1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,880 You can turn in your Bibles to the book of John. 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,520 John chapter 12, mixing it up on you. 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,680 For those who don't know, we've been in Matthew for over a year. 4 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:22,600 John what? John 12. 5 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,120 John, John, chapter 12, I'm going to read to you starting in 6 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,880 verse one. Six days before the Passover, 7 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,160 Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus 8 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:47,040 had raised from the dead. So they gave a dinner for him 9 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,520 there. Martha served, and Lazarus was 10 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,720 one of those reclining with him at table. 11 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,680 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from 12 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,320 pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with 13 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,840 her hair. The house was filled with the 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,360 fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of the 15 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,200 disciples who was about to betray him, said, why was this 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,920 ointment not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor? 17 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:15,760 He said this not because he cared about the poor, but 18 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,760 because he was a thief, and having charge over the money bag 19 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,600 he used to help himself to what was put into it, Jesus said, 20 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,840 Leave her alone so that she may keep it for the day of my 21 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,520 burial. For the poor you always have 22 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,640 with you, but you do not always have me. 23 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,480 When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, 24 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:40,320 they came not only on account of him, but also to see Lazarus, 25 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:41,840 whom he had raised from the dead. 26 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:46,600 So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, 27 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,640 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and 28 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,760 believing in Jesus. The next day the large crowd 29 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,280 that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to 30 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,880 Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm 31 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:01,920 trees and went out to meet him, crying. 32 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:04,360 Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the 33 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,760 name of the Lord, even the king of Israel. 34 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,479 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is 35 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:12,320 written. Fear not, daughter of Zion, 36 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,240 behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. 37 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,920 His disciples did not understand this these things at first, but 38 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,120 when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these 39 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,960 things had been written about Him and had been done to Him. 40 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:30,760 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of 41 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,320 the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 42 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,120 The reason why the crowd went to meet Him was that they had heard 43 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,680 He had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one 44 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,280 another, You see that you are gaining nothing. 45 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,440 Look, the world has gone after Him. 46 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,800 God, we thank you for the awesome, awesome truth of who 47 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,000 Jesus is. And Lord, I pray that you would 48 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,760 help us to receive the fullness of it this morning and not miss 49 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,200 out, not join in the crowd who who worships and ignorance, but 50 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,600 be the devoted who worship with faithfulness, with love, with 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,000 purity. Jesus, you are the King who is 52 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,760 worthy. That's not up for question. 53 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,800 But Lord, we ask that you would continue to teach us and show us 54 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,200 who you are, exactly who you are, so we would love you more 55 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,080 deeply. We thank you in Jesus name, 56 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,480 Amen. So here we are. 57 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:25,880 At another Passover feast. Israel probably had 100 to 58 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,760 200,000 people in the city or around the city on the regular. 59 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,720 Whenever it would come time for one of the big feasts of Israel 60 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,960 though, the city would swell big time. 61 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,240 People would travel from all over the place, potentially up 62 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:42,200 to 1,000,000 people, they say. So it the region is packed. 63 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,720 There's tents, there's family reunions. 64 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,960 This is a long, this is at least a week long feast. 65 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,320 People have been streaming into Jerusalem for weeks and weeks 66 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,880 probably. And again, people are filling up 67 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,040 homes and rooftops and all over the place. 68 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,880 It's a busy time. It's it's an exciting time. 69 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,880 It's a bustling time. Why? 70 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:09,040 For the Passover feast, Remember the Passover, It was Moses the 71 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,160 night before, after the 10 plagues or after the 9 plagues 72 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,600 had been established. The 10th plague was coming on 73 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,120 that night. The judgement of the first born 74 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,680 son, the judgement against Pharaoh, and all the first born 75 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,040 sons were going to be killed. But the Lord said, but if you'll 76 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:27,240 take a lamb, whoever takes a lamb and butchers it, and then 77 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,240 takes the blood of this lamb and puts it on their doorposts, the 78 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,240 horizontal beams and the vertical beams, then the death 79 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,320 Angel will pass over. They won't come. 80 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,680 They won't come into your home and kill your son. 81 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,440 The death Angel will Passover and you'll be spared. 82 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,520 Israel celebrated this feast for around 14170 years since it 83 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,800 happened with Moses at the time of Jesus now. 84 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,520 So they've been sacrificing lambs. 85 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,120 They come, they sing the same songs, they follow the same 86 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,080 commands, and they sacrifice yet another lamb. 87 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,440 But on this Sunday, before the coming Passover meal, the Lamb 88 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,920 of God and the final sacrifice comes into Jerusalem. 89 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,640 Most of these people don't know that this is the final 90 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,520 sacrifice. It was tradition that the Jews 91 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,840 would select their lamb for the Passover sacrifice on the 10th 92 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:19,120 day of what was called the month of Nissan. 