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SERMON NOTES

Jesus Last week was No Vacation

Intro:  Welcome to Palm Sunday and the Last week of Jesus before the crucifixion

• This day comes shortly after Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead (a lot of buzz and hype, people want to meet Jesus)

• Week starts with a huge welcome- people praising and cheering Him

• This world turned on Jesus in less than a week (friends Betrayed, denied, abandoned Him, same crowd that praised Him yells to Crucify Him)

Matthew 21:1-9

 1-3 When they neared Jerusalem, having arrived at Bethphage on Mount Olives, Jesus sent two disciples with these instructions: “Go over to the village across from you. You’ll find a donkey tethered there, her colt with her. Untie her and bring them to me. If anyone asks what you’re doing, say, ‘The Master needs them!’ He will send them with you.”

4-5 This is the full story of what was sketched earlier by the prophet:

Tell Zion’s daughter, “Look, your king’s on his way, poised and ready, mounted On a donkey, on a colt, foal of a pack animal.”

6-9 The disciples went and did exactly what Jesus told them to do. They led the donkey and colt out, laid some of their clothes on them, and Jesus mounted. Nearly all the people in the crowd threw their garments down on the road, giving him a royal welcome. Others cut branches from the trees and threw them down as a welcome mat. Crowds went ahead and crowds followed, all of them calling out, “Hosanna to David’s son!” “Blessed is he who comes in God’s name!” “Hosanna in highest heaven!”

John 15:18-25 - The Message

18-19 “If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me. If you lived on the world’s terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God’s terms and no longer on the world’s terms, the world is going to hate you.

20 “When that happens, remember this: Servants don’t get better treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them.

21-25 “They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don’t know the One who sent me. If I hadn’t come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn’t be so bad. As it is, they have no excuse. Hate me, hate my Father—it’s all the same. If I hadn’t done what I have done among them, works no one has ever done, they wouldn’t be to blame. But they saw the God-signs and hated anyway, both me and my Father. Interesting—they have verified the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, ‘They hated me for no good reason.’

• If this world hated and treated Jesus badly; don’t be surprised when it hates you too

• There is a spiritual war going on- Wake up

• Bad reports & Challenges are going to come and try to attack you

  • Health, relationships, finances, jobs, finances

Hebrews 12:1-2 - King James Version

12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Jesus stayed focus on God’s assignment for His life (Joy in obedience)

• Born to die for the world- john 3:16 

• Jesus reward granted, sits at right hand of God

Galatians 2:20 - King James Version

20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

• Christ is in Me , and I am in Christ (born again)

• Jesus faith- Jesus believed God would not leave His soul in Hell

• Jesus had to have faith to lay His life down (they didn’t take it; He laid it down)

• Paul decided to live by Jesus faith; Jesus loved Him to point of death

2 Corinthians 5:17 - King James Version

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

• WE are made new creatures, our spirit’s joined with Jesus spirit

• No more separation from God, because of sin

  • We can come boldly to throne of God (grace & Mercy)

• I am a spirit & I am alive(live through my spirit), my flesh is dead (old you)

• Body – earth suit/

• soul- mind, will, emotions (Control them or they will control you)

• Spirit-live by your spirit on the inside

  • Renew your thinking, decisions, feelings to line up with the Word

  • Crucify the flesh daily not just Sunday (funeral- keep that old you buried)

Psalm 107:1-2 - King James Version

107 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

• We are the redeemed of the Lord- Enforce our Victory by declaring & pleading the Blood of Jesus over every are of our lives

  •  (spiritually, physically, socially, emotionally, and financially)

• When that bad report comes- We have to say something

  • Say what God says about you

Romans 4:17-18 - The Message

17-18 We call Abraham “father” not because he got God’s attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn’t that what we’ve always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, “I set you up as father of many peoples”? Abraham was first named “father” and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!”

• Create your own world with your words (open your mouths)

  • This is how we use our God-given authority to bless or curse

• Then walk it out by faith (that’s how and what Jesus did)

• Open your mouths this week, don’t be afraid to tell people what Jesus has done, is doing, and will do for you (testimony)

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