1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,680 You're listening to key life fellowships pulpit ministry 2 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,880 podcast. We thank you for tuning in as we 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,280 learn from God's word together. If you would like more 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,720 information regarding key life or to speak with one of our 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:20,920 pastors, please visit us at keylifefellow-ship.com. 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,400 As you're being seated, if you turn with me to mark Chapter 11. 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:37,080 And what a joy to sing Hallelujah. 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:45,680 What a savior, isn't he? It should boggle our minds when 9 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,720 we think about Christ Jesus coming to set us free from our 10 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:55,160 sins, worthless, helpless, guilty, undone. 11 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:00,600 Broken, vile sinners and he would shed his own blood for you 12 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,960 and I. As we turn to Mark 11, I want to 13 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:10,560 just kind of bring to light some of you may know, some of you may 14 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,080 not know and that's OK. This is what is traditionally 15 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:19,520 this Sunday has been observed as Palm Sunday. 16 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:27,560 Today I want to look at what this is all about. 17 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:33,640 Palm Sunday or the triumphant entry of Jesus into the city of 18 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,240 Jerusalem. And as we read our passage, I 19 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:38,920 want us to think along the lines of this. 20 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:47,360 This was a tragic entry for some, but let's begin reading in 21 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:51,680 verse one of Mark 11. It says as they approached 22 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,520 Jerusalem. And came to Bethpage and Bethany 23 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,720 at the Mount of Olives. Jesus sent two of his disciples 24 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:02,040 saying to them, go to the village ahead of you, and just 25 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,920 as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there which no one has 26 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,720 ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 27 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,080 If anyone asks you why are you doing this, say the Lord needs 28 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,600 it and we'll send it back here shortly. 29 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:20,000 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied it a 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,720 doorway, and as they united it, some people standing their ass. 31 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,760 What are you doing and tying that colt? 32 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,720 They answered as Jesus had told him to do, and the people let 33 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,160 them go. And when they brought the colt 34 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,360 to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. 35 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,480 And many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others 36 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,040 spread branches they had cut in the fields. 37 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,400 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted Hosanna. 38 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,920 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 39 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:53,920 Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our Father David Hosanna in the 40 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,360 highest heaven. Jesus entered Jerusalem and went 41 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,520 into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, 42 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,880 but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the 43 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,520 12. The next day as they were 44 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,240 leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 45 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,560 Seeing in the distance of fig tree and leaf, he went to find 46 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,960 out if it had any fruit. And when he reached it, he found 47 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,680 nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 48 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,400 And he said to the tree, May no one ever eat fruit from you 49 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,240 again. And his disciples heard him say 50 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,240 it. On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus 51 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,920 entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were 52 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,280 buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the 53 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,320 money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and 54 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,040 would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple 55 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,840 courts. And as he taught them, he said, 56 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,800 Is it not written? My house will be called a House 57 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,320 of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of 58 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,520 robbers. The chief priests and teachers 59 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,720 of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, 60 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,600 for they feared him because the whole crowd was amazed at his 61 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,520 teaching. When evening came, Jesus and his 62 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,440 disciples went out of the city in the morning. 63 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,720 As they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the 64 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,480 roots. Peter remembered and said to 65 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,600 Jesus, Rabbi, look, the fig tree you cursed has withered. 66 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,600 Have faith in God. Jesus answered. 67 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,400 Would you go to the Lord in prayer with me? 68 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,920 Father, we thank you so much for your perfect word. 69 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:38,200 Lord, this morning we confess our need for Your help and 70 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,640 understanding Your Word. Would You enlighten our minds to 71 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,120 the truth? Would you help us to see 72 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:46,960 marvelous things in Your Word today? 73 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,360 And may you change us by it for Your glory alone. 74 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,160 And in Your Son's precious holy name we pray. 75 00:04:54,160 --> 00:05:03,080 And we all said together, Amen. Most of us know this in this 76 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:08,720 time of year, the Easter season, the Passion Week time. 77 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,640 There's much buzz around the crucifixion and resurrection of 78 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:19,680 the Lord Jesus. The churches fill, and I want to 79 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,840 just remind you next week would be a good idea to show up a 80 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:25,480 little early to ease with the parking situation. 81 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,040 That's just a wise word of caution and Thanksgiving. 82 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:34,400 Praise God, Amen. But all around the country and 83 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,320 probably all around the world, there are churches that record 84 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,280 high attendance. And in today's day and age, 85 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:41,760 there's something else that's happening. 86 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,800 Not only are churches filling, but your social media feeds are 87 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,080 filling with invites to said churches. 88 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,280 Most of them I find extremely disturbing, and you probably do 89 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:57,880 as well. I am very simple. 90 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,640 I find it a little odd that churches advertise we're having 91 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,120 an Easter service this Sunday. Duh. 92 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,760 What are you doing the other 51 Sundays? 93 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,720 We're having a Lords Day service. 94 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,680 But I've observed something disturbing about some of these 95 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,680 announcements and some of these invitations, some of these 96 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,880 advertisements. Some of you have joined with me 97 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:34,000 and are shared disdain, disgust, lack of reverence, all of those 98 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,280 things. And what it really, really boils 99 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:41,640 down to is this. We're disgusted by the lack of 100 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,480 understanding and the minimizing of the reality and purpose of 101 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,920 the death and resurrection of our Lord. 102 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:55,720 These advertisements are coming after your children with candy 103 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:08,160 and food and fun in games and what that really boils down to 104 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:16,560 is a lot of churches hold and hire esteem fun and Easter eggs 105 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,240 and candy and food than the resurrection of our Lord. 106 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,560 That shouldn't be so we might conclude about this. 107 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:37,320 That's a tragedy that that, that is an utter tragedy that anyone 108 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:42,840 claiming the name of Christ would let his resurrection and 109 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,640 victorious finished work on the cross. 