The title of the message tonight
is, When Jesus Was Glorified. When Jesus Was Glorified. I won't be able to cover all
the verses that Brother Dan read for us, so I'm going to begin
at verse 12, if you'll look at verse 12, John 12. It says, on the next day, much
people will come to the feast. This feast is the biggest. There
were several feasts. The Feast of the Firstfruits,
the Feast of the Tabernacle. This is the Feast of the Passover. The Passover. And all Jewish
males were required to be there, to appear before the Lord. The
women were not required to attend, and this is not just the Jewish
males in Jerusalem, all over, wherever they might be. They
had to come to Jerusalem for the Passover to appear before
the Lord. As I said, the women were not
required to be there, but many of them came, and more of them
came to this one for several reasons. It says, on the next
day, much people will come to the feast when they heard that
Jesus was coming to the feast. Jesus of Nazareth was going to
be there. The Lord had just raised Lazarus
from the dead a short time before that. Look over at verse 9 of
chapter 12. Verse 9. Much people of the Jews
therefore knew that he was there. You see, Bethany where the Lord
raised Lazarus from Jerusalem. It's two miles. And they came
not for Jesus' sake only, they came to see Him, but that they
might see Lazarus also, whom He had raised from the dead.
So, there were more people than usual at the Feast of the Passover
because Our Lord had only recently raised Lazarus from the dead,
and he was going to be at Jerusalem. Something unusual happened here.
When he rode into town, when he rode into the city, verse
13, the people took branches of palm trees. Why did they take
these palm tree branches? Well, the palm branches were
a symbol of great joy and great victory. Revelation 7, you don't
need to turn there, I'll read it to you if you'd like. When
the great multitude assembled in heaven, John said, I beheld
a great multitude stood before the throne and before the Lamb,
clothed in white robes with palms in their hands. The palm branches
are a symbol of great joy and great victory. And they met the
Lord Jesus Christ with these palm branches and scattered them
in front of him as he rode in the town on this donkey. This multitude, this huge, awesome
multitude began to throw these palm branches in front of him
and saying, crying, Hosanna! Hosanna! Blessed is the King
of Israel! the King of Israel that cometh
in the name of the Lord. See, the Passover was here. This
stage is set for this thing, this acclaiming and proclaiming
and by force making Jesus of Nazareth King. The Passover was
at hand celebrating the deliverance from Egypt. The people of Israel,
the Jews, were under the Egyptian bondage and slavery for 400 years. Now they're under Roman bondage,
governed from Rome under terrible bondage. But these people all
knew this story, how Moses led them out of Egypt. No army, no
fighting force, just the power of God. Moses with a shepherd
rod, divided the sea. led them out of Egypt. And the
Egyptians let them go willingly. And all this was on their mind
because they were there to celebrate the Passover. And who would lead
them now out of Roman bondage but this man Jesus, who had awesome
power. He had just raised a man from
the grave who had been dead four days. And this was, everybody
knew about it. And he had demonstrated this
awesome power to give life to a dead man, and so they were
going to make him king. They were going to make him king
over them, and he would restore the David's kingdom, and they'd
have the great power that they once had. All right, let's see
now, verse 14, he rides into Jerusalem, verse 14. It says, And Jesus, when he found
a young ass, sat there on, as it is written, Fear not, daughter
of Zion, behold, thy king cometh sitting on an ass's coat. Now
it says Jesus found this young ass. He found him because he
directed his disciples to him. If you turn to Luke, chapter
19, the account is given there of this coat, the fold of an
ass, a young donkey. Luke 19, verse 29. And he came to Pallas when he was come now to Bethphage,
Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount, called the Mount of Olives.
This is right two miles out of Jerusalem now near Bethany. He
sent two of his disciples and said, Go ye into the village
over against you, near to you, in the which at your entering
you shall find a coat tied, this young coat tied. Yet never man
sat, never been broken, never been ridden. No man ever sat on that donkey.
Loose him and bring him to me. If any man ask you, why do you
loose this coat? Thus shall you say unto them,
because the Lord hath need of him. So our Lord picked this
coat, never been ridden, sent his disciples over to get him.
They brought him to him. He got on the donkey. That's
an awesome power of our Lord. This donkey had never had a human
body ride him, but he submitted to the Master. Even a donkey's got that much
sense, to submit to Christ. And he rode him into Jerusalem.
Now that's the fulfillment of Old Testament Scripture. Turn
to Zechariah. Zechariah chapter 9. Why don't
you turn to this now? And here are all these pharisees
and Sadducees and rulers of the Jews, these men that spent their
lives studying the scriptures, spent their lives studying the
scriptures, ever learning, never coming to knowledge of the truth.
