1 00:00:01,201 --> 00:00:04,404 I want to transition now into, Matthew 12 2 00:00:05,271 --> 00:00:07,440 as we're going right through the book of Matthew. 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,075 This is Palm Sunday. 4 00:00:09,075 --> 00:00:12,812 And to set this up, I want your attention directed to the screen. 5 00:00:12,812 --> 00:00:16,016 I got this little video just in set up of Palm Sunday. 6 00:00:16,049 --> 00:00:19,052 Watch the screen, please. 7 00:00:35,702 --> 00:01:19,245 And. All of. 8 00:01:34,794 --> 00:01:37,931 This week is what is typically called the Passion Week. 9 00:01:38,231 --> 00:01:41,701 The week leading up to the crucifixion resulted in the resurrection. 10 00:01:42,001 --> 00:01:46,106 It starts with what we call Palm Sunday, with Jesus's 11 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:50,510 entry into Jerusalem when he's finally honored as the King. 12 00:01:50,543 --> 00:01:52,779 Up to this point, he has not been, 13 00:01:52,779 --> 00:01:57,050 And to set all of that up, we're going to be in Matthew 12. 14 00:01:57,050 --> 00:01:59,686 Matthew 12 is not about the triumphal entry, 15 00:01:59,686 --> 00:02:03,423 but it's the first place that is listed in the Scripture 16 00:02:03,423 --> 00:02:08,061 that there's a plot to kill Jesus, which will result in the crucifixion. 17 00:02:08,561 --> 00:02:12,031 It's the first place where Jesus will talk about his death and resurrection. 18 00:02:12,732 --> 00:02:13,967 And so it's pivotal. 19 00:02:15,168 --> 00:02:18,171 This Passion Week is the hinge point 20 00:02:18,338 --> 00:02:23,176 of, of, of all of history, culminating in the death and the resurrection of Jesus. 21 00:02:23,176 --> 00:02:28,114 The hinge points what everything turns on this week Easter, resurrection. 22 00:02:28,581 --> 00:02:31,684 Matthew 12 is the hinge point of Jesus's, 23 00:02:32,886 --> 00:02:33,853 ministry. 24 00:02:33,853 --> 00:02:36,489 This everything changes at at Matthew 12. 25 00:02:36,489 --> 00:02:38,958 And that's why it's important for us. It's a very important chapter. 26 00:02:38,958 --> 00:02:43,429 But before we get there, I know we've done a lot of extra stuff today, 27 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:46,466 but in kind of setting this up. 28 00:02:46,466 --> 00:02:50,570 I want I want to, I don't know, set the record straight or some of 29 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:53,039 you have heard, 30 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:55,742 I was hit by a Chevy 2500 31 00:02:55,742 --> 00:02:58,745 truck this week while running. 32 00:03:00,213 --> 00:03:00,680 Yeah. 33 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,683 So, it was Wednesday morning. 34 00:03:03,783 --> 00:03:06,786 I was running down Marshall. 35 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,521 All of a sudden. Bam! 36 00:03:09,656 --> 00:03:11,658 And this truck drives by me. 37 00:03:11,658 --> 00:03:14,260 Big 2500 Chevy. 38 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:18,031 And the mirror on it is just destroyed. 39 00:03:18,498 --> 00:03:21,501 He comes to a stop, just glass everywhere. 40 00:03:21,701 --> 00:03:23,403 And he just clipped me. 41 00:03:23,403 --> 00:03:24,904 The ma'am, right here. 42 00:03:24,904 --> 00:03:27,807 And so he gets the kid, gets out, and he is a graduate. 43 00:03:27,807 --> 00:03:30,043 I coached him for four years at football. 44 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:31,211 Graduate a few years back. 45 00:03:31,211 --> 00:03:34,214 I think it was upset because I didn't get to play the position he wanted to play. 46 00:03:36,482 --> 00:03:38,151 But he just hit me with his truck 47 00:03:38,151 --> 00:03:41,154 destroyed, the mirror gone. 48 00:03:41,321 --> 00:03:43,223 And I'm like, what are you doing? 49 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:44,524 He was. Oh, I didn't see you. 50 00:03:44,524 --> 00:03:48,394 I'm like, well, like, look, I'm right in front of you. 51 00:03:48,962 --> 00:03:53,132 And I don't know if you broke my arm or what, but I'm like, I guess I'm all. 52 00:03:53,566 --> 00:03:58,071 And so, the angel that was with me took the brunt of it. 53 00:03:58,471 --> 00:04:00,807 So, like, I'm fine. 54 00:04:00,807 --> 00:04:02,242 Like no bruising. 