William H. Willimon - "The Intruder" (March 27, 1994)

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-	We pray you to bless these palm branches	0:00
	as today we acclaim Jesus our messiah and king.	0:04
	May we reach one day the happiness of the new	0:10
	and everlasting Jerusalem by faithfully following Him,	0:13
	who live and reigns forever and ever.	0:16
-	Lord increase the faith of your people and listen	0:23
	to our prayers, today we honor Christ, our triumphant king	0:26
	by carrying these branches.	0:32
	May we honor you everyday by living always in Him,	0:35
	for he is Lord forever and ever.	0:39
	Listen now, to this gospel reading, taken from the book	0:45
	of Mark, chapter 11, beginning with the first verse.	0:48
	When they were approaching Jerusalem at Bethphage	0:53
	and Bethany, near the mount of olives.	0:57
	He sent two of his disciples and said to them,	1:00
	go into the village ahead of you and immediately	1:04
	as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt	1:07
	that has never been ridden, untie it and bring it.	1:10
	If anyone says to you, why are you doing this?	1:15
	Just say this, the Lord needs it	1:18
	and will send it back immediately.	1:21
	They went away and found the colt tied near a door	1:24
	outside in the street.	1:27
	As they were untying it, some of the bystanders said	1:29
	to them, what are you doing untying the colt?	1:32
	They told them what Jesus had said and they allowed them	1:36
	to take it.	1:39
	Then, they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks	1:40
	on it and he sat on it.	1:43
	Many people spread their cloaks on the road	1:46
	and others spread leafy branches that they had cut	1:49
	in the fields.	1:52
	Then those that went ahead	1:53
	and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna,	1:55
	blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord,	1:58
	blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David.	2:01
	Hosanna in the highest Heaven.	2:05
	Then, he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple	2:09
	and when he had looked around at everything as	2:13
	it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the 12.	2:15
	This is the word of the Lord, thanks be to God.	2:21
	(organ music)	2:28
	(choir singing)	3:09
	(triumphant music)	5:30
	(choir singing)	5:37
-	Please be seated.	9:32
	Now let us join in the prayer for illumination.	9:44
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God, by the power	9:48
	of your holy spirit, so that even as Jesus led the disciples	9:52
	into Jerusalem, we might follow him	9:57
	where he would lead us, amen.	10:00
	The epistle lesson this morning comes	10:04
	from the book of Philippians, chapter two, verses 5	10:06
	through eleven.	10:10
	Let the same mind be in you, that was in Christ, Jesus,	10:14
	who though he was in the form of God,	10:19
	did not regard equality with God as something	10:21
	to be exploited, but emptied himself,	10:23
	taking the form of a slave,	10:27
	being born in human likeness and being found in human form,	10:30
	he humbled himself and became obedient	10:34
	to the point of death.	10:37
	Even death on a cross.	10:40
	Therefore, God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name	10:43
	that is above every name.	10:48
	So that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bend,	10:51
	in Heaven and on Earth and under the Earth	10:56
	and every tongue should confess	11:00
	that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father,	11:02
	this is the word of the Lord.	11:09
-	This is the day that Jesus,	11:23
	the young prophet about whom we have heard so much,	11:27
	led his disciples into the capitol city, into Jerusalem.	11:31
	Previously the work of Jesus has been confined	11:39
	to the Hinterland and out of the way places like Capernaum.	11:44
	Today the small town boy from Nazareth,	11:50
	comes into the big city to claim his prize.	11:54
	Today is like the day of that Olympic skier,	11:59
	that practiced in some out of the way corner	12:03
	of Vermont for years, only at to last stand	12:07
	at the Olympic podium and receive the gold.	12:12
	Crowds go wild,	12:17
	as Jesus and his people enter the town.	12:19
	They cut palm branches and they wave palm branches,	12:22
	a sign of honor, a sign of welcome.	12:26
	Hosanna, hail Jesus!	12:30
	Hail king Jesus!	12:33
	And yet here is the Palm Sunday question,	12:39
	are we ready to welcome this Jesus?	12:43
	Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a brave,	12:49
	persecuted Russian intellectual.	12:53
	From the gulag, he dared to criticize the evils	12:57
	of Communism.	13:01
	And so one of the big events of the 70's	13:05
	was when Solzhenitsyn decided to defect to the West	13:07
	and he was welcomed in our country with open arms,	13:12
	this persecuted refugee, this intellectual,	13:15
	this saint of anti-Communism.	13:20
	And he was welcomed here as a triumph of our system	13:25
	over their system and when he came here,	13:28
	he paraded right to Harvard where he gave a speech.	13:31
	And in his speech Solzhenitsyn said	13:35
	that he worried about the soul of people under Communism,	13:39
	but he had to come to worry more about the soul	13:42
	of people under Western Capitalism.	13:44
	Solzhenitsyn told us at Harvard, you're going	13:48
	to Hell, right behind Lee Iacocca and Mickey Mouse,	13:53
	General Motors and Walt Disney.	13:59
	And a lot of us decided we like Solzhenitsyn better	14:03
	in the Soviet Union.	14:06
	(congregation laughing)	14:08
	We have this convocation every year	14:12
	here in the chapel in the Fall,	14:14
	Founder's Day, and usually someone important is invited	14:16
	and gives a speech.	14:21
	And the speeches are usually of the same theme,	14:24
	about how great Duke is and how wonderful it is	14:26
	to be here, and how great our founders were	14:29
	for getting us started and two years ago,	14:31
	we all marched in here in the chapel,	14:36
	the president, the various deans, members of the faculty,	14:40
	scholarship recipients, and the speaker	14:46
	was Reynolds Price, the president got up	14:49
	and said how honored we were to have Reynolds Price	14:54
	speaking to us, he was one of Duke's finest products,	14:56
	he was one of our most noteworthy professors,	14:59
	great teacher, wonderful novelist.	15:02
	And then Reynolds got up at the podium,	15:07
	he was wheeled to the podium and there he was	15:10
	in his Oxford robe fur trimmed, he looked all the world	15:12
	harmless and he started to speak.	15:15
	And he told us, that Duke students in the 50's	15:21
	were 10 times more interesting intellectual	15:25
	than Duke students in the 90's	15:28
	and he called the Duke faculty a bunch of laggards	15:30
	and sluggards for not demanding enough of our students	15:33
	and he spoke of the glazed over eyes in his seminar classes	15:36
	and the inane comments that were made.	15:39
	And he challenged us, get on the bus between East	15:41
	and West campus any day and I challenge you to try	15:44
	to hear one more interesting conversation	15:47
	than simply, I can't believe how drunk I was last night.	15:49
	(clears throat)	15:55
	I had a great view from where I was sitting	15:56
	of the faculty.	15:59
	You could see the deans, as their faces got redder	16:00
	and redder, one dean's face got so red, you could	16:04
	have roasted wieners on it.	16:06
	(congregation laughs)	16:08
	And after the speech, as Reynolds was wheeled back next	16:09
	to me, there was sort of polite,	16:13
	but decidedly restrained applause.	16:15
	He leaned over to me, he said, do you think they're	16:19
	going to kill me for that?	16:22
	And I said no, but I wouldn't count	16:26
	on being invited back a second time.	16:28
	(congregation laughs)	16:31
	(clears throat)	16:32
	A few years ago, my family and I, I was teaching	16:35
	out in Southern California, and one Sunday we went	16:37
	to the Crystal Cathedral and to our surprise,	16:40
	the customary preacher at the Crystal Cathedral	16:45
	was not in residence, I think he was	16:47
	out spreading the gospel in Hawaii or something.	16:49
	And so they said they would have a guest preacher.	16:52
	And to my consternation, the guest preacher was none other	16:55
	than Charles Colson, reborn Evangelical of Watergate fame.	16:59
	Great, I thought, I've come all the way out here,	17:06
	I'm at the Crystal Cathedral	17:08
	and here's some jail bird friend of Richard Nixon stand	17:10
	up and preach.	17:14
	Well there was this glowing introduction,	17:18
	and the person told about how Charles Colson	17:19
	had after his serving his time, he had been born again,	17:23
	how Jesus had transformed Charles Colson's life,	17:27
	how he was now had founded an international prison ministry.	17:30
	Colson began his sermon by thanking people	17:36
	at the Crystal Cathedral.	17:40
