1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,440 Nice to see you, Cameron. So nice to have you here. 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,119 You've chose a beautiful set for tonight. 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,360 Why don't you come up here? And the guy on the drums, that 4 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:12,920 set's also very beautiful. Devin, where are you? 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,480 Yes, Devin. You can also come up here. 6 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,840 Where are you, Devin? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 7 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,440 I know. You guys look beautiful. 8 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,200 Let's give them a big hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,360 Hello, buddy. Nice to see you. 10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,440 Nice to see you now. You guys look amazing. 11 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,200 Absolutely amazing. So nice that your girlfriends 12 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,120 let you wear their shirts today. I'm so pleased for that. 13 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,760 So it's really nice. So what we're going to do is 14 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,240 we're going to have a lesson in palm dancing. 15 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,800 Yes. Yeah, I can hold that there. 16 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,040 Thank you. Thank you. 17 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:47,040 You know, I'll do it for you, bud. 18 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:48,960 Let me pick it up. I don't want you to strain 19 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,240 anything. So. 20 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,320 OK, So what we're going to do, we're going to just watch you 21 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,280 and, and, and you're going to Just Dance with palms. 22 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,640 If you look at the back there, you see the whole Sunday is Palm 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,240 Sunday and Palm Sunday is actually a very today is Palm 24 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,400 Sunday and Palm Sunday is the beginning of Holy Week. 25 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,120 And actually from now until Easter Sunday is the whole it's 26 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,720 it's when Jesus came into Jerusalem, did a whole lot of 27 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,320 really radical things. I spoke to you about Stood Bull 28 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,280 and, and Jack Para and all those kind of things that Jesus does 29 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:31,680 at this week. And then he dies and he expects 30 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,440 us to die with him and then he comes to life and he will give 31 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,800 us resurrection life. So this week is actually a week 32 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:44,720 of palm trees and death and internal investigation and, and 33 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,920 the deep walk with God. And at this week he wants us to 34 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,960 put some things down and to give some things up and to follow him 35 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,560 into crucifixion. He wants to take your anger and 36 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,960 pin it to the cross. He wants to take your abuse and 37 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,240 pin it to the cross. He wants to take the 38 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,040 deficiencies of your upbringing and pin it to the cross so that 39 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,000 we don't live with excuses for the rest of our lives. 40 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,120 He he actually fulfilled and his blood is enough to keep us 41 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,880 going. So if you guys can, sorry, don't 42 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,840 put them down and you can just pick them up and just, yeah. 43 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,840 And don't any of you laugh because I'm going to call you 44 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,480 next. Any one of you with a white 45 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,200 shirt tonight? I can see everywhere. 46 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,280 You can hide. You can do what you like, so you 47 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,640 can look that way. You can look down, you can look 48 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,000 up and you got a white shirt on and run. 49 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,240 Oh, oh, my son-in-law. Is that what? 50 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,640 Yo, I tell you, is that a white jacket? 51 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:45,520 My dog, darling, it's not beige. I I tell you this is what I I 52 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:50,040 bought it for her birthday. Yo, that's close to what I 53 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,640 wouldn't laugh so loudly, young lady, with those gold buttons. 54 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,960 And as we look up, yes, you with the glasses, you can look 55 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:03,280 whichever way you want. I'm going to catch you white 56 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,320 shirt guys. And just because we're going to 57 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,800 be anti religious, I'm going to go for blue shirts as well. 58 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,240 Oh yes, that's a that's a proper blue shirts. 59 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,400 Yeah, yeah, you can catch them on the IT, but I'll catch you 60 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,160 tonight. How you feeling, bro? 61 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,040 Feeling a bit nervous? You're not. 62 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:28,320 And what pants? Now put your Bible down because 63 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,240 you we better do this whole black white thing. 64 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,840 Come, let's do this whole black white thing. 65 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,520 You can replace that guy with the beard. 66 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,520 Yeah, the guy. That guy. 67 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,600 That guy with a beard. I like the other guy. 68 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,400 There you can go, Cameron, because you you came and stole 69 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,200 one of our girls. But we really love you. 70 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,200 You're an amazing guy. And then just do the sort of 71 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,040 like, black, white. We don't really know each other, 72 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,840 but we, like, know Jesus together. 73 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:58,160 Yeah. Yeah. 74 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,720 Give each other a hug. Like you're like, give each 75 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,080 other a hug. This is Pretoria. 