They could quote this verse. When Herod inquired of these
men, where is this Messiah to be born? Where is this king of
the Jews to be born? They said in Bethlehem. It says
in Micah chapter 2 verse 5, out of thee Bethlehem of Judea shall
come him of whose goings forth have been of old, the Messiah.
They knew that. And they'd read this scripture.
So listen to it. Zechariah 9 verse 9. Rejoice,
O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, behold, thy king cometh unto thee. Your king cometh to
you, your Messiah. son of David, he's just and having
salvation, lowly, riding upon an ass, upon a coat, the foal
of an ass. Here comes this man Jesus. John
the Baptist said he's the Christ. John the Baptist said behold
the Lamb of God. The works that he does, had done,
even Nicodemus, the Pharisee, said nobody could do these works
except God be with him. Just raised a dead man, been
dead four days. Raised Jairus' daughter, the
widow's son. Made the blind to see, the lame
to walk. And here he rides into Jerusalem
on that coat, the foal of an ass, that they'd read hundreds
of times. And the people all in front of
him cried, Hosanna, King of Israel cometh in the name of the Lord.
And yet they can't see it. They can't see it. This is the fulfillment of the
Old Testament scriptures. But they weren't looking for
him to come in this fashion. But why is he coming in this
fashion? Why is the Lord coming, the Lord of glory, sitting on
a donkey, riding into the great city of Jerusalem? Well, number
one, it emphasizes the character of
his kingdom. His kingdom is not a kingdom
of war, battles, bloodshed. His kingdom is a kingdom of peace,
joy, righteousness. He comes not as a warlord. He
comes, it said, lowly and meek. He comes not to judge or to cast
off bondage, yokes of bondage. He comes as a lamb. What did
Zechariah say? To bring salvation. You see, the whole message of
the Old Testament is the Lord Jesus must suffer. Turn to Psalm 22. I hear three
psalms in a row here. These men knew these psalms. All of these rulers of the Jews. Psalm 22. is the psalm of the cross, the
cross psalm of suffering. My God, why hast thou forsaken
me? Why art thou so far from helping
me from the words of my roaring? Look at verse 14. I'm poured
out like water, my bones are out of joint, my heart is like
wax, melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried
up like a pot shirt, my tongue cleaveth to my jaws. You brought
me to the dust of death. Christ must suffer. That's what
the whole Old Testament says. As Moses lifted up the serpent,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up. This signifies that death,
he should die. The next psalm is the 23rd psalm. That's the psalm of the victory.
The Lord's my shepherd. I shall not walk. He makes me
lie down in green pastures. The battle's over. The victory's
won. He leads me beside still waters, he restores my soul.
How? By his death, by his suffering. And then Psalm 24 is the Psalm
of the crown. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
verse 7, Psalm 24, be lifted up, ye everlasting doors, the
King of glory is coming in. Not on a donkey, not in Jerusalem,
in glory. The everlasting door. Open the
everlasting door. Lift up your head. Open your
gates. The King is coming home. The King has come lowly and meek
to bring salvation and suffering and death. He won the victory.
He restored our souls. Now he's coming home. Who is
this King of glory? He's not a lamb now. He's a Lord
strong and mighty. The Lord mighty in battle. Lift
up your head, or your gait, even lift them up, the everlasting
doors, and the King of Glory shall come in." Who is this King
of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, H-O-S-T-S,
the Lord of the multitude. He's not coming in alone. He
has a host with him, the redeemed of all ages and all generations. But the Messiah must suffer,
and he comes riding on a donkey. But these fellas can't see that.
And nobody else can unless God opens their eyes. And they can
read it, and read it, and read it, and read it. You see, there's
a scripture over here in Acts chapter 13. Acts chapter 13,
verse 22. I read this, Acts 13, 27. They
that dwell at Jerusalem, all these people, these religious
folks, and their rulers, their preachers, their prophets, their
teachers, all these people and their rulers, scriptures, study
the scripture. Because they knew him not, nor yet the voice of the prophets,
which are read every Sabbath they have fulfilled all these
scriptures in condemning him. And though they found no cause
of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be
slain, nailed him to a cross, and when, they had fulfilled
all that was written of him by God, by the Spirit of God. by the true prophets of God.
