Phones or whatever. This is my Bible. It's the word of truth. I am what it says I am.
I can do what it says I can. I'm a believer and not a doubter. I'm a doer and not just a
hearer. I am humble for the Lord. I'm obedient to the Lord. I am mature in the
Lord. I'm enthusiastic about the Lord. Say that one again. I'm enthusiastic about
the Lord. If you didn't bring no enthusiasm, you're gonna be able to go
where I'm trying to get you to go today. So I'm enthusiastic about the Lord. Say it
like you got some enthusiasm. I'm enthusiastic. Amen. I know that faith
coming by here and hearing by the Word of God. Amen. In the Bible in Matthew chapter
21 verse 9 you'll find these words said then the multitude somebody say
multitude. Lot of folk. We ain't got quite. We got enough to let the heavens
and the angels in heaven know that something's happening here in earth.
Amen. So I said then the multitudes who went before before and those who
followed cried out saying Hosanna. Somebody say Hosanna. Somebody say
Hosanna again. Sayin' Hosanna son of David. Blessed is he who come in the name
of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. Amen. You may be seated. Well today on this
Palm Sunday we want to speak from this thought simply Hosanna. Somebody shout
Hosanna. Now Hosanna is the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew
Aramaic word Hoshinah which is you know a little bit difficult because we don't
often use the Aramaic or Hebrew when we talk from the Bible. We normally use a
Greek transliteration and so therefore we say Hosanna and it was the
cry that the people cried out to Jesus when when he came into Jerusalem on the
Palm what we consider Palm Sunday and what is considered as Brother Cliff is
already said his triumphal entry. So the mind said that we're trying to set
today today is that you got to really have it in your heart that you believe
that Jesus had already entered into your life and because your heart is
connected with it I want to see you praise him at a whole different level.
I want you to apply to your best of your ability what you thought these folks
was doing in Jerusalem. Amen. Now y'all saying amen but like I say we're gonna
be some participators here in a minute. So now this was all happening the week
before his crucifixion so this is a very important week in the Christian faith
you know passing week Jesus did a lot of things during his week but then the
culmination is in his crucifixion and the resurrection. Now Hosanna is best
translated as a prayer of praise and adoration which says save now somebody
shout save now. I didn't say save now I said shout save now. So it's a different
they made it now let's do that in unison. Save now. That's a whole different sound
than just said save now. In the Bible it got an exclamation point behind it. So now
save now in other words save us Lord we beg you to keep us and to preserve us.
It is taken from Psalms 118 which has a whole or the declaration of confidence
in the Lord's ability to save for his salvation. In other words it was made
when they was believing that they was worshiping and serving someone who could
truly deliver them from whatever they was going through. So in in 25 and 26 of
Psalm 118 you find these words it says save now I pray oh Lord oh Lord I pray
send now prosperity. In other words they were saying God we want to be successful
in whatever we do. God has no problem with you being successful and in fact you
ought to be successful in anything you do. The thing is you can't let your
success or the results of your success become your God. So therefore a lot of
time we hear prosperity the first thing we think of is money but the Bible is a
lot deeper than just your finances. I mean your prosperity I mean you ought to
be successful in your job you ought to be successful in your marriage you ought
to be successful in your health in every aspect of your life you ought to say
God allow me to be prosperous. I want to be prosperous in my peace. I want to
have a level of peace of mind that I know that you're involved with my life
and therefore God I can be prosperous I can be successful. And then look what he
says he says in verse 20 blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Then
he says we somebody said we we have blessed you from the house of the Lord.
Now today we consider the church where you are the house of the so now if that
is true then we have to bless him from the house. You in the house so it's time
for you to give him a little blessing and the way you bless him in the house is
to give him praise. So let's take you about 30 seconds, stand on your feet and
let's just take a praise break. However you feel like the Lord wants you to
praise him with your palm in your hand give the Lord your best praise. Give him
what you think he deserves because this is his house we come to lift him up we
come to magnify him. You got to see that this is what the people of Jerusalem
were going through when they were trying to praise their Lord. They were
trying to exalt him. They saw who he was and they wanted to acknowledge that.
