10 Sermons And Monologues
We have been looking at the symbols of the cross during this season. Like the symbols of the rest of the Christian message, these symbols are cumulative. When we put them all together, we see something of the full message of Jesus. The first symbol is the palms which represent the fickleness of the crowd whose Palm Sunday commitment became dry and dead like the palm branches on our cross by the end of the week. The money bag symbolizes on one level greed and on another level the attempt to manipulate Jesus into a different role as Messiah than the one which Jesus understood his role to be.
