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This is the moment we've all 
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His ministry has been building. 
His time has been coming. 

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He's been the man on a mission, 
proceeding forward, proceeding 

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forward, proceeding forward. 
He never once flinches. 

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He never once hesitates. 
And now, as he comes into 

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Jerusalem, finally, after his 3 
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massive, massive, massive 
crowds, thousands and thousands 

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of people. 
Everybody knows somebody who 

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knows somebody who's been healed
by Jesus. 

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He doesn't just have 12 people 
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Everybody knows somebody who 
knows somebody who's heard Jesus

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preach, who has heard about it, 
one of the miracles who has seen

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something happen. 
Now all the Jews are are coming 

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to Jerusalem for the Passover. 
And Jesus comes in on the very 

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day that the lamb is selected 
for the Passover. 

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This is the day of the week when
everyone will be selecting their

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Passover lamb. 
Jesus presents himself as the 

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lamb selected as the Passover 
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They rejoice over him and this 
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Matthew 21. 
I'm going to read it to you. 

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Today is about surrender and 
surrender to the king and those 

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who had words and prophecy from 
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They didn't know what this 
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If they were looking ahead, they
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going to be another Palm Sunday 
sermon, but that's not the the 

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way the Lord had me prepare it 
for salt this morning. 

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Now when they drew near to 
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into the Mount of Olives, then 
Jesus sent 2 disciples saying to

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them, go into the village in 
front of you and immediately you

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will find a donkey, tide and a 
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That's a a mother donkey and her
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Untie them and bring them to me.
If anyone says anything to you, 

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you shall say, look, the Lord 
has need of them and he will 

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send them at once. 
This took place to fulfill what 

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was spoken by the prophet, 
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Zion, behold, your king is 
coming to you humble and mounted

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on a donkey on a colt, the foal 
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The disciples went and did as 
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They brought the donkey in the 
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he sat on them. 
He sat the them there as he sat 

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on the cloaks. 
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He sat on the younger donkey. 
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most of the crowds spread their 
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cut branches from trees and 
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And the crowds that went before 
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shouting Hosanna to the Son of 
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Blessed is he who comes in the 
name of the Lord, Hosanna in the

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highest. 
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Jerusalem, the whole city was 
stirred up, saying, Who is this?

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And the crowds said, this is the
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Galilee. 
Jesus is different, and Matthew 

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wants everybody to know it. 
Matthew remembers writing to 

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Jews so Jews understand their 
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And Matthew is constantly 
pointing out, hey, you know that

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prophecy in the Old Testament 
and the Jewish readers going, 

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yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. 
And he goes, Jesus did it, Jesus

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did it, Jesus did it. 
Matthew's gospel is all about 

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showing Jesus is king. 
Matthew's gospel is all about 

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saying Jesus is your king. 
Well, I didn't vote for him. 

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That's not how kings work. 
Jesus is your king. 

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He's my king. 
He's everybody's king, and 

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Matthew wants to emphasize that.
Matthew wants to make that 

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point. 
He's not just a prophet. 

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He's the prophet. 
He's not another teacher. 

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He's the teacher. 
He's not a king. 

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He's the king of kings. 
Jesus presents himself on his 

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terms and in his timing. 
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Matthew's opinion. 
This is the storyline of the 

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whole Bible from beginning to 
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In Genesis, Jesus is the seed 
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In Exodus, he is the deliverer. 
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In Exodus, he's the serve. 
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He's the prophet of Deuteronomy.
He's the commander of the Lord's

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army In Joshua, he's the true 
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In the book of Judges, he's the 
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In Ruth, Jesus is the anointed 
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In Samuel, he is the faithful 
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Chronicles, he's the rebuilder 
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the wall restorer In Nehemiah, 
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He is the living Redeemer in 
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He is the shepherd king of 
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Jesus is the wisdom of Proverbs.
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Ecclesiastes. 
He is the groom in the Song of 

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Solomon. 
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Isaiah. 
He's the righteous branch in 

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Jeremiah. 
He's the man of sorrows and 

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Lamentations. 
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and the 4th man in the fire in 
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He's the faithful husband of 
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of Joel. 
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He's the mighty Savior in 
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He's the greater Jonah, He's the
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He is the avenger in Nahum. 
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and the mighty One who saves in 
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He's the desire of the nations 
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He's the pierced shepherd in 
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righteousness in Malachi. 
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where he is the promised 
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He is the rightful Son of David.
He is the King who has finally 

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come all the way to his people. 
In spite of all that prophecy, 

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people still tried to control 
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That is the word of the Lord for
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Saints, stop trying to control 
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He will not be controlled by 
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He never was. 
He never will be. 

