John 12:12-26
You do know that phrase, “If it looks, walks, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck!” Well, if it fits all the divine expectations of the Messiah, then the Messiah, He must be!
Here are two signs: one from history, one from prophecy. Both confirm that Jesus is Lord.
The history of Israel involved leaving trust in God for the politics and power of the time. A king was chosen, but no king was allowed the pomp of a mighty parade. No, like David who first rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, all the kings of Israel had to do likewise. And when the Psalmist writes of this event, pointing back to kings, and forward to the Promised King forever, this is what is meant. When Zechariah preaches to those building the Second Temple, this man Jesus was whom he was seeing.
The king had come, not with Roman military might, but with the power of the living God.
Isaiah wrote that God’s Messiah would be honored among the non-Jews. When the Greeks came to learn from and follow Jesus, He knew that Isaiah’s vision was coming true.
It has been coming true ever since. The pattern of faith for the Christian revolves not around the temple of Jerusalem, but within the Heart of the Lamb of God.
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Lose our lives as we know them…to gain the life of heaven within us.
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Go where Jesus travels…we know where He would be.
Serve Jesus by keeping His Word and living His love.
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