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Palm Sunday starts with celebration.
Crowds gather. Hope is high. People shout “Hosanna”—which means “save now.” They believe change is coming, and it’s coming the way they expect.
It doesn’t.
This episode explores the tension between expectation and reality—the moments when life doesn’t unfold the way we planned. It looks at what it means to trust, surrender, and keep moving forward when outcomes don’t make sense.
Along the way, we’re invited to consider a deeper question:
What are we holding onto that might be keeping us from moving forward?
From releasing control to trusting through uncertainty, this message offers a perspective on faith that isn’t based on perfect outcomes, but on learning to walk through both clarity and confusion with purpose.
Because sometimes “save now” doesn’t look like immediate change—
it looks like a different kind of transformation.
Scripture Focus: Mark 11:1–11
Transcripts
Amen.
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:I love, love, love that video, and it's
such a perfect setup for today's lesson
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:as we talk about the triumphal entry.
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:And when I think about Jesus, there is
so much amazing stuff in today's topic
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:that I'm not gonna be able to hit it
all, but I'm gonna be asking you guys
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:to go back home and do some homework.
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:But, uh, this is, this clip
really captures the joy.
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:And the excitement of the triumphal entry.
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:And I really want us to really think
about today, how does this apply to us?
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:How does this apply to our context today?
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:Because the reality as Jesus came
in from the Mount of Olives, went
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:down into the Kidron Valley, went up
and through, they went through the
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:east gate and then up to the temple.
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:You know, he was traveling a path.
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:That needed to be traveled because
of things that had happened in the
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:past, which I'll get to in my lesson.
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:But before we do that, I did want
to just say it's great to be here.
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:It's good to be able to speak to
the church, uh, in the new era.
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:It's good to be able to dig into God's
word and to study out the things that
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:I believe God is calling each one of
us to do and to be in his kingdom.
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:Amen.
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:Yes.
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:Let's go ahead and pray.
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:Earth.
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:Father, I wanna thank you.
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:God, it is so encouraging
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:to dig into your word.
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:It is so inspiring to be able to
worship you, to be able to honor
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:you, to be able to lift you up.
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:I pray God, that we would hold your
scriptures in high regard, that we
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:would've a high view of your word and
that we would make decisions today.
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:Not to simply listen to the
word and deceive ourselves,
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:but to truly do what it says.
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:God, I pray that today as I preach
the word that this lesson would be a
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:demonstration of your Holy Spirit's power.
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:Work through me for your glory.
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:Work through me.
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:For your honor.
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:I love you.
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:I ask all this in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:As you can see, the title of
today's lesson is Hosanna.
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:Amen.
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:You know, in Mark chapter 11, if
you can turn your Bibles there, mark
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:chapter 11, verse one through 11.
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:I'm gonna go ahead and read this.
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:I know, Vicki, I just took off my glasses.
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:You don't like it when I do that, but
I'm gonna go ahead and do it anyway.
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:Um, in Mark chapter 11, in verse one,
it says, as they approached Jerusalem
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:and came to Beth Phage and Bethany
at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent
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:two of his disciples saying to them.
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:Go to the village ahead of you, and just
as you enter it, you'll find a cult tied
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:there, which no one has ever ridden.
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:Untie it and bring it here.
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:If anyone asks you,
why are you doing this?
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:Say, the Lord needs it and he
will send it back here shortly.
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:So they went and they found a coal
outside the street tied it a doorway.
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:As they untied it, some people standing
their ass, what are you doing untying?
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:That cult, they answered as Jesus
had told them, the Lord needs
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:it and the people let them go.
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:When they brought the cult to Jesus and
threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it.
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:Many people spread their cloaks on
the road while others spread branches.
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:They had cut in the fields.
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:Those who went ahead and those
who followed, shouted, Hosanna.
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:Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord.
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:Blessed is the coming kingdom
of our father, David, Hosanna
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:in the highest heaven.
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:Jesus entered Jerusalem and he
went into the temple courts.
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:He looked around at everything,
but since it was already late, he
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:went out to Bethany with the 12.
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:You know, this passage of scripture is,
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:I mean, this story's in all four gospels.
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:It was an important story.
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:It was an important setup for what
will be the Easter service next week,
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:and so I'm excited about next week,
but I'm also excited for today because
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:today can prepare our hearts if we
will allow it to prepare our hearts.
