1 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:10,960 Title of the messages or the stones will cry out. 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,680 I'm not talking about The Rolling Stones or the stones 3 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,800 will cry out in this passage. And on this day, we enter into 4 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:25,720 the holy of Holy Scriptures this morning as we're just days from 5 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:31,400 the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus with Jesus to be crucified 6 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,840 on the Thursday of the coming week due to it being a double 7 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,040 high day. That is a double Sabbath at this 8 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,840 time of the Passover at Christ's death, a double high day. 9 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,360 What is that? It's a double Sabbath. 10 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,080 The Bible refers to that whenever there's an an annual 11 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:53,080 festival and the normal Sabbath, a high holy day, and they fall 12 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:58,080 on the same period as the weekly seven day Sabbath. 13 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,320 This creates what's called a double holy day. 14 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,200 Frequently referenced in the context of the crucifixion is 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,040 why they hurried to have Jesus buried quickly in John 19 verse 16 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,000 31 to explain the timing of the Passover. 17 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:24,320 At the time of Jesus death Jesus lived just 33 years, his active 18 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:29,880 ministry just three years, but the last week of his life. 19 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:36,360 The Gospel of Matthew gives 1/4 of the entire gospel to it, 20 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:44,160 chapters 21 to 28. Mark gives 1/3 of his gospel the 21 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,200 last week of Jesus life, Chapter 11 to 16. 22 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:55,720 Luke gives 1/5 of his gospel chapter 19 to 24, the last week 23 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:01,160 of Jesus life. The apostle John gives over 1/2 24 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,920 of the entire gospel chapter 12 all the way through to 21 on the 25 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,639 last week of Jesus. So there's 89 chapters in the 26 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:17,800 Gospels, 29 1/2 of them, exactly 1/3 recount what happened 27 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,400 between today, Jesus triumphal entry and his resurrection. 28 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:25,760 That's a lot. So let's look at the background 29 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,160 before we read our text. The city of Jerusalem at this 30 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,480 time, it's Passover. It's teeming with people. 31 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:41,000 Probably some 2 million to 2.5 million additional pilgrims have 32 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:45,400 arrived in Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. 33 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:51,400 The amazing event, an account that occurred 1500 years earlier 34 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,560 in Egypt. You remember the death of the 35 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:00,400 first born Jesus is coming. He's he's he's headed from 36 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,400 Caesarea Philippi right up on the border of Lebanon and he's 37 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,200 made his way in Caesarea Philippi. 38 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,320 He said to Peter and said to the disciples who do men say that I 39 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:11,480 am? And they said, well, something, 40 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,000 it is something you that, and then Peter says you're the 41 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,720 Christ, you're the son of the living God. 42 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,560 And from that moment on, Jesus began to tell them of his death 43 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,800 and they headed to Jerusalem, quite a journey from Caesarea 44 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,720 Philippi to the north all the way to Jerusalem. 45 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:35,520 And on the way, he's coming from Bethany now into drew into the 46 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,600 Mount of Olives, the area of Olivet just opposite the mount 47 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,280 of the Temple Mount. And he spends the Sabbath 48 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,440 Saturday at Mary, Martha and Lazarus. 49 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,320 Now the interesting thing is Lazarus, remember, had been dead 50 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,320 just a little while back. Jesus had called him back from 51 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,040 the dead. And his death is not a 52 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,360 resurrection. He was called back from dead 53 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,800 because Lazarus would die again. Jesus resurrection is the only 54 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,440 resurrection because he was raised never to die ever again. 55 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,720 And so here Jesus is the Passover lamb. 56 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:20,839 And at the same time as all this is happening, Jesus is near 57 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:27,160 Bethany and it's just those 22 KS from the Temple Mount to 58 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:35,600 kilometres 260,000 lambs. Over 1/4 of a million lambs have 59 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,040 been herded into the city, into Jerusalem for the sacrifice. 60 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,520 Because every family had to have a lamb. 61 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,440 If you didn't have enough, you need to have 10 of you. 62 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:50,720 Every family had to have their own lamb, had to be selected, 63 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,080 and had to eat and consume that whole lamb together as a family 64 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,720 to celebrate Passover. So it tells you how many people 65 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,480 there were. And so all these lambs are being 66 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:07,240 herded into Jerusalem. And Jesus is now about to 67 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:13,680 choreograph, orchestrate a massive public demonstration as 68 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,680 he offers himself as the king of Israel. 69 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,480 Now at this time, Jesus has a price on his head. 70 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:27,520 They want him dead. If you dobbed in Jesus, told the 71 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,080 religious leaders where he was, you would get a reward so that 72 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:32,560 they can arrest him and kill him. 73 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:39,560 Jesus turns this on its nose and he comes in publicly to this 74 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:46,560 massive crowd. Now, it's no ordinary Sunday. 75 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:52,880 This Sunday, Palm Sunday, the prophet Daniel had predicted 76 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,960 this day. You and I read Psalm 118. 77 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,920 We read the words, this is the day that the Lord has made. 78 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,200 We used to sing that in church. This is the day that Lord has 79 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,880 made. We would go out and rejoice in 80 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,000 it. Well, it's not talking about 81 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,040 just every every day. And yes, God has made every day, 82 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,320 but it's talking specifically about Palm Sunday. 83 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:18,480 This day it was predicted. That's why they're singing it in 84 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:25,800 Psalm 118 as Jesus is riding in Daniel said, and he prophesied 85 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:31,080 from the time from Artaxerxes, King Arxerxes of Persia, Medo 86 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,960 Persia from the decree that he gave to Nehemiah for the 87 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,120 ordering and the rebuilding of the temple, which was in ruins 88 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:45,240 until the coming of the Messiah would be 7 weeks and 62 weeks. 89 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:51,320 Daniel Chapter 9 verse 25. That's 69 weeks in total. 90 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:59,640 The literal translation is 7 sevens and 62 sevens. 7 was a 91 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,560 common designation for a week in Hebrew culture. 92 00:07:04,280 --> 00:07:11,240 But more literally it's 69 * 7 years which is in the old maths 93 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:18,520 483 years to the day to the day. Daniel said from the time that 94 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,680 art exerts, he said Nehemiah go and rebuild the walls of the 95 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:30,360 temple of Jerusalem until Palm Sunday to the day it's 483 years 96 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:38,440 exactly. Jesus is the Messiah, it says in 97 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,360 verse 41 of our text. Luke 19. 