"Passion Week"

"Tell the daughter of Zion, 'Behold your King is coming to you, lowly, and sitting on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.'" (Matthew 21:15)

And Jesus, "is coming to you," again.  He will come to Jerusalem, "the city of the Great King."  It is not Washington, DC, nor Berlin, Germany, cities of the Gentiles.  "This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her." (Ezekiel 5). 

There has been in Church History many attempts to distance "Gentile christianity" from the Jewish roots.  It has been and is a most self-serving and disobedient move.  Much of this attitude contributed immensely to the Holocaust of my lifetime.  It seemed to reach an early pinnacle in the Council of Nicea, 325.  The Roman Emperor, Constantine, said shortly after Nicea, "....in unanimously adopting this mode [of when to celebrate the Resurrection], we desire, dearest brethren, to separate ourselves from the destable company of the Jews." 

You and I are not of such.  We embrace our King Jesus, the remembrance of the Passover in Egypt, the Cross, the Resurrection.  We, "do this in remembrance of Me."

"Hail! Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord,
Whom One in Three we know;
By all Thy heavenly host adored,
By all Thy Church below.
2 One undivided Trinity
With triumph we proclaim;
The universe is full of Thee,
And speaks Thy glorious name.
3 Thee, Holy Father, we confess;
Thee, Holy Son, adore;
And Thee, the Holy Ghost, we bless,
And worship evermore.
4 Hail! Holy, Holy, Holy Lord,
Our heavenly song shall be
Supreme, Essential One, adored
In co-eternal Thee!"
(Charles Wesley, 1767)

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2