Dale Partridge - Palm Sunday： How ＂Hosanna＂ Turned to “Crucify Him” in Five Days

00:00:00.000 Well, I want you to imagine a man whose father died saving his life.

00:00:10.760 Just go with me on this illustration.

00:00:14.200 He was young when it happened, too young to really understand it.

00:00:18.240 And as he grew older, he got busy, right?

00:00:19.820 He got responsibilities and work and children and all the things that go on with a career

00:00:24.640 and distractions, and slowly that memory faded.

00:00:27.900 I think any of us can think of memories when we were children, and we can see that those memories do fade.

00:00:33.920 And when it fades, the problem with that is that it begins to lose weight.

00:00:37.520 You begin to forget the significance of those particular events when you were young.

00:00:43.240 And it wasn't shaping this man anymore the way that it used to be when he was a child.

00:00:48.780 And so at the age of 30, he decided that every year on the day that he was saved, where his father had died,

00:00:56.580 that he would return to that place to remember that, to memorialize this particular moment

00:01:01.500 and to tell that story again. Now he wasn't doing this just to tell others about the story. He was

00:01:08.080 really actually doing it to tell himself the story. That essentially that's what we're doing

00:01:14.920 with Holy Week. We have Palm Sunday. We have Maundy Thursday. We have Good Friday. We have Easter

00:01:22.080 Sunday. That's essentially what we're doing here. We are memorializing. It is something worth

00:01:27.100 remembering. Christ died for us, and like that man, we are a forgetful people. We are a forgetful

00:01:33.980 people. Not forgetful in information. I think we understand, we remember the actual event,

00:01:39.460 but we're forgetful in our affections. Our affections start to fade away over time, and we

00:01:46.240 drift and we get distracted and we lose the significance of Christ's sacrifice. We lose

00:01:51.860 the significance of this particular week. And if we don't memorialize it, it's easy for us to be

00:01:56.880 like that man. And years later goes by and we go, I don't even really have the affection that I

00:02:03.220 ought to have for these particular events that shaped and changed my life. And so to remember

00:02:09.700 it, we memorialize it. That's what we're doing today. And this is not, again, some biblically

00:02:15.080 foreign practice. In fact, we actually see this very much in the Old Testament. The apostles

00:02:19.880 even writing this down. The apostles wrote this down as a way to memorialize this, as a way to

00:02:26.680 remember it. It is something that we can look at and go, oh, that is something worth remembering.

00:02:32.020 But God has always, by the way, used memorialization as a way to mark significant

00:02:39.180 events so that we might not forget them. We would build altars, and as we would walk by these things

00:02:43.720 in the Old Testament, we would see that altar that we might remember. We would do things like

00:02:47.600 the Passover. We would have certain customs and traditions and feasts and festivals that we might

00:02:52.540 remember the things that are signified behind them. That's something that we do. And what is

00:02:58.400 more significant than the life, death, and resurrection of Christ? I think it's very strange

00:03:03.500 that we are a celebratory people, okay? And we understand, and by the way, our enemies understand,

00:03:10.420 that the calendar is very important. What is on the calendar is what a particular culture

00:03:17.000 celebrates. We know that the LGBT community has over, I think, I think over 150 days on the

00:03:24.540 calendar that they have co-opted as a way for us to make sure that we commend and celebrate which

00:03:31.060 is evil. And so it's very strange for me to see Christians not want to celebrate the church

00:03:38.160 calendar. We have a historic calendar around the life of Jesus, around particular events that have

00:03:44.920 occurred in church history, and instead of celebrating those things, we reject them,

00:03:49.640 and we celebrate these pagan holidays all together. It's very strange. We should be celebrating

00:03:56.100 Christmas, and we should be celebrating Easter, and we should be celebrating Advent, and we should

00:03:59.800 be celebrating Good Friday. We should be celebrating some of these great saints days that we can

00:04:04.280 Remember, these are good and glorious things.

00:04:06.280 They are memorializing righteousness.

00:04:09.280 If we're going to celebrate, let's celebrate Christian things.

00:04:15.580 Philippians 4.8 says, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, think about those things.

00:04:26.040 Think about them.

00:04:28.000 It is a great thing to think about these things.

