Powell Butte Christian Church
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HOLY WEEK, PART 1 - NOT THE KING THEY WERE LOOKING FOR
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You know, there are moments in life when expectations collide with reality in ways that aren’t just disappointing, but heart-wrenching.
Most of us have experienced that at some point. Maybe it’s something small, like ordering something online that looked incredible in the picture, only to open the box and discover it’s not quite what you imagined. Maybe it’s one of those moments when you finally meet someone you’ve admired for years and the experience just doesn’t match the picture you had in your mind.
They say be careful about meeting your heroes - because they tend to not measure up to the image you have in your head about who they’ll be, how they’ll treat you, etc. And far too often people leave the encounter they had with this hero figure and wind up thinking: That wasn’t what I expected at all.
Sometimes the people we admire don’t live up to the expectations we’ve built in our minds. But sometimes…SOMETIMES something even more surprising happens. Because sometimes the person DOES show up - but in a way that may not have been anticipated, but which is infinitely better than what we were expecting.
That’s what happened on Palm Sunday.
When Jesus entered Jerusalem on the Sunday which began what is now known as Holy Week, the city erupted with excitement. Crowds gathered along the road. People spread their cloaks on the ground in front of Him. Others cut branches from the palm trees and waved them in the air. It was a majestic scene - one of intense anticipation for sure.
This was not a quiet moment. This was a parade. It was loud. It was joyful. It was a celebration. The people believed their long-awaited King had finally arrived. But there was a problem. Not that they were celebrating the arrival of the King, but that they had misunderstood the kind of King Jesus was.