Poetry

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AS THEY CAME TO JERUSALEM
AND TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
JESUS SENT TWO, SAYING TO THEM
GO AND GET WHAT SOME MAN GIVES.

IN THAT VILLAGE AHEAD OF YOU
YOU WILL FIND A COLT TIED THERE.
A RIDER NEVER HAS IT KNEW
BRING IT TO ME WITH GREAT CARE..

2.
IF YOU'RE ASKED WHY DO YOU DO THIS
TELL HIM THAT THE LORD HAS NEED,
HE'LL SEND IT BACK, NOTHINGS AMISS
HE WILL SURELY BE AGREED.

THEY WENT AND FOUND THE COLT OUTSIDE
IN THE STREET BY A DOORWAY.
THEN AFTER THE COLT WAS UNTIED
PEOPLE STANDING THERE DID SAY.

3.
WHY ARE YOU UNTYING THAT COLT?
THEY DID JUST AS JESUS SAID.
THEN TO JESUS THEY BROUGHT THE COLT
PEOPLE LET THEM GO AHEAD.

THEN THEY THREW THEIR CLOAKS OVER IT
SOME SPREAD THEIR CLOAKS ON THE ROAD.
OTHERS SPREAD BRANCHES OVER IT
AS JESUS ON THAT COLT RODE.

4.
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE WERE THEN HEARD
HOSANNA! BLESSED IS HE.
WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
THIS THEIR SHOUT OF VICTORY.

BLESSED IS THE COMING KINGDOM
OF OUR FATHER DAVID, KING
HOSANNA LET HIS KINGDOM COME
HOSANNA THEIR VOICES SING.


5.
JESUS THEN WENT TO THE TEMPLE
LOOKED AROUND AT EVERYTHING.
IT WAS TO LATE TO ATTEMPT ILL
SO HE DELAYED IT'S CLEANSING.

THAT NIGHT HE STAYED IN BETHANY
NEXT DAY AS HE WAS TO LEAVE.
HE FOUND HIMSELF QUITE HUNGARY
HIS HUNGER HE MUST RELIEVE.

6.
IN THE DISTANCE SAW A FIG TREE
GOT THERE, FOUND IT HAD NO FRUIT.
NOTHING THERE BUT LEAVES HE COULD SEE
SO HE GAVE THIS TREE THE BOOT.

MAY NO ONE EVER EAT FROM YOU
WAS THE CURSE HE PUT ON IT..
FIGS IN THIS SEASON WERE NOT DUE
BUT JESUS LET THE CURSE SIT.

7.
ENTERING THE TEMPLE AGAIN
JESUS BEGAN DRIVING OUT.
BUYERS, SELLERS AND ALL THOSE MEN
WHO GOD'S HOLY WILL DID FLOUT.

HE OVERTURNED ALL THEIR TABLES
MONEY SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
THEY HAD TURNED GOD'S HOUSE TO STABLES
INSTEAD OF A HOUSE OF PRAY'R.

8.
PEOPLE COULD NOT REACH THEIR STATIONS
THOUGH NONE OF THEM HE CLOBBERS.
THIS HOUSE OF PRAY'R FOR ALL NATIONS
YOU MADE A DEN OF ROBBERS.

WHEN THE LEADERS HEARD THIS SCANDAL
THEY SOUGHT A WAY TO KILL HIM.
BUT THE CROWDS THEY COULD NOT HANDLE
THEY WERE SO AMAZED BY HIM.



9.
THEN THEY WENT OUT OF THE CITY
THE NEXT DAY AS THEY PASSED BY.
THEY SAW THE FIG TREE WITH PITY
PETER TO HIS LORD DID CRY.

RABBI LOOK, THE FIG TREE YOU CURSED
IS NOW WITHERED AS CAN BE.
JESUS SAID IF YOU'RE IN FAITH VERSED
THE IMPOSSIBLE YOU'LL SEE.

10.
YOU CAN THEN SAY TO THIS MOUNTAIN
THROW YOURSELF INTO THE SEA.
IF FAITH FLOWS JUST LIKE A FOUNTAIN
THIS IS WHAT WILL SURELY BE.

THEREFORE WHAT YOU ASK FOR IN PRAYER
BELIEVE YOU HAVE RECEIVED IT.
IT WILL BE YOURS, DON'T HAVE A CARE
JUST MAKE SURE YOU BELIEVE IT.

11.
AND WHEN YOU ARE STANDING PRAYING
DO NOT EVER HOLD A GRUDGE.
FORGIVE, SO YOU HEAR GOD SAYING
I TOO FORGIVE THOSE WHO BUDGE.

BE WILLING TO FORGIVE OTHERS
AS YOUR FATHER FORGIVES YOU.
FOR IN HIM WE ALL ARE BROTHERS
FORGIVENESS MAKES THIS SO TRUE.

12.
JESUS BACK THEN IN THE TEMPLE
HAD THE LEADERS QUESTION HIM.
THOUGH THE ANSWER WAS QUITE SIMPLE
THEY HAD VIEWS THAT WERE QUITE DIM.

BUY WHAT AUTHORITY DO YOU
DO ALL THESE THINGS THAT YOU DO?
JESUS REPLIED LET ME ASK YOU
WAS JOHN'S BAPTISM ALL TRUE.



13.
WAS IT FROM HEAVEN OR FROM MEN?
JESUS PUT THEM ON THE SPOT.
IF WE SAY IT WAS FROM HEAVEN
HE'LL SAY WHY THEN DID YOU NOT-

BELIEVE JOHN AND FOLLOW HIS WAY
BUT IF WE SAY IT'S OF MEN.
WE'LL TURN HIS FOLLOWERS AWAY
SO THEIR PLOT WAS FOILED AGAIN.

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