00:04:31.120 And so today we're going to do that.

00:04:32.400 We're going to think about these things.

00:04:34.280 So, Palm Sunday marks Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, where he is publicly revealed for the very first time as the Messiah, or as the King of Israel.

00:04:45.800 Now, theologically, it shows both the recognition of his kingship by some, and also the misunderstanding of how that kingdom was to come about by others.

00:04:56.740 and it showed how many praised him for what they wanted him to be

00:05:00.800 and not for who he really was and so there was a misunderstanding from a lot of people

00:05:07.880 though there were some who understood the significance of the moment ultimately palm

00:05:12.240 sunday is the doorway to the cross it is the doorway to the cross and it reveals that the

00:05:17.780 true reign of christ would be established but not through an immediate uh military enforcement

00:05:24.900 They wanted this kind of Roman rule to end.

00:05:28.160 It's not through this immediate military enforcement,

00:05:30.440 but it was actually the kingdom of God would be enforced,

00:05:34.540 and he would be a conquering king,

00:05:36.880 and he would conquer his enemies through conversion.

00:05:40.620 Every one of you were an enemy of Christ until Christ conquered you.

00:05:45.600 And he conquered you through conversion.

00:05:47.940 And he conquered you by the Holy Spirit.

00:05:50.400 And we know that through atonement and through redemption

00:05:52.820 and by the power of the Holy Spirit and the gospel going forth into the world,

00:05:57.680 he's conquering the world.

00:05:59.460 It started off with a handful of people, and now we're at, what, two to three billion people.

00:06:07.080 Do we believe the Great Commission is not going to be fulfilled?

00:06:09.000 Of course not. Of course we believe.

00:06:10.980 Christ is at the helm.

00:06:13.320 Does anything Christ do fail?

00:06:15.360 No.

00:06:16.320 No, we trust that Christ will continue to conquer his enemies through conversion

00:06:21.400 and Christianize the world to the glory of God.

00:06:25.600 Now, Holy Week is not something that we invented or structured.

00:06:30.020 It's something we recognized.

00:06:31.660 We recognized it from the scriptures.

00:06:33.320 It has a distinct beginning and a distinct end.

00:06:36.420 This week is very important.

00:06:38.000 And in our text today, we're going to see that Christ arranged

00:06:40.760 a unique and intentional entrance into Jerusalem.

00:06:45.300 Let's read it in Matthew 21, verses 1 through 11.

00:06:49.320 I'm going to read verses 1 through 5.

00:06:50.860 It says, Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives,

00:06:56.440 then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, Go into the village in front of you,

00:07:01.180 and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her.

00:07:05.180 Untie them and bring them to me.

00:07:07.380 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, The Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.

00:07:13.520 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

00:07:17.080 Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king is coming to you humble.

00:07:20.860 and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.

00:07:28.680 Now, up to this point, Jesus had largely concealed his ministry. Okay, so this is a significant

00:07:36.340 shift in contrast, by the way, because all the way up until then, it was, my hour has not yet come.

00:07:43.200 My hour has not yet come. Do not go tell anybody about what has been done. Over and over again,

00:07:49.340 he's hiding and concealing his identity. And he did this because Israel had misguided expectations

00:07:57.760 of who the Messiah was to be. They were constantly trying to crown him. John chapter six,

00:08:03.320 hey, let's crown him. No. And he goes away into the wilderness. It's over and over again. They

00:08:08.400 had these expectations of a military ruler that is going to come in and create this Roman or take

00:08:15.540 over this Roman rule. They were not looking for the suffering servant of Isaiah 53. They were not

00:08:20.960 looking of the Lamb of God that would take away the sins of the world that John the Baptist says

00:08:25.340 in John chapter 3. Actually, John chapter 1. They were looking for the conquering king, the Lion of

00:08:33.200 Judah, that would rescue them from this Roman oppression. That's who they were looking for.

00:08:38.540 That was the theological comprehension of the day, and that was taught by the Pharisees.

