1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,800 Good morning. Church is the joy together with 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:05,400 you. All welcome you to do in church, 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,000 is Chris said, my name is Joel party and we can pass through 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,200 preaching and oversight and have the privilege of serving as one 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,200 of the pastor's here, gathered with you guys each Sunday and 6 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,400 one of the highlights of my week and not just around the time of 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,400 Easter, but every Sunday when we come together, and we just 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,500 remind ourselves of our key through the singing of songs, 9 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:27,100 right through the preaching of the word, your community 10 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:30,000 Fellowship, you all these things that we do their acts of of 11 00:00:30,008 --> 00:00:33,700 worship to our key. So it's an honor to simply be a 12 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:38,400 part of what God is doing in the world here among each. 13 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,700 Yeah, that's a joy. It was encouraging to me to be 14 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:44,500 reminded that Jesus is coming. Soon. 15 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:46,900 As I was hearing that song into sweeping of gravity. 16 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:49,600 We're going to get to see Jesus based on what we do. 17 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,400 Weekly just reminding us of that, sort of Dark World. 18 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,600 Sometimes we can. So as you can see, we're taking 19 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,800 a break from the Gospel of John to spend time. 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,099 Our Easter series. We're going to be looking at the 21 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:08,500 last week of the life of Jesus. So if you don't know what that's 22 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:11,500 called traditionally, it's been called Holy Week. 23 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:15,300 And so Holy Week is a Time on the church calendar. 24 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:20,100 When we just focus on what Jesus did the very last week of his 25 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:21,700 life. Now, if you grew up in the 26 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,600 church, depending upon your upbringing, you might have no 27 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,100 idea what Holy Week is or you might be very familiar with the 28 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:29,800 different Christian Traditions deal with it differently. 29 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:32,800 Currently, but I want to give you a quick rundown of the 30 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,500 significant days of old people. So as you guys know, next week 31 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:37,900 is Easter. So that's kind of what it's 32 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:41,400 based off of their working backward to the last week of 33 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,200 Jesus life. So quick graphic. 34 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,100 I found online to kind of show you those days. 35 00:01:46,100 --> 00:01:49,400 And so what you see there in the top left is what's called Palm 36 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,100 Sunday. That would because today, it's 37 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:55,600 exactly one week before Easter Sunday, when Jesus rose from the 38 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,100 grave. And so that's the passage, you 39 00:01:57,107 --> 00:01:59,500 just turned red as what we're looking at today, and then what 40 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:02,400 you see, Inside of the Last Supper, that was on Thursday of 41 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,600 that same week. So, just a few days later. 42 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,100 That was, when Jesus in the upper room with his disciples. 43 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:09,900 He washed the feet of his disciples, and it's called 44 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:12,800 Maundy Thursday. We use the word Monday, Monday 45 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,500 from mandates or commandment, and it's when Jesus gave this 46 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:19,000 new, commandment to his disciples that they love one 47 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,700 another, in the same way that he loves them and he washes his 48 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:26,200 feet and demonstrates that for. And then there's good Friday. 49 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,600 These are ones are probably more familiar with Friday when Jesus 50 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,400 was put on a cross to be crucified for the sins of the 51 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,800 world. And then, lastly, the one were 52 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,400 most familiar with even if it's kind of been hijacked by our 53 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,400 culture, but Easter Sunday or sometimes as we call it, 54 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,300 Resurrection, Sunday. And Sophia, this series for this 55 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:48,900 first week, we're zooming in and looking at what's called Palm 56 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:51,900 Sunday and next week. We're going to be looking at 57 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:55,300 Resurrection Sunday. So the title of this two-week 58 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,300 series is worship and wonder. So today we're looking at the 59 00:02:58,300 --> 00:02:59,800 first half of that what's called? 60 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:01,900 Worship. We're going to look at it 61 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:03,900 through the lens of Palm Sunday. What is worship? 62 00:03:03,900 --> 00:03:06,700 What does that mean, it specifically the Matthew 63 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:08,100 account, so that you just to read. 64 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:10,900 So we're going to be in Matthew 21, which is the first book of 65 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:13,200 the New Testament. If you need help finding it, you 66 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,400 can just Google it on your phone. 67 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,000 If it's easier to follow along that way. 68 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,500 And we'll also have the verses on the screen. 69 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:20,700 We are using the CSV translation. 70 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,700 So now that we kind of have a grasp of where we are in the 71 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:28,800 last week of Jesus life. Let's look closer at are serving 72 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,100 today. So like I said, we're talking 73 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:34,800 about this idea of worship. Now, most of the time when we 74 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,800 think about worship, unfortunately, our minds go to, 75 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,200 maybe what we just did a few minutes ago, where we sing songs 76 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,500 together corporately either here at church or at some big event 77 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:47,000 and we even used that language. Now Andrew will tell you like 78 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,200 I'm super anal. Like we even call him the 79 00:03:49,208 --> 00:03:53,100 director for music instead of the Rector for worship because I 80 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:56,600 want it to be said like he's leading worship through song but 81 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,000 whoever is up here should be directing worship. 