Some of them went so far they took off their clothes and laid them down before
him. I'm not gonna ask you to do that today but look here I will say wave your
palm. Let the Lord know that you love him. Let the Lord know that you adore him.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah. You may be seated. You may be seated. That's just the
first one. We're gonna get better. Somebody say better. We're gonna get better.
Now that you have seen the end game now we got a real act like we won the game.
They have a different celebration. You know even though I was pulling for
South Carolina the other night that was a different celebration in our because
even though it was a good game only one team celebrate. Celebration has the
context of winning something and unless you don't you feel like you don't want
something you won't celebrate. So what I'm trying to get you to believe today is
that you are a group of winners and I need for you to carry yourself and act
like you're winners and not losers because there's been too much pay for
you to sell. So the residents of Jerusalem met Jesus carrying palm branches and
held him as the one who came in the name of the Lord. They included in their
acclamation a plea for salvation. Waving the palm branches was a general
expression of jubilation, a shout in triumph. And so now Jesus entered as their
Messiah and their victorious King and that was represented in prophecy when
they were living out what was prophesied in Zachariah chapter 9 verse 9. It says to
them rejoice. Somebody say rejoice. Normally whenever the Bible tell us to
rejoice it comes with shout. Tell us to be happy about something. It tells us to
act like God has done something for us. It says rejoice O people of Zion. Somebody
say shout. It says shout in triumph O people of Jerusalem. Well we ain't in
Jerusalem right now. So I ain't talking to the people of Jerusalem, Cliff. I'm talking to the people that didn't strive.
So when I read this it says shout. Somebody say shout. O people of
striving. So right now I just want let's take another shout break. Can we do that
right now now that you know the Bible say this don't just supply the Jerusalem
this supply the striving. Can we just you know this is you know pop Sunday will
come once a year and you know we don't do this every Sunday but maybe we all
too. Maybe we all too. Maybe there ought to be a time when we praise God in a way
that we don't normally praise him on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday but
we ought to have enough revamp that God we don't save up some for you on
Sunday. We don't shout about some minor thing but today we realized that we
have the victory and therefore we want to declare victory because of you not
because of anything we have done but because of what you have done. God you've
gave us the victory so we shout hallelujah. We wave our palms and hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Glory to your name God. Y'all maybe see that. That's number two.
That was all right but that wasn't jubilation. He says O people of
Jerusalem. He says look your king is coming. He is righteous and victorious.
I mean he gonna do things right. He gonna act in a cause with the Lord but not
only that he is victorious. He's a winner but yet he is humble. Riding on a
donkey. Riding on the donkey's coat. In other words normally winners kings did
of those who had won battle they came in town riding on stadiums or horses. It's
the first time we're gonna see today in a minute that is recorded where Jesus
wrote something and he wrote on a donkey's coat which is a baby donkey. I'm
gonna call it for that because it's a better term because some Bible's called
them something other than a coat but you know it was a donkey's coat not a bad
term but just a donkey's coat so that means that the coat had never been
ridden on before. It was a coat that was worthy to be used to celebrate our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. So this prophecy was fulfilled when Jesus
rode into Jerusalem in what we call traditionally Palm Sunday.
Now when I did my study palms were the only type branches that they was waving.
They were waving a whole lot of other branches. In fact the study don't say
they even call them palm. They just say various branches but not only that it
said that it was a symbol of majesty to take off a garment and lay it before
your king. And so these people waving their palm and it was taking off out of
garments and laying them before their king. So therefore the next time we get
to this point I got to get some jubilation. Y'all just acting like
somebody see y'all on TV that you in the stadium and the camera on all of a
sudden hit you with your T. Then got that you know I'm pretty sure if you were the
fan of whoever that hit that last shot last night with seconds on the clock if
you know if you was a fan of that team when that shot went in somehow
jubilation would just fall all over you. You know you might have would have jumped
out of them seats. And see I want to use that practical example to get you to jump
at your seat for the law because he doesn't hit more than two points for you.
