1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,640 Welcome to the Rheem Sound Church of God podcast. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,360 Wherever you're listening from, we hope you are blessed by 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,400 today's message. And by the way, this week, April 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,560 3rd being Good Friday, there are a lot of, there's a lot of buzz 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,040 about that because there's a number of historians who will 6 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,640 tell you that they have traced the actual Good Friday 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,480 experience all the way back and it was actually on April 3rd. 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,440 Now whether that's true or not is immaterial, but it just so 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,560 happens that this is April 3rd coming up for Good Friday. 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:34,160 So in all that you do, keep the Lord before you all week long. 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:40,520 You've heard me say this before, but in 1972, then President 12 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:44,720 Richard Nixon, they, he made a shocking trip to the world at 13 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,320 that time because he travelled to Beijing, China and went met 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,960 with Mao Si Dong, who was the Communist Party leader. 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:01:00,440 And he was there for a week and the headlines read The Week that 16 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,080 Changed the World. And I don't know about changing 17 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,880 the world. I think it did probably have 18 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,600 something to do with some of the Cold War that was taking place. 19 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,080 It kind of simmered it down a bit, but I wouldn't say it 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:18,280 changed the world. But we are today beginning to 21 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,720 celebrate the real week that really did change the world. 22 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:30,080 And I am thankful for the change that came by Jesus Christ coming 23 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,640 into Jerusalem, spending that week there dying on the cross of 24 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,560 Calvary, buried and raised from the dead and ascended back to 25 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,840 the Father. What an awesome God we serve and 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,240 we celebrate Jesus today. Amen. 27 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,280 I want you to stand with me, if you will, for the reading. 28 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,280 A word I want to speak today on this thought. 29 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:56,080 I want you to beware of the praise police. 30 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,920 I want you to beware of the praise police. 31 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,280 You know, I have a on my phone, as most of you do. 32 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,479 You have AGPS and you might be using whatever. 33 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:13,080 I typically use Waze for the most of the time and I'm 34 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,840 traveling and sometimes it will tell me that there is a 35 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,680 policeman ahead and sometimes it will even tell me he's hidden. 36 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,280 Now, that's just in case I might have accidentally just, you 37 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,920 know, got over the speed limit just a little bit. 38 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,720 I'm not so sure that the policeman likes that, that that 39 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,040 is being revealed. But you know, I kind of don't 40 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,640 want to get a ticket. How about you? 41 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,960 I don't want to pay a fine if I don't have to. 42 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,240 Well, there's a different kind of policeman and they're 43 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,400 everywhere today. And that's the praise police. 44 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,240 And we're going to read about them from Luke chapter 19 and 45 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,760 then from John chapter 12. This is about Palm Sunday. 46 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,480 It says then as he was now drawing near that verse 37, 47 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,720 Jesus is drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives. 48 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,160 The whole multitude of the disciples. 49 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,760 That's not just 12. The whole multitude of the 50 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:17,080 disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for 51 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,120 all the mighty works they had seen saved. 52 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,560 Blessed is the king, who comes in the name of the Lord, peace 53 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,800 in heaven, and glory in the highest. 54 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:34,520 And some of the Pharisees, they decided to get their own badges 55 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,440 and be policemen. And some of the Pharisees called 56 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:43,040 to him from the crowd, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. 57 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,360 But he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these 58 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,240 should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out. 59 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,560 Now as he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it. 60 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:02,120 This is quite a paradox, saying if you had known even you, 61 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,000 especially in this year day, the things that make for your peace, 62 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,720 but now they're hidden from your eyes, may that not be true of 63 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,000 us. Many came from all over the 64 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:17,240 world, really of the known world at that time for Passover. 65 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,160 It was a highlight of the religious calendar then, and we 66 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,880 read about it in John chapter 12 as well. 67 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:31,120 It says in verse 12, the next day, a great multitude that had 68 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,000 come to the feast. A great multitude, lots of 69 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,440 people that came to the feast, and when they heard that Jesus 70 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,680 was coming to Jerusalem, they took branches of palm trees and 71 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,240 went out to meet him and cried out. 72 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,960 Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the 73 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,120 King of Israel. Then Jesus, when he had found a 74 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,840 young donkey, sat on it as it is written, Fear not, daughter of 75 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:56,720 Zion, behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's 76 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,120 colt. His disciples did not understand 77 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,400 these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they 78 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,440 remembered that these things were written about him and that 79 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,240 they had done these things to him. 80 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,160 Therefore, the people who were with him when he called Lazarus 81 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,800 out of his tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness. 82 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,840 For this reason, the people also met him because they heard that 83 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:24,760 he had done this sign. The Pharisees, these are the 84 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,040 praise policeman. They said among themselves, You 85 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,640 see that you are accomplishing nothing. 