93 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,520 So the the different calendars, you know, throughout history 94 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,720 have been used. So the, the 10th day of the 95 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,720 month of Nissan was the, the day of the Triumphal entry, it was 96 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:32,400 Palm Sunday. So not ironically, but just of 97 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,120 course, by the Lord's sovereign will, this is the day that all 98 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:36,920 the families would go and select their lamb. 99 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,400 So all the shepherds, of course, like they've been preparing for 100 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,400 this for a long time for the influx of people that are going 101 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,720 to come because everybody needs to have their lamb prepared. 102 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,320 But it's on this day, on this Sunday, this first day of the 103 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,080 week, it's time for us to select our lamb. 104 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,320 So here the Jewish people are worshipping and they're 105 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,400 selecting their lamb for slaughter later in the week. 106 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,240 His name is Jesus. They don't see it that way. 107 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:59,880 They don't realize it that way. But with hindsight, you and I 108 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:02,320 get all the clarity. It's so easy to always read our 109 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:03,560 Bible and go, how could they not see? 110 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,280 How could they not see? But the disciples are still 111 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:07,080 right there. And they didn't even connect the 112 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,160 dots for the prophecy for Jesus to ride in on the donkey, even 113 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,720 though again, another prophecy fulfilled, another prophecy 114 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,520 fulfilled, another prophecy fulfilled and says, but later 115 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,880 they put it all together, Later they put it all together. 116 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,680 Even after the resurrection, it took Jesus walking on the road 117 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:23,800 with them and he had to open up their eyes to the Scriptures and 118 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,960 show them that the Messiah had to suffer. 119 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,600 And he showed them from the law and Moses and the prophets and 120 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,400 everything he said it had to be this way. 121 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:34,200 And they went, wow, of course, that was the best Bible study 122 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,440 ever. And they went, I get it now. 123 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,160 And then he vanished before their eyes. 124 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,520 He reappeared to them later after the resurrection multiple 125 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,560 times. But this is what's going on. 126 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,000 They are experiencing the Passover feast, really the 127 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,160 beginning of the Passover feast. And now here we are in Bethany 128 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:53,640 the day before. So it's Saturday evening. 129 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,280 This is Bethany. This is about a mile outside of 130 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:59,720 Jerusalem. So they you can look down into 131 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,800 Jerusalem from Bethany, Gordon Annette, right in Bethany, you 132 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,560 can look down into Jerusalem. You've been over there, you've 133 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:08,280 seen that you've walked these hills. 134 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:10,720 Someday I want to go. Someday I'm going to take my 135 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,960 family and we're going to walk the same places that he walked. 136 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,720 So you can see down into Jerusalem. 137 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,800 There's candlelight, there's dinners, there's feasting, 138 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,360 there's joy happening all over the place. 139 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,320 But here we are in verse 1-6. Days before the Passover, Jesus 140 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,880 therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had 141 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:34,360 raised from the dead. So they gave him a dinner there. 142 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,320 Martha served and Lazarus was one of those reclining at table 143 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,240 with him. So the first point we should 144 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,000 make here is obviously it's just good manners to throw a dinner 145 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,480 for somebody when they raise you from the dead or a family 146 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,920 member. So it's just a common courtesy 147 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,720 if you haven't, if you didn't know that it's not just good 148 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,080 Southern manners. That's just like globally, it's 149 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,120 kind of a known rule. So they're feasting, they love 150 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:58,920 Jesus. They were friends with Jesus, 151 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,560 which is why it was such a personal thing when Jesus came 152 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,320 to them because he waited four days for Lazarus to be good and 153 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,120 dead. And then he comes in and he 154 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,520 says, and he weeps with them. And they said, Lord, if you had 155 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,480 been here, if only you had been here. 156 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,960 And he says, well, it's not too late, but now we keep going. 157 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,320 Verse 3. Mary therefore took a pound of 158 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,560 expensive ointment made from pure nard and anointed the feet 159 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,440 of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. 160 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,640 The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 161 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,080 So we see Jesus being honored. The day before Palm Sunday, Mary 162 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,440 poured out this expensive and rare perfume onto his feet. 163 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,760 Just so you have some context, it was about a year's wages. 164 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:43,080 So roughly, what's a year's wages? 165 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,240 So if we're going to take just an average culturally top to 166 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:51,000 bottom, you're saying $55,000 is the current average if you want 167 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,400 to take a year's wages. So that's how much this perfume 168 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,040 is that she pours onto a man's feet. 169 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,120 And what does she do after she pours it onto his feet? 170 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,520 She also, she doesn't just wipe it with a cloth, she wipes his 171 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,560 feet with her hair. So this is her very highest, her 172 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:10,440 very extreme best for his extreme lowest. 173 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,080 We're told in First Corinthians that a woman's long hair is a 174 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,240 glory to her. So Mary realizes this is the 175 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,360 best that she can do for the King of the cosmos. 176 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,480 She took her hair, her glory, her feminine covering, her 177 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,400 beauty, and laid it low on the dusty feet of Jesus. 178 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,040 This is what devotion looks like. 179 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,400 I want to get as low as I can. When people bow down before the 180 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,560 Lord in the Book of Revelation, it says that all the elders lay 181 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,680 prostate, always have to say that word. 182 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:42,080 Slowly. They lay down flat in front of 183 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,080 it. They just want to humble 184 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,360 themselves before the Lord. Like what else can I do except 185 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,120 get low at His feet? It's just an automatic. 186 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,880 It's just an automatic response in worship. 