1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,160 Like shake yourself or whatever this is making you sleepy. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:05,800 All right, welcome. It's so good to see you today. 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,000 Thanks for coming out on this very cold morning. 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,840 And again, if you're new to North Life, I'll be in the lobby 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,960 after service. Would love to meet you and hear 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,640 some of your story and answer any questions you might have 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,880 about North Life. And also, my e-mail is really 8 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:21,120 easy if you ever need to reach me. 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,640 If you're new to the church or you've been here for a while, if 10 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,320 there's some prayer requests or something, my e-mail is 11 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:31,760 kurt@nlifechurch.org. So CURT at nlifechurch.org, 12 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,760 super easy to reach me. All right, if you're watching 13 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,320 online today, we're super thrilled that you are here with 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:42,120 us, whether it's live at 11 O3 on Sunday morning or sometime in 15 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,560 the days or weeks to come. And we want to invite you to 16 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,240 come be with us live in worship at 115 E Main St. so right in 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,240 the historic old downtown part of Gaylord. 18 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,080 I would love to see you sometime soon, so consider yourself 19 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,200 invited. All right, if you have your 20 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,640 Bibles, please take and turn to John chapter 12. 21 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,040 If you're new to the Bible, John is about like 8090% towards the 22 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,520 back of your Bible in the New Testament after Matthew, Mark, 23 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,720 and Luke and before the book of Acts. 24 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,880 So John chapter 12, and know that there are notes on the back 25 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:17,680 tables there that you could grab it. 26 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,760 Make use of those, whether as I'm teaching or maybe you want 27 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,000 to grab them on your way out and use them as a devotional tool 28 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,120 and the week to come. And then also there are palms. 29 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,840 So please take one home with you today, especially after the 30 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,080 message, and hopefully it will help you remember what we're 31 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,360 talking about this morning. OK, so if you have your Bibles, 32 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,040 John chapter 12 and we're going to start in verse 12. 33 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,880 And of course, today is Palm Sunday. 34 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,880 So Christians all over the planet are celebrating the 35 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:51,880 triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem some 2000 years ago, 36 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,240 OK. And so we are also celebrating 37 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,920 it today. And so this is the apostle John, 38 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,840 a disciple of Jesus, and he writes in chapter 12, verse 12 39 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,440 the next day. This is after he had been with 40 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,240 Lazarus and his sisters, Mary and Martha, and there was a plot 41 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,840 to try to kill Lazarus between the Pharisees, not only Jesus, 42 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,240 but they thought about trying to kill Lazarus also because the 43 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,960 the miracle of him being resurrected, right? 44 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:24,720 And so the Pharisees don't like that Jesus is gaining favor with 45 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,640 his followers. And so they have this plot. 46 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:31,720 So the next day after that, the large crowd that had come to the 47 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,640 feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 48 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,680 And so they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet 49 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:43,000 him, crying out, Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the 50 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,960 name of the Lord, even the king of Israel. 51 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,560 And Jesus found a young donkey, and I'll tell you more of that 52 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,880 story. And he sat on it just as it is 53 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,440 written. Fear not, daughter of Zion, 54 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,480 behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. 55 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,680 This morning. I want to talk to you about the 56 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,600 Passover and palms and I want to talk to you about the past and 57 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,400 present future of each. So I want to connect some dots 58 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,040 today and let you know what there will be like at the end, 59 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,960 Especially there's there's an idea about palms and worship and 60 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,960 we'll get to that at the end. But this morning, so the past, 61 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,800 the present future of Passover's and palms, let me pray for us. 62 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,360 Heavenly Father, we've come today to connect with you, to 63 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,720 have Kona NIA, to have fellowship with you and to 64 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,400 fellowship with each other. And we've sung our songs of 65 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,760 worship to you and we believe that you've heard our songs. 66 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,080 We've lifted up prayers to you even just being together in in 67 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,200 fellowship. The Konenia of it is honoring to 68 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,400 you. And now we open our hearts and 69 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,760 our minds to your truth and to your word. 70 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,160 We thank you for Scripture and the way that you reveal yourself 71 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,800 there. And so today that on this Palm 72 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,840 Sunday, especially Jesus, as we look to your triumphal entry, 73 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,400 grow us in our understanding and then ready us even the more to 74 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,040 be ready for worship on Friday night, Good Friday, and then 75 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:11,240 readiest to come to celebrate your resurrection next Sunday 76 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,600 morning. We pray this in Jesus name and 77 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,480 everyone loudly together said Amen and Amen. 78 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:22,880 All right, so this is John's account of that Palm Sunday, 79 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,160 when Jesus enters into the city of Jerusalem. 80 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,320 And it is a feast, It is a Passover feast. 81 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,840 So this is a holiday that the Jews would celebrate once a 82 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:36,480 year, and they're commemorating what had happened in Exodus. 83 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:37,800 OK, And we'll get around to that story. 84 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,840 So what's curious about Palm Sunday is that it's such a big 85 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:45,520 event in the life of Jesus that that each of the gospel writers, 86 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,800 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, all speak of it. 87 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,880 And that's not true of every event in the life of Jesus. 88 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,480 There were some events that were only maybe mentioned in one or 89 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,040 two of the Gospels, but in this occasion, all four of the 90 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,160 writers mention it at length. And so this morning what I'm 91 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,640 going to do is I'm going to look at each one's account of this 92 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,240 Palm Sunday and see how they're different and see how they 93 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,160 complement each other and hopefully walk away with an 94 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,920 understanding of how it's meaningful to us today. 