00:08:42.820 and this phrase the lion of judah comes from genesis chapter 49 where you see jacob is

00:08:49.440 prophesying that the scepter or the right to rule would be given to his son judah and that the

00:08:55.140 messiah would essentially come from him now this was further uh clarified in other prophecies

00:09:00.820 throughout the old testament and this is important because it sets this kind of historical theological

00:09:06.760 contextual understanding and expectation for the messiah in israel so this is who they're waiting

00:09:12.360 for. This is who they're expecting. Now, as we see, Jesus sends two disciples to go get a donkey

00:09:20.040 and a colt, okay? So, think about this for a second. He's asking you to go into town and to

00:09:29.960 just grab somebody's animal, and now animals were very costly. They're very expensive, very important,

00:09:36.940 And, hey, I want you to go and grab not just one animal, but two animals.

00:09:44.140 And I just imagine just the nervousness of the apostles walking into town and going,

00:09:50.140 uh, there's one.

00:09:51.860 Okay, let's just go over there. 0.92

00:09:53.240 And you feel like you're stealing this donkey.

00:09:55.340 And you're retrieving this without some sort of resistance.

00:09:58.260 And if somebody, the owner walks out, it's like, hey, what's going on?

00:10:02.080 Just say that the Lord needs them.

00:10:03.860 and I just want to point out that because that happened this moment is in itself like a quiet

00:10:12.180 miracle okay it's a very quiet miracle of Jesus and it shows that he has this authority and

00:10:18.800 foreknowledge and it certainly would have confirmed Jesus's identity even further with those two

00:10:26.360 disciples I just imagine if that happened and I had to say the Lord needs these and the guy goes

00:10:32.820 oh, then take them. I would have been, wow, okay, Christ is certainly, has some sort of authority

00:10:39.620 and foreknowledge that is divine. It would have further confirmed his identity. Now, in verses

00:10:45.300 four through five, Matthew cites Zechariah 9.9, and it says, quote, rejoice greatly, O daughter

00:10:52.500 of Zion. Shout and triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king is coming to you.

00:10:57.860 He is just and endowed with salvation, humble and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

00:11:05.780 All right, now it's important to know in the ancient Near East, kings rode on horses when they came for war.

00:11:15.960 Okay, it was very common, understanding.

00:11:18.660 Kings rode in on a horse or rode out on a horse when they were going to war.

00:11:23.340 but when they rode donkeys, especially kings riding donkeys, it was a symbol of peace.

00:11:29.280 It was a symbol of a peacetime era. And so by entering into Jerusalem on a donkey,

00:11:36.100 Jesus is not only affirming that he is a king, but he is also affirming that he comes not for war,

00:11:43.280 but for peace, not for immediate judgment, but to bring salvation. He is to bring peace

00:11:49.580 between God and man through himself, the Messiah, Jesus Christ. In verse 6 and 7, it says,

00:11:55.600 the disciples went, and they did as he had directed. They brought the donkey and the colt

00:12:00.220 and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. And the them there is the cloaks, not both donkeys.

00:12:08.520 And so it says, well, let me just point out another miracle here, okay? There's another

00:12:14.100 miracle that's happening. These are subtle miracles that I think you'll just start to

00:12:17.160 appreciate. Everything that Jesus does is just incredible. And when you start to realize at the

00:12:22.240 kind of molecular level that he's controlling all things, our neighbors have several donkeys, 0.98

00:12:29.180 okay? I'm around donkeys all the time. I hear them braying often. And a few months ago, a cult 0.98

00:12:34.860 was born. And we got a chance to see this baby, you know, one night, the mother's pregnant. The

00:12:40.040 next morning, we see this baby that's out there. The cult is now about the age of the one that

00:12:45.540 Jesus is about to ride, okay? So it's really fun to just drive past our driveway, and you can see

00:12:50.700 this kind of baby donkey, and you go, wow, that's really kind of a situation. Mother is bigger,

00:12:57.880 colt is smaller, and you can see that that's probably around the age that Jesus rode on this

00:13:04.680 colt. Now, colts, unlike mature working donkeys, they're not broken, okay? They're not broken

00:13:10.320 animals. And I've watched this donkey run and buck and kick, and I think there's a reason when we see

00:13:16.120 someone do a really strong kick, we call it a donkey kick. And they're known for kicking. They're 0.98

00:13:20.980 known for being stubborn and unpredictable, especially when they are young. It's a very