76 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:03,480 Apartheid started. Yeah. 77 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,160 But Jesus has sorted all that out. 78 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,120 So. So it's like. 79 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:08,640 Yeah, yeah. What are you? 80 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,040 What's your name? I'm Arnold. 81 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,120 Arnold. Arnold. 82 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,600 That's Devon. Why do you give each other, 83 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,279 like, a hug? Like Jesus really means it? 84 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:21,680 Oh, it's beautiful. It's beautiful If you if you 85 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,800 brought your family to churches. We do this every week. 86 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,920 Now, can you do, like a Hebrew, like a little bit like Hebrew, A 87 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,240 little bit Israeli. I know you're from Palestine, 88 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,680 but a little bit Israeli. Palestinian. 89 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,560 Where? Where are you from? 90 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:35,800 Arnold. Arnold. 91 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,400 Where are you from? From the Free State. 92 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,040 Are you Sotho? Yeah, I'm Sotho you so though 93 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,080 we're in the Free State, Arnold. Virginia. 94 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:47,760 Virginia. Geez, that's in the dark part of 95 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,440 the Free State, right. What are the white guys like 96 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,960 there in Virginia? Yeah, Yeah. 97 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,120 No, no, not really. Not really. 98 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,640 Eh. So so do you like, like Jesus 99 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,080 really has touched your heart deeply and and you can just sort 100 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,120 of wave the palm broth. Yeah. 101 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:04,800 Just do it like in a sort of a holy way. 102 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:11,040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's beautiful. 103 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:13,920 Absolutely. Thank you. 104 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:22,040 Let's give them a big hand. The whites. 105 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:24,200 What do you say? The whites? 106 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:29,480 You chose your dress code well, bro. 107 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,600 So listen to Matthew 21 and just pick a few things about why on 108 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,320 earth is important. So if you've never waved the 109 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,720 palm branch in your life, you and I are going to wave palm 110 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,320 branches for the rest of our lives, just so that you know 111 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,800 that. And so let's read this, Matthew 112 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,640 21. It's called the time for entry 113 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:51,240 as they approach. So I won't be long. 114 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,400 Tonight. As they approached Jerusalem and 115 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,760 came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent 2 of 116 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,760 disciples saying to them, go to the village ahead of you and at 117 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,520 once there you'll find a donkey tied there with their colt by 118 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,160 her. Untie them and bring them to me. 119 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,240 If anyone says anything, you tell them that the Lord needs 120 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,960 them and he will send them right away. 121 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,680 This took place to fulfill or the spoken through the prophet 122 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,480 say to the daughter of Zion, see your king comes to you gentle 123 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,400 and riding on a donkey on a colt, the fold of a donkey. 124 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,960 The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 125 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,960 They bought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on 126 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,600 them, and Jesus sat on them. A very large crowd spread out 127 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,160 their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches, palm 128 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,360 branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 129 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,400 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed 130 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,520 shouted Hosanna to the Son of David. 131 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:52,760 Shout that. Let's start it. 123 Hosanna to 132 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,760 the Son of David, 123 Let's start it loudly. 133 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,520 That's what happens on Palm Sunday. 134 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,880 Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the 135 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,560 name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. 136 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,000 When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and 137 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,120 asked, who is this? The crowd answered, this is 138 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,320 Jesus the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee. 139 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,640 John chapter 1 says, can anything good come from 140 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:27,440 Nazareth? Can anything good come from 141 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,240 Virginia? I come from the Free State too, 142 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,240 Arnold. I come from a place called 143 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,960 Swinburne that is between Harry Smith and Van Reelen. 144 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,640 Little place. I don't know where you come 145 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,040 from, what town you come from. I don't know what background you 146 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,080 come from. I don't know what upbringing you 147 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,560 come from. But I can tell you this. 148 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,040 God can use Jesus from Nazareth. He can use you too. 149 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:48,440 Doesn't matter where you come from. 150 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,680 Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were 151 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,680 buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the 152 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,200 money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 153 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,160 It is written, he said, my house will be called a House of 154 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,840 prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers. 155 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,520 Palm Sunday is to deal with the commercialization of the church. 