Palm Sunday
April 2, 2023
Pastor Jimmy Hargrove
Mark 11:1–11 (ESV): 1. Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 2. and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 3. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’ ” 4. And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. 5. And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6. And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go. 7. And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. 8. And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. 9. And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 10. Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!” 11. And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Palm Sunday starts the week of events leading up to Jesus’ death
– Called Palm Sunday because the leafy branches that they laid on the road were palm branches
– The palm branch represented goodness, well-being and victory
Isaiah lived about years BC
Isaiah 51:4–6 (ESV): 4. “Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me,
and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples. 5. My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait. 6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
Zephaniah lived about BC
Zephaniah 3:14–20 (ESV): 14. Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! 15. The Lord has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil. 16. On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: “Fear not, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak. 17. The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. 18. I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival, so that you will no longer suffer reproach. 19. Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth. 20. At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,” says the Lord.
Zechariah lived about BC
Zechariah 9:9 (ESV) 9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
“Hosanna” –
Jesus came to bring freedom from spiritual oppression and enslavement to .
Isaiah 53:1–7(ESV): 1. Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2. For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. 6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
Luke 19:41–44 (ESV):
41. And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42. saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44. and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
The salvation Jesus brings is and .
Psalm 23:4–6 (ESV): 4. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 5. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Psalm 91:5–6 (ESV): 5. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6. nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
Psalms 46:1-3 NIV
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, 3. though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.”