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You don’t have to face life’s quiet or confusing seasons alone. Listen as Pastor Barbie walks with us through the story of Jesus’ final week, bringing to light both moments of joy and the silent spaces where hope seems dim.
Find simple ways to engage in worship, stay true to your purpose, and believe that God’s love is always present, even when it's quiet.
Scriptures Referenced
Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 21:7, 24:1-3, 26:14-16, 26:27-29, 27:57-60; John 3:16-7, 12:1-3, 12:12-13, 18:36-40, 19:14-18; Ephesians 4:26; 1 Peter 2:9
Key Insights
- True worship is rarely convenient. It is often misunderstood. It is always costly.
- Are we truly fruitful or are we simply managing the appearance of fruitfulness?
- Do we carry in our heart a deep reverence for what is holy and sacred to the Lord?
- When in a Silent Saturday world, we must continually remind our hearts that Sunday is coming.
- You are holy to the Lord, and that changes how you treat yourself and others.
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Transcripts
Hey, guys. How are you doing?
Speaker:Someone stole my table. Thank you,
Speaker:dear. Thanks, honey.
Speaker:Oopsie. God is so faithful. Whoa. This
Speaker:got high.
Speaker:I'm not going to ask who was standing next to it. I'm
Speaker:so excited about this week. I'm so encouraged as the Lord has been taking
Speaker:me down this pathway headed toward Easter. Hey,
Speaker:I have an announcement. I want to share something with you. In
Speaker:April, we set aside just for the month, Pursuit.
Speaker:Men's ministry rests and bloom. Women's ministry
Speaker:rests for a little bit. We love that the ladies can get ministered
Speaker:to and that the men can, but we take April, and we want to
Speaker:offer an opportunity for the couples in the house. So,
Speaker:couples in the house. Do you like to play crazy bridge?
Speaker:Do you know what crazy bridge is? It doesn't matter
Speaker:because half the people who played last time didn't know either.
Speaker:So marriage crazy bridge night. Saturday, April 18.
Speaker:It'll be over in the fellowship hall. You will have
Speaker:a blast. You just will. Last time,
Speaker:it was packed out, and there was definite demand to do this
Speaker:again. So I invite the couples to be a part of that. It's gonna be
Speaker:really good. And if I'm not mistaken, what I just heard
Speaker:Krista say is that I. I have
Speaker:two opportunities next week to get candy. Is that what you
Speaker:guys heard? I'm pretty sure I didn't hear an age limit. Did you guys hear
Speaker:an age limit? I didn't hear one. Mm. Mm. No. I see all the
Speaker:kids standing on the side going, why?
Speaker:This week, the Lord has taken me some of the coolest places.
Speaker:Pastor Kevin texted me this week, and he said, how are you doing? And I
Speaker:said, you know what? I feel like I am
Speaker:completely broken, but so happy to be so.
Speaker:Because of where the Lord has taken me, I feel like what he's given us
Speaker:this week. You know what? I have been through a lot of palm
Speaker:Sundays in my life, and I have walked through
Speaker:this a lot. But for some reason, man,
Speaker:this year just hits different. This year just
Speaker:hits different. As I began to study out said, lord, what do you want?
Speaker:How do you want to do this? What do you want to share? And
Speaker:I felt like he just. The Holy Spirit just said, I want to take you.
Speaker:I want you to walk it with me. This is the last week.
Speaker:We are commemorating the last week of Jesus
Speaker:walking on planet Earth before his resurrection.
Speaker:And we are commemorating everything that he walked through.
Speaker:And I think sometimes we just skip over it and we don't think
Speaker:about everything that he actually did. Did I just lose
Speaker:that?
Speaker:My lovely Assistant. Thank you, honey.
Speaker:You know, I've been driving him nuts for what, 43 years now.
Speaker:See how resilient he is? Such a
Speaker:good guy. But we are going to. I felt like this is where the Lord
Speaker:would have us go. I had written down eight days that changed the world
Speaker:from shouts to silence. Because I
Speaker:can't do this in just seven days or in just
Speaker:six days because of what happened on that
Speaker:one day. And so
Speaker:we're going to dive into that today, all right? We're going to jump up and
Speaker:we're going to sing. We're going to sing this passage of
Speaker:scripture. Everybody just pick your own key. Would you stand with
Speaker:me?
Speaker:Oh, my goodness. Pastor Kevin, if he were here, he would tell you
Speaker:all to sing with gusto. I'm just saying, take every bit of caffeine in your
Speaker:system and let's go. Six days before the
Speaker:Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where
Speaker:Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
Speaker:Here, a dinner was given in Jesus honor.