156 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,680 The church was never meant to be a place of money, of robbing 157 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,200 people of money, of making money, of commercializing 158 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,040 religion. The church is meant to be a 159 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:21,040 place of worship. The blind and the lame came to 160 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,760 him at the temple and he healed them. 161 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:27,560 Why didn't they go to the priests? 162 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,680 Because the priest didn't like weakness. 163 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,320 Jesus loves weakness. The church is where the weakest 164 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,559 survive. The world is where the fittest 165 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,640 survive. Palm Sunday. 166 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,159 We must be reminded that this is the place for the weakest. 167 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,760 When you're broken, when you're bruised, when you're hurt, when 168 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,520 you've been let down, when you're rejected, you run to 169 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,720 church and we'll wave palm branches over you. 170 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:56,040 We'll wave, we'll wave victory signs over you. 171 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,400 We'll declare the goodness of God over your life. 172 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,360 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the 173 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,120 wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple 174 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,680 area, you see this with old people. 175 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,240 The new move is going to come through children. 176 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:12,720 It's going to come through young believers. 177 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,680 It's going to come through the next sound wave. 178 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,000 And one of the things that offends the church is new music. 179 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,360 This music, this, this kind of music offends the church, but 180 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,240 there's going to be new music. There's going to be new 181 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,200 instruments, there's going to be new kinds of singing. 182 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,040 That's what's going to come. And the old religious systems 183 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,800 will always be offended by that because they want to control the 184 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:37,120 environment. I've, I've been a Damon 185 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,200 container. I've been here 12 years. 186 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,280 I've never chosen a song in the life of this church. 187 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,120 I don't ever ask what they worship being because you can't. 188 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,600 The moment you control worship, you control the temple, the life 189 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,360 of God goes. So between the guys, Greg and 190 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,760 Mitch and whoever was leading today, they're called by God to 191 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,440 worship, to take us into worship. 192 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,200 Hosanna, hosanna, Hosanna to him who's in the highest, that word 193 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:04,120 hosanna means to save. So when this time on Easter, 194 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,000 Palm Sunday, when we shout hosanna, we sang God save me, 195 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,880 God save me hosanna. It's not just a worship song. 196 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,160 It's a deep cry for salvation to come into my heart. 197 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,520 I've told the story once before, but there was many, many years 198 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,520 ago I was in a church in Durban, big church, probably as big as 199 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:25,960 this, but it was flat. And the man came in. 200 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,840 His wife had had an affair with Princess Di's brother. 201 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,280 Remember Princess Di, Charles and Di, He had an affair. 202 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,440 It was this royal big affair. It made the public headlines. 203 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,520 He was trying to save his marriage, and I remember he came 204 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,880 in early 6:00 in the morning. He came into our church just 205 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,120 sitting in the very back row, basically in his heart crying, 206 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,200 Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna. God save my marriage. 207 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,000 God save me. God do something and for some 208 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,320 reason that Thursday morning, early in the morning, the elders 209 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,480 got him to the stage and we just lifted our hands over an empty 210 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,800 congregation and we just started praying, crying out to God for 211 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,920 salvation. The Spirit of God hit him off 212 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,400 the back of his chair, threw him about 5 meters, threw him 213 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,160 backwards. He was filled with the Holy 214 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,520 Spirit. His marriage got saved, he got 215 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,600 saved, his children got saved, and he's still serving God with 216 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,000 his wife today. This is the day, friends, to cry 217 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,400 out to God. This is the day that we cry. 218 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:24,520 Hosanna, those things that have bothered you for years, go home 219 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,280 tonight, look into the mirror and cry. 220 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,800 Hosanna, God, heal me. God save me. 221 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,200 God, stop this nonsense in my life. 222 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:39,040 God deliver me from pornography. Hosanna, God, Hosanna. 