98 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,520 Just drop down there. Now as Jesus drew near, he saw 99 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:52,080 the city and he wept over it, saying if you had known even 100 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:58,000 you, especially in this your day, they should have known who 101 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,240 it was, how he was coming, who it is on this day. 102 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,680 Because their Bible that they went to the synagogue and they 103 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,520 read and they studied over and over and over. 104 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,880 All the prophets said He's coming on this day. 105 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,320 They should have known all this is the day he's coming, but they 106 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,440 didn't. Then Jesus said the things that 107 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:26,640 make for your peace, but now they are hidden from your eyes. 108 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:34,880 In Psalm 118, which we read, it says verse 22, the stone which 109 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,000 the builders rejected Jesus is the cornerstone, has become the 110 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,159 chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing. 111 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:48,560 It's marvellous in our eyes. Psalm 100 and 1824. 112 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,720 This is the day the Lord has made. 113 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,880 What are we to do? We will rejoice and be glad in 114 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,360 it. Why the messiahs come finally. 115 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,240 This is why Jesus said on this day, years in the making and 116 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,920 prophesied. If on this day human voices 117 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:16,960 failed to rejoice, Jesus said the stones, the very stones 118 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,400 would cry out their praises and hosannas. 119 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,000 Now each time I go to Israel, I actually happen on the journey 120 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,720 that Jesus took. So I've been a couple of times 121 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,440 and it's these stones, these very stones. 122 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,880 But Jesus would have rode over with his donkey and if the crowd 123 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:43,880 had a kept silent, I wonder what these stones would have blasted 124 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,920 out. The Bible speaks clearly with if 125 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,120 that the world rejoices, the trees clap their hands, the 126 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,440 hills and the valleys, they rejoice. 127 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:58,120 And so these stones, Jesus said, if the crowd is quiet, then the 128 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,880 stones are going to cry because this is the day, this is the 129 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,840 great day. So let's read verse 28. 130 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,720 So Jesus, when he had said this, he went on ahead going up to 131 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,040 Jerusalem and came to pass when he drew near to Beth Phage and 132 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,720 Bethany. It's just as I said, when you're 133 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,280 looking for the Mount of Olives back towards the temple, Beth 134 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,960 Phage and Bethany had just around here crossover the Kidron 135 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:25,920 and you go like one to two, about two kilometres up to the 136 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:30,480 Temple Mount and the mountain called Oliver. 137 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,920 Then that he sent two of his disciples saying go into the 138 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:38,560 village opposite you where as you enter you will find a cult 139 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,040 tied. So there was a mother and a new 140 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:48,240 cult, a mother donkey and a cult tied on which no one has ever 141 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,920 sat this cult. No one has ever ridden this 142 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,880 cult. Loose it, undo it from its 143 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,320 reins. Bring it here. 144 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,320 And if anyone asks you why you're losing it, what are you 145 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,520 doing? You shall say to them all, 146 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:06,120 because the Lord has need of it. So those who were sent went 147 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,840 their way, found it just as Jesus had said to them. 148 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,640 But as thou undoing the, the the reins to loosen the cult, the 149 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,320 owners of it said to them, Hey, why you loosen the cult? 150 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:19,800 And they said, well, the Lord has need of him. 151 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,360 And then they brought him to Jesus, and they threw their own 152 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,160 clothes on the cult. And then Jesus sat on him. 153 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,480 And as he went, many spread their clothes on the road, as 154 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,920 you can see behind me. And then as he was now drawing 155 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:39,080 near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of 156 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,920 the disciples, the old city, the crowd began to rejoice and 157 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,360 praise God. Notice this with a loud voice. 158 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,720 You know, if you ever get the chance to go to Israel, and I 159 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:55,920 still hope we can get to it there in January, you'll hear 160 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,080 when something happens in Israel, they're loud. 161 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:03,280 When families get together and they celebrate Sabbath and when 162 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,280 they begin singing, when they have a wedding, they have a bar 163 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,680 mitzvah and anything like that, it's it's loud. 164 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:11,880 You and I, we've got to get used to something. 165 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,760 When we get to heaven, heaven's going to be loud. 166 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:20,360 Heaven's going to be loud. And so it was cranking. 167 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:26,080 They were really crying out and singing at the top of their 168 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:30,120 lungs. Praise God with a loud voice for 169 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,400 all the mighty works they had seen. 170 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,720 Notice they're praising God for all the things that God had 171 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,440 done. That's why you praise God. 172 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,880 If you praise God, I should ask you, well, why are you praising 173 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,240 God? You shouldn't be able to say I'm 174 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,200 praising God because of what He's done in my life. 175 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,640 He's given me a family, He's given me a wife, given me a 176 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,000 husband. He's been here, He's faithful to 177 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,920 me, He loves me, He's forgiving to me. 178 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,280 That's why you can praise God. There's always a reason why you 179 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,360 praise God, not just well, I think this is what we do before 180 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,800 the bloke starts speaking about something and it says they were 181 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,480 saying blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord, 182 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:13,040 peace in heaven, glory in the highest singing. 183 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,720 The Psalm that we read and some of the Pharisees is that the old 184 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,720 party poopers religious leaders called the Jesus from the crown. 