Good Morning and welcome to Dr Ing’s Sunday Soul Connection.

As always, I’d like to applaud you for taking the next 45 minutes or so out of your busy Sunday as we conscious choose to come into communion and connection with the Ground of Being God in us as us.

On this Palm Sunday I want us to take a deeper look into the significance and as always the metaphysical meaning of this occasion.

I think we're going to start with the sacred texts to begin with.

THE SACRED TEXT

Luke 19: 28-38
After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, 30 “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’” 32 Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. 33 As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 They replied, “The Lord needs it.” 35 They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. 36 As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road. 37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: 38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”[b] “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

We can take what we read in the Bible as literal or allegorical or even a combination of all of them. It’s up to the individuals as to which they choose or how they choose to decipher it.

For me, I'm always wondering to look deeper. What is the meaning? I Just don't take it on its face value. Because always, there are things that are deeper we know as Jesus taught. There was always a deeper meaning to his parables, to which he shared later with the disciples if they hadn't understood.

So there's a couple of things that I want to share about the sacred texts that we just listened to this morning. I'm going to do two in kind of two parts. We look to Jesus as the example as the Way-shower, as the one that was demonstrating to us not only our own divinity, but the fact that we’re royal as well.

Everything that he taught, he was speaking not only of himself, but about our characters as well. So when he said “I am the light of the world”, he was also saying to us, that we are the light of the world as well.

When he was proclaiming that he was king, he was also claiming that we were queens and kings as well. That we shared this joint royalty with him, because we’re all sons and daughters of the Most High God.

So it is this thing it seems as we incarnate in this physical form, we forget our divinity we forget our royalty, we forget our Spiritual life. We allow whatever the conditions, experiences, the circumstances of growing up and living in this world to have diminish, dismantle or totally dissolved it.

The message that Jesus taught all the 1000s of years ago, is still relevant, pertinent and necessary for us to remember now in this day and age.

Jesus was not the exception. He was the example. But we have forgotten this, making him to be the one and only, He told us that we would do greater work than him. We are yet to know anyone that's done anything greater than Jesus; because we have not fully embraced in totality, our Divinity, our Royalty, our Spiritual life.

We have days, maybe or moments within days, when we are aligned with that truth but for the most part that drops out of our consciousness. We forget, we feel unable or unworthy to embrace it or acknowledge it.

Jesus knew through all his acts and actions, that they would be carried through time. I don't think he anticipated that perhaps some of his words or teachings would be quite as distorted in the way that is has, through all that so many different denominations.

Jesus was a Jew. He didn't instruct us to do anything other than to love our neighbours and to love God with all our heart mind and soul.

So when, we look at the teaching, let us remember the colt that he instructed His disciples to go and bring was unblemished. The colt being the youngster of the donkey, a very humble creature, a symbol of humility and peace. Also it symbolises the house of King David. A sign of royalty, to which he had descended. Jesus didn't come in on a horse or horse that signifies war and pride, but on something that represented humility, and meekness.

We can also look at the donkey as we've shared previously, as a representation of our animal nature, that side of us that needs to be sat upon and needs to be squelched, that needs to be submitted subjugated.

We know this aspect of our nature our animal nature, that side of us that wants what we want, irregardless of the cost of or to somebody else, or that thinks we’re more important or superior to someone else. Jesus demonstrated that we have to sit on that side of our nature

I think this reminds us that we are constantly called not just in this Holy Week, but throughout to align ourselves with God, with the Spirit within. The Divine Omniscience, Omnipresence, Unlimited Infinite Intelligence, that is right where we are, to strengthen us, to embolden us, to enliven us, that we may truly embrace this Palm Sunday .

As Jesus entered into Jerusalem, we remember that Jerusalem is the city of peace. It's that consciousness, that is spiritual peace. The invitation is that we are to enter into that spiritual consciousness of peace, our own internal Jerusalem, that we are to find within ourselves, that level of peace that passes all human understanding.

Palm Sunday isn't just the historical something you read in the Bible. It's an invitation to claim your divine sonship or daughter ship your queen or your king for yourself.

As he entered into Jerusalem, the disciples were shouting hosanna hosanna, the Hosannas of the rejoicing multitudes spreading their garments and their branches before Jesus could represent us, representing our souls joyful obedience and homage in our consciousness to the God in us as us.