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What you will find is he's 
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incredibly humble, He is very 
merciful, and he's completely 

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kind. 
Jesus loves you, Jesus is 

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merciful to you, Jesus is kind 
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And also Jesus does not submit 
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People tried to speed Jesus up. 
People have tried to slow Jesus 

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down. 
They have tried to make him into

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something else entirely. 
His opponents have tried, have 

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tried to force his hand. 
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enthrone him too soon. 
But Jesus doesn't do anything 

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anyone else's way. 
He doesn't do things your way. 

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He doesn't do things my way 
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Jesus won't be manipulated. 
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He came with a plan and he's 
fulfilling it down to the last 

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detail. 
Which is exactly why Matthew 

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takes us straight to Zechariah. 
He's quoting Zechariah there in 

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verse 5 S anytime you're reading
your Bible and the Scripture 

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pops out to the center or lays 
it out, it's quoting something 

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from the Old Testament. 
He's saying that's why it says, 

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you know what says? 
Well, there's something else 

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written somewhere in the word of
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prophecy. 
So we go in Zechariah Chapter 9,

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turn there with me in your 
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You're going to turn to your 
left, a few, a few books, just a

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couple books to your left from 
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Zechariah Chapter 9, this is the
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The whole Bible's about Jesus. 
Everything Everywhere is about 

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Jesus. 
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Rejoice greatly. 
O daughter of Zion, shout aloud,

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O daughter of Jerusalem, behold,
your king is coming to you 

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righteous and having salvation. 
Is he humble and mounted on a 

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donkey? 
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The foal of a donkey? 
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Ephraim and the War Horse from 
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shall be cut off, and he shall 
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He shall rule from sea to sea 
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to the ends of the earth. 
Praise God. 

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This is prophecy about Jesus and
this is what Jesus is 

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fulfilling, this specific 
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So the big deal with Jesus 
riding on a donkey is because 

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kings would always show up on a 
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This is how they would flaunt. 
This is how they would flex. 

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This is how they would display. 
We're not so different, are we? 

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We want to flaunt, we want to 
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We want to display. 
I have power, I have prominence.

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Don't mess with me because I 
could hurt you. 

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Our kings, our presidents, our 
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they do the same thing today. 
All nations have military 

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parades. 
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The implication is we can kill 
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We have, might we have power. 
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leaders would do that. 
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They ride in with great strength
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themselves and the sword. 
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I am here to dominate, but Jesus
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I've come to bring peace. 
The one who can dominate 

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everybody with the snap of his 
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eye, the one who can annihilate 
us all, who could have 

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annihilated us all as soon as we
send the one who could have 

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saved us all in a second, 
instead comes to save us as a 

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savior. 
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why he won't allow pride in our 
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God has no tolerance for pride 
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He's got no tolerance for pride 
in your heart because he's so 

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humble. 
He's going, look, if I can do 

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the infinite jump from infinite 
height to infinite low, who are 

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you, The clay that I've formed 
to not take your place, to not 

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take your role and say, Lord, 
I'm clay on the wheel. 

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Whatever you want to shape, 
whatever you want to do, 

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whatever you want to add, 
whatever you want to remove, I'm

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yours, Lord. 
Like Mary, I'm the handmaiden of

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the Lords. 
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Whatever he wants, he can have. 
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their strength through military 
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The Romans did it then. 
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today, implying what they can do
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But the king of all those kings,
the one who has all authority in

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heaven and on earth, rides a 
young donkey, the symbol of 

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peace. 
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he shows his greater power by 
doing what no man on earth has 

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ever been able to do, change the
hearts of his enemies and make 

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his enemies his friends, Give 
them a new identity and make 

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them a new creation. 
This is a picture for us outside

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of Christ and inside of Christ. 
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protection, there's walls, 
there's barriers, there's 

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standards. 
I'm living life my way, it's my 

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life, it's mine, it belongs to 
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And Jesus says, can I have it? 
And again, that's different from

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the invitation. 
Would you like to not go to 

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hell? 
Would you like to go to heaven 

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instead? 
It's the invitation. 

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Can I have your whole life? 
And to step into that and go, 

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that feels like death. 
And he goes, I know, but there's

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resurrection now. 
And yes, for eternity, also for 

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eternity. 
But it is life that is truly 

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life. 
It is life that is actually 

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abundant life that is the 
Christian life modelled first of

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all by Jesus Christ himself. 
He comes and lays down his life 

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as a substitute. 
You and I would deserve 

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suffering, frankly. 
He doesn't, but he did it as a 

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substitute. 
Jesus has already been teaching 

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his disciples about greatness. 
We just saw that again recently.

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What is greatness in the Kingdom
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And he shows us again what 
humility looks like. 

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If you want to be the greatest, 
serve everybody, serve them, 

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serve them, serve them. 
And Jesus came to serve with his

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strengths. 
Jesus came to do what only Jesus

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can do. 
Back to Matthew in verse 21. 

