Holy Week: The Triumphal Entry

Psalm 118 declares, “This is the day that the Lord has made,” and speaks of the stone the builders rejected becoming the cornerstone. The Gospels show these words fulfilled as Jesus enters Jerusalem and is later rejected and crucified. The crowds cried “Hosanna,” asking for salvation, as Jesus came according to the Scriptures. These passages reveal that the events of the cross and resurrection were according to God’s plan, showing His steadfast love and the salvation He brings through Christ.

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Psalm 118 In Its Real Context

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Welcome back, everyone, to our Teach Me the Bible podcast. My name is Tim Webb. I'm here with David Klingler. And David, we are in our uh Passion Week, our little study guide, devotion, and just reminding people as we get closer and closer to the resurrection, what this week is about, all looking at different events. And today, being our second day, it's Monday, but we're looking at the triumphal entry, and there's a lot there in the Old Testament. So I think you want to start in Psalm 118. Yeah, Psalm 118.

Dr. David Klingler 0:58

If you've grown up in church, you've ever been around church, you've sang this song and uh and uh many times. Uh um this is the day, this is the day that the Lord has made, that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice, let us rejoice and be glad in it, and be glad in it. Yeah, and uh yeah. And uh but we don't sing it in context. Um uh we sing it as if, hey, this is a great and wonderful Sunday, you know, welcome back, and right you know the birds are chirping. We got a great day to be in, and uh you know, the blue bonnets are blooming or whatever's going on. That's not what's that's not what this psalm is about. Um, Psalm 118, praise uh uh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting. Let Israel say, His loving kindness is everlasting. Let the house of Aaron say. His loving kindness is everlasting. Let those who fear the Lord say, his loving kindness is everlasting. Uh loving kindness, it's the word chesed, it's this one-way, unconditional love at the expense of the giver for the benefit of the recipient. Uh, and that's what this psalm's talking about, and we're gonna see it uh in uh in this Easter week. And in uh verse five, from my distress I called upon the Lord, and the Lord answered, and he set me in a large place. The Lord is for me, I will not fear. What can man do to me? Uh now keep in mind uh that uh that most of these psalms are messianic. They're they're you know you get Israel's um uh saying these psalms, but but they're also very messianic as well. Um the Lord is for me, I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is for me among those who help me. Therefore, I shall look with satisfaction on those who hate me. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in men. Well, we could spend all kinds of time. You bet. It is best better to take refuge in the Lord than trust in princes. Yesterday you mentioned that um uh Vodhi Bacchum and and uh Vodhi was uh was asked to serve uh one of the former presidents, and his response was that when you've been called to serve the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, you don't stoop to serve a president. Ouch. And that is just tumbling. That's this verse right here. It's better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes. All nations have surrounded me. In the name of the Lord, I will surely cut them off. They've surrounded me, yes. Uh surely uh they they they have surrounded me. In the name of the Lord, I will surely cut them off. They have surrounded me like bees. They were uh extinguished as a fire of thorns. In the name of the Lord, I will surely cut them off. They pushed me violently so that I was falling, but the Lord helped me. The Lord was my strength and my song, and he became my my salvation. The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous, and the hand of the Lord does valiantly, the right hand of the Lord, the right hand of the Lord is this goes back to Psalm 110. The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. And in the the book of Hebrews, uh, it's going to pick up this Psalm 110. This resurrected Christ has taken his seat at the right hand of the Lord, and and so the right hand of the Lord is the Christ, the light, the right hand of the Lord is exalted, verse 16. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. Um, I shall not die, but live. This is the right hand of the Lord saying this, and tell of the works of the Lord. Talking about resurrection, for the Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death. So open to me the gates of righteousness, and I will enter through them, and I will give thanks to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord. The righteous will enter through it. In other words, they're gonna follow the Christ. He's the firstborn from the dead, the first raised. Uh, and uh, I shall give thanks to you, for you have answered me, for you have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, and this is the Lord's doing. Well, that's good. Uh the crucifixion of Christ was not a surprise to the Lord for sure, right? Uh it was the Lord's doing. This is the Lord's doing. It was it is marvelous in your eyes, it's marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made. That's what we're talking about. The crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection of Christ. This is the day. If there was ever a day to sing that song, it's resurrection. This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Uh, so so this is what's being quoted at the triumphal entry. Oh Lord, do save, we beseech you, do save. Hoshanah, Hoshanah, Lord, save us, save us. Right? It's uh uh Hoshanah is a uh an appeal to the Lord, save us, save us. Do save, we beseech thee. Oh Lord, we beseech you, do send, do send Tove, do send prosperity, they translate it. It's Tov. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Well, that's John's gospel, isn't it? It is the light shined in the darkness. Bind up the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. Uh for you are my God, I will give thanks to you. You are my God, I will extol you. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His loving kindness is everlasting. Now that's the context within which this Jesus walks in. That's just powerful.

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That's powerful. And they're not giving for this.

