More Than a Wave- Pastor Kipp Penrod

Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.

Good morning, Life House. It's Palm Sunday. Come on, get that palm branch out. Just wave it at me

a little bit. Fan your neighbors for a second. They look a little warm. Yeah, yeah. Palm Sunday.

Thank you. It's always good to put something in somebody's hand, right? A little reminder

of what the day is all about. Can we pray? I just want to start this message off praying,

shifting gears in our hearts and in our minds to just really get into the Word of God. Father,

we thank you for this day, for your glory, for your honor. Lord, we come, and Lord, we just

praise you. We give you glory. I thank you for your presence. We felt so strong this morning.

And Lord, God, just continue to work in our hearts. God, I know you're already speaking

and ministering to people. And Lord, just continue today, Lord, during the rest of this gathering.

And Lord, God, as we go out this week, Lord, in the highways and the hedges and God to our

places of employment, God, just pray you just move and Lord that we would apply everything that's

spoken through your Word to us, God, in our week. And we just give you glory and praise.

And everybody said together. Amen. Amen. Hey, got a question for you. How many heard the wind

last night? Yeah. How many got how many got shaken, rattled and rolled just a little bit?

We live up on a hill, just a little bit of a knob. And man, it was just blowing. We heard things

shaking a little bit. And I got about an hour in. How many know when you get about an hour into sleep?

I don't know. I haven't. I didn't look this up, but I call it. That's when the REM sleep restarts,

right? You're seriously into some sleep and about an hour in. I don't know what got knocked over.

I can't I can not confirm whether it was inside outside. What happened? But you ever hear one of

those things where just went boom in the middle of the night and you just hop out of bed, right?

You're just like, huh? Right. Heart rate goes up. Adrenaline starts pumping. You're like,

what's going on? Or somebody in the house or the outside of the house? I mean,

does anybody else's brain go like that when you get up like that? Like you get. Yeah. My brain's

going 100 mile an hour. And then I couldn't go back to sleep. It was nothing right. It was just

the way I couldn't get back to sleep. But it was a storm yesterday. And it was interesting because

it was beautiful weather. And as the evening came, I watched as the clouds kind of swirled

and the wind picked up and there was this storm that was moving in and it was a storm,

but it wasn't the perfect storm. Well, we're going into John chapter 12 today and the perfect storm

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begins to take place that is going to lead up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. So if you got

your Bibles, I want you to turn to John chapter 12. We're going to go to verse 12. And where this

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picks up this particular portion of scripture picks up is that Jesus is traveling to Jerusalem.

He's with his man. He's with his followers and he's headed to Jerusalem, but he's going to go.

He's going to get a detail. He's going to play a little detour going to Jerusalem. He goes on the

southeast side and hits a little town called Bethany. Say Bethany. All right, about two miles

outside of Jerusalem. He goes to Bethany and he goes there for a very specific reason because he's

got friends there. You all do this, right? Sometimes you sidetrack, go see some friends

and he's going to Bethany because Lazarus is there. Martha is there and Mary are there. They're a

family and Jesus has a special relationship with his family with Lazarus in particular because of

something that took place previous to this. Jesus and Lazarus were friends and Jesus got a call from

Lazarus's sisters and said that he was sick and it ends up that Lazarus dies and he's four days dead.

Okay, how many know that's expired, right? You're done. Four days you're not breathing, you're dead.

All right, you got it. Not four minutes, four days. He's four days dead and he's in the tomb and Jesus

shows up to where he's at and he tells him to roll the stone away from the tomb and everybody's kind

of wondering what's going on. Now you got to think about this for a second, right? That's kind of

like approximately like telling somebody to dig the grave back up and flip the coffin open, right?

That's what he did and he calls Lazarus out of the tomb and Lazarus comes forth in his grave clothes,

right? He walks out so there's this special connection between Lazarus and Jesus. I know

there'd be a special connection to somebody who raised me from the dead, right? That'd be a special

thing. Not many people get to say that, right? There's this special connection so he's going to

see them and all of Bethany hears about this and all of Jerusalem hears about it. There's noise and

there's talk and there's chatter about Lazarus, a man coming back to life and everybody's really kind

of talking about this for different reasons. See the Jews in Bethany and the Jews in Jerusalem,

they're all talking about this because they hear about this man Jesus and the man who has the power

to call somebody back from the dead. He didn't have a defibrillator. He called him out of the grave,

right? Four days gone and he calls him and they're thinking in their minds this might be the Messiah.