223 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,600 Lord. God, friends, have you ever 224 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,480 tried to ride a donkey? I mean, the the muy Cliff guys 225 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,200 will tell you you can't do the muy Cliff. 226 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,160 You can't just ride a horse. You can't just call a horse and 227 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:52,920 ride the horse. It will scorp you. 228 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,800 It will kick you right off. A donkey's worse. 229 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:03,200 A don't you don't just get on a donkey and think giddy up, giddy 230 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,880 up, giddy up. A donkey. 231 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,720 Just this donkey's never been ridden in its life. 232 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,760 And Jesus gets onto the donkey, and that donkey knows that he's 233 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:18,840 the king, and that donkey submits to the king. 234 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,880 That donkey doesn't buck him. These things. 235 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 If I buck him, this is the king. I must submit to him. 236 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,440 I've never had a human on me in my life. 237 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:28,720 Everything in my nature wants to kick him off. 238 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,320 But I'm going to carry him into the crowd. 239 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,360 And those crowd are going to shout to Hosanna and people are 240 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,920 going to get saved. People are going to get saved. 241 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,720 I pray that you get saved tonight. 242 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,960 I pray that you get saved from the things that are plaguing you 243 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:51,680 tonight. Do you hear what these children 244 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:52,880 are saying? They asked them. 245 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,480 Yes, replied Jesus. Have you never read from the 246 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,160 lips of children and infants? You have ordained praise. 247 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,120 Old people, listen to me. There is going to come a new 248 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,600 song that is going to fill this world and it's going to come 249 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,320 from young people. The beat is going to be 250 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:11,480 different, the style is going to be different, the clothes they 251 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,680 wear is going to be different, and you and I have to receive 252 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:16,960 it. It is going to be the thing that 253 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:18,800 is going to usher in the Kingdom of God. 254 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,160 Don't stop young people worshipping Jesus. 255 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,720 Not when they stay late at night, not when they meet in 256 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:33,400 West Cafe on Mondays, not when any whenever young people gather 257 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,320 to worship. God is busy bringing his pattern 258 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,680 of freedom onto the earth. Don't stop it. 259 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:42,800 Don't stop it. We can't control it. 260 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,560 I realize what leaders in the churches and religious 261 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,640 institutions trying to do is they try and control the next 262 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:50,960 move of God. You can't. 263 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,880 God is going to break out amongst young people, and I 264 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,960 trust you young people, that you would be brave, that you would 265 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,280 step out, that you would dance, that you would bring the new 266 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,360 music, the new rhythms of this earth. 267 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:07,200 You'd bring them to the church. Amen. 268 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,560 And he left them and he went out of the city to Bethany, where he 269 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:15,600 spent the night. Early in the morning he was on 270 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,840 his way back to the city. He was hungry. 271 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,200 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found 272 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,480 nothing on it except leaves, and he said, May you never bear 273 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,520 fruit again. Immediately the tree withered. 274 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,320 When the disciples saw this they were amazed. 275 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,600 How did the fig tree wither so quickly, They asked. 276 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,480 Jesus replied, I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do 277 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,520 not doubt, not only can you do what has been done to the fig 278 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,120 tree, but also you can say to this mountain, go throw yourself 279 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,200 into the sea and it will be done. 280 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,960 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. 281 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,920 Why friends, do we celebrate Palm Sunday? 282 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,120 Why do we take this day and look at palm trees? 283 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,200 I want to just show you 2 scriptures 1 from 1 Kings 284 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:58,640 chapter 6 if you can put it up please. 285 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:02,920 This is the Old Testament. For those who don't know, it's 286 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,160 2000 years before this scripture was written. 287 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,880 It says on the walls all around the temple in both the inner and 288 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,760 outer rooms he carved cherubim. Cherubim. 289 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,480 Just keep the scripture. I have cherubim. 290 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,520 When God kicked him out the garden, he put two cherubim 291 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,440 there with flaming swords. Cherubim were the judgment 292 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,840 angels. They were meant to judge us for 293 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,880 our sin and protect us coming close to God. 294 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,440 So cherubim were the judgment angels. 295 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:33,720 In the book of Exodus when God makes the ark he makes 2 296 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,680 cherubim which they nated two kinds of angels, cherubim and 297 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,000 seraphim. One shout holy, holy, holy. 298 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:40,800 The other ones cut your head off with the sword. 