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1 | Triumphal Entry of Christ | Luke 19:28 | Morant61 | 185995 | ||
Greetings All! I was doing some reading in preparation for Palm Sunday and came across these great quotes from Edersheim's, "Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah". ********************** Quotes from Edersheim: "At length the time of the end had come. Jesus was about to make Entry into Jerusalem as King: King of the Jews, as Heir of David's royal line, with all of symbolic, typic, and prophetic import attaching to it." Book 2, pg. 363. "It is surely one of the strangest mistakes of modern criticism to regard this Entry of Christ into Jerusalem as implying that, fired by enthusiasm, He had for the moment expected that the people would receive Him as the Messiah. And it seems little, it at all better, when this Entry is described as 'an apparent concession to the fevered expectations of His disciples and the multitude...the grave sad accommodation to thoughts other than His own to which the Teacher of new truths must often have recourse when He finds Himself misinterpreted by those who stand together on a lower level.' 'Apologies' are the weakness of 'Apologetics' - and any 'accomodation' theory can have no place in the history of Christ." - Book 2, pg. 363. "It behoved Him so to enter Jerusalem, because He was a King; and as King to enter it in such manner, because He was such a King - and both the one and the other were in accordance with the prophecy of old." - Book 2, pg. 363. "As the two disciples, accompained, or immediately followed by the multitude, brought 'the colt' to Christ, 'two streams of poeple met' - the one coming from the City, the other from Bethnay. The impression left on our minds is, that what followed was unexpected by those who accompained Christ, that it took them by surprise. The disciples, who understood not, till the light of the Resurrection glory had been poured on their minds, the significance of 'these things,' even after they had occured, seem not even to have guessed, that it was of set purpose Jesus was about to make His Royal Entry into Jerusalem." - Book 2, pg. 364. "We turn once more to the scene just described. For, it was no common pageantry; and Christ's public Entry into Jerusalem seems so altogether different from - we had almost said, inconsistent with - His previous mode of appearance. Evidently, the time for the silence so long enjoined had passed, and that for public declaration had come. And such, indeed, this Entry was. From the moment of His sending forth the two disciples to His acceptance of the homage of the multitude, and His rebuke of the Pharisee's attempt to arrest it, all must be regarded as designed or approved by Him: not only a public assertion of His Messiahship, but a claim to its national acknowledgment." - Book 2, pg. 370. "Bu the enthusiasm of the people - their royal welcom of Christ - how is it to be explained, and how reconciled with the speedy and terrible reaction of His Betrayal and Crucifixion?" - Book 2, pg. 371. "The anger and jealousy of the Pharisses understood it better, and watched for the opportunity of revenge. But, for the present, on that bright spring-day, the weak, excitable, fickle populace streamed before Him through the City-gates, through the narrow streets, up the Temple-mount. Everywhere the tramp of their feet, and the shout of their accamations brought men, women,and children into the streets and on the housetops. The City was moved, and from mouth to mouth the question passed among the eager crowd of curious onlookers: 'Who is He?' And the multitude answered - not, this is Israel's Messiah-King, but: 'This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.'" - Book 2, pp. 372-73. "He alone was silent and sad among this excited multitude, the marks of the tears He had wept over Jerusalem still on His cheek. It is not so, that an earthly King enters His City in triumph; no so, that the Messiah of Israel's expectation would have gone into His Temple. He spake not, but only look round about upon all things, as if to view the field on which He was to suffer and die. And now the shadows of evening were creeping up; and, weary and sad, he once more returned with the twelve disciples to the shelter and rest of Bethany." - Book 2, pg. 373. **************** Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | Triumphal Entry of Christ | Luke 19:28 | stjohn | 186023 | ||
Thank you brother Tim; Sense you mentioned palm sunday, that reminded me of something I had recently read in a sermon by, C. H SPURGEON ********* Having all his life long carried their sicknesses and sorrows, he bore the burden of sin to the place of its annihilation, and by his death he made an end of it. Apart from the atonement, the chosen of God, like other men, lay under sin; the black cloud was over all the race, but Jesus took the dense mass of all the transgressions of his people, past, present, and to come, and obliterated the whole, even as a cloud is blotted out from the face of heaven. Jesus took the whole incalculably ponderous load, all charged with tempest as it was, and bore it all upon those shoulders, which must have been crushed to the earth had they not been divine: on the tree he bore that sin and the wrath which was due to it, feeling all its crowded tempests in his own soul, until in that moment when he had borne all, and ended all, he sent up the victorious shout of "It is finished." Then shone forth the unclouded glory of boundless love; then was gone for ever the threatened storm; then righteousness sprang out of the earth, and peace looked down from heaven, and the reconciled ones might well exclaim, "Sing, O heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel." Sin was put away, transgression was cast into the depths of the sea, and loud o'er all rang out the jubilant challenge—"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? who is he that condemneth, now that Christ hath died?" I scarcely need to sketch that experience, for, my brethren, you know it well. Oh, the blackness of the darkness above; oh, the horror of the tempest within, in the dreadful hour of conviction of sin, when my weary soul longed for nothingness, that it might escape from its own hell. Oh the dread of the wrath to come. I saw all God's indignation gathering up to spend itself upon me, but glory be to God it spent itself elsewhere! ... C. H SPURGEON "The tempest's awful voice was heard; O Christ, it broke on thee! Thy open bosom was my ward, It braved the storm for me. Thy form was scarr'd, thy visage marr'd, Now cloudless peace for me." ************ "Jesus, thy blood and righteousness Their beauty are, their glorious dress; 'Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed, With joy shall they lift up their head." ************ "Come every soul by sin oppressed, There's mercy with the Lord; And he will surely give you rest, By trusting in his word. Only trust him! Only trust him! Only trust him now! He will save you. He will save you. He will save you now." Good words: Peace. |
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3 | Triumphal Entry of Christ | Luke 19:28 | stjohn | 186024 | ||
And this...... "Down, down they come, those fruitful showers! Those earth-rejoicing drops! A momentary deluge pours, Then thins, decreases, stops. And ere flee dimples on the stream Have circled out of sight, Lo! from the sun a joyous gleam Breaks forth, of amber light." |
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