185 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,840 Hey teacher, rebuke your disciples or this is only for 186 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,120 the Messiah. It's funny how you can know the 187 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,720 Bible not know Jesus. You know, there's a lot of 188 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,720 people that know the Bible. I know the Bible, Genesis X and 189 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,160 I know all the people in the Bible, but you know they don't 190 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,760 know God. You know about God, but you 191 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,800 don't know God. The religious leaders were that 192 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:51,520 Jesus answered and said, if I tell you he's pretty savvy on 193 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:57,720 this, if this should keep silent, the stones would 194 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:03,560 immediately cry out. And everyone always says if only 195 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:06,360 they kept silent for just a little bit, see what would 196 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:10,040 happen. So how was all this that 197 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:12,600 happened on Palm Sunday carried out? 198 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:19,560 All things were prepared, planned and in place on this 199 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,600 day. Zechariah, the prophet 200 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:29,480 Zechariah, Chapter 9, verse 9, written 520 years before the 201 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:34,360 birth of Jesus, gave this prophecy, which the Jews knew 202 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,200 of, to identify who the Messiah is. 203 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,920 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. 204 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:45,200 That's Jerusalem. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, 205 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:52,320 behold, your King is coming to you, how he is just having 206 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,040 salvation. Lowly riding on a donkey, a cult 207 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:03,600 the fall of a donkey specific see why it's specific and he 208 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,000 could have just said he'll come, he'll enter. 209 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,280 Now why does the Bible give us all that specific detail? 210 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,040 Because he wants to tell you this is how God worked. 211 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:23,440 God operates in the area of specifics my life, how I live 212 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:29,200 and how long I live. God has down to the dot went on 213 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,600 to to go home. Actually, the Bible says in the 214 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,280 book of Proverbs, he says that every step I make, he plans the 215 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,720 steps of a good man, the Bible says are ordered by the Lord. 216 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,560 So your life, you may think it's well, I'm just bumbling here and 217 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,080 going there. No, no, no, if you're a child of 218 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:55,600 God, God is controlling and directing, ushering, shepherding 219 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,600 off, protecting, and you don't know about it, but he's guiding 220 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,000 every step of your life. I love that because when I think 221 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,320 about our children and our grandchildren, when they go off 222 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,360 to school and you can't watch over them, the Good Shepherd 223 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:14,800 does. The Good Shepherd does 520 years 224 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,560 before the birth of Jesus Christ. 225 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:22,960 Zechariah gives this absolute specific prophecy going to the 226 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,800 village when you enter, you'll find a cult. 227 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,840 Tide, a cult. No one's ridden it loose the 228 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,160 colt, and they ask you why you're losing it. 229 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,680 Tell them the Lord has need of it. 230 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:39,040 Who arranged all this? Didn't just, you know, the guy 231 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,800 didn't just go. Why are you taking this? 232 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,760 Who? Oh, the Lord has need of it. 233 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,720 OK, you know what? You know, we kind of think this 234 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,360 way. It's been arranged by God. 235 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,200 Jesus has gone ahead and arranged all this. 236 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,400 So the first point today there's going to be 4 is Christ's 237 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:07,319 perfect knowledge. Jesus Christ not only a man born 238 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:11,240 in Bethlehem, but he was also God, the Son of God. 239 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,640 Romans Chapter 9 verse 5 says in the new living, Abraham, Isaac 240 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,880 and Jacob are their ancestors, and Christ himself was an 241 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,520 Israelite as far as his human nature is concerned. 242 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:28,119 And he is God as well, the one who rules over everything and is 243 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:29,800 worthy of eternal praise. Amen. 244 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,920 So he's a man, but he's also God, God Incarnate. 245 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,360 The thought of Jesus Christ, perfect knowledge, should alarm 246 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,960 all sinners, all those who don't know Jesus. 247 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:48,560 And the thought that Jesus Christ knows everything should 248 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,760 alarm every Sinner. Why is that? 249 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:57,480 That Christ is omniscient. All knowing should wake every 250 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,480 Sinner and turn them to repentance. 251 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,600 Why? If someone knows all about you, 252 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,720 isn't that a bit wow? They know everything, absolutely 253 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:12,080 everything about you. It tells us that the Holy God, 254 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:17,640 God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, knows every minute 255 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,480 detail about every part of my life and your life. 256 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:25,840 He knows, He knows every, he knows what you're thinking now. 257 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,400 He knows what you're going to think in 5 minutes time. 258 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,880 He knows when you're going to stand up before you're going to 259 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,800 stand up, when you're going to sit down before you sit down. 260 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:43,920 In Luke chapter 12 verse 7, it says I've always thought, why is 261 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,160 this in here? It's kind of like it's a bit 262 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:52,800 weird, but even the very hairs of your head doesn't say I 263 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,200 counted as such. It says they're numbered, 264 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,640 numbered. That's like it's another detail. 265 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,840 It's like 123. Some of us help. 266 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,840 We've got four or five others. We have how many? 267 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:15,440 And God is why is that in there? Why does why does the Bible say 268 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:22,320 God knows and has numbered every hair on your head because the 269 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:27,480 next part of that verse says therefore fear not because you 270 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:32,960 are of more value than that of a Sparrow and he throws in the 271 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,240 sparrows. Then what is that? 272 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,200 Remember Pastor John Miller telling me this is just great 273 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,320 little thing and I've always mentioned that Jesus attends the 274 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:48,240 funeral of every Sparrow. God knows whenever and I I never 275 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,640 forget I was coming down one day and I ran over. 276 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,960 Unfortunately one of those water hens that you know, run all over 277 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,760 the place and I hit 1 and I know I've run it over and I get out 278 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,600 of the car, stop, pull over and I got to pick it up, take the 279 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,600 side of the road. I feel like I'm the most evil 280 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,720 person in the world and I take it across and it's laying down. 281 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,720 I can't do I can't do nothing like 2 of that to it, you know. 282 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,200 And then as I'm seeing there, it's eyes went, it's eyes 283 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,840 closed, it died, I felt. This small but in the Bible 284 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,200 tells me that God knew God was there. 285 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,440 You see, God is telling you through this verse, I know 286 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,840 everything, everything about you. 287 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,680 I know everything about everything that every time you 288 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,920 see a little dead bird. Now remember you know who's been 289 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,360 there. Jesus has been there. 