299 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,960 But he takes 2 cherubim judging angels when he makes the ark and 300 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,560 he makes them pointing downwards and they look on the ark and on 301 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,760 side of the on top of the ark seat cover is blood and 302 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,840 underneath the the seat is the 10 commandments. 303 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,680 Those 10 commandments pin you to the wall. 304 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:01,400 You are guilty and you should go to jail and the angels will 305 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,160 judge you for it. But when the angels look down, 306 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,640 they see the blood, and instead of bringing judgment, they bring 307 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,960 redemption. They get kicked out the garden. 308 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,440 Now they've wandered around in the wilderness for a long time. 309 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,440 They've gone from place to place to place to place to place in 310 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,720 the Tabernacle. Now Solomon wants to build the 311 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,920 temple, and he says, listen, we need to put cherubim in there 312 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,120 just to remind us that we walked away from God. 313 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,680 But by his mercy, he made the cherubim look downwards. 314 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:27,720 So all of us here tonight should be judged. 315 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:34,880 But God is gracious, so he looks at the blood palm trees and open 316 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,400 flowers. So, so he's making, he's 317 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,640 starting to decorate the temple, puts palm trees in there because 318 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,360 he knows what it was like in the garden when the presence of God 319 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,400 was there. And he says somehow we have to 320 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,320 try and we messed up the garden. But let's try and recreate a 321 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,480 space here on earth where we can have cherubim and we can have a 322 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,920 little bit of palm trees, a bit like the garden, and maybe God 323 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,480 will come back and dwell amongst us. 324 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:02,080 Maybe, maybe, just maybe the presence of God will come back 325 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,079 to us. Because friends, if we do not 326 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:05,960 have the presence of God, we've got nothing. 327 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,319 Moses says don't send us from here. 328 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,319 Don't send us out from here. Don't send us anyway, Lord God, 329 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:14,839 unless you've got your presence. Unless you've got your presence. 330 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:19,640 I don't want to repeat a story, friends, but last week I told 331 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,040 the story. I was sitting in a market and a 332 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,560 girl was sitting about 3 down for me on the other side. 333 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,599 And as I sat down, I had a brand new pen. 334 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,640 I started writing, I just felt God's presence come on me. 335 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,120 I started writing some scriptures. 336 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:33,120 I gave it to her. She opened it. 337 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:36,280 She started weeping and then she she left and I didn't see her 338 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,000 again. I just know her name was Amanda. 339 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,920 And somebody said to you, she must listen to the preach from 340 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,360 three CR And this morning in the in the foyer, I walked up and 341 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:47,160 this young lady walked up. She said, how do you Remember 342 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,920 Me? I said your name is Amanda said, 343 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:54,000 yes, I met you at the market. You see friends, we don't need 344 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,640 the presence of God here. We need the presence of God out 345 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,680 there. Your barbers and hairdressers 346 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:03,040 and coffee connoisseurs and students and lecturers and 347 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,920 teachers and doctors and lawyers, you need the presence 348 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,800 of God there. You need the palm tree engraved 349 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,240 upon your heart. So wherever you go, the garden 350 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:14,720 of God may go with you and the presence of God can go with you. 351 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,480 You also covered the floors of both the in and out the rooms of 352 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,720 the temple with gold. Let's go all the way to the New 353 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:29,240 Testament Revelation Chapter 7. After this I looked and there 354 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,760 before me was a great multitude that no one could count from 355 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,440 every nation, tribe, people, and language. 356 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:41,480 There was a Sutu man from Virginia in South Africa called 357 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,800 Arnold. There was a Lebanese guy from 358 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,440 Pretoria called Devon. There was an old guy called Rory 359 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,040 from Durban. There's another guy from 360 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,880 Pretoria. There's some guys who came from 361 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,600 Brits, the other guys who have come from overseas. 362 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,040 There's a girl today with us who's from Germany. 363 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,600 And God starts to gather this group of people from all over 364 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,520 the world, rich people, white people, black people, young 365 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,680 people, old people, clever people, dumb people, qualified 366 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:12,520 people, unqualified people, divorced people, married people. 367 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,760 And he starts to put us all together. 