Speaker:Martha served while Lazarus was among those reclining
Speaker:at the table with him. Then Mary took about a
Speaker:pint of Pure Nard, an expensive perfume.
Speaker:She poured it on Jesus feet and wiped his feet with
Speaker:her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of
Speaker:the perfume. Now we're going to skip down to. I think it is verse
Speaker:12. The next day, the great crowd that
Speaker:had come for the festival heard that Jesus.
Speaker:They took palm branches and went out to meet him,
Speaker:shouting hosanna. Blessed is he who comes
Speaker:in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the King of
Speaker:Israel. Father God, I thank you so much for your word. Oh, my
Speaker:goodness. Lord, I thank you so much for your word.
Speaker:Thank you for sending your Word, sending your
Speaker:son. Thank you for leaving this written word that we can grab hold of.
Speaker:And Holy Spirit, I'm asking that you would just pervade this spirit.
Speaker:I pray for teachable hearts. I pray, Lord, that we would lean in to
Speaker:everything. Let us take this journey with you through
Speaker:this week. Father God, I thank you for your faithfulness. Let my
Speaker:stuff fall in your stand in Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker:Amen. So here's what I believe the Lord would have me do. And so what
Speaker:I would like to do with you today, if you would. I'm going to take
Speaker:you into the rooms. I'm going to take you into the spaces.
Speaker:I want us to take each day, and I want us to see. Now
Speaker:here's the thing, guys. When I was young, if I
Speaker:had a dental appointment. Let's just put that out there. My
Speaker:mother would not tell me until the day of my dental
Speaker:appointment, because I was a miserable human. I was
Speaker:not kind to my siblings. I was shut down.
Speaker:And I would struggle with anxiety and fear and all of these
Speaker:things. So my mother got to where
Speaker:she would pick me up at school the day of
Speaker:getting. Having a dental appointment, and she would not tell me where we
Speaker:were going until we pulled into that office.
Speaker:I know that's because
Speaker:I could not handle what was impending. In her
Speaker:wisdom, she removed from me the fear, the anxiety,
Speaker:the dread of knowing what was coming. Guys, Jesus didn't have
Speaker:a buffer. He knew what was coming
Speaker:the whole time. He knew what was coming. He knew what
Speaker:his mission was. He knew what was going to be asked of him,
Speaker:and he knew what it would cost to complete it. And so as we
Speaker:enter in to this week with him, understand
Speaker:that he went in knowing full well,
Speaker:knowing full well what the cost would be.
Speaker:And I could not start with the triumphal entry.
Speaker:As much as I would have liked to have started with the triumphal entry, I
Speaker:couldn't because on Saturday,
Speaker:which would have been marked by yesterday, he was
Speaker:anointed. He was anointed because God
Speaker:leaves nothing undone. And so yesterday we would
Speaker:have marked the anointing in that upper room. In
Speaker:that upper room when Mary. Let's just. Just go there with me
Speaker:for just a minute, okay? And I know that a thousand dances
Speaker:have been done to this. I know that skits have been done to this, but
Speaker:I just want you to go for a moment with me into that room,
Speaker:starting out. Scripture says
Speaker:Lazarus was sitting at that table. That would have been
Speaker:enough. That would have been enough. Days before,
Speaker:Lazarus had been raised from the dead. And Jesus walks into this room, and
Speaker:there's his friend Mary and his friend Martha, and
Speaker:there's Lazarus sitting at the table and. And the disciples
Speaker:are there. And, you know, it had to, like,
Speaker:smell like food because we know Martha's been doing what Martha does.
Speaker:And so bread was probably baking, and there was probably lamb that was
Speaker:cooking, and the fragrances were in the air. And the rooms
Speaker:would have been dimmed because they would have probably had the clay pots and
Speaker:the lights, and the table would have been low, and the cushions would have
Speaker:been for them to recline while they ate.
Speaker:And the conversations would have been going on. The
Speaker:disciples would have probably been arguing over who was the greatest.
Speaker:And the people were probably going, did you see when he
Speaker:did that? Did you. Can you believe that Lazarus is here? There's probably so
Speaker:many conversations taking place in the room, and they've settled.
Speaker:And in comes Mary. And Mary's
Speaker:carrying this jar of fragrant oil.
