Lesson From Palm Sunday & The Passion Week Part 2

If you take your Bibles, turn if you would to Matthew 21. We'll read just a few verses from Matthew 21 again on the triumphal entry of Christ. This is approximately a week before his crucifixion. He rides into Jerusalem with a crowd of people with him, hailing him as the Messiah essentially, the son of David. And putting palm branches out before him and that's why this is often called Palm Sunday.

They didn't have red carpet, red carpets back in those days, I guess. So, you didn't roll out the red carpet. You put palm branches down. Also, they were used when a triumphant king returned from a victory in battle and so Christ was hailed by the crowd as we mentioned but not not the majority of the city as we'll see here later in our study this evening. If you would look again, in in chapter 21 in verse six and the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them and brought the and the colt and put on them their clothes and they set him there on and a very great multitude spread their garments in the way, others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them in the way and the multitudes that went before and that followed cried saying, Hosanna, the son of David.

Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest and when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved saying, who is this? The multitude said, this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee and Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables, money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves and said unto them, it is written my house shall be called the house of prayer. You've made a den of thieves. The blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed them and when the chief priest and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they were sore displeased. And said unto him, hear us thou what they say, these say, Jesus say it unto them, yea, have you not heard?

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, thou hast perfected praise. Let's pray one more time. Lord, we thank you for your word this evening. Be with us as we continue our study. Lord, may you open up our hearts and understanding to your word today to mold us more into the image of your son.

Lord, we I pray that you'd help me. Lord, as I expound on the word of God, to expound upon it accurately this evening, convey the message that you have put on my heart and I pray Lord that indeed Jesus Christ would be exalted in this place tonight. In Jesus name, we do pray. Amen. First thing we looked at this morning is this, Jesus didn't come in the fashion that you would expect a king to ride into the city.

He didn't ride into the city on a white stallion. He rode into the city on a young donkey and he did it on purpose. He didn't come in royal robes. He came in whatever common clothes that he had. He didn't come with king appointed heralds before him.

No, his heralds were the downtrodden and the children that laid palm branches out before him in the way. Jesus gave us an example this entire week from the what manner in which he entered into Jerusalem to the manner in which he he taught and served his disciples up until the very end of his arrest and crucifixion. Gave us an example of a servant leader. The leaders of the Lord, those that God has called to lead others, those God have called to minister to others, God has called to be humble servants. One of the greatest characteristics of a good, godly leader is that he has a humble heart and is a servant.

Jesus said in Mark chapter 10, I read this this morning in verse 42. He says, you know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them and their great one exercise authority over them. In other words, they take control. They bend the will of others. They desire power over other people.

But Jesus said, but so shall it not be among you. But whosoever shall be great among you shall be your minister and whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall be servant of all. For even the son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister or to serve and to give his life a ransom for many. If we want to be used of the Lord, then we need to swallow our pride. And we need to look not on our own needs but on the needs of others.

We need to recognize that being a leader for Jesus and serving in his kingdom is not all about me. It's about you. That's the example that Jesus Christ set for us when he washed his disciples' feet. That's the example that Jesus set when he left heaven. And he took upon him the form of a servant.

And he became obedient unto death even the death of the cross. That's the example that he set here as he rode into Jerusalem not on a white stallion with royal robes but on a young donkey and common apparel. The second thing we looked at this morning is this, though Jesus came in Jerusalem humbly, he came into Jerusalem boldly. He obeyed with boldness the will of his father and he came into the temple courtyard and he saw those. He had already run them out.

I I didn't mention this this morning but he had already done this once before early in his ministry and now, once again, he comes into the temple courtyard and here are all the tables set up and they're selling their wares and they're exchanging moneys and they're they're doing all this. Much of it was necessary particularly at Passover time but it didn't have to be done where? In the temple courtyard and it didn't have to be done dishonestly and it didn't have to be done greedily and the point that Jesus is making is this place that is supposed to be a place of worship for the Lord has become a place of greed and power. It has become a place where the least characteristics of man is being put on display and where man is worshiped and not who? And not God.

