and went into the //Temple//.
He looked around carefully at everything, and then he left because it was late in the afternoon.
Then he went out to //Bethany// with the twelve disciples./
I wonder what Jesus’ thoughts were as He began this journey into Jerusalem?
Was He nervous?
Angry?
Determined?
One of the struggles I have to come to terms with in my own spiritual journey is that I look at this experience:
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Knowing the end.
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From fallen eyes!
I need to face the reality that I need Jesus to transform my heart and my mind each day in order to:
ü become more like Him,
ü to be able to see the world as He does
ü to be able to understand or navigate my circumstances in ways that would reflect Jesus as my Lord.
Jesus, even at this point in the journey was faced with many different options.
He could have gone many different directions.
How did He know the way to God?
Here He is riding into town on this colt with everyone lavishing praise and adoration on Him.
It reminds me of a Hollywood gala event.
The only difference is that it wasn’t the dignitaries who were in town and front and center was it?
Remember, Rome was in control of Jerusalem.
The Jews were tolerated in their own country.
They were occupied by Rome if you will.
Jesus, at this point, had the support of the people.
He could have called down His Blue Angels and His white angels and whatever other color of angels to eliminate the Roman Army.
He would have the support of the many throngs of people who were crying out for their savior to save them… but from what and for what?
Yesterday at Conference Wayne Hochstetler talked to us a bit about vision in the morning sermon.
He referenced Isaiah 49:1-13.
READ Isaiah 49:1-13
/Listen to me, all of you in far-off lands!
The Lord called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name.
2// He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver./
/3// He said to me, “You are my servant, //Israel//, and you will bring me glory.”/
/4// I replied, “But my work all seems so useless!
I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose at all.
Yet I leave it all in the Lord’s hand; I will trust God for my reward.”/
/5// And now the Lord speaks—he who formed me in my mother’s womb to be his servant, who commissioned me to bring his people of //Israel// back to him.
The Lord has honored me, and my God has given me strength.
6// He says, “You will do more than restore the people of //Israel// to me.
I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”/
/7// The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of //Israel//, says to the one who is despised and rejected by a nation, to the one who is the servant of rulers: “Kings will stand at attention when you pass by.
Princes will bow low because the Lord has chosen you.
He, the faithful Lord, the Holy One of //Israel//, chooses you.”/
The prophet had a vision – he knew what God wanted him to do.
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