One Week to Live Part One: The Guy with the Donkey – March 6, 2024

Pastor Jim Bryant

John 12:23-24 (NLT)

23 Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory.

24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives.

John 13:1 (NLT)

1 Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.

 He was proclaimed King.

John 12:13 (ESV)

13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”

He was proclaimed Messiah.

Matthew 21:9 (NASB)

9 The crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David; Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest!”

He was proclaimed Victorious.

Matthew 21:8 (NASB)

8 Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road.

Matthew 21:1-2 (NASB)

1…Jesus sent two disciples,

2 saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me.

Matthew 21:3 (NASB)

3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

1. We all have something that God needs.

Psalm 24:1 (NKJV)

1 The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.

Psalm 50:10-11 (NASB)

10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know every bird of the mountains, and everything that moves in the field is Mine.

Why does God ask us for things He already owns?

Obedience

Matthew 21:3 (NASB)

“The Lord has need of them, and immediately he will send them.”

Stewardship

1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)

10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.

Matthew 25:14 (NLT)

14 Again, the Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip. He called together his servants and entrusted his money to them while he was gone.

Matthew 25:18 (NASB)

18 The servant who was given five talents went and invested them, and earned five more. The servant who was given two talents went and invested them and earned two more. The servant who was given one talent “…Dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.”

Good stewards, are those who view what is theirs, as His, and make it available whenever He might need it.

Generosity

John 3:16 (NKJV)

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Proverbs 11:24-25 (NLT)

24 Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything.

25 The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.

 2. God uses our ordinary gifts to accomplish extraordinary things.

Zechariah 9:9 (NASB)

9 Rejoice 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.

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