Broadcast
The Journey Begins - Part 2
Zechariah 9:9
03/26/2024
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud,
O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is
coming to you; righteous and having salvation is
he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the
foal of a donkey. (ESV)
People in exile, people in the bondage of slavery, have two
questions about their God. First, does God have the power to
free us from our oppressors? Second, does He have the compassion
to free us from our bonds? During Holy Week we see the answer.
God created us in His own image, perfect, holy, and in
fellowship with Him and one another. In Eden's paradise, that
perfection was shattered when our first parents defied God,
seeking to overthrow Him. They, and their descendants, were
bound in the chains of sin and death.
The promised seed of the woman, the second Adam, would bear
the punishment of that sin. Truly God and truly man, He would
crush the serpent's head while suffering a bruised heel. God
told the serpent:
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and
between your offspring and her offspring; he shall
bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.[1]
Now the day has come. As foretold by Zechariah, Jesus
entered the city gates as the King, the God who has the power and
compassion to save all people from their bondage to sin and
death.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O
daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to
you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and
mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
May our Lord grant us faith to see both the power and love
of our Savior. Amen.
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1. Genesis 3:15 (ESV)