Sermon Tone Analysis

Jesus Messiah

Welcome

Good morning family.

Today is Palm Sunday, the day nearly 2000 years ago when Jesus the Messiah entered the city of Jerusalem riding a donkey, celebrated by a crowd of people waving palm branches and shouting “Hosanna!”

Although they didn’t fully understand what was about to happen, there was likely some recognition that Jesus was fulfilling a prophecy that Zechariah the prophet had made 550 years earlier in Zechariah 9:9...

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!

Behold, your King is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

Isn’t that good news?

Our King comes to us!!! Our King is righteous!

Our King is a Savior!

Our King is humble!

In just a moment some of our children have a bit more to share about what happened that day 2000 years ago, but first…

3 quick announcements:

1) A word about PBC.

We are Worshipers.

Life is worship!!! PBC gatherings are like a pit stop

2) Easter at PBC

Good Friday communion service in the chapel, April 15 at 6:30 PM

Joint Sunday School & Breakfast, Easter Sunday at 9 AM

Easter Sunday, 10:30

Flyers at the blue flag

3) TableTalk at 5:30

"Bear burdens for one another” (Sterling Tollison)

Now I’m going to ask you to remain seated as we listen to our little ones who have “prepared praise” for our Savior King.

PBC Kids Presentation

Hosanna Loud Hosanna

Hosanna (Praise is Rising)

The Power of the Cross

Prayer of Confession (Covetousness), Adam Hess

Lead Me to the Cross

PBC Catechism #15

Why do we take the time to go over a catechism question every week?

Princeton theologian Archibald Alexander said, catechisms are like firewood in a fireplace.

Without the fire—the Spirit of God— firewood will not in itself produce a warming flame.

But without fuel there can be no fire either.

More important than us catechizing each other in this worship gathering, is you catechizing one another throughout the week.

Especially those with young children!

WSC, The Baptist Catechism by Benjamin Keach, or the New City Catechism

This year, we’re going through a catechism created from our church statement of faith and covenant.

If you’d like a copy, contact the church office.

Where did our sinful nature come from?

Though created in the image of God, Adam and Eve voluntarily rebelled against God and brought sin into the world through the Fall.

Pastoral Prayer (Hopson)

Thanksgiving—The Spirit calls

General call goes out to all who hear the Gospel

But the effectual call, that resurrects our dead hearts, is produced by the Spirit to those whom you will

As Jesus said, “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

(John 3:8)

Spirit, if you had not called us, we would be damned

Call more today!

Take the firewood of this worship service and use it to ignite a flame in the hearts and minds of everyone here or watching online.

Create faith that does not yet exist, and strengthen the faith that does

Prayer for PBC—Meet our needs

You invite us to pray for daily bread

Physical (healing, strength)

Financial (neither poverty nor riches)

Emotional (lonely, anxious, afraid)

Prayer for sister church—Grace Baptist Church (Ryan Davidson)

Continued unity and faithfulness to God’s Word

Prayer for US—Religious freedom

Understanding of religious freedom has shifted from the free exercise of religion (which ensures our freedom to live out our core beliefs in the culture) to the freedom to worship (which allows us to gather like this as long as we keep our unpopular beliefs to ourselves)

Help us to remember that true Christianity is always personal, but never private.

We cannot faithfully follow Jesus if we check our Christianity at the door when we leave here.

Give us courage to obey God rather than man if/when our liberties are threatened

Prayer for the world—Czech Republic

President Miloš Zeman (mee-lowsh zay-mahn)

11 million souls

Largest religion is non-religious (72%) —40%+ profess atheism, 16% agnostic.

Social issue(s)—crime, sexual immorality, substance abuse, depression, suicide (all at higher rates than during communist control)

Spiritual issue(s)—Copies of newly translated Czech Bible to be distributed among the people

Local churches—healthy and holy

Laborers

Pray for the sermon

SERMON

Last week things in the Boutot home were a bit more chaotic than usual.

We were entrusted with three extra children to care for in addition to the five that God has already blessed us with.

It reminded me of a what a stand-up comedian with five kids named Jim Gaffigan once said.

If you want to know what it’s like to have so many kids, “Just imagine you’re drowning... and someone hands you a baby.”

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In all seriousness it wasn’t too bad.

The children were all very well behaved.

In fact, Holly and I were asked several times what it was like to care for 8 KIDS for a week and our normal response was that 5 and 8 aren’t that much different.

Except at mealtimes.

At mealtimes it’s like The Hunger Games.

But worse because nobody gets eliminated.

Mealtimes were hard because kids are naturally needy.

And nothing really reveals their neediness quite like mealtime.

For one thing, no kid is ever a little hungry.

They’re either too full to eat another bite (unless it’s candy) or they’re SO hungry you have to stop EVERYTHING and feed them right now!

And when you have multiple children to feed, it’s even more complicated because you can’t just give everyone the same thing either.

I wanted to just give every kid a single slice of bread, but that didn’t work.

Some of them wanted peanut butter and fluff, or peanut butter and jelly, or ham and cheese, etc.

Even though they can see you making 37 sandwiches for lunch, they’ll still ask you 13 times if you’re making something for them!

And even if the kids try to help they end up spilling the Kool-Aid all over your food so it’s easier to do it yourself.

Few things reveal the neediness of children like their need for basic necessities like food.

But kids, don’t feel too bad.

Because even though the grown-ups in this room probably hate to admit it, the same is true for us.

Few things reveal our neediness like our need for basic necessities like food.

Turn to Matthew 6:11

Jesus is teaching Christians how to pray