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Let's open our Bibles to Matthew chapter 21. I want to read for you verses 1 through 11 as a setting for our message this morning. With this chapter in our study of Matthew, we begin the last week of the life of our Lord.
And when they drew near unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the Mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two
disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village opposite you and straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her:
loose them, and bring them unto Me.
And if any man say anything unto you, you shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. All this
was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King
cometh unto thee, meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt, the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus
commanded them. And brought the ass and the colt and put on them their clothes and they set Him thereon. And a very
great multitude spread their garments in the way, others cut down branches from the trees and spread them in the way.
And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David:
Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
And when He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus
the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Now we don't have kings in America. In fact, we were established
out of an anti-king revolution. As a result of this, we know very
little of the pomp and majesty and ceremony that attends a coronation.
Perhaps the closest we ever come to that kind of thing is when we
watch the British royal family going through the various kinds of
ceremonies that they do, exposed to us on television. But as far as
hands-on acquaintance with monarchy and ceremony and coronation, it's
not really familiar to us.
But in our text, we find a coronation, as truly a coronation as
any coronation ever was, for this is truly a King. And He is affirmed
as a king and He is inaugurated into His Kingship, in a sense, in this
very passage. But as little as we know about coronations, we know
enough to know that this isn't like any of the ones we've ever been
exposed to. I mean, it doesn't quite seem like the coronations with
which history has been familiar. I mean, when have we ever seen a
king riding on a donkey's colt, meek and lowly, with people throwing
tree branches and old clothes in his path?
There seems to be something missing, especially when you compare
it with the coronations of the world. Europe, for example, which sort
of sets the pace for the western world in its understanding of
coronations, has given us a long history of the pomp and the glory and
the splendor and the majesty and the wealth of those events in which a
king is inaugurated into his royal and regal status. Sometimes he was
raised on a shield, sometimes he was made to stand on a sacred stone,
sometimes he was presented with a spear or with a sword or with a
scepter, or given a crown or given a robe of great distinction to mark
out the inauguration into that official place of king.
And traditionally in Europe, they even borrowed from the
inauguration or coronation of David and Saul by adding some religious
features and wanted to assign to the secular kings divine rights as
kings. And therefore they brought the men of God, the bishops or the
priests, to affirm the sovereign right of a king. It was a grand and
glorious occasion, usually followed by great feastings and banquets.
There was splendor everywhere, rich people in rich clothing, jewels,
horses, carriages, archbishops, famous dignitaries everyplace.
Everything pointed to the glory of the individual being crowned, his
majesty, his military might and power and so forth.
I don't know if you know it, but just as an indication of some of
the falderal and the wealth that goes along with all of that, a crown
was made for Queen Victoria in 1838, the crown was made all out of
rubies and sapphires of monstrous proportions. In the middle of it
was a 309 carat diamond. And the scepter which she took in her hand
had a diamond on top of it of five-hundred and sixteen and a half
carats cut from the Star of Africa. Events of tremendous, almost
inconceivable wealth, coronations were events of great splendor.
But this is not like those coronations. A donkey's colt, a bunch
of branches and some old clothes. But then this is no ordinary king.
And He has no ordinary kingdom. He said to Pilate, "I am not a king
like you think kings are, My Kingdom is not of this world."
Now this is a very important event in these eleven verses because
it initiates the last week of the life of our Lord prior to His
crucifixion. It is the last drama, it is His last public act prior to
being crucified, the last event of His ministry. And it has to be
treated with a great amount of respect, and it has to be understood
for what it really is or you won't understand what comes after it. I
really feel that the earthly coronation of Jesus Christ, sometimes
called the triumphal entry, gets bypassed far too much. It is a very
significant event. And you'll see that significance unfold as we
examine it together.
I want you to get the scene now. Verse 1 tells us, Jesus comes to
Jerusalem, and it sets for us the setting. "And when they drew near
to Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage unto the Mount of Olives..."
well stop there. As we begin to see the unfolding of this marvelous
coronation, I want you to notice, first of all, the end of the
pilgrimage. We'll call point one the end of the pilgrimage. It is
the end.
Jerusalem was to be the end. He never ever leaves the vicinity of
Jerusalem. This is it. He dies in the city. This is the end of 33
years. Thirty years of obscurity, three-plus years of ministry, it
all ends here. This is the end of the pilgrimage. The goal of the
Lord's life and ministry is about to be reached.
Now I'm not going to go back and try to sum up all that's
gone before we've traced it all the way through the first 20 chapters
of Matthew, but just to bring you right into this scene, the Lord a
few weeks before had left Galilee. He had ministered throughout
Galilee. He had ministered some in Judea where Jerusalem was the
major city, of course. But He had yet really touched Peraea which was
the region called "the beyond" which was east of Jordan. So in
leaving Galilee this time, He went east of the Jordan and through the
area known as Peraea. And He did what He did everywhere: He preached,
He taught, He healed and He presented to them His credentials as King.
And as He came to the south, moving through Peraea, He was moving
directly toward Jerusalem at the same time, knowing it was Passover
time, knowing it was time to come to the end of His pilgrimage,
knowing it was time to get ready to die. And as He moved, He moved
among pilgrims who also were going. And so a crowd collected as He
came to the south. And finally He crossed the Jordan, back over to
Judea. And He crossed at Jericho, went through the city of Jericho.
There He embraced in His salvation a small man by the name of
Zacchaeus, healed two blind men--one of whose name was Bartimaeus.
And not only those three, perhaps, but even more than that collected
with Him and together they moved up to Jerusalem.
So, it's been a few weeks since He left Galilee. Ministered in
Peraea. Came through Jericho and now He ascends to Jerusalem. And
it's only about 17 miles, but it's 3,000 feet in elevation. And so,
when it says "He went up to Jerusalem," or when anyone went up to
Jerusalem, they really went up from Jericho. And so, by now He's
collected an entourage of people. And they're moving to that great
event called Passover. Little do they know that He is the Passover
At the same time, the city is literally teeming with
humanity...masses of people are there. There was a sense as ten years
after this particular event when there was a counting of the
sacrificial lambs, and the count is somewhere around 260 thousand
Passover lambs that were slaughtered during that week ten years later.
And if that's the case, the Jewish law prescribed one lamb for ten
people, there could have been as many as 2.6 million people in the
city. So it would have been literally teeming with mobs of people.
So, there they were, flowing in the city and flowing to the city.
And Jesus was taking the primary moment in the history of Israel's
calendar year for this great event, when the city was swelled to its
greatest population. And it says in verse 1, "When they drew near to
Jerusalem." Before He went into the city, He came to a place called
Bethphage. Now we don't know anything about this place. We don't
know anything at all about it. We can't find any archaeological
evidence of its existence. It was some kind of a hamlet somewhere
near Bethany because in verse 2 it says He sent two disciples saying,
"Go into the village opposite you." And when He sent them, He was in
Bethany. So it's somewhere near Bethany. Bethany is two miles east
of Jerusalem, just on the other side of the valley Kedron, the Mount
of Olives, on the backside of the Mount of Olives. And we don't know
where Bethphage is, but it's in the district of the Mount of Olives.
Bethany is there also and Jerusalem is just a two-mile walk from
there. And so, Jesus arrives in Bethphage. And then in Bethany.
Now John gives us an interesting note. Turn to John chapter 12,
and I think it's worth our consideration briefly. John chapter 12
verse 1 says, "Then Jesus," and this is at the same moment, "six days
before the Passover...six days before the Passover came to Bethany."