82 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,300 We hope right now your Drawn into worship through the 83 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:04,500 preaching of the text. And so, worship is not less than 84 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:07,400 singing songs corporately. There is something special about 85 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,000 that, but it's so much more. It's our entire life in the Old 86 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:13,700 Testament. When you heard the idea of 87 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:17,200 worship, it was always connected to service this idea of 88 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:21,100 everything, we do should be done in adoration and reverence to 89 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:25,100 God and the reality is that our hearts were created to worship 90 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:29,100 that everything we do. We are worshiping someone or 91 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:30,000 something. NG. 92 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,700 Now, often we might be that someone or something, we're 93 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:37,000 worshipping our own desires. And so, the problem there is not 94 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,300 that we're worshipping. It's the object of our worship. 95 00:04:39,300 --> 00:04:43,600 It's what we are worshiping and that's often what is off. 96 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,600 So today, my goal for us is to slow down, Andre fix our Gaze on 97 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,800 the only one, who ultimately can handle our worship, the weights 98 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,800 of all of our, our trust and our adoration, and all glory. 99 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,300 That is due him. We can throw that on him and he 100 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:04,700 will never Let us down. See if we want to grow in living 101 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:08,200 lives that are full of worship. The answer is not for me to 102 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,700 stand up here and tell you how to worship. 103 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,500 It's to point you to the one who is worthy to be worshiped. 104 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,700 We can't just be told what we're supposed to be doing. 105 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:20,700 We have to be shown who were supposed to be seeing. 106 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,600 And at the end of the day worship, ultimately is not about 107 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,100 any one of us. It's about the one we are 108 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:30,800 worshiping. And so, I want to encourage you 109 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,100 in that because it's not about you. 110 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:37,100 It's actually very freeing. Regardless of whether or not you 111 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:39,600 come here today. And you feel worthy to worship 112 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,600 King Jesus. I want you to leave encouraged 113 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,900 because we are made worthy to worship him, and he receives our 114 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:52,100 worship based on his work alone, and what we have to And is that 115 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:56,800 our unworthiness to worship? Him does not make Jesus any less 116 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,400 worthy to be worshiped and what we're going to see in our time 117 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,800 today that he's the one that prepares praise. 118 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,600 He prepares the way for himself to receive the praise of his 119 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,800 people. And so for our message, I have 120 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,400 one sentence that we're going to look at in three parts. 121 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,800 You'll see it on the screen. So the first part we're going to 122 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,600 look at is Jesus is the king. That's we're going to look at 123 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,000 first. Jesus is the king, and Jesus is 124 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 the king who prepares the way for praise. 125 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,600 He's the king who prepares the way for praised by giving his 126 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,100 life away. Jesus is the king who prepares 127 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:34,800 the way for praised by giving his life away. 128 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,600 So let's start by looking at the first part of the sentence. 129 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,600 Jesus is the king. So, in our text today that you 130 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,200 just heard read, were nearing the end of Jesus's, Earthly 131 00:06:45,300 --> 00:06:48,000 Ministry. Now, he knows that he knows what 132 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,400 he's walking into. It seems like his followers. 133 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,400 Probably haven't fully grasped what that means. 134 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,700 I'm at this point. He's done a lot through his 135 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,400 ministry. He's done a lot in his ministry 136 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:01,300 where he lives out the Prophecies of the Old Testament. 137 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:03,000 And today is no different than that. 138 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,700 The context of this passage. Is that Jesus as he often did 139 00:07:06,700 --> 00:07:10,200 was heading to Passover week to Jerusalem, to celebrate the 140 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,100 Passover and he's with his disciples. 141 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:15,400 And so, as they're getting Close to the city. 142 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,100 He's got this kind of strange request. 143 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,700 You just turn it red. He asked him to go find this 144 00:07:19,700 --> 00:07:23,800 donkey and the Colt of a donkey. So, this donkey and her child, 145 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:28,300 and to bring this donkey to Jesus, so that he can ride on it 146 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:31,600 into the city. Now, we could spend a lot of 147 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,100 time talking about the owner of these donkeys and how that all 148 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:39,200 worked out and how he allowed himself to be used, allowed his 149 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,600 property to be used. So Jesus could ride into town. 150 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,000 We could talk about how the disciples just obeyed this 151 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,800 stranger. But the reality is, that's not 152 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:51,300 really the main point. The main point of all of this is 153 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:53,800 about Jesus. The points not the donkey or the 154 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,900 disciples. The point is, that Jesus is the 155 00:07:56,900 --> 00:07:59,900 Fulfillment of a prophecy from long ago. 156 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:03,700 And our text makes it clear points it out in Matthew, 21 for 157 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,400 through five. This is why this happened. 158 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,100 It took place. So that what was spoken through 159 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:12,000 the prophet? Might be fulfilled. 160 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,500 Tell daughter Zion. See your King is Coming. 161 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,200 Coming to you, Gentle and mounted on a donkey and on a 162 00:08:18,207 --> 00:08:23,800 Colt, the foal of a donkey. And so Jesus rides into 163 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,600 Jerusalem on this, cult to fulfill two different 164 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,600 prophecies. One is from Isaiah chapter 60, 165 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,000 to I want you to see this so you can see the context. 166 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,200 It says, go out. Go out through the city Gates. 