00:13:26.280 common reality. And so for Christ to ride an unbroken cult into a crowd, a massive crowd,

00:13:35.800 with thousands of people in a chaotic crowd, people that are shouting and now laying down

00:13:42.680 branches and palm branches and jackets on the road without this animal being spooked and freaking

00:13:50.500 out and throwing Jesus off of it. I think it's just another clear miracle that Christ is not

00:13:57.480 just commanding the moment. He's commanding creation. He's actually commanding this animal

00:14:02.640 to walk through this chaotic moment calmly, and I was just reading that, I was thinking,

00:14:10.240 this is kind of a miraculous thing, and you might be thinking, well, maybe the cult was

00:14:14.600 already broken. No, you're wrong, actually, because it says in Luke's account of this

00:14:19.280 particular event, it says the cult, it says, quote, on which no one has ever sat, end quote.

00:14:25.340 No one has ever sat on this cult, and Jesus is like, hey, you know what, cult?

00:14:31.180 we're going to go into a crowd with thousands of people yelling, throwing things. I don't know if

00:14:38.100 you're around animals. Like if you throw like a flag in front of a horse, it's like panic mode.

00:14:43.280 Okay. Imagine just giant palm branches throwing down, you know, lining the road, people cheering.

00:14:49.120 And this, this cult is just cruising with a person on its back for the very first time.

00:14:54.680 So again, it's just one of these things you just go, I'm just going to, I'm just going to say,

00:14:58.540 I think Jesus is actually controlling not just the moment, but also creation in this time.

00:15:06.780 And so for the first time, Jesus demonstrates publicly his identity.

00:15:11.220 That is, to those who understood the prophecy, they would know that their king was here.

00:15:15.840 Their king was here.

00:15:17.780 But for those expecting kind of this Roman crushing king,

00:15:22.240 it would have been confounding to see the Messiah on this donkey,

00:15:27.060 not in a chariot or a horse, not with military force, but again, humble, riding on a colt.

00:15:33.120 It would have been difficult for them to understand, especially at this particular time.

00:15:37.460 Now, ultimately, this aligns with God's constant use of paradox.

00:15:42.160 God is a paradoxical God, constant counterintuitive expressions of his sovereignty over reality.

00:15:51.060 So we see that the Messiah is both the Lion of Judah, and he is the Lamb of God, right?

00:15:57.620 He's both the conquering king and the suffering servant.

00:16:01.760 You know, it's like David.

00:16:03.060 You know, he's the warrior poet.

00:16:04.900 He's the warrior that's killing and slaying thousands, and he's also the great poet of the Psalms.

00:16:09.740 It's this constant paradox and counterintuitive reality that's trapped into one man.

00:16:16.360 And again, this shouldn't shock us because Jesus' entire life is counterintuitive.

00:16:20.320 What is up is down. What is weak is strong. What is strong is weak, right? What is fast is slow.

00:16:26.740 What is slow is fast. He's this king that is born in a manger. It's strength wrapped in weakness.

00:16:33.840 It's God born in a body. I mean, everything that he does is constantly paradoxical and

00:16:39.120 counterintuitive, and it's amazing, and it's difficult for the carnal mind to even understand

00:16:43.480 it. We look at it, and we're like, I don't like that, or I don't understand that. Of course,

00:16:48.180 Jesus is always working in ways that are counterintuitive to our flesh.

00:16:54.620 But for those who knew the words of the prophets, this entrance was unmistakable.

00:17:00.460 Jesus was saying, your king has come.

00:17:03.420 He's literally walking and he's saying, your king has come.

00:17:07.880 Now, the triumphal entry is recorded in all four Gospels.

00:17:11.580 I want you to pay attention to this for a second.

00:17:13.340 The triumphal entry is recorded in all four Gospels.