So, first to Bethphage and then over to Bethany. Why Bethany? "Where
Lazarus was who had been raised from the dead. And they made Him a
supper and Martha served--as she always does." You know, Jesus is on
His way to Jerusalem, but before He goes into the city He stops. And
He goes to Bethany because that was where His friends lived, Mary,
Martha and Lazarus. Dear friends, I suppose from an earthly
standpoint with the exceptions of the apostles themselves, these were
the three dearest people in Jesus' life.
And as He approaches the inevitable week of pain and death, He
seeks out the comfort and the compassion and the care of His beloved
friends. And Bethany becomes for Him, for these six days, a resting
place. He spends the time with His dear beloved friends. But even
there, the stabs of hell are present because one of the disciples,
Judas Iscariot who was to betray Him, said, "Why was not this ointment
sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor? And this he said not
because he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and he had
the bag." And so, even there He was stabbed with the stabs of hell.
The hate for Jesus was relentless.
Six days before the Passover...I believe that's Saturday...six
days before the Passover, and there was a supper in His honor and He
was anointed and He was loved by everybody but one. And it must have
been a warm and wonderful time. Six days before the lamb of God, the
Passover lamb, the true sacrifice, the lamb slain from the foundation
of the world is to be offered...six days from the nails, six days from
the thorns, the spit, the cursings, the spear, the crown, the hatred,
the bitterness, the sin bearing, the loneliness of being God-forsaken,
six days--that's all.
Well, the next day...the next day, John tells us in verses 9 to 11
of chapter 12 that many Jews came to Bethany to see Him...many Jews.
And there was a great gathering about Him, so much so that the leaders
were very concerned as to how they might kill Him because He was such
a threat. So it seems as though when He arrives there's some
affirmation coming from Lazarus and Mary and Martha, coming from the
people. It looks good, with the exception of Judas, it looks good.
And the coronation is near, and He knows that. And maybe we might
say, "Boy, everything is really on schedule. He's being anointed.
His friends are caring for Him. Many people are moving out to see Him
who have heard of His power in raising Lazarus from the dead, which He
had already done." And everyone knew Lazarus. And that's how it all
Now, let's go back to Matthew 21. The first day He arrives there,
He has supper, He's anointed. The next day, a multitude gathers to
Him. And probably on the next day, which most likely was Monday,
Jesus sent two disciples--it says in verse 1--and Jesus here
initiates, He initiates His own coronation. He sets it in motion.
They don't come and get Him and haul Him off. Those critics of
Scripture who say that Jesus got carried away in the enthusiasm of the
mob, that Jesus was pushed into something He never intended to happen,
that Jesus was happy to be a moral teacher, just moving around doing
nice things for nice folks, all of a sudden started to get caught up
in the energy of His own disciples' enthusiasm and they pushed Him
into something that ultimately got Him killed, they're liars who say
that because that's not true. He initiated everything. He controlled
every element of His own ministry, every turn, every action was
sovereignly His to initiate. So He dispatched two disciples.
It doesn't tell us which two. On another occasion in Matthew...in
Luke 22:8 when He sent out two, it was Peter and John. It may have
been Peter and John here, we don't know. And He said, "Go to the
village," verse 2, "opposite you," which would be Bethphage, "and
immediately you'll find an ass tied and a colt with her, loose them
and bring them unto Me." He was about ready to go into the city. He
was controlling everything, let me tell you why:
He wanted to demonstrate to the world that He was no victim, that
He was not caught up in some euphoric Messianic movement, but that it
was all under His total control and it was all within His own power.
Every detail was worked out accurately. And He wanted to create a
mass demonstration, that's right. He wanted the people to cry
"Hosanna to the Son of David, Blessed is the one who comes in the name
of the Lord, hosanna in the highest." He wanted them to cry out that
He was the Messiah because He wanted it in their very mouths that He
had indeed proved Himself to be who He was. He wanted them to bespeak
the fact that there was no doubt about the credentials of Jesus
Christ. He wanted that whole mob, that whole national multitude to be
crying out that this was the Messiah so that forever and always it
could never be said they really didn't have enough information. They
knew what He had taught and they knew what He had done.
And the climax of it all was the resurrection of Lazarus whom they
had known to be dead for four days. And out of their own mouths came
their own affirmation that became for them either the statement of
their true belief or the statement of their damnation because they
knew who He was. And He set the scene to put it in their own mouths
and they said it. The credentials were overwhelming, the proof was
And there is another reason that He created this mass
demonstration, and that is because it would lead to the anger of the
Pharisees which ultimately would lead them to desire His life which
would ultimately lead to His crucifixion. And He had to set that in
motion, too, because it was important not only that He be selected as
the lamb to die, but that He die on the Passover day. And He had to
set that all in motion. I don't know if you know this, but the day He
rode in there, on Monday, was the day traditionally that the Jews
selected their lamb for sacrifice. And He offered Himself on that day
as the lamb for the whole world. And He had set it in motion so that
by Friday the Passover day, He would die.
And so, Jesus took charge of all the events, creating the
situation as He wanted to create it. He also did what He did here,
sending the disciples to get these two animals, in order to fulfill
prophecy, as it says in verse 4. "It was all done that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet." He was in control of
everything. He was on a divine schedule. And so, He initiated His
own coronation.
And so, we begin then with the end of the pilgrimage. And we see
Him as He arrives at Jerusalem. Now I want you to look at a second
feature of this passage. And I like to call it "the exactness of
prophecy...the exactness of prophecy." He is going to be the king the
prophets predicted.
I want you to turn, for just a moment, to Zechariah 9:9--
Zechariah, just go two books to your left, Matthew, Malachi,
Zechariah. And in the first eight verses of Zechariah 9, there's a
prophecy of a great ruler that will come. And this great ruler is
going to come and there's going to be a deliverance for Israel under
him. I mean, he's really a great ruler. Talks about how he'll
deliver them from the Syrians, and the...Philistia(?), and all of
their surrounding enemies and he'll save Israel. Basically verses 1
to 8 is a prophecy of Alexander the Great...Alexander the Great who
was a human conqueror.
But, after Alexander the Great, they'll come a greater than he.
And verse 9 is a contrast. Alexander is just used for comparison.
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Behold, thy king cometh unto thee." Man, there's coming a king.
Alexander and his military triumph, riding on his great white horse
with all of his entourage, flashing his sword in the sun, with his
great crown signifying him as the conqueror of the world, the great
military genius of Alexander with all of his entourage had come to the
rescue of Israel. But there is coming another king, "He is righteous
and He has salvation." And then this seemingly inconceivable and
contradictory statement, "Lowly and riding on an ass and upon the colt
a foal of an ass."
Somebody says, "What in the world is that? Nobody rides a donkey
at a coronation." Donkeys used to have a place in the world until
Solomon came along in the land of Palestine and Solomon made the horse
the animal of dignity and honor and war. And donkeys became nothing
but stupid beasts of burden. And nobody rode a donkey, certainly not
at a coronation. But, says the prophet, your king will ride one.
Now go back to Matthew chapter 21. And it says, "Go into the
village opposite you," in verse 2, "and immediately you're going to
find that donkey and a colt with her, loose them and bring them to
Me." Go into that little village, Bethphage, located somewhere in the
vicinity of the Mount of Olives, 2600 foot-high ridge northeast of
Jerusalem. And just as you get into the village, right away you're
going to find these two animals.
How do You know that? Well, we could say He had supernatural
knowledge and be right. But I kind of think He knew the folks that
lived there and He knew they had these animals because He knew that
they would respond. He says, "If they ask you anything, just tell
them the Lord has need of it and they'll send the animals with you."
So He must have known that these were believers. They would not
withhold their animals from the Lord.