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:Amen.
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:Let's go ahead and get into the study.
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:Again, we just read this, but in Mark
11 verse one through two, as they
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:approached Jerusalem, they came to Beth
Phage, Bethany at the Mount of Olives.
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:Jesus sent two of his disciples
saying to them, go to the village
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:ahead of you, and just as you enter
it, you'll find a cult tied there.
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:I forgot we had those screens,
so I'm gonna look at that now.
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:Okay.
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:It's pretty awesome actually.
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:Uh, saying to them, go to the
village ahead of you, just as you
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:enter it, and you will find a cold
tide there, which no one has ever
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:ridden, untied, and bring it here.
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:Why is it important that
it had never been ridden?
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:Well, we know that Jesus is the,
we know Jesus is the Messiah, and
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:we know that Jesus is our king.
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:We understand that, and Jesus
knew that he was a king.
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:But Jesus knew that when he
came in that he was not gonna
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:be on this white stallion.
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:He wasn't gonna be the kind of king, he
wasn't gonna be the kind of Messiah that
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:people throughout history had been sitting
around the campfire telling their kids
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:about David was this warrior like king,
and one day a Messiah is gonna come.
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:And he's gonna be like David, and he's
gonna be this powerful king, and he
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:is gonna be this powerful warrior,
and he's going to deliver his people.
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:And so this is what people were expecting.
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:So Jesus comes in on a donkey, which
really means he would come in in
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:peace, but also that donkey could
never have been ridden because if you
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:are a king, you only ride a donkey
that no one else has ever ridden.
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:No one else is allowed to ride that
donkey except the king himself.
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:Or if it was a horse, the horse himself.
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:You know, this is a prophecy
fulfilled in Zacharia.
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:Nine nine, about 550 years earlier,
the Bible said, rejoice greatly.
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:Daughter of Zion.
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:Shout daughter of Jerusalem.
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:See, your king comes to you
righteous and victorious, lowly.
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:And riding on a donkey on a
cult, the full of a donkey.
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:And you go, wow, this
was, this is amazing.
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:Yeah.
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:Like it's amazing that the, that
these prophecies are fulfilled and,
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:and, and even that was proceeded
by this, in, in Genesis 49, 8
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:through 11, uh, as, as Jacob was.
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:Blessing the patriarchs as he was
blessing his sons as he was giving
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:them their particular blessings.
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:The one he gave to Judah was this
Judah, your brothers will praise you.
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:You were a lion's cub.
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:Judah, the scepter will
not depart from Judah.
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:The scepter meaning like a king.
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:For the ruler staff from between his feet
until he to whom it belongs shall come and
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:the obedience of the nations shall be his.
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:He will tether his donkey
to a vine, his cult, to the
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:choice, to the choices branch.
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:He will wash his garments and wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.
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:This is thousands of years before.
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:Right, right.
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:Yeah.
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:Guys, this blows me away
that this blows me away.
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:There's other scriptures I can't even
get into, and there's multiple prophecies
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:about Jesus, about this day, about this
donkey, about, you know, Jesus coming in.
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:I mean, it's amazing.
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:And I go, how amazing is God's word?
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:I mean, how amazing is God's word?
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:When you look at this, these
prophecies that are fulfilled,
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:this is not part of my lesson, but
I just, I just have to say this.
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:Come on.
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:The Old Testament had approximately
324 prophecies that Jesus fulfilled.
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:Is that amazing?
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:I mean, Alfred Eiders Shine,
who's a famous church historian,
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:he says conservatively.
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:At least 300 prophecies
during his earthly ministry.
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:The Jewish voice website
says, no, it's 324, but this
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:is just a quick little thing.
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:The chance of one single man,
let's say this is fulfilling
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:even 48 of the prophecies.
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:And the reason I'm choosing 48 is because
a mathematician named Peter Stoner
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:was asked about the probabilities.
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:Of any one person fulfilling even
a small number of those prophecies.
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:So he said, Hey look, the chance of
one single man fulfilling even 48
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:of the 324 is one times 10 to 157.
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:Lemme say that again.
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:That's one followed by 157 zeros.
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:Wow.
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:If you can't be down with the fact
that the Bible is absolutely the word
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:of God, then this should help you.
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:Because I'm like, how do you, I
mean, that's amazing and I can't even
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:imagine what the number have been.
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:If you, what are the
probabilities of all 324?