55 00:04:03,276 --> 00:04:04,577 I, like, destroyed. 56 00:04:04,577 --> 00:04:05,478 I love the fact. 57 00:04:05,478 --> 00:04:08,748 And so, yeah, I got hit by a Chevy to 2500. 58 00:04:08,748 --> 00:04:11,751 But you should see the truck. 59 00:04:12,585 --> 00:04:15,221 And so I'm like, well, I got I got three more miles to do. 60 00:04:15,221 --> 00:04:16,990 So I finished my through the three miles. 61 00:04:16,990 --> 00:04:18,458 I had to run still, 62 00:04:18,458 --> 00:04:20,593 and I went home and, like, I gotta make sure I can do some push ups 63 00:04:20,593 --> 00:04:21,461 till, like, I'm okay. 64 00:04:21,461 --> 00:04:24,430 So I did some like, oh, I'm, I'm no good. 65 00:04:24,430 --> 00:04:25,431 This kid's texting me. 66 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:26,366 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 67 00:04:26,366 --> 00:04:29,002 I said, listen, we're gonna laugh about it later, 68 00:04:29,002 --> 00:04:32,639 but you need to understand that what this tells me 69 00:04:32,639 --> 00:04:35,642 is that I still have more messages to preach, 70 00:04:35,942 --> 00:04:38,911 more Bible to teach, and more young men to coach. 71 00:04:39,379 --> 00:04:41,247 So just keep your eyes open next time. 72 00:04:42,482 --> 00:04:43,216 But in, 73 00:04:43,216 --> 00:04:46,452 in, in all of that, when you have those moments 74 00:04:46,452 --> 00:04:49,455 where you and I told him, I said six more inches you drifting. 75 00:04:50,223 --> 00:04:52,558 I'm not telling this story 76 00:04:52,558 --> 00:04:54,027 like you're going so fast. 77 00:04:54,027 --> 00:04:57,297 And it's like six more inches and it's a whole different ball game. 78 00:04:58,364 --> 00:05:01,968 And when you have moments like that, if you've ever been blessed 79 00:05:01,968 --> 00:05:05,204 with moments like that, you just start to pray like 80 00:05:06,506 --> 00:05:09,208 you start to think about life. 81 00:05:09,208 --> 00:05:12,211 Tuesday is my 59th birthday. 82 00:05:13,813 --> 00:05:15,515 And so this I'm going to walk 83 00:05:15,515 --> 00:05:18,518 you through my heart and my mind and my prayer 84 00:05:18,584 --> 00:05:21,421 as I was sitting by myself yesterday 85 00:05:21,421 --> 00:05:23,556 just thinking through stuff. 86 00:05:23,556 --> 00:05:27,093 And I wrote it down because I just want you remember this stuff. 87 00:05:27,126 --> 00:05:31,531 This was Philippians two three, let nothing be done through selfish ambition. 88 00:05:32,699 --> 00:05:33,800 Here's my thought. 89 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,071 What a wasted life, wasted resources, and what a small way to live. 90 00:05:38,471 --> 00:05:42,408 To use my time, my money, and the first 60 years of my life 91 00:05:42,675 --> 00:05:45,678 as if it was simply to build my own nest egg 92 00:05:45,678 --> 00:05:48,848 for my own selfish leisure at the last portion of my life. 93 00:05:50,016 --> 00:05:52,018 If that were where 94 00:05:52,018 --> 00:05:55,922 I find happiness, I would know nothing of the joy of the Lord. 95 00:05:57,023 --> 00:06:00,026 Oh God, that I would give more to you 96 00:06:00,593 --> 00:06:02,995 who has given it all for me. 97 00:06:02,995 --> 00:06:05,598 Please, my God, I ask you to give me the grace 98 00:06:05,598 --> 00:06:09,135 and the privilege of more years, more energy, and more passion. 99 00:06:09,902 --> 00:06:12,839 For if I were to leave this world now, I'd have done. 100 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,909 I have had such deep regret of how little I've done for you. 101 00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:19,445 I've not yet exhausted 102 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:22,448 my body witnessing or doing work for your kingdom. 103 00:06:22,448 --> 00:06:23,950 Give me more. 104 00:06:23,950 --> 00:06:27,520 Give me more days of my life, more breath in my lungs, more strength in my back. 105 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,589 More courage in my soul. More boldness in my heart. 106 00:06:29,589 --> 00:06:33,393 More understanding in my mind that I may give more of me to you. 107 00:06:33,393 --> 00:06:35,695 An ever increasing measure. 