1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,800 You're listening to the Bridgetown Church Podcast with 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,880 Pastor Casey Kendall, where our vision is Jesus, our mission is 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,760 people, and our cause is love. Thanks for tuning in. 4 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:15,040 Let's dive in. All right, Bridgetown Church, my 5 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,920 passion. Let's get to teaching and 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:24,400 preaching this morning. We'll be in John chapter 12 as 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,240 well in Zechariah 9. Keep a finger there. 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,640 But John, chapter 12, as you guys turn there, I wanted to let 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:39,000 you know about next week, back on that table just before the 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,360 exit. We have a bunch of these Flyers 11 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,120 for our Easter service, our Resurrection Day service here 12 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,160 next week. And I want each one of you to 13 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:52,160 grab a handful of these and hand them out to somebody that you 14 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,560 know that needs to hear the good news about Jesus Christ, the 15 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:04,760 gospel. 2 reasons next week. Next week is our founding 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:11,240 pastor's last sermon here and I know that he's so excited to 17 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,960 share the good news of the empty tomb with anybody that would be 18 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:19,360 here. So 2 reasons come next week as 19 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,720 we send off and Commission Pastor Casey and his family to 20 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,280 go plant churches in Tennessee. And then secondly, come 21 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,880 celebrate the risen and resurrected Jesus. 22 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,480 So be here next week with the family member, a friend and 23 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,040 enemy, anybody that you know that needs to hear the good news 24 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:40,480 about the gospel of Jesus Christ. 25 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,560 Amen. Amen. 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:48,240 OK, so let's begin. Our sermon text this morning is 27 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,160 John chapter 12, starting in verses 9. 28 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,920 And we'll go through verse 23 and I'll be reading out of the 29 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,360 ESV version. Hear the word of the Lord. 30 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,640 When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, 31 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,920 they came not only on account of him, but also to see Lazarus, 32 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,199 whom he had raised from the dead. 33 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,320 So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, 34 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,360 because on account of him, many of the Jews were going away and 35 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,440 believing in Jesus. Verse 12 The next day the large 36 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,680 crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to 37 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,240 Jerusalem, so they took branches of palm trees and went out to 38 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,800 meet him, crying out Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the 39 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,640 name of the Lord, even the king of Israel. 40 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,120 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it just as it is. 41 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,920 It is written, fear not daughter of Zion, behold, your king is 42 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:48,680 coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. 43 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,320 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when 44 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,800 Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had 45 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,280 been written about him and had been done to him. 46 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,480 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of 47 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,760 the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 48 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,360 The reason why the crowd went out to meet him was that they 49 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,160 heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one 50 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,800 another, You see that you're gaining nothing. 51 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,920 Look, the world has gone after him. 52 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,000 Verse 20 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast 53 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,280 were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was 54 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:31,800 from Bethsaida in Galilee and asked him, Sir, we wish to see 55 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,880 Jesus. Philip went and told Andrew. 56 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,400 Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus, and Jesus answered them. 57 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,680 The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 58 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,080 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God for His word. 59 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,800 Let's pray. Father, we come before you, we 60 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,320 love you, we love your word, we love your Son, we love your 61 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:58,680 present. Holy Spirit. 62 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,240 Speak to me and through me to your people. 63 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,000 Jesus, you are our shepherd. We are your sheep. 64 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,720 Give us ears to hear your voice and eyes to see you for your 65 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:13,800 glory in Jesus name, Amen. So I want to take you back to 66 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,959 November 2019, just before a pandemic hit. 67 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,480 November 2019, my life changed forever. 68 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:24,760 No, it wasn't anything like I got married. 69 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,880 It wasn't anything like I lost a loved one or something like 70 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,080 that. My life changed because I 71 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,840 finally conceded. After years and years and years 72 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,520 of hesitation, I finally conceded that I can't see 73 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,360 anything. My vision's blurry. 74 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,120 November 2019. I was tired of blurred vision, 75 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,720 tired of headaches, tired of squinting. 76 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,240 People think, you know, that I, I I'm mad at them. 77 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,520 Well, I can't see you. I finally conceded. 78 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:57,960 I need to do something about my vision. 79 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:00,440 I need, I need to correct this vision. 80 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:05,360 So I went to Kaiser to get my first pair of glasses. 81 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,040 I'm sitting there with the optometrist. 82 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,160 And she said she asked. All right, so how do you want to 83 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,480 approach this? You do need your, your, your 84 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,440 vision's terrible. You need some correction here. 85 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,160 Would you like to do glasses or contact lenses? 86 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,480 Now, a funny thing about me, you can just so you get to know me, 87 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,960 don't ever touch my eyes. I, I, it makes my skin crawl. 88 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,280 I, I see people use eye drops and I'm like, oh, it's like 89 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:36,720 nails on a chalkboard for me. I don't like touching my eyes. 90 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,720 It's just something that I can't do. 91 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,320 So I opted for glasses for glasses. 92 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,280 So from November 2019 onward, for the rest of my life, I'm 93 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,920 rocking these bad boys so I can see your beautiful faces. 94 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,120 What? What happened was these glasses, 95 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,080 they corrected my vision. Before then, everything was 96 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,240 blurry. I couldn't tell who I was 97 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,200 talking to. It was dangerous for me to drive 98 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,280 at night. I couldn't make out my 99 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:09,840 surroundings. I needed my vision corrected. 100 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,320 These glasses brought clarity to my vision. 101 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,960 They brought a vividness and a vibrancy to the my surrounding 102 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,320 life that I hadn't seen before. It's like, oh wow, the sky is 103 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:25,000 blue. You know, These glasses 104 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,720 corrected my vision and they started to redefine my identity. 