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it's Easter ... Palm Sunday


 

Easter week or holy week is happening right now.  Yesterday we observed the triumphant entry of Jesus remembering the time Jesus entered Jerusalem just five days before He was crucified.  


At this point He is celebrated and praised as the Christ and king.  On Friday He will be accused and cursed as a criminal sentences to death.  Making this a week wrought with irony, confusion and struggle.


John 12:12-13  NLT

The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover visitors 13 took palm branches and went down the road to meet him. They shouted, “Praise God!  Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!  Hail to the King of Israel!”


The person praised is Jesus.  He is the first and the last.  He is one for us and going ahead of us.  He is the one for whom we live.  He is the one who brings the glory of a good, good father.


Jesus is the one.  He is the real Hope Hero that we should be looking for.  Some say a savior never came.  Some say they aren’t worth saving.  Jesus says I came to seek and to save YOU and anyone who will come to me.  This one they celebrated on Palm Sunday is the one they will yell “crucify him” on Friday.  Now, there is irony.  The savior of the world that sought people for eternity is the same one they sought to get rid of but only temporarily.


Palm Sunday.  It is the day in the Easter season, in the Lent observance, that we remember for the praise God, for the exalting of His son and for the entrance of Jesus into the great city of God’s people.  But what we ought to be looking for, exalting before all and asking that He enter our lives.


Jesus is the son of God, come in the flesh to save the world.  Over the last three years of His life Jesus has poured out love and has given out blessings, He has healed the sick and raised the death, He has shocked the masses and shook the religious, He has made a difference and changed the world forever.  


This is the Jesus we have to celebrate and share with others.  Help people see Him, meet Him and celebrate just who the one sent from heaven truly is.

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