Behold...The King...Comes...To You! | Matthew 21:4-5

[00:00:00] Real Truth Daily, This is Daily Truths with Dave Ahlman

[00:00:08] Hi everybody, welcome back to Daily Truths.

[00:00:10] A lot of people want God to do certain things for them like make their problems go away

[00:00:15] and crunch out evil.

[00:00:18] It was the same thing in Jesus' day.

[00:00:22] They expected the Messiah to come when he came to take away their problems and to crunch

[00:00:26] out evil to destroy the Roman government and establish peace on earth.

[00:00:32] But that's not why Jesus came.

[00:00:34] We know that he came as a sin-bearer and peace-giver, bearing our sin on the cross and giving us

[00:00:40] peace and reconciliation with God.

[00:00:43] And so knowing that makes an incredible difference.

[00:00:47] Now why were there so many people, we've been talking about Palm Sunday the last few

[00:00:51] days, why were there so many people lining the city streets of Jerusalem when Jesus

[00:00:55] came into town?

[00:00:57] Because just a few days before then, in a little town by the name of Bethany, two miles

[00:01:03] outside the city walls of Jerusalem, guess what Jesus did?

[00:01:07] He raised Lazarus from the dead.

[00:01:10] Now word travels fast, right?

[00:01:13] Especially when only two miles away somebody's been raised from the dead and people could

[00:01:17] go to see for themselves this guy who was dead for four days now is alive.

[00:01:22] Well people were saying this has got to be the Messiah and he's going to do two things.

[00:01:27] Number one, take away our problems and crunch out the evil Roman government.

[00:01:32] But what does it say in the book of Zechariah that was fulfilled on the day of Palm Sunday?

[00:01:38] This is what it says about Jesus.

[00:01:40] This is Matthew chapter 21 verse 5 and again this is a quote from the book of Zechariah.

[00:01:47] Think about that yesterday.

[00:01:48] Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold your king is coming to you.

[00:01:54] Humble and mounted on a donkey and on a colt the foal of a donkey.

[00:01:59] Let's take those words apart.

[00:02:01] Behold the king comes to you.

[00:02:05] First of all the word behold means let me get your attention.

[00:02:09] Take a look at this.

[00:02:11] This is something you've never seen before.

[00:02:13] Behold let me get your attention.

[00:02:16] Take a look at this.

[00:02:17] So behold your king, namely the king not only the king of the Jews, the king of the Gentiles

[00:02:24] but the king of the entire universe.

[00:02:26] We say that Jesus is the king of kings and Lord of lords.

[00:02:32] So behold let me get your attention.

[00:02:34] The king, the king of all kings is coming.

[00:02:38] Now it's interesting that it says here he's coming.

[00:02:41] He's not sitting up in heaven waiting for people to come to him.

[00:02:44] He's coming to planet earth.

[00:02:46] And why did he do that?

[00:02:48] To save us.

[00:02:49] So behold the king is coming and then who's he coming to according to this?

[00:02:53] To you.

[00:02:54] So the people of God that lined the city streets of Jerusalem that day, indeed Jesus

[00:03:00] was coming for them but indeed they didn't know exactly what kind of messianic rule

[00:03:07] he would establish.

[00:03:08] He came not to crunch out the Roman government, not to take away people's problems and my

[00:03:13] friends that's what we need to remember now too.

[00:03:17] Jesus didn't come to solve all our problems and to take away all our difficulties and

[00:03:21] crunch out any government in the world that's oppressive like the Chinese, like the Russian

[00:03:28] government and it seems like more and more like the United States government.

[00:03:32] That's not why Jesus came.

[00:03:34] Jesus came to set us free from the guilt power and punishment of sin and he did

[00:03:39] the same thing for the people that lined the city streets of Jerusalem that day.

[00:03:44] So here's the thing, as I said before Jesus came as a sin bearer, bearing our sin on the

[00:03:50] cross and a peace giver bringing reconciliation between us and God.

[00:03:56] This is why he came.

[00:03:58] So I want to conclude this little message today by saying this, the king, okay, behold

[00:04:06] Yep, let me get your attention.

[00:04:07] Behold the king, the king of kings and Lord of lords is coming.

[00:04:11] He's come already to you and how wonderful it is that he came not bearing a sword but

[00:04:19] bearing peace, bringing peace with one another in the body of Christ and peace with God

[00:04:26] so that someday we will behold his face.

[00:04:29] We will see him as he is.

[00:04:31] We will share in his glory.

[00:04:33] We will shine like the sun.

[00:04:35] We will be in his presence and behold when Christ comes back to take us home we can say

[00:04:41] behold the king is coming to us.

[00:04:45] Thanks be to God.

[00:04:47] And that is today's Daily Truth.

[00:04:49] Have a great day in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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[00:04:55] Pastor Dave Alman is the pastor of Mount Hope Church in Boulder, Colorado.

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