The Unexpected Messiah | Your Kingdom Come - Matthew 21:6-16 | Travis Jones (3/21/2026)

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It's one of my favorite times of the week. Um just before this is to look at the the people of God, saints, saved by grace through faith, all from different backgrounds, all saved for his glory, and I'm glad that you're here. Um if you're joining us online, the app, thank you for being with us. Family, if you would at this time, I would invite you to open up your Bibles and I want you to go to the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 21. We're gonna be doing the first 16 verses, and I understand you're probably going, I thought we were walking through the book of Philippians, and we are, but we're pausing for about three weeks. We're gonna begin our Easter series. Um, we've entitled It Your Kingdom Come. And in this series, we have a specific purpose. We want us to see that Jesus came to be our king. And today we're gonna begin by looking at this. Jesus, Jesus is a different kind of king. He's a different kind of king. He's a different kind of king. So let me begin. As I was reading this scripture and I'm trying to study it and understand it, something came to my mind. I just want to ask you all a question. All right, we'll begin this way. All right. Have you ever, I don't know, been on the internet, maybe the socials or something, and an advertisement pops up, and there's a product there, and you look at that product and you say, that product is exactly what I need. It is gonna change my life, or something like that. So you order the product and you're excited to get it, and you get it and you open it up and you understand it is not what you had envisioned it to be, right? So you have like expectations, but then your expectations meet reality. All right? I am not, I don't know, um, I don't know, uh unimmune to this. Um I've shared this before. I too, you know, one time, you know, years ago, man. I'm sitting there on the socials, and I don't know what it was on, but it popped up. It was it was the world's greatest pillow, is what it said. Now you guys don't understand. There were doctors talking about it, you know, and there was some research. And what they told me, they said, you buy this pillow, you're gonna have the best sleep of your life. And I thought, sign me up. I would like to have the best sleep of my life. So I didn't tell nobody, you didn't tell my family, tell my wife. I just order it, and then I inform her, guess what? The world's greatest pillow is gonna be coming to our house, you know? And you get all excited, and it gets there, and I open it, and um, yeah, I would say at best it was the world's most okayest pillow, you know. I I used it once. I didn't even finish the night, dude. I was like, I can't even use this pillow, man, you know, but you know, uh my expectations were this, but the reality was this. Maybe, you know, you've done that before. You know, you order something, you know, on Timu, whatever. Is that what it's called Timu? I don't know, dude. You order it, it looks like leather, you get it, it's pleather. I don't know, dude. But it's easy to happen. It's easy to happen. But I was thinking about this. Um, with some people, it's that way with God, right? You know, they have what I would call an expectation. They have a mental picture, they have um a speculation about who God is or what God should be, you know. But we don't need speculation. What we need is revelation. Revelation is God says, I am. Speculation is you and I speculating, giving our opinions about God. But some people come to God and they already have their mind made up, right? What kind of king they want him to be, right? Maybe, maybe, maybe they want a king, you know, that's gonna make their enemies leave. Maybe they're looking for a king that's gonna make their bills decrease. I'm looking for a king gonna make all my problems disappear, man. Once again, speculation. They got this speculation. What we need is revelation. And you get to Matthew 21, you get some revelation. Some revelation about who Jesus Christ is. In Matthew 21, Jesus shows up and it's on Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is the last week of Jesus, a holy week, man. It's the last week before Jesus is crucified. He comes on the scene and he says, I am the king, I am the Messiah, and I may not be the kind of king you expecting. Because you've been speculating, I'm here to give you some revelation, man. And when he does that, it shocks the people. Now you can read this, we're going to read it, and you're going to say, Those people shocked. I won't say it shocks people today, man. Because when you come to Matthew 21, as I understand it, there's three events that take place. And all three of these events, and each one of them, there's a revelation by Jesus of the kind of king he is, and it's not the kind of king that all those people were expecting, and it shocked them. And by the way, it's not the kind of king that some today may think Jesus is, but once again, we don't need speculation. We need revelation, and let's let Jesus tell us this is who I am. And so we're going to go through these three events, and we're going to see really these three revelations about what kind of king he is. And by the way, if his revelation about who he is differs from what your speculation is, my advice to you and advice to me is I need to get under the revelation and I need to repent of the speculation. Let's get into it. We're just going to walk through it. First thing, first event we're going to see is this. We're going to see a king who