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A New Heart for the Valley Week 6, Day 4

by David Joynt on March 28, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 6, Day 4

A GENERATIONAL HEART

 

LUKE 19:30-34; 37-40

LUKE 18:31-34

 

Jesus’ elaborate arrangements for the donkey indicate clearly that he was not an accidental unwitting victim of a plot during Passover. He predicted his own death and understood how leaders would react to his dramatic entrance and cleansing of the temple, on top of the raising of Lazarus. Jesus was a willing sacrifice, not a hopeless victim. His choice of suffering rather than rebellion disappointed Jewish nationalists and the Passover crowd. He received the praises of the crowd and the Messianic salutes, and he described it all as completely in keeping with his true status. Even the rocks and the natural world should acknowledge his kingship. The adulation did not deter him from heading crossward.

 

Name three ways Jesus could have avoided the cross.

 

FAMILY TIME

Describe some of the emotions Jesus felt on entering the city.

 

Tags: cross, palm sunday

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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