1 00:00:00,230 --> 00:00:03,860 Morning everybody. Hope you're doing well this 2 00:00:03,870 --> 00:00:07,990 morning. It's fun to be here at the start 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,670 of Holy Week as we celebrate Palm Sunday today and look 4 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,440 forward to Easter next week with a Good Friday service in 5 00:00:15,450 --> 00:00:17,470 between. Lots to to anticipate and be 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,580 excited about. Question for you today. 7 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,060 Do you feel the world's brokenness? 8 00:00:24,770 --> 00:00:29,220 Do you have a heart that aches for things to be restored and 9 00:00:29,230 --> 00:00:32,180 set right? I think all you have to do is 10 00:00:32,189 --> 00:00:35,140 turn on the news to elicit this feeling in yourself. 11 00:00:35,150 --> 00:00:38,000 If you aren't feeling it currently right, there's immense 12 00:00:38,010 --> 00:00:42,090 poverty in the world. Billions of people living on the 13 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:46,970 equivalent of $2.50 a day or less, with the result that 14 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,830 10,000 children or more die every day due to poverty related 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,890 issues. There is immense hunger and 16 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:56,930 shortage of water. 1/4 of the world's population doesn't have 17 00:00:56,940 --> 00:01:01,010 access to clean water. Over a billion people who don't 18 00:01:01,020 --> 00:01:05,209 have enough food to eat. There's wars escalating, global 19 00:01:05,220 --> 00:01:09,200 crises going on, corrupt governments, all sorts of things 20 00:01:09,210 --> 00:01:12,900 that that scream to us that we are living in a world that needs 21 00:01:12,910 --> 00:01:16,060 deliverance and is broken. And it's on a personal level 22 00:01:16,070 --> 00:01:18,540 too. It's not just stuff out there 23 00:01:18,550 --> 00:01:21,650 happening in the world, but we deal with broken relationships. 24 00:01:21,660 --> 00:01:25,380 We deal with loneliness, mental health issues, addictions, 25 00:01:25,430 --> 00:01:29,940 housing crisis, food insecurity. There's lots of signs pointing 26 00:01:29,950 --> 00:01:33,070 to the fact that we need deliverance, we need salvation. 27 00:01:33,570 --> 00:01:36,180 So if you're starting to feel a little bit of that ache for 28 00:01:36,190 --> 00:01:39,460 things to be set right, if you're starting to feel that 29 00:01:39,470 --> 00:01:41,950 that there's a brokenness in the world, then you can relate a 30 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,530 little bit to how the Jewish people were feeling at the time 31 00:01:45,580 --> 00:01:50,670 that Jesus rides into the scene on Palm Sunday 2000 years ago. 32 00:01:52,310 --> 00:01:55,980 Sure, we're mostly familiar with the story, but but the Jewish 33 00:01:55,990 --> 00:01:59,780 people were at a different point in, in salvation history than we 34 00:01:59,790 --> 00:02:02,380 are, right? We have the the great hope of 35 00:02:02,390 --> 00:02:05,160 knowing that Jesus rose from the dead, that he conquered and 36 00:02:05,170 --> 00:02:07,820 defeated the powers of sin and death on the cross and in the 37 00:02:07,830 --> 00:02:09,680 resurrection. And so it's a little bit 38 00:02:09,690 --> 00:02:13,190 different for us now knowing the story and where it's headed than 39 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,100 it was for for the Jewish people in the 1st century. 40 00:02:16,170 --> 00:02:18,720 But their time, they, they were immersed in the story of 41 00:02:18,730 --> 00:02:20,460 scripture. Their self understanding as a 42 00:02:20,470 --> 00:02:23,890 people was based on the narrative of the Hebrew Bible of 43 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:27,430 the Old Testament. And they they saw that God had 44 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,370 made a good world, that everything in the beginning was 45 00:02:30,380 --> 00:02:33,870 good, but that humanity had rebelled against God's reign, 46 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,590 against God's kingship, and that this had plummeted the world 47 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,430 into into chaos, into violence and injustice and evil. 48 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,410 And that things needed to be restored. 49 00:02:43,460 --> 00:02:46,200 But that God, instead of abandoning his creation, instead 50 00:02:46,210 --> 00:02:49,330 of wiping the slate clean, decided that he was going to and 51 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:52,410 love and mercy partner with humanity to bring about a 52 00:02:52,420 --> 00:02:56,260 restoration of all things. And he chooses one family out of 53 00:02:56,270 --> 00:02:59,210 all the nations of the earth, the family of Abraham, which 54 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:01,770 would become the nation of Israel, in order to be the 55 00:03:01,780 --> 00:03:05,060 instrument that he's going to use to bless all the nations to 56 00:03:05,070 --> 00:03:08,000 bring about this creation wide restoration. 57 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,680 And so we've currently been been in the midst of this 40 days in 58 00:03:12,690 --> 00:03:15,510 the Word series. We've slowed down a little bit 59 00:03:15,580 --> 00:03:20,330 in in the story of Samuel, first Samuel in particular, where 60 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:22,750 we've seen a little wrinkle that's happened in in God's 61 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,340 plan. So he comes alongside Israel as 62 00:03:25,350 --> 00:03:29,130 this nation and he's going to use them somehow to bring about 63 00:03:29,140 --> 00:03:31,650 a restoration to the world. He's going to set them apart as 64 00:03:31,660 --> 00:03:33,610 a holy nation. That's going to live according 65 00:03:33,620 --> 00:03:35,810 to his wisdom. That's gonna be a light to the 66 00:03:35,820 --> 00:03:37,830 nations and show them a different way of living. 67 00:03:37,870 --> 00:03:40,790 They're going to be a nation of priests, God calls them, that 68 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,890 will be a mediator of God's blessing to all nations. 