86 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,760 Look, the world has gone after him. 87 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,280 Oh, I wish that were true today. Wouldn't it be awesome if our 88 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:42,480 whole world was going after Jesus today? 89 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,480 What a difference this world would be. 90 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:48,880 What a great place it would be to live if the whole world was 91 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,840 going after Him. Well, that may not be true for 92 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:54,720 the whole world, but it can be true for our world here today. 93 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,040 We can all go after Jesus in this house today. 94 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,000 We can forget about everything else and go after him. 95 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,040 In fact, I just tell you that Aaron Hall shared with Pastor 96 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,760 Joel and I, he was at A at a service yesterday, installation 97 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,240 service at Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, PA. 98 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,840 They had a four hour service. He inspired me. 99 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:25,520 You think we might could do half of that four hours in the House 100 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:26,840 of the Lord? Wouldn't that be awesome? 101 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:28,840 We better pray before you lose it. 102 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:32,200 Father, in the name of Jesus, anoint us, God, to bring this 103 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:33,720 word. Help us to all. 104 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:37,960 Beware of the praise police and help us to give back to you the 105 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,160 praise of the glory and the honor that you're so worthy of. 106 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,480 We thank you for it. We give you praise in Jesus 107 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,160 name, Amen. You may be seated. 108 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:52,680 For one brief, shining moment, it seemed like people finally 109 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,920 got it. It seemed like that what should 110 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,240 have been clear to them for three, at least three, 3 1/2 111 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,160 years was this was the Messiah. This was the Savior. 112 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:10,160 It seemed like on this one day, for this small amount of time, 113 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:15,040 they finally got it. They recognized and they praised 114 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,520 and magnified the name of the Lord. 115 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,520 That was the same Jesus that had been dogged and haunted. 116 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,720 Even as a babe. Herod tried to kill him. 117 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:29,000 We know that he sent out to kill all of the male children from 118 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,400 two years and under just so he could get rid of the Son of God. 119 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:35,000 This was the Jesus who had been lied on. 120 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,840 He was the Jesus that had been disrespected. 121 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,960 He'd been laughed at, made fun of, blasphemy, insulted, 122 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:46,000 ridiculed and rejected. But not this day or at this 123 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,400 moment. The one who had fed the hungry 124 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,120 multitude. The one who had healed the sick 125 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,360 and even raised the dead and gave forgiveness to troubled 126 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,000 minds. He was finally getting some 127 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,440 praise. He was finally getting some 128 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,800 Hallelujah. He was finally getting some 129 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:07,440 glory that was due. His name for one brief moment, 130 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,560 as it were. He's now exalted. 131 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:13,240 They're praising him. People left their fields and 132 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,720 they left their homes and places of business. 133 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:17,920 They heard the Son of God is coming in. 134 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,080 As I said earlier, there were masses from all over the known 135 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,960 world that had come from Passover, and they heard that 136 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:28,920 Jesus was coming into town and they lined up the road and they 137 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,919 began to praise and bless Him. And no matter what the reason 138 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:36,400 was, the terrorist already mentioned their reasoning wasn't 139 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:41,320 what we know it was really for. But I do want to say this about 140 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,440 it at least once. There was a triumphal entry for 141 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,840 him. For once, he was finally getting 142 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,600 praised and glorified and honored. 143 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,040 It was a great moment. I want you to, if there were 144 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,600 children involved in it, just like these kids that were up 145 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,760 here, kids were involved in that moment. 146 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,240 Mothers and dads were involved that moment. 147 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,320 And God was blessing the people and they were shouting praises 148 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,800 to the Lord. But there were the praise 149 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:14,320 police, verse 39 of Luke 19 says, and some of the Pharisees, 150 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,000 these are the religious people. Some of the Pharisees called to 151 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,120 him from the crowd, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. 152 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,480 It seems that they thought that they knew more about church than 153 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,640 Jesus did. It seemed like that they were 154 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,360 experts at how services should be conducted and people who were 155 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,520 religious should conduct themselves. 156 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,280 So they're saying, we really don't like what's happening 157 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,640 here, and we think you ought to stop it right now. 158 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,640 We need you to rebuke your disciples. 159 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,720 We need you to rebuke the people for what they are doing. 160 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,480 And so we don't think you should get this kind of worship. 