167 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,900 Prepare a way for the people, and it's interesting because in 168 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:43,500 our text today, it seems like the ways being prepared for 169 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:46,000 Jesus. But in all actuality it's being 170 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,100 prepared for the people build it up, build up the highway, clear 171 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:52,500 away, the stones, raise a banner for the people's look, the Lord 172 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:56,700 has proclaimed to the ends of the Earth, say to daughter Zion. 173 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,700 Look, your salvation is coming. His wages are with him and his 174 00:09:01,700 --> 00:09:06,400 reward accompanies him. And they will be called the 175 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:10,900 reward is his people, the holy people, the Lord's redeemed and 176 00:09:10,900 --> 00:09:14,700 you will be called cared for a city, not desert him. 177 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:18,200 There was this prophecy of one who would come and he would 178 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,400 bring Salvation with him for this people of God, and then 179 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:26,700 another text, if from Zechariah Chapter 9, gets even more 180 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:27,700 specific. Look at it. 181 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:32,100 It says Rejoice greatly o daughter, Zion shout and Triumph 182 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,300 daughter Jerusalem. Look, your king is coming to 183 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,000 you. He's righteous and Victorious. 184 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,900 Humble and riding on a donkey on a Colt. 185 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:44,400 The foal of a donkey. I will cut off The Chariot from 186 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,000 Ephraim. You and the horse from 187 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Jerusalem. The bow of War will be removed 188 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 and he will Proclaim peace to the nation's. 189 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:57,300 His Dominion will extend from sea to Sea from the Euphrates 190 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:02,900 river to the ends of the Earth. So, there was this understanding 191 00:10:02,900 --> 00:10:07,000 of a messiah like figure, who would come and put an end to war 192 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,700 and violence. He would come humbly and riding 193 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:12,400 on a donkey. This is in contrast to the 194 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,100 oppressive Warlords. Who would enter a city on a 195 00:10:15,108 --> 00:10:19,300 stallion with their entire Army to show off their might and 196 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:21,900 their intent, to conquer that City. 197 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:26,200 And instead this King. Comes on a donkey. 198 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:30,300 Humble, bringing. Peace. 199 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,400 Not war. And this is what Jesus is 200 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,700 fulfilling as he rides into Jerusalem, so he gets on this 201 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:40,400 donkey and he begins down the path to Jerusalem. 202 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,100 And as he does, we're told of this very large crowd that 203 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:47,700 forms, and they begin to show their honor and reverence for 204 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:49,600 this man. They do this by taking off their 205 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,200 cloaks, which many of them, probably only had one of and 206 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:53,700 they throw it down on the ground. 207 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:57,300 And they also cut off branches from the palm trees were told in 208 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,600 another gospel that it's palm trees and they lay them down in 209 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,000 the road to Are the way for him now, for the nation of Israel, 210 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,300 palm branch is symbolized Victory and celebration. 211 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:11,200 They were used often in the Feast of booths, which was 212 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,000 another Festival different than Passover, where they would, 213 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,700 again, remind themselves of the Deliverance of Yahweh from the 214 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:21,900 nation of Egypt. And so, this crowd begins to 215 00:11:21,908 --> 00:11:25,300 surround Jesus in front of him laying palm branches and behind 216 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:28,100 him following him, and they begin to cry out and exultation 217 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:30,000 in celebration. Look at verse 9. 218 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,500 They say hosanna to the son of David blessed. 219 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:37,600 Is he who comes in the name of the Lord hosanna in the highest 220 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:41,400 heaven? And so this word Hosanna had, 221 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,500 meaning the original meaning was save us. 222 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:48,900 Please or save us now. It was this cry for deliverance, 223 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:53,000 but it was also had become this just cry of adoration and Trust 224 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,400 for a king or a messiah like figure someone that people 225 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:01,700 believes could bring Salvation. This language of son, of David 226 00:12:01,700 --> 00:12:05,000 was also a way for the crowd to confess that they believed. 227 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 He was the one that was promised. 228 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,800 The Chosen One, the Messianic King who would Usher in peace 229 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,200 and bring reconciliation and would end oppression oppression 230 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:19,100 from The Outsiders. Now many people have speculated 231 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:22,100 who all is in this crowd. Is it the same people that just 232 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:24,800 a few days later would crab crucify him? 233 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,600 Was it people who were true followers of Jesus, you know, 234 00:12:27,608 --> 00:12:31,500 the reality is we don't know. And most likely there were 235 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:33,300 different motivations for people being there. 236 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:34,800 Some might have just wanted to see the show. 237 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,700 He had just raised Lazarus from the dead. 238 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:38,300 They wanted to see what was going on. 239 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,300 And many of them probably had mixed motivations in their own 240 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:46,000 hearts. Most likely the crowd was full 241 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,300 of many who had an expectation of a messiah, like figure, who 242 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:54,100 would overthrow the Roman rule and oppression many in the 243 00:12:54,108 --> 00:12:56,000 crowd. Probably wanted a king who could 244 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:59,000 simply give them what they wanted, what they thought would 245 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,900 give them safety and power and control. 246 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,200 We know that, even some of Jesus disciples wanted this. 247 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:07,500 We know this because the previous chapter in Matthew, 248 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:10,000 were told that a couple of his disciples say, hey, Jesus, can 249 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,600 we set with you on your right and left hand, when you come in 250 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:17,400 power and Rule and reign? And he's like as you don't know 251 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,100 what you're asking. Like you you think you want to 252 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:23,900 reign with me? You think that means wealth, and 253 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:28,600 riches, and power and safety. And it actually means suffering 254 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,400 and service and losing your life. 255 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:38,000 See, in this passage. One thing is very clear. 256 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,400 And that's that. Jesus is revealing himself as 257 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:45,900 Lord, and King. When we hear Jesus say this and 258 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:48,800 make this declaration that he has Authority, and he is in 259 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,900 charge. There are only a few responses. 260 00:13:50,900 --> 00:13:54,800 We can have, we can fight him. We can manipulate him or we can 261 00:13:54,800 --> 00:14:00,900 simply like a child receive him. We can fight his Rule and Reign, 262 00:14:00,900 --> 00:14:02,400 we can oppose him and his message. 