Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

I'm excited to be able to share the message this weekend as well. We started a series last weekend

entitled From Death to Life, where we're really leaning into this idea that because Jesus died and rose to life again,

that we can experience new life in every single area of our lives. And this weekend, in particular,

is Palm Sunday weekend. And so if you're not familiar with Palm Sunday, Palm Sunday commemorates the Sunday in which Jesus

went into Jerusalem on the final week before he was crucified. And the people lined the streets

and wave palm branches welcoming him and celebrating him as a long-awaited king. And so today,

I'm going to share a message out of 1 Peter chapter 5.

We're going to look at verse 6, and you're going to see a correlation between that passage

and Palm Sunday.

And so if you want to turn in your Bible's there, as you're making your way there,

I want to begin with a quick story, though.

So my wife and I have four kids. We have an 11-year-old

daughter named Judah. We have a nine-year-old son named Jaden. We have a five-year-old daughter

named Jordan, and then we have a three-year-old son named Justice. Well, our nine-year-old son,

when he was five years old, he was playing soccer, okay? And he's actually a pretty good athlete, but in that season of his life, he just didn't care. And so, therefore, you would watch him on the soccer field, and there was no aggression, there was no tenacity, there was no sense of urgency. In fact, my son, he's actually a really good

athlete, but my son was the kid that when there was a rock pile, because they're five years old,

so they're just fighting over the ball at that time. And then someone would break out of the rock

pile. And if they were on the opposing team, my son would run fast enough to catch up with them, but instead of cutting them

off or going after the ball, my son would escort them to the goal and encourage them to score.

And this was very frustrating for my wife and I because we are, has been athletes living vicariously

through our children, which is healthy

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