He Set His Face to Go to Jerusalem

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 4 April 1982

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jesus was not accidentally entangled in a web of injustice. The saving benefits of his death for sinners were not an afterthought. Jesus saw that the time had come and set his face to fulfill his mission: to die in Jerusalem for our sake.

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0:00.0	The scripture
0:01.4	this morning is found in Luke chapter 9 beginning with verse 51.
0:05.4	Luke 9 51.
0:08.9	When the days drew near for him to be received up, He set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent
0:16.4	messengers ahead of him who went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him. But the people would not receive him because
0:27.2	his face was set toward Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said,
0:34.0	Lord, do you want us to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?
0:38.0	But he turned and rebuked them, and they went on to another village.
0:45.0	Luke describes the arrival of Jesus that last week in Jerusalem with words like this.
0:55.0	As he was drawing near at the descent of the Mount of Olives,
0:57.5	the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God
1:00.9	with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen saying,
1:05.0	Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest.
1:11.4	And there's no doubt what those disciples had in their minds was happening at that moment
1:15.8	because they knew the Old Testament.
1:18.8	They knew the prophecy of Zakaria which said, rejoice oh daughter of Zion shout aloud oh daughter of Jerusalem
1:27.4	lo your king comes to you triumphant and victorious is he humbled. lowly riding on an ass, on a colt, the full of an ass. I will cut off
1:41.3	the chariot from Ephraim and the warhorse from Jerusalem and the battle
1:45.2	bow shall be cut off and he shall command peace to the nation.
1:49.0	His dominion shall be from sea to sea and from the river to the end of the earth. The Messiah has come. That's what's happening
1:57.0	on Palm Sunday. The King of Israel is arriving in the holy city and not just the king of Israel but as the prophecy said
2:05.8	the king of the whole earth.
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