Behold Your King

INTRO: When I first began to pastor, it happened that as I developed how I would approach special days like Palm Sunday, Good Friday etc… that I began to do a lot of research into the history of those days. And this year, as I thought of what I should cover on this day we call Palm Sunday I went over some old messages and thought I would restudy and rewrite some as my abilities and knowledge had grown over the years. Also, many of the people in church here now were not there when I preached those messages and those that were may find themselves learning a lot of new things from those messages.

The message I am redoing this morning is a message I did in 1997 called, "Behold Your King!" The passage that was read for us was Matthew 21:1-11. In this passage we have described for us Jesus' ride into Jerusalem on a donkey. It is a most significant event! And before we look at that, I want to just mention something to our students who are studying for ministry. Let me give you a word of warning. I have heard messages on this passage that centered on the aspect where Jesus told His disciples to find a donkey, loose it and bring it to Him. And the messages were built on this thought that as the disciples were to free the donkey, so we should bring the Gospel message to sinners to free them, and then bring them to Him.