1. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks

2. Luke 19:28-44
28 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, 30 “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

3. Luke 19:28-44
32 Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
34 They replied, “The Lord needs it.”
35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.

4. Luke 19:28-44
37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had 8 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” 40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

5. Luke 19:28-44
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”

6. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks

7. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.  - Rita Coolidge

8. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road. 37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”

9. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity to welcome the king with praise
40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

10. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity to welcome the king with praise
40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
Ps 149:3-4 Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and harp. For the Lord takes delight in his people
Ps 100:4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving     and his courts with praise

11. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity to welcome the king with praise
2 Sam 6
2 He and all his men went to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark… 5 David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.

12. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity to welcome the king with praise
2 Sam 6
13 When those who were carrying the ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. 14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the Lord with all his might,15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul

13. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity to welcome the king with praise
2 Sam 6
watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart...
20 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

14. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity to welcome the king with praise
2 Sam 6
21 David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. 22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.

15. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity to welcome the king with praise
1 Chronicles 16
4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to extol, thank, and praise the Lord, the God of Israel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals, 6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

16. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace

17. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace
Matt 15:8-9  These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain…

18. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
Matt 15
8 “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain…   
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.20 These are what defile a person  

19. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
2 Cor 7:10  Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret
  Rom 2:4  Gods kindness is intended to lead you to repentance 
Rev 2:4-5   Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent  

20. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
Psalm 51  
2 Wash away all my iniquity     and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,     and my sin is always before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned     and done what is evil in your sight…
5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me

21. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
Psalm 51  
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;     wash me, and I will be whiter than snow…
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,     and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence     or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation     and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

22. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
Acts 3:19
 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord  

23. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
our opportunity today
:44 because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.

24. Luke 19:28-44 – Opportunity Knocks
opportunity to welcome the king with praise
opportunity to welcome the savior with repentance
opportunity today
Hebrews 3:7-8  So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice,  do not harden your hearts 
2 Cor 6:2  For he says, “In the time of my favor I heard you,  and in the day of salvation I helped you.”  I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.