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I pray that they will all be one, just as You and I are one—as You are in Me, Father, and I am in You.
And may they be in Us so that the world will believe You sent Me. "I have given them the glory You gave Me, so they may be one as We are one.
"I have given them the glory You gave Me, so they may be one as We are one.
I am in them and You are in Me.
May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that You sent Me and that You love them as much as You love Me.
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Southpointe, we have been in this series on the bridge for last couple of weeks and i want to continue on this subject.
The Bridge.
The bridge of unity, is what we are going to be dealing with this morning.
so it is palm Sunday and I want to deal with unity but to have unity many times we might have chaos before unity can come rushing in to the place.
We live in a society driven to "feel good" all the time.
We take more time off work, more vacations, do more leisure activities than any other generation in order to "feel better".
We use more pills to "feel good," even at the smallest discomfort, we are geared around "feeling good" in everything we do.
It has come to the place that if we can't "feel good" we won't do it, and if it does "feel good" it doesn't matter if the Bible or anyone else says it is wrong, we do it anyway, as long as it "feels good."
Many times people will say: "I didn't' hurt anyone" or "no one was hurt."
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This near sighted need to always "feel good" results in shallow character and commitment.
Even in the Church these days people want Church to make them "feel good" or they will find another Church that will!
To settle only for a good feeling in our walk with God will leave us spiritually shallow at best, and to settle for less than what we could have.
ILLUS: Some time ago some robbers stole a 14 foot bronze cross from Calvary Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This cross had stood at the entrance to this cemetery for more than 50 years.
Thieves apparently stole it more for money than art, they cut it off at the base and hauled it away, most likely cutting it up into small pieces.
That way they could then sell them for 50 cents a pound.
The cross weighed about 900 pounds so it netting for them about $450.
The cross's actual worth was $10,000 or in today's dollar about $50,000.
The thieves obviously didn't know the real value of the cross as an object, instead they settled for a much cheaper price for it as scrap metal.
This is still true for many today, they are willing to settle for the less important parts of Christianity like the feeling parts and fail to appreciate the deeper things of God that may not have an emotional base to them.
They like the celebration, not the commitment.
This was precisely the message of Palm Sunday, the crowds loved the miracle working Jesus, but they didn't like the commitment calling Jesus!
12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
“Hosanna!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” u
“Blessed is the king of Israel!”
You would think that the scene of Palm Sunday it was going to be an awesome times:
The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city.
A large crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet Him.
They shouted, "Praise God! Blessings on the One who comes in the name of the LORD!
Hail to the King of Israel!"
The crowds lined the streets to welcome Jesus into their lives - but the reasons they did so were less than spiritual.
They had hoped for a king who would relieve them from Rome's pressures.
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They had hoped for a king who would relieve them from Rome's pressures.
They wanted an easier lifestyle, not a call to righteousness.
A king that can raise the dead could take care of all their needs.
This short sighted need to always "feel good" results in shallow character and commitment.
Even in the Church these days people want Church to make them "feel good" or they will find another Church that will!
To settle only for a good feeling in our walk with God will leave us spiritually shallow at best, and to settle for less than what we could have.
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A king that can raise the dead could take care of all their needs.
took palm branches and went down the road to meet Him.
They shouted, "Praise God! Blessings on the One who comes in the name of the LORD!
Hail to the King of Israel!"
There would been nothing wrong with all the celebration if it had been followed up with a strong commitment to Christ.
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To get blessings?
ILLUS: Some time ago some robbers stole a 14 foot bronze cross from Calvary Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This cross had stood at the entrance to this cemetery for more than 50 years.
Thieves apparently stole it more for money than art, they cut it off at the base and hauled it away, most likely cutting it up into small pieces tha tthey could then sell for 50 cents a pound.
The cross weighed about 900 pounds thus netting them about $450.
The cross's actual worth was $10,000 or in today's dollar about $50,000.
The thieves obviously didn't know the real value of the cross as an object, instead they settled for a much cheaper price for it as scrap metal.
This is still true for many today, they are willing to settle for the less important parts of Christianity like the feeling parts and fail to appreciate the deeper things of God that may not have an emotional base to them.
They like the celebration, not the commitment.
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Or to be a blessing?
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There would have been nothing wrong with all the celebration if it had been followed up with a strong commitment to Christ, the crowds were gone later when Jesus made it clear what He wanted from them!
If we are not careful in Christianity today, we can put too much emphasis on celebration in worship and not enough balance with a call to commitment to Christ!
This was precisely the message of Palm Sunday, the crowds loved the miracle working Jesus, but they didn't like the commitment calling Jesus!
2. When worship as celebration becomes more important than the Word we are out of balance!
It is not enough to come together and just celebrate, there is a time and place for this, but there must be more.
Jesus attempts to send them the right message when they lined the streets to celebrate His arrival:
A conquering king usually rode in on a horse, this signified his triumph over political rivals and other nations that would attempt to rule over them.
Jesus' choice of ride was of a donkey, and to ride in on a donkey spoke a message of "peace" and "humility" - not that of a political king.
In all their celebration Jesus sends them the right message with the donkey, but they were too busy celebrating to understand the message … and so they missed the message of commitment from Christ.
When we look at this scene this morning Jesus was speaking victory to them not in the physical but in the spiritual.
They were to focus on the outward and did not want to deal with the inward.
Too many Christians today would rather celebrate God without the effort of defeating Satan in their lives … an unacceptable decision by God's standards!
ILLUS: In his book, Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes, "There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day.
Since I was smaller, I would give it to him.
"Then I decided to fight back.
I started taking karate lessons, but the instructor wanted $5 a lesson.
It was cheaper to pay the bully, so I gave up karate."
It was cheaper to pay the bully, so I gave up karate."
Too many Christians believe it's easier to pay the bully than learn how to defeat him.
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While the crowds were willing to applaud Jesus the miracle worker, they were also ready to abandon Jesus the crucified one!
The day that Jesus came riding in declaring that He was Lord of all, you would think this was going to be a wonderful time.
The day that Jesus came riding in declaring that He was Lord of all, you would think this was going to be a wonderful time.
You see, when Jesus come into our lives, we declare victory, we are shouting Hosanna Hosanna but the battle just has begun.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
We think because we have cross over the bridge to freedom that we will never have a battle and that it will be perfect unity in the peace and goodwill toward all men.
But the problem with is just as the day that Jesus came riding in on that donkey, he wasn’t not coming to bring peace but He was bring a battle.
this battle that would be inside of every human being.
The Battle of the flesh and the spirit.
sinful humanity, 4. The flesh which is the physical aspect of a person in distinction to the immaterial soul; often understood as the seat of sin and rebellion to God.
Then you have 5.
The spirit, the faculty that can respond to God, the way of thinking, attitude, disposition.
The flesh and the Spirit are warring against each other.
We all will face crisis moments, conflicts and situations that demand our best to keep the unity – to forgive and heal.
Jesus is the bridge to that unity.
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