110 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:52,440 Be a side note till we want you to come and enjoy this time and 111 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,720 not in all of that. When we look at the beginning of 112 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,040 Passion Week in Mark 11, we see another tragedy. 113 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:08,560 We see another group of people who see King Jesus cry out in 114 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:14,000 praise and adoration to King Jesus, but they tragically 115 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,640 missed the point. I want to suggest to us as we 116 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,680 follow along in our text, 3 reasons why this entry for these 117 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,840 individuals here was no triumphant injury, but entry. 118 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:31,960 This was a tragic entry. Three simple reasons why. 119 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,280 First reason why is because they seemed to get it. 120 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:40,400 They really seemed to get it the first several verses, verses one 121 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,200 through 11 in the beginning of this we see that something 122 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,920 happening when you're familiar with the story Jesus telling his 123 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,560 disciples to go and find the cult of the donkey tied where 124 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:53,400 it's going to be tied at this specific house and even 125 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,800 answering any objections you might receive. 126 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,080 Tell them that the Lord has need of it. 127 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,200 And all of it happens providentially as the Lord has 128 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,400 already laid out. We serve a God who goes before 129 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,600 we serve a God who has already planned out all the details 130 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,840 because he has ordained the end from the beginning and all the 131 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,280 means therein. We serve a sovereign God. 132 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:20,320 Amen and all knowing God. But in this, I don't want to 133 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,200 focus on the the donkey. I don't want to focus even on 134 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:28,120 the Providence of God, though those are amazing facets of this 135 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,560 narrative. I want to look at those who are 136 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:35,880 there, those that are there, they really seem to get it 137 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,760 because on the surface they practiced correct doxology. 138 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,440 Look with me in verse 8, if you will. 139 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:47,600 And we begin our service every Sunday by singing what Praise 140 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,200 God, from whom all blessings flow. 141 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,760 Praise Him, all creatures here below. 142 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,960 Why do we do that? It's so that we can rightly set 143 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,200 our attention and focus where it should be. 144 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,800 That is on praising the Almighty Triune God. 145 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,200 That's doxology. That's praise. 146 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,280 They are giving a doxology. They spread their cloaks on the 147 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,400 road. They spread branches they've cut 148 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:13,920 in the fields. Here's what they're doing. 149 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,800 They are praising or giving a doxology in a welcoming of a 150 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,040 king. They're welcoming not just 151 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,080 anybody. They're welcoming not just a 152 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,080 teacher. They are welcoming a king when 153 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,640 they throw their cloaks on the road. 154 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:30,600 This was a practice in the Old Testament. 155 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,160 They welcomed King Jehu like this in Second Kings 9 verse 13. 156 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,400 They quickly took their cloaks, spread them under him on the 157 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,000 bare steps. Then they blew trumpets and 158 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:46,640 shouted Jehu is king. The psalms are full of psalms 159 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:51,000 that we know as enthronement. Psalms that place God rightfully 160 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,720 where He is due in the praise that he is due due to due to due 161 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,440 to the position that He holds as king. 162 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,920 I think of Psalm 2 where we should kiss the son lest he be 163 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,880 angry for his anger. His wrath could flare up in a 164 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:08,880 moment where Jesus, we know this is the King of kings. 165 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,080 There is no king that submits to him. 166 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,720 There is. There is no king that he submits 167 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:19,360 to. Rather there is no Lord that he 168 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,800 answers to. He is King of kings, He is Lord 169 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,040 of Lords, and he's rightly do that praise or rightly do that 170 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,360 doxology. We see even modern hymns or 171 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,720 somewhat modern hymns, crown hymn with many crowns. 172 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:41,840 Crown him the Lord of life, because that's who he is. 173 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:49,840 The people seem to recognize this is a king and they wave 174 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,400 palm branches signifying praise. John's gospel tells us that's 175 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,520 what they were doing. That's hence the name Palm 176 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,960 Sunday. But we can conclude there's 177 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,080 obvious praise happening for Jesus. 178 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,720 They are elated. They are glad to see him. 179 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:15,520 He is marching in as they are worshipping their Messiah. 180 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:18,560 That's what's happening. We read verse 9. 181 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,280 They say Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the 182 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,440 name of the Lord. Blessed is the coming Kingdom of 183 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,160 her father David Hosanna in the highest heaven. 184 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,560 Now let me give you this bit of information. 185 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:38,120 You probably know this. If you don't, welcome learn. 186 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,280 Everything that calls itself worship is not true worship. 187 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,960 Just because you attach the word worship doesn't mean that God is 188 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,280 pleased with that. Amen. 189 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,400 Now let me help you with a little practice as well. 190 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,840 Turn on today's Christian hits on your Spotify or Apple Music 191 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,160 or turn on Christian radio or whatever and just either look at 192 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,800 the lyrics or listen to them and begin to scrutinize them 193 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,560 biblically. You will grow in biblical 194 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:15,200 discernment and you will realize very quickly, wow, there's a lot 195 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,200 of off about Christian worship music. 196 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,280 And so I want us to do this. I want you and I this morning to 197 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,480 scrutinize the worship music. That they're singing. 198 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,680 The song that they sing in verse 9 and verse 10, won't you look 199 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:29,440 at me? Look, look with me there. 200 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:32,680 Because on the surface, I think we're going to conclude that 201 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,840 they actually profess correct theology. 202 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,280 Their doxology's right on the surface. 203 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,160 Their theology's right on the surface. 