By the way, Mark 11:2 tells us exactly where the two animals were
found. And Mark and Luke both tell us, this is very interesting, that
neither of them had ever been ridden...neither of them had ever been
ridden. You say, "Is that important?" Yes, because it was an honor
for someone to ride an animal who had never been ridden. To ride a
young animal that had never been ridden was as if to say, "This animal
has been saved for you," very special.
You say, "Well why do they have to take the mother if He's going
to ride the colt?" Well, a donkey's touch enough to get going and to
keep in the right direction. And a donkey colt would be doubly
difficult unless you took the mother. And if you led the mother, the
colt would follow.
"Well, why ride the colt, why not ride the mother?" Because the
colt is more lowly than its mother. And He seeks out the lowliest
stupid beast of burden He can find.
You say, "This isn't a coronation like any other." That's right,
He's not a king like any other. And just tell them, He says, the Lord
has need of them...sovereign Lordship...and they'll respond and send
them with you.
Then verse 4, "All this was done that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prophet..." we just read it, Zechariah 9:9. It's
just what the prophet said. "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, or say to
the daughter of Zion..." What does that mean? Well, that simply
means the people of Jerusalem. A city is seen as the offspring of its
locality. Zion is another name for the city, for the area, because
Zion is the highest point. It's higher than Mount Moriah. It's a
little south of Mount Moriah but it's the highest point. The city
became known by its highest promontory, Zion. Tell, it says, the
daughter of Zion. That is the people who are the offspring of its
locality, or its region. "Tell the population of Jerusalem, Behold,
thy King comes unto thee."
Oh, that sounds great. And then the same line, "Meek and riding
on an ass and a colt, the foal of an ass." So incongruous that the
King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the long-promised Messiah of Israel,
the conqueror of the world ultimately, God's Son under whose feet all
enemies will ultimately be subject should come riding in on a donkey's
colt. But that's what the prophet said. And that's what came to
He's not a king like Alexander the Great. Not at all. He's not a
foreign tyrant, He's Israel's own king. He's not cruel and
oppressive, He's righteous and bringing salvation, says Zechariah 9:9.
Literally the text says, "Showing Himself a Savior." He's not
slaying, He's saving. He's not rich, He's poor. He's not proud, He's
meek. He's not riding a great steed, He's riding a donkey's colt.
You say, "What's the point?" The point is, He's a king
like...unlike any other king. And He has a coronation unlike any
other coronation. It's a strange coming by kingly standards. But
He's declaring who He is in a very important way.
Now listen carefully. The people wanted a military Messiah. They
wanted one who would come in and by great power, overthrow Rome. He
was coming directly in a way that would show them that He was not
interested in doing that. Had He come in on a white horse with a
flashing sword in His hand, they would have known what He was coming
to do. But riding on a donkey's colt weaponless, meek and lowly was
different. Had He come with a retinue of armed soldiers, it would
have been one thing. But a whole bunch of pilgrims. Had He come with
great wealth, but all He had thrown in front of Him was tree branches
and old clothes. It's all very extraordinary.
But, you see, He deliberately arranged it all to fulfill prophecy
because prophecy was consistent with who He was. Listen carefully.
He did not come to make war with Rome, He came to make peace with God
for men. He did not come into the world to make war with Rome on
behalf of the Jews, but to make peace with God. He came as one
offering peace. You see, you have to take Jesus for who He is, not
for who you want Him to be.
Well, verse 6 says the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded
them. We can understand that, can't we? They did just what He told
them to do. And they weren't sure which one He was going to ride. So
they put their clothes on both of them, verse 7, "He brought the ass
and the colt and put on them their clothes and set Him thereon."
Probably took out their...off their outer robe and put it on each
animal so that He could sit on either one and have some material
between Himself and the sweat of the animal's back. They didn't know
which one He was going to ride, but He choose to ride the lowliest
one. Luke 19:35 says, "He took His seat on the colt with the help of
the disciples." They even helped Him up. And the mother would lead
the colt along. And so He fulfills the prophecy.
Can I add a footnote here? It isn't the only prophecy He
fulfilled that day. One of the most monumental passages in all the
Bible is Daniel 9:24 to 27. And Daniel prophesies there that from the
decree of Artaxerxes to rebuild the temple and the city to the coming
of Messiah, the Prince, will be 69 weeks of years. Sixty-nine times
seven, 483 years...and we went through that in detail in Daniel, so
I'm not going to go through it again. But the prophet Daniel said
there will be a period of time that amounts basically to 173,880 days
from the decree of Artaxerxes to the coming of the Prince. And
biblical scholars have affirmed that to be exactly what happened.
Whether you go backwards in time to Sir Robert Anderson's book, The
Coming Prince," he establishes a decree of Artaxerxes at a certain
point in time and exactly the length that Daniel prophesied to the
very day, Jesus enters the city as the Messiah, the coming Prince. Or
whether you take the newer chronology with later information that
Harold Horner(?) has developed in his book, Chronological Aspects of
the Life of Christ, he sees the same time period beginning at a
certain date and ending exactly on that very day that Jesus rode into
the city of Jerusalem. He was fulfilling prophecy...the prophecy of
Zechariah and the prophecy of Daniel. If you want more detail on
that, just get the tapes that we did on that passage in Daniel.
And so, this is a tremendous, tremendous fulfillment of prophecy.
Which adds to the reality that this is the Messiah, even though at
this point the disciples didn't see it all clearly. So we see the end
of the pilgrimage, the exactness of prophecy. He comes in humiliation
as Zechariah said He would.
Now I want you to see the epitome of praise. Let's look at the
response in verses 8 and 9, most fascinating. "And a very great
multitude spread their garments in the way," they threw their clothes
down, creating some kind of a carpet for Him. And, I mean, this is a
very great multitude. When it says that, it means it...probably
hundreds of thousands of people.
Notice verse 9, "And the multitudes that went before and that
followed..." Now that helps us understand the multitude. You see,
you've got one massive multitude coming with Jesus to Jerusalem.
They've been collected in Galilee, down through Peraea. They've been
collected as He crossed the Jordan through Jericho, up the hill to
Bethany. He's been in Bethany. The crowd has swelled as people have
come there to see Him there. And now that whole entourage is with
Him. They're surging toward the city. And out of the city comes this
massive humanity that are already there that have heard of Him raising
Lazarus from the dead. They hear He's coming. The word goes like
wildfire. And like two great surging seas, they come together just
outside the gate of Jerusalem, this mass of humanity. And in the
middle of it all, Jesus rides a donkey's colt.
The people have really disregarded their leaders because at the
end of John 11, we are told there that the Pharisees warned the people
that if they knew anything about Him they were to report Him so that
they could capture Him and take Him prisoner. They were certainly not
to worship Him or pay Him homage or hail Him. But they disregarded
their orders. And their expectations for Messianic deliverance were
so great that the whole thing turned into a credible mob scene. It
was just a total, total chaotic event from the standpoint of the
Pharisees and the religious leaders. Everything was out of hand. The
people were going mad for this Jesus...throwing down their clothes.
What did that mean? Well, you go back to 2 Kings 9, about verse 13,
they did that for Jehu when he was coronated. It's as if to say, "I'm
under your feet, I take a place of submission to you, I throw myself
at your feet. You may walk over me," in that sense of humiliation.
And the palm branches they threw down, palm branches indicated in
John 12 to be palm branches, here it doesn't say what they were, were
signs of salvation, symbols of joy. You can read about it in
Revelation 7:9. They're waved at a time of great joy, a time of
celebrating salvation. And so, they're celebrating salvation.
There's a joy. There's an excitement, an ecstasy as He comes in.
