It doesn’t take much to realize that something in our world, and in us, isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. We feel it in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world around us. Something is off. Something is broken. We were made for life with God, in the wholeness, security and peace he created us for. But when sin entered the picture, that reality was fractured. Ever since, we’ve been living with the effects.

But God has not left things that way.

As we begin our Easter series this Sunday, Palm Sunday, we’re going to see that Jesus came with a purpose. We can see it in the way he entered Jerusalem. He came as a King, stepping into the very place where everything had gone wrong. Not just to be seen, but to begin setting everything right. To understand that moment, we’ll look back to what was originally given, face honestly what was lost, and see why what we need is not just little changes here and there, but full restoration.

That’s exactly what Jesus came to do. What was lost at the beginning, he has come to reclaim. And as he enters the city, the question isn’t just what we see, it’s what we’ll do with him. Will I keep him at a distance? Or will I submit to the King who has come to restore what I could never fix on my own?

Series: All Things New

Message 1- Palm Sunday. The Garden Revisited

Text: Genesis 2:15-17; Romans 5:12-21; Matthew 21:1-11

Jordan Coros

Harvest Bible Chapel

March 29, 2026

What was lost, Jesus comes to reclaim.

1) I see the life we were made for (Genesis 2:15-17)

Psalm 100:3

2) I face the ruin we brought on ourselves (Romans 5:12-21)

Romans 6:23

"…for the sin committed by human beings can be traced to their entering the world spiritually dead and alienated from God…Adam as the head of the human race sinned as our representative, and we are sinners by virtue of being in corporate solidarity with Adam…thus all people inevitably sin because they enter this world alienated from God."

- Thomas Screiner, Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

3) I submit to the King who came to restore it (Matthew 21:1-11)

“[Jesus’] actions on Sunday set in motion a series of events that could result only in either his overthrow of the Romans and the current religious establishment—or his brutal death. [SLIDE 14] He has crossed the point of no return; there would be no turning back.”

- Kostenberger & Taylor, The Final Days of Jesus

Romans 5:19