95 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,160 The celebration that Jesus experienced when he came into 96 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,200 Jerusalem. Now, I was in Jerusalem 15 years 97 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:27,400 ago and I can remember just being where, you know, you can 98 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,960 still go to at least close to where the gate would have been 99 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,160 that that Jesus enters into the city. 100 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,200 And, and what's curious is that as it's on the same day, 101 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,640 probably as Jesus is coming in one of the gates, the eastern 102 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,760 gate, then the western gate, it would have been such that Pilot 103 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,960 also would have been having a parade of sorts. 104 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,440 But we think that the parade that Jesus is experiencing was 105 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,840 more people there. And they were again crying out, 106 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:55,280 Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 107 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,480 So I want to break down what is happening this event. 108 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,360 What are they saying? What does it mean? 109 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,520 How does Jesus receive it? How does Jesus respond to the 110 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,840 worship? And then again, the future, what 111 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:09,160 are going to be the future of palms in our lives when it comes 112 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,760 to worshipping Jesus? OK, so I'll get back to John's 113 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,760 account, but first let's go to Mark's account. 114 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:19,120 So Mark, we believe this is actually the story as Peter 115 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,320 would have given it. So we think Mark wrote down the 116 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,560 story as Peter would have told him. 117 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,200 OK, so this is Peter's viewpoint. 118 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,200 Now, remember, by Friday night, Peter is going to deny knowing 119 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:32,640 Jesus. Jesus is going to be arrested. 120 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,360 And when he is, he's betrayed by Judas. 121 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,000 He's arrested. And there are three occasions 122 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,840 where people say to Peter, weren't you one of the followers 123 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,800 of Jesus? And the last is a little girl, a 124 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,640 young woman. And Peter curses and betrays and 125 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,840 says that he doesn't even know who Jesus is. 126 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:55,360 OK, so this is Peter's viewpoint of Jesus going in to Jerusalem 127 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,040 on that Sunday morning. And so it marked 11 chap verses 128 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,280 one through 11. So Mark writes, Now when they 129 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:07,440 drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethpage and Bethany at the 130 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,640 Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to 131 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,520 them, Go into the village in front of you and immediately as 132 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:18,360 you enter, you will find a colt, Tide, on which no one has ever 133 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,360 sat. Untie it and bring it. 134 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,720 Now watch this. Jesus is going to ride this colt 135 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,360 that has never been ridden, which means it's never been 136 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,320 broken, right? So he, this is somewhat of a 137 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,320 miracle that he's riding this, this donkey. 138 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,120 And I've, I can, again, having been to Jerusalem, I can 139 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,720 envision where the Mount of Olives is and across there's a 140 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,760 big valley there and there's a highway that runs through it. 141 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,120 And so I can envision what it would have been like for Jesus 142 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,880 to have come from the Mount of Olives to gone into the valley 143 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,440 and up the hill to Jerusalem, OK? 144 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,480 And he would have been doing this his entire life. 145 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,880 OK. You remember that Jesus had gone 146 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,080 to celebrate the Passover feast when he was 12 with his parents, 147 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,280 Mary and Joseph. And remember, they lost him. 148 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,800 They left him there. And they got about halfway home 149 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,720 and realized, oh, wow, Jesus isn't with us. 150 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,680 And when he gets back, when they go back to the city of 151 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,280 Jerusalem, they find him in the temple having conversations and 152 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:15,080 leaving the religious leaders in awe of his insights regarding 153 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:17,680 scripture and other things. So, so Jesus, his entire life 154 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,000 would have been making that journey across from the Mount of 155 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,640 Olives into the valley and up into the city of Jerusalem. 156 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,600 But this time it's different because the expectation is high. 157 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,880 They know he's coming. He's performed these miracles 158 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,159 with Lazarus and the feeding of the 5000 and the healing of the 159 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:34,039 blind men, just so many miracles. 160 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:38,559 And so Jesus had grown greatly in favor and notoriety. 161 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,960 And here it comes into the city during the Passover feast. 162 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,480 OK. And he says you'll go find this 163 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,360 cult. And what's interesting is that 164 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,680 he just says, just go take it when you you're going to 165 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:51,320 immediately see this cult. And when you do, just go take 166 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,160 it. So in verse 33, it says, if 167 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,160 anyone says to you, why are you doing this? 168 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,440 Why are you taking? Why are you stealing my cold? 169 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,880 Say the Lord has need of it and we'll send it back here 170 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,400 immediately. And they went away and found a 171 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,120 colt tied at the door outside in the street. 172 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,160 And they untied it. And some of those standing there 173 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:11,600 said to them, what are you doing? 174 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,240 What are you doing on tying the colt? 175 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,800 And they said, the Lord needs it. 176 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,920 And the person who had the colt, he, he did that. 177 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,240 He just let it take it, right. So how are you when someone 178 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,480 says, Oh yeah, the Lord has need of this, the idea that that, you 179 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,440 know, really it's kind of against our theology to say that 180 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,640 God needs anything. God is he's totally sufficient. 181 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,000 But in this occasion, Jesus expresses, hey, I have this 182 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,040 need, the Lord, I have this need. 183 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,440 And this person who has the cult allows it. 184 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,640 And when they do, it's important because he's fulfilling A 185 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,720 prophecy that we'll get to. So verse 6. 186 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,320 And they told them what Jesus had said, that he had need of 187 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,440 it, and they let them go. And they brought the cult to 188 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,640 Jesus, and they threw their cloaks on it and he sat on it. 189 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,440 This is like them treating him like a king. 190 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,480 When they take their coats and they put it on the donkey, then 191 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,800 it is again nodding to the fact that he is kingly. 192 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,000 And then he spread their cloaks on the road again. 193 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,880 It's something that you would do for royalty, something for 194 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,480 kings. Another spread leafy branches, 195 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,080 in other words, the palm branches that they had cut from 196 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,240 the fields and verse 9 and those who went before and those who 197 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,240 followed were shouting Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the 198 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:28,320 name of the Lord bless. Blessed is the coming Kingdom of 199 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,240 our Father David. Hosanna in the highest. 