is humble. All right. We're going to see a humble king, a humble king. Let me just back up a minute, because there's kind of a runway we need here, okay? So Jesus just told two of his disciples, I'm going to read this to you. This is before verse six. He says, Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you're going to find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Untie them, bring them to me, and if anyone says anything to you, you shall say the Lord needs them, and he will send them at once. Alright? Verse 6, we pick up. This is good stuff, man. The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. I'm going to pause there because there's no debate, right? These guys don't debate. Like, okay, if okay, I just I was saying, if Jesus told me to go do that, I might have said, You want me, you want me to go where? That village up there. You want me to go in that village? Is that okay? Is that right? You want me to go lift another man's donkey and colt. I mean, because that's what it sounds like I'm just gonna walk in and grab it, and Jesus' like, no, you just tell them I need it. So you I'm gonna say that and you're gonna be and that's gonna work out. And Jesus, you know, he says, yeah, man. But you see that in the disciples, man. They just obey, man. You don't ask Jesus to explain themselves, man. You you ever, hey, look, you don't have to answer this. You ever ask Jesus to explain to you why he's telling you to do something? I mean, we can do that. We ought not, but we can do that, man. It's eat, man, it's easy to obey Jesus when his instructions, I don't know, make me look smart. Jesus gonna make me look smart? Game on, Jesus. I'll do that one. You know what I'm saying? You're right? Or if his plans for me match my preferences, you know, like Jesus, yeah, like if Jesus was to tell me, Travis, go eat some tacos, game on. I'm on that one, you know. But if he tells me to do something that I might not want to do, I don't know, man. But you see here, these disciples hear the command, and though it may not all line up in their head, they don't ask questions, they go. All right. So they obey. Look what happens next, verse 7. They brought the donkey and the colt and put put on them their cloak, and he said on them. That's Jesus. All right. So they obey, they do what Jesus says, they go do this, it all transpires in the way that Jesus had said it would. They get the the donkey, the colt, the foal of the donkey, and it says they put their cloaks, they put on their cloaks on them, all right? So what you got here is the disciples, they're probably taking off their outer robe and they're putting it on the back of the colt, right? And then we're told Jesus set on them. All right, so what's going on here? Because this is not an everyday occurrence, you know, in the culture that we live in. What's going on here? Well, I'll tell you, it's a it's a it's a it's a sermon on hooves, man. That's what it is, man. It screams, Jesus is saying, I may not be the king that you expected. Because this ain't what you were probably expecting. In the ancient world, you got a king riding a stallion. That means I've come to conquer, I came to take care of the business, you know. You get a king riding on a donkey, it communicates something different. Jesus is saying, I'm different. This communicates peace. Jesus is fulfilling prophecy. He's fulfilling it. You go back to Zachariah, this prophecy had been made in the Old Testament. And so we see the King Jesus coming humbly, mounted on a donkey. Jesus is saying, Yes, I am the king, but my kingdom does not advance in the way your flesh may think a kingdom should advance. Jesus says, I'm a humble king. I am a peaceful king, peace purchased, not by killing his enemies, but peace purchased by dying for them. Jesus is rearranging what many people thought he ought to be. He's like, I'm gonna set the record straight. You guys men speculating. I'm gonna do some revelating, and I want you to see I'm a different kind of king. I ain't that kind of king, I'm a different kind of king. Let's read verse eight and nine. We're just going through the text. So you got you got Jesus. Okay, let me tell you something. You've probably heard this story before. I don't know. But I remember first time I heard this story, I read the story, there's some weird stuff going on. Verse 8 and 9. You gotta understand this is just this is this is this is this is odd. He's on the don't he's on the cult, says most, so not everybody, but most of the crowd. Look what these guys do. Spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds went before him. We got a parade going on, 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. Okay, but you got to picture that scene. You got to picture that scene, right? You got a, and then you've got all these people, you know, and and and and and and and and and they're and and they're putting cloaks on the ground. You got some of these guys, I don't know, they're they're going up to palm branches, they're just cutting branches down, you know, and you go, what is this about? What is this about? Well, in the ancient time, this was a public honor. Cloaks and branches, they're saying the person on this donkey is royalty. But but I couldn't help but see in this, especially as you read it all, there's some tension going on here. And it's the same tension that you're going to see today. So you get these people and they're honoring him, right? While at the same time they're honoring him, they're trying to fit him into their expectations. They're trying to mold him into their speculations, right? And they got all this