Palm Sunday is about a royal king riding in peace. Yet, this king does bring victory to his people, defeating their worst enemy. The descriptions of Palm Sunday in the bible all quote Zecheriah chapter 9, which references “the blood of my covenant”. Here is what this blood does for us, the subjects of THE KING:
Satan accuses Christians day and night. It is not just that he will work on our conscience to make us feel as dirty, guilty, defeated, destroyed, weak, and ugly as he possibly can; it is something worse: his entire ploy in the past is to accuse us before God day and night, bringing charges against us that we know we can never answer before the majesty of God’s holiness. What can we say in response? Will our defense be, ‘Oh, I’m not that bad!’? You will never beat Satan that way. Never. What you must say is, ‘Satan, I’m even worse than you think, but God loves me anyway. He has accepted me because of the blood of the Lamb.’ —D.A. Carson (Scandalous, pp. 98-99)