200 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:36,080 Now hosanna is a Hebrew word and it literally means save us now, 201 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,520 save us now. And it was taken from the 202 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:41,440 Psalms. OK, so they're quoting when 203 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,800 they're saying Hosanna, Blessed is he who comes in the name of 204 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,200 the Lord. Well, they're quoting Psalm 118, 205 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,840 verses 24 through 26. For the psalmist writes, this is 206 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,400 the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in 207 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,640 it. Save us, we pray. 208 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:56,960 That's where Hosanna would have been. 209 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,920 Save us now we pray, O Lord, O Lord, we pray, give us success. 210 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,040 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 211 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,200 We bless you from the House of the Lord. 212 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,320 The the Jews had been anticipating their Messiah, 213 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,280 their deliverer coming. Moses was a type of deliverer. 214 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,040 David. They're looking to the lineage 215 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,920 of David. David had been their deliverer 216 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,920 also. And now they're looking for the 217 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,280 Messiah to come. They've been expecting about it. 218 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:28,040 OK, so but in their mind, when they're saying save us now, they 219 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,800 were really Speaking of a political type of salvation. 220 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,360 We say it now, we say Hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the 221 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,600 name of the Lord. But we're thinking about all the 222 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,920 eternal salvation that we receive in Jesus through the 223 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,960 cross and the burial and the resurrection. 224 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,760 But in their minds, when they were singing Hosanna, it had 225 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,400 become a political, like a war cry. 226 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,240 And those of you who might have grown up Catholic, or if you 227 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,440 have a Catholic tradition, if you'll notice there are more 228 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,760 books of the Bible in the Catholic Bible, OK. 229 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,160 And one of those is the books of Maccabees, OK? 230 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,240 So interesting enough, around 150 years before Jesus, it was 231 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,040 walking on the earth. There was a rebellion that was 232 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,400 led by these Maccabee brothers. And when they came into the 233 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,560 city, the Jews also historically, Josephus tells us 234 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:16,320 this historically, they also would have quoted the same 235 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,640 scripture. And they were able to rebel 236 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,200 against the Syrians and the Greeks. 237 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,080 Remember, Alexander the Great would have been around that era, 238 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,800 right? So they lead, the Jews lead a 239 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,280 rebellion. And the Greeks had actually 240 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,280 conquered Jerusalem and they'd actually set up a statue of Zeus 241 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:34,680 in the temple to justify the Jews. 242 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,640 The Romans were more politically savvy. 243 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,280 They weren't as they didn't come and conquer places and offend as 244 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:45,360 bad as the Greeks did. So this is a this is a war cry. 245 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,320 Yes, in the original Psalm, it's looking for the Messiah to be 246 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,280 the one that is blessed in the name of the Lord. 247 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,880 But they had taken that term and they turned it into a political 248 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,960 war cry that they've used before. 249 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:01,040 And they're missing Jesus's intent to bring eternal 250 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:05,000 salvation through the cross, through his sacrifice that he 251 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,720 will make. So their their understanding is 252 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,760 limited, but Jesus, it's interesting how he responds to 253 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,360 them. Does he, does he criticize them? 254 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,840 No, he receives their worship even in the midst of their 255 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,000 limited and kind of poor understanding of what Hosanna 256 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,800 meant, right. And that's the heart of God. 257 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,520 Maybe when you were a new Christian, brand new in the 258 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,440 Lord, maybe there were some things that you believed about 259 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,080 God that weren't completely accurate. 260 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,240 Maybe your view of God was skewed. 261 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,880 How does God delete us? Well, you'll see how he responds 262 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,360 to the city of Jerusalem and their limited understanding of 263 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,680 that passage. Hosanna save us now. 264 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,880 They missed it. They thought it was a political 265 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:48,040 war cry and Jesus had more meaning for it now. 266 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:51,040 So it wasn't the first time that they had used this terminology 267 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,480 before. Now Jesus, his timing because of 268 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,720 prophecies, His timing was that this is the year that he's going 269 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,840 to Passover. He's gone every year, but this 270 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,120 is the year that now he knows his destiny and it is to be 271 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,360 crucified. It is to offer himself up. 272 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,480 So let's go back to John's account. 273 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,080 So in John chapter 6 where we started, let's see how John 274 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,680 paints the picture of that Sunday and when they had eaten 275 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:17,280 their fill. Oh no, I'm sorry. 276 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,240 Oh, I'm going to take you here to another time. 277 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,360 They wanted to make Jesus King. OK, so this is when early on 278 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,560 when he's feeding the 5000, they are going to try to force him 279 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,600 into being king like there. Watch how it happens verse 12. 280 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,240 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, 281 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,240 gather up the leftover fragments, the broken pieces, 282 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,840 that nothing may be lost. So they gathered them up and 283 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,360 filled 12 baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left 284 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,960 by those who had eaten. And when the people saw the sign 285 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,720 that he had done, they said, This is indeed the prophet who 286 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,760 is to come into the world. Perceiving that they were about 287 00:14:55,760 --> 00:15:00,920 to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew 288 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,520 again to the mountain by himself. 289 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,360 Maybe you missed that part of the story when you think about 290 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,520 the feeding of the 5000, that they early on in his ministry 291 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,240 wanted to force him into that kingly place. 292 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:14,840 But Jesus, again, he was kind of flying under the radar. 