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Welcome to our look at Mark 11 in Daily Drive Time Devotions, Day 2, Verses 1-11
today. As I talked about yesterday, we're going to walk through this last week
of Jesus' life day by day. And this is Sunday.

The Sunday before the resurrection. And on this Sunday, Jesus enters Jerusalem
as King. Listen to what happens in Verses 1-11.

As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of
Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go to the village
ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which
no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, 'Why are
you doing this?

' Tell them, 'The Lord needs it, and we'll send it back here shortly. '" They
went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied
it, some people standing there asked, "What are you doing untying that colt?

" They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. When they
brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many
people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had
cut in the fields.

Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father
David!

Hosanna in the highest! " Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. He
looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to
Bethany with the twelve.

Here is Jesus entering Jerusalem as the king. Now, before we look at what we
learn about Jesus as king from these verses, I want you to notice just a couple
of things. Notice that Jesus had prepared for this day.

He said, "Go and find a colt in such and such a place and bring it to me. " He
prepared for this day. He knew it was coming.

Notice also that the disciples were obedient for this day. They went and got the
colt. They didn't know why.

They didn't understand all that was going to happen that day, but they just did
what Jesus asked them to do. That happens many times in life. Jesus asks you to
do something, you're not sure why at the moment, and then it comes clear later.

That later may not be until you get to heaven, but then it comes clear later. I
also want you to notice that there is some unknown friend that was crucial to
this day. I don't know who it was that tied the colt there or exactly their
name.

We don't know that from the scripture, but we do know that somebody cared enough
about Jesus to let him use their colt on that day. Because they did, Jesus was
able to ride into Jerusalem as the king, showing people the kind of king that he
truly is. As he entered Jerusalem, they recognized him as king.

That's the meaning of the palm branches that were laid on the ground. It was a
recognition of a king that was riding into the town. That's the meaning of all
the hosannas.

It was a welcome for a king. Now you may be thinking, a king, if he's riding in
as a king, why does he ride in on a donkey? I would have a great white horse or
black horse, not a donkey.

Here's why. If Jesus had ridden into Jerusalem on a horse, it would have said he
was coming as a conquering king. But to get on a little tiny donkey, and it
wasn't just a tiny donkey, it was the colt of a donkey.

It was sort of like riding a German shepherd into town, very small animal. Jesus
is riding on this small animal. And in triumph, he is showing that he is the
king who is coming in peace.

He's saying he's not only the king of kings, but he's also the prince of peace.
And in saying that, he's fulfilling clearly a prophecy from the Old Testament.
Zachariah 9.

9 says this, "Behold, your king who comes on the colt of a donkey. " Jesus knew
exactly what he was doing. He was picturing that he is the fulfillment of
prophecy, as he wrote in Jerusalem on that day.

Now it's interesting, if Jesus had listened to his disciples' ambitions, to the
people's ambitions for him, he would have ridden into Jerusalem on a horse
triumphantly. But because he listened instead to God's will for him, he rode
into Jerusalem on a donkey, obediently. You know what it meant for him to ride
in on a donkey?

It meant that you and I get to see the heart of Jesus Christ. You see Jesus'
heart as he rides on that donkey. Jesus had a humble and an obedient heart.

What do you do when your heart is broken? What do you do when you don't know
where to turn or who to turn to? Jesus Christ had a broken heart, as he rode
into Jerusalem.

He had a broken heart for the people. He had a broken heart for what he was
going to face that week. When you have a broken heart, you ask God for a humble
and obedient heart.

That's how Jesus responded to his broken heart. He humbly obeyed the Lord. He
got on a donkey and he rode into Jerusalem.

He didn't say I'm not going there, it hurts too much. He didn't say I'm going to
take matters into my own hands and try to solve this myself. He had a humble
heart and an obedient heart and so he rode in on a donkey.

When you look at Jesus on that donkey, you learn some things from this day in
Jerusalem about the kind of life that God wants us to live. When you look at the
crowd that day and the voice of the crowd, you also learn some things that are
challenged in some ways about the kind of life that God wants us to live. When I
hear the voice of that crowd as Jesus is riding into Jerusalem shouting,
"Hosanna," it helps me to ask the question in my life, what is it that gets my
attention?