Speaker:And she walks in and she goes to
Speaker:Jesus. And I mean, honestly, I'm sure they didn't know what Mary was gonna
Speaker:do because they didn't know what she was gonna do last time when
Speaker:she sat at his feet, which was only something a disciple
Speaker:could do when she sat at his feet. But this time she
Speaker:goes over and she takes this jar and she
Speaker:shatters it. And this nard, this nard that probably came from
Speaker:India, it was probably about 300 denarii. It wasn't.
Speaker:It was a treasure. And she breaks
Speaker:it. She breaks it and she pours it on him, and
Speaker:she pours it on his feet. And Scripture says that the
Speaker:fragrance filled the room. The
Speaker:fragrance filled the room.
Speaker:And then she leans over and she does the most unheard
Speaker:of thing. She takes her hair
Speaker:and she begins to dry his feet. She begins to
Speaker:wipe his feet. Guys, there had to be
Speaker:silence for just a moment.
Speaker:Mouths had to hang open for just a moment. On this
Speaker:Saturday. On this Saturday is this anointing. But you know
Speaker:what? Just like with any other form of worship, when somebody does
Speaker:something unexpected, you're going to have two kinds of people in the room. You're going
Speaker:to have people who get it, and you're going to have people who judge it.
Speaker:May we be the former, not the latter. She
Speaker:did something extravagant. She did something
Speaker:extravagant for him. And
Speaker:Judas, the only one in the room that says, oh,
Speaker:that could have been sold and the money given to the poor.
Speaker:Do we really think that that's what Judas wanted?
Speaker:But the fragrance filled the room. Because
Speaker:you know what? I don't think Mary knew. I don't think
Speaker:Mary knew what was getting ready to happen, but Mary
Speaker:knew that something was getting ready to happen. And there
Speaker:are times in your life where you may not know why God is asking you
Speaker:to do something. Do it. Do it. When that
Speaker:unction comes up in your spirit and you sense the Holy Spirit saying,
Speaker:do this, and you don't really know why, be a Mary.
Speaker:Break the jar. Do what he called you to do. And
Speaker:Jesus says, no, no, keep. It's fine, stop.
Speaker:What she has done, she has done for my burial.
Speaker:And, guys, can I tell you what I believe? I believe the
Speaker:fragrance of that oil. The fragrance. See, you don't just rub
Speaker:oil off. Oil gets in your pores, it
Speaker:gets in your skin, it gets in your clothes, it gets in the cells
Speaker:in your hair. And there's every possibility that when Jesus
Speaker:was the road headed Toward Golgotha. There's
Speaker:every possibility that the fragrance of worship still
Speaker:cling to him. There's every
Speaker:possibility. Because, see, I don't believe that God
Speaker:left the scent of death on his Son. I believe he
Speaker:anointed him for the days that were coming,
Speaker:the days that Jesus knew were coming.
Speaker:Anointed on that Saturday. And see, that's the thing about
Speaker:worship, guys. Worship is rarely convenient. It
Speaker:is often misunderstood, and it is always
Speaker:costly. Take your treasure and
Speaker:pour it out. That was yesterday, guys. That what yesterday
Speaker:would have commemorated. So Jesus has been anointed to
Speaker:head into the week that has been ordained for him
Speaker:that he knew was coming.
Speaker:And so we are going to enter now into today.
Speaker:Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday.
Speaker:I love this. I love this. My favorite part of this. I mean, all of
Speaker:it's beautiful. But you gotta picture it. Now. We're in
Speaker:Jerusalem, and the crowd is probably masked
Speaker:out three or four times, at least the number of people that are normally there,
Speaker:because they are coming for Passover.
Speaker:The people are selling things. The stalls are open. The
Speaker:streets are full. It is busy. It is busy
Speaker:in the streets of Jerusalem. And then this noise starts. But we're not going to
Speaker:get to the noise just yet. We see this picture taking place, and
Speaker:it's Jesus talking to two of his disciples. And he tells
Speaker:them, he says, guys, I need you to go get this donkey. You're going to
Speaker:find this donkey on the outskirts of town. You're going to tell that guy you're
Speaker:going to bring me that donkey. And the
Speaker:disciples go, and they get that donkey and they bring it to Jesus.
Speaker:They bring it to him. It wasn't a small thing, guys.
Speaker:There was a reason. Because Palm Sunday was
Speaker:not just a celebration. Palm Sunday was
Speaker:a declaration. It was a declaration because look
Speaker:here, they brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks on it, and he
Speaker:sat on it. And many of the people spread their cloaks on the road.