293 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,200 He had miracles to perform, He had teachings to give, and it 294 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,880 was destined that this is the year, this is the exact moment 295 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,040 that He is to be crucified. And so he was kind of like 296 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,000 keeping a low profile when they were trying to force Him to be 297 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,400 that king. And the type of king they were 298 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,760 wanting was the type of king that would have defeated the 299 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,600 Romans, kicked them out and set up again, like a Davidic type of 300 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,320 government. The they wanted that type of 301 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,120 king. But that wasn't Jesus's intent. 302 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,840 OK, So, so on that occasion he defies and doesn't welcome, 303 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:50,200 they're forcing him to be a king. 304 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,680 Now, when Jesus is in Jerusalem. But we think over 2 million 305 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,160 others would have converged on the city to celebrate the 306 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,520 Passover. Well, what are they celebrating? 307 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,520 What event are they celebrating? Well, this is the Passover feast 308 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:07,080 that had started in Egypt. Remember the story that Moses 309 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,680 was born in Farrell's court, and he grows up until he's 40 years 310 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,480 old, and then he murders a Egyptian soldier, if you will, 311 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,480 or at least a taskmaster over slaves. 312 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,120 So the Jews had become slaves in Egypt when Joseph had become the 313 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,760 governor some hundreds of years earlier. 314 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,400 So Joseph becomes the governor. Remember Joseph, he had the coat 315 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,960 of many colours sold in the slavery by his brothers and 316 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:35,600 eventually Joseph's brothers. They come during a famine and 317 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,560 they come with their father Jacob, and they they get stuck 318 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,880 in Egypt and the Egyptians make them slaves for hundreds of 319 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,120 years. So Moses said growing up in the 320 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,000 Pharaoh's court that 40 he murdered, killed a slave 321 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,640 taskmaster and he goes and hides in the desert for 40 more years. 322 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:55,520 So now he's 80 years old. And that's when God comes to him 323 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,960 in a burning Bush. God speaks to him. 324 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,880 And what does God tell him? God says, I want you to go tell 325 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,480 the Pharaoh to let my people go. Right. 326 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,280 Remember the song Pharaoh, Pharaoh. 327 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,160 Oh, let my people go. Right, right. 328 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,280 So there it is. So that's, that's the, that's 329 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,040 the historical background. So here it is. 330 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,040 So Moses, now he goes to the Pharaoh and he says, God says, 331 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,640 let my people go. And he does some miraculous 332 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,079 things. And Pharaoh says no. 333 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:28,280 And so there are 10 plagues. And each time the Pharaoh says 334 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,040 that he's going to let the Jewish slaves go, but he changes 335 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:37,160 his mind over and over again. And finally his heart is 336 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:38,800 hardened. The Pharaoh's heart is hardened 337 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,880 against the instructions that Moses, their deliverer, is 338 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,200 giving. And so finally, because of the 339 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,000 hardness of his heart, the measures become even more 340 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,840 extreme. And eventually now the 10th 341 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,480 plague is going to be a death Angel. 342 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,280 The Angel of death is going to crossover Egypt. 343 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,840 And when it does, the first born in every home like human being 344 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,840 and the first born of the layer livestock was going to be 345 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,120 killed. And this is because again, 346 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:06,400 Pharaoh's heart had been heartened and he, he would not 347 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,760 release the slaves as God had told him to do. 348 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,440 Now, this is the, this is the Passover, right? 349 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:13,880 So the death Angel is going to Passover. 350 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,960 So watch what happens. This is Exodus 12, the original 351 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:17,840 count of this. OK. 352 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,640 And for 1400 years. So if the time for Moses to 353 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,320 Jesus is around 1400 years. So for 1400 years, almost all 354 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,960 the time they've been celebrating the Passover feast, 355 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:31,600 remembering God's faithfulness and delivering them from slavery 356 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,840 from the Egyptians. So watch your verse 3. 357 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,520 This is God speaking to them. Tell all the congregation of 358 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:41,800 Israel that on the 10th day of this month, every man shall take 359 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,880 a lamb according to their father's house, a lamb for a 360 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,200 household. And if the household is too 361 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,120 small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take 362 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,640 according to the number of persons, according to what each 363 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,480 can eat. You shall make your count for 364 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,720 the lamb. And of course, Jesus is now the 365 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,120 Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. 366 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:02,920 That's how he's introduced by John the Baptist. 367 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,640 He is the Lamb of God and Revelation, You'll see it also. 368 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,640 He's referred to this over and over and over again. 369 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,520 Jesus is the sacrificial lamb that was given for us. 370 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,360 And this Lamb that is going to defend them from the Angel of 371 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:17,840 death is a picture, a type of Jesus who is to come. 372 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,200 Now verse 5, Your lamb shall be without blemish. 373 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,880 This again is nodding at Jesus, a male, a year old. 374 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,000 You may take it from the sheep up or from the goats, and you 375 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,160 shall keep it until the 14th day of this month, when the whole 376 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,320 assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at 377 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,080 twilight. Then they shall take some of the 378 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,520 blood and put it on the doorposts, the two doorposts at 379 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,120 the lentil of the house, and which they eat it, they shall 380 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,000 eat the flesh that that night roasted on the fire with 381 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,320 unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 382 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,880 They shall eat it. Now watch, would we still do 383 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,040 unleavened bread to the state, don't we, when we receive 384 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,120 communion, right? So on this occasion, the even 385 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:00,640 the bread, all of this stuff is pointing towards Jesus. 386 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,960 So Jesus is going to be the spotless lamb who's without 387 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,120 blemish. And he's going to be offered up 388 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:10,160 for us 1400 years after this. But for those 1400 years, they 389 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,680 celebrated and had this feast, had this, this eating of the 390 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:17,120 lamb, OK. And so the night that the death 391 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:20,000 Angel comes through Egypt, sadly again, even the first born of 392 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,320 the Pharaoh dies. And those who do not have the 393 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,440 blood on the doorpost, again they're visited by the Angel of 394 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,760 death. And so this is now a picture of 395 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,160 the blood of Christ that has been poured out for us. 396 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,080 And because of the blood of Christ, when we apply it to the 397 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,520 doorposts of our lives, then we are delivered. 