2026.03.29 Sermon Notes: You Can't Always Get What You Want

Westside Family Church

Palm Sunday: What Kind of King Will You Follow? 

Dr. Mark Moore (Church Christ of the Valley, Peoria, IL)

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 See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Matthew 21:5

Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!

Matthew 21:9

When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, 'Who is this?’ The crowds answered, ‘This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.’

Matthew 21:10-11

Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. ‘It is written,’ he said to them, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.’

Matthew 21:12–13

My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.

Isaiah 56:7

 Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say, ‘The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.'

Isaiah 56:3

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But you have made it a den of robbers.

Jeremiah 7:11

Do not trust in deceptive words and say, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!’

Jeremiah 7:4

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David,’ they were indignant.

Matthew 21:14–15

Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.

Psalm 8:2

I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. 

Revelation 19:11–16

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