Jesus
“He Conquers”
John 12:12-17

As we enter Holy Week, it’s important to know that Scripture highly emphasizes the final week of Jesus’ life.

•	2/5ths of the book of Matthew deals with His final week
•	3/5ths of Luke deals with His final week
•	Almost half of John deals with His last week
•	Only 8 events are shared across all 4 gospels. What we are about to read is 1 of them. This must be a big deal! It was important enough that all 4 gospel writers included it in their account.
•	There are 89 chapters in the 4 gospels
•	4 chapters deal with the first 30 years of Jesus’ life while 85 chapters deal with the final 3½ years
•	Of those 85, 29 chapters deal with the last week of His life

John 12:12-17

The crowd was shouting (John 12:13b)
Praise God!
Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hail to the King of Israel!

Which was a prophecy from the book of Psalms (Psalm 118:24-26)
This is the day the Lord has made,
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Please, Lord, please save us,
Please, Lord, please give us success. 
Bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord.
We bless you from the house of the Lord.

As He enters the city, the people are excited, they are ready for change. Their hopes and dreams of success are all in view now!

In this very same chapter, Jesus foretells of His soon death. And then we read one of the saddest verses in all of scripture.

“But despite all the miraculous signs Jesus had done, most of the people still did not believe.” (John 12:37)

They went from saying “He is the ruler of creation and the ruler of them” to saying “I don’t even believe in Him.”
	Disbelief can come from believing that God didn’t meet my expectation.

If we only worship God during good circumstances, we are not worshiping God; we are worshiping good circumstances.

“Jesus told Him, I am the way the truth and the life, no one can come to the father except through me.” (John 14:6)

VINCIT OMNIA VERITAS
“Truth conquers all things”

If we don’t believe that Jesus is all truth, we are in danger of saying, “I will decide what I will believe about God so that I can decide how I want to act towards Him.”

Because He is truth, we can trust that Jesus…
	Conquers our shame
	Conquers our debt
	Conquers our fear

The only labels that apply to you are those which can also be properly applied to Christ.