The Importance of Palm Sunday
John 12
Zechariah 9:9-“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
Matthew 21:9-“Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!”
1. The significance of Jerusalem
Verse 12
Isaiah 48:22-“There is no peace,’ says the Lord, ‘for the wicked.”
Ephesians 2:16-“and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.”
Ephesians 2:14-16-“For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.”
2. The people who Jesus came for
Verses 12-13, 17, 20
John 4:22-“You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.”
Matthew 1:21-“And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
Romans 1:16-“ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”
3. The reason Jesus came
Verses 27-33
Luke 19:10-“for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
John 10:10-“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”