04-14-2019 – Passion Week Begins!

Bible Text: Mark 11:1-11 | Pastor: Pastor Mike | Series: Palm Sunday | Here is the bulletin insert: For full notes, click below.

4.14.19 ~ Mark 11:1-11,

Passion Week Begins!

Jesus presents Himself as Messiah ~ reveals Himself as God’s Lamb ~ hands Himself over to be arrested ~ gives up His spirit and dies ~ is buried, only to rise from the grave, demonstrating eternal life.
Apart from God’s original act of creation, when everything was made that has been made, the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of God’s One and Only Son, is by far the most marvelous, majestic, and miraculous narrative in the Bible.
The OT has many prophecies that were fulfilled during Passion Week, concerning the suffering and death of God’s Son, the fulfillment of God’s sovereign plan to make restitution for sin, while providing salvation.
Exodus 12:46… None of His bones broken
Psalm 16:8-11… He would rise from the dead.
Psalm 22:16… His hands and feet would be pierced. Psalm 22:18… Lots would be cast for His garments. Psalm 69:21… He would be given vinegar to drink. Psalm 110:1… He would ascend into heaven.
Isaiah 53:1-12… He would be despised, led like a lamb to slaughter, pierced for our sins and put to death. Zechariah 9:9… He will enter Jerusalem on a colt. Zechariah 11:12… He would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver [Exodus 21:32, the price of a slave]. Zechariah 13:7… His friends would desert Him.
Read Mark 11:1-3… Jesus (and the 12) came near Olivet, where Judas betrayed Him, bringing guards and soldiers to arrest Him (cf. Matthew 26:36, 45-50).
It was from Olivet that Jesus ascended into heaven (Acts 1:9-12), and where He will return (Zechariah 14:3-5), and everyone will see Him (Revelation 1:7). Matthew 21:2 says there was a mare, and her colt.
Read Mark 11:4-7… Matthew 21:5 includes Zechariah 9:9, “Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, humble, and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
Read Mark 11:8-10… The people show respect and praise to a king (2Kings 9:12-13); accepting Christ’s claim as their Messiah-King.
Matthew 1:1, “The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”
Matthew 2:1-2, “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.’”
Matthew 27:11, “Jesus stood before the governor and the governor asked him, ‘Are you the king of the Jews?’ ‘Yes, it is as you say.’”
The people threw down their outer garments and palm branches (cf. John 12:13), symbolic of their hope for their Messiah-King to free them from Roman oppression.
The people shouted (Mark 11:9) “Hosanna!” This is a prayerful request, expressing adoration, praise, and joy.
Psalm 118:25-26, “O LORD, save us; O LORD, grant us success. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD, from the house of the LORD, we praise You.”
Jesus [Yeshua] means “God saves,” “God’s Salvation,” Mark 11:10 has in view the Davidic Kingdom, when the Messiah-King rules on earth for 1000 years.
Matthew 21:10-11, “When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, ‘Who is this?’ And the crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.’”
Read Mark 11:11… Jesus looks around in the Temple; He then returns to Bethany for the night.
Jesus had given His disciples a preview of what would happen in Jerusalem (see Mark 10:32-34).
On Thursday of Passion week, in the upper room with His disciples, Jesus instructs them, doing away with Passover, replacing it with the Lord’s Supper, He is the Lamb of God, His own blood would be shed for sins. 2Corinthians 5:21, “God made Christ who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (Romans 3:23-24; 6:23; 5:8; 8:1; 10:9-10, 13).
Mark 11:9, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”