290 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,440 He knew that little bird was there. 291 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,640 Jesus attends the death of every Sparrow. 292 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:01,920 Now, if you're a Sinner for all sinners, Jesus knows what He 293 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,600 knows what they've done. Everything is everything you've 294 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,800 done. He knows what they've thought, 295 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:15,800 Every thought, every thought. How often did Jesus answer a 296 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,880 question when the religious leaders were around him and they 297 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,440 haven't even asked it and he's gone. 298 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,480 He was thinking that and they've gone. 299 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:29,040 Who blabbed? Who slips sank ships? 300 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:33,200 Who said, you know, he knows what they thought. 301 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,200 Jesus knows every word that they've said. 302 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,200 Nothing is hidden. Nothing is hidden. 303 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:49,920 God knows everything about us. Jesus Christ, who is coming back 304 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,680 to judge the world in righteousness at His second 305 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:58,800 coming, tells us that heaven contains the records of all that 306 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,320 exists of a person here on earth in full detail. 307 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:09,320 Now we have smartphones, we have AI, and now you can be talking 308 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,960 and or you send an email off about something or you're 309 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,160 talking and all of a sudden you're up on your phone pops an 310 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,960 advert, doesn't it? Oh, here's where here's a good 311 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,440 holiday for you. You go, what? 312 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:23,120 Where's that come from? Or you send an email to someone 313 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:26,960 about something and next an advert comes or a are you 314 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,960 thinking of? Here's a good thing for you to 315 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:35,000 buy. Our smartphones, our laptops, 316 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,560 everything's listening. If you have Alexa, it's 317 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,080 listening. Never does what you tell it to 318 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,480 do. All these things are going on 319 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:47,440 around us. A little Chinaman sitting in 320 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,680 China going, I know what you're doing, He's running everything. 321 00:22:51,880 --> 00:23:04,040 No, sorry, I shouldn't say that, but but God knows everything. 322 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,280 In Revelation 20, verse 12, talking about these books, it 323 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:14,040 says, and I saw this is John, I saw the dead small great stand 324 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:20,000 before God and the books and the books were opened, plural, lots 325 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,040 of books. And another book was open, a 326 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,720 specific book which is the book of life. 327 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:32,280 And the dead were judged out of those things which were written 328 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,480 in the books. Everything's recorded everything 329 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:41,360 according to their works. So when the dead stand before 330 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:43,160 God, there's the great wide throne Judgement. 331 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,080 It's not like I won't. Yeah, no, no. 332 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,760 I have a reason. It's Panorama. 333 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,840 Here you are. This is who you are. 334 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,360 This is what you said on January 21, 1964. 335 00:23:55,560 --> 00:24:01,000 This is what you thought. December 2021. 336 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,920 This is what you did. It's all it's all recorded. 337 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:11,880 That's why it says in Romans chapter 3 that when sinners 338 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,440 stand before God in the judgement day, their mouths will 339 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,480 be closed. You'll have no excuse. 340 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,400 You know your gaps. Just you're done. 341 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,320 It's not a it's not a case. Are you good or bad? 342 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,720 Remember the great white throne judgement is a sentencing. 343 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,040 It's not like, oh, let's see if you can come into heaven or not 344 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,200 according to the works. Matthew 12, verse 36. 345 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:41,920 Jesus says this, but I say unto you, Jesus says, but I say unto 346 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:49,080 you, every idol, I kind of like that word that men shall speak. 347 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:55,760 Every idle word they shall have give account of thereof in the 348 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,520 day of judgement. Every idle word you're by 349 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,640 yourself. Man wish that bloke get off the 350 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:07,680 road. Every idle word, every detail. 351 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,360 You see, the Bible tells us of Christ's perfect knowledge. 352 00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:16,600 That's how Palm Sunday was so beautifully set up and planned. 353 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,920 God knows everything. That's why he said it all up 354 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,960 perfectly, that there is no where we can hide. 355 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:30,440 David wrote Psalm 139 verse 7. Where can I go from your spirit? 356 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,760 Where can you hide from God? Where can I flee from your 357 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,560 presence? These are all questions. 358 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,880 If I ascend into heaven, you're there. 359 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,200 If I make my bed in hell, behold, you're there. 360 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:51,280 It goes on to say Psalm 139. Your eyes saw my substance being 361 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,080 yet unformed. You saw me before I was created 362 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,400 and my heart started beating. Before there was even 1 cell of 363 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,440 me in my mother's womb, you saw me. 364 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:07,520 And in your book it says again. And in your book, Psalm 139, 365 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,000 they were all written. In other words, God knows all 366 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,560 about you before you're born, before a cell. 367 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,920 We have started beating that day. 368 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,120 And in the book, in heaven, everything is written down of 369 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:21,000 what you're going to do, what you're going to say, what you're 370 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:30,440 going to think. Staggering, staggering, the 371 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,040 day's fashion for me. You have written down, whereas 372 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,520 yet there were none of them, but you had them all, all recorded. 373 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,200 When judgement begins during the tribulation period after the 374 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:52,600 rapture of the Church, God knows where everyone is to the 375 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,280 minutest detail. Now it's physically where you 376 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:59,960 are spiritually, what's going on in your heart, and he knows all 377 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:03,360 your emotions. In Revelation chapter 6, when 378 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:06,200 judgement has begun, this is after the church has been 379 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,960 raptured and judgement starts to be poured out upon the earth. 380 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,200 Revelation 615 it says and the kings of the earth, the great 381 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,960 men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, 382 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,720 every slave, every freeman hid themselves in the caves and in 383 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,560 the rocks of the mountains, said to the mountains and rocks fall 384 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,960 on us and hide us. Can't hide what from from the 385 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:34,000 face of him who sits on the throne, From the wrath of the 386 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:36,920 Lamb. That's why the church won't be 387 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,280 in the tribulation period, because the wrath of the Lamb. 388 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,720 Jesus has taken our wrath when He died on the cross for us, but 389 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,240 the judgement during the tribulation period upon those 390 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,960 who rejected Christ falls on them and it comes from God 391 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,400 Himself for the great day of his wrath has come. 392 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,520 Who is able to stand, who is able to stand means you're 393 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,000 guilty. You are guilty. 