So, Father, we ask for the liberty of the Spirit.
We open the. Scriptures we.
Ask God that you throw your lights upon our hearts, that we
may understand the wonders of your world in the name of Jesus.
We pray. That this will go beyond just
tradition. It will.
Be a life transforming encounter in your presence this day in the
name of Jesus. All.
Glory will return to you in Jesus name.
We have prayed. Amen.
In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Amen. This morning by the grace of
God. Will.
Be starting what will run for about 3 sessions of teaching the
Word of God. And.
The focus and the focus or The thing is the price.
Of redemption the. Price of redemption.
In DLA. In Rapada.
What is it that it costs the Redeemer to offer redemption?
Kenyonna, Fiona Allura Pada la tira in Yapada Our.
Brother Brazos read from Mark Chapter 11.
And that is? The narrative that describe the
reason for the celebration of today globally.
The Palm. That's the text in focus for
today. I'll repair and I'll put you so
I need for. This brief message we're going
to take this morning. For we.
Will go back as chapter backward.
See we. Will read from chapter 10.
Chapter. 10 We'll start reading from verse 32 to verse 45.
The Gospel according to Saint Mark, chapter 10.
We read Mark Murikawa. Verse 32 to 45.
Essay EKT Lenny of my day in Carolina her daughter.
I read from her. Mocha Latsibi.
And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus went
before them. The NIV puts it this way, says
And Jesus leading in the way. And Jesus went before them.
And they were amazed. And as they followed, they were
afraid. And he took again the 12th and
began to tell them what things should happen unto him, saying,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be
delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes,
and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to
the Gentiles, And they shall mock, and shall scourge him, and
shall spit upon him, and shall kill him.
On the third day he shall rise again.
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying,
Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever
we shall desire. And he said unto them, What
would ye that I should do for you?
They say unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit one on the right
hand, and the other on the left hand, and in thy glory.
But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask, Can ye
drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with? And they said unto him, We came.
And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup
that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized.
Whither shall ye be baptized? But to sit on my right hand, and
on my left hand is not mine to give, but it shall be given to
them for whom it is prepared. And when the 10 had it, they
began to be much displeased with James and John, verse 42.
But Jesus called them to him, and said unto them, You know
that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise
lordship over them, and their great ones exercise authority
upon them. But so shall it not be among
you. But whosoever will be great
among you shall be your minister, and so ever of you
will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
May the Lord bless the reading and the hearing of the words to
the nourishing of our souls in Jesus name, Amen.
I've taken time to read these scriptures very carefully.
Mollo a Coco men la de para baleca.
I am tempted to rush. On sharing this message.
But we will take it carefully. And.
Wherever we are able to stop today because of the second
aspect of our activity service today, the rally.
We will pause there. Trust in the Holy.
Spirit to bless our souls. We are celebrating today.
Which is popularly. Called the triumphal entry of
Jesus. To Jerusalem.
Is a very, very important event in the Christian calendar.
The manner of the procession with which Jesus enter into
Jerusalem looks like a very royal procession.
How do you worry baby as I share a Toby James Jerusalem.
But in reality. It.
Was actually a match into suffering.
It was a reality. It was a reality, a match into
suffering. So the entire.
Thing look antithetic royalty. With all the paraphernalia of
royalty. Response of the congregation
without a formal rehearsal. It looks.
Like a divine orchestration. Not a.
Formal mobilization. We are.
Going to Jerusalem, into Jerusalem.
And. His followers were following.
Him. Stopped.
Go get a court if anybody asks you why are you losing.
To. Tell the person that the.
Lord needs it. It was divinely arranged.
And everything Look. Very.
But what happened afterwards was against royalty.
Or Taco Penny or Bangla. So.
The journey he made into Jerusalem that.
Day. Joyous it was a rugged with joy.
There. Was a proclamation.
There were declarations. There.
Were confessions by the. People by the fact that there
was. Some opposition.
The. Oppositions couldn't stop the.
Joy that was exhibited. But at the end of the day.
What? Became of the one that entered
into Jerusalem in Royalty does not point to royalty.
He entered. Into.
Jerusalem to suffer? If you read.
Your Bible very carefully. Every other person may miss it.