204 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,640 Look what they're proclaiming when they say hosanna. 205 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,080 What that literally means is save us now. 206 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:56,640 And who are they saying this to? Jesus the Savior, the King, the 207 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,240 Messiah. They say blessed is he who comes 208 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:05,080 in the name of the Lord. Now, just looking at that at 209 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,240 first glance, we might say, wow, that's beautiful. 210 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,360 They they are recognizing that he's coming in the name of the 211 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:12,160 Lord. They're blessing him, but 212 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,600 they're actually quoting Scripture. 213 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,440 They're quoting Psalm 118, verse 25 and 26. 214 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,680 This is the end of a group of psalms known as the Halal, and 215 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,840 the Jews would sing these psalms and recite these psalms during 216 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,120 the Passover. Week, which is exactly where 217 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,120 they are right now. You. 218 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,040 Know what the word? Halal means in Hebrew, it means 219 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:41,160 praise they're praising. Jesus and look, they they say in 220 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,160 this Psalm 11825 Lord save us, Lord grant us success. 221 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,200 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord from the House 222 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,400 of the Lord, we will bless you. And let me ask you a question. 223 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,480 If you're scrutinizing worship lyrics and all you find in said 224 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:03,240 worship song is scripture, should you like it, yes or no, 225 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,360 That's a good one. If it's all scripture, Amen, 226 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,640 because all scripture is God breathes, is useful for 227 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,040 correcting, for teaching, for training in righteousness, so 228 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,320 that you, the servant of God, may be thoroughly equipped for 229 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,440 every good work. Worship songs, all scripture. 230 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,680 Great. Their worship songs, all 231 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:25,600 scripture, they keep going. There's some good theology here. 232 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:27,800 Blessed is the coming of our Father. 233 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,280 David, it's not on the surface surface of Bible verse, but 234 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,600 they're saying something deep. They understood this, that the 235 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,160 Messiah, the Christ, their deliverer would come from the 236 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:46,560 line of David, a kingly line. And they say blessed is the 237 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:52,640 coming of our Father David. Jesus is from the line of David. 238 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,280 They might have been thinking some verses to back up their 239 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,200 claim. Jeremiah, 3315. 240 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,640 In those days and at that time, I will make a righteous branch 241 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,840 sprout from David's line. He will do what is just and 242 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,160 right in the land. In those days Judah will be 243 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,600 saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. 244 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,640 This is the name by which it will be called the Lord, our 245 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,560 righteous Savior. The branch is there, and they 246 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,640 are singing praise to the branch of David's line. 247 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:28,200 Ezekiel 3423 I will place over them one shepherd, my servant 248 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,920 David, and he will tend them. Oh, isn't he a Good Shepherd? 249 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,000 He will tend them. He will be their shepherd. 250 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,760 I the Lord will be their God. My servant David will be Prince 251 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,600 among them. Ezekiel 3724 My servant David 252 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,640 will be king over them. They will all have one shepherd. 253 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,680 They will follow My laws. Be careful to keep my decrees. 254 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:51,160 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the 255 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,120 land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and 256 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:56,480 their children's children will live there forever. 257 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,560 And David my servant will be their Prince forever. 258 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,920 Another verse you might just equate to a Christmas verse. 259 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:08,480 Isaiah 9 verse 6 For to us a child is born, to us the son is 260 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:10,359 given. The government will be on his 261 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,319 shoulders. He will be called wonderful 262 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,480 counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of 263 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,319 Peace, of the greatness of his government and peace. 264 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:22,359 There will be no end. He will reign on David's throne 265 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,839 and over his Kingdom, establishing and upholding it 266 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:28,119 with justice and righteousness. From that time on and forever, 267 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,640 the zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. 268 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,560 They're watching all of this unfold before their eyes and 269 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,080 they're praising the one who's doing it, all while seeing him 270 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,600 ride on the cult of a donkey, which by the way, Zechariah 9, 271 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,360 verse 9 wrote hundreds of years before that shout, daughter 272 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:52,360 Jerusalem, see, your king comes to you righteous and victorious, 273 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,120 lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 274 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,640 And they say blessed is the coming of our Father David. 275 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:09,280 This is a deeply theological praise to Jesus the Messiah. 276 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:16,960 And they completed Hosanna in the highest heaven, simply 277 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:24,680 meaning this save now, O God who is in heaven, the God of heaven 278 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:30,360 is before them on the donkey. And they're saying, save us now, 279 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:37,280 O God in heaven. Is this biblically accurate? 280 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,960 All of it. But when we dig a little deeper, 281 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:53,360 when we examine what happens after this around this, we 282 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,160 realize though they seem to be biblically accurate in their 283 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,840 praise, they were spiritually dead. 284 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:04,600 On the surface, you don't see it Just in those verses, you take 285 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,680 that out of context, you say, wow, these people really get it. 286 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,080 These people really know how to worship. 287 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:13,920 These people really know how to praise, but their praise was 288 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,480 coming from a spiritually dead mouth. 289 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,640 In verse 11, Jesus goes into Jerusalem. 290 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,920 Goes in the temple courts. He looked around at everything, 291 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:25,600 but it was already. Late. 292 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,880 He went out to Bethany with the 12. 293 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,440 It's a Sunday night. On Monday morning. 294 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:40,720 He goes back to Jerusalem from Bethany where they were staying. 295 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,080 Luke gives us a little insight about what Jesus said when he 296 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,640 looked over the city. Aren't you thankful that we 297 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,360 didn't just get one account of Jesus's life and miniature? 