Pastor Tom Clinkscale

<p>Seeing and understanding the worlds hatred of Jesus prepares us to live like Him in a world that will hate us.</p>

<p>God's response to the world's rejection and hatred is a patient witness to the truth about Jesus and is how we should respond when hated and rejected.</p>

<p>The threat of falling away is real and is enhanced under the pressure of the world's hatred and rejection. Only with the care of the Holy Spirit will we not give up on our faith and persevere in it as faithful witnesses.</p>

<p>Our faithfulness in bearing witness to the truth about Jesus and the Father is possible only because of the Holy Spirit working to bring people to conviction of sin, His caring for us by guiding us into an understanding of the truth about Jesus and telling us what is His.</p>

<p>The Holy Spirit comes to us, disciples of Jesus, to empower us for a mission that cannot be accomplished apart from His Supernatural help.</p>

<p>Palm Sunday is a celebration&nbsp;of the King who has come to bring peace but one day Jesus will return to judge all who do not give Him their&nbsp;allegiance.</p>

<p>The knowledge of the eternal promises we have in Christ is not just a hopeful view of the future, but a certainty that can and should guide and strengthen us today.</p>

<p>We can only become what God has called us to be by relying on the settled indwelling of Christ that He would strengthen and direct us to live in His love.</p>

<p>Jesus in His conquering work of salvation brings us into a new and uniquely close and connected relationship with God the Father that gives us a joy that transforms sadness to gladness, that cannot be taken from us, that is in endless supply reminding us continually we are at peace with God.</p>

<p>To imitate Christ, we must pray like Christ, and that includes submitting ourselves to the dangerous work of being the means by which God's glory may be revealed to those around us.</p>