The King Is Coming: Palm Sunday Call to Prepare

Not everybody celebrates Jesus but the presence of the king of kings demands a response. Some will worship. Some will question and scratch their head. Some will misunderstand and they will refuse him but when the king shows up and he is coming, there is no neutral ground. Will either crown him as king and be proud that he is your king. Yes. Or you will crucify him. The same crowd wave the palm branches and threw their cloaks and coats and garments before him and shouted, praise, hosanna to the king of kings, to the lord of lords. Within just a few hours, many of them were shouting, crucify him. [01:37:56] (71 seconds)  #NoNeutralGround

Many people reject him because it didn't happen like they thought it should. The Jews were looking for a Messiah. Prophecies had been given. Messiah is coming but when Jesus came, they thought many thought, well, he's the king. He's the one. He's the Messiah but he didn't come in on a royal stallion. He humbled himself. He came in on a donkey. The people turned on him When he came into the city, they were waving the palm branches. They were shouting. They were praising. They were honoring him. The king comes in humility before he comes in glory. It doesn't always look like you expect it to look. They wanted power. He offers surrender. We have to receive him as he is. Not as we want him to be. [01:26:19] (63 seconds)  #ReceiveHimAsHeIs

You've disqualified yourself. Don't ever feel that way. That's the devil. Lying to you because when Jesus died on the cross, he came just for you. Oh, you didn't hear me? If you had been the only one He would have still come with you. With all of your warts, all of your hang ups, all of your habits, all of your problems, all of your sin, he would have still come just for you. Because he loves you that much. I need to tell you today the king is coming. [01:09:43] (51 seconds)  #JesusCameForYou

When Jesus sent his disciples into the village, he sent them with simple instructions but they were specific. This was not an accident. This was not a random event. This was not some spontaneous response that he gave his disciples. Jesus knew where the colt was. He knew exactly what the owners would say. He knew exactly what he was telling his disciples to do because the king who is coming is in control. Even when everything looks ordinary, even when everything looks simple, even when everything looks just like it's plain Jane and there's no frills here, there's nothing spectacular here. God already knows what he's going to do. [01:16:37] (55 seconds)  #GodIsInControl

When you look through scripture, you see men like David and men like Abraham, men like Jonah, men like the apostle Paul who wrote two thirds of the New Testament but before he was had an experience with god on the road to Damascus, he was persecuting Christians. He was putting them to death. He was arresting them and he was tormenting them. But god said, hey, I can use that guy. So, don't ever underestimate who you are. Don't ever feel like you're unworthy I'm talking to somebody Don't ever feel like you've done too much wrong and too much bad and you're unqualified. [01:08:52] (52 seconds)  #GodUsesEveryone

He lowered, he lowered himself. He made himself nothing, the NIV says, nothing by taking the very nature of a servant and he being made in human likeness. This king of kings, this lord of lords, who in Genesis one said, let us make man in our own image. In Philippians two, he made himself nothing. He humbled himself and went to the cross being made in human likeness. See, the king comes in humility before he comes in glory. [01:25:44] (34 seconds)  #HumbleBeforeGlory

And the lord gave me just a vision of a giant, a huge giant, bigger than anything that I could imagine. I'm not talking about a 10 foot giant. I'm talking about, I saw laying on his back in the forest, the giant that was like 200 feet tall and he was laying on his back and he began to move. He'd been asleep and he began to move and as he just begin to move his legs and move his hands, the ground rumbled like an earthquake. And then I saw him raise up and there was such noise as he was waking up. And the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, this is my church. The sleeping giant that is waking up now. For the end times. [01:54:05] (54 seconds)  #SleepingGiantAwakens

So, do we not have any choice in what we do, where we go, what we say? Yes, you do. You you have your free will. We are free moral agents. We have our free will and we can go where we want to go, do what we want to do, say what we want to say, act like we want to act. However, the Bible says, there is a way that seems right unto a man. But the end thereof are the ways of death. And if the Bible says the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord as he directs us, you ought to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. [01:18:11] (39 seconds)  #FollowTheHolySpirit