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:I don't know if anyone can figure it out.
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:I certainly can't.
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:I certainly can't.
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:I know Kyle definitely can't, and so
I, I really want to encourage us to
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:really look at the Bible and go, wow,
what we are reading every single day
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:as we open up to read our Bible in
our times with God is the word of God.
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:Yeah.
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:It's the powerful word of God
that has the ability to transform
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:every single one of our lives.
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:Amen.
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:All right, mark chapter 11, verse three.
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:If anyone asks, why are you doing this?
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:Say, the Lord needs it and he
will send it back to your shortly.
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:Okay.
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:The Lord, you know the, the Greek word
curios, which is the Greek, Sept, or.
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:Curios, you know, in the original Greek
has three possible Greek meanings.
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:It could be, sir.
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:So think about this, sir.
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:The sir needs it.
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:Probably not it.
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:The master needs it.
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:Well, my master needs it too.
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:Okay, well how about the
sovereign Lord and King needs it.
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:Yeah.
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:Alright, go ahead and take it.
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:Go ahead and take it.
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:I'm not even gonna question that.
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:Right.
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:I mean, this is amazing.
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:Just even how God had this planned
in advance so many years in advance,
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:verse four through six, they went and
found a colt outside in the street.
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:They tied it at the doorway, and as they
untied it, some people standing their ass,
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:what are you doing on tying that cult?
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:They an, they answered as Jesus had told
them to, and the people let them go.
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:I just wanna share a few insights
here that I think are important for
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:us and how this can apply to us today.
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:It's important for us to understand
that God uses an ordinary cult
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:to reveal the extraordinary.
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:Already I've talked about how
extraordinary the word of goddess,
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:but think about how extraordinary this
experience was as that, as that cult
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:is just taking Jesus into the temple.
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:Into Jerusalem.
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:Think about how extraordinary
that experience is and the, the
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:people were so fired up as they'd
come in to celebrate the Passover.
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:Literally some people say there was as
many as over a million people there.
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:It was a high fever pitch of
praising God, honoring God.
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:So God uses an or the ordinary
cult to reveal the extraordinary.
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:I think he uses ordinary people.
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:To do extraordinary.
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:Jesus chose 12 unschooled ordinary men.
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:Ordinary men can do
extraordinary things with Jesus.
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:I love this.
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:The owner releases it when
he understands the why.
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:Oh, why are you doing this?
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:The Lord needs it.
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:Oh, okay.
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:Sometimes we don't release
our gifts or our talents.
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:Or even our money, as Ron talked
about, unless you understand the
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:real need, the Lord needs it.
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:The Lord needs your gifts.
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:The Lord needs your talents.
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:As we've been trying to get this building
prepared for the grand opening, which
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:is next Sunday, there's been a lot of
work that needs to be done, and I'm so
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:grateful for all the work streams working
together so that we can be set up.
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:Yeah, so that the church will be ready.
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:I'm so proud of the church and
all the people that have worked
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:so hard, but the Lord needs us,
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:not because we 'cause we're such
good people, but he needs us.
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:He needs to see our hearts are
engaged, that we're not just here.
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:Just to fill a seat, but we are here
to give our whole hearts to God.
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:Amen.
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:See, what is God asking you
to release for his purposes?
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:God asked him to release a donkey.
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:What's he asking you to release?
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:It's something, I don't know what it
is, but it's come to your mind already.
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:You already know what it is.
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:Don't be tight fisted.
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:Don't hold on.
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:I want it my way.
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:I wanna do things my way.
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:What about doing it Jesus' way?
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:Come on.
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:Don't hold on to bitterness.
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:Don't hold on to greed.
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:Don't hold on to an immoral relationship.
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:Don't hold on to.
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:Things that, you know, a job
that's keeping you from seeking
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:first the kingdom of God.
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:Don't hold onto that stuff that keeps
you from being the man or woman of
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:God that God has called you to be.
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:Imagine if this owner had been,
no, you can't take my cult.
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:And then imagine he's in that crowd and
then he sees Jesus riding on a cult.
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:He's like, oh, I missed the opportunity.
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:Yeah, that could have been my cult.
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:That could have been my cult, but I
was so tight-fisted and I missed out on
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:experiencing God's purposes for my life.
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:We can't hold on.
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:Good point.
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:Because what we hold loosely,
God can use miraculously.