398 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,560 And this is one of the in the mighty name of Jesus. 399 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,920 When we sing that song, right, there's a line in that says I 400 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:49,920 draw a permanent battle. Let's say a the enemy has the 401 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:56,360 near my family and the doorpost. There's a line, there's 402 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,480 somewhere about the doorpost. OK, So that's again a 403 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,840 remembering of OK, that's right. In the Old Testament, they would 404 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,200 put the blood over the doorpost. And this is what they're doing 405 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,840 the week that Jesus goes in to the city of Jerusalem, OK? 406 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,360 He's there to celebrate the Passover again, 1400 years, and 407 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:14,880 he'd been doing it every year of his life. 408 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,840 But this is the occasion where he has his triumphal entry into 409 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,520 the city and he's being celebrated, right? 410 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:21,920 So I just wanted to connect that for you. 411 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,280 So that's what they're celebrating. 412 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,600 Then. Jesus now is coming to fulfill 413 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:29,720 all of these prophecies. He's coming to fulfill the 414 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,320 imagery that had been presented in the Old Testament that was 415 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,760 pointing at him. OK, now let's go to Matthew's 416 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,000 account. So Matthew is the tax collector 417 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,520 who becomes a disciple follower of Jesus and this is his 418 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,320 explanation of the triumphal entry on that Palm Sunday verse 419 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,040 one and chapter 21. Now when they drew near to 420 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,600 Jerusalem and came to Bethpage to the Mount of Olives. 421 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,520 Again the Mount of Olives is across the valley from 422 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,040 Jerusalem. Then Jesus sent 2 disciples 423 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,200 saying to them going to the village in front of you, and 424 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,920 immediately you will find a donkey, tide and a colt with 425 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,680 her. Untie them and bring them to me. 426 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,720 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say the Lord needs 427 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,000 them and he will send them at once. 428 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:14,040 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet saying 429 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,720 say to the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming to 430 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:23,080 you humble and mounted on a donkey on a colt, the foal of a 431 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:27,160 beast of burden. Now in this occasion, Matthew is 432 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,800 giving explanation to what they were saying and he it's he's 433 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,160 mentioning that this is a prophet, a prophecy about Jesus 434 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:40,920 from Zechariah Chapter 9 verse 9, Zechariah writing about Jesus 435 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,840 who was to come this prophesying about him. 436 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,600 He said rejoice greatly. O daughter of Zion, shout aloud, 437 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,320 O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is coming to you 438 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,360 righteous and having salvation. Is he humble and mounted on a 439 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:58,320 donkey on a cold, the foal of a donkey. 440 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,880 This is hundreds of years before Jesus has his triumphal entry on 441 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,120 that Palm Sunday. It had been prophesied. 442 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,520 And so Jesus is fulfilling this prophecy and the disciples and 443 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,240 those who were following him understood this, that the 444 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,200 Messiah had been prophesied about. 445 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,760 Now scholars think that Jesus fulfilled over 300, maybe as 446 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,840 many as 450 prophecies from the Old Testament. 447 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,000 And all of those prophecies give me even more credence and 448 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,680 credibility to Jesus being the Messiah. 449 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,240 The example here again, him riding the donkey, why he's 450 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,160 fulfilling this prophecy, the fulfillment of this prophecy, 451 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:36,760 even the more gives you and I reason to believe He is the Lord 452 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,320 and He is the Messiah. He was building the faith as He 453 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,920 was fulfilling these prophecies. So Matthew continues and in 454 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,000 verse 6 it says the disciples went and did as Jesus had 455 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,480 directed them. They brought the donkey in the 456 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,840 cold and put on them their cloaks and he sat on them. 457 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,600 Now when Jesus is when they put the cloaks on the, the donkey, 458 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,360 this is a sign that he is royal, that he is king like, and 459 00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:01,440 they're doing it to honor him as he comes into the city, right. 460 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,280 So you've seen the pictures probably in a children's Bible 461 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,040 or the like, where Jesus is on the donkey and the coats have 462 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,840 been draped over the, the donkey. 463 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,080 But not only are they putting coats on the donkey, they're 464 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,960 also putting coats on the floor on the ground. 465 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,520 Verse 8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and 466 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,320 others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the 467 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,000 road. Again, this is the palms. 468 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,840 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were 469 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,200 shouting Hosanna to the Son of David. 470 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,360 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 471 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:32,680 Hosanna. Again Matthew citing that they 472 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,680 are quoting the Psalm. And when he entered Jerusalem, 473 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,200 the whole city was stirred up, saying, Who is this? 474 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,440 And the crowd said, this is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of 475 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,560 Galilee. OK, so that's Matthew's story. 476 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,200 Now let's go back to where we started with John's account, and 477 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,720 let's see the things that he's going to point out. 478 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,920 Verse 12 of chapter 12 again. And the next day, the large 479 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,440 crowd that had come to the feast, the Passover feast, heard 480 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,040 that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 481 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,440 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, 482 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,080 crying out Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the 483 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:10,040 Lord, even the king of Israel. And Jesus found a young donkey, 484 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,320 and he sat on it, just as it is written. 485 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,920 Fear not, daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming, 486 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,280 sitting on a donkey's colt. Again, mentioning this passage 487 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,640 from Zechariah. Now what? 488 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,840 One of the things that John points out that is different 489 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,840 than the other accounts is that John is going to point out that 490 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,600 after Jesus enters the city, he has a response to the 491 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,360 celebration, to his triumphal entry. 