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April 2, 2023
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and it’s a it’s a sweet truth that when I watch them sing I thought no wonder Jesus said what he did about children amen I mean it’s really cool to think that Jesus just said you know let them come to me in fact if any of us want to come to him what did he say you got to be like a child not not little but just simple faith I think they all believed it I think there were two on this end that really believed it
it was really special and so this is a very special day in history for a couple of reasons of course we go all the way back to that day when Jesus as prophesied by Zechariah Chapter 9 verse 9. Everybody there knew it everybody understood those words when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on what we’ve come to call Palm Sunday that’s why the palm branches were here and one one of the children was hiding behind it which stoled my heart forever but they were waving palm branches symbolic
symbolic of that day as people did shouting Hosanna and praising the one who was coming to Jerusalem their minds triggered on that memory of Zachariah who said those things you ready 500 years earlier we’ve been talking about another event for a long time the return of Jesus Christ y’all we’re gonna we’re gonna have that moment they had that day and suddenly it’s going to start happening in our presence in our midst and I’ve said kind of playfully this little there’s a there’s a hatch up there
like a like a vent I call it the Rapture hatch and you know what there’s room for all of us to get through it so just take your time and we’ll we’ll be with him it’s going to happen like that it happened for them on that day and it was a beautiful day and unfortunately most of them had a wrong understanding of that day blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord came from a beautiful Psalm right before the most lengthy Psalm in
the Bible Psalm 119 this is a 118. The same song that says this is the day this is I started too high the guys aren’t going to join me right now they’re like forget that dude but you know and it’s the same song you know blessed is he speaking of the one coming in writing on the full of donkey there’s a huge event on this day and can I just say if you have never called out to him oh save you don’t even have to use
the Hebrew word Hosanna which means o save or save me let’s personalize it do it do it and get ready maybe get ready then do it because it’ll change everything if he not only rides on a donkey but sits on the throne of your heart that’s that’s the gospel so just just know that one more special event I want to tell you about that happened on this day this actual day 40 years ago when two mid-20s young adults single adults stood at an altar like this
at a church in Lanham Maryland on Good Luck Road it’s true good luck Road where this church was and they were asked the simple question do you and and both of them answered I do and I I would like you to join me in this moment with my Debbie come up here Debbie real quick would you please so so this is our day and I want to say I would if today was the day all over again I still would and I’m so sorry and you
too okay speaking into my mic honey me too okay well I would I did I will I would this is getting good but it’s getting really good now because I have a little something for you so I love you forever okay all right I think this takes the prize for us we were on an airplane one time and we were hoping our daughter would be the flight attendant and we were going to Maui to celebrate our 30th Anniversary or something and by the way you’re trying
to do the math we were middle schoolers when we got married so relaxed everything’s good no we were on this plane and we are we we said hey any chance you’re working a flight to Maui and she said no I’m heading to Orlando actually and we said okay okay and we get on this flight and maybe you’ve heard me mention this before but we were walking down the aisle and we come to our seats and there’s all kinds of stuff on our seat flowers and chocolates
and little notes and things and we thought oh how sweet she must have told the crew about us and we got buckled in and everybody’s kind of ruined and then all of a sudden this flight attendant comes down the aisle from behind us and came up and bent over at our row and said hi Mom and Dad welcome aboard and then the pilot I’ll leave it and we’ll get into God’s word but the pilot he came on and he says folks welcome aboard next stop Maui
but we don’t have to wait to get there for the fun to start because the celebration has begun in rows 12 A and B we have the parents of a flight attendant on our crew today and Steve and Debbie McCracken and we there we are taking them to Paradise to celebrate this special time and he says it’s a very big deal he added these words we won’t forget them because marriage still matters he’s saying that to the whole flight so yeah yeah it’s really true so
you who are in it keep working keep persevering keep doing what you’re doing and growing and and those of you that dream of that it’s still happening and and don’t give up on that trust God he came up with the idea so if if he brings you a special person boy treated as a gift it truly is so anyway all right how do you shift gears here I want to take my wife to breakfast and so Pastor Michael come on up and I’m out of here