394 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:08,040 But now to those you and I, we pray, who today called Jesus 395 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:13,240 Christ our Saviour and Lord the omniscience, the all knowing 396 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,400 power of Christ should what not scare us? 397 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,720 It should come for us. How how does this comfort us as 398 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:29,760 a Christian today? One, it means our masters eyes 399 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,400 never off us. I love that I don't know about 400 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,360 you. I've been in several situations 401 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:42,320 in the ocean ocean where I thought I'm going to die and I 402 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,400 literally thought I'm going to drown. 403 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,600 One, we were shipwrecked out in the in the sound and people were 404 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,520 looking for us and there are miles in and we were miles out 405 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,920 and we're sinking. It's getting dark. 406 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,560 I thought we're done. We've been surfing in the 407 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,960 morning and it's spear fishing all afternoon and we got sailing 408 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,320 and the boat sank although we cooked. 409 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,560 It was another time down South surfing and surf. 410 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:14,600 They shouldn't have gone out in and massive set hit me and I 411 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,200 lost my board. It's just torn off me and I 412 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,680 thought I'm going to drown. I am. 413 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,720 I'm struggling here. I'm out in the middle of nowhere 414 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,600 struggling. But you know, the Bible tells me 415 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,920 God is watching over me. The Master's eyes never off me. 416 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,040 He knows where we live. He knows your situation, where 417 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,520 you're at now. He knows our daily trial. 418 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,880 You go off to school and you got a difficult teacher or this 419 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,160 situation, or you got a bully at school or or whatever, or you've 420 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,880 got a difficult boss or you're in a workplace where it's just 421 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,360 so anti God. He knows. 422 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:02,560 He knows who our friends are. He knows our every thought and 423 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:09,400 word before we even think them. He captures beautifully, the 424 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:14,000 Bible says in Psalms, every time you weep and you shed a tear, 425 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,080 the Bible says he captures that tear, puts it in a little 426 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,880 bottle, stores it. He controls. 427 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:29,400 Daniel tells us how every breath, you know, you have no 428 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,360 control over your breath right this moment. 429 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,240 It's an involuntary action. Your lungs are moving. 430 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,000 You're not telling them to do that. 431 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,000 Those people that have to do that have to live, you know, 432 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,800 operate what's called a, it's called an iron lung. 433 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,320 So they could live for you. You're sitting here today. 434 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,800 You're sitting here today living and breathing. 435 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:55,560 By the grace of God, His breath is keeping you alive. 436 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,800 Your heart is beating. You have no control of your 437 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,880 heartbeat and he's just keeping it pumping. 438 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,200 But you know, the beautiful thing is that all of this is in 439 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,680 the hands of my heavenly Father. How good is that? 440 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,880 So that when anything would stop, I know, oh, God says this 441 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,600 time I have nothing. I have No Fear now. 442 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,000 So we can take confidence and courage from this. 443 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,160 And you should know John chapter 10, everyone of you should read 444 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,320 John chapter 10 and make it one of your favourite chapters just 445 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:36,360 like it is mine. Why? 446 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,280 Because it talks about the Good Shepherd. 447 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,840 He knows the sheep. He calls you by name. 448 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,800 He protects you, keeps the wolves away from you. 449 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,480 He'll never have any allow anyone to take you out of his 450 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:57,240 hand. He watches over you, you see, He 451 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,440 knows when you're slandered. He knows when the boss or some 452 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,360 workmate is saying something, or person at school, or a 453 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,880 schoolmate is saying something about you and you know it's not 454 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,880 true, or it's going on a text. Someone sent a text and saying 455 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,840 this about you. Ever had someone lie about you? 456 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,640 He knows when you're misunderstood. 457 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,960 Well, that's not what I meant. I never meant that. 458 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,800 I never meant that. He knows when you're 459 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,880 misunderstood and he knows when you're mocked. 460 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:32,360 I remember being in a workplace and there's certain chap just 461 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,440 screaming at my face. You're one of those born 462 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,360 againers, are you? You're one of those born 463 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,360 againers, are you? All these other men around him. 464 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,440 And he was just like this far away from my face. 465 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,240 I said, yeah, I am actually. And he was shouting at the top 466 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,760 of his voice, making himself like an idiot. 467 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:55,320 I didn't have to do anything. Now none of this matters to you 468 00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:00,000 and I because why? John chapter 21 verse 17 says 469 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,160 when Jesus was with Peter and restoring to Peter, remember 470 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,960 cooking breakfast and it said to Peter, you know Peter, do you 471 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,400 love me Peter, do you love me? And then on the third time, 472 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,760 Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? 473 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,560 And Peter was grieved because twice already. 474 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,440 Now this is the third time he said to him the third time, do 475 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,400 you love me? He said to him, Lord, you know 476 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,840 all things. You know that I love you. 477 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,400 I love that because there are times when you and I are acting 478 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,360 rather foolish, not acting correctly. 