What's getting my attention? Is it the voice of the crowd or is it the voice of
God? What gets your attention gets you.

All of us would like to say it's the voice of God that gets my attention. But
the truth is we've all got to face the fact in our lives that often the shout of
the crowd is louder than the voice of God. God comes to us in whispers.

God comes to us in a thought in our mind, a whisper in our heart. He says
something to us through a friend. The shout of the crowd, it's always louder.

And because of that, it's often what we're drawn to. In this case, the crowd was
shouting out, "Hosanna," which means save us now, Jesus. It was a demand.

It wasn't just a praise. It was also a demand. We want you to save us right now.

And what they wanted was for him to be their political savior and save them from
Rome. But Jesus did not listen to that. He listened instead to the voice of God.

And he shows us instead how to be humbly obedient to God. I see something else
in the example of Jesus this day, and it is how you live in a day of spiritual
triumph in your life. Jesus is coming into Jerusalem.

He has set his face to go to Jerusalem. He's decided to be there, and he comes
in humbly. Jesus shows us how to have humility in the midst of fulfilling God's
will in your life.

This is a tremendously exciting day. Jerusalem, because of all the pilgrimage of
all the people coming in to celebrate the Passover, it swelled to a size of
maybe half a million. Some people say a million.

And many of these people are celebrating Jesus on that day. It's an incredible
event. And on this day, Jesus doesn't stand up and say, "Look at me.

" He says instead, "Look at God. Look at the prophecy that God has given. " On
this day of great triumph, Jesus points to God.

Now in this case, Jesus is also God, but he's pointing to the will of God at
work in his life. What about you? What about me?

When we come to these days of triumph, when we come to these days of spiritual
victory in our lives, do we say, "Look at me," or do we say, "Look at God? " I'm
not talking about any of this phony, "Don't give me any credit for it. I'm going
to give God all the credit," when really you're trying to be humble in a way
that makes people notice you even more.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about what's going on in my heart, in
your heart. God works some great spiritual triumph in your life.

Is it a "Look at me" day, or is it a "Look at God" day? If you look at all of
God's servants down through history, they had the habit in their moments of
greatest spiritual triumph of saying, "Look at God. " Moses stands on the edge
of the Red Sea.

He's going to hold out this rod and the sea is going to be split in two. He
could have said, "Hey Israel, look at me. Look at what I'm going to do," but
instead he says, "Stand and see the salvation of the Lord.

" Joseph, in the book of Genesis, stays in prison for 13 years, and finally they
bring him out and they say, "I'm going to rise you up to a rulership. Can you
interpret this dream? " Joseph could have said, "Look at me.

I can interpret dreams," but instead he says, "I can't do it, but I know a God
who can. " Much later, he has a disciple of sorts by the name of Daniel who's
taken captive to a foreign country. And when he's brought before the king and
the king says, "I heard that you can interpret dreams.

I've heard you're a very wise man. " Now, when the king said, "You're a very
wise man," Daniel could have just nodded wisely. He didn't have to say a thing
to let all this praise come upon him, but instead he humbly said, "I'm not the
one who can interpret dreams, but I know a God in heaven who can.

" Daniel knew that God was going to use him, but he still pointed to God. Moses
knew that God was using him. He still pointed to God.

Jesus knew that he was fulfilling the will of God in an incredible way, and he
pointed people to the truth of God in that moment. How about you? How about me?

In these significant moments of life, who am I going to point people to? Jesus
is my example, and he says, "Point people to God. Look at me or look at God.

" Let's talk to him. Jesus, first of all, I say to you, I want to humbly accept
you as my king. I want to learn from your humility.

God in human flesh, and yet you pointed people to the Father. You humbly rode on
a donkey. In these moments of spiritual triumph, you pointed people to God's
will and God's direction.

Help me to live a humble life, and Jesus, help me in that life to point people
to you. Not to take the credit, but to enjoy the fact that you're at work in my
life. Help me to do that today, Jesus.

I ask it in your name. Amen.