Speaker:Before that happened. Before that happened, when
Speaker:they brought their. The donkey to Jesus,
Speaker:the disciples. I don't know how many times I've read this
Speaker:and just not paid attention. The disciples
Speaker:took off their cloaks, took off their robes, and
Speaker:they put it on the donkey to create a place for
Speaker:Jesus to sit. They saddled the donkey
Speaker:with their own robes. Why is that important? Why is that important or
Speaker:why is this important that they would throw cloaks? Because that's what they
Speaker:did when a new king was crowned.
Speaker:When a new king was crowned and they would parade him in on his
Speaker:horses, with his chariots, with Everything. The people would line
Speaker:the streets and they would take off their cloaks because the
Speaker:cloaks were, in essence, they spoke to who you were,
Speaker:what you did. The covering that you had, some of the cloaks were
Speaker:marked. And so when they took off their cloaks and threw it down, they were
Speaker:saying, this is not my covering anymore. You are.
Speaker:This is not who I am anymore
Speaker:because of who you are. And the people
Speaker:began to shout Hosanna. Do you know what that means? Lord,
Speaker:save us, Lord, save us.
Speaker:Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. He's sitting on
Speaker:this colt. Why? Why? Because he was fulfilling,
Speaker:purposely fulfilling prophecy. Zechariah,
Speaker:Rejoice greatly, daughter Zion. Shout, daughter Jerusalem.
Speaker:See, your king comes to you righteous and victorious,
Speaker:lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal
Speaker:of a donkey. Hundreds of years before,
Speaker:the prophecy had gone forth. This king that we're talking about,
Speaker:this king that we're talking about, when you see him coming in,
Speaker:when you see him riding in on a lowly colt, you can know,
Speaker:daughter of Zion, your king has arrived. And so there was a
Speaker:declaration in this. And the people shouting, blessed is he
Speaker:who comes in the name of the Lord. Can
Speaker:you even imagine what that felt like? Can you
Speaker:even imagine Saturday, anointed,
Speaker:covered with oil, blessed, prepared, second
Speaker:day, the shouts, the people celebrating,
Speaker:declaring, I'm no longer who I was because you are now
Speaker:king. Sad part
Speaker:is that same city that would cry out,
Speaker:hosanna, save us, Lord, save us.
Speaker:Blessed is this king of Israel. That same city would
Speaker:soon, within days, within hours, begin to cry, give us
Speaker:Barabbas. Crucify him.
Speaker:Holy Monday. Coming off of
Speaker:the triumphal entry. Listen, guys,
Speaker:when I've got something impending,
Speaker:I can make all the excuses in the world to go hide somewhere.
Speaker:I can decide. I just really need to rest up so that I can face
Speaker:what this is. Nope. Jesus went in. Jesus went
Speaker:in. He had one week to finish what had been started, and he wasn't going
Speaker:to leave anything undone. And so what we're getting ready to see is that
Speaker:he goes in to. He sees the fig
Speaker:tree. He and the disciples are leaving, and they're going into town. And
Speaker:he sees the fig tree, and he's hungry. And it's a beautiful fig
Speaker:tree. It has lots of leaves. And he goes over and he reaches in
Speaker:to get something to eat, and there's no fruit on the fig
Speaker:tree. And then he does this thing that sometimes you can stand back and
Speaker:go, well, that was a little bit harsh because he curses the Fig tree.
Speaker:We are done, done with this fig tree. But see,
Speaker:what we don't understand is that the fig tree represented Israel. The
Speaker:fig tree was about a place that Jesus loved.
Speaker:A people that Jesus loved that had the appearance of fruit.
Speaker:They had the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the robes and the temples
Speaker:and the things that they had. It looked like they had everything together.
Speaker:But the fruit or the lack of thereof was on Jesus
Speaker:heart. Even in this last day when he's walking this out,
Speaker:he is drawing people back to God. He is pointing them back
Speaker:and going, listen, it doesn't matter what it looks like. It matters if there is
Speaker:fruit. And so
Speaker:he goes a little further. It's already one of those days. You ever
Speaker:just had one of those days? And he goes further and he goes into the
Speaker:temple. He goes into the temple. And guys, this is the passage of
Speaker:scripture that everyone loves to talk about. It's like, well, Jesus flipped the
Speaker:tables. Jesus was righteous.