263 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,100 We see this with the religious leaders. 264 00:14:04,108 --> 00:14:06,200 Did they just wanted to try to get rid of them? 265 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,300 Put an end to it? They didn't like that. 266 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:09,900 He was challenging their Kingdom. 267 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:11,300 They had set up and their way of life. 268 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:15,500 So they try to get rid of them. And that might be where some of 269 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:19,300 us are we might find ourselves bucking up against anything to 270 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:22,900 do with the person of Jesus. We might not like what he has to 271 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:25,700 say and so we just kind of get rid of the parts. 272 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:26,900 We don't like we don't like that. 273 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:30,300 It means that if he's King were not and that means we've got to 274 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:33,800 surrender control. And so we either ignore him, 275 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,800 find ways to set them to the side and sometimes fight him. 276 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:43,600 But honestly, probably most of you most of us that's not our 277 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,600 biggest problem. I think most of us would find 278 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,600 that our biggest danger is the second response to manipulate 279 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,200 this King. I mean, we see it all the time. 280 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,000 We can take him and we can co-opt him for our own purposes. 281 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,200 And if you find that Jesus is always agreeing with you and 282 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,200 your stance, you probably done that. 283 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,000 We assume he always agrees with our side. 284 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,500 We make him into our own it. Image. 285 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:10,600 We make them into the Jesus that we want. 286 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,200 Not that Jesus, that He Is, We Do It politically, right? 287 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:17,900 We find ways to point out that Jesus always agrees with our 288 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:21,000 stance and you'll see it on both sides and we just stamp Jesus's 289 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,200 name on it. We do the same with our 290 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,700 denominations, right? We assume if Jesus were alive 291 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:28,500 today, he would definitely want to be a member of our church, 292 00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:30,800 right? Because we finally after two 293 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,300 thousand years got hit right? That's what we assumed, right. 294 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:41,700 The reality is Jesus is King period, end of sentence and we 295 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:45,100 would do way better to Simply acknowledge that than to try to 296 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:48,100 manipulate. Like I love an example of this 297 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:51,600 is when Jesus appears as the angel of the Lord to Joshua and 298 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,600 the Old Testament. And so Joshua sees What's called 299 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,300 the angel of the Lord is terrifying. 300 00:15:57,300 --> 00:15:59,900 Figure and right away. He's like, bro. 301 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:03,100 I got to know like are you on our side or theirs? 302 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:06,000 Because like, this is terrifying and I need to know. 303 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:09,900 Whose side are you on? And I love the response. 304 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,500 He's like neither, bro. Like that's not the question. 305 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:15,700 You should be asking like I'm the commander of the army of the 306 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:18,200 Lord is what he says. And like, you should be asking 307 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,400 whose side you're on. Not, if I'm on your side, whose 308 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,700 side are you on? Is the question you should be 309 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:26,500 asking to. Jesus is King and it can't be 310 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:29,800 co-opted or manipulated for your own purposes, to build your own 311 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,900 kingdom or mine or to advance my own agenda. 312 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,000 And so that leaves us with the last option. 313 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,800 The simply receive him to quit trying to fight him or 314 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,000 manipulated him, but take him at his word that he is, who he says 315 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,700 he is. And that that's good news, and 316 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:49,500 surrender Our Lives to him, to trust him to save us, Hosanna, 317 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,300 not in our own way, or with our own terms and in our own time, 318 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:59,400 but in his way on his time, and with his own terms, see the 319 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,800 question that every single one of us have to, at some point in 320 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,000 our life come to ask, is the question that was asked in verse 321 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,400 10, which is kind of the hinge verse of this passage. 322 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,599 When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar 323 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:18,099 saying, who is this? Got to ask it. 324 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:24,900 Who is this Jesus we've got to do something with the fact that 325 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:27,900 he's claiming to be the Divine King. 326 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:33,200 Yahweh himself and the crowd responds in verse 11, that he is 327 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,000 Jesus from Nazareth. Not just a myth, but it actual 328 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,400 historical figure who lived and breathed and walked the Earth. 329 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,800 And he claimed to be more than just a good teacher or another 330 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,300 Prophet because he can't just be that he claimed to be divine. 331 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:49,100 He claimed to be the king of the entire. 332 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:53,000 Cosmos and so we can't just ignore that claim and go about 333 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,500 our lives. Because if it's true, we've got 334 00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:02,000 to do something with it. But that's the beauty of this 335 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,100 game. He's not just a king. 336 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:11,500 But he's also a savior. He's a king who is preparing the 337 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:16,100 way for his own praise. That's the next thing we see. 338 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,600 Jesus is the king prepares the way for praise, see these 339 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,300 worshipers of Jesus, as they laid out palm branches in their 340 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:24,900 cloaks. They thought, they were 341 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:28,200 preparing a way for this King. But in reality, this King, as he 342 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,100 rode into Jerusalem, knowing he was headed to. 343 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:37,100 The Cross Was preparing a way for all who would receive him. 344 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:42,200 See, Jesus knows that we were originally created to worship 345 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,200 him that we are most human. We are most at peace with 346 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:50,800 ourselves in the world. And with God, when we are in 347 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,900 worship and enthralled with his Beauty and his majesty and His 348 00:18:55,900 --> 00:19:00,200 glory. But he also knows that we have 349 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,100 exchanged worship of our creator for worship of created and 350 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:06,900 lesser things that can't satisfy. 