Seize the Moment – Day 1116
Praise God for His Triumphal Entry!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, April 7. Today is Good Friday. You are invited to tonight’s Good Friday Service at 6:30 PM.
Psalm 24 was originally written by David for when he brought the ark of the covenant – the Presence of God – to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6). This was the occasion that David was observed unashamedly leaping and dancing before the Lord in a great exhibition of praise to God before all the people (12-23). As you read Psalm 24:7-10, you can see and hear the ark’s triumphal entry:
Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in! Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in! Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.
There was another triumphal entry, a thousand years later, which David’s psalm points to – the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on the day we call Palm Sunday (Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-44). On this day, the crowds praised God, unashamedly declaring of Jesus in Luke 19:38: “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
Just like David’s wife, Michal the daughter of Saul, rebuked David for his praise at the first triumphal entry, so the religious leaders were scandalized by the people for declaring Jesus to be the coming King. Jesus responded to their rebuke in Luke 19:40, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 24, meditating upon the second coming of the Lord – “looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus” (Titus 2:13).
God bless you!
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