1 00:00:10,057 --> 00:00:11,137 ​ Joshua Kehler: john chapter 12. 2 00:00:11,455 --> 00:00:14,665 we're stepping out of Ephesians, as you guys might anticipate for 3 00:00:14,665 --> 00:00:16,585 Palm Sunday and Easter next week. 4 00:00:17,515 --> 00:00:17,605 Yes. 5 00:00:18,295 --> 00:00:20,485 We'll be back there soon, finishing things up. 6 00:00:21,505 --> 00:00:22,655 And we're close. 7 00:00:23,715 --> 00:00:27,642 John chapter 12, we're gonna look at verse 12 to 19, 8 00:00:29,138 --> 00:00:30,198 the next day. 9 00:00:31,423 --> 00:00:36,373 The large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 10 00:00:37,363 --> 00:00:41,953 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out. 11 00:00:42,373 --> 00:00:49,303 Hosanna blessed his, he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel. 12 00:00:50,143 --> 00:00:53,653 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it just as is written. 13 00:00:53,773 --> 00:00:55,273 Fear, not daughter of Zion. 14 00:00:55,273 --> 00:00:58,423 Behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's, col. 15 00:01:00,118 --> 00:01:03,118 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus 16 00:01:03,118 --> 00:01:07,138 was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written 17 00:01:07,138 --> 00:01:11,068 about him and had been done to him. 18 00:01:11,428 --> 00:01:14,218 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of 19 00:01:14,218 --> 00:01:16,638 the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to bear witness. 20 00:01:17,938 --> 00:01:21,418 The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard 21 00:01:21,418 --> 00:01:22,888 that he had done this sign. 22 00:01:22,888 --> 00:01:25,588 So the Pharisees said to one another. 23 00:01:26,353 --> 00:01:28,063 that you are gaining nothing. 24 00:01:28,303 --> 00:01:29,173 Look, 25 00:01:33,583 --> 00:01:35,413 the world has gone after him. 26 00:01:36,402 --> 00:01:37,423 This is the word of the Lord. 27 00:01:37,593 --> 00:01:38,683 Holy Lord say to God. 28 00:01:39,313 --> 00:01:39,793 Yes. 29 00:01:39,798 --> 00:01:39,913 Amen. 30 00:01:41,563 --> 00:01:43,363 Father, we thank you for your word this morning. 31 00:01:44,993 --> 00:01:45,213 Yep. 32 00:01:45,833 --> 00:01:49,183 And God just reveal your truth. 33 00:01:49,213 --> 00:01:52,303 Here's a story that we're familiar with, but I wasn't. 34 00:01:53,338 --> 00:01:54,088 In a lot of ways. 35 00:01:54,168 --> 00:02:01,368 And, so Lord, once again, holy Spirit, lift up King Jesus. 36 00:02:03,108 --> 00:02:03,348 Oh really? 37 00:02:04,218 --> 00:02:06,648 The King of kings and the Lord of Lords. 38 00:02:07,518 --> 00:02:11,868 The Prince of peace over every situation. 39 00:02:11,868 --> 00:02:14,718 Over, over everything in our lives right now, Lord. 40 00:02:14,718 --> 00:02:16,668 Lord bless this time and. 41 00:02:17,143 --> 00:02:17,953 in your name. 42 00:02:19,313 --> 00:02:19,603 Amen. 43 00:02:20,273 --> 00:02:20,563 Amen. 44 00:02:21,463 --> 00:02:25,573 a pastor, I used to work with Mark Thompson, he told a true story of when 45 00:02:25,578 --> 00:02:32,333 he was, going to a job interview for a nonprofit, somebody who doesn't make a 46 00:02:32,333 --> 00:02:37,493 profit but is there and they exist to help other people on his way to the job 47 00:02:37,673 --> 00:02:40,083 he had parked, found a parking spot. 48 00:02:40,953 --> 00:02:43,423 And he parked along a park. 49 00:02:43,903 --> 00:02:51,438 and in this park he noticed that there was smoke and, the smoke drew's attention. 50 00:02:51,438 --> 00:02:57,918 And then he noticed that there was a man in this park, a homeless man. 51 00:02:59,253 --> 00:03:00,183 On fire. 52 00:03:00,183 --> 00:03:00,213 Oh. 53 00:03:01,533 --> 00:03:04,703 And, his friend tried to put, they're both drunk. 54 00:03:04,763 --> 00:03:08,603 One of 'em had caught on fire getting too close to the barbecue or whatever 55 00:03:08,603 --> 00:03:10,613 they were cooking and caught his clothes. 56 00:03:10,613 --> 00:03:13,553 And then someone, his friend tried to pour liquor on him to 57 00:03:13,553 --> 00:03:15,723 put it out and made it worse. 58 00:03:16,853 --> 00:03:24,263 And so he looks around and people are watching it, but nobody's doing anything. 59 00:03:24,353 --> 00:03:25,213 And this guy's. 60 00:03:26,083 --> 00:03:30,763 Burning and his friend is too drunk to figure out what to do. 61 00:03:31,483 --> 00:03:35,053 And so Mark goes over in a suit, he's going to a job interview, and 62 00:03:35,053 --> 00:03:39,133 he takes his jacket off and he begins to put this guy out, this guy who's 63 00:03:39,133 --> 00:03:42,613 on fire with his suit jacket, and. 64 00:03:43,173 --> 00:03:48,783 Glaze on him and covers him and puts the fire out and, calls, calls 9 1 1. 65 00:03:48,783 --> 00:03:52,018 And, they come and take him away to treat his burns and stuff like that. 66 00:03:52,478 --> 00:03:53,558 it's time to get to his interview. 67 00:03:53,558 --> 00:03:54,878 He isn't time to go home. 68 00:03:55,808 --> 00:04:00,968 And so he goes into the interview, he puts a suit back on and he smells like alcohol 69 00:04:00,968 --> 00:04:04,508 and smoke and fire and it looks terrible. 70 00:04:04,958 --> 00:04:05,613 And, oh God. 71 00:04:06,388 --> 00:04:09,448 And it's the first thing the interview says is, what in 72 00:04:09,448 --> 00:04:11,128 the world does that smell? 73 00:04:11,638 --> 00:04:13,248 And and he tells her to the story. 74 00:04:13,303 --> 00:04:15,128 I said, I'm sorry I didn't have time to go home. 75 00:04:15,848 --> 00:04:18,218 And she looks at him and stops the interview and she said, 76 00:04:18,248 --> 00:04:19,088 you should have gone home. 77 00:04:19,137 --> 00:04:19,918 And changed. 78 00:04:20,968 --> 00:04:22,318 And that was the takeaway. 79 00:04:22,318 --> 00:04:25,738 And he was like, not sure I wanna work for a non-profit. 80 00:04:25,918 --> 00:04:31,673 He was like, Not in the business of rescuing people. 81 00:04:33,313 --> 00:04:39,553 It's such a illustration of the two kingdoms you've got. 82 00:04:40,183 --> 00:04:42,733 One kingdom that's just lost. 83 00:04:42,913 --> 00:04:47,743 That's like the two guys who are like trying to survive and they're on fire. 84 00:04:47,743 --> 00:04:52,093 You've got people looking around and just, it's become a spectacle to them. 85 00:04:52,093 --> 00:04:53,563 At least it's not me. 86 00:04:53,813 --> 00:04:55,133 maybe somebody will help them. 87 00:04:55,133 --> 00:04:56,393 Hopefully somebody helps them. 88 00:04:56,398 --> 00:04:57,813 So maybe somebody will do something. 89 00:04:58,113 --> 00:05:02,273 And then you have those who look like they've got it together. 90 00:05:02,633 --> 00:05:07,943 Who are the ones who have been set up an organization to be helped? 91 00:05:07,943 --> 00:05:08,008 Up. 92 00:05:08,518 --> 00:05:13,918 But again, they look and they look down on the situation and say, now that 93 00:05:13,918 --> 00:05:16,018 doesn't fit our type that's beneath us. 94 00:05:16,018 --> 00:05:20,008 You should have, done something that you should have presented yourself in 95 00:05:20,013 --> 00:05:24,207 a better way than actually rescuing somebody from burning to death. 96 00:05:24,988 --> 00:05:26,888 I just never got over to that story. 97 00:05:27,028 --> 00:05:27,448 Oh really? 98 00:05:27,748 --> 00:05:30,688 Of here he is and he's putting this out. 99 00:05:30,688 --> 00:05:32,548 He's getting the smell on him. 100 00:05:32,548 --> 00:05:34,048 He's going low. 101 00:05:34,048 --> 00:05:40,258 He's on the ground with this guy, getting the smell of it on him and, getting the 102 00:05:40,258 --> 00:05:43,078 dirt and the mud and rescuing this person. 103 00:05:43,438 --> 00:05:47,363 And, and then being told that's not the business we're in. 104 00:05:48,573 --> 00:05:49,832 but that is the business we're in. 105 00:05:50,643 --> 00:05:52,113 That is the business we're in. 106 00:05:53,553 --> 00:05:55,263 The cross is something incredible. 107 00:05:55,263 --> 00:06:01,118 We're gonna talk about symbols, in a second, but the cross is, something 108 00:06:01,238 --> 00:06:05,798 that is universal to Christianity now, it's something we wear on a cross. 109 00:06:05,798 --> 00:06:10,248 We get an earring, we get a tattoo, and it means something to us. 110 00:06:10,298 --> 00:06:15,263 we put it on our car to identify who we are, or, we, when we used to have yellow 111 00:06:15,268 --> 00:06:19,423 pages and you con, contractor, you'd put, a cross or an ictu or something, 112 00:06:19,473 --> 00:06:23,123 it was this, it's this symbol of Hey, I'm a Christian kind of a thing. 113 00:06:24,848 --> 00:06:30,398 But the cross wasn't adopted by the Christian Church until after they 114 00:06:30,398 --> 00:06:33,298 had outlawed crucifixion because it was such a horrific symbol. 115 00:06:34,178 --> 00:06:35,648 It was so offensive. 116 00:06:35,648 --> 00:06:38,648 The cross, the early church didn't even use it as a symbol 117 00:06:38,798 --> 00:06:40,148 until after it was outlawed. 118 00:06:40,148 --> 00:06:41,108 It was so gruesome. 119 00:06:41,113 --> 00:06:46,538 We get our word excruciating from that idea of crucifixion. 120 00:06:46,688 --> 00:06:49,808 It was obscene, it was horrific. 121 00:06:49,838 --> 00:06:51,248 It was terrible. 