When they'd fulfilled everything that was written of him, they
pierced his hands and feet, plucked out his beard, spat upon him,
crowned him with thorns, laughed at him when he died. They fulfilled
everything. He said, I thirst at the Scripture
like we fulfilled. And when they'd fulfilled everything
that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and
put him in a grave and said, we're finished with him. God
rest ye humble beings. And here he comes riding that
donkey. And the prophet says that's the
way he'll come into Jerusalem. Verse 16, but even the disciples. John confesses his own ignorance. His own ignorance. And the ignorance
of all the disciples. These things understood not his
disciples at the first. They didn't understand it. Turn back to Luke 18. Listen
to this. They didn't understand it. They
were with him three and a half years and still didn't understand
it. Heard him talk about it over and over and over again in Luke
18.31. You got it? Luke 18.31. Then
he took unto him the twelve. These twelve selected, elected,
chosen men. and said to them, Behold, we
go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets
concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished. He shall be delivered unto the
Gentiles, the Romans, and shall be mocked, spitefully inflated,
spit upon. And they'll scourge him and put
him to death. And the third day he'll rise
again, and they understood none of this. You see, they too were looking
for a kingdom. They often talked about their
places of importance in this kingdom that he would set up
on the earth. I just imagine when they started this demonstration,
these, I don't know how many thousands of people were there,
and our Lord riding the donkey into the field. and these people
were bowing, taking off their coats and throwing them out in
front of him, throwing the palm branches, just going wild. Demonstration
like they put on, you know, in this country when they want to
impress somebody with something. And these disciples, I'm just
sure they were swept along with them. I imagine Peter, James,
John, Nathaniel, Luke, all of them were just dancing in the
street. He'd been despised, he'd been
Rejected now here these people will make him king David reigned
in Jerusalem Solomon reigned in Jerusalem. I will put Jesus And they believed he could do
it They had seen his awesome power
he could take Rome Athens to Corinth all the rest of them.
They believe that they've seen him still the waters They seen
him stop the wind, stood there and watched him raise Lazarus
just a few days before this. And they were taken up with him. And these things, verse 16, understood
not his disciples at the first. But, I'm glad that's there, aren't
you? But, when Jesus was glorified,
when our Lord had died, and was buried and rose again. Then they remembered that these
things in the Old Testament were written of him. They remembered he was wounded
for our transgressions. Christ took them over all those
scriptures. They remembered the seed of woman would bruise the
serpent's head, but he'll be bruised too. They remembered
the brazen serpent. They remembered the smitten rock.
They remembered the Passover lamb was slain and blood was
shed and the body was burned. They remembered. They remembered. And that these people had done
these things unto him in the fulfillment of God's Word. Fulfilling God's Word. Turn to
Acts 2 and listen to Peter. Peter remembered, and when he
was preaching in Acts chapter 2, he was taking these scriptures
that David had written, Acts 2, 25. David speak concerning
him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face. He's on my right
hand that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice,
and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall
rest in hope, because I will not leave my soul in hell, my
soul in the grave. Neither will thou suffer thy
Holy One to seek corruption. Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life. Thou shalt make me full of joy without countenance."
Now Peter said, "'Ben and brethren,' he was quoting the Old Testament
there, he said, "'Let me speak freely unto you of the patriarch
David. David's dead. David's buried. His grave is with us to this
day. Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that God has sworn
with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according
to the flesh, he'd raise up Christ to sit on his throne. He's seen
this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was
not left in hell, neither his flesh did seek corruption. This
Jesus has God raised up wherever we all are witnessing. Now David
sees it. Now Peter sees it. Now Peter sees what these Scriptures
were. And he preached it. You see,
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, the Old Testament
Scriptures. And he was buried and rose again
according to the Scriptures, fulfilling the Word of God. Now
then, let me show you something here about this demonstration. And who was included? Verse 17. The people, therefore, that was
with him when he called Lazarus out of the grave. Down there
in Bethany, there was a crowd of people went to that tomb.
