1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,520 On Sunday, guys are going to have to cut me a little bit of 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:07,400 grace today because many of, you know, lost about 1/4 of my 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,920 tongue about two months ago, almost to the day and cancer 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,560 free now, but not slur free. So you'll have to just bear with 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:17,800 me. But we'll get through this. 6 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:23,680 So I wanted to comment when I mentioned the Wednesday service. 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:25,600 I would strongly encourage you to go. 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,040 I have been there, I think every day but one. 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,280 The nice thing about this is if you have a family and you think, 10 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,320 man, I can't be there by 5:30, you don't have to worry about 11 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,160 dinner because there's pizza provided and plenty of it. 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:48,640 So if that is an encouragement, The second thing is there's a, a 13 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,120 prayer component to it, but it's not like corporate prayer. 14 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,600 So nobody's going to go Pat, you need to pray right now. 15 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:00,480 It's if you have a prayer request or you want to tell, you 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,760 know, give a thanks about something that happened, you can 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,160 do that. And so nobody's going to call on 18 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,480 you. And then Pastor Nick actually 19 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,600 gives a message about 1/2 hour, usually 1 of encouragement. 20 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:19,520 And so I know this past Wednesday, I, I thought I got to 21 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,040 go. I need to go, didn't want to go. 22 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,560 I had one of those weeks where, you know, sometimes you're the 23 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:28,520 dog and sometimes you're the hydrant. 24 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,360 And I had been definitely the hydrant this week and sat with 25 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,800 my arms folded in my chair. And at the end of it, my arms 26 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,400 weren't folded. And I was very glad I felt the 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,280 presence of God. I was very glad I had come. 28 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,760 So I would encourage you, if you don't feel like cooking, come 29 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:55,040 down and eat pizza. So, OK, so it is Palm Sunday. 30 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,600 Most of us know what that's about. 31 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,760 We're going to read a portion of the Luke 19. 32 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,520 You know we're going to go to the Lord in prayer. 33 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,400 Then as he was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of 34 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,440 Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice 35 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,400 and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that 36 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:26,160 they had seen saying, Blessed is the king who comes in the name 37 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,120 of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory to the highest. 38 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:33,320 And some of the Pharisees called him from the crowd. 39 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:40,120 Teacher, rebuke your disciples. Father, we just, we just thank 40 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,480 you for who you are. I asked for a special blessing 41 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,560 today upon everyone who's here and especially on everyone who's 42 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,480 listening online. I know that there are people 43 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,520 that are gone that are dealing with family issues. 44 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,840 I know there are people that are dealing with health issues. 45 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,320 Every issue that can befall a human being people are dealing 46 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,680 with Lord and I would just ask a special blessing upon all of 47 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,480 them and that they would know that you were are near and that 48 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,040 you love them Lord and I'd ask you would help anoint this 49 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,520 message and help me to give it. I asked this in your name. 50 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:21,240 Amen. So the picture is, and I know 51 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,840 many of you have been to Israel. You know that there's an area 52 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,000 that's called Mount Olives, and it's kind of off to the east, 53 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:35,800 and then there's a slope that goes down to the Temple Mount, 54 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,880 and that's where the temple used to be. 55 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,320 And so what's going to happen is Jesus is going to come down. 56 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,280 He's going to go through the eastern gate, and he's going to 57 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:53,040 go into Jerusalem. But to understand really what's 58 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,880 going on here, you really have to go back and you have to go 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,640 back to Genesis because there is so much happening at this 60 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,280 moment. It's really kind of hard to 61 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,280 comprehend. And I would submit to you that 62 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:12,960 this event, him coming down on the, on a cult into the city of 63 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:19,000 Jerusalem is to accept the crown of David and to be acknowledged 64 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,600 as Christ. But we know that's not going to 65 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,720 happen because a week from now, Pastor Ben's or pastor, Pastor 66 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,800 Nick is going to be here giving a certain message on Easter. 67 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,920 So if there's ever a chapter in the Bible and there's probably 68 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,080 about 3 or 4 different sections in the Bible where there should 69 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:45,360 be a drum crescendo, it is this point here because this is the 70 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,760 culmination of it of the entire Old Testament. 71 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,560 So let's go back to Genesis 1 and we're going to read through 72 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,200 this. Then God said let us make man in 73 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,720 our image according to our likeness. 