1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Well, you've probably realized by now I'm not Pastor Clark or 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,160 Pastor Lewis. My name is Sam Morris. 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,080 I'm part of the leadership here at Calvary Chapel. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,720 I serve with the kids in Sunday school and do some teaching on 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,880 Wednesday night as well as helping with some of the youth 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,440 on Wednesday. So good morning to everyone, 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,240 happy Palm Sunday. Let's let's pray and get into 8 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:27,490 the word. Lord. 9 00:00:27,490 --> 00:00:29,930 It says in Isaiah that you tell us the end from the beginning, 10 00:00:29,930 --> 00:00:33,280 Father, so that we know that You are God and there is no other. 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,280 Over 500 years ago, Lord, you prophesied of your coming into 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:39,200 Jerusalem. You revealed the very day in the 13 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,760 very manner of your coming, Lord. 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,240 Lord, please help us to discern the times that we live in today. 15 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:46,640 Lord. We see wars, rumors of wars, 16 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,360 pestilence, plagues, Father, or in famines and diverse places. 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,840 Lord. Lord, please just help us today 18 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,600 in our generation. We look at the world around us 19 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,480 and we wonder how much longer till you come again. 20 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,720 Father, I pray that each person here today or listening would 21 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,519 hear your word and be drawn closer to you in Jesus name, 22 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:10,680 Amen. All right, so I think everyone's 23 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,280 aware this is a very significant day, Palm Sunday, right? 24 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,440 The fulfilment of many prophecies, the arrival of 25 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,880 Messiah of Jerusalem. So I want to give a brief 26 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,400 overview of sort of what we call what the Passion week, right? 27 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:28,080 I know on, you know, Friday, Pastor Clark will talk about it 28 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,600 and then Lewis on obviously on Resurrection Sunday, we'll get 29 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,280 into a little bit more. But I thought it'd be a good 30 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,000 idea just to give you a sort of a layout of the week, right? 31 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,160 Jesus from Sunday to Sunday. So Palm Sunday writes A 32 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:41,880 triumphal entry in the Jerusalem. 33 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,920 Jesus arrives on the scene and this is as you'll find them in 34 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,520 the Gospel, Luke, you'll get scholars at the bait, some of 35 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,680 the events from Wednesday to Thursday and things like that. 36 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,240 But a lot of people have it like this. 37 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,880 So on Monday, he walks in and cleanses the temple, right? 38 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,920 And this is actually the second cleansing of the temple. 39 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,520 The first time it occurred in John 2, if you go back and look 40 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,920 at that, at the beginning of his earthly ministry. 41 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,280 And then he does it again at the end of his earthly ministry. 42 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,479 And when he's there in the temple, he has the lame and the 43 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:11,280 blind. They come in and he heals them, 44 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:12,760 right? Just like it was prophesied in 45 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,840 Isaiah. And then on Tuesday, he teaches 46 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,840 in the temple and he's questioned by the religious 47 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,280 leaders. Wednesday the religious leaders 48 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,080 plot to kill Jesus, and then Judas agrees to betray him. 49 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,560 Thursday you'll see the Passover with his disciples they arrest 50 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,480 in the Garden of Gethsemane. And then Friday, Good Friday, 51 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:35,080 you see Peter's denial, Jesus questioned by the Sanhedrin, 52 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,560 Pilate and Herod, and then crucified in the tomb before 53 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,880 sundown. And then Saturday's the Sabbath, 54 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:41,920 right? The day of rest. 55 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,760 And then on Sunday, the 1st day of week, obviously we're all 56 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,160 very familiar with that resurrection Sunday, right? 57 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,080 Now you're going to get some people that argue Christ's 58 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,840 death, whether it occurred on Friday or Thursday because they 59 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,560 say he had to be in the tomb for three days. 60 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,440 But if you look at Jewish, you know, the Jewish day, it's 61 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,680 sundown to sundown. So people who say Good Friday, 62 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,160 right? If he was in the tomb before 63 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,200 Friday evening, there's one day, then he's there Saturday, and 64 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,520 then he raises from that on Sunday, right? 65 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,560 So that'd be 3 days. So you get that argument. 66 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,080 We're not going to belabor that because me, some people say, Oh, 67 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,040 no, it's Thursday to get the full 3 days. 68 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,280 The most important part is he wasn't in the tomb anymore on 69 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,200 Sunday, right? So we're not going to worry 70 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,880 about that one. So before we get in the loop 71 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,840 today, and that's where we'll be in Chapter 19, if you would 72 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,440 please turn with me to Exodus 12 because I think it's important 73 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,640 to understand the Passover in itself as you look at this week 74 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:37,320 ahead for Jesus. So, Exodus 12. 75 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,080 So you have the 1st 9 plagues in Egypt, right? 76 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,280 And then it gets to the 10th one in Pharaoh's heart's been 77 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,960 hardened. And God says I'm, I'm going to 78 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:57,280 do something else, right? I'm going to take the first born 79 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,200 from everyone. But there's a way for you guys 80 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:00,760 to escape at the Israelites, right? 81 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,920 And he institutes the Passover where they had to take a lamb 82 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:06,880 and put the blood above their doorpost. 83 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,640 But we're going to read it here. So Exodus 12 verse, we'll go 84 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,080 through verses one through 6 here. 85 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,079 And it says, now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land 86 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:18,519 of Egypt, saying, this month shall at the beginning of 87 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:22,520 months, it shall be the first month of the year to you speak 88 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,040 to all the congregation of Israel, saying on the 10th of 89 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,160 this month, and that's the 10th of Nissan, every month shall 90 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,720 take for himself. Every man shall take for himself 91 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,800 a lamb according to the House of his father, a lamb for a 92 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,560 household. And if the household is too 93 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,320 small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house 94 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,400 take it according to the number of persons, according to each 95 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,160 man's need. You shall make your count for 96 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,280 the lamb. Your lamb shall be without 97 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:47,200 blemish, a male of the first year. 98 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,280 You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 99 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,400 They shall keep it until the 14th day of the same month. 