You know, that's the case today. Prayed many times. Church has become a place where man is worshiped, where we cater to what man wants. And not a place where we come to set aside ourselves to worship who, to worship the Lord and so Jesus went in and he boldly did what was right. And he did wield the authority that he had as the son of God and he ran him out of there and then he ministered to the people that were left behind.

Those that were there to worship, those that were there with needs that came to him. He healed the sick and he gave sight to the blind. When he was faithful in ministering to the needs of others and standing boldly. For the things that are right and true. All the way to the cross.

First Corinthians four two, it says, it was required in stewards that a man be found faithful. Oh, how faithful was our Lord and how how faithful we can be if we will walk in the in the spirit and follow his example. All he asks is that we are faithful Romans one sixteen, Paul says, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it's the power of God and the salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Paul says, I'm not ashamed. Can we say the same thing?

Or do our actions betray us? And our words betray us. Do we allow fear to keep us from telling others about our Lord as we should? To taking a stand for the truth, truth for contending for the faith and the word of God as our Lord did that day. As he did before Caiaphas and as he did before Pilate and as he did before Herod knowing that it would take him to the cross.

He set that example for us this week. He also, one other thing that I also learned is I I read through this, I noticed is though it would seem at the beginning of the week as he rides in that the multitude is a vast majority of the city that's come out to hail him as the king but that's not actually as it turns out really the case. It was a multitude. It was a crowd of people but it wasn't the vast majority. It was probably a relatively small group that came out to herald him that day.

It says, the city cried out, who is this? For they didn't even know who he was, what he was doing there. Most of them. We see here that the true believers and devout followers of Jesus Christ are often in the minority. But we are on the winning side and Jesus said, don't be shocked if the world hates you.

It hated me before it hated you. Just remember, you belong to me. And in Matthew five, it tells us to rejoice when we are persecuted for righteousness sake. For great is our reward in heaven. God rewards those who take a stand for him.

God rewards his children who trust in him. And though we may be in the minority, we are on the Lord's side and if God before us, who can be against us? He who has said, I will never what? Leave you nor forsake you. Don't ever envy the world.

They may seem to be doing well. They may seem to be happy. They may seem to be doing whatever they want and get away with it. But they will not and they are not And they're not as happy as they would have you think. They're not full of the joy of the Lord for they don't even know what that is.

We have it much better than they. Let us be content knowing that God is on our side and march forward. David was only one person facing Goliath and the Philistine army. But with God, he was a majority. And God gave him the victory.

Lesson four, we didn't get to this morning was this, one thing I know of lesson I noticed learned from this is that the world is easily swayed by the lies of the God of this world. Now, the God of this world, so called in scripture, is the devil. He is not the true God. He is not the supreme one. He is not the rightful king but in the hearts of the unsaved and ungodly world, he is their God and they are easily swayed by his lies.

Jesus said to the Pharisees, you are of your father, the devil. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the what? In the truth. Oh, how easily Adam and Eve Eve in particular was swayed by the lies of Satan in the Garden of Eden. How so easily man gravitates to the lies of the enemy today.

Judas Judas Judas is one of Jesus's 12 disciples. Judas spent three years at the feet of Jesus. Jesus, Judas heard almost everything the rest of the disciples heard. He saw almost everything, the rest of the disciples saw. He enjoyed the privileges that the rest of the disciples enjoyed.

And in the end he bought the lies rather than the truth. Matthew 2,614 through 16. If you want to turn there, I'm going to I'm going to read those. Jesus came to Bethany to Mary, Martha, and Lazarus house and Mary poured out a box, a bottle of ointment or spice or perfume upon Jesus head. As they sat there in the house that day, this particular perfume, spice, was very costly.