161 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,800 We don't think you ought to have this. 162 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,000 And we, we really think you ought to put a stop to this, 163 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:09,240 because if one thing we know is that there should be no 164 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:15,280 excitement with church, it should be lifeless, it should be 165 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:17,680 dull. There should never be anybody 166 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,520 saying Hallelujah. Nobody should ever raise their 167 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,440 hands and praise the Lord. And certainly nobody should get 168 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,240 religious enough to put them together and clap them and give 169 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,360 God praise. Why don't you try that? 170 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,960 Could you do that? Give him praise and glory and 171 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:35,400 honor in the name of the Lord. The Pharisees that the praise 172 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,760 police said, stop it when you listen to them. 173 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,000 Don't listen to me when I tell you that. 174 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,360 Don't do that. But this isn't the first time 175 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,160 that Jesus ran into that attitude. 176 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,120 The Bible tells us in Mark 14, three. 177 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,000 And being in Bethany at the House of Simon the leper, as he 178 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,400 sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask, a 179 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,680 very costly oil of spiker. Then she broke the flask and 180 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:09,760 poured it on his head. But there were some who were 181 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,960 indignant among themselves. Think about that. 182 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:19,360 This woman comes in and pours this fragrant oil on Jesus that 183 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:24,480 cost them nothing and they're indignant about it. 184 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,000 They're they're not just watching it, they're angry about 185 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,360 it. And they say, why was this 186 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,760 fragrant oil wasted? Can you tell me how you could 187 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,240 ever waste on Jesus? Now you can waste on me and you 188 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,280 can waste on probably most all of us here, but you could never 189 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,640 waste on Jesus. You'll never give him too much, 190 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,880 too much praise, too much glory, too much honor. 191 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:50,480 You won't even give him too much money. 192 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:52,560 And I'm not taking up an offering. 193 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:58,000 You will never out give God for it might have been sold for more 194 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,080 than 300 in there and given to the poor. 195 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:07,200 And they criticized her sharply. Here's the praise police right 196 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,720 there in Simon's house. But Jesus said, let her alone. 197 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,720 Why do you trouble her? What's the big deal here? 198 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,440 Why are you bothered that somebody loves me? 199 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,960 She's done a good work. She's done a good work for me. 200 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,280 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish 201 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:33,120 you may do them good, but me you do not have always. 202 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:40,320 She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to 203 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,560 anoint my body for burial. They didn't see that. 204 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,000 A Surely, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the 205 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,920 whole world, Stevens, PA, what that woman has done will also be 206 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,640 told as a memorial to her. I'm telling you here on this 207 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,040 hill in Stevens, PA, so you know that this woman did a good work 208 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,960 and the praise police tried to stop her. 209 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,320 But you know what? Jesus knew what was going on in 210 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,160 their hearts and minds, and he's actually going to tell us that 211 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:19,120 what you're witnessing on this day that we call Palm Sunday is 212 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,560 really what should be happening because he says in Luke 1940, 213 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:27,920 and he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these 214 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:33,160 should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out. 215 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,280 In other words, Jesus said I'm going to be praised. 216 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,040 You don't have to do it. You don't have to like it, and 217 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,800 you can even shut people down and shut people off, but I'll 218 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,840 still be praised. And if it takes it, God will 219 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,400 even move on in eight objects. He will move on things that 220 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,440 don't even have life, and you'll hear them begin to praise me 221 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,560 because God will have our people that praise Him. 222 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:03,800 And if not, His creation will praise the name of the Lord. 223 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:09,400 Now the next day, and we didn't read about this, but the next 224 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,240 day Jesus goes into the temple. And you remember when he got 225 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,600 there, what happened? He saw the money changers and 226 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,160 they were selling doves and they were making money and they were 227 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,400 running to and fro through the temple and going from one court 228 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,120 to the other court. And he cleansed the temple. 229 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,000 And he said this is not the purpose of my house. 230 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,880 My house should be called the House of prayer. 231 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:34,680 He turned over benches and tables and like a Wildman, and 232 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,840 he said, you've made the House of God a den of robbers. 233 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:42,040 But I want you to notice what happens in Matthew 2114, right 234 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,200 after that in the temple. This is in the church. 