69 00:03:44,940 --> 00:03:49,840 And in Samuel, we've seen this, this hinge point where we've 70 00:03:49,850 --> 00:03:54,710 switched from from Israel not having any kings, which in 71 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,430 Judges, which we did a sermon series on last year, we saw it 72 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,170 was a bit of a problem, right? Judges ends with this, this 73 00:04:00,180 --> 00:04:02,890 statement that in those days Israel had no king and everyone 74 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:04,420 did what was right in their own eyes. 75 00:04:04,430 --> 00:04:07,400 It seems like Israel, even though the idea would be for 76 00:04:07,410 --> 00:04:10,330 them to see God as their king and live according to his 77 00:04:10,340 --> 00:04:14,120 wisdom, they need some kind of mediator of God's rule on their 78 00:04:14,130 --> 00:04:16,040 behalf. And so in Samuel, we've seen 79 00:04:16,050 --> 00:04:20,260 that switch to Israel wanting a king, and they're wanting it for 80 00:04:20,269 --> 00:04:22,530 all the wrong reasons, right? They wanna be just like the 81 00:04:22,540 --> 00:04:24,740 other nations, even though they're supposed to be set apart 82 00:04:24,750 --> 00:04:27,090 from the nations and an example of something different. 83 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,180 But God decides he's going to give them a king. 84 00:04:29,190 --> 00:04:32,210 He's gonna work with their desire for a king, is going to 85 00:04:32,220 --> 00:04:36,350 implement that into the story. And so God's covenantal and 86 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,710 missional purpose is to bring about the restoration of the 87 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,850 world. Now involve this Kingdom of 88 00:04:40,860 --> 00:04:44,650 Israel, that Israel is going to have a king, they're going to be 89 00:04:44,660 --> 00:04:46,710 a Kingdom set apart in their own land. 90 00:04:46,780 --> 00:04:49,780 And that this is how God's going to drive the story forward 91 00:04:49,790 --> 00:04:51,560 towards the restoration of all things. 92 00:04:52,010 --> 00:04:57,520 We get to the 1st century and things aren't really on track at 93 00:04:57,530 --> 00:05:00,180 this point in the story. When Jesus comes onto the scene, 94 00:05:00,250 --> 00:05:03,960 Israel is about 600 years into exile. 95 00:05:04,030 --> 00:05:06,860 They're back in the land, but they understand themselves is 96 00:05:06,870 --> 00:05:08,960 still in exile. Because for the last 6 97 00:05:08,970 --> 00:05:12,400 centuries, pretty much despite a little window in there where 98 00:05:12,410 --> 00:05:15,580 they weren't, they've been under the power of foreign Pagan 99 00:05:15,590 --> 00:05:17,790 oppressors. So they've been underpowered. 100 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,120 Babylon, then Persia, then Greece, and now for the last 100 101 00:05:21,130 --> 00:05:24,590 years it's been Rome. And so they're really feeling 102 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:29,640 this ache of, of the world being unjust and broken and in need of 103 00:05:29,650 --> 00:05:31,820 deliverance just in their day-to-day lives, right? 104 00:05:31,830 --> 00:05:36,280 Their existence is under the, the oppression of this Roman, 105 00:05:36,590 --> 00:05:38,920 Roman regime that that isn't fair and just. 106 00:05:38,930 --> 00:05:42,380 But more than that, they feel this ache because they're 107 00:05:42,430 --> 00:05:45,640 supposed to be the instrument in the vehicle by which God's going 108 00:05:45,650 --> 00:05:47,800 to bring about the restoration of all things. 109 00:05:47,890 --> 00:05:50,770 And so there's this immense longing for deliverance because 110 00:05:50,780 --> 00:05:53,850 it's like what's going on, God? Like, where are we in the story 111 00:05:53,860 --> 00:05:56,630 right now that things are so off track? 112 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,710 Like we're supposed to be a blessing to the nations, but 113 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,010 we're a curse to ourselves. We we can't even get ourselves 114 00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:04,590 right. How are we supposed to be the 115 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,490 conduit through all the other nations are blessed and LED into 116 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,470 into wisdom. So that's the that's the story 117 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,050 that Jesus is is riding into today. 118 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:18,700 And that is why you have these these prophecies in the Old 119 00:06:18,710 --> 00:06:23,120 Testament say Zechariah 9/9 through 10, which will read now 120 00:06:23,170 --> 00:06:26,020 Zechariah the prophet is anticipating this time when 121 00:06:26,030 --> 00:06:28,940 things are gonna be set right and there is going to be a king 122 00:06:28,950 --> 00:06:31,950 in the line of David who's gonna come and set things right in 123 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,150 established God's Kingdom. He says rejoice greatly daughter 124 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,260 Zion, shout daughter Jerusalem. See, your king comes to you, 125 00:06:39,310 --> 00:06:43,020 righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a 126 00:06:43,030 --> 00:06:49,430 colt, the foal of a donkey. And then verse 10, I will take 127 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,710 away the Chariots of Aframe and the war horses from Jerusalem, 128 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,430 and the battle bow will be broken. 129 00:06:54,670 --> 00:06:56,730 He will proclaim peace to the nations. 130 00:06:56,740 --> 00:06:59,710 His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the river to the 131 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,210 ends of the earth. And so the Jewish people, 132 00:07:02,220 --> 00:07:06,030 there's many prophecies and promises like this in the Old 133 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,290 Testament. They have this anticipation that 134 00:07:08,420 --> 00:07:12,090 even though we're in this bleak period of time where there's no 135 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:15,490 one on the throne of Jerusalem, no, no real king from the line 136 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:18,210 of David, and we don't know how this is going to happen. 