00:17:16.020 Now you might think, oh, well, okay, that's not a big deal. It actually is. It's extremely rare

00:17:21.200 to have something in Jesus's ministry recorded in all four gospels. You can't say that about

00:17:27.080 his birth, about his temptation, about the transfiguration, about his time in the garden

00:17:31.960 of Gethsemane. This is a significant moment that's recorded in every single gospel. And so this is a

00:17:39.160 vital moment of fulfilled prophecy. And had he not done this, had he not ridden on the colt,

00:17:45.080 had he not fulfilled Zechariah 9, 9, the nation of Israel might have claimed ignorance for who

00:17:52.040 Jesus was. They might have had an excuse to say, you know what? We didn't really know who this man

00:17:58.700 was. So he's fulfilling prophecy to hold them accountable for his crucifixion. That's what's

00:18:06.520 happening here behind the scenes. This act removed all excuse and made his identity unmistakably

00:18:14.280 clear, especially to those who understood the prophecy. Now, verse eight says, most of the

00:18:20.840 crowd spread their cloaks on the road and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on

00:18:26.420 the road. And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting Hosanna to the son

00:18:32.940 of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. Now, one detail

00:18:39.320 you cannot forget about this whole time. Okay, my job as a preacher is to bring you into the world

00:18:47.440 of the Bible, and you need to understand the historical and cultural context of what's

00:18:52.080 happening here. This is Passover week. This is Passover week when this is happening. The population

00:18:59.700 of Jerusalem is regularly somewhere between 50 and 100,000 people at this time, but during Passover

00:19:06.100 week, it's about 500,000 people. About 500,000 people in this very relatively small city of

00:19:15.220 Jerusalem. And so for three years, Jesus had been preaching and performing miracles. And at this

00:19:23.660 point, his ministry and his reputation is how big? It's massive. It's massive. He has crowds by the

00:19:32.440 thousands following him. And just right before this, he had resurrected a man from the dead.

00:19:43.020 Lazarus has come back to life just weeks before this. It's just two miles southeast of Jerusalem

00:19:51.740 in Bethany. And close enough that you can actually have that reputation of that moment

00:19:58.980 to come into Jerusalem, and you have Passover week coming in, and everybody knows at this point

00:20:07.020 who this man Jesus is. We know the road to Emmaus, the two men are talking, and Jesus walks up to

00:20:12.980 him, and he's like, what are you talking about? He's like, are you new here? Have you not been

00:20:17.860 walking around Jerusalem? Have you not heard about this guy named Jesus? And so then, at the very,

00:20:24.040 the peak, the most crowded, tension-filled

00:20:28.720 time of the year, Jesus

00:20:32.100 enters Jerusalem deliberately, walking out

00:20:36.460 one of the most well-known and anticipated Messianic prophecies

00:20:40.820 to the Jewish people.

00:20:44.840 In other words, this was a very

00:20:48.400 orchestrated moment. Not only was it orchestrated to let people know that

00:20:52.660 was king but this was orchestrated to let the pharisees get fired up enough to kill him not

00:21:01.420 only is he working on making sure that people know who he is who actually would support and

00:21:06.160 believe in him but he's also antagonizing those people who are ready to kill him and so he has

00:21:14.460 this apex moment there probably there couldn't have been a more climactic time for him to do

00:21:21.180 this particular moment or fulfill this particular prophecy. So this was the moment of his public

00:21:29.240 revelation. In a sense, his hour had come. Now it was customary in that time to lay down garments

00:21:38.220 or coverings on the road for royalty or for a king returning from a victorious battle. That

00:21:43.280 was something that happened quite often. It was a way of saying you are not worthy to walk on the

00:21:49.300 roads as we walk. We must cover these roads for you because of your royalty. It's the same

00:21:57.200 function that we actually have with the red carpet today, right? You're rolling out the red carpet.

00:22:00.700 You're not going to walk just on this road. You're going to walk on this red carpet. It is a

00:22:05.820 form of imputed dignity, imputed dignity. Now, Matthew tells us that they spread branches on the

00:22:13.820 road. But John's account specifically says that they spread palm branches on the road. And this

00:22:22.600 is important because it's why we call it Palm Sunday. But palm branches are not random either.

