Open your Bibles, if you would,
to Matthew, Chapter 21. The name of the message is, Who
is this? Who is this? Now we, as the born-again, blood-washed
children of God, pray that the Lord Jesus Christ would save
souls, would save his lost sheep through the preaching of his
word. We pray for our families. We pray for our friends. We pray
for the communities we live in. And we pray that those who would
hear the gospel message would be moved by the Holy Spirit of
God to trust Christ, to flee to Christ, because He's the only
hope for sinners. There's no other hope. Let's
read verses 8 to 11 of Matthew, chapter 21, where we see Jesus
coming into Jerusalem. This is called the triumphal
entry of the Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. Verses 8 to 11,
Matthew 21. And a very great multitude spread
their garments in the way. Others cast down branches from
the trees and strawed them in the way. And the multitudes that
went before and that fall cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of
David. Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when
he was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, who
is this? Who is this? And the multitude
said, this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, of Galilee. My,
oh, my. Look it there in verse 10 of
Matthew chapter 21. This will be our text. And when
he was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, who
is this? Who is this? Now, one of the
greatest dangers we face in our day is indifference to the power
of the gospel. Oh, my beloved, we need our heart,
we need our home, we need our church, and we need the area
that we live in moved to worship God. There's only one thing that
will do this, a reigning savior, a reigning savior, beloved. a
savior, triumphant, as we see in our text, coming into Jerusalem. This is what moved the city when
the Lord Jesus Christ rode into the city. See, from a lot of
pulpits today, Christ doesn't reign, but as long as I'm alive
and the Lord allows, whoever preaches in this pulpit, we're
gonna preach a reigning savior. a reigning savior. He reigns
on his throne, doesn't he, beloved? Oh, my. There's a lot of people
speaking about Jesus and preaching about Jesus, they say, but not
the Lord Jesus Christ of the Scriptures. No. There's a lot
of salvation preaching, but it's not the salvation of the Scriptures.
And there's a lot of preaching about God. But you know what
they leave out? The fact that God is absolutely
sovereign. He reigns and he rules, beloved. That's the God of the Bible.
The God of man's imagination is trying to save people, but
he can't. Most religion today, you could
write ink above. for the glory of God has departed.
There's no glory in a place unless Christ alone is preached as the
sinner's only hope. All down through the ages, that
which disturbed the world was when people put their lives on
the line for the gospel. When people stood up and preached
in the middle of the night to a few, who had the courage to
come together to see Christ lifted up in preaching, who came to church, who came
to church to hear about Christ. That's why we come, don't we?
We're poor, needy sinners, saved by the grace of God, some of
us, and we need to hear about Christ all the time, don't we?
I need to hear about my Savior. I don't need to hear what I have
to do, because Christ's done it all for me. And now, the hardest
thing for me to do is just rest in that finished work that Christ
accomplished. Is it so for you? Oh, my. Oh, that God would stir the place,
that God would stir Almonte. To say Hosanna to the Son of
David. Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. Oh, that God would stir the ears
as the gospel goes out into the world. To say Hosanna to the
Son of David. Blessed be he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. Oh, Lord, please, please use
these messages to exalt you, Lord Jesus. When Christ is exalted
in the pulpit, And in the hearts of the congregation, people will
come to hear the gospel, won't they? Oh, yes, they will. Because the gospel gets hold
of us, doesn't it? And we can't settle for anything
else but hearing the gospel, hearing Christ preached in his
perfect sin-atoning work in the room and place of we who are
sinners saved by grace. A reigning Christ will move people. A reigning Christ will become
important to our children, our friends, our neighbors. A reigning
Christ, because we desire to tell them about Him, that Christ
reigns. Oh, and a living Christ, a reigning
Christ, will be worth living and dying for. Preaching Christ
as the sinner's only Savior will cause those people people around
us who do not know him to say, who is this? Who is this? Do we know who Christ is? Is
what we believe according to the scripture? Will we stake
our life on it? Will we stake the eternal welfare
of our soul on it? Will we stake the eternal welfare
of our children on what we believe? Is it according to the scriptures? The best and only good thing
we can do for our fellow man, for our families who do not know
Christ, is to present Christ to them. But to do this, we'll
have to know who he is. If I have one more sermon to
preach before I die, beloved, I want it to be all about my
Lord Jesus Christ. I want it to be all about how
he saves sinners, how he's the only way for sinners to be saved,
and how that all who come to him shall be saved. All who come
to him by faith shall be saved. I love to declare that Christ,
the Son of God, came to this world to save his people from
their sins. I love to declare that, beloved,
because I'm one of the ones he saved. Oh, I love to declare
that Christ came to this world as a substitute for his people
and that he shed his precious blood to purchase our eternal
souls. Oh, what love is manifested in
what Christ done for us, beloved, the eternal everlasting love
of God for his people. I love to declare that his holy
life is accounted to me. and to you if you're a believer.
I love to declare that His righteousness we're now clothed in. Oh, that
His sufferings and death constitute a complete atonement, a full
atonement, so much so that all my sins are forgiven. Oh, I love
preaching this to a lost and dying world, because He's the
only hope for sinners. I love to preach and declare
that the sin-atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ, his atonement,
he made atonement for my sins and for the sins of all his people.
He's the propitiation, he's the offering up for our sins to God,
who we transgressed again. So God, the Son, offers himself
up to God, the Father, as atonement for the sins of his people. Oh,
I love to declare this, because we can't save ourselves, but
there's one who can save every sinner who comes to him, and
his name is the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, he satisfied the wrath of
God for all the sins of his people. He fulfilled the law of God in
the room and place for all his people, beloved. I love to declare
substitution, because this is the heart of the gospel, beloved.
The sinner in Christ's place, in Christ, in the sinner's place. Him dying and bleeding for us,
and we forgiven. Looked upon by God now as our
sins are all forgiven. That's only in Christ. And now
we rejoice. I love to declare this, that
the chastisement of our peace the chastisement of his people,
the wrath of God that was due me and due you as a believer,
fell upon our great king. Oh, it's so humbling. But he
fully satisfied God's wrath, God's justice in our room and
place. And we say hosanna to the highest. Praise the mighty
name of Jesus. Hosanna to the son of David.
Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Oh, the chastisement of our peace
was laid upon him that we might be justified by faith, justified
by Christ. I love to declare to a lost and
dying world that you must be born again. You must be born
again by the power of God, the Holy Spirit. And I love to preach
that faith is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should
boast. I love to preach that the believer
is clothed in the righteousness, the perfect righteousness of
Christ, and that God will only accept sinners who believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ. I love to preach that salvation's
on the Lord from beginning to end. He's the Alpha and the Omega
of our salvation. He's the beginning and the end
of our salvation. And he will complete the work
that he's begun in us. And we will one day be conformed
to the image of Christ. My, I love to preach the Lord
Jesus Christ to sinners because He is the only Saviour of sinners. I love to preach to God's people
who've trusted Christ and rejoice with you, beloved, that He saved
our eternal souls. I love to preach our wonderful,
merciful Saviour, who is the perfect, spotless, God-man, who
knew no sin, did no sin, perfect in thought, word, and deed, beloved. God incarnate in the flesh, Emmanuel,
God with us, and that he redeemed us with his precious blood. He
gave his life for us, beloved. Oh, praise the Savior, you who
know him, who can tell how much we owe him. If you do not know
the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that you will be moved by the
Holy Spirit of God to ask, who is this? He's the Savior of sinners, and
his name is the Lord Jesus Christ, sent by God the Father to save
sinners, to save his people from all their sins. Trust him. Cast yourself upon him. He's
the only hope for sinners. Amen and amen.