100 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:55,200 And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall 101 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,160 kill it at twilight. So that's the 14th of Nissan, 102 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,600 four days later. So if you jump down the verse 12 103 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:05,240 now says, For I will pass through the land of Egypt on 104 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,800 that night and I will strike all the first born in the land of 105 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,320 Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt. 106 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,520 I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. 107 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,480 Now the blood shall be assigned for you on the House is where 108 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,800 you are. When I see the blood, I will 109 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,560 Passover you and the plague shall not be on you to destroy 110 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,080 you when I strike the land of Egypt. 111 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,160 So when you look back at the passion we Christ arrives on 112 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,720 Sunday, right? He's tested by the religious 113 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,880 leaders for four days and then he's killed at twilight, right 114 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,720 and buried Friday evening. So really parallels the Passover 115 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,960 that God instituted going back into the Exodus. 116 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,040 It's almost like God was trying to show them something through 117 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,360 their entire history leading up to that point, right? 118 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,200 That your true Passover lamb has arrived. 119 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,480 You need His blood to avoid this judgement that's coming. 120 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,400 So you either can accept him in turn or you're going to face 121 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,440 judgement. So we can get in the loop now. 122 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,760 So if you go to Luke 19 verse 28. 123 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,960 So we'll be jumping around a little bit today because this is 124 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,280 a very prophetic event, very historical. 125 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:17,680 So as we work down through, we're going to be jumping 126 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,560 through a couple different verses, but we'll start here in 127 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:27,920 Luke 19, verse 28 says, when he had said this, he went on ahead 128 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,960 going up to Jerusalem and it came to pass when he drew near 129 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,800 to Beth, Fuji and Bethany at the mountain called all of it that 130 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,280 He sent two of his disciples saying, going to the village 131 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:40,640 opposite you, whereas you enter, you will find the Colt tide and 132 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,800 on which no one has ever sat loose it and bring it here. 133 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,120 And if anyone asks you, why are you losing it? 134 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,880 Thus you shall say to him, because the Lord has needed it. 135 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,000 So right off the bat, my first thing is like, Jesus knew what 136 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,640 the disciples were going to ask here, right? 137 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:55,800 I think of like a modern equivalent. 138 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,400 You're walking into someone's driveway and you're just going 139 00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:59,680 to go in and take their car, right? 140 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,200 Someone comes out of the house and they're like, Hey, what are 141 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:02,520 you? What are you doing, right? 142 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,880 So Jesus is preempting saying, Hey, tell me the Lord has need 143 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,440 of it and they'll understand that, right? 144 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,440 It's it's one of those things that you you think about and 145 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,080 it's kind of like, Oh yeah, the Lord doesn't need it. 146 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,560 They take and they just walk away. 147 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,160 But you think those people there and what we'll see that here 148 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,160 coming up in verse 3234, how they respond to that. 149 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,400 They must have had some sort of awareness to what was going on, 150 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,840 some awareness to who this Lord may be, right? 151 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,600 Just to hand over their donkey and colt and walk away from it. 152 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,360 So in verse 32, so those who were sent their way found it 153 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,800 just as he said to them. But as they were losing the 154 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,080 colt, the owners of it said to them, why are you losing the 155 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,280 colt? And they said the Lord has need 156 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:48,000 of him. So going back to their thoughts, 157 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,240 right, So they either recognize these disciples and have seen 158 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,400 them with Jesus and they knew who the Lord was that they're 159 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaking of, right? Or they understood the prophecy 160 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,200 in Zechariah 9. So if you guys want to turn 161 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,520 there to Zechariah 9, it's a little bit before Matthew. 162 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,280 So don't go too far into the Old Testament back just a little 163 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:22,640 bit. So Zechariah 99 says, rejoice 164 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,720 greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, 165 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,360 behold, your king is coming to you. 166 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,280 He's just in having salvation lowly and riding on a donkey, a 167 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,720 colt the full of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from 168 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:36,480 Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. 169 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,240 The battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the 170 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,159 nation's. His dominion shall be from sea 171 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:44,320 to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. 172 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,360 So you see, God had prophesied 500 years before the survival of 173 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,320 Christ that he would ride in on a cold a full of a donkey. 500 174 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,440 years before it happened He had prophesied of it. 175 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,080 So go back to Luke here in verse 35. 176 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,600 Then they brought him to Jesus and they threw their own clothes 177 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,560 on the cold and they set Jesus on him. 178 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,280 And as he went, many spread their clothes on the road. 179 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,040 So Matthew's gospel, if you go look in chapter 21 of Matthew, 180 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:15,600 you'll see that there was a great multitude. 181 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,480 It was not just a few of the disciples or the 12 disciples, 182 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:19,360 right? It says there was a great 183 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,480 multitude that laid their clothes down on the road. 184 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,320 That's where you see them cutting down branches, palms, 185 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,960 right? The lay lay on the road and 186 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,080 spread them across there. So when you think about the idea 187 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,080 of laying clothes on the road, it's an idea that they're 188 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,240 showing respect for a king. There's a couple of examples of 189 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,080 it. The one that you see in the Old 190 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,760 Testament is give you a little bit of background. 191 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,320 So I think everyone probably knows who Ahab and Jezebel are. 192 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:46,480 You probably don't see too many people named Jezebel for a good 193 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:51,760 reason. But so Elisha and the sons of 194 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,640 the prophet. Elisha tells one of the sons of 195 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,440 the prophet go annoying Jehu king, right. 