235 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,480 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed 236 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,960 them. He healed blind people and he 237 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:59,600 healed lame people. Now that should bring praise, 238 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,640 right? No, no, no, no. 239 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:06,840 But when the chief priest here we go praise police, when the 240 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,880 somebody blew the whistle, when the chief priests and the 241 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,040 teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the 242 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:17,320 children shouting in the temple, The Who, the children, the 243 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,400 children were there. The children were at church like 244 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:26,800 these kids were up here and they were shouting in the temple 245 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:33,560 course Hosanna to the son of David and they were indignant 246 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:38,040 again, do you hear what these children are saying? 247 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,560 They ask him. They looked at Jesus and say, 248 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:45,400 you hear this Lord? And he said, yes, have you never 249 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,600 read? Do you not read your Bible? 250 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,600 Don't you know the Scripture said, have you never read from 251 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,600 the lips of children and infants? 252 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,840 You, Lord, have called forth your praise. 253 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,560 Brothers and sisters, I am so honored and so blessed when 254 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:08,720 these kids step up on this stage and sing their songs and do 255 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,520 their motions and bless and praise the name of the Lord. 256 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,320 That's what they did in the temple. 257 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,080 And the praise police called them down and said, Jesus, you 258 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,920 ought to stop them now. But Jesus said, have you not 259 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,640 read the Bible? Do you not understand that God 260 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,040 has called children to praise and bless the name of the Lord? 261 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,280 He's called those little guys and gals and they don't mind 262 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,600 making noise. Why is it when we get old we get 263 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,000 quiet? When you were young you were 264 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:44,080 loud, and now you're sedate. We've learned better. 265 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:51,320 What I want to tell you, though, is the Bible tells us in in 266 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,680 Psalm 33, one to rejoice in the Lord. 267 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:59,080 O you righteous. For praise from the upright is 268 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,000 beautiful. It's beautiful when people 269 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,520 praise the name of the Lord. The King James Version there 270 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,800 says praises comely for the upright. 271 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,040 The New International Version says it's fitting for the 272 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,800 upright to praise him. In other words, it's proper you 273 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,079 that like the forks and knives on the right side of the table 274 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:23,319 and I don't know where they belong and the dessert. 275 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:25,480 I don't know where that, but that's important to you. 276 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:28,880 The Bible tells us that praise is just as important. 277 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,680 It's comely it's it's it's the right order of the day. 278 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:37,360 If you're doing things precisely right, you will praise the name 279 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:41,160 of the Lord because that's part of the whole deal is to praise 280 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,840 God for his goodness. Church, Amen. 281 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,680 Bless the Lord, bless the Lord. And so we praise him on this day 282 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:54,400 and we glorify him and we honor him for all that he has done for 283 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,520 us. The, you know, you and I today 284 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,200 can, we can take that moment back. 285 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,200 You know, there's evidence all around us in our world. 286 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,440 There's a lot of hostility toward the Lord today. 287 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:10,520 We see it every day. It shows up in the workplace. 288 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,880 It shows up in government, it shows up in entertainment, 289 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:19,760 terribly in entertainment, in music, in the media. 290 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,480 His name is blasphemed all the time. 291 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,520 Again and again. You have to turn a channel, you 292 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,520 have to turn something off, you have to move to. 293 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,640 But let me tell you something. That's the world. 294 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:34,480 That's a lot of the world. Not all the world, but that's a 295 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,080 lot of the world. But you and I, we can give him 296 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,360 the moment back. I said we can give him that 297 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,800 moment back. We can give what that what the 298 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,080 enemy's tried to steal from the Lord, we can give it back. 299 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,640 The Bible says in Psalm 22, three, but you are holy 300 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,240 enthroned in the praises of Israel and that would be the 301 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,200 same for the church today. So God is enthroned in our 302 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,000 praises. If you want to the presence of 303 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,160 the Lord, the Bible says that God is enthroned in your 304 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,520 praises. When you are praising the Lord, 305 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,600 you are lifting him up. You are making Him king of your 306 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,960 life. Now, brothers and sisters, don't 307 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,480 ever give up on praising the name of the Lord. 308 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,960 He is worthy of all glory and He's worthy of all honor today. 309 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,040 And so we need to give him the moment back. 310 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,440 We need to praise Him and bless Him and glorify Him. 311 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,160 You see, we can give Him. The world isn't doing this, but 312 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:35,000 you and I can give Jesus a triumphal entry again. 313 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,000 We can give Him one every time we come to church. 314 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,160 We can say King of Kings and Lord of Lords, we're going to 315 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:42,920 bless you. That's why we have praise and 316 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:45,520 worship songs and bless the name of the Lord. 317 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,080 So we can give Jesus that entry. We want him to come, right? 