122 00:06:51,248 --> 00:06:55,598 It was, It was beneath the common man. 123 00:06:56,723 --> 00:07:02,393 crucifixion was so insane that if a woman, which was rare, was ever crucified, she 124 00:07:02,393 --> 00:07:08,573 was crucified facing the cross because they would not want to look on a woman's 125 00:07:08,578 --> 00:07:10,883 face in that much agony and pain. 126 00:07:11,003 --> 00:07:14,663 And so they would face her to the wood, to the beam, and they would crucify her 127 00:07:14,663 --> 00:07:16,163 so they wouldn't have to look upon it. 128 00:07:16,343 --> 00:07:18,433 The cross was offensive. 129 00:07:18,803 --> 00:07:19,883 It was terrible. 130 00:07:19,883 --> 00:07:27,533 It was a stumbling block and to say, That our savior, our Lord, went to the cross. 131 00:07:28,013 --> 00:07:32,633 That was a stumbling block in those first couple centuries for 132 00:07:32,638 --> 00:07:34,343 people hearing about the gospel. 133 00:07:34,348 --> 00:07:38,453 So I want, I, I want to talk about that because I think it's very 134 00:07:38,453 --> 00:07:42,953 interesting that the people hold palm branches and they wave palm branches 135 00:07:42,953 --> 00:07:48,593 as Jesus is coming in, and I want to talk about what that symbol is and. 136 00:07:49,808 --> 00:07:53,678 A different kind of symbol for the kingdom that we're actually a part of. 137 00:07:54,128 --> 00:07:58,118 very briefly, and I'm trying to be, more brief having to edit these sermons. 138 00:07:59,138 --> 00:07:59,918 Holy moly. 139 00:08:00,188 --> 00:08:01,908 plus I've really thought. 140 00:08:02,868 --> 00:08:05,688 And I really want to emphasize that as we're all together, 141 00:08:05,898 --> 00:08:09,438 we're all participating in the Lord's Supper together, I really 142 00:08:09,438 --> 00:08:11,118 want that to be the centerpiece. 143 00:08:11,218 --> 00:08:14,388 because someone once said, they said, how was the sermon? 144 00:08:14,393 --> 00:08:15,348 And I was like, it was okay. 145 00:08:15,348 --> 00:08:17,388 But Jesus showed up at the table. 146 00:08:17,508 --> 00:08:21,353 He's always good at the table, And, and I wanna look at the setting. 147 00:08:21,998 --> 00:08:24,038 The symbols and the scripture, the setting. 148 00:08:24,398 --> 00:08:32,138 So Jesus is proclaiming in the boldest and clearest way that he is the Messiah 149 00:08:32,138 --> 00:08:34,957 king that Israel has been looking for. 150 00:08:34,957 --> 00:08:38,778 Up to that point, it had been called veiled disclosure, right? 151 00:08:39,967 --> 00:08:40,898 You remember when he's saving. 152 00:08:41,318 --> 00:08:45,188 I always got thrown off when I heard the story of Jesus when he'd do a miracle, 153 00:08:45,188 --> 00:08:47,048 and then he'd say, don't tell anybody. 154 00:08:47,448 --> 00:08:49,608 And you're like, why does he say that? 155 00:08:51,258 --> 00:08:51,918 That's so weird. 156 00:08:51,918 --> 00:08:52,908 It doesn't make sense. 157 00:08:53,728 --> 00:09:00,148 Jesus is bringing the kingdom in such a visible way through these miracles. 158 00:09:00,338 --> 00:09:03,873 j Iris's daughter, remember she's raised from the dead. 159 00:09:03,903 --> 00:09:10,113 He reaches down into the jaw of death and he pulls her up from the grave. 160 00:09:11,418 --> 00:09:16,218 As she's back to life, every dead cell in her body ev the heart that had 161 00:09:16,218 --> 00:09:20,238 stopped working, the blood that had begin to coagulate, everything reversed. 162 00:09:20,238 --> 00:09:24,438 The curse of death reversed as he whispered into her ear. 163 00:09:24,618 --> 00:09:25,878 Wake up little darling. 164 00:09:27,448 --> 00:09:30,528 And then he commands them and it says, but don't tell anybody. 165 00:09:31,083 --> 00:09:34,683 Because this is gonna set off a chain of events that we can't come back from. 166 00:09:35,133 --> 00:09:40,713 This is gonna, this is gonna be the powder keg that if people find out 167 00:09:40,773 --> 00:09:44,703 they're gonna grab me and they want to force me to be king, or they're, 168 00:09:44,703 --> 00:09:48,183 the religious leaders are gonna come against it like we see here. 169 00:09:48,333 --> 00:09:52,023 But now in the trammel entry, his face is set to Jerusalem. 170 00:09:52,113 --> 00:09:56,553 He knows what the father's given him to do, and now he's declaring in the 171 00:09:56,558 --> 00:09:59,583 boldest possible terms, no longer veiled. 172 00:10:00,363 --> 00:10:01,473 That he is the king. 173 00:10:01,473 --> 00:10:07,143 That they have been expecting that this is the day that the Lord has 174 00:10:07,143 --> 00:10:10,203 made him riding in on a donkey. 175 00:10:10,353 --> 00:10:14,733 Was the day foretold about this is the day that God has made. 176 00:10:14,883 --> 00:10:17,853 This is the day to be rejoice and to be glad in it. 177 00:10:17,858 --> 00:10:21,333 Because the king has come, the king has come, and the 178 00:10:21,333 --> 00:10:23,193 king is making himself known. 179 00:10:23,193 --> 00:10:28,983 So in the most explicit terms, Jesus is setting the powder keg into motion. 180 00:10:29,908 --> 00:10:30,868 and it happens. 181 00:10:31,228 --> 00:10:34,978 We'll see in this next week, it's called Holy Week and I want us to be in 182 00:10:34,978 --> 00:10:40,498 scripture this week cuz it's been called the most important week in history. 183 00:10:41,088 --> 00:10:45,148 from Sunday, Palm Sunday to Monday, to Tuesday, to Wednesday 184 00:10:45,148 --> 00:10:46,658 to Thursday, to Good Friday, right? 185 00:10:47,368 --> 00:10:49,018 And then silent Saturday at. 186 00:10:49,018 --> 00:10:53,793 Called and then glorious Sunday Easter resurrection, where death is defeated, 187 00:10:53,793 --> 00:10:58,593 where like the curse is reversed, where Satan sin and death have been thrown down. 188 00:10:58,593 --> 00:10:59,283 this is it. 189 00:10:59,283 --> 00:11:03,313 This is, we want to enter into, that participation in that 190 00:11:03,313 --> 00:11:05,783 longing, in that remembering. 191 00:11:06,423 --> 00:11:09,953 Of what, that church and that early church went through and 192 00:11:09,953 --> 00:11:11,543 what this week represents. 193 00:11:11,543 --> 00:11:13,883 But, so things are set in motion. 194 00:11:14,573 --> 00:11:16,163 He's not telling anybody anymore. 195 00:11:16,163 --> 00:11:19,853 Don't tell him what has happened, but that this is one 196 00:11:19,853 --> 00:11:21,383 of the most provocative things. 197 00:11:21,388 --> 00:11:26,508 And when you understand, the setting and the symbols that he uses, we 198 00:11:26,508 --> 00:11:30,618 understand exactly what he was saying. 199 00:11:30,918 --> 00:11:35,848 Now, Judah, and Israel under the control of Rome, we know that, right? 200 00:11:35,848 --> 00:11:37,408 We've read the gospels. 201 00:11:37,528 --> 00:11:41,878 They're not free, they're not independent, they're not their own nation. 202 00:11:41,878 --> 00:11:43,198 They pay taxes to robe. 203 00:11:43,408 --> 00:11:43,828 They're. 204 00:11:43,958 --> 00:11:45,758 They're occupied by Rome. 205 00:11:45,848 --> 00:11:49,118 They're forced to do Rome's bidding. 206 00:11:49,398 --> 00:11:50,748 they don't have a king. 207 00:11:50,748 --> 00:11:53,168 They can't, decide the laws for themselves. 208 00:11:53,348 --> 00:11:57,228 They are oppressed, by Rome. 209 00:11:57,228 --> 00:12:01,618 And there's an uneasy piece that they try to maintain through the years 210 00:12:02,088 --> 00:12:05,448 with the different rulers and the religious leaders are always trying to 211 00:12:05,448 --> 00:12:09,048 maintain that peace and to keep power. 212 00:12:11,363 --> 00:12:15,043 Is under Jerusalem's, Israel's under the control of the Romans. 213 00:12:15,383 --> 00:12:19,353 one of the symbols of that, rule was the Antonio Fortress 214 00:12:19,353 --> 00:12:22,173 that was built just after 63 bc. 215 00:12:22,563 --> 00:12:23,903 It was built north of the temple. 216 00:12:25,038 --> 00:12:28,218 And one of the towers of the fortress was higher than the temple 217 00:12:28,218 --> 00:12:32,058 courts, so that even as you were worshiping as a Jew, you'd always 218 00:12:32,058 --> 00:12:34,728 look and you would see Rome watching. 219 00:12:35,538 --> 00:12:36,558 You were never free. 220 00:12:36,558 --> 00:12:37,788 Not even in your Temple. 221 00:12:38,148 --> 00:12:39,198 Rome was watching. 222 00:12:39,198 --> 00:12:40,878 They were watching every movie you did. 223 00:12:40,883 --> 00:12:41,808 It was Big Brother. 224 00:12:41,808 --> 00:12:43,038 They were watching everything you did. 225 00:12:43,348 --> 00:12:46,042 they were, scrutinizing everything. 226 00:12:46,567 --> 00:12:49,897 And you weren't free even to worship in your temple. 227 00:12:49,897 --> 00:12:51,997 They were not independent. 228 00:12:52,687 --> 00:12:54,637 The prefect was ponchos pilot. 229 00:12:54,977 --> 00:12:57,137 there was some tension between them. 230 00:12:57,167 --> 00:13:00,377 The face of he was the face of Rome and Judea. 231 00:13:00,947 --> 00:13:05,207 He was the one to collect taxes and to put down any rebellions, 232 00:13:05,207 --> 00:13:07,727 and he did so at times, violently. 233 00:13:08,057 --> 00:13:12,027 And that was Rome's way, was they, if you were, brutal and violent. 234 00:13:12,537 --> 00:13:14,457 Then perhaps people wouldn't do it. 235 00:13:14,457 --> 00:13:16,607 That's why they introduced Crucifixion. 