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:You know, I'm excited about
special missions coming up.
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:I'm really excited about it and you know
that, but one of the things that I've seen
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:when it comes to special missions, this
church has always risen to the occasion,
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:at least in the time I've been here.
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:Okay.
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:It has always risen to the
occasion, and when we hold
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:loosely and go, you know what?
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:I wanna be generous.
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:I know we got 53 churches in
Mexico and Central America.
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:But the result of your effort, we've
already talked about this over a either.
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:We've either planted directly or we've
helped individually fund over a hundred
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:churches just from Orange County.
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:What you hold loosely,
God can use miraculously.
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:Amen.
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:You should clap 'cause
you guys have done that.
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:You should clap even harder for that.
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:That's, that's pretty awesome.
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:That's the generosity of this church
when it comes to special missions,
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:because you've held that loosely
and God has used it miraculously.
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:There are so many things that
God wants to do in our life.
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:If we just are willing to release to
surrender, I'm gonna forgive this person.
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:I'm not gonna hold on to
this bitterness any longer.
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:I just want to be used by you.
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:God, I'm sorry.
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:Do you understand what
I'm talking about here?
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:Mark 11, verse seven and eight, when
they brought the cult to Jesus and threw
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:their cloaks over it, he sat on it.
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:Many people spread their cloaks on
the road while others spread branches.
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:They had cut in the fields again.
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:Why would people spread
the cloaks on the road?
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:I don't really understand that.
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:Yeah.
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:Well, this is the biblical history of it.
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:Okay.
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:Now, I love, I think there was some
tension between Elijah and um, and Jehu.
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:Okay.
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:You're gonna see that maybe in here,
but it says, when Jehu went out to
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:his fellow officers, one of them
asked him, is everything all right?
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:Why did this maniac come to you?
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:Because Elijah had just come to jail.
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:He says, you know, the man and
the sort of things he says,
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:Jehu replied, that's not true.
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:Or JHU replied, excuse me.
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:And then they said, that's not true.
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:And they said, tell us Jehu
wasn't eager to be the leader.
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:I think that's why he didn't
go around bragging about it.
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:And then Jehu said,
here's what he told me.
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:This is what the Lord says.
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:I will anoint you king over Israel.
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:They quickly took their cloaks and
spread them under him on the bare steps.
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:Then they blew the trumpet and
they shouted, Jehu is king.
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:See, in that video they said, Hey, when?
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:When people see him coming in, in
that donkey and when they see people.
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:Putting those blankets down,
they're gonna know Zacharia Nine.
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:Nine, they're gonna know two Kings, nine.
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:They're gonna know.
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:It's gonna be obvious.
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:And anyone who's a student of
God's word, which many of them were
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:because it was a hardcore focus,
they would know what's happening.
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:And so they knew, Hey, this
is what they did for Jehu.
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:This is what we're gonna do for Jesus.
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:It was kind of a known thing.
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:That's what they had done for All King.
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:Does that make sense?
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:Yeah.
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:So that's what's happening.
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:That's what's happening there.
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:So spreading their cloaks in the road was
a show of honor and royal recognition.
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:It was an act of submission and surrender
given to a king when you put your cloak
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:down, which for many people is one
of their most valuable things, you're
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:saying, here's my most valuable things.
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:I am under your authority.
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:You know when we say we're part
of the kingdom and the Bible says
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:seek first the kingdom of God.
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:It isn't just make it a
priority to come to church.
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:That's not what it is alone.
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:Now.
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:That's true.
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:You should do that.
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:But it's seeking first the
reign and rule of Christ in
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:every single area of your life.
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:That's what the original Greek tells us.
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:That's what it's really saying.
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:And so here is this idea of laying down
the cloak and a question, are you still
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:throwing down your cloak for Jesus?
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:Are you still doing it?
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:I mean, I know when you got baptized
you were like, oh, it's amazing.
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:Right?
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:You were so fired up.
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:It was such an occasion.
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:It was like that video for,
you're like, yeah, it's amazing.
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:When I baptized my mom, you know, the,
the whole church was filled and it
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:was like, I just remember baptizing
her and the whole church erupted.
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:And that's the most cheer I can
ever remember for any baptism
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:ever that I've been a part of.
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:It was easy to be a disciple at that
moment because things were going great.
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:I had just become a Christian a few months
earlier and my mom was become a Christian.