Speaker:And isn't it funny how the one instance he can
Speaker:talk about love and love one another and you are the most amazing
Speaker:everything for 66 books we know about the love of
Speaker:Jesus. And the same people who want to tell us he turned the
Speaker:table can't quote John 3:16. So for God
Speaker:so loved the world that he gave his only begotten
Speaker:Son, that whosoever believeth in him would not perish,
Speaker:but would have everlasting. God didn't send his son
Speaker:into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him
Speaker:might be saved. If you want to quote one, quote that
Speaker:one, quote that one. But he goes in and here's the
Speaker:thing. We get mad because our rights are violated. We get
Speaker:upset cause somebody does something and we don't deserve it. Jesus didn't turn the
Speaker:tables because he was upset that they did something to him. This was not about
Speaker:Jesus. This was about his father. This was about his father.
Speaker:And so when he flipped the tables, he didn't go, oh, I
Speaker:am so upset. I'm so offended at you. It was
Speaker:my Father's house will be a house of prayer,
Speaker:but you've made it a den of thieves and robbers. He
Speaker:wasn't indignant on his own behalf. He was
Speaker:indignant because his father and the mission of the
Speaker:house of his Father had been violated.
Speaker:On Monday, tomorrow. This is the question I
Speaker:want you to ponder now, guys, I have a handout for you in the back
Speaker:as you leave. If you want to know what Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, just
Speaker:focuses. I have it for you. I'm not Expecting you to actually
Speaker:remember everything, because I don't. Anyway, on
Speaker:Monday, are we fruitful
Speaker:or are we simply managing the appearance of
Speaker:fruitfulness? Are we fruitful?
Speaker:Tomorrow, when you wake up, let the Lord check your fruit
Speaker:to see. Lord, am I just walking around with a bunch of leaves, or
Speaker:am I providing something by your help that will
Speaker:nourish people in the kingdom? And the
Speaker:second, do we carry in our hearts a deep reverence for what
Speaker:is holy and sacred to the Lord? Because
Speaker:the first question I asked you had everything to do with the fig tree.
Speaker:Do we have fruit that is consistent with righteousness? That's what we're looking at on
Speaker:Monday. And the second thing, do we carry in our hearts a deep reverence?
Speaker:Is there enough love for what is holy and
Speaker:sacred to the Lord that you would be indignant
Speaker:on his behalf or just on your own?
Speaker:Holy and sacred to the Lord? Do you even know what is holy
Speaker:and sacred to the Lord any more? We have dumbed down in.
Speaker:I feel like we have dumbed down in our churches sometimes some of the
Speaker:things. We stop talking about holiness. We stop talking about
Speaker:sacred things. And there are still things that are sacred, and there are still
Speaker:things that are holy. And you want to know what the big one is?
Speaker:You. You are a holy
Speaker:nation. You are a priesthood.
Speaker:And according to the Bible that I read, you are
Speaker:holy to the Lord. You are holy to the
Speaker:Lord. Are you living a life that has the
Speaker:testimony that would show forth that you know
Speaker:that you are holy to the Lord? You don't take holy
Speaker:things in some places, you
Speaker:yourself are holy to the Lord.
Speaker:On Monday, do we carry in our hearts a deep reverence for what is
Speaker:holy and sacred to the Lord. And now we're going to move to Pastor
Speaker:Justin's favorite day, Holy Tuesday.
Speaker:Holy Tuesday, guys.
Speaker:Jesus would have been completely justified to go, I'm going to go sit
Speaker:under that cursed fig tree for the next few days, and I'm just going to
Speaker:rest up for the weekend that is coming. But no, he was gonna finish the
Speaker:work. And what we see in this is that Jesus
Speaker:begins to teach. He begins to teach
Speaker:everything. He begins to. He confronts the Pharisees. The
Speaker:Pharisees and Sadducees try to trip him up.
Speaker:If I'm married to a woman and I die, if my brother
Speaker:marries this woman and then somebody
Speaker:who's gonna be her husband in heaven, do you
Speaker:really care? But anyway, they were trying to trip him up, and
Speaker:he just goes, he's so wise. And he says,
Speaker:God is the God of the Living, not of the dead.
Speaker:God is the God of the living. Let's focus here. And then,
Speaker:you know, they come in and they go, okay, what about we
Speaker:give this to Caesar? Or do we give this to God? Or do we do
Speaker:this or do this? And he says, whose picture is on the coin?
Speaker:He says, give to Caesar what is Caesar? And unto God what is God's? Over
Speaker:and over and over, on this Tuesday, Jesus the
Speaker:teacher, arises. Everything he wanted to tell them, he tells
Speaker:them. He tells the leaders. He tells the crowds. He tells everyone.