236 00:13:16,607 --> 00:13:18,167 The Romans introduced crucifixion. 237 00:13:18,557 --> 00:13:21,017 It was such a horrific way to die. 238 00:13:21,017 --> 00:13:25,247 It took days a lot of the time to die, and in the most excruciating 239 00:13:25,247 --> 00:13:30,472 way, they would say, this will keep down people from re rebelling. 240 00:13:30,782 --> 00:13:34,712 if this is what you get for rebellion, if it's not just going to jail 241 00:13:34,712 --> 00:13:37,932 for a couple years, if it's not just paying a fine, if it's this 242 00:13:37,937 --> 00:13:40,212 end, then it will stop that, but. 243 00:13:40,212 --> 00:13:45,252 People are funny and people will rebel against oppression because it's in 244 00:13:45,252 --> 00:13:49,242 us that we were created to be free. 245 00:13:50,692 --> 00:13:54,022 like you see that all over the world, especially as we're 246 00:13:54,022 --> 00:13:55,312 connected by the internet. 247 00:13:55,312 --> 00:13:59,417 people who live in oppressive regimes and they're throwing off these symbols 248 00:13:59,417 --> 00:14:04,167 of oppression and they're losing their lives just for the simplicity 249 00:14:04,167 --> 00:14:05,727 of wanting to learn in a school. 250 00:14:06,742 --> 00:14:08,242 they're losing their lives. 251 00:14:08,242 --> 00:14:13,132 They're protesting because they, there's something in ain't as an 252 00:14:13,132 --> 00:14:18,352 image bearer of God to be free and not to be under that oppression. 253 00:14:19,012 --> 00:14:26,482 And so the Jews have this expectation of independence and they've tied that 254 00:14:26,482 --> 00:14:32,032 expectation of independence to the Messiah, that Messianic figure, who they 255 00:14:32,032 --> 00:14:34,612 thought would come and set them free. 256 00:14:34,972 --> 00:14:38,662 From Rome, from the oppressor. 257 00:14:39,062 --> 00:14:42,267 Now there were three groups of Jews, and that's, of course, it's 258 00:14:42,267 --> 00:14:43,617 way more complicated than that. 259 00:14:43,617 --> 00:14:45,987 And that's a character in a summary. 260 00:14:46,617 --> 00:14:51,807 But there were those on the left and they got along with the Romans. 261 00:14:51,807 --> 00:14:53,717 They were, more friendly. 262 00:14:53,717 --> 00:14:54,917 They tried to get along. 263 00:14:54,917 --> 00:14:57,257 They said, this is the way that we move forward. 264 00:14:57,257 --> 00:14:59,597 We move forward in this uneasy piece. 265 00:14:59,597 --> 00:15:00,917 They were the heists. 266 00:15:01,067 --> 00:15:05,477 They were the ones who even adopted Roman ways into their lives. 267 00:15:05,477 --> 00:15:09,052 And then you had the middle of the road where, they could go either way. 268 00:15:09,502 --> 00:15:13,212 but then you had the zealots on the right and the zealots were like, 269 00:15:13,517 --> 00:15:18,237 We will lose our lives, we will spend ourselves, to overthrow this 270 00:15:18,237 --> 00:15:19,827 impression even if we're outnumbered. 271 00:15:19,827 --> 00:15:21,807 And that's literally what happens in 78 D. 272 00:15:21,807 --> 00:15:25,407 It's the zealot that rise up against Rome, and Rome puts it down. 273 00:15:25,407 --> 00:15:27,027 The destruction of the temple happens. 274 00:15:27,197 --> 00:15:30,348 and the, the Jews are spread throughout the world, after that 275 00:15:30,457 --> 00:15:33,677 event of being nearly wiped, out. 276 00:15:33,767 --> 00:15:39,407 And so there's these three groups, but every group, even the ones on 277 00:15:39,407 --> 00:15:45,117 the left, Especially the ones on the right and the ones in the middle have 278 00:15:45,117 --> 00:15:51,357 this Messianic expectation in them that someone's gonna come one day 279 00:15:53,127 --> 00:15:54,377 and someone's gonna liberate them. 280 00:15:55,827 --> 00:16:00,477 That they'll be another Moses who walks up into Pharaoh's 281 00:16:00,477 --> 00:16:04,047 court and says, let my people go. 282 00:16:06,222 --> 00:16:11,562 And it, the stories told, to the kids of the rod turning into a snake, the 283 00:16:11,562 --> 00:16:15,732 Nile turning into blood, the locust and the frogs and the darkness. 284 00:16:15,732 --> 00:16:23,442 And as they're celebrating now Passover, where the angel of the Lord comes into 285 00:16:23,502 --> 00:16:31,092 Israel and Egypt, and the firstborn of every family that's not covered by 286 00:16:31,092 --> 00:16:33,402 the blood of the lamb dies that night. 287 00:16:34,392 --> 00:16:38,172 And that is the final thing to allow Moses to release. 288 00:16:38,202 --> 00:16:42,342 So there's this expectation as Passovers taking place. 289 00:16:42,702 --> 00:16:44,022 There's this miracle worker. 290 00:16:44,022 --> 00:16:47,502 There's this one who prepared the way, John, who's saying he's 291 00:16:47,502 --> 00:16:48,732 the one we've been looking for. 292 00:16:48,732 --> 00:16:54,192 I'm not even worthy to loosen his sandals, who, when he baptizes them, 293 00:16:54,432 --> 00:16:57,282 there's a voice from heaven who says, this is my beloved son, and 294 00:16:57,282 --> 00:17:01,392 whom I'm well pleased, the spirit descending like a dove onto him. 295 00:17:03,102 --> 00:17:10,662 John saying to the crowd, I must decrease so that he may increase, go follow him. 296 00:17:10,872 --> 00:17:14,942 So this expectation, and then all of a sudden there's this miracle worker, 297 00:17:15,551 --> 00:17:19,942 and he's different than anybody's ever imagined because what's his first miracle? 298 00:17:20,122 --> 00:17:23,892 But to, at a wedding, make an okay party into a great party 299 00:17:24,162 --> 00:17:25,692 by turning water into wine. 300 00:17:30,147 --> 00:17:31,947 But then lepers who has to be healed, 301 00:17:35,007 --> 00:17:35,787 are set free. 302 00:17:37,407 --> 00:17:39,387 Their skin made like the flesh of a baby, 303 00:17:42,597 --> 00:17:48,747 a morning widow who has no future prospects for herself and can only follow 304 00:17:48,747 --> 00:17:52,047 through and see the burial ver sun. 305 00:17:53,487 --> 00:18:01,197 Jesus interrupts a funeral and gives the son back to his mom telling us that one 306 00:18:01,197 --> 00:18:04,047 day, like that's what he is gonna do. 307 00:18:05,787 --> 00:18:08,967 We'll all have funerals, but he's gonna come and he's gonna 308 00:18:08,967 --> 00:18:10,317 interrupt him at some point, 309 00:18:14,127 --> 00:18:16,737 and he's gonna give us back to our loved ones, to one another. 310 00:18:17,742 --> 00:18:20,862 So Jesus comes onto the scene and there's none like him. 311 00:18:22,152 --> 00:18:26,142 He speaks with this authority and this power, but he's so different 312 00:18:26,147 --> 00:18:29,592 because he's, the religious leaders don't want anything to do with him. 313 00:18:29,712 --> 00:18:31,152 He eats on the Sabbath. 314 00:18:31,272 --> 00:18:33,642 He tells his disciples to eat on the sth. 315 00:18:34,032 --> 00:18:35,323 We can't do that. 316 00:18:36,792 --> 00:18:37,212 They thought, 317 00:18:40,332 --> 00:18:43,722 and he says stuff like, we'll have Lord of the Sabbath. 318 00:18:45,282 --> 00:18:46,272 I wrote the law. 319 00:18:48,012 --> 00:18:49,572 I'm the one who decides. 320 00:18:50,532 --> 00:18:53,862 So Jesus comes and he lays out this kingdom that's so different. 321 00:18:53,862 --> 00:18:55,812 They can't, people can't wrap their minds around. 322 00:18:56,082 --> 00:18:59,242 One of the most fascinating things when you read the gospels is how much the 323 00:18:59,242 --> 00:19:03,842 disciples who are with Jesus for three years are like, oh, that's so brilliant. 324 00:19:04,492 --> 00:19:05,212 Amazing. 325 00:19:05,492 --> 00:19:05,842 Jesus. 326 00:19:06,412 --> 00:19:07,792 Hey, can we have a word with you? 327 00:19:08,692 --> 00:19:10,492 What in the world are you talking about? 328 00:19:12,202 --> 00:19:18,562 It's so otherworldly, this upside down kingdom that's not about revenge and 329 00:19:18,562 --> 00:19:23,242 retaliation, but loving your enemies and asking God's blessing on them. 330 00:19:23,962 --> 00:19:29,872 That's motivated and the foundation for is forgiveness and mercy and justice. 331 00:19:31,747 --> 00:19:32,587 So strange. 332 00:19:32,587 --> 00:19:37,657 so there's this expectation, but people are like, I'm not sure this is the one. 333 00:19:37,657 --> 00:19:40,897 I'm not sure this is the guy. 334 00:19:42,907 --> 00:19:46,177 So there's this expectation, there's these groups of people 335 00:19:46,447 --> 00:19:48,277 Passovers about to happen. 336 00:19:48,427 --> 00:19:49,627 It's Passover week. 337 00:19:49,632 --> 00:19:51,312 you can just feel it in the air. 338 00:19:51,312 --> 00:19:55,462 You can feel the electricity, you can feel the tension, I don't know if you've 339 00:19:55,462 --> 00:19:58,947 ever been somewhere where things are tense and something falls off a counter 340 00:19:59,297 --> 00:20:00,427 or something and everybody's jumps. 341 00:20:01,087 --> 00:20:01,927 That's what it's like. 342 00:20:02,137 --> 00:20:03,967 It's electric. 343 00:20:06,097 --> 00:20:09,097 And then he gives us these symbols, these powerful symbols. 344 00:20:13,402 --> 00:20:16,642 Symbols are a powerful thing, especially for groups of people. 345 00:20:17,422 --> 00:20:20,752 there are non-powerful symbols like riding in an outhouse at work. 346 00:20:22,042 --> 00:20:23,422 And marking your territory. 