298 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:58,040 We have 4 perfect ones. Praise God, Luke writes in Luke 299 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,960 1941. As he Jesus approached Jerusalem 300 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,800 and saw the city, he wept over it and said if you even you had 301 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,120 only known on this day what would bring you peace, but now 302 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:18,320 it is hidden from your eyes, you have missed it. 303 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,560 And because of this he pronounces the Romans 304 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,920 destruction of Jerusalem. In verse 44, He said they will 305 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,200 not leave one stone on another because you did not recognize 306 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,880 the time of God's coming to you. You didn't recognize the one 307 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,240 before you. Now wait a minute, didn't it 308 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,000 seem like they had recognized the one who's coming? 309 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:48,560 Didn't it seem like here he is? Yeah, but they were spiritually 310 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:49,560 dead. And they were spiritually dead. 311 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,360 Deceptively so. That's why it seemed like they 312 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:58,000 got it. Jesus goes to Jerusalem in verse 313 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:03,040 12 from Bethany. Jesus was hungry. 314 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,440 I love that Mark adds that because it just reminds us yet 315 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,880 again that Jesus is fully human because humans hunger. 316 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:15,000 Amen. Right about 11:30. 317 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,240 And so seeing in the distance a fig tree and leaf. 318 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,840 He went to find out if it had any fruit. 319 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,280 When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves because it 320 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:39,680 was not the season for figs. I want to examine this because 321 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,960 when we get hungry, we get our fancy iPhones and we go to the 322 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,520 McDonald's app and we order 3 Mcdoubles and when we get there 323 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,200 we tell them the code. That's when we're hungry. 324 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,240 Maybe you should stop thinking about doing that. 325 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,520 So much less McDonald's, more figs. 326 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:58,160 Be like Jesus. But when Jesus gets hungry, he 327 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:02,360 sees a fig tree. Fig trees were very common. 328 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,400 He knew what he was looking at, but he knew what he was looking 329 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,640 for. Because he's hungry. 330 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:09,880 He's looking for what do you think? 331 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,960 Food. He sees a fig tree. 332 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,560 This fig tree is unlike some of the other fig trees. 333 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:21,280 This fig tree is in leaf. This period fig tree has leaves 334 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,880 on it. And you and I in 21st century 335 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:28,680 America say big deal. 1st century Judea, that was a big 336 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:34,040 deal because early in the spring fig trees would blossom small 337 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:35,880 little pieces of fruit that were edible. 338 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,720 There were no leaves yet. Later on in the spring, leaves 339 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,200 would come after the small fruit. 340 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,920 And when the leaves came, it was a sign that there was larger 341 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:50,200 fruit either on the vine or about to be on the vine that you 342 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,840 could eat. And just so we understand this, 343 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,520 when Jesus sees leaves, dinner bell, because there's at least 344 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:01,080 something on this fig tree that can satisfy his hunger. 345 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:07,680 And so he walks up to the fig tree to pick figs to eat, and he 346 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,480 finds that his fig tree had nothing but leaves. 347 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,280 Never seen that before. Because if a fig tree had leaves 348 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,760 on it, it stands to reason it's already got some fruit. 349 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,800 And Mark adds us, adds us this. Detail for us. 350 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,320 It wasn't that someone had already picked these figs, 351 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,720 because it wasn't even the time for fig harvest. 352 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,880 So nobody had gone before him and picked these fig trees, 353 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,800 these figs, and ravaged all the fruit. 354 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,440 There was something dreadfully wrong with this tree. 355 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,440 This tree had every sign that there should have been fruit 356 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,560 outwardly, but inwardly there was something especially wrong 357 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:55,720 with this fig tree. It wasn't producing any fruit, 358 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,760 though the signs on the outside made it seem to look like. 359 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:05,520 There was fruit. Don't be deceived. 360 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:14,840 There are many things that call themselves spiritual life that 361 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:19,520 pose as having real spirituality. 362 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:25,440 But inwardly they are dead. They'll say things like this. 363 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:30,520 Wow, the worship at that place was just alive. 364 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,560 Their fervor in praising God was beautiful. 365 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:43,160 It sounded amazing. They talked in such a way that 366 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,560 was. Wow. 367 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:52,600 But it can be inwardly fruitless and dead. 368 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:59,440 It can sound great. The songs that these guys were 369 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,000 singing, Hosanna Blessed is the coming of Our Father David 370 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:08,520 sounded great to the years. Just like this fig tree looked 371 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,880 great to the eyes, it looked like it would bear fruit, but 372 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,600 when you examined it more closely, there was no real life. 373 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:25,800 The people shouting Hosanna, they seemed to get it, but their 374 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,320 hearts were bad. If you just take this fig tree 375 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,160 instance, and if you just take the coming of Jesus on a donkey 376 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,880 and you take them as separate accounts, you're going to miss 377 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,040 the whole point. This all goes hand in hand. 378 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,640 Are you getting this, that there is a group of people that look 379 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:51,120 alive but there's no real fruit because in Mark 15 some of these 380 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:54,800 people are going to shout crucify him, crucify him in just 381 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,160 a couple of days. How things have switched up. 382 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,280 But had it really switched up? Or has your heart always been 383 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:08,160 bad? Jesus looked at this fig tree 384 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:20,200 and there's no fruit. Can you and I be warned by this? 385 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,360 I care about your everlasting soul. 386 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,440 When I read things in Scripture where Jesus speaks very bluntly, 387 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,200 many will say to me on that day, did not I do this? 388 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,280 Did not I do that? Did not I do this and Jesus 389 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,280 says, I will tell them plainly depart from me, for I never knew 390 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,400 you. That's going to be said about a 391 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,160 lot of people who look like in this life they have spiritual 392 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:53,720 life, that it looks like they have the fruit of salvation, but 393 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,520 their spiritual life is nothing but leaves. 394 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,760 There was a man that travelled with Jesus name Judas. 395 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,760 He was nothing but leaves and in John's gospel we get a little 396 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,880 glimpse into his heart when Jesus was being anointed by Mary 397 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,400 Magdalene with the expensive bottle of perfume. 398 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,840 Judas protests. He says why wasn't this perfume 399 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,400 sold and the money given to the poor? 400 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,600 It was worth a year's wages. On the surface, doesn't that 401 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,960 sound so spiritual? We could have used this. 402 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:35,360 For ministry, Jesus. But he didn't say this because 403 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,400 he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. 