Speaker:And then we see him move into this intimate time with just the
Speaker:disciples. Jesus left the temple and was
Speaker:walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its
Speaker:buildings. Do you see all these things? He asked.
Speaker:Truly, I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another.
Speaker:Every one will be thrown down. As
Speaker:Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him
Speaker:privately. Tell us, they said.
Speaker:Tell us, they said. Can you imagine this
Speaker:moment? Jesus is right there. They've listened to him teach
Speaker:to everyone. They've listened to him confront the leaders.
Speaker:They've listened to everything over these days. Saturday,
Speaker:Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker:There's this moment between him and these guys
Speaker:that he loves. And he says. They say, tell us.
Speaker:And you know what Jesus begins to do? He begins to tell them about
Speaker:the end times. And he says, don't let yourself be deceived.
Speaker:Don't let yourself be deceived. And he begins to charge them. He says, when you
Speaker:see this, when you see that, he says, there will be wars, and there
Speaker:will be rumors of wars. Sound familiar?
Speaker:But the end does not yet come. If you want to know what
Speaker:Jesus says about these days, the days you're living in right
Speaker:now. Matthew 24. Get in there and stay there for a while. Because
Speaker:wouldn't you want to know what he told his disciples to look for?
Speaker:Matthew 24. It's on the sheet of paper. Get in there.
Speaker:It will alleviate some of the stresses and the anxieties that the world
Speaker:and the news and the things you see, it will alleviate some of
Speaker:that. Because we need to shift our hope into knowing that it is God
Speaker:who is in control. And Jesus sitting on that Mount of Olives.
Speaker:It's called the Olivet Discourse. Read it. It is so good
Speaker:and it is so rich. But on that Tuesday, on that
Speaker:ordinary Tuesday, during the week leading up to his
Speaker:crucifixion, he taught the parable of the tenants. He
Speaker:taught them on stewardship, what belongs to who.
Speaker:Accountability, spiritual readiness. And then the discourse, teaching
Speaker:the disciples on the end times. The clock was
Speaker:ticking. The clock was ticking and he was
Speaker:moving forward. He knew the time was short and everything important
Speaker:that was in his spirit was being poured out. Everything.
Speaker:He wasn't going to leave one thing on the field. He was
Speaker:going to leave everything out there. He wasn't going to walk away. Not
Speaker:leaving it all there. And then what? We move out of
Speaker:the teaching with the disciples and we move into Spy Wednesday.
Speaker:Spy Wednesday.
Speaker:Then One of the 12, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
Speaker:and asked, what are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to
Speaker:you? So they counted out for him 30 pieces of
Speaker:silver.
Speaker:From then on, Judas watched for an opportunity
Speaker:to hand him over. Can you even
Speaker:imagine he's one that's walked with you.
Speaker:You ever been betrayed by a friend? You ever been
Speaker:hurt and let down by a
Speaker:friend? But
Speaker:wasn't even an accident. They didn't even come to him and ask him. It says
Speaker:he went to them. He
Speaker:purposely went to them to sell Jesus out for
Speaker:30 pieces of silverware. And you're thinking, oh, how could somebody,
Speaker:how could anybody disregard Jesus
Speaker:for money, for temporary.
Speaker:But guys, we do it. We do it.
Speaker:We chase everything except him sometimes. And
Speaker:even when the conviction of the Lord is there, or God's going, quit working
Speaker:seven days a week, quit doing this. Spend some time with your family, come
Speaker:to church. I know you'd rather be. And we go, yeah,
Speaker:but. Yeah, but
Speaker:next time that happens, here are the 30 pieces of silver.
Speaker:Just hear him rattling away over there. Because sometimes
Speaker:we trade the temporal for the divine and it is not worth.
Speaker:Is not worth it. He looked for a way. And
Speaker:then we get to the day. So we've gone. Saturday, the anointing.
Speaker:Sunday, hallelujah. Monday, the
Speaker:tables. Tuesday, the teachings. Wednesday,
Speaker:betrayed by a friend. And then we enter into Thursday, which is
Speaker:probably the most talked about passage of scripture. It
Speaker:is where we get the Lord's Supper. And that's where we're going to go right
Speaker:now. We're going to go into the room with our Lord's Supper. Jesus
Speaker:knowing full well what was coming. And so they go into that
Speaker:upper room once again, once again,
Speaker:expecting one thing. But they go in and Jesus gets
Speaker:up from the table and he wraps a towel around his waist.