196 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,200 I'm going to print out God's pronouncing judgement on Ahab 197 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,240 and Jezebel and their family line. 198 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,640 So one of the sons of prophet runs out, goes to Jehu, anoints 199 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,040 him king takes off running because I think he's afraid he's 200 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,880 going to kill him. He runs back and Jehu gets back 201 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,800 to his sort of entourage and they say, oh, what, what did 202 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,800 what did that crazy prophet say? He's that he's just a crazy guy 203 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:16,760 in there. And they're like, no, really, 204 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,480 what did he tell you? He said I'd be king and he 205 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,280 anointed me. So immediately all his entourage 206 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,040 lays down their garments before him on the steps, right? 207 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,400 It's a sign of royalty, a sign of a king showing respect for 208 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,040 him. Now, the idea riding on a 209 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,240 donkey, you know, when Jesus came in on a donkey, this is 210 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,600 very significant in terms of his first coming versus second 211 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,640 coming. When he comes in on a donkey, it 212 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,480 symbolizes peace and humility. So normally a king, when they 213 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,280 come into a city and they're as a ruler, right? 214 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:46,840 They're looking to conquer, they're going to come in on a 215 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,600 horse, right? That sign of power, a conquering 216 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,640 king. And that's where you see Israel 217 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,680 and the Jewish people, right? They, they missed it. 218 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,240 And you even see the disciples, the chapters before, when Christ 219 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:00,760 is telling them, hey, this is what's coming. 220 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,880 I'm going to be cut off. They're going to kill me. 221 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,640 I'm going to die for the sins of the world. 222 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,040 And the disciples had no ID. And you see that all throughout 223 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,760 the Gospels that they were just as blind as everyone else was to 224 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,160 what was going to come because they, they expected their, 225 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,160 they've been taught their entire lives that the Messiah would 226 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,160 show up, set them free from Rome, and he'd established his 227 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:19,880 Kingdom. That's where you see James and 228 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,520 John and the mother arguing about, hey, when you come into 229 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,520 your power, can my son sit on your left and right hand, Right. 230 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,400 So they're thinking of this earth, earthly rule, which will 231 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:29,960 happen. But that's the second coming. 232 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:31,600 And they didn't. They didn't quite get that. 233 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,000 So if you look again in Luke 19/9, a little bit before Jesus 234 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,840 rides in, it's the story of Zacchaeus, right? 235 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,160 And you get to the end of that and he says salvation has come 236 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,120 to this house. What Jesus came to do in his 237 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,000 first coming at the end of that verse in 99, it says that he 238 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,480 came to seek and save that which was lost. 239 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,120 That was his goal of the first coming, right? 240 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,400 He's the true Passover lamb. And you see that reference 241 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:00,960 throughout the New Testament, the Gospels. 242 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,680 You see a Peter people calling him the Lamb of God. 243 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:05,600 John specifically called him the Lamb of God. 244 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,320 He is their Passover lamb in our Passover lamb, right? 245 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,000 So if you want to turn with me to Luke 4, so just go back a 246 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,160 couple pages. We're going to talk a little bit 247 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,160 more about his first coming compared to the second coming. 248 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,080 So Luke 4, he's in, in Nazareth, right in his hometown. 249 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,040 He walks into the synagogue and he's reading from Isaiah. 250 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:42,520 So in Luke 4 verse 16, so so he came to Nazareth where he had 251 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,280 been brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the 252 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,800 synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. 253 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:49,920 And he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. 254 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,200 And there's a lot of prophecies in Isaiah for telling of the 255 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,040 coming of Christ and what he would do. 256 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,640 He'd cause the blind to see the lame to walk. 257 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,640 So he stood up and read Start here, verse 17. 258 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,440 And he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. 259 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,760 When he had opened the book, he found the place where it was 260 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:08,960 written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon 261 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,920 me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. 262 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,000 He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim 263 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 liberty to the captives and recover of the sight of the 264 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,880 blind, to set liberty at those who are pressed to proclaim the 265 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:26,880 acceptable year of the Lord. So that that's Christ's first 266 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,440 coming, right? He came to sake and see, save 267 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,840 and seek that which was lost. We are right now in the 268 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,280 acceptable year of the Lord. And you notice he didn't quite 269 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,240 finish that verse. If you go look at that verse in 270 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,840 Isaiah, the next line is in the day of vengeance of our Lord, 271 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:44,200 right? So that's his second coming. 272 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,120 That's what's coming next. So the time that Christ first 273 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,640 came until now we are all in the acceptable year of the Lord. 274 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,200 So that second coming and this time He is going to come on a 275 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,480 horse. If you go to Revelation 19, God 276 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,000 willing, we get there with Lewis. 277 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,480 If the rapture of Christ doesn't return before then. 278 00:14:12,110 --> 00:14:23,270 So Revelation 19, verse 11, it says, Now I saw heaven opened, 279 00:14:23,270 --> 00:14:26,550 and behold a White Horse. And he who sat on him was called 280 00:14:26,550 --> 00:14:29,520 faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and 281 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,320 makes war. His eyes were like a flame of 282 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,280 fire, and on his head were many crowns. 283 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,320 He had a name written that no one knew except himself. 284 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,120 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is 285 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,800 called the Word of God. And the armies in heaven clothed 286 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,080 in fine linen white. And queen followed him on white 287 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,200 horses. Now out of his mouth goes a 288 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,840 sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nation's, and 289 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,120 he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. 290 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,480 He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of 291 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,120 Almighty God. And he has on his robe and on 292 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,880 his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 293 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:04,840 So that's the second coming of Christ. 294 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,080 He's going to come in judgment in his second coming. 295 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,760 He's he's going to be on a horse that time and they will 296 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:20,150 recognize him that time. So I look at that and you think 297 00:15:20,150 --> 00:15:22,350 about being in the acceptable year of the Lord. 298 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,160 We have a chance today to believe, right? 