Reflections on Palm Sunday | What Brings Us Peace

Date: April 2, 2023
Worship Leader: Chris Tien
Speaker: Chris Peppler
Passages: Luke 19:28-44
Study Resource: Holy Week Timeline

Devotional Song Links: Peace by Jennifer Knapp and Firm Foundation by Maverick City

Devotional Guide: 

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Palm Sunday 2023

“As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace - but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” - Luke 19: 41-44 

Question ONE: What steals your peace?

• False Comforts: In the flesh. Even if it meant confinement. We want Egypt again. We want predictability. We want full stomachs.
  
  
• Complaints: We don’t want humility, we don’t want accountability. We don’t want the disciplined work of expressing gratitude, we want pity. 
  
  
• Control: We want to call the shots, we want to know what’s coming next. We want to worship what we can hold in our own hands. We want control. 

Question TWO: What brings true peace? (This is a week to gaze upon Jesus) 

“The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, whether, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.” - Colossians 1:15-20