WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.500 11. 00:05.460 --> 00:09.160 And follow along silently as we read the entire chapter. 00:15.320 --> 00:19.320 Mark chapter 11, the Bible reads. 00:19.320 --> 00:24.800 And when they came nigh to Jerusalem unto Bethphagi and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, 00:24.800 --> 00:30.000 And senteth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you, 00:30.000 --> 00:37.200 And as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat. Loose him, and bring him. 00:37.200 --> 00:46.800 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? Say ye that the Lord hath need of him, and straightway he will send him hither. 00:46.800 --> 00:53.200 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without, in a place where two ways met, and they loosed him. 00:53.200 --> 00:58.800 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt? 00:58.800 --> 01:03.500 And they said unto them, Even as Jesus had commanded, and they let them go. 01:03.500 --> 01:08.100 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him, and he sat upon him. 01:08.100 --> 01:14.200 And many spread their garments in the way, and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way. 01:14.200 --> 01:21.600 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. 01:21.600 --> 01:27.800 Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. 01:27.800 --> 01:30.600 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple. 01:30.600 --> 01:38.800 And when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve. 01:38.800 --> 01:43.600 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry. 01:43.600 --> 01:50.900 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if happily, he might find anything thereon. 01:50.900 --> 01:56.300 And when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for the time of figs was not yet. 01:56.300 --> 02:01.900 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever. 02:01.900 --> 02:03.900 And his disciples heard it. 02:03.900 --> 02:10.400 And they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, 02:10.400 --> 02:15.700 and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 02:15.700 --> 02:20.700 and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. 02:20.700 --> 02:27.200 And he taught saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? 02:27.200 --> 02:30.000 But ye have made it a den of thieves. 02:30.000 --> 02:35.700 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him, for they feared him, 02:35.700 --> 02:39.400 because all the people was astonished at his doctrine. 02:39.400 --> 02:41.800 And when even was come, he went out of the city. 02:41.800 --> 02:47.500 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 02:47.500 --> 02:55.100 And Peter calling to remembrance, saith unto him, Master, behold the fig tree which thou cursest is withered away. 02:55.100 --> 02:59.300 And Jesus answering, saith unto them, Have faith in God. 02:59.300 --> 03:04.600 For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, 03:04.600 --> 03:11.600 and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, 03:11.600 --> 03:14.100 he shall have whatsoever he saith. 03:14.200 --> 03:21.200 Therefore I say unto you, What think soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 03:21.200 --> 03:29.800 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any, that your father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 03:29.800 --> 03:36.100 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. 03:36.200 --> 03:40.800 And they come again to Jerusalem, and he was walking in the temple. 03:40.800 --> 03:45.300 There come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, and say unto him, 03:45.300 --> 03:49.000 By what authority doest thou these things? 03:49.000 --> 03:51.800 And who gave thee this authority to do these things? 03:51.800 --> 03:57.500 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, 03:57.500 --> 04:00.500 and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 04:00.500 --> 04:04.000 The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men? 04:04.000 --> 04:05.800 Answer me. 04:05.800 --> 04:11.800 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say from heaven, he will say, why then did ye not believe him? 04:11.800 --> 04:18.500 But if we shall say of men, they feared the people, for all men counted John that he was a prophet indeed. 04:18.500 --> 04:22.000 And they answered and said unto Jesus, we cannot tell. 04:22.000 --> 04:27.800 And Jesus answering saith unto them, neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. 04:27.800 --> 04:29.100 Brother Mikey, can you please serve? 04:30.100 --> 04:39.100 Thank you Lord for this church that we have, and Lord just help us to regard it as the blessing that it is to all of us. 04:39.100 --> 04:45.600 And just bless the Lord right now, fill him with the Holy Spirit, and help him to preach your word to us. 04:45.600 --> 04:47.600 Can you stand and pray, Amen? 04:47.600 --> 04:48.600 Amen. 04:48.600 --> 04:52.600 Well it's always an honor to preach to the church here. 04:53.600 --> 04:57.600 It is of course Palm Sunday in the traditional liturgical calendar. 04:57.600 --> 05:01.600 So we've got the, what passes for a palm tree up the front here. 05:01.600 --> 05:05.600 I did my best on short notice by finding it in the back room. 05:05.600 --> 05:08.600 But it's my teaching aid here. 05:08.600 --> 05:18.600 And so, kind of a sparse crowd tonight, but Jesus preached to two guys on the road to Emmaus. 05:18.600 --> 05:21.600 So we've got a lot more than two here, so I'll take it. 05:22.600 --> 05:29.600 So as it is Palm Sunday, like I said, the verses I want to focus on are those concerning the triumphal entry into Jerusalem, 05:29.600 --> 05:36.600 and the welcome that Jesus receives from the common people with the branches, you know, the wave in the branches, 05:36.600 --> 05:44.600 they're putting them down in front of them, and even spreading out their own clothing for him, you know, making a royal carpet as it were. 05:45.600 --> 05:55.600 You know, its significance cannot be understated because while, you know, by this point Peter and others had confessed him as the Messiah, 05:55.600 --> 05:59.600 you know, to his face privately and the Savior of the world and all this, 05:59.600 --> 06:09.600 this is kind of the seminal moment where masses of people publicly acknowledge, publicly acknowledge him as a king, 06:10.600 --> 06:18.600 and specifically as the king of the Jews, the son of David, and as a capitalized, like, son of David, like he's the guy, 06:18.600 --> 06:22.600 he's the last king, the guy that's going to rule forever, right? 06:22.600 --> 06:28.600 And so this is kind of like the last straw with the Pharisees. 06:28.600 --> 06:34.600 You know, they already wanted to kill him, they'd already thought about killing him, they've already got this malice in their heart. 06:35.600 --> 06:41.600 But now this is really an inflection point where more than ever they don't really have a choice. 06:41.600 --> 06:49.600 They either have to act or they have to, or unless they continue to allow the people to follow him, 06:49.600 --> 06:55.600 which would be like a permanent loss of their own power, and of course that's what ends up happening anyway, 06:55.600 --> 07:01.600 because God wins obviously, but, you know, they're afraid that if they don't kill him at this point, 07:01.600 --> 07:04.600 you know, the people will follow him instead of them. 07:07.600 --> 07:15.600 And as they later confessed to Pilate, quote, we have no king but Caesar, you know, 07:15.600 --> 07:21.600 openly stating, and perhaps with some dissimulation because they probably didn't like Caesar that much, 07:21.600 --> 07:28.600 that they prefer to be ruled by the world and by the Gentiles rather than by the Lord's Christ. 07:29.600 --> 07:36.600 Now, while the Jews were especially wicked in such a decision, we look around the world today 07:36.600 --> 07:43.600 and a vast number of people would say similar things, you know, that in a manner of speaking, 07:43.600 --> 07:51.600 their only king is their passions, or their reason, or their king is science, or some man-made ideology, 07:51.600 --> 07:56.600 or some human government of the Gentiles, or they would just say, I have no kings at all, 07:56.600 --> 07:59.600 no kings at all, no kings protest, right? 08:01.600 --> 08:03.600 Nobody can tell me what to do. 08:05.600 --> 08:11.600 And so in Mark 11 there, the passage we're focusing on is, they brought the colt to Jesus 08:11.600 --> 08:17.600 and cast their garments on him, and he sat upon him, and many spread their garments in the way, 08:17.600 --> 08:22.600 and others cut down branches off the trees and strawed them in the way, 08:22.600 --> 08:25.600 and they that went before and they that followed cried saying, 08:25.600 --> 08:33.600 Hosanna, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, blessed be the kingdom of our father David 08:33.600 --> 08:38.600 that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna, in the highest. 08:38.600 --> 08:49.600 Now, Hosanna is one of those words that the King James translators chose or choose to leave untranslated, so to speak, 08:49.600 --> 08:58.600 and I looked it up, comes from the Hebrew phrase, Hosanna, basically the same word, just a transliteration, 08:58.600 --> 09:06.600 which literally means, save we pray, or please save us, some sort of thing like this asking for salvation, 09:06.600 --> 09:16.600 and it's related to the Aramaic, Oshanna, meaning save, rescue, savior, so kind of an interesting choice of words there, 09:16.600 --> 09:23.600 it's just one of those words they leave untranslated, I don't know if that's exactly why they did that, 09:23.600 --> 09:26.600 but sometimes in the King James they just leave a word, they transliterate it, 09:26.600 --> 09:31.600 like when he says, Lama, says, Bakhtani, and things like this in Aramaic. 