299 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:28,840 To put your faith in Christ while we're in this time. 300 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,480 Because listen, not everyone knows when they're going to die. 301 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,920 Your days are numbered. You can walk out today. 302 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,160 You can get in the car, start driving down the road, someone's 303 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,360 texting and they hit you and you're, you're, you're done, 304 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:40,440 right? It's over. 305 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,960 There's a lot of people texting out there in their cars. 306 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:45,560 There's a lot of accidents. There's a lot of sickness. 307 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,240 You just don't know the number of your days. 308 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:53,000 And James says it's pointed once for a man to die and then comes 309 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,040 the judgement. And Christ said that he's the 310 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,360 way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father but 311 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,360 through him. So when you put those together 312 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,200 and you hear a lot about, Oh no, I'll wait to get right with 313 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,520 Christ, right? I'll wait, I'll put it off until 314 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,840 I'm dead so I can live this life now and enjoy everything I'm 315 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,760 enjoying. You can live in sin. 316 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,880 That's not how it works. And you see books written out 317 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,360 there that say, you know God, God loves everyone, which he 318 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,000 does. He loves everyone but they say, 319 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,840 oh, he'll just keep him in time out for so many years and after 320 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,960 that he'll let him free and everyone be in heaven together. 321 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,120 If that were so, then the question would be why? 322 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:29,680 Why in the Garden of Gethsemane, why did Christ say Father let 323 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,360 this cup pass from me, right? If there's another way, let it 324 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,400 pass from me and there wasn't right? 325 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,240 He said not my will, but your will be done. 326 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,000 So to contradict the character of our Father. 327 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:44,560 If it wasn't that way now, I mean, for me, hey, he's right to 328 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,040 do whatever he wants. He could say, OK, I'm going to 329 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,920 let everyone out, you know, and be good with it like I could. 330 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,080 I couldn't argue him if he wants to do that in the future. 331 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,120 But everything that we see here in Scripture says that once 332 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:57,800 we're going to die and then we're going to be waiting for 333 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,280 judgement. So we have to make our decision 334 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:06,280 today, right? So verse 37, Luke 19. 335 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,160 Then as he, as he was now drawing near the descent of 336 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,960 Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began 337 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,960 to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for the for the 338 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,600 mighty works they had been there for they had seen saying, 339 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,520 blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in 340 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,280 heaven and glory in the highest. And then in Matthew's Gospel you 341 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,800 see Hosanna to the Son of David, right? 342 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,000 Hosanna meaning saved now and son of David is obviously 343 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,440 Messianic. So that's why you see in this 344 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,160 next verse here, the Pharisees and some of the Pharisees called 345 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,760 to him from the crowd. Teacher, rebuke your disciples. 346 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,760 They knew what the disciples were claiming Christ to be. 347 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:56,480 They knew what the multitude was saying. 348 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,760 What was, you know, calling out the Christ. 349 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,160 And that's from Psalm 118. If you want to go there and look 350 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,560 at that one, but we'll stay here for now. 351 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,480 And Jesus answered them in verse 40. 352 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,320 He said, but I tell you that if these should keep silent, the 353 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,120 stones would immediately cry out. 354 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,800 When you think about that, the culmination of prophecy from 500 355 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,040 years from Zechariah, and even before that of the coming 356 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,640 Messiah, Christ is saying this is such a significant event that 357 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,320 even if there was no one around, the rocks would cry out. 358 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,720 And now it's his coming. And it's going to be the same 359 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,000 way when he comes a second time, right? 360 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,880 Because it's been prophesied of and you can't get around God's 361 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:34,160 word. If he says something's going to 362 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,080 happen, it's going to happen, right? 363 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:37,600 We're not going to get around that. 364 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,040 So when you see the mighty works, right, it says the 365 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,440 disciples are praising him for the mighty works that they had 366 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,560 seen. What did they see in the 367 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,800 Gospels, right? They they saw the deaf, lame and 368 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,120 blind healed. They saw multiple people raised 369 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:58,000 from the dead. Lazarus, he's already in the 370 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,160 tomb for four days, brought back to life. 371 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,240 Those are the mighty works that he had seen. 372 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,240 When you think about that, just seeing something doesn't always 373 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,640 make you believe. You think in our own life, you 374 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:13,280 know, we we know it's Jesus after he's resurrected, right? 375 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,560 He says to Thomas, because you have seen, right, you believe a 376 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,200 blessed are those who believe and have not seen. 377 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,640 That's kind of where we are, right? 378 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,800 We believe, and even though we didn't see all the miracles, we 379 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,040 didn't see him physically erased from the dead, but we believe 380 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,040 because he changed our hearts and he came into us. 381 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,680 So you can get caught up. In all this knowledge and all 382 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,200 this idea, like the Pharisees, they obviously knew a lot about 383 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,720 God. They didn't take it the heart 384 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,560 and they kind of created a bunch of traditions that were 385 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,280 nonsense. And God, I'm in a lot of 386 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,400 trouble. But you can get caught up in 387 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,120 this idea that you know so much about Jesus, but you don't 388 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:49,800 really know Jesus, right? And what's it say when Peter, 389 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,720 Jesus was asking the disciples, who do people say I am? 390 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,600 Some of the disciples said, Oh, you're Elijah. 391 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,120 Or some people were saying you're, you're John the Baptist 392 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:01,080 or some prophet. And what what's what's Peter say 393 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,600 to them? You know, what's Peter say back 394 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:04,760 to Jesus? He says. 395 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,720 No, you're, you're the Christ, you're the Son of the living 396 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,400 God. And that's the most important 397 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,120 question that you can answer for yourself. 