{"id":1748,"date":"2021-03-29T01:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T01:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2021-03-29T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T01:36:29","slug":"passionwekk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/passionwekk\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Passion Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had the privilege of preaching today at our church on The Triumphant Entry of Palm Sunday.<\/p>

As I shared, Jesus\u2019 arrival in Jerusalem represented the following three things in the life of Christ:<\/p>

  1. A UNIQUE SITUATION<\/strong>: As it was the only occasion when Jesus accepted the public recognition of King. As an example, recall what occurred after the Feeding of the 5,000:

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    \u201cSo Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain by Himself alone.” (John 6:15)<\/p><\/li>

  2. \u00a0<\/strong>A DEFINING MOMENT<\/strong>: By riding into Jerusalem as he did, fulfilling the Old Testament prophesy of Zechariah 9:9, Jesus was unmistakably claiming to be the Messiah and King of Israel.

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    Remember, previously, he had “warned the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ\u201d (Matt. 16:20) and \u201ctold his disciples and others around him, \u2018My time has not yet come.\u2019\u201d (John 2:4; 7:6,8)<\/p><\/li>

  3. A POINT OF NO RETURN<\/strong>: As Andreas K\u00f6stenberger notes,

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    \u201cUp to this point in Jesus\u2019 ministry, he could have still managed to live a long, happy, peaceful life, but his actions on Sunday set in motion a series of events that could result only in either his overthrow of Rome and religious establishment or his brutal death. He has crossed the point of no return; there would be no turning back. Caesar could allow no rival kings.\u201d<\/p><\/li><\/ol>

    As Christians, we are called to live all year in the shadow of the cross; however, let me encourage you to make a concerted effort this Passion Week to reflect upon the specifics of this paramount week in Jesus’ life and our salvation.<\/p>

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    I had the privilege of preaching today at our church on The Triumphant Entry of Palm Sunday. As I shared, Jesus\u2019 arrival in Jerusalem represented the following three things in the life of Christ: A UNIQUE SITUATION: As it was the only occasion when Jesus accepted the public recognition of King. As an example, recall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-living"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mail-chimp-passion-week-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mail-chimp-passion-week-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}