enthusiasm. But you can't confuse, listen, you cannot confuse enthusiasm with correct theology. You can't, because these people, man, they got the enthusiasm. And they're all doing this loudly, man, but they still want Jesus mainly as a problem fixer. They want Jesus as a booster. You know, they want Jesus as a mascot for their agenda, is what they want, man. That's what they want. We got some ideals what Jesus is gonna do. Jesus is gonna take care of those people, he's gonna take care of those pagans. Come on in, Jesus. I'm gonna worship loudly. I'm gonna do all sorts of stuff. You gotta do what you're gonna do what I what I want you to do. You're gonna be my mascot. Go get Rome. Go get those ugly people, go get those bad people, get in town, you know, and do what you you gotta do. Let me tell you right now, you already know this. Jesus is nobody's mascot. He's nobody's mascot for any agenda. He is the king of kings and the lord of lords. And this is why Palm Sunday is so, I don't know, searching in the heart. You get you because you got a crowd there. And they look devoted. They look like they're all in. This dude, dude, some dude's sitting there cutting down somebody's bushes, dude. I'm like, just cutting them down, man. He's all excited. As long as Jesus will do what he wants him to do. That's all he's doing there, man. We know this because in a few days, most of the people on that road who were saying Hosanna will be saying, crucify him. What changed? What changed from saying Hosanna to crucify him? What changed is they didn't get what they wanted. That's what changed. That's exactly what changed. The flesh will say, I'll throw down my cloak. The flesh will say, I will worship exuberantly. I can't spell it nor say it. You know what I'm saying? I'm happy. As long as Jesus does what I want him to do. Jesus jumped through my hoops, Jesus did what I want him to do, I'm all over it, man. But Jesus is not the assistant to your dreams. He's the king. He's the king. He's the king of your life, man. And I want you to notice this, and this is where it gets tricky. It's tricky then, it's tricky now. They're even using correct church language. They're using the correct words. Hosanna, save now. And son of David, that's a Messiah title. You're the promised king. So they're exuberant, right? They're using the right Bible words, they're saying true things, but they're implying it in a wrong way. They're saying, save us from Rome. They're using the same words that a true believer might say, but they're applying it in a wrong way. They want salvation from Rome. They want Jesus to save them from some inconveniences. Jesus, save me from hardship, man. They got some, they got some speculation. They got some expectations. But I tell you what, right now, Jesus about, he's giving some revelation, man. He's going to save. He will save. He is going to save. But not how they think. And not on their timeline. So Jesus comes in as King. Verse 10. And when he entered the Jerusalem, so he got this big old parade. You know, they entered Jerusalem. The whole city stirred up. Saying, good question. Who is this? That's a good question. Everybody's shaking up. Shaking up. Let me tell you this. Jesus has that effect. Jesus always has that effect. He is a disruptor. He is an agitator. Not on not just to agitate, but he agitates because everybody wants to be their own king. Everybody wants to be their own little bossy boss. We all do. It's okay. It's not okay. But we we do. And Jesus comes in and says, I'm the king. It agitates. You know? But they ask the right question. Who is this guy, man? It's the greatest question anyone could ask, right? It's the greatest, it is the greatest question that hangs on everyone in this room, or if you're listening or watching or whatever. Who is Jesus? Alright? Who is Jesus? Verse 11. Somebody's gonna say. And the crowd said, now this is where you start seeing they got an errant view of who he is. This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee. Now see, this is tricky too. Their conclusion is he's a prophet. They're not wrong, but they are incomplete. And incomplete views of Jesus are deadly. So they they they reduce in Jesus. They're gonna reduce Jesus. Jesus is a good man, this is a wise teacher. He's a helper, helper. He's gonna help me out. That's what he's gonna do. That's who Jesus is. If I'm in trouble, he's gonna be my little helper. He's my little buddy, my helper. I don't know, man. I'll tell you this right now: Jesus does not ride into Jerusalem to be anybody's little helper, helper. He rides into Jerusalem to be crowned, then crucified, then raised again, and confessed as Lord. You know, if Jesus only comes to meet your speculations, you're not worshiping the king of kings. You're worshiping somebody you done invented. And you're invented, Jesus don't save nobody. And I was thinking about this. You know, some folks want Jesus to be a spiritual Uber, you know, pick me up, take me where I want to go. But Jesus goes, nah, I ain't that kind of king. I'm not that kind of king. I don't come to take you where you want to go. I come to take you where you need to go. It's a different kind of king. That's the first shock. Alright, we get that event. All right, Jesus. You shaking things up, Jesus? You're not doing what we think we want you to do. You got some, I don't know. There's a second event. Here it is. He's a king who is holy. Alright? He's a holy king. Yeah, come on. So Jesus gets into Jerusalem. I don't understand, make sure we understand the weight of this. You mean you got this parade going on, people saying, you know, basically, go get Rome. Go get them. Go get them. Jesus goes into Jerusalem. Look at the first place he goes. It's shocking. This is shocking. And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bald in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. Now, if they were expecting Jesus to go straight to the Roman headquarters, day in shock, day in shock, right? Now, this is where, once again, Palm Sunday becomes uncomfortable for them, but for all of us. This is uncomfortable, man. Because Jesus doesn't walk into, Jesus doesn't walk into the most pagan place in the city. He doesn't do that. He walks straight into town and he goes to the church. