Palm Sunday is coming - and with it comes the most predictable and oft repeated sermon of all time.
Generally, the Palm Sunday sermon is a 2-pointer:
1. The crowds wrongly assumed Jesus was about to establish an earthly, political kingdom - which they were all in favor of.
And 2. The crowds were fickle, proclaiming Jesus as king on Sunday and calling for His crucifixion by Friday ... because they wrongly assumed He had intended an earthly kingdom and was failing.
But is that all there is to the story?
I don't recall ever hearing a sermon on the triumphal entry which considered the surrounding literary context. But that's what I am exploring this week.
And there's much more going on than I've ever suspected.
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