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So, how many of you ever heard or possibly used this?

As a parent?

Of you, get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

You've used that Jacob or elf you have.

Yeah, he knows that by heart.

I'm sure there's a few others out there that could admit the same thing.

You know, it's a common thing.

And as we take a look at our passes for Palm Sunday, today is a thing is we're basically going to read about a time when the people of Jerusalem got the Divine version of that same Mantra from Jesus.

You know, Jesus had left Bethany and he's walking from bether at this point walking.

But then it gets to a point where he starts writing this donkey, but he's going from Bethany to Jerusalem.

So he has a group of people or group of disciples who have followed him out of Bethany cuz they want to see what he's going to Jerusalem to do.

And that's where we pick up and Luke chapter, 19, verses 36 through 38.

Cuz as he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.

When you came near the place, where the road goes down, the Mount of Olives.

The whole crowd of disciples began.

Joyfully to praise God in a loud voices for all the Miracles.

That's blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord peace in heaven and glory in the highest.

You know, it's Jesus is making this trip.

The praise and Adoration of the people kind of reached his Peak and As the excitement continues to build the people start showing their adoration for him by spreading their coats on the road ahead of him.

What's the US?

That sounds pretty strange?

But what it was if it was a symbolic way of the people saying that they were placing themselves under his feet as their King.

That they were submitting themselves to his Rule.

And that's why they started doing that.

They were declaring that this was the Messiah that they had waited for.

You know, Jesus was heading to Jerusalem and liberate them from their Roman oppressors.

Or so, they thought.

So they hoped mean what else would he be going to Jerusalem?

They couldn't think of any other reason.

And you know this, I read this story and I think about it.

I don't know the size of the donkey.

Jesus was riding, but for some reason I picture him on this little donkey who's trying to weave its way through all these coats on this road trying to decide what is going on.

I thought about that.

I don't know if donkeys would eat.

So here's this donkey.

We've been its way through heading.

Down this road and they come over the crest of that hill, and they start down the Mount of Olives.

Now, you can see the City Jerusalem out there.

And that kind of makes that excitement get even higher for those people that are walking with them.

So they begin to shout a little louder, cheer, a little bit more.

I don't see.

No, they do that there.

Palm branches.

I'm sure they come out of the town to meet them and when they realize what's going on, join in the celebration, so you have these two great tides of people.

So I'm coming out of Jerusalem, some coming down from Bethany and I kind of join together to just be the large sea of humanity Around Jesus as he proceeds, Some in front some behind, but all of them cheering and celebrating that Jesus is finally coming to Jerusalem.

Like I said, their hopes for the Messiah had kind of a wretch their Pinnacle at this point.

So the people are shouting blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.

They were essentially publicly proclaiming that.

This is our King.

This is our most the promised Messiah and we recognize that he has the full authority of God.

No, Matthew notes that the crowd also shot at Hosanna to the son of David hosanna in the highest.

You know, the word Hosanna means to save now and when they put that title in there of son of David, that's the title of the Messiah.

So essentially what the people were shouting was son of David save us now.

You know, the crowd was not pleading for salvation from their sin.

But what they were pleading with was that this Messiah King would come, and save them from their Roman oppressors that he would come and take over.

And that they would be the ones in charge here.

That's what led them to cry out as we seeing Mark.

11:10 blessed is the king, the coming Kingdom of Our Father, David.

That's ever expecting.

As the Messiah came into Jerusalem.

They were expecting that the kingdom of their ancestor.

David was once again going to be established.

That was what they fully expected to happen.

Another reason I shared all that with you is to just demonstrate that.

The people really had no concept of a messiah, who would come as suffering sacrifice for sin.

Yeah, that's what's so different about the Easter story for us.

You know, we've heard the story.

A number of times, me know how it is.

We know what happens in the days to come with the whole story.

They didn't.

No, they were witnessing these events happening live.

and, You know, the whole idea of a messiah that would be sacrificed that just didn't fit with what they wanted.

That didn't fit with their expectations.

you know, they wanted the Jesus that would come in and go all John Rambo on the Roman forum and basically kick him out that he would defeat them in some great military campaign and they would be the ones who charge.

The Romans would be serving them, that he would totally flip flop, all of that.

But that wasn't the Jesus that they were going to get.

and, you know, not everyone shared in this joyous excitement, you know, as it's going on we know the Good old Pharisees.

Who are always there to bring down any party.

It seems like, you know, there, outraged.

It's what's going on.

They think these things that this crowd is shouting me.

They see them as straight.

Things against God.

They can't believe that.

They're saying all these things about this.

Jesus.

Why is Luke Chapter 19? Verse 39.

We read there?

It says some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus.

Teacher rebuke your disciples.

Kind of funny, cuz a lot of other times in scripture, they don't even really want to acknowledge that.

He's a teacher.

But here they do.

And I think, you know, part of the reason, the Pharisees turned to Jesus is they realize they have zero chance.

I've getting this crowd to calm down on their own.

They don't they're in too much of a frenzy.

The only person that this crowd is going to listen to is Jesus.

So I think that's why the Pharisees come to him and they make this appeal cuz they think this is the only way we're going to put an end to this.

You know, the irony of all this is that is actually the last time we ever hear anything about the Pharisees in the Book of Luke.

It's when those who had hated him and treated him horrible, and so many occasions.