He is risen!

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Holy week.

• The week of Passover – Numbers 28:16-17 (NLT) – On the fourteenth day of the first month, you must celebrate the Lord’s Passover. ¹⁷ On the following day—the fifteenth day of the month—a joyous, seven-day festival will begin, but no bread made with yeast may be eaten. 

From the best thing since sliced bread.

• Jesus is a Rockstar! – John 12:12-13 (NKJV) – The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel!”
• All this is predicated but a recent miracle Jesus had just done – John 12:9 (NLT) – When all the people heard of Jesus’ arrival, they flocked to see him and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had raised from the dead.

To worst than dirt.

• The enemy saw also – John 12:10-11 (NLT) – Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too, ¹¹ for it was because of him that many of the people had deserted them and believed in Jesus.
• And Jesus knew something was up though – John 12:27-28 (NKJV) – “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.”
• Much of the same crowd on Palm Sunday now are shouting “Crucify Him” to Jesus – John 19:15 (NKJV) – But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

To Savior of the world.

• But something much more significant was about to happen – 1 Corinthians 2:7-9 (NKJV) – But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, ⁸ which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
• The resurrection of Jesus would also open the graves of others – Matthew 27:51-52 (NLT) – At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart, ⁵² and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead.

Communion – the last teaching of Jesus before the cross.

• Jesus institutes communion, the Last Supper – Luke 22:15-20.
• This is re-confirmed in book of Revelation – Revelation 3:20 (NLT) – Jesus says “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.”
• Are you willing to see things that have yet to be seen?? – 1 Corinthians 2:9

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