A whole year's wage basically went into this one bottle of perfume. That's that's a lot of money. And she broke it and she poured it over Jesus and Judas became very upset and the other disciples were even affected by his discontent at such a waste of money. For certainly, this this could have been sold and and and the money given to the poor. Instead, it was wasted on the savior.

That was his, that was his thinking. How could it be wasted? On the savior. The savior who would pour out his life and give shed his blood on Calvary's cross. Was like that bottle of ointment for he was broken and spilled out upon Calvary for us.

And being led by the spirit to do this, Mary poured out something very precious to her upon him and it says in verse 14, then, one of the 12 called Judas Iscariot went on to the chief priest and said unto them, what will you give me that I will deliver him unto you? And they covenant with him for 30 pieces of silver. They contracted with him. 30 pieces of silver. From that time, he sought opportunity to betray Jesus.

For 30 of silver, Judas sold out Jesus Christ. I guess he wasn't the Messiah that Judas was looking for. Like much of Israel, Judas was probably looking for someone who was going to lead a revolt against the Romans but that's not what Jesus came to do. Jesus came to lead a revolt against Satan. He came to free men not from the slavery and tyranny of Rome but the slavery and tyranny of sin.

And though Judas should have seen him He did. As much of humanity does not. That he wasn't the only one. There was a city full of people. Also, swayed by the lies, the lies of the Pharisees, and the agenda of the priest who stirred up the crowd of people less than seven days later.

The same city in which Jesus was welcomed as the son of David stood at the stairs of foot Antonia and cried out what? Crucify him. Crucify him. Pilate even tried to convince them to let him go. But they would not.

They only cried the louder, crucify him. Crucify him. The nation of Israel uniquely the place where Jesus ministered during his earthly ministry. He only went outside of North Of Israel just briefly at if at all, one time in his ministry. He healed thousands and thousands of leprosy blindness, of paralysis He cast out demons.

He he calmed the sea. He fed the multitude with five loaves and two fish. He taught them the word of God and they recognized many as they heard him speak in the temple that no one they had ever heard before spoke as he did. For he spoke with authority. He spoke with confidence.

Well, that's because he knew what he was speaking about. For he was the creator of mankind. He was the one who who who made makes the laws. He he was the one who had the plan. And would make it happen He is the Lord, God, the judge and yet in the end, so easily stirred up into a frenzy.

To cry out to crucify the son of God. He came unto his own and his own. Received him not. How true it is. It tells us in Romans three that no man seeketh after God.

It is God that has sought after us. How true it is? It says that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. Don't be surprised. When the world doesn't accept the gospel with open arms because they didn't accept the savior with open arms.

Because they fear the light. Lest their deeds be exposed. Lest others see who they really are, lest they must they must come, be confronted with who they really are and the judgment that is to follow. Why is it that when you try to intercede in behalf of an alcoholic or a drug addict or someone that has other addictive and moral behaviors, that they almost always react how? They almost always, not always, but they almost always react negatively.

Why is that? Because they don't want to be confronted with their sin. They don't want to have to deal with it. We just want to be left alone. We just want to keep going the easiest way there is to go.

We don't want to be confronted with the truth. The truth hurts. The truth puts us in a place where we have to do something about it. But Jesus said, the truth will set you what? The truth will set you free and indeed it does and when we come to Jesus Christ through the truth of the gospel, he sets us free.

But many will not. The Bible says, there is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. And, oh, how sad it is to see that no matter how much light our world seems to receive, it is bent on heading the way of destruction. Swayed by the lies of the enemy. But did that catch God by surprise?

Did that did that foil God's plan? Did Jesus really come the first time to overthrow the Roman government and to set up a throne in Jerusalem? Is that why he really came? No. No, Acts one makes it.

Acts two makes it clear. Jesus Christ came for the purpose of dying on that cross for our sins. For without, without apart from his death and resurrection for our sins, he would have no subjects to rule. For we would all be on a fast track to a place called hell and without hope. Jesus had to die.