404 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,920 As keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was 405 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,120 put into it for Judas. You know who life was about 406 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,120 Judas. For many American Christians. 407 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:54,040 You know who life is about them. It's the same. 408 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,200 Sinful plight of man that we see here in the spiritual deadness 409 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,640 of those who cry out hosanna, hosanna. 410 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,000 They come to church and they want something for myself. 411 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,440 They wanted Jesus to rid them of Roman oppression. 412 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,640 They wanted Jesus to squash Roman tyranny and set up his 413 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,920 Kingdom right then and there. That's why they cried out 414 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,920 Hosanna, blessed is the coming of our Father David. 415 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:30,480 They wanted an earthly king. Many professing Christians want 416 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,240 earthly blessings. They pick a church by what it 417 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,040 can do for them, what it can offer for us and our children. 418 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,200 What can I gain from this? How will this help me? 419 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,600 How will this make me a better person? 420 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:48,480 What can this God do for me? If you have that attitude, you 421 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:53,440 have the attitude of a spiritual dead person because it's not 422 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:59,720 about you and it's not about me. It's about the one on the bowl 423 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:06,160 of a donkey. They were deceptively. 424 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:14,080 Dead looking like they had life, but their deadness was decidedly 425 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,720 so. Look at verse 14. 426 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,320 He said to the tree, May no one ever eat fruit from you again. 427 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,280 And his disciples heard him say it. 428 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:38,960 Jesus curses the dead tree. The big question you and I 429 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,840 should ask, And sometimes we're lazy to not ask this question in 430 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,560 our daily Bible reading. When we're reading through the 431 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,960 Bible, we're reading to the New Testament and we get to the 432 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,600 triumphant entry and you say, oh, that's good. 433 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,720 And we get let's, let's get to the more meaty stuff. 434 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,120 Oh, he's rebuking people. That's great. 435 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,560 Forget about the fig tree business. 436 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,160 What's all that about? Oh, he dies, resurrects. 437 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:57,440 Great. OK, let's move on. 438 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,560 Don't miss this. Don't miss the need to pose the 439 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:07,320 question of why did Jesus curse this fig tree? 440 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,160 When we understand spiritual deadness, that makes a whole lot 441 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:15,760 of sense why he cursed the tree. It's because this tree was 442 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:24,360 deceptive in what it offered. All inside it was dead and 443 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:28,040 fruitless. Jesus wasn't just being harsh to 444 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,880 just show his omnipotence over nature to both create and also 445 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,040 curse, though He has both. Jesus is not just angry or 446 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,840 stressed out and lashing out on this poor pitiful, pitiful, 447 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,320 pitiful fig tree because he's got a rough week ahead of him. 448 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:51,400 This is a calculated step, and Mark tells us it's a calculated 449 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,520 step and it's calculated words that he used because when Jesus 450 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,320 curses the fig tree, the disciples heard him say it. 451 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,360 And Mark lets us know the disciples heard him say it. 452 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:09,720 This in the grand scheme, was an object lesson for the people of 453 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,280 Israel, the people that cried out Hosanna. 454 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:20,480 Jesus likens them in this text to this fig tree, and he curses 455 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:28,920 them, never to bear fruit again. He hardens them, He blinds them 456 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,360 further turns them over to reprobation. 457 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,600 I'm not making this up that the nation of Israel was likened to 458 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,040 a fig tree in scripture. In many places you can look at 459 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,600 Hosea 9 verse 10, Zechariah 3 verse 10, and many others as 460 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:49,000 well. And he uses this as a figure so 461 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,800 that they'll see and realize, Oh no, this praise was really 462 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,400 false. This reception was really fake, 463 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,680 phony. So because they. 464 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,400 Seem to have. Life, but really didn't have 465 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,120 life. They were all sovereignly 466 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,520 judged. The third reason why this is 467 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,720 such a tragedy is their judgement that was prompted by 468 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:14,640 their own sin. They deserve the judgement 469 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,880 coming. They deserve the turning over. 470 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:20,360 Because they were sinful at heart. 471 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:21,960 Now did Jesus know they were sinful at heart? 472 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,360 Yes or no? Yes, He just knew. 473 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,360 He knows all things. Fig tree proves they're really 474 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,240 sinful at heart. They display it by their further 475 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,080 actions, shouting crucify him, crucify him a few days later. 476 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,720 But in verse 15, I want us to know the judgement of Jesus. 477 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,960 Verse 15 he enters the temple courts and begins driving out 478 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,320 those who were buying and selling. 479 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,160 He overturns the tables of the money changers and the benches 480 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,400 of those selling doves. Jesus goes to the center of 481 00:32:55,400 --> 00:33:01,120 Jewish worship. He attacks the leaders because 482 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,840 it's always the leaders fault. He attacks them right at the 483 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,040 core. And he goes into the temple 484 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:15,760 courts and he begins driving everyone out, turning over 485 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:22,360 tables, stopping traffic. But we need to get some context 486 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,560 because this is a bigger picture than just see. 487 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,240 Jesus used justified anger right there. 488 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,440 Jesus flipped tables so I can lose it on someone too. 489 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,080 And it's OK. That's not the point. 490 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:41,080 The context is much bigger. And I was I will suggest to you 491 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,520 that it's much more evil than you could even imagine just 492 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,960 reading it. Here we are in Passover. 493 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,240 Week. In Jerusalem, there would have 494 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,080 been people from all over the known world coming there to the 495 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,040 temple to offer sacrifices unto God. 496 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,920 They could have been Gentile converts to Judaism. 497 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,160 They could be. Jews that were. 498 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,600 By birth and scattered over the known world. 499 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,800 But they were coming back during this week to offer sacrifices to 500 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,199 God. Now God wouldn't just allow any 501 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:12,360 old sacrifice. It had to be by his prescribed 502 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,600 means. It had to be an unblemished 503 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,080 sacrifice, typically a lamb or, or or a goat or something of the 504 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:23,080 sort. And if they were traveling far, 505 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:29,040 they ran the risk of their animal being injured and it's no 506 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,600 longer blemished. They ran the risk of have their 507 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,840 having their animal die and it's no longer even there. 