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Palm Sunday 2022
John 12:12-19

You cannot grasp something new without releasing something old.

We sometimes think we can grow and change without realizing some old concepts and misconceptions will have to be let go of.

We must be willing to be transplanted from the flower pot and into the garden.

I like new adventures and new opportunities to learn and grow. The only way you can take advantage of those things is to be able to leave the old baggage behind.

No wonder Jesus told us we cannot put “new wine in old wine skins.”

Jesus said He makes “all things new.”
The Victory won at the Cross includes forgiveness, peace of mind… and a new life.

2 Cor 5:17 – “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

Do you ever look back at the past and re-live it - just like it happened today?

If God has closed a door, why do we insist on trying to reopen it?

Jesus said to the woman, "Where are your accusers? Didn't even one of them condemn you?"
"No, Lord," she said. And Jesus said, "Neither do I. Go and sin no more."

“Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.”

That sounds great – as long as you are free to fully participate in this new day that God has given us.

If the weight of the past is still on your shoulders, you’re not really free to experience this new day – because part of yesterday is still clouding up your heart.
Jesus : - “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
John 12:12-19: The next day the news that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem swept through the massive crowd gathered for the feast. So they took palm branches and went out to meet him. Everyone was shouting, “Lord, be our Savior! Blessed is the one who comes to us sent from Jehovah-God, the King of Israel!”
Then Jesus found a young donkey and rode on it to fulfill what was prophesied: “People of Zion, have no fear! Look—it’s your king coming to you riding on a young donkey!”
Now Jesus’ disciples didn’t fully understand the importance of what was taking place, but after he was raised and exalted into glory, they understood how Jesus fulfilled all the prophecies in the Scriptures that were written about him.
All the eyewitnesses of the miracle Jesus performed when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead kept spreading the news about Jesus to everyone. The news of this miracle of resurrection caused the crowds to swell as great numbers of people welcomed him into the city with joy. But the Pharisees were disturbed by this and said to each other,
“We won’t be able to stop this. The whole world is going to run after him!”
Despite all the good Jesus had done – and all He told them He had come to accomplish – “the Pharisees were disturbed by this and said to each other,
‘We won’t be able to stop this. The whole world is going to run after him!’”
They were holding on to an Old Testament world that seemed to suit them just fine. It kept them in control.
Reminds me of Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Despite everything they had seen and experienced – despite the miracle working power by the Hand of God to deliver them out of bondage – they still found themselves doubting… even looking back fondly at their time in captivity.
Numbers 11:5,6: - “We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost—also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
Exodus 14:10-12: As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
The old mindset will fight desperately to survive.
Comfort zones may not always have been so “comfortable” - yet we have been conditioned to accept them as they way things are and will always be.
The friends of your old mindset will also fight desperately to keep you with them and their way of thinking.
The carnal mind cannot comprehend the Grace of God.
Everyone deserves a new start – because God loves us all the same.

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

This was a prophetic Word for the Children of Zion.

In the next chapter:
“For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.”

Who are these offspring – these descendants?

These are the New Covenant Children of God. The Redeemed of the Lord.

This New Covenant – the promise of a “new thing” - came through the Blood of Christ – shed on the Cross for you and me.

‘We won’t be able to stop this. The whole world is going to run after him!’”

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

That “new thing” rises out of us through Christ in us.

Hebrews 13:20 “May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to him.”


The Message of the Cross is that we can have a new life through Jesus Christ.
The Message Jesus preached was a threat to the old guard – the old rule of law and judgment.

When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey…
Despite all the good Jesus had done – and all He told them He had come to accomplish – “the Pharisees were disturbed by this and said to each other,
‘We won’t be able to stop this. The whole world is going to run after him!’”
You can be a real Christian and still be living under real guilt and real condemnation over things you have done in the past. (agreed?)

Our Spirit has been born again, but our minds have to be transformed – our souls renewed.
Renew you mind – renew your life.

If you think the same old thoughts, you’ll replay the same old life.

What if I told you…
You are being held back by a distant memory of who you used to be?
(not who you are today)

Satan is the accuser – and he would love to keep you in shackles over your past mistakes.

“Behold, I make all things new.”

Do you believe you really have Christ in you? Then why do you feel limited?

It is only by looking back – or feeling stuck in our pasts – that we can still live in condemnation.

The voice of condemnation is not the voice of the Holy Spirit – so we shouldn’t listen to that condemning voice- no matter where it is coming from.

If God says you are forgiven, you are forgiven.

If Jesus says He “makes all things new” then they are new.

Maybe you don’t feel that things are new just yet?

David wrote: Psalm 42:5, 6: “Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again--my Savior and my God! Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you…”

Verse 8: “each day the LORD pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life.”

You need a refreshing?
The Bible says “times of refreshing come from the Presence of the Lord.”

Acts 3:19 – “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord…”

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Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
Pastor: Mike J Koger

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