318 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,560 We want the word of God to be declared, but we'd like to have 319 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,720 him come in. So we like to praise him and 320 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,720 sing and glorify. Lift your hands, inviting the 321 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,240 presence of the Lord. We don't want to be those that 322 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,000 say stop that. We want to say, Lord, we want 323 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,720 you to come. We want you to come. 324 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,480 We won't have church until you come. 325 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,760 We won't know that we've been in the presence of the Lord until 326 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,120 you come in. The Bible says He's enthroned on 327 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:16,520 your praises. If you want the presence of God 328 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,720 in your life, begin to praise him, begin to bless him, begin 329 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,440 to glorify, begin to honor him. Begin to lift up the name above 330 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:28,720 every other name, the name of Jesus Christ, so we can give the 331 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:34,360 Lord a triumphal entry into our church and not just that, into 332 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:38,600 our hearts. More than anything, more than 333 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,280 anything. Because you know, when Jesus 334 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,000 went into Jerusalem and that next after he got a night of 335 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,800 rest and I went to Bethany, went to Jerusalem the next day. 336 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,520 And when he purged the temple, he went to the temple. 337 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,440 He cleansed the temple. He made it the place that it was 338 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,520 supposed to be. He got rid of stuff that 339 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,080 shouldn't have been there. And he said this is the House of 340 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,920 prayer. This is the House of the Lord. 341 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,080 And he said this is going to be the right way to do it. 342 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,960 Well, brothers and sisters, we don't have a temple in Jerusalem 343 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:08,600 anymore. Now we do have churches all 344 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,400 across America and around the world. 345 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:14,040 And we are in a sense, as the people of God gathered because 346 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,960 that's what a church is. It's the people of God gathered. 347 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,880 We come together, the people of God, and we form a church. 348 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,200 We form a body. And so we can have the right 349 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,680 thing at the right time at the right place. 350 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,520 And so when we have church, we have the right and the privilege 351 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,480 to invite him to have a triumphal entry. 352 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,920 But not only that, you are an individual temple of the Holy 353 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:40,080 Spirit individual, so you have the ability to welcome and have 354 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:43,720 your own personal triumphal entry where you give God praise 355 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,200 when nobody's looking. It's just you and him. 356 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,320 Are we thankful for that today? Thankful for that? 357 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,840 The Bible says in Psalm 24/7, lift up your heads over you 358 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,520 gates and be lifted up you everlasting doors, and the king 359 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,440 of glory shall come in. How many want the king of glory 360 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,120 to come in? The king of glory shall come in. 361 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:06,560 Who is this king of glory you ask? 362 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,640 And he said, it's the Lord strong and mighty. 363 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,840 It's the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O your 364 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,040 gates, lift up you everlasting doors, and the king of glory 365 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,160 shall come in. Who is this king of glory? 366 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,320 The Lord of hosts. He is the king of glory. 367 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:27,680 Sila, I'll pause and think about the King of Glory today. 368 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,880 We want to give him praise. Amen. 369 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,480 Now I realize that we're not going to every time we gather, 370 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,760 we're not going to be jumping over the fuse and, and, and 371 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,880 hanging on the chandeliers. If you can do it here, I say 372 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,480 more power to you. If you get up to those things, 373 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,600 I'd be fine. But I want to tell you what we 374 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,920 can do. We can offer him praise and we 375 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,360 can offer him worship. We can invite him in. 376 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,000 I I, I sense it. You know, I feel this like I 377 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:00,760 have to tell you, though, I was, I was on my way back to my car 378 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,880 to get something. And Sister Carmen stepped out 379 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,760 where I was and she said, Pastor, and could you give us 380 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,160 just a few minutes? We want to pray for you. 381 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,720 If it's all right. Am I going to turn down prayer? 382 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,320 No, no, no, no. I'm going by those ladies. 383 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,680 There was some heat in that room. 384 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:17,560 I got that room and they're praying, man. 385 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,800 I thought, Lord, if I wasn't ready before, I got to be ready 386 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,960 now because they prayed down heaven. 387 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,960 Thank God for praying people. He said my house should be 388 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,960 called a House of prayer, a House of prayer. 389 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,920 Amen. You know the thing that amazed 390 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:38,360 me of the story I just read to you a moment ago in Matthew 21 391 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,720 of Jesus healing blind people and lame people and the 392 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:48,800 Pharisees criticizing him. How could you possibly watch a 393 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,800 lame man walk that couldn't and a blind man see they couldn't 394 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:58,800 and you still find fall? You know, some people are so 395 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,680 critical. It doesn't matter what God does, 396 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:02,840 they find something wrong with it. 397 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,600 How can you go to church and see three or four people get saved, 398 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,720 which is the greatest miracle of all, get their names written in 399 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,520 the Lamb's Book of Life and their past forgiven, and then go 400 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,280 out and criticize something about it? 401 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,160 Well, you, nobody here does that, I understand, but there 402 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,880 are places where they do. They'll go from church and 403 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,840 choose somebody up, I think. Did you not just in the presence 404 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,560 of God and see what God did in that man's life, that woman's 405 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,160 life? You didn't see what God did 406 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,200 there? How in the world? 