492 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:33,880 And John's the one who mentions it. 493 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,680 And what does Jesus do? He weeps over the city of 494 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,480 Jerusalem. And why does he weep? 495 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,720 Because he knows their future. He knows what's going to happen. 496 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,840 They're lost and they're in the moment. 497 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,920 They're hyped up, blessed to see who comes in the name of the 498 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,920 Lord Hosanna. But he knows within days they 499 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,200 will betray him. They'll turn on the same ones 500 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,560 that were singing Hosanna on that Sunday. 501 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,000 By Friday would be saying, crucify him, right? 502 00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,040 They turned on him. Why? 503 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,960 Because he didn't. He didn't respond the way that 504 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,760 they wanted. He, he wasn't the Messiah that 505 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,240 they were looking or hoping for. Now Jesus knows what's going to 506 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,120 happen. And he also knows that then in 507 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:12,600 8070, the Romans are going to come in and they're going to 508 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,480 conquer Jerusalem. They're going to destroy it. 509 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,640 And to this day you can go see the ruins that would have been 510 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,320 from that occasion. The Jews had rebelled enough 511 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,400 times for finding the Romans were like, we're just going to 512 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,160 end you. So they go in and again, they 513 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,760 just totally destroyed the city of Jerusalem. 514 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,680 OK, Now Jesus knows that's coming. 515 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:37,160 So because of that he weeps and how wonderful to know that the 516 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,360 God we serve, the Lord that we follow, he is one who has an 517 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,240 emotion like this where he weeps. 518 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,160 So Luke 19, I'm sorry Luke tells this account. 519 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,000 I'm sorry, I was saying, John Luke tells this account. 520 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:51,520 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 521 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:56,320 saying, would that you, even you had known on this day the things 522 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,680 that make for peace, but now they are hidden from your eyes. 523 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,560 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up a 524 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,480 barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on 525 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,120 every side and tear you down to the ground, you and your 526 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:11,960 children within you. And they will not leave one 527 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,240 stone upon another in you, meaning the city of Jerusalem, 528 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,080 because you did not know the time of your visitation. 529 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,960 So Jesus saying you don't, they're going to lose sight of 530 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,400 who he is. And because of that, there is 531 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,320 going to become, there's destruction to come. 532 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,720 Now on this occasion when Luke, when Luke is saying that Jesus 533 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,280 wept, there's he's using a word that's different than the 534 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,800 occasion where Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus. 535 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,280 Remember in that account, Jesus's friends Mary and Martha 536 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,600 and Lazarus, Lazarus has been dead and in the in the tomb for 537 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,760 a couple of days by the time that Jesus makes the journey 538 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,960 there. And Jesus resurrects him, right? 539 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,480 And on that occasion, Jesus sees how sad Mary and Martha are. 540 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,880 And in their sadness, Jesus weeps with them. 541 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:58,800 And you can read that in John 11. 542 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:03,120 It says John 1134. And he said, where have you laid 543 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:04,120 him? Meaning Lazarus? 544 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:05,680 And he's speaking to one of the sisters. 545 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,560 And they said to him, Lord, come and see in verse 35, Jesus wept. 546 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,520 So the Jews said, see how he loved him. 547 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,600 And it's true he loved Lazarus. But in that occasion he's 548 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,440 weeping because of the he sees the sadness and the sisters. 549 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,440 Now on that occasion, it's the word is, is Dacrio. 550 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,040 It's a it's a Greek word for the way that John explains the way 551 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,600 Jesus is crying that time with Lazarus. 552 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,400 It's kind of like a quiet cry. But when Jesus goes into the 553 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,240 city on that Palm Sunday, his triumphal entry, when he cries 554 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,080 that time, it's a, it's a reward. 555 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,240 I can't quite say, but it's KLAIO, it's a Greek word. 556 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,040 And that this type of crying, this is like uncertain affinity 557 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,480 to sob, to wail out loud. So Jesus knowing that 558 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,280 destruction is coming, he knows they're going to miss his truth. 559 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:58,680 And so because of this, he weeps out loud, He sobs in sorrow over 560 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,680 what is to come because of their lack of obedience and because of 561 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,240 their hardened hearts. OK, so that's just some dots to 562 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,520 connect there. So Jesus weeps and I think that 563 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,840 this day, just knowing that, I still think that Jesus looks at 564 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,920 the plight of the world and it wouldn't surprise me if he still 565 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,720 weeps. When you see wars and rumors of 566 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,000 wars and the type of evil things that men and women do to each 567 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,960 other, I think Jesus sees that and I think he still weeps. 568 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,440 And knowing that he's like that, I think it's important in our 569 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,480 relationship and the way that we respond and interact with Jesus. 570 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,880 Now, I want to tie this up by showing you what is the future 571 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,720 Now, what is the future of palms? 572 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,560 You know, I encourage you again today, take a palm home, take a 573 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:42,960 couple, some of you like to braid them. 574 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,160 And just throughout the week, just remember, OK, what happened 575 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,080 this morning, OK, on this Palm Sunday, that Jesus made his 576 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,320 triumphal entry. Now watch this though, and this 577 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,840 is so profoundly wonderful to me, is that we will in the 578 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,760 future worship Jesus again with palms. 579 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,600 We'll do it in heaven. And John, when he's writing 580 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,480 Revelation, remember, John is the youngest of the disciples. 581 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,880 He writes his Gospel of John, but also he writes Revelation, 582 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,600 we believe. And he was exiled there, like in 583 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,840 prison on the Isle of Patmos. And while he's there, he has a 584 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,200 vision, OK? And his vision becomes the Book 585 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,520 of Revelation. It's all this heavenly imagery. 586 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,680 And so watch what John says will happen with palms in the future. 587 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,960 Now watch the verse 9 after this. 588 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,360 I looked and behold a great multitude that no one could 589 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,520 number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and 590 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:40,440 languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. 