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Back to Matthew in chapter 21. 
Look in verse 8. 

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Look what the crowd does as 
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They're celebrating. 
This is a jubilant time. 

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Massive, massive, massive, 
massive crowd. 

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Many thousands of people 
rejoicing, celebrating, praising

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Jesus. 
Why? 

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Because they had a 
misunderstanding about what was 

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about to happen. 
They did not understand and they

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wanted to force him. 
Come on in. 

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Why is he on a donkey? 
It's OK. 

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Whatever. 
We'll we'll roll with it. 

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We'll roll with it for the 
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We'll shift him. 
We'll get him sorted out here 

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soon. 
We'll get him sorted out here in

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a minute. 
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crucify him, but today it's 
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Is he who comes in the name of 
the Lord. 

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They thought he was the Messiah 
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But the Messiah they were 
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Jesus is Jesus, and Jesus is 
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But the Jesus of Scriptures is 
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The Jesus of the Word is the 
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this morning, who has sent His 
Holy Spirit through multiple 

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words to us to call us to 
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What are the people do in verse 
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Most of the crowds spread their 
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cut branches from trees and 
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So remember, in this time, in 
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massive stores of clothing like 
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We're like, I got to get rid of 
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They don't have the winter 
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summer clothes that they switch 
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They don't have the shirt they 
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I haven't worn that in years. 
I need to take that and donate 

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it. 
I need to bless up. 

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They don't have that. 
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Clothing is rare. 
Clothing is expensive, and they 

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lay their clothing down. 
What's the picture for you and 

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I? 
They take a valuable thing to 

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them, a costly thing, not a 
cheap thing. 

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Oh, that ain't no big deal. 
Let's donate that to the church.

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That's worthless to me. 
That's worth nothing to me. 

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I'll give it away. 
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something to me. 
This cost me something. 

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This hurts. 
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So for what they're doing in the
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benefit of the doubt. 
They're doing. 

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They're doing well. 
They're doing what's right, 

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laying down what's valuable. 
That's what worship does. 

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Worship lays down what's 
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one who is more and most 
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If there is no cost to your 
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following Jesus? 
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the crowd that cheers for him 
and then disappears when 

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pressure is applied later? 
I'm a Christian, praise God. 

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So that also means a disciple, 
right? 

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Sure. 
That also means you're 

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following, right? 
Whoa, I liked it when we were 

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just back at the word Christian 
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didn't have enough clarity 
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But when you start getting into 
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I mean, I'm kind of following. 
Maybe I'm following if it's 

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convenient. 
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But if you're not living a life 
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disciple who's following him? 
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who can be swayed? 
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Jesus, then you cannot have a 
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Jesus directs your discipleship.
You can't follow Jesus and 

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simultaneously ask him to bless 
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You can't follow Jesus and 
measure your growth by your 

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feelings instead of your 
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You can't follow Jesus and treat
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optional accessories. 
So again, these people who 

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didn't know what I was preaching
today didn't know this was 

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coming in the sermon. 
What is Jesus asking of you? 

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What is he asking of you? 
Have you obeyed that last 

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command that the Lord gave you? 
Some of you are stuck and you've

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been stuck for years because you
have not obeyed a command from 

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years ago. 
And that's why you are where you

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are. 
You will not give up the thing 

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that he goes. 
That's the thing that's going to

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bring your deliverance. 
That that's the thing that's 

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going to bring your freedom. 
Pastor, what is it? 

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What is it? 
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know, and if you don't, then 
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But for whom the shoe fits, it 
should be put on if you're, if 

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you're stuck, if you're stalled.
Man, I just, I need this, I need

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that, I need it. 
There's there's something you 

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can buy that gold from him and 
you should purchase that gold 

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from him. 
But he said you got to buy it 

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from him. 
I thought God's grace is free. 

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His grace is free. 
But he's talking about something

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else here. 
He's talking about a new season 

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now. 
He's talking about fresh oil. 

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He's talking about fresh wine. 
It will cost me something. 

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It will cost. 
Man, that feels like cutting off

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my hand. 
That feels like gouging out my 

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eye. 
Now we might be getting close to

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your breakthrough, then now 
we're probably getting close to 

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your deliverance. 
Now we're probably actually 

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getting close to the thing 
that's going to be the catapult,

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the slingshot, and to your walk 
with the Lord and to your new 

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freedom and to your new 
anointing into your new 

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ministry, into your new 
fellowship. 

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He's knocking. 
He's saying if you let me in, 

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there is a feast. 
There's an absolute feast. 

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What is he asking? 
Are you still ignoring it or did

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you only partially obey it? 
Did you compromise it in some 

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way? 
He said, I want that. 

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You go, OK, I kind of did it. 
That's why you don't have peace.