105 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,640 And what I mean by that is not like my physical features. 106 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,120 Whenever I get up in the morning, just wake up, crawl out 107 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,000 of bed, I look at myself in the mirror and I'm missing my 108 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,880 glasses and I'm like, I can't remember what I look like 109 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,960 without glasses. I don't wear these just for blue 110 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,200 light or just look cool. I literally can't see you. 111 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:53,120 So when I wear my glasses, they correct my vision. 112 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,720 They bring a clarity. They're now a part of my 113 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,160 identity. This is this is who I am now. 114 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:03,120 Today brings us to the beginning of Passion Week. 115 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,960 Where are you going with this, Chris, with your vision? 116 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,560 Today's the beginning of Passion Week. 117 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:14,000 It is Palm Sunday. This is a day where we remember 118 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,320 the final week of Jesus earthly ministry pre cross. 119 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,320 In just a couple days 2000, some odd years ago, Jesus is going to 120 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,520 go to the cross to suffer and die for you and me and then 121 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,600 three days later he's going to rise again from the dead. 122 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,160 Today, Palm Sunday, we celebrate and remember the triumphal 123 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,360 entry. Now, the reason this is such a 124 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,600 big deal is Passion Week. In the same way that my visions 125 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,640 brought, not that my glasses brought my vision clarity. 126 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,440 Passion Week brings clarity to the entire ministry of Jesus. 127 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:54,720 We must understand Passion Week, the Holy Week, to understand who 128 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,000 Jesus was for these three years that he's been ministering up to 129 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,160 this point. This week defines our identity 130 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,440 of what it means to be a Christian. 131 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,720 This is a pivotal moment. This is the bedrock of the 132 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,080 Christian faith Passion Week. You see what happens at the 133 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,240 triumphal entry on Palm Sunday. Jesus is no longer ministering 134 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,760 in secret. Up to this point, he's been 135 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,840 ministering outside of Jerusalem and surrounding regions in 136 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,480 secret, telling people I healed you, but go, don't go tell 137 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,800 anybody. Yet The triumphal entry, if you 138 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,039 will, is his first time his ministry is put on display. 139 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,080 He accepts the praises of people calling him the King of Israel. 140 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,760 This is where his ministry goes global, if you will. 141 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,000 And the anticipation of the people present at the triumphal 142 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,440 entry, it just swells with excitement, swells with 143 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,600 expectation. So my question to you, 144 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:55,560 Bridgetown Church, how is your vision of Jesus today? 145 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:02,440 Who do you see him as today? You see, up to this point, the 146 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,760 Beatitudes, Matthew chapter 5, the parables that he's been 147 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,920 talking about, the miracles he's been doing, Jesus this whole 148 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,440 time has been teaching about a Kingdom, a coming Kingdom, 149 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,120 saying that he's the king. He tells his followers, here's 150 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,760 how I would like you to act in my Kingdom. 151 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,360 He's been preaching and teaching for the past three years. 152 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,360 Jesus claims to be a king, but exactly what kind of king is he? 153 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,080 What does his Kingdom look like? The triumphal entry is him 154 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,760 putting to practice everything that he's preached the past 155 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:38,760 three years. All those miracles that people 156 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,280 witnessed, all those parables that they heard, all those 157 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,480 teachings on the mount. Jesus is actually living it at 158 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:50,240 the triumphal entry. So this morning as we study the 159 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,840 triumphal entry, I want you to think about this. 160 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,400 The triumphal entry displays the upside down nature of the 161 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,800 Kingdom of God. It's completely different from 162 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,520 any man made Kingdom or empire of of the past or the present. 163 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,640 Jesus Kingdom is different and he's a different king. 164 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,320 He's a humble king. He's a humble king. 165 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,320 So where are we going on our sermon? 166 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,200 I got 3 points for you with one meditation at the end. 167 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,840 Point #1 is going to be the nature of the Kingdom, .2 is the 168 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:30,040 reaction of the people, and then .3 the glory of the cross. 169 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,360 And then we'll meditate on what Passion Week represents at the 170 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,440 end. So here we go, point #1 the 171 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,320 nature of the Kingdom. Picking up in verse 12 of John 172 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,520 chapter 12, it reads the next day the large crowd that had 173 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,320 come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 174 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,520 So they took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet 175 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:56,080 him, crying out Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of 176 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,280 the Lord, even the king of Israel. 177 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,600 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it just as it is 178 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,160 written. Fear not, daughter of Zion, 179 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:09,560 behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's cult. 180 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,720 We'll stop there. What's happening here? 181 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,800 Jesus has arrived at Jerusalem to a triumph. 182 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,040 That's an actual word, triumph. This isn't just an adjective, 183 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,480 it's an it's a noun. It's a thing, a triumph. 184 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,280 Up to this point, his ministry has been deliberately cryptic 185 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,480 and oriented toward the surrounding regions of 186 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,760 Jerusalem. But here, in the triumphal 187 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,640 entry, his ministry is no longer secret. 188 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,520 As he rides the back of a donkey, the crowds press in on 189 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,240 him and they hail him as the king of Israel. 190 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,400 What is a triumph? Let's put this in context. 191 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,000 What is happening here? Well, historically, here's what 192 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,360 a triumph was. It was a victory celebration for 193 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:57,920 a conquest. A returning king or a military 194 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,840 general would hold a parade, a conquest parade as they returned 195 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,400 from the battlefield back into the the empire, back into the 196 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,040 heart of the nation. They would return with the 197 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,000 spoils of war. They were to turn with the 198 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,400 spoils of war. The conquering king or general 199 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,080 would have captives in tow, all the booty and the bounty that 200 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,880 they got from the, the, the, the nation that they subjugated. 201 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,240 And this was intended to galvanized the people to 202 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,040 galvanized the people and the nation. 203 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:33,360 With that backdrop, what we see here, Jesus, his triumphal 204 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:38,440 entry, is strikingly different. If this is a triumph, 205 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,000 historically, this is a pretty bad triumph. 206 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,560 The people are waving palm branches. 