09:31.600 --> 09:40.600 Now, obviously a crowd of people shouting something to the effect of save us we pray to Jesus, 09:40.600 --> 09:49.600 that has a lot of symbolic significance, but I think maybe one of the reasons the translators left it as Hosanna, 09:49.600 --> 09:55.600 they didn't want to confuse the reader that everyone on the road to Jerusalem is just getting saved in mass, 09:55.600 --> 10:02.600 calling on the name of the Lord, like this mass Romans 10 moment, where they're all just, everybody on the side of the road is getting saved, 10:03.600 --> 10:08.600 because maybe some of them were, because Jesus is getting people saved everywhere he goes, 10:08.600 --> 10:15.600 but the great bulk of the people are not just having a come to Jesus moment in the literal Romans 10 sense, 10:15.600 --> 10:19.600 just because they're saying Hosanna, so we don't want to confuse the reader perhaps. 10:19.600 --> 10:29.600 Now, again, no doubt people were getting saved to some degree anywhere that Jesus went, 10:29.600 --> 10:34.600 but the cultural connotation here is more of a request to earthly royalty, 10:34.600 --> 10:41.600 to a King of David's line to help the people, to give them their freedom from the Romans, etc. 10:41.600 --> 10:49.600 This is obviously what most Jews are expecting as an earthly king, to give them an earthly salvation, 10:49.600 --> 10:58.600 and one reason we can deduce this is that some of these same people would just a few days later be consenting unto his death 10:58.600 --> 11:01.600 when the tides of public opinion turned, right? 11:01.600 --> 11:08.600 The crowds are inherently fickle and can be manipulated, they're a sheep having no shepherd. 11:10.600 --> 11:19.600 Now, so Palm Sunday, likewise, is celebrated in virtually every professing Christian tradition, 11:19.600 --> 11:23.600 Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and on down the line, 11:24.600 --> 11:32.600 and yet, much like the crowds welcoming Jesus, it's a significantly smaller percentage within that number 11:32.600 --> 11:36.600 who actually understand the spiritual nature of his kingship, right? 11:36.600 --> 11:43.600 So many people have strong emotional aspects to their religion, you know? 11:43.600 --> 11:48.600 I mean, the jumping and shouting Pentecostal comes to mind when you think of emotion, right? 11:48.600 --> 11:57.600 And many people in this world, they like Jesus, they like Jesus in his meek estate of condescending to the poor 11:57.600 --> 12:02.600 or aiding the sick, as many churches historically have made effort to do, 12:02.600 --> 12:10.600 and people see or they want the benefits from God or from Christian living, right? 12:10.600 --> 12:18.600 You know, in the extreme case, like the health and wealth, prosperity preachers want the benefits that God might give them, 12:18.600 --> 12:21.600 but there's many more, they just see the benefit from clean living, 12:21.600 --> 12:25.600 they want God to provide various things to them through prayer, 12:25.600 --> 12:31.600 or maybe they want to get things transactionally from God by giving money or time, right? 12:31.600 --> 12:37.600 I mean, in the most extreme sense, like Catholics think you can just buy time out of purgatory or something. 12:37.600 --> 12:44.600 And so one may engage all these things as a member of the crowd, shouting at Jesus and waving palms 12:44.600 --> 12:49.600 without truly having made him king in their heart, 12:49.600 --> 12:54.600 and specifically a king whose death on the cross is their salvation, 12:54.600 --> 13:01.600 as opposed to the temporal salvation he might provide them with things or with blessings, 13:01.600 --> 13:06.600 or a salvation they might earn for themselves through offering works unto him. 13:06.600 --> 13:10.600 So many people may say, Hosanna, please save us, 13:10.600 --> 13:17.600 without their heart actually being in that Romans 10 position where confession is made unto salvation. 13:17.600 --> 13:20.600 The Puritan Thomas Watson said, quote, 13:20.600 --> 13:26.600 So basically emotional excitement about Jesus is not saving faith. 13:26.600 --> 13:32.600 You know, love of Christ's glory even is not always the same as an embrace 13:32.600 --> 13:37.600 and identification with his shame and humiliation on the cross. 13:37.600 --> 13:36.480 And public 13:36.480 --> 13:44.600 and private love is not always the same as an embrace and identification with his shame and humiliation on the cross. 13:45.600 --> 13:50.600 And public confession is not always private conversion. 13:50.600 --> 13:55.600 And so let a man examine himself, whether he has been crucified with Christ, 13:55.600 --> 14:00.600 whether he's seeking some temporary fulfillment he can get from him. 14:00.600 --> 14:04.600 And, you know, we should all examine ourselves. 14:04.600 --> 14:07.600 I think everyone in this room is probably saved with a small crowd tonight. 14:07.600 --> 14:11.600 But if I'm preaching this to you, I'm sure you'll be able to hear me. 14:12.600 --> 14:17.600 If I'm preaching this evangelical evangelicalically to the whole world on the Internet, 14:17.600 --> 14:20.600 let someone examine themselves. 14:20.600 --> 14:26.600 Do you just want to wave songs of wave palms at Christ with the crowd? 14:26.600 --> 14:33.600 Or do you actually want to follow him to the cross to suffer with him and to be born again? 14:33.600 --> 14:38.600 So, yes, there's merit in glorifying the triumphal Christ. 14:38.600 --> 14:41.520 It was right for them to wave the palms out of him to say, 14:41.520 --> 14:43.600 Hosanna, right? 14:43.600 --> 14:46.000 But there's no salvation spiritually outside 14:46.000 --> 14:48.080 his death on the cross, the thing that comes later, 14:48.080 --> 14:52.880 the thing that way fewer people wanted to be a part of. 14:52.880 --> 14:55.480 His strength is made perfect in weakness. 14:55.480 --> 14:58.040 And that's not, people don't want to be weak. 14:58.040 --> 14:59.600 They want to save themselves. 14:59.600 --> 15:03.720 They want a king to save them temporarily speaking. 15:03.760 --> 15:10.760 And so yes, he's king, but he's also the lamb sacrificed. 15:10.760 --> 15:12.720 His kingship's inherent in his nature, 15:12.720 --> 15:17.760 but the sacrifice he made for us was voluntary. 15:17.760 --> 15:19.360 Our inherent nature, on the other hand, 15:19.360 --> 15:21.200 is one of a sinner. 15:21.200 --> 15:23.760 And so we must voluntarily admit weakness in accepting 15:23.760 --> 15:26.720 Christ's sacrifice on our behalf. 15:26.720 --> 15:29.080 We can't pay our sin debt through worship 15:29.080 --> 15:30.640 by shouting, Hosanna. 15:30.640 --> 15:32.080 We cannot say we're converted just 15:32.080 --> 15:36.160 because we're in the crowd of worshipers, right? 15:36.160 --> 15:38.720 Upwards of a billion people may well 15:38.720 --> 15:40.680 lift up Christ's good name today, 15:40.680 --> 15:44.520 but conversion is another matter. 15:44.520 --> 15:47.880 And most people, unfortunately, will never 15:47.880 --> 15:51.480 place their entire hope of salvation in the cross. 15:51.480 --> 15:54.360 They'll still hold back some role for themselves 15:54.360 --> 15:57.640 and their works, their willpower to stay saved. 15:57.640 --> 16:00.960 And they're seeking to split the power in the kingdom 16:00.960 --> 16:03.120 between themselves and Christ. 16:03.120 --> 16:06.240 They will not have him to rule over them. 16:06.240 --> 16:08.720 But when a man looks to Jesus for salvation, 16:08.720 --> 16:12.560 he must allow Jesus to be king in all respects, 16:12.560 --> 16:15.320 king of earning that salvation through his perfect life 16:15.320 --> 16:18.560 and death, but also the king of keeping it 16:18.560 --> 16:20.360 through his eternal power. 16:20.360 --> 16:23.160 Like his brother, Ramon, was preaching this morning, 16:23.160 --> 16:24.680 I wrote down Romans 6. 16:24.680 --> 16:26.200 He was preaching all through Romans 6, 16:26.200 --> 16:29.920 and it's like it's so apropos to this. 16:30.840 --> 16:33.120 Christ doesn't just have the triumphal entry. 16:33.120 --> 16:35.280 We also have to be planted together 16:35.280 --> 16:37.480 in the likeness of his death, your old man 16:37.480 --> 16:38.680 crucified with him. 16:38.680 --> 16:41.400 It says, reckon yourselves also to be dead. 16:41.400 --> 16:44.200 These phrases in Romans 6 just emphasizing 16:44.200 --> 16:47.880 that the believer, in some sense, has to die with Christ. 16:47.880 --> 16:50.080 This is less appealing than having 16:50.080 --> 16:53.480 a triumphal entry with Christ. 16:53.480 --> 16:56.640 But again, because brought up this morning, 16:56.640 --> 16:59.560 the apostles in the early church rejoiced 16:59.560 --> 17:01.600 when they're persecuted. 17:02.640 --> 17:05.680 The crowd did not rejoice when Jesus was persecuted. 17:05.680 --> 17:08.040 They switched sides, they went to the easy side. 17:10.080 --> 17:13.880 So the triumphal entry, it's an event 17:13.880 --> 17:15.600 that's recorded in all four gospels. 17:15.600 --> 17:18.040 So whenever something's in all four of the gospels, 17:18.040 --> 17:19.080 you kind of take a mental note, 17:19.080 --> 17:20.720 like wow, this is pretty important. 17:20.720 --> 17:22.280 This is kind of like, it's leading up 17:22.280 --> 17:23.680 to the climax of the gospel. 17:23.680 --> 17:26.480 This is like right before the final scene in the movie. 17:27.040 --> 17:32.040 And then when you look closer in all four of those cases, 17:32.200 --> 17:35.480 there's still quite a lot of material afterwards 17:35.480 --> 17:37.240 in those gospels. 17:37.240 --> 17:41.320 So like this is in Mark 11, he's making the triumphal entry. 17:41.320 --> 17:42.560 There's still a lot of bark. 17:42.560 --> 17:44.080 You get all the way to 16. 