John 12:9-19
May 8, 2022
preached by Pastor Chris Audino
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Jesus did not come with sword in hand but with nails in hand. Not to bring judgment but to bear judgment.”

~ Edmund Clowney (1917-2005), Presbyterian theologian

“It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.”

~Attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky, as quoted in Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane by Harold Victor Martin

“God’s sovereignty is always to His people in wisdom and in love. This is the difference between sovereignty in God and sovereignty in man. We dread the sovereignty of man, because we have no security of its being exercised in mercy, or even justice: we rejoice in the sovereignty of God, because we are sure it is always exercised for the good of his people.”

~ Alexander Carson

“The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”

~ John Piper (1946-present), Christian pastor and writer

“He rises up and defends your case, based on the merits of his own sufferings and death. Your salvation is not merely a matter of a saving formula, but of a saving person.”

~ Dane Ortlund (1978-present), contemporary pastor and author

“Christians are the community of a new age which must continue to exist in the old age…The church must learn time and time again that its task is not to make the world the kingdom, but to be faithful to the kingdom by showing to the world what it means to be a community of peace. Thus we are required to be patient and never lose hope…[For] God does not rule creation through coercion, but through a cross.”

~ Stanley Hauerwas (1940-present), former Duke University professor and public intellectual

Sermon Passage

John 12:9-19 (ESV)

⁹ When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, ¹¹ because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

¹² The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. ¹³ So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” ¹⁴ And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

¹⁵ “Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

¹⁶ His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. ¹⁷ The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. ¹⁸ The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. ¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”