They knew who He was. They knew what He taught. And they knew what
He had done. And they knew He could raise the dead. And so this
multitude moves out, throws everything at His feet. And they cry
out...look what they cry, "Hosanna to the Son of David." "Hosanna"
means "save now...save now...save now." They're crying for salvation.
Now listen to me. But it is not soul salvation. It is military
deliverance they're after. You see, they know what this event
is...it's Passover. And what does Passover celebrate for a Jew?
Passover celebrates the deliverance from Egypt, right? How God
delivered His people out of bondage, how God delivered them out of the
captivity of Egypt. And that's all on their minds, that God is a
delivering God, that God has delivered us from Egypt in the past. We
celebrate that. And now here at the very time we celebrate our
delivering God comes a new deliverer to deliver us from Rome, to
deliver us from the bondage of the present era. And so the euphoria
escalates and it is an odd pageant. A man on a donkey without an
army, without a weapon and a mass of hundreds of thousands of people
crushing around Him, crying out, "Save now, deliver now." They wanted
material kingdom, physical kingdom, earthly deliverance. And so He
comes with a retinue of rabble poor common people crying out for
And they know who He is. Hosanna to the Son of David...you think
they didn't know what that meant? They knew well what it meant.
Second Samuel chapter 7 verses 12 and 13 where God promises David a
Son, the Son of David who will reign on an eternal throne in an
eternal kingdom, they knew that was a Messianic title, indeed it was a
Messianic title. And they're crying out "Deliver us, O Messiah." And
they are putting in their own mouths the affirmation of the fact that
His credentials were convincing. And they even cry out from the
Psalms, the hallel which are the praise psalms, 113 to 118. And they
say things out of the one-hundred and eighteenth Psalm which was the
conqueror's Psalm, crying, "Blessed is He that comes in the name of
the Lord," Psalm 118:26. This is our conqueror, the one coming in the
name of the Lord is a Messianic epithet. So they believe this is
their Messiah.
By the way, they hailed the same Psalm at Simon Maccabeus, a
hundred years before, when he had conquered Akra(?), that God had sent
them a deliverer then. Now they see a deliverer now, only this
deliverer is Thou Son of David. This is the Messiah.
So, when anybody comes along and says the Jewish people didn't
understand who Jesus was, that's true to a point. But the credentials
had convinced them that He was the Messiah, they just didn't
understand the nature of His Messiahship. They knew He was the King,
they just didn't understand the nature of His Kingdom. And they sum
it up at the end when they say, "We will not have this man
to...what?...reign over it," this isn't the kind of king we want.
This isn't the one we bargained for.
And like people today and people in all times who want Jesus but
they want the Jesus of their own devising, they want the Jesus of
their own invention. They want the Jesus who walks in and says, "I'm
going to solve all your problems. I'm going to deliver you from all
your enemies, I'm going to make life wonderful for you," not the Jesus
who having come in the city, immediately takes a whip and cleans up
their dirty house. He didn't come and overthrow Rome, He came and
overthrew the temple, see. That was a terrible turning point.
Instead of coming in and knocking off Rome, He came in and wiped out
their temple. He was saying to them, "You don't need Roman bondage
broken, you need sin bondage broken. You don't need to solve your
problem with Rome, you need to solve your problem with God." And
that's why He came. And He was not the Jesus who comes to offer a
panacea for external ills, He was the Jesus who comes to offer men and
women peace with God internally.
Oh, they knew who He was. The credentials had convinced them of
that. They said it, "Save now, Son of David. Blessed be He that
comes in the name of the Lord." And then they even said, "Hosanna in
the highest." Highest means the abode of God. "Glory to God," they
were saying, "praise to God who has sent His special emissary, the one
coming from God who is the Messiah, our deliverer. Deliver us."
So, they hailed their conquering King. And they use all the right
verbiage. And they were filled with anticipation. They were so
excited that He would crush Rome. But instead, as we shall see in our
next study, He went in and cleaned up their temple, tried to uncover
the sinfulness of their sin.
Well, it's an unusual coronation, isn't it? It really is. And
they wouldn't accept Him on His own terms, so by the end of the week,
they cried for His blood and killed Him. Just unimaginable. The
world is still like that. You know, people are open to the Jesus they
want, the Jesus of their own definition if He gives them what they
want...health, wealth and happiness, instant healing, whatever. But
as soon as He confronts the sinfulness of sin and seeks to turn the
heart toward God in true salvation, they curse Him. That's not the
Jesus they want. That's not the king they want.
Well, I confess to you that after studying this, I thought to
myself, "This is a kind of a sad coronation for the greatest King of
the universe." It doesn't seem fitting that this is all the
coronation He would have. And so I turned in my Bible to Revelation
chapter 5 and I need you to do that, too, because I don't want you to
think that that's the only coronation Jesus will ever know. I would
like to give you a glimpse of the real heavenly coronation of
Revelation 5.
The lamb takes the scroll, verse 8 says, the four living
creatures, the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb,
having every one of them harps and golden bowls full of incense which
are the prayers of saints. And they sang a new song, saying, "Thou
art worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for Thou was
slain and hast redeemed a God by Thy blood out of every kindred and
tongue and people and nation and hast made us unto our God a kingdom
of priests and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld and I heard
the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living
creatures and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times
ten thousand and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice,
Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and
wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. And every
creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and
such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying,
Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon
the throne and unto the lamb forever and ever. And the four living
creatures said amen, and the four and twenty elders fell down and
worshiped Him that liveth forever and ever."
Now that's a coronation. And that will be His coronation. But
the world has to understand that the first time He came, He came as a
suffering servant to provide men salvation. The second time He comes,
He comes as a conquering King to grant to men His sovereignty. And
unless you see Him as the suffering servant, you'll never know Him in
His sovereign glory. The crowd wouldn't take Him on His terms.
This account closes with what I'll call "the element of
perplexity." And it's a good place for us to conclude. Verses 10 and
11. It's a good insight into mob psychology, by the way. "And when
He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred," literally
shaken, the verb means to be shaken. "Saying, Who is this?" Isn't
that interesting? That just fascinates me. It's like the guy at the
party who is just having a time of his life and says, "Hey, what are
we celebrating? This is a great party, what are we celebrating?"
The crowd is just moved, swept up. The whole mob...mood of the
mob, see, is sweeping through. And people are caught up in the whole
deal and they say, "Who is this Messiah? Who are we hailing? Who is
it?" And they're perplexed. Even the disciples were perplexed. John
12:16 says, "The disciples didn't understand what was going on until
after Jesus was glorified." It wasn't until He went to heaven and
sent the Holy Spirit that they got the picture. "Oh, now I understand
why He got on that donkey's colt. Now I understand why it had to be
on that day. Oh, now it's all clear why He came in humiliation."
But, see, they didn't get the picture either. They didn't even
understand the cross till the Spirit of God revealed it to them. And
if the disciples were confused, you can imagine how confused the rest
of the crowd was. They were hailing Him as a king, but they really
didn't know who He was, some of them. And so the others were saying,
"This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee." And the word
went through, "Who is the Messiah? Who is the Messiah?" "It's Jesus,
that prophet of Galilee who came from the town of Nazareth."
So, there's no question here, folks. God in this passage is
telling the whole world that the Jewish nation knew exactly who their
Messiah was. I mean, the evidence was in. There was no question
about it. They were hailing Jesus from the village of Nazareth in the
region of Galilee who was a prophet and they had affirmed that on many
occasions as the one who was the Son of David, who was coming from the
Lord to bring deliverance. They knew who He was.
