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1. Places That Have a Memory

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... commanding officer appeared at his bedside and gruffly said, “Well, it did not pay, did it?” The soldier said, “Oh, yes it did. He was looking for me. He said he knew I would come. He was counting on me, and it paid.” (5) As Jesus walked the Mount of Olives on his way to Jerusalem, he knew the people of Israel were looking for their Messiah. They knew he would come. But he also knew they didn’t expect him to be humble and gentle, a King of Peace, and the One who would deliver them from the power ...

2. Rooted and Rebooted

Psalm 126:1-6, Luke 13:31-35, 2 Samuel 15:13-37

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Lori Wagner

... the salvific reminder that God will always have a people, that from out of the root, a branch will continue to grow until a tree emerges that can house all the birds of the air and the beasts of the field. For God always prevails. On the Mount of Olives each year, Jewish people will gather around the graves of their ancestors, not just to remember those who were lost to them, friends and family, but to restore and remember their own identity and purpose. For we look to our past in order to grasp the meaning ...

3. Higher Ground

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53

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Lori Wagner

... Surely God’s abundant mercy and love abounded here in the place Jerusalem wanted nothing to do with. And those who ministered to those sick and dying bore the true fruit and abundance of God’s blessing. It is here near Bethany, on the slopes of the Mount of Olives, that Jesus would give his final blessing to his disciples, perhaps teaching them that the way to be elevated in the sight of God is to “get down and dirty,” to minister to God’s people at the very bottom of the earthly ladder. From here ...

4. Are You In the Know

Job 19:23-27

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James Merritt

... world is headed for Jesus. But not only is Jesus going to take His stand on the earth, God has revealed exactly where He's going to take His stand. Listen to Zech. 14:4, "And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south." I was interested to come across in my study the fact that at one time ...

5. Lost in the Wonder of God

Matthew 28:16-20

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Lori Wagner

... prophets of Baal. It was on the mountain that Jesus and his disciples met with Moses and Elijah. It was on the mountain, the mount called Calvary, that Jesus was nailed to the cross and saved the world. It would later be on the mountain, the Mount of Olives, where Jesus would ascend to the heavens. “Great things happen when men and mountains meet,” wrote William Blake But do you really think they could ever imagine the impact of what would happen next on the mountain, or how it would imprint the rest of ...

6. The War of Malchus’ Ear

John 18:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... the Romans in 70 A.D. They leveled the land around the Holy City. But it may well be that these ancient trees were formed from the shoots of trees that were there in Jesus’ day. Still, it is probable that the little paths which criss-cross the Mount of Olives were trodden by our Lord Himself. It was to this garden of rest on the side of a hill Jesus went. William Barclay suggests that some wealthy citizen of Jerusalem - a friend of Jesus, perhaps - whose name will never be known to us may have given Him ...

7. Thursday: Broken Bread And Broken Trust

Mark 14:10-26

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... covenant, which is poured out for many. [25] Truly I tell you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." [26] When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Introduction (12 White Candles, 1 Black Candle. Light the candles, one by one) Here we are in our "Way of the Cross" our journey with Jesus through His last week of ministry. Today in our journey is Thursday. Next week we celebrate Palm Sunday and the Triumphal entry ...

8. The Week

Mark 14:1-15:47

Sermon

John Jamison

... not true, and they all argued with him and insisted they would all remain true to him forever and follow him to the end of the world. (fade out, pause, then up) Gethsemane is a small olive orchard at the bottom of the Kidron Valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives near where the town of Bethany sits. It was as safe a place as any for Jesus and the disciples to stop. Mark tells us that Jesus told the group to sit down while he prayed, and then took Peter, James, and John with him to another part of ...

9. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a clear sense of mission if we are going to sustain a long obedience in the same direction, we have to know where the power is. Notice how Luke introduces Jesus' experience in the garden, verse 39: "And he came out, and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him." This was no new experience for Jesus. This was no fox-hole prayer, no turning to God only in the clenches. This was his habit, his heart-beat. He knew where the power was. There is an old book written by Lytton ...

10. The Sign of the Dove

Matthew 3:1-17 · John 1:1-34 · Mark 1:1-8 · Luke 3:1-38

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Lori Wagner

... Dove” there is so much death and destruction that the doves of the world leave their abodes, where they were painted, inked, sculpted, woven into tapestries, or alive in the wild, and hold a summit conference at the Mount of Olives. Their gathering is named The Great Council of the Doves. From the Mount of Olives the doves are sent on a mission: to find the lost dove of peace from Noah’s ark. The dove elder that calls them together warns that the journey will be arduous, but in each place they travel ...

11. Signs Of Christ's Return

Matthew 24:1-35

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Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

... angels of heaven, nor the Son. No one knows when the world will end, but until then, God's love and God's acceptance, must be and will be proclaimed. Tell us, Jesus, what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? On the Mount of Olives, Jesus said, "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars." The cover of the May 16, 1994, issue of Time magazine bore this quote: " 'There are no devils left in Hell,' the missionary said. 'They are all in Rwanda.' " Wars and rumors of wars are breaking out all ...

12. The Double Cross

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... specifically. Emmaus Suppers are surprise manifestations and revelations of what has already been going on in your life, but which you were unable to "see" until that moment. Mount of Olives Suppers are emotional lows even when others around you are high (e.g., Palm Sunday). Crying times? Times for tears of sadness and post-achievement depression? The Mount of Olives is the name given to a long ridge above the eastern side of Jerusalem. You can't get from Jerusalem to Bethany and vice versa without crossing ...

