Notices 1. Easter Sunday 20 April – Guest Easterfest Artists – ‘Corinthia Music’ (Naomi & Noralyn Jowett) 2. Prayer for Kids Club leaders (Primary School age) for Friday afternoons at Harlaxton Neighbourhood Centre in Term 2 3. Pray for Youth Group leaders (High School age) for Saturday nights at Rockville SS in Term 2 4. Revival Prayer Meeting (QB’s Prayer Focus Week) – Wednesday 6 June at Harlaxton Neighbourhood Centre 6pm-9pm

Theme: “Hosanna! – Jesus Demonstrates His Messiahship” John 12:10-19 PALM SUNDAY

John 12:10-19 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and putting their faith in him. The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the King of Israel!” Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written, “Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”

John 12:10-19 At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realise that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him. Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. Many people, because they had heard that he had given this miraculous sign, went out to meet him. So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”

Luke 19:41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it

1. The Prophecies of Scripture fulfilled

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Mark 14:27 “You will all fall away,” Jesus told them, “for it is written: “`I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

Zechariah 13:7 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!” declares the LORD Almighty. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Zechariah 11:12-13 I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter” — the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.

2. Christ’s entry into Jerusalem was deliberate and dramatic

John 12:23-24 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The Path to the Cross

John 12:32-33 But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.” He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die. The Path to the Cross

1 Kings 11:29-32 The Use of Drama About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country, and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces. Then he said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: `See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and give you ten tribes. But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe. The Use of Drama

Acts 21:10-11 After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says, `In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’“ The Use of Drama

3. What is your response to the Messiah?

Matthew 1:6 and 1:16 ………………. David was the father of Solomon (1:6) ……….Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ (1:16)

Luke 3:31 and 3:23 ……….the son of Nathan, the son of David (3:31) …………. Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli (3:230

Zechariah 12:12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”