27/03/2024
The complexity of the crowd chanting “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest” one week, and then the very next week yelling “Let him be crucified!” is clarified through the crowd’s question and answer in Matthew 21:10-11.
10 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
The fact that they only saw him as a prophet cornered them into thinking he was limited in power and confined by his humanity. In the time before Pilate, the crowd saw His death as the end of the story, not the beginning.
When we do not recognise Jesus as King and Lord, and rather see him as simply a beneficiary to our way of life, we join a crowd and not His Kingdom and thus render ourselves powerless to the ways of the world.
We do not invite Jesus into our story, we lay down our story (life) and it dies, we are then made into new creations in Him and His story (life). Don’t join the crowd, join the King.