479 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,640 You know what, God even knows you still love him. 480 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,920 And when you're not being very loving to someone or very right 481 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,560 before him, he knows you love him. 482 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:55,240 Peter said, Lord, you know all things, you know I love you. 483 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,640 Second point, Jesus came riding into Jerusalem on that fateful 484 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:09,120 day, the first part Sunday, and received adoration and public 485 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,000 praise. And for the first time he 486 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,480 allowed it. The whole city of Jerusalem, the 487 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:21,080 whole multitude of the disciples says in verse 37, they were all 488 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,000 rejoicing around him. They were all praising him and 489 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,280 singing hosanna. Hosanna means save now, save now 490 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,639 son of David. And it was, as I said, loud. 491 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,960 It was loud. Some of you need to move a 492 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:43,320 little bit from your librarian culture make up and you need to 493 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,960 move a tad. And you know, when we sing a 494 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,800 song about lifting your arms, you can go. 495 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:53,040 I ain't lifting my arms. Well, Jesus lifted his arms and 496 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,720 he was crucified for you. I think it's just worth it. 497 00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:59,200 You'll go to the football and you'll go. 498 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:04,200 Oh, go. But Dad, I thought you don't 499 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:12,440 lift your arms. Oh, give him the joy and the 500 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,280 praise. He's, he's Jew. 501 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,560 Let your children see how much you love the Lord. 502 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,160 This day was like no other Jesus 33 years previous. 503 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,360 Previously, Jesus had withdrawn himself from the crowds, hadn't 504 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,200 he purposely? He's usually returned to the 505 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,360 desert place to get away from those he healed. 506 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,080 He said. Now don't tell anyone about the 507 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,640 healing. Be silent. 508 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,680 But today is different. Palm Sunday. 509 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,120 Jesus courts, He encourages and he approves the public 510 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,120 attention. Jesus wants the multitudes to 511 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,840 take notice of his entrance into Jerusalem. 512 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,800 Why? Why? 513 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,800 Good question. The Lamb of God that John the 514 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:00,720 Baptist had declared was coming in to Jerusalem, The Messiah, 515 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,920 the Lamb of God to end all sacrifices. 516 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:09,160 This sacrifice, John sees Jesus coming unto him, John 129 and 517 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:13,640 said, behold the Lamb of God who has come to take away the sins 518 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:19,960 of the world. Now on Palm Sunday, it's the 519 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:24,080 10th of Nissan, not Nissan the car, but Nissan the Hebrew 520 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:27,640 month. It's the 10th of Nissan. 521 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,840 Now on the 10th of Nissan, if you go back and read Exodus 12, 522 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:37,080 chapter 12, on the 10th of Nissan, the lamb that was to be 523 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,680 inspect that that was to be eaten and killed for the 524 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:44,960 Passover was inspected. And it was inspected for four 525 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:51,760 days leading up to the 14th of Nissan, which was Thursday, the 526 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:56,800 day of sacrifice. Jesus rides in on the 10th of 527 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,760 Nissan, according to Exodus Palm Sunday. 528 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,280 He's going to be crucified on the 14th. 529 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,800 You see, the Lamb of God was about to be slain. 530 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:11,760 Jesus rides in and what he's doing, he says, here I am. 531 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,160 I am the Messiah, I'm here for inspection. 532 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:19,040 I am the Lamb of God. There is, there is no spot, no 533 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,920 blemish. I'm innocent, I'm guiltless. 534 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:27,520 I've done no sin, nothing. I am the Lamb of God and that's 535 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:33,080 why He declares and allows this, this massive praise and 536 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:39,040 adoration of him. He's stating I am the Lamb that 537 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,880 is going to end all sacrifices. The Lamb of God. 538 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,640 The Lamb of God was about to be slain. 539 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:53,320 The great sin offering the sacrifice to end all sacrifices 540 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:58,680 was about to be killed and all Israel should have known this. 541 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,040 He's the Messiah, but the joy of that day was short lived, wasn't 542 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,680 it, when he presented himself? Because there is coming, but 543 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:14,200 there is coming another day when Christ will return to rule and 544 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,880 reign, the second coming to establish His Kingdom. 545 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,400 And on that day Paul writes Philippians 2 verse 9. 546 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:29,680 On that day, therefore, God also has highly exalted him and given 547 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,800 him the name which is above every name, that on that day 548 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:38,880 that the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of those in 549 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:44,040 heaven, those on earth, those under the earth, that every 550 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,400 tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of 551 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,800 God the Father. That's what's coming when he 552 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,120 returns the second time. No rejection. 553 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,480 Third Point, Jesus weeps over Jerusalem. 554 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,880 Why did Jesus do this at this time, this great day? 555 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:05,000 Why, why, why in the midst of this, this moment of prophecy, 556 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:11,440 of prophecies, does he weep? Jesus knew the hearts of the 557 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:16,120 inhabitants of Jerusalem, his people, He knew of their pride. 558 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,920 He knew of their self righteousness. 559 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,720 They just thought, born a Jew, I'm, I'm good with God, Gentile. 560 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:25,200 They're just for wood, for the fires of hell. 561 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,640 He knew of this stubbornness. He knew the rejecting of the 562 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,440 truth. It was not hidden from Jesus. 563 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,680 Jesus knew in just a few days what they were going to do to 564 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,440 him. He came riding in, knowing that 565 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,200 this crowd, Oh yeah. He knew of his unfair trial. 566 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,880 He knew of his being handed over to the Gentiles, to the Romans 567 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,160 to be killed under pilot because the Jews couldn't do capital 568 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,080 punishment. He knew of the cruel whipping 569 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:58,680 that he was about to face, the many beatings he would get, the 570 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,040 spitting and the fight, the tearing of his beard, the 571 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,680 mocking. And he knew of his crucifixion, 572 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:09,000 the most horrific death, shamed for all the world, treated like 573 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,480 a convict and killed in the midst of two other convicts, 574 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:18,120 criminals. Yet knowing all this, Jesus 575 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,840 pitied Jerusalem. He didn't go. 576 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,560 Man, this crowd, you know what I should do to this crowd. 577 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:25,800 You know what they're going to do to me. 578 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,200 I should just, but Jesus wept for him. 579 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,480 You see, that's the God of the Bible. 580 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,920 You and I can't comprehend God. If you and I were like God, we'd 581 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,960 kill everyone. As I said, you know, one night 582 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,520 in the youth and I said, why doesn't God just get rid of 583 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,080 every bad person, every evil person? 