Today
is Palm Sunday, the day we celebrate Jesus’s triumphant return to Jerusalem and
the beginning of Holy Week. I’m always baffled by the stark contrast between Jesus
being greeted with such joy one day and the crowds turning on Him just
a few days later. At the end of this post, I attached a link to an article that offers an explanation.
In the meantime, though, read Jesus’s final thoughts from His Sermon on the Mount.
Matthew chapter 7, verses 7 -14 and 21 – 27, New King James Version
Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking
“Ask, and it will be given to you;
seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who
asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a
stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being
evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your
Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore,
whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and
the Prophets.
The Narrow Way
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is
the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who
go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to
life, and there are few who find it.
I Never Knew You
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord,
Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father
in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your
name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who
practice lawlessness!’
Build on the Rock
“Therefore whoever hears these sayings
of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on
the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”
Here's the link I mentioned above - https://theskepticalguy.com/2018/03/27/the-one-big-lesson-i-always-take-away-from-palm-sunday/
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