It's an invitation for us to embrace both our divine, spiritual royalty as sons and daughters and as prince and princesses to enter up into the consciousness of peace, spiritual peace, that peace that can look to the storm and sleep calm in the back of the boat and then rise and say “Peace be still”.

It is that spiritual peace, that even when he is in the Garden of Gethsemane, asking for this cup to be taken away from him, that can say “not my will but Yours be done”. It is that spiritual peace, that when he's more on the cross can say “Father forgive them for they know not what they do”.

This comes as an invitation to embrace your royal divine spiritual self and in doing so, and to enter that consciousness of spiritual peace that passes all human understanding.

I have two poems that I want to share today.

Poem: What Have We Learned? By Loyd C. Taylor, SR.

They shouted with praises, reaching the sky,
Pushing and shoving to see Jesus pass by.
Crying, 'Hosanna, hosanna, glory to the King!
He comes to us today, great joy He doth bring.'

They threw down palm leaves, covering the way,
Clearing the way for His entrance that day.
Raising joyful voices, as praises filled the air,
The day had come, God answered their prayer!

But, in a short time they changed their chant,
From joyful noise, to a mob's hate-filled rant.
From Hosanna, hosanna, as when He was praised;
To crucify Him! Crucify Him, as their anger blazed!

In disbelief we might question why they turned?
But maybe the question is, 'What have we learned?'

Poem: Author and Title Unknown

Ride on Lord Jesus.
Upon a colt,
over cloaks,
under branches –
ride on Lord Jesus.

Towards a city,
through its gates,
past the crowds –
ride on Lord Jesus.

As Hosannas fade
and enemies sneer,
as danger closes
and friends falter –
ride on Lord Jesus.

Showing the way,
teaching the truth,
bringing life for all.
In the name of the Lord –
ride on Lord Jesus.

Story: Bad by name; bad by nature?

During Nelson Mandela's 19 years imprisonment on Robben Island, one particular commanding officer was the most brutal of them all:

"A few days before Badenhorst's departure, I was called to the main office. General Steyn was visiting the island and wanted to know if we had any complaints. Badenhorst was there as I went through a list of demands. When I had finished, Badenhorst spoke to me directly.

He told me he would be leaving the island and added: 'I just want to wish you people good luck'. I do not know if I looked dumbfounded, but I was amazed. He spoke these words like a human being and showed a side of himself we had never seen before. I thanked him for his good wishes and wished him luck in his endeavours.

I thought about this moment for a long time afterwards. Badenhorst had perhaps been the most callous and barbaric commanding officer we had had on Robben Island. But that day in the office, he had revealed that that there was another side to his nature, a side that had been obscured but still existed.

It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency and that, if their hearts are touched, they are capable of changing. Ultimately, Badenhorst was not evil; his inhumanity had been foisted upon him by an inhuman system. He behaved like a brute because he was rewarded for brutish behaviour."

Source: "Long Walk To Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

I believe that is a clear example of someone who had not allowed an animal nature to be subjugated he had not sat upon the coat. He had not sat upon that basic nature that allowed him to operate so brutally and yet, there was still hope for him, as he had the realisation as he was leaving and was able to wish them the best. Somehow his light, that light that is in all of us, managed to escape through a crack and for him to express his divinity

Science of Mind Reading

The invitation for this Palm Sunday as we enter into Holy Week is to truly make it a Holy Week in our lives. To open up to the alignment, to the remembrance of our royal divine heritage; to enter into that spiritual consciousness of Jerusalem within us so that we may open up our hearts and minds to the Spirit of Christ coming in this week; so we can go about all that we have to do in alignment with Spirit within us.

This Holy Week is an invitation to take more time as this whole Lenten journey has been about deepening in spirit, deepening in our connection and communion with God in us as us.

Everything that Jesus taught and demonstrated was an example for us to follow. That is why he is a Way-shower, this Holy Week is an invitation to raise our vibration that we can have whatever it is that we need to crucify and have our resurrection experience into a higher vibration, a greater alignment with the divine that is right where we are.

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Rumination

“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.”
Rumi

Benediction (Palm Sunday)

Mother Father God as we enter into this Holy Week

Passing from joy into sorrow and eventually on to elation,
May we deepen in our Christ consciousness this holy week.
May the journey of this week lead us into the fullness of Christ’s love.

Palm Sunday