That we might be redeemed. And it was all part of God's plan. He knew who Judas was. He wasn't caught by surprise. When Judas betrayed him, he knew all along.

What was going to happen? He knew that the masses in Jerusalem would reject him. But yet He followed through and he died on that cross for you and for me. Lesson number five and the final one this evening is this, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

Our best intentions will come to failure every time in regards to serving Christ if we endeavor to do it in the power of the flesh and disregard. The way of the spirit, the holy spirit Christ's disciples intended to stick with him to the end. They intended to stick with him when the crowds came to arrest him. They declared they would do so. Look if you would in Matthew 26 again.

Look if you would in verse 31. The Bible says there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother and no greater love at this than a man lay down his what? Life for his friends. That's what Jesus did for us. That's the example he set.

He who was not just led by the spirit, submitted to the spirit, yielded to the spirit, but was one and the same with the spirit. He didn't fail. He ministered. He followed. He obeyed.

He submitted all the way to the end but the disciples didn't find it so easy. You know, often times, we don't either. Verse 31 of Matthew 26 then said, Jesus, unto them, all you shall be offended because of me this night for it is written, I will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. He was comparing himself to the shepherd and the disciples to the sheep. Verse 32, but after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.

Peter answered and said unto him, though all men shall be offended because of thee yet, will I never be offended? Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee, that this night before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter said unto him, though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise, also said all the disciples. All the disciples that day, as they were meeting the upper room just as they were going out to the Mount Of Olives, all the disciples said, we we won't abandon you.

It it we we will we'll die for you if we have to. Jesus said, no, you won't. I know you better than you do. You may think that you will but you won't and when the time came and Judas showed up and the people to arrest Jesus, when the disciples realized that they weren't going to be allowed to fight back, when the disciples realized that there was no defense. They ran.

They scattered. And they left Jesus alone. To face. His accusers. But then there's Peter How did Peter do?

Well, look if you would in verse 69. Verse 69, same chapter, Matthew 21. Now, Peter sat without in the palace and a damsel came unto him saying, thou also was with Jesus of Galilee but he denied before them all saying, I know not what thou sayest. There's number one. And when he was gone out to the porch, another maid saw him and said unto him that that were there, them that were there, this fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.

Again, he denied with an oath. I do not know the man. That's number two. An oath means he swore. He swore he didn't know the man.

Verse 73 and after a while came unto him, they that stood by and said to Peter, surely, thou also art one of them for thy speech bereay it or betray it thee. Then began he to curse and to swear saying, I know not the man. And immediately, the cock crew and Peter remembered the words of Jesus which said unto him, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly. Peter learned a very painful lesson that night. His flesh is weak Despite his best intentions, in his own power and in his own strength, he was no match.

For the fear that welled up in his heart, that caused him to deny his savior, to save his own skin. And if we think that hey, we've got it under control and that we can handle it. We can do it. We can fight temptation. I don't know how many people I've heard say me, pastor, I can handle it.

No, you can't. And it's not until you realize that you can handle it that you'll come to the Lord humbly and seek the strength that grace that he has to give That can handle it for you. We are no match for our enemy. We are no match for the world. We are no match even for the lust that lives and dwells within our wicked heart.

The greater is he that is in us, that is the Lord Jesus Christ if we know him. Then, he that is in the world. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. That comes from Matthew twenty six thirty six if you look there. Matthew twenty six thirty six.

We skipped over this portion a minute ago as they were in the Garden Of Gethsemane. It says in verse 36, then cometh Jesus with him in the place called Gethsemane and say it unto his disciples, sit you here while I go and pray yonder over there. He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee. That's John and James and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. He knew he was only hours from his arrest.

Less than a day from his crucifixion. Then, say it he unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death. Tarry you here and watch with me. And he went a little further and fell down on his face and prayed saying, oh my father, it be possible. Let this cup pass from me.

