Sermon Outline 3.29.2026

Palm Sunday Text: Romans 14:7-9
Title: Whose are you when you die?
Big Idea: How do we live with death?

I. The Assumption We All Make About Living (v.7a)
What are you really doing with your life? Being "true to yourself"?
Paul says none of us lives to himself.

II. The Problem of Dying (v.7b)
Psalm 90; Rom 6:23
You will die TO something. So, who is your Lord at the moment of your death?
It is an act of faith and trust in the same Father who upheld His Son.

III. The Declaration (v.8)
This is a totality statement and yet tells us something about living and dying too.
Christ has a claim for all people and all of their lives.

IV. The Ground for the Declaration (v.9)
Why should this particular Lord have this particular claim?
It answers the question: What is the purpose of the Cross and the Tomb?

V. How Do We Live With Death?
Isa 53:5; Heb 9:27; Phil 1:21
We live with death by belonging.
Heidelberg Catechism: What is your only comfort in life and in death? That I am not my own, but belong, body and soul, in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.