17:45.840 --> 17:48.680 But that's just the last week of Jesus' life. 17:48.680 --> 17:53.120 So it's like a huge chunk of the gospels 17:53.120 --> 17:56.120 is just like the last week of Jesus' life. 17:56.320 --> 17:59.320 Imagine if you did that proportionally, 17:59.320 --> 18:02.720 the gospel would be like thousands of pages long. 18:02.720 --> 18:06.000 But this week is clearly, this is the focal point. 18:09.520 --> 18:12.920 Like Paul says, I determined not to know anything among you 18:12.920 --> 18:15.360 save Jesus Christ and him crucified. 18:15.360 --> 18:20.360 This is leading up to the focal point of the gospels. 18:21.320 --> 18:22.800 When Pilate's examining him, it says, 18:22.800 --> 18:26.080 Pilate therefore said unto him, art thou a king then? 18:27.080 --> 18:28.960 Jesus answered, thou sayest that I am a king. 18:28.960 --> 18:32.280 To this end was I born and for this cause 18:32.280 --> 18:34.200 came I into the world that I should bear witness 18:34.200 --> 18:35.880 unto the truth. 18:35.880 --> 18:37.600 Everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice. 18:37.600 --> 18:39.280 So this is the end to which he's born. 18:39.280 --> 18:42.120 This is why he came into the world. 18:42.120 --> 18:46.680 That's why the gospels, there's almost like 18:46.680 --> 18:48.800 an equal amount of like the last week of his life 18:48.800 --> 18:50.400 and like the first 30 years of his life, 18:50.400 --> 18:53.000 which is quite interesting. 18:53.040 --> 18:56.760 And so the crucifixion, his arrest, 18:56.760 --> 18:59.240 his torturous crucifixion, his resurrection, 18:59.240 --> 19:03.520 that's the core of why Jesus was manifest in the flesh 19:03.520 --> 19:06.680 in 1 John 3 and you know that he was manifested 19:06.680 --> 19:09.360 to take away our sins. 19:09.360 --> 19:12.280 He was manifested to do other things too, 19:12.280 --> 19:14.520 to preach righteousness and to teach us 19:14.520 --> 19:16.840 how to live and stuff, but a lot of that stuff 19:16.840 --> 19:17.800 was already in the law. 19:17.800 --> 19:19.960 Like when he preached, he was basically just saying like, 19:19.960 --> 19:22.320 hey, if you distill down the law, 19:22.320 --> 19:25.240 it's love God and love your neighbor as yourself. 19:25.240 --> 19:27.240 But you could have already gotten that 19:27.240 --> 19:29.760 from studying the law if you were a master of the law 19:29.760 --> 19:30.920 in Israel. 19:30.920 --> 19:33.600 And there were people living when he came on the scene 19:33.600 --> 19:35.640 like John the Baptist and other believers 19:37.680 --> 19:39.920 that already knew that stuff. 19:39.920 --> 19:42.520 I mean, there's Anna in the temple, 19:42.520 --> 19:43.880 already knows there's a Christ coming, 19:43.880 --> 19:45.680 already understands these things. 19:47.200 --> 19:50.880 His main purpose was to take away our sins 19:50.920 --> 19:53.480 and it's therefore important to keep in mind 19:56.240 --> 20:00.520 also that none of the events in Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, 20:00.520 --> 20:02.560 his arrest, his trial, his passion, 20:02.560 --> 20:04.760 these were not surprises to him. 20:05.760 --> 20:08.040 As though he's just like this nice guy 20:08.040 --> 20:09.840 going along about his business 20:09.840 --> 20:11.360 and then these evil people come in 20:11.360 --> 20:12.880 and they're more sneaky than him 20:12.880 --> 20:14.800 and they take him off guard. 20:14.800 --> 20:16.960 That's how the world might look at it. 20:17.280 --> 20:21.240 But while the things his enemies did to him 20:21.240 --> 20:23.880 were evil and unjust and terrible, 20:23.880 --> 20:26.120 he was still in control. 20:26.120 --> 20:28.240 He's the sovereign of a kingdom. 20:28.240 --> 20:30.920 It's just operating on a different level, 20:30.920 --> 20:34.160 on a higher level than his adversaries understood. 20:34.160 --> 20:37.920 Every detail of this whole process was planned out 20:37.920 --> 20:40.040 down to the exact donkey. 20:40.040 --> 20:43.040 He's like, go get that donkey from that town. 20:43.040 --> 20:45.160 They're gonna know you're coming. 20:45.200 --> 20:48.320 He already knows which disciples gonna betray him 20:48.320 --> 20:51.560 for how many coins, everything, right? 20:54.560 --> 20:57.560 Says, like this morning, for we must needs die 20:57.560 --> 21:01.240 yet he doth devise means that is banished 21:01.240 --> 21:03.480 be not expelled from him. 21:03.480 --> 21:05.760 He devised all these means 21:05.760 --> 21:09.080 and worked together this miraculous event. 21:09.080 --> 21:14.080 Now, heard a lot of Palm Sunday messages growing up 21:14.080 --> 21:15.440 and they usually just kind of emphasize 21:15.440 --> 21:17.600 like the donkey and the palms 21:17.600 --> 21:20.880 and like, you know, how it's humble to come in on a donkey. 21:20.880 --> 21:22.200 You could preach a whole sermon about that. 21:22.200 --> 21:24.040 How Jesus was humble and meek and lowly 21:24.040 --> 21:26.880 and he came in on the donkey instead of on the horse. 21:26.880 --> 21:29.480 And so he was kind of like a paradoxical king. 21:29.480 --> 21:31.880 It's not what people expected, that sort of thing. 21:34.840 --> 21:37.000 I wanted to be a little bit different, right? 21:37.040 --> 21:38.840 One thing I wanted to look at is I wanted to walk 21:38.840 --> 21:41.280 through some of the interesting geography 21:41.280 --> 21:44.360 leading up to the triumphal entry. 21:44.360 --> 21:46.960 So if you just go back a couple of pages to Mark 9, 21:49.600 --> 21:50.840 Mark 9, 31. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.600 Says, for he taught his disciples and said unto them, 21:59.920 --> 22:03.640 the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men 22:03.640 --> 22:04.920 and they shall kill him. 22:05.400 --> 22:07.640 Into the hands of men and they shall kill him. 22:08.680 --> 22:11.920 And after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. 22:11.920 --> 22:14.160 So this is the, it's not just even foreshadowing. 22:14.160 --> 22:15.840 He's just telling them what's gonna happen 22:15.840 --> 22:17.280 and they still don't get it. 22:18.640 --> 22:21.360 So kind of incredible, but I mean, 22:21.360 --> 22:23.160 it's not something that had ever happened before. 22:23.160 --> 22:24.800 So you can't blame him too much. 22:25.720 --> 22:29.240 And so this is the foreshadowing. 22:29.240 --> 22:30.800 He's telling them what's gonna happen. 22:30.800 --> 22:33.880 And this, by the way, shows that Jesus is either exactly 22:33.880 --> 22:36.840 who he says he is or he's totally just an insane 22:36.840 --> 22:40.680 suicidal madman, because he knows he's gonna go die. 22:42.320 --> 22:44.160 And he's also, you know he's a prophet 22:44.160 --> 22:46.640 because he tells you exactly how it's gonna happen. 22:46.640 --> 22:48.720 And it says, but they understood not that saying 22:48.720 --> 22:50.880 and were afraid to ask him. 22:50.880 --> 22:54.320 Verse 33, and he came to Capernaum 22:54.320 --> 22:56.720 and being in the house they asked him, et cetera. 22:56.720 --> 23:00.920 So he came to Capernaum, so he's up in Galilee. 23:00.920 --> 23:02.160 So we've located him. 23:02.200 --> 23:04.560 Capernaum's on the north coast of Galilee. 23:04.560 --> 23:07.440 He's kind of in like northern Israel, 23:07.440 --> 23:09.440 like almost to like Syria. 23:11.840 --> 23:14.800 And then in Mark 10, one, so we're gonna track his journey 23:14.800 --> 23:16.520 down to Jerusalem. 23:16.520 --> 23:19.080 So we're starting at Capernaum, up by the Sea of Galilee, 23:19.080 --> 23:22.120 not that far from, you know, he's a Galilean, right? 23:23.160 --> 23:27.840 Then Mark 10, one, and he arose from thence 23:27.840 --> 23:30.560 and cometh into the coast of Judea 23:30.600 --> 23:33.400 by the farther side of Jordan, 23:33.400 --> 23:35.560 and the people resort unto him again, 23:35.560 --> 23:39.360 and as he was wont, he taught them again. 23:39.360 --> 23:42.320 So the farther side of Jordan is talking about 23:42.320 --> 23:45.960 the east side of Jordan, outside of core Israel, 23:45.960 --> 23:48.040 outside the land of Canaan. 23:48.040 --> 23:50.760 And this is really fascinating, right? 23:51.600 --> 23:54.080 Because now he's in the position of the children of Israel 23:54.080 --> 23:57.120 right before they crossed into the promised land. 23:57.120 --> 24:00.360 Because where is he going to come in 24:00.360 --> 24:01.520 right before the triumphal entry? 24:01.520 --> 24:05.240 He's gonna cross the Jordan into Jericho, 24:05.240 --> 24:08.680 and then go down to Jerusalem, this exact path 24:08.680 --> 24:13.040 that Joshua leads the children into the promised land 24:13.040 --> 24:16.240 through that Moses couldn't do, right? 24:16.240 --> 24:18.680 Because the law came by Moses, 24:18.680 --> 24:20.880 but Moses wasn't allowed to enter into the promised land. 24:20.880 --> 24:22.800 Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 24:22.800 --> 24:27.000 Jesus Christ crosses the Jordan this last time 24:27.000 --> 24:29.120 before he goes to be crucified 24:29.160 --> 24:31.320 to win sort of the promised land eternally, 24:31.320 --> 24:32.440 speaking for everybody. 24:37.240 --> 24:40.400 But then the Pharisees came to him, right? 24:41.400 --> 24:45.400 They're out there on the other side of Jordan hounding him. 24:45.400 --> 24:48.080 The Pharisees came to him and asked him, 24:48.080 --> 24:52.200 is it lawful for man to put away his wife, tempting him? 24:53.280 --> 24:54.680 And he answered and said unto them, 24:54.680 --> 24:56.800 what did Moses command you? 24:56.800 --> 24:59.000 This is fascinating, right? 24:59.880 --> 25:02.160 He's right at sort of like Moses' last pit stop. 25:03.040 --> 25:08.040 And the Jews are still quizzing him on what did Moses say? 25:08.160 --> 25:10.640 And he's like, you guys still don't get it. 25:10.640 --> 25:13.000 What did Moses tell you, right? 