Palm Sunday : Perfect Timing
Palm Sunday : Perfect Timing
Pastor Charlie Weir
God’s perfect timing is precisely executed timing.
Trusting God’s perfect timing secures your relationship with Him and His peace in you.
Trust is the foundation of all life-giving relationships. The more we trust God the more we will include God in our lives. Conversely, the less we trust God the less we will include God in our lives. The quality of our relationship with God is directly proportionate to the quantity of our trust in God.
Peace in anything is dependent on trusting God’s timing in everything. Your peace in life will always impact your quality of life.
Isaiah 26:3,4 You (God) will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. 4 Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.
Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday make up the perfect week and together they flesh out the core of Christianity.
· On Good Friday we celebrate Jesus as “The Perfect Sacrifice” and not a martyr’s death.
· On Easter Sunday we celebrate God’s ability to produce “The Perfect Ending” out of what appeared to be a total loss.
· On Palm Sunday we celebrate God’s “Perfect Timing” although it is often overlooked.
· Christianity isn’t a belief system contrived to manage the unmanageable surprises of life.
· Christianity isn’t a philosophical system devised to guide values, morals and ethics.
· Christianity is a faith system that exchanges “dead end living” for eternal life made possible by the person of Jesus.
Christianity cannot be embraced without embracing Jesus as Man. Christianity cannot be of effect without understanding Jesus as God. Jesus is the God-Man.
John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Genesis 1:1-2, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
All of creation was perfectly planned and executed by God and so was our redemption.
Ephesians 1:3-8a 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us.
Luke 19:29-44 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, 30 “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’” 32 Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 They replied, “The Lord needs it.” 35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road. 37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: 38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” 39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” 40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” 41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 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. 43 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. 44 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.”
We don’t have to understand God’s timing for God’s timing to be perfect.
Jesus is trustworthy even when we aren’t. Jesus’ timing is perfect even when we can’t do the math.
Why would God be so trustworthy and so precise with our salvation and not be so with our lives?
God is trustworthy and His timing is perfect.