74 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,120 Now this first sentence is really critical because what it 75 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,680 tells us that the creation of man, we were not gods and we 76 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,160 were intended to reflect the character and nature of God. 77 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,000 It continues, Let them have dominion over the fish of the 78 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,120 sea, over the birds of the air and over the cattle, over all 79 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,320 the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on 80 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,520 the earth. So God created man in his own 81 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:37,240 image, in the image of God. He created him, male and female. 82 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:40,800 He created them. Then God bless him and God said 83 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,560 to them, Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and 84 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,080 subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of 85 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,840 the sea, over the birds of the air, and over everything that 86 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:55,840 moves on the earth. And God said, see, I have given 87 00:05:55,840 --> 00:06:00,800 you every herb and seed yield that yields seed, which is on 88 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,440 the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields 89 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,720 seed to you. It shall be for food also to 90 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:12,120 every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and 91 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,840 everything that creeps on the earth in which there is life. 92 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:18,760 I have given every green herb for food. 93 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,560 And so it was. Then God saw everything that He 94 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,160 had made, and indeed it was very good. 95 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,800 So we have the creation, and Adam and Eve are given dominion 96 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,360 over the earth. They have everything provided 97 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:40,880 for them, and He gives them another command, and this is in 98 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:47,600 Genesis 217 at 15. Then the Lord took the man, and 99 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,800 put him in the Garden of Eden to 10 and keep it. 100 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,840 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of 101 00:06:55,840 --> 00:07:00,400 the garden you may eat, you may freely eat, but the tree of the 102 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,920 knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day 103 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,880 that you eat of it, you shall surely die. 104 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,680 So we know that there was a tree there. 105 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,280 I think the tree of life is the second one that was present. 106 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,440 And we also have this tree of knowledge of good and evil, and 107 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,920 you just weren't supposed to eat it. 108 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:28,120 So what happens? Genesis 3 Now the serpent was 109 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,880 more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had 110 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,120 made. And he said to the woman, Has 111 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,960 God indeed said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 112 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,400 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit of 113 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,280 the trees of the garden, but the fruit of the tree which is in 114 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,120 the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor 115 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,800 shall you touch it, lest you die. 116 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,360 And the serpent said to the woman, You will not surely die, 117 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,240 for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be 118 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,160 open, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 119 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,720 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it 120 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,480 was pleasant to the eyes, a tree desirable to make one wise, she 121 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,240 took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband 122 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,160 with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them 123 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:25,720 were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed 124 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:30,880 fig leaves together and made themselves coverings, and they 125 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,480 heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the 126 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,039 cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid 127 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:41,240 themselves from the presence of the Lord, along with the trees 128 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,680 of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam 129 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:47,240 and said to him, Where? Where are you? 130 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,080 So he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid 131 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,600 because I was naked, and I hid myself. 132 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,840 And he said, Who told you that you were naked? 133 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,680 Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you 134 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:06,560 should not eat? And the man said, the woman who 135 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:10,480 you gave to me, she gave it to me, she gave me of the tree and 136 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,720 ate. And the Lord said to the woman, 137 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,600 What is this that you've done? The woman said, the serpent 138 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,440 deceived me and I ate. So the Lord God said to the 139 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,960 serpent, because you've done this, you're a cursive more than 140 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:29,040 all the cattle and more than every beast of the field on your 141 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,480 belly. You shall go, and you shall eat 142 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,680 dust for the days of your life. And I will put empathy between 143 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:39,560 you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. 144 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,600 He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. 