351 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:13,200 And so we're chasing after them. But Jesus will have his reward. 352 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,700 He will have worshippers from All Nations tribes and tongues 353 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:21,000 and he's passionate about that and he will do whatever it takes 354 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,000 to make that possible. See if you were a part of this 355 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,500 crowd and you had expectations for Jesus to set up, this 356 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:32,400 physical Kingdom, to overthrow the Roman rule. 357 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,700 You'd probably expect him to March, right into the seat of 358 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:38,300 the Roman capital, and overthrow it with his power. 359 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:41,000 And might you've seen him work miracles at this point, you 360 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,900 know, he can do it. You'd probably expect him to go 361 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:49,000 gather the strongest, you know, the most influential in the 362 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,700 city. The most powerful to come with 363 00:19:52,700 --> 00:19:54,400 me. Let's go take care of business. 364 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:58,100 Other Messiahs had tried this in the past and it had always 365 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:02,100 failed. But you know where Matthew shows 366 00:20:02,100 --> 00:20:06,100 him going next. First, he goes to the temple. 367 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:10,200 And he cleans up the temple because there were those in the 368 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,300 temple that had created barriers, where worship of God 369 00:20:14,300 --> 00:20:16,500 was supposed to take place. And these barriers were 370 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:20,000 affecting The Outsiders the immigrants to foreigners. 371 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,500 And so he passionately goes and clears the way. 372 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:27,600 Prepares a way for worship to explode, because he says, this 373 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,200 house is supposed to be a house of prayer for all nations. 374 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,300 And instead you made it, a den of Oppression and thieves. 375 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,100 This isn't Jesus just being reactionary, the gospel of Mark 376 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:40,700 tells us, it was actually the next day. 377 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,000 So when he arrives in, he actually goes looks at the 378 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,200 temple goes back home. Matthew doesn't tell us this. 379 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,000 He condenses it for us, but he comes back the next day. 380 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,300 Very calculated. The cleansing of the temple was 381 00:20:52,300 --> 00:20:55,800 bad news for the oppressors in the religious leaders, but it 382 00:20:55,800 --> 00:21:00,300 was good news for those who wanted to worship Yahweh. 383 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,400 And he's preparing a way for these people to do that. 384 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,800 And then I love this because he really At this point, the 385 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,800 religious leaders really get mad at them because you know, what, 386 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,600 he does next after flipping tables and preparing a way for 387 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,800 The Outsiders. He calls in the lame and the 388 00:21:13,808 --> 00:21:15,900 deaf, who the religious leaders didn't like around in the 389 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,500 temple, launch a Beggar's. We don't want them here. 390 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:20,800 Let's get rid of them. Let's clean up our front doors, 391 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,100 you know, they're preventing us from making money. 392 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,000 And he brings them and he starts healing them. 393 00:21:27,700 --> 00:21:29,400 You know, what a bunch of kids do then he brings a bunch of 394 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,200 kids and kids were like in our society. 395 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,800 We worship kids. Like they're the center of our 396 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,600 attention. That's one extreme to The Other 397 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,100 Extreme is this society which was kids were nothing. 398 00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:40,300 They were less than they were just a nuisance. 399 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,500 And you know what they do, they start dancing. 400 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,200 They start celebrating in the temple and saying the same thing 401 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,700 that was said, earlier, Hosanna to the son of David. 402 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:57,000 And so, he exchanges the commotion of Oppression and 403 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,500 money changers for this beautiful commotion of a bunch 404 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:05,900 of Outsiders. A bunch of the least of these, a 405 00:22:05,908 --> 00:22:10,700 bunch of kids. He's breaking every rule there 406 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:14,500 is instead of going to the powerful and the strong and 407 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:18,100 Gathering an army to bow to him and help overthrow the Romans he 408 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:19,700 goes and hangs with The Outsiders. 409 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,000 They supposedly inadequate. What is he doing? 410 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:27,200 Well, first of all, he's again fulfilling prophecy. 411 00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:29,700 We won't go to it. But in Psalm 8, we're told 412 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:35,100 already that God prepared praise for himself from the mouths of 413 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:38,900 infants and babies. And so Jesus is fulfilling this 414 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:41,500 and in doing this, he's revealing his divinity. 415 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,400 He's saying I'm not just some other dude. 416 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,500 I am God in flesh because the praise that was prepared. 417 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:49,800 That's why they get upset because they're calling him 418 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:52,200 Yahweh while boss. And he's Hosanna. 419 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,100 He's saying this is about me. And then lastly is showing us 420 00:22:57,100 --> 00:23:01,800 the way of his kingdom and what our response should be. 421 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,800 When we come into contact with this King and his kingdom. 422 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:07,700 It's not to co-opt him. It's not to fight against him. 423 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,600 It's to Simply fall on his Mercy, like these blind and 424 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,000 these lame who had no other option. 425 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,800 Like these kids who just fully trusted because they didn't know 426 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,800 any better and say hey save us now. 427 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,500 However, you want to do it. How how whatever looks like save 428 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:30,900 us now. This week was having 429 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:33,900 conversations with people who are experiencing Jesus. 430 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:36,900 And, and like, I leave with this weight because like, we want to 431 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:40,200 be a place where we disciple people, but I'm also like almost 432 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,000 scared for people who are experiencing just like, you 433 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,600 don't know what you're about to give up, but you're going to 434 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,000 lose your life and it's going to be hard and it's going to be 435 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,500 painful sometimes but like it's gonna be worth it and it's like 436 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:50,500 the sweet voice of the spirit is like bro. 437 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,400 I got this. It's not on you. 438 00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:57,000 You can't transform Hearts. You can't make blind. 