Hosanna Moments

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Hosanna Moments

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You decide
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Richard Cracroft

• Many of you know what I am talking
  about when I talk of "hosanna moments,"
  those transcendent moments in our lives when,
  without warning, we are overwhelmed by a
  close encounter with eternity, a surprise of the
  spirit
• those moments when, while engaged in the temporal
  rhythms of our daily and earth- encrusted lives,
  comfortably duped by familiar routines, we are
  suddenly brought face-to-face with the holy,
  swept by the Spirit of God into a transcendent
  reality, overwhelmed by undeniable evidence of a
  literal Father in Heaven who knows you and knows
  me and is somehow interested and involved in our
  lives.
• The "We'll-Sing-and-We'll-Shout" moment is that
  moment when our God, Brother-of-Jared-ing us,
  reaches his hand through the veil to startle our
  sensibilities, to reassure, to comfort, to guide,
  to prod, to change our course. Then our spirits
  soar, our souls are renewed, and we can never
  really be the same again.

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Hosanna Moment 1

• Zacharias in the Temple
• His response
• 18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby
  shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my
  wife well stricken in years.

Question Why would anyone doubt in the face of
an angel, during a hosanna moment?
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Hosanna Moment 2

• Mary and Gabriel
• Marys Response
• And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord
  be it unto me according to thy word.

Question What role does submissiveness play
during these moments?
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Hosanna Moment 3
Love Gratitude
Hosanna Moments
Action, growth

• Joseph and Gabriel
• Josephs Reaction
• Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the
  angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto
  him his wife

Fear
Inaction, Leading to lack of growth
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Bro. Cracroft Cont.

• In the plan of God, then, it is the
  Holy Spirit who unrolls the string that we
  pilgrims, wanderers, and strangers on
  earth follow hopefully through the long and
  hazardous journey back to God, who is our home.
• This innate longing for home is implanted in our
  souls by a wise Father and it is recalled into
  our consciousness by the Spirit of God as a kind
  of homing signal that prompts each of us, at
  various points amidst our journeying, to look up,
  point to the distant stars, among which revolves
  Kolob, and cry out, like the homesick E.T., a
  fellow extraterrestrial, "Home!"