137 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:20,950 They're clinging on to these promises that God is going to 138 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:24,440 send this son of David, this king from the line of David, 139 00:07:24,450 --> 00:07:28,160 this Messiah, an anointed one, who's going to not only rule 140 00:07:28,170 --> 00:07:31,290 over, over Israel, but rule over all of the earth and, and 141 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:34,240 restore God's reign of justice and peace. 142 00:07:34,370 --> 00:07:37,820 So that's the context today for, for our passage, which is 143 00:07:37,830 --> 00:07:40,610 Matthew chapter 21. And we're going to be looking at 144 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:43,830 the 1st 22 verses. So I'll invite you to turn 145 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,270 there. Matthew 21 versus 1 through 22, 146 00:07:48,410 --> 00:07:52,500 we're gonna be looking at this kind of three-part story. 147 00:07:52,510 --> 00:07:54,920 So initially I was just gonna look at the 1st 11 verses 148 00:07:54,930 --> 00:07:58,120 because that's the triumphal entry, that's Palm Sunday. 149 00:07:58,170 --> 00:08:01,120 But in reading through this, I realized these three stories, 150 00:08:01,190 --> 00:08:04,480 Matthew sets them up side by side intentionally and they're 151 00:08:04,490 --> 00:08:06,800 all kind of one story in three parts. 152 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,180 So what we're going to do today is look through this three-part 153 00:08:09,190 --> 00:08:11,980 story kind of breakdown, a little bit of what's going on 154 00:08:11,990 --> 00:08:15,240 behind the scenes and then drive some, some implications for us 155 00:08:15,250 --> 00:08:20,210 today. So Part 1 this is Jesus entry 156 00:08:20,220 --> 00:08:24,270 into Jerusalem from verses one through 11. 157 00:08:25,710 --> 00:08:29,050 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethpage on the Mount of 158 00:08:29,060 --> 00:08:32,900 Olives, Jesus sent 2 disciples saying to them, go to the 159 00:08:32,909 --> 00:08:35,960 village ahead of you and at once you will find a donkey tide 160 00:08:35,970 --> 00:08:39,690 there with her colt by her untie them and bring them to me. 161 00:08:40,169 --> 00:08:43,440 If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them and 162 00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:46,920 he will send them right away. This took place to fulfill what 163 00:08:46,930 --> 00:08:50,660 was spoken through the prophet. Say to daughters, Ion, see your 164 00:08:50,670 --> 00:08:54,800 king comes to you gentle and riding on a donkey and on a colt 165 00:08:54,810 --> 00:08:58,560 the foal of a donkey. The disciples went and did as 166 00:08:58,570 --> 00:09:01,620 Jesus had instructed them. They brought the donkey and the 167 00:09:01,630 --> 00:09:04,620 colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on. 168 00:09:05,060 --> 00:09:08,800 A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others 169 00:09:08,810 --> 00:09:11,620 cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 170 00:09:12,030 --> 00:09:14,420 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed 171 00:09:14,430 --> 00:09:17,080 shouted Hosanna to the Son of David. 172 00:09:17,490 --> 00:09:21,480 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the 173 00:09:21,490 --> 00:09:25,250 highest heaven. When Jesus entered Jerusalem, 174 00:09:25,260 --> 00:09:28,610 the whole city was stirred and asked, Who is this? 175 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:32,730 The crowds answered, This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth 176 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:36,730 and Galilee. So what is going on here? 177 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,530 I think we kind of, this is such a familiar story, we sort of 178 00:09:39,540 --> 00:09:41,790 take it for granted. Like, yeah, Jesus is riding into 179 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,860 Jerusalem. Of course the people are waving 180 00:09:43,870 --> 00:09:47,120 the prom branches and shouting hosanna. 181 00:09:47,180 --> 00:09:48,810 But what's actually going on here? 182 00:09:48,820 --> 00:09:50,250 Why? Why is this happening? 183 00:09:50,260 --> 00:09:52,770 Why is Jesus doing this? What does it all mean? 184 00:09:53,060 --> 00:09:56,590 A little bit of context. First of all, note when this is 185 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,690 happening, this is the week leading up to Passover, like the 186 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:03,170 main festival in the Jewish calendar, where they're 187 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:06,520 celebrating their liberation from bondage in Egypt. 188 00:10:06,610 --> 00:10:10,800 So right now they're in bondage to, to the Pagan empire of Rome 189 00:10:10,890 --> 00:10:14,180 and they're celebrating this thing that happened thousands of 190 00:10:14,190 --> 00:10:18,030 years ago where they were under the slavery and oppression of 191 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:23,160 this foreign empire in Egypt. And so they, they're having this 192 00:10:23,170 --> 00:10:26,760 festival right in the midst of, of this current situation of 193 00:10:26,770 --> 00:10:30,700 being enslaved, essentially being under the, the thumb of 194 00:10:30,710 --> 00:10:32,160 Rome. They're celebrating this time 195 00:10:32,170 --> 00:10:36,980 that God set them free from and rescued them from, from this 196 00:10:37,030 --> 00:10:38,750 situation that they were in with Egypt. 197 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,160 So that's one thing to note. This festival was a huge draw to 198 00:10:42,170 --> 00:10:44,960 Jerusalem. So archaeologists tell us that 199 00:10:44,970 --> 00:10:47,190 in the 1st century, the population of Jerusalem was 200 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,970 around 40,000 people. During the time of Passover, it 201 00:10:51,980 --> 00:10:54,200 would swell to about 200,000 people. 