New Testament - Matthew 21:1-17 - (Jesus Enters Jerusalem) - CC Windward - Pastor Tim

New Testament - Matthew 21:1-17 - (Jesus Enters Jerusalem) - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode # 157: - Original Air Date: 07/30/2012 A.D.

PASTOR TIM's NOTES:

Matthew 21:1-17
“Jesus Enters Jerusalem”
1. Jesus makes final PREPARATION for entering Jerusalem.
Vs. 1-3
1a. Jesus makes final preparation on the Mount of Olives.
The Mount of Olives becomes the staging area for Jesus and the disciples.
1b. Jesus makes the final preparation by sending two disciples into the city.
Jesus has made arrangements with the owner to use the donkey and the colt.
"if anyone ask tell him the Lord needs it"
Why the secrecy?
The owner might be excommunicated.
John 9:21-22
2. Jesus will fulfill PROPHECY as he enters Jerusalem.
Vs. 4-7
2a. He fulfills prophecy by riding the donkey.
This takes place exactly the way Zechariah foretold.
Zech 9:9
Luke 19:30 tells us that no one had ever ridden on this colt before.
The fact that no one had ever ridden it speaks of it special purpose.
2b. He fulfills prophecy by arriving on time.
Daniel predicts the exact day that Jesus would ride into Jerusalem.
Dan 9:25-27
He also arrives on the day that the Passover Lambs were being inspected in the temple.
3. Jesus is PROCLAIMED to be the Messiah as he enters Jerusalem.
Vs. 8-11
3a. This proclamation is made when cloaks and branches are laid on the road.
This was done for Kings as a sign of honor.
2 Kings 9:11-13
This was done in fulfillment of a Jewish Festival.
Lev 23:39-43
3b. This proclamation is made when the crowd quotes Psalm 118.
Ps 118:19-27, Luke 19:38
To sing blessed is the King on a Roman highway was treason against Rome.

3c. This proclamation is made because of the miracles he had done.
Luke’s gospel gives us this detail.
What miracle in particular had Jesus done recently? John 12:16-19
3d. This proclamation is made when they refer to him as The prophet.
Vs. 11 The crowds answered, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee."
This is a reference to Deut 18.
Moses said that one day “the prophet” would come.
Deut 18:15-16
4. Jesus confronts those in POSITIONS of leadership.
Vs. 12-17
4a. He confronts them by turning over the tables of those exchanging money and those
selling animals for sacrifice.
Now early the next morning Jesus returns to the temple.
Along the way:
He cursed the fig tree ....Mark 11:12
Now he will cleanse the temple for the second time...Jn.2:13
This took place in the court of the gentiles.

4b. He confronts them by rebuking them with the scriptures.
13 "It is written," he said to them, "'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but
you are making it a 'den of robbers.'"
Here Jesus quotes Jeremiah 7:11 and Psalm 8:2
4c. He confronts them by healing the blind and the lame.
Isaiah 35:5
4d. He confronts them by asking a question about the praise of children.
"Yes," replied Jesus, "have you never read,
"'From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise'?" Psalm 8:2
Jesus was the Lamb of God who had come to take away the sins of the world.
This is why previous attempts to arrest or kill him had failed.
Previously he had said many times, "My hour has not yet come"
Now his hour had come, so he enters Jerusalem.