Luke 19:28-48 "How Committed Are You?"

Knowing full well what awaited Him, knowing that He must endure the cross… before receiving the kingdom.
Knowing that He wasn’t going to just celebrate the Passover…but that He was to become the Passover Lamb.
Jesus made it clear that He understood what would happen to Him when He went to Jerusalem:
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. (Matthew 16:21 ESV)
Jesus went willingly to Jerusalem…because He was committed to do the will of His Father.
He went knowing that as soon as they could locate Him…He would be arrested.
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him. (John 11:57 ESV)
It is clear that there was a price on Jesus’ head, and He was a wanted man.
Despite all that, Jesus came into Jerusalem in the most public way possible…ridding on a donkey…as a king would enter!