25:15.600 --> 25:17.960 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 25:17.960 --> 25:20.840 even so the son of man must be lifted up. 25:20.840 --> 25:22.240 That's something Moses did for him 25:22.240 --> 25:23.640 that they didn't understand. 25:25.440 --> 25:27.960 Deuteronomy four, Moses, he's told 25:28.640 --> 25:29.720 he can't go over. 25:33.840 --> 25:35.480 But Moses tells him, what does Moses tell him? 25:35.480 --> 25:38.960 He says, one day one of your brethren will become a prophet 25:38.960 --> 25:41.720 and to him you need to trust and if you don't trust him, 25:41.720 --> 25:43.520 you'll be destroyed, right? 25:43.520 --> 25:45.160 What did he tell him earlier in John? 25:45.160 --> 25:47.640 Do not think that I will accuse you to the father. 25:47.640 --> 25:49.880 There is one that accuseth you, even Moses, 25:49.880 --> 25:53.200 in whom you trust, for had you believed Moses, 25:53.200 --> 25:55.560 you would have believed me, for he wrote of me. 25:55.560 --> 25:56.920 But if you believe not his writings, 25:56.920 --> 25:59.040 how shall you believe my words? 25:59.040 --> 26:01.960 So he's done miracles, he's fulfilled prophecies, 26:01.960 --> 26:04.120 he's walked on water, he's healed the leper, 26:04.120 --> 26:05.960 healed the blind and the sick, 26:05.960 --> 26:08.320 he's preached the kingdom of God 26:08.320 --> 26:11.080 and there's still Pharisees just coming up to him 26:11.080 --> 26:12.360 and they're like, well what did Moses say 26:12.360 --> 26:14.800 about me getting another wife? 26:14.800 --> 26:18.040 It's like, where's your brain at, like at this point? 26:18.040 --> 26:19.760 Like that's what you're worried about 26:19.760 --> 26:22.280 and this is the case today, it's like, 26:22.280 --> 26:24.120 you bring the kingdom of God to someone, 26:24.120 --> 26:25.440 the message of salvation, they're like, 26:25.480 --> 26:27.480 well what do you think about gay marriage? 26:28.480 --> 26:31.480 It's like, what do you think about going to hell? 26:31.480 --> 26:33.360 Like, I mean, like this is, 26:33.360 --> 26:36.080 like we've got more important things to worry about. 26:36.080 --> 26:38.920 Like they're disputing about the law 26:38.920 --> 26:42.520 and he's like, you don't even believe Moses. 26:44.920 --> 26:49.040 It will turn to Deuteronomy 18. 26:55.440 --> 26:56.280 Yeah, yeah. 26:58.280 --> 27:00.440 Yeah, Deuteronomy 18.15, 27:00.440 --> 27:04.400 the Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet 27:04.400 --> 27:08.240 from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me, 27:08.240 --> 27:10.800 unto him shall ye hearken according to all 27:10.800 --> 27:13.360 that thou desirest of the Lord thy God in Horeb 27:13.360 --> 27:15.280 in the day of the assembly saying, 27:15.280 --> 27:18.160 let me not hear again the voice of the Lord 27:18.160 --> 27:22.080 and the Lord thy God in the day of the assembly saying, 27:23.000 --> 27:26.240 let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, 27:26.240 --> 27:30.240 neither let me see this great fire anymore that I die not. 27:30.240 --> 27:32.240 And the Lord said unto me, they have well spoken 27:32.240 --> 27:34.480 for that which they have spoken. 27:34.480 --> 27:37.800 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren 27:37.800 --> 27:40.960 like unto thee and will put my words in his mouth 27:40.960 --> 27:42.800 and shall speak unto them all that I commanded him. 27:42.800 --> 27:45.440 So the Jews, they told Moses, 27:45.440 --> 27:47.800 we don't wanna hear this voice from heaven anymore, 27:47.800 --> 27:49.240 we're too scared of it. 27:49.240 --> 27:51.600 God says, all right, I'll make a prophet 27:51.600 --> 27:54.600 that's a man like you and he'll tell you these things. 27:54.600 --> 27:58.560 And then when he shows up, they still reject him anyway. 27:59.440 --> 28:02.080 And that's what it says in verse 19 here, 28:02.080 --> 28:05.080 and it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken 28:05.080 --> 28:08.100 unto my words which he shall speak in my name, 28:08.100 --> 28:10.160 I will require it of him. 28:14.680 --> 28:17.920 And again, what's interesting is that in Numbers 33, 28:19.600 --> 28:20.560 you can turn there if you want, 28:20.560 --> 28:24.600 Numbers 33 and verse 50, it says, 28:25.520 --> 28:26.360 and this is interesting, 28:26.360 --> 28:28.120 because they're quizzing about Moses 28:28.120 --> 28:31.960 on the far side of Jordan near Jericho, right? 28:31.960 --> 28:34.000 And in Numbers 33 and verse 50, it says, 28:34.000 --> 28:38.660 and the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab 28:38.660 --> 28:41.240 by Jordan near Jericho. 28:41.240 --> 28:44.200 So this is like pretty much the same physical location, 28:44.200 --> 28:45.560 right? 28:45.560 --> 28:48.520 Saying, speak unto the children of Israel 28:48.520 --> 28:51.880 and saying to them, when ye are passed over Jordan 28:51.880 --> 28:55.560 into the land of Canaan, then ye shall drive out 28:55.560 --> 28:58.440 all the inhabitants of the land from before you 28:58.440 --> 29:00.480 and destroy all their pictures 29:00.480 --> 29:02.560 and destroy all their molten images 29:02.560 --> 29:06.360 and quite pluck down all their high places 29:06.360 --> 29:11.240 and ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land. 29:11.240 --> 29:15.540 And what is Jesus going to prophesy 29:15.540 --> 29:18.360 after he enters into Jerusalem in Mark 13, 29:19.200 --> 29:21.320 and he's going to say, Jesus answering said unto him, 29:21.320 --> 29:24.480 seest thou these great buildings, 29:24.480 --> 29:27.760 there shall not be left one stone upon another 29:27.760 --> 29:29.960 that shall not be thrown down. 29:29.960 --> 29:33.640 So God tells Moses, hey, when Joshua, 29:33.640 --> 29:36.640 which is Jesus, right, in the Hebrew, 29:36.640 --> 29:41.320 goes across this river, you're going to destroy everything 29:41.320 --> 29:43.920 and you're going to dispossess those people. 29:43.920 --> 29:47.920 And when Jesus crosses over and goes in unto his death, 29:48.280 --> 29:50.440 before that happens, he tells his disciples, 29:50.440 --> 29:52.120 all these stones are going to be torn down 29:52.120 --> 29:53.280 and these people are going to be scattered 29:53.280 --> 29:56.520 the whole world over because they wouldn't harken unto me. 29:56.520 --> 30:00.840 And so the Jews that had dispossessed the Canaanites 30:00.840 --> 30:03.200 have become sort of like the Canaanites. 30:03.200 --> 30:04.940 And since they won't harken to God, 30:04.940 --> 30:06.200 they have to be scattered. 30:09.200 --> 30:14.200 And in Mark 10, there's more foreshadowing 30:14.200 --> 30:19.200 where he says, for the son of man came not to be ministered 30:20.120 --> 30:22.920 unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom 30:22.920 --> 30:24.240 for many. 30:24.240 --> 30:27.520 And so this is like the greatest literature ever written, 30:27.520 --> 30:31.440 like all the suspense building up to the crucifixion. 30:31.440 --> 30:35.000 If the gospel weren't true, it would be the ramblings 30:35.000 --> 30:38.720 of madmen who were following a suicidal madman. 30:38.720 --> 30:40.840 It just, it wouldn't make sense that it would work out 30:40.840 --> 30:44.720 to be like the finest, utilizing like the best 30:44.720 --> 30:48.800 literary techniques in history. 30:49.680 --> 30:52.320 You get better plot development in five pages 30:52.320 --> 30:56.240 of the gospels than you do in like 500 pages of a novel. 30:57.080 --> 30:58.040 That's just a fact. 30:58.040 --> 31:01.400 Like any, like even like secular English literature, 31:01.400 --> 31:02.560 people will say that. 31:05.420 --> 31:10.420 And then what's also interesting in Mark 10 here, 31:11.340 --> 31:13.140 right before the triumphal entry, 31:16.260 --> 31:18.060 let me get turned back there myself. 31:26.140 --> 31:30.060 Yeah, so he's talking about kingship in verse 10, 42. 31:31.580 --> 31:34.540 You know that they which are accounted to rule over 31:34.540 --> 31:37.100 the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, 31:37.100 --> 31:39.220 and their great ones exercise authority unto them, 31:39.220 --> 31:41.700 but it shall not be among you, 31:41.700 --> 31:44.420 but whosoever will be great among you shall be your minister, 31:44.420 --> 31:46.740 and whosoever of you will be the chiefest 31:46.740 --> 31:49.740 shall be servant of all, for even the Son of Man 31:49.740 --> 31:52.180 came not to be ministered unto you, but to minister, 31:52.180 --> 31:55.100 and to give his life a ransom for many. 31:55.100 --> 31:56.300 So he's a different kind of king. 31:56.300 --> 31:59.440 He's a servant king. 31:59.440 --> 32:02.420 And, but then they're going on their way 32:03.420 --> 32:08.420 as they came to Jericho. 32:09.100 --> 32:11.700 And as he went out of Jericho with his disciples 32:11.700 --> 32:14.460 and a great number of people blind Bartimaeus, 32:14.460 --> 32:17.620 the son of Timaeus sat by the highway side begging. 32:17.620 --> 32:20.580 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, 32:20.580 --> 32:22.060 he began to cry out and say, 32:22.060 --> 32:25.060 Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. 32:25.060 --> 32:28.760 Notice it's capitalized, son of David. 32:28.800 --> 32:32.360 So Jesus' kingship, his royal lineage, 32:32.360 --> 32:35.080 his right to be the king of Israel 32:35.080 --> 32:39.040 is first openly declared by a blind beggar 32:39.040 --> 32:40.320 on the side of the road. 32:41.200 --> 32:44.320 It's just, it's so topsy-turvy, right, 32:44.320 --> 32:46.720 to how the world would do things. 