Religious Enthusiasm at the Triumphal Entry: A Case Study of Mixed Worship Thoughts upon Luke 19.35-44 ✓This is a case of mixed worship, good and bad ✓Luke says an extremely large group was praising Jesus ✓Some there, at least a few, were surely His true disciples ✓Later that week in Jerusalem, Matthew says that the multitude was persuaded against Jesus (Matt 27.20) ✓Jesus prophesied against Jerusalem as spiritually blind and doomed right after this spectacular welcome (vv. 40–44) •A Crowd, not a Congregation ✓Not everyone can worship God acceptably just as they are ✓Acceptable worship can only be given by godly believers ✓There are many, many examples today of supposedly Christian worship where the majority are not true Christians and are not leading godly lives ——————————— •Fervor, not Faith ✓Friedrich Schleiermacher (b. 1768) consider feelings the most important thing in religion ✓This is a tragic mistake because faith is far more important ✓Feelings are not a good test of true or great worship •Delusion, not Doctrine ✓For the most part, they did not understand the OT correctly to realize who Jesus was or what He came to do The teaching of the Bible interpreted accurately is one of the most important things of all, the basis of all good worship
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Pastor D. Scott Meadows has been an elder at the Calvary Baptist Church (Reformed) of Exeter, New Hampshire, since 1991. Pastor Meadows holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in Christian theology. He left his engineering career for pastoral...
