Title: Why the Palms on Palm Sunday?
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: John 12:12-19
If you have a Bible, please open to John, chapter 12. Today is a very special day in the life of the church, the church around the world, because today is the beginning of what we call Passion Week or Holy Week. It's the beginning of the week of Jesus' last life, leading to the cross, that would come on Friday. His arrest on early Friday morning, the trial, and His scourings and beating and crucifixion, that's called Passion Week. And Passion Week, the word passion means "the suffering of Christ." That's why when Mel Gibson did the movie back in 2004, called it The Passion of the Christ, the suffering of the Christ. And it's kicked off on Sunday, Palm Sunday. And Palm Sunday is not a day of suffering; it's a day of celebration. And we wanted to have the kids in here today because we want to celebrate, as they celebrated some 2,000 years ago. If you got a palm frond, would you lift it up high and let me know that you have that? And this is what they used. We're going to talk about why this is so important. This is what they used that day nearly 2,000 years ago to celebrate Jesus coming into Jerusalem.
Now, that day was a day that was unlike any other day. And people were blessed in incredible ways that day, to be a part of that. Huge crowd in Jerusalem. They were there for the Passover feast. And the historians tell us that, not at this particular Passover - we don't know the numbers of people for this particular Passover - but we do know the numbers at one particular Passover in the first century, and we kind of extrapolate from that. But one particular Passover in Jerusalem, they sacrificed 250,000 lambs for the Passover. One lamb was for 10 people. So, they estimate there were about 2 1/2 million people on that one particular Passover. We don't know how many were on this particular Passover, but we can just safely guess. There were well over a million peo ...
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: John 12:12-19
If you have a Bible, please open to John, chapter 12. Today is a very special day in the life of the church, the church around the world, because today is the beginning of what we call Passion Week or Holy Week. It's the beginning of the week of Jesus' last life, leading to the cross, that would come on Friday. His arrest on early Friday morning, the trial, and His scourings and beating and crucifixion, that's called Passion Week. And Passion Week, the word passion means "the suffering of Christ." That's why when Mel Gibson did the movie back in 2004, called it The Passion of the Christ, the suffering of the Christ. And it's kicked off on Sunday, Palm Sunday. And Palm Sunday is not a day of suffering; it's a day of celebration. And we wanted to have the kids in here today because we want to celebrate, as they celebrated some 2,000 years ago. If you got a palm frond, would you lift it up high and let me know that you have that? And this is what they used. We're going to talk about why this is so important. This is what they used that day nearly 2,000 years ago to celebrate Jesus coming into Jerusalem.
Now, that day was a day that was unlike any other day. And people were blessed in incredible ways that day, to be a part of that. Huge crowd in Jerusalem. They were there for the Passover feast. And the historians tell us that, not at this particular Passover - we don't know the numbers of people for this particular Passover - but we do know the numbers at one particular Passover in the first century, and we kind of extrapolate from that. But one particular Passover in Jerusalem, they sacrificed 250,000 lambs for the Passover. One lamb was for 10 people. So, they estimate there were about 2 1/2 million people on that one particular Passover. We don't know how many were on this particular Passover, but we can just safely guess. There were well over a million peo ...
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