32:46.720 --> 32:49.800 And what does the guy do? 32:49.800 --> 32:51.920 They tell him, hey, be quiet, 32:51.920 --> 32:55.720 but Jesus tells him, you know, tell him to come over. 32:55.720 --> 32:57.840 It says, and he, casting away his garment, 32:57.840 --> 32:59.640 rose and came to Jesus. 32:59.640 --> 33:01.360 So he casts aside his garment. 33:01.360 --> 33:02.920 What does this represent, right? 33:02.920 --> 33:04.200 He's a blind beggar. 33:04.200 --> 33:08.480 He's casting aside his garment, his filthy rags, right? 33:08.480 --> 33:11.480 His apron of fig leaves, right? 33:11.480 --> 33:13.560 He's exchanging it for the white robe 33:13.560 --> 33:15.200 of Christ's righteousness, 33:15.200 --> 33:17.120 the coat of skins from Genesis 33:17.120 --> 33:21.160 that comes from God's sacrifice, not man's works. 33:21.160 --> 33:23.460 Jesus is about to sacrifice himself. 33:23.460 --> 33:28.460 This blind beggar throws away his own garment 33:28.580 --> 33:32.020 and comes to Jesus to receive his sight. 33:33.260 --> 33:38.260 And it says he immediately received his sight from Christ 33:39.300 --> 33:41.460 by calling on the name of the Lord, right? 33:42.340 --> 33:43.900 So Jesus said unto him, go thy way, 33:43.900 --> 33:45.100 thy faith is made the whole, 33:45.100 --> 33:47.460 and immediately he received his sight 33:47.460 --> 33:49.300 and followed Jesus in the way. 33:49.300 --> 33:51.460 So he immediately receives his sight 33:51.460 --> 33:53.100 by calling on the name of the Lord. 33:53.100 --> 33:55.100 Then he followed. 33:55.100 --> 33:58.540 He did not follow in order that he might eventually 33:58.540 --> 33:59.980 receive his sight, right? 34:06.420 --> 34:09.380 And this prefigures how the people 34:09.380 --> 34:13.500 that are going to declare Christ as king 34:13.500 --> 34:16.420 for the whole world are basically 34:16.420 --> 34:19.060 people who were once blind beggars, 34:19.060 --> 34:21.620 and they had to give up their own garment, right? 34:23.820 --> 34:28.820 Then in Mark 11, our chapter, 34:28.860 --> 34:30.420 where does it start off geographically? 34:30.420 --> 34:35.420 Because remember, we started in Galilee at Capernaum, 34:35.500 --> 34:38.420 we came down the west side of the Jordan River, 34:38.420 --> 34:39.900 and we've crossed over to Jericho 34:39.900 --> 34:43.620 like the Children of Israel did many centuries before, 34:43.620 --> 34:46.820 and now we're over here in Mark 11, 34:46.820 --> 34:48.780 at the Mount of Olives. 34:48.780 --> 34:51.340 So I mean, what does this, 34:51.340 --> 34:52.640 this calls to mind the end times. 34:52.640 --> 34:56.320 This is where Christ is gonna return the second time. 34:57.480 --> 35:00.440 So, and then who does he send out? 35:00.440 --> 35:02.800 Says, at the Mount of Olives, 35:02.800 --> 35:05.840 he sendeth forth two of his disciples, 35:05.840 --> 35:07.480 and who does he send out? 35:07.480 --> 35:10.760 You know, the two witnesses, right? 35:10.760 --> 35:11.960 So you've got the Mount of Olives, 35:11.960 --> 35:14.800 you've got two disciples, like the two witnesses. 35:14.800 --> 35:15.960 It's fascinating, right? 35:15.960 --> 35:17.600 All the parallels in the Bible 35:18.520 --> 35:19.760 and how it all fits together. 35:19.760 --> 35:21.240 You couldn't contrive that. 35:23.040 --> 35:28.040 And then, you know, they spread their garments, 35:29.640 --> 35:32.120 they cut down the branches and they make a way for him. 35:32.120 --> 35:37.120 Okay, but another interesting Old Testament, 35:37.120 --> 35:42.120 Jericho palm tree connection is in Second Chronicles 28. 35:43.800 --> 35:46.400 Second Chronicles 28, I realize this more of like a 35:48.240 --> 35:49.520 Bible study than anything, 35:49.520 --> 35:52.580 but I found some of these things really interesting. 35:54.760 --> 35:56.520 Second Chronicles 28. 36:00.960 --> 36:05.800 So the scene in Second Chronicles 28 is you have King Ahaz, 36:05.800 --> 36:07.360 who's like this jerk. 36:08.280 --> 36:11.520 It says he did not that which was right 36:11.520 --> 36:14.060 in the sight of the Lord like David his father. 36:14.060 --> 36:16.100 So he's setting up idols, 36:16.100 --> 36:19.580 and he's burning incense in the high places. 36:19.580 --> 36:24.580 And this is at the time when Israel and Judah are divided, 36:25.060 --> 36:28.860 and they're fighting each other, 36:28.860 --> 36:30.460 and they're also under God's judgment, 36:30.460 --> 36:32.820 so other people are invading them at the same time 36:32.820 --> 36:34.420 that they're fighting each other. 36:37.580 --> 36:42.580 It says in verse eight, Second Chronicles 28, 36:43.020 --> 36:45.980 and the children of Israel, so that's the Northern Kingdom, 36:46.860 --> 36:51.860 carried away captive of their brethren 200,000 women, 36:51.980 --> 36:55.900 sons and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them 36:55.900 --> 36:57.940 and brought the spoil to Samaria. 36:59.220 --> 37:03.200 But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, 37:03.200 --> 37:05.820 and he went out before the host that came to Samaria 37:05.820 --> 37:08.580 and said to them, Behold, because the Lord God 37:08.580 --> 37:11.900 of your fathers was wrought with Judah, 37:11.900 --> 37:14.340 he hath delivered them into your hand, 37:14.380 --> 37:16.020 and ye have slain them in a rage 37:16.020 --> 37:18.460 that reacheth up unto heaven. 37:18.460 --> 37:20.820 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah 37:20.820 --> 37:24.260 and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you? 37:24.260 --> 37:26.900 But are they not with you, 37:26.900 --> 37:29.620 even with you sins against the Lord your God? 37:30.900 --> 37:32.540 So the prophet is saying like, 37:32.540 --> 37:35.060 hey, we don't wanna keep Judah and Jerusalem 37:35.060 --> 37:36.820 as bondmen and bondwomen. 37:36.820 --> 37:38.780 This is sort of the mission of Jesus, 37:39.700 --> 37:42.500 that they wouldn't be bondmen to the law, right? 37:42.540 --> 37:44.620 So you'll start to see this parallel develop. 37:44.620 --> 37:46.940 And the prophet says, now hear me therefore, 37:46.940 --> 37:48.480 and deliver the captives again, 37:48.480 --> 37:51.100 which ye have taken captive of your brethren, 37:51.100 --> 37:53.840 for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you. 37:54.780 --> 37:57.220 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, 37:57.220 --> 37:59.300 Azariah the son of Joanan, 38:00.740 --> 38:04.860 Barakiah the son of Meshalumoth, 38:04.860 --> 38:07.620 and Sekiah the son of Shalom, 38:07.620 --> 38:10.900 and Amasa the son of Hadlyah stood up against them. 38:10.900 --> 38:13.540 They came from the war and said unto them, 38:13.540 --> 38:16.740 ye shall not bring in the captive Sither, 38:16.740 --> 38:19.220 for as we have offended against the Lord already, 38:19.220 --> 38:22.700 ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass, 38:22.700 --> 38:24.060 for our trespass is great 38:24.060 --> 38:26.640 and there's fierce wrath against Israel. 38:26.640 --> 38:29.220 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil 38:29.220 --> 38:31.660 before the princes and all the congregation. 38:32.580 --> 38:34.100 And don't miss this, 38:34.100 --> 38:37.700 and the men which were expressed by name rose up 38:37.700 --> 38:40.340 and took the captives and with the spoil clothed 38:40.340 --> 38:43.340 all that were naked among them and arrayed them 38:43.340 --> 38:46.300 and shod them and gave them to eat and drink 38:46.300 --> 38:50.580 and anointed them and carried all the feeble of them 38:50.580 --> 38:54.340 upon asses and brought them to Jericho, 38:54.340 --> 38:58.060 the city of palm trees to their brethren. 38:58.060 --> 39:00.440 Then they returned to Samaria. 39:00.440 --> 39:05.440 So you have this situation where Israel is in, 39:07.600 --> 39:09.820 Israel and Judah are in this situation of civil war 39:09.820 --> 39:12.660 and this parallel to how Israel was when Jesus came. 39:12.660 --> 39:15.140 They're in a spiritual civil war between false religion 39:15.140 --> 39:17.900 and the religion of Jesus Christ. 39:17.900 --> 39:21.900 And Jesus is there to free the captives, right? 39:21.900 --> 39:25.380 And here in the story, even though Judah's bad, 39:25.380 --> 39:27.100 there's still a prophet among them. 39:27.100 --> 39:28.260 And even though Israel's bad, 39:28.260 --> 39:30.820 there's still men who will harken to that prophet. 39:30.820 --> 39:35.660 And so there's still men that were willing 39:35.660 --> 39:38.660 to allow these prisoners to go free and what do they do? 39:38.660 --> 39:43.180 They put them on asses like Jesus riding in on the donkey 39:43.180 --> 39:46.220 and they do it and they bring them to Jericho, 39:46.220 --> 39:47.740 the city of palm trees. 39:47.740 --> 39:50.460 That's always a very interesting parallel. 39:50.460 --> 39:52.180 And of course, this triumphal entry 39:53.240 --> 39:55.900 is a fulfillment of prophecy. 39:55.900 --> 39:57.420 That's a very interesting parallel, 39:57.420 --> 40:00.140 but there's a direct fulfillment of prophecy. 40:00.140 --> 40:05.140 Zechariah 9 says, rejoice greatly, oh daughter of Zion. 40:06.100 --> 40:07.900 Shout, oh daughter of Jerusalem, 40:07.900 --> 40:10.220 behold thy king cometh unto thee. 40:10.220 --> 40:12.620 He is just in having salvation, 40:12.620 --> 40:15.300 lowly and riding upon an ass 40:15.300 --> 40:18.380 and upon a colt, the foal of an ass. 40:18.380 --> 40:20.540 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim 40:20.540 --> 40:22.340 and the horse from Jerusalem. 40:22.340 --> 40:24.940 And the battle bow shall be cut off 40:24.940 --> 40:27.220 and he shall speak peace unto the heathen 40:27.220 --> 40:30.780 and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea 40:30.780 --> 40:33.860 and from the river even to the ends of the earth. 