00:22:29.300 In fact, palm branches were historically associated with the Maccabean Revolt and some sort of

00:22:33.740 political victory. And so this was more than a gesture of honor. These people understood what

00:22:39.340 they were doing it was a declaration of victory it was saying our messiah is here and we're going

00:22:45.260 to lay these palm branches down and look rome we are about to conquer you that's really what's being

00:22:51.400 said at this moment they're welcoming a conquering king and we know that that was their intention

00:22:57.580 because in addition to these palm branches and the laying down their clothes they were actually

00:23:01.040 shouting hosanna to the son of david well who's that's a title that's a messianic title right

00:23:08.200 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. Now, these phrases,

00:23:12.900 they come from Psalm 118, verse 26, and they also echo some other categories of Old Testament

00:23:19.280 scripture. But Hosanna means save us now. Save us now. And they're not talking about save us from

00:23:27.820 the wrath of God because we've broken the law. That's not what they're saying. No, save us now

00:23:31.860 from Roman oppression, make us the key people of the world. And so the crowd is not just

00:23:40.540 celebrating, they are calling out to Jesus as the one they believe can rescue them. But again,

00:23:47.720 not from sin and from judgment for their failure to obey the law, but from their oppression of

00:23:53.780 the Roman empire. So that's the context of what's happening here.

00:24:01.860 Now this is what makes the later scene in Matthew 27, 22 through 23, so critical.

00:24:09.020 Just a few days later, Matthew records this, Matthew 27, it says,

00:24:14.340 Pilate said to them, then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?

00:24:21.980 They all said, let him be crucified.

00:24:24.700 They cried out all the more, let him be crucified.

00:24:29.900 I just want you to think about this.

00:24:31.460 You're talking Sunday, arguably some people say Monday, to Friday, right?

00:24:37.900 You have this situation going from Hosanna in the highest to crucify him in a matter of days.

00:24:48.640 One ancient philosopher said, those who cheer at your coronation may be the same who cheer at your execution.

00:24:55.720 It's exactly true, right?

00:24:57.140 The people who will cheer at your coronation will then also cheer at your execution.

00:25:02.020 The fact of the matter is that it happened in five days is incredible.

00:25:05.600 Incredible.

00:25:06.640 And I think this reveals the fickleness of man's loyalties.

00:25:11.260 The fickleness of man's loyalties.

00:25:13.220 One moment, we're praising a particular person because of what they can do for us.

00:25:18.120 The next, we are condemning that same person because he let them down.

00:25:23.620 And that happens all the time.

00:25:25.820 Like, all the time.

00:25:27.140 it's not just happening in jesus's life it happens in our politics today

00:25:31.880 in fact many people would actually kill people if the law allowed them to it's just as violent

00:25:40.080 it shows that we are a double-minded and a double-minded men and our loyalties are easily

00:25:45.300 swayed we are fickle we are fickle it's actually quite amazing when you see someone that follow

00:25:50.060 has followed christ for 20 or 30 years and that's because the only reason it is is because the holy

00:25:56.280 Spirit is preserving the saints. It's a mercy of God that he's continuing to keep you faithful

00:26:03.220 because we are not, without Christ, a faithful people. And we can see that in our own relationships.

00:26:09.600 Look at the church today. It's an absolute divisive mess

00:26:13.180 because we cannot remain consistent and loyal. We must continue to move on over and over again.

00:26:20.900 verse 10 says and we went when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was stirred up saying

00:26:28.200 who is this and the crowd said this is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee

00:26:36.200 now at first what what I want you to catch here is at first

00:26:40.700 they recognized his kingly office so he's walking in he's the king the son of David king

00:26:47.360 now after this had happened now they're recognizing his prophetic office

00:26:52.860 he's the prophet jesus of nazareth but it won't be until after the resurrection

00:26:59.820 his death and resurrection that people start to begin to realize his priestly office

00:27:06.060 and so you have three offices prophet priest and king in that order really in this particular

00:27:12.460 order as king, prophet, and priest. That they start to recognize that Jesus is fulfilling

00:27:19.260 all of these realities. So as I close here, ultimately we should understand

00:27:27.920 the triumphal entry in the same way that we understand Good Friday. I think it's a similar

00:27:34.400 comparison. Yes, it was triumphant in its loud praises. People were triumphant, you know, wow,

00:27:40.660 it's a triumphal entry. Look at Jesus coming and Hosanna in the highest. But those praises

00:27:45.460 were temporary. The triumph in that particular moment was temporary. The same voices, again,

00:27:53.100 that shouted Hosanna just a few days later are shouting crucify him. It's temporary. What looked