368 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:23,400 That's the beauty of the church. Every nation, every nation, 369 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,120 every tribe, people and language standing before the throne and 370 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:35,480 in front of the Lamb They were wearing say it and we're holding 371 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:39,920 palm branches in their hands. They were wearing white robes 372 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:43,840 and holding palm branches in their hands and they cried out 373 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:48,160 in a loud voice. Salvation belongs to our God who 374 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,160 sits on there, not on the donkey anymore. 375 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,200 He doesn't sit on the donkey anymore, He sits on the throne. 376 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:03,720 He sits on the throne and the throne will never kick him off 377 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:05,080 because he belongs on the throne. 378 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:12,400 Friends, this Sunday, Jesus Christ needs to ride into your 379 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,200 life. And take his seat on the throne. 380 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,920 You need to know two things. Palm branches speak about the 381 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,320 presence of God and the victory of God. 382 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,000 We are dressed in white. It doesn't matter who you are, 383 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,040 we are dressed in white. We are dressed in white. 384 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,640 Arnold, you could have chosen any color to come dressed to 385 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,280 church and thread, but you chose white. 386 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,720 And we tease and we laugh. Why do you stand, David? 387 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:50,880 Why don't you come here? This is Palm Sunday. 388 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,360 You could have chosen any shirt. I remember once I did a 389 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:57,720 conference in Durban with a man called Mark Driscoll. 390 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,440 He's a big preacher guy for America. 391 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,320 We arrived at exactly the same shirts and he was a reformed 392 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:03,640 preacher. I'm a charismatic. 393 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,000 I believe in the spirit of God. He believes in like theology. 394 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,480 We had the same shirt. I said how did this work? 395 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:16,360 He said before the earth was formed God decided in his 396 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:20,840 pre-existing form that you and I would wear the same shirt on 397 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,080 this day. He said but for you 398 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,560 charismatics, you opened your cupboard in the spirit of God 399 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:30,280 said put that one on. What? 400 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,680 Why, you never knew the scripture, hey, but you put on a 401 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,480 white shirt. You never knew I'd call you out 402 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:36,000 today. Hey. 403 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,560 Yeah. But a black man and a white man 404 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,800 dressed in white with palm branches. 405 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:42,920 For the rest of our lives, we're going to stand. 406 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,400 And there's going to be a Chinese guy here and an Indian 407 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,200 guy here and a woman over here. And there's going to be a 408 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,120 prostitute over there. And there's going to be. 409 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:54,520 And we're all going to stand in white clothes with palm 410 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,040 branches. And we're going to worship the 411 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,000 king. We're going to worship the king 412 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,120 and he's going to take his authority in our lives. 413 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,960 This week is a tough week for Christians because it's the week 414 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:18,360 when the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of ourselves clash and 415 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,680 we have to bow down. We have to give it up. 416 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,680 I want to read one verse and we finished. 417 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,520 You can put on Matthew 21 again, please, 418 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:56,940 and verse 6. Let's read verse 6 together. 419 00:22:58,340 --> 00:23:02,980 The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 420 00:23:03,540 --> 00:23:07,300 Let's read it again. The disciples went and did as 421 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:11,260 Jesus had instructed him. If you want a whole manual on 422 00:23:11,260 --> 00:23:15,840 discipleship, there's the manual the disciples went and did as 423 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,840 Jesus had instructed them. That's the manual of 424 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,480 discipleship. The whole manual of discipleship 425 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,320 right there. I love it when Jesus tells me to 426 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,760 do wonderful things like go and preach at conferences in 427 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,120 Australia with a 5700 people. It's not so lacquer when he 428 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:33,600 tells me to go and fetch a donkey. 429 00:23:39,690 --> 00:23:42,890 I went to a birthday party today and I quickly had to ration to 430 00:23:42,890 --> 00:23:46,520 the shopping center to go and get a presence and arrested. 431 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,080 And there was a young couple sitting there and they said, hey 432 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,360 Rory, we're at church this morning and we saw you call that 433 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:55,000 girl Amanda. And we asked God that somehow 434 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,960 we'd be able to connect with you and we thought maybe even today 435 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,760 you'd walk past us. I said, how's things going? 436 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,000 He said we've been in your church for about 6 or 8 weeks 437 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,120 now. I said, how's it going? 438 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:08,200 They said we used to live together but now we've moved the 439 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,760 part because we believe it's wrong. 