398 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,800 Who is Jesus to you? It's not who's Jesus to me? 399 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:15,760 I can't make that decision for you to believe. 400 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,880 You have to have that in your own heart, whether Christ is the 401 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,400 Son of the living God, your Messiah, not my Messiah. 402 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,240 He has to be your Messiah, right? 403 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,760 So another point here, it says it talks about the Mount of 404 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:34,720 Olives. That's pretty significant as 405 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,280 well. We'll get to that here in a 406 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:40,200 second. Throughout Christ's. 407 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,640 Ministry on earth, you don't see him too often declaring himself 408 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,040 as the Messiah. This is one of the first times, 409 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,600 I think the first time really, that he walks in and says he 410 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,000 sets it up, goes, gets the donkey, has the everything 411 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,960 organized basically. And the fairy Pharisees say 412 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,040 rebuke your disciples because they're claiming this. 413 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,480 And he says, Nope, the rocks would cry out if, if they didn't 414 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,320 declare it in all the gospels, you'd see him heal people. 415 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:06,120 You'd see all these miracles. And what would he tell the 416 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:07,920 people after that? Keep quiet. 417 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,040 Don't tell anyone that I'm basically here, right? 418 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:13,160 He's kind of being hush, hush about it because his hour had 419 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,480 not come. You'd see that throughout the 420 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,240 gospel that says for his hour had not come because he didn't 421 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,040 want the people taking him and marching him into Jerusalem 422 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,880 before the will of God right before the time that he was 423 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,640 appointed to arrive in Jerusalem on that day. 424 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,640 All right, so. Speaking of the Mount of Olives, 425 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,640 his first coming, right? So he comes in on the Mount of 426 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,320 Olives. Let's talk a little bit about 427 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,440 the second coming now. So if you go to Acts One, it's 428 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,560 the ascension of Christ. And he goes up into the. 429 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,320 Clouds. We're going to jump around a 430 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,400 couple different verses here. So if you flip to. 431 00:21:52,400 --> 00:22:11,120 The right from Luke. So verse 9. 432 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:13,800 Here says, now when He had spoken these things while they 433 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,360 watched, He was taken up in a cloud, received him out of their 434 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:18,840 sight, and while they look steadfastly toward heaven, as He 435 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:23,160 went up, behold, 2 men stood by them in white apparel, who also 436 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,920 said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? 437 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,080 This same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will so 438 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,600 come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven. 439 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,560 And then verse 12, it says then they return to Jerusalem from 440 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,920 the mount called all of it, which is near Jerusalem, the 441 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,080 Sabbath day's journey. So you see Jesus came in the 442 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,480 first coming on, you know, through the Mount of Olives. 443 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,040 He ascended back into the clouds from the Mount of Olives. 444 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:48,720 If you go to Zechariah 14, we're going to see in the second 445 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,880 coming that he's also going to return to the Mount of Olives. 446 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,840 So if you go to Zechariah. 14 Just a little bit to the left in 447 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:12,240 Matthew. All right, so we'll pick up. 448 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,320 There in verse one it says Zechariah 14 One, behold, the 449 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,200 day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in 450 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,720 your midst. For I will gather all nations to 451 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,320 battle against Jerusalem. The city shall be taken, the 452 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,400 house is rifled, the women ravished, half of the city shall 453 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,760 go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not 454 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,680 be cut off from the city. And then the Lord will go forth 455 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,880 and fight against those nations as he fights in the day of 456 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,320 battle. And that day his feet will stand 457 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,000 on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. 458 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,000 The Mount of Olives shall be split into two from east to 459 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,880 West, making a very large valley. 460 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,960 Half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it 461 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,640 toward the South. So I have never been to Israel, 462 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,560 but I do have Google Maps and Google Earth, so you can look at 463 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,800 this. So if you look at the Mount of 464 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,080 Olives, right, I'm trying to get my bearings right here, so. 465 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,880 It's on the other side. Of the eastern gate of 466 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,240 Jerusalem. So this is my left hand. 467 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,440 So we're going to go here, right? 468 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,120 So eastern gate of Jerusalem. Now I'm backwards either way. 469 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:11,920 It's on the other side of the eastern gate of Jerusalem, 470 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,240 right? So Christ is going to arrive 471 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,200 there and he's going to split that mountain and you have the 472 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,400 Kidron Valley in between there. Now, there's some interesting 473 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,400 things about that right now today. 474 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,320 So the eastern gate where Christ has prophesied to enter back 475 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:30,320 into Jerusalem in 1541, the Ottoman Turks, I think it was 476 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,400 Suleiman the Magnificent, he sealed that gate shut because of 477 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,000 the Jewish prophecy that the Messiah would arrive there. 478 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,680 And they also put a Muslim graveyard right in front of it 479 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,560 because they thought, oh, a Jewish person is not going to 480 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,000 defile himself coming through the graveyard, right? 481 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,640 So they believed in it from the Jews, right? 482 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,160 And then on the other side of the Kidron Valley, on the Mount 483 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,680 of Olives, there's one of the most ancient and largest Jewish 484 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,040 graveyards awaiting the arrival of the Messiah. 485 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,600 So you got a pretty good picture of these people are trying to 486 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,920 keep the Messiah out. And on the other side you have 487 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:01,840 all the people waiting their Messiah, right? 488 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,080 Pretty interesting when you look at that. 489 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,840 But for them sealing that eastern gate, it's also called 490 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,080 the Golden Gate of the beautiful gate in Jerusalem. 491 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,640 You can go look this up online. You'll see images of it. 492 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,960 I wouldn't be banking on the Muslims keeping him out when he 493 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:19,560 arrives. If he's going to split the 494 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,000 mountain in two, I think that's also going to split and he's 495 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,400 just going to kind of walk in. So, you know, they they can try, 496 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,440 but I don't think it's, I think it's going to work there. 