Palm Sunday Quiz

You can read about the events of the first "Palm Sunday" in all four gospels.

Matthew 21:1-11

Mark 11:1-11

Luke 19:28-40

John 12:12-19

Follow me

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. (Luke 5:27-28)

Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi and said follow me. It was truly outrageous.

Levi wasn’t looking for Jesus. He was in this tax booth going about his day to day business.

Jesus went out and found Levi!

The Kingdom of Heaven is like...amazing!

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. (Matthew 13:44-46)

Jesus told these parables nearly 2000 years ago and I read them for the first time about 33 years ago!

You see for the first 28 years of my life I wasn't a Christian. I never went to Sunday school or a Christian youth group or anything like that. In fact I had never ever been to a church Sunday service!

Oh yes I’d been to church – to some weddings. Actually 4 weddings and a funeral!

But I’d never ever been to an ordinary service.

And then one evening some people knocked on our door and invited us to go to church!

And amazingly - we went!

Children of God

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! - 1 John 3 v1

John is flowing along in his letter then he puts a marker down “see”. In the King James Version it says, "Behold"

See - Behold – sit up – take notice - a really really big signpost that says take note - what I am about to say is really really important.

What great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

Now I appreciate that there is a sense in which all humankind are children of God in that He is our creator, our maker. But, and it’s a big but….

Christians are Children of God in a special, more profound, more fuller sense unlike and distinct from all other people!

John put it this way in chapter 1 of his gospel:

"to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God."

And Jesus said that we have to be born again. “Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.”

This is something we must never ever ever ever forget!