439 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,400 I see you can't make lame legs Dance for Joy. 440 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,300 You can't make kids understand. I got it. 441 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:09,300 We reminded how dependent we are on him. 442 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,200 Jesus finds those who know they need something outside of 443 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,900 themselves to save them and he shows up and he tells them good 444 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:20,900 news and he shows them, good news, and he's preparing the 445 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:24,800 way. For praise and worship to erupt. 446 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,800 And what he does here is just a foretaste of what he's about to 447 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,700 do in a few days as he gives up his own life, and that's the 448 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:35,100 last thing. Jesus is the king who prepares 449 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:37,900 the way for Praise by giving his life. 450 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:41,000 Did the beginning of our text today? 451 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000 We're told that Jesus approached Jerusalem and wasn't the first 452 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,600 time he had done this. But this time it was different. 453 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,600 He knew that this time, his interactions would lead to him 454 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,800 suffering for the sins of humanity. 455 00:24:57,300 --> 00:25:02,000 And that in order for humans to be counted worthy to worship 456 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,500 him, and he would have to enter into their unworthiness. 457 00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:11,800 That he would have to experience the darkest parts of the human 458 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:18,300 experience. Shame humiliation violence. 459 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,800 And eventually death itself. See all of history. 460 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:28,000 Not just this week was leading up to Good Friday. 461 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,700 When just a few short days after he rides into Jerusalem, is 462 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:37,200 called the triumphal entry. So he rides in triumphantly and 463 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,800 just a few short days later. He would be led outside the city 464 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:47,700 Gates and defeat to be murdered. even he wept in the garden to 465 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:51,000 like, is there another way, and it's not just a physical toll 466 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,300 that's about that happened to his body, but the emotional and 467 00:25:54,300 --> 00:26:00,300 spiritual weight of what was coming, and he knew So, he 468 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:04,800 trusted his father. Even with losing his life, he 469 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,000 knew that to prepare the way for worship to arise from All 470 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,100 Peoples that he would have to walk, not just into the gate of 471 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:15,400 Jerusalem, but into the very Gates of Hell itself. 472 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,100 And that's what he did on. Good Friday. 473 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,500 And this wasn't what was expected of this King. 474 00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:26,400 If the if the leader of the revolution is dead, then how 475 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:32,900 does the revolution go forth? But this King came as Zechariah 476 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:35,800 prophesied. Not to continue the cycle of 477 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:40,200 violence, but to end it by succumbing to it. 478 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:44,700 Little did the crowd knows it when they cried for Jesus to 479 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:47,900 save them that he would answer their requests, but he would do 480 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:52,100 it by giving up his own life. And this is the way of this King 481 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:55,800 and his kingdom, as Jesus said, you gain your life by losing it. 482 00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:58,300 The greatest in his kingdom. Is he who serves not? 483 00:26:58,300 --> 00:27:01,000 He who responds in violent power. 484 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:04,900 Jesus always used his power and authority to serve. 485 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,300 That's a control, not to manipulate. 486 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:11,800 And this willingness to give up his As life which were told no 487 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,000 one takes his life. He gives it up and he dies and 488 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,400 he's placed in a tomb where he really died. 489 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,000 That's why we're told that his body really lay there on Holy 490 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,800 Saturday and it seemed like all hope was lost. 491 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,700 But as we're going to see more next week in full Jesus didn't 492 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,600 stay dead. I guess, I like, I love Easter 493 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,100 but like every week is Easter Sunday, every day. 494 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:38,600 Is Resurrection Day. Like Jesus is Alive and he got 495 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,000 back up from the grave and I'm glad we got a day to really 496 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000 celebrate it, but we celebrate that all the time because he 497 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,600 lays in the Tomb on the Sabbath day and then he rises again to 498 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,500 conquer death hell and the grave. 499 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:52,500 And we're told it's the first day of the week which was the 500 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:55,100 same day that the original creation projects. 501 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,300 Started and now this new creation project, this new 502 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:02,200 people that Jesus is forming Goes Forth and he promised he 503 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,700 was going to create this people all the way back in Isaiah. 504 00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:10,700 With him rising from the grave, he puts to that puts to rest the 505 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:14,900 doubts in our hearts. Of everyone who received him as 506 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:20,300 king because he is risen, everyone who cried, save us now, 507 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:26,000 can have hope to live as well. And so, in a good Friday, world, 508 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:31,800 where Darkness abounds, we can have Resurrection Sunday, hope 509 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,300 because he came to end all violence and War, and Division. 510 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,100 Look again, this week. We've been reminded of the 511 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:44,000 destructive nature of humanity because mass shootings are like 512 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,700 becoming so common. It's like we see it in the news 513 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:49,200 all the time, and we're almost desensitized to it. 514 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,800 It's like my heart cries. I like come quickly do something 515 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,500 about this. Like, you're not. 516 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:54,800 Okay. It's senseless. 517 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,600 But there is a day coming. When all weapons, all swords. 518 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,400 All AR-15s will be beaten into garden tools. 