13. On The Night He Was Betrayed

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Erskine White

... freely giving you tonight. One more aspect of this Maundy Thursday night stands out, as Mark's gospel has presented it in our text this evening. It is that Jesus gave thanks - twice - and that He sang a hymn with the disciples before they left for the Mount of Olives. Think about that for a moment. On the night He was betrayed, Jesus gave thanks. He sang a hymn. It shows that the faithful heart is never defeated. It shows that the world can take your body, your money, your health and whatever else; but only ...

14. On Your Mark, Get Set . . .

Mark 13:1-8, 32-33

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!" [2] Then Jesus asked him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down." [3] When he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately, [4] "Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign that all these things are about to be accomplished?" [5] Then Jesus began to say to them, "Beware that no one leads ...

15. On His Way

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... also heard of it and planned to kill both Jesus and Lazarus. Apparently, by the time they had settled upon a suitably fiendish scheme, Jesus was already on his way. He is coming closer now. "And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, ‘Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me’ " (Matthew 21:1, 2). They did as they had been instructed, putting ...

16. A Reed Who Became a Rock

John 1:35-42

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R. Blaine Detrick

... , he left the group of disciples at the foot of the mountain, except for three - Peter, James, and John (Matthew 17:1-8). When Jesus entered, on the last night of his earthly ministry, the Garden of Gethsemane, that lovely spot at the foot of the Mount of Olives, he left the disciples at the gate and went toward the center of the garden to pray. However, he took with him three of his disciples - that’s right: Peter, James, and John (Mark 14:32, 33). That is why this trio is considered the "inner ...

17. Connected To God

Sermon

Lee Griess

... abandoned us but he has ascended into heaven and that's what the focus of our worship today is about. So important is this event that Luke describes it twice in the last chapter of his gospel and the first chapter of Acts. The setting is the Mount of Olives. Forty days had passed since the resurrection of Jesus. It was time for him to return to heaven. And so once again, Jesus appears to the disciples. He joins them in worship. He breaks bread with them. He announces to them that they will soon receive the ...

18. When We Feel Unwanted

Luke 19:28-44

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King Duncan

... this day we remember how the people of Jerusalem welcomed Jesus into their city. You know the story. Jesus has been making a slow steady journey accompanied by his disciples and some other supporters to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples on ahead to a village where, he said, they would find a colt of a donkey which no one had ever ridden. He told them to untie it and bring it to him. If anyone asked, “Why are you untying ...

19. Lazarus Laughed

John 11:17-37

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Donald B. Strobe

... that such a pagan practice is disrespectful of the dead. The custom was to bury in caves on the hillside. As one visits Jerusalem and the surrounding hillsides, especially the Mount of Olives today, one can see thousands of graves. the whole area seems to be one gigantic necropolis. And Bethany was just over the Mount of Olives, a scant two miles from Jerusalem. From Jesus’ day there are records of an occasional resuscitation, in which a supposedly dead person would be revived by the coolness of the ...

20. The Temple of Doom and the Bridegroom

Mark 13:1-31

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Leonard Sweet

... .” So complete was the destruction of the site that Josephus mourned that it was as though “it had never been inhabited” (War, 7.3). To further punctuate his words Jesus leads his disciples up the Mount of Olives “opposite the Temple.” In Zechariah 14:4 the Mount of Olives is the final site for the devastation and division of Jerusalem. Jesus’ physical location and his personal posture (seated with his disciple around him) emphasize his own authority and divine role as judge over the “enemy ...

21. The Man From Galilee VI: The Tragedy Of His Victory

Matthew 21:1-11

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... the Jordan Valley, through the streets of Jericho, up that long, winding road toward the city of Jerusalem. He and His disciples stopped out there at a little village called Bethphage, just before the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two disciples into the village to get a donkey. Then Jesus got on that donkey and rode over the Mount of Olives, heading toward the gate of the city of Jerusalem. How did He know the donkey would be there? Someone left it for Him. How did the people know He was coming to the city ...

22. Behold The Man Who Tried To Be King

Matthew 21:1-10

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... forever."1 When Jesus went to Jerusalem he found a wall. He had come to build a bridge. But he knew all along that on the other side of the wall his crucifixion awaited him. One of the hotels where we have stayed in Jerusalem is located on the Mount of Olives. You can look back behind that hotel toward Bethany and Bethphage. Standing out in front of that hotel you can look over the wall into the old city of Jerusalem. Usually a man is there who offers camel rides. It is a really good deal. It costs only one ...

23. Prelude to the Passion

Matthew 21:1-11

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King Duncan

... a trial to which their Master would be subjected, the crucifixion and his subsequent resurrection. It was truly the week that changed history. Yet it started out so routinely. They were making their way to Jerusalem when they came to a place named Bethphage on the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two disciples on ahead, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and . . . you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, say that the ...

24. If the Stones Cried Out

Luke 19:28-40

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King Duncan

... then you’ve got to risk everything in order to win. And you don’t know whether you’ve won or lost until you’ve gone ‘all in.’” (1) At this moment, as Jesus is descending the Mount of Olives, he is announcing to all the world that he is “All in.” At the foot of the Mount of Olives is the Garden of Gethsemane. In less than a week, Jesus would kneel there and pray the most heart-breaking prayer of his short life, perhaps the most heart-breaking prayer in history: “Father, if you are willing ...

25. His Cleansing Of The Temple

Luke 19:45-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the United Methodist Church? Could this be God’s great moment for this church? Could this be God’s great moment for you? The Jews could not see it, so the cheers of Hosanna turned into the tears of Monday. II Following this brief respite on the Mount of Olives, Jesus continued his journey into the city. It was at this point that the second, and perhaps most curious event of the day took place. For this incident we must turn to Marks” Gospel for he alone tells it. Jesus was still outside the city. He ...

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