347 00:20:23,662 --> 00:20:24,802 Joe was here. 348 00:20:25,462 --> 00:20:26,602 Not a powerful symbol. 349 00:20:26,902 --> 00:20:27,502 I don't know. 350 00:20:27,892 --> 00:20:29,002 I can't comprehend. 351 00:20:29,002 --> 00:20:32,152 Sometimes I take pictures of outhouse graffiti cuz I'm just 352 00:20:32,152 --> 00:20:33,772 like, somebody needs a catalog. 353 00:20:33,772 --> 00:20:35,242 This who writes this? 354 00:20:36,112 --> 00:20:41,122 And I always I'm like, maybe it's him, I'm like, does he write the, it's so random. 355 00:20:41,122 --> 00:20:41,512 This stuff. 356 00:20:42,442 --> 00:20:44,992 Oh, graffiti marking your territory, stuff like that. 357 00:20:45,042 --> 00:20:45,762 there's these. 358 00:20:46,122 --> 00:20:49,512 There's these symbols that like we're drawn to, to unite us. 359 00:20:49,552 --> 00:20:51,322 and some of them are powerful to people, some aren't. 360 00:20:51,382 --> 00:20:55,642 But then you take something like a national flag and you think of 361 00:20:55,642 --> 00:20:57,282 something like how uniting that is. 362 00:20:58,087 --> 00:21:02,497 To a country, to a group of citizens, what it means and how 363 00:21:02,497 --> 00:21:04,877 uniting it is to, see that thing. 364 00:21:04,877 --> 00:21:08,242 you've got that famous picture in World War II on Iwa Jima, Where 365 00:21:08,242 --> 00:21:11,252 the flag, the soldiers are and whether it was staged or whatever. 366 00:21:11,252 --> 00:21:15,702 but it's, there's something to that picture where they're battling, through, 367 00:21:15,752 --> 00:21:18,152 mud, dirt, bullets and hail and hell. 368 00:21:18,872 --> 00:21:19,892 But they're getting a flag. 369 00:21:19,982 --> 00:21:20,972 Like it's that symbol. 370 00:21:20,972 --> 00:21:23,732 We're all gonna run, we're all gonna unite to this. 371 00:21:24,182 --> 00:21:25,082 Why do I bring that up? 372 00:21:25,082 --> 00:21:31,742 Because what's interesting is that the poron was a symbol that the Jewish 373 00:21:31,742 --> 00:21:36,152 people had for independence, but it was not tied to the Passover feast. 374 00:21:36,632 --> 00:21:40,012 The Palm Frons were actually used in a feast during the fall. 375 00:21:40,942 --> 00:21:45,172 so it's weird unless we dig into the history a little bit. 376 00:21:46,567 --> 00:21:51,457 During the Maccabean Rebellion, that's when you know the Bible goes silent. 377 00:21:51,727 --> 00:21:55,897 Our Old Testament, this is in the apocrypha, but it's still history. 378 00:21:56,317 --> 00:22:01,897 it's a story about a rebellion that happened against oppression where a 379 00:22:01,897 --> 00:22:07,897 group of Jews, a priest in his four sons rebelled against the structure 380 00:22:07,897 --> 00:22:12,007 of evil, the structure of oppression, and they actually threw fighting. 381 00:22:12,532 --> 00:22:15,802 Through violence, through overflow, brought peace to the 382 00:22:15,802 --> 00:22:19,172 land of Israel for about a hundred years, 80 to a hundred years. 383 00:22:22,132 --> 00:22:26,152 So here's where that idea comes from. 384 00:22:26,362 --> 00:22:31,132 A priest by the name of, Mathias, he and his four sons leading a war, 385 00:22:31,442 --> 00:22:35,232 that led for about a hundred years of freedom and independence, from the 386 00:22:35,232 --> 00:22:37,092 rulers, the oppressors of their day. 387 00:22:37,842 --> 00:22:42,882 140 bc One of those four brothers by the name of Simon held out 388 00:22:42,912 --> 00:22:44,532 when the enemy was attacking. 389 00:22:44,532 --> 00:22:46,662 He and the small group of people rebel. 390 00:22:46,667 --> 00:22:50,022 It's an amazing story of, I don't know why they haven't made it into a movie, 391 00:22:50,472 --> 00:22:52,722 of it's kinda like the whole 300. 392 00:22:52,722 --> 00:22:56,262 It's this, the few against the many and them holding out and winning through 393 00:22:56,262 --> 00:23:04,412 just sheer resilience through the sheer, God, working, In 140 BC the, Simon 394 00:23:04,412 --> 00:23:11,822 held out when Simon entered now free Jerusalem, as he wrote in as a champion. 395 00:23:11,822 --> 00:23:15,302 As one who had won the victory and had won the battle. 396 00:23:15,932 --> 00:23:21,222 The Jews entered it and welcomed him into their new freely, set free 397 00:23:21,222 --> 00:23:26,352 Jerusalem with praise and palm branches. 398 00:23:29,262 --> 00:23:32,457 So they held home branches and they praised God for the. 399 00:23:32,457 --> 00:23:38,667 Independence that the oppressor had been overthrown. 400 00:23:39,997 --> 00:23:44,977 we see that this actually, this image of the Palm Branch actually stuck with 401 00:23:45,517 --> 00:23:49,227 the Jewish people because you jump ahead and fast forward a few decades. 402 00:23:50,407 --> 00:23:54,657 And in that great Jewish revolt that I, mentioned briefly from 66 ad to 403 00:23:54,657 --> 00:23:59,937 70 AD when the temple finally fell, when they actually lost, there was 404 00:23:59,937 --> 00:24:04,677 a period of time in those four years where the religious leaders minted 405 00:24:04,677 --> 00:24:07,107 coins that they would use as money. 406 00:24:07,107 --> 00:24:10,377 During that time, it was a fraction of a shackle. 407 00:24:10,977 --> 00:24:15,597 and the symbol on the shackle was a palm branch. 408 00:24:17,367 --> 00:24:23,037 And so it was this universal symbol, that they had this expectation that 409 00:24:23,187 --> 00:24:26,337 we will overthrow our oppressor. 410 00:24:26,757 --> 00:24:28,527 It was like waving a national flag. 411 00:24:28,527 --> 00:24:34,857 So it's interesting because you have, okay, the Simon Mathias son 412 00:24:34,857 --> 00:24:39,297 and the McBeen Rebellion, him winning them, welcoming him in, and then you 413 00:24:39,297 --> 00:24:41,577 have that expectation after Jesus. 414 00:24:42,942 --> 00:24:48,282 That still waving the palm branches that we still need to be set free. 415 00:24:54,102 --> 00:24:57,227 So you can get the mind of the people. 416 00:24:57,317 --> 00:25:00,707 So they're waving palm branches, they're saying Hosanna, they have this 417 00:25:00,707 --> 00:25:05,687 Messianic expectation, but they're expect is that God is providing 418 00:25:05,687 --> 00:25:09,167 another Maccabees, another Simon. 419 00:25:09,812 --> 00:25:12,212 To overthrow violently. 420 00:25:12,872 --> 00:25:13,872 The Roman oppressors. 421 00:25:14,732 --> 00:25:16,292 And so there's that expectation. 422 00:25:16,292 --> 00:25:20,362 He's here, he's gonna ride in and he's gonna, go to town. 423 00:25:20,362 --> 00:25:23,092 He's gonna destroy, he's going to, all his miracles thus 424 00:25:23,092 --> 00:25:24,282 far have been helping people. 425 00:25:25,132 --> 00:25:26,752 Even like Roman centurions. 426 00:25:26,757 --> 00:25:27,292 What's that about? 427 00:25:27,297 --> 00:25:28,253 We won't talk about that one. 428 00:25:28,882 --> 00:25:34,362 But now maybe he'll unleash Elijah of old or Elijah of old calling fire 429 00:25:34,362 --> 00:25:36,372 down to consume the enemy, right? 430 00:25:36,492 --> 00:25:41,642 And even Jesus' disciples, said, Jesus, call fire down on him. 431 00:25:41,712 --> 00:25:44,057 you're a greater prophet than them, burn 'em up. 432 00:25:44,107 --> 00:25:46,937 they talked bad about us, just called down fire from him. 433 00:25:48,497 --> 00:25:50,357 and Jesus is communicating my. 434 00:25:51,082 --> 00:25:53,722 I have a totally different plan and a totally different kingdom. 435 00:25:54,682 --> 00:26:00,022 The fire's gonna come, James and John, these sons of thunder. 436 00:26:02,032 --> 00:26:06,802 Oh, the fire's coming, but it's gonna fall on me. 437 00:26:09,862 --> 00:26:13,252 It's gonna fall on me so that any can come. 438 00:26:15,502 --> 00:26:20,632 Messianic expectation, the weaving of the Palm Frans, palm branches weren't 439 00:26:20,632 --> 00:26:23,842 associated with Passover, and this is the Passover week, but the fall 440 00:26:23,847 --> 00:26:28,767 festival, Jesus is writing into a city full of people and many of these people 441 00:26:28,797 --> 00:26:30,717 would be fired up for independence. 442 00:26:30,722 --> 00:26:33,057 A desire to ba break free from domination. 443 00:26:33,357 --> 00:26:37,437 Jesus is fame is spreading because of the raising of Lazarus, which we see. 444 00:26:37,527 --> 00:26:40,677 The crowd is there because they heard about the sign Lazarus 445 00:26:40,677 --> 00:26:41,787 has been risen from the dead. 446 00:26:42,552 --> 00:26:45,462 says in our text like, Hey, we're here. 447 00:26:45,732 --> 00:26:46,932 This guy raised the dead. 448 00:26:46,962 --> 00:26:47,622 This is the wine. 449 00:26:47,652 --> 00:26:49,842 Okay, finally, here we are. 450 00:26:50,052 --> 00:26:52,122 Let's wave the palm branches. 451 00:26:52,122 --> 00:26:53,472 let's get free 452 00:27:03,312 --> 00:27:04,632 the donkey. 453 00:27:07,537 --> 00:27:14,567 in one Kings chapter one, verse 32, king David is old and king. 454 00:27:14,567 --> 00:27:18,797 David's going to decide who's gonna take over ruling and 455 00:27:18,797 --> 00:27:20,177 he says Solomon's gonna rule. 456 00:27:20,607 --> 00:27:23,337 Solomon's gonna be the one to take over the throne of David. 457 00:27:23,337 --> 00:27:24,328 He's gonna be the son of David. 