519 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000 Like there's a prophecy. And in the point here is that, 520 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,800 what was used as a tool to tear down and Destroy will be 521 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:17,400 transformed into a tool to cultivate and build up and bring 522 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,400 about flourishing. This is what Jesus was 523 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,700 accomplishing in the cross and Resurrection for our own hearts 524 00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:27,100 that are broken. And also for the entire Cosmos, 525 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:29,600 which is groaning to be restored. 526 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,000 This is the Glimpse in the foretaste. 527 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:37,100 We get on Palm Sunday when Jesus prepares a way for us. 528 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:41,200 And we can rejoice and celebrate, because Jesus is 529 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,800 risen. The one who was rejected has now 530 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:48,200 become the Cornerstone building a new people, and we become the 531 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,200 true Temple, the temple that he cleans like in Christ. 532 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:54,300 He is the true Temple and in him, we are now the Temple. 533 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,100 And so we worship him. Not just with songs or words or 534 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:04,800 empty platitudes, but with our entire life, Because Jesus 535 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,700 entered into the gates of hell, we can enter into the gates of 536 00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:12,400 his presence, and we can be counted worthy to worship Him. 537 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,400 You with your baggage, with your Brokenness, with your trauma, 538 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,000 with your mistakes. Whatever it is. 539 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:22,000 You carry, like you, because of the work of Jesus can stand in 540 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,200 his presence and sing songs to him, and he receives it just as 541 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:31,900 sweet and cents. Jesus is fulfilling all of 542 00:30:31,908 --> 00:30:33,700 Israel's history and all of the world's history. 543 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:36,700 So he's putting us back to that. But he's also pointing us to the 544 00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:41,700 Future. Revelation 7 verse 9. 545 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:48,100 After this I looked and there was a vast multitude that crowd 546 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:53,000 that numerous crowd was just a foretaste this vast multitude 547 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,600 from every nation tribe people and language which no one could 548 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,900 number standing Before the Throne and before the lamb they 549 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:04,300 were clothed in white robes and look what they're waving palm 550 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:08,000 branches in their hands. And they cried out with a loud 551 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,600 voice salvation. Belongs to our God. 552 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,700 Who is Seated on the throne and to the lamb? 553 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:18,300 One day because Jesus prepared the way for us. 554 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,000 We will stand in his presence completely worthy and white 555 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,700 robes us, what that signifies waving, the palm branches of joy 556 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:27,000 and salvation will be worshipping him. 557 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:31,600 And like when we see this King, the only natural response is to 558 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:36,700 respond and surrender and explode and worship and that's 559 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:38,900 what transforms us. That's what Corinthians tells us 560 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,000 your transform from one degree of Glory to another, as you see, 561 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,000 his Beauty and Majesty. It actually has real world 562 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,200 implications. Since it changes, you changes 563 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,800 actually possible. As we follow our team into this 564 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,400 new way, we become those who prepare the way for others. 565 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,700 To see, we become a people of Peace, not the vision. 566 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:05,800 We bring love not violence. We bring hope not condemnation 567 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,000 because that's what Jesus brought to you. 568 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,600 And not just on Sundays and the money through Saturday, our 569 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,000 entire life becomes worship. Everything our job, our career, 570 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,400 whatever it is, our schooling, our parenting are being Are, you 571 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,700 know having a spouse being married. 572 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:26,600 Everything takes on new meaning? It's not just the emotional 573 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,700 responses, you know, conjured up in a worship setting missing. 574 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:32,200 Those are bad things. But when we begin to see him in 575 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,800 the everyday, like, that's when it starts to click, just the 576 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,700 humble. Always flashy. 577 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,800 I just a little a Monday in the seemingly mundane The Humble 578 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,000 things of life. Actually begin to worship. 579 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:52,300 You say that was God, working the entry of this King, wasn't 580 00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:57,600 big and flashy was normal and humble, but it was powerful and 581 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,300 that's my hope is that we can get a childlike glimpse of the 582 00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:04,000 beauty of this King. Unfortunately often we grow 583 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,400 older than God in the way that we live and what I mean by that 584 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,100 is we look for fulfillment and satisfaction, the things of this 585 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:15,200 age and often we numb ourselves and we lose our wonder and 586 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,200 worship the everyday things that God is doing in life. 587 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,900 GK Chesterton, Chesterton explored this idea in his book 588 00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:25,500 Orthodoxy. This is what he said. 589 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:30,700 He said, because children have abounding Vitality because they 590 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:35,000 are in spirit Fierce and free. Therefore they want things 591 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,700 repeated and unchanged. They always say, do it again and 592 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:43,300 the grown-up person does it again until he's nearly dead 593 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,700 like think about it. Right? 594 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:46,600 Your kids like do it again? Tickle me again. 595 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,800 Let me jump off the couch again. I'm like, no, I'm tired. 596 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,900 Stop on board. Our grown-up people are not 597 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:55,900 strong enough to exalt and monotony. 598 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,800 But perhaps, God is strong enough to exalt in monotony. 599 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,800 I want you to think about this. It is possible that God says, 600 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:08,500 every morning to it again to the Sun and every evening, do it 601 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:12,100 again to the Moon. It may not be automatic 602 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,500 necessity. That makes all daisies alike. 