And when? But he knew what was.
Happening. Before he entered.
Into Jerusalem. Jerusalem.
He had taught his disciples about his passion, about the
suffering he's going to face. In Jerusalem.
In fact, in that Gospel according to Saint Mark.
In no way in reality, Mark. He talked about this suffering
nothing less than three times. Also Nepal EDI you codini E
Bameta. The first time he talked about
it is in Gospel According since Mark chapter 8.
And when he mentioned it in Mark chapter 8.
Never see you on man who lay you know where, Mark.
Peter said never. That will not happen to.
You when there is opening line line and then you initially see.
Then in Mark Chapter 9. Never where Mark he.
Mentioned it again, then the all the disciples behave as see what
was saying did not concern them. They started to argue on who is
going to be the leader or the cheapest among them.
After Jesus. Where we read now in chapter. 10
is. The tough time that Jesus talked
about his passion about what will happen to him in Jerusalem.
And. My attention is drawn again to
the response of the disciples this tough time.
Me see woman in the 1st. Instance it was Peter that said
that will never happen. And.
Jesus addressed that. Jesu 2nd.
Time the entire team were divided.
They were They started to contest for the position for
first position. Who will be the.
Leader. Who will be the leader now?
Jesus addressed that one as well.
This. It was the brothers in his team,
James. They tried.
To play a fast one this time, Yes, we are not taking the first
position here. Now we.
Want to take advantage of your debts?
That will. Be to your right and to your
left in the Kingdom. That sounds a little.
Spiritual isn't it? But still self-centered.
And later beyond tell me Hallelujah we.
Will come, we will come to that. Our baby.
So we found Jesus. He knew very well what would
happen to him in Jerusalem. So he taught them over and over
and over again. In Mark alone.
He mentioned it to them clearly three times.
This is telling us something. And then before.
People started to wave the pan from in chapter.
In chapter 10, Cross was the. Focus.
Cross the cross. Was the focus.
The redemptive work of Christ was the focus.
In Chapter 9, the redemptive work of Christ was the focus.
In chapter. 8 The redemptive work of Christ.
Was the focus. This is telling us something.
Redemption is not free. Redemption is costly.
DLA. Salvation is not cheap.
Ibala of. Salvation is sacrificial.
Ibala, our DLA, Lori. It costs the senior is life to
save us. So as I.
Mentioned we'll be looking very closely at the price of.
Redemption, but let's go. Back to this text again.
Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem.
Just one Jerusalem. And he had told these disciples
over and over again that he was going to suffer.
He was going to. When he sat on that journey to
Jerusalem, the manner in which the Bible described this
movement in verse 32. Is a.
Is a purpose. It was a purposeful journey, it
was a deliberate journey, it was a courageous journey.
It. Is one of those few texts where
the Bible would describe Jesus going with his disciples and
saying Jesus leads the way. It was like.
A jolly look. Nothing is stopping this
mission. Nothing is stopping this
assignment. If you read that verse. 32 Very
carefully. Look.
At the way the Bible describes the position of his followers.
And. The Bible talks about them being
afraid. They were amazed.
They followed. Him.
One time they were afraid the. People that were following him
were amazed at his charge towards Jerusalem.
They were. Afraid what will be the
experience of this man, the experience of this team when we
get. To Jerusalem, but the.
Bible now said in the midst of this Jesus.
Pulled the 12th aside. And he?
Began to lecture them again. And.
What was he telling them? The Bible says he told them.
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be
delivered unto the chief priest and unto the scribes, and they
shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the
Gentiles, and they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and
shall spit upon him, and shall kill him, and on the third day
he shall rise again. Then.
He was not discouraged to go. He was.
Charging towards the cross and. He was not afraid because.
That is the reason he came. To the world.
As he was discussing this crucial subject with them, Bill.
Or. The matter of the reason he came
to the world. Or.
That is the redemption of mankind.
Or Mariah. The buying back of mankind, back
to God. I repented dying in your
paddock. See and.
He was talking about what it will cost him.
Look at what he listed that it. Will cost him, but you know.
He did not make any mistake. He was very clear about.
It. The redemption of your soul, the
redemption of my soul, the redemption of the soul of
mankind will cost him one betrayer.
