QUOTES FOR REFLECTION

“When Christ entered into Jerusalem the people spread garments in the way: when He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ’s feet but even trample upon it ourselves.”

~Augustus Toplady 18th Century British Minister and Hymn Writer

“We are often like the worshippers on Palm Sunday: eager for the party, not quite ready for the cross.”

~Kevin DeYoung American Pastor and Author

“‘Hosanna in the highest!’

that ancient song we sing,

for Christ is our Redeemer,

the Lord of heaven our King.

O may we ever praise Him,

with heart and life and voice,

and in His blissful presence

eternally rejoice.”

~“Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” by Jeannette Threlfall

“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.”

~Zechariah 9:9 (ESV)

“Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

~Psalm 118:25-26 (ESV)

SERMON PASSAGE

John 12:12-19 (ESV)

12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;

behold, your king is coming,

sitting on a donkey's colt!”

16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. 17 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 18 The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”