It is not enough to confess Jesus Christ rose again from the dead. Even Satan knows that. Faith in Christ creates a life in which we live in that resurrection!
Just like the angel rolled away the stone, revealing an empty tomb, so our resurrected Savior Jesus Christ continues to work, doing the impossible every day.
The contemplation of the crucifixion of Christ causes us to think of our own death. Even more, to realize that who we are even now, in Christ, must die.
Palm Sunday can be viewed as the establishment of a kingdom that never was, but only will be in the future: The kingdom of Jesus. But King Jesus is now.
We can get so caught up with the pleasures of the world that over time, we don't realize that we simply have fallen in love with it...to our detriment.
Jesus taught that a Christian would never see or taste death. What did He mean? Even He died. One the cross! And Christians appear to die. So what is happening?
There were those in Jesus' day who wanted to kill Him. This is hard for us to understanding. But it should not be. For to the extent that we hate, we also wish to kill. So what can we do?