Dr. David Klingler 6:22

This is in chapter 12, John. On the next day, a great multitude had come to the feast. They uh they were coming to the Passover. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took uh branches from the palm trees and went out to meet him and began to cry out, saying, Hoshanah, uh, save us, save us. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel. And Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it as it is written. This is Zechariah chapter nine. We could go to Zechariah and go from Zechariah nine through uh through thirteen and read about all of Christ's doings from his first coming all the way to the return. But but in nine nine, it's fear not, behold, uh the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming, seated on a donkey, uh on a donkey's colt. And these things this the disciples did not understand at first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered these things were written of him. Uh, and uh they had uh that uh that they had done these things to him. And so all the multitude were with him. Uh, when he had called Lazarus out of the tomb and he raised him from the dead, were bearing witness of him. And because also of the multitude went with him, because they had heard that he had performed these signs, the Pharisees were saying, The whole world's gone after him. We gotta do something. Yeah. Yeah. So so this is the story uh which uh today's uh Monday, but uh uh but this is the uh the the the triumphal entry, we call it. This is uh Palm Sunday, where they laid down the palm branches and they identified Christ as their their coming king who would deliver them. Uh of course, uh we say uh you know, we tend to think delivered, they were expecting to be delivered from their sin. That's certainly part of it, Isaiah 53. Uh but they were uh thinking that they would be delivered from their enemies, that they would be delivered from Rome, they would be delivered from the the Gentiles that were ruling over them. And of course, that took their repentance and and and they didn't repent, right? In fact, they put their Christ to death, and even after their death, burial, and resurrection, they don't repent. And so the gospel's gonna go to the Gentiles. And so here we are. Uh we're we're out here in you know the far reaches of the world listening to a podcast uh about a crucified anointed king of a nation at that time that didn't exist and hadn't existed for some 600 years, and after Christ's death, burial, and resurrection didn't exist till the 1940s. Right. And so uh even we have placed our faith in the King of Israel, the resurrected King of Israel, the coming one. And so our hope is in his return. He has died, he is resurrected uh buried, he was resurrected, and he is coming. And so all of this is not a surprise to the Lord. And so when we sing this song, uh this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Boy, that's a that just ought to change how we view that song and how we view today. There's no day uh that we walk into that's a surprise to the Lord, especially this one.

Why The Pharisees Turn Hostile

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Right, right. I d uh uh before we wrap up today, uh uh yesterday you mentioned you know their hate for Jesus was so strong that this resurrected Lazarus, they were looking to kill him again. You spoke to that, but now today the events uh the triumphal entry, Psalm 118, Zachariah, the Pharisees would know this. Now they were angry before the triumphal entry. Oh, yes. When the people can you speak just for a moment as we get closer and closer to celebrating the day, uh can you speak to the angst, the anger that this would have created in these Pharisees? Oh, sure. To drive them to the to the crucifixion.

Dr. David Klingler 9:59

Yeah, well, if Jesus is right, then then they're wrong, right? Uh and so Jesus' whole ministry in uh in the Gospel of John and all the gospels is a condemnation of Israel and their pride and their unwillingness to repent, right? So do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accused you is Moses in whom you put your your hope, your trust. We were talking yesterday about uh with uh another one of our folks here at the church about the end times. And and if um if if you were if you wanted to to uh think of uh a one witness who would be the most powerful to testify against Israel to get them to repent other than Jesus, it would be Moses. Right, right, right? Yeah, yeah. We follow Moses. No, you don't. I I be he. Yeah, right. That's right. That be me. And you're not following me. Yeah, yeah. If you believed me, you would believe Jesus, for I wrote of Jesus. And if you're not willing to believe my words, how will you believe? Yeah, so so this is John chapter five. And so so the Pharisees are outraged because they have uh they've been proven to be wrong and they're gonna kill him, right? Right, they're going to kill him. And and of course, uh, as the Old Testament story goes, whenever Israel rejects, the good news goes to the Gentiles, and that's where we are. And that's how John introduces his story. He came to his own, but his own did not receive him. But whoever receives him to them, he's given the ability to become children of God.

SPEAKER_01 11:23

I my desire in you speaking to that just for a moment is that as as our passion for the Lord, as as we get closer to the day that we're celebrating, I want uh, you know, I just want to remind our listeners do not be surprised when the world hates Jesus. The world hates us for proclaiming the name of Jesus. But, you know, I think Paul, Peter, both those guys encourage the their readers, look, this is uh this is to their condemnation, their destruction, but to your salvation, we're on the right side of this, so keep rejoicing, keep allowing that joy of our salvation to be full. It just keeps pointing us more and more to where this thing is headed.

Dr. David Klingler 12:04

Yep, and in the next uh couple days, we're gonna be in the upper room. And uh, and Jesus is going to tell them, uh, guys, the world hated me, the world will hate you, but fear not. Right. I've overcome the world. I walked out of the grave. I'm about to walk out of the grave, and you're gonna see it. Yeah, and Peter's gonna say, Lord, I'll follow you, I'll fight you, I'll fight with you, and it says, No, you won't.

Keep Walking With Us

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No, no, you won't. It's gonna be a great week. It is, it is. Well, David, thank you for today. And listeners, keep keep walking with us. We're excited about this week, and we uh thank you for joining in.

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