145 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,000 To the woman. He said, I will greatly multiply 146 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,240 your sorrow and your conception in pain. 147 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,480 You shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your 148 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,000 husband, and he shall rule over you. 149 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,040 Then to Adam he said, Because you have heeded the voice of 150 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,200 your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded 151 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,240 you, which from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 152 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:11,160 You shall not eat it, curse it is the ground for your sake in 153 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,080 toil. You shall eat it. 154 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,560 Eat of it, and in the days of your life both thorns and 155 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:22,080 Thistle shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the herb 156 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,680 of the field. And So what of your face? 157 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,840 You shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of 158 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,200 it you were taken. For dust you are, and dust you 159 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,480 are to return. And Adam called his wife's name 160 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,960 Eve, because she was a mother of all living Also for Adam and his 161 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,200 wife the Lord God made tunics of skin and clothed them. 162 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,240 Then the Lord said, Behold, the man has become like us, we know 163 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:56,280 good and evil, and now lest he put on out his hand, and take 164 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,760 also from the tree of life, and eat and live forever, therefore 165 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,480 the God. Therefore God sent him out of 166 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,440 the garden to Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 167 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,360 He also drove out the man and he was placed and he placed 168 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,160 cherubim at the East End of the garden with a flaming sword 169 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,360 which turned every way to guard the way of the tree of life. 170 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,720 So I mean, most of us have heard this, you know, the general 171 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,440 concepts of this. But, you know, it's really kind 172 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,200 of hard to comprehend exactly what Adam and Eve lost when 173 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,240 they, when they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. 174 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,040 And you know, these, they were taken care of. 175 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,880 I suspect they had never seen death. 176 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,400 And, you know, Can you imagine having the Lord come down and 177 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,160 walk with you, want to walk with you, and you're talking to him. 178 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,360 You know, there there's some extra biblical sources like 179 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,120 Joe's pieces and some of the Jewish histories that talk about 180 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:03,440 Adam wrestling with lions, you know, not getting hurt, you 181 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,280 know, in a playful way. And them playing hide and seek, 182 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,200 you know, hide and seek with the Lord. 183 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,680 Praise is not going to work too good with you. 184 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:12,240 It's like playing Jeopardy with him. 185 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,120 He's going to know the answer. You know, it's, it's hard to 186 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,160 comprehend exactly what we lost when when we fell in the garden. 187 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,920 You know, and I'll tell you every time we get on an airplane 188 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:29,600 and go to the Bahamas or Hawaii or wherever your favorite place 189 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,680 is to decompress. Really, I think we're trying to 190 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:36,120 get back to the garden, but it's not going to happen this side of 191 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:43,120 heaven. So some of you may be surprised 192 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,520 to see the serpent, which is of course, Satan. 193 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,920 And so a couple of verses that kind of explain why Satan is 194 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,880 appearing in this particular chapter and why he tempted them. 195 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:58,280 First of all, we have to remember that he absolutely 196 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,320 hates us. And I know it's hard to, to, to 197 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,800 get into this mindset where you think there's this spiritual 198 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,960 entity that you can't see that literally hate you. 199 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:16,240 And I suspect a lot of that is jealousy because he was God's 200 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,800 Angel up there and he got so full of himself that he thought 201 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:26,200 he could be like God. And of course, we know that he 202 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,120 was kicked out of heaven along with the 30 the angels. 203 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:35,480 And there's a it's discussed in Isaiah 14 how you have fallen 204 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,400 from heaven, O Lucifer, sun of the morning, how you are cut 205 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:42,520 down to the ground, you who weakened the nations. 206 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,600 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven, I shall 207 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,200 exalt my throne above the stars of God. 208 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,840 I also sit on the mount of Congregation on the farthest 209 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,840 side of the north. I will ascend above the heights 210 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,120 and the clouds. I will be like like not actually 211 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,960 the the most time, but like the most time. 212 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,840 Yet you shall be brought down to shell, which is another word for 213 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,560 hell to the lowest depths of the pit. 214 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,760 Those who see you will gaze at you now I, This Is Us. 215 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,920 If you're saved, those who see you will gaze at you and 216 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:26,760 consider you saying, is this the man who made the earth tremble, 217 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,680 who shook kingdoms, who made the world as a wilderness and 218 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:36,320 destroyed the cities, who did not open the House of his 219 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,160 prisoners? And then in the New Testament, 220 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,920 Jesus says, and then this is what's happened, is he sent 70 221 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,080 people out. This is kind of the start of the 222 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,560 the gospel and sending people out to spread it. 223 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,680 And he sent 70 people out. This is Luke 10. 