Palm Sunday

Message: Palm Sunday given by Stuart Briscoe
Leaders - read Matthew 21:1-22

• Palm Sunday signifies the beginning of Holy Week
• Hosanna = you can be our deliverer, meet our needs, fix our problems
• Superficiality – the crowd’s enthusiasm for Jesus turned to wanting him murdered.
a. They think their needs are fundamentally political, temporal, and material.
b. Jesus knows their needs are spiritual
• Jesus was fulfilling prophetic words from hundreds of years prior
a. Zechariah 9:9 (donkey)
b. Jeremiah 7:11 (Turned the Temple into a den of robbers)
• The fig tree with leaves, but no fruit was like the people in Jerusalem
a. They were going through the motions and making huge professions, but were superficial and devoid of reality.

Questions
1. What does superficiality in the church look like today?
2. Are there any areas of your life/relationship with Christ that are superficial? Are you just going through the motions?
3. Jesus is part of a grand, universal plan that began before creation. Do you feel caught up in this grand plan?
4. In prayer, do you tend to place greater emphasis on your political, temporal, and material needs or your spiritual needs?