407 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,840 I'm still baffled by how we can find fault. 408 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:43,960 I better get off that. OK, you know what? 409 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,000 I asked the Lord and I'm not this is true. 410 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,760 I'm this was before church and before anything, before they're 411 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,880 praying for me or anything. I, I asked the Lord, I said, 412 00:24:53,880 --> 00:25:00,520 Lord, let me be like that little donkey and let me transport 413 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:07,160 Jesus to the people today. Let me be just like that donkey 414 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,560 and just transport Jesus. I don't know if donkeys think a 415 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,760 lot. I don't know much about donkeys. 416 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:22,480 I've met a few but I but I don't know how much they reason, but 417 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,040 I'm sure this donkey. But you how many know that was a 418 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:30,320 borrowed donkey? Disciples just went up to some 419 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,440 guy's house and said it started losing the donkey. 420 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,400 Tell him wait a minute, Ho ho, where you going? 421 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,000 Said the Lord needs him. Take him. 422 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,680 Wouldn't it be great? That'd be like me coming to your 423 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,520 house and you have your purse sitting out, ladies, and I'm 424 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,360 men, you have your wallets. Where are you going, Pastor? 425 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:52,320 Lord needs it. The Lord needs it. 426 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,840 Sure, Take it. Take it all. 427 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,280 Here's my debit card. Here's the here's the password. 428 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,480 Go, no, I, I, it's amazing story. 429 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,240 But what I, what I'm thinking about is that little donkey is 430 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,360 going along that road and that path and, and he's caught Jesus 431 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,160 on his back and people are shouting and praising God and 432 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,240 they're putting branches in the way of that little donkey. 433 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,160 If he can think, he's probably saying, I've never got praise 434 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,200 like this before. Nobody's ever appreciated me. 435 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,600 But it wasn't the donkey that they were concerned about and 436 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,080 praising. It was Jesus. 437 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,960 Let me be a donkey, but let me bring Jesus to you so you can 438 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:33,240 bless him, glorify him, honor him and worship him. 439 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,080 It is all about Jesus, not some donkey in the pulpit. 440 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,240 But we can have this. We can have this same thing. 441 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,240 We can give him back the praise that the enemy is trying to 442 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,840 steal today. And I want to close with this. 443 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,840 He's coming back to. I got three more hours. 444 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,720 Where's Aaron? Aaron, I'm working on it. 445 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,920 I told Aaron. I said, brother, I know because 446 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,320 I grew up in the South and I preached in all kinds. 447 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,400 I said white people don't know how to have church, I'll just 448 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,880 tell you. And four hours. 449 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,600 I've been in a few of those and they've been marvelous services. 450 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,960 Praise the Lord. Amen. 451 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,760 Anyway, I want you to contrast something with me. 452 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,360 So Jesus is riding in on a donkey. 453 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,800 So I want you to realize that that was when he first came into 454 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,400 Jerusalem on that Palm Sunday. They've been to the city before, 455 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:45,280 but this was the coming in for the final week and I want you to 456 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,760 contrast that with a second coming. 457 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,720 Here's the first one in Zechariah 9. 458 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,800 This is where the Jesus was quoting this earlier. 459 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,960 Zechariah 9 verse 9, Rejoice greatly. 460 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:03,080 O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, 461 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,840 your King is coming to you. He is just and having salvation. 462 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:14,240 He's bringing salvation lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, 463 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,440 the foal of a donkey. Now leave that up, if you will, 464 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,480 for just a moment, if you will. The animal he came in on was a 465 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,880 donkey. You know, and study and probably 466 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,600 many of you know this, but in ancient times, kings were coming 467 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,720 with a message of peace would often come on a donkey. 468 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,520 But if it was a time of conquest, a time of conflict, 469 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:45,320 and a time of war, that came on a horse, not a donkey. 470 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,200 A donkey shows humility. Jesus, think of that. 471 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,040 The king of kings, of Lord Lord, riding on the little donkey's 472 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,360 back. Jesus demonstrated something to 473 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:00,920 us there, that he was gentle. He was a peaceful king at that 474 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,640 point rather than a warrior king. 475 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,000 There was something about how he came. 476 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,360 But we see a whole different picture now in the Book of 477 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:18,160 Revelation chapter 19, because there's another coming and let's 478 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,560 read this one. Now keep in mind, he came on a 479 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,560 donkey, peaceful Revelation 19. Let's look at it verse 11. 480 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,080 Now I saw heaven open and behold, a White Horse. 481 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,080 Look at your neighbor. Say it's a horse, not a donkey, 482 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,000 it's a horse. And I hope you know the 483 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,760 difference, right? It's a horse and not a donkey. 