40:33.860 --> 40:37.620 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, 40:37.620 --> 40:41.060 I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit 40:41.060 --> 40:43.300 wherein is no water. 40:43.300 --> 40:46.340 Turn you to the stronghold ye prisoners of hope. 40:46.340 --> 40:50.660 Even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee. 40:50.660 --> 40:55.460 And again, so in 2 Chronicles we're freeing prisoners, 40:55.460 --> 40:57.940 in Zechariah we're freeing prisoners, 40:57.940 --> 41:02.940 in Isaiah 42 that Jesus reads in the synagogue, 41:03.180 --> 41:04.860 right in front of everyone. 41:04.860 --> 41:07.900 He opens up the book and reads about freeing prisoners 41:08.820 --> 41:11.540 and the eyes of everyone are fixed upon him 41:11.540 --> 41:12.620 when he's saying that. 41:13.860 --> 41:17.300 And so I think these all tie together. 41:17.300 --> 41:20.980 And so it's a different type of kingdom. 41:20.980 --> 41:25.300 Yes, he's coming in lowly, but he's freeing prisoners. 41:25.300 --> 41:30.300 And you think of also the other main prophecy 41:31.460 --> 41:33.940 of this triumphal entry is Genesis 49. 41:35.420 --> 41:38.660 This is sort of the, Zechariah 9 and Genesis 49 41:38.660 --> 41:40.340 are kind of the milk of this prophecy. 41:40.340 --> 41:43.580 They're the two verses that people go to 41:43.580 --> 41:47.020 to show this is a fulfillment of prophecy. 41:48.260 --> 41:53.260 In Genesis 49, 10, the scepter shall not depart from Judah 41:53.340 --> 41:57.460 nor lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come 41:57.460 --> 41:59.940 and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 41:59.940 --> 42:03.500 So you think of the gathering in the rapture, 42:03.500 --> 42:06.180 but this is a gathering of the masses of people 42:06.180 --> 42:08.140 outside Jerusalem here. 42:08.140 --> 42:11.020 And it says in verse 11, binding his foal unto the vine 42:11.020 --> 42:13.540 and his asses colt unto the choice vine, 42:13.540 --> 42:16.460 he washed his garments in wine and his clothes 42:16.460 --> 42:18.020 in the blood of grapes. 42:18.020 --> 42:21.940 So you have the colt, the asses colt again here. 42:22.900 --> 42:26.300 And he washed his garments in wine. 42:26.300 --> 42:28.940 Of course, he's about to get very bloody, right? 42:28.940 --> 42:31.860 In this sacrifice after this triumphal entry. 42:31.860 --> 42:34.980 But then also when he returns the second time, 42:34.980 --> 42:38.500 his garments will get bloody and washed in wine as it were, 42:38.500 --> 42:40.420 but it'll be somebody else's blood. 42:40.420 --> 42:42.020 It'll be a different story. 42:42.020 --> 42:44.380 And then in the millennial reign, 42:44.380 --> 42:47.420 there's this sort of his clothes in the blood of grapes. 42:47.420 --> 42:49.660 There's this sort of a picture of like, 42:49.660 --> 42:51.820 you know, there'll be such abundance that you could, 42:51.820 --> 42:53.940 you can wash your clothes in wine, right? 42:53.940 --> 42:56.460 It was just the wine and corn and oil and everything 42:56.460 --> 42:57.860 will just be that abundant. 42:58.860 --> 43:02.700 So like a triple fulfillment, right? 43:04.820 --> 43:07.380 Maybe more, maybe things I haven't thought of. 43:11.580 --> 43:14.820 And so what does the waving of the palms represent? 43:14.820 --> 43:18.820 You know, is this just like some local custom or whatever? 43:20.100 --> 43:22.700 Maybe there's a little bit of that to it, you know? 43:22.700 --> 43:24.300 I'm not one of these people that says, 43:24.300 --> 43:27.900 oh, we gotta take a microscope to the culture 43:27.900 --> 43:29.780 of ancient Israel to figure out what these things mean. 43:29.780 --> 43:32.180 I don't think that's true anymore 43:32.180 --> 43:33.500 than you have to go back to the Hebrew 43:33.500 --> 43:36.300 to understand the Bible, that sort of thing, right? 43:36.300 --> 43:41.300 But Isaiah 55, which is after Isaiah 53, 43:41.540 --> 43:44.580 remember Isaiah 53 is kind of the passion of Christ. 43:44.580 --> 43:47.060 After that in Isaiah 55 talking about 43:48.700 --> 43:52.620 when Jesus comes again, Isaiah 55, 10, 43:52.660 --> 43:54.940 for as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven 43:54.940 --> 43:57.580 and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth 43:57.580 --> 43:59.780 and maketh it bring forth and bud, 43:59.780 --> 44:02.740 that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 44:02.740 --> 44:07.060 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, 44:07.060 --> 44:09.260 it shall not return unto me void, 44:09.260 --> 44:12.060 but it shall accomplish that which I please, 44:12.060 --> 44:15.060 and it shall prosper in the thing where to I send it. 44:16.220 --> 44:19.940 For you shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace, 44:19.940 --> 44:22.140 the mountains and the hills shall break forth 44:22.180 --> 44:24.140 before you into singing, 44:24.140 --> 44:28.020 and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 44:28.020 --> 44:30.300 Literally the trees are gonna be waving 44:30.300 --> 44:34.540 and welcoming Christ back when he comes in glory. 44:34.540 --> 44:37.100 And the trees will be welcoming, 44:37.100 --> 44:39.860 and so these people waving these palm branches, 44:39.860 --> 44:44.140 they're doing like a mild prefigurement of that, right? 44:45.620 --> 44:49.140 It says instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, 44:49.140 --> 44:51.900 and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree, 44:51.940 --> 44:53.620 and it shall be to the Lord for a name 44:53.620 --> 44:56.660 for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. 44:56.660 --> 44:59.100 So instead of thorns and briars, 44:59.100 --> 45:00.260 we'll have nice trees, 45:00.260 --> 45:03.220 and the trees will be pretty much dancing, 45:03.220 --> 45:04.260 welcoming Christ. 45:06.500 --> 45:09.860 And so what's the next thing, 45:09.860 --> 45:11.580 what's the next thing that happens 45:11.580 --> 45:13.900 in the story after this triumphal entry? 45:13.900 --> 45:15.900 I mean, we could just talk about 45:16.740 --> 45:19.140 all the different cool aspects of the entry, 45:19.140 --> 45:23.740 but next thing that happens is the cleansing of the temple. 45:25.860 --> 45:27.980 You know, they spend the night in Bethany, 45:29.020 --> 45:30.460 and then the fig tree, 45:30.460 --> 45:33.180 and then they come to Jerusalem proper. 45:34.740 --> 45:36.500 Now, cleansing the temple is often a story 45:36.500 --> 45:39.580 that's examined in isolation 45:39.580 --> 45:43.980 for all the significance it has just unto itself. 45:43.980 --> 45:47.500 But think of it in the context of the triumphal entry. 45:47.500 --> 45:50.740 It's all the more provocative of an action, right? 45:50.740 --> 45:52.180 It's all the more challenging 45:52.180 --> 45:54.380 to the religious leaders of the time. 45:54.380 --> 45:58.780 He's not just some local nut job knocking over tables 45:58.780 --> 46:00.220 wherein they can just shoo him away 46:00.220 --> 46:01.460 and discredit him or something. 46:01.460 --> 46:04.020 He's a man who just the day before 46:04.020 --> 46:06.380 was welcomed by all the people and the masses 46:06.380 --> 46:07.940 into the city, 46:07.940 --> 46:10.300 and they're all proclaiming him to be their promised king. 46:10.300 --> 46:12.660 And then the next day he's going in, 46:12.660 --> 46:15.100 like on the turf of the religious leaders 46:15.100 --> 46:16.860 and knocking over their stuff, right? 46:16.860 --> 46:19.180 This is extremely provocative. 46:19.180 --> 46:23.340 The Pharisees are now at this critical point 46:23.340 --> 46:25.620 where they really do have to choose 46:25.620 --> 46:28.780 between submitting to their rightful king or killing him. 46:28.780 --> 46:31.260 And of course, the die has already been cast. 46:31.260 --> 46:33.580 Most of their hearts have already been hardened. 46:33.580 --> 46:35.380 There's a few quiet exceptions, 46:35.380 --> 46:37.380 like Pharisees that got saved quietly 46:37.380 --> 46:39.260 and just were afraid to say something, 46:39.260 --> 46:41.460 but most of them, they've been hardened. 46:41.460 --> 46:42.300 They're reprobates. 46:42.300 --> 46:43.980 They cannot believe. 46:44.020 --> 46:45.740 And so like Pharaoh, 46:45.740 --> 46:48.780 God allows them to hate God's anointed 46:48.780 --> 46:51.500 because this will ultimately abound to the glory of God. 46:51.500 --> 46:54.420 This is part of his redemptive plan. 46:54.420 --> 46:57.620 Just like Pharaoh kind of flying off the handle 46:57.620 --> 47:00.860 is how God destroys Pharaoh's army. 47:00.860 --> 47:02.580 These guys just like losing it 47:02.580 --> 47:05.740 and trying to kill Jesus is ultimately how he frees, 47:05.740 --> 47:09.060 God frees his people from the curse of the law. 47:14.540 --> 47:17.140 All right, and I'll turn to Mark 12. 47:17.140 --> 47:18.460 It's one chapter over. 47:19.260 --> 47:23.420 This is still right after the triumphal entry 47:23.420 --> 47:24.940 before he's arrested. 47:26.460 --> 47:29.060 Again, such a big part of the New Testament 47:29.060 --> 47:30.420 is just this one week. 47:32.620 --> 47:35.180 That's why I think Palm Sunday is important. 47:35.180 --> 47:38.100 And in Mark 12, 28, 47:40.620 --> 47:41.900 and one of the scribes came 47:41.900 --> 47:44.020 and having heard them reasoning together 47:44.020 --> 47:45.940 and perceiving that he had answered them well, 47:45.940 --> 47:49.660 asked him, which is the first commandment of all? 47:49.660 --> 47:51.700 And Jesus answered him, 47:51.700 --> 47:53.100 the first of all the commandment is, 47:53.100 --> 47:55.420 He who is Israel, the Lord, O God, is one Lord. 47:59.180 --> 48:01.940 So the guy goes back and forth with them 48:01.940 --> 48:06.540 and the guy gives him an interesting answer. 