187 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:54,840 I want to get low to magnify His glory. 188 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,680 I don't want to be in competition with it. 189 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,840 I don't want to make myself equal to it. 190 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,960 I just want to get low before Him. 191 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,120 This is my joy. This is my pleasure to delight 192 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,400 and to elevate and to worship Him. 193 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,640 This is the approach that Mary T that Mary is showing. 194 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,520 This is the approach that she takes, the very feat that later 195 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,200 that week would be nailed to the cross. 196 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,880 She's anointing with $55,000 of ointment. 197 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,960 That can't be salvage. It can't be used again. 198 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,880 It's been saved for a long time. This is a treasure in this 199 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,960 household. This is a valuable family 200 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:29,960 heirloom, most likely. Look at this. 201 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,640 Look what we've got. Can I smell it? 202 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,320 All you ever do is pop the top on it and go wow. 203 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:35,320 Yep. Cover it up. 204 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,000 Can we use some? No, no, We're really never going 205 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,120 to use it. Now, maybe on a special occasion 206 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:44,440 we'll just do a dab because it's so valuable. 207 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,920 You can't spend it. And if you were like, how could 208 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,040 you ever do it justice? How could you ever do such a a 209 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:51,440 pleasant, pleasing thing justice? 210 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,280 Well, there's one way you could pour it onto Jesus. 211 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,560 You could pour it onto his dusty feet that had been walking 212 00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:58,960 through the streets. You could pour it onto the 213 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,320 Master, the one who brings the good news of the gospel to the 214 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,440 world. And that's exactly what she did. 215 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,120 That's what worship does, and that's what worship wants to do. 216 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:16,120 Mary understood who Jesus was. It would have been nothing to 217 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,440 give something like less valuable like Abraham when he 218 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,400 offers his son. It would have been nothing for 219 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,200 Abraham to give himself, but instead he gave the most costly 220 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:28,720 thing. And that's the thing that brings 221 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,760 the Lord the most glory. And a Worshipful heart is always 222 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,160 happy to do it. A Worshipful heart has an 223 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,080 overflow of gratitude that is focused on the glorification of 224 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,960 God. But of course not everybody 225 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:41,760 likes that. Verse 4. 226 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,200 But Judas Iscariot, one of the disciples who was about to 227 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,920 betray him, said, why was this ointment not sold for 300 228 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,960 denarii and given to the poor? So we could have sold it for the 229 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:53,280 year's wages. We could have sold this for 230 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,600 $55,000, and then we could have given all of this money to those 231 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,160 in need. Oh, how sweet of you, Judas. 232 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,680 What a great idea. How morally superior, how 233 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:05,320 righteous of Judas. How do you argue with that? 234 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,320 How can you? It's a great point. 235 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:08,880 We really could have done that, right? 236 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,000 Well, the problem is it's a lie. The problem is it's not 237 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,040 Worshipful. So the only thing we'll say for 238 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,960 now about Judas is that there are always going to be people 239 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,680 who make moral claims, but they lack warmth and they lack love 240 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:22,840 for God. They will always want to argue 241 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,720 for what seems reasonable. When worship isn't worried about 242 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,960 what's reasonable, worship is willing to be unreasonable. 243 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,040 Remember David dancing before the Lord? 244 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,480 That's not really reasonable. I don't know that that was 245 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,600 really the appropriate thing to do. 246 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,640 The thing you'll notice, and those who oppose the devotion 247 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,600 and heartfelt sold out love for God is a barrenness in their 248 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:44,840 lives. There's a fruitlessness in their 249 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,800 lives. So they might have the the 250 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,600 facade of godliness, but the fruit is absent. 251 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,000 And they are the ones who would not only sin in in their own 252 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,440 withholding a worship from the Lord, but they would want you to 253 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,440 do so as well. They'll tell you to, Hey, peel 254 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,720 back. Hey, your devotion looks a bit 255 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,200 extreme, I think. No, no, I think it's good. 256 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,800 I just think you don't do it in the right way. 257 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:11,520 There are always people like that. 258 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,560 They're in the church and they're out of the church. 259 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,000 There will always be someone who says that your worship is too 260 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,280 extravagant. Keep going. 261 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,360 Verse 9. When the large crowd of the Jews 262 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,160 learned that Jesus was there, they came not only on account of 263 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,440 him, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the 264 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,600 dead. So the chief priests made plans 265 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,360 to put Lazarus to death as well, because on account of him, many 266 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,080 of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus. 267 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,440 So Jesus's murderous enemies want to kill him, and they want 268 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,840 to kill Lazarus. Let's kill him. 269 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:44,520 But he raised that guy from the dead. 270 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,240 All right, we'll kill him too, and we'll just, we think that if 271 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,360 we could kill everybody, then we could solve our problem. 272 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,720 This once again proves that humans don't need more evidence, 273 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,320 we need more faith. If your heart is hard, I pray 274 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,120 that the fear of God would break it and make it soft so that you 275 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,480 would just say, Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe because with the 276 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,720 word of God comes the ability to believe God. 277 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:10,840 And now that was the night before. 278 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,200 That was the evening before and now the moment we've all been 279 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,080 waiting for. Mary worshipped in her home, but 280 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,440 now everybody worships in the streets. 