108 00:06:35,695 --> 00:06:40,066 You've been so gracious and good to keep me here and on mission. 109 00:06:41,434 --> 00:06:45,405 At 18 years old, in maximum security prison with the inmates, with no guards 110 00:06:46,472 --> 00:06:49,409 and inmates, in the yard of the most violent prison in Costa Rica, 111 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:53,312 with no guards around, detained in Cuba, shot at by drug runners 112 00:06:53,312 --> 00:06:56,783 in Guatemala, eluding kidnapers in Nueva Laredo, Mexico, 113 00:06:56,983 --> 00:07:00,853 on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine and now hit by a Chevy 2500 while running 114 00:07:02,755 --> 00:07:04,023 the testimony of Scripture. 115 00:07:04,023 --> 00:07:08,494 The life of Jesus teaches that life on mission with God is invincible. 116 00:07:08,494 --> 00:07:11,197 Until that mission is complete, 117 00:07:11,197 --> 00:07:13,900 I guess I've got more mission, more messages to teach 118 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:15,568 and to preach and more young men to coach. 119 00:07:15,568 --> 00:07:18,571 Father, thank you that I'm not done 120 00:07:19,872 --> 00:07:22,408 because I've done so little. 121 00:07:22,408 --> 00:07:25,411 Allow me time and opportunity to do more. 122 00:07:25,878 --> 00:07:28,014 That's all my heart. 123 00:07:28,014 --> 00:07:31,050 And so I come to this day 124 00:07:32,485 --> 00:07:35,488 with a great deal of reverence. 125 00:07:35,755 --> 00:07:38,758 Because I'm not done yet. 126 00:07:39,592 --> 00:07:42,094 And the kingdom 127 00:07:42,094 --> 00:07:45,164 and the Christ deserves 128 00:07:45,665 --> 00:07:48,668 so much more. 129 00:07:51,370 --> 00:07:52,305 In Matthew 12 130 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:55,308 is the hinge point for Jesus's life and ministry, 131 00:07:56,175 --> 00:08:00,012 and it will set in motion what we'll celebrate next week 132 00:08:00,012 --> 00:08:03,883 the the crucifixion and resurrection, the hinge point of all of history. 133 00:08:05,551 --> 00:08:08,554 And so, with some sobriety 134 00:08:09,288 --> 00:08:12,291 and seriousness, we open up the Bible 135 00:08:12,959 --> 00:08:14,327 and go to Matthew 12. 136 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:17,430 And the thing that sets this chapter apart 137 00:08:18,698 --> 00:08:22,768 is that Jesus makes some audacious claims, 138 00:08:23,870 --> 00:08:27,340 and he forces every person who hears his words 139 00:08:28,140 --> 00:08:31,143 to make a decision. 140 00:08:31,410 --> 00:08:34,413 Are you ready? Yep. 141 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:38,851 The claims that Jesus makes and he makes it in ways 142 00:08:38,851 --> 00:08:43,589 that that I'm going to help us understand why they're so audacious for him to make. 143 00:08:44,090 --> 00:08:47,093 But the overall claim that Jesus makes. 144 00:08:47,093 --> 00:08:49,529 Oh, yeah, that's our Mexico team. 145 00:08:49,529 --> 00:08:52,532 They're in Mexico doing ministry. 146 00:08:52,698 --> 00:08:54,834 Pray for them. 147 00:08:54,834 --> 00:08:56,702 Dot dot dot. 148 00:08:56,702 --> 00:08:59,105 They're 149 00:08:59,105 --> 00:09:00,406 they claim that Jesus 150 00:09:00,406 --> 00:09:03,509 makes as I am greater than you. 151 00:09:03,509 --> 00:09:04,877 Fill in the blank. 152 00:09:04,877 --> 00:09:08,214 Now Jesus fills in the blank with a few things he's going to tell us today. 153 00:09:08,214 --> 00:09:10,016 He's greater than two things. Specifically. 154 00:09:11,551 --> 00:09:14,654 And then next week he's going to he's going to predict his death 155 00:09:14,654 --> 00:09:17,823 and his resurrection is the first time he mentions it. 156 00:09:19,158 --> 00:09:22,161 And he's going to talk next week. 157 00:09:24,030 --> 00:09:27,033 About the one unforgivable sin. 158 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:29,869 And then the week after that, the week after Easter, he's going to say, 159 00:09:29,869 --> 00:09:31,737 listen, I'm greater than anything that's come before me in. 160 00:09:31,737 --> 00:09:33,172 Anything that's going to come after me. 161 00:09:33,172 --> 00:09:36,175 If you're waiting for something else, you're not going to get it. 162 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:37,777 And this is what it means to be part of my family. 