your only hope. But for some people, it may be the fact that they've heard or come to understand

it and understand him more clearly than ever before. And if that happens to you today, I pray that

you'd make a decision to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. But today would be, and right now would be a good

time for me to say that starting today, this Palm Sunday, goes all the way through this week,

called Passion Week

under Resurrection Sunday, that we're all very careful not to view these things in a common way.

Meaning for us who are believers, yeah, yeah, it's another Palm Sunday. Watch out for that.

Because these are the events, friends, listen, I don't mean to be rude by no stretch.

I'm going to be accurate.

What we have in our hands as the Bible, and for those of us as believers, what we know from

the Word of God and from history, nobody else gets to enjoy but those who believe.

Can I hear amen on that?

For those who believe in what? Well, I just

believe. No, no, no, no. Your belief is to be founded upon fact, which brings you to faith. Our faith is

not a blind faith. It is a factual faith. Jesus Christ, as we'll learn this week, is not only risen

from the dead, but this week, starting

today, Palm Sunday, was a remarkable announcement, and we're going to be hearing things about

that today, and we'll read the scriptures together here in a moment, but 1,994 years ago today,

Christ presented himself to the nation of Israel as

Messiah. And again, as I said, we'll talk more about that in detail. The fact remains, though,

that he presented himself to Israel as the nation goes. The key today is that you as an individual, will you allow Jesus Christ

to present himself to you?

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