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Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive. My name is Mike Bro, and we left off yesterday in John chapter 13

with Jesus riding into Jerusalem at the beginning of Passover

week. This is commonly referred to as the triumphal entry on Palm Sunday. The people are in

a frenzy with the expectation of this mighty miracle worker. He could be our deliverer. Here comes

our political Messiah, our conquering king, finally. They're

chanting, they're making a red carpet entrance with their coats on the road or waving

palm branches and going absolutely crazy. Well, as Jesus rides in to the applause of people,

there are tears in his eyes. Luke records this part of the story in his gospel, he says,

but as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead, Jesus began to weep. As people cried out their political hosanas, he cried tears of grief for the hearts of those people. He foresaw the terrible devastation of Jerusalem that would happen just a few decades down the road.

He knew their distorted views.

He knew that they would have nothing to do with the Messiah who came to deliver them from sin.

But as they go berserk with praise and adoration, while most people would bask in the applause,

while most would be on a huge ego trip, while most would cave in and say,

OK, okay, I'm just going to give you what you want. Jesus cries. Now, before we get too hard on that crowd, let's just be

fair and ask ourselves, if we were in that crowd that day, that week, what would we have done?

You see, we have the benefit of looking back 2,000 years at them, and we know how it all turned out. But honestly, would we have done? You see, we have the benefit of looking back 2,000 years at them,

and we know how it all turned out.

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