281 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,320 It's Sunday and the Lord descends the slope from the 282 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,160 Mount of Olives. Olives, the very hill he's going 283 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,840 to ascend into heaven from in just 43 days. 284 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,120 This is the same place where he's going to say I'm coming 285 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,680 back. And eventually that is the same 286 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,280 spot that Jesus is coming back to put foot on the earth. 287 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,880 He will descend and he will stand again on the Mount of 288 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,200 Olives. Boys and girls, men and women, 289 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,640 across that Atlantic Ocean is the land of Israel. 290 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,400 Jesus is coming back to put his feet on the Mount of Olives and 291 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,640 he is going to rule and reign forever on the earth. 292 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,040 It is going to be good and glorious. 293 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,120 He's going to make a new heaven and a new earth. 294 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,040 He's going to make all things new and he is going to establish 295 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,720 his eternal Kingdom. Like they thought was coming 296 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,800 that day. They thought a certain rulership 297 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:07,920 was coming that day. That rulership is coming, but 298 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,880 it's not coming on Palm Sunday, not on that day. 299 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,320 Verse 12, the next day, the large crowd that had come to the 300 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,200 feast heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem. 301 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,840 So we know that large crowd means a ton of people. 302 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,560 Why do we know this? Because remember, we know that 303 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,440 Jesus fed 5000 men, not including women and children. 304 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,360 So we know that that conservatively would be like 305 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,120 15,000 people. You could stretch that number 306 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:40,400 much, much larger, very likely. So that's when the disciples 307 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:41,960 talk about large numbers of people. 308 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:43,520 They've seen it all. At this point. 309 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,880 They got three years of history. So when John says a large group 310 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,760 of people, he means a large, large, large, thousands upon 311 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,720 thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people. 312 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,440 There's at least hundreds of thousands of people in and 313 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,240 around Jerusalem. They've been hearing the 314 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,080 stories. Jesus has been around Israel for 315 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,200 three years. This all didn't just start a 316 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,040 week ago. This whole thing has been 317 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,000 building. The masses have heard, You know 318 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,560 somebody who knows somebody who's been healed, you know 319 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:11,000 somebody who's heard and preached. 320 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,080 And now Lazarus is being raised from the dead. 321 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:16,120 There were others who are raised from the dead, but this guy was 322 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,200 dead 4 days. Are you sure it's different from 323 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,160 the boy's casket? They were walking the boy down. 324 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,440 He had just died. They're saying Jesus raises him 325 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:24,480 up. But what about the guy who's 326 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,400 been dead and in the tomb for four days? 327 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,960 Was the boy dead? Oh, I heard he wasn't dead. 328 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,440 I heard this rumors, gossip, confusion. 329 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,520 Lazarus was dead and in the tomb for four days. 330 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,760 Jesus made sure of it. So now word is spreading. 331 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,960 All right, we can't get we can't get past that one. 332 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:41,960 We can't say the little boy was sick with a fever. 333 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,720 The little girl who had just died a couple hours earlier. 334 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,520 Like we, we can we can lie about that. 335 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,920 But the guy who's dead in the tomb for four days, that grabs 336 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,240 even more attention. So everybody is coming, 337 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,760 Everybody is interested. Large crowds have come. 338 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:03,320 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him 339 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:04,880 crying. Hosanna. 340 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:09,160 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the king 341 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,720 of Israel. And Jesus found a young donkey 342 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,359 and sat on it, just as it is written. 343 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:17,319 Fear not, daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming, 344 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:20,680 sitting on a donkey's cold. This is so that passage there. 345 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,440 And in your Bible, if it's set aside and whenever you look at 346 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,240 the text, it's quoting something from the Old Testament. 347 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,000 So he's quoting Zachariah and the prophecy that was made about 348 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,360 Jesus. His disciples did not understand 349 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:35,200 these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, so later 350 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,800 after he ascended into heaven, then they remembered that these 351 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,480 things had been written about him and had been done to him. 352 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,080 So they connect the dots later, even though he's doing it right 353 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:45,920 in front of them, he says, hey, go into town. 354 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,880 I want you to go find a dog. You're going to find a donkey 355 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,280 tied up and I want you to bring it to me. 356 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,560 If anybody says anything, just tell them, hey, the master has 357 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,280 need of it. And that literally happened. 358 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,000 They went into town and they start to untie this donkey. 359 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:59,920 They found some guy was, bro, what are you doing? 360 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:02,520 That's my donkey. And they go, the master has need 361 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:07,160 of it. And then he goes, OK, so the 362 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,000 Holy Spirit had prepared this guy or he just knew obviously 363 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,480 about Jesus. He was like, well, if he wants 364 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,840 it, then he can have it. So he gave up something very, 365 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,600 very valuable to him as well. The crowd that had been with him 366 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,160 when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the 367 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:26,520 dead continued to bear witness. So people keep telling, I saw it 368 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,160 happen. I watched Lazarus be dead and I 369 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,560 watched Lazarus be raised. The reason the crowd went to him 370 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,880 was that they had heard he had done this sign. 371 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,120 So there's a lot of excitement, a lot of joy, a lot of jubilee, 372 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:40,800 a lot of celebration, a lot of expectation. 373 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,400 And now all throughout his ministry, Jesus has been 374 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,640 silencing people and reminding people, hey, don't tell anybody. 