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We got a parade going on here, Jesus. And you're not, you don't, no, no, no, no, Jesus, you messed up. You're supposed to take a left turn. Like, like, like you, you, you, we were supposed to go take care of them. Like we the good guys. This is the good place. They the bad guys. You went, you don't went to the wrong place. Get the pagans, Jesus. Get the people over there. Get the Romans. We're not the problem. Jesus, we're not the problem. Why are you gonna go up in the church, man? Well, look what he finds in the church. He finds a marketplace. You know? People signing, selling, and buying inside the temple courts. And I want you to understand, this wasn't like a little bake sale for the student retreat. You know what I'm saying? I mean, this is organized religion turned into organized profit. I mean like a little, I mean a little shopping mall, you know? What does Jesus do? Jesus gets in there, flips some tables, man. He doesn't do it politely. He doesn't ask, please, sir. You know, he knows he he he does it. Why? This is righteous zeal, man. Jesus is a holy king. He's a holy king. He refuses to let worship be hijacked. He's not a king. You just, I don't know, yeah, I don't know. We just wants a parade. He demands purity because he is holy, man. All right. So what's that? That's shocking. The parade didn't go in the direction they thought. It went to the church. Verse 13. He done flip the tables. Look what he says. He said to them, It is written, my house, I love that. My house. My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers. Jesus says, It's written. Where is it written? The Bible. Isaiah, my house shall be called a house of prayer. Jeremiah, you're making it into a den of robbers, right? You see, the temple was to be a house of prayer, but they done perverted it. They done made it into something unholy, man. Den of robbers. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus acting like he owns the place because he does. He does. He's the owner. This is holy king behavior. This is Jesus revealing to us. Once again, don't speculate. This is revelation, man. Right? Jesus has the right. To go into his house and rearrange the furniture. He's got absolute authority to do that. Also, he's got absolute authority to flip over the tables in my heart. He's got absolutely all the authority to arrange rearrange the furniture. I don't know in your heart. I don't know, man. I don't listen. It don't matter. You can sit there, man, dude, look, tell me, look, I've done things. I've done things that weren't good, but I selfish, selfish things. And then I put a little spiritual, you know, title on it. Make it look good. Jesus says, I can rearrange that. Ain't a thing. Ain't a thing. I can do it. It's mine, man. I saved you. I own you. I indwell you, right? I mean, we all love a Jesus. We all love a Jesus that fixes them. You love it. Man, I've been in church. You know, Jesus saved me. You know, I don't know. It's a little bit younger, but man, you start going to church, and man, I say church all the time. Jesus, get them. You see those bad people over there? Don't come up in here, Jesus. Jesus says, No, I'm going to go there first. And I got every right to do that. Right? Some people want a savior who's house-trained. You want a savior who'll sit in a corner. Mind his own business. Bark when you want him to bark. Jesus once again goes, eh? No, man, I'm not that kind of king. I'm the king of kings. I'm sovereign. Let me tell you something. Kings don't ask permission to do things. Jesus says, I'm holy. Once again, I don't know what you might be speculating about. He says, This is revelation. This is who I am. I'm holy. That's shocking. Third event. See a king who is merciful. Alright. So if I'm understanding this correct as I read it and you see the flow of it, he's overturned. He's still in the temple, you know. Let me just read verse 14. A king who is merciful is a king who is merciful. Verse 14. And the blind and the lame came to him. This is what was peculiar to me, in the temple. Like he done been flipping the tables. He's still in the temple. And look what he does. And he healed them. That's not a throwaway line there, church. That's the heart of a merciful, gracious king. You get a contrast here, right? There's a contrast. You'd be flipping the tables. Drove people out, but then right after that, people come to him. You got the chaos all around him, but there's specific people being attracted to him. It says the blind and the lame, man. He clears out the corrupt, but the hurting, the seeking, the repentant, they come to him in the temple, and that's significant. And you know, the lime and the blame, that's a marginalized community, man. But not to the King of Kings, not to the merciful, gracious Jesus. He makes room for them. And then I notice this too. The blind and the lame come up to him. He doesn't say to them, Get your life together before you come