Speaker:He wraps a towel around his waist and
Speaker:he begins to go to the disciples one by one,
Speaker:and he begins to wash their feet. Guys,
Speaker:that was reserved for the lowest of the low in a servant's house.
Speaker:That was the Person who was. Had just been hired and was just having to
Speaker:work their way up the ranks. You got feet today. Anyway,
Speaker:that's basically what it was. And Jesus
Speaker:the king who came in riding on a donkey,
Speaker:wraps a towel around his waist and starts washing the
Speaker:feet of his disciples. And he
Speaker:demonstrated to them, this, my brothers, is
Speaker:what servanthood looks like. It's what
Speaker:servanthood looks like. And Peter says, no, don't
Speaker:wash my feet. Don't wash my feet. And Jesus says,
Speaker:if you will not allow me to serve, then you have no part of me.
Speaker:And he said, not only my feet, but my head
Speaker:and my hands. Guys, sometimes
Speaker:we just need to get in the presence of God and go, all, Lord, all.
Speaker:My head, my hands, my feet, everything.
Speaker:God, let it be sanctified and set apart for your
Speaker:purposes. And so what we see him do is he serves them
Speaker:food. He serves them the wine and the bread,
Speaker:knowing full well that one sitting at the table with him
Speaker:will betray him. He tells them about how they should love one another
Speaker:and how they should serve one another, because these are his closest,
Speaker:and this is going to be really his last teaching time. And
Speaker:so he's telling them the most important things.
Speaker:He says, one, that here will betray me. And of course, they all start
Speaker:saying, lord, is it I? Lord, is it I? And he says, the one who's
Speaker:just dipped the bread in the cup.
Speaker:And then he looks and he says, go and do what you need to do.
Speaker:Go and do what you need to do. And we see
Speaker:the rolling
Speaker:of time speeding up as Jesus heads into the garden of
Speaker:Gethsemane. And he begins to travail before
Speaker:he begins to call out, father, if
Speaker:it be your will, let this cup pass from me.
Speaker:Yet not my will, but yours be done. And he
Speaker:goes out to see if his disciples, if his disciples are waiting
Speaker:with him and they're asleep. And he says, could you
Speaker:not tarry one hour? Could you not
Speaker:tarry one hour? Can you even imagine the anguish he
Speaker:had to be in in that season? How hard it had to be
Speaker:that his sweat would become as drops of blood? And,
Speaker:guys, that's a literal thing. That can actually happen when someone
Speaker:is in the deepest of distress and grief.
Speaker:And it happens. They've noted,
Speaker:doctors have seen it. I've never heard of it before
Speaker:him. And then we see
Speaker:the scene. Here comes Judas,
Speaker:money jangling in his pocket with the
Speaker:soldiers, and he goes over and he kisses
Speaker:Jesus, and he betrays him with a
Speaker:kiss.
Speaker:Peter takes a sword,
Speaker:takes off someone's ear, and Jesus
Speaker:takes it and he puts it back, says
Speaker:Peter, if you're going to live by the sword, you're going to die by the
Speaker:sword. He was just. He had to teach him. He had to
Speaker:teach him because he loved him.
Speaker:And then we know. We know, but we
Speaker:don't know what happened. In the next
Speaker:time, skip here.
Speaker:Good Friday. Good Friday.
Speaker:It is the culmination of Jesus earthly ministry.
Speaker:He's getting ready to finish his course in
Speaker:that. And they take him before
Speaker:Pilate. Jesus said, my
Speaker:kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent
Speaker:my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is
Speaker:from another place. You are a king then, said
Speaker:Pilate. Jesus answered, you say that I am a king.
Speaker:In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to
Speaker:testify of the truth. Everyone on the side of the truth listens to me.
Speaker:What is truth? Retorted Pilate. With
Speaker:this, he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, I find
Speaker:no basis for a charge against him. But it is
Speaker:your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at
Speaker:the time of the Passover. Do you want me to
Speaker:release the King of the Jews? And they shouted back, no,
Speaker:not him. No, not him.
Speaker:Give us Barabbas. Here is your
Speaker:king, Pilate said to the Jews. But they shouted, take him away.
Speaker:Take him away. Crucify him. Shall I crucify your
Speaker:king? Pilate asked.
Speaker:We have no king but Caesar, the chief priests answered. And
Speaker:finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
Speaker:So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own
Speaker:cross. He went out to the place of the skull.