This might be the leader that we've been waiting for. This might be the one who leads us and crushes

Rome because Rome was crushing them and they're thinking this. So there's a stir going on in the

community and there's people the Jews are wondering is this the one? Is this the Messiah? Is this the

one that's been prophesied about for so long? The one we've been waiting on, right? And in Jerusalem

just two miles away the chief priests and the Pharisees, the hypocritical, right? Corrupt religious

leaders that were in Jerusalem, they're plotting, excuse me, they are convinced that Jesus is a

heretic. They're convinced that he is demon possessed. They even say that at one point.

They accuse him of that and they're convinced of this and they're not only upset about the whole

thing but they're literally they feel like it's their job to get Jesus out of the way and what I

mean by out of the way they mean out of the way, right? They're plotting his death. They're plotting

Lazarus's death. This is all stirring. This is all happening and the Romans who were in power

they're watching it all because they don't want an uprising of any kind. They don't want the Jews

getting an upper order. They don't want the Pharisees and the scribes and they're watching

the whole thing. They're keeping an eye because they're ruled. They reign and they will crush

any kind of uprising. This is all taking place and Jesus is heading that direction and he stops

in Bethany and while he's at Bethany for just a little while he's in the company of friends.

He's in a home that he's familiar with. He's with people that love him and he loves them and he's

sitting at the table. The Lord of God says he's sitting at the table. He's talking with Lazarus.

They're having food. How many know that's a good thing to do? Amen? You all gonna do that about

lunchtime today. Don't be thinking about that right now. He's sitting and he's eating with Lazarus

and Martha. I don't know if you know anything about Martha but how many know there's somebody

that's always taking care of business? How many of you take care of business? Raise your hand.

You're the one that takes care of business. Martha was always taking care of business.

She's feeding everybody. There's only like four of you in the house are taking care of business.

The rest of us just said feed me. Martha she's running around. She's making sure everything's

prepped. She's making sure the food's done. She's making sure the table's set and then there's

Mary the other sister who's not worried about that at all. She's sitting at Jesus feet and she

walks in and you can see this. Now I need you to get a hold of this in your head and in your spirit.

She's sitting at Jesus feet and she breaks open a vessel of oil. A very costly vessel of oil. It

was spiked nard and nard. It was about a little an average man's wages would have taken a year

to pay for this ointment and she pours it on Jesus feet and in an act of humility sitting in

his feet she takes her hair and she wipes it off with her hair. How many know that's humility right?

That's humbleness. All this is taking place and while she's doing this one of Jesus' disciples

who's going to betray him, Judas, he's complaining about the whole thing. He says well we could have

sold that and given the money to the poor but the reality is A he's a traitor and B he's a thief

and he wanted to skim the money. There's a lot happening. There's a lot stirring

and Jesus knows he's about to go to the cross. He's about to pay for all mankind's sin and all

this activity is swirling around him. All kind of crazy and the next day it gets even a little bit

crazier. That's where we pick up in verse 12. John chapter 12 verse 12 says this then the next day

John 12:12

say the next day. A multitude had come to the feast and when they heard that Jesus was coming

to Jerusalem all this is taking place. They took palm branches. Grab your palm branch. I won't

make you shake it or anything anymore but they took palm branches from the trees and they went

out to meet him and they cried out Hosanna blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord

the King of Israel. They began to lay the palm branches in the street. They began to throw their

coats down. That was a sign of a king coming into the city. Then Jesus went and he found a young

donkey sat on it as it was written. Fear not daughter of Zion behold your king is coming out

sitting on a donkey's coat. This is prophecy being fulfilled and his disciples did not understand

these things at first. They're kind of confused about everything that's going on. There's things

happening. They know what's going on all around but it's not making any sense right and when Jesus

was glorified then they remembered that these things were written about him and that they had

done these things to him. Therefore the people who were with him when he called Lazarus out of the

tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness for this reason the people also met him because they

had heard that he had done this sign and the Pharisees therefore said among themselves you

see that you're accomplishing nothing look the world has gone after him. The people are going

out to meet him. The Pharisees think the world's chasing after him. They want to crush him right

and now and amongst all that there were certain Greeks. Say the Greeks. The Greeks among those

who came to worship at the feast and they came to Philip who was at Bersadia of Galilee and asked

