Was Jesus a Failure? Palm Sunday Year A

<p><strong>Focus readings: Matt 21:1-11, Phillipians 2:5-11 <a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/stteves10/PM_Master.mp3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DIRECT DOWNOLAD</a></strong></p> <p><strong>The original of this sermon included two video Clips from Bluefishtv (now Rightnow media). The sermon makes pretty good sense without the clips but if you click on the titles it will take you to an official YouTube version of the videos: <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2foLJSARBU&list=PLNPi8bY3yzgJ0nGhDFElU1We5sIYhhTTG&index=10&t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abraham Lincoln: Perseverance to live by faith</a>. and <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dbeJkY6QGk&list=PLNPi8bY3yzgJ0nGhDFElU1We5sIYhhTTG&index=12&t=0s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Famous Failures</a>.</strong></p> <p><strong>Therre is an Updated (2020) <span style= "text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;"><a style= "color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" title= "Palm Sunday 2020 sermon" href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyQAIvMaIko&list=PLNPi8bY3yzgLWbAB-oovO39NU0zQAWTdU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Youtube Video Playlist</a></span> of this sermon.</strong></p> <p>Some of the greatest figures in history have known incredible failure before they have known success. I am no great figure but I was turned down to study ministry and teaching. In today's sermon you will hear of some actually great people who had even more spectacular failures.</p> <p>In human terms Jesus was also a failure. He died publically shamed and disgraced. His movement had fallen apart. He had no money and although he was supposed to be a King he had no Army. Most if not all of his friends had deserted him. Even on Palm Sunday when a great crowd welcomed him, he did not look that great. He rode not on a horse but on a donkey and his honour guard were not warriors but fishermen and tax collectors. Yet today the world's largest religion owns his name. His life has had a greater impact and has been a greater success than any other. None of us is Jesu