Palm Sunday is coming – and with it comes the most predictable and oft repeated sermon of all time.
Generally, the Palm Sunday sermon is a 2-pointer:
1. The crowds wrongly assumed Jesus was about to establish an earthly, political kingdom – which they were all in favor of.
And 2. The crowds were fickle, proclaiming Jesus as king on Sunday and calling for His crucifixion by Friday … because they wrongly assumed He had intended an earthly kingdom and was failing.
But is that all there is to the story?
I don’t recall ever hearing a sermon on the triumphal entry which considered the surrounding literary context. But that’s what I am exploring this week.
And there’s much more going on than I’ve ever suspected.
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