Sermon from March 16

The Messiah and King
Palm Sunday 08

Matthew 21: 1 - 17

1. (review) God has provided a way to return to paradise for those who trust him. The price is going to be high, but God has provided a substitute sacrifice. Only those who have faith will enter.
2. Jesus entered Jerusalem as our King and Messiah. A King with the power to bring us into heaven, and a Messiah who paid the price with his own blood.
3. The way back to paradise is not through religion; it is through a relationship with God himself. (Jesus was angry toward the religious leaders of the day because they were pious, but their hearts were far from God...)
4. Being religious will never be enough to get us back to paradise.
5. The only way back is by being born again. John 3:3
6. Our church must always be called a house of prayer.