and we’re gonna is that okay oh Michael’s not here John get up here would you please appreciate it so all right so I want to tell you about a proverb that it’s not new to you it’s not new to me it’s a popular proverb and probably many maybe most have memorized it probably because you have encountered a situation along the way by now many of them where you had to deal with Plan B and it’s it’s Proverbs 16 9 and it it says to all of
us who’ve been in that moment where we were going like this path and then plan B the mind of man plans his way that’s why you were on that path whatever it was but the Lord directs his steps and that single little word that transition word but it’s a big butt I’ve used that joke before but it was really funny then too it is a big but because it turns everything on a dime and you know it you know it from experience because you were going
this way but the Lord directed your steps a different way so if you’ve been there and endured that you know the difficulty that you felt not from knowing that proverb but from practicing that proverb how many have memorized that verse Proverbs 16 9 do it do it this do it before the services no then you wouldn’t hear a thing I’m saying so the mind of man the mind of woman plans their ways but the Lord directs their steps that’s a great verse but it’s really a
stretch to practice it okay that’s what this message is about today my title is shift kind of using language from a car if you will you’re motoring along and you need to shift gears and turn corners when he here’s why here’s why it’s a challenge to practice it when humans make plans and we all do how many have plans later today of some kind okay some of you are going to wing it but most of you go no I got a plan I know where we’re
going to go and whatever it is so and and for the most part as people we like to carry them out we don’t just do this as a waste of time this thing called planning our ways but we want to we want to walk them through and carry them out that’s kind of a big deal to us so for most of us if someone or something gets in the way of us doing what we plan to do it’s a problem for us and in some cases
brings no small amount a frustration am I right I mean I know it’s like I live in the same world that you live in and at times it gets it morphs frustration grows into anger and we’re kind of we’re kind of like are you kidding me and we start to think of some some way around it that’s taking you a different direction or even through it if we have to now since I talked about our daughter in that flight think of your last flight that was
either delayed or canceled okay this how many has that happened in last year or two okay a lot of you are still stuck at the airport and you’re still bitter I know I know so okay so here’s the deal your flight was delayed or maybe canceled altogether and my follow-up question is how many of you just rolled with it and and said hey no problem wow what a gift we just got some unexpected free time I know what I’m gonna do with that I want to
go home and I’m going to chill out and I’m just gonna wow how nice of them anybody act that way because we have medical people that can help you with that right I mean that’s that’s out there I’ve been on a flight in Portland Bound for Amsterdam with 40 of you we were heading to Israel for a lifetime dream trip and our our bird never got off the ground like how many hours at the gate like 28 hours just kidding about four three hours whatever and
then they go huh it’s canceled so we had to flex and Flow and go a different direction we got there and we had a greatest time in the world but and and if you did I didn’t hear any yes yeah I’ve done that I it’s been canceled I go home and go man you know the Lord brought me a special unexpected gift if you did then you’re more like Jesus than me he’s going to say it because in that moment I’m like ah what do I
ah because usually we make plans that we hope will happen so we’ve got a little of us invested in it don’t we we you know what I’m talking about so just enough of this analysis but most of us go to the customer service people on scene and say hold up a sec and we start to make a case for the reparations they need to pay us for the way this canceled or delayed flight has wrecked our lives okay and I’ve watched it I’ve watched it happen
some of them are not going to give it up until the words from the gate agent says okay free flights for life right because we know we’ve wrecked your life now anything to get this guy out of here right so it’s a moment now today’s Journey with Paul and I set it up that way for a reason he is a Type A this is Alpha he’s a Type A apostle and you’ll see why Acts 20 actually you’ve seen why for a long time turn to Acts
20 and you’ll pick up right there there was a surprise twist that came his way there was neither a surprise nor a twist nor Plan B Stay With Me if you see it the way God saw it though okay so the crowd had dispersed last week they were very near a riot in Ephesus and from that they they Paul says okay I’m going to leave now the place didn’t blow up and I didn’t die so I’m going to leave and I’m going to head back up
into Macedonia which is the northern part of the Aegean Sea it’s a beautiful map search just go there and you’ll see it it’s Greece in the North and then it goes down to Ikea and the places like Corinth and and Athens in the South okay but Paul says okay I’m going to go and I’m gonna I’m gonna visit these churches I will make my rounds quickly and say hi to them and encourage them and all that kind of thing and then I’m going to be ready