497 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:45,730 All right, so back to Luke 19. So this section we're going to. 498 00:25:45,730 --> 00:25:48,530 Get into a little bit more history and prophecy. 499 00:25:51,330 --> 00:25:53,530 And there's. A reason for belaboring some of 500 00:25:53,530 --> 00:25:56,290 this because I think, I think it's important that we know that 501 00:25:56,290 --> 00:25:58,930 everything in God's Word is true, right? 502 00:25:59,130 --> 00:26:01,170 You can go back and look at the historical sites. 503 00:26:01,170 --> 00:26:03,450 They keep digging places, they keep finding more and more. 504 00:26:04,010 --> 00:26:07,090 So it's important to know that what you have in here is true 505 00:26:07,090 --> 00:26:09,450 because when you get into the New Testament says everyone who 506 00:26:09,450 --> 00:26:12,210 believes in the name of the Lord, right, who calls the name 507 00:26:12,210 --> 00:26:15,850 of Jesus will be saved. If that wasn't true, why should 508 00:26:15,850 --> 00:26:18,410 you believe that, right? So we're going to go through 509 00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:25,450 some of this. So in verse 41 of Luke 19, it 510 00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:28,450 says now as he drew near, he saw the city and he wept over it, 511 00:26:28,450 --> 00:26:31,770 saying, if you hadn't known, even you, especially in this 512 00:26:31,770 --> 00:26:34,730 your day, the things that make for your peace, but now they're 513 00:26:34,730 --> 00:26:37,450 hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when 514 00:26:37,450 --> 00:26:40,370 your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround 515 00:26:40,370 --> 00:26:44,010 you, close you in on every side, and level you and your children 516 00:26:44,010 --> 00:26:46,970 within you to the ground. They will not leaving you one 517 00:26:46,970 --> 00:26:50,010 stone upon another because you do not know the time of your 518 00:26:50,010 --> 00:26:56,970 visitation. That's that's a tough one, 519 00:26:56,970 --> 00:26:58,290 right? To hear that one. 520 00:27:00,130 --> 00:27:02,970 First time Israel they. They missed the first coming of 521 00:27:02,970 --> 00:27:05,130 Christ, and it's been kind of a pattern for them. 522 00:27:05,130 --> 00:27:07,170 If you read the Old Testament, what did they do? 523 00:27:07,170 --> 00:27:09,290 The Joseph. They rejected him, threw him in 524 00:27:09,290 --> 00:27:11,330 a pit, and then sold him as a slave to Egypt. 525 00:27:11,570 --> 00:27:13,170 And the second time they accepted him. 526 00:27:13,170 --> 00:27:15,690 Same thing with Moses. Remember when he went in to try 527 00:27:15,690 --> 00:27:18,690 to Save the Children of Israel? They rejected him and they 528 00:27:18,690 --> 00:27:20,690 wanted him gone. And then the Lord sent him back 529 00:27:20,690 --> 00:27:23,850 and they finally accepted him. It's a bit of their pattern, 530 00:27:23,850 --> 00:27:25,850 right? And then you see in Jesus's 531 00:27:25,850 --> 00:27:29,730 final public sermon in the temple, right, he really lays 532 00:27:29,730 --> 00:27:32,330 into the religious leaders and it's all those woes, right? 533 00:27:32,330 --> 00:27:33,730 I think there's seven of them in there. 534 00:27:33,850 --> 00:27:36,290 It says, woe do you scribes, Pharisees, you hypocrites. 535 00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:39,450 And then he gets through all this that he's basically 536 00:27:39,450 --> 00:27:40,970 hammering him with, and he gets the end of me. 537 00:27:40,970 --> 00:27:43,570 He says, you will not see me again until you say, blessed is 538 00:27:43,570 --> 00:27:45,330 he who comes in the name of the Lord, right? 539 00:27:45,610 --> 00:27:48,490 Speaking of that nation of Israel, who right now their eyes 540 00:27:48,490 --> 00:27:50,490 are blinded. And you'll see that in Romans 541 00:27:50,490 --> 00:27:54,610 11, the Paul says that their eyes have been blinded until the 542 00:27:54,610 --> 00:27:56,450 fullness of the Gentiles be brought in. 543 00:27:57,610 --> 00:27:58,930 So it's. A bit of a big. 544 00:27:58,930 --> 00:28:01,970 Judgement on them. So a little bit of history for 545 00:28:01,970 --> 00:28:07,530 this section of scripture. So in 68 AD. 546 00:28:08,130 --> 00:28:11,930 The Vespasian, who was a general at the time, had conquered the 547 00:28:11,930 --> 00:28:17,450 outside areas like Galilee area leading up to Jerusalem, and he 548 00:28:17,450 --> 00:28:21,490 was laying siege to Jerusalem. And then all of a sudden Emperor 549 00:28:21,490 --> 00:28:25,010 Nero dies and he has to run back to Rome, right? 550 00:28:25,010 --> 00:28:29,090 So you see in the New Testament, Christ warning them, and I think 551 00:28:29,090 --> 00:28:31,890 it's even in the next chapter of Luke, he says that when you see 552 00:28:31,890 --> 00:28:34,010 Jerusalem surrounded, flee, right? 553 00:28:34,010 --> 00:28:38,210 He tells them to get out, run. And that's why you also see in 554 00:28:38,210 --> 00:28:40,970 the book of the Acts that it's possible that. 555 00:28:42,650 --> 00:28:45,050 The Holy Spirit and God. Put on those believers in 556 00:28:45,050 --> 00:28:47,490 Jerusalem, on their hearts, that's all they had and 557 00:28:47,490 --> 00:28:49,930 basically live communally together because in a short 558 00:28:49,930 --> 00:28:52,730 period of time they were going to have to flee for their lives. 559 00:28:52,730 --> 00:28:55,330 And if you have a house and you have a bunch of land, that's 560 00:28:55,330 --> 00:28:57,170 going to make it pretty tough to get rid of that, right? 561 00:28:57,610 --> 00:28:59,490 So that's, that's the thought behind that because you don't 562 00:28:59,490 --> 00:29:02,690 really see that elsewhere in the Scripture and some of the other 563 00:29:02,690 --> 00:29:04,330 letters that Paul writes to the church. 564 00:29:04,930 --> 00:29:08,370 So there's a thought for that one, but we'll keep going here. 565 00:29:11,570 --> 00:29:15,010 So once Emperor Nero died, there was a bit of a struggle with 566 00:29:15,010 --> 00:29:17,810 some other guys, but eventually that's Basalum and that's when 567 00:29:17,810 --> 00:29:20,930 that the city and the sanctuaries destroyed, he takes 568 00:29:20,930 --> 00:29:22,610 over, right? If you ever run any accounts to 569 00:29:22,610 --> 00:29:27,090 Josephus, he might be a little bit favorable to Titus and the 570 00:29:27,090 --> 00:29:30,730 way he talks about him because he basically, I wouldn't say he 571 00:29:30,730 --> 00:29:33,290 was a traitor turned on the Jews, but he kind of went on to 572 00:29:33,290 --> 00:29:35,090 the Roman side. And that's how he was able to 573 00:29:35,090 --> 00:29:38,290 live right under that line of emperors. 574 00:29:39,250 --> 00:29:43,730 But so Titus, he goes back, sieges Jerusalem again, all the 575 00:29:43,730 --> 00:29:47,970 Jews at the final hurrah get barricaded into the temple. 576 00:29:48,370 --> 00:29:50,890 And there was an argument and Josephus was talking about this, 577 00:29:50,890 --> 00:29:55,770 who's a Jewish slash Roman historian that Titus didn't want 578 00:29:55,770 --> 00:29:58,810 to burn the temple down because he kind of wanted to keep his 579 00:29:58,810 --> 00:30:01,090 like a trophy, right, for the conquest. 580 00:30:01,090 --> 00:30:03,130 Like, hey, look what we did. Look at this beautiful building, 581 00:30:03,130 --> 00:30:05,170 right, that we have and wipe them out. 582 00:30:05,170 --> 00:30:07,530 So he can kind of conferred with his generals and said that no, 583 00:30:07,530 --> 00:30:08,650 we're going to, we're going to keep it. 584 00:30:09,050 --> 00:30:11,010 But you know, you kept getting the Jews coming out and 585 00:30:11,010 --> 00:30:13,290 attacking the Romans and the Roman soldiers eventually set 586 00:30:13,290 --> 00:30:15,290 fire to it and burn the temple down. 587 00:30:15,850 --> 00:30:18,250 So they end up wiping out the temple in 70AD. 588 00:30:19,730 --> 00:30:22,370 And when you see about not. One stone being left upon 589 00:30:22,370 --> 00:30:24,210 another. When they wiped out the temple 590 00:30:24,450 --> 00:30:27,770 and it burned down, a lot of the walls were laid with gold, 591 00:30:27,770 --> 00:30:29,490 right? So that burned down and melted 592 00:30:29,490 --> 00:30:31,170 into the cracks. And then the Romans went in 593 00:30:31,170 --> 00:30:32,930 there to get all the gold and the treasure out. 594 00:30:33,250 --> 00:30:36,050 They picked apart the stones and threw them out so that even 595 00:30:36,050 --> 00:30:39,250 today you can see images online, if you've been to Jerusalem, you 596 00:30:39,250 --> 00:30:41,450 can see that there's, these massive stones have been thrown 597 00:30:41,450 --> 00:30:44,290 down from the temple wall on the ground, right? 598 00:30:44,290 --> 00:30:47,410 Huge stones because the Romans, literally, they, they took it. 599 00:30:47,530 --> 00:30:50,930 They took it down one stone upon another to get the gold out of 600 00:30:50,930 --> 00:30:54,010 it. All right, so let's. 601 00:30:54,010 --> 00:31:00,050 Let's go to Daniel 9. We got to finish the thought. 602 00:31:00,050 --> 00:31:06,970 Here on this one. So I'm going to skip some. 603 00:31:06,970 --> 00:31:09,530 Of Daniel 9 and we'll get we'll get the one part of it I'll fill 604 00:31:09,530 --> 00:31:15,930 you in so Daniel's praying he looks back at prophecy from 605 00:31:15,930 --> 00:31:19,650 Jeremiah and realizes that there's 70 years in Babylon that 606 00:31:19,650 --> 00:31:22,410 they were going to have to spend for forsaking the Sabbath, right 607 00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:26,770 So he's basically confessing his sins in the sins of the people 608 00:31:26,770 --> 00:31:30,330 to the Lord and at the end of that prayer and that's where 609 00:31:30,330 --> 00:31:33,450 we're going to pick up in verse 20 of. 610 00:31:33,450 --> 00:31:36,810 Daniel, Chapter 9. He says now while I was 611 00:31:36,810 --> 00:31:39,650 speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people, 612 00:31:39,650 --> 00:31:41,130 Israel. Now it's an interesting thing 613 00:31:41,130 --> 00:31:43,890 because Daniel, he's one of the, we know Daniel had sin, but he's 614 00:31:43,890 --> 00:31:46,570 one of the people in the Bible that there's no mention of sin 615 00:31:46,570 --> 00:31:48,650 of Daniel, right. And you'll see that where God 616 00:31:48,650 --> 00:31:50,650 calls him greatly beloved, but we know he had sin because 617 00:31:50,650 --> 00:31:53,610 Christ is only one without it. But very interesting that you 618 00:31:53,610 --> 00:31:56,250 see that there. He's presenting my supplication 619 00:31:56,250 --> 00:31:58,650 before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God. 620 00:31:58,650 --> 00:32:02,010 Yes, while speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen 621 00:32:02,010 --> 00:32:05,530 in the vision at the beginning being caused if I swiftly to 622 00:32:05,530 --> 00:32:08,290 reach reach me about the time of the evening offering. 