Message from John 12:20-33. Today’s message started with gentiles looking to meet Jesus. However instead of welcoming them, Jesus taught a lesson to his disciples, and from then to his readers and followers today. If we want to meet him, to follow him, to serve him, it is going to be costly. Like the first Palm Sunday when people who support him chanted Hossana as he came into the city, yet fled when he was captured and tortured five days later. We need to be prepared that serving him is not going to be a bed of roses. We can expect opposition, challenge, pain, even unto death. Are we ready to serve and follow? We need not search anymore. We know whom we serve and what he wants us to do. It is time to share his kingdom to the world. Remember his journey this last week of his life: suffering, death and resurrection. Remember our own baptisms, and continue to seek him to know him. How? We ended the message with the response song: Shepherd of my soul, Only He can guide us sheep as a shepherd would. God bless you this Palm Sunday!

1. Whoever
serves me
must follow
me!
Palm Sunday: 24th March 2024
All scripture references taken from https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/index.php
All images and visuals taken from the Internet

2. What is going on today?

3. Today…
What does God’s Word have to say to us today?
Mark 8:27-38

4. 12:20 Now among those who
went up to worship at the
festival were some Greeks.
12:21 They came to Philip,
who was from Bethsaida in
Galilee, and said to him, "Sir,
we wish to see Jesus."
12:22 Philip went and told
Andrew; then Andrew and
Philip went and told Jesus.

5. Jesus
answered
them, "The
hour has
come for
the Son of
Man to be
glorified.
Very truly, I
tell you…

6. What is the message for TODAY?
Message to those who follow Jesus
1. God is glorified as Jesus is glorified…. We are part of this team, family
2. To serve Him is to follow Him…. His ways and His suffering
3. As He calls the world to Him, we are to be part of his team, to be disciples and to
make disciples (feed and tend his sheep and testify on his behalf)
4. Now is the TIME to follow Him…

7. 12:26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also.
Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.
12:29 The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, "An angel has
spoken to him."

8. 12:30 Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.
12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
12:32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
12:33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.

9. What is the message for TODAY?
Message to those who want to see Jesus
This is what must happen:
1. Judgement of the world will come
2. This is the time to listen to Jesus
3. His death will lead to his resurrection and
victory!
4. Now is the TIME to decide to follow Him…

10. What is the message for TODAY?
Lent: Remember His suffering
Easter:
Remember His
resurrection
Good Friday:
Remember
His death

11. What is the message for TODAY?
Be baptized /
Remember our baptisms
Know
the
Lord
Seek the Lord

12. Shepherd of my soul I give You full control
Wherever You may lead I will follow
I have made the choice to listen for Your voice
Wherever You may lead I will go

13. Be it in a quiet pasture or by a gentle breeze
The shepherd of my soul is by my side
Should I face a mighty mountain or a valley dark and deep
The shepherd of my soul will be my guide