to get home because Passover is coming was on his mind so his plan was to make his way all the way around the horn and spend some time visiting those people along the way cities like we’ve visited before in his other missions trips Philippi thessalonica Berea all those cool places which we may go to someday wouldn’t that be cool but anyway he’s making his way quickly and he ends up down in South Greece at Ikea it shows on your map but it’s Corinth we know it
from two biblical books in the Canon called Corinthians or first and second Corinthians okay so Paul is down there in Corinth and he stays there ministering we’re told for three months before boarding a vessel and he’s going to go if you were in Corinth you see it on a map you just turn basically East and sail for a long time and you end up in caesarea you go to Jerusalem which was his plan for the celebration of Passover and then you go back home which is
up north from Jerusalem in a place called Antioch okay that’s his plan then a totally unexpected development that’s almost easily missed in reading this happens and Paul has to Pivot quickly verse 1 chapter 20. When the Uproar we’ve covered that already in Ephesus ended Paul sent for the disciples and after encouraging them he said goodbye and sent out for Macedonia we’ve covered that he traveled throughout that area speaking many words of encouragement to the people that he had reached in earlier trips and finally arrived in
Greece where he stayed three months period what’s the next word it introduces a huh because some Jews had plotted against him just as he was about to sail for Syria and remember his plan was to get home he has a watch not really but he knows the date and he knows when Passover is and he wants to get to Jerusalem for Passover so just about the time he gets on board this vessel to sail for Syria he decides to go back through Macedonia because of a
plot against him read a murderous plan to do away with him this is not somebody that wants to Menace with him it’s somebody that wants to eliminate him it’s way bigger than that and it’s in the way how many of you have ever been away from home around the holidays and wanted like crazy to get home but something came up and you couldn’t okay was that an okay thing an easy thing or or was it kind of hard for you to manage Let Me Go a
step further if the reason you couldn’t get home had to do with some kind of Sinister plot against you probably that doesn’t apply but if it did it’s likely you’re you’re starting to look in the mirror with Paul at the next level of frustration it would represent that’s exactly this all I’m doing is get on a boat and the plan was these guys would be on that boat and he would be fish food Somewhere over the Mediterranean on his way to caesarea somehow he learns of
it and we’re not told exactly the details but let’s give the credit where it belongs to the Holy Spirit and says don’t go there Paul we’re going to go a different direction this reminded you of something that we covered in past studies two times in Acts 16 he says I want to go to Asia and God says the holy spirit says no Asia is good those people matter but not yet I want you to go to Europe Greece ah okay okay he keeps moving along then
he sets his his Compass to go to Asia again and again came the answer no that’s okay if the holy spirit’s telling you that but we’re told and I don’t think the holy spirit’s behind the so-called murderous plot against him but seven words tell us at the end of verse 3 we just read them so he decided to go back through Macedonia Paul shifts the plot to kill him called for a quick shift and he made it there’s not a lot of fanfare there’s not a
lot to even gather our attention here but he makes this shift to go back the way he came that’s what through Macedonia means remember I said Macedonia comes down through Ikea he’s been in Ikea down to Corinth for three months he’s about to go east on a vessel no can’t do it so he goes back through Macedonia that’s the plan and can I tell you something throughout the Book of Acts and you’ll see it more and more in the last eight chapters now we’re on the
home stretch I’m kind of sad so I’m going to go slow because there’s cool stuff here but on this you will see him pivot again and again you will see more of that if you and I took the time and I hope you’ve been with us either live stream or here in the house and you’ve said man there’s this is reminding me of something and it goes clear back to the beginning when Jesus and the Holy Spirit and Jesus in Acts 1 8 says you wait
in Jerusalem when you receive power you will be my Witnesses and you will go about to Jerusalem that’s nearby it was said to them in Jerusalem and Judea that’s a kind of a widening of the circle if you will and to Samaria an even Wider Circle and even to Tigard Oregon you’re going to be my Witnesses that’s where that were the implications of that and many many times along the way pivots were required it seems to me if you’ve had to cope with a sudden change
of plans you likely said something like I don’t get this another show of hands I’m keeping you involved today how many have stopped writing their tracks and said I don’t get this it doesn’t make sense I don’t get this it’s a question you’re asking right and who are you asking God God you’re in charge of my life you’re calling the shots I don’t get this I was going here and it seemed like a good idea you changed it up I don’t get this if you and
I wait for the answer I think the answer is going to be something like you know what it’s not yours to get Just Go With It I hope you’re writing that down at least in your heart I didn’t see a lot of hands moving but that to me is the powerful truth here really is I don’t get this I don’t care what it is you’re thinking of right now the answer if we believe that God is Sovereign if we believe that God’s plans are in play
