April 19, 2020 - We will be starting with some praise songs, because of that we need to supply our music license number 2646992. 

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Due to technical difficulties this weeks message is in two videos

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Recap: Palm Sunday -

• Jesus's triumphant return to Jerusalem.

• First place He went was to the temple and was displeased with the activity happening within.

• Jesus restored the temple. Jesus welcomes the children.

Faith, no doubt, and belief​

• Look for opportunities to teach the love of Jesus.

• Jesus shared our humanity, he became hungry, tired, angry, sad. He understands our struggles and needs.

• The disciples were shocked/amazed when Jesus spoke a fig tree dead.

• We are constantly amazed when we see God work. Have faith, do not doubt, and believe in God and He will tell/show you.

• Love God with all you are and with all you have, and love your neighbors.

• Focus on God and His plan for your life. It is a plan of hope and prosperity.

• Even with the pandemic, the rest of life still takes place. Have faith in Him.

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Today's Scriptures

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​Matthew 21:1-17

When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, 2 telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there with her colt. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.”

4 This took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:

5 Tell Daughter Zion,
“See, your King is coming to you,
gentle, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt,
the foal of a donkey.”

6 The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. 8 A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. 9 Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted:

Hosannato the Son of David!
Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!
Hosannain the highest heaven!

10 When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar, saying, “Who is this?” 11 The crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Cleansing the Temple

12 Jesus went into the temple and threw out all those buying and selling. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. 13 He said to them, “It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!”

Children Praise Jesus

14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that he did and the children shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant 16 and said to him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?”

Jesus replied, “Yes, have you never read:

You have prepared praise
from the mouths of infants and nursing babies?” 

17 Then he left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

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Matthew 21:18-22

Early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. 19 Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.

20 When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

21 Jesus answered them, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you tell this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will be done. 22 And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”