Eyewitness - Part 3 - Getting Your Passion Right

About this episode

Pastor Zac discusses the crowd's expectations of Jesus as the Messiah and the importance of recognizing Him as the Savior of our souls.

“Eyewitness” is our series at Fusion Christian Church about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the people who saw it happen. These were real people, in real moments, who had real encounters with Jesus. In Part 3, Pastor Zac talks about the crowd that saw Jesus enter Jerusalem on a Donkey. Some of those same people would call for his death only a few days later, so what changed? Let Jesus be the Savior of your soul—not just the solver of your problems. When Jesus came riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, many recognized that he was fulfilling a prophecy as Messiah. The problem for them is that they were looking for Jesus to fulfill their vision of the Messiah. They expected the Messiah to be an earthly king who would fight off the Romans. Ruling their own kingdom again was all that this crowd had in mind when they waved Jesus into Jerusalem. They celebrated him while they thought he would solve their immediate problems. When they realized he wasn't going to do that, they turned on him. What these people needed was to trust in Jesus as their savior. They needed to realize that Jesus' kingdom is not of this world, and that his mission was greater. He did not come to merely give them…

People in this episode

Host: Zac

Topics covered

• Resurrection of Jesus Christ
• crowd in Jerusalem
• Messiah
• trust in Jesus
• passion

Keywords

• Jesus
• prophecy
• earthly king
• hope
• Lord

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Eyewitness

Places: Jerusalem

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