if we surrender to Proverbs 16 verse 9. I plan my ways but you directed my steps we believed that then at some point we’ve got to find our way to okay God I don’t get this these guys are going to kill me on a boat I don’t get it but I’ll go with it all right True Confession yesterday was a first for me for some reason as a guy I never thought I’d find myself at Hobby Lobby I’m Debbie’s hobby hubby hobby hobby hubby get she
goes no you’re gonna love it you’re gonna love it and another True Confession I did it was cool there’s a man section did you know that I didn’t know that was gonna all be pink and there’s cool blue right so so I’m in Hobby Lobby right and Debbie had told me on our way in she goes you didn’t love it and she says there’s music even that they play that’s Christian music and I thought this is cool you know between Hobby Lobby now and Chick-fil-A I
got all I need in life right so here’s the deal we’re in there and sure enough and I stopped you and I said Debbie they’re playing that song it’s it’s the song where he leads me I will follow you know that expression and I thought I’m preaching on that tomorrow where he leads me I will follow and missionaries add what he feeds me I will swallow right so okay so here’s the deal Paul didn’t go alone Verses 4 to 6. Reveal that several other people and
I’m going to Pivot I don’t have time to go into detail I’m just going to read it quickly and have you do something with it on your own look at verse 4. So Paul shifts gears he heads North up the peninsula there and he was accompanied by sapater son of pirate papyrus from Berea that’s one of the churches that he planted aristarchus and segundus from thessalonica another church we’re familiar with Gaius from Derby way back at the beginning in galatia that’s the galatian region Timothy and
tictus and trophymus from the province of where Asia I couldn’t go there when I wanted to but look what’s happened since then that’s back in chapter 16 where are we 20 four chapters later I got these guys traveling with me who came from the province of Asia that I couldn’t go to until God said go very cool stuff here and there’s a whole bunch of hard names here but these men went on ahead and waited for us Paul Luke is saying here at troas which is
by the way when God finally said don’t go to Asia go to Europe he went to troas and stayed there Paul stayed there until a man in a vision said come on over we need you here we need the word you have we’ve got to have the gospel no one’s given it to us and that’s where that Vision came from really cool connection moments in all of this so these people notice we we see we but we sailed from Philippi after the Festival of unleavened bread
and five days later join the others at troas where we stayed seven days here’s what I want you to do the identities are here for a reason I’m the guy and this gets really hard in several places in the pentateuch and then in Joshua chapter one you have to endure a couple of days of this tribe got that and they lived there and all the and it’s it’s sometimes I speed read those days in the word it’s just a confession and I know you do too
so anyway but but here’s the deal they’re there for a reason all of these names are here for a reason the question is why were they traveling with him I want you to find out the answer to that here’s a hint second Corinthians chapter 8. All right second Corinthians chapter 8 you can read on in chapter nine you’re going to say man that’s a whole lot of Council advice about money and part of the reason they joined him because each one of them that’s why he
says they’re from all these churches each one of them joined him with a financial gift to take back where they were heading to Jerusalem why you asked you out well historically we know that there was a series of very serious famines and the hardest hit region was Judea Jerusalem and the people were starving all of these churches were not in Jerusalem they were they were outside Judea Samaria and other most so Paul would go through Reach people with the gospel tell them about these people they’ve
never met there’s a need over there like we did with Ukraine and boom it happens so all these guys are bringing a financial gift from Berea and from all these places thessalonica and they’re heading home to Jerusalem to present this as survival to these mostly Jewish Believers in Jerusalem there’s more why would he write all that to Corinthian people remember I said second Corinthians 8 that’s a letter to them you’ll read it and you’ll find out why because those people were tight wads it’s not in
the Bible but the Greeks there trust me they were guys that had money and we’re not responding generously and all those other churches where all these guys are from they were the ones that’s that came with lots of money of sacrificial gifts given to help people they’ve never met that’s a powerful picture again we don’t have time to go there and check it all out but I want you to do so by the way each one of those people I quickly read through and probably wrecked
their names they remained partners with Paul throughout his ministry so this doesn’t wasn’t just a trip back to Jerusalem for Passover these are guys that had their lives changed and they became partners with Paul in Ministry some as travel companions through the rest of his writings the letters he wrote there are 13 letters in total these many of them were traveling companions when he got arrested which is coming up real soon and taken to Rome several of them at different times were fellow prisoners with him