Do you know who He is? You see, the problem for them was they
knew who He was and they saw His power and they heard His words but
they did not want His Kingdom on His terms. They were so earthbound,
so materialistic, so physical, if you will, that all they wanted was
what ever was for this world and this life. They were not interested
in a spiritual kingdom. They did not care to be confronted about
their sins. And when that came about, they cursed Him...they cursed
Him. And they were so fickle. Some of them here who are led by the
euphoria of well-meaning mob members, if you will, or crowd members,
are later led by evil intended Pharisees who screamed for His blood.
And they know little more about Him then than they do here, they just
chime in.
So, that's how it is with Jesus. He offers Himself as a King and
there are a few who understand...a few. And they embrace Him as the
King that He is...the King of peace who brings salvation and makes men
right with God. And then there is a group of people who understand
who He is and they see all of His credentials, but they're looking for
external stuff. They want the materialistic kingdom: health, wealth,
happiness, here now, give it to me fast. And they're not willing to
face the reality of their sinfulness and emptiness and estrangement
from God and so they curse Him when He confronts that. And then there
is the rabble crowd that just get caught up in the sweep and can go
either way.
How is it with you?
Our Father, we thank You for this word. It speaks to us volumes
about our Savior. And we have to ask our own hearts where would I be
in that crowd? There were the disciples who were kind of confused.
And then there was the crowd that was willing to accept Jesus on their
terms, not His. And then there were those folks who just got caught
up in the whole thing and whichever way the crowd went, they went that
way. Some who wanted to believe and just needed more understanding,
some who would have believed if it had been like they wanted it, some
who could believe or not believe, just which ever way the crowd went.
And it isn't any different now, Lord. This morning, we've put
ourselves there. We were there that day. We felt the crowd today.
We felt the scene. And some of us are like the disciples, we know who
He is and we believe and we love Him and we want to understand more
and we want the Holy Spirit to teach us more. And if we haven't yet
believed, we want to believe and we want to receive the King on His
terms. And some, Lord, are to that crowd that wants Jesus to do for
them what they want, to be their genie, solves their problems, gets
them out of their difficulties, picks up the pieces of their misspent
deeds. And then there's that sort of pliable mass that just flow with
the crowd. Help us, Lord, to see where we are, to seek to be where
You want us to be.
Father, we long for the day when the King has His coronation in
glory and we can join with that angelic host and all the redeemed of
all the ages and sing His praise, see Him mount the throne and take
the scepter to rule forever as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But
until that day, we thank You that He is come meek and lowly as a King
of peace, not to subject men unwillingly to His rule but to draw them
to His salvation. May it be that hearts are turned to Him this day.
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Gymnastics uses 'milestone' day on the bars to win meet
A solid performance on the uneven bars helped propel gymnastics to a 195.050-193.100 win over the University of New Hampshire on Friday night.
The bars were the strong suit for CMU, with a score of 49.075 and five-of-six gymnasts scoring a 9.8 or higher.
The team first performed on vault and scored a 48.475. Head coach Jerry Reighard said the energy level was down in the beginning, but, when the Chippewas went to bars, things started coming together.
"Forty-nine on an event is certainly a milestone," Reighard said. "It's a mark that every coach wants to achieve, and right from the first two freshmen that started out on bars, it became very evident that we were going to have a great day on bars."
Sophomore Kylie Fagan had the highest score on bars with a 9.850, and she said the team plans to keep aiming for those high scores.
"We're becoming very consistent," she said. "In our last two meets on bars and beams we're six-for-six. It's a good feeling that we aren't aiming to hit, we're aiming for 9.8s. We aren't trying to stay on the beam, we are trying to get 9.8s on the beam."
Sophomore Becca Druin, the team's only all-around competitor for the meet, finished right behind Fagan with an 8.25.
Druin scored a 9.575 on vault, 9.750 on beam, and a 9.625 for her floor routine.
Reighard noted the team typically has a trio of all-around competitors, but, this year, things have been shaken up.
"The depth that we have on this team is making it almost impossible for an all-arounder to hit all four events and stay in," Reighard said. "You have to remember Brittany Petzold and Halle Moraw; we aren't pushing them on bar, because they've had some surgeries. I think it's going to be very tough for them to push themselves into all four events."
The team finished with a 48.875 on beam and tied the Wildcats with a 48.625 on the floor.
Sophomore Taylor Noonan and junior Emily Heinz captured the top scores on beam with 9.8s.
Although Noonan was at the top for her scores in beam, she was the only one on her team to receive below a 9.8 on bars.
Noonan said she knows there will always be room for improvement within herself and among her teammates, and learning from each performance,to strive to be better, is part of the fun.
"That's what drives us to get into the gym on Monday," she said. "We know what we have to fix, and we're excited to go back in the gym and fix it, because we know we can do better."
CMU will be back on the bars and the mat at 7 p.m. Friday Jan. 18 when Mid-American Conference competition starts up at Ball State.


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I'll be honest – I really have no idea what possessed me to make meringue mushrooms.
Maybe it was my new found love of foraging? Nah. I think it's because they are so fun to look at and much sweeter than their real life counterpart.
I've made these in years past as an adornment to my Buche de Noel. But this year I skipped the cake and went straight to the mushrooms.
Since we've been on the topic of homemade holiday gifts I thought these faux mushrooms would make a unique treat that would please any hostess – they sure put a smile on our neighbors face.
I seasoned my funghi with vanilla extract and peppermint oil giving them a floral minty taste that cut through the overly sweet characteristics that so often accompany meringue.
Meringue Mushrooms
adapted from martha stewart living dec. '03
Swiss Meringue:
4 large egg whites
1 cup sugar
pinch cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
In the bowl of a stand mixer add the egg whites and sugar. Place the bowl over a medium size pot filled with simmering water. Whisk continuously until the sugar is dissolved and the egg whites are warm.
Place the bowl on the stand mixer. Add the cream of tartar. Start the mixer on low then gradually increase to high. Continue to whip until stiff glossy peaks appear – about 10 minutes. Add the salt, vanilla and peppermint. Mix to combine.
Piping & baking:
Preheat your oven to 200*
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Fill a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2″ tip. You will need to pipe the stems and the caps separately.
Pipe round domes for the caps and thick peaks for the stems.
Bake the meringues for 1 hour. Rotate your pan after that then reduce oven temperature to 175* and continue to bake until completely dry. The original recipe said for another hour – but if you read yesterday's post you would know it took a lot longer than expected. After being in the oven for more than a total of 3 hours I simply turned off the oven, left the mushrooms in and went to bed. In the morning they were dry. 🙂
Melt 1/2 cup or 3 ounces dark chocolate. Dip the bottom of a cap in the chocolate and wipe off excess. Attach a stem to the cap – grinding it into the cap a bit to form a secure hold. Carefully place the now assembled mushroom on the baking sheet giving it time for the chocolate to set.
Once they are all formed, brush the top with cocoa powder to resemble to bountiful dirt the covers fresh mushrooms. This is the best dirt I've ever tasted.
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"THANK GOD FOR DEAD SOLDIERS" A sign commonly held up by the Westboro Baptist Church as they protest at the funerals of Soldiers. Recently, the Supreme Court upheld their right to continue to do this.
WBC is largely comprised of a single extended family, the Phelps family. Fred Phelps is an aging hate-mongering idiot who generally stays behind when the rest of the gang travels the nation to 'protest'. Half of the family have trained to become lawyers, as they fund their hateful ideology by suing the people who assault them, or otherwise violate their rights.
They bring their children to these protests. When not attending some rally, a strict adherence to Fred's controversial interpretation of scripture is brutally enforced.
Some of Pastor Phelp's 13 children have escaped the madman and the bizarre lifestyle. Nate Phelps is the most outspoken amongst them.