And there been a three-pointer. But Jesus got to be better than three points.
He got to be better than three points. So this was a command for the people to
rejoice and shout because the king had come. Jesus was the righteous. Jesus was
righteous in all that he did and his purpose for coming was to bring
salvation to those who put their trust in him. At this coming Jesus did not bring
judgment but he brought grace and forgiveness. See the Bible says but God
did not send his son into the world to condemn the world. That's coming later.
This time it wasn't about condemnation but that the world through him might be
saved. Amen. Somebody shout Hosanna. Somebody shout Hosanna again. Now if we
go back to our text in Matthew chapter 21 I'm going to take a closer look at it
and see how Matthew recorded this celebration that we are about to have.
Amen. But I want to start at verse one and then we'll get to the high point to
just kind of bring you up to how all this played out. And there are a couple
things that I think we can learn from what went on before the celebration when
Jesus gave his disciples instructions to go and get the donkey at the
donkey's coat that he would ride in on. It says now look in verse one and verse
two it says this and I want you to see divine instruction. It says now when they
drew near Jerusalem and came to Beth Pays at the Mount of Olives it was called
the Mount of Olives because there was a lot of olive trees over there. Olive was one
of the primary things of fruits of vegetation I don't know if it was the
fruit of whatever but it was the primary thing that was used during that
time and olives was very expensive and because a lot of things was created from
the olive but what we see is that it was there was near the Mount of Olives
which was on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Jesus now calls two of his disciples. The
Bible don't say which two. Some people speculate you know he did have an inner
circle. It may have been two of the three that he normally ran with but since the
Bible didn't identify we just gonna say it could have been any two of you that the
Lord has called and he's sending you on an assignment and when he's sending you
on that assignment he's giving you specific instruction of what you need
to do. All of you got to see yourself as being assigned to do something in God's
kingdom and when he assign you to do it it's gonna be clear to you what you need
to do. God and the Lord is not gonna assign you something and make it a mystery
that you can't figure out and somebody else got to interpret for you. It's okay
if someone come alongside and confirm what the Lord has said to you but if he
want you to do something he's bold enough to tell you himself. So he now he gave
two of his disciples some instructor saying go somebody say go. The command
go mean you got to get up and do something. Amen. I mean we come here to
learn but we need to go and do what we've learned. Amen. He says now go into the
village opposite you and immediately you will find a donkey tired and with a
coat with her. Loose them and bring them to me. Clear instruction. Jesus had a
ability to see things that everybody else could not see. So spiritually he knew
exactly what the situation looked like. A lot of time when things come out like
God already know what the situation looked like. We just need to trust him
because we don't see it right now and that's what faith comes in there.
Sometimes God see things that you don't see but he don't have a problem giving
you instruction that you need so that you can see what he sees and if you're
going to be successful you're going to have to learn to see some things that in
your mind that you can't see in your natural with your natural eyes and then
you got to walk by faith and trust God for the outcome because the more you
walk the more you will if they had stood right there they would never saw the
darkest. They had to believe that hey that was some
darkness waiting on us when we get there. It would have been easy. Well show me the
Duncan before I start walking. Now you got your instructions. You start walking
and then the Duncan's gonna show up. He said now and when you get there in verse
three if anyone say anything to you you shall say somebody say the Lord. You
shall say the Lord has need of them and immediately he will send them. Now the
Lord was a term that signified that someone with authority was asking for
something. The Greek terminology is curios which means someone in supreme
power. So now get this. The Lord has need of you. See it's easy to make him
savior because we all want to be saved from our sin but the hard test is are
you gonna make him. Is he gonna be the supreme being in your life. Is he gonna
be the one that when he give you instruction you follow them. So he says
the Lord has need of them and immediately he will send them. Now look at
this. We see Jesus royalty couple with humility in verse four and five. He says
all this were done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet.