from the same list of guys it’s really cool stuff and some were sent by Paul because he was under arrest as emissaries take this message go get that tell that person how you do that with a cell phone not in that day see what I mean they all had this role and all of them are mentioned in various letters Paul wrote to the end I’ve included as I do each week supplemental scriptures for deeper reading and research they’re all there you’ll see their names in various
other letters and I hope you’ll track it down because it I my premise my bias and belief is that it’s not here to fill room on a page it’s important and you see well Lord maybe you’re calling me to be a a traveling companion with some I don’t know maybe you know you’re calling me to raise up the the wealthy and Tigard and we felt that in Ukraine and look what it did we got to we got to be part of something that was we’ll never
meet those people in this life but we had a difference we had a we had a part in making a difference in their lives so take after let’s come back to the text and and wrap it up with a really important story after taking this detour and I say that in quotes by land from Corinth to Philippi Paul in his team his companions celebrate Passover there not Jerusalem there and you knew I’ve established where they wanted to be they even had the days of unleavened bread
there and then they sailed for verse 6 tells us troas and we’re told that they were in troas for look at that how verse 6 ends seven days one week and Luke who’s now back with him that’s why from here to the end of Acts it’s now we you will read that pronoun it is no longer he somebody telling the story about Paul which Luke did but now we Luke’s with them and he travels to the end so verse 7 introduces a single day of that
week that was six days that stands out and you’ll see why for obvious reasons on the first day of the week we came together to break bread Paul spoke to the people they’re by the way their intro as Paul spoke to the people and because he intended to leave the next day kept on talking until midnight there were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting seated in a window sill was a young man named eudicus who was sinking into a deep sleep as
Paul talked on and on there’s some nervous Chuckles in this room right now when he was sound asleep you’d a kiss he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead Paul went down quickly through himself on the young man and put his arms around him don’t be alarmed Paul said he’s alive then he went upstairs again and continued broke bread and ate and continued talking until daylight and he left the people then took the young man home alive and were greatly
comforted this is such a cool story it’s a day that would not soon be forgotten it really wouldn’t and for obvious reasons happens on us happened on a Sunday first day of the week not Shabbat which would have been Friday night to Saturday night this is Sunday believed to be the first of the shift in the Christian approach to a Sunday Gathering first day of the week I’m not going there it’s just worth noting okay so here it is first day and we’re told that they’re
in in troas Breaking Bread this was likely the love Feast that Jude talks about in his letter chapter well it’s only one chapter verse 12. Jude talks about a love feast and we know it as communion we know communion to be the bread and the cup here it’s likely both and the normal practice of Believers in that day was to share a meal in the context of communion followed by other things we do still worship songs reading the Bible and long sermons that last part Bible
teaching was as I look at these things I I’m going to use the label an extended event okay and I think the reason is obvious he’s leaving the next day I got one shot is what he’s thinking and I’ll give up sleep which he did not everybody could ask you to kiss you get the idea here and and I think I think it’s fair to say Paul went a little long and and we get a couple of hints he kept on talking verse 7 says till
midnight and then verse 9 gets a little deeper he talked on and on who does that go ahead just get it out of your system just just get it out it’s okay and it’s I actually get lots of feedback from you and almost never why does he talk so long so I’m humbled by that so thank you and if I do ever bore you I have committed the greatest sin Swindoll warned me about don’t bore people so I’m trying my hardest and keeping my clothes on
to not bore you but anyway gosh where did that come from so let’s go back to this room okay where eudicus is it was upstairs third floor and we’re told that there’s many lamps they’re candles they’re flickering one other translation says they’re they’re flickering and like candles they give off heat third floor packed house uticus in a windowsill not exactly the brightest move but let’s not let’s not be hard on him he’s a teenager most believe eight to twelve years old and apparently his parents aren’t
there maybe they are my my bill I might be overreading verse 12. But they took them home and his family was greatly comforted I don’t know maybe the family took him home the point is he’s sitting there and he’s getting drowsy and finally he falls asleep and at the same time falls out of a three-floor window and I had all kinds of plans to make fun of that moment because I know how it turns out and so do you we just read it but bad things