458 00:27:24,657 --> 00:27:27,417 That rules King David said. 459 00:27:28,227 --> 00:27:33,117 Call me the priest, Nathan, the prophet, and Benny High, the son of Jehovah. 460 00:27:33,327 --> 00:27:37,407 And they came before the king and the king said to them, take with you the servants 461 00:27:37,407 --> 00:27:40,167 of your Lord and have saloon, my son. 462 00:27:40,542 --> 00:27:46,722 Ride on my own mule and bring him down to GUI and let Zak the priest 463 00:27:46,722 --> 00:27:50,562 and Nathan the prophet there, anoint him king over Israel, then blow the 464 00:27:50,562 --> 00:27:54,432 trumpet and say, long live King Solomon. 465 00:27:55,332 --> 00:28:00,102 And so not only is it as we'll get into, is it a humble way to come 466 00:28:00,102 --> 00:28:03,462 in as a king, but it also was the kingly way to come in as a king. 467 00:28:03,852 --> 00:28:07,422 You remember that Jesus is the promised son of David, that 468 00:28:07,422 --> 00:28:09,522 he's the one who's going to. 469 00:28:10,167 --> 00:28:13,077 Sit on the throne and rule forever. 470 00:28:13,257 --> 00:28:18,737 You remember when, David says to he says, I want to build the Lord a house, right? 471 00:28:19,607 --> 00:28:24,127 And then, and then God tells him through the prophet, I'm gonna 472 00:28:24,127 --> 00:28:28,657 build you a house and I'm gonna establish your throne forever. 473 00:28:29,587 --> 00:28:33,667 So one of the reasons that the Jewish people held their, genealogies up 474 00:28:33,667 --> 00:28:38,677 so much that and kept such track of them, is cuz they believed that in 475 00:28:38,682 --> 00:28:44,467 the line of David, there would be one who comes to sit on the throne again. 476 00:28:44,822 --> 00:28:49,712 And so there was this expectation not only of a Messiah who would overthrow the 477 00:28:49,712 --> 00:28:57,242 Roman oppressors, but that there would be a king to come and rule in a way in which 478 00:28:57,242 --> 00:29:01,262 David did and David failed at it greatly. 479 00:29:01,502 --> 00:29:04,842 So there's this hope that maybe one day we'll get a king that doesn't fail 480 00:29:05,792 --> 00:29:08,372 because Solomon becomes king and Solomon. 481 00:29:09,142 --> 00:29:12,372 And his sons, the Nation of Israel split. 482 00:29:12,372 --> 00:29:15,222 And then you guys read First Kings and Second Kings and First 483 00:29:15,222 --> 00:29:16,392 Chronicles and Second Chronicles. 484 00:29:16,632 --> 00:29:20,742 It's an am it's amazing, but it's a hard read because you're like, and this king 485 00:29:20,742 --> 00:29:23,682 did what was evil on the side of the Lord, and this king did what was evil on inside. 486 00:29:23,772 --> 00:29:24,742 And you're like, wow. 487 00:29:25,042 --> 00:29:28,242 And then all of a sudden it's like being under water and holding your 488 00:29:28,242 --> 00:29:30,042 breath and then coming up for a breath. 489 00:29:30,047 --> 00:29:32,907 It says, And this king did what was right in the side of the Lord. 490 00:29:32,907 --> 00:29:34,497 You're like, yes, we're on track. 491 00:29:34,497 --> 00:29:35,337 We're back. 492 00:29:35,727 --> 00:29:37,047 Let's go. 493 00:29:37,407 --> 00:29:40,707 And then usually he like ruins it at the end of his life or something. 494 00:29:40,807 --> 00:29:44,932 The King Isiah, who's I can go in the temple, And, he gets a leprosy. 495 00:29:45,962 --> 00:29:53,162 and so over and over you see the failure of bad kings, but really what the Old 496 00:29:53,162 --> 00:29:59,462 Testament tells us, As of the failure of even the good kings and that there 497 00:29:59,462 --> 00:30:03,962 was a long internet expectation that a good king would come one day, and that 498 00:30:03,962 --> 00:30:07,952 this good king would sit on the throne of David forever, and that he would rule 499 00:30:07,952 --> 00:30:12,747 and he would reign and righteousness and that he wouldn't be the one, who. 500 00:30:14,077 --> 00:30:16,637 Counts the people, because of pride. 501 00:30:16,637 --> 00:30:21,917 He wouldn't be the one who looks at Bathsheba with lust and murders. 502 00:30:21,977 --> 00:30:26,117 one of his confidant and fellow soldiers, like he would rule 503 00:30:26,117 --> 00:30:28,567 and reign in righteousness. 504 00:30:30,017 --> 00:30:36,137 So there people know because they know the story of the Bible, that when 505 00:30:36,137 --> 00:30:42,347 Jesus rolls in on a donkey, what he's saying, That he's coming in to Jerusalem 506 00:30:42,467 --> 00:30:47,537 as the king, as the son of David. 507 00:30:48,497 --> 00:30:50,387 again, second Samuel, chapter seven. 508 00:30:50,417 --> 00:30:54,872 That's where it says that God will, establish a seed that he'll, 509 00:30:54,942 --> 00:30:56,597 establish a house for David forever. 510 00:30:57,497 --> 00:30:57,827 Jesus. 511 00:30:57,827 --> 00:31:02,507 Writing upon the donkey was like writing upon David's throne, 512 00:31:03,287 --> 00:31:05,477 the scripture, Psalm one 18. 513 00:31:06,257 --> 00:31:11,057 That was read so beautifully this morning from Psalm one 13 to Psalm one 18. 514 00:31:11,117 --> 00:31:14,927 These songs would be sung during the Feast of Passover. 515 00:31:14,932 --> 00:31:20,207 During these this festival week in Psalm one 18, you have that amazing 516 00:31:20,207 --> 00:31:23,187 verse there that says, save us Lord. 517 00:31:23,717 --> 00:31:28,837 hosanna, literally Jesus' name is saved now. 518 00:31:29,377 --> 00:31:30,487 That's what his name means. 519 00:31:30,487 --> 00:31:33,457 And so they're literally saying, be true to your name. 520 00:31:33,607 --> 00:31:40,327 Save now, like Hosanna, like save now is what they are crying out 521 00:31:40,327 --> 00:31:42,757 for and what a beautiful thing is. 522 00:31:42,757 --> 00:31:44,677 They have no idea even what they're asking for, 523 00:31:50,377 --> 00:31:51,517 but he's answering their prayer. 524 00:31:55,507 --> 00:31:56,107 Save now. 525 00:31:56,107 --> 00:31:58,597 Such limited understanding. 526 00:32:00,907 --> 00:32:06,847 They had this like narrow band of here's our problem. 527 00:32:07,632 --> 00:32:09,772 Go rescue us. 528 00:32:10,072 --> 00:32:11,362 Make this problem better. 529 00:32:11,362 --> 00:32:12,082 save us down. 530 00:32:12,082 --> 00:32:13,762 We're in a dire situation. 531 00:32:14,512 --> 00:32:16,072 The boot is on our neck. 532 00:32:16,282 --> 00:32:20,872 Save now, not next week, not, two weeks from now. 533 00:32:20,872 --> 00:32:23,897 Not next year, not some next generation. 534 00:32:23,902 --> 00:32:25,397 Now's the time to save. 535 00:32:26,837 --> 00:32:31,037 And Jesus is answering that prayer. 536 00:32:31,877 --> 00:32:32,597 It's so amazing. 537 00:32:32,597 --> 00:32:37,547 You go back to the birth narrative, you shall call his name Jesus, right? 538 00:32:38,657 --> 00:32:42,857 For he shall save his people from there sin. 539 00:32:43,967 --> 00:32:44,987 So they're calling out. 540 00:32:44,987 --> 00:32:46,697 Jesus is a direct answer to that prayer. 541 00:32:46,757 --> 00:32:51,707 I, there's a lot of application here that we can talk about maybe in a minute, but 542 00:32:53,987 --> 00:32:55,067 yeah, let's talk about it in a minute. 543 00:32:55,127 --> 00:32:58,667 Zacharia chapter nine, verse nine and 10. 544 00:32:59,582 --> 00:33:00,752 Rejoice greatly. 545 00:33:00,752 --> 00:33:03,632 A daughter of Zion, shout loud, O daughter of Jerusalem. 546 00:33:03,632 --> 00:33:08,522 Behold, your king is coming to you righteous and having salvation as he. 547 00:33:10,742 --> 00:33:14,822 So this is what John recognized as the fulfillment of Jesus 548 00:33:14,822 --> 00:33:17,732 coming in writing on a donkey. 549 00:33:17,732 --> 00:33:19,922 Let me read that again, reg, because. 550 00:33:20,537 --> 00:33:23,387 Because this is just as much for us as it was for them. 551 00:33:24,197 --> 00:33:29,177 Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion shall allowed O daughter of Jerusalem. 552 00:33:29,357 --> 00:33:32,777 Behold, your king is coming to you. 553 00:33:35,537 --> 00:33:37,877 Righteous, not compromised. 554 00:33:40,307 --> 00:33:45,317 Not a bad king, not a moderate king, not an okay king. 555 00:33:47,027 --> 00:33:47,957 Righteous. 556 00:33:49,967 --> 00:33:51,797 And having salvation, 557 00:33:55,877 --> 00:34:05,567 humble and mounted on a donkey, on a cult, the full of a donkey, I will cut 558 00:34:05,567 --> 00:34:12,197 off the chariot from Efrim and the war horse from Jerusalem, and the battle Bo 559 00:34:12,197 --> 00:34:17,177 shall be cut off and he shall speak peace. 560 00:34:18,047 --> 00:34:19,667 To the nations. 561 00:34:20,746 --> 00:34:28,217 His rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. 562 00:34:31,667 --> 00:34:33,437 What a beautiful scripture. 563 00:34:35,956 --> 00:34:37,187 And here it is in front of him. 564 00:34:37,187 --> 00:34:38,387 They know that scripture. 565 00:34:39,706 --> 00:34:42,327 That would, John, that's what he thinks about actually, John's 566 00:34:42,377 --> 00:34:45,137 actually we, after he was glorified, we like put this together. 567 00:34:45,437 --> 00:34:46,187 I love it. 568 00:34:46,187 --> 00:34:46,947 They're so honest. 569 00:34:50,117 --> 00:34:53,112 But here John's looking back on this and he is oh, 570 00:34:57,042 --> 00:34:58,662 oh, he's doing something much bigger. 