Palm Sunday - The King is Here!

He doesn't always give you what you want because he loves you. Let me break it to you. He loves you. He loves you that much. He's not just trying to make you happy. He doesn't always give you what you want, but he always always always gives you what you need. When they thought he was who they wanted him to be, they gave him palms. Praise. But when he turned out to be who they needed him to be, they gave him thorns. See, Palm Sunday proves that God doesn't always show up the way that we expect him to or the way that we want him to. But he always shows up the way that we need him to. Always. [00:57:04] (71 seconds)  #AlwaysWhatYouNeed

So here's another thing that Palm Sunday proves. Palm Sunday proves that God always keeps his promise and his timing is always perfect. That's good. It's not always on your time. Come on. It's not always on your time and sometimes waiting is required. But let me ask you a couple questions. Are you gonna stay committed in the waiting? Are you gonna continue to move while waiting? Are you gonna continue to grow while waiting? Do you know you can flourish while waiting? That's a real thing? You can grow, you can flourish while you're waiting. How well are you going to wait? Are you willing to stand on the promise before it's fulfilled? [01:05:07] (64 seconds)  #TrustGodsTiming

Or is the waiting gonna cause spiritual calluses to develop over your eyes? Where where this waiting has now caused you to become spiritually blind and cause spiritual amnesia to the promise that God has spoken over your life. Are you willing to fight through Friday while holding on to the promise that Sunday is coming? [01:06:11] (37 seconds)  #FightThroughWaiting

Why did Jesus come riding in on a donkey? Well there's a couple reasons but one of the main reasons that we have to understand here he's the humble king number one but the other thing is you've to understand the donkey at the time was the universal symbol of peace. Now kings, when they would mount a a stallion or what they call a war horse, and when they would come riding into a city on a war horse, they were coming to number one, show their power, flaunt their power, and also most of the time, they were coming with this intention that they were telling those people, I am coming to conquer. Yeah. I'm coming to bring war. That's what a king on a stallion came riding in meant. But a king on a donkey meant this. I'm coming humbly, and I'm not coming to bring war. I'm coming to bring peace. [00:59:28] (67 seconds)  #HumbleKingPeace

But the desperation turned into the fact that their savior was here. Save us now. But it wasn't a helpless, hopeless cry. It was a cry of hope that the king was here to save us. Hosanna. Hosanna. Save us. They thought that Jesus was there to overthrow the Roman oppression that was weighing them down. But there was a much different type of oppression that Jesus was there to overthrow. A much greater oppression. An oppression that this didn't affect those people that were being oppressed by a certain group of people but an oppression that affected all of humanity. And that was the oppression of sin. [00:46:30] (54 seconds)  #OverthrowingSin

The people should have known. But here's the thing. Their desire for him to be what they wanted him to be and for him to do what they wanted him to do blinded them from the fact that the king was here, and he was all and more than they ever could need him to be. See, Jesus wasn't there just to die for them. Let me let me just add something to your theology this morning. He wasn't there just to die for them. He was there to die instead of them. So let me tell you this morning. Jesus didn't just die for you. He died instead of you. Because that's what we deserve. It's what he got. Death. [01:01:50] (63 seconds)  #DiedInsteadOfUs

Think about that. Silent Saturday. It's the day where the weight of what had just happened begins to set in. The loss, the grieving, the mourning, the unexpected things, the unexpected events that just happened that on Friday, I'm probably just at a loss for words. There's probably just adrenaline or something happening, and but Saturday is when things begin to really set in, and you're not sure what is going on now. The reality of what just happened really begins to hit you. And now you're really in a season of waiting. But are you gonna stay surrendered on Saturday? Are you gonna stay submitted on Saturday? That time of waiting where it really begins to get real. [01:11:58] (70 seconds)  #SilentSaturdayWaiting

You gotta be careful of people who wave palms but but disappear when the pressure comes. Let's talk about this for a little bit. Let's dig into this just a little bit. Okay? The difference between praise and commitment. Praise and commitment. Man, I could praise him on Sunday. I could praise him on Sunday when he is who I think he should be. But when he turns out to be who I really need him to be, am I still gonna praise him? I could wave palms. I could praise the Lord. I could praise him on Sunday when my thoughts and the way that I think things should go haven't been wrecked. [00:52:22] (56 seconds)  #StayCommittedUnderPressure