00:27:59.440 like hope turned into a brief moment of despair and then also led to the greatest victory of all

00:28:06.260 time. So just think about this for a moment. It's like massive levels of hope and triumph

00:28:13.520 followed by maybe one of the most steep plummeting moments of despair followed by the greatest

00:28:21.920 victory of all time. Just think about how emotionally distressing that week had to have

00:28:27.600 been for the disciples, right? You're just going, wow, Jesus is finally revealing what we've known

00:28:34.040 about him for a long time. And he's, we're finally going in and we're going to be conquering. Maybe

00:28:40.400 we're going to be a part of Jesus's kingly court. Maybe we're going to be in power. These are all

00:28:48.300 the thoughts that had to be going in and out of the apostles' minds. And he's going in there,

00:28:53.360 Jesus is going, I'm a king that's coming in here to die. But the apostles don't really grasp this

00:28:58.840 quite yet. So it's a huge peak moment, followed by this massive steep drop in despair, followed by

00:29:06.680 this absolute victory that is the greatest accomplishment in all of human history. So this

00:29:12.200 is just an emotional roller coaster to the extreme for anybody that understood what is going on.

00:29:20.340 And just like Good Friday, it's not good in the moment. It's not good in the moment. It marks the

00:29:27.420 crucifixion of Christ but it's good in what it accomplished right it secures the atonement it

00:29:34.800 saves his people from sin and so the lesson is this what appears at first to be good

00:29:42.680 God may allow or turn and allow evil temporarily to win for a moment but then we have a God who

00:29:56.020 causes all things to work together for good for those who love him and are called according to

00:30:00.120 his purpose and so the same week started with this triumph and it looked like satan was winning

00:30:05.300 we had betrayal we had rejection we have crucifixion was actually the moment that god is securing

00:30:10.700 redemption for all of his people for all time and so this pattern is not only seen in christ i

00:30:15.800 actually believe this pattern is seen in every one of your lives including mine how often have

00:30:20.860 you seen trial and tragedy and discipline and just disaster and suffering give way to triumph?

00:30:28.860 How many times? I don't know about you, but I've seen it happen many, many times.

00:30:33.840 It seems I'm winning. Oh my goodness, it's dark. Oh my goodness, God ripped me out of the darkness

00:30:40.580 and I'm winning again. It is this constant up and down reality. God keeps us on the edge of our seat.

00:30:46.920 how many times have you watched that suffering turn into some sort of blessing that discipline

00:30:53.180 turn into maturity it happens all the time and so do not judge God's work in your life

00:31:00.260 by the moment that you are in that is the lesson imagine being James or Peter and you're like

00:31:10.000 I know exactly what's going to happen this week no you don't no you don't in fact it is going to be

00:31:16.280 the exact counterintuitive opposite of what you think is going to happen.

00:31:21.360 And so, do not judge God's work by the moment that you are in.

00:31:27.360 Because it's very easy to go, I can see what's happening next.

00:31:31.940 No, you can't.

00:31:33.140 And then you're in the pit, and you go, I'm going to die here.

00:31:36.800 Maybe you are, but probably not.

00:31:39.180 God is going to rescue out of you out of that pit and bring you into a greater place.

00:31:43.620 It happens all the time.

00:31:45.020 what looks like loss may be actually the greatest victory of your entire life

00:31:51.180 and so for the christian even death itself like the cross

00:31:57.400 is this great tragedy if we look at it through carnal eyes but what is it really it's the

00:32:04.940 doorway into eternal life and glory god takes everything that is terrible and he works it

00:32:14.440 for good, for his purposes, and for the good of his people. Amen? Amen. Let's pray. Father,

00:32:22.220 we thank you, Lord, for this word, for the scriptures, for the example of Christ that

00:32:27.740 is working and causing every element of this narrative to be for the glory of the kingdom of

00:32:35.160 God. Lord, we ask that you would help us to understand the scriptures and the text even more,

00:32:41.580 that we might grow in maturity that we might see the glory and beauty of the gospel

00:32:46.820 we ask this in jesus name amen

Dale Partridge - April 01, 2026

Palm Sunday： How ＂Hosanna＂ Turned to “Crucify Him” in Five Days

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