Thank you. Welcome to Truth for Life weekend.

As we look ahead to Palm Sunday next weekend, we are taking time to consider who Jesus is.

Some have seen him as a prophet or a philosopher, a revolutionary. Some see him as a madman.

We'll find out why none of these categories can contain Christ. Alistur Begg explains how

Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecy as our king, prophet, and priest.

I invite you to turn and follow along as best you can from Matthew, although I must confess to you that the way in which the record is provided for us of what we refer to as PAM

Sunday in Matthew, Mark, Luke

and John, has found me this week saying to myself, did I just read that here or did I read

it there? And I've been going back and forth through each of the Gospels. And that is because

this particular incident is recorded very carefully for us by each of the gospel writers.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, each of them draw attention to the drama of this event,

and each of them does it in their own way, much in the same way that, as we often say, you may read an account in one

newspaper and then in another newspaper of the same incident, and while the main and central part of it

probably will be the same, there may be details in one that is absent in another. Matthew tells us, as we read, that all of this took place to

fulfill the words of the prophet, the prophecy of Zechariah 9. And if we had been able to move

among the crowd, if we'd been able to be present on that occasion, we would have found that many

of the people were there,

perhaps we would have been just like them, caught up in the excitement of the moment.

Many of them were there because of what had happened to Lazarus.

What had happened to Lazarus was that had been raised from the dead.

You would think that everybody would be absolutely delighted,

particularly perhaps the religious

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