Bring the Fire!

Easter week kicked off with Reverend Paul Pamer, senior pastor of Apostolic Church in Barberton, Ohio, preaching the message on Palm Sunday. "Bring the Fire" was his title. He described the events when Jesus rode a donkey into Jerusalem, how the people took off their coats and threw them down in the road before our Lord. He said for many of the people, their cloak was the most valuable possession they owned. He said we must give God our best. We cannot give Him our second best. When Jesus came riding in on Palm Sunday, he said, He came to change the world. "He's come to bring the fire. He's come to usher in unquenchable fire. God has set the fire to set you free!" He explained how the word hosanna has a different connotation to Jews. In English, it is similar to the words, "Save us!" So when the Jews that day cried out to Jesus, they were passionately saying over and over again, "Save us!" We need Him to save us, our families, our world! Jesus, Hosanna, save us!