603 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,800 It may be that God makes every Daisy separately, but is never 604 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:23,699 got tired of making. It may be that he has the 605 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:27,400 Eternal appetite of infancy. For we have sinned, and grown 606 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,400 old and our father is younger than we. 607 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,000 And we see God in the everyday, may we be reminded of the 608 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,600 Beauty, and the Simplicity of the gospel story that Jesus rode 609 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,900 into Jerusalem to save Sinners and make the cosmos Knew by his 610 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:43,100 life. And Resurrection. 611 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:46,300 I was reminded of this just a few weeks ago. 612 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:49,500 I had the privilege of serving back in our new Eden kids 613 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:53,900 classes, and it was, it was an amazing, just reminder for me 614 00:34:53,900 --> 00:34:56,199 and such a joy. Now, to be honest, when I 615 00:34:56,199 --> 00:35:00,000 scheduled myself because I did, I was a little disappointed. 616 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:01,400 I don't think it was that I was serving that. 617 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,800 They're like visit another time of the week. 618 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,300 I think I'd be fine. But like I have serious fomo. 619 00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:09,200 I hate missing out serious fear of missing out and I was like 620 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,200 man, I'm going to be back there with these kids, you know? 621 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:15,800 And all the good stuff, you know, is going to be happening 622 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,200 in big church, right, you know out here because the spirit of 623 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,400 God moves, you know in a greater way out here than back there in 624 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,600 that greasy kitchen, you know where the kids are right. 625 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,800 And I would never said that out loud. 626 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,600 I can't actually believe that, but my feelings and my emotions 627 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,300 were kind of in that. At space and so we're out here 628 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:36,000 singing. Then we go to the back, you 629 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,500 know, and I was just kind of hit one of the questions we have. 630 00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:42,000 We start with family time back there. 631 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,300 We ask the kids. You know, what was one of the 632 00:35:43,308 --> 00:35:44,900 highlights of your week? Best part about your weekend 633 00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:48,900 was, you know, worst part about your week and then we ask them. 634 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:51,000 You know, how have you seen God working this week? 635 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:52,900 And you know, I thought man these kids, you know, 636 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,200 kindergarteners and younger, you know, they're not going to 637 00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:00,900 understand this. But one of the ones I got from 638 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:02,200 one of the young men Was he said? 639 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,100 Well, you know, I was sick this week that laying my head on my 640 00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:07,800 pillow and immediately I felt better and I woke up feeling 641 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,200 great. And it's easy for me to just 642 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,600 dismiss that well, that's coincidence, but I was able to 643 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,800 just and I told him, I said, man, isn't that amazing that God 644 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,300 made your body that way he created your body to kind of 645 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:23,500 heal on its own and deal with that. 646 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:26,500 Isn't that awesome? And then one of the young girls, 647 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:29,300 you know, not even knowing what actual Miracle it was, but she 648 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:32,900 said I got a good night's rest. I slept really good. 649 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:35,300 You know, normally my sister bothers me and she left me alone 650 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,000 and I slept really good and I'm like, you'll really appreciate 651 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,000 that. That is a miracle. 652 00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:42,900 You know, the older you get. But is there giving God credit 653 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,300 for this just seemingly mundane stuff. 654 00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:51,100 I thought maybe maybe this is true worship and its most pure 655 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:56,600 form and maybe this could be what God is after us, just 656 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,600 simply trusting him that that he's in control. 657 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,400 That that he's good that he's for us. 658 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,200 He's not out to just get us is actually for good. 659 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,600 And he cares enough about getting a good night's rest or 660 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,800 just a simple sickness and we give them credit. 661 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,300 Even if others think we're crazy. 662 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,900 And we got near the end of our time and so, you know, kids are 663 00:37:24,900 --> 00:37:26,600 getting restless. And so we're just putting some 664 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,100 songs on them and they're just dancing on the rug and just 665 00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:34,100 singing songs about Jesus and singing loud and in that moment, 666 00:37:34,100 --> 00:37:38,500 like I felt like I got a glimpse of Eternity. 667 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,700 And you know to be honest like I didn't care if y'all heard us 668 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:46,200 out here was like screw y'all like we're worshipping out here. 669 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:47,600 I don't care if it's distracting. 670 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,000 No can deal with it. Like this is just as important. 671 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,900 And I thought about it, and I feel like, the spirit gave me 672 00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:00,500 this gift. Just the fact that before the 673 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:06,100 foundations of the world. That God cared enough. 674 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:11,000 But our little kids here. And about his own worship that 675 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,700 he ordained praise to rise to him from a greasy kitchen from 676 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:21,900 the mouths of these little kids. And yeah, they don't know it all 677 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:24,300 and if you ask them to pontificate about God, they're 678 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:29,000 probably going to spew bunch of heresy, like but Jesus is being 679 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:34,200 worshipped based on his work alone based on the fact that he 680 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,100 prepared the way for it to happen. 681 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,900 My prayer for us. Like, I mean, this from my own 682 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:48,000 heart is that I would never grow too old to join in their song of 683 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,200 worship. Not only with our lips, but with 684 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,400 our lives. May we like little children like 685 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:00,000 the Blind and the lame man, who knows? 686 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,400 They need healing. May we cry out save us now 687 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:06,600 because of the death and resurrection of Jesus. 688 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,300 We know that he will answer our request.