48:06.540 --> 48:09.300 He says, Master, they all said the truth, 48:09.300 --> 48:10.940 for there is one God 48:10.980 --> 48:12.460 and there's none other but he. 48:12.460 --> 48:13.740 And to love him with all the heart 48:13.740 --> 48:14.620 and with all the understanding, 48:14.620 --> 48:16.300 with all the soul and all the strength, 48:16.300 --> 48:17.460 and love his neighbors himself 48:17.460 --> 48:22.460 is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. 48:22.860 --> 48:24.020 So he's basically saying, 48:24.020 --> 48:26.020 hey, there's something more important 48:26.020 --> 48:28.700 than keeping the letter of the law. 48:29.980 --> 48:31.460 And that says, 48:31.460 --> 48:34.420 and when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, 48:34.420 --> 48:35.340 he said unto him, 48:35.340 --> 48:39.980 thou art not far from the kingdom of God. 48:39.980 --> 48:43.620 And so Jesus saw that he answered discreetly. 48:43.620 --> 48:46.260 Again, this is a very tense environment. 48:46.260 --> 48:49.980 It's do or die at this point for the Pharisees, 48:49.980 --> 48:52.820 whether Jesus would be accepted as king 48:52.820 --> 48:56.140 or him and his followers killed as usurpers. 48:56.140 --> 49:01.140 And here he is again, talking about the kingdom of God 49:01.140 --> 49:03.300 and these Pharisees thinking about entering 49:03.300 --> 49:05.580 the kingdom of God. 49:06.500 --> 49:11.500 And what's some of the last things he's preaching here, 49:12.940 --> 49:15.300 it's about being the son of David, right? 49:16.340 --> 49:17.860 Just a couple of verses down. 49:19.620 --> 49:22.100 How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? 49:22.100 --> 49:23.940 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, 49:23.940 --> 49:25.780 the Lord said to my Lord, 49:25.780 --> 49:26.980 sit down on my right hand 49:26.980 --> 49:29.580 till I make thine enemies thy footstool. 49:29.580 --> 49:33.500 David therefore himself calleth him Lord. 49:33.500 --> 49:35.260 And whence is he then his son? 49:35.940 --> 49:37.140 And the common people heard him gladly. 49:37.140 --> 49:38.260 So look what's going on here. 49:38.260 --> 49:42.180 First the people say of their own volition, 49:42.180 --> 49:43.700 this is the son of David. 49:44.620 --> 49:46.260 And then once he's arrived, 49:46.260 --> 49:48.940 he's knocked over stuff in the temple. 49:48.940 --> 49:52.100 He's royally pissing off the Pharisees. 49:52.100 --> 49:53.620 Then he says, what does it really mean 49:53.620 --> 49:55.340 to be the son of David? 49:55.340 --> 49:57.980 It means you're the Lord of David, right? 49:57.980 --> 50:00.620 And then they don't have an answer for that. 50:00.620 --> 50:03.180 He's slowly building this case, right? 50:04.180 --> 50:08.060 And so Jesus is finally openly teaching who he is. 50:08.060 --> 50:11.140 Whereas previously he's kind of told his disciples, 50:11.140 --> 50:14.580 like don't proclaim this too openly before the time. 50:16.140 --> 50:19.100 And so just as the common people had welcomed him 50:19.100 --> 50:20.660 into the city, at this point, 50:20.660 --> 50:23.220 they're still gladly hearing his message. 50:23.220 --> 50:26.780 But of course, the people's receptivity 50:26.780 --> 50:28.900 is sort of a two-edged sword, right? 50:28.900 --> 50:30.980 They're receptive, but they're fickle. 50:30.980 --> 50:33.700 And many of them would abandon him or turn on him. 50:33.700 --> 50:38.340 And the Pharisees, they're afraid to take Jesus by day 50:38.340 --> 50:39.380 because of the people, 50:39.380 --> 50:43.300 but ultimately the people did nothing to protect Jesus. 50:43.300 --> 50:46.420 Once he was delivered under the Romans, 50:46.420 --> 50:49.460 they just followed whoever seemed more powerful. 50:49.460 --> 50:50.580 And in that case today, 50:50.580 --> 50:52.500 a lot of people are Catholic 50:52.500 --> 50:55.060 just because that seems like the biggest church, 50:55.060 --> 50:56.620 with the most official church. 50:56.620 --> 51:00.020 They get lots of money, fancy outfits, lots of members. 51:00.060 --> 51:02.020 It just seems like, oh, well, they're earthly powerful, 51:02.020 --> 51:04.180 so it must be the way to go, right? 51:05.420 --> 51:07.420 The human heart typically does not go 51:07.420 --> 51:09.300 with the true right and wrong, 51:09.300 --> 51:12.420 but with what it thinks can advantage it, right? 51:12.420 --> 51:15.260 We're selfish creatures, right? 51:15.260 --> 51:17.980 We think, well, how do I avoid danger? 51:17.980 --> 51:19.380 How do I go with the flow 51:19.380 --> 51:21.740 with the people that are in power, right? 51:21.740 --> 51:25.500 And people like Christianity 51:25.500 --> 51:28.300 when they feel like it's helping them win in life, 51:28.300 --> 51:33.300 but the crowd sort of starts to thin out, right? 51:33.460 --> 51:36.180 When there's persecution or there's hard times. 51:36.180 --> 51:39.900 And again, are we gonna be the crowd 51:39.900 --> 51:42.460 that only wants Christ as triumphal king, 51:42.460 --> 51:43.900 can we also embrace, 51:43.900 --> 51:46.860 or can we also embrace the sacrificial aspect 51:46.860 --> 51:48.300 of his kingship, right? 51:49.280 --> 51:52.260 The truth is that to truly have the former, 51:52.260 --> 51:55.120 you also must have the latter, 51:55.120 --> 51:56.540 to really have Christ, 51:57.480 --> 51:59.000 to live triumphantly through Christ, 51:59.000 --> 52:01.960 you also have to have the sacrificial aspect of Christ, 52:01.960 --> 52:04.760 the dying to self, the being buried with him, 52:04.760 --> 52:05.840 and so forth and so on, 52:05.840 --> 52:08.520 and being partaker of his sufferings. 52:09.560 --> 52:14.480 And so in this world, there are still to this day, 52:14.480 --> 52:17.800 some lesser and greater kings, right? 52:17.800 --> 52:19.320 I think King Charles is gonna come speak 52:19.320 --> 52:21.240 to the Congress pretty soon. 52:21.240 --> 52:23.080 Am I right, anyone else heard that? 52:25.600 --> 52:29.520 Anyway, but few of any of these 52:30.760 --> 52:31.600 that are still around today 52:31.600 --> 52:33.800 are true kings in the biblical sense, right? 52:34.720 --> 52:38.640 But in every true hierarchy, 52:38.640 --> 52:41.200 in every true legitimate hierarchy, 52:41.200 --> 52:44.120 he who possesses the superior degree, 52:44.120 --> 52:46.560 thereby also possesses at the same time 52:46.560 --> 52:49.360 all the subordinate degrees, right? 52:50.320 --> 52:53.040 Moses as the leader of the people 52:53.080 --> 52:55.840 could not only lead his king in war, 52:55.840 --> 52:59.440 but he also could perform the priestly sacrifices, 52:59.440 --> 53:03.200 he could also prophesy, et cetera, right? 53:03.200 --> 53:05.360 The leader must be able to do that 53:05.360 --> 53:08.480 which he would require of the follower, okay? 53:08.480 --> 53:11.600 So consider that a pastor must be a soul winner 53:11.600 --> 53:14.040 before he tells other people to become a soul winner, right? 53:14.040 --> 53:15.840 He must have read his Bible before he gets up 53:15.840 --> 53:18.640 and preaches that you should read your Bible. 53:18.640 --> 53:21.240 He must be married before he performs 53:21.240 --> 53:23.640 marriages for other people, right? 53:23.640 --> 53:25.240 He's gotta be married before he counsels 53:25.240 --> 53:27.560 other people on marriage and so on. 53:27.560 --> 53:30.680 Like even in earthly organizations, 53:30.680 --> 53:32.920 you don't become a 33rd degree Freemason 53:32.920 --> 53:35.320 before you could do all the other degrees, right? 53:35.320 --> 53:38.560 You know, the generals in an army 53:38.560 --> 53:42.080 don't get to skip the boot camp, right? 53:42.080 --> 53:45.560 They don't get to skip the phase of polishing their shoes 53:45.560 --> 53:49.040 and tucking in their shirt as lowly officers, right? 53:49.040 --> 53:52.040 So just like to be the ultimate leader then, 53:52.040 --> 53:54.480 you have to be able to do everything else, right? 53:54.480 --> 53:55.880 It's truly gonna be perfect. 53:56.800 --> 53:59.280 Thus it behoved Christ to fulfill the role 53:59.280 --> 54:03.120 not only of triumphal king and not only of prophet 54:03.120 --> 54:04.720 but also of high priest. 54:05.800 --> 54:10.800 All the roles he has for man, he did perfectly himself 54:10.800 --> 54:14.560 so that our service were not unreasonable. 54:14.560 --> 54:17.960 And we read that quote, 54:17.960 --> 54:20.640 when God made promise to Abraham 54:20.640 --> 54:23.280 because he could swear by no greater, 54:23.280 --> 54:26.520 he swear by himself. 54:26.520 --> 54:29.040 And so when God made a promise 54:29.040 --> 54:32.360 to take away the sins of the world and defeat death, 54:32.360 --> 54:35.680 he could offer no greater sacrifice than himself. 54:35.680 --> 54:38.840 He could provide us no greater high priest than himself. 54:38.840 --> 54:40.960 The lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world, 54:41.000 --> 54:45.400 he could offer no greater captain of our salvation. 54:45.400 --> 54:49.320 He could offer no greater conqueror of death than himself. 54:49.320 --> 54:51.880 So if the last enemy to be destroyed is death, 54:51.880 --> 54:56.000 then properly speaking, the king, the leader 54:56.000 --> 54:57.800 must defeat it first. 54:57.800 --> 55:00.520 Just like your pastor before he ever got up here 55:00.520 --> 55:01.840 and told you to become a soul winner, 55:01.840 --> 55:03.400 he was a soul winner, right? 55:03.400 --> 55:05.400 Before he ever got up here and told you to read your Bible, 55:05.400 --> 55:07.320 he had read his Bible. 55:07.320 --> 55:09.160 On down the line, right? 