591 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,840 And they were clothed in white robes, with palm branches in 592 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,680 their hands and crying out with a loud voice. 593 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,840 Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the 594 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,240 Lamb in heaven. What this vision that John has 595 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,920 seen, this is all the followers of Jesus that have been redeemed 596 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:03,440 by his sacrifice, because he is the Lamb of God who takes away 597 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,880 the sins of the world. On this occasion, we will again 598 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,080 bring him honor and glory and we'll wave the palm branches 599 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:14,280 again declaring who He is. And this excites me to think, 600 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,440 OK, it's going to happen again in the future. 601 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,240 But this time around where the the triumphal entry, they had 602 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,120 limited understanding of what Jesus, what his mission was. 603 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,360 They had limited understanding. But on this occasion now we'll 604 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,920 have full understanding of how much Jesus did for us and we 605 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,200 will declare him again as the Lamb of God. 606 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:40,560 And we'll do it with palms now. And John says in this occasion, 607 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,600 it's all tribes and all peoples. So the poems remind us of what 608 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,880 Jesus did, and they remind us of the worship that is to come in 609 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,880 heaven where we will spend eternity with him. 610 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,240 Now, let me just tie this up and put a bow on of the sorts. 611 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,560 You know, Palm Sunday is an important part of getting ready 612 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:06,800 for Easter because understanding this week, knowing what happens 613 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,600 in the life of Jesus. So this is Sunday by, you know, 614 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,760 the next Sunday he will be resurrected. 615 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,520 Friday he'll be put in the tomb. He'll be on Thursday night, 616 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,440 he'll be arrested and he'll have communion for the first time 617 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,320 with his disciples. And so all that is happening, 618 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,840 it's he teaches. There's still many chapters left 619 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,600 in John after this is John 11. So if this is the triumphal 620 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,760 entry, then you have many more chapters to come after that 621 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,520 explaining that last week of the life of Jesus before he is 622 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,720 resurrected. OK, so getting you ready as a 623 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,920 church, getting our church family ready to gather on Friday 624 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,880 night starts today. Mindful of this is the way Jesus 625 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,320 enters the city. They celebrate him, Hosanna, but 626 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,920 they're going to turn on him. They're going to cry out, give 627 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,560 us Barabbas. The same voices again, the cry, 628 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,400 Hosanna cry, give us Barabbas crucify him. 629 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,760 So this week what I would encourage you to do is be 630 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,840 mindful of what's happening in the life of Jesus that week that 631 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,160 he is in Jerusalem after his triumphal entry. 632 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,520 And then I must say that Good Friday is really one of my most 633 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,440 favorite services every year. If you've never been to one of 634 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,680 our Good Friday services, I really encourage you to come and 635 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,320 come with your family, come with your kids. 636 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:23,240 It's designed as a time to be with your kids and families. 637 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,160 And that's important to know because years ago I worked at a 638 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,440 church and a friend who was on staff at this was planning a 639 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,160 Good Friday service and he was going to show clips from the 640 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,760 passion of the Christ, which is a tremendous movie. 641 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,120 But I don't want a child seeing clips of that, right? 642 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,240 It's to to just not ready for them to see. 643 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,920 So it's kid friendly service. And we will have Taylor will 644 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,880 have some things for the kids to, to color and other things if 645 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,280 they get distracted. But here's what I've learned is 646 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,520 that I didn't grow up in a tradition where we went to Good 647 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,080 Friday services. In fact, I worked in the church, 648 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,880 my first church job at leading worship. 649 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,120 I was 19. I was a youth director and 650 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,680 worship leader. We never had Good Friday 651 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,680 services. We knew how to celebrate. 652 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,880 We thought really well on Sunday mornings. 653 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,960 We would do the celebration big on Sunday mornings. 654 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,480 But it wasn't until I was 31 years old. 655 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,520 So I worked at 3 churches and finally went to work at a church 656 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,760 called Willow Creek in the Chicago area as a worship 657 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,560 leader. And that was the first time that 658 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,120 I did a Good Friday service and I was astounded at how much more 659 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:22,600 meaningful Sunday was after visiting the Cross in a 660 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,480 reflective way on Friday. OK, so all those years I was 661 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,840 missing out. I didn't know the celebration on 662 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,679 Sunday morning is more profoundly wonderful when you 663 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:34,360 have gone to the Cross on Friday evening. 664 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,920 So I encourage you to come out to that and I encourage you as 665 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,840 you don't know what to expect in that service. 666 00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:42,679 It will be reflective. It'll be quiet. 667 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,920 We'll read a lot of scripture together and we'll have 668 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,679 communion together, and then we'll leave in silence. 669 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,360 So every year when we have these services, I'll say, OK, but you 670 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,120 know, please don't speak in Word until you leave the door. 671 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,639 So people get to sit and kind of just stay in that place as long 672 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:58,640 as they want. And sometimes people will pray 673 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:03,000 at length and they'll just sit in reflection of the sacrifice 674 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,320 that Jesus made for us. OK, now that makes Sunday 675 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,040 morning better because when you come on Sunday morning, it's not 676 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,640 reflective. We're going to celebrate. 677 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,000 We're going to raise the we're doing a song this year and it 678 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,120 has, there's a lyric and it raised the roof off of this 679 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,760 house, you know, so that's the goal. 680 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,720 We're going to celebrate in a great way. 681 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,360 But I'm telling you, the celebrations were meaningful 682 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,160 when Friday we've reflected together. 683 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,760 OK, so if you never come, I really want to encourage you to 684 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,320 come. So now when we connect these 685 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,520 dots between Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry, the week that 686 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,000 Jesus is going to have teaching, he goes in and he remember he 687 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,400 throws the money changers out of the of the temple area. 688 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:43,640 They were fleecing people, selling lambs, but doing it in a 689 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,480 way where was crooked and corrupt. 