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Now, if you want to go back in your Bibles to the nineteenth 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 contrast.

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.

Rather than doom falling on their enemies and the arrival of Messiah bringing about victory, doom will fall on them, brought about by that very Messiah.

Instead of seeing the glories of conquest, they will experience the agonies of being conquered.

Instead of experiencing the blessing of God, they are about to experience the judgment of God.

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