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:Girlfriend became a Christian.
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:Uh, the guy who I invited to church when
before I was a Christian, uh, he's the
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:one who said, Hey, you're a hypocrite.
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:You need to repent.
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:You taught me false doctrine.
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:You told me to pray Jesus in
my heart, and now he's saying,
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:you taught me false doctrine.
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:He said, you need to come to my church
and learn that you need to repent and be
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:baptized for the forgiveness of your sins
so that you'll receive the Holy Spirit.
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:And I was like, wow,
this guy is, he's bold.
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:This guy's got no shame in his game.
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:But I was far, I got, I got Peter.
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:That's who Peter, I got my
mom, I got my ex-girlfriend.
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:Um, I got tons of friends who
were coming to church with me.
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:Things were good.
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:Christian life was good.
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:It was easy to lay on
my cloak at that time.
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:But are you still joyfully
surrendering to Jesus?
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:Are you still as joyfully surrendering
Jesus as the day when you threw down
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:your cloak and proclaimed Jesus'?
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:Lord, that's a good test for me.
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:There's been many times since 1989 when I
have wanted to not throw it on my cluck.
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:When I wanted to, you
know, pick up my cloak.
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:Have you taken up your cloak,
your Lordship decision?
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:Have you taken it back?
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:I would still be sold out for God.
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:If my kids had become Christians,
I would still be sold out for God
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:if everything had gone smoothly
the way I thought they would.
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:I would still be so loud for God if
God gave me everything I thought I
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:would have the day I was baptized.
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:I would still be so out for God
if he had given me a spouse.
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:I would still be so out for God if he
had given me the career I envisioned.
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:But sometimes when it doesn't
happen, we pull back our hearts
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:the truth.
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:We've had a few hard years here.
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:I would say that I've experienced
maybe some of the hardest part of it.
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:And I'm tested.
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:Is Jesus still Lord to your life?
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:Is he hosanna in the highest
when things are great?
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:Is he still hosanna in the
lowest when things are difficult?
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:Is he hosanna forever?
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:Yeah,
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:we gotta ask ourself these questions.
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:Or maybe you're visiting today for
the first time, have you personally
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:thrown down your cloak in complete
surrender to Jesus your Lord in baptism?
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:If you haven't done that,
I wanna encourage you.
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:Ask the person who brought you, Hey,
can you study the Bible with me?
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:I wanna throw it on my cloak.
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:I wanna surrender to Jesus.
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:I wanna be who Jesus has called me to be.
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:I wanna be a part of what
is going on in the church.
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:I don't wanna be
tight-fisted with my life.
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:I wanna be open-handed.
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:Mark 11, verse nine through 10.
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:Those who went ahead and those
who followed, shouted, Hosanna.
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:Blessed is who comes in
the name of the Lord.
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:Blessed is the coming
kingdom of our Father, David.
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:Again, this is when you hear blessed is
the coming kingdom of our father, David.
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:They're thinking a warrior
like King, they're thinking
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:a different kind of kingdom.
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:Hosanna in the highest heaven.
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:You know, this was the fire that was
going on the Sunday before Jesus.
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:Rose from the dead.
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:Amen.
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:But in between this stuff happened.
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:Okay?
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:In between this stuff happened.
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:And you know what?
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:In between our baptism and the day that
we stand before God, things will happen.
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:That's the truth.
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:And how are you going to respond?
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:On Monday, Jesus cleanses the temple
and he confronts the Pharisees.
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:Suddenly what?
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:Who.
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:This guy just yesterday,
he was coming down.
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:It was amazing.
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:Now he's cleansing the temple and he
is saying, get these things outta here.
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:And he was upset that people were
stealing and cheating people coming
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:into Jerusalem for the Passover and
their lambs weren't good enough.
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:So they would say, your lamb doesn't pass.
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:You have to buy one of mine.
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:At an exorbitant rate, your money
needs to be exchanged and ripping
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:'em off in the exchange, Jesus' like,
oh no, no, that ain't happening.
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:That is not happening.
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:That is not gonna fly.
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:Tuesday.
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:Jesus prophesize the
destruction of the temple.
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:You know?
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:He's like, Hey, look, this temple, it's
gonna be destroyed 70 years from now.
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:Watch it will happen.
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:And that's exactly what happened.
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:Still.