202 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,570 So if you're feeling like it's a little bit crowded in here this 203 00:10:56,580 --> 00:10:58,830 morning, there's maybe 200 of us. 204 00:10:59,070 --> 00:11:01,270 Imagine if there were like 1000 of us in here. 205 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:02,550 It'd be a little more packed out. 206 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:05,830 So that's what Jerusalem felt like at this time of celebrating 207 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,490 Passover. Another important thing to note 208 00:11:09,540 --> 00:11:13,450 is that the route that Jesus takes into the city is a very 209 00:11:13,460 --> 00:11:18,460 intentional 1. And so he starts on the Mount of 210 00:11:18,470 --> 00:11:22,010 Olives and he goes down through the Kidron Valley, which you can 211 00:11:22,020 --> 00:11:25,220 see pictured there. So the first picture up in the 212 00:11:25,230 --> 00:11:28,350 top left there is a is the view from the Mount of Olives looking 213 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,940 to Jerusalem today. Second one gives you a little 214 00:11:30,950 --> 00:11:33,430 bit of a sense of kind of the depth of the valley that he's 215 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,150 going down into. But he starts in the Mount of 216 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,730 Olives. He descends down into the Kidron 217 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:40,270 Valley, and then he heads back up into Jerusalem. 218 00:11:41,190 --> 00:11:43,440 Why does Jesus take this route? It's kind of like, does it 219 00:11:43,450 --> 00:11:45,320 really matter? Like it's just he's trying to 220 00:11:45,330 --> 00:11:47,220 get to Jerusalem. Of course he took this away. 221 00:11:47,290 --> 00:11:52,540 I think it actually does matter. He's steeped in Scripture. 222 00:11:52,770 --> 00:11:55,920 He knows the story of Scripture very well, and he's actually 223 00:11:55,930 --> 00:11:59,260 pointing back to a few key symbolic actions that took place 224 00:11:59,270 --> 00:12:02,460 in the story of Scripture. One of them is David's flight 225 00:12:02,470 --> 00:12:05,100 from Jerusalem. So this is a bit of a spoiler 226 00:12:05,110 --> 00:12:08,580 for what's to come ahead in Second Samuel if after a 40 days 227 00:12:08,590 --> 00:12:10,370 in the word, you want to keep, keep going. 228 00:12:10,550 --> 00:12:14,900 But David, son Absalom, leads a coup against him and tries to 229 00:12:14,910 --> 00:12:18,160 take over the throne. And David hears that the people 230 00:12:18,170 --> 00:12:21,080 are with Absalom. He's got to flee for his life 231 00:12:21,090 --> 00:12:25,560 from his own done and so we'll read it in in second Samuel 15 a 232 00:12:25,570 --> 00:12:27,880 few verses here that that tell us David's route. 233 00:12:27,890 --> 00:12:30,440 So he says to all his officials who are with him in Jerusalem, 234 00:12:30,450 --> 00:12:33,280 come we must flee. The king crossed the Kidron 235 00:12:33,290 --> 00:12:36,340 Valley and all the people moved on toward the wilderness. 236 00:12:36,410 --> 00:12:39,640 David continued up the Mount of Olives weeping as he went. 237 00:12:39,950 --> 00:12:43,140 So just highlight there are three locations got Jerusalem is 238 00:12:43,150 --> 00:12:45,140 where he's starting. It's going down through the 239 00:12:45,150 --> 00:12:47,640 Kidron Valley and then up the Mount of Olives. 240 00:12:47,790 --> 00:12:51,920 Jesus does that in reverse. He's like David coming back, 241 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,810 right? The wrongful ruler Absalom is in 242 00:12:55,820 --> 00:12:59,680 charge, is in charge in Jerusalem, forces David to flee. 243 00:12:59,690 --> 00:13:02,530 But now Jesus is the son of David is coming back, taking 244 00:13:02,540 --> 00:13:05,860 that exact same route to displace the the wrongful rule 245 00:13:05,870 --> 00:13:07,990 of Jerusalem. So that's one thing that one 246 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:12,200 little note that he's kind of tapping on to, to get us into 247 00:13:12,210 --> 00:13:16,170 the sense of what he's doing. Another key king from the line 248 00:13:16,180 --> 00:13:19,370 of David who who comes and takes this route is Solomon. 249 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,600 So Solomon, when David is about to die in First Kings chapter 250 00:13:23,610 --> 00:13:28,710 one, another one of David's sons, Adonijah, he decides that 251 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,140 he's gonna set himself up as king even though David wants 252 00:13:31,150 --> 00:13:34,540 Solomon to be king. And so and 1st Kings one verse 253 00:13:34,550 --> 00:13:39,700 5, this is his plan. He says Adonijah put himself 254 00:13:39,710 --> 00:13:43,080 forward and said I will be king. So we got Chariots and horses 255 00:13:43,090 --> 00:13:45,720 ready with 50 men to run ahead of him. 256 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:48,540 So he's gonna go down into the Kidron Valley and he's gonna 257 00:13:48,550 --> 00:13:50,860 bring his Chariots, he's gonna bring his horses, he's gonna 258 00:13:50,870 --> 00:13:54,720 bring 50 men, the showing of military might and power and 259 00:13:54,730 --> 00:13:58,100 he's gonna take this route back into the city as this procession 260 00:13:58,110 --> 00:14:03,680 of becoming King David few verses later in versus 33 to 35 261 00:14:03,750 --> 00:14:07,260 has Solomon go take on this procession instead. 262 00:14:07,270 --> 00:14:10,850 So he says, have Solomon, my son, mount my own mule and take 263 00:14:10,860 --> 00:14:14,870 him down to Gehan there anoint him king over Israel, blow the 264 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,230 trumpet and shout Long live King Solomon. 265 00:14:17,420 --> 00:14:20,050 Then you are to go up with him and he is to come sit on my 266 00:14:20,060 --> 00:14:23,370 throne and reign in my place. So this isn't necessarily sound 267 00:14:23,380 --> 00:14:27,130 like the route that we just saw, but Gihan is is a place in the 268 00:14:27,140 --> 00:14:31,200 Kidron Valley. So get what David is having is 269 00:14:31,210 --> 00:14:34,210 having Solomon do is he's having him ride on a mule. 270 00:14:35,030 --> 00:14:37,750 Yeah, he's having him go down into the Kidron Valley, he's 271 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,600 anointing him king and then having him go back up into the 272 00:14:40,610 --> 00:14:42,880 city. So Jesus, what he's doing here 273 00:14:42,890 --> 00:14:46,560 is he's saying I'm like David, I'm like Solomon, I'm from this 274 00:14:46,570 --> 00:14:50,000 line, I'm the rightful king and I'm going on this procession 275 00:14:50,050 --> 00:14:54,160 back into the city by this route to be anointed king over Israel. 