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April 9, 2006

The Irony of Palm Sunday

by IndependentConservative @ 11:49 pm. Filed under The Truth Shall Set you Free!

I’ve found a great write-up regarding the irony of the original “Palm Sunday” and how it relates to today. Be sure to read all of the write-up linked below when you can.

Excerpt from, Palm Sunday crowd got words right, meaning wrong

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Ironically, not all that much has changed in 2,000 years. People still love Jesus for what they want him to do for them, not necessarily what his heavenly Father sent him to Earth to do, which was to offer spiritual healing to all people, eternal life to “whosoever will” embrace him in faith.

Like the crowd who lined the road from Bethany to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, we’re tempted to succumb to the selfish chromosome in our human DNA. We want to turn Jesus into a national mascot, a denominational totem, a personal genie. Like they did so long ago, we still project our desire upon God’s will and proclaim it to be the truth. But if they were wrong, we might be too.

Put it this way: How often have you heard someone claim to know the absolute “will of the Lord” when that divine will didn’t also happen to be in the best interest of the one making the proclamation? That may run true to human nature, but it runs counter to the spirit of Christ. Yet we live in an age when everyone from politicians to pundits to preachers claims holy sanction for personal agendas.
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May we ask God to forgive us for projecting our will upon his and to help us live in humility before him and with others.

I’m sure some who read my commentary feel I do some of that myself :) . However I have to say that if I had my way I would be something far worse than a Christian. But I try to live and project the will of the Lord, because rather than project my will I’d rather his be done. So I am glad to uphold the standards of Christ that I’ve discovered for myself. Even when those standards disagree with my own human nature.

I don’t offer my views with any personal agenda in mind other than to disseminate truth to the masses. Sometimes that means offering correction to those I feel really are claiming “holy sanction for personal agendas”.

I pray my views are as much in line with Christ as possible and continue my daily journey to know the Lord better than yesterday.

Humility….yea I’m working on it :) .

Here are some good related verses to ponder.

Proverbs 22:1-16 (New King James Version)

1) A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
Loving favor rather than silver and gold.

2) The rich and the poor have this in common,
The LORD is the maker of them all.

3) A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself,
But the simple pass on and are punished.

4) By humility and the fear of the LORD
Are riches and honor and life.

5) Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards his soul will be far from them.

6) Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.

7) The rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower is servant to the lender.

8) He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow,
And the rod of his anger will fail.

9) He who has a generous eye will be blessed,
For he gives of his bread to the poor.

10) Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave;
Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

11) He who loves purity of heart
And has grace on his lips,
The king will be his friend.

12) The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the faithless.

13) The lazy man says, ?There is a lion outside!
I shall be slain in the streets!?

14) The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit;
He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall there.

15) Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

16) He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches,
And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.

I pray everyone had a blessed Palm Sunday.



4 Responses to “The Irony of Palm Sunday”

  1. Independent Conservative Says:
    April 14th, 2006 at 1:04 pm

    Jesus Died for Our Sins

    Today is Good Friday. Although it is the day of a tragic event. About 2000 years ago God had to come in the form of man which we know as Jesus Christ. He had to sacrifice himself for the sins we committed against him. If not for this act, much of …

  2. Independent Conservative Says:
    April 16th, 2006 at 11:29 pm

    Jesus Rose From the Grave

    This is my favorite part of the salvation story. Because while Jesus caught a lot of people by surprise on Palm Sunday, then he baffled some others when he died, he really proved he was King of Kings and Lord of Lords in the resurrection. This is wh…

  3. abcrec Says:
    April 28th, 2006 at 9:36 am

    The writer of the blog, “Jesus died for our sins,” writes: “After Judas betrayed Jesus, he (Jesus) was crucified. Today some are trying to use false doctrine to legitimize Judas. But even Matthew records that Judas knew he was not acting as a hero in turning Christ over for death. It was a betrayal of the Lord, that Judas himself was unable to live with.

    Is he saying that if Judas had not betrayed Jesus, he (Jesus) would not have been crucified? Presumably, Jesus’s crucifixion and death was pre-planned by God and not a spontaneous act. After all, was he not sent by his father to die for our sins?

  4. IndependentConservative Says:
    April 28th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    Is he saying that if Judas had not betrayed Jesus, he (Jesus) would not have been crucified?

    That is not what I am saying at all. I am saying that Judas played a role in it and was ashamed. No matter how it happened there were going to be individuals involved in the act.

    One of the verses of scripture I cite in the post “Jesus died for our sins”
    mentions that the prophet Jeremiah said there would be 30 piece of silver involved in the process. He did not mention Judas by name, but it turns out Judas was one of the players.

    The betrayal was foretold by David in Psalm 41:9
    (New King James Version text below)

    9) Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
    Who ate my bread,
    Has lifted up his heel against me.

    Then Jesus said he knows who the betrayer is in John 13:18-21
    (New King James Version text below)

    18) “I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’

    19) Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He.

    20) Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

    21) When Jesus had said these things, He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.”

    So it was known that as part of the process there would be a betrayal. And it turned out the individual who betrayed Jesus was Judas.

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