375 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,920 He, he has been measuring and, and determining the best way to 376 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,200 expose himself to the whole world and to really turn up the 377 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:56,960 heat. And now he comes into Jerusalem 378 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,520 boldly while the Pharisees are wanting to kill him. 379 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:02,560 And he's fulfilling the prophecy that Zechariah had given. 380 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,720 So his miracles have reached far and wide. 381 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,280 His teaching has reached far and wide. 382 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:11,240 He recently raised Lazarus from the dead maybe 8 or 9 days ago 383 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,320 at the absolute most. It's probably been like a month 384 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,840 ago, but all this is very recent. 385 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,720 All this is building now. He deliberately says get, get a 386 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,800 donkey for me to ride in on. I'm going to confirm all 387 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,960 suspicion and fulfill another prophecy. 388 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,160 The crowd believes that Jesus is the Messiah. 389 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,440 You need to know that they do believe that he's the Messiah. 390 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,600 They think he is. They go, this is it. 391 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,080 It's finally happening. He's really here. 392 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,160 The problem is that they have a misunderstanding of what the 393 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,920 Messiah is going to do. So they do believe this is him 394 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,360 and they are excited and this is real worship. 395 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,640 They want him to come in and crush his enemies. 396 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,120 And that's the thing. He is going to crush the head of 397 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:56,880 his enemy, of his enemy, and he's going to build his Kingdom. 398 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,240 But he's not going to build like a bulldozer. 399 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,960 He's going to be like a mustard seed. 400 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,040 And like he's about to say later in John, unless a grain of wheat 401 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,880 falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone. 402 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,440 Look at my grain of wheat. I have it, but it's got to go 403 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,320 into the ground. It has to die, and then it will 404 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:17,680 bear much fruit. This is how Jesus builds his 405 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,720 Kingdom. He says I am the seed and I'm 406 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,720 going into the ground and I'm going to be like the mustard 407 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,760 seed that comes out and it grows and it grows and it grows. 408 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,480 It starts so small. It's a very unexpected story. 409 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,000 And eventually the birds of the air can come make their nests, 410 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,240 and all the creatures of the garden can come shelter in the 411 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,640 tree. It gets so big and it covers the 412 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,960 whole earth. This is how Jesus has built his 413 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,000 Kingdom. You and I are here today, 2000 414 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,080 years later, loving Him, still willing to give our lives for 415 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,280 Him. All around the world, all around 416 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,880 the world, Christians are still willing to give their lives for 417 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,720 the Lord Jesus Christ because they love him, because they know 418 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,160 Him, because they walk with Him, because they trust Him. 419 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,120 And we're still thankful to be able to do so. 420 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,960 So this is how Jesus is going to establish his Kingdom. 421 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,520 They're, they're crying out Hosanna, which means save now or 422 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,560 save us, please. And that's exactly what Jesus is 423 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,480 going to do. But they're wanting him to 424 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,600 rescue them politically. They want to be rescued 425 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,040 nationally. They want to be rescued 426 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,040 culturally. And he's about to save them 427 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:21,840 spiritually by meeting their greatest need. 428 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:28,160 They've been killing millions of lambs for 1000 plus years and 429 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,480 they don't realize it yet, but they've got 1 lamb left to kill 430 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,400 and they're going to do it later in that week. 431 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,280 These same people in this crowd who are cheering Hosanna, 432 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,440 Hosanna, literally some of them on Friday morning will be at the 433 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:43,680 trial screaming crucify him. Why? 434 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,200 Why do they turn so quickly? Because he let them down. 435 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,040 Because he did not turn out to be the Jesus that they really 436 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,560 wanted. They had an image in their mind 437 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,360 of who they wanted. And when he fully revealed that 438 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,880 he couldn't and wouldn't be that guy, they go, oh, I thought this 439 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,480 was it. We thought this was the moment. 440 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,560 We thought the revolution was about to happen. 441 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,440 Like, clearly, he's not a big fan of even our Jewish 442 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,280 leadership, and we're really not either. 443 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,160 We thought they were Hotshots. But he's revealed otherwise. 444 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,000 And that's been really helpful and enlightening. 445 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,440 But also the Romans ruling over us. 446 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,080 And, you know, we as the people of God, which we've always been 447 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,560 taught that we are, we ought to be ruling over the world and our 448 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,680 Messiah ought to be the king over everybody. 449 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,920 It's our turn to what? To be like the Romans. 450 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,720 That's what human nature would have done. 451 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,240 It's our turn to dominate and to crush. 452 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,000 Well, Jesus does dominate, and Jesus does crush, but he does it 453 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,680 in an unexpected way. He does it by killing the old 454 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,920 man and putting in a new man. It was Napoleon Bonaparte who 455 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,760 talked about Jesus and he said, look like I've crushed and I've 456 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,320 conquered great parts of the world. 457 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,960 And Alexander crushed and conquered great parts of the 458 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,480 world, he said. But there's somebody unlike any 459 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,160 of us who has conquered the whole world. 460 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,560 And his men are still willing to die for him today. 461 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,800 He didn't do it with force. He did it with love. 462 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,760 He's like, and that's something I can't compete with. 463 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,080 Like anybody can take over the world. 464 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,160 If you have enough military might, you can take over. 465 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,400 And then you can say I'm in charge. 466 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,960 Yeah, you are you. You had might and might makes, 467 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,080 right? So you get to dominate, you get 468 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,960 to crush and you get to control everybody. 