Nathan 'Nate' Phelps was the seventh child, and he ran away from his abusive father at age 18, on his birthday. Decades later he is now actively engaging his past, and serves as an extremely powerful speaker against child abuse and hateful ideology. He currently works for the Center For Inquiry, who have been quite vocal supporters for Rock Beyond Belief.
We are proud to announce that Nate Phelps is joining the lineup at Rock Beyond Belief, now being reworked for the Fall. Our festival has received quite an outpouring of support since our first attempt was met with last minute crippling restrictions. Nate was among the many notable people who extended a helping hand, standing in solidarity with us.
His story is obviously exceptionally poignant, with the years of WBC's "Thank God for IEDs" protests at fallen Soldier's funerals. We are proud to have him stand up to those monsters and stand up for rationality, tolerance, and equality for the non-religious Soldiers of the United States Army.
From Nate's bio:
Nate Phelps is the son of Pastor Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, which gained infamy from their protests at soldiers' funerals around the United States. He is the seventh of thirteen children, and was taught his father's extreme version of Calvinism from an early age. This was accompanied by extreme physical punishments and abuse, extreme dietary and health requirements, and other extreme expectations. Nate left home at midnight on his eighteenth birthday, and moved to California where he built a new life away from his family. He later moved to Canada, and only recently began speaking out about his story after a chance encounter with a reporter while driving a cab in Cranbrook, British Columbia. Nate has now spoken about his story to many groups around North America, and even returned home to Topeka in 2010 to tell his story to the people in his hometown. Today Nate lives in Calgary, Alberta and works for the Center For Inquiry. He is a vocal LGBT advocate, and speaks out against the dangers of religion and child abuse.He is currently working on a book which covers his exceptional story, and is the subject of an upcoming documentary film.
I asked him how he felt about possibly attracting the attention of his infamous family.
As for whether my family shows up, I have a strong conviction that they will deliberately avoid "supporting" my counter voice by protesting events where I'm speaking. That said, this would be the first time that there was a variety of speakers so that should increase the chances that they will make an issue of it. Whatever the case, I'm completely willing to follow through with my commitment regardless. As far as I'm concerned, it could only improve the attendance at the event if they announced plans to protest there.
Clearly, the Westboro Baptist Church would be foolish to attend, so I don't expect them either. They would probably be pretty scared at the prospect of facing such a large population of Soldiers, many of whom would be atheists and humanists. Their previous encounters have been met with insanely successful counter-protests, as they continue to become the butt of the nation's jokes. They are the cartoon version of the 'evils of religion', a caricature that moderate religious people try desperately to shed.


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Real Name: Jamshad
Date of birth: 11th December 1980
Birth Place: Trikaripur, India
Complexion: Fair
Height: 5′ 9″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Light Brown
Mother Tongue: Malayalam
Nationality: Indian
Studied in School: SBOA Matriculation and Higher Secondary School, Chennai
Studied in College: Computer Engineering from Crescent Engineering College in
Profession before Acting: Modelling
Brothers: 2 Younger brothers, Sathya (Shahir) and Razi
Languages Acted: Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu
Facts: He owns a production company named "The Show People"
First Film: Ullam Ketkumae
First Film Released: Arinthum Ariyamalum
Awards: Best New Male Face Award at the Filmfare Awards for movie "Arinthum Ariyamalum"
Family Business: His family owns a restaurant "Sea Shell" at Anna Nagar in Chennai
Jamshad popularly known as Arya, (born 11 December 1980) is a Malayalee-born Indian movie actor who has appeared in Tamil films.
Arya started off as a computer engineer,his passion for filming brought him to modelling before debuting in Jeeva's Ullam Ketkumae which also marked the debuts of Asin Thottumkal and Pooja Umashankar.
The film also starred Laila and Shaam, but the film was delayed only releasing after Arinthum Ariyamalum. In Arinthum Ariyamalum, Arya played as son to Prakash Raj in a critically acclaimed role which won him Best New Male Face Award at the Filmfare Awards.Arinthum Ariyamalum and Ullam Ketkumae both made it large at the box-office.
Oru Kalluriyin Kathai also made it big at the box-office and Arya was touted as the next pin-up boy of Kollywood. His next, Kalabhak Kadhalan was an average grosser in Kollywood as it shared a striking resemblance, with the Kollywood's all time best thriller.
His forthcoming projects are: Oram Poo and Xerox with Pooja Umashankar, and Naan Kadavul with Bhavana Balachandran.


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Los Angeles native Jonathan Bock has visited Italy many times, and he's always floored by its wealth of great art—masterpieces at every turn, much of it connected to the church. Son of the late Fred Bock (one of America's best known church musicians), Bock first learned to appreciate art from his father, and because "My mom dragged me to every gallery and museum in Los Angeles and New York and Europe."
Now 42, Bock, founder and president of Grace Hill Media (a PR firm that helps Hollywood studios reach the faith market), wants more Christians involved in the arts—as creators, appreciators, and, in his latest endeavor, supporters. Bock founded the nonprofit organization As1 to encourage the church to embrace its historical role as patrons of the arts—particularly movies and tv.
"In Italy, you see evidence everywhere that there was a time when the church partnered with the artistic community to create timeless, transcendent art," he says. "But today's relationship between the church and Hollywood is a long way from that. Not as far as we used to be, but we've got a ways to go. I feel like Christians need to understand what their role can be as patrons of the arts"—especially when Tinseltown makes movies that the church can embrace.
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Define a modern-day "patron of the arts."
In the 16th century, it was a rich guy in tights with a coin purse. Today, you see signs in movie theaters: Thank you for your patronage. It's the customer, the ticket-buying audience. One ticket does not make a difference, but if we Christians are buying as one, we choose what becomes a hit. If we want our stories told well by the best ...1


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President Barack Obama is away from Washington, rallying public support for his second-term agenda. But to state the obvious, there's an even more critical voting bloc he must win over: members of Congress.
Many of the president's more ambitious State of the Union proposals are already generating sparks among lawmakers back in the nation's capital and face an uncertain future -- and not just from Republicans.
One initiative he mentioned briefly in Tuesday night's address has potentially far-reaching economic consequences: the launching of free-trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union.
The U.S. and Europe already account for nearly half the world's economic output and such an alliance could bring benefits to both sides of the Atlantic as well as making it easier to compete with China, a rising economic powerhouse.
Generally free-trade agreements draw more support from open-market Republicans and business leaders. Democratic President Bill Clinton had to overcome fierce labor union and Democratic resistance to win approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.
Obama was accused by Republicans during last year's campaign of being too European in his thinking. Also, Europe is still confronted by even more dire economic woes than the U.S.
The German economy, Europe's largest, shrank by a worse-than-expected 0.6 percent in last year's final three months, figures out Thursday showed.
So even if Obama is able to negotiate such a complicated deal, he's likely to face some union and Democratic grousing as well as reviving GOP accusations that he wants to make the U.S. more like Europe.
Still, "the stars could well be aligned" this time for such a deal, said Michael Froman, the top White House trade expert.
The president was in Decatur, Ga., on Thursday promoting his plan to expand preschool programs significantly. He plugged his minimum wage and manufacturing proposals Wednesday in North Carolina and will push his gun-control proposals in Chicago on Friday.


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We have been remiss in failing to beseech the support of South Carolina's First District voters for former Charles County councilor and decorated Marine Corps vet Curtis Bostic in today's primary to nominate the Republican candidate to replace Tim Scott. According to the Washington Post, Sanford is the clear front-runner to defeat Bostic in what is expected to be a low-turnout affair (no pun intended).
