Text: Luke 19:28-40

Our sovereign Lord is a God who fulfills promises:  The New Testament is far more interested in God’s power in the context of salvation history than in an absolute sense.  Therefore, more emphasis is placed on God’s ability to fulfill promises.  …With only a slight shift in emphasis, the conviction that events occur according to the plan of God leads to the conviction that events are predestined by God, an idea that surfaces repeatedly and with diverse application in the New Testament.  (The Anchor Bible, 1992)