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Palm SundayR EVOLU T ION

12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus

was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him,

shouting,

JOHN 12:12-16

“Hosanna!”“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Blessed is the king of Israel!”

JOHN 12:12-16

14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written: 15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming,

seated on a donkey’s colt.”

JOHN 12:12-16

16 At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things

had been done to him.

JOHN 12:12-16

Palm Sunday gives us confidence in who Jesus is...

10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.

GENESIS 49:10,11

11 He will tether his donkey to a vine,his colt to the choicest branch;

he will wash his garments in wine,his robes in the blood of grapes.

GENESIS 49:10,11

38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and

they escorted him to Gihon.

I KINGS 1:38-39

39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon.

Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, “Long live King Solomon!”

I KINGS 1:38-39

9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!See, your king comes to you,

righteous and victorious,lowly and riding on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

ZECHARIAH 9:9,10

10 I will take away the chariots from Ephraimand the warhorses from Jerusalem,and the battle bow will be broken.

He will proclaim peace to the nations.His rule will extend from sea to sea

and from the River to the ends of the earth.

ZECHARIAH 9:9,10

Palm Sunday reminds us of the key to our peace...

“Hosanna!”“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Blessed is the king of Israel!”

JOHN 12:13B

25 Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success! 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord

we bless you.

PSALM 118:25,26

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

LUKE 19:41 -44

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.”

LUKE 19:41 -44

Palm Sunday calls us to the worship of Jesus...

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.”

LUKE 19:39,40

“ For years the church worshiped faith. Then we worshipped worship. Now we’ve graduated to worshiping preaching, and I assume we will eventually get our doctorates by worshiping prayer. All these worships are idolatrous. . . .

We deceive ourselves by thinking we worship Jehovah [God] when really we have slipped to worshiping the beautiful (but not divine) means which God gave us to worship. Faith is not the savior, Jesus is the Savior. Worship is not the deliverer, Jesus

is the deliverer. Preaching is not the solution, Jesus is the solution. Prayer is not the answer, Jesus is the answer. The nations of the world, every false religion, all have faith, worship, preaching, and prayer. But they don’t have Jesus.”

DICK BROGDEN

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above

every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and

on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is

Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

PHILIPPIANS 2:9 -11