him saying sir we wish to see Jesus. Philip came and told Andrew this is Jesus' men right and in

turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus. So in amongst all the things that's taking place here Jesus is

coming in Jerusalem people and crowds are swarming there's a bunch of Greeks who want to have an

interview all right but Jesus answered them saying the hours come and the Son of Man shall be glorified

most assuredly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains

alone but if it dies it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it and he who hates

his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me let him follow me and

where I am there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me him my father will honor. Jesus is days

away from being crucified. Some want to kill him. Some want to make him king right. Some think he's

the Messiah. Some of them don't know what to think right. Jewish people are swarming in the street and

a bunch of Greeks want to have an interview. They want to have an exclusive with Jesus to ask him

questions and Jesus stops in the middle of all the chaos in the middle of all these things that are

swirling and happening he stops and he gives a little mini sermon some of you wish and I give a

mini sermon right. He gives a little mini sermon to his disciples. He's not paying attention to who

wants to interview him. He's not paying attention to to everything that's swirling around him those

who want to kill him. He says if you really want to follow me if you believe that I'm the Son of

God if you believe that that I am the one the Messiah who is coming if you believe that I am

savior of the world it's going to take more than just showing up with a palm branch right and shaking

a palm branch it's going to be more than a wave. That's my interpretation. It's going to be more

than a wave. It's going to be more than waving our branches and laying them on the street. He says

because just a wave how many know just a wave can mean a lot of different things right. If we just

give somebody away I just got a wave right. How many know that can mean a lot of different things?

Eric went like this to me right. We can give away if I go like this what's that mean? Hello right.

What if I go like this? Goodbye right. That can be super trivial. That doesn't mean anything in

particular. It could mean a lot right. If I'm laying palm branches probably if you come to my

house and I ran out and I threw palm branches down thank you right good timing. If I threw the palm

branch down and I threw my coat down and I bowed before you how many think that was weird first of

all right. But if you did that right that would have a whole different meaning to it right.

A wave can mean a lot of different things. It can be super trivial. It can mean hello. It could be

goodbye. It could be the motorcycle wave right. How many know there's a motorcycle wave? If you're

if you're riding a bike you don't you don't go like this. First of all it's wind resistant. You'll

dislocate your shoulder okay. That's probably why they do it down low but if you're riding a bike

they do this. They'll just go hey right. That means to another biker I see you okay. I acknowledge you.

That does not mean they want to name their firstborn child after you all right. That's not

what it means. It can mean a lot of different things. A Princess Diana wave is look at me. Look

at me. Look at me right. There's a lot of things with the wave. The other day I came up to a

construction site and when I pulled up they of course they stopped me right. They had the sign

and then there was people waving me on. Did you ever meet an angry construction person?

You ever run into one of those? Man he started waving me on. I thought I offended him. He's like

come on right. Come on. I didn't know whether to floor it you know or stop and talk to him for a

little bit. I don't know. I don't know if he got a bad call right before all that. Seriously he

did. He seriously did that all right. There's all kind of ways. Jesus makes his way into Jerusalem

and some are laying palm branches and they're waving and some are shouting and recognition

and recognition but most are looking at Jesus for a reason. They're looking at him for what they can

get out of this guy. What's he going to bring to the table? Is he going to deliver me from Rome?

Is he going to meet my need? Is he going to heal me? What's he going to do? And Jesus was telling

those closest to him, those right around him, he says guys this is more than a wave. It's more than

a palm branch. It's more than a nod. It's more than a tip right. A tip of the hat. It's way more

than that. If you're going to follow me you're going to follow me into death. How many know

that's a lot more than a wave? That's much more than a wave. He says this in 23 but Jesus answered

them saying the hours come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly I say to you

unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies it remains alone but if it dies it produces

much grain. Jesus was referring to himself. He was talking in a physical sense for himself.