484 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,320 It's a White Horse. And who sat on him was called 485 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:48,400 faithful and true. And in righteousness he judges 486 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,360 and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of 487 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,960 fire. You get the contrast. 488 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,120 His eyes were like a flame of fire. 489 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,760 On his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no 490 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,480 one knew except himself. He was clothed in a robe dipped 491 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,320 in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. 492 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,600 And the armies in heaven, Oh, cold and fine linen whited 493 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,200 clean, followed him on white horses. 494 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,600 Horses, not donkeys on horses. And out of his mouth goes a 495 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,880 sharp sword, that it with that he would strike the nations, And 496 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,320 he himself will rule with the rod of iron. 497 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,640 He himself treads the winepress of of the fierceness and wrath 498 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,320 of Almighty God. And he has on his robe and on 499 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:38,640 his fine name our name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 500 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:45,960 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. The first time. 501 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:52,120 He's humble, he's peaceful, he's gentle, he's lowly and he's 502 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,360 bringing salvation, an opportunity for people to get 503 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,040 saved. But after being rejected and 504 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,840 refused and hundreds and even thousands of years that go by 505 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,920 when he has been mocked and his name has been drug in the mud, 506 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,760 we see a different picture. When he comes that back, he 507 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:16,360 doesn't come on a donkey, he comes on a white, and the armies 508 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,000 of heaven are with him, and he is coming the first time for 509 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,600 salvation. This time He will execute 510 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,560 judgment on a world without Him. Aren't you glad you're saved by 511 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,520 the blood of the Lamb? Aren't you glad you're washed in 512 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:34,880 the blood of Jesus Christ? Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 513 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:40,160 Hallelujah. Brothers and sisters, He offered 514 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,840 salvation the first time, but the second time he's offering 515 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,480 judgment. We're not there yet, though. 516 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,880 We're not there. We haven't seen this yet. 517 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,200 In fact, Holy Week is just beginning. 518 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,520 We not even gotten to the garden yet in Gethsemane. 519 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,040 We've not gotten to the cross. We've not gotten to the burial 520 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,080 site. We've got not gotten to the 521 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,480 empty tomb. It's all ahead of us. 522 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,680 But by brothers and sisters, let's take the journey with him 523 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,120 this week. Let's take the let's go with 524 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,120 Jesus for these next seven days. Let him take us with him and let 525 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,320 us go with him. Let us read about it. 526 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,240 Let us pray about it. Let us meditate on it. 527 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,520 Let us think about it. Let us talk to people about it. 528 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,960 Let's tell the wonderful story of the grace and the love and 529 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,200 the majesty and the power of an almighty God. 530 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,080 Do you agree with me today? Hallelujah. 531 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:38,680 Hallelujah. And the truth of the matter is 532 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:43,720 the bleeding and bruised Good Shepherd has carried all of his 533 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,680 sheep on his shoulder. Not just one that wandered away, 534 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,680 but He has carried every one of us, I said. 535 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,520 Everyone of us as his sheep, as his lambs. 536 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,440 Everyone of us have needed him. Everyone of us have needed him 537 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,560 to put us on his shoulder and carry us through a troubled 538 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,000 situation, a troubled world, a trial, a difficulty, A 539 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,240 heartbreak, A heartache. And every time He comes through 540 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,840 for us. He is the Lamb of God, the Son 541 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,800 of God. And I don't know about you, but 542 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,960 on this Palm Sunday, I feel like raising a hand and waving a 543 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:21,400 branch and giving him glory and honor and praise and worship. 544 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,600 Stand with me in the House of the Lord, if you will, my 545 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,840 brothers and sisters, today, this is the day. 546 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,680 And I want to, I want to encourage those kids that are 547 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,400 with us right now. They were up here before. 548 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,640 And those that are after them, the JYC. 549 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,080 And then also I want to say thank you to every worker, every 550 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,960 leader that devotes your time a Sunday after Sunday, starting in 551 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,120 the nursery or the kids check through the nursery, the tots 552 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,840 right on to the Kingdom kids and right on down to the JYC. 553 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,520 I want to thank every one of you for instilling something in them 554 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,240 for giving them something that they can stand on. 555 00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:00,400 One of our long term kids workers, leaders, teachers will 556 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,800 close the service in just a little bit. 557 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,800 But right now we want to honor the Son of God. 558 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,639 We want to bless him. We want to praise him. 559 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:14,120 We want to thank him, but just in the event that on this Sunday 560 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:18,639 someone is here and you haven't received that salvation offer 561 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:20,040 because that's what Jesus brought. 562 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,440 And listen to you, to you that are lost in sin. 563 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,920 He loves you so much, He came. He was willing to suffer. 