	Telling them what a great honor it was for him	17:42
	to preach at such a beautiful building	17:45
	and such an attractive congregation arrayed before him.	17:47
	Such a glorious setting.	17:51
	He told them that it was quite a contrast	17:55
	from where he had spent yesterday.	17:57
	Yesterday, he said, all day Saturday, I was	17:59
	at the Los Angeles prison camp	18:01
	and there I did not see nice people, coats and ties,	18:04
	Sunday best.	18:08
	There, I spoke with rapists and murderers and thieves.	18:10
	Sort of a pause, Colson said,	18:18
	of course you know	18:23
	in which setting Jesus would have felt most comfortable.	18:24
	You know if Jesus were given a choice	18:30
	between speaking at the Crystal Cathedral	18:32
	or working out at the Los Angeles prison camp,	18:36
	you know where he would be, don't you?	18:39
	And then for the next 30 minutes, he had us by the throat.	18:44
	He worked us over right and left, he told us we ought	18:48
	to be ashamed of sitting there in our Sunday finery	18:51
	while little children starve.	18:54
	He told us the only the difference between that congregation	18:55
	and the congregation he saw at the prison camp	18:58
	was we happened to make most of our money legally.	19:01
	On the way out, I managed to shake Mr. Colson's hand.	19:07
	I told him that I hope he enjoyed his first sermon	19:10
	at the Crystal Cathedral, because I thought	19:14
	it would probably be his last at the Crystal Cathedral.	19:16
	I saw him a couple years later in Raleigh	19:20
	and I remembered that event and he said,	19:22
	you know it was my last.	19:25
	Now Jesus' entry into Jerusalem is a great turning point	19:31
	in Mark's gospel.	19:33
	There is sort of a pivot that occurs right here,	19:36
	chapter 11, Mark's gospel.	19:39
	Heretofore, all of the action has been out	19:42
	in the Hinterlands, out back, in little backwater towns	19:45
	like Capernaum.	19:49
	Thus far, Jesus' great revolution has been little more	19:53
	than a rag-tag bunch of poor fisherman and tax collectors	19:56
	and others trotting around after Jesus	20:01
	out in dusty little towns.	20:04
	But, now you get the feeling that the pace is quickening.	20:08
	You get the feeling that everything is coming	20:11
	to a head.	20:13
	Previously, Jesus walked.	20:16
	But, now Jesus commands a colt to be secured.	20:19
	Before Jesus has confined himself to the alleyways	20:24
	of small hick towns like Nazareth.	20:28
	Now, he rides into the capitol city.	20:31
	Time was, Jesus would perform some spectacular miracle	20:35
	and then he would tell his disciples,	20:41
	don't tell anybody about this, keep it quiet.	20:42
	But, now he openly displays himself, riding	20:46
	into Jerusalem, the crowds are shouting,	20:50
	people are claiming that he is the long awaited king.	20:53
	He rides up Pennsylvania avenue, the crowds go wild,	20:57
	hailing the coming kingdom of our ancestor, David,	21:00
	royal enthronement psalms from the Old Testament	21:05
	are quoted.	21:08
	Jesus is riding in like some victorious, conquering general.	21:09
	He is hailed with waving palms, and shouting crowds	21:14
	and little children hailing the one who comes	21:17
	in the name of the Lord.	21:20
	The conqueror is come to town to seize his prize,	21:21
	ride on king Jesus!	21:25
	And what happens next,	21:28
	is a shock.	21:32
	Jesus re-enters Jerusalem,	21:34
	not on Palm Sunday.	21:38
	But, he strides into the chapel, the temple.	21:39
	He disrupts the service with shouts,	21:45
	he turns over the tables, he curses the people there.	21:47
	He tells them a nasty little story about the parable	21:53
	of the wicked tenants.	21:56
	He tells them that God's vineyard is gonna be taken	21:59
	away from you and given to somebody else.	22:01
	He accuses the clergy of vile corruption.	22:04
	He threatens the inhabitants of Jerusalem	22:08
	with doom.	22:11
	He curses the department of religion for being a bunch	22:12
	of ignorant fools without a clue.	22:15
	And finally, he tells everybody, have a good time	22:18
	today in the chapel because every stone of this building	22:20
	will be turned upside down.	22:23
	How would you feel if you had been in the Palm Sunday parade	22:30
	that day?	22:34
	Talking about wearing out your welcome about,	22:36
	to having rolled out the red carpet,	22:40
	only to have it besmirched by Jesus.	22:42
	To have their town and their religion and every thing	22:47
