Isaiah 50:7 "For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed."
Matthew 16:21 "From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day."
Matthew 21:8-11 "And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way. (9) And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. (10) And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? (11) And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee."
From before time began, the Son of God had His heart and mind set upon this
particular trip to Jerusalem. This would be the Passover of all Passovers in
which the very Lamb of God would be sacrificed. The people thought Jesus came
to deliver them from Rome. But Jesus knew He was going that final trip to
Jerusalem to deliver His people from their sin. Praise be to God! May
this week be a time when we stop to follow the words of John the Baptist,
"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
(John 1:29)