224 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,560 Then the 70 returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons 225 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,600 are subject to us in your name. And he said to them, this is 226 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:07,080 Jesus. I saw Satan fall like lightning 227 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,960 from heaven. Behold, I give to you authority 228 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,920 to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power 229 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,840 of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 230 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,000 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this that the spirits are 231 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,560 subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are 232 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:32,040 written in heaven. So it's pretty logical that when 233 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:36,160 Satan fell, he fell to earth. I mean, I guess he could fall to 234 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,320 the moon, but it pretty, it seems pretty logical. 235 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,040 That's that's where he ended up and he's on the earth and we 236 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,560 know that he's, this is kind of his domain that he has power on 237 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:51,080 the earth. And so he, he set out and he 238 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,760 successfully caused man to fall in a garden. 239 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:01,040 And so what's happened now God has driven them out of the 240 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,880 Garden of Eden. I know for a fact you did it in 241 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,720 a Mopar product because one of the texts says he, he drove them 242 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,120 out in a fury. If you guys don't know what if 243 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:12,760 you kids don't know what a fury is? 244 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,720 Google it. But anyway, he drove them out of 245 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:21,040 the Garden of Eden. And so now there's a situation 246 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,840 where he still wants to be with, he still loves mankind and he's 247 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,840 got not personally, but he's got a sin problem where actually 248 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:33,760 he's got man's sin problem. And man has a sin problem 249 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:41,040 because he's now falling. And it is from this point that 250 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:47,120 the entire Old Testament begins. And it is literally how God is 251 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:53,480 going to fix man's sin problem. And there are over 350, maybe 252 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:58,320 400 different references to the coming Christ, to how God's 253 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,320 going to fix this. I, I was going to jokingly say 254 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,960 we'll go through all 350 of them, but we're not. 255 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:11,680 But the Old Testament, the entirety of it points to this 256 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:17,400 coming Christ, this coming once and for all sacrifice that's 257 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:22,079 going to occur at some point. Now I can think of no better 258 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,800 example of this in Genesis 22, and that's Abraham and Isaac, 259 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,600 and starting at 22. Now it came to pass after these 260 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,920 things that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham, and he 261 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,200 said, here I am. Then he said, take now your son, 262 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:46,840 your only son Isaac, or we heard that only son whom you love, and 263 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,400 go to the land of Moriah, and offer him. 264 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,560 There is a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I 265 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,800 shall tell you. So Abraham rose early in the 266 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,440 morning, saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with 267 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,720 him and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the 268 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,480 burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God 269 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,840 had told him. Then on the third day, third 270 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:18,120 day, Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place far off. 271 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,240 And Abraham said to the young man, Stay here with the donkey 272 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,720 and the lad, and I will go Yonder and worship, and we will 273 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,520 come back to you. So Abraham took the wood of the 274 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:33,240 burnt offering and waited on Isaac his son. 275 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,400 And he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and the two of them 276 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,000 went together. But Isaac spoke to Abraham his 277 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,200 father, and said, my father. And he said, yes, I'm here, I am 278 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,480 my son. Then he said, look, the fire in 279 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,440 the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 280 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:56,080 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide for himself the 281 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,520 lamb for a burnt offering. So the two of them went 282 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,360 together. Then he came to the place of 283 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,200 which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar 284 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,160 there, and placed the wood in order, And he bound Isaac his 285 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:13,800 son, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the 286 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:15,880 wood. And Abraham stretched out his 287 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,640 hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 288 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,320 But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, 289 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,400 Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am. 290 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,800 And he said, Do not lay a hand on the lad, or do anything to 291 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,360 him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not 292 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:38,160 withheld your son, your only son, for me. 293 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,560 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there beyond him was 294 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,640 a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. 