to me. He doesn't say, let's first talk about how you got blind. He doesn't do that. They come to him. And what does he do? He heals them. He heals them. You see this grace upon grace. Church, Jesus is still in that game. He's still in that business. Jesus still heals. Jesus still saves. Some people think holiness means you got to be at a distance, but holiness doesn't mean that. Jesus never pushes away the repentitant. He welcomes them. And let me say this, and I don't know. I guess in my life, I have never met a man more blind than me or more lame than me, and he accepted me. I guarantee you this, I don't care. We can have a lame off here. I will win. I will win, dude. Okay? And every time I come to him, repentitant, he says, Come on, son. Come on, son. He forgives me. He welcomes me. Verse 15. Some people are going to be agitated on this. I'm going to tell you this real quick. People always get agitated. Religious people always get agitated when Jesus doesn't do what they think he should do. It's today, too. It's today, too. Look at this. But when the chief priest and the scribes saw the, ah, look at this. It's in the text. When they saw the what? Wonderful things. They saw, they saw wonderful things that Jesus did. They saw it. Wonderful things. And the children crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant. You just saw wonderful things. You literally just saw Jesus do wonderful things. And you're indignant. Man, may that not be us. That's pride, man. Pride can look at grace and be offended. Not the kids, dude. The kids all Hosanna. They're saying it now. Hosanna is the son of David. And children have a way of doing that, right? They'll say stuff everybody else is scared to say. Adults, I'm one of them, I guess. I qualify. We're all worried about being dignified. I want to be dignified. I do, man. Don't want to be made fun of. Kids, just honest. Just honest. I see that. I see, I'm going to tell you this. I see that. You know where I really see this come out today in baptism? A young man or woman, they get saved, a kid, a child, immediately they want to get baptized. You got some adult men and women, they come to faith and you talk about baptism. They don't want to do it. And I'm like, well, you know, why not? And it basically boils down to it's not dignified. You know, my hair will get weighed. There's all sorts of things. And come like a kid, man. Come like a child. And I got to preach that to myself sometimes too. Sometimes you may be sitting there just in a congregation. The Lord's saying, go down that altar and pray. And you're like, man, I don't know. It felt awkward. A child wouldn't say that. A child would run. Either way, that's these guys, you know, indignant. Not because the children are saying something false, because they're saying truth, but because it's being said by the wrong people at the wrong way, the wrong volume. Look how Jesus responds, verse 16. And they said to him, like he's deaf. Do you hear what these are saying? Look at that. Even that gets me. These, the children, these. And Jesus said to them, Yes, have you never read out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies? You have prepared praise. They're basically saying, Hey, Jesus, you're going to correct these kids? Even though they don't call them kids, they're just like, these, these, right? Jesus, they're calling you Messiah. Jesus, shut that down. And Jesus is like, oh, I hear it. And I receive it because I am the King of Kings. That's a massive statement. Then Jesus quotes Scripture, Psalms 8, 2, out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared. Praise, right? He applies it to what's happening right there. What a contrast. It's a contrast. Religious leaders have their Bibles, they've seen wonderful things. Indignant. They're indignant. Indignant. But children, simple words, real praise. We see here Jesus is the merciful King. Jesus is not looking for impressive people. He's looking for dependent people. Jesus says, My kingdom belongs to people who come to me like that. Once again, I thought about this. You know, some people, some people want a VIP Jesus. Private entrance, velvet rope, reserved seating. Once again, Jesus goes, nah, I'm not that kind of king. I'm not that kind of king. Three events. Oh no, man. Speculating. Jesus just gave us some revelation. He says, I'm a humble king. Comes in on a cult. I'm a holy king. I'm sovereign over the church. I'm sovereign. I'll come into your life. I'll rearrange what needs to be rearranged. He says, I'm a merciful king. I give grace and I give mercy. And I'll tell you this: any image of Jesus that you have that is different than this is not an accurate picture of Jesus. So the question is not, do you like Jesus? I mean that crowd love them some Jesus. The question is, will you submit to Him as your Lord and Savior on His terms? Because He's humble and He's holy and He's merciful. And He goes to that cross and He dies. He takes the wrath do me. He says it is finished. He raises from the dead. If you repent and believe, He will save you. So don't just go waving branches, making a parade. Receive Him as King. Bow to Him. We'll pick up next week. Let's pray. Father God, thank you for revelation. I do not want to be an individual who speculates. Thank you for revealing us the kind to us the kind of king that you are. I pray that we would walk in this knowledge. I pray if there's any man or woman here today that does not know you, they would come repent and believe. We give you the glory, we give you the honor, we give you the praise, and we ask this in Christ's name, our Savior. Amen. Amen.