Nevertheless, not as I will. But as thou wilt. And he cometh under the disciples and he findeth them asleep and say it unto Peter, what could you not watch with me one hour? Could you not pray with me one hour? Verse 41, watch and pray that you enter not or yield not to temptation.

The spirit indeed is willing. The flesh is weak. I don't think the disciples intended to nod off. They didn't intend to to leave their savior alone to deal with everything that was on his heart. They intended to pray.

They intended to watch with him. But in the night, as they were tired they fell asleep. Not just once but you read on two or three times they fell asleep. They just couldn't keep their eyes open. The spirit was willing.

Their spirit. Their their intent was real. But in the flesh, they couldn't find the strength. And in the flesh, we won't either. That bad habit, that addiction, that sin, that that thing that that you just can't get victory over.

That that fear, that worry, whatever it may be. You cannot conquer it on your own. Not fully. The spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and that's why God has given us his spirit, the holy spirit. He said in Acts one eight to his disciples, as he ascended up into heaven, he told them, don't you go go out of Jerusalem and and start ministering just yet.

He said, there's something you need. There's something you lack. He said, go back to Jerusalem and wait for the promise of the father. That promise was the Holy Spirit. He says, but after the Holy Spirit comes upon you, then, you will be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and under the uttermost part of the earth.

But you need my spirit. Because your flesh is weak. Peter had experienced that first hand. God has not left us alone. For when we receive Jesus as savior, we receive the Holy Spirit as comforter and guide.

God has not left us without a helper He has given to us his spirit and though the flesh is weak, the spirit is strong. John fourteen twenty six, Jesus said, and this is all during the passion week, but the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance. Whatsoever I have said unto you. He said, in John fifteen twenty six, but when the comforter is come, whom shall whom I will send unto you from the father, even the spirit of truth which preceded from the father, he shall testify of me and if you'll look in John 16 with me, turn over there for just a moment. If you would, John 16.

Excuse me. Look if you would in verse seven. John 16 verse seven. Jesus said to his disciples as he was talking about going to the cross and returning to his father, he said, nevertheless, I tell you the truth is expedient. What that means is beneficial for you that I go away.

For if I go not away, the comforter that is the holy spirit will not come unto you but if I depart, I will send him unto you and when he has come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgement, of sin because they believe not upon on me, of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more, of judgement because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. How be it when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come. God has given us a precious gift, the gift of his spirit, who has sealed us, who are his children by faith until the day of redemption, who has empowered us in his service, who guides us in the way that we should go, who convicts us sin. Who convicts the world of sin For without that ministry, no one would be saved.

The Holy Spirit is our faithful guide and friend who goes with us on the journey and he's not just there to comfort us as we might think the word comfort means but he's there to come alongside us and to help us, to guide us. It's it's like that poem footprints. The man that had the dream and there were two sets of prints. He interpreted that mean his prince and Jesus's prince but when he got to the rock and roughy time, rough times in life, there was only one set of footprints and he wondered, well, Lord, why did you leave me? When times got tough and Jesus said, no, I didn't leave you.

Those are the times that I carried you. The Holy Spirit God has given to help us to give us victory But we need to walk in the spirit that we should not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the spirit, our spirit is willing but the flesh is what? The flesh is weak. Contrary to the things of God. Look if you want in Galatians chapter five.

Galatians chapter five. Galatians chapter five verse 16. Lest we think that in the power of the flesh that we can get victory over sin in our life. Paul reminds us that the flesh doesn't want the things of God, that the flesh isn't going to lead us in the way of righteousness. No, the flesh, our old nature is going to lead us the opposite direction.

Matthew five verse 16, this I say then, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. They they fight it against one another. These are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would but if you be led of the spirit, you are not under the law. Now, the works of the flesh are manifest which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, which is immoral living, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, and violence, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, that's wicked partying, and such like of which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things should not inherit the kingdom of God but the fruit of the spirit in contrast are these, love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such, there is no law.