508 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,560 They ran the risk of having their animal being stolen or 509 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,840 taken away or something like that. 510 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,400 So when they got to Jerusalem, after the long journey, this 511 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,800 land that they'd made sure that was unblemished and fine and 512 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,080 perfect and suitable for sacrifice, it would no longer be 513 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,320 such. So it was a huge risk that they 514 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,120 could take. And So what? 515 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:52,800 The temple. Temple people would have done. 516 00:34:53,440 --> 00:35:00,400 They would have set up kind of a farm system to sell animals that 517 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,360 were unblemished and pre approved for sacrifice. 518 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,160 And so if you and your family were traveling from far away, 519 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,760 you come to Jerusalem. Instead of traveling with your 520 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,920 lamb or your goat, you could just buy one there. 521 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,040 But Mark tells us there was something else going on. 522 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,720 Jesus flipped the tables of those selling doves. 523 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:27,920 Leviticus 5 or 7. Let's do this first. 524 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,360 Anyone who cannot afford a lamb is to bring 2 doves or two young 525 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,600 pigeons to the Lord as a penalty for their sin. 526 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:42,960 The doves were options. For poor people, they weren't 527 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,880 just setting up a business empire, they were setting up a 528 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,560 business empire that exploited the poor. 529 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:55,000 And Jesus is angry at this. This will not fly in his 530 00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:00,520 father's house. But they were those guys and 531 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,000 they were money changers as well. 532 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,120 Because if you came from a Roman realms, you came from a Greek 533 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:11,080 realm, you would have had Greek coinage or Roman coinage. 534 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,760 When you came to the to the Jerusalem Temple, they would not 535 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,720 allow any old coinage. You had to use Jewish coinage. 536 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:24,800 And when you exchange the money, they inflated the exchange rate 537 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:30,600 to probably around 10 to 12% so that they would make more money 538 00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:35,360 out of exchanging your money so that you can buy their 539 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,640 sacrifices. And then there was also the off 540 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,760 chance that you brought your lamb and the priest said not 541 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,200 good enough, you have to buy one of ours. 542 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:51,040 They. Are making gobs of money in this 543 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,680 industry in the name of worship of Yahweh. 544 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,280 Then Jesus slips the tables. Then Jesus drives them out. 545 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,560 What's going on out there? And also in the temple court, 546 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,440 the court of the Gentiles in the outer area, Jesus begins 547 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,680 stopping traffic because what they were doing, they were using 548 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,920 it as a shortcut to travel throughout the city instead of 549 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,720 going around completely profaning the temple of God by 550 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:27,560 their irreverence. And Jesus will have none of it. 551 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,760 And he completely stops traffic during this time and he sits 552 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,240 down to teach them and He teaches them as it is written. 553 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,040 We can learn from Jesus. We don't have anything to teach 554 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:44,560 except for what is written. And he directly quotes Isaiah 56 555 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:49,360 verse 7. My house will be called a House 556 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,960 of prayer. Ironically, this is a Kingdom 557 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:58,280 prophecy of the future Messianic Kingdom yet to be fulfilled. 558 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000 The Jews are praising their incoming king and his Kingdom to 559 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:12,680 come, but Jesus uses a Kingdom prophecy to rebuke them about 560 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:18,200 not being Kingdom people. They want a king, they want a 561 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,400 Kingdom, but they don't want to act like people of the king. 562 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,840 They want the benefits from Jesus, but they don't really 563 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,760 want to submit to Jesus. They want to call themselves 564 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:40,360 Christians, but they don't want to act like 1 and then quotes 565 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:48,000 Jeremiah 711. This house which bears my name 566 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,160 become a den of robbers to you. But I have been watching, 567 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,840 declares the Lord. That's the whole verse. 568 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,800 They'd have remembered that the Lord is watching their own sin 569 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,160 and the sin that they think that they're so craftily hiding in 570 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:06,280 their din, their robbers din. The Lord has exposed it and it's 571 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:10,960 all laid bare before him. And they do like they do so 572 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,000 often and have done so often, they become inflamed with anger, 573 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,240 wanting to kill him. This is not the first time. 574 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,400 First time we see in Mark's gospel is in chapter 3, verse 6, 575 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,640 where they want to arrest Jesus. They begin plotting with the 576 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,080 Pharisees and the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. 577 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,720 We know on many occasions they tried to seize Jesus and arrest 578 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:34,280 him, but it was not his time. Now's the time. 579 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,320 This is the last plan. This is the final straw. 580 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:43,520 They have just been turned over to their wickedness and this 581 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,200 very week they're going to arrest and kill Jesus. 582 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,160 They had flirted with unbelief. They had flirted with hypocrisy, 583 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:57,800 They had flirted with false religion for far too long and 584 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,880 anyone that does that is one step away from being turned over 585 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:06,400 from to their own wicked heart to do what is unspeakable. 586 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,960 Don't think you're above this. We look at this and say how can 587 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,880 they crucify Jesus? How can you remain in your 588 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:12,760 unbelief and even pose that question? 589 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,240 Because you're one step away from it. 590 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,880 This judgement was prompted by their sin. 591 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:22,360 It's their fault, it's not Jesus. 592 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,360 And it's proven by the withered tree. 593 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,080 If you and I are going to understand a lot of Mark, we 594 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,280 need to understand what's known as the sandwich method of 595 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,040 storytelling or narrative. You'd have this, You have the 596 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,840 first part of the sandwich. You might love sandwiches. 597 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,640 It's noon. Of course we love sandwiches. 598 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,240 You have the. First layer of bread kind of 599 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,480 lays the foundation in this story. 600 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,640 This is the entry of Jesus. We get it. 601 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,880 We're ingrained into what's going on the inner Jerusalem, 602 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,960 but then there's another piece. Mark will kind of flash forward. 603 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,560 There's a fig tree. There's part of the sandwich. 604 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,640 OK, this doesn't make sense. We've got an entry. 