Palm and Passion Sunday Sermon
“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the Highest Heaven”….
“Let him be Crucified”…
The same city… the same month… probably for the most part the same crowd… words of opposite intent addressed to the same person… Jesu Christ.
What a quandary… here we have God made manifest in the flesh and we get this short tale about everyone coming out to celebrate him… for a few hours mankind treats Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, our friend before all others, something like we should.
Then we have the long story… First one of Jesu’s closest friends betrays him… then some of his other friends cannot even stay awake to protect Christ while he prays… Peter, after swearing he would never do it, denies Christ three times… Then Christ goes before the leaders of the church, the priest and bishops of his day, the people who pray daily to God… the God Christ is…and the leaders of the church condemn him to death… the government attempts to stop it but the people cry out for Christ to be Crucified!
So Jesu is beaten, taken to Golgotha and dies of exhaustion nailed to a cross.
This is GOD we are talking about here. At any moment Christ could have stopped the whole thing. Christ, God, endures being tortured and nailed to the cross, to save his torturers and the very hands holding the hammer.
Look at all the troubles in your life… do you ever dream you could wave a magick wand and have them all disappear? Christ, God, had the ability to do just that, in a blink of an eye he could have called the whole thing off… but as Paul says “he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross”
Christ, God, went all the way… God, Christ, DIED. He did this out of love; he knew there was no other way. He knew that part of saving you, saving me, saving the soldier nailing him to the cross, was suffering one of the worst forms of killing someone humanity has ever invented.
He, Jesus, God, did this for us after we had cried “Let him be Crucified”…
That’s why we now say “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the Highest Heaven”
“Let him be Crucified”…
The same city… the same month… probably for the most part the same crowd… words of opposite intent addressed to the same person… Jesu Christ.
What a quandary… here we have God made manifest in the flesh and we get this short tale about everyone coming out to celebrate him… for a few hours mankind treats Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, our friend before all others, something like we should.
Then we have the long story… First one of Jesu’s closest friends betrays him… then some of his other friends cannot even stay awake to protect Christ while he prays… Peter, after swearing he would never do it, denies Christ three times… Then Christ goes before the leaders of the church, the priest and bishops of his day, the people who pray daily to God… the God Christ is…and the leaders of the church condemn him to death… the government attempts to stop it but the people cry out for Christ to be Crucified!
So Jesu is beaten, taken to Golgotha and dies of exhaustion nailed to a cross.
This is GOD we are talking about here. At any moment Christ could have stopped the whole thing. Christ, God, endures being tortured and nailed to the cross, to save his torturers and the very hands holding the hammer.
Look at all the troubles in your life… do you ever dream you could wave a magick wand and have them all disappear? Christ, God, had the ability to do just that, in a blink of an eye he could have called the whole thing off… but as Paul says “he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross”
Christ, God, went all the way… God, Christ, DIED. He did this out of love; he knew there was no other way. He knew that part of saving you, saving me, saving the soldier nailing him to the cross, was suffering one of the worst forms of killing someone humanity has ever invented.
He, Jesus, God, did this for us after we had cried “Let him be Crucified”…
That’s why we now say “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the Highest Heaven”
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