The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now, if you want to go back in your Bibles to the 19th chapter of Luke, which I read a little earlier,

you'll be in the setting for our look at the

lowly coronation of the high king of heaven. The text that I read, if you were listening,

you notice that it is really full of irony, full of stunning contrasts.

You have the commendation of Jesus by the people, and then you have the condemnation of the

people by Jesus.

This has to be the most unique and unparalleled coronation ever.

On the one hand, it is large and enthusiastic, full of acclamation and admiration, generated

by the people's joyous hope over their arriving Messiah.

For the moment, it seemed as if Jesus might be that Messiah and that

imminent victory over all their enemies was to come. And in anticipation of that and the

glories of that triumph and the arrival of the kingdom of God, they were literally exhilarated.

On the other hand, we see the shallowness of that exhilaration, we see the superficiality

of it, we see the hypocrisy of it because it all ends in a pronunciation of destruction.

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