Does it ever seem to you like Jesus' disciples were pretty

thick-headed? They were with him for three or more years. It would seem like his

teaching would have soaked in. They would have finally gotten it. Today on Truth

for Life we'll find out that we're actually not so different from the crowd

that followed Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Alistair Begg is teaching

today from chapter 11 in Mark's Gospel.

Does the approach Jerusalem and came to Beth's page and Bethany? Jesus then

lets his disciples know that it's going to be a different kind of journey to Jerusalem.

And he tells the disciples that he is going to ride into Jerusalem. And when Jesus had the donkey

brought to him, he threw their cloaks over it and he just sat on it with all the potential risk

presumably that it would buck and jump or kick. With the thought that 20 minutes later he could

still be sitting on the donkey and he hadn't gone anywhere towards Jerusalem, right? Apparently not.

He sat on it. It seemed perfectly natural. Christ, the creator of the universe, the Lord of creation,

subdues creation. After all the winds and the waves of Badeon, no difficulty to slip onto the back

of the unwritten donkey and proceed towards his destiny. Is there not something here that is

pointing forward to this kingdom that is going to come when the lion will lie down with the lamb,

when Christ in all of his magnificent and transcendent power creates a new heaven and a new earth

in which we will enjoy all of the beauties and wonders of that which he has created for our enjoyment.

Why do you need to go home and think about these things? It may be. It may not be.

But verse 8 tells us that as a result of his having ascended to this position of pomp,

albeit lollipombed, they began to spread their cloaks on the road. This wasn't unfamiliar. Some went and

cut branches in the fields and they spread branches, creating a kind of festive pilgrimage for

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