Two Triumphs

We have heard about the triumphal entry of Palm Sunday. This is in some ways sad because many of the great crowd that thronged Jerusalem that day did not really understand the reason why Messiah was coming to his people as joyously foretold by the prophet Zechariah. He was coming to suffer at the hands of his own people and to die for their sins. And the other triumph, you know, in the Gospels, it was surprising for me to realize this, but there's the triumph of Palm Sunday. But there's also another one that comes later. And we'll come to that in today's message. The other triumph, the following Sunday, was His resurrection. And especially for believers, that's a great triumph because we triumph in Christ because He rose from the dead.