571 00:35:01,882 --> 00:35:05,982 Oh, he's putting away as War Bo and the warhorse. 572 00:35:08,187 --> 00:35:09,957 Because he's coming to bring peace. 573 00:35:12,837 --> 00:35:14,127 He's coming with salvation. 574 00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:23,277 He's coming to establish a rule and a reign that extends to the 575 00:35:23,277 --> 00:35:29,037 far reaches this earth and impacts every single molecule of creation. 576 00:35:32,697 --> 00:35:34,247 This week isn't just about. 577 00:35:35,112 --> 00:35:39,392 Fire insurance or yeah, heaven and hell in the future. 578 00:35:39,392 --> 00:35:45,452 This week is about God reversing the curse through the person of Jesus. 579 00:35:45,602 --> 00:35:47,312 By becoming the curse. 580 00:35:47,912 --> 00:35:51,902 He's undoing everything broken, everything wrong, everything crooked. 581 00:35:53,462 --> 00:35:54,992 He is the guarantee of it. 582 00:35:54,992 --> 00:35:55,262 How? 583 00:35:55,262 --> 00:35:59,102 What's the guarantee that he rose from the grave? 584 00:36:00,452 --> 00:36:03,512 The guarantee that the curse is reversing. 585 00:36:04,772 --> 00:36:08,522 And then he gives us the spirit to come inside the church and 586 00:36:08,522 --> 00:36:12,662 he begins to heal relationships where we would be natural enemies. 587 00:36:12,667 --> 00:36:19,182 We wouldn't get along different, the three groups, we've got 50 groups in America. 588 00:36:19,972 --> 00:36:21,412 it's complicated. 589 00:36:21,622 --> 00:36:25,857 Look at, all the division and all the separation and the 590 00:36:25,857 --> 00:36:27,927 tension that's in the room. 591 00:36:28,197 --> 00:36:30,927 And Jesus comes in and he says, guess what? 592 00:36:30,927 --> 00:36:35,587 That person who used you and stabbed you in the back has been covered by my blood 593 00:36:35,807 --> 00:36:38,327 and is now your blood brought Brother. 594 00:36:40,802 --> 00:36:42,062 I'm not sure I understand. 595 00:36:42,182 --> 00:36:42,902 I don't either. 596 00:36:42,902 --> 00:36:43,442 It's Grace. 597 00:36:46,712 --> 00:36:47,802 That's what my daughter said. 598 00:36:48,632 --> 00:36:50,312 She said so funny. 599 00:36:50,312 --> 00:36:51,182 It was so great. 600 00:36:51,182 --> 00:36:53,912 We were talking in and she said, I don't understand. 601 00:36:53,912 --> 00:36:58,952 You mean God wants me to love somebody that has hurt me. 602 00:36:59,342 --> 00:36:59,672 Yeah. 603 00:37:01,582 --> 00:37:02,562 And I said, yeah. 604 00:37:03,962 --> 00:37:04,982 And I said, it's hard. 605 00:37:05,042 --> 00:37:06,482 And she said, I don't think I can do it. 606 00:37:06,482 --> 00:37:07,262 And I said, perfect. 607 00:37:08,162 --> 00:37:11,662 Because if you could, you wouldn't need Jesus right to rescue you. 608 00:37:12,092 --> 00:37:15,392 And this would be another religion and there wouldn't be 609 00:37:15,392 --> 00:37:17,132 anything supernatural about it. 610 00:37:17,312 --> 00:37:21,902 Loving people and the way God has called us to you takes literally the spirit 611 00:37:21,902 --> 00:37:30,182 of God coming into our lives and making much of Jesus in our hearts so that. 612 00:37:31,877 --> 00:37:32,867 That's all that matters. 613 00:37:32,867 --> 00:37:33,887 And then he moves through us. 614 00:37:34,157 --> 00:37:39,047 I wonder, like I don't wanna limit our vision for what God can do. 615 00:37:40,097 --> 00:37:42,973 And I'm not saying, we're gonna go, split the delta in too and walk over. 616 00:37:43,182 --> 00:37:45,672 I'm not talking about that, but what I'm talking about. 617 00:37:53,577 --> 00:37:58,207 There's a lot, not a lot of nonprofits doing good in this city, and we can 618 00:37:58,207 --> 00:38:01,867 join them and we should join them, but I don't wanna lose sight of that. 619 00:38:01,867 --> 00:38:07,587 We belong to a supernatural movement of the spirit of God in this city. 620 00:38:09,097 --> 00:38:14,017 That raises the dead cold hearts that are reborn and rebirth. 621 00:38:14,047 --> 00:38:18,877 Jeff's at work who the spirit of God awakens them brothers who are 622 00:38:19,057 --> 00:38:24,097 baptized and come to Christ like the most unexpected time in ways 623 00:38:24,277 --> 00:38:30,777 that is what we operate in that is the environment that we can't just. 624 00:38:31,947 --> 00:38:34,317 I don't know, lose sight of that. 625 00:38:34,317 --> 00:38:39,627 God has commissioned us and called us to go and to preach and to unleash 626 00:38:39,632 --> 00:38:42,507 the lion of the gospel of grace. 627 00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:46,257 So much of the time, we're trying to be convincing. 628 00:38:46,257 --> 00:38:49,017 We're trying to be cunning, and we do, we feel like we're not equipped 629 00:38:49,022 --> 00:38:52,707 enough, like we don't know enough, the religious leaders, after they interviewed 630 00:38:52,707 --> 00:38:56,697 the disciples, they said, man, one thing we know, they're not very smart. 631 00:38:58,017 --> 00:38:59,037 They're fishermen. 632 00:38:59,787 --> 00:39:05,427 They don't know much, but they've been with Jesus, and there's 633 00:39:05,427 --> 00:39:09,927 a power there that we cannot comprehend and we cannot diminish. 634 00:39:10,137 --> 00:39:19,077 These are turning the world upside down through enemy love through, because I was 635 00:39:19,077 --> 00:39:23,927 God's enemy through a forgiveness That's. 636 00:39:26,352 --> 00:39:34,632 Otherworldly, you can work for 20 years with a therapist and we should, 637 00:39:35,202 --> 00:39:38,952 cuz that is a God-given gift to have people in our lives to work. 638 00:39:39,582 --> 00:39:45,102 But we can work for 20 years and having a warm feeling towards 639 00:39:45,102 --> 00:39:46,512 somebody who's wronged us. 640 00:39:47,442 --> 00:39:51,042 Or you can have the resurrected Christ in dwelling you, who gives 641 00:39:51,042 --> 00:39:52,752 you a vision of your sinfulness. 642 00:39:52,752 --> 00:39:52,842 Yes. 643 00:39:52,842 --> 00:39:56,292 And your lostness that you see the debt that you owed. 644 00:39:56,352 --> 00:40:01,572 And so you're not throwing your fellow saint in prison because at 20 bucks 645 00:40:01,572 --> 00:40:07,182 when you owed an infinite amount, you go the grace I've been shown. 646 00:40:07,182 --> 00:40:08,982 How could I not give grace? 647 00:40:09,522 --> 00:40:14,112 this is supernatural, resurrected Jesus Kind of like. 648 00:40:14,517 --> 00:40:18,477 Easter stuff that we gotta be operating in. 649 00:40:18,477 --> 00:40:23,427 This is the environment, this is the atmosphere, the power of his resurrection 650 00:40:23,757 --> 00:40:25,917 and the fellowship of his sufferings. 651 00:40:26,517 --> 00:40:30,477 Because man, that's how we walk through this broken world as we. 652 00:40:31,022 --> 00:40:37,862 Experience the brokenness that of this world, so much of the treasure that God is 653 00:40:37,862 --> 00:40:40,532 as revealed and that we do not leave him. 654 00:40:40,532 --> 00:40:43,922 We do not forsake him because he'll never leave or forsake us, but 655 00:40:43,922 --> 00:40:45,782 that he's our truly true treasure. 656 00:40:45,992 --> 00:40:49,112 That he's the pearl and the field, that we do anything to get 657 00:40:49,112 --> 00:40:50,882 him, and that there's no cost. 658 00:40:50,882 --> 00:40:52,232 He couldn't call us to. 659 00:40:53,517 --> 00:41:00,357 Like this is life and more abundantly not having, a better marriage. 660 00:41:00,447 --> 00:41:01,197 Great. 661 00:41:01,737 --> 00:41:03,117 That's a byproduct. 662 00:41:03,297 --> 00:41:05,577 Not having this habit taken care of. 663 00:41:05,937 --> 00:41:08,637 This is the resurrected life that he's calling us to. 664 00:41:08,797 --> 00:41:11,647 To walk with the living God, the unco. 665 00:41:11,917 --> 00:41:15,817 Cause the infinite one who says, I want you to be my home. 666 00:41:15,817 --> 00:41:17,647 I'm gonna indwell you myself. 667 00:41:17,917 --> 00:41:20,677 I wanna make this church my body. 668 00:41:20,977 --> 00:41:26,677 I want to be the head, but I am going to make the church the bo like crazy stuff. 669 00:41:30,157 --> 00:41:31,207 The kings come, 670 00:41:35,077 --> 00:41:36,937 the king of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 671 00:41:37,057 --> 00:41:39,187 Who He's coming again, 672 00:41:43,227 --> 00:41:44,377 but the king is come. 673 00:41:46,237 --> 00:41:48,467 They're summon our movement and there brothers and sisters, and 674 00:41:48,787 --> 00:41:54,577 we'll be worshiping in heaven, but think that more people will come 675 00:41:54,577 --> 00:41:56,407 to Jesus if we make 'em popular. 676 00:41:57,802 --> 00:42:04,592 Or digestible, or appealing, or, he's always gonna be because 677 00:42:04,592 --> 00:42:09,512 he is an authority, because he's a king, he's always gonna 678 00:42:09,512 --> 00:42:11,192 threaten other people's authority. 679 00:42:11,402 --> 00:42:14,882 He's always gonna threaten other power structures with his power structure. 