623 00:32:08,330 --> 00:32:11,090 And he informed me and talked with me and said, Oh, Daniel, I 624 00:32:11,090 --> 00:32:14,090 have now come forth to give you skill to understand at the 625 00:32:14,090 --> 00:32:16,490 beginning of your supplications. The command went out and I've 626 00:32:16,490 --> 00:32:18,810 come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved. 627 00:32:19,250 --> 00:32:21,890 Therefore, consider the matter and understand the vision. 628 00:32:22,770 --> 00:32:24,370 So I'm going to try to go through this pretty quick 629 00:32:24,370 --> 00:32:26,090 because we won't have too much time. 630 00:32:26,370 --> 00:32:29,210 So it says 70 weeks are determined for your people and 631 00:32:29,210 --> 00:32:32,130 for your holy city. So this prophecy is for your 632 00:32:32,130 --> 00:32:34,650 people and your holy city. Speaking to Daniel, it's talking 633 00:32:34,650 --> 00:32:36,810 about the Jews. This is not a prophecy on the 634 00:32:36,810 --> 00:32:38,970 Gentiles. This is a prophecy on the Jews 635 00:32:39,090 --> 00:32:42,330 in Jerusalem. It says to finish transgression. 636 00:32:42,330 --> 00:32:44,370 So you're going to see six things listed here. 637 00:32:44,730 --> 00:32:47,090 The first three are the first coming of Christ. 638 00:32:47,450 --> 00:32:49,490 The second three are the second coming of Christ. 639 00:32:49,930 --> 00:32:52,330 It says to finish the transgressions, to make an end 640 00:32:52,330 --> 00:32:54,850 of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity. 641 00:32:54,850 --> 00:32:56,890 And that's what Christ did for us on the cross, right? 642 00:32:57,410 --> 00:32:59,770 You finished a transgression, ended sin and made 643 00:32:59,770 --> 00:33:02,050 reconciliation. And then here's the second 644 00:33:02,050 --> 00:33:04,410 coming to bring in everlasting righteousness. 645 00:33:04,690 --> 00:33:07,250 So this is one that have a hard time where people say that we're 646 00:33:07,250 --> 00:33:10,890 living in the millennial reign right now because I don't see 647 00:33:10,890 --> 00:33:12,650 everlasting righteousness in the world. 648 00:33:12,650 --> 00:33:16,490 I don't see everything under under Christ right now. 649 00:33:16,490 --> 00:33:18,210 When he comes back, we're going to see that. 650 00:33:18,210 --> 00:33:22,130 But I don't see that right now. And Satan still seems like he's 651 00:33:22,130 --> 00:33:25,410 not bound. So we'll we'll continue on. 652 00:33:25,810 --> 00:33:28,290 So seal a vision and prophecy. I think there's some outstanding 653 00:33:28,290 --> 00:33:29,610 prophecy. I don't think Christ has 654 00:33:29,610 --> 00:33:31,850 returned yet, unless someone can tell me otherwise. 655 00:33:32,210 --> 00:33:36,090 And to anoint the most holy, it says this is part of where we're 656 00:33:36,090 --> 00:33:37,530 going to see our verse here today in Luke. 657 00:33:37,530 --> 00:33:40,130 It says no, therefore and understand that from the going 658 00:33:40,130 --> 00:33:43,770 forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem. 659 00:33:43,930 --> 00:33:46,130 So this is not about building the temple, which you're going 660 00:33:46,130 --> 00:33:47,770 to see in Ezra. And we don't have time to get in 661 00:33:47,770 --> 00:33:50,690 all these verses, but the command the build and restore 662 00:33:50,690 --> 00:33:55,050 Jerusalem was a Nehemiah 2 and approximately like 445 BC from a 663 00:33:55,050 --> 00:33:59,410 hazardous says until the Messiah the Prince, there shall be 7 664 00:33:59,410 --> 00:34:04,010 weeks and 62 weeks. So 69 of those 70 weeks is the 665 00:34:04,010 --> 00:34:07,890 time period from that command until Jesus walks into 666 00:34:07,890 --> 00:34:11,969 Jerusalem. And the street shall be built 667 00:34:11,969 --> 00:34:13,810 again. In the wall, even in trouble 668 00:34:13,810 --> 00:34:16,250 sometimes that's in Nehemiah, if you want to go read that. 669 00:34:16,250 --> 00:34:18,889 They had a lot of trouble rebuilding the walls and streets 670 00:34:18,889 --> 00:34:22,409 of Jerusalem and says after 62 weeks, so there's already been 671 00:34:22,409 --> 00:34:26,210 seven weeks and now after another 62, so we're at week 69. 672 00:34:28,010 --> 00:34:30,690 The Messiah shall be cut. Off, but not for himself. 673 00:34:33,610 --> 00:34:37,250 So a lot of people have looked. At this the 70 weeks or 674 00:34:37,250 --> 00:34:42,850 seven-year, so it's 70 * 7 four, 190 years when you go through 675 00:34:42,850 --> 00:34:45,610 this prophecy and we'll we'll continue on here. 676 00:34:45,850 --> 00:34:50,210 So you have 490 years. We fulfilled 483 of it until the 677 00:34:50,210 --> 00:34:53,650 coming of Christ, right? So when you read that in Luke 678 00:34:53,650 --> 00:34:57,370 19, it says for in this year day what we've had for you, the 679 00:34:57,370 --> 00:34:59,570 peace I've had you, you should have known, right? 680 00:34:59,570 --> 00:35:01,530 You should have known the time that I was coming to you because 681 00:35:01,530 --> 00:35:06,730 I told you 483 years ago, or yeah, I told you 4 and 83 years 682 00:35:06,730 --> 00:35:08,490 ago when I was going to arrive on the scene. 683 00:35:08,770 --> 00:35:11,490 But you didn't see it, right? And there's some people and 684 00:35:11,490 --> 00:35:14,210 there's some books out there. I think it's called The Coming 685 00:35:14,210 --> 00:35:17,450 Prince. And he does his calculation. 686 00:35:17,450 --> 00:35:21,530 He says it that Jesus would have if it was March 14th, 445 BC, 687 00:35:21,530 --> 00:35:24,410 when the hazardous gave that command that he would arrived 688 00:35:24,410 --> 00:35:27,970 on, let me see here, 32 AD, April 6th, which is really 689 00:35:27,970 --> 00:35:29,250 close. Now you can argue that date 690 00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:32,490 where it's 30 AD 33 or whatever, but it's really close. 691 00:35:32,730 --> 00:35:34,770 And you have to remember when you go do this, the Jewish 692 00:35:34,770 --> 00:35:38,890 calendar is 360 days, not 365. There's a lot of different 693 00:35:38,890 --> 00:35:41,690 calendars out there. So it's not as easy as it looks 694 00:35:41,690 --> 00:35:44,370 just taking 365 * 43 and getting there. 695 00:35:45,410 --> 00:35:47,010 So there's a little bit more than that. 696 00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:49,810 But what Jesus is telling them, they. 697 00:35:49,810 --> 00:35:53,050 Should have known it, right? So let's continue the prophecy 698 00:35:53,050 --> 00:35:55,210 because it also goes into what we have today. 699 00:35:56,530 --> 00:35:59,610 And after 62 weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for 700 00:35:59,610 --> 00:36:01,810 himself. And the people of the Prince who 701 00:36:01,810 --> 00:36:04,410 is to come shall destroy the city in the sanctuary. 702 00:36:04,810 --> 00:36:07,650 So we already know that who destroyed the city in the 703 00:36:07,650 --> 00:36:09,210 sanctuary? It was the Romans. 704 00:36:09,730 --> 00:36:11,450 And then it says the people, the Prince who is to come. 705 00:36:11,450 --> 00:36:14,530 And a lot of people believe this is the Antichrist descended from 706 00:36:14,530 --> 00:36:17,850 the line of Rome, Rome. But Rome had a vast area. 707 00:36:17,850 --> 00:36:21,290 So good guess on who exactly that may be right? 708 00:36:21,570 --> 00:36:26,690 They had a lot of territory. The Babylon in six O 5 BC. 709 00:36:26,970 --> 00:36:30,330 So this is somewhere in the neighborhood of like 530 ish BC 710 00:36:30,330 --> 00:36:33,250 520 something BC. He's already prophesying that 711 00:36:33,250 --> 00:36:36,810 there's a second temple in Jerusalem before the 2nd temple 712 00:36:36,810 --> 00:36:39,330 is even wiped out. All right, it's not even built 713 00:36:39,330 --> 00:36:41,810 yet until until the end of the war. 714 00:36:41,810 --> 00:36:45,050 Desolations are determined. It says then he shall confirm a 715 00:36:45,050 --> 00:36:48,210 covenant with many for one week. And this is the Antichrist in 716 00:36:48,210 --> 00:36:51,770 that last seven-year period that with the timetable is going to 717 00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:54,210 go back to the Jews, right? Because right now we're living 718 00:36:54,210 --> 00:36:55,850 in the acceptable year of the Lord. 719 00:36:59,370 --> 00:37:02,050 So that's that 483. To 490 that's left, it says. 720 00:37:02,050 --> 00:37:04,370 But in the middle of the week, he shall bring an end to 721 00:37:04,370 --> 00:37:07,410 sacrifice and offering. So when you see people talking 722 00:37:07,410 --> 00:37:10,090 about 1/3 temple, you might be wondering, why do people think 723 00:37:10,090 --> 00:37:11,210 there's going to be a third temple? 724 00:37:11,210 --> 00:37:14,210 It's because right here, because in order to have sacrifice and 725 00:37:14,210 --> 00:37:18,250 offering for the Jews, they have to have a third temple, right? 726 00:37:18,850 --> 00:37:21,450 And for the Antichrist to cut that off, there must be one 727 00:37:21,450 --> 00:37:23,290 there. And it says on the wing of 728 00:37:23,290 --> 00:37:26,370 abomination shall be one who makes desolate even until the 729 00:37:26,650 --> 00:37:29,610 consummation which is determined is poured out on the desolate. 730 00:37:29,610 --> 00:37:33,010 So let's go back to Luke here. So we'll start getting towards 731 00:37:33,010 --> 00:37:50,250 the end. And I mentioned before I. 732 00:37:50,290 --> 00:37:54,690 Belabored going going through some of that just because I 733 00:37:54,690 --> 00:37:57,050 think it's important for you to know that everything that the 734 00:37:57,050 --> 00:37:59,650 Bible says is true. If you go back and look at those 735 00:37:59,650 --> 00:38:03,810 prophecies, it happened exactly how God said it would happen. 736 00:38:04,650 --> 00:38:07,050 And there's people out there and critics like to say no, Daniel 737 00:38:07,050 --> 00:38:10,810 was written, you know, 100 BC or 200. 738 00:38:10,930 --> 00:38:13,650 He still said the sanctuary is going to be sacked in 70AD, 739 00:38:13,650 --> 00:38:15,290 right? He still prophesied when Christ 740 00:38:15,290 --> 00:38:20,010 was going to arrive and they found that his prophecies they 741 00:38:20,010 --> 00:38:23,690 are dated back to that time period is 500 BC plus. 742 00:38:29,810 --> 00:38:31,170 You know, going back to the Jewish people. 743 00:38:31,170 --> 00:38:34,010 And I mentioned before about Romans 11 that blindness has 744 00:38:34,010 --> 00:38:38,050 come to them until the fullness of the Gentiles is brought in. 745 00:38:38,050 --> 00:38:40,850 And then you see again in Luke 21, it talks about Jerusalem's 746 00:38:40,850 --> 00:38:43,850 going to be trampled by Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles 747 00:38:43,850 --> 00:38:48,010 are fulfilled. I mean, it's really hard not to 748 00:38:48,010 --> 00:38:50,410 say God's on his own timetable with things, right? 