Palm Sunday 2018 Easter Week

ThornCreek Church March 23 - 24, 2018

Message Study Guide (Scriptures & quotes from this week’s message are available on thorncreek.church/live) Warming up 1. What prayer that you have taken to God not been answered? 2. Why do you think it is taking so long for God to respond? Digging Deeper & Application Take your time reading the scripture given. If possible look up the verses in different versions and pause at each verse and discuss it. 3. Read Zechariah 9:9. This was prophesied 480 years before Jesus ever walked this earth. a. What does this verse say? b. What does the name Zechariah mean? c. What are the characteristics of this coming king? 4. Read Luke 9:51. a. What is significant about Jesus going to Jerusalem? b. Have you ever considered Jesus was the most focused person to ever walk this earth? 5. According to John 11:55-56, what Jewish celebration was about to start up during Jesus’ arrival? During this time, it is estimated there were 256,000 lambs. (10 people minimum per lamb). There were about 2.7 million people in Jerusalem. 6. According to John 12:9, there was also someone else that the people wanted to see. a. Who was it? b. Why do you think they wanted to see him? 7. Pastor Ruben said, “People are starving to see a Lazarus. A life that has been authentically and irreversibly changed by Jesus Christ.” a. Would you agree or disagree with this statement? b. Does this describe your life? c. What needs to happen for you to become a Lazarus?

8. Read Luke 19:29-34. a. What do you think the apostles were thinking about Jesus’ request? 1​ ​- ​#tcPalmSunday

Palm Sunday 2018 Easter Week

ThornCreek Church March 23 - 24, 2018

b. What do you think the owner believed? c. The owner gave away his donkey to Jesus. It became the most famous donkey in the world. d. Is there anything in you life that God has asked you to give Him? Talk about it. 9. Now comes the Triumphal Entry. Please read John 12:12-19. a. Based on what we know about this day, what types of expectations did the crowd have on this day? b. How was it different from the purpose of Jesus? 11. Have you surrendered every circumstance in your life to Jesus Christ? Are you trusting Him with His timing? Application Below a​re the main points of the message. Discuss how they apply to your life. ●

God has not forgotten you. God has not forgotten your prayer. Trust God’s timing. Stay faithful.

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Jesus shed His blood for you, so that the wrath of God would pass over you. It was the precious blood of Jesus Christ that kept you. That’s grace.

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One of the greatest mistakes humans make is we underestimate the power of our gift to God.

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“Palm Sunday is an incredible parable of the life long mismatch of what we think we need and what God has provided. What we think we need is almost always shallow. God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he does. If you learn this you’ll live a contented, non-anxious life.”

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