163 00:09:37,777 --> 00:09:40,780 So Matthew 12 is is it's really important, huge. 164 00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:42,682 It's crucial. It's vital. 165 00:09:42,682 --> 00:09:44,116 It's the hinge point of Jesus life. 166 00:09:44,116 --> 00:09:46,319 It's a hinge point that sets, that sets in motion 167 00:09:46,319 --> 00:09:47,520 the hinge point of all of history. 168 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:52,058 And so my I implore you, in the name of Jesus, especially for next 169 00:09:52,058 --> 00:09:57,630 Sunday, invite, invite, invite to understand, get on mission with God. 170 00:09:59,699 --> 00:10:00,499 Let me just read. 171 00:10:00,499 --> 00:10:02,935 I'm gonna read the first eight verses 172 00:10:02,935 --> 00:10:06,205 and it's going to sound like this doesn't sound like it's that big of a deal. 173 00:10:06,472 --> 00:10:07,840 It was a huge deal to them. 174 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,443 And we'll unpack it, but I'll explain as we go through. 175 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:13,145 But let me read the first eight verses. 176 00:10:13,145 --> 00:10:17,183 At that time, Jesus went through the grain fields of on the Sabbath. 177 00:10:17,650 --> 00:10:21,153 His disciples were hungry and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 178 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:23,856 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, look, 179 00:10:23,856 --> 00:10:26,792 your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath. 180 00:10:26,792 --> 00:10:30,062 He said to them, have you not read what David did when he was hungry? 181 00:10:30,496 --> 00:10:34,033 And those who were with him, how he entered the house of God, and ate 182 00:10:34,033 --> 00:10:37,203 the bread of the presence, which was not lawful for him to eat, 183 00:10:37,269 --> 00:10:40,272 nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests. 184 00:10:40,439 --> 00:10:42,708 Have you not read in the law how on the Sabbath 185 00:10:42,708 --> 00:10:45,711 the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless? 186 00:10:45,811 --> 00:10:48,781 I tell you something greater than the temple is here. 187 00:10:49,315 --> 00:10:52,318 And if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, 188 00:10:52,451 --> 00:10:54,654 you would not have condemned the guiltless. 189 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:56,756 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. 190 00:10:58,090 --> 00:11:00,192 That doesn't sound like it's that big a deal to us. 191 00:11:00,192 --> 00:11:01,327 It was huge to them. Why? 192 00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:04,930 Because the Sabbath command was part of God's Ten Commandments. 193 00:11:04,930 --> 00:11:07,366 He said, honor the Sabbath and keep it holy. 194 00:11:07,366 --> 00:11:10,369 And they took that to such abusive degrees. 195 00:11:10,803 --> 00:11:13,572 The religious leaders came up with 39 prohibitions 196 00:11:13,572 --> 00:11:15,307 that you could not do on the Sabbath. 197 00:11:15,307 --> 00:11:17,343 All God said was, keep it holy. 198 00:11:17,343 --> 00:11:18,644 That's all he said. 199 00:11:18,644 --> 00:11:20,980 Then they add all this stuff to it. 200 00:11:20,980 --> 00:11:25,084 There's too much work, Jesus said last week in Matthew 11, are any of you 201 00:11:25,117 --> 00:11:30,289 just beat down and heavy laden from all the religious rules people put on you? 202 00:11:30,623 --> 00:11:31,957 He's all come to me. 203 00:11:31,957 --> 00:11:33,793 That's not how it should be. 204 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:34,727 And so what? 205 00:11:34,727 --> 00:11:38,597 They took this one simple command keep the Sabbath holy rest. 206 00:11:38,898 --> 00:11:41,300 Thank God for all he's given you. 207 00:11:41,300 --> 00:11:43,102 And they add all this other stuff to it. 208 00:11:43,102 --> 00:11:47,673 It got so bad that they, as part of these 39 prohibitions, they said, 209 00:11:47,673 --> 00:11:51,043 you can only walk this many steps in, no further out of your house. 