680 00:42:15,842 --> 00:42:20,252 who's I was talking to, one of my kids and just saying that's 681 00:42:20,252 --> 00:42:21,062 what it all comes down to. 682 00:42:21,902 --> 00:42:26,132 Literally it comes down to crown him or crucify him. 683 00:42:26,942 --> 00:42:32,312 It comes down to we don't like an authority over us. 684 00:42:32,882 --> 00:42:34,712 We want to be the masters of our own fate. 685 00:42:34,712 --> 00:42:36,242 We want to be the captains of own fate. 686 00:42:36,302 --> 00:42:38,702 Even when we get when, okay, let me just make it about me. 687 00:42:38,702 --> 00:42:41,302 When I got into Christianity, I love Jesus. 688 00:42:41,732 --> 00:42:42,962 I couldn't believe he saved me. 689 00:42:45,992 --> 00:42:46,742 down the line. 690 00:42:46,742 --> 00:42:49,592 I was like, I can't believe you saved me. 691 00:42:49,652 --> 00:42:49,862 Yeah. 692 00:42:49,892 --> 00:42:55,022 First I was like, yeah, I can't believe you saved me, but I gave Jesus my agenda. 693 00:42:56,342 --> 00:42:58,172 Here's God, awesome. 694 00:42:58,262 --> 00:42:59,042 You're amazing. 695 00:42:59,432 --> 00:43:00,812 Here's what I'm gonna do for you. 696 00:43:01,742 --> 00:43:02,712 I'm really doing it for myself. 697 00:43:03,592 --> 00:43:05,822 I want to be known. 698 00:43:08,072 --> 00:43:11,642 I want to be used so that other people see my, it's all about me. 699 00:43:11,912 --> 00:43:17,342 Like I look back, it still is terribly, I literally analyze, 700 00:43:17,342 --> 00:43:19,232 I'm like, why am I doing this? 701 00:43:19,262 --> 00:43:20,522 Is it still about me? 702 00:43:20,522 --> 00:43:24,327 am I still, I'm like, gut Gollum inside me. 703 00:43:24,327 --> 00:43:27,527 Just ah, my bra is just comes out, And just wants the glory. 704 00:43:27,527 --> 00:43:28,157 It's like that prayer. 705 00:43:28,157 --> 00:43:28,967 Ah, I need it. 706 00:43:29,807 --> 00:43:33,677 You guys were in the scene and Lord of the Rings where Bilbo, when he's old, 707 00:43:33,917 --> 00:43:36,242 he sees the ring and he is he's old. 708 00:43:36,242 --> 00:43:37,717 He's oh, can I see it and everything. 709 00:43:38,017 --> 00:43:39,502 And he's you better not, he's give it to me. 710 00:43:39,552 --> 00:43:39,912 You're like, 711 00:43:43,432 --> 00:43:44,272 that's me. 712 00:43:46,642 --> 00:43:48,592 I'm like, oh Lord, you're working amazing. 713 00:43:48,712 --> 00:43:49,372 Give it to me. 714 00:43:49,372 --> 00:43:53,002 I'm like, just like I, I want it. 715 00:43:53,102 --> 00:43:53,822 let's wrap up. 716 00:43:53,822 --> 00:43:54,567 but that's so true. 717 00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:59,892 Guys, so this passage is about a king coming and a king not 718 00:43:59,892 --> 00:44:03,312 meeting the expectations of the people that he was coming to. 719 00:44:05,922 --> 00:44:14,722 And the symbol of freedom is not in the poron, but is in the offensive symbol 720 00:44:14,782 --> 00:44:20,112 of the cross because God would rescue us 721 00:44:23,622 --> 00:44:24,192 by losing. 722 00:44:26,052 --> 00:44:30,132 By going and dying a death as a criminal. 723 00:44:30,132 --> 00:44:31,032 Do you understand? 724 00:44:31,032 --> 00:44:31,732 We follow. 725 00:44:33,462 --> 00:44:43,442 Our founder was killed as a criminal and executed, but it changed the world because 726 00:44:43,442 --> 00:44:50,042 this kingdom is not of this world that he comes lowly and so all through, I just. 727 00:44:50,607 --> 00:44:55,407 the cruciform life, this cross life that, that I may be conformed to. 728 00:44:55,407 --> 00:45:00,557 His death is a verse that Paul's put this one on your calendar, is that all 729 00:45:00,562 --> 00:45:05,637 of our life, the symbol over all of our life as a Christian is that cross. 730 00:45:05,637 --> 00:45:05,917 Cross. 731 00:45:06,677 --> 00:45:08,147 It's also the empty tomb. 732 00:45:08,987 --> 00:45:10,037 They go hand in hand. 733 00:45:10,997 --> 00:45:12,002 You need both. 734 00:45:12,222 --> 00:45:13,742 Yeah, you really need both. 735 00:45:14,282 --> 00:45:19,292 It's not just all victory and it's not death that ends in defeat, but it is 736 00:45:19,292 --> 00:45:23,522 brokenness that leads to resurrection. 737 00:45:23,527 --> 00:45:26,942 Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. 738 00:45:26,942 --> 00:45:30,002 But if it dies, it bears much fruit. 739 00:45:31,082 --> 00:45:31,892 what does Jesus say? 740 00:45:32,852 --> 00:45:34,292 Do you want to find your life? 741 00:45:36,302 --> 00:45:36,842 Then lose it. 742 00:45:36,842 --> 00:45:39,902 For my sake, guys, that is the cruciform life. 743 00:45:39,902 --> 00:45:40,952 That is the cross. 744 00:45:41,222 --> 00:45:46,622 So our symbol, as tempting as it is in this political age, to 745 00:45:46,622 --> 00:45:51,752 wave Palm Frans and to look for independence, whatever it is that we 746 00:45:51,752 --> 00:45:54,322 fear that is happening in this world. 747 00:45:55,132 --> 00:45:55,942 I do it. 748 00:45:56,242 --> 00:46:00,682 I look to, to tech people, I look to technology, or I look to this leader, 749 00:46:00,682 --> 00:46:07,222 I look to that leader to lead me out of whatever I think the oppression is 750 00:46:07,282 --> 00:46:13,832 today as a reminder that the symbol for Christianity is not the palm fron that 751 00:46:14,122 --> 00:46:17,032 overthrows oppression with violence. 752 00:46:17,612 --> 00:46:21,632 But as the cross that defeated Satan sin and death, the giants that we 753 00:46:21,632 --> 00:46:27,452 could never defeat once and for all through death and resurrection, 754 00:46:28,152 --> 00:46:30,787 like that is what he calls us into. 755 00:46:30,787 --> 00:46:33,067 That's the kingdom that he talks about. 756 00:46:33,067 --> 00:46:39,957 That's the, if, John even, he's if, if, somebody asks you to go a mile, go too. 757 00:46:43,032 --> 00:46:47,582 Not try to weasel out and get out of the mild, do 50 per or that I, 758 00:46:47,762 --> 00:46:49,112 you can't command me to do that. 759 00:46:49,112 --> 00:46:54,152 That it says do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. 760 00:46:54,152 --> 00:46:59,877 we are part of a totally different kingdom than the kingdom of this 761 00:46:59,882 --> 00:47:05,997 world and the people were expecting another rescue or another messiah. 762 00:47:08,112 --> 00:47:09,792 That would come and conquer through violence. 763 00:47:09,792 --> 00:47:10,752 Even his own disciples. 764 00:47:10,752 --> 00:47:14,472 Peter pulls out his sword in the garden and says, now it's time. 765 00:47:15,352 --> 00:47:16,522 now it's time to go to work. 766 00:47:16,522 --> 00:47:19,492 Now it's time to use the sword. 767 00:47:19,552 --> 00:47:20,542 And Jesus put that away. 768 00:47:20,592 --> 00:47:22,032 that's not what my kingdoms about. 769 00:47:23,112 --> 00:47:26,742 And he goes, is the sacrifice, because what did we need a Passover? 770 00:47:26,742 --> 00:47:27,852 How was the Exodus? 771 00:47:27,912 --> 00:47:28,572 How did it happen? 772 00:47:28,572 --> 00:47:32,202 And I end with this Passover. 773 00:47:32,202 --> 00:47:33,672 How did, how was it? 774 00:47:33,762 --> 00:47:34,492 Was it Moses? 775 00:47:38,997 --> 00:47:45,237 What was the real necessary thing, and especially if you were a 776 00:47:45,237 --> 00:47:51,657 firstborn child, because do you know the angel went through Israel? 777 00:47:51,657 --> 00:47:52,707 He didn't just hit Egypt. 778 00:47:53,127 --> 00:47:57,417 Yeah, because all of sin didn't fallen short of the glory of God. 779 00:47:57,417 --> 00:48:00,807 Israel wasn't a special remnant that they didn't need the blood. 780 00:48:00,807 --> 00:48:02,942 They just, oh, you're, you're the seat of Abraham. 781 00:48:02,942 --> 00:48:03,482 You're good. 782 00:48:03,662 --> 00:48:05,582 Oh, you were born a in a Christian family. 783 00:48:05,582 --> 00:48:06,032 You're good. 784 00:48:06,212 --> 00:48:10,932 No, they needed the blood of the innocent covered for them. 785 00:48:14,372 --> 00:48:17,012 That was the true rescue that night. 786 00:48:19,247 --> 00:48:20,027 And then, you know what? 787 00:48:20,027 --> 00:48:23,027 God brought him into covenant community with them and there were miracles along 788 00:48:23,027 --> 00:48:24,947 the way and the enemy was defeated. 789 00:48:24,947 --> 00:48:31,997 But the rescue that Passover was all about was that judgment was coming 790 00:48:32,507 --> 00:48:35,957 and it was coming in a specific location in a specific time and 791 00:48:36,017 --> 00:48:42,917 was falling on that moment, and no one would escape any other way. 792 00:48:45,617 --> 00:48:50,427 And I imagine myself being, I'm the first son of my dad. 793 00:48:51,447 --> 00:49:01,317 I imagine myself being in that room and what I would feel as from one end of the 794 00:49:01,317 --> 00:49:08,037 land, you start to hear screaming and you start to hear terror, and you start 795 00:49:08,037 --> 00:49:11,757 to hear rejoicing and size of relief. 796 00:49:14,082 --> 00:49:15,882 but Dad, there's things I haven't told you. 797 00:49:17,832 --> 00:49:19,152 Are you sure? 798 00:49:19,962 --> 00:49:22,062 Are you sure I'm gonna be safe? 799 00:49:22,482 --> 00:49:23,322 Yes. 800 00:49:24,072 --> 00:49:34,902 Because the innocent has died for the guilty and as the angel comes and sees the 801 00:49:34,902 --> 00:49:40,922 blood, that judgment that we all deserve. 802 00:49:41,982 --> 00:49:42,942 Passes over. 803 00:49:43,122 --> 00:49:47,652 That's why it's called Passover and passes over because something 804 00:49:47,652 --> 00:49:49,122 has been judged in its place. 