690 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,640 So, Gee, all this stuff is going to happen this week. 691 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,480 And then Friday is his crucifixion, and we will visit 692 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,440 that together as a church on Friday. 693 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,480 So I would encourage you to take a poem with you on your way home 694 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,840 and give them to your kids. Be mindful again as we approach 695 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,760 Easter. I think today's message 696 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,640 hopefully is going to build up to the message of the 697 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,600 resurrection next Sunday morning. 698 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,400 All right, let me pray for us. God, we thank you for this day 699 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,080 that you've made. And Jesus, we do call out to you 700 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,720 as our deliverer, our Savior. We say Hosanna, blessed as he 701 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:20,880 who comes in the name of the Lord. 702 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:27,480 We believe that you are king, and we cry out to you the same, 703 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,520 but with different understanding, increased 704 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,080 understanding of what they were expecting and looking for from 705 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:34,520 you. So we don't see you as a 706 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,480 political leader, just a war leader. 707 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,000 Instead, we look to you as our deliverer. 708 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,840 Spiritually, You have eternally delivered us into salvation 709 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:46,840 because of what you're going to do this week. 710 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,600 So as a church family, God, I pray that you would ready us for 711 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,480 a really meaningful time on Friday night when we visit the 712 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:59,000 cross and then on Sunday when we come next week to shout and give 713 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,400 glory to you for conquering death, hell in the grave. 714 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,880 We pray that it will be honoring to you and we pray that you'll 715 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,640 that you'll appeal to people to come, maybe who are have not 716 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,560 been to our church before or maybe some who've not been in 717 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,240 church for a long time. And we pray that the way that we 718 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:17,840 celebrate you and the way we reflect on the cross on Friday 719 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,440 will lead more and more people to coming back to faith in you 720 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,680 or renew faith in you for the first time. 721 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,760 We pray this in Jesus name and everyone said Amen. 722 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,640 Now before we go, I do want to just take a moment and offer to 723 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:36,000 you a moment to receive Jesus as your Savior. 724 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,080 If you never have. There's a family I was just 725 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,320 talking to before service and she said that her and her 726 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,360 husband 41 years ago on Palm Sunday made their decision to 727 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,720 become a Christian, which is really cool and memorable, 728 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,760 right? So this would be a great Sunday 729 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,920 to say yes to Jesus. So what does it take to become a 730 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,840 Christian? The Bible says if you believe in 731 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,280 your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, then 732 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,400 you shall be saved. Hazel and Jamie, you guys want 733 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,280 to we want to sit down for just a little bit longer. 734 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,440 There you go. Good job guys. 735 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,840 Thank you. So if you if you believe in your 736 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,920 heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, then 737 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,080 you shall be saved. And what when you're saying 738 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,200 Jesus says Lord, now you're surrendering your life to him. 739 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,640 And we believe that when we surrender our lives to Jesus and 740 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,800 he comes and dwells in us, the Holy Spirit, then we believe 741 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,560 that we receive eternal life. Now we'll have it after we die, 742 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,720 but we get purpose and meaning and relationship with God now 743 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,200 and we call it Zoe life. OK, so you can receive that now 744 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,560 and Palm Sunny would be a great day to do it. 745 00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:38,800 So then we encourage you to tell somebody that you made the 746 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,520 decision to become a Christian. And then we encourage you to be 747 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,480 baptized, OK? And we do baptisms here a couple 748 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,840 times a year. And in this September, we'll do 749 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:51,080 them in the lake and Dixon Lake. We'll do some before then. 750 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,320 So when you're baptized, that's you putting on display others 751 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,880 for others to see of what has happened in you. 752 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,080 You've been cleansed by the blood of Christ and you've been 753 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,760 resurrected in him. And baptism represents that. 754 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,240 So I'm going to pray. And if you want to make that 755 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:08,160 decision that I encourage you to echo the prayer that I'm praying 756 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,600 and then let somebody know that you made this decision to follow 757 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,960 Christ. Let me pray and you can echo, 758 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:18,160 you can say, Heavenly Father, I come to you in Jesus name and I 759 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,560 want to surrender my life to you Jesus. 760 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,240 Come and be the Lord of my life. Forgive me of my sin. 761 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,520 I turn away from my sinful ways and I say grow me in your ways 762 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,240 as I repent and turn towards you. 763 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,800 So Jesus come and reign and rule in my heart. 764 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,760 I do declare that you are my deliverer, my Savior, and I 765 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,640 receive you as Lord and I pray that you'll help me to grow in 766 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,120 your ways. Teach me your ways as I chase 767 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,000 after you. And thank you for eternal life 768 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,600 that I'm receiving starting now. Thank you for it. 769 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,880 And Jesus name and everyone together said, Amen. 770 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,080 All right, let's stand together. Before you go, I want to send 771 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,480 you out with a blessing. So if you'll prepare your heart 772 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,200 to receive this blessing, don't forget to grab a poem on your 773 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,720 way out and also grab notes. All right? 774 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:11,400 And now may the Lord bless you and keep you, and may he make 775 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,960 his face to shine upon you. And may the joy of the Lord, 776 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,280 that is unspeakable and full of glory, may it abound to you. 777 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,360 And may the peace of God that passes all understanding, may it 778 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,360 surprise you in the midst of all of the challenges that life 779 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,520 brings. And then may the mercies of the 780 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,360 Lord, in other words, the forgiveness of God, that's new 781 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,240 every morning. May it be especially new to you 782 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:35,240 now and your mornings to come. And now, may the Lord Jesus 783 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:40,080 Christ guard your heart and your mind, your salt and your light. 784 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,880 Go now and be salt and light under the world. 785 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,320 You are blessed. We'll see you again soon.