And they saw him raise Lazarus. They saw him come out of the
tomb, these people. And they bear record. They are
the ones two miles away, all they were two miles away, like
across this bridge down here from Jerusalem. And they came
in this city and they This man raised Lazarus from the dead. And the Pharisees were so certain
of it, they were going to kill Lazarus again. They were going
to get rid of him. The evidence. All right, verse 18, now here's
some more. For this cause, the people also, the rest of these
people met him when he came into Jerusalem. For they heard he'd
done this miracle. And then the Pharisees, They
were upset. They were having meetings. They
said among themselves, perceive ye how you prevail. They jumped
on these fellows that had agreed with them to kill him. They wanted
to kill him a long time ago. They said, we should have killed
him a long time ago. Now, listen, the whole world's
gone after him. They've been taken up with this
thing. And listen, and the Gentiles, you see, There were some proselyte
Gentiles. They had in the temple, they
had a court of the Gentiles. Gentiles, uncircumcised, weren't
allowed into the temple. But there were certain places
where they could be. And there were Gentiles that
worshiped Israel's God. And even these Greeks among them
came up to worship at the feast, and they came to Philip, which
was our best savior, and desired him saying, sir, if we would
see Jesus, you've got the people down in Bethany, you've got the
people in Jerusalem, you've got the Pharisees, and you've got
these Greeks now, these Gentiles. They all want to see this man. Make this man king. And Philip
had a problem on his hands. He came and told Andrew, and
Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Well, if this is his objective,
and it seems to be that this is what the preachers are saying
today, to get as many followers as he can, if this is his objective,
to get folks to believe in his power to heal, in his power to
raise the dead, in his power to rule the world, in his power
to conquer Rome, in his power to feed the multitudes, in his
power to heal all sicknesses, and his power to give us a utopia
here on the earth. If that's what he came to do,
this is the time to do it. Isn't that right? Jerusalem sees
the capital. It's like the capital of religion. It's the seat of religion. It's
the heart of religion. This is all happening in the
capital. And everybody's moving in this
direction. That's making things. That's fine, but now we've got
that problem. What about sin? It remains as always. You've
got your king. You've got your utopia. You've
got your plenty to eat and wear, but you still got sin. Rotten, dirty sin. Secondly, you still don't have
any righteousness. You're still separated from God.
None righteous, no not one. None that seeketh after God.
You've still got wars and fightings among you. No righteousness.
God won't have us. Still got judgment. Satan still
rules. The forces of evil are rampant. God must punish sin. You've got
judgment. Everybody's got to meet God in
judgment. Still got death. Scripture talks about the last
enemy to be destroyed is death, but this king can't destroy death.
He's reigning. He can't destroy death. Death's
still there. It's farther than the man wants to die. What about heaven? Can't enter
there because the scripture says if you die and you sin, you can't
come where I am. If she said, nothing shall enter
therein that worketh or maketh a lie. So we've got sin, unrighteousness,
judgment, death, and no heaven. This is a critical time. This
is a critical time. This is like the temptation of
Satan in the wilderness. Let me ask you to turn to Luke
chapter 4. This is a critical time. For
everybody who reads this, everybody who's got any understanding of
what's going on here, let's have a king, but no cross. Let's have a utopia on earth,
but no glory. In Luke chapter 4, Satan has
come to our Lord. And he says in verse 5, the devil
taking him up in the high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of
the earth, all of them in a moment of time. The devil said, all
this power will I give you and the glory of them and that's
delivered unto me and to whomsoever I'll give it. Why is he driving
this bargain? No cross, no death, no salvation. No redemption. No destruction
of evil. No putting away of sin. No putting
away of judgment. No satisfaction of God's holiness. Do without the cross. Do without
the cross. You just worship me and I'll
all be yours. Is that what you want? And Jesus answered and said,
Get thee behind me, Satan, it is written. Thou shalt worship
the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve. The whole program of Satan is
to avoid the cross, and the program of religion is to avoid the offense
of the cross. The offense of the cross. So our Lord speaks. Now, we brought
you up to this point. All this is going on, and Christ
is speaking. Verse 24, John 12. And Jesus answered them, all
of them, all of them. The hour has come, not to crown
a king, but to crucify a savior. The hour has come, not to crown
a king, but to slay a Passover lamb. to which all time points, the
hours come for which time was established. The hour has come, the moment
has come in the history of this universe for which time was established. No need for time if you don't
have a Savior, a cross. Everything God Almighty ever
put together, planned, His workmanship, His works known According to this hour, the hour
has come that the Son of Man, the God-Man,
the Son of the Living God should be glorified. This is the hour for the Son
of Man to be glorified. What is his chief glory? What
is his greatest glory? He prayed in John 17, Father,
glorify me that I may glorify you. I've glorified you on the earth,
now glorify me that I may glorify you. What is his chief glory? Moses asked that. Moses had seen empires crumble. Moses had seen
miraculous judgments, dealings of God with rebels. Moses had
seen God write the law with his finger
on tables of stone. Moses had been in the presence
of the majesty of God so that when he came down from the mountain,
he had to cover his face. Nobody could look at him. It
shone like the sun. And here he is saying, Lord,
show me your glory. What else can you see, Moses?