Sanford is of course the former governor who professed to be out hiking the Appalachian Trail at the time he went missing in June 2009. Instead, as we learned, he was meeting up with his Argentinian soul mate in Buenos Aires. In the event, he earned a legislative censure. He was spared impeachment in part by Democratic legislators who wanted him to continue to provide the face of the Republican Party while serving out his term.
If he ever gets around to writing his memoirs, the obvious title, referring to his disappearance, is Six Days in June. Writing his memoirs and working the Oprah circuit is in fact what Sanford should be doing. He has mastered the therapeutic psychobabble that comes with a Christian overlay speaking of forgiveness. In one television ad, for example, Sanford avows that he has "experienced how none of us go through life without mistakes — but in their wake we can learn a lot about grace, a God of second chances, and be the better for it."
Lord, give us a second chance. Spare us Mark Sanford.
Sanford is on a journey of discovery, but on Sanford's journey we will discover more about ourselves than about about him. We have already discovered more about him than we ever wanted to know.
Robert Stacy McCain quotes Sanford in debate last week with Bostic: "I failed. I failed very publicly," Sanford said during the debate, referring to "the events of 2009" as he pleaded that "because you have had failure in your personal life" it does not mean "that you cannot step back into life again." Life is in this case a synonym for electoral politics. And we can only say, if true, unfortunately.
If he prevails in today's primary, Sanford will face Stephen Colbert's sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch, in a special election to be held May 7. If faced with the choice, I would vote for Sanford over Busch, but I would resent Sanford like hell for putting me to the test.


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Posted on Apr. 9, 2016
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The Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D., noted Wednesday:
In a … study by the United States Geological Survey that tested for 95 contaminants in water supplies nationwide, 80 percent of the samples from 139 streams in 30 states had at least one of the substances being tested for, with an average of seven contaminants in each sample. These findings included traces of anti-anxiety medications in the drinking water delivered to approximately 18.5 million Southern Californians. In western Montana, the study found aquifers had been penetrated by waste water from a high school, and contained trace elements of acetaminophen, caffeine, codeine, antibiotics and warfarin, in addition to a mood-stabilizing drug for bipolar disorder and nicotine.
Is Bottled Water the Solution?
Not necessarily. Tap water suppliers are required to perform regular water quality tests and publish the findings; makers of bottled water aren't. In fact, in a survey by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), 38 contaminants were found in 10 big-selling brands.
The United States Geologic Survey reports:
In streams and rivers across the Nation, scientists are finding detectable concentrations of pharmaceuticals and other organic wastewater chemicals. For example, a recent study of the water-quality of streams in the Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado, found a diverse set of pharmaceuticals and organic wastewater chemicals in water samples. In fact, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists found 12 of the 22 (55 percent) pharmaceuticals, and 32 of the 47 (77 percent) organic wastewater chemicals looked for in the watershed. Many of the water samples contained a complex mixture of pharmaceuticals, wastewater chemicals, pesticides, and trace metals …. The scientists found that:
- The concentration of many of these chemicals, such as sulfamethoxazole (an antibiotic used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections), triclosan (an antimicrobial agent commonly used in soaps), and caffeine, increased dramatically downstream from the first major wastewater treatment plant …. However, some organic wastewater indicators (such as triclosan) were also found in much lower concentrations in the relatively pristine upper part of the watershed, and scientists attributed their occurrence to home septic systems and other sources on the landscape.
- Few of the detected compounds exceeded water-quality standards; however, many do not have water-quality standards…. Native fish populations were found to exhibit endocrine disruption, including low male-to-female sex ratio and fish having both female and male reproductive organs (gonadal intersex).
And in a webpage entitled "Antidepressants in Stream Waters! Are They in the Fish Too?", the U.S. Geological Survey points out:
For some fish living downstream of sewage treatment plants the answer is yes. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists and their colleagues published a paper in Environmental Science and Technology documenting that specific antidepressants and their degradates found in wastewater discharged into streams by municipal wastewater treatment plants are taken up into the bodies of fish living downstream of the plants. The antidepressants were found in fish collected over 8 kilometers (approximately 5 miles) downstream of the location of the wastewater discharge. The scientists detected several commonly used antidepressants in water, streambed sediment, and the brain tissue of white suckers, a native fish species. Fish collected upstream from the wastewater discharge did not have antidepressants present in their brain tissues….
AP reported in 2009:
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Last year, the AP reported that trace amounts of a wide range of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in American drinking water supplies. Including recent findings in Dallas, Cleveland and Maryland's Prince George's and Montgomery counties, pharmaceuticals have been detected in the drinking water of at least 51 million Americans.
Most cities and water providers still do not test. Some scientists say that wherever researchers look, they will find pharma-tainted water.
Researchers have found that even extremely diluted concentrations of drugs harm fish, frogs and other aquatic species. [This may be part of the reason that amphibians are disappearing.] Also, researchers report that human cells fail to grow normally in the laboratory when exposed to trace concentrations of certain drugs. Some scientists say they are increasingly concerned that the consumption of combinations of many drugs, even in small amounts, could harm humans over decades.
A year earlier, the Associated Press noted:
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. [The estimate was raised to 46 million a couple of months later.]
Bottlers [i.e. bottled water producers], some of which simply repackage tap water, do not typically treat or test for pharmaceuticals, according to the industry's main trade group.
There's growing concern in the scientific community, meanwhile, that certain drugs — or combinations of drugs — may harm humans over decades because water, unlike most specific foods, is consumed in sizable amounts every day.
Our bodies may shrug off a relatively big one-time dose, yet suffer from a smaller amount delivered continuously over a half century, perhaps subtly stirring allergies or nerve damage. Pregnant women, the elderly and the very ill might be more sensitive.
Many concerns about chronic low-level exposure focus on certain drug classes: chemotherapy that can act as a powerful poison; hormones that can hamper reproduction or development; medicines for depression and epilepsy that can damage the brain or change behavior; antibiotics that can allow human germs to mutate into more dangerous forms; pain relievers and blood-pressure diuretics.
The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences wrote in 2000:
Certain pharmaceuticals are now attracting attention as a potentially new class of water pollutants. Such drugs as antibiotics, anti-depressants, birth control pills, seizure medication, cancer treatments, pain killers, tranquilizers and cholesterol-lowering compounds have been detected in varied water sources.
Where do they come from? Pharmaceutical industries, hospitals and other medical facilities are obvious sources, but households also contribute a significant share. People often dispose of unused medicines by flushing them down toilets, and human excreta can contain varied incompletely metabolized medicines. These drugs can pass intact through conventional sewage treatment facilities, into waterways, lakes and even aquifers. Further, discarded pharmaceuticals often end up at dumps and land fills, posing a threat to underlying groundwater.
Farm animals also are a source of pharmaceuticals entering the environment, through their ingestion of hormones, antibiotics and veterinary medicines. (About 40 percent of U.S.-produced antibiotics are fed to livestock as growth enhancers.) Manure containing traces of such pharmaceuticals is spread on land and can then wash off into surface water and even percolate into groundwater.
Researchers Christian G. Daughton and Thomas A. Ternes reported in the December issue of "Environmental Health Perspectives" that the amount of pharmaceuticals and personal care products entering the environment annually is about equal to the amount of pesticides used each year.
In the United States, the issue might have attracted earlier notice if officials had followed up on observations made 20 years ago. At that time, EPA scientists found that sludge from a U.S. sewage-treatment plant contained excreted aspirin, caffeine and nicotine. At the time, no significance was attached to the findings.