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:If you go to Jerusalem today, you, and he
says there won't be one stone on top of
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:the other if you go to Jerusalem today.
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:The stones, they left him
there on purpose to remind us.
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:It's pretty intense.
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:Wednesday, Jesus returns to
Jerusalem to teach in the temple.
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:Thursday, Jesus in the Apostles,
they eat their Passover meal.
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:He shares his final words.
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:Judas betrays him, and then he goes to
Gethsemane to pray, which is a good thing
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:to do after someone betrays you Friday.
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:Jesus is arrested.
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:He's falsely condemned,
he's abandoned, he's denied.
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:He's flogged and he's crucified.
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:And he's buried in a borrowed tomb.
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:Didn't even have his own tomb.
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:He laid down his life for us.
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:This is the Jesus that we serve.
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:Saturday, Jesus' body was resting in a
heavily guarded, secured, and sealed tomb.
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:And I know for some of you're
going, but there was a lot going
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:on in the background and spiritual.
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:I was like, yeah, I know there
is, but I'm not gonna get into
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:that for the sake of time.
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:All right.
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:Sunday, of course, he has
risen, just as he said.
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:And we'll leave that one to Greg.
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:Amen.
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:So Mark 11, verse nine.
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:Those who went ahead and those
who followed, shouted, Hosanna.
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:And again, Hosanna means save now.
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:But someone in the proclaim,
some in the crowd proclaimed.
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:Save now from Rome's
oppression verses Save me now.
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:Save me from my sin.
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:Save me from my empty way of life.
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:Save me from the choices that I have
made that I know didn't please you, God.
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:And some turned on him and they
shifted from Hosanna to crucify him
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:in just a few short days because he
wasn't the savior that they expected.
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:He didn't live up to their expectations.
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:Can I just.
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:Encourage the church.
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:Can we determine today that the OC Church
will be a church who matures to sing
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:Hosanna in the highest, hosanna in the
lowest hosanna to Jesus, our king forever.
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:In the good times, in the bad times, in
the hard times, in the glorious times.
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:Can we be a church?
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:Who matures and understands
that those things can be
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:difficult, considerate, pure joy.
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:When you face trials of many kinds,
God is trying to make you mature and
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:complete so you won't lack anything.
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:But if we don't process pain
properly, it can lead to bitterness.
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:It can lead to abandoning your faith.
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:When the church doesn't meet
your expectations of what
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:you think should happen,
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:some just leave.
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:Now, obviously you're here.
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:Amen.
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:And I'm fired up about that.
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:But we are not here to
be consumer Christians.
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:Come on.
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:We're here to serve the risen king.
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:Yes.
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:Amen.
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:Yes.
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:We're here to serve King Jesus, and we
should be waving our, our palm leaves.
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:In fact, there'll be this, one of
these rows is gonna have palm leaves
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:and, and when we sing, oh yeah.
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:There we go.
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:Awesome.
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:We should be waving these things.
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:Awesome.
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:And, and, and we should be so fired
up and, and, and process pain better.
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:And we've not been good
at teaching on that.
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:And I'll take responsibility for that with
the people that God has called me to lead.
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:We've gotta get good at suffering.
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:We need a good theology of suffering
so that we can process it, so
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:that we can sing Hosanna in the
good times and the bad times.
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:And then mark 11, verse 11,
and we'll close it out here.
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:This is our final.
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:Scripture in Mark, although
there'll be a little bit more to it.
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:Jesus entered Jerusalem and
he'd go, okay, this is awesome.
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:He just had this triumphant procession,
and then it says he entered Jerusalem
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:and he went into the temple courts.
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:He looked around at everything,
but since it was already late, he
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:went out to Bethany with the 12.
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:He's like, what?
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:That's, that's how it ends.
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:Like, what, what?
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:What was going on there?
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:There must be something else, and
hopefully when you read your Bible and
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:go, that doesn't seem like the act, that
doesn't seem like the logical next step.
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:There must be a reason why.
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:You see, Jesus had resolutely set up
for Jerusalem and he actually arrived,
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:but his first order of business in
Jerusalem was to go to the temple courts.
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:Jesus wanted to look around and the
Greek word there is examine the temple.
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:To see how the sacrifices
had been offered.
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:Why?
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:Because Jesus knew that this temple
was gonna be destroyed at some
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:point in the future, and he, he
would be the ultimate sacrifice.