295 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,800 So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt 296 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,000 offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of 297 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,520 the place. The Lord will provide, as it is 298 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:01,360 said to this day in the mount of the Lord shall be provided. 299 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,280 So I don't know of a better example of a foreshadowing of 300 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:13,440 what's going to happen in the New Testament than what's being 301 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,320 done. And there's other examples of 302 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,040 it. I'm not going to bore you with 303 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:23,960 them, but there are clearly lots of examples that point to this 304 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,520 once and for all sacrifice to cure man's sin. 305 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:39,840 And so we find Jesus back up on the slope and it's 33 Adi think 306 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:47,360 it's NASAN. 10 was the Jewish date if I remember correctly. 307 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,800 And interestingly, this triumphal entry, at least 308 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,600 according to the research I've done, actually happened on 309 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,160 Monday. And it had to do with calendar, 310 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,320 which is kind of weird because we think of it as a Sunday, but 311 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:07,800 it actually happened on Monday. And coincidentally, it happened 312 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,720 to fall on the day that the sacrificial lamb was selected 313 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:19,560 for the Passover. So I mean, we've got all these 314 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,920 coincidences happening at the same time. 315 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:29,560 But again, Jesus is still up on mount by the mount, Mount of 316 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,920 Olives. He's about to come down, he's 317 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,520 going to come into Jerusalem. And of course we know because 318 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:40,640 we've already had that he's going to go through about 5 days 319 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,720 of of chaos. Friday is going to be hell. 320 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,040 He's going to be scourge to the point where his spine can be 321 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,440 seen. He's going to have his beard 322 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,120 ripped off. He's going to be beaten and he's 323 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:57,120 going to be crucified. And so that's not the only 324 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:04,160 problems that Jesus is dealing with because he, he's a local 325 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,520 guy. And so you kind of have to 326 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,920 understand as you're reading from the time that he makes this 327 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,880 triumphal entry and even in the earlier parts of the New 328 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:18,760 Testament, you you've got the issue that they know this guy. 329 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,080 They've known him since he was a kid. 330 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:30,920 And so in John 641, one of the references to this says the Jews 331 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,680 then complained about him because he had said, I am the 332 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,800 bread which came down from heaven. 333 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:43,440 And they said, is not this Jesus the son of Joseph who father, 334 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,520 whose father mother we know? How is it then that he says I 335 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:52,320 have come down from heaven? So kind of a weird deal. 336 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,360 So what happens is he's fighting this, you know, local boy. 337 00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:10,600 Now that's not the only problem. And let me so here's a here's 338 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,560 the second problem. And this again is in John three. 339 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,400 I know that you are Abraham's descendants. 340 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,120 This is Jesus speaking. I know that you are Abraham's 341 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:25,920 descendants, but you seek to kill me, because my word has no 342 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,400 place in you. I speak what I have seen with my 343 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,600 father, and you do what you have seen with your father. 344 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,040 And their father, According to him, is the devil. 345 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:41,040 And they answered him and said to him, Abraham is our father. 346 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,440 And Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you 347 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,080 would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a 348 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,480 man who has told you the truth from which I heard from God. 349 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,800 Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father 350 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,760 the devil. And then they said to him, and 351 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,520 listen to this. Then they said to him, we were 352 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,520 not born of fornication. We have one father God. 353 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,320 And So what what they're, they're saying to Jesus as they 354 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,320 believe that he's the bastard son of a Roman soldier. 355 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,720 And so, you know, you can kind of see how this is happening. 356 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,560 I mean, think about the whole sequence. 357 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:27,640 You have Mary and Joseph are going to be married and during 358 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,120 that time before the marriage and I and maybe Joseph was gone 359 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:35,200 for a period of time. I mean, I'm just a speculation, 360 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,760 but somehow everybody in the community knows Joseph hasn't 361 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,800 been there or he's not suspected of being the father. 362 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:49,480 And God implants Jesus into the womb of Mary and she shows up 363 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,840 pregnant. So there, everybody's going. 364 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,360 Yeah, we know what happened. I mean, I'm sure I would do the 365 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,520 same thing. I mean, Can you imagine? 366 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,480 Here's here's Jesus going back, you know, down from Nazareth 367 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,920 because we know he was born in Bethlehem. 