The Final Week
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March 07, 2024
No week was more pivotal in world history than the final week in the life of Jesus Christ. Jesus knew His time had come to fulfill His primary missional goal. He readied himself and returned to Jerusalem, lodging with his good friends Lazarus, Mary, and Martha. On Sunday, Jesus made His grand entrance, riding in as though a king was to be coronated. The crowds cheered, believing Jesus to be the promised Messiah who would finally free Israel from Roman dominance.
But their motivations and expectations were all wrong about Jesus. He was not meant to wear an earthly crown, but a crown of thorns. How often do we have expectations about Jesus that are not Biblical? Do we follow Jesus with a motivation to be prosperous and receive His blessings? To follow Jesus means to make Him king of your life. It’s inviting Jesus to be not only your Savior, but your Lord.
Jesus once said, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.” In essence Jesus was saying, to be His true follower you must make Him your number one priority in your whole being. Jesus is to be second to no one, behind everything else in your life.
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, he came with an invitation to be King, to be the Master of eternal destinies. He came to offer humanity a solution to the terminal sin problem. And He came to put His mission front and center – to die that His followers might live.
This Sabbath, we continue our series, The Final Week, examining the next segment of the journey of Christ in the week that changed the world forever!
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