55:09.160 --> 55:13.560 For Jesus, if death is the enemy and it has to be defeated, 55:13.560 --> 55:16.520 Jesus had to defeat it before any of us. 55:16.520 --> 55:19.040 He's the first born from the dead. 55:20.360 --> 55:21.960 And we must needs die. 55:23.200 --> 55:25.960 But first he tastes the death for every man. 55:27.560 --> 55:29.720 So that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 55:29.720 --> 55:31.280 but have everlasting life. 55:31.280 --> 55:33.720 So as we look forward to Easter, 55:33.720 --> 55:37.680 we see that the humility and the shame of the cross 55:38.640 --> 55:43.640 is then at Easter overcome in the power of the resurrection. 55:44.160 --> 55:46.600 The thing that scattered the multitude 55:46.600 --> 55:49.880 actually abounded to Christ's glory 55:49.880 --> 55:52.120 in not that long a span of time 55:52.120 --> 55:54.520 is that people just had to have a little bit of faith 55:54.520 --> 55:58.800 and stick with it just those few days to see the results. 55:58.800 --> 55:59.960 And just like this morning, 55:59.960 --> 56:03.080 our life is just this little bit, right? 56:03.080 --> 56:05.760 And if we just stick with it, we will see the results. 56:08.480 --> 56:13.120 Palm Sunday, as it were, was planned out in eternity past 56:13.120 --> 56:17.400 and it's still celebrated today, 2000 years later, 56:17.400 --> 56:20.440 but even greater still is what it prefigures, right? 56:20.440 --> 56:22.640 The triumphant entry of Christ 56:22.640 --> 56:25.480 into the millennial kingdom in the future. 56:25.480 --> 56:29.440 And then he's not going to come on the fold of an ass, 56:29.440 --> 56:30.480 but on a white horse. 56:30.480 --> 56:32.880 And he's not gonna be trampling palm leaves, 56:32.880 --> 56:35.600 he's gonna be trampling his enemies. 56:35.600 --> 56:39.440 And he's not going to come to die, but to rule into reign. 56:41.800 --> 56:44.680 But first, the seed must be planted, right? 56:44.680 --> 56:47.500 And then it grows into the great tree. 56:49.880 --> 56:52.160 And Luke's telling of the triumphal entry, 56:53.240 --> 56:57.600 Christ first says, before the triumphal entry, 56:57.600 --> 56:59.480 he says, but those mine enemies, 56:59.480 --> 57:01.880 which would not that I should reign over them, 57:01.880 --> 57:04.640 bring hither and slay them before me. 57:05.520 --> 57:08.040 This foreshadowing, this foreshadowing, 57:08.040 --> 57:12.280 it was not about what he was about to do, right? 57:12.280 --> 57:17.040 Right afterward, but what he will do in the future. 57:17.040 --> 57:22.040 And this meek entry on the donkey is just a small 57:22.040 --> 57:25.360 foreshadowing of what he will do in the future. 57:25.360 --> 57:28.080 And it was still glorious in its own right, right? 57:28.080 --> 57:31.160 The way that God is able to humble himself as a man 57:31.160 --> 57:32.520 and be obedient unto death. 57:33.480 --> 57:37.480 And I guess the purpose of this whole sermon, 57:37.480 --> 57:40.400 what ties it all together is that first he comes 57:40.400 --> 57:45.400 as a humble king, as a friend, you know? 57:47.080 --> 57:49.640 Fitting with this humble entry into the world 57:49.640 --> 57:54.000 is like he was a baby in a manger with working class parents 57:54.000 --> 57:55.640 and he's just a regular guy, right? 57:58.120 --> 58:01.520 But, and that's to kind of get on our level, 58:01.520 --> 58:06.360 but he's gonna come again as a judge and as our ruler. 58:08.200 --> 58:10.400 And so he basically, he gives you a chance 58:10.400 --> 58:13.800 to accept him one way so you don't have to 58:13.800 --> 58:17.640 have him come down on you in the future, right? 58:18.760 --> 58:21.520 Very, very, very interesting way of doing things 58:21.520 --> 58:24.640 because, you know, an earthly way of thinking 58:24.640 --> 58:29.160 might be to do the show of power first 58:29.160 --> 58:32.520 and get you to just obey out of that, right? 58:35.400 --> 58:37.160 You know, but he does this so that we can have 58:37.160 --> 58:40.640 better fellowship with him and have a better model 58:40.640 --> 58:42.040 of how to live our lives. 58:42.040 --> 58:45.440 And, you know, as the hymn Christians good night says, 58:45.440 --> 58:49.120 he shall come and not in lowly guise, right? 58:49.120 --> 58:51.240 That's what we're looking forward to. 58:51.240 --> 58:53.680 But, you know, he offers for us to accept him 58:53.680 --> 58:55.160 in both roles, right? 58:55.160 --> 58:59.000 And he actually demands you do if you would not worship 58:59.840 --> 59:02.600 him in vain, but rather worship him as he is in truth, 59:02.600 --> 59:03.680 you know, the king. 59:03.680 --> 59:04.760 Like a lot of these people saying, 59:04.760 --> 59:06.480 Hosanna, the son of David and stuff, 59:06.480 --> 59:09.440 they thought they were getting one kind of king 59:09.440 --> 59:11.400 and he's giving him something quite different. 59:11.400 --> 59:14.640 You actually have to understand the whole picture 59:14.640 --> 59:17.040 that he has to be, you know, high priest 59:17.040 --> 59:20.280 and sacrifice and prophet, and then he's gonna come 59:20.280 --> 59:22.200 as the judge and the king. 59:22.200 --> 59:23.200 You know, because it's the first time 59:23.200 --> 59:25.240 he didn't come to judge the world. 59:25.240 --> 59:26.560 He comes not to condemn the world, 59:26.560 --> 59:28.920 but the world through him might be saved. 59:29.840 --> 59:31.120 When he comes a second time, he is gonna condemn people. 59:31.120 --> 59:32.960 It's gonna be pretty harsh. 59:32.960 --> 59:36.880 And so, you know, accept him as the humble 59:36.880 --> 59:38.920 and gentle king and the guy on a donkey, 59:38.920 --> 59:42.640 accept him that way so you're not on the receiving end 59:42.640 --> 59:44.920 of the white horse Jesus with the sword 59:44.920 --> 59:47.320 and the blood and all that stuff. 59:47.320 --> 59:51.200 It's an easy choice, but it's sometimes hard 59:51.200 --> 59:54.720 for the world to make that choice because they want 59:54.720 --> 59:57.080 the triumph without the sacrifice. 59:57.080 --> 01:00:02.080 They want the glory and the temporal kingdom 01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:06.680 and the temporal benefits without, you know, 01:00:06.680 --> 01:00:11.520 that gruesome scene of the cross and having to be ashamed 01:00:11.520 --> 01:00:14.040 and all the things that Jesus went through. 01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.040 So with that, we'll close with a word of prayer. 01:00:17.040 --> 01:00:21.080 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your passion 01:00:21.080 --> 01:00:24.720 and we thank you for these things that took place, 01:00:24.720 --> 01:00:26.240 that you did for us. 01:00:26.280 --> 01:00:28.120 Just help us to meditate on those things 01:00:28.120 --> 01:00:30.600 and to remember them as we head into Easter. 01:00:31.520 --> 01:00:33.320 Let's bless everyone here tonight 01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:35.160 and everyone that's sick that couldn't be here. 01:00:35.160 --> 01:00:36.760 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:39.400 And we'll close with a song. 01:00:48.040 --> 01:00:49.520 Amen, great sermon. 01:00:49.520 --> 01:00:51.840 And now, at this time, please turn in your 01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:55.800 Red and Green Songbooks one more time to Song 64. 01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:58.520 Shall We Gather At The River? 01:00:58.520 --> 01:01:02.720 That is number 64, Shall We Gather At The River? 01:01:06.120 --> 01:01:11.120 64, Shall We Gather At The River? 01:01:13.680 --> 01:01:15.240 On the first. 01:01:16.120 --> 01:01:21.120 Shall we gather at the river 01:01:21.600 --> 01:01:26.960 where bright angel feet have trod 01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:31.640 with its crystal tide forever 01:01:31.640 --> 01:01:36.640 flowing by the throne of God? 01:01:37.560 --> 01:01:42.560 Yes, we'll gather at the river, 01:01:42.680 --> 01:01:47.680 the beautiful, the beautiful river. 01:01:48.240 --> 01:01:52.840 Gather with the saints at the river 01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:57.840 that flows by the throne of God. 01:01:59.040 --> 01:02:04.040 On the bosom of the river 01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:09.360 where the Savior King we own 01:02:09.640 --> 01:02:14.280 we shall meet and sorrow never 01:02:14.320 --> 01:02:19.320 beneath the glory of the throne. 01:02:20.120 --> 01:02:25.120 Yes, we'll gather at the river, 01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:30.360 the beautiful, the beautiful river. 01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:35.720 Gather with the saints at the river 01:02:35.720 --> 01:02:40.720 that flows by the throne of God. 01:02:41.560 --> 01:02:46.560 There we reach the shining river, 01:02:47.040 --> 01:02:52.040 lay we every burden down. 01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:57.480 Grace our spirits will deliver 01:02:57.480 --> 01:03:02.480 and provide a robe and crown. 01:03:03.160 --> 01:03:08.160 Yes, we'll gather at the river, 01:03:08.640 --> 01:03:13.640 the beautiful, the beautiful river. 01:03:14.240 --> 01:03:19.000 Gather with the saints at the river 01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:24.000 that flows by the throne of God. 01:03:25.200 --> 01:03:30.200 Soon we'll reach the shining river, 01:03:30.720 --> 01:03:35.720 soon our pilgrimage will cease, 01:03:36.200 --> 01:03:41.200 soon our happy hearts will quiver 01:03:41.200 --> 01:03:46.200 with the melody of peace. 01:03:47.080 --> 01:03:52.080 Yes, we'll gather at the river, 01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:57.280 the beautiful, the beautiful river. 01:03:57.920 --> 01:04:02.720 Gather with the saints at the river 01:04:02.720 --> 01:04:07.720 that flows by the throne of God. 01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:12.080 Amen and Brother Temmo, 01:04:12.080 --> 01:04:14.080 would you close us in a word of prayer?