368 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,160 His family fled to Egypt. He ends up coming back to 369 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,440 Nazareth and what a miserable place. 370 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,960 I've been there a couple times and I, I hate that place. 371 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,920 I don't like it. But the mountains there where 372 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,520 they're going to throw Jesus off of it. 373 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,760 I mean, I've seen it, but you can imagine. 374 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,680 So they're coming down for the Passover. 375 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,640 You know, they come, they're coming down, I imagine several 376 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,320 times a year from Nazareth, which is north down to 377 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,520 Jerusalem, which is South. And, you know, here's Jesus 378 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,760 probably is a young child and I'm sure the people that you 379 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,840 know, what's going on are, you know, nudging each other, you 380 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,520 know, saying, hey, I wonder if he has to buy 2 Father's Day 381 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:46,440 cards, you know, So, you know, so there's this concept or this 382 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,560 belief that he is an illegitimate son of a, of a 383 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,920 Roman soldier. Now it's interesting when you 384 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,680 think about the fact that one point when he was 12, they came 385 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,280 down, I don't remember if it's for Passover, but for a festival 386 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,920 or feast or whatever. And when the parties leave and 387 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,520 head north, they don't realize Jesus didn't go with them. 388 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,920 And so at some point on the way N they're like, where's Jesus? 389 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,320 And they panic. And so everybody heads back to 390 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,480 Jerusalem. Well, he's in the temple and 391 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,800 he's, he's confounding the wise religious men. 392 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,800 And I would submit to you that if you've got a 12 year old 393 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,160 that's confounding the wise religious men that that child 394 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,640 would generally in that Jewish culture be fast tracked into a 395 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,320 rabbi position. I mean, he would be probably 396 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,680 taken and put into some program where program they have and 397 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:54,360 would be groomed to be one of these elite religious leaders. 398 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,800 But it didn't happen from what we can see. 399 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,400 And I would submit to you, the reason probably why it didn't is 400 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,840 because of what they thought his heritage was. 401 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,160 It wasn't Jewish or completely Jewish. 402 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:10,240 It was half Roman and half half Jewish speculation, but it's 403 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:17,080 interesting. So, so here's Jesus, He's got 404 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,000 all these problems going on. You know, this, this chaos 405 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,720 that's surrounding him. I guess he really doesn't have 406 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,440 any problems because he knows what he's going to do, but he 407 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,440 he's going to descend into this five days of misery and hell. 408 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,080 And like I say, the whole point of this, what was supposed to 409 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,880 happen? You're supposed to come down 410 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,920 that Temple Mount from or from the Mount Olives into the Temple 411 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,760 Mount where the the temple was still at and still standing and 412 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,880 accepted the crown David and be crowned with Christ. 413 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,800 But that's not going to happen. And there's a very interesting 414 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,960 study done by Chuck Missler. It's available on YouTube. 415 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,120 I if you're interested in this, he explains that the Jewish, 416 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:10,080 the, the elite Jewish leaders knew the day to the day that the 417 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,760 Christ was to appear in Jerusalem. 418 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:20,640 And this was that day. So if if you have an interest in 419 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,960 it, I'd encourage you to watch it, draw your own conclusions. 420 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:32,680 But, you know, we have this entire history with Jesus where 421 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,920 he's confronting these religious leaders. 422 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,680 And so, you know, we have these exchanges. 423 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,520 John 831 If you abide in my word, you are my disciples 424 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,760 indeed, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make 425 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,560 you free. And they answered him. 426 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,720 We are Abraham's descendants and have never been in bondage to 427 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,760 anyone. Now you cannot, you have to 428 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,240 understand this is so asinine because they're, they've got 429 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,400 Roman rule over them. I mean, they can't, they can't 430 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,160 hardly do anything because they're under Roman rule. 431 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,040 Plus they've been captives twice. 432 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,200 And to say this is just craziness, but they say it to 433 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,640 him. We've never been in bondage to 434 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,480 anyone. How can you say you will be made 435 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:25,600 free? So what's happening is these 436 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:31,400 religious leaders, even if they knew the date and time, they're 437 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:36,480 not looking for this Jesus. They don't want this Christ. 438 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,680 Because what they're looking for is they're looking for Rambo 439 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,680 with a couple of slings of ammo over his shoulder and them 440 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,800 safety under his arm to go kick some Roman bottom. 