1. Nuance and subtlety have been replaced with scorched-earth contempt. It is us versus them. Compromise is not an option. Jesus, however, would have none of it.
  2. Jesus comes to people and changes everything. “Before” is long gone. “After” is a whole new world.
  3. Pentecost is a flashback. It drives us back to the past. It also propels us forward into the future.
  4. Grace is God’s caring disposition toward His human creatures. And it is shown fully and purely in the work of Jesus for us.
  5. Today, Jesus' road to Jerusalem turns into your congregation. He calls you and your hearers to follow Him all the way home.
  6. Honor would be shown to the least. Power would be shown by its opposite. The way of glory was marked with humility.
  7. God’s promise never to separate us from the love of Jesus means that our security, and our confidence, and our forgiveness—even for our part in past divisions—depends entirely on His faithfulness and not ours.
  8. Our enemy is both external AND internal. Outside of us AND inside of us. It is the old evil foe who prowls around us AND the old Adam who wreaks havoc inside each of us.
  9. No longer do we read about Jesus promising to satisfy and raise and abide in His people. Instead, we encounter a Jesus who goes on the attack.
  10. Jesus, the Son of God from all eternity, the agent of creation, the Savior of all people, promises to abide IN His people.
  11. Jesus promises more than a disembodied “spiritual” existence after death. He has promised to raise our perishable, mortal bodies to immortality.
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