April 13th - Living Stones

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Scripture Passages: Luke 19:28-44; 1 Peter 2:4-10

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Lenten Guided Prayer
"Come to the Living Rock"

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Palm Sunday
Living Stones

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Palm Sunday Prediction
43 ... your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 ...They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.

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What Rocky Johnson saw
5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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Palm Prediction #2
40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

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What Peter saw, heard and felt
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

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A radical change
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” ... 21 ... the temple he had spoken of was his body.

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Who is Jesus to you?
“The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
8 and,
“A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”

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Palm Sunday celebration five days before crucifixion: bittersweet.
Can you taste the bitter and the sweet?

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Psalm 30:5
For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
but rejoicing comes in the morning.