Mark 11:1-11

Mark 11:1-11

1. Let us observe how public our Lord purposely made the last act of His life.
2. Let us observe the voluntary poverty which our Lord underwent, when He was upon earth.
3. Let us see in the simple fact, that our Lord rode on a borrowed donkey, one more proof that poverty is in itself no sin.

"But never let us forget that the crowning fact in all we know of Jesus Christ, is His death upon the cross. From that death flow all our hopes. Without that death we would have nothing solid beneath our feet. May we prize that death more and more every year we live; and in all our thoughts about Christ, rejoice in nothing so much as the great fact that He died for us!"

"If we saw His divine acts only, we might forget that He was man. If we saw His seasons of poverty and weakness only, we might forget that He was God. But we are intended to see in Jesus divine strength and human weakness united in one person. We cannot explain the mystery; but we may take comfort in the thought, "this is our Savior, this is our Christ--one able to sympathize, because He is man, but one Almighty to save, because He is God.""

"Let us do our duty in that state of life to which God has called us, and if He thinks fit to keep us poor let us not be ashamed. The Savior of sinners cares for us as well as for others. The Savior of sinners knows what it is to be poor."

Questions:

1. Is the crowning fact of all we know about Jesus His death on the cross on our behalf? Do all our hopes flow from this substitutionary act?

2. Does the truth of Jesus’ full divinity and humanity remind your heart that, apart from this truth, he could not sympathize with our weaknesses and/or not save us? Does it bring you to worship our Great God for this unique and only Savior?

3. Does it amaze us that our Savior, the very Son of God, was poor? Does this humble us as we think of the poor around us?