605 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:04,920 We've got a fig. Tree. 606 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,080 But then we put the pieces of the sandwich together when we 607 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,200 read verse 19, and all of this will make sense. 608 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,080 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out over the city 609 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,960 in the morning as they went along. 610 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,040 They saw the fig tree withered. From the roots, there's the 611 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,280 other side of the sandwich. It's coming. 612 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,840 Together, Peter remembered and said to Jesus, Rabbi, look, the 613 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:34,120 fig tree you cursed has withered. 614 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,920 Don't miss what Mark's doing. Mark's bringing it all together 615 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,960 so that you'll see the false spiritual life of those who seem 616 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,280 to get it. You will see the fig tree as an 617 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,680 object lesson of their fake life. 618 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,480 And you will see the judgement of Jesus overturning the tables 619 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,800 and the story of the fig tree there withered from the roots. 620 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,760 All of it to make the point that this is a tragedy and they have 621 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,840 missed their Messiah and they are sovereignly judged and 622 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:12,880 cursed by Him. Many are sadly in danger of the 623 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,840 same. Just as the people who sang. 624 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:21,680 Hosanna, you know and even proclaim Orthodox Christianity. 625 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,480 You love theology self. Admittedly, you might even love 626 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:29,320 singing songs of praise. You might even practice 627 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,520 spiritual discernment where you scrutinize real worship from 628 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,200 true worship according to the Bible. 629 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,800 You may can walk circles around everyone in your small group 630 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,280 with Bible knowledge, but inwardly be spiritually dead and 631 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:46,880 fruitless. And Jesus shows us here that 632 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:53,760 that is nothing to play with. You can have all of that and be 633 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,040 dead to a love for the true Jesus and all of it's worth 634 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:05,240 nothing if you don't have that. And this becomes so obvious in 635 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:14,960 this Easter time period season. Churches fill advertisements, go 636 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:21,040 out appealing to people about what they can get, what can 637 00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,680 attract them, so that they'll come to our service. 638 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,160 So they'll try to come to church again, so they'll do something 639 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,560 different, so they'll do something good for their family 640 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,760 and mental health. It'll make me a better husband 641 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,200 or dad or wife or just a better person. 642 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,920 If I go to church, statistically I'll have less anxiety. 643 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:46,680 Those are wrong reasons. Those are wonderful benefits, 644 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:51,000 but those are wrong reasons to come to Jesus. 645 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,600 Those are wrong reasons to come to church. 646 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,480 It's not about us, and when you think, it's about you. 647 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:04,520 You're just like these people who see Jesus come, who see his 648 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:09,720 entry into Jerusalem as king, and it's a tragic entry for 649 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,760 them. This is not the last time Jesus 650 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,920 will enter Jerusalem. This is not the last time that 651 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,120 He will come from the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem. 652 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:25,480 Zechariah 14, verse 4. On that day in the future, his 653 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,280 feet will stand on the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, and 654 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,600 the Mount of Olives will be sweded to from east to West, 655 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,720 forming a great valley with half of the mountain moving north and 656 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:39,520 half moving, moving South. Then the Lord my God will come. 657 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,320 He's coming back. He will enter one more time. 658 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,240 And John writes in Revelation 19 about this entry. 659 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,880 Verse 11, I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a 660 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:58,720 White Horse, no donkey, a White Horse whose rider is called 661 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:03,240 faithful and true. With justice He judges and wages 662 00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:04,440 war. That's the one who's coming. 663 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,120 Verse 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword. 664 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,280 With which to strike down the nation's he will rule them with 665 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,720 an iron scepter he treads the winepress of the fury of the 666 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:20,560 wrath of God almighty he is making sure all of God's wrath 667 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:27,200 is squashed out by this future coming he's going to destroy all 668 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:32,280 wicked men, all evil. Verse 21 The rest were killed 669 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,720 with a sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, 670 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:39,360 and all the birds gorge themselves on their flesh. 671 00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:43,240 There will be no hosanna, there will be no blessed is he who 672 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,440 comes in the name of the Lord at this return. 673 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,240 There will be fury, there will be fire, there will be 674 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:52,040 destruction, there will be wrath, there will be death. 675 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:57,760 But for us who know this one on the horse, who'll be with him in 676 00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:02,040 victory, and this will not be a tragic entry. 677 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,080 This will be a triumphant entry. One will be rule and reign with 678 00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:12,440 this king forever, but for those who he's coming to destroy, this 679 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,200 will be more tragic than the first so. 680 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:21,200 How can you avoid this being a? Tragedy for you, the only way is 681 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:28,480 by a supernatural salvation, the absolute only way, A 682 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,840 supernatural salvation that births real faith after all of 683 00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:37,120 this. After Peter says look the fig 684 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:45,840 tree you cursed it's wizard. Note what Jesus says and also 685 00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:51,240 what he doesn't say. He doesn't say Go to church 686 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:55,520 more, learn more, speak more, sing louder. 687 00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,760 Jesus answered, Have faith in God. 688 00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:12,520 Have faith in God. Now why did he say that? 689 00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:20,840 It's because those who they had just seen cursed and judged and 690 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:25,200 withered, they had 0 faith. There's our scripture reading a 691 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,360 moment ago. The Lord says these people come 692 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,680 to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their 693 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:34,280 hearts are far from me because they had no faith. 694 00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:42,920 And Jesus tells his disciples have faith in God, it is too 695 00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:47,080 late for them. It is not too late for you have 696 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:52,000 faith in God now. He tells them something that 697 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:58,240 they cannot do. They cannot have faith on their 698 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,880 own. Faith is a sovereign gift of 699 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,080 God. You don't muster it up. 700 00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:12,880 You don't try harder. God gifts saving faith to people 701 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,200 who are otherwise dead in their sin. 702 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:21,520 Dead people don't have faith. Cursed withered fig trees don't 703 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,120 have faith. Jesus tells them. 704 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,000 Have faith in God. Have faith in what specifically? 