	that they cherished, trashed	22:50
	by this ungrateful intruder.	22:54
	How would you feel?	23:00
	You can almost feel it right now in this service.	23:03
	This service is starting to turn right about now.	23:07
	And we're starting to wonder if it's such a good idea	23:13
	to have invited Jesus into our world.	23:15
	Couple of Falls ago, I had Jesus at not one	23:23
	of his better moments.	23:26
	I had to preach Jesus' parable, the story of Jesus	23:29
	and the rich, young ruler.	23:34
	And, if you notice in this story, it's where	23:38
	this upwardly mobile, nice, talented young man is called	23:41
	to follow Jesus.	23:45
	It's just Jesus says, I want you to do one little thing.	23:47
	I want you to go sell everything you have, give it	23:49
	to the poor, then come follow me.	23:51
	And Luke says, it was that, the young man slumped down	23:55
	and got real depressed and left.	23:58
	And Jesus says, it is hard to get one of these rich people	24:01
	in my kingdom.	24:06
	And I just kind of retold the story.	24:09
	I just kind of left it like that.	24:11
	Monday morning, I was in the U room for breakfast,	24:14
	with the students.	24:17
	I was moving through the cafeteria line.	24:18
	Professor in the department of religion comes to me and says	24:20
	well what happened yesterday?	24:24
	And I said, excuse me?	24:27
	And he said, well just sort of got it all out on the table,	24:28
	did not know what to do with it, did we?	24:30
	Just sort of couldn't think of an ending for the sermon,	24:32
	could we?	24:34
	And I said, really?	24:36
	And he said, well don't worry about it, you're normally	24:38
	quite adequate on Sunday mornings, you can't be good	24:40
	every Sunday, can you?	24:43
	(congregation laughs)	24:44
	And I said, okay, before I could get	24:47
	through the line, ran into a professor	24:50
	from the divinity school and he said to me,	24:52
	well I felt sorry for you yesterday, I tell you,	24:55
	after that dead anthem by the choir, there was nothing	24:58
	you could do in the sermon to redeem that service, right?	25:00
	I mean, you know, of course the sermon was gonna be flat	25:03
	and dead, but I mean after that anthem.	25:06
	You've got to tell those musicians kinda to help you.	25:08
	I felt sorry for you up there, just dying up there.	25:10
	I staggered over there, took my seat.	25:17
	This sophomore, he said to me	25:21
	after we started eating breakfast,	25:24
	I wanted to talk to you about the sermon yesterday.	25:27
	I said, look kid, don't mess with me.	25:31
	(congregation laughs)	25:34
	I might have to take this off some people,	25:35
	I don't have to take it off sophomores, all right?	25:37
	He said, you know, I just, I went home just sick.	25:42
	I just went home ill.	25:46
	I said, really?	25:50
	I went home and had lunch.	25:51
	What was the problem?	25:53
	He said, I just, I had this religious experience	25:56
	when I was a freshman and I just I wanted	26:00
	to give my life to God, I wanted to serve Jesus	26:03
	and I just said, Jesus, what the heck do you want from me?	26:07
	Is it not enough that I try to love you, that I pray	26:14
	to you, that I try to serve you as best I can?	26:17
	What do you want?	26:19
	I mean, I've got a bicycle, can I keep the bicycle?	26:20
	What is it you want?	26:23
	I just felt sick.	26:24
	You'd think he'd make it a little easier,	26:28
	you'd think it would be.	26:30
	I said to him, you see that aging man, sitting	26:34
	over there having breakfast across from us?	26:37
	I wish you could go over there and sort of explain it	26:41
	to him.	26:43
	I think you got the point.	26:45
	I think you kinda know what it's like	26:47
	to have Jesus intrude.	26:51
	The Jesus whom we welcome with loud Hosannas	26:57
	and waving palms, is not the Jesus we get.	27:00
	The kingdom whose advent we so excitedly proclaim	27:05
	with Hosanna, is not the kingdom we receive.	27:08
	It is a rude intrusion into our kingdoms	27:13
	and that's why now you get the impression	27:16
	this service has shifted	27:19
	from Palm Sunday joy to a foretaste of Good Friday grief.	27:22
	That's why when we sing this last hymn, it's hard to know	27:29
	whether it's to be sung, it's hard to know	27:33
	whether you're supposed to dance or you're supposed	27:35
	to rend your garments in grief.	27:39
	What will you do with this Jesus?	27:44
	Later this week, down at the courthouse,	27:48
	the judge will ask us,	27:51