441 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,280 But that's not going to happen. And they know this because this 442 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,440 is the crisis telling them if the if the Romans to ask you to 443 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,760 carry their pack a mile, carry it too. 444 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,720 If they, you know, if you get slapped on the cheek, turn the 445 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,320 other cheek. This is not the guy that they 446 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,040 want. They want somebody who's going 447 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,440 to take them out of bondage, even though they've just denied 448 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:13,960 being in bondage. And don't forget, Jesus has 449 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,000 poked these guys every chance with the truth. 450 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,240 And religious leaders, especially in the leaders, he's 451 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,320 continuously pointed out their sin. 452 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:30,960 He's continuously pointed out the hypocrisy of what they say 453 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,200 and what they do, and he's never held back for any reason. 454 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,520 And so they hate him, and they also know that about his 455 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,520 miracles. They know that despite every 456 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,520 effort to trap Him into some kind of sin for which they can 457 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,440 kill him or or embarrass him or do anything, every time they try 458 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,320 they fail. And of course He's out doing 459 00:30:53,440 --> 00:31:01,640 these miracles. And so in John 845, we're 460 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,640 continuing on. Many of the Jews who had come to 461 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,720 Mary had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him, but some 462 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,960 of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the 463 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,520 things that Jesus did. Then the chief priests and the 464 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,800 Pharisees gathered the council and said, What shall we do? 465 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,200 For this man works many signs. If we let him alone like this, 466 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,920 everyone will believe him, and the Romans will come and take 467 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,560 away both our place and our nation. 468 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,080 But yet just a while ago they said they weren't captives. 469 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:41,880 But anyway. And then Caiaphas, being High 470 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:46,880 priest of the year, said to them, you know, nothing at all, 471 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:53,480 nor do you consider that is expedient for us, that one man 472 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,360 should die for the people and not that the whole nation should 473 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:02,040 perish. The irony of that statement, you 474 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,800 know, obviously Caiaphas is saying the truth. 475 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:11,560 He doesn't realize until then. In fact, one man has come to die 476 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,440 for the sake of the whole nation, for the sake of mankind. 477 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,760 So we know what the Jewish religious leaders were thinking 478 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,520 in their head. This is not the Christ we're 479 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,920 looking for. We need a guy who's going to 480 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:33,160 kick some rear. And then later Jesus said in 481 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,280 Luke 9, and he strictly warned and commanded them to tell no 482 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,560 one, saying the Son of Man must suffer many things. 483 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,120 This is his disciples He's telling us to. 484 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:49,360 And he will be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and 485 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,320 scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day. 486 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,840 And then later in the same verse at 51. 487 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,320 Now it came to pass, when the time had come for him to be 488 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,520 received up, saying steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, 489 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:10,960 and sent messengers before his face, and that as they went, 490 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,160 they entered a village of the Samaritans prepare for him. 491 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,920 But they did not receive him because his face was set for the 492 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,840 journey to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and 493 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,520 John saw this, they said, Lord, do you want us to command fire 494 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,960 to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah 495 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,320 did? But Jesus rejected them, he 496 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,360 said. But he turned and rebuked them 497 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,440 and said, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 498 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:44,040 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to 499 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,600 save them, And they went to another village. 500 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:55,160 So as Jesus is standing waiting for the arrival of this colt, 501 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:01,320 this donkey, baby donkey, or young donkey, he's in, he's in a 502 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,320 lot of turmoil. I mean, he's calm. 503 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,320 He knows what he's going to do He's determine, He's got his 504 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:12,159 face set to complete this act. He knows what's coming down. 505 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:18,080 And so let's read all of Luke 19 now with this perspective. 506 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,480 When he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 507 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,280 And it came to pass when you drew near the best page in 508 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:32,520 Bethany at the mount called Alvet, that he sent two of his 509 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,400 disciples saying, go into the village opposite you. 510 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,560 Where you enter, you will find a colt tied to which no one has 511 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,120 ever sat lucid, and bring it here. 512 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,719 And if anyone asks you, why are you losing it? 513 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,520 Thus you shall say to him, because the Lord has need of it. 514 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,760 So those who were sent on their way and found it just as he had 515 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,199 said to them. But as they were losing the 516 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,960 colt, the owners of it said to them, Why are you losing the 517 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,440 colt? And they said, the Lord has need 518 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,160 of him. And they brought him to Jesus. 