I'll repeat that, Father Emilia ITMMA on Tiyona Jesu 1.
I want your dallery. 2 Condemnation. 1.
Idiare 3 Mercury. One Pi Vishalaya. 4 Scorching.
1. And fight death.
And as he was. Saying this, it is a surprise
that in this very serious moment, James and John.
Could. Only think of how to interrupt
this critical teaching. How to?
Interrupt this very passionate disclosure.
And they? Interrupted with a request.
Once you. Requesting for.
Glory. They were thinking about crime
when Jesus was thinking about the cross, that.
Was a. Huge distraction.
Jesus. Was thinking about the cross.
They were thinking about the crime.
I want your logo. Jesus was talking about the
fulfillment of his mission here on heart.
They were thinking of what they will gain from the life of.
Jesus, it was not only. A distraction to the teaching of
the moment, to the mission of the moment.
It caused the vision among the disciples.
When you. Read further, the Bible said,
and the remaining 10 disciples were not happy with James.
And John? We have a lot of lessons.
To learn from here. Even as children of God, what is
that thing that is paramount in the heart of God compared to
what is paramount? In your heart.
Is your mindset, thought, wish and desire aligning with the
agenda of God for the moment? Are you sensitive enough to
understand the program of God per time and align with that
program of God? Or you are there to pursue a
personal agenda for a personal and self-centered?
Reason. You are seated here this
morning. You are here to submit your life
to Jesus Christ. You have chosen to live your
life the way you want it, the way you like it.
You feel you can run the journey of your life by your own means,
by your own standard. Your case is not different.
From the scenario we have. Here is that you be.
Saved. The agenda.
Of God is that you come. To know him the.
Plan and purpose of God is that you run your life according to
His prescription, not according. To your own desire.
What is the thinking of God? What is the program of God?
What is that thinking that you have?
What is that program that you have set for?
Yourself in. The context of this very
serious, more set of teaching that Jesus would ever deliver,
what James and John could think of is that position of glory
right and left. You don't see what I'm?
Seeing here somebody is talking about deaths, talking about how
it will be beating, talking about how will be betrayed,
talking about how it will be, it will be traumatized, how it will
be killed. It was in the midst.
Where's the connection? They.
Are preaching about redemption and reservation of your soul and
what occupies your mind is how to get a girlfriend.
Even in church. Repent and give your life to
Christ. That is why they are preaching
in church. What you are thinking about is
how to steal someone's phone. He was talking about what it
will cost him salvation, comprehensive salvation for.
Mankind, some guys were. Thinking of personal benefit to
themselves. Let's not benefit to themselves
alone. Maybe.
We can apply what happened here to different aspects of our
lives. You know.
Some some of us will run into trouble because we don't know
how to talk. You are here this morning.
And. In congregation, in meeting
where you have one or two or three people, when they are
discussing and talking, when you talk, everybody just abandoned
you and continue their discussion.
You talk, you talk of. Points.
Because you do talk of points. Because you talk off points
as it applies to us in a place of work, it applies to students
too. It.
Applies in friendship, relationship, so it also applies
even in marriage. The reason?
Why you are not enjoying your marriage with your husband is
the moment you choose to talk. You talk at the wrong time.
You say what is on your mind at the wrong time.
You speak into a contest what is in your mind and you speak of
the context around you and therefore the man.
Is just fed up. Yes, you have your concerns, you
have things on your mind, but choose the right time, Choose
the right contest to say what is on your mind.
No feel. The contest before you talk, we.
Are talking about the crosshair. We are talking about the
salvation of the world here. No, we are not talking yet about
a sitting position beside Jesus. We are talking about the work of
redemption. We are talking about the passion
of the Christ. We are talking about what the
Lord will face to deliver salvation to the whole world.
We are talking about carrying the burden of sin of the entire
world. This is not a time of glory.
Now we are talking of what we bought, the glory.
You are half point John. You are half point James.
I pray for somebody here this. Morning.
Who is living off points of God's agenda?
May you find your way back to God in Jesus.
We give glory to God. Give.
Glory to Jesus. Jesus.
He did not rebuke them, Ashley. There's who he.
Responded in a way to redirect them back to the focus of the
hour. And.
That was that was what bat verse 45.