We read that earlier but they're gonna come back here now and again scripture
support itself. What is said in the Old Testament is now part of it is used here
in the New Testament. That's why when I talk to people about God's word you just
can't be a New Testament Christian only. It's good that we have the New Testament
but there are a lot of things in the New Testament that comes from the Old
Testament and it gives you a better understanding of how God operate when you
connect the dots. And once you start connecting the dots from old to new
didn't have when certain things in this Bible that is not extremely clear to you.
You can go back and say I'm gonna connect the dots and I see God has a pattern of
doing certain things a certain way. So even though it don't clearly say he did
it here I gotta believe he's the same God and what he did back there and what he
did there. What he did there even though it's not recorded here this is what the
outcome would have been based upon how he operate. You got to know and understand
how God's how God operate and you do that by having an understanding of his
word and being led by his spirit. So he says now look all of this was done that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying tell the daughters of
Zion behold your king is coming lowly or humbly and sitting on a donkey a coat the
fold of a donkey. Your king is coming but he's coming in a spirit of humility
and majesty and he's coming sitting on a donkey and not a statue. That's gonna be
a sign to you that this is your king and when this is revealed to you you need to
act like you receiving act like you receiving royalty act like you receiving
your Lord and not just your and give him the praise that is due to him when in
your heart you truly know and understand who he is and what he has done for you.
A lot of time we make no heart connection to what's in our head in our head we
know what the Bible say God did but in our heart we don't know how to express
and these palms is designed feeling.
To help you give what's in your head into your heart so it'll show forth in your ex.
This is not discernment for you to come and just look and analyze what pastors
saying this is the sermon for you to participate and do what the Bible said
that was a moment of spontaneous praise that broke out when Jesus was coming
to town and what I want you to do is just let's have a moment of spontaneous
praise we're gonna rehearse this we're gonna practice this we're not gonna
call the meeting on Tuesday night there ought to be something on the inside of
you that know what God did for you with Jesus and when you know your king is
coming you ought to give him some praise you ought to be able to shout
Hosanna Hosanna Hosanna in the highest Hosanna so you leave here today let this
palm serve as a testimony because people gonna ask you what it is you're going
to the restaurant when you leave here going to rest right wave in your little
palm somebody gonna say what are you doing I am glorified and praying that I
can't I oh God I know y'all to y'all y'all just to hold it to do that y'all
too safe to fight to do that or y'all too stuck up to do what the Bible
every now and there you ought to give God some undignified praise where people
thank you crazy for doing what you doing but cause you know who you doing it we
gonna get a little help here in a minute we'll keep standing right now if you're
able to stand I want y'all to stand that pole because y'all sit back down some
y'all ain't gonna get back up but look here I want you to stand right there
come on read this quick we're gonna get there he said now look they understood
this so what happened is the Bible says so the disciples went and did as Jesus
commanded and they brought the donkey and the coat and laid their clothes on
them so even if I they understand his majesty also and set him on them and
look at verse 8 and a very great multitude spread their clothes on the
road others cut down branches from trees and spread them then somebody said then
the multitude then thrive who went before and those who follow cried out
whole somebody cried Hosanna somebody cried Hosanna somebody cried Hosanna
he said Hosanna son of David recognizing him as king and the lineage that he
come from blessed as he who come in the name of the Lord whole in the highest
good God Almighty now look at this it says and when he came into Jerusalem all
the city was moved in order to get movement there got to be some
enthusiasm something was happening that caused the city to get into an uproar
and when the uproar occurred other folks saw it and with they taught us in the
military that enthusiasm is if you can start to fire somebody else or jump in
right along with you but you got to bring your little spark and let somebody
else bring that spark and before you know it we'll be in a uproar right here
in Holy Ghost feels driving the little sedentary that don't normally stand up
that don't normally pray that don't normally shout that don't normally dance
in this little safe to fire sedentary stuck up church the Holy Ghost was show