He knew that he was about to go and die on a cross. He would go into the grave and he knew he was

going to rise up three days later. He was talking about that in physical but he was turning to his

disciples and he's saying if you're going to follow me there's some things that have to die in your

life. He wasn't talking in the physical. He was talking about spiritual things. There's some things

you're going to have to lay down. There's some things if you're going to produce, if you're going

to become productive in the kingdom of God, if you're going to be productive in following me as

Lord and Savior, there's some things if you want to follow Jesus we got to put some things in the

ground. Do you know that? It's true. We do. I didn't give many amens for that. It's way more

than a wave. It's way more than a simple acknowledgement. It's more than a tip of the

hat. It's even more than laying palm branches and throwing our coats down and saying Hosanna. It's

more than that. For Jesus it was a physical thing but for us we got to die to some things

and one of the things we got to die to or put in the ground is sin. It really is. 1 Peter 2

24 says this, he himself bore our sins. It's talking about Jesus here. He or who, come on back up,

who himself, I saw a little talk myself right there out loud, who himself bore our sins in our

own body on the tree that we having died to sins might live for righteousness by whose stripes we

were healed for you were like sheep going astray but have now returned to the shepherd and the

overseer of your soul. Sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against a divine

God, a holy God. We sang about it this morning. Sin is acting in rebellion. It's going against

what God has spoke. So if I'm following Jesus it's way more than a wave. It's way more than just

doing this. It's saying I got to lay some things down. I can't do some of the things that I used

to do. I can't participate in some of the things I used to participate in because it's sin.

I thought about this. I thought I could make a list of them but how many of them is a lot?

We could spend a lot of time listing out what sin is and what it isn't but we're following Jesus.

It's more than a wave. It's laying down. It's burying that sin. I thought about this. I thought

I'll just give you one. I'll just give you one example of what I'm talking about. If we're

following Jesus do you know that we got to lay down speaking falsely against somebody else?

Now that's a fancy way of saying a lying about somebody else. If I'm following Christ Jesus said

we're not supposed to speak falsely against our brother. We're not supposed to speak falsely

against our neighbor. We're not supposed to do any of that and we're not supposed to tell a lie

about anybody. He said if you do that, if you follow me you got to bury that thing.

You got to put that thing away. 1 John 3 says whoever commits and if you look at other translations

it says practices. Whoever practices sin also commits lawlessness and sin is lawlessness.

You know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him there is no sin. Whoever abides

in him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen him nor known him. Little children let no one

deceive you. He who practices practices righteousness is righteous just as he is righteous.

Now this scripture is not talking about perfection because none of us are perfect in here.

We've all sinned. We all fall short of the glory of God. That's not what I'm talking about. It's

talking about what we practice. What are we practicing? What are we practicing? Is it more

than just a wave? What are we practicing? What are we doing? Practice is about what you do on the

regular. Do you know that? If you practice an instrument, I always get a little envy because I

watch all these people who are playing the instruments and I always wanted to. I took lessons

for about a year. I still stunk so I just quit. Sometimes you just got to know your limitations.

But I watch them and they've practiced and if you practice playing an instrument, what do they call

you? A musician. If you practice the sport and you get really good at sport, they call you

an athlete. If you practice lying, what do they call you? A liar. Come on. There's some things

you got to put in the ground because if you're practicing them, if you're practicing them,

if you're practicing them, you're going against what God speaks. Jesus was getting ready to leave.

He was getting ready to go and he's telling his disciples, listen, you got to put some things in

the ground. You can't do some things the same way. Sin is one of them but there's other things too.

There's things outside of sin. Verse 8 says, he who sins is of the devil for the devil has sinned

from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of

the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin for his sin remains in him and he cannot sin

because he has been born of God. It's really more than just a wave. I quit practicing sin.

Jesus, I want you to think about this for a moment because Jesus died. The reason Christ went to the

cross, he died to take away our sin. He died to cover our sin. We can't do that on our own. It's

all a work of grace by him and it's his blood who washes us clean. He says just don't practice it.

As I thought about that, I thought what a slap in the face to God if he literally gives his life

to take my sin away and I just say, I'm going to do it anyway. I was going to practice that anyhow.

He gave his life for this. First John 1, 8 says, for we say if we have no sin, we deceive ourselves

and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, that's why he tells us to confess.

When we sin, when we mess up, when we do something against God, he is faithful and just to forgive

us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a

liar and his word is not in us. When I was growing up, my parents taught me to confess when I sinned.

When I messed up, I knew I needed to go to God in prayer and I needed to confess what I did and let

Christ's blood take care of that and wash me clean. We don't talk about that much anymore.

