# An Obedient Life - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 18 Mar 2024, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 176. In Bethany, Jesus was honored with a dinner where Mary anointed His feet with expensive oil, despite Judas Iscariot's objection, hinting at his future betrayal. The news of Jesus and Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from the dead, attracted many, leading to a plot by high priests to kill Lazarus due to the belief he inspired. Jesus then entered Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling prophecy, as crowds praised Him, despite Pharisees' protests, showing His humble approach to kingship. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: The multitudes who went in front of him and those
[0:03] Speaker 1: who followed kept shouting, Hosanna to the son of David.
[0:07] Speaker 1: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
[0:11] Speaker 1: Hosanna in the highest. Matthew 21 9. Dear God, you
[0:16] Speaker 1: chose to ride on a young donkey to show your
[0:19] Speaker 1: love and humility. You are the king of all and
[0:23] Speaker 1: deserve our praise. Thank you for choosing that hard path
[0:27] Speaker 1: in order to rescue us. We never thank you enough.
[0:31] Speaker 1: All we need is you. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:10] Speaker 3: An obedient life. In our last story, Jesus taught on
[1:16] Speaker 3: who is the greatest and ate with Zacchaeus. In this story,
[1:21] Speaker 3: Jesus is getting prepared to make his way to Jerusalem
[1:25] Speaker 3: with the triumphal entry, as inspired by the Gospels.
[1:32] Speaker 1: Hi, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress Sadler.
[1:36] Speaker 1: I am so glad you're here today for the Kids
[1:38] Speaker 1: Bible in a Year podcast. In today's passage, we enter
[1:43] Speaker 1: into what we call Holy Week, the last week in
[1:47] Speaker 1: the life of Jesus. He's going to ride on a
[1:50] Speaker 1: donkey and receive praise. And days later, the shouts are
[1:55] Speaker 1: going to sound very different. But that's not going to
[1:58] Speaker 1: stop him because his love is too great. Let's listen
[2:03] Speaker 1: and see what he wants to tell us from today's story.
[2:08] Speaker 1: Jesus arrived at this city named Bethany almost a week
[2:12] Speaker 1: before the Passover happened. There was a man named Lazarus
[2:16] Speaker 1: that lived here where the Lord had actually brought him
[2:19] Speaker 1: back to life after death. While he was there, They
[2:23] Speaker 1: provided a dinner in his name where Lazarus was also
[2:27] Speaker 1: attending and where a woman named Martha was serving them. Mary,
[2:31] Speaker 1: Martha's sister, decided to go get a jar of expensive
[2:35] Speaker 1: oil to wipe the feet of Jesus with her hair.
[2:38] Speaker 1: After this was done, the smell of perfume began to
[2:41] Speaker 1: fill the place. One of Jesus' disciples, who will later
[2:46] Speaker 1: turn his back on the Lord named Judas Iscariot, asked,
[2:50] Speaker 1: Why didn't we sell this perfume so we could have
[2:53] Speaker 1: been given that money earned from it to the poor?
[2:56] Speaker 1: It would have been worth a lot.
[2:58] Speaker 3: Judas was not saying this because he really cared about
[3:01] Speaker 3: the poor, but because he was a thief. He wanted
[3:05] Speaker 3: to keep it for himself because he was the one
[3:08] Speaker 3: who was in charge of the money bag. Jesus exclaimed,
[3:12] Speaker 3: Everyone needs to leave Mary alone. She is supposed to
[3:15] Speaker 3: keep this perfume for when I get buried. I will
[3:19] Speaker 3: not be around forever. but the poor will always be here.
[3:25] Speaker 3: There was a large crowd of Jews that found out
[3:27] Speaker 3: that Jesus was in town. They also found out that
[3:30] Speaker 3: Lazarus was in town too because of his testimony of
[3:33] Speaker 3: when Jesus raised him up from the dead. So the
[3:37] Speaker 3: high priests wanted to kill Lazarus because the Jews were
[3:40] Speaker 3: beginning to believe in Jesus' message from this testimony. Two
[3:45] Speaker 3: disciples and Jesus came upon the Mount of Olives and
[3:49] Speaker 3: Jesus told them, Find a donkey in the next village
[3:53] Speaker 3: that's tied up with its child. Bring them to me.
[3:57] Speaker 3: And if anyone says anything to you about it, just
[4:00] Speaker 3: say that your Lord sent you to get them and
[4:03] Speaker 3: bring them to me. This will come to pass because
[4:06] Speaker 3: a prophet has proclaimed, Zion, your king will come gently
[4:11] Speaker 3: riding on a donkey along.
[4:13] Speaker 2: With its offspring.
[4:15] Speaker 3: The disciples did just this and obeyed what the Lord
[4:18] Speaker 3: had instructed for them to do. When they grabbed the
[4:21] Speaker 3: donkey and its baby, they placed their coats on the
[4:24] Speaker 3: backs of them so that Jesus would be able to
[4:26] Speaker 3: sit on them. There was a large crowd that began
[4:29] Speaker 3: to gather and laid down their coats on the ground
[4:33] Speaker 3: along with palm tree leaves, making a path for Jesus.
[4:37] Speaker 3: The crowds shouted, Hosanna to the Son of David. Those
[4:42] Speaker 3: who come in the name of the Lord are blessed.
[4:45] Speaker 3: Hosanna in heaven the highest. Then Jesus entered the city.
[4:50] Speaker 3: And everyone asked who this man was. People said to them,
[4:55] Speaker 3: that is Jesus Christ, son of man and the Nazarene prophet.