207 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:49,400 There's no military around. There is no captives following 208 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,280 Jesus. There's no treasure or bounty. 209 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:56,120 He's on a donkey. He this is not a historical 210 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,600 triumph. So what's surprising is Jesus 211 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:04,520 rides a donkey into Jerusalem. Jesus, do you know how triumphs 212 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:09,160 are supposed to work? Man, this is not a good military 213 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,400 strategy if you're trying to galvanized the people about who 214 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,200 you are and what you're doing. If you're going public with your 215 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,920 ministry that you're a king, why are you riding a donkey? 216 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,960 You should be on a War Horse, a chariot. 217 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,440 Your Calvary should be behind you with the heads of your 218 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,440 enemies. This isn't a power move in to 219 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,000 say the least. You will not find this strategy 220 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,920 in Alexander the Great's repertoire. 221 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,560 The greatest military genius the Western world has ever seen. 222 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:46,880 What he would do was subjugate, consolidate, and then dominate 223 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,680 and continue the trend. That's how he conquered the 224 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:53,000 known world at the time. You will not find the strategy 225 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,480 in the Art of War. You will not find the strategy 226 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:01,520 in the Art of the Deal. You will not find this strategy 227 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:06,560 about Jesus humbly riding a donkey into Jerusalem to 228 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:09,680 galvanized the people. Where's the pageantry in the 229 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,440 pomp? And you guys think a couple 230 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,400 weeks back we had to the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, 231 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,600 right? And I think just a couple weeks 232 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,800 ago as well, we had the, it was at the Oscars, the red carpet, 233 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,960 all the pomp and the pageantry. That's how you throw a party, 234 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,560 Jesus like that. Where is your red carpet? 235 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:30,720 Where is your opening and closing ceremonies? 236 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,800 Where is your captives? Where's the spoils of war? 237 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,600 Jesus riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey to the 238 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,520 praises of nobodies, to the praises of the poor, the people 239 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:45,600 who saw him raised Lazarus from the dead, the people that Jesus 240 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,520 chose to hang out with. This is an unorthodox triumph, 241 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,320 to say the least. Now what I want to focus on real 242 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,160 quick is what the crowds were shouting. 243 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:01,400 What exactly were they saying? The anticipation and and 244 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,840 excitement of the crowd, it's palpable. 245 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,200 It's getting out of hand to the point where the religious 246 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,520 leaders are getting worried. We got to stop this. 247 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,680 These people are crying out so loud and what they're doing, 248 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,920 what they're crying out, they're actually quoting from the halal. 249 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,320 What is the halal? It's a song book in the Psalms 250 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,440 beginning with Psalm 118. Halal. 251 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,360 Halal means praise, praise. So it's a song book. 252 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:29,880 It's a song book of praise from the Psalms. 253 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,760 You think about what the word Hallelujah means halal praise 254 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,320 Yah at the end means Yahweh, praise Yahweh. 255 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,840 That's all Hallelujah means halal, the halal. 256 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,400 It's a Jewish liturgical song book of praise. 257 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,120 So in the in the same way that our worship team was lifting up 258 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,720 praises to God, songs that you guys already know like the back 259 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,600 of your hand, the halal to the Jew of the day. 260 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,040 These are songs they know that they would sing on their way to 261 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:59,720 temple. Psalm 118 is where the crowd is 262 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,720 drawing these statements from. They're crying out Hosanna, 263 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,320 Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the 264 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,560 name of the Lord. This is Psalm 118, verse 25 265 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:13,040 through 26. Psalm 118 over time began to be 266 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:18,120 a messianic affirmation. The Jew would lift up praise to 267 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,600 God for the expected Messiah, the expected king to come. 268 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,840 And Psalm 118, blessed is the one who comes in the name of the 269 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,120 Lord talks about this one divine person who would come and bear 270 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,560 the name of Yahweh by the Jews, quoting that from the halal 271 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:41,560 Psalm 118, they are saying this guy, this Jesus, he is that 272 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,880 Messianic figure. He is that one. 273 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,280 We believe He's the one that bears the name of Yahweh. 274 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,880 Now it's interesting because what John records in John 275 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:56,120 chapter 12 is that a line that's added, It's actually not in 276 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,720 Psalm 118, and it's the very end of what the crowd shouts. 277 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:02,640 They say Hosanna, hosanna, Hosanna. 278 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:07,040 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, yes, even the 279 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,400 king of Israel, the king of Israel. 280 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:18,119 This is not in Psalm 118. This is an addition that the 281 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,560 crowd is shouting because they recognize what who Jesus is, 282 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,200 what he's done. Nobody can raise the dead a 283 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,240 chapter before without God being with him. 284 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,520 Nobody can do this without him bearing the name of the of 285 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,600 Yahweh. So it's interesting that the 286 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,320 Jews, they proclaim him as king of Israel. 287 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,120 And guess what? Jesus does not tell them to 288 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:43,800 stop. He continues writing. 289 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,600 He says, yeah. Elsewhere in the Gospels, a 290 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:51,360 different gospel, the Pharisees get upset at this phrase and 291 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:54,840 they tell Jesus, Jesus, tell your followers to stop saying 292 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,800 that you're the king of Israel. And what does he tell them? 293 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,960 He responds with, even if I were to tell these to be quiet, the 294 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,520 stones would cry out who I am. He's the messianic king. 295 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:10,080 So Psalm 118 by the Jews reciting this Psalm, this 296 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,920 Hallel, they're making an affirmation that Jesus, we know 297 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,760 who you are. You are the messianic king, 298 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:20,080 You're the promised one. They recognize who he is, yet 299 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:24,640 still begs the question, what exactly was the Messiah supposed 300 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,880 to do? Who was this King's supposed to 301 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,600 be? Well, Jesus responds. 302 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,160 John responds. Rather, he writes this phrase 303 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:40,160 just as it is written, just as it is written Previously, I 304 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,280 asked you guys to turn to Zechariah Chapter 9, so we'll 305 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:48,480 turn there right now. Zechariah Chapter 9 starting in 306 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:56,120 verse 9. This verse that John quotes just 307 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:58,520 as it is written is from Zechariah Chapter 9. 308 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,160 And here's how Zechariah Chapter 9 verse 9 reads. 