Speaker:There they crucified him. And with him two others.
Speaker:One on each side and Jesus
Speaker:the middle. One
Speaker:on each side and Jesus in the middle. They crucified him,
Speaker:guys. The veil in the temple
Speaker:ripped from top to bottom. Ripped from top
Speaker:to bottom. The ground began to shake. The earthquake. The
Speaker:skies darkened. Stones began to crack in
Speaker:half. It says that that tombs opened and those
Speaker:who were asleep in the Lord began to rise. You think we didn't hear
Speaker:the voice of God that day? You think we didn't hear the rumbling
Speaker:of the Father in that moment when his Son was crucified?
Speaker:All of the voices that had shouted, hosanna, blessed
Speaker:is he who comes in the name of the Lord. And then had shouted, crucify
Speaker:him. Now went silent. Now
Speaker:went silent. And we enter into what
Speaker:is called Silent Saturday.
Speaker:Holy Saturday. It is a time between times.
Speaker:It is interstitial. Living in the space between.
Speaker:Living in the space between.
Speaker:Oh, Jesus,
Speaker:at evening approached, there came a rich man from Armathea named Joseph, who
Speaker:had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked
Speaker:for Jesus body. He wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and he
Speaker:placed it in his own new tomb that he had. He had
Speaker:cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance
Speaker:to the tomb and he went away.
Speaker:And he went away. And
Speaker:now we see the disciples hidden
Speaker:and afraid and silent.
Speaker:Because, see, we have the privilege of knowing on
Speaker:this side of it while it's taking place. All they knew was
Speaker:that this Jesus, that they had followed this Jesus had now been
Speaker:crucified. And they had watched him be placed in a tomb
Speaker:and a stone had been rolled in and their hope got buried with
Speaker:him. They didn't know,
Speaker:they couldn't see it yet on the earth it was
Speaker:silent. They didn't know
Speaker:that in the depths that the keys to death, hell and
Speaker:the grave were being taken. They didn't understand that something
Speaker:was happening and unto unseen realms that they had no clue.
Speaker:But they're. They were getting ready to know and see. So
Speaker:often in life we stand in this place. We stand in this
Speaker:place in our lives, and we are, every single one of us,
Speaker:in this season of a silent Saturday where we have the
Speaker:first coming and the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus
Speaker:Christ and then we have the second coming of Jesus Christ
Speaker:and we are still standing in the middle of this waiting space.
Speaker:And we have the opportunity in these moments of
Speaker:silent Saturday, we get to. We get
Speaker:to sit with our grief.
Speaker:We get to take a moment and not rush past the
Speaker:suffering and dismiss what Jesus did. We get to sit
Speaker:here and we get to anticipate
Speaker:knowing what's coming and to sit in that silence. I read
Speaker:this. It said, silence is the final and most pronounced
Speaker:expression of what the Bible calls lament. It can
Speaker:often be loud, particularly at first, but eventually
Speaker:words will fail, as do our voices, and
Speaker:then there is only silence.
Speaker:We experience Holy Saturday, Silent Saturday, knowing how
Speaker:the story ends and knowing that death will lose its sting.
Speaker:But it is precisely this knowledge of resurrection that makes
Speaker:Holy Saturday so important. You see,
Speaker:biblical hope is not cheery optimism, nor is it Pollyanna ish
Speaker:ignorance, Biblical hope, resurrection. Hope
Speaker:flourishes in a Holy Saturday world.
Speaker:We are in a Holy Saturday world in a Holy
Speaker:Saturday moment as we lean in anticipation
Speaker:of what is coming. And so as I was
Speaker:praying, I said, lord, I don't want to leave with
Speaker:Holy Saturday. I want the silent Saturday. I want the Holy Saturday in
Speaker:their spirits, Lord, But What I want is something that the
Speaker:disciples did not have in that moment because they couldn't see.
Speaker:We have the hope. We have the promise.
Speaker:When in the silent Saturday season, we must continually
Speaker:remind our hearts that Sunday is coming.
Speaker:Sunday is coming. And Jesus will finish the work.
Speaker:He will do what he came to do. And so we are going to take
Speaker:just a moment. I've asked the worship team if you would stand.
Speaker:Jonathan, take the lights down as low as you can get them,
Speaker:because I want you to go here with me. Silent Saturday.
Speaker:Jesus has been placed in the tomb and they've walked away.
Speaker:I want you to go there.