584 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,040 I said, well, we'll all be dead because the Bible says no, it's 585 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:53,160 none, right? Just no, not one. 586 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:01,560 So Jesus weeps. Matthew 9 verse 36. 587 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,280 We know the heart of Jesus because previously he'd seen the 588 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,760 crowd. When Jesus saw the crowds, he 589 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,360 had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, 590 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,560 like sheep without a shepherd. The word compassion, it's the 591 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,680 literal word of, of of of the innards, His gut, his. 592 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:24,600 Oh man, look at these people. That's the God of the Bible. 593 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,120 You see, we make a massive mistake if we think Christ cares 594 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:31,960 only for those who believe in him. 595 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:39,320 Jesus cares for all humanity. John 316 For God so loved who? 596 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:45,880 The world that whosoever it's your choice, that whosoever 597 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,200 would believe in him, should not perish, but have everlasting 598 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:55,360 life. Christ's heart is wide enough to 599 00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:00,920 know intimately all mankind. When Judas betrayed him in the 600 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,400 Garden of Gethsemane, what did Jesus say? 601 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,000 You rat man? I knew you, he says. 602 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,280 My friend, He called him my friend. 603 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,280 He betrayed me with a kiss. How? 604 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:20,960 How was that? Christ's heart weeps for every 605 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,600 man, woman, every boy, girl on earth to whom he gives the 606 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:30,520 breath of life itself. The Bible tells us we serve a 607 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,760 God that is ready to forgive. Did you know that? 608 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,080 Ready to forgive? God's not just sitting there. 609 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:38,720 Yeah. Not yet, no. 610 00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:40,520 A bit more. No. 611 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:46,520 The Bible actually says that God leans in to those of us who went 612 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,000 in living in our sinful ways before we found Christ. 613 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:56,520 And the Bible says in Psalm 86, verse 5, these words, O Lord, 614 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,360 you are so good, so ready to forgive. 615 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,880 It means Jesus is leaning in. He's just waiting for you to go. 616 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,200 Lord, I need to say, yes, I'm here. 617 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,160 Remember the prodigal father and the prodigal son came home. 618 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,760 Dad didn't go like most Australian dad. 619 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,600 Yeah, I don't want to say. Just get to the room. 620 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,160 Wash up. We've been working here. 621 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,440 The farm. Me and your your brother. 622 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,440 You've gone off. You've blown everything. 623 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,920 You want us to look up. You want us to, you know, drink. 624 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,720 You take you all back now and everything. 625 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,280 Everything's all good and dandy. You wish me dead. 626 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:40,240 That's us, isn't it? But no, the prodigal father, 627 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:43,280 it's the only time you see in the Bible God in a hurry. 628 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,080 It's the only time you see God in a hurry. 629 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,480 He pulls up his garment, which was not the right thing to do. 630 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:55,960 And he ran down and hugged his son who smelt like a pig pen. 631 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,560 And I mean, I've worked with pigs. 632 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:04,080 That's that smell stays it is rank hugged him. 633 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:11,320 What did he say? Party get the calf, get the 634 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,440 cloak, get the ring, get the shoes. 635 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:16,280 Yo, my son who is dead is now alive. 636 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,760 That's how he thinks of you. That's the God of the Bible to 637 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:25,760 you. Jesus weeps. 638 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,840 But here's the other thing. But ignorance is not excusable. 639 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,360 He's a holy God when people should know the truth and refuse 640 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:37,720 to know it. I know what you're telling me. 641 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:41,880 It's true. I know it's right, Romans 118 642 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,840 says. But God shows his anger from 643 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:49,120 heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the 644 00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,480 truth by their wickedness. In other words, the truth keeps 645 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,600 trying to help them and help them and help them, and they 646 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,400 keep pushing it away. I don't want to. 647 00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:58,760 I don't want to. I know it's right. 648 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:04,080 I remember witnessing in in, in Perth one Sunday night, the US 649 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,560 fleet was in town. We're giving a Bible tracks. 650 00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:12,000 All these sailors said, hey guys, you know, thinking that 651 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,280 they know that. And the guy said, man, I know 652 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,560 about the Lord. He says, but I'm here to sin. 653 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,280 So that's knowing the truth but suppressing it. 654 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,040 Romans 119 They know the truth about God because he has made it 655 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,560 obvious to them. There's people who know what 656 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,440 you're saying is right. They know it's truth and they 657 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,280 go, I don't want it. I know what you're telling me is 658 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,120 true. I know I should get my heart 659 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,200 right. I know what you're saying it's 660 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:47,360 true. I don't want it. 661 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,320 It's a dangerous place to be. Why is it dangerous? 662 00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,320 Because their guilt is very great in God's sight. 663 00:45:55,520 --> 00:46:00,560 It's deliberate ignorance and will never be allowed as a plea 664 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,320 in man's favour. On the contrary, it will 665 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:10,280 increase their guilt. 4th and final point, Jerusalem, a city, 666 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:15,000 had been privileged. Palm Sunday, the Son of God 667 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:20,120 himself had visited at the time prophesied and the way 668 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:26,720 prophesied, miracles had been performed in our walls by Jesus. 669 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,960 That's why they were rejoicing. Read back through the text. 670 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:32,920 They praised God for the things that they've seen and heard. 671 00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,040 The greatest preacher and teacher had filled the air of 672 00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,400 Jerusalem with the word of God from God's lips himself. 673 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,800 The message was plain and clear. Repent and believe. 674 00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:55,160 But all these were disregarded. This rejection, Christ himself 675 00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,600 declares, when they should have known, was to be the turning 676 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,800 point to their ruin, to their guilt. 677 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:07,360 And in just a few years, on 70 AD, 40 odd years on, the city 678 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,080 would be in ruins. The Sporia would come. 679 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,600 General Titus would light siege, take him. 680 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,920 This rejection would be their ruin. 681 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,680 You see, you and I find ourselves living in the last 682 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:29,000 days of Bible prophecy. There's coming A1 world leader. 683 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,480 There's coming a cashless society. 684 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:36,440 We're just about there. There's coming a point where you 685 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,760 won't have to worry about credit cards and all these numbers that 686 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,960 you've got your pen and all that. 687 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:46,400 There's coming a time when you have to, if you want to buy or 688 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:51,920 sell, be part of the world lawless society, anti God. 689 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,720 You'll have a mark here or a mark here. 690 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,480 So you won't have to worry about, you know, what's my pin 691 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:02,040 number and swipe on the card. It'll be or just a laser across 692 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:06,160 here and it'll come up. There'll be a false prophet 693 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,960 because there'll be a one world religion headed by the false 694 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,600 prophet who's the right hand man of the, the new world leader, 695 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,480 the Antichrist. And so there's coming a massive 696 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:22,400 shift to our world economically, politically and spiritually. 697 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:28,880 Let me ask you, can you see that now where we're shifting? 698 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:35,520 I mean, you, you'd have to be blind to not see what's going 699 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:38,520 on. Can you see where we're at? 700 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:43,400 It's getting set. It's so close. 701 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:51,080 Is Christ today the question is once more weeping over his 702 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:55,400 people, his creation. Does the world know of Christ 703 00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:00,480 soon return? Are they listening or have they 704 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,080 rejected the gospel of truth because it says in Second 705 00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:08,920 Thessalonians chapter 2 during the tribulation period when the 706 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:15,040 Antichrist is on his throne ruling his dictatorship and the 707 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:19,680 church has been taken out. Verse 7, it says for the mystery 708 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,520 of lawlessness is already at work. 709 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:28,880 That's back 2000 years ago. Only he the coming of the 710 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:33,480 lawless. 1 the Antichrist is according to the working of 711 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,560 Satan. Satan himself will be using this 712 00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:43,040 man to rule the world with all powers, signs and lying wonders, 713 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:49,120 and with all unrighteous deception among those who 714 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,000 perish. That means you're lost for good. 715 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,800 Why? Because they did not receive the 716 00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,920 love of the truth that they might be saved. 717 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,080 It's like Pharaoh. Each time Moses came to Pharaoh, 718 00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,520 let the children go. Let my people go. 719 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:09,920 Let my people go, Pharaoh. No. 720 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:14,000 And another plague would come. A massive miracle occurred. 721 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,240 And in the end, it says God set Pharaoh's heart. 722 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,680 It's coming to a place where you reject Jesus Christ. 723 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:27,400 You knowingly reject it, you're done. 724 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,880 That's it. It says in Romans, God, God 725 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,600 gives you over to a reprobate mind. 726 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,480 It says verse 11 and for this reason these people, God will 727 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:43,640 send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie. 728 00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:49,520 You see, it's it's over that they all may be condemned who 729 00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:55,240 did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness, 730 00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:01,640 who now restrains will do so until he is taken out the way. 731 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:09,440 When sinners believe God and God's truth, God saves them. 732 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:16,320 But when they believe Satan's lie and reject the love of the 733 00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:23,160 truth cannot be saved. Being neutral about God's truth 734 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,800 is a dangerous thing. It has eternal consequences. 735 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:35,400 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jesus said you kill the prophets and stone 736 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,320 those who sent to her. How often? 737 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:41,120 I just wanted to gather you as a mother hand gather the chicks 738 00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:45,280 under her wings. But you were unwilling. 739 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:50,400 You made the decision. We're not standing in Jerusalem 740 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,200 today. This Palm Sunday, Calvary 741 00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,880 Chapel, Secret Harbour. We're not seeing Christ ride in 742 00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:01,240 on a cult as it happened, but we are still in the crowd watching 743 00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:05,720 on and needing to make a decision on who is this man. 744 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:12,240 Palm Sunday was the proclamation to the world that this man is 745 00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:17,480 the Christ, the Lamb of God. When beaten and bloody Jesus 746 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:22,080 stood beside Pilate and Pilate said to the crowd, You remember 747 00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,800 therefore, when they were gathered together, Pilate said 748 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:29,960 unto them, Who were you that I release unto you Barabbas or 749 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:34,720 Jesus, which is called Christ? Pilate said unto them, What 750 00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:37,160 shall I do with Jesus is called Christ? 751 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:41,240 And they all said unto him, Let him be crucified, let his blood 752 00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:43,360 be upon our children and our children's children. 753 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,720 When Pilate saw that he could prevail, nothing, but rather a 754 00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,960 tumult was made. He took water and washed his 755 00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,480 hands before the multitude, saying I'm innocent of the blood 756 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,760 of this just just person. He was guiltless. 757 00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:03,200 See you to it. Like here's the deal, Pilot, 758 00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,200 you're not innocent. You had a choice. 759 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:13,800 You had a choice Pilot before you stood the truth and you 760 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:18,200 rejected it. You see, no one is innocent. 761 00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:24,200 What do you say today for this man? 762 00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:29,480 And resurrection from the dead, when he rose from the dead, blew 763 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:35,240 up all man's reasons and excuses to say who is this man? 764 00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:41,240 Today, Palm Sunday, you must decide what to do with him. 765 00:53:41,240 --> 00:53:44,680 As our worship team comes forward, I want to read just a 766 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,240 few words from an old hymn that tell it best. 767 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:53,240 He came from his blessed throne, Salvation to bestow. 768 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:58,400 But men made strange, and none the longed for Christ would 769 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,360 know. But all my friend, my friend 770 00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,320 indeed, who at my need his life did spend. 771 00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,560 Sometimes they strew his way, and his sweet praises sing, 772 00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:14,320 Resounding all the day. Hosanna to their King, then 773 00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:20,240 crucify is all their breath, And for His death they thirst and 774 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:24,120 cry. Why, what has my Lord done? 775 00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:29,360 What makes this rage in spite? He made the Lamb to run, He gave 776 00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:34,320 the blind their sight sweet injuries, Yet they these 777 00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:40,880 themselves displeased. And against him rise just to 778 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:41,080 know you.