309 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,560 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout aloud. 310 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:13,280 O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is coming to you 311 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,680 righteous and having salvation. Is he humble and mounted on a 312 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,960 donkey, on a cult the full of a donkey? 313 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:26,440 We'll stop there for now. John sees what's happening and 314 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,480 he, as the author says, do you know what's happening? 315 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,280 Let's go back to Zechariah Chapter 9, the Old Testament. 316 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,120 Through the prophet Zechariah, God prophecies of Israel's 317 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:39,480 coming Messiah. He states that this future king 318 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,160 would arrive in righteousness and bring salvation to Israel. 319 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:49,520 This promised one would come in humility, demonstrated by riding 320 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,400 a lowly donkey. And here's the interesting thing 321 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,680 about the donkey. It's not even a mature, full 322 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,600 grown adult donkey. It's a cult. 323 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,440 It's a cult. It's unbroken. 324 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,040 It's never even seen the workforce. 325 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:10,880 Yet Jesus rides a baby donkey a little Burrow into Jerusalem in 326 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,040 a triumph. This is so upside down. 327 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,480 This is so unorthodox. Interesting thing, Zechariah was 328 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,960 written and prophesied 500 years prior. 329 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:27,360 We date Zechariah to around 8 BC, 500 to 400. 330 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,320 Around 500 years prior, John sees fulfilment. 331 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,600 He, the Bible student that he is, he sees fulfilment and 332 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,400 what's happening, the scene, Oh my gosh, the light, the light 333 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,200 bulb goes off. He's riding a donkey just like 334 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,480 Zechariah prophesied. He is the messianic king. 335 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:49,520 Jesus responds to the people hailing him as king by 336 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,680 fulfilling scripture. And isn't it interesting, All 337 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,880 throughout Jesus ministry he has a knack for doing this. 338 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,520 He keeps saying over and over and over again, permitted to be 339 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,200 so, so that scripture is fulfilled. 340 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:01,120 Scripture is fulfilled. I'm fulfilling scripture. 341 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,160 I'm completely obedient to the Father. 342 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,360 I'm completely obedient to the Father. 343 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,800 The scriptures, you search for the scriptures because you think 344 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,000 that in them you have life, but it's they that testify of me. 345 00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:12,520 I'm going to fulfill the scriptures. 346 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,720 Here's a beautiful thing about Jesus riding a donkey. 347 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,040 In the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Jesus 348 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,720 favorite title is the Son of Man. 349 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,080 John's a little bit different. In his book, he calls him the 350 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,520 Son of God, right? Because we're painting Jesus as 351 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,360 deity. He's different. 352 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,240 But in Matthew, Mark and Luke, his favorite title for himself 353 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,720 is the Son of Man. The Son of Man title finds roots 354 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,640 from Daniel Chapter 7. Daniel Chapter 7 where God 355 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,800 seated on his throne, it says the Ancient of Days, God seated 356 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:52,600 on his throne and one like the Son of Man arise before the 357 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:57,080 Ancient of Days, rise before Yahweh to receive a Kingdom, the 358 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,600 Kingdom that will have no end. He's the king. 359 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,720 Here's the interesting thing. Ready the Son of Man in Daniel 360 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,920 Chapter 7, he's riding a cloud. He's the cloud rider. 361 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:12,480 And there's a theme in the Old Testament that the Son of Man is 362 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,560 the one who rides the clouds. He created the heavens and the 363 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,080 earth. He rides the clouds to receive 364 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,960 his Kingdom. But here in John chapter 12, 365 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:29,480 Jesus rides a donkey, an unbroken young little Burrow 366 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,320 condescending to humanity. The Son of Man, the Son of God, 367 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:41,840 condescends in humility to humanity, rides a worker's 368 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,600 vehicle in order to go to the cross and die. 369 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,200 Jesus, the Son of Man, condescends in humility for us. 370 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,800 Zechariah continues in verse 10 to tell us what that Kingdom 371 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,040 would be like. Ready. 372 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,640 Let's read it. Zechariah Chapter 9, verse 10. 373 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,960 God writes through the prophet Zechariah, I will cut off the 374 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,520 chariot from Ephraim and the War Horse from Jerusalem, and the 375 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,360 battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the 376 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:17,720 nations. His rule shall be from sea to 377 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,560 sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. 378 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,240 Zechariah continues his prophecy by announcing what the Messiah's 379 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,600 Kingdom was going to look like, what it would be like. 380 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,320 It's going to be full of peace and extend far beyond the 381 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,040 borders of Israel. It will be a worldwide Kingdom 382 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,120 with no end. My friends with Zechariah, 383 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,800 prophesied, with Jesus embodied in riding a donkey in his 384 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,360 triumph, is that the future Kingdom will not be established 385 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:54,200 by force. The future Kingdom will not be 386 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,680 established through power, not through military prowess, not 387 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,840 through persuasion. The future Kingdom will not be 388 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,720 established by force. It's going to going to be 389 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:08,680 established through humility. God says I'm going to cut off 390 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,880 the chariot. I'm going to cut off the War 391 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,120 Horse, the bow and arrow. I'm going to establish my 392 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,600 Kingdom without doing any of that. 393 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:17,920 Well, Lord, how are you going to do that? 394 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,320 The future King's going to establish his Kingdom through 395 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:30,680 peace and how it says he will speak, He will speak peace to 396 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:35,200 the nations. This is why at the end of 397 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,080 Scripture, when the Lord triumphantly returns, when Jesus 398 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,560 the divine warrior, the king triumphantly returns to 399 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,640 slaughter his enemies, John writes the imagery that the 400 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,480 sword that he bears, guess where it's at? 401 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,760 It's not on, it's not on his hilt, it's not in his hand, it's 402 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,880 in his mouth. It's in his mouth. 403 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,880 Jesus speaks and he brings peace. 404 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,360 He speaks and people are transformed. 405 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,680 And what exactly has he been speaking about these past three 406 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,680 years? The Gospel. 