469 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,960 But even Napoleon was like, he did something I couldn't, I 470 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,440 couldn't do. Like, I use swords and I use 471 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,640 cannons and I use all kinds of and horses. 472 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:30,600 But Jesus rode on a donkey and he came in and conquered the 473 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,120 whole earth by dying for the whole world. 474 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,320 It's not what we expected and it's not what they wanted, which 475 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,640 is why they're so willing to crucify him and go, Well, I 476 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:41,720 don't. He's no use to me. 477 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,920 You're not valuable to me anymore. 478 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,040 I don't know how you did the tricks that you did. 479 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,800 Maybe it was magic, but I don't need you anymore. 480 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,800 But here he is being honored, being worshipped, being 481 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,360 celebrated. It's like what happens in Second 482 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,800 Kings. So there is a king being, 483 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,000 there's a man being made king. His name is Jehu. 484 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,680 And all of his officials, quickly as he was marching down 485 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,240 the road, they spread their garments. 486 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,400 They took off their cloaks and they put it under them. 487 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,000 Why? As a sign of submission to their 488 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,200 king. So the Jewish people are doing 489 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,080 the same thing today. They said, they're saying I'm 490 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,720 under you. So they wanted the king to walk 491 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,920 on their clothes. And he walked down the street 492 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,600 and they're saying all of his officials are like TJ, Team J, 493 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,800 Team J, That was their way to say walk on mine, walk on mine. 494 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,280 I am under you. I'm in submission to you. 495 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,280 So the same thing's happening here. 496 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,880 And you need to understand this is the people giving their best. 497 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,240 They didn't have closets and drawers full of clothes and full 498 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,400 of different outfits. They didn't have the summer 499 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,440 clothes and the winter clothes and the tubs in the attic that 500 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,640 they swapped out with the seasons. 501 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,800 Most people had very limited amounts of clothing. 502 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,960 So this is not an insignificant possession. 503 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:56,760 You might be thinking, yeah, I guess I could throw down my 504 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,960 jacket for somebody. Your only jacket, the only thing 505 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:03,800 that covers your torso. Clothing was so was so was such 506 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,040 a high possession. This is why when Jesus is 507 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,560 crucified, remember, they take his seamless tunic and they say, 508 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,840 oh, like all the Roman, the Roman guard are taking his 509 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,120 things and they're saying, who's getting this? 510 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:15,320 Who's getting that from the dead guy? 511 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,520 Oh, this thing's really nice. So don't tear it. 512 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,440 No, come on, you take it out. Hey, we'll cast lots for it. 513 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,280 Again, prophecy fulfilled and so said so. 514 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,200 So one of those guys ended up walking at one of those Roman 515 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,960 guard and have walking away with Jesus's clothes. 516 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,080 Why? Because they're so valuable. 517 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,000 It was such an important thing. So this is what people are 518 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,880 spreading underneath Jesus on the road. 519 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,240 And remember, these roads are not paved roads. 520 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,560 This is a dirt Rd. But remember, this isn't like 521 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,320 the dirt roads you and I drive on today. 522 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,280 These roads are travelled by animals. 523 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,960 And that means all of the things that come out of animals. 524 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,720 That's a part of the road. And there's another plop. 525 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,480 There's another plop. And by the way, it's 526 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,920 particularly high traffic these days. 527 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,800 So I don't know if the sanitation crew was keeping up 528 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,120 with everything that horses and donkeys were doing on the roads 529 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:01,520 as they're walking and the people are going. 530 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,480 Who cares? Who cares why? 531 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,120 Because that's what a Worshipful heart does. 532 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,120 Who cares What am I? What am I? 533 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,840 And what a pleasure and what a privilege to say that he's, he's 534 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,120 stepped on my coat. He stepped on it. 535 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,360 They're not even doing it. It's not even Jesus. 536 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:18,880 It's just his donkey because he's riding on top of it. 537 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,920 But what a joy, what a, what a privilege it is for them. 538 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,640 There's a big problem, like we said with all this worship, 539 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,000 though it is an uninformed worship. 540 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:33,440 It is zealous, but it is conditional, and that is the 541 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,880 great danger that they ran into. That is the danger that you and 542 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,800 I run into a conditional worship, a conditional love for 543 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,840 Jesus, a conditional devotion to God. 544 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,680 This is the warning that I'm bringing to you today that we 545 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,920 take from Palm Sunday, from the triumphal entry. 546 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,480 Zealous is not the same thing as faithful, and conditional love 547 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,120 is not love. For some, for a few it was pure, 548 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,200 but for the many they were worshipping the God of their own 549 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,160 image. They have a plan for Him, and 550 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,560 they want Him to submit to it, and they've got it all 551 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:15,040 backwards. So how do you come to the 552 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,120 Messiah? What is your technique? 553 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,240 Do you come with conditions? Do you come with terms? 554 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,360 If He obeys, you cheer for Him and determine he's worthy of 555 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:25,840 praise. But if he does something 556 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:31,520 different, do you turn from Him? Or are you like Mary with the 557 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,360 pure worship, with the devoted worship, with the understanding 558 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,960 worship? Or are you like the mob? 559 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,080 Mary worshipped Jesus for who he actually was. 560 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,200 The mob worshipped based on who they wanted him to be. 561 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,480 So what happens when Jesus doesn't give you what you want? 562 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,320 When he allows you to experience the results of the fall, which 563 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,880 we all do and we all will and we all have? 564 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,400 How do you see him then? What does your devotion for him 565 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,400 look like then? What does your praise for him 566 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,520 look like then when he doesn't follow your timeline? 