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PALM SUNDAY

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PALM SUNDAY

April 2, 2023

Gabe Kolstad | @gabekolstad

A large crowd of Passover visitors took palm branches and went down the road to meet him. They shouted, “Praise God! Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hail to the King of Israel!” -John 12:13

…John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! -John 1:29

1. The Problem: SEPARATION

It’s your sins that have cut you off from God. Because of your sins, he has turned away and will not listen anymore.    -Isaiah 59:2

This is a permanent law for you, to purify the people of Israel from their sins, making them right with the LORD once each year.” Moses followed all these instructions exactly as the LORD had commanded him.    -Leviticus 16:34

The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.    -Hebrews 10:1

2. The Solution: SUBSTITUTION

29 “On the tenth day of the appointed month in early autumn, you must deny yourselves. Neither native-born Israelites nor foreigners living among you may do any kind of work. This is a permanent law for you. 30 On that day offerings of purification will be made for you, and you will be purified in the Lord’s presence from all your sins.    -Leviticus 16:29-30

8 First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). 9 Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. 10 For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.    

-Hebrews 10:8-10

3. The Only Way:  DEATH ON A CROSS

For the life of the body is in its blood. I have given you the blood on the altar to purify you, making you right with the Lord. It is the blood, given in exchange for a life, that makes purification possible.    -Leviticus 17:11

12 But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. 13 There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. 14 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.    -Hebrews 10:12-14

15 Then (Jesus) asked them, “But who do you say I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

-Matthew 16:15-16

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