407 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,720 Me. Repent and believe in me. 408 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,320 Repent and believe in me. Jesus will establish His Kingdom 409 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:23,600 not through force, but through the transformed lives of those 410 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,960 who believe in Him. This is different than any other 411 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,480 Kingdom, than any other triumph that these people have ever 412 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,040 seen. It's upside down. 413 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,680 So how did the people respond? What's their take away from it? 414 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,480 Well, let's study that. Let's pick up John chapter 12, 415 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:47,280 verse 16. His disciples did not understand 416 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,320 these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they 417 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,000 remember that these things had been written about Him and had 418 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,720 been done to Him. The crowd that had been with him 419 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,720 when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the 420 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,560 dead continued to bear witness. The reason why the crowd went to 421 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,840 meet him was that they heard He had done this sign. 422 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,840 So the Pharisees said to one another, You see that you were 423 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,480 gaining nothing. Look, the whole world is going 424 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,280 after him. Jesus ministry is now public, 425 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,960 the triumphal entry. It evokes a response from 426 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,480 everybody present and the reactions of those present. 427 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:30,160 It ranges from excitement and expectation to confusion to 428 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,920 frustration. Now what I want to do the with 429 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,800 the remainder of our time is put ourselves in the crowd. 430 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,800 If we were there 2000 years ago watching this event happened, 431 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,880 this triumphal entry happen, what would we say about what's 432 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:51,600 going on? Who do you see Jesus as in the 433 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,960 crowd? Well, let's look at a couple 434 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,040 responses from all those who were present. 435 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,360 The first response, the expectation of the crowd, the 436 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:03,120 crowd, remember, what they're shouting is hosanna. 437 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,520 Hosanna. We just sang it earlier. 438 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,600 Hosanna in the highest. That's actually a Hebrew term. 439 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:17,080 And here's all that Hosanna means save, save now, save now. 440 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:21,800 The Hebrew term hosanna means save now. 441 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,080 Here's the expectation of the crowd as Jesus comes riding into 442 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:33,680 Jerusalem in a triumph. Jesus, Hosanna, save right now, 443 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,280 here and now. Do it. 444 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,600 Jesus, I just saw you raise the dead. 445 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,320 Lazarus is right there. I saw you. 446 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,880 You have power. You fed 5000 people. 447 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,640 You walked on water. You have power. 448 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,320 You're able to do these magical things. 449 00:27:55,320 --> 00:28:00,120 Nobody can stop you. Hosanna, Lord, save right now. 450 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,280 You raise the dead. Surely you can free Israel. 451 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,520 Here's their expectation. They're thinking in physical 452 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:15,920 terms. Jesus, free us from Roman 453 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:22,800 occupation and Roman captivity. Save our land, make us great. 454 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,840 Save our economy. Lower the gas prices. 455 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:35,880 Lord, overthrow the government. Overthrow the government. 456 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,360 Jesus, What I want you to do right now is take this little 457 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,440 Bordeaux that you're writing. Don't get off. 458 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,760 I need you to ride straight into the heart of the Roman Empire, 459 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,400 right up to Caesar's doorstep. And I need you to overthrow him 460 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,080 right now. Hosanna save right now. 461 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,240 You see, the crowd has misunderstood his vocation. 462 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,400 You understand who he is, his identity, He's the king, but 463 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,600 they've misunderstood what that king would do. 464 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,160 And how do we know these people in the crowd have unmet 465 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,320 expectations? Because this is the very same 466 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,040 crowd who three days later would he be yelling crucify him, 467 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,120 crucify him, crucify him, crucify him? 468 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,040 What was the trigger? Well, he didn't liberate us 469 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,960 right then and there. You think there's got to be 470 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,000 trigger for these people to change so quickly in a matter of 471 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:36,440 two to three days from Hosanna save right now to kill him. 472 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,800 He's a fake because of unmet expectations. 473 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,280 Who this king would be my friends. 474 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,880 You see, Jesus mission was not just to overcome Rome, but to 475 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,400 overcome the world. To overcome the world And how? 476 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,000 Remember, what did Zechariah say? 477 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:58,960 How is he going to overcome the world? 478 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,560 Not through force, not through military prowess, not through 479 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,400 domination. How is he going to overcome the 480 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,280 world? Are you ready? 481 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:16,480 By dying to it and dying for it? The humble king is going to die 482 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:22,040 in a matter of days. Now us who choose to follow 483 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:27,360 Jesus, the way of this humble king, my friends, we must die to 484 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,280 the world as well, just like Jesus. 485 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,720 Did you see the triumphal entry is not just salvation for us, 486 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:39,680 but it's it's an example. A good friend once told me a 487 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,120 mentor that's ministries tend tend to pattern themselves after 488 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:49,160 their leader. And in the same way a Kingdom, 489 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,280 the people of the kingship tend to pattern themselves after the 490 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,520 king. Jesus is not just fulfilling 491 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,360 prophecy, not just fulfilling scripture. 492 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,080 He's providing an example for us who believe, who follow the way 493 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,480 of Jesus. So here's some questions. 494 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,240 What does it look like to die to the world? 495 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,200 Well, maybe in the context of your relationships. 496 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,280 Here's what it looks like to die to the world. 497 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:14,840 Let's ask ourselves some questions. 498 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:21,560 In your relationships, are you the are you the one who always 499 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:28,760 needs to get the final word in? In your disagreements, are we 500 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,600 the ones who always need to be right? 501 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:41,840 Are we the first ones to say how could you, but the last ones to 502 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:49,120 say I'm sorry, do we find ourselves, our postures saying 503 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,960 Lord give them what they deserve more than Lord forgive them. 504 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:55,880 They don't know what they're doing. 505 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,760 Friends in these relationships, in these moments, envision 506 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,320 Jesus, the humble King, the Son of God, the King of all 507 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,520 creation, humbly writing to Jerusalem to die for these 508 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,880 people that would days later to be shouting and crucify him. 509 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,760 It doesn't deter him, crucify him. 510 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,120 What I want you to see in the triumphal entry, the the angle 511 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:26,560 we're taking is the humility of King Jesus and how we are to be 512 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,400 humble as well. Our posture toward the world, 513 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,320 toward non believers, toward people who are acting ungodly is 514 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,280 to be. Yeah, that's exactly what I 515 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:37,960 expect because they don't know any better. 516 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,120 But I want to be humble with them. 517 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,360 I want to call them to Jesus instead of getting angry. 