QT 2/18/2022 Matt 21:5-7, The message is Jesus, not politics

Matthew 21:5–7 (ESV) —

5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your king is coming to you,

humble, and mounted on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ”

6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them.

 

NOTE: He came not as a general on a warhorse nor a king on a stately mount. He did not come as a rich man carried in a coach. He came on a young donkey (following his mother), sitting atop some cloaks. He was not a warrior, but a humble man less than a week from freely giving his life to save a world unworthy of his visit or sacrifice. He hardly qualified as a threat. He had trained no army. He had invested three years in teaching 12 men to live as servants to others, in holiness and righteousness. That was his army. None would be political or military leaders. They would not war to change laws or authorities. They would share a powerful message of forgiveness to a needy world. And so how do we use our time?

 

PONDER:

1. What is our message to the world? Is it a message of forgiveness or a message of politics and political power?
2. Do we yearn for others to know Jesus or to vote the same way we desire?
3. Have we corrupted what it means to be saved by faith in Jesus?

 

PRAYER: Father, help us to be about the message of the gospel. Keep us from the things Satan would use to distract us from our true calling. May we keep our focus on the eternal things, not the external things.