up and we are praised God like we never praised him because now we understand
home you know I wasn't good enough to do this by my own but why y'all standing I
asked Curt to come along with me and help me with this so I just went back
into the archive because he did it better but I think y'all may relate to him
better than y'all relate to me so I asked the choir to come along inside Curt
to his group and see can we do this because y'all already know this and
y'all don't pack your feet to this in your car you know you them been another
church patting your feet to it you're probably some when you out of the church
at your house dancing to it whatever came on you when you heard it then I
want you to hear Jesus see Jesus speaking to your heart right now as you
shout home hallelujah the song say you were created for a moment like this you
were created to make his praise Lord look at Jesus made you a winner and
every now and then you just got that it's a one thing to just talk like your
winner but every now and then somebody ought to see you act like you don't want
something act like you know who he is act like you know what he's done for you
act like he is your king he is your Lord he is your savior act like he set you
free from everything that bound you up just act and when you start acting out
what you are people will start respecting you for who you you gotta
start acting like you a winner you gotta start carrying yourself like your
winner you gotta start talking like you a winner and when people see that on a
regular base they start thinking that you are anybody can moan grown and cry
and complain but every now and then you just need to act like you don't hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I know all y'all ain't loud
like me I know all y'all pretend that you got a hallelujah I see y'all there I
see you out there hallelujah see you ain't got it in your heart yet it's in
your head to say the word but in your heart you ain't never experienced the
word because if you have experienced the word your hallelujah you will have a
shout to it not just hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you God for
what you did for me hallelujah I give you the highest praise that you deserve
hallelujah when I look back over my life and see what Jesus did for me all I can
say hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
God put a little bit of emotion in all of us it comes with the package and
every now and then ain't nothing wrong with you being a little emotional for
the God that you serve when you worship Him when you exalt Him when you
magnify it can you picture in your mind what those people were doing in Jerusalem
that caused an up a uproar in the whole city somebody said something is going on
somebody's coming to town who is it these people saw they were receiving their
king have you received your king today
family if you really brother Moles if you really thought you're king but
walking down the aisle right now if in your heart and your mind you really
thought you were seeing Jesus because you can't get that spiritual in your mind
you can't carry this thing out in your body but when you can get that in your
you forget about major you'll forget about what folks think about you you'll
forget about who may be looking at you you don't care man I'm a winner now I'm
supposed to make law or now I'm supposed to shout I'm supposed to raise up the
trophy the belt or whatever it is I want I'm supposed we got to start doing the
thing that we are supposed to do when we know who we are
time out for our stuff run run I know it's hard for you back there buddy but
look here you got to get in the same mind you get when you say something when
you hit something when you get something when we got to get into that I'm
through for each that I told I was through let's get a lot of handclap of
praise hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
somebody shout hallelujah shout hallelujah again somebody shout hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah Hosanna adoration joy and so that was the objective
today just to have a Hosanna moment a Hosanna experience on this palm Sunday
now if you don't remember nothing else when you hear somebody say Palm Sunday
from now on from the rest of your life you gonna remember this egg don't y'all
make me go there cuz y'all got some things y'all remember and every time
they come back you get a certain feeling cuz you read don't forget the
experience live it out a man every head bow never I close get a lot of handclap
praise one more time hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
every head body of our clothes this time we want to make several appeals our
first appeal is for salvation Jesus came so that you could be saved that's why
these people shout and they thought he was their savior he is the Messiah he is
the one that is gonna deliver us from all the things that's keeping us from
experiencing God's best and our lives for that same appeal is going out to you
right now if you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior I
said if you would just raise your hand if you're online we just ask you just