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:And John too says that he is the temple.
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:And so the truth of the matter is,
is Jesus was trying to figure out,
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:he's trying to process this like.
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:Wow.
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:What's going on with this temple?
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:Something's not right.
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:Sometimes we gotta look.
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:We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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:Sometimes we gotta look at our own
heart and go, what's, what's going on?
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:Am I sowing to please the Holy Spirit?
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:Are I sowing to please my sinful nature?
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:We gotta ask ourself these questions
as Christians, if we're going to
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:continue to grow and mature and
become all that God wants us to be.
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:In Orange County with 3.2
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:million people waiting for
us to bring glory and honor
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:to God in everything we do.
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:And I hope you bring friends next week.
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:I hope this place is packed out.
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:I hope you have to get extra chairs.
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:I hope that this is just
gonna be an amazing time.
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:But the reality is, is Jesus was
really in an introspective mode right
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:here, trying to think what's going on.
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:You know that you've heard
of Divine Reversal, right?
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:This is amazing thing that
this is a divine reversal.
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:You know, I, if you guys remember when
we did the special missions, the divine
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:reversal is that, you know, about 3000
died when they touched Mount Sinai.
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:They weren't supposed to.
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:And then in Acts two,
about:
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:And God's like, look,
let me just switch it.
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:You think about, you think about
Peter and he, he's sitting around
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:the campfire and he denies Jesus.
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:And then John 21, Jesus is sitting
with him around the campfire
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:and he restores him again.
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:Divine reversal.
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:God will not let your sin define you.
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:Amen.
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:You are not defined by your sin.
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:You're defined by your
willingness to repent.
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:And live out and be the, the,
the Christian that God has called
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:you to be when you lay down your
cloaks for Jesus of baptism.
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:Amen.
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:God has such an amazing plan for
all of our lives, but what happened
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:here is in Ezekiel in 5 86 BC.
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:God's people were in Babylonian captivity.
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:They did not listen.
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:God had to do something radical, and so
we see that the glory of God left the
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:temple, then went into the East Gate,
then went down the Kidron Valley, and
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:then went to the Mount of Olives in
the Def, in the Jesus triumphal entry.
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:We see that Jesus started at the Mount
of Olives, went down in the Kidron
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:Valley, went through the Eastgate
and into the temple to restore
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:peace, to restore the glory of God.
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:Is that awesome guys?
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:That's amazing.
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:It was a complete reversal.
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:As I was studying it, I go,
this must be a divine reversal.
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:And I'm reading, I'm going, this
has to be a divine reversal.
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:Started doing research.
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:Is this a divine reversal?
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:Like absolutely.
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:It's a divine reversal.
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:I was like, this is inspiring.
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:Again, God's people faced
a pretty difficult time
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:in Babylon, but that would not
be the defining moment for them.
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:The defining moment would be what Jesus
would do, and I love that about Jesus.
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:I'm just gonna close it
out with this passage.
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:You know, revelation is written to a
bunch of persecuted people who they're
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:facing unbelievable persecution.
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:They had a death before denial mindset.
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:They would not stray in their faith.
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:Many did, but many stayed faithful and
they said, we will stand up for God.
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:And so this vision comes.
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:To John and John shares this with the
people to help them like, hang on,
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:don't let the difficulties of life,
don't let the intense persecution
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:make you quit or make you stop.
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:And it says in Revelation seven,
after this I looked and there before
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:me was a great multitude that no
one could count from every nation,
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:tribe, people in language standing
before the throne and before the lamb.
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:They were wearing white robes and
were holding palm branches in their
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:hands and they cried out in a loud
voice, salvation belongs to our God
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:who sits on the throne in the lamb.
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:This was this vision.
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:And he guys, this was the vision
he gave them, and this is what's
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:actually here in the church.
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:People from every nation worshiping God,
holding palm branches in their hands.
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:Guys, we are part of an amazing church.
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:We go through hard times.
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:Yes, but read the book of Revelation.
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:All seven churches had a hard time.
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:Read all the epistles, all those
church, you're like, whoa, what
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:is going on with that church?
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:We can't be surprised when
hard times come, but we have
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:to ask our ourself in closing.
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:How can we bring God glory together
as disciples in the OC Church, we
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:can proclaim together hosanna in
the highest, Hosanna in our lowest
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:Hosanna to Jesus, our king forever.
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:Amen.