He attended. To the division that they are
worth among the. That was what happened.
There are careless requests divided the team.
Bury, I begin. I want you want bury.
So Jesus addressed it. And bounded them together again.
Turn them back to the agenda. Of the.
Hour the Son of Man came, not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom.
For many. And that is the price of
redemption. Jesus, the ransom for all.
So. He.
Brought them back to the subject and the concern of the
leadership. When somebody decides to
carelessly destroy the company, break the team, break the
company, the leadership must be sparked not to lose focus of the
assignment, not to lose focus of the mission, not to drop the
vision and begin to attend to the peripheral, ephemeral things
that are not primary, things as are not paramount to the call of
the vision. Jesus rallied them together and.
Delivered a very strong conclusion to the subject of
the. Hour.
Re establishing the reason why he came to the.
World and. The focus for the journey to.
Jerusalem What is redemption? Redemption is.
Freedom that is secured by the payment of a price.
It. Is not just deliverance OK, it
is. Costly deliverance, costly
deliverance there. Is a price that is.
Paid. In First Corinthians chapter. 6
verse 20 the. Bible says for ye are bought
with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit
which belongs to God. No, no, no, no, no, no.
I didn't know TCT. In Hospital Chapter 1.
Verse 18. To 19 For as much as you know
that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver,
like gold from your vein conversation received by
tradition and from your Father's, but with the precious
blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without
spot, there is a price that was paid.
It is redemption is not just ordinary deliverance is a costly
deliverance. It cost Jesus his blood.
To redeem. US. 9 the Bible says.
And they sung a new song, saying that wordy to take the book and
to open the seas Their home. For Thou was slain and has
redeemed us by the blood. Out of every kindred and tongue
and people and nations. There is a price that was paid.
It was a costly deliverance. And.
What is that price? Called that.
Price is called ransom. Read.
That verse 45 of Mark chapter 10.
So let's get it from. There Mark 10 verse 45 so.
Ransom. Ransom.
That price is called ransom. Is.
Called ransom today, It's a pity.
That we. Found ourselves in a situation
in this country where people will pick up individuals, human
beings, and start to negotiate with the families of those
people to get them released. The oceanic land only or related
while any I want to come watch it in your bed while back while
my bar bring 10. Million as ransom?
Airport 10 million. Why?
Bring 20 million as ransom. Airport 20,000,001. 3500 million
as ransom. 500 million bargaining.
The life of man. With money, that's an.
Abuse of what Christ did for us. The ransom that we are talking
about here is talking about Jesus that redeemed humankind
from death, Redeem humankind from sin, redeem humankind from
eternal death in hell by him, God to the cross to die for us
as ransom for who are supposed to die.
But he said no, he replaced us. And that is what you mean by
ransom, that Christ redeemed us using himself as a ransom?
Our repentance is tabuku irapada.
It is just which is not for any and.
We pray whole. Lord.
That you will visit Nigeria. Nigeria.
That in your. Mercy, O God you.
Bring a hand to this trouble. In our land.
The captivity of the wicked man. You will redeem them.
You will deliver them. We.
Empower our government with the spirit and of messy.
To. Do the right thing.
To. Secure this nation in the name.
Of Jesus in your. Power.
You will disarm the men, the men, the men that are troubling
this nation. You will demobilize them.
You will show mercy.
We pray, oh God, by the reason of the celebration of this
season that we are celebrating the ultimate ransom.
You will visit our nation and send peace to us again.
Oh Lord, in the. Name of.
Jesus, I beg you, in the name of the Lord.
Don't. Waste the ransom that Jesus paid
over your. If anybody is kidnapped.
Thereby Jenny Kenny Bear. And died in the den of
kidnappers without that person appropriating the ransom that
Jesus made. And just.
Before he left the world. It's a double Geopardy.
We pray that God will intervene in the matter of this nation.
But if there's any? Time that we need to be closer
to God than ever in this nation it is now.
This. Is a time that security is is
not guaranteed anywhere. People that were kidnapped,
ransom was paid and yet they were killed.
Out you born and share out you canning but when 111 son he
wants to power the. Only ransom that is truly
ransom, the only ransom that is comprehensive, the only ransom
that is effective is the ransom through the blood of Jesus that
was paid for my redemption, for your redemption.