518 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,760 The crowd has unmet expectations about who Jesus is. 519 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,480 Overthrow Rome right now, Jesus says. 520 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:57,600 My friends, my people, the enemies that you're fighting are 521 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,160 so much darker than you think. It's not just Rome. 522 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,400 There's something going on inside of you that I have to 523 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,760 take care of first. The second group of people 524 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,640 present that day were the disciples. 525 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,400 Confused. The disciples are absolutely 526 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:21,440 confused at the sight and I'm curious question I asked myself 527 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,080 of this text. I I wonder where the disciples 528 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,280 were standing during all this, watching this unfold. 529 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,920 Were they dispersed throughout the crowd or were they 530 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,480 sheepishly following his little berto? 531 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,480 Were they embarrassed at the sight? 532 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,840 Shoot. I spent three years with this 533 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,480 guy. This is it. 534 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,880 We, we don't know what the disciples were doing in the 535 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,440 text, but we do know how they felt. 536 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,960 They were confused. John says John is one of them. 537 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,960 He's one of the disciples, so he knows he's an authority. 538 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,560 He says, yeah, I mean, me and the other eleven were like, I 539 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,600 don't know what's going on. Imagine them. 540 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,400 They left their lives to follow this guy. 541 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,360 He promised the Kingdom, and this is it. 542 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,679 We know that the confusion was at least bad enough to make one 543 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:27,960 of them Judas defect to where? Judas, seeing the site, says, 544 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:34,840 all right, I'm out, I'm out. This isn't what I signed up for. 545 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,920 I thought he would provide us wealth. 546 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,159 I thought he would make our nation great. 547 00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:47,280 I thought he would save us here and now. 548 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,080 This is the catalyst for days later Judas betraying him. 549 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,320 Have you ever felt this way in your Christian life? 550 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:02,480 This isn't what I signed up for. Sometimes we can be confused and 551 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,520 have unmet expectations by thinking about what Christianity 552 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:10,360 is that when we come to Jesus, life gets so much easier. 553 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,640 My friends, that's not true. Life in in a way gets harder 554 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,400 because the closer you get to Jesus, the more you see your 555 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,920 sin, the more you want to change it, but life gets harder. 556 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,440 It's totally worth it, but there will be hardship and that's why 557 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:33,160 Jesus says those who persevere. Blessed are those who are not 558 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:37,280 offended by me, Matthew 11, who persevere to the end. 559 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,520 You're going to make it, but if you're honest with yourself, 560 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,080 sometimes you share the confusion of the disciples. 561 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,400 Lord, what are you doing? You said I wouldn't get sick. 562 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,120 You said that you provide for me. 563 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,200 You said that I'd get this promotion. 564 00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:57,000 You said that my loved one wouldn't die. 565 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,160 What are you doing? Be honest with yourself. 566 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,520 Your Christian experience can feel like that. 567 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:11,160 The third party present at the triumphal entry was the 568 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,520 religious, religious leaders. And they are absolutely 569 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,280 frustrated and opposed by what? The site, at the site, they're 570 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,680 enraged. They say, look, see that you 571 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,280 guys are getting nothing, gaining nothing. 572 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,360 They're fighting amongst themselves, saying we need to 573 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,680 stop this guy. Look, the whole world is going 574 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,080 after him. They were enraged. 575 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,520 This is how they felt. This upstart son of a Carpenter 576 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,160 born of adultery. We don't even know where his dad 577 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,360 is from. The poorest region of Galilee, 578 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:47,480 San Bernardino, Porsto. He's got no formal theological 579 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:52,040 training. He doesn't even look nice. 580 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,480 There's nothing glamorous about this guy. 581 00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,120 He's riding a donkey and being hailed as the king of Israel. 582 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,920 Jesus is not what they had envisioned in a king. 583 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:09,520 In these past couple of years, you guys as a church have been 584 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,560 studying First and Second Samuel. 585 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,520 Do you remember when Israel asked for a king, King Saul? 586 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,280 What did they want? Somebody head and shoulders 587 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,520 above the rest, long flowing hair, a mane, somebody who would 588 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:32,320 ride into battle for us. Jesus is not that man looks at 589 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,040 the outward, but God looks at the heart. 590 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,720 These religious leaders wanted somebody different and not this 591 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,680 guy. They're getting afraid because 592 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,160 the anticipation, the excitement swelling, they're afraid that 593 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,040 it's going to get so big, so out of hand that Rome is going to 594 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,520 come kill them all. We got to silence this guy. 595 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:58,760 Can we be like the religious leaders sometimes missing the 596 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,040 vision of Jesus? I think we can be. 597 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,640 I know I can. The temptation is to supplant 598 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:13,360 the mission of Jesus with their own expectations or our own 599 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,200 preferences instead of conforming our expectations to 600 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:23,760 his of who we're called to be. Maybe it looks like this. 601 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,000 I don't like that worship song that they played this morning. 602 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,440 It was a little bit off key. How this song again? 603 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:39,200 It's too dark in here. Yeah, this. 604 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,920 The spirit was not moving there today. 605 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,480 That guy on stage, he's wearing jeans. 606 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,440 Can you believe they have women on stage? 607 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,760 I can't believe that guy is using the ESV Bible, not the 608 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:57,920 KJV. Chris doesn't sing like Pastor 609 00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:58,760 Casey. I'm out. 610 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,200 Pastor Casey doesn't teach like Chris. 611 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:08,680 Go deeper, man. It's a subtle temptation in all 612 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,840 of you, all of us. We can be like the religious 613 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:16,400 leader sometimes, my friends. Our vision of Jesus must be 614 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,920 shaped by how he envisioned himself. 615 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,720 He saw himself as the one whom Old Testament prophecies pointed 616 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:29,320 to, the one who would carry God's plan of redemption forward 617 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,520 for all of humanity into a brand new age. 618 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,000 That's what we're celebrating during Passion Week, that the 619 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:43,960 age of sin and death is over and the age of righteousness in life 620 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,440 has come. And it's going to be through 621 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,120 this humble King Jesus, who's going to a cross to die for 622 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,840 these people who with three days later shout, crucify him. 623 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,600 Let's finish our text, John chapter 12, verse 20. 