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The Humble King | Sermon for Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020

Worship Service for the Triumphal Entry of Our Lord

Rev. Gregory Mech | Sunday, April 5, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church ONLINE – Joplin, MO | Today’s Sermon: “The Humble King”

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“It is not my intention to ever pray in the name of a dead man. Every time I pray and close my prayer ‘In the name of Jesus Christ,’ I pray in the name of my risen Lord.”

from Today’s Sermon with Pastor Mech entitled, “The Humble King”

Hymn

“Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” LSB 443

1 Hosanna, loud hosanna,The little children sang;Through pillared court and templeThe lovely anthem rang.To Jesus, who had blessed them,Close folded to His breast,The children sang their praises,The simplest and the best.

2 From Olivet they followedMid an exultant crowd,The victor palm branch wavingAnd chanting clear and loud.The Lord of earth and heavenRode on in lowly stateNor scorned that little childrenShould on His bidding wait.

3 “Hosanna in the highest!”That ancient song we sing;For Christ is our Redeemer,The Lord of heav’n our King.Oh, may we ever praise HimWith heart and life and voiceAnd in His blissful presenceEternally rejoice!

Psalm 118:19-29

Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.

This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.

I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day that the Lord has made;

let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success!

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us.

Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar! You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

John 12:12-19

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,“Fear not, daughter of Zion;behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

Verses

This is the day the Lord has made;Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24From the rising of the sun to its setting,The name of the Lord is to be praised. Psalm 113:3Return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful,Slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil. Joel 2:13Jesus said, “If anyone would come after Me,Let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.”Matthew 16:24[Christ] was wounded for our transgressions.He was bruised for our iniquities. Isaiah 53:5From the rising of the sun to its setting,The name of the Lord is to be praised. Psalm 113:3Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Ame