	what will you have me do with this Jesus?	27:55
	What will we do with this Jesus?	28:00
	We shall see as this week progresses,	28:06
	what shall become of Jesus.	28:11
	♪ Ride on King Jesus ♪	28:38
	♪ No man can-a-hinder you. ♪	28:48
	♪ Ride on King Jesus. ♪	28:55
	♪ Ride King Jesus ride to me... ♪	29:05
	(choir singing)	29:09
-	The Lord be with you.	33:12
	Let us pray.	33:16
	Oh God, we welcomed you today with shouts of Hosanna.	33:26
	But, you know how quickly our accolades of praise	33:32
	turn into words of condemnation.	33:35
	We welcomed you as a king who could give us what we want,	33:40
	but you confront us as a God who exposes the truth	33:45
	about our lives and calls us to be what you intend us	33:48
	to be.	33:53
	Lord, open us to receive you as the pushy, confronting,	33:56
	transforming God that you are.	34:00
	Rather than the obliging, giving king that we expected.	34:05
	Enlarge our narrow vision of your kingdom,	34:11
	free us from small hearts and closed defensiveness.	34:15
	Open our hearts and minds and lives to you	34:22
	that we might hear what we would rather not hear.	34:26
	And see what we would rather not see.	34:31
	Help us see the truth about our lives,	34:37
	reveal the stark truth about our selfishness and greed.	34:41
	Expose our self centeredness and self righteousness.	34:47
	Show us the idols that we serve,	34:52
	disrupt our complacency,	34:55
	intrude upon our settled lives and tell us	34:59
	what you want of us.	35:02
	What do you really want of us?	35:05
	And give us the courage to follow.	35:09
	Help us hear what we would rather not hear,	35:13
	and see what we would rather not see.	35:17
	Open our ears to the cries of the needy	35:22
	and despairing in our midst.	35:25
	Show us the homeless who live in cardboard shacks	35:28
	under our bridges,	35:31
	the children with distended stomachs and hopeless eyes,	35:33
	the multitude of prisoners who are throwaways	35:37
	from our society,	35:40
	the unwelcome refugee and immigrant,	35:42
	the lonely neighbor.	35:45
	Help us hear what we would rather not hear,	35:50
	and see what we would rather not see.	35:54
	For we know that it is your desire not to condemn us,	35:58
	but to save us and to free us for abundant life.	36:03
	Show us the vision that you have for each one	36:10
	of us and for our world.	36:13
	Give us the courage to follow you wherever you lead,	36:16
	even to the cross.	36:21
	Help us not fear being crucified with you.	36:24
	That we might also rise with you to new life.	36:29
	Reveal the possibilities for abundance	36:34
	that you have seen	36:37
	that our lives and our gifts might be used	36:40
	to establish your righteous realm,	36:44
	in the name of our Lord, and our savior,	36:48
	Jesus the Christ, amen.	36:54
	Let us offer ourselves and our gifts in praise	37:00
	and thanks giving.	37:04
	(organ music)	37:07
	(choir singing)	37:33
	(organ music)	40:44
-	As soon as it was morning, the chief priests	41:51
	held a consultation with the elders and scribes	41:53
	and the whole council.	41:56
	They bound Jesus, led him away	41:58
	and handed him over to Pilate.	42:01
	Pilate asked him, are you the king of the Jews?	42:05
	He answered him,	42:09
	you say so.	42:12
	Then the chief priests accused him of many things.	42:15
	Pilate asked him again,	42:19
	have you no answer?	42:22
	See how many charges they bring against you.	42:24
	But, Jesus made no further reply so that Pilate	42:27
	was amazed.	42:32
	Now, at the festival, he used to release a prisoner	42:34
	for them, any one for whom they asked.	42:37
	Now a man called Barrabas was imprisoned	42:40
	with the rebels who had committed murder	42:43
	during the insurrection so the crowd came	42:45
	and began to ask Pilate to do for them according	42:48
	to his custom.	42:51
	Then, he answered them, do you want me to release	42:53
	for you the king of the Jews?	42:57
	For he realized it was out of jealousy	43:00
	that the chief priests had handed him over.	43:03
	But, the chief priests stirred up the crowd	43:06
	to have him release Barabbas for them instead.	43:09
	Pilate spoke to them again, then what do you wish me	43:12
	to do with the man you call the king of the Jews?	43:15
	They shouted back,	43:20
Congregation	Crucify him!	43:22
-	Pilate asked them, why?	43:25
	What evil has he done?	43:29
	But, the shouted all the more.	43:31
Congregation	Crucify him!	43:34
