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  • Palm Sunday: A Day, A Doorway by Pastor Steve Dow on Sunday, April 13, 2025
    The four Gospels give the biography of Jesus. Four different writers with four different perspectives. Yet all four, focus on the last week of Jesus life. 35% of each book is devoted to the last week. Matthew, Luke, Mark (Peter) and John, all felt we could not understand Jesus unless we understood this last week of His life.
    Palm Sunday is a Day and a Doorway. It matters because of the paradoxes revealed.
    A week that begins in triumph ends in tragedy.
    The Jews were expecting Jesus to overthrow the Roman rulers, but instead, He overthrew death, hell, the grave, sin and darkness.
    The last week signaled a paradigm shift for humanity.
    From cheering crowds to the weeping Christ.
    From joy to judgement.
    From waving palm branches to waving whips.
    Matthew 21 tells of Jesus cleansing the Temple.
    The Jews were expecting a Regime Change-they got a Revolution!
    Mark 11, the donkey takes up half the story.
    Why does Jesus need this donkey?
    Why does He get it in such an unusual way?
    This begs the question: What does He need from you?
    What do you have that no one else has to advance the Kingdom?
    Luke 19 contrasts the reaction to Jesus: a story of Mixed Reviews.
    John 12 is a preview of Coming Attractions; by tying Jesus’ entry to Lazarus’ death and resurrectionS, previews what Jesus will go through. John 12;23-24 Palm Sunday is not, and cannot be, just a day of triumph (He’s King!), but also the start of His suffering (the only crown this King will wear is thorns). It wasn’t long before those singing “Hosanna,” were shouting, “Crucify Him.” Philippians 2:5-11 Christ’s trajectory- kenosis-downward emptying, then upward exaltation. The same path is required for believers today!
    The last week of Jesus’ life is a tale of two basins: The basin Jesus used to wash the disciple’s feet. The basin Pilot used to wash his hands of responsibility for this state-sponsored murder. The last week of Jesus life was a turning point, from action to passion. Things are no longer done by Him, but TO Him. Jesus most powerful work is done in His passion. Could it just be possible that our greatest contribution in life may be not through our achievements as usually defined but through our suffering?”
    This week culminated with Jesus dying between two felons. Jesus became the One who does not count, so He could rescue all of us who do not count.
    Today, we celebrate the day, and we walk through the Doorway!
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    34 min
  • The Intersection of Purpose by Brandon Perritte on Sunday, April 13, 2025
    "We live in a day and age where everything is about us, but a biblican definition of purpose is a divine intention of God to use your life, even the painful parts, for His glory and for the good of others."
    --Brandon Perritte
    Let's begin by opening our Bibles to Genesis chapter 50.
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    31 min
  • The False Ideas Related to Pluralism - Part 2 by Dr. Joe L. Mott on April 14, 2025
    References:
    (1) Christianity is exclusivistic; it claims to be the one and only true religion.
    (2) The greatest stumbling block for nonbelievers coming to faith in Jesus Christ is the issue of EXCLUSIVITY. You may be reasonable in your explanation of Christianity to your acquaintances, but trust me, you will lose all credibility when you insist that faith in Christ is the ONLY PATH to heaven. But that is what the NT teaches.
    (3) Foremost is the diagnostic question: Who is God? What one believes about God affects EVERYTHING ELSE that a person believes. When Mortimer Adler, editor of the Great Books of the Western World, was asked why the “God” section of the Great Books was the largest section, he observed that it’s because more IMPLICATIONS flow from the subject of God than from any other subject.This then is the supreme, universal diagnostic question, important to each one of us.
    (4) But the people still were, by and large, NOT SATISFIED with the written word. God seemed too REMOTE, they wanted to see Him up close and personal.
    (5) John Piper on an article “Will We See God in Eternity,” says, “If you look at all the texts (on this issue), you will see that there are 2 different senses in which His people can see God and 2 senses in which they cannot see God.”
    (6) Second diagnostic question: Who is Jesus? The apostle John wrote: “No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has fully EXPLAINED Him” (John 1:18).
    (7) Jesus is the perfect MIRROR for God.
    (8) Jesus brought God the Father very NEAR.
    (9) Jesus has the ONLY SOLUTION to the problem of sin. He doesn’t tell you to DENY it, nor to COVER IT UP, nor to BLAME it on SOMEONE ELSE. He says, “Repent of sin, confess it to God, bring it to Me, and I will take it and cast it into the deepest sea where you will BE SAFE FOREVER MORE.”
    (10) There is clear DISTINCTION between Christianity and every other religion. In Christianity we have a Savior who can really save us from our sin. All other religions believe people can EARN salvation by trying to do good works.
    (11) The believer rests in the hand of Jesus; that mighty hand is closed over the believer and NO ONE can SNATCH him out of Jesus’ hand. The Father who is greater than all and no one is able to SNATCH him out of the Father’s hand” [John 10:27-28]. That person’s soul is safe from the perils of sin forever. We rest in the hands of Jesus. That mighty hand is closed over believers. Then God the Father’s hand is closed over Jesus and the believer.
    This is Episode 219.
    18 min

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