happen if you fall asleep in a sermon that’s that was going to be my well I won’t I won’t I won’t Camp there very long I want you to notice that in verse 9 he’s not just sleeping on the ground now who wrote this Luke what was he a doctor The Physician declared him dead it’s a big deal he’s really dead and Paul’s actions they were quick unrehearsed he ran downstairs and he were told fell on this child he went down through himself on uticus put
his arms around him if you know your Bible you are immediately transported back to two very famous standout prophets Elijah and his successor Elisha who both took part in bringing the Holy Spirit used them to bring life into two dead Sons you cannot miss the connection here why was that being done I believe it was to say this guy we just heard preach and we just saw this dead child the darkest moment of anybody’s life especially onlookers they they saw with their own eyes he he’s
alive he really is this wasn’t just Paul talking we saw all that happen and they’re triggered way back to First Kings and the beginning of Second Kings to those two events putting Paul on par with Elijah and Elisha do you hear the bell ringing now it’s a credibility thing that’s off the charts it’s also a credibility thing to people that would tell this story that think only the mothership in jerusalems got their act together no here’s the Saul turn Paul he’s type a apostle and he’s
he’s being used by the powerful Holy Spirit to change lives including raise the Dead this is real stuff I I cannot imagine that night I cannot imagine how they ate or how they he he talked on some more I I maybe that’s all they talked about I don’t know that’s all I would have talked about I can’t believe that just happened as the media at the meeting that followed by the way it was now Dawn and it was finishing up the boy is taken home and
that had to be a story that I mean show and tell came to mind when I was thinking about it you know what What story do you have to tell this was one that would never be topped I was dead and Jesus touched me so we’re done with this today two words he left the story’s over next not next week because it’s Easter we get a glorious day of Celebration but the following week we’re going to come back we’re going to go to one of my
very favorite sections in Acts The Acts of the Apostles or the Holy Spirit and that’s where Paul says goodbye to the Ephesian elders we’re going to see beautiful things there and so don’t miss two weeks from today just like you won’t miss next Sunday but now a parting thought a quick one I began this message with a statement I don’t believe maybe some of you have detected that along the way I don’t believe that the Bible teaches Plan B I don’t that’s saying a lot because
Plan B is like filled with you’re kidding me in most cases I said that there is a popular proverb and quoted it the mind of man does plan his ways mind of woman does the same but the Lord directs their steps truth is it may look like Plan B I’m just speaking for my own personal assessment of this it it often does look that way but from God’s perspective what may seem like an adjustment or even an abandonment of a plan to us it is completely
aligned with his purpose that’s a very very bold statement to make but I think it has nothing no less impact than do you believe in the sovereignty of God please understand I’m I’m not there’s all kinds of exceptions that you could come at me with right now but if God is not sovereign we got another big problem on our hands so if you if you believe that then you believe as the book of Acts emphatically teaches us in every single page that God’s perfect plan stands
you can see why today is a great day for you to meet with some people and talk further about these truths it’s not a preacher talking this is just me summarizing a bunch of scripture that I’ve been studying I want to leave you with James words he was the half-brother of Jesus it’s in the book that bears his name Chapter 4 verses 13 to 16. I think it’s the intended takeaway of this talk today in view of Paul’s pivot think of your own pivot and take
in this truth look here you who say today or tomorrow we’re going to a certain town and we will stay there for a year and we will do business there and we we will make a prophet there how do you know what your life will be like tomorrow your life is like a morning fog it’s here for a little while and then it’s gone what you ought to say is if the Lord wants me to do that if he wants me to live and do this
or do that I will do that but if not all other boasting about your own pretentious plans is evil I love to plan I’m learning to be okay When God Says it’s not my plan let’s do this other direction and I think I’m getting better at that would you vow with me this morning I I’m well aware Holy Spirit as you’ve prompted in my heart and this whole morning is the belief that no bigger example exists then Palm Sunday then passion with Good Friday and Easter
Sunday Palm Sunday looked like they it was anybody with any with a couple of verses of understanding would say he’s here the King has come zachariah’s prophecies true the kingdom begins now but you showed us a different plan and I pray that you and your powerful work in my life and in people’s lives right here in this room and in the live stream would get to a place of saying not my will but thine be done in bigger little ways because truly your greatest plan because
you’re a sovereign God will unfold and I don’t want to fight against it I want to work with you see it carried out and fulfilled if you’re hearing these words today and you do not belong to Jesus Christ his desire is that none should perish but
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