The Rocks Will Cry Out - March 28, 2021

by Pastor Chuck Ryan

The Rocks Will Cry Out

 

Text: Luke 19:28-40

Thesis: “Let everything with breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.” (Psalms 150:6)

 

1. This story speaks of preparation and planning. (28-36)
2. Everything Jesus did was intentional, the fulfilment of what God pre-ordained.

              Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. (Luke 19:32)

1. Jesus was following the plan designed by the Triune Godhead from the beginning of time.
2. The day, the place of his announcement and even his mode of transportation was prearranged.
3. The prophet Zachariah in 520BC prophesied of Jesus’ triumphal entry.

       Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. (Zachariah 9:9)

1. Jesus’s first coming was prophesied, and His second coming is prophesied as well.
2. Many in the Jewish community could not accept Jesus as the messiah because they misinterpreted prophesy.

 

1. The common Jewish person recognized Jesus as the Messiah and praised Him, but the Religious leaders did not. (vs 36-38)

“The crowd spread their cloaks on the road…and the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:

“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Peace in the heavens and glory in the highest!”

1. When going to town people usually wear their best.
2. The people laid their worldly possessions at the feet of Jesus.
3. The people were not ashamed of Jesus, but where bold, because

“They sang with loud voices.”

1. They not only were being observed by their peers but those in authority over them.

Jesus said, “If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." (Mark 8:38)

1. The Pharisee had three reasons for rebuking the crowd for praising Jesus.

1^st- They did not believe Jesus to be the Messiah, so they felt the crowd was blaspheming God.

2^nd-They feared the Roman authorities.

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man dies for the people than that the whole nation perishes." (John 11:50)

3^rd They were jealous of Jesus.

For he was aware that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy. (Mark 15:10 NASB) (The NIV states “Self-interest”)

1. Jesus makes it clear that it is impossible to stop the praise of God.

“I tell you, he replied, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” (vs. 40)

1. Jesus in defending His disciple’s actions of praise, revealed a Spiritual Truth, an Eternal Truth, and a Divine Law.

The Holy Trinity will be praised!

The Psalmist states, “Let everything that has breath, praise the Lord.” (Psalms 150)