What else can you take? I want to see your glory. But God said to Moses, I'll show
you my glory. I'll be merciful to whom I will
be merciful. I'll be gracious to whom I will
be gracious. I've got a covenant, a plan,
a purpose to glorify my son and glorify my name in the redemption
of sinners. You see, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom
of God wherein dwelleth righteousness cannot be a reality unless five
things are dealt with. unless five things are dealt with in such a way that God can be just. I hear
those five things. The evil one, Satan. He's got to be put away. He's
got to be conquered. He's got to be dealt with. Secondly,
the law of God. Unchangeable, immutable law of
God. You can't get around it. You
can't go under it. You gotta face it, and it's got
to be obeyed perfectly. Sin. Sin's got to be paid for. The soul that's sinning shall
die, die, die. Sin, when it's finished, bring
it forth to death. It's got to be dealt with. It
can't be swept under the rug. It can't be diluted. It's got
to be paid in full. Death. Sin bringing forth death. Death has got to be conquered
by somebody who can live again, die and live again. Judgment,
the wrath of God's got to fall upon sin. God must punish sin. He will by no means clear the
guilty. The judgment and wrath of God
has got to be satisfied. got to drink somebody's blood. Somebody's got to die. Well,
there's only one who can do anything about this situation. That's
the Son of Man. Only one. Is anything too hard
for God? He said, is my arm short that
I can't save? You can't do it. Your religion A man's not delivered by the
force of many. Get as many as you want. Storm
heaven if you want to. Get all the creatures of this
earth and storm his throne if you want to. It'll do you no
good. This Son of Man, now is the hour. The hour has come that
the Son of Man shall be glorified and in Him being glorified, He'll
glorify the Father. He said, I come to do thy will,
O God, and the volume of the book is written of me, to put
away sin. How? Here's the key, by the sacrifice
of himself. Himself. By himself purged our
sins. How did he deal with these five
things? Number one, as a man. Satan had conquered everyone
that met him. Everyone, he overflowed them,
overcame them, overwhelmed everyone, everything. Every creature on
this earth. But he met Christ. And he met
Christ at a time when our Lord was weakened by 40 days of fasting. And yet, the Lord Jesus said,
Satan came and he found nothing in me. The prince of this world has
met the king. He's been conquered and cast out. And his entire
demise and annihilation is awaiting the coming of our Lord. He met
the law in the flesh, a man, bone of our bone, flesh of our
flesh, tempted in every point as you are. yet without sin. A man of sorrow is acquainted
with grief, and yet he honored that law and put it aside. Whipped Satan and cast him out.
Left the law, free from the law. Oh, happy condition. He took our sins, all our literally
all of in his body. He took our sin in his body. Our sins were laid on him to
the cross. And their judgment, the wrath
of God. He walked that winepress of God's
wrath by himself. And because of who he is, he
was able to satisfy the judgment and justice and wrath of God
for everyone for whom he suffered, every one of us. And he put away
sin. It does not exist anymore. He
cast it to the depths of the sea, separated our sins from
us as far as the east is from the west into infinity, cleansed
us from all sin, paved the way, and set us free. And he died
and was buried. But even death couldn't hold
him. Satan couldn't hold him. The law found nothing in him. Sin put
it away. Judgment. When the wrath of God
had exhausted itself upon him, he said it's finished. No more, my God, why have you
forsaken me? Father, into your hands I commit
my spirit." And then he walked out of that grave. And that's
his greater glory, because every one of his people, for whom he
suffered and died, will one day walk out of their grave. That's
the reason the angels, when he was born, they came down and
said, we bring you good tidings of great joy. unto you is born this day in
the city of David a Savior, Christ the Lord." And they began to
sing, glory to God, glory to God in the highest, glory to
God and peace on earth. His death is not contrary to
God's glory. His death is the means of God's
glory. The hours come Son of man should
be glorified." Now listen, barely I say unto you, except a corn
of wheat fall into the ground and die. That's the seed of corn. It's put in the ground, covered
up, and it dies. If it doesn't, it'll abide alone.
If Jesus is put on a throne, He's the only son of God they're
going to have. That's all they want. The rest
of them are going to water in their sins and die in their sins
and go to hell. But if He, the Son of Man, dies
on a cross and is buried and dies, He'll bring forth much
further. Many sons of the glory. Many sons of the glory. All right,
I hope that's a blessing to you. I hope the Lord will bless it
to our prophet. His glory. When the Son of Man
was glorified, and when he was glorified, you were glorified.
The glory which you gave me, said, I've given them. All right,
we're going to sing number 210, our closing hymn, Saved by the
Blood of the Crucified One.