send us a message or something and let us know that you want to give your life
to Christ so if that is you and you in the house just raise your hand just raise
your hand just raise your hand raise your hand my second appeal is for
membership if you're here or online and the Lord is speaking to your heart and
saying that's driving for perfecting minutes to the place that you can come
and learn and grow and be what God has called you to be in there if that is
the what is being spoken to your heart and that's what you're feeling in your
heart then I ask you to raise your hand and yes pastor this is the church that I
believe I want to grow up in I want my family to be and I want to be here
please raise your hand please raise your head if you're online again send some
messages or let us know please raise your hand you just want to acknowledge you
please raise your hand I'll see no hands in my third period appeal is for the
Holy Spirit you may be here you've heard about the Holy Spirit heard other
people talk about it but there is an experience that you can have a God's
spirit beyond just being baptized and being filled when you get saved there's
a spirit that can come on the inside the same spirit that would empower you to
live a victorious life we all continue to need his help and we need to be filled
continuously with his spirit and being the evidence of speaking other times
has done to do with your salvation it only has to do with your strengthening
in your walk with the Lord if that's something you want to know more about
just please raise your hand please raise your hand I see a hand raised up a man
amen amen if you raise your hand I just asked that you go with brother Anthony
I'll usher there someone will meet you and and talk to you about what the word
of God has to say about his spirit amen and we thank you for having the faith to
trust God enough to believe that you too can be filled with his spirit with the
evidence of speaking other times my final appeal is for prayer if you're
standing at your seat or sitting and you want you know you got a prayer
concern on your heart I asked that you just get your heart in your mind set for
prayer if you hear you want to come to the altar
stand kneel however the Lord is leading you please do so at this time please do
so at this time please do so at this time whatever the Lord is placing on your
heart as you lift up again I'm gonna put somebody on the spot I know they're
gonna be shocked but sister Kala I want you to get a mic
those of you who are standing set your heart in your mind for prayer believe
that when the righteous cry out God will hear you and answer your prayer if you
want to touch and agree with someone we can have ministers to come alongside the
walls and agree with you in that way we just ask that you make a decision to do
that make a decision to move those of you who know the power of prayer you can
be interceding right now either on your own behalf or yourself or on behalf of
someone else that the Lord is placing on your heart right now this is a moment
that God gives us to be able to communicate with him he is our heavenly
father and we don't have to go through a multitude of people to get to him all
we have to do is acknowledge who he is and believe that Jesus has rent the veil
to the temple and you can come into his presence hallelujah sister Kala just
trust God whatever he lays on your heart we're gonna believe it's for this
moment hallelujah hallelujah
lay before you bear this father yes law we just want to thank you the father
thank you for who you are thank you for who you was thank you for who you are
right now thank you for who you're going to be in the future yes law hallelujah
Thank you right now in the name of Jesus dear father just for being you dear father. Yes. Thank you right now dear father
Father right now. Let's stand before you all I can say is thank you. That's enough, hallelujah
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you father
Thank you for everything that you have done dear father. Yes, sir. Thank you for protecting us dear father
Yes, sir. Thank you for waking us up this morning
What you're talking about is you didn't have to do plenty of
caring at all times.
Does he need a favor from you?
What if you called aィ
caring at all times.
Transferring from them to their own care.
Let me just say thank you.
Thank you right now in the name of Jesus, dear Father.
Whatever, whatever, whatever is on your heart,
dear Father, whatever is in your mind, dear Father,
please bring it before us, dear Father.
Yes, Lord.
So that we can hear, dear Father.
Yes, Lord.
Whatever it is, dear Father, please lay it before us.
We pray.
We pray right now for your guidance, dear Father.
We pray right now for your word, dear Father.
And we keep thanking you, Father,
for the opportunities, dear Father,
that bruns before us, dear Father.
Yes, Lord.
That allow us to see you, know you,
and believe that you are there.
Yes, Lord.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Amen, glory to God.
Hallelujah.
Give God some praise.
Hallelujah.
You may be seated.
Hallelujah.
Thank God.