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Lesson Plan 3: Following in Jesus Footsteps PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 29 May 2008 08:43

Mark 11: 1-11
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
God wants us to walk with Him
and follow Him in our lives.
The church in Kajiado is
reaching out to the people by
providing good schools to learn
in.
Prayer is important - pray for the
people in Ireland and Kajiado.
AIMS:
To see how Jesus was honoured
and loved.
To show how we must follow in
Jesus footsteps.
To learn how we are helping the
young people in Kajiado through
the footsteps project.

THE STORY:
This was a special time of
year. Each year the Passover
Festival was celebrated. This
was to remember the time when
Moses freed the Children of
Israel from Egypt and led them to
the Promised Land. Jews came
from all over the Roman world
during this weeklong celebration
to remember the great Exodus
from Egypt. So there were huge
crowds of people in Jerusalem.
As Jesus and his disciples
approached Jerusalem, they came
to the towns of Bethphage and
Bethany, on the Mount of Olives.
Jesus sent two of his disciples on
ahead to a village to get a donkey
colt that had never been ridden.
They were to untie it and bring it
to him. If anyone was to ask
what they were doing they were
to say, “the Lord needs it and will
return it soon.”
The two disciples left and
found the colt standing in the
street, tied outside a house, just
like Jesus had said! As they
untied it, some bystanders
demanded to know what they
were doing. The disciples said
what Jesus had told them to say
and they were allowed to take it.
They brought the colt to Jesus
and threw their garments over it,
and he sat on it.
News that Jesus was coming
travelled fast and everyone was
excited to know that Jesus was
coming. Many in the crowd
spread their coats on the road
ahead of Jesus and others cut
leafy branches in the fields and
spread them along the way.
Jesus was in the centre of the
procession, and the crowds all
around him were shouting:
“Praise God! Bless the one who
comes in the name of the Lord!
Bless the coming kingdom of our
ancestor David! Praise God in
highest heaven!”
Jesus entered Jerusalem and
went to the temple. He looked
around at everything, but since it
was already late, he went out to
Bethany with his twelve
disciples.
THE APPLICATION:
Jesus began his last week on
Earth by riding into Jerusalem on
a donkey under a canopy of Palm
branches, with crowds hailing
him as their King. To announce
that He really was the Messiah,
Jesus chose a time when all Israel
would be gathered at Jerusalem, a
place where huge crowds would
see him and a way of proclaiming
his mission on Earth. On Palm
Sunday we celebrate and
remember Christ’s triumphal
entry into Jerusalem.
By this time Jesus was
extremely well known
throughout the region and when
the disciples took the colt all they
had to mention was “the Lord
needs it” and the colt owners
gladly turned the donkey over to
them, knowing whom it was for.
Jesus riding on a colt was
fulfilling the prophecy in
Zechariah 9:9 “… See your King
comes to you, righteous and
having salvation, gentle and
riding on a donkey, on a colt the
foal of a donkey.”
Another prophecy was
fulfilled when the people spoke
of David’s kingdom because of
God’s words in 2 Samuel 7:12-14
where the Lord talks about the
coming of His Son.
The people who were
praising God for giving them a
King had the wrong idea. They
thought Jesus was coming as a
warrior to save them from the
Roman rule, a national leader
who would restore their nation to
its former glory.
Jesus came as a peacemaker
proclaiming the Kingdom of
Heaven.
Only a few days later these
same people who were praising
Jesus on Palm Sunday were
shouting out to “Crucify” Him!
The people were right to say
that Jesus came to save them, but
not by being the new King. Jesus
saved them and us by doing
something even better. Jesus
came to die on our place so that if
we believe and trust in Him, He
will King of our hearts and lives.
MEMORY VERSE:
“Hosanna to the son of
David! Blessed is he that comes
in the name of the Lord.”
Matthew 21:9
PRAYER:
Dear Lord, we thank you for
all that we have learnt about you
in the bible and through the
footsteps project. May we try
and follow in your footsteps and
be like you. We pray for the
people of Kajiado and Ireland to
know you more. Amen.