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That's why you don't have 
freedom, because you chose power

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instead. 
You chose your War Horse and you

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chose your chariot because you 
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What you thought was your safety
inside your chariot is your 

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prison. 
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But if that's you, then you're 
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You're not humble. 
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You think you're strong. 
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cross, and you don't really 
follow him. 

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You just pity him. 
Ah, man, I'm so sad for that 

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guy. 
Thanks, Jesus. 

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Thank you. 
Thank you, Jesus. 

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Oh, so man, Like there's nobody 
like Jesus. 

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Thank you, Jesus. 
He's going. 

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The invitation was to follow, 
not to watch and wish me well on

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my way. 
Stop pitying Jesus and start 

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obeying Jesus. 
He doesn't need your pity. 

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Instead, as we read in 
Revelation, He pities you, He 

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pities me. 
I know your works. 

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You're neither cold nor hot. 
Revelation 315 would that you 

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would either cold or hot. 
So because you're lukewarm and 

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neither hot nor cold, I'll spit 
you out of my mouth. 

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For you say I'm rich. 
I've prospered. 

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I need nothing, not realizing 
that you're wretched, pitiable, 

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poor, blind and naked. 
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in Laodicea. 
Very wealthy, very prominent, 

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very American, very strong, very
proud. 

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We're good. 
We got our act together. 

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Jesus said you're wretched, 
you're pitiable, you're poor, 

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you're blind, and you're naked. 
I counsel you to buy gold from 

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me, refined by fire so that you 
may actually be rich. 

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Counsel you to buy white 
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yourselves and the shame of your
nakedness may not be seen and 

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that you would get salved to 
anoint your eyes that you may 

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see. 
They were known for all three of

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those things in that region, for
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and for the salve that they 
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And Jesus said, yours is 
worthless, you need to buy it 

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for me. 
Instead. 

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Everybody came to layout, to 
see, to buy, and they thought 

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they had that flex on everybody.
This is what we export. 

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Jesus said you don't need to 
export anything, you need to 

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import something from me. 
I can export things, I can 

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export to others, I can export 
to others. 

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But are you importing from 
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Are you hungry for what Jesus 
has? 

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The humble Jesus, the Jesus who 
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who comes on a donkey. 
Jesus is coming again. 

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He is coming on a War Horse, 
like we said, he, he's making 

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the nations his footstool now 
and later I'm happily I'm happy 

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to touch and hold up the feet of
Jesus. 

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What a blessing. 
Whatever part of the body of 

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Christ I have, the pinky toe or 
something else, I'll take it. 

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Thank you, Lord, what a joy to 
belong to you and to belong to 

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your precious church. 
But he's not coming back on a 

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donkey. 
When he comes, he is coming back

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on the War Horse. 
He will be flexing his muscles. 

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He will be coming in judgment 
and I don't know when he's 

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coming and you don't know when 
he's coming. 

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The one thing I know is that 
he's coming back and I know he's

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coming soon and I know he's 
calling us into a new season. 

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And I'm processing all this with
you at the same moment. 

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This morning was not a pre 
orchestrated event by me. 

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It was pre orchestrated by the 
Lord for us, for me and for you.

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Bubba Key, bring up the music. 
We're going to have some 

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opportunity. 
To actually lay things down and 

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actually bring things to the 
altar. 

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And it's going to be like one of
those times when I sure hope so.

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Whatever you're afraid of this 
being, I sure hope it's that. 

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I sure hope it's every bit of 
it. 

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Whatever you're worried that 
this service might become here 

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in a moment, I pray to God that 
it would become that thing. 

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Because that's where 
breakthrough would be. 

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That's where freedom would be. 
That's where humility would be. 

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Good morning. 
God bless you. 

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See you next week. 
If that's enough for you, then 

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that's enough for you. 
It's not for me. 

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Who's going to do it? 
Who's going to be first? 

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Whoever's most humble, whoever 
isn't afraid of man anymore. 

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Whoever's not afraid of people. 
Whoever's willing to get out of 

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their powerful chariot, their 
place of protection, their 

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prison, and go. 
I'm just going to follow the 

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Lamb and surrender like the 
Lamb. 

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Jesus surrendered himself. 
Jesus, help me to surrender. 

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Help me to surrender what I need
to surrender. 

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Help me to give what you've 
asked for. 

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If you know that there's 
something that Jesus has asked 

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of you and you haven't done it, 
don't wait. 

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Don't walk out still holding on 
to it. 

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The altar is open and I'm 
inviting you to come lay it 

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down. 
Come surrender it. 

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It may cost you something, but 
worship always does. 

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Do not admire Jesus from a 
distance. 

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He does not need your pity. 
He calls for your worship. 

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He calls for your obedience. 
Don't sing about surrender one 

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more time until you've actually 
surrendered. 

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Offer Him something to buy this 
gold.