Young people at rock concerts are often whipped into a frenzy. People at religious gatherings can also be emotionally manipulated. And this happened in Jesus' day and it happens today. Perhaps, in one sense there is nothing wrong with a little bit of excitement about the faith we have. There are some churches today so lacking in emotion that you wonder if there is any life there at all.
Emotion has a place in the faith.
However, we dare never base or build our faith upon our emotions because if we do this, our faith will be here today and gone tomorrow. And that is also why, especially regarding Palm Sunday, Biblical scholars have always marveled and even deplored the fact that on Palm Sunday, the Sunday prior to Christ's crucifixion, the crowds were singing and waving palm branches and treating Jesus as the King of Kings. Then only a few days later, the emotion disappeared. And many of these same people turned against our Lord. That is the key idea in this brief message.