805 00:49:49,362 --> 00:49:53,922 That is the glory of the gospel because God doesn't water down his 806 00:49:53,922 --> 00:49:56,412 holiness to get you into heaven. 807 00:49:57,642 --> 00:49:58,332 He's holy. 808 00:49:59,082 --> 00:50:01,332 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 809 00:50:01,962 --> 00:50:03,672 And its holiness, burns bright. 810 00:50:04,182 --> 00:50:06,132 It makes rocks, Trimble. 811 00:50:08,367 --> 00:50:10,137 I've used a lot of heavy equipment. 812 00:50:10,197 --> 00:50:11,187 Nothing makes rocks. 813 00:50:11,187 --> 00:50:13,677 Trimble, it makes rocks, shake. 814 00:50:13,677 --> 00:50:14,787 It makes rocks, Trimble. 815 00:50:15,027 --> 00:50:18,717 It makes creatures that recreated to be in his presence. 816 00:50:18,957 --> 00:50:23,367 They have to shield their faces with multiple wings because his glory and 817 00:50:23,372 --> 00:50:28,347 his holiness burn so bright, and that just whatever passes through whatever 818 00:50:28,347 --> 00:50:30,687 hits their wing, they have to respond. 819 00:50:30,837 --> 00:50:34,997 Holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. 820 00:50:40,137 --> 00:50:43,737 So that fire fell on him. 821 00:50:44,847 --> 00:50:50,787 Yeah, we talked about the fire did fall, but it fell on him. 822 00:50:51,717 --> 00:50:53,247 He said me for them. 823 00:50:54,057 --> 00:50:55,077 Let that come onto me. 824 00:50:55,077 --> 00:50:56,307 That's the cup that he drank. 825 00:50:56,337 --> 00:50:58,047 That's what we're celebrating this week. 826 00:50:58,347 --> 00:51:02,667 So I want to hear that scripture again, and I want this to be. 827 00:51:03,282 --> 00:51:04,812 For us right now. 828 00:51:06,882 --> 00:51:08,172 Rejoice greatly. 829 00:51:09,972 --> 00:51:11,472 O Daughter of Zion. 830 00:51:12,162 --> 00:51:15,762 Shout loud, O daughter of Jerusalem. 831 00:51:15,762 --> 00:51:19,122 Behold, your king is coming to you. 832 00:51:21,672 --> 00:51:25,032 You, he left the 99 to get you. 833 00:51:27,792 --> 00:51:32,022 For some reason, he hunted high and low for you. 834 00:51:35,727 --> 00:51:37,437 He tore up heaven and earth to have you. 835 00:51:40,347 --> 00:51:41,022 He likes you. 836 00:51:42,992 --> 00:51:44,957 He thought about you before you were even made. 837 00:51:47,087 --> 00:51:49,187 He longed for the century to come along. 838 00:51:51,347 --> 00:51:51,857 Isn't that crazy? 839 00:51:52,237 --> 00:51:52,457 Yes. 840 00:51:53,297 --> 00:51:56,087 And that page of history, he's I can't wait to get to this page, 841 00:51:56,087 --> 00:51:56,988 cuz Amber's gonna be there. 842 00:51:58,157 --> 00:51:59,117 I get to meet her. 843 00:52:00,167 --> 00:52:00,887 She gets to meet me. 844 00:52:04,547 --> 00:52:05,237 Like he, 845 00:52:08,387 --> 00:52:10,577 he likes you a lot. 846 00:52:11,567 --> 00:52:15,197 Your king is coming to you and he's righteous. 847 00:52:16,997 --> 00:52:18,257 And he has salvation. 848 00:52:18,407 --> 00:52:21,377 And as we talked about with the helmet of salvation, it's from beginning to end. 849 00:52:21,382 --> 00:52:27,227 Behold, your king is coming to you and he's humble and mounted on a donkey. 850 00:52:28,967 --> 00:52:30,917 The unco caused the power. 851 00:52:31,412 --> 00:52:34,442 Full one, the alpha of the you Omega, the beginning and the end. 852 00:52:34,472 --> 00:52:37,712 He says, I'm meek and humble of heart. 853 00:52:38,072 --> 00:52:40,622 Come to me all yuhoo lay and our heavy laid, and for I will 854 00:52:40,622 --> 00:52:41,972 give you rest for your souls. 855 00:52:42,002 --> 00:52:43,952 My yoka is easy, my burden is light. 856 00:52:44,822 --> 00:52:47,672 I'm gentle and lowly of heart. 857 00:52:48,662 --> 00:52:53,102 Guys, you can come to him like boldly before the throne of grace, 858 00:52:53,102 --> 00:52:55,562 like he knows that you're dust. 859 00:52:56,432 --> 00:53:02,342 He knows that like in all points what it's like to be tempted cuz he 860 00:53:02,342 --> 00:53:05,012 experienced it, but he didn't sin for us. 861 00:53:05,252 --> 00:53:08,612 But he knows our frame, he knows our weakness. 862 00:53:08,617 --> 00:53:14,982 He's a sympathetic high priest who's for us anyways. 863 00:53:16,052 --> 00:53:16,922 Let me finish this first. 864 00:53:16,922 --> 00:53:17,522 We'll be done. 865 00:53:17,882 --> 00:53:20,522 Humble and mounted on a donkey, the full of a donkey. 866 00:53:20,522 --> 00:53:23,612 I will cut off the chariot from e Rium and the warhorse from Jerusalem, and the 867 00:53:23,617 --> 00:53:28,952 battle Bo shall be cut off and he shall seek peace or speak peace to the nations. 868 00:53:28,952 --> 00:53:36,512 His rule shall be from sea to sea and from river to the ends of the earth. 869 00:53:37,502 --> 00:53:43,817 The cross of the king, the new exodus, and then he commissions us as an ambassadors 870 00:53:43,817 --> 00:53:48,857 to just take the good news to people, which is as difficult as taking really 871 00:53:48,862 --> 00:53:52,457 good cold water to somebody who's thirsty. 872 00:53:52,997 --> 00:53:57,047 Or taking, have you ever, maybe we'll make some bread sometime. 873 00:53:57,287 --> 00:53:59,807 There's nothing better than. 874 00:54:00,617 --> 00:54:05,657 Fresh baked bread that when you crack it, it steams. 875 00:54:06,497 --> 00:54:08,617 And what do we get to do to somebody who's so hungry? 876 00:54:08,797 --> 00:54:10,507 We get to give them the bread of life. 877 00:54:11,107 --> 00:54:12,877 Like we get to be the ambassadors. 878 00:54:13,087 --> 00:54:15,247 So the question is today, what's your symbol? 879 00:54:15,247 --> 00:54:18,247 Is it a palm fron or is it the cross and the empty tomb? 880 00:54:19,657 --> 00:54:24,817 Number two, Jesus is king overall, or he is not king at all. 881 00:54:25,047 --> 00:54:25,947 like he doesn't. 882 00:54:27,267 --> 00:54:28,317 He doesn't mince. 883 00:54:28,367 --> 00:54:30,707 he's, he says the craziest hard things. 884 00:54:30,707 --> 00:54:32,717 When I talk to people and they're like, oh, I like Jesus. 885 00:54:32,717 --> 00:54:33,797 I say, no, you don't know him. 886 00:54:33,797 --> 00:54:36,257 Then he's insane. 887 00:54:36,257 --> 00:54:38,927 He demands that you worship him and give up everything he says. 888 00:54:39,167 --> 00:54:44,297 Your love for him should be so strong that your love for your family 889 00:54:44,302 --> 00:54:46,187 looks like hatred in comparison. 890 00:54:48,207 --> 00:54:49,017 that's divisive. 891 00:54:50,437 --> 00:54:50,927 Exactly. 892 00:54:53,292 --> 00:54:54,732 But then you start to come to learn. 893 00:54:54,732 --> 00:54:58,872 Oh, that's how I actually love my family is when I love him and 894 00:54:58,872 --> 00:55:02,772 he loves me, and then I'm not using them and manipulating it. 895 00:55:02,802 --> 00:55:03,552 He's brilliant. 896 00:55:03,582 --> 00:55:04,152 He's wise. 897 00:55:04,152 --> 00:55:05,202 He knows what he is talking about. 898 00:55:05,892 --> 00:55:06,942 but he is king. 899 00:55:07,632 --> 00:55:08,532 Is he king? 900 00:55:09,282 --> 00:55:12,252 Like again, we don't say, come in Jesus. 901 00:55:12,252 --> 00:55:13,392 Stay out Christ. 902 00:55:13,812 --> 00:55:14,742 We take all of 'em. 903 00:55:15,222 --> 00:55:16,512 And when he comes in, is King. 904 00:55:16,632 --> 00:55:18,402 Is he the authority? 905 00:55:19,897 --> 00:55:25,532 In your life and who he is as he's revealed in his word, is that authority, 906 00:55:26,532 --> 00:55:31,602 not what's popular today, not what I feel not, this thing or this movement. 907 00:55:31,602 --> 00:55:33,572 Is Jesus my authority? 908 00:55:34,872 --> 00:55:35,772 Is he my future? 909 00:55:35,772 --> 00:55:36,642 Is he my everything? 910 00:55:36,647 --> 00:55:37,092 Like he claims? 911 00:55:37,112 --> 00:55:42,252 He literally claims every space on our life. 912 00:55:42,252 --> 00:55:46,212 He says all of it is mine, and then we flourish. 913 00:55:46,632 --> 00:55:49,962 But, That's his claim on us. 914 00:55:50,742 --> 00:55:54,882 Jesus the king, remember to be part of his kingdom means 915 00:55:55,512 --> 00:55:56,652 there's a kingdom of the kingdom. 916 00:55:56,922 --> 00:55:58,092 He doesn't need two kings. 917 00:55:58,482 --> 00:56:03,132 And we're really bad at being kings, hence our testimonies. 918 00:56:04,422 --> 00:56:08,152 Let me pray for us, and, just rejoice on this day. 919 00:56:08,692 --> 00:56:10,372 Let's pray for celebration today. 920 00:56:12,172 --> 00:56:15,722 I love in one of the gospels, their religious leaders were like, they 921 00:56:15,722 --> 00:56:17,042 understood what was happening. 922 00:56:17,552 --> 00:56:19,592 They're like, tell your disciples to shut up. 923 00:56:20,042 --> 00:56:22,422 They just, tell the crowd to be quiet. 924 00:56:26,202 --> 00:56:29,202 And Jesus said, if they'd be quiet, this Barry Stones would cry out. 925 00:56:29,832 --> 00:56:31,842 Because this is the day that the Lord is made. 926 00:56:33,387 --> 00:56:36,387 Because he's the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. 927 00:56:37,347 --> 00:56:39,267 This is what it's all culminating to. 928 00:56:39,747 --> 00:56:43,077 And so we just want to be in that mindset and the flow and 929 00:56:43,077 --> 00:56:45,177 the rhythm of this week in that. 930 00:56:45,237 --> 00:56:45,747 Let's pray.