Europeans, however, took the lead in researching the issue. In the mid-1990s, Thomas A. Ternes, a chemist in Wiesbaden, Germany, investigated what happens to prescribed medicines after they are excreted. Ternes knew that many such drugs are prescribed, and that little was known of the environmental effects of these compounds after they are excreted. He researched the presence of drugs in sewage, treated water and rivers, and his findings surprised him.
Expecting to identify a few medicinal compounds he instead found 30 of the 60 common pharmaceuticals that he surveyed. Drugs he identified included lipid-lowering drugs, antibiotics, analgesics, antiseptics, beta-blocker heart drugs, residues of drugs for controlling epilepsy as well as drugs serving as contrast agents for diagnostic X rays.
At the recent American Chemical Society conference, Chris Metcalfe of Trent University in Ontario reported finding a vast array of drugs leaving Canadian sewage treatment plants, at times at higher levels than what is reported in Germany. Such drugs included anticancer agents, psychiatric drugs and anti-inflammatory compounds. North American treatment plants may show higher levels of pharmaceuticals because they often lack the technological sophistication of German facilities.
Scientists generally agree that aquatic life is most at risk, its life cycle, from birth to death, occurring within potentially drug-contaminated waters…. For example, recent British research suggest that estrogen, the female sex hormone, is primarily responsible for deforming reproductive systems of fish, noting that blood plasma from male trout living below sewage treatment plants had the female egg protein vitellogenin.
Discovery News pointed out last year:
Scientists are particularly concerned about a class of pharmaceuticals known as endocrine-disruptors. Traces of estrogen from birth control pills, for example, are now known to affect animals at really tiny concentrations.
Antibiotics are another concern, because once they are unleashed in the environment, they can prompt the development of dangerously drug-resistant bacteria.
Even drugs that don't fit into those categories have been shown to cause problems in some cases, especially when levels get high enough, said Bryan Brooks, director of the Environmental Health Science program at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
A 2004 paper in the Journal Nature, for example, documented a catastrophic vulture die-off in India. It turned out that the birds were eating the carcasses of cows that had been given a type of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication, similar to ibuprofen or naproxen. The drug was making the birds sick.
In a paper published earlier this year in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, scientists reported that minnows exposed to certain antidepressants were slower to flee from predators. Another paper in the same journal issue found that tadpoles exposed to antidepressants — at levels similar to what might show up in the environment in some places — ate less and grew more slowly.
As the New York Times' Lede notes:
"We recognize it is a growing concern and we're taking it very seriously," said Benjamin H. Grumbles, the Environmental Protection Agency's water chief. But the government has not established any safety limits for pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water, as it has for many other chemicals; the agency is just learning how to detect low concentrations of drugs in water, let alone assess the risk posed by them.
And see this, this, this, this, this and this:
As If That's Not Bad Enough …
As if that's not bad enough, some well-known public figures have suggested intentionally adding drugs to water to prevent heart disease, prevent suicidal depression, and to combat other illnesses.
For example, the American psychiatrist Peter Kramer – best known for his work Listening to Prozac – has suggested that lithium be added to the water supply to reduce the number of suicides. Fox News medical expert Dr. Archelle Georgiou seems to like the idea as well:
And as Paul Joseph Watson writes:
Drug companies claim that statins have been proven to lower cholesterol and help prevent heart disease and strokes, leading many health experts to insist that they be artificially added to public water supplies, but dangerous side-effects buried by drug companies conducting statin trials have now come to light, in addition to the fact that "for three quarters of those taking them, they offer little or no value."
A new study published in the Cochrane Library, which reviews drug trials, examined data from 14 drugs trials involving 34,000 patients and found evidence of "short-term memory loss, depression and mood swings," that had been deliberately underplayed by the drug companies funding the research.
The researchers warn that, "Statins should only be prescribed to those with heart disease, or who have suffered the condition in the past. Researchers warn that unless a patient is at high risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, statins may cause more harm than good."
However, despite the fact that statins have also been linked to a greater risk of liver dysfunction, acute kidney failure, cataracts and muscle damage, health authorities have been pushing for the drug to be added to public water supplies as part of a mass medication program that is not only illegal without consent, but also threatens a plethora of unknown consequences.
Only last week, George Lundberg, MD, the editor of MedPageToday…, wrote an op-ed entitled, Should We Put Statins in the Water Supply?
In May 2008, renowned cardiologist Professor Mahendra Varma called for statins to be artificially added to drinking water.
Putting statins in the water supply was also considered during a November 2008 discussion which featured Robert Bonow, M.D., of Northwestern University in Chicago, Gordon F. Tomaselli, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Anthony De Maria, M.D., of the University of California at San Diego.
Also in November 2008, CNBC aired a segment lauding the effectiveness of statins, after which one of the hosts remarked, "Why don't they just put statins in the water supply," to which CNBC's medical expert replied, "A lot of people have said that and they are in the water in fact."
And bioethicist and medical historian Jacob M. Appel wrote in the Huffington Post in 2009:
Lithium may actually be the tip of the fortification iceberg. The cholesterol-lowering agents known as statins might also be good candidates for inclusion in the water supply ….
Other possible agents are still in development. If researchers could effectively isolate a chemical that safely blocks pleasure pathways involved in the use of toxic substances, such as tobacco and cocaine, those blocking agents might also be added to the water supply. Preventing nicotine highs through such a novel distribution mechanism would save millions of lives annually.
Some nay-sayers will inevitably argue that medically fortifying the public water is a violation of individual liberty. Of course, nobody is forcing those dissident individuals to drink tap water. They are welcome to purchase bottled water, as do a few hold-outs who still fear the pernicious effects of fluoride, or to dig their own wells.
Unfortunately, some opponents will likely attempt to hold the public water hostage, arguing that because drug-free water is natural, is it somehow better. However, if the vast majority of people gain health benefits from fortifying the public water, and particularly if these benefits are life-saving, then there is nothing unreasonable about placing the burden not to drink upon the resistant minority. One person's right to drink lithium-free water is no greater than another's right to drink lithium-enhanced water. As long as the negative consequences or inconveniences are relatively minor, water fortification seems to be one of those cases where the majority's preference and interest should prevail.
Time will reveal whether lithium is indeed the next fluoride. Far more important is the revolutionary prospect of harnessing the common water supply to deliver life-saving and health-enhancing therapies to the public at low cost. The water belongs to the public, after all, and should be used for the collective good. As someone who treasures my freedom immensely — including, I should emphasize, my inalienable right to commit suicide — I look forward to the day when I can sacrifice whatever specious "liberty" claim I might have in consuming "natural" tap water in order to help save the lives of my neighbors and fellow human beings.
However, as discussed above, bottled water may contain the same pharmaceuticals as tap water, and many water filters do not effectively remove pharmaceuticals.
In addition, because a healthier lifestyle of exercise and a low-fat diet leads to less cardiac disease and less suicidal tendencies, those who are more responsible in their health habits would be penalized by being exposed to drugs they don't need, or incurring the extra cost of digging a well or buying an expensive filter to secure non-medicated drinking water.
Fluoride as Poster Child for Adding Chemicals to Water
Fluoride is – of course – the example everyone uses when discussing the safety of adding chemicals to drinking water. It should be the example everyone uses.
The U.S. government has itself now expressed concerns about fluoride's health effects and the possibility that it impairs brain function.
And as the president of Environmental Working Group – a highly-respected environmental group which has been quoted some 1,400 times by the New York Times -recently said:
For decades, people who raised concerns about fluoride being added to tap water or food were dismissed as crazy. All of a sudden we have two federal regulatory actions, announced just days apart, that tell us what was really crazy all those years: a government bureaucracy that ignored strong scientific evidence and clear warning signs of the threats fluoride has posed to public health all along.