-	So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd,	43:36
	released Barrabas for them.	43:39
	And after flogging Jesus, he handed him over	43:42
	to be crucified.	43:45
	Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard	43:47
	of the palace.	43:49
	That is, the governor's headquarters,	43:50
	and they called together the whole cohort,	43:53
	and they clothed him in a purple cloak,	43:55
	and after twisting some thorns into a crown,	43:58
	the put it on him and they began saluting him.	44:01
Congregation	Hail, king of the Jews.	44:05
-	And they struck his head with a reed, spat	44:09
	upon him and knelt down in homage to him.	44:12
	After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak,	44:16
	and put his own clothes on him.	44:20
	Then, they led him out to crucify him.	44:22
	They compelled a passerby, who was coming	44:25
	in from the country to carry his cross.	44:27
	It was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.	44:29
	Then, they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha,	44:34
	which means the place of a skull.	44:38
	And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh,	44:41
	but he did not take it.	44:43
	And they crucified him and divided his clothes among them,	44:45
	casting lots to decide what each should take.	44:48
	It was nine o' clock in the morning	44:52
	when they crucified him.	44:54
	The inscription of the charge against him read,	44:56
	the king of the Jews.	44:58
	And with him they crucified two bandits,	45:02
	one on his right and one on his left.	45:04
	Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads	45:06
	and saying,	45:10
Congregation	Ah, You who are going to destroy the temple	45:12
	and build it in three days, save yourself	45:16
	and come down from the cross.	45:19
-	In the same way, the chief priests,	45:22
	along with the scribes were also mocking him	45:25
	among themselves and saying,	45:28
	he saved others, he cannot save himself.	45:30
	Let the messiah, the king of Israel, come down	45:33
	from the cross now, so that we may see and believe.	45:36
	Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.	45:43
	When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land	45:47
	until three in the afternoon.	45:50
	At three o' clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice,	45:53
	Eloi, eloi!	45:56
	Lema sabachthani!	45:58
	Which means, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?	46:01
	When some of the bystanders heard it,	46:09
	they said listen!	46:11
	Listen he is calling for Elijah!	46:12
	And someone ran, filled the sponge with sour wine,	46:15
	put it on a stick and gave it to him to drink, saying	46:17
	wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.	46:21
	Then Jesus gave a loud cry, and breathed his last.	46:28
	And the curtain of the temple was torn in two	46:34
	from top to bottom and when the centurion	46:38
	who stood facing him saw that, and in this way,	46:41
	he breathed his last, he said, truly this man	46:43
	was God's son.	46:48
	(organ music)	46:51
	(choir singing)	47:03
-	And now may the peace of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ	51:46
	and the love of God be with us now and ever more, amen.	51:50
	(organ music)	52:00

Item Info

Title:

William H. Willimon - "The Intruder" (March 27, 1994)

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Sermon start time: 11:23. Sermon end time: 28:15.
The Jesus we proclaim as king on the Palm Sunday is not the king the world normally receives. On the contrary, he is an intruder into the worldly structure of power. This is why the joy of Palm Sunday usually shifts to a foretaste of the grief of Good Friday. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “The Jesus whom we welcome with loud Hosannas and waving palms is not the Jesus we get. The kingdom whose advent we so excitedly proclaim with Hosanna, is not the kingdom we receive. It is a rude intrusion into our kingdoms, and that’s why now you get the impression this service has shifted from Palm Sunday joy to a foretaste of Good Friday grief.”

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Date:

March 27, 1994

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

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Biblical Book:

Mark

Chapter and Verse:

Mark 11:1-11

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Duke University. Chapel

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