The life of Jesus went into it. He resurrected to give us back.
Our lives, please. My brethren.
Don't. Waste this.
Season. If you have been living your
life on your own terms up till now, this is the time to repent.
This. Is the time to come closer to
God? The.
Time to draw closer to God. God will protect and preserve
everyone of us victims of kidnap passing.
Jesus, those people that. Were victims.
That you and I have not committed in the previous.
Time. We are in this country.
They entered into churches and they kidnapped people.
God will preserve us. All around them you wasi.
But if there's any time anybody should be more serious with his
or her God, it is. This is not the time to run your
life or your home terms. This.
Is the time to draw closer. To.
When we talk about. Redemption Redemption points to.
This The bondage is real. The danger is very, very.
Fatal the. Scene is the true bondage that
man has entered into and. Said.
The Satan is the reason why man fail.
Satan. And that's the cost of
redemption is unavoidable. Are you Penny Idiya?
DLA for Rakada. It is a must for us to pay the
ransom. And Jesus is the only one that
can pay that. And he has paid.
It. What are you doing with this?
Jesus as we. Go how to.
Celebrate the Palm Sunday. To sing and dance.
Remember those that cried the first day?
They were the. One the following day that was
saying crucify him. Yes, to me, I see.
When they were saying Hosanna, they didn't understand.
What they were saying, the language.
Hosanna is picked from Psalm 118 verse 25, and the meaning simply
is save us, Oh Lord, save us, oh Lord, that is the meaning of
Hosanna. They were shouting save us, oh
Lord, today and the following day they were rejecting Him.
Home. Your life.
Will not be working against the salvation of.
God tell. Jesus, I am ready to accept the
redemption you offer. How to pray?
I am ready to accept the redemption you have come to
offer. I don't.
Want to live my life on my own terms again.
I want you to save me, truly and thoroughly.
I'm tired. Of.
The when I've been living my. Life.
I give my life unto you in totality.
If you are making this decision this morning, can you raise?
Your hand say Jesus, I. Surrender Hall to you.
Raise your hand to. Jesus, go pray for raise your
hand to. People, you are tired of living
your life on your own terms. You are ready to surrender Hall
to Jesus. I pray with you and we close the
service. To Jesus.
Not raising it to me. You are not raising it to me.
Raise that time to Jesus. Raise it, raise it.
Raise it very well. Raise it very well.
You are not raising it to me.
Raise it, raise it.
Jesus is happy, the heaven is happy that you are making that
decision this morning. Raise the hand very well to
Jesus. Raise it to him.
This is past season is not going in bed over your life.
All highs close. Call me.
Making the best decision of your life this morning.
Don't be afraid. Put that hand on your chest.
You are. Making that decision this
morning as that hand was raised, put it right on your chest.
If you have made that decision. This morning.
Pray after me. Lord Jesus, I thank you for the
work of redemption you came to do.
I wholeheartedly accept your love this morning.
I accept you as the Lord and Savior of my life.
I give my life to you today. Jesus, call me to my heart.
I confess all my sin this morning.
I give you one minute to say those wrong things you have been
doing to Jesus. Say Jesus, tell Jesus those
wrong things. I stop this habit.
I stop lying. I stop fighting.
I stop fornication. I stop stealing.
I stop back biting. Those terrible things, mention
them to Jesus. I stop them today.
Say Jesus, help me to forsake my sin.
Say Holy Spirit, call me to my life.
Help me to live the right kind of lifestyle.
Deliver me from the burden of sin.
Deliver me from the pain of sin. Deliver me from the enticement
of sin. The blood of Jesus wash me clean
today. Thank you Jesus for saving me.
In Jesus name we have prayed. May the Lord answer your prayer.
The Lord that you have responded to today, we uphold you.
It will strengthen you. It will plant your feet in
righteousness. The heavens is rejoicing over
your soul, over your life. Today you will not disappoint
heaven. You make it to heaven in the
name of Jesus. Father, we thank you.
We worship your majesty. Thank you for ministering to us
in your own way. Thank you for blessing us.
Thank you for empowering us. Thank you for saving us.
In Jesus name we have prayed.