210 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:54,780 And so they came up with all these intricate things about 211 00:11:55,181 --> 00:11:59,885 how they would how they would justify their house being the entire city 212 00:11:59,885 --> 00:12:02,221 so they could walk anywhere in the city without violating the Sabbath. 213 00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:04,323 It was just ridiculous. 214 00:12:04,323 --> 00:12:08,227 They had, as part of the law of the Sabbath laws, you couldn't start a fire. 215 00:12:08,861 --> 00:12:12,631 And this has gotten so out of control religiously that there are still 216 00:12:13,365 --> 00:12:18,571 neighborhoods and pockets in Jerusalem where the most devout and orthodox live, 217 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:21,674 where they won't let any cars drive into their community 218 00:12:21,674 --> 00:12:24,677 because just turn on the ignition of a key. 219 00:12:24,877 --> 00:12:28,681 It causes spark plugs to fire and pistons to fire, which is starting fires. 220 00:12:29,882 --> 00:12:32,852 They had they had laws that you couldn't tie a 221 00:12:32,985 --> 00:12:36,956 you couldn't tie knots in a rope, but you a woman could tie up her girdle. 222 00:12:38,257 --> 00:12:41,260 And so if they needed to draw water from a well, 223 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,631 they couldn't tie a bucket to a rope because that violated the law. 224 00:12:46,098 --> 00:12:49,101 But they could use a girdle and tie it 225 00:12:49,201 --> 00:12:52,171 to the bucket to get water, because that was it. 226 00:12:52,338 --> 00:12:54,707 It was just out of control. 227 00:12:54,707 --> 00:12:59,245 They were so manipulative and so abusive to the people. 228 00:13:00,179 --> 00:13:02,748 And so 229 00:13:02,748 --> 00:13:06,185 what we see in Matthew 12 is Jesus and the disciples are walking 230 00:13:06,185 --> 00:13:11,323 through the field grabbing grain grains of wheat or whatever and eating the seeds. 231 00:13:11,991 --> 00:13:15,661 And the Pharisees say that's a violation of the Sabbath command. 232 00:13:15,661 --> 00:13:16,495 And it wasn't. 233 00:13:16,495 --> 00:13:21,233 In Deuteronomy 25 says that farmers may not 234 00:13:21,901 --> 00:13:25,371 harvest the edges of the field or the corners, so that poor people 235 00:13:25,371 --> 00:13:29,508 can walk through and take grain without stealing and feed themselves. 236 00:13:29,942 --> 00:13:33,512 And so that's all Jesus in this episode, doing it was allowed in the law. 237 00:13:34,113 --> 00:13:36,916 And it also tells us that Jesus and disciples are really, really poor. 238 00:13:37,983 --> 00:13:39,018 They were the poorest of the 239 00:13:39,018 --> 00:13:42,388 poor because that they're doing what the poor people do. 240 00:13:42,922 --> 00:13:45,825 The problem, not the Pharisees had in it, 241 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:51,664 is that in doing what the Loc allowed, they saw four violations 242 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:55,701 because they had manipulated and changed the law so abusively. 243 00:13:56,035 --> 00:14:00,706 What they saw in the picking of the grain was the work of harvesting 244 00:14:01,707 --> 00:14:05,477 what they saw, and when they would rub the grain together 245 00:14:05,477 --> 00:14:09,181 to get the seeds out of it, was the work of threshing the grain 246 00:14:09,715 --> 00:14:13,319 when they would blow the chaff away, so they were left with the seed. 247 00:14:13,419 --> 00:14:15,688 That was the work of winnowing. 248 00:14:15,688 --> 00:14:17,389 And when they would put it to their mouths 249 00:14:17,389 --> 00:14:20,492 to eat it, that was the work of preparing food. 250 00:14:21,460 --> 00:14:24,630 And then they're like, you're violating four commands by doing this in Jesus. 251 00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:27,333 You guys are absolutely out of your minds. 252 00:14:29,401 --> 00:14:30,769 And he says, 253 00:14:30,769 --> 00:14:35,140 this is waste, and I'm going to impact this is this is this is what this writes. 254 00:14:35,441 --> 00:14:38,744 This is what sets the stage for them to kill him. 255 00:14:39,979 --> 00:14:41,180 Look at what he says. 256 00:14:41,180 --> 00:14:42,781 Verses three and four. 