Palm Sunday, Palm Sunday Procession (2025)
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Philippians 2:5-11
Philippians 2:5-11
My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, we are here at Palm Sunday and what a glorious day as our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ enters into the city of Jerusalem to loud Hosannas as they sing the praises of Jesus who has come to this city to save us from the powers of sin, death, and the devil. He does so in such a surprising and unexpected way that the world was not ready, and even still today people find it difficult to wrap our minds around. For Jesus takes upon himself the form a slave to be the savior of mankind.
The Slave of Mankind
Jesus came to serve, not be served.
This is shocking it says that Jesus didn’t consider equality with god a thing to be grasped. For why do men want power, and seek acclaim. It isn’t that we might be of service to others, but rather that others may serve us. This is what we see in the world all around us. That’s our narcissistic bent, asking what is the world doing for me, instead of how can I serve my neighbor.
This is why Jesus was born.
He was born to save mankind, he didn’t need to save us. What did He lack, what would He gain that He could not create for Himself. He had everything to lose, for glory and honor already belonged to him, but
Jesus set aside his glory.
He did so because of His love for mankind, and his love for you. He was willing to lay aside that crown of glory and join us in the dirt and ash of sin that He might fulfill the cries of those people on Palm SUnday who shout out Hosanna, God save us. To accomplish that He would have to endure...
Unjust Suffering
We despise things that are unfair.
It is one of the first things we learn to fight for when we are children, and we defend it when our sibling gets something we didn’t, be it a privelege a larger dessert, the bigger half, whatever it might be. But it becomes especially difficult when we
To suffer for someone else’s mistakes.
We are forced to pay for their negligence, their greed, their carelessness. It becomes especially sharp in those moments as we are forced to lose out on things we love. It’s a cost we don’t want to bear or deal with, and its harder
Especially when it’s caused by a fool.
Be this the kid in class who got the whole classroom into trouble or someone who was just goofing off and cause significant damage, we don’t have the patience and we are frustrated and don’t want to give them a bit of grace. That is why it had to be Jesus who came to save us, who truly loved us. For look at
The Cross of Christ
Whose sins are on Jesus?
He isn’t suffering on behalf of his failings or his sins, or his shortcomings. It’s our sins that rest upon His head. That’s how he came to serve us not be served. He is the one who has come to pay the cost that we owed to God in order that we might be forgiven. This was the hope since the garden that there would be one man who could atone for sin, and so He became flesh and
Jesus submitted to the Father.
Even though he would not be paying for any of the wrongs that he had done, or the sins that he had committed, no the sins of the entire would be cast upon His head as he was reviled, hated, and nailed to a piece of wood as the mocked him for not for people that loved him.
He did it for us while we were sinners.
We hate to suffer on account of fools, but what fools have we been in our sins, we know God’s commands we know what the word proclaims to us and the judgment it threatens us with and yet we think that we can hide our sins from God, and so we continue in them to our detriment and to the harm of our neighbor, and yet Christ did not reject or spurn us in our sins, but sought our salvation, our restoration and our freedom from sin by suffering for fools like us.
The Humility of Jesus
Humility is treating others as better than yourself.
It is a difficult thing, and is the opposite of how the world work. We quite often see the loud and obnoxious jerks get to the front of the line, and we reason well if I want to get ahead, then I have to be a jerk too. Then the world is just full of obnoxious fools. Humility is treating people as though you aren’t just the same as them, but they are your betters, you lower yourself and put to death your pride.
Jesus didn’t attempt to seize glory.
He laid it aside. Pride puffs us up as though we are the greatest, but the Son of God, begotten of the father before all eternity, the one through whom the stars, and planets were made, descended from the heavenly realms that we long to see to take upon himself not the best that humanity had to offer, he took upon himself our filth, our corruption, our depravities and let himself suffer in our place. Why?
He suffered out of love for you.
We often hear the Law and we see its dangerous effects, but there upon the cross of Jesus we see the Gospel, the good news of salvation, and we see the heart of God that sits behind all the terrifying proclamations, that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit did not desire you to perish, but the father sent the Son who was conceived by the Spirit, that the Son might suffer and die for our sins because Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love you.
Jesus’ Exaltation
The Father has lifted Him up.
For Jesus accomplished that great work of our salvation and redeemed the creation. The works of mankind had been unable to satisfy the demands of the Law, but the Son of God abided by the Law perfectly that He might redeem us from the Law and that we might be children of God by grace. That is why we can gladly say, that
Jesus Christ is our lord.
What that means is that Jesus Christ purchased and won me from all sin, death, and the power of the devil not with Gold or silver, but with his holy precious blood his innocent suffering and death that I may be his own and live under him in his kingdom in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness. It is our great joy therefore to lift up our voice in praise of him for
Jesus did what no one else could.
For who else could declare fallen creation good, except the one through whom it had been made good in the first place? So let us not give his glory to anyone else. You weren’t saved by your works, you weren’t saved by your decisions, you weren’t saved by your choices, or the power of your will. Don’t now be a fool and attempt to steal glory away from your savior. Rather let us join with all the heavenly host to our king.
My Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Jesus entered Jerusalem to cries of Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest, and that is why He had come to earth to save us from our sins. May we never forget that, and let us rejoice that God has answered the prayers and the blight of mankind and brought us from sin, and death to eternal life in Christ our Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.