Confession, there is freedom in confession when you speak it up. I'm not going to tell you to

turn and confess to somebody right now. That's not what I'm doing. But there is freedom in

confession. When I come to God, confess, he knows we are going to get it wrong. He knows we are going

to mess up. But he is the provision. He was the remedy. He was the one who brought us back and

reconciled us to God and took away sin. But it doesn't mean I should practice it. We correct our

kids. How many correct your kid if your kid keeps messing up over and over and over again?

How many love that? We love it. You love it when your kid just keeps doing the same thing over and

over. Practicing rebellion is awesome. How many know you give them a good talking to? You go to

the power stands. You have a good talking with them. 1 John 2.1, my little children, these things I

write to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father.

Man, when I get it wrong, Jesus is at the right hand of the Father and he is making it right.

All I've got to do, it's just so simple. I just come and confess. He is the remedy for sin. We

got to put sin in the ground. Put it in the ground. Practicing sin. I know we are going to

mess up. I know we are going to get it wrong. I had to confess two weeks ago to you that I got it

all messed up and I got it all wrong. God kind of crushed me and I had to go confess. I said,

Lord, I messed this up royally. Because following Jesus is more than just a wave.

Can I give you a super sobering verse on Palm Sunday? Sometimes there are some verses that just

sober you up completely. This is super sobering. Hebrews 10.26 is a good one to write down.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains

a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation,

which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on

the testimony of two or three witnesses. That was the old law. That was previous. How much worse

punishment do you suppose he will be thought worthy of who has trampled the Son of God underfoot,

counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sacrificed, a common thing, and insulted the Spirit

of Grace? Wow. Wow. It's more than just a wave. It's more than just a, Jesus said if you're going

to follow me, you've got to put some stuff in the ground. You've got to bury some things. Jesus was

about to go to the cross and he's hitting his disciples with this mini sermon. He's now paying

attention to all this world, all the stress, all the things that are taking place, all those who are

out to kill him. He stops and he gives them a sermon. He says, put it in the ground, guys, by the way.

Right. Put it in the ground. John 12 25 says, he said this also, he who loves his life will lose it

and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him

follow me and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, my father will honor.

Right. He'll honor him. I wonder if all the people standing along the road that day, right, grabbing

the palm branches and throwing them on the ground. I wonder if Jesus would have stopped and gave this

mini sermon to them. How many of them would have continued to lay palm branches on the ground?

If he would have said these words, he said these to his disciples, but what if he had said this to

the crowd that day? How many of them would have been waving? Right. And you know, and Hosanna,

you know, I think about those things because it's more than just the wave. It's way more than that.

Right. He said, I hate my life in this world, so I keep it for eternity. Wow. I know you're like,

it's Palm Sunday preacher. Couldn't you preach something nice? Right. Something fun, something

kind of pastel in color. You know how many know we do that around Easter, right? It's gonna be

pastel in color. What did Jesus mean by this? I mean, this is intense, right? This almost seems

when Jesus says it almost seems over the top. It feels a bit extreme. I mean, look at where God's

word thing, man, that kind of seems extreme, right? I mean, hating my life in this world,

hating my hating my life because the world tells us a complete opposite, right? The world says,

do everything you can to make sure that you love this life that you're in. Right. Make sure that

you do everything to keep yourself happy. Make sure you do everything to keep yourself healthy

and comfortable so that you love this life that you're in. Make sure you that everything you're

doing is benefiting you and so that you're healthy and happy. Right. Always love the skin you're in.

Amen. Come on. I don't even know what commercialized from love the skin you're in. Indulge yourself.

Love your life. No, hopefully nobody sees me for that. All right. Jesus comes with this radical

message to his disciples. He who loves his life will lose it and he who hates his life in this

world will keep it for eternal life. I read that and I'm thinking, man, that's intense. Like,

what does that mean? And the more I began to look at it, more I began to peel back, I realized

that Jesus was saying he was looking at his disciples. The once he trained, he says,

love your life with me so much that you hate your life without me. Love your life so much with me

that you would hate your life without me. Love your life so much with me that you would hate your life

without me. Are we willing to release anything, put in the ground anything that's going to

separate me from God? Right. Anything that's back there that's not of him and love my life so much

with him that I'm willing just to let go of anything else that's not of him in my life.

Am I willing to put him in a place where it's just everything that I do? He's in the middle of it.

Right. He's in it. Have you ever seen somebody that loves something so much? They just kind of

put everything else aside. It almost seems like they hate everything else. Right. You get a

teenager that falls in love for the first time. Right. They meet the young man or the young lady

and they're like, ah. And it's like nobody else exists in the whole world. Like everybody else died.