440 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,240 I haven't preached on sex before marriage once in six weeks, not 441 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,040 once. I haven't preached on it, but 442 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:23,240 somehow sitting here, the Lord has instructed them sometime the 443 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,800 Lord has instructed them. And I said to me, Flip, it's 444 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,920 hard. I said, I've also been there, 445 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,360 bro. I understand. 446 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,720 I was dating when I was a Christian and sex is not given 447 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,720 by the devil, given by God. Devil's too stupid to invent 448 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,240 something like that. You're just twisted into 449 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,320 pornography. You're just twisted into lust, 450 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,040 but they're just sitting there said can you help us? 451 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,160 Pastor said of course I can help you because discipleship is just 452 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,320 following what Jesus has instructed people come to you 453 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,360 and say can you save my marriage? 454 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:01,880 I said I can save your marriage easily. 455 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:05,160 Wife submit to your husband. You can't say that to a woman is 456 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:06,960 not saved. She'll tell you 2 forsake. 457 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,240 It's not written to unsaved women. 458 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,360 It's written to disciples. It's written to disciples. 459 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:20,040 Wife, submit to your husband. And if you think that's 460 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,440 hardcore, ladies, the Bible says, husband, lay down your 461 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,640 life for your wife. At least you get to live. 462 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,680 The man dies. So girls, stop moaning. 463 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,040 You get a much better deal, but you can save your marriage like 464 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:41,480 that. Why? 465 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,160 Because that's what Jesus instructed. 466 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,360 So Palm Sunday, go back to the instructions of Christ. 467 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,160 Go back to the instructions of Christ. 468 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,360 If you say, can you help me with this? 469 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:53,800 Can you? I said, I can help you with the 470 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,800 instructions of Christ. And if he says fetch the donkey, 471 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,280 fetch the donkey. He says planet church, planet 472 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,960 church. If he says study medicine, study 473 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:08,160 medicine. Oh, that beautiful young girl 474 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,800 there. I've known her, she was since 475 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,560 she was a school girl. I've known her, I've watched 476 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,720 her. The spit of God came upon her, I 477 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,640 don't know when it was 10/11/12 years old, came upon her, spit 478 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,760 of God, put her aside, set her aside, set her aside, gave her 479 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,560 the an unbelievable ability to study. 480 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,680 She qualifies as a doctor this year because the spit of God 481 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,400 came upon, instructed her. You go to Pretoria, your parents 482 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,160 live in Cape Town, go and study medicine and she gives herself 483 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,320 to it day after day after day. And then there's a credible man 484 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,640 came into her life and she he knew that he and he was from 485 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,200 Joburg. He can't be see me, he said, but 486 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,000 I've fallen in love with this girl in Pretoria. 487 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,280 And God instructed him, if you want to data, you must move to 488 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,200 Pretoria. So he moves to Pretoria. 489 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:54,320 He moved his business to Pretoria because the Lord 490 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,760 instructed him. Palm Sunday, friends, is the day 491 00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,600 that we listen to the instruction of God. 492 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:05,920 It's the day that we live to the instruction of God. 493 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,800 Here the Bible says about your parents, honor your parents, 494 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,840 honor your parents. That's the instruction of God. 495 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:16,840 If you have got a broken relationship with your parents, 496 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,680 write them a letter, make a phone call, send them flowers. 497 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:25,400 I have a broken relationship with one person this week, and 498 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,840 every relationship that's broken has got two sides to it. 499 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,200 But this week as I read the scripture, I wrote a letter 500 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,440 saying I believe I am fully responsible for this broken 501 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,280 relationship. I am fully responsible. 502 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,840 I repent. I also forgiveness. 503 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:42,680 I try. I've also said we can try and 504 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,840 repair this. And they wrote back and said why 505 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,040 now? Why not earlier when I was in 506 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,240 trouble? And I said I don't know, I think 507 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,280 I was too proud. But I said please, I'm asking 508 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,320 you for mercy and grace. I'll go, let it back, say you 509 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,000 have got mercy and grace. What? 510 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,280 What is God instructing you tonight on Palm Sunday? 511 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,920 We're dressed in white, we've got palm trees in our hands, Our 512 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:13,200 King is upon the throne. We are free, we are safe, we are 513 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,440 secure. But what is the instruction to 514 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,480 us tonight? This is my prayer. 515 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,080 You listen carefully, and this week you follow out his 516 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,640 instruction in Jesus name, Amen.