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PALM SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2024
Emmanuel Riding Into Jerusalem // Rev. Curtis Peters
Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the subsequent temple cleansing was a deliberate act to fulfill the true purpose of the temple: to provide a dwelling place for God among His people. His upcoming sacrificial death would serve as the ultimate cleansing of all people there by paving a way for God to dwell among His people.
Jesus has, through his death, opened the way for all people to share in the joy of God’s house of prayer. However, our sin creates barriers to experiencing God’s presence fully. Although the path has been made clear for us to approach God, to experience the fullness of His presence, we need to do our part by confronting and dealing with our own sin. We must also help others do the same so all can enjoy His presence.
Philippians 2:6-8
… being in very nature God, he did not consider equality with God as something to be used to his own advantage.
Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Luke 19:37
When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen.
Mark 11:17
“Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Isaiah 56:6-7
And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant— these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.
1.Foreigners are invited to the house of prayer
2.Jesus gives us JOY in the house of prayer
2 Samuel 6:1-15
The Ark returns to Jerusalem
Hebrews 10:31
It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God.
2 Samuel 6:5
David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.
2 Samuel 6:7
The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.
Psalm 24:2-3a
Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart …
2 Samuel 6:8
Then David was angry because the Lord’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.”
2 Samuel 6:9-10
David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How can the ark of the Lord ever come to me?” He was not willing to take the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
John 4:35-36
Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest?’ I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
Will we unite in faith-filled prayer and disciple-making, riding with King Jesus to make the joy of His presence available to all?
