Question: Who is Jesus to You?

(Matthew 21:1-11)

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

“Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your king is coming to you,

humble, and mounted on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

I. JESUS IS THE HUMBLE KING WHO FULFILLS

(ZECHARIAH 9:9)

“Rejoice greatly, DaughterZion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!

See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey”

(MATTHEW 21:5)

“Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey.”’

PRAUS _______ ________ ________

(PSALM 118:26)

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’

II. JESUS IS THE SON OF DAVID & THE SON OF GOD

(2 SAMUEL 716)

“Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.”

(MATTHEW 21:14)

"And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them”

(ISAIAH 35:5-6)

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;

(MATTHEW 7:29)

for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

(LUKE 5:21)

And the scribes and thePharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

(PSALM 8:2)

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

(LUKE 19:41)

And when he drewnear and saw the city, he wept over it,

III. JESUS IS THE SUFFERING SERVANTWHOCOMESTO DIE 

(MATTHEW 20:18-19)

“See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”

(JOHN 1:29)

The next day he saw Jesuscoming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

(ISAIAH 53:5)

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought uspeace, and with his wounds we are healed.

(LUKE 19:42)

“If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.”

(MARK 10:45)

For even the Son ofMan came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

(PHILIPPIANS 2:9-10) 

“God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow” 

IV. JESUS IS THE LORD WHO DEMANDS TOTAL ALLEGIANCE

(Matthew 21:12-13)

AND JESUS ENTERED THE TEMPLE AND DROVE OUT ALL WHO SOLD AND BOUGHT IN THE TEMPLE, AND HE OVERTURNED THE TABLES OF THE MONEY-CHANGERS AND THE SEATS OF THOSE WHO SOLD PIGEONS. HE SAID TO THEM, “IT IS WRITTEN, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER,’ BUT YOUMAKE IT A DEN OFROBBERS.”

(GENESIS 28:16)

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I didnot know it.” 

(PSALM 139:13-14)

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are yourworks; my soul knows it very well. 

(PSALM 23:1-3)

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters. 

He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths ofrighteousness for his name's sake.

(PSALM 22)

My God, my God, why haveyou forsaken me? 

Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? 

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and bynight, but I find no rest.

(PSALM 23:4)

Even Tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, Youare with me

(PSALM 22:3)

Yet You Are Holy

(MATTHEW 7:21-23)

And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

(MATTHEW 18:3)

“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. “

(JERIMIAH 17:9)

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

(Isaiah 55:8)

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.