According to Luke 1:32, “No word from God will every fail.” His plan for salvation can be traced from the beginning to the end of Scripture. God’s attributes are revealed on every page: His sovereignty, His judgments, His mercy, His power, His righteousness, His patience, His healing, His love, His plan, His victory, His compassion, His benevolence, His presence with us.
No more picture of God in all His aspects can be seen in the events of Holy Week. He reveals the Kingship of Jesus in the triumphal entry of Palm Sunday. He allows Jesus to exert power over the sinful running of the synogoue. He provides healing. He shows that Jesus knows and accepts His role as Savior, even in His death. He shows earthly fellowship with the disciples. He reveals the sin of the world in the betrayal, denial, execution of His beloved Son–not as an end of the story of salvation, but as its beginning. He reveals His compassion for Mary and the disciples who still did not understand the plan. How could they? And He shows resurrection power in the triumph of Easter for those at that time and for us through the ages. Indeed, “No word from God will ever fail.”
Following the advent, the birth of Jesus, sent to reveal to us God’s presence with us, He presented His Son as the incarnation, the very image of Himself, so that we could be part of the plan for salvation for the people of every nation, tribe, language and generation of believers. He placed Jesus in times of Roman domination, a ruthless, sinful period of time, yet poised on the cusp of history as a civilization with roads, outreach, and opportunity for the Gospel to spread to Asia, Europe, and the outermost regions of the known world at that time. That was not coincidence. It was the plan.
God raised up ordinary people to hear the story of redemption, and to give everything to proclaim the message. It was not merely for kings and officials. In fact, many of them rejected Jesus, and God showed their frailty and blindness because of their pride. It was to the widow, the paralyzed, the fishermen, the ordinary people of His time and ours that the message resonated, perhaps because they were needy and humble enough to receiver it. Jesus fed the hungry, healed the sick in body and spirit, welcomed children, preached to the masses, touched hearts with his revelations of His Father’s will. And He allowed Jesus three triumhal entries. May we understand and follow Jesus with true devotion, praise, honor, and worship. Especially this week.
MY PSALM 340 THREE TRIUMPHAL ENTRIES
I Palm Sunday
All praise to the King of Kings
Lord of Lord, who comes
In the name of The Almighty
Hosanna!
He rides mounted on a donkey
As prophesied,
To praises and cheers from the crowd.
He enters Jerusalem,
Palm fronds and garments thrown down,
Proclaimed as King of Kings
The very Son of God.
II The Ascension
Lift high the gates, lift high the ancient doors,
Lift up your heads,
The King of Glory is coming in
Ascended from earth
Where He proclaims salvation
Through His perfect sacrifice.
Bow down and praise the
King of Kings, Lord of Lords.
Prepare a place for Him
At the right hand of the Father
For He is the King of Glory.
III On the Last Day
Trumpeters, prepare to announce the King.
Jesus, Triumphant Lord,
Your Kingdom is announced.
Your third triumphant entry begins
“The kingdom of the world has become
The Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ
And He will reign forever and ever.”
The message, shouted so all the earth will hear.
The temple is opened, the ark is revealed,
Jesus sits upon the throne, appearing in authority,
And returns to judge the living and the dead.
Let us who have ears to hear and eyes to see
Behold the Lord Jesus in His three triumphal entries
Into our world and for our sake
Because of the mercy and love Almighty Father,
The atonement of our precious Jesus Christ,
Who for our sakes, took on flesh
To become part of our world for just a little while,
And for the Holy Spirit
Who keeps our souls safe to see
The final victory of the Lamb, The Lion, the Holy One,
Emanuel, the Incarnate Son of God, Son of Man,
And our beneficent Savior,
Jesus Christ our Lord.[1]
[1] Previously published in Beyond Easter: Ascension and Pentecost. Betty Whitaker Jackson 
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