567 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,120 Do you have a limit? Judas sure did. 568 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,320 He couldn't take the disappointment. 569 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,920 All this momentum and Jesus was willingly going to die. 570 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,120 That's not what Judas wanted. That's not what Judas had been 571 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:22,400 praying for. That's not what he was standing 572 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,720 on. Everybody can wave a palm 573 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,080 branch, but nobody wants to carry the cross. 574 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,120 But you must keep steering your heart towards Jesus because it 575 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,720 is prone to wander. It will take steering and 576 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,760 direction. You will have to direct your 577 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,520 heart for the own safety of your own soul. 578 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,240 You will not drift towards it Sunday after Sunday. 579 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,560 Even in these chairs, your heart doesn't drift towards Jesus. 580 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,400 You never drift anywhere good. Anybody who spent any amount of 581 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,040 time on the water, you never like whenever you just stop 582 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,160 paying attention and you're not, you're not noticing what's going 583 00:28:59,160 --> 00:28:59,680 on. You never go. 584 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:01,680 This is exactly where I wanted us to go. 585 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,120 That's never happened to me. I spent a lot of time on the 586 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,560 water, and I know I was never able to just let things drift. 587 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,840 Oh, we'll just see what happens. Maybe we'll go in the right 588 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,960 direction. You have to lead, you have to 589 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,200 row, you have to choose. And it will take effort. 590 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,720 It will take steering. It will take navigation. 591 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,520 You must take your thoughts and make them obey him. 592 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,760 You will not drift into deeper devotion or more loving 593 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,680 obedience or more submissive worship. 594 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,240 You must contend for it. And the King really is worth it. 595 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,400 He deserves your fully informed and your faithful love. 596 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,520 That's why it's important that you know who Jesus is. 597 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,200 It's why we tell the truth about who Jesus is. 598 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,800 And we don't just give the the the slight, the a piece of the 599 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,040 truth because the devil will give you a piece of the truth. 600 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,880 The devil will give you half a truth, but Jesus wants you to 601 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,600 have the whole truth about who He is. 602 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,040 And there are always going to be people who say that you go too 603 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,920 far in your devotion to Him. There are always going to be 604 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,520 people who tell you that you're off the deep end there. 605 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,040 These people are backsliders, and they are lost. 606 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,600 Like Judas, they will claim to have wise and righteous motives, 607 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,920 but you will know them by their fruits because they will always 608 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,240 keep their shirt on their back. And their so-called devotion is 609 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,680 an invisible one that lacks A commitment that costs. 610 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,200 And like the Pharisees, they will always have a resentment 611 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,800 for your extravagant worship. Another gospel tells us the same 612 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,960 day on Palm Sunday that as people were worshipping as 613 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,840 children were celebrating the Pharisees. 614 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,080 In the middle of this crowd they called out to Jesus on the 615 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,520 donkey. Teacher, rebuke your disciples 616 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,200 and Jesus didn't. He said. 617 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,640 I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would 618 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,000 cry out. Jesus was saying it might be 619 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,680 ignorant in some of the cases, but the worship is still right. 620 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,840 It's still right that I am worshiped. 621 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,440 It's still right for me to receive it. 622 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,360 So nobody's getting rebuked today. 623 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,360 I'm going to continue to tell the truth, just like I have 624 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,040 about who I am for three years and all week long. 625 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,320 I'm going to continue to tell the truth. 626 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,800 There's a lot of truth telling coming over the next few days in 627 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,600 Jerusalem, in the temple courts, so people will have every 628 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,520 opportunity to hear the fullness of who he is. 629 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,160 But he says if they were silent, the very stones would cry out. 630 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:23,960 All creation is going to cry out. 631 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,600 How much more should we cry out? Saints, we've been loved, we've 632 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,640 been saved, we've been changed, and we've been sent. 633 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,240 So how could we possibly hold it in? 634 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,600 All creation recognizes its creator. 635 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,320 If we were silent, the rocks would replace us. 636 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,240 So you have to decide. And we're closing and we're 637 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:43,560 going to take communion together. 638 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,880 Chris and Kayla. Yeah, if y'all could get us 639 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,360 ready. So you have to decide. 640 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,120 Do you want a servant that you can control? 641 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,840 That's what the Jews were expecting. 642 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,760 That's the God that they had been trained about. 643 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,040 That's the American Jesus that you and I have heard a lot 644 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,680 about. Just ask Jesus into your heart. 645 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,800 He has a wonderful plan for your life. 646 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,240 Those are technically true statements, but that is not the 647 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,680 whole truth. That told you nothing of the 648 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,560 cross, That told you nothing of being willing to lay down your 649 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,160 life to follow Him, That told you nothing about all the other 650 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,080 disclaimers that He made. It says if you're not willing to 651 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,080 pick up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy to be my 652 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,840 disciple. No, all the Christian home decor 653 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,200 just tells me I am worthy. I'm worthy of what? 654 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:35,680 What exactly am I worthy of? I am who God says I am, that's 655 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,920 true. But what am I worthy of? 656 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:45,040 What am I deserving of? Everything I get is grace. 657 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,000 I didn't earn it. I'm not worthy of it. 658 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,440 But you're still loved. You're still loved. 659 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,680 I know I'm loved, but that's different from being worthy. 660 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,640 That's different from being deserving. 