Palm Sunday 2015: My Humility is Greater Than Yours!

Our study for Palm Sunday March 29, 2015 will relate to the attitude of the disciples the night before Christ's crucifixion. At the Passover dinner and the arrest of Jesus the disciples displayed the attitude that they would follow Christ to the death but without humility. Either during or after Jesus washed their feet they were arguing about who was the greatest. When Jesus told them they were acting like pagans and were missing the point of humility and yieldedness to God's plan for them they argued that they would not betray Him. This kind of argument is something like saying "my humility is greater than yours" and "which one of us is the best servant you've got,  Jesus?" Such thinking is what defeats and destroys us as followers of Christ. We must learn to surrender our agendas, dreams, desires and personal visions to Him.
Peter went on to deny Jesus 3 times, as predicted by Jesus that Satan desired to run Peter through the filter of trials like chaff separated from the wheat as the photo depicts

• God's plan had not changed in spite of Peter's denials
• Never let a sense of failure corrupt your new action! Repent and Rise Up!
• Judas' betrayal, the "greatest" arguments, and Peter's denials tell us things won't be our way and we must humble ourselves before Him. We can't play the game of "my humility is better than yours"

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We have been going through the gospel of Luke verse by verse and are currently in chapter 21 on the Olivet Discourse. With Palm Sunday and Easter I am moving to later passages in Luke but will return to the verse by verse study after Easter. Luke's gospel is the most detailed of the 4 gospels and takes some time to teach, and by no means has the message and meaning of Luke been exhausted (thanks for stating that, Capt Obvious!).