The Triumphal Entry, Part 2

Driving home: You've never seen yourself to be a sinner who is a sinner, whose needs as a sinner before the courtroom of God and in terms of your own personal spiritual state are such that nothing less than the energy, knowledge, and …

Martin argues that a sinner's spiritual death and bondage are so profound that nothing less than the 'energy, knowledge, and power of undiluted Godhood' can meet their need, emphasizing the necessity of a divine Savior.

And the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will not be, any good news to you. But once you begin to take seriously what you are as a creature made in the image of God, accountable to the living God, a creature fallen in Adam, conceived in sin, born in spiritual death, held in iron chains of spiritual bondage, and you will be convinced that if you are that there is no help is ever to come to you. It cannot come from a fellow creature, however exalted that creature may be, however noble that creature may be, however wise that creature may be, if the wisdom and power and unleashed omnipotenc...

14:44 - 16:12 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: This section explores how the triumphal entry reveals Jesus' unique glory and majesty as the God-man, specifically His omniscience and omnipotence. Martin details how Jesus knew…

Martin rejects the idea that Jesus prearranged the donkey, arguing that such an explanation fails to account for the precise details and timing, thereby obscuring Jesus' omniscience.

Here is one of those incidents where there is an outshining of one of the attributes of God, that is omniscience and another, that of omnipotence. Omniscience, children, simply means that God knows all and omnipotence simply means God can do all things. And so in this particular passage, I utterly reject the naturalistic explanations. People say, well, Jesus passed through the village and while He passed through the village, knowing, He was going to need a donkey to make His entry into Jerusalem, He prearranged things with the owner.

19:43 - 20:25 Read in full sermon

Driving home: To know what he cannot see and to turn men's hearts to consent is for God and God alone is Calvin's comment on this passage.

Recalls Jesus' knowledge of Nathanael before they met, illustrating Jesus' omniscience.

Well, is that so? Well, how, if He had done that, would He know that at precisely the time the disciples got there, the donkey would be precisely where it was? How would there be any certainty of all of these particular details when there is no record of any previous village, any visit to the village over against them? It is much simpler to take the passage at face value and see shining through this passage another indication that this is the same Jesus who early in His ministry called a certain man to Himself and said, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. And Nathanael said, When...

20:25 - 21:41 Read in full sermon

Driving home: To know what he cannot see and to turn men's hearts to consent is for God and God alone is Calvin's comment on this passage.

Recalls Jesus' knowledge of the woman's past, illustrating His omniscience.

Well, is that so? Well, how, if He had done that, would He know that at precisely the time the disciples got there, the donkey would be precisely where it was? How would there be any certainty of all of these particular details when there is no record of any previous village, any visit to the village over against them? It is much simpler to take the passage at face value and see shining through this passage another indication that this is the same Jesus who early in His ministry called a certain man to Himself and said, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. And Nathanael said, When...

20:25 - 21:41 Read in full sermon

The point: Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

References Jesus speaking to raging seas, demonstrating His omnipotence.

Well, it's the same one whom we've seen in Mark's gospel who spoke to the raging seas and they were calm as glass. Who created, didn't matter in his own hands when he took five loaves and a few fishes and broke and broke and broke until he fed thousands. It is the same one who a few days before in this very area stood outside a tomb where a man had been dead four days and already the smell of death had begun to filter out of his tomb and all he needed to say was Lazarus come forth and he came forth and omnipotence was manifested as death itself bent its knee and curtsied to the incarnate God. ...

24:08 - 25:37 Read in full sermon

The point: Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

References Jesus multiplying loaves and fishes, demonstrating His omnipotence.

Well, it's the same one whom we've seen in Mark's gospel who spoke to the raging seas and they were calm as glass. Who created, didn't matter in his own hands when he took five loaves and a few fishes and broke and broke and broke until he fed thousands. It is the same one who a few days before in this very area stood outside a tomb where a man had been dead four days and already the smell of death had begun to filter out of his tomb and all he needed to say was Lazarus come forth and he came forth and omnipotence was manifested as death itself bent its knee and curtsied to the incarnate God. ...

24:08 - 25:37 Read in full sermon

The point: Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

References Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead, demonstrating His omnipotence over death.

Well, it's the same one whom we've seen in Mark's gospel who spoke to the raging seas and they were calm as glass. Who created, didn't matter in his own hands when he took five loaves and a few fishes and broke and broke and broke until he fed thousands. It is the same one who a few days before in this very area stood outside a tomb where a man had been dead four days and already the smell of death had begun to filter out of his tomb and all he needed to say was Lazarus come forth and he came forth and omnipotence was manifested as death itself bent its knee and curtsied to the incarnate God. ...

24:08 - 25:37 Read in full sermon

The point: Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

Quotes Calvin's comment that 'To know what he cannot see and to turn men's hearts to consent is for God and God alone,' reinforcing Jesus' divine attributes.

Well, it's the same one whom we've seen in Mark's gospel who spoke to the raging seas and they were calm as glass. Who created, didn't matter in his own hands when he took five loaves and a few fishes and broke and broke and broke until he fed thousands. It is the same one who a few days before in this very area stood outside a tomb where a man had been dead four days and already the smell of death had begun to filter out of his tomb and all he needed to say was Lazarus come forth and he came forth and omnipotence was manifested as death itself bent its knee and curtsied to the incarnate God. ...