661 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,680 That's different from earning anything. 662 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,600 So one put, one puts me in a great position of humility. 663 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,400 One puts me very low and says he's worthy of it all. 664 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,040 That leaves nothing for me to be worthy of. 665 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,400 What do I deserve? Well, that's too frightful to 666 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,840 even talk about. What I deserve is hell. 667 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,960 What I deserve is torment. What I deserve is to be 668 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,320 trampled. What I deserve is not to be 669 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,040 passed over. I deserve for the Lord to visit 670 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,600 me with all of His wrath and all of His judgment. 671 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:31,040 That's what I deserve. But I want Him to Passover, and 672 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:37,320 by God's grace, He can Passover. Do you want a servant you can 673 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,200 control or a king who can actually save your soul? 674 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,760 Will you will will your worship be convenient or will your 675 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:50,160 worship be costly? This goes way beyond the Sunday 676 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,400 morning conversation. I mean, that's like, that's the 677 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,920 kindergarten level. It's laughable. 678 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,440 It's rainy, it's polliny, it's cold, it's hot. 679 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,120 Yesterday was Saturday. I was up late. 680 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,360 This isn't a church attendance message. 681 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,840 That's an automatic and easy win for the Saints. 682 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,400 What I'm talking about is an obedience that costs everything. 683 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,800 Palm Sunday, it's easy to rejoice, but Friday is coming 684 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,880 and few actually follow all the way to the cross. 685 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,199 And that shows up in your whole life. 686 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,800 So now we're going to come to the table together to receive 687 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,080 the elements together. Don't come casually. 688 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,480 Come on purpose. Don't come like Judas. 689 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:40,120 Judas, who took the Lord's body in his mouth and drank the wine 690 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,239 in his mouth, and then still trampled on the body and the 691 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:48,480 blood of Christ. So you could take the elements, 692 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,520 but it could be to your own damn damnation. 693 00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,880 Take the elements under your salvation. 694 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,480 Come humbly, come thankful your King loved you enough to give 695 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,800 himself fully to be executed in your place. 696 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,720 He took the wrath of God so that it would Passover. 697 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:31,190 You see Jesus as He really is. 698 00:35:33,150 --> 00:35:37,920 See Him as the whole truth, and then give your life to Him. 699 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,800 Don't give your life to a mirage. 700 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,320 Don't devote yourself to a God of your imagination. 701 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,000 Devote your life to the King of Kings as He really is. 702 00:35:58,980 --> 00:36:01,780 Someone asks you to just bow your head and pray right where 703 00:36:01,780 --> 00:36:06,280 you're at. And again, I'll just give one 704 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,960 more warning. Do not take the body and the 705 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,960 blood of the Lord lightly. Judas thought it's just another 706 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:20,400 meal, and many have done the same. 707 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,680 They've come to the table in the same way the Bible says you eat 708 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,960 and drink condemnation unto yourself. 709 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,440 I want to be merciful to you. I want to be a good pastor to 710 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:38,240 you and not let you do that. It's a meal that the Jews had 711 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:40,200 had 1000 times. It's a meal that you've had 712 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:50,850 hundreds of times. Save now. 713 00:36:50,850 --> 00:36:54,610 Save please. Blessed is he who comes in the 714 00:36:54,610 --> 00:37:04,890 name of the Lord, Master King, Lord Jesus, we love you. 715 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:17,120 We confess our sin now. Our sin was dark and awful. 716 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,200 You washed it and made us white as snow. 717 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,920 If you haven't submitted your life to to Jesus, this is the 718 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,040 moment to do so fully and completely. 719 00:37:37,020 --> 00:37:40,060 Lord, make me faithful not just on Palm Sunday. 720 00:37:40,060 --> 00:37:44,720 Make me faithful all the way to Good Friday and then bring me 721 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:52,160 all the way through to Resurrection Sunday made me 722 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,720 faithful to the end. Save me by your blood and your 723 00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:00,560 grace. We honor the body. 724 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:04,400 We honor the blood, the true Passover lamb. 725 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:10,440 No more sacrifices are needed. No more animals need to die. 726 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:17,200 The innocent man who didn't sin took my beating, took my nails, 727 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,000 and took the forsaking of the Father so that I wouldn't be 728 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:28,120 forsaken. Thank you Jesus, for your nail 729 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:32,080 pierced hands and feet, for the curse of the crown of thorns 730 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:36,000 that was put on your head. They spit in your face. 731 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,760 You took the full execution that I deserved. 732 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:51,120 You drank every drop of the wrath of the Father so that we 733 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,840 could be not just passed over, but we could also be elevated. 734 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,800 That we could be raised up with you and glorified. 735 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,800 We thank you for the body. Let's take it together. 736 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,600 In the blood of the final sacrifice, we remember. 737 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:30,670 Let's take it the cup together. Lord, I pray that your people 738 00:39:30,670 --> 00:39:35,430 would go out with shouts of joy today, that they would 739 00:39:35,430 --> 00:39:40,470 experience a deep satisfaction knowing that they know you for 740 00:39:40,470 --> 00:39:42,070 who you are and for who you said you were. 741 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,520 Give us deeper understanding, deeper delight, and deeper joy. 742 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,040 We honor you. We're thankful for you. 743 00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:01,920 We celebrate this Holy Week. It changed the whole world. 744 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:07,640 It changed all of eternity. But I pray you would keep our 745 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,920 hearts Worshipful, in particular this week. 746 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:16,480 As we draw near to Friday and Saturday and Sunday, Lord, I 747 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:21,400 pray for the lost world around us, for our friends and for our 748 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,360 family. Give us a heart for them. 749 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,400 Give us a bigger desire to see the lost saved. 750 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,760 Give us more hunger and thirst. Give us more desperation. 751 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:38,480 Give us more boldness that we would tell the truth, the whole 752 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:45,560 truth, and the good news that Jesus died for sinners like me. 753 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,600 And now the Lord bless you and keep you. 754 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,160 The Lord make his face Shinedown upon you and be gracious to you. 755 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,120 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you great 756 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,600 peace in Jesus name, Amen.