The King We Want vs. the King Who Came by Brett Meador

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Athey Creek Christian Fellowship

Christianity, Pdx, Through The Bible, West Linn, Scripture, Bible Teaching, Day By Day, Church, Brett Meador, Portland, Oregon, Jesus, Athey Creek, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In Galatians 5:1, Paul addresses a major issue in the Galatian church: a failure to understand the true freedom Christ came to give. On Palm Sunday 2026, we look at how similar confusion happened when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey to shouts of “Hosanna.” As we study, we see how Jesus has been misunderstood throughout history, why these misconceptions and fickleness are so dangerous to our faith, and the true freedom we find when we understand who He really is and why He came.

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0:00.0	Well, let's get to it.
0:01.2	Normally we go verse by verse, chapter by chapter,
0:04.4	book by book through the Bible.
0:05.6	We don't skip a verse, chapter, or book.
0:08.6	But it is Palm Sunday, so I thought I'd do
0:10.8	a nice little Palm Sunday sermon this morning.
0:13.7	So for this study, I'd like you to turn in your Bible
0:16.4	to Galatians chapter five.
0:24.0	Now, if you're wondering why we're laughing there, because that's where we are and are through the Bible study.
0:25.6	But I've found that where we are in our Bible study is where we are in life and what's going
0:31.5	on around us.
0:32.5	And by the way, the Bible, it's not hard to see interconnections.
0:36.7	The whole Bible is this complex matrix of God's word
0:41.9	to humanity and it all fits beautifully together. It's not hard to find, you know, the truth all
0:49.2	embedded together. And here in Galatians 5, I'll show you the connection to Poem Sunday. And it's actually quite
0:55.7	amazing when you think about it. In Galatians, Paul is arguing for sticking to just simple
1:03.3	faith in Christ Jesus, for it's by Jesus you're saved through faith, not of yourselves.
1:09.0	It's not a list of things to do or being better or trying
1:12.1	harder. You see, the Galatian people were being troubled by troublemakers to add to the list.
1:19.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're saved by Jesus and all that stuff, but there's more.
1:22.8	And you've got to do more and be more. Now, it's a little little scare if you were a dude back in those days in the
1:29.1	churches of Galatia, what were they saying you had to do? Well, it'd be like this. Yeah, you're a
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