24:08 - 25:37 Read in full sermon

The point: Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

A sister wrote to Martin, describing how she wept over Christ's willingness to take the path to the cross, highlighting the emotional impact of Christ's obedience.

upon the central message of the passage as we did last Lord's day and stand as one dear sister wrote me this week broken and crushed before the wonder of his willingness to take the path of voluntary obedience to come as the king while knowing as the king he'll be impaled upon his cross. The sister wrote and said she wept her way home last Lord's day overwhelmed with the wonder of it and well we ought to be but let us also see that in this passage there is that which even enhances the marvel and the glory of his obedience unto death even the death of the cross for the messianic king is none ot...

25:37 - 26:43 Read in full sermon

The point: Come unto me, and I will give you rest. Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

The humiliation of the eternal Word being sustained by an umbilical cord in Mary's womb illustrates the depth of Christ's incarnation and the necessity of His divine-human nature for salvation.

Let me say by way of application my friend who is yet in your sins I've already alluded to it but I want to underscore it again the savior you need to rescue you from your native condition as a sinner must be one who brings to his work all of the unlimited resources of Godhood nothing less than a divine savior can meet us so great is our need if the mystery of Mary's womb were not his essential to our salvation can you conceive that the father would ever subject his well beloved to the limitations of a humble maiden's womb for nine months that humiliation is enough to astonish us just the humi...

26:45 - 28:09 Read in full sermon

The point: Pray for Christ to shepherd, guide, direct, and protect you out of His perfect knowledge.

Describes all the demons in hell trying to pluck a believer from Christ's hand, illustrating Christ's omnipotent power to secure His sheep.

And then to know that the omniscient one is the omnipotent one, who said, as one of his sheep, as one of his sheep I am held in his hand, and held in his hand no man can pluck me. Let all the demons in hell get together in one massive demonic huddle, and let them determine at a given point in time they're going to hurl all of their combined demonic foul energy against the hand of Christ. They can't even make him twitch a finger. I hold them, he says, and none can pluck them out. That's your Savior, child of God. That's my Savior. That's good news.

33:59 - 34:51 Read in full sermon

Driving home: We are not saved by the example of Jesus. We are saved by the work of Jesus Christ done on behalf of sinners.

Refers to a hymn that says 'in thy life we see drawn out what it means to love God, to keep the law of God, to love our neighbor,' emphasizing Christ as the living embodiment of God's law.

even as He walked. Or as Peter tells us, Christ has left us an example that we should follow His steps. Now liberalism has been in that it has made Christ our pattern, its dominant emphasis, and has not set before us Christ the Redeemer. But I fear that in evangelicalism we have erred, and while duly emphasizing Christ is our only Redeemer, we have not sufficiently emphasized Christ as our bona fide pattern of what it is to live a life well pleasing to God. And that's why we sang that second hymn this morning. We read in the word of God and in the law of God His will, but we say in that hymn, ...

36:53 - 38:14 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Jesus is presented as a pattern in His determination to frame His life by the general demands of God's law, particularly the Golden Rule. Martin illustrates how Jesus anticipated…

An analogy of someone stealing a car to illustrate the disciples' potential fears and the owner's likely reaction to strangers taking his donkey, emphasizing Jesus' sensitivity to these concerns.

And they went away. And as they went away, what did they have with them? They had not only their natural fears, for they were human beings like the rest of us, going on a strange mission that had some danger elements in it. I mean, is the local cop going to be walking his feet and seeing us loosing the colt and say, hey you guys, what do you think you're doing?

41:31 - 41:54 Read in full sermon

The point: Conduct yourselves in every official duty and function (as husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, children, singles, elders, deacons) according to the word of God, even if it means standing against prevailing religious or cu…

Martin shares his wife's initial hesitation about the word 'engineered' to describe Jesus' entry, but how she was convinced, illustrating the deliberate nature of Jesus' actions in fulfilling prophecy.

crying out in thirst and that this Scripture might be fulfilled first. Now He was thirsty it wasn't that He lied or contrived the statement but He made the statement reflecting that reality that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. My wife told me last week that when I said Jesus openly knowingly engineered this entrance into Jerusalem she said honey I sat in my seat and I said let me think about that engineered that sounds contrived but she said by the time you were done you convinced my judgment so you see even my wife doesn't believe everything just because I say it and I hope that's because ...

52:44 - 54:14 Read in full sermon

The point: Live life in unruffled, thoughtful, prayerful, deliberate obedience to the will of God, avoiding haste and trusting God's timing.

Quotes Bridges' commentary on Proverbs 19, explaining that haste proves a work is too much for a person and that true faith involves waiting on God's timing, reinforcing the point about deliberate obedience.

Two texts of scripture that God brings to my mind again and again and how they came to new light in preparation for the meditation this morning. In Isaiah 28, 16 and in its messianic passage it says, and he that believeth shall not make haste. God is promising that he will lay in Zion a true and a tried stone and he that believes shall not make haste. In other words, if I'm convinced that God is committed to do his own work in his own way and in his own time, he does not need my ruffled, thoughtless, prayerless, impetuous health. He may choose to use my unruffled, thoughtful, prayerful, delibe...

62:35 - 63:47 Read in full sermon

The point: Contemplate Christ in the Gospels ('galleries of the King') to be transformed into His image from one stage of glory to another.

Refers to the Gospels as 'the four picture galleries of the king,' encouraging believers to contemplate Jesus in these scenes to be transformed into His image.

but we all with open face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into that same image from one stage of glory to another. Oh, that we may contemplate him as he marches before us in what one author called the gospel records, the galleries of the king. That's what he called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the four picture galleries of the king. And he says, we're privileged to walk up and down the galleries and behold him in the various scenes of life and beholding him above all and first of all and fundamental to all, trust him, commit ourselves to him as our only hope ...

66:05 - 67:19 Read in full sermon