This sermon is an overview of the emotional ups and downs of Holy Week. Pastor Steve compares Holy Week to a wild roller coaster ride.

1. A Roller Coaster Ride
Through Holy Week

2. The Cyclone - 1927

4. First Part of the Holy Week
Journey
Palm Sunday
A Ride Towards the Top

5. Matthew 21
6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had
directed them. 7 They brought the donkey
and the colt and put on them their cloaks,
and he sat on them. 8 Most of the crowd
spread their cloaks on the road, and others
cut branches from the trees and spread
them on the road.

6. Matthew 21
9 And the crowds that went before him and
that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna
to the Son of David! Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in
the highest!” 10 And when he entered
Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up,
saying, “Who is this?”

7. Matthew 21
11 And the
crowds said,
“This is the
prophet Jesus,
from Nazareth
of Galilee.”

8. “But everyone who lined the
streets had a different reason
for waving those palms. Some
were political activists; they’d
heard Jesus had supernatural
power, and they wanted him
to use it to free Israel from
Roman rule.
Bill Hybels

9. Others had loved ones who
were sick or dying. They
waved branches, hoping for
physical healing. Some were
onlookers merely looking for
something to do, while others
were genuine followers who
wished Jesus would establish
himself as an earthly king.Bill Hybels

10. Jesus was the only one
in the parade who knew
why he was going to
Jerusalem – to die. He
had a mission, while
everyone else had an
agenda.”Bill Hybels

11. Zechariah 9
9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in
triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold,
your king is coming to you; He is just and
endowed with salvation, Humble, and
mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the
foal of a donkey.

12. Zechariah 9
10I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And
the horse from Jerusalem; And the bow of
war will be cut off. And He will speak peace
to the nations; And His dominion will be from
sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of
the earth.

13. Antiochus IV Epiphanes
The Abomination
That Brought
Desolation

14. Simon the Maccabee
Prince of Judah
142-135 B.C.

15. Hoshea-Na
“Save Us!”

16. Matthew 22:17
“Tell us, then, what you think. Is
it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar,
or not?”

17. Matthew 22
19 Show me the coin for the tax.” And they
brought him a denarius. 20 And Jesus said to
them, “Whose likeness and inscription is
this?” 21 They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said
to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the
things that are Caesar’s, and to God the
things that are God’s.”

18. Second Part of the Holy
Week Journey
Holy Thursday
The Quiet Before the Drop

19. The Quiet
Up Top

21. Luke 22
19 And he took bread, gave thanks
and broke it, and gave it to them,
saying, “This is my body given for
you; do this in remembrance of
me.”

22. Luke 22
20 “This cup that is poured out for
you is the new covenant in my
blood.”

24. Third Part of the Holy Week
Journey
Free Fall
The Journey Down the Via
Dolorosa

25. Terminal Velocity

26. “The Way of Suffering”

27. Caiaphas

28. “King” Herod
Agrippa
The Ethnarch

29. Pontius
Pilate

31. Matthew 27
55 There were also many women there,
looking on from a distance, who had
followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to
him, 56 among whom were Mary Magdalene
and Mary the mother of James and Joseph
and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

32. The American Church
39%
61%

33. Holy Week at GEFC
Good Friday: 7pm Communion Service
Easter Sunday (Normal Schedule)
• 8:15: Traditional Service
• 9:40: Sunday School/Adult Bible
Fellowships
• 10:45: Contemporary Service