519 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:09,000 And they threw their clothes on the colt and it and set Jesus on 520 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,240 it. And he went. 521 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:16,000 Many spread their clothes on the road and is suspected they also 522 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,240 threw palm leaves, which was common then as he was drawn near 523 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:23,360 the descent of the Mount of Olives. 524 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,720 So he's coming down and going to go through that Eastgate. 525 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,920 The whole multitude of disciples began to rejoice and praise God 526 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,360 with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, 527 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,760 saying, Blessed is the King, who comes in the name of the Lord, 528 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,440 peace in heaven, and glory to the glory in the highest. 529 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,040 And some of the Pharisees called him from the crowd, Teacher, 530 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,280 rebuke your disciples. But he answered them and and 531 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:53,200 said to them, I tell you that if these should keep silent, the 532 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,400 stones would immediately cry out. 533 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,840 And then Jesus, as he drew near, he saw the city and wept over 534 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,520 it, saying, If you had known, even you, especially on this 535 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,240 day, the things that make for your peace, but now they are 536 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:13,640 hidden from your eyes. For days will come when the 537 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:18,040 enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you, and 538 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:22,360 close in on every side, and lovely you and your children 539 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:27,080 within you to the ground. And they will not leave in one 540 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:31,840 stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your 541 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,880 visitation. And then we know Jesus goes in 542 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,760 and one of the first things that happens as he went into the 543 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,560 temple began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 544 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:48,120 saying to them, it is written, My house is a House of prayer, 545 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,520 but you have made it a genome. Thieves. 546 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,560 And he was teaching daily in the temple. 547 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,200 But the chief priest, the scribes and the leaders of the 548 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:02,000 people sought to destroy him and were unable to do anything, for 549 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,880 the people were very attentive to hear him. 550 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:15,000 And then finally we know what happens, that he's arrested and 551 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,200 Scourge, I know Pastor Nick's going to talk about this next 552 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:20,840 week. I'd be surprised if he didn't. 553 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:28,320 And on that day when he was crucified, Luke 44, now it was 554 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,520 about the 6th hour and there was darkness over all the earth. 555 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,800 He's, he's been crucified until the 9th hour. 556 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:40,920 Then the sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was torn 557 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,840 in two. And then Jesus cried out in a 558 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,640 loud voice. He said, Father, into your hands 559 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,280 I commend my spirit. And having said this, he 560 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:57,640 breathed his last. You know, Can you imagine the 561 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:04,040 people in Jerusalem on Friday night after the crucifixion, 562 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:10,280 after all of the years of miracles and the stories and the 563 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,600 things that were happening when, when Jesus was in its ministry 564 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:20,680 for those three years and they had to know that he had risen, 565 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,360 raised Lazarus, remember, just before he came into, and the 566 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:30,640 trip down to the Mount of Olives and down into Jerusalem. 567 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:35,080 And, and the thing that just cracked me up, I was with his 568 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,960 sense of humor. Right before they crucify him, a 569 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,760 guy gets his ear cut off and he sticks his ear back on. 570 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,440 I mean, can you, how are the, how are the priests dealing with 571 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,600 that? But now it's Friday evening, 572 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:54,040 it's late at night in Jerusalem. I imagine it's quieter. 573 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,680 But Can you imagine the thoughts that are going through people's 574 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,960 minds? We have the benefit of knowing 575 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,960 the rest of the story. We know that there's going to be 576 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,800 an empty tomb, but they didn't. But yet the question still 577 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,120 remains that they were asking themselves. 578 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,240 And it's amazing 2000 years later, people in this world are 579 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:25,920 still asking, who was Jesus? Was he really the Christ Lord? 580 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,400 I just, I just pray special blessing upon these people. 581 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:36,960 Lord, I ask you will make yourself present to them. 582 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:42,320 We thank you for what you did on Calvary and we thank you for 583 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,400 what you did as the guardian tomb Lord being raised. 584 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:52,200 We know Lord that you suffered immensely and I we just have no 585 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,360 comprehension what our sin has cost you. 586 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,800 We just ask that you will prepare our minds, our hearts 587 00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:02,400 for this coming Easter and we will understand what really 588 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,320 happened as that tomb. We ask this in your name, Amen.