Palm Sunday- Where do we go from here?

Move 1- Why is some change hard and some change easy?

Move 2- Jesus doesn’t come to offer information. Jesus changes the way we are

Move 3- It threatens the way things are/ we become what we worship.

Move 4- What’s keeping you from saying yes to Jesus today?

What does it risk if they fail to hear from me?

Palm Sunday is a fork in the road. Change is hard, but Jesus walks the hard road for us and offers us love.

Jesus presents two options allegiance to a gracious king or facing the consequences of our decisions on our own.

What am I proposing?

2. Jesus doesn’t ask something of us, without going first.

What’s being offered

A God who chooses rescue

No one was twisting his arm, he alone is orchestrating rescue

A king who cries

God is not indifferent

A God king who comes in peace

He’s not on a war horse

A king who is offering us a way out

Are you frustrated with the world’s solutions?

There is truth, please don’t misunderstand me, but this king doesn’t win people into the kingdom by arguing. He cries and he dies.

3. We don’t have to change if we don’t want to.

They wanted Rome, they got Rome.

Be careful what you wish for.

What’s keeping you from saying yes to him today?

Why won’t they do it?

Change is hardest when we feel we have most to lose.

Trust is low

What are the next steps?

What we win them with we win them to.

Dead Dog Story-

Smoke Jumpers

Mann Gulch Montana 1949

Wagner Dodge

Fight to Flight

Last Sentence- Change is hard when we have the most to lose. Jesus is trustworthy. What’s keeping you from saying yes to him today?