[5:01] Speaker 3: There were Pharisees within the crowd telling Jesus to correct
[5:05] Speaker 3: his disciples. Then Jesus responded to them saying, stones will
[5:11] Speaker 3: begin to cry out if they continue to be quiet.
[5:19] Speaker 1: Today's story begins a week before Passover. As a reminder,
[5:23] Speaker 1: Passover is a Jewish holiday or festival to remember and
[5:27] Speaker 1: celebrate their freedom from slavery in Egypt. They think about
[5:32] Speaker 1: how awful it was, how mean Pharaoh was, how brave
[5:36] Speaker 1: Moses was, and most of all, how faithful and powerful
[5:41] Speaker 1: God was. They praise God for bringing them out of
[5:44] Speaker 1: Egypt and into the promised land. So Jesus and his
[5:48] Speaker 1: friends arrive in Bethany for a special dinner with Mary, Martha, Lazarus,
[5:53] Speaker 1: and other friends. Martha was serving and working hard as usual,
[5:57] Speaker 1: while Mary took a jar of expensive perfume and wiped
[6:01] Speaker 1: the feet of Jesus with her hair. Everyone smelled the
[6:05] Speaker 1: nice perfume, and Judah seemed to think she was wasting it.
[6:10] Speaker 1: After all, this perfume was so expensive that it was
[6:13] Speaker 1: worth almost a year's wages of work. What no one
[6:17] Speaker 1: understood at the time was that Mary was actually preparing
[6:20] Speaker 1: the body of Jesus for his burial. She was anointing
[6:24] Speaker 1: him and showing him great respect. Meanwhile, the Jewish leaders
[6:29] Speaker 1: were getting antsy and wanted Jesus.
[6:32] Speaker 2: Out of the picture.
[6:33] Speaker 1: Too many people believed in him now, and he was
[6:36] Speaker 1: getting in the way of their law and power. We
[6:39] Speaker 1: then heard Jesus tell two of his disciples to look
[6:43] Speaker 1: for a donkey tied up and bring it to him.
[6:46] Speaker 1: Let's pause here for a moment. Do you remember what
[6:50] Speaker 1: a prophecy is? A prophecy is something that was told
[6:54] Speaker 1: years and years and years earlier, and it comes true.
[6:59] Speaker 1: There are many prophecies in the Old Testament about the
[7:02] Speaker 1: life of Jesus, where he would come from, what he
[7:05] Speaker 1: would do. There are also prophecies about what will happen
[7:09] Speaker 1: when the world comes to an end. This donkey was
[7:13] Speaker 1: actually part of an Old Testament prophecy. It's something that
[7:18] Speaker 1: a prophet named Zechariah predicted hundreds of years earlier. We
[7:23] Speaker 1: read about it in Zechariah 9.9. Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion. Shout,
[7:30] Speaker 1: daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king comes to you. He
[7:34] Speaker 1: is righteous and having salvation lowly and riding on a donkey,
[7:39] Speaker 1: even on a colt. The Foul of a Donkey. This
[7:44] Speaker 1: is an event we call the Triumph Entry. It's the
[7:47] Speaker 1: day where people threw their coats on the back of
[7:50] Speaker 1: a donkey, made a path on the road, and waved
[7:53] Speaker 1: palm branches in the air shouting, Hosanna! Which basically means, yay,
[7:58] Speaker 1: God is saving us. You see, God's chosen people had
[8:02] Speaker 1: been waiting and awaiting for a Messiah. God had promised
[8:06] Speaker 1: them that someone was coming to rescue them. While many
[8:10] Speaker 1: still didn't believe it was Jesus, many did believe. And
[8:14] Speaker 1: the Pharisees did not like it one bit. Now, let's
[8:18] Speaker 1: talk about this donkey. Jesus chose to ride into the
[8:22] Speaker 1: city on a young donkey because there was nothing spectacular
[8:26] Speaker 1: about a donkey. If we could choose, we would probably
[8:29] Speaker 1: choose a fancy white horse. Oh, or maybe a shiny
[8:34] Speaker 1: red Lamborghini. We often want people to think we're cool.
[8:38] Speaker 1: Important and powerful. But not Jesus. He came to show
[8:43] Speaker 1: us another way. He had all the power in the universe.
[8:47] Speaker 1: But he entered the city on a little donkey. Knowing
[8:51] Speaker 1: that in just a few days he would die on
[8:55] Speaker 1: a cross. Jesus showed us that the true... Let me
[9:00] Speaker 1: do that again. But not Jesus. He came to show
[9:05] Speaker 1: us another way. He had all the power in the universe.
[9:09] Speaker 1: He had entered the city on a little donkey, knowing
[9:12] Speaker 1: that just in a few days he would die on
[9:15] Speaker 1: a cross. Jesus showed us that true love serves others.
[9:21] Speaker 1: It does what's best for others. And Jesus loved you
[9:25] Speaker 1: and me and all people. So he wouldn't stop until
[9:29] Speaker 1: he had completed the mission of saving us from sin.
[9:33] Speaker 1: But more on that later. I'm glad you joined me today.
[9:36] Speaker 1: I hope you'll come back next time to hear about
[9:39] Speaker 1: why Jesus gets mad twice. So much is about to happen,
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[9:47] Speaker 1: the best story ever told. It's God's story to you,
[9:49] Speaker 1: and it's all true. Loved what you heard today? Pass
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