And they that are Christ have crucified the flesh with the affections and lust. I like this verse verse 25. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. You that know Christ as savior, you live in the spirit. You have been given new life in Jesus Christ.

We have been given the down payment of our new eternal life in the Holy Spirit who indwells us. We have been made alive, quickened through him to the things of the Lord. We live in the spirit. But if we are to have victory and glorify God in our lives as our savior did in the last week of his ministry on this Earth and all that he did, we must learn to also what? Walk.

In the spirit. Walk in the spirit. It is only as we walk, listen, yield to the spirit of God that we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. It is only as we yield ourselves to the Lord and to his word that we succeed in the things that God has called us to. It is only as we meditate upon the word of God which is the what?

The sword of the spirit. That it lights our path and leads our way. It is only when we step out in faith. Trust the Lord that we receive the strength and the help that is at our disposal. Through the spirit that he has given us.

For in John 15 and verse five, still during the passion week, Jesus said to his disciples, understand this, I am the vine and you are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me, you can do nothing and you would say, well, there's all kinds of things I can do. Without the spirit, yes. But can you do anything of eternal value?

Can you do what God has called you to do without the help of the Holy Spirit and the answer to that is no. Jesus said, with me, you can't do nothing. You cut the branch off of the vine and you throw it on the ground over there and there the branch lies. What's going to happen to the branch? It's going to wither and die.

The leaves are going to turn brown. Is it going to produce any fruit? No, because it's not connected to the what? It's no longer connected to the vine and though we as God's children who have received Jesus Christ by faith will never be disconnected from Jesus Christ our savior. We can.

Sadly, choose not to walk in the spirit. And we can hinder rather than welcome the power of God in our life so that we do not produce fruit as we should. We can. But we need to abide in the vine. We must walk in the spirit.

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. When we allow pleasure to make our decisions for us and pride and power and money and fame, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. To lead us, We are not walking in the spirit. We're walking in the flesh. And then we wonder.

We wonder when we fill our mind with the things of the world, through our music and through our entertainment, and the places we go and the friends that we keep, and the things that we read and the decisions that we make and we wonder why. We just can't seem to get victory. It's because we're not walking in the spirit but we're walking according to the lust of the flesh. I know in many ways, I'm preaching to the choir tonight. You took of your time this morning, most of you to come here and to worship the Lord and you took of your time this evening to come here and to worship the Lord and some of you will take of your time Wednesday to come here and to worship the Lord and you will take out of your time during many days of the week to spend time in prayer and in Bible reading and study of the word of God.

And you'll step out in faith to witness to others and tell them of Jesus Christ. But let us be careful for if we begin to walk in the flesh, that can change. We need to keep our eyes fixed on who? Jesus. I'll close with Hebrews twelve one and two.

This is one of the verses Jeremy probably has marked that he can get to quick because I read it often but it has a special place in my heart and it means a lot to me and seems to fit. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about, surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us. That's the flesh by the way. It's a terrible weight.

And let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. There is joy in serving Jesus. There is also great reward. We just need to keep our eyes fixed on our savior and fixed upon that reward.

By faith. Let's pray. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for the example that you set for us in scripture and the lesson that you brought forth in the life of Peter and the disciples and others. Of the weakness of our flesh, of our mind, and of our spirit. Lord, may we come to understand what it means to walk in the spirit.

May we order our lives by the principles that we read and the word that you have given us. May we spend time in it. May we spend time in prayer, on our knees. May we begin to recognize more and more that as we fix our eyes upon the Lord and we we fill our mind with the word of God and we step out in faith. And follow your word as we are led by your spirit but there is great victory in Jesus Christ Lord, we pray that others might see Jesus in us this week.

We pray for some that have come, that will come. We pray Lord that you would show that you would exalt yourself before them that they might see. Their need of a savior. For without you, there is no hope. There is only the lake of fire.

But with Jesus, there is eternal life and a home in heaven awaiting us who serve the king of kings and Lord of lords. In Jesus name, we do pray. Amen.