All right. let me have you turn in your Bibles to Mark chapter 11. Mark chapter 11. Today is Palm Sunday.
which is a very important Sunday of the year on the religious calendar. It was on this Sunday of the year, almost 2000 years ago, that Jesus entered into Jerusalem, writing on a cult. And people laid palm branches on the ground as they celebrated his arrival. Actually, the gospel writers tell us that they also laid their coats on the ground.
So this could have been called Coat Sunday, just as well, but for some reason, that name never stuck. But this event, of the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. begins what we call the Passion Week or the week of Christ's suffering, which culminates in Christ's crucifixion on Friday of this week and His resurrection on Sunday. And in honor of this event, today, our text will be from Mark chapter 11 verses 1 through 11, but as we work through the text this morning, we will be allowing Matthew And Luke and John.
to speak to us as well and to insert additional details as to what happens with this triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. You learn a lot actually about a king or a ruler or even a president by observing how they choose to present themselves at the outset of their rule. Just recently, we watched a president come to power and we saw ways that our new president kept up certain inaugural traditions and ways that he broke with tradition. On the day of his inauguration, President Trump laid a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery....
