Palm Sunday
Harvard study shows- 10million adult men in the united states are so angry they are sick
Disease called intermittent explosive disorder (IED)
BAD TEMPERED PEOPLE ARE 3 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO HAVE HEART ATTACKS
EPHESIANS 4:26-27
“In your anger do not sin” : Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
LUKE 19:11
While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.
JESUS DIDN’T POINT IS FINGER OF ANGER AT ROME BUT AT HIS OWN PEOPLE
2 CHRONICLES 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
LUKE 19:37-38 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!”[a]
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
REVELATION 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
LUKE 19:38-44 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”[a]
“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.”
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.”
ZECHARIAH 9:9 Rejoice, O people of Zion![a]
Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem!
Look, your king is coming to you.
He is righteous and victorious,[b]
yet he is humble, riding on a donkey—
riding on a donkey’s colt.
ROMANS 9:20-21 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a]21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
THE FAITH THAT CAN’T SUSTAIN YOU IN YOUR CRISIS ISN’T REAL FAITH
A FAITH THAT CAN’T BE TESTED IS A FAITH THAT CAN’T BE TRUSTED
WHAT MAKES GOD ANGRY?
LUKE 19:45-48 45 When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. 46 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer’[a]; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[b]”
47 Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him.48 Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.
MARK 11:15 15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves,
MATTHEW 11:29 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Kjv - Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls
Meekness is not weakness - Strength under control
CHURCH IS A PLACE TO MEET GOD, WORSHIP GOD, AND A HOSPITAL FOR SINNERS
ARE YOU A BRIDGE OR A BEARER FOR PEOPLE TO COME TO GOD
ARE YOU A STUMBLING BLOCK OR A STEPPINGSTONE
SINNING ISN’T JUST DOING WHAT YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO. ITS NOT DOING WHAT YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO DO
1 JOHN 1:8-9 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
DON’T JUST MAKE JESUS KING FOR A DAY…..MAKE HIM KING OF YOUR LIFE