When Letting Go is the Hardest Way to Worship | Psalm 24 | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

When Letting Go is the Hardest Way to Worship | Psalm 24 | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

Most of us know what it feels like to collide with something we didn’t see coming. And most conflicts, if we’re honest, aren’t really about information — they’re about control. About who gets to be in charge.
In this Palm Sunday message, Pastor Ellis walks us through Psalm 24 — a song David wrote hundreds of years before Jesus rode into Jerusalem, and one that reveals what was really happening that day. The crowds wanted a King on their terms. What they got was something far greater, and far more demanding.
From Psalm 24, we discover three movements that frame the Palm Sunday collision:

1. The King of Glory arrives — Jesus comes carrying ultimate moral and cosmic weight. Nothing and no one can stand against him, including us.
2. The collision was always coming — Every person who ever lived stands before this King with unclean hands and an impure heart. The only way forward was for Jesus to take the impact himself.
3. The gates must open — Jesus has already absorbed the crushing weight of glory on our behalf. The only question left is whether we’re still standing in his way.

If there are areas of your life where you’ve opened the gate partway and decided how far Jesus is allowed to come in, this message is an invitation to throw them wide open.