624 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,360 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some 625 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,680 Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was 626 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:11,360 from Bethsaidah in Galilee and asked him, Sir, we wish to see 627 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,120 Jesus. Philip went and told Andrew. 628 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:18,240 Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus, and Jesus answered them. 629 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,720 The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 630 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,440 It's no coincidence that the events of Passion Week took 631 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,280 place during the feast of Passover. 632 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,200 Historically, scholars believe there's millions of people here 633 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,640 at Jerusalem. Jesus fame has now reached 634 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,840 beyond the borders of Israel where some non Jews, some Greeks 635 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:46,640 are seeking Jesus for the first time, Gentiles have sought to 636 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,240 seek Jesus. This is the very moment. 637 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,960 This moment becomes the crux of God's plan of redemption. 638 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,760 And this is a beautiful thing in the text. 639 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,320 Jesus, his whole life, his whole ministry has been on a divine 640 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,680 timeline. Nothing's wasted, nothing's 641 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,200 accidental. Remember, one of his favorite 642 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,720 phrases is permitted to be so, to fulfill all righteousness. 643 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,240 Fulfill all righteousness. You ever notice how the 644 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:16,280 Pharisees, the religious leaders, Rome, the centurions, 645 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,320 nobody could ever catch him. He always managed to slip out of 646 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:27,200 their grasp like a ghost. How theologian John MacArthur 647 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,320 used to say that this is an overlooked miracle. 648 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:36,400 An overlooked miracle that an entire empire and the religious 649 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,080 leaders couldn't lay a finger on him. 650 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,560 It's just one dude. Just arrest him. 651 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,680 Why can't you grab him? Because it wasn't his time. 652 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,600 You can't. He's been on the divine timeline 653 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,760 his whole life. You remember the wedding at Cana 654 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,600 John Chapter 2 when they ran out of wine. 655 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,000 Mary Jesus mother tells the disciples, whatever he says to 656 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,080 you, do it. She complaints to him. 657 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,360 Jesus, Jesus, Oh my gosh, they ran out of wine. 658 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:05,680 The hospitality table isn't set up. 659 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,800 They ran out of wine. His response to her is mom 660 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:17,760 woman, my time has not yet come. My time is not yet come. 661 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,280 The hour is not here. This whole time, this whole 662 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:25,880 ministry, the hour, the time is always a future event until this 663 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:32,840 very moment when he says, all right, the hour's here, the time 664 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:37,720 is here and what is the trigger for the hour to be here? 665 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,960 Here's the beauty of the text that Gentiles, non Jews have 666 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,840 come seeking Jesus. That's you and me. 667 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,720 The very fact that his fame has spread outside of Israel and 668 00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:56,880 people are being drawn to him by the Father. 669 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,920 Jesus sees the time and he says all right, it's time. 670 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:04,160 Now is the time for the Son of Man to be glorified. 671 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,560 The rest of Passion Week is about the inauguration of this 672 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,640 Kingdom and the coronation of the King. 673 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,960 The shepherd, he says, has sheep who are not of this fold. 674 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,800 And they hear my voice and they will come to me. 675 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,080 You who believe in Jesus, how did you come here? 676 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,640 What keeps you here? I have friends, people that I 677 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,360 grew up with that Casey talks about. 678 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,680 When I met Pastor Casey when I was 15, there was a band of us. 679 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:41,760 There's a bunch of us who Casey knew I'm I am one of a handful 680 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:46,360 who stayed and it saddens me. It hurts me to hear, to see my 681 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:51,800 friends walk away. Why do you, the sheep keep 682 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,600 following Jesus the shepherd? Because the sheep hear his voice 683 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,880 and they know him. He called you to himself. 684 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:02,280 You and I are drawn to him by the Father. 685 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,520 The rest of Passion Week is about the inauguration of this 686 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:12,720 Kingdom. And as you and I invite the 687 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:18,320 worship team to come up, here's a meditation for us about 688 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:25,280 Passion Week. The Kingdom is here. 689 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,080 The Kingdom is here. The triumphal entry sets the 690 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,200 stage for the rest of Passion Week. 691 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,200 It's the announcement that the Kingdom is here and Jesus, the 692 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,480 humble King, is going to establish a Kingdom that will 693 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,200 never end and it will be done through peace. 694 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,200 The Kingdom was not established through power or force. 695 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,760 It's established through death and resurrection. 696 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:57,080 You see what the triumphal entry reveals is that the enemy is 697 00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:01,560 much darker than you. And I can see the crowd wanted 698 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,400 Jesus to liberate them physically from Roman 699 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,840 occupation. Jesus says you are in captivity, 700 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,680 but a much darker and more sinister captivity than you 701 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,880 think. It's not about people, it's 702 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,680 about your heart. It's about your heart. 703 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:21,480 Here's how this Scripture displays that captivity. 704 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,080 What you and I are under, what we need to be liberated from. 705 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,320 We need to be liberated from from evil, from sin, from death, 706 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:36,480 from divine and human evil. Listen to Paul the Apostle in 707 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,240 Colossians chapter 2, verses 13 through 15. 708 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:45,120 Paul writes in you that's us who were dead in your trespasses and 709 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,240 sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh. 710 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,800 God made alive together with Jesus, having forgiven our 711 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,720 trespasses by canceling the record of death that stood 712 00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:58,200 against us with its legal demands. 713 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,360 This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 714 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:10,480 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open 715 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:18,240 shame by triumphing over them. Paul's choice of words here 716 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:21,400 triumphing is deliberate. He knows what the triumph is, 717 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:23,920 and he says what the at the cross. 718 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:29,040 Here's what happens. Jesus disarms the rulers and 719 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:33,200 authorities, the powers of darkness that hold you and I 720 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,440 down. You see, there's a problem that 721 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,680 you and I suffer from, and it's the problem of me. 722 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,000 It's the problem of sin, the things that I love to do. 723 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,040 Who is the one instigating that sin? 724 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:56,960 It's powers of darkness who keeps you in fear, who haunts 725 00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:03,000 you with your failures, who causes you to fear death. 