If You Only Knew... // Logan Zandhuisen // Post Falls Campus

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What if Palm Sunday wasn't a celebration but the beginning of Jesus's most intense suffering?

Palm Sunday becomes less of a victory lap and more of a doorway people keep misreading. The sermon starts by slowing the room down before Easter and asking what Jesus was carrying while everyone else heard triumph. Hosanna is there, but it is not the whole scene. The preacher presses the distance between public praise and private grief, saying Jesus knew the week would move toward suffering deeper than nails. The crowd thought they understood. Jesus, in this telling, walks with the weight of the road, the temple, the table, and the garden already on him. Then the sermon moves to Bethany. At Simon the leper's house, a woman comes in with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume and pours it over Jesus. The disciples call it waste. Jesus stops them and calls it noble, because she has prepared his body for burial before almost anyone else can see what is coming. That contrast does a lot of work. They see squandered money. Jesus sees rare recognition in a week full of people missing the point. She sees the funeral before the funeral. The title keeps hovering over the message: if you only knew what Christ knew, would the same scene look different? Thursday makes the drop sharper. In John 13, Jesus knows his hour has come, knows Judas will betray him, and knows he is returning to the Father. So he gets up. The repeated line gives the moment its pulse, turning authority into movement at the supper table. The ending turns direct and pastoral, with people invited to the cross area for a Bible, prayer, and next steps. Seekers with unresolved questions are welcomed into conversation. Three people decide for Jesus. Palm Sunday ends stripped down: grief, humility, recognition, and an invitation.

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Palm Sunday is framed less as celebration than as the start of suffering.

Palm Sunday is treated less like a celebration than the beginning of suffering. The power of the episode comes from that split view: the crowd thinks something triumphant is underway, while Jesus knows what waits ahead.

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