705 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,840 Just trust God that the season's going to end and he's going to 706 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,680 pull you through. That's not what he's saying. 707 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:40,720 He's calling them to have supernatural faith in what he's 708 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:45,080 about to. Do you see the people who were 709 00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:46,200 dead? They wanted Jesus to do 710 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:50,760 something for them that'll benefit them here on this earth. 711 00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:54,520 Jesus is about to do something this week that far outweighs 712 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,240 anything they could ever ask or imagine. 713 00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:02,280 He is about to go to the cross willingly as a Good Shepherd who 714 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:03,680 lays down his life for the sheep. 715 00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:08,640 And he is about to bear all of the sin of every single person 716 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:13,120 who will believe in him. All of God's people to gather 717 00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:17,480 them from all tribes and tongues and languages. 718 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:23,440 To bring them into the family of God by His atoning death on the 719 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,360 cross. He's about to pay for all of our 720 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,280 sin. He's about to pay for all of the 721 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,040 sin of those who have faith in Him. 722 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,720 You can't grasp that without a supernatural work. 723 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,800 I can't make this make sense to people on my own efforts. 724 00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:45,880 You can't make it make sense to you. 725 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:51,200 While you would base everything in all eternity on the fact that 726 00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:59,320 one man died on a Roman cross, and that one man's death is the 727 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:05,680 satisfaction of God's wrath for all of our sin, that does not 728 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:11,880 compute with the natural mind. It only computes. 729 00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:18,200 To those who have saving faith. It only computes and makes sense 730 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:22,520 to us who love Jesus. And why do we love him? 731 00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:26,880 Because He first loved us. Why do we trust that His death 732 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,480 covered all of our sins? Because His word says it. 733 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:33,800 Why do we believe His word is true if we didn't see any of 734 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,720 this? It's because God has given us 735 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:43,880 faith to see and believe that this, this event is the most 736 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,440 important event in all of history. 737 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:54,040 Or the Son of God was crucified for me and this entry. 738 00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:02,520 Was to go to that cross on that hill, to bear my sin, to bear 739 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:08,280 your sin, and because you have faith in this, that is 740 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:20,020 everything to you. How do we see someone riding on 741 00:51:20,020 --> 00:51:32,280 a donkey and then dying as a helpless criminal on a cursed 742 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,320 tree? It's foolishness to the world. 743 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:40,320 How do we see that as our own salvation? 744 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:50,840 It's because God gives new birth, Jesus says in John 3. 745 00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,880 Unless you be born again, you'll never enter the Kingdom of 746 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,520 heaven. Unless you're born again, you 747 00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:00,200 will never have faith in God. Unless you're born again, you 748 00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:04,520 will never see the triumph of the cross, the power of the 749 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:10,400 cross. And if you don't see the triumph 750 00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,560 and power of the cross, you are spiritually dead. 751 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,400 If the cross is not everything to you, Jesus is nothing to you. 752 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:26,080 Quit fooling yourself. This faith is not just Yeah, I 753 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,240 trust in Jesus. I I believe he died. 754 00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:32,560 Yeah, I understand that. This faith is not like Israel's 755 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,560 faith. This faith is not like the fig 756 00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:38,760 tree with nothing but leaves. This faith bears real, lasting 757 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,280 fruit. You have new loves. 758 00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,800 You have new desires. You have new actions. 759 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:53,440 You have an entirely new life when you're made alive in 760 00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:58,440 Christ. An example of heart change we 761 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:03,240 see in John 19, there's two men. One were introduced to, one were 762 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:07,080 reintroduced to in John. One of them is Joseph of 763 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:11,600 Arimathea, who when Jesus dies, he asked for his body so that he 764 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:15,880 can honor him in death and give him a proper Jewish burial. 765 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:22,360 He takes along with him another man named Nicodemus, who were 766 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,000 both secretly followers of Jesus. 767 00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,840 And they wrapped the body and they laid it in the tomb to 768 00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,920 honor their king, to honor their Savior, to honor their Lord. 769 00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:40,400 That's not flashy, not in your face, but it's real, It's 770 00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,320 genuine. It's a heart change. 771 00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,880 Real saving faith sees the beauty of Christ's death. 772 00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:55,760 It drives everything you do. It's why you wake up. 773 00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,400 It's why you have peace in a world full of turmoil because 774 00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,520 Christ bore my sin on the cross. It's why you desire to live a 775 00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:07,240 holy life, because Christ died to make me holy. 776 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:13,240 It's why you meet with God's people, because God sent His Son 777 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,400 to die for them as well. And we're going to be in heaven 778 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,760 with them for all eternity. I love them. 779 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:26,360 It's why you hate sin and battle sin in your life, because it was 780 00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:31,160 sin that sent your Savior to the cross, and you hate it and you 781 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:36,400 run from it. You know when you see this, 782 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:40,040 friend, when Jesus's death is precious to you? 783 00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:47,440 That can only be explained one way, because an Almighty God has 784 00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:54,920 supernaturally made it precious to you, to where you now see 785 00:54:54,920 --> 00:55:04,560 Jesus as your Savior, your King, your Lord, your salvation, your 786 00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:17,560 hope, your Lover, your groom. I pray that God would fill empty 787 00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:24,040 hearts, would raise dead sinners, would shower his love 788 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:29,560 and mercy upon those who have no love and don't understand the 789 00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,320 mercy of God in Christ. All their religion is outer. 790 00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,040 Pray only God would breathe life into your soul, and the wind of 791 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:48,640 the Spirit of God would awaken you to see this King, to see his 792 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:54,480 victory at the cross and have faith in God. 793 00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:56,880 God, we ask that you would do that. 794 00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:03,640 Lord, may you fill us with awe and wonder and amazement that 795 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:08,880 you would love sinners such as I and that you would save us and 796 00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,840 you would use us. You would redeem us. 797 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:28,280 God, I ask that you would help us to bask in the wonder and 798 00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:33,520 glory that our Savior would willingly die for us. 799 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:42,160 Bear our sin, to bear our wrath. And Lord, may our lives be 800 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:46,960 lived. In light of that, we thank you. 801 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:55,240 It's in Jesus name, Amen. And listen to Key Life 802 00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:57,720 Fellowships Pulpit ministry podcast. 803 00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,280 Join us each week for more teaching from God's Word.