726 00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:10,040 The enemy is not people, it's the powers of darkness. 727 00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:15,040 And Jesus disarms them at the cross because what he does is 728 00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:16,320 take me. Instead. 729 00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:23,160 He lets evil have its way with him at the cross, and die is the 730 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,560 death that we deserve, so that you and I would go free. 731 00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:30,040 The author of Hebrews puts it this way. 732 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,040 Since therefore, the children share in flesh and blood, he 733 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:38,920 himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death 734 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:43,720 he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the 735 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:48,800 devil, and deliver all those through fear who through fear of 736 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,760 death were subject to lifelong slavery. 737 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,400 What's the one thing everybody's afraid of? 738 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:04,360 It's death. And Satan, the enemy of your 739 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,720 soul, holds you in captivity through fear of death. 740 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,360 Why do we have sayings like Yolo carpe diem? 741 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,280 You only got one life to live, so I'm going to live it with sin 742 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:24,120 because you're afraid to die. You see, here's the cycle. 743 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:27,040 Sin produces death. Death holds you in captivity, 744 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,120 and it leads to more and more and more sin because you think I 745 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,240 only got one shot to live, so I'm just going to live it up. 746 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:38,360 That's the ploy of the enemy. Jesus at the cross disarms the 747 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,240 devil by conquering death. The one thing that you're afraid 748 00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:44,840 of. So our deepest need is the 749 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:51,200 gospel, and what Passion Week is about is about this Kingdom 750 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,360 being inaugurated. I want you to see this. 751 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,040 The triumphal entry is Jesus's inauguration. 752 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:04,120 His suffering and crown of thorns is his coronation. 753 00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,480 His death on the cross is his exaltation. 754 00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,680 It's his throne where he begins to rule. 755 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,960 His victorious resurrection, which we will celebrate next 756 00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:26,400 week, is his glorification. As I finish, some of you need to 757 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:27,920 hear these words. And I wrote it down for you 758 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:34,000 because it was on my heart. The character of God, his 759 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,600 nature. Scripture says God is love. 760 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:43,920 God is love. It's his default disposition, 761 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,440 love. It's in his nature. 762 00:49:48,240 --> 00:49:52,920 Some of you believe the lie from the enemy, that his default 763 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,320 disposition rather is wrath and judgement. 764 00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,280 It's not true. There's no biblical evidence for 765 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:07,240 that. He does judge sin, but he judges 766 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,760 at the cross in Christ because he is love. 767 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:15,400 His disposition towards you is not wrath and judgement, but 768 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,880 love. Some of you believe the lie that 769 00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:22,160 you think you need to persuade Him to love you with good 770 00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,640 behavior. So you've come to church today. 771 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:30,880 I'm glad you're here, but I want you to hear this, that God's 772 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,400 love, His nature has demonstrated towards you and 773 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:37,280 that He willingly is going to ride a donkey straight to the 774 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:42,200 cross for you. Jesus, the humble King, will 775 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,240 willingly endure the cross for us. 776 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:49,040 Make no mistake, he says, nobody takes my life, nobody murders 777 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,440 me. I lay my life down of my own 778 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,800 accord and for my sheep, that I may take it up again. 779 00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,240 Just as I raise Lazarus, I'm going to raise up myself. 780 00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:05,840 Jesus dies for your fears. He dies for your failures. 781 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,120 He dies for your addictions, the things that you've tried and 782 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,040 tried and tried to break but you cannot. 783 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,800 He nails it to the cross. Colossians says Passion Week 784 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,760 displays his love for us. This is the gospel. 785 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,320 God created you for a loving relationship with him. 786 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:29,440 He is holy, but you and I have sinned against them. 787 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,240 And if you're willing to admit and be honest with yourself, we 788 00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:35,360 can be hypocritical like those religious leaders. 789 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,080 We've failed. Nobody's perfect. 790 00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:42,200 The wages of sin, the wages of our failures is death. 791 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:43,680 There's a curse that we all bear. 792 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,680 The reason why, all of you of me, the reason why we are going 793 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,440 to die is because of the curse of death. 794 00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:53,920 And it's unavoidable. But God in his disposition 795 00:51:53,920 --> 00:52:00,120 towards you in his love, sends Jesus through a triumphal entry 796 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,760 to triumph over the powers of darkness, to triumph over your 797 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:10,440 sin and death, taking your sin upon his back and being nailed 798 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,440 to a cross on your behalf, taking in the curse of death for 799 00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:18,200 you so that you don't have to. This is why he can tell Martha, 800 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,560 your son, your, your brother Lazarus, he will live again. 801 00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,400 For those who believe in Me, though they may die, yet they 802 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,360 will live, for I am the resurrection and the life. 803 00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:34,040 This is the gospel. Jesus lives, dies, rises for us 804 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,360 because we cannot, and he calls for us to believe. 805 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,600 Our vision of Jesus is the humble King produces in us, the 806 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:47,320 people of the Kingdom, the humility and kindness that we 807 00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,760 need toward other people. And it is the kindness of God 808 00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:57,240 that leads people to repentance. I'll finish with this verse 809 00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,840 which encapsulates everything we've talked about here today. 810 00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:03,800 Paul the apostle Philippians chapter 2, verses 5 through 9. 811 00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:10,120 This is a poem about Jesus. Have this mind among yourselves, 812 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,840 which is also yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the 813 00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:17,680 form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be 814 00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:22,320 grasped. But he emptied himself by taking 815 00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:26,800 the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men and 816 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:31,200 being found in human form. He humbled himself by becoming 817 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,040 obedient to the point of death, even the death on the cross. 818 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:42,680 He didn't have to die. He went willingly for you and 819 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,400 for me. And we celebrate that this 820 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:50,200 Passion Week, the life, death, and next week the resurrection 821 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,320 of the King Jesus. We hope you enjoyed this message 822 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,400 and we'd love for you to join us in person every Sunday at 10:30 823 00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,080 AM. For more information and 824 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,280 updates, visit wearebridgetown.com. 825 00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,600 Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you next week.