How you see Him is how you will crown Him
Well it’s Palm Sunday, the day the church “celebrates” the national superficial recognition of Jesus as their King just before demanding His crucifixion 4 days later.
Yes, this celebration confuses me too – however, it does set the stage for a very good teaching on expectations.
The Jewish people as a whole rejected Jesus because He did not conform to their incomplete & incorrect understanding of who the Messiah was going to be.
They knew He was going to:
• come and establish God’s kingdom
• unite Israel &make sovereign their borders
• reign on David’s throne forever.
What they failed to see was His:
• Rejection by Israel
• Authority being challenged
• Lack of majesty or stateliness so as to captivate them
• mocking
• trial
• sufferings
• Death
• resurrection.
ALL foretold and predicted, but as Isaiah said God gave them a “spirit of deep sleep” and “blinded their eyes”.
Yet, an old man and woman, namely Anna and Simeon, knew & recognized Jesus and knew He was here to redeem Israel from their sins without ever hearing Him preach, seeing Him heal or even talking to Him for they knew it from His birth.
How? The Spirit of God gave them eyes to see and ears to hear, BECAUSE they were true worshipers of God who sought Him for Who He IS rather than for what they wanted Him to be!
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