564 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,600 He was willing to die because he thought you were worth it. 565 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,320 I said He thought you were worth it. 566 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,520 He knew you were worth it because you were making the 567 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,960 image of God. No matter what the enemies done 568 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,840 to that image, and no matter how marred you might feel like 569 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,560 you've become today, or whether or not you feel you've been 570 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,120 marred at all. But there's something missing. 571 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,920 I don't want you to let the praise police stop you from 572 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,920 making the move toward that one that can save you and change 573 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,080 your life and turn it around for his glory. 574 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,160 So I want you to bow your head for just a moment in the House 575 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,400 of the Lord. And I want us on this Palm 576 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,680 Sunday as Jesus is making his entry. 577 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,760 They're lining the street. Somebody is saying, what's going 578 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,880 on here? We've never seen anything like 579 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,320 this before. And maybe you're in church here 580 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,160 and maybe it's the first time or maybe it's the first time 581 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,480 you've, you've been in a, in a church. 582 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:19,720 It is, is demonstrative. And and I'm not here to take a 583 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,400 diminish anybody's form of worship or how they worship. 584 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:27,200 But what I am here to tell you is there's one that's worthy of 585 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:31,680 all our worship, whatever style, whatever type, whatever kind, 586 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,520 he's worthy of it. He's worthy of white worship, 587 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,160 black worship, red worship. He's worthy of all. 588 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,120 And he makes US1. Thank God, I said he makes US1 589 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,400 through his blood and he saves us. 590 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,120 Would you bow your head with me a moment? 591 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,120 And if you're here today and you say, pastor, you're talking to 592 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,760 me, you're talking to me and you've been, you've been like a 593 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,920 donkey. You, you brought Jesus to me. 594 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,800 And I want to give my heart not to you, but to Jesus. 595 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,040 I want to give my life to Jesus. I want to be saved in this house 596 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,040 today. Raise your hand where you are. 597 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,560 Keep it up for about 30 seconds. I'm not going to take long with 598 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,760 this, but I don't want to miss somebody that God that may have 599 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,080 sent you here specifically. Maybe the Lord woke you this 600 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,480 morning or last night or yesterday. 601 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,200 God spoke somehow now through a neighbor, a friend, someone to 602 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,480 invite you and bring you here today in the House of God. 603 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,200 And you know you need Jesus. We're not going to embarrass 604 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:27,520 you, although I will tell you this, Jesus was humiliated. 605 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,040 If you talk about shame and embarrassment, He went through 606 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,920 it all. He went through it all, but he 607 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,120 did it because he loved us. Is there one that would raise 608 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,360 your hand anyone at all, anyone at all in the name of Jesus, Oh 609 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,520 God, anyone, anyone save a soul, Lord here today in the House of 610 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,280 the Lord, Thank God, thank God for one, thank you Jesus. 611 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,480 Listen, 1 is so that's a great number, one Hallelujah. 612 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:54,800 It's a great number because you're in the Bible. 613 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,080 You're in the Bible as one because the Bible says there's 614 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:04,320 rejoicing in heaven over 1 / 1 that repents more than over 99 615 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,760 that don't need to repent. So you have raised your hand, 616 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,120 You're 1 and you're a special one. 617 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,800 And there may be another, I don't know, but let's pray. 618 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,480 And if you, if you raised, if you are the one that raise your 619 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,760 hand, join the church. Let's invite Christ into your 620 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,320 life. We'll do it together because we 621 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,800 are all fellow servants of the Lord. 622 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,160 And when you're going to become a disciple of Jesus, a follower 623 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,240 of the Lord, and God has something great for your, your, 624 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:32,480 your life, and it's going to begin right now. 625 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,480 So let's do it. Lord Jesus, I come as a Sinner 626 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,440 and thank you that you came with salvation. 627 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:48,120 You brought it 2000 years ago and you paid the price on 628 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:54,560 Calvary's cross. And today, right now, I ask you, 629 00:37:55,440 --> 00:38:01,640 come into my heart, come into my life, make me a temple of the 630 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:08,920 Holy Spirit, Live in me, change me from the inside out, save me, 631 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:15,640 wash me, cleanse me. I receive it now in Jesus name 632 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,480 and for the glory of God, Amen and Amen. 633 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,320 Give God praise, give God praise. 634 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,600 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 635 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,160 Blessed be the name of the Lord. Give him praise. 636 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:37,440 Church. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 637 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,640 Are you glad to be saved today? Church, I said, are you glad to 638 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,880 be saved? Are you glad to know that your 639 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,720 name is written in heaven today? Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 640 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:50,880 Let's give him more praise. Let's give him more praise. 641 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,000 Thanks for joining us today. If you'd like to connect, visit 642 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,880 us at reamtownchurchofgod.org, follow us on Facebook and 643 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,440 Instagram, and subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an 644 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,000 episode.