All right. It's just those two. Right. They have no clue what's going on around them. They

just, ah. And I know most of them are in love with the idea of being in love. I understand that.

All right. But it's just this, this, you know, the bells and the whistles. I've seen it with that. I've

seen that with sports, man. There's some guys that get obsessed with sports and it's like they hate

everything else around them because something's taking place on the field. Right. It could be a hobby.

Some people are like that with the job. They'll get their workaholics and it's like everything else

disappears. But Jesus saying we got to love. We need to love our life with Jesus so much

that everything else almost seems like we hate it. Right. We take him with everything.

I don't go a single place without Jesus. It should almost make me cringe if I think about

going anywhere without Christ, going and doing anything without him and bringing him along.

Amen. That's true. At the beginning of this message, I told you that Jesus was in Bethany and he was

visiting some friends. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. I think Mary got this right. I really do. I think

Mary understood and she's a picture of exactly what I'm saying. And if you'd stand and the musicians

come, I see Mary at the feet of Jesus and to do what she did. Right. First of all, to do what she

did to sit on the ground at somebody's feet. First of all, I don't like messing with people's feet.

Right. Anybody with me on that? Right. Right. Come on. This is real. To sit down and to sit

at someone's feet and then to take something that expensive, a year's wages and to break it open and

to pour it on his feet and then wipe it with her hair. Do you know, I think for Mary, she hated

anything else. It was all about how much she loved Jesus in this life. He brought her brother back

to life. She knows that he's the Messiah. She knows that he's the coming King. She knows that he is the

Savior and everything else disappeared. And in that moment, she doesn't care what anyone thinks.

She doesn't care how she looks. She doesn't care the repercussions of what somebody will say later.

Somebody like Judas who was complaining about the whole thing. She didn't care. She just loved her

life with Christ that much. And everything else would fade it away. Do I love my life with Christ?

Right. Enough that almost everything else looks like I hate it. I know those are strong words.

But man, when my kids were growing up, you weren't even allowed to say it. We didn't even let them say

hate in the house. They weren't allowed to say it. But you understand. Do we love our life with Christ

that much? We're coming into Easter. We're coming into a time, right, when we really celebrate what

Jesus did. And I've got to ask myself a question. Do I have any part of my life that I could say

that if I don't take Christ there, I don't know. How many of you stay away from what you hate?

Right. If you hate milk, how many of you drink milk if you hate it? No. You stay away from it,

right? You shove it to the back of the fridge. You dump it when nobody's looking. You hate it.

You stay away from that thing. Come on. You just, it's after, follow in Christ. I'm going to ask you

to bow your heads. We're getting ready to go into Easter. I want you to think every slice of your

life. I know that's a lot. That's a lot to span through in your mind, but you can do it. I want

you to think through all the different slices of your life. Maybe the different categories. That's

going to look different for all of us because we're all in different stages of life. We're in

different places in life. We're in different job situations. We're in different family structures.

We're in all these different places. I want you to think about all the slices and I want you to

think, do you have any place that, man, you would absolutely hate it if you didn't take Jesus here

with you because there shouldn't be any slice of life that you put off to the side.

You may have to bury something this morning. You might have to put something in the ground

and you need to take Jesus everywhere you go. Every slice that you're in.

Lord, we come to you today. I thank you for God those are in the house. God, those who are listening

online. Lord, on this Palm Sunday, Lord, we do celebrate God the fact that you are king and you

are Lord and Savior. I don't want one slice of my life to be without you. Lord, if I eliminate you

from any slice, God, if it's in my thought life, God, I pray you get a hold of my thought life.

I pray God that I would capture my thoughts and Lord God that I would get you in the middle of my

thoughts. Lord, if it's in my family life, God, if it's in my relationships with my friends, God,

if it's in the relationship at school, God, if it's in my work, Lord, if it's in my play,

God, if it's in any slice, God, anything that I'm doing, God, I want to make sure I walk in

with you and God, I want to make sure, Lord, that I hate my life without you in any slice of my life,

Lord, and God, if there's something that is separating me, if there's something there's

keeping you out and just me in, God, help me to bury that thing. Help me to put it in the ground

and Lord, so I can be productive in you. So my life produces fruit. We just give you glory.

We give you praise and we give you honor. In Jesus name. Amen.

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