749 00:38:50,410 --> 00:38:52,650 He's given us numbers and dates and things are when it's going 750 00:38:52,650 --> 00:38:54,890 to happen. He knows, you know, it might not 751 00:38:54,890 --> 00:38:56,170 be our time. It's his time. 752 00:38:56,730 --> 00:38:58,410 And you think about where we are right now. 753 00:38:58,410 --> 00:39:02,210 We're in a generation where 100 years ago there was no nation of 754 00:39:02,210 --> 00:39:04,970 Israel to look at. There was no, you say you would 755 00:39:04,970 --> 00:39:07,050 read these and you'd be like, huh, like, what does that mean? 756 00:39:07,050 --> 00:39:11,730 It must be the church, right? But God has not replaced Israel 757 00:39:11,730 --> 00:39:14,410 with the church. If you go read Romans 910 and 758 00:39:14,410 --> 00:39:21,450 11, you'll see that in there in Isaiah 66, A, it says, can a 759 00:39:21,450 --> 00:39:24,290 nation be born in one day? Speaking of Israel, right, 760 00:39:24,530 --> 00:39:27,970 that's where you see in May 14th, 1948, the nation of Israel 761 00:39:27,970 --> 00:39:29,730 was declared a state again, right? 762 00:39:29,730 --> 00:39:32,170 A country which came out of nowhere, right? 763 00:39:32,170 --> 00:39:34,610 You never would have thought all these Jewish people from all 764 00:39:34,610 --> 00:39:36,170 over the world would not be gathered back. 765 00:39:36,170 --> 00:39:38,250 And I think there's seven, some million of them there. 766 00:39:38,810 --> 00:39:41,610 So we live in some interesting times, right? 767 00:39:41,610 --> 00:39:45,930 I think everyone's like, oh, that you hear that phrase out 768 00:39:45,930 --> 00:39:48,090 there, We've never been closer to the coming of Christ, right? 769 00:39:48,090 --> 00:39:50,530 And it's true because actually passes, you're getting closer. 770 00:39:51,050 --> 00:39:54,210 But I think our generation, we've literally never been 771 00:39:54,210 --> 00:39:57,370 closer to the coming of Christ. We have the nation of Israel 772 00:39:57,370 --> 00:40:00,090 sitting in their land. You see other prophecies in 773 00:40:00,090 --> 00:40:02,410 Daniel where it talks about people going to and fro 774 00:40:02,410 --> 00:40:04,450 throughout the whole earth and knowledge is going to greatly 775 00:40:04,450 --> 00:40:07,330 increase. I mean, what age do people say 776 00:40:07,330 --> 00:40:09,970 we live in, right? It's the information age. 777 00:40:10,410 --> 00:40:13,610 We have AI and data centers and all this crazy stuff going on. 778 00:40:13,610 --> 00:40:16,490 You can't tell what's real and what's fake anymore. 779 00:40:23,830 --> 00:40:25,110 So if the worship team wants to come. 780 00:40:25,110 --> 00:40:26,910 Forward here, I'll begin to wrap up. 781 00:40:26,910 --> 00:40:30,590 We're going to do a brief about the verse 45 and 48 for the 782 00:40:30,590 --> 00:40:32,510 temple here for cleansing of the temple. 783 00:40:32,510 --> 00:40:36,130 And it says in verse 45. Then he went into the temple and 784 00:40:36,130 --> 00:40:38,210 began to drive those out who bought and sold. 785 00:40:38,210 --> 00:40:41,090 And it's saying to them, it is written, my house is a House of 786 00:40:41,090 --> 00:40:43,650 prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. 787 00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:45,530 And he was teaching daily in the temple. 788 00:40:45,530 --> 00:40:47,650 But the chief priests and the scribes and the leaders of the 789 00:40:47,650 --> 00:40:50,770 people sought to destroy him and weren't were unable to do 790 00:40:50,770 --> 00:40:54,090 anything, for all the people were very attentive to hear him. 791 00:40:55,570 --> 00:40:58,490 So there's there's a lot. That can be said about what was 792 00:40:58,490 --> 00:41:01,970 going on in the court of the Gentiles and the Temple during 793 00:41:01,970 --> 00:41:04,490 that time. So what it was, you had all the 794 00:41:04,490 --> 00:41:07,530 money changers and in the courtyard, right? 795 00:41:07,650 --> 00:41:10,330 People will come in with their currency from out outside and 796 00:41:10,330 --> 00:41:13,090 they say, no, you have to use the our currency here. 797 00:41:13,370 --> 00:41:15,290 So they basically RIP you off. You go to another country, 798 00:41:15,290 --> 00:41:17,250 they're going to charge you more to get their currency. 799 00:41:17,610 --> 00:41:20,770 It might take a little bit. So they're had some exuberant 800 00:41:20,770 --> 00:41:24,170 taxes basically to get the right coinage to be able to purchase 801 00:41:24,170 --> 00:41:26,850 things in the temple courtyard. And then they were selling 802 00:41:26,850 --> 00:41:29,850 animals because you would show up with your animal and they 803 00:41:29,850 --> 00:41:32,250 say, Nope, that's not good. Has spots and blemishes, right? 804 00:41:32,610 --> 00:41:34,250 And they'd be like, here, you have to buy one from us. 805 00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:36,490 So now they're making people, when they're robbing them, 806 00:41:36,490 --> 00:41:38,530 they're literally robbing them of their money, right? 807 00:41:39,010 --> 00:41:41,530 And they're taking away the connection that the people have 808 00:41:41,530 --> 00:41:43,570 to their sacrifice for their atonement, right? 809 00:41:43,850 --> 00:41:45,490 So it just becomes a ritual of them. 810 00:41:45,490 --> 00:41:47,490 It's just a thing they do. Hey, I can pay for it. 811 00:41:47,690 --> 00:41:50,130 You just pay for it, right? It doesn't affect you at all. 812 00:41:51,650 --> 00:41:52,970 What was that doing to Israel right? 813 00:41:52,970 --> 00:41:56,570 Is destroying their witness right that court of the Gentiles 814 00:41:56,570 --> 00:41:58,930 was supposed to be an area where they could come in and see the 815 00:41:58,930 --> 00:42:01,130 God of Israel, right? The one who brought them out of 816 00:42:01,130 --> 00:42:05,570 Egypt and see who he was but it. Was a den of thieves. 817 00:42:06,530 --> 00:42:09,370 You know, First Corinthians 6 says, do you not know that your 818 00:42:09,370 --> 00:42:12,730 bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you 819 00:42:12,730 --> 00:42:16,530 have received from God? You are not your own, for you 820 00:42:16,530 --> 00:42:19,330 were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your 821 00:42:19,330 --> 00:42:21,410 body and in your spirit, which are gods. 822 00:42:24,050 --> 00:42:26,410 If you're here today and listening, if you allowed sin to 823 00:42:26,410 --> 00:42:29,810 come into areas of your life, it's it's slowly going to 824 00:42:29,810 --> 00:42:32,170 destroy you. You know the. 825 00:42:32,170 --> 00:42:34,490 Bible says what do light. And darkness have in common. 826 00:42:34,570 --> 00:42:37,570 If you're backsliding and living in sin, you might look really OK 827 00:42:37,570 --> 00:42:40,810 on the outside, but I guarantee you, you feel empty on the 828 00:42:40,810 --> 00:42:44,170 inside. If all you have to do is get 829 00:42:44,170 --> 00:42:46,050 back with. Jesus and he'll come into you, 830 00:42:46,050 --> 00:42:48,570 He'll cleanse you just like you did the temple, and he'll take 831 00:42:48,570 --> 00:42:51,170 that sin and remove it. But when you start spending less 832 00:42:51,170 --> 00:42:54,850 time with Jesus and more time with the world, you're not going 833 00:42:54,850 --> 00:42:58,530 to be in a good situation. And for those, if you don't know 834 00:42:58,530 --> 00:43:01,650 Christ today and you can't stop the fooling around, the 835 00:43:01,650 --> 00:43:04,690 drunkenness, the anger, the lying, stealing or whatever type 836 00:43:04,690 --> 00:43:08,010 of sin may be controlling your life, you know, you're 837 00:43:08,010 --> 00:43:10,810 completely empty inside. You might have a lot of social 838 00:43:10,810 --> 00:43:13,730 media followers and look like everything's pretty dandy on 839 00:43:13,730 --> 00:43:15,890 there. I mean, for the young kids, if 840 00:43:15,890 --> 00:43:17,890 anyone's listening, social media is really fake. 841 00:43:18,170 --> 00:43:19,970 Everything you see on there is not real. 842 00:43:19,970 --> 00:43:21,970 It might be real. The picture, even some of those 843 00:43:21,970 --> 00:43:24,210 pictures are fake because people just want likes. 844 00:43:24,330 --> 00:43:27,130 What you see on there is not real Life, OK? 845 00:43:30,090 --> 00:43:31,850 But if if you're that. Empty inside. 846 00:43:31,850 --> 00:43:34,210 You can't fix it on your own. You see a lot of self help 847 00:43:34,210 --> 00:43:36,490 books, they get you through something, but what do you see 848 00:43:36,490 --> 00:43:38,330 on the other side? A lot of people relapse, they go 849 00:43:38,330 --> 00:43:40,850 back into it, right, because they can't do it on their own. 850 00:43:40,850 --> 00:43:43,490 But. What does Christ promised? 851 00:43:43,490 --> 00:43:46,170 Us, if you accept him as your Savior, it says the Holy Spirit, 852 00:43:46,170 --> 00:43:48,730 he's going to come into you, He's going to cleanse you and 853 00:43:48,730 --> 00:43:50,090 he's going to give you a new heart. 854 00:43:50,090 --> 00:43:52,610 He's going to give you peace that passes all understanding. 855 00:43:53,970 --> 00:43:56,650 All you have to do is invite. Him in and you have that peace 856 00:43:56,650 --> 00:44:03,490 that you've never had before. So as we look at taking. 857 00:44:03,490 --> 00:44:21,630 Communion here. For revealing yourself. 858 00:44:21,630 --> 00:44:25,030 To us, Lord, through many prophecies and Lord even going 859 00:44:25,030 --> 00:44:28,510 to look back at history and see the time, the very manner and 860 00:44:28,510 --> 00:44:31,430 our Lord, the day that you would arrive in the Jerusalem. 861 00:44:31,430 --> 00:44:34,390 Father for our own benefits so we can look back and understand 862 00:44:34,390 --> 00:44:36,110 that what you were telling us is real. 863 00:44:36,310 --> 00:44:38,990 It's not a favorable. It's not something that someone 864 00:44:38,990 --> 00:44:41,430 just came up with. Lord, we can believe that this 865 00:44:41,490 --> 00:44:44,090 word that we have here today is true, Lord. 866 00:44:44,090 --> 00:44:47,170 And we know when you say that if we confess with our mouth, Lord, 867 00:44:47,450 --> 00:44:50,250 and leave in our heart and you, Lord, that you will save us from 868 00:44:50,250 --> 00:44:53,450 our sins, Father. Lord, we just thank you. 869 00:44:53,450 --> 00:44:56,210 For this time today, Lord, I pray that you would bless those 870 00:44:56,650 --> 00:44:59,730 who are here today. Lord in Jesus name, Amen. 871 00:45:00,810 --> 00:45:02,050 All right, it. Says on the night he. 872 00:45:02,050 --> 00:45:04,330 Was betrayed. He took the bread and we had 873 00:45:04,330 --> 00:45:07,250 given thanks. He broke it and said this is my 874 00:45:07,250 --> 00:45:10,370 body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. 875 00:45:28,780 --> 00:45:31,660 Says in the same way after. Supper He took the cup, saying, 876 00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:33,660 This cup is a new coven in my blood. 877 00:45:33,940 --> 00:45:36,660 Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me. 878 00:45:42,510 --> 00:45:44,910 Says whenever you eat this. Bread and drink this cup. 879 00:45:44,910 --> 00:45:47,590 You proclaim the Lord's death until he comes again, and 880 00:45:48,750 --> 00:45:49,990 that's. What it's all about right we're. 881 00:45:49,990 --> 00:45:53,150 Looking forward to the Lord coming again, and we know, we 882 00:45:53,150 --> 00:45:55,150 know he's going to come again soon.