276 00:14:55,390 --> 00:14:58,820 The people obviously get this. Matthew obviously gets this 277 00:14:58,830 --> 00:15:03,140 because he quotes from Zechariah 99, which we read earlier that 278 00:15:03,150 --> 00:15:05,560 this was to fulfill this prophecy from Zechariah. 279 00:15:05,570 --> 00:15:08,900 Rejoice greatly, daughter Zion shout daughter Jerusalem. 280 00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:12,220 See your king comes to you righteous and victorious, lowly 281 00:15:12,230 --> 00:15:15,720 and riding on a donkey on a colt, the full of the donkey. 282 00:15:15,890 --> 00:15:20,810 So unlike a Donna Jaho had this military might, his Chariots, 283 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:24,940 his war horses, his fifty men. Jesus is coming with this ragtag 284 00:15:24,950 --> 00:15:32,050 crew, this crowd of peasants and fishermen and farmers, and he's 285 00:15:32,060 --> 00:15:35,760 coming lowly and humble, bringing peace, not war, riding 286 00:15:35,770 --> 00:15:39,680 on a donkey. Another really interesting 287 00:15:39,690 --> 00:15:45,850 tidbit is that in Ezekiel, Ezekiel has this vision of the 288 00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:48,580 glory of God departing from the temple. 289 00:15:48,630 --> 00:15:52,400 So the wickedness, the corruption in Israel has just 290 00:15:52,410 --> 00:15:56,620 gotten so bad that the glory of God can no longer stay in the 291 00:15:56,630 --> 00:15:58,420 temple. And so it's going up to leave. 292 00:15:58,490 --> 00:16:03,740 And at the end of this vision and Ezekiel 11/23, where Ezekiel 293 00:16:03,750 --> 00:16:07,120 sees the glory of God go as it goes up from the city and it 294 00:16:07,130 --> 00:16:09,300 stops on the mountain east of it, which is the Mount of 295 00:16:09,310 --> 00:16:11,550 Olives. So another wrinkle to what Jesus 296 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,980 is doing is he's like, I am the glory of God coming back from 297 00:16:14,990 --> 00:16:19,020 the Mount of Olives back into Jerusalem, back into the temple 298 00:16:20,540 --> 00:16:23,320 people, the people who are around Jesus and they're picking 299 00:16:23,330 --> 00:16:25,830 up on all of this because they know the Bible way better than 300 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,770 we do. They're seeing what Jesus is 301 00:16:27,780 --> 00:16:28,820 doing. They're seeing all this 302 00:16:28,830 --> 00:16:30,400 intentional stuff that he's doing. 303 00:16:30,410 --> 00:16:33,090 They know what's going on. The claims that he's making. 304 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:38,370 They start quoting from Psalm 118 versus 25 through 26, which 305 00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:41,810 we read as our are called worship this morning, say Lord 306 00:16:41,820 --> 00:16:44,810 save us, which is Hosanna, save us. 307 00:16:45,010 --> 00:16:48,430 Lord grant us success. Blessed is he who comes in the 308 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,450 name of the Lord from the house. The Lord we bless you. 309 00:16:53,430 --> 00:16:57,340 So the people, they see Jesus coming in here like David, like 310 00:16:57,350 --> 00:17:01,320 Solomon, like the glory of God coming back, and they're 311 00:17:01,330 --> 00:17:04,050 thinking of Zachariah, they're thinking of Psalm 118. 312 00:17:04,060 --> 00:17:07,740 They're going, OK, maybe this is the moment our King, our Messiah 313 00:17:07,750 --> 00:17:09,859 is coming back. He's going to deliver us. 314 00:17:09,869 --> 00:17:12,710 He's going to save us. What does that mean though? 315 00:17:13,430 --> 00:17:16,060 They have very different expectations than what Jesus is 316 00:17:16,069 --> 00:17:19,490 about to deliver on a different part, and in Psalm 118 might 317 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,270 give us a little insight into what they had in mind versus 7 318 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,300 and 10. We'll read from the Lord is with 319 00:17:26,310 --> 00:17:27,800 me. He is my helper. 320 00:17:27,849 --> 00:17:31,940 I look in triumph on my enemies. All the nations surround me, but 321 00:17:31,950 --> 00:17:33,990 in the name of the Lord I cut them down. 322 00:17:34,940 --> 00:17:39,450 So the people again 600 years living under the rule of foreign 323 00:17:39,460 --> 00:17:41,130 oppressors. They're like the solution is 324 00:17:41,140 --> 00:17:44,330 that the Kingdom of Israel needs to be reestablished. 325 00:17:44,340 --> 00:17:47,410 We need a king sitting on a throne and step one is obvious 326 00:17:47,420 --> 00:17:51,650 defeat the Romans, right. This was is a popular philosophy 327 00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:54,890 at the time of how Israel's problems were going to be 328 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:58,100 solved. There were numerous revolts 329 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,390 before and after this violent revolts against the the powers 330 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,600 of Rome and Greece in previous times as well. 331 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:09,610 That was this, this military strategy, much like maybe King 332 00:18:09,620 --> 00:18:11,370 David himself would have done, right? 333 00:18:11,380 --> 00:18:15,570 A, a military solution to this problem that the way that Jesus 334 00:18:15,580 --> 00:18:18,990 is going to become king and establish God's Kingdom is by 335 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,630 defeating the Romans by, you know, giving them the justice 336 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,880 that that they deserve by taking them out. 337 00:18:25,940 --> 00:18:29,760 And so when they're when they're saying, saying to Jesus, deliver 338 00:18:29,770 --> 00:18:32,970 us blessed to see who comes in the name of the Lord, they're 339 00:18:32,980 --> 00:18:36,840 thinking, yes, God has sent his Messiah to bring judgment on the 340 00:18:36,850 --> 00:18:39,100 Romans. Like this is the moment where 341 00:18:39,110 --> 00:18:42,800 things are gonna be set right in, in this this violent 342 00:18:42,810 --> 00:18:45,960 uprising. Not quite what Jesus has in 343 00:18:45,970 --> 00:18:49,180 mind. He comes in on a donkey, the 344 00:18:49,190 --> 00:18:52,060 symbol of peace. And what we're about to see in 345 00:18:52,070 --> 00:18:56,400 the next two stories is that the the clash of two kingdoms that's 346 00:18:56,410 --> 00:18:59,960 about to occur isn't the clash of two kingdoms that that the 347 00:18:59,970 --> 00:19:02,580 people have in mind. It's not the two kingdoms that 348 00:19:02,590 --> 00:19:03,940 that they're thinking are going to clash. 349 00:19:03,950 --> 00:19:08,320 It's not Jerusalem versus Rome. It's Jesus in the Kingdom of God 350 00:19:08,390 --> 00:19:12,170 against this kind of false leadership that's happening in 351 00:19:12,180 --> 00:19:16,370 Jerusalem right now. So the end of this end of this 352 00:19:16,380 --> 00:19:19,330 passage in verse tennis is that the whole city was stirred. 353 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,810 And I don't know if anyone has a different translation, but I 354 00:19:21,820 --> 00:19:25,370 think stirred is a pretty bad translation of what's going on 355 00:19:25,380 --> 00:19:27,030 here. Like when I think of being 356 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,010 stirred, I'm like, oh, I stirred in my sleep. 357 00:19:30,020 --> 00:19:34,150 It's kind of this gentle neutral movement where my mom was saying 358 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,270 like, oh, like I'm stirred emotionally by a beautiful piece 359 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:38,860 of music or a movie or something. 360 00:19:38,870 --> 00:19:40,610 That's not really what's going on here. 361 00:19:40,660 --> 00:19:45,180 Stirred is more like thrown into an uproar or like, like this 362 00:19:45,190 --> 00:19:46,940 kind of crazy buzz in the city, right? 363 00:19:46,950 --> 00:19:49,390 You can imagine it. Five times as many people as 364 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,670 usual packed into the city. All of the expectations that 365 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,950 we're celebrating Passover, we've got on the mind liberation 366 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,110 from foreign oppressors. This guy comes in making these 367 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:01,810 claims that he's the son of David and the Messiah. 368 00:20:01,980 --> 00:20:04,970 And so you can imagine that the city is like buzzing. 369 00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:06,230 People are like, who is this guy? 370 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,590 Like something's gonna happen. This isn't just like, oh, the 371 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,750 city was curious. Like the city is stirred. 372 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,880 The city is in upheaval. It's in turmoil. 373 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:19,820 We move on to our next story, verses 12 through 17. 374 00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:24,370 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were 375 00:20:24,380 --> 00:20:27,870 buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the 376 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,290 money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 377 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,810 It is written, he said to them, My house will be called a House 378 00:20:34,820 --> 00:20:37,830 of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers. 379 00:20:38,870 --> 00:20:41,600 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed 380 00:20:41,610 --> 00:20:43,610 them. But when the chief priests and 381 00:20:43,620 --> 00:20:46,940 the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did, and the 382 00:20:46,950 --> 00:20:50,600 children shouting in the temple courts hosanna to the son of 383 00:20:50,610 --> 00:20:53,660 David, they were indignant. Do you hear what these children 384 00:20:53,670 --> 00:20:55,240 are saying? They asked him. 385 00:20:55,450 --> 00:20:59,300 Yes, replied Jesus, have you never read from the lips of 386 00:20:59,310 --> 00:21:02,030 children and infants? You, Lord, have called forth 387 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,590 your praise. And he left them and went out of 388 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,780 the city to Bethany, where he spent the night. 389 00:21:08,530 --> 00:21:11,500 So what's going on here? Why is this Jesus's next move? 390 00:21:11,510 --> 00:21:13,900 Right? Think if you put yourself in the 391 00:21:13,910 --> 00:21:17,350 shoes of these Jewish people, OK, Jesus is just written in as 392 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:19,910 as the king, as the exalted king and the Messiah. 393 00:21:19,950 --> 00:21:21,620 What would your first move be like? 394 00:21:21,630 --> 00:21:26,970 Maybe, you know, head over to to the Romans and start a fight or, 395 00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:30,220 you know, get an army rounded up together. 396 00:21:30,230 --> 00:21:34,160 No, he goes to the temple, and the confrontation that he has 397 00:21:34,170 --> 00:21:37,000 isn't with Rome, it's with the leaders of Jerusalem. 398 00:21:38,170 --> 00:21:41,940 So what's going on here? Well, the temple is the place 399 00:21:41,950 --> 00:21:45,400 where the sacrifices of Israel happen, right? 400 00:21:45,490 --> 00:21:50,980 God sets up in Leviticus chiefly this sacrificial system by which 401 00:21:51,050 --> 00:21:55,670 Israel can come near to God. So I won't go too in depth, but 402 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,990 there's basically two different kinds of sacrifices in 403 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,750 Leviticus. There are sacrifices that people 404 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:07,450 share a meal with God. Essentially, they enjoy a meal 405 00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:09,430 with God. It's a way of communing with 406 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,590 God. It's a way of coming close to 407 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,330 him. And then there are sacrifices 408 00:22:14,340 --> 00:22:19,570 that deal with the pollution that makes it so that people 409 00:22:19,580 --> 00:22:20,980 can't commune with God right there. 410 00:22:20,990 --> 00:22:23,670 These sacrifices that are offered that cleanse the 411 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,410 sanctuary so that it can still be a place where where God's 412 00:22:27,420 --> 00:22:29,410 people can come and and share a meal with him. 413 00:22:29,420 --> 00:22:32,730 Because through sin, but also just through ritual impurity, 414 00:22:32,740 --> 00:22:36,450 they're constantly bringing this impurity into the sanctuary. 415 00:22:36,580 --> 00:22:39,760 But the main point is that this temple and the sacrificial 416 00:22:39,770 --> 00:22:44,280 system is supposed to be a place where all of God's people can 417 00:22:44,290 --> 00:22:47,520 come near to him, where this can be a place where the blessing of 418 00:22:47,530 --> 00:22:50,900 being with God can be mediated to all the people. 419 00:22:50,950 --> 00:22:54,700 It's this holy place to meet with God and have blessing 420 00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:56,900 mediated. And it's not meant to be 421 00:22:57,270 --> 00:23:00,500 restricted. It's not meant to be something 422 00:23:00,510 --> 00:23:04,880 that that is exclusive. But as, as Jesus quotes in 423 00:23:04,890 --> 00:23:07,500 Isaiah, eventually the, the goal is that this would be a House of 424 00:23:07,510 --> 00:23:08,850 prayer for all the nations, right? 425 00:23:08,860 --> 00:23:11,510 There are certain levels within that only certain priests can 426 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,990 go. And if you're in a state of 427 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,370 ritual impurity, you can't, you can't be there. 428 00:23:15,380 --> 00:23:19,270 But overall, the the idea here's an exclusion, but like, let's 429 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:22,530 let's be a, a place where God's blessing goes out to all the 430 00:23:22,540 --> 00:23:25,930 nations, to all people. What's going on here then that 431 00:23:25,940 --> 00:23:32,230 Jesus is so upset about currently in in Jerusalem, the 432 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,610 kind of reigning class in in the in the temple, the priesthood 433 00:23:35,620 --> 00:23:39,690 was this kind of illegitimate family of priests called the 434 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:42,590 House of Annas. And maybe from the the passion 435 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,990 narratives you're familiar with chiefess who is the son-in-law 436 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,650 of Anas. But this house was in power of, 437 00:23:48,660 --> 00:23:50,990 of the temple at the time. They were the they were the 438 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:56,350 priesthood at the time and they were basically incredibly 439 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:01,010 corrupt, incredibly greedy. And what's called the bizarre of 440 00:24:01,020 --> 00:24:03,570 an ask for these booths of Anas is what we're set up in this 441 00:24:03,580 --> 00:24:07,110 place that Jesus is confronting. And so I don't know if you've 442 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:10,760 ever been to an airport and you've gone to a different 443 00:24:10,770 --> 00:24:12,930 country and you've had to exchange currency. 444 00:24:13,180 --> 00:24:16,570 But if you have, you know, it's not usually the best place to 445 00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:19,040 exchange currency because they know they can kind of take 446 00:24:19,050 --> 00:24:22,820 advantage of you and like force you to pay a really high 447 00:24:22,830 --> 00:24:25,520 exchange rate where they can skim something off the top, 448 00:24:25,530 --> 00:24:27,070 right? So you have to exchange your 449 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,320 currency. You probably don't wanna do it 450 00:24:28,330 --> 00:24:31,280 at the airport, but they know you probably want to do it in 451 00:24:31,290 --> 00:24:32,630 the airport. So they're gonna take advantage 452 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,060 of that. Maybe you've also been to like a 453 00:24:34,070 --> 00:24:36,950 sports venue and you want a hot dog or whatever. 454 00:24:37,870 --> 00:24:40,070 Probably not the place to buy it, but they won't let you take 455 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,420 your food in from the outside. So if you want the hot dog, you 456 00:24:43,430 --> 00:24:46,840 gotta pay 30 bucks or whatever it is for a hot dog at the 457 00:24:46,850 --> 00:24:49,300 sports venue. This is kind of what's going on 458 00:24:49,310 --> 00:24:53,480 here. People, like we said, 200,000 459 00:24:53,490 --> 00:24:56,560 people flooding into Jerusalem and they're coming to offer 460 00:24:56,570 --> 00:25:01,270 sacrifices to be with God, to come near to God, to be in this 461 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,860 sacred place. And there's these booths set up 462 00:25:03,910 --> 00:25:07,740 where, well, you have to have the right currency to be able to 463 00:25:07,790 --> 00:25:10,920 buy an animal to sacrifice because you're probably not 464 00:25:10,930 --> 00:25:13,170 going to lug an animal all the way from Galilee. 465 00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:15,480 You want to buy one there for the sacrifice. 466 00:25:15,550 --> 00:25:19,840 And so they're skimming off the top and extorting you for for 467 00:25:19,850 --> 00:25:22,270 money so that you can exchange to the right currency to buy 468 00:25:22,340 --> 00:25:24,320 stuff. And then they're selling these 469 00:25:24,330 --> 00:25:28,750 animals for there's reports in history up to 10 times the price 470 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,700 that you'd usually pay. So something like a pigeon, like 471 00:25:31,770 --> 00:25:35,560 1 gold shekel was the price that sometimes like 10 times what 472 00:25:35,570 --> 00:25:38,440 they're actually worth. And the really sad thing is that 473 00:25:38,450 --> 00:25:42,920 if we read Leviticus 5 verse 7, something like the the pigeons 474 00:25:42,930 --> 00:25:46,530 or the doves, which Jesus overturns the benches there, 475 00:25:46,540 --> 00:25:48,300 these were actually for poor people. 476 00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:51,380 It was a provision for people who couldn't, couldn't afford to 477 00:25:51,390 --> 00:25:53,830 buy a lamb. And so it anyone who can't 478 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,630 afford a lamb is to bring 2 doves or two pigeons to the 479 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,310 Lord. And so these these people in 480 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,730 power, the House of Annas, they've set up this system by 481 00:26:03,740 --> 00:26:06,510 which the temple is not a place where people can come near to 482 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:11,910 God, where anyone is welcome, where the blessings are going 483 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,410 forth. But they've set it up as 484 00:26:13,420 --> 00:26:17,530 essentially a temple to Mammon as as a way of them extorting 485 00:26:17,540 --> 00:26:21,270 people to make money. It is a monument to their greed. 486 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,020 And Jesus is, as you can imagine, pretty furious with 487 00:26:25,030 --> 00:26:29,470 this. He's like just ticked off at at 488 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:34,190 the rulers of Israel that they are taking advantage of their 489 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,370 position as the leaders of these people and taking advantage of 490 00:26:38,380 --> 00:26:40,770 them and extorting them from money when they should be the 491 00:26:40,780 --> 00:26:43,120 ones who are mediating blessing to them. 492 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:47,520 And so he contrasts this this fact that there supposed to be a 493 00:26:47,530 --> 00:26:50,990 House of prayer with this quotation from Jeremiah Chapter 494 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,790 7, which I think kind of speaks for itself. 495 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,970 We'll just read it. This is what Jesus is drawing on 496 00:26:55,980 --> 00:26:59,160 when he calls it a den of robbers, says, this is the word 497 00:26:59,170 --> 00:27:01,360 of the Lord that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. 498 00:27:01,950 --> 00:27:04,700 Stand at the gate of the Lord's house and there proclaim this 499 00:27:04,710 --> 00:27:06,900 message. Hear the word of the Lord. 500 00:27:06,910 --> 00:27:10,260 All you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship 501 00:27:10,270 --> 00:27:13,620 the Lord, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel 502 00:27:13,630 --> 00:27:17,800 says, reform your ways and your actions and I will let you live 503 00:27:17,810 --> 00:27:21,150 in this place. Do not trust and deceptive words 504 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,860 and say this is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the 505 00:27:23,870 --> 00:27:27,690 Lord, the temple of the Lord. If you really change your ways 506 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:31,300 and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not 507 00:27:31,310 --> 00:27:34,390 oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, do not 508 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,570 shed innocent blood in this place. 509 00:27:36,660 --> 00:27:39,870 And if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I 510 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,910 will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your 511 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,420 ancestors forever and ever. But look, you are trusting and 512 00:27:47,430 --> 00:27:49,460 deceptive words that are worthless. 513 00:27:49,670 --> 00:27:53,480 Will you steal, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to 514 00:27:53,490 --> 00:27:56,820 Baal, and follow other gods you have not known? 515 00:27:56,970 --> 00:27:59,980 And then come and stand before me in this house which bears my 516 00:27:59,990 --> 00:28:03,810 name, and say we are safe, safe to do all these detestable 517 00:28:03,820 --> 00:28:06,310 things. Has this house which bears my 518 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,170 name become become a den of robbers to you? 519 00:28:09,420 --> 00:28:11,360 But I have been watching, declares the Lord. 520 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,520 What does Jesus do next? The blind. 521 00:28:19,530 --> 00:28:22,940 The lame came to him at the temple and he healed them. 522 00:28:23,290 --> 00:28:26,040 So historically at this time, the blind and the lame were 523 00:28:26,050 --> 00:28:29,140 excluded from the temple. They weren't allowed to enter 524 00:28:29,150 --> 00:28:32,800 which and the Levitical law, there's actually no prohibition 525 00:28:32,810 --> 00:28:34,400 against this. They were prohibited from 526 00:28:34,410 --> 00:28:36,920 becoming priests, but there's nothing in the Levitical law 527 00:28:36,930 --> 00:28:38,840 that suggests that they couldn't be here. 528 00:28:39,770 --> 00:28:42,920 So what does Jesus do? He flips the script right. 529 00:28:43,170 --> 00:28:47,440 Here's these people being excluded, extorted, left aside, 530 00:28:47,450 --> 00:28:50,640 and Jesus does what the priesthood of God is supposed to 531 00:28:50,650 --> 00:28:52,360 do. He comes and heals them, right? 532 00:28:52,370 --> 00:28:54,220 He brings God's blessing to them. 533 00:28:54,570 --> 00:28:58,220 And I think he's pulling on on Jeremiah chapter 31, verse 8 534 00:28:58,230 --> 00:29:02,380 here he says, see, I will bring them from the land of the north 535 00:29:02,510 --> 00:29:04,160 and gather them from the ends of the earth. 536 00:29:04,170 --> 00:29:06,150 Among them will be the blind and the lame. 537 00:29:06,510 --> 00:29:09,160 There's this prophetic promise that God is gonna gather all 538 00:29:09,170 --> 00:29:12,640 people to Jerusalem and that all things will be restored in Jesus 539 00:29:12,730 --> 00:29:16,240 enacting just that, right? He is healing the blind and the 540 00:29:16,250 --> 00:29:20,520 lame in the temple courts. The stark contrast with with the 541 00:29:20,530 --> 00:29:25,900 House of Anash that is extorting them so what's happening here 542 00:29:25,910 --> 00:29:30,360 Jesus has this unexpected turn in his entry into Jerusalem he's 543 00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:34,720 the king coming home and the first thing he does is not defy 544 00:29:34,730 --> 00:29:34,970 the.