Palm Sunday First Person Sermon (continued)

In the month of October, I am sharing a first person dramatic sermon which I wrote for a Palm Sunday service. Last month you will remember, we shared and discussed using exegesis in a sermon.

This month I would like your reactions to using a first person sermon. I would dress up to act the part and find someone in the congregation to be the stranger, the inn keeper and finally the narrator at the end of the sermon.

Palm Sunday

Luke 19: 28-40

Luke 22:14-23:56

The Street Sweeper

Push, push, push, bend, bend, bend, haul, haul, haul. He stops, leans on his broom and thinks: Maybe that Jesus really is the Messiah. Maybe he is the Son of God. If I tie together everything I have heard over these 30 years about this guy Jesus, from the babe born in the stable, the shepherds, the baptism, the voice from heaven, the miracles, the parade the first part of the week, if I tie it al together, Jesus could really be the Messiah.

Push, push, push, bend, bend, bend, haul, haul, haul and the street sweeper goes about his business, thinking all the while about that guy Jesus!!

That guy Jesus!!

On this Palm/Passion Sunday, that guy Jesus sure does stir up a lot of different emotions in us. The emotion of celebration as he rides into town on a donkey, with cheering, palm branches waving, clothes strewn all over the road. He comes riding into town as a King, the king of the Jews.

Then He is led through the town as a guilty criminal, beaten, having to carry his own instrument of death, the cross. We feel sorrow, anger, at those who we now know did not understand everything. We sense their anger, the hatred of this man who would call himself their king. A king who was humble, a king who was a servant, a king who was bringing a different kind of kingdom that the people and the religious guys did not understand.

That guy Jesus is surely very interesting. A king, yes, our king, the son of God, yes, a son who allowed Himself to be crucified so that our sins would be forgiven.

As Jesus rode into town on that day as a different kind of King, a different kind of religious ruler, as a different kind of political leader, He rode into town as the Messiah who would die for His people

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