Day 306 (Luke 19) - Year 6
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Hey, bible readers, i'm tardy couple and i'm your host for the bible recap.

In lux account, jesus hasn't yet entered jerusalem for the path of a celebration. So you'll just have to do a little time travel in your head to a few days ago. He's on his way to jerusalem and is passing through jero, which is about ten miles to the northeast.

It's called the city of palms. And when you pass IT in the desert, IT looks like in a wasis. It's also considered to be possibly the older city in the world.

There's a big crowd heating into jerusalem for the holiday, and jesus is just one of the many. But the tax collector named jackie is super curious about him and is hoping to catch a glimpse of him as he's passing through town. What I love about this story is that ziz doesn't need anything tangible from jesus.

He's not sick. He's not demonized. All seems to be well in his world. In fact, he's one of the most wealthy, powerful men in town. He's just deeply curious.

It's easy to realize our need for god when we have a tangible, real need. But for a wealthy businessman to be curious about jesus is a different thing altogether. He's so intrigued that he clams a tree to see jesus.

What do you think prompt person like that? He is to have curiosity like that. Jesus looks up at him, calls him by his name, and is like, i'm coming for dinner tonight.

I hope you have dried digs and chicken mines in the pantry somewhere. While the very active invite himself to dinner anywhere might shock some people, the locals are more shocked that he wants to eat with zai us at all. He's a singer.

Jesus is quick to remind them that sinners are his priority. He came to seek and save the lost, not those who think they're found. After being found by jesus, zaka sets out to do everything in his power to make right what he's done wrong.

It's clear he has a heart of repentance. Remember the story we read a few days ago about the rich ruler in chapter eighteen. It's interesting to compare and contrast him with.

They're both wealthy and powerful, but the rich ruler thought he was facing life and morality. Whereat, yes, is fully aware of his own weakness. Despite their financial wealth, they have different levels of awareness of their spiritual poverty.

Square one, because of that, zai sees how much he has to gain in following jesus, while the rich ruler only saw how much he had to lose. As jesus in his followers continue on the journey, they approach bEthany, a village on the outskirts of jerusalem. He, since two of his disciples, into the village to go get a coat.

His instructions are some help, precise and vague at the same time, and they almost certainly require divine arrangement. Jesus even tells them how their conversation will go. You'll go get the coat.

They'll be like, hey, where are you still in that cold and you'll tell them jesus needs IT. And they say, by all means, meal to suka. In Matthew account of this story, there is also a donkey involved to for the Price of free.

What's up with this cult situation though? Jesus has been walking all this way. So why now, at the end of his very long journey, does he finally ask for a lift that's like hiking the epl egon trail than taking in uber to your campsite? But this is all very intentional.

There are so many old text mate privacies about the masai, and jesus is fulfilling them all did by big. This particular property comes from saria nine nine, which says, rejoice greatly. O daughter of zion, shout allowed, or daughter of jo salem, behold, your king is coming to you writers and having salvation.

Is he humble and mounted on a donkey, on a cult, the bowl of a donkey. And this is exactly how he enters Chris salm. When he arrives, the people fulfill a proposed that he spoke over them back in chapter with thirteen.

That's where he told him he wouldn't be back to jerusalem until the time when they said, blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord. And that's exactly what they're saying as they walk done, the man of olives in intaglio em. Other accounts also tell us their shouting houses, ana, which means save us.

Most likely, this was a cry to save them from roman oppression, not a cry to save them from their sins. We don't know the exact pathetic took down amount of olives, but for three thousand years, much of that hillside has been covered with tomes and burial plot. They're still there today.

Estimates say there anywhere from seventy thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand tomes on that hillside. They're mostly above ground grave pants with limestone markers. As the disciples are shouting their prizes, the ferraris don't like the uproar, so they tells jesus to rebuke his people.

He says that if they were silent, the very stones would cry out. And here's where knowing the landscape of israel helps a bit. It's possible jesus was referring to actual rocks, but I more inclined to think he wasn't referring to flint or granted, or shale, but to fred or George or shila, to the thousands of grave stones they were passing on the hillside.

I imagine him sweeping his hand, passed all the symmetry I plots in, basically saying, if you try to stop the living from praising me, the eternal souls of the dead will do IT. Instead, my praise will echo through the universe regardless. They didn't get IT and its heartbreaking for him in the versus immediately following that, jesus swept over jerusalem.

He loved ju salem and its people, but they don't have eyes to see him for who he really is. And he proposed, ed, the destruction of that city that will happen in approximately body years. Then remember a few weeks ago when we read john's account of jesus making a whip in cleaning the temple, johns disregard for chino gy, through our time line off a bit.

So I want to point out that this is where IT really happens. It's in his final passionate week, where everything is dyed ed up a few more notches. What was your god shot today? Mine was in versed in where jesus points out his mission.

The son of man came to seek to save the lost IT may not be immediately evident, especially since I was in a live back then. But i'm in that story. Do you know what i'm doing in IT? nothing.

I'm just lost. That's all. But jesus is doing a lot of stuff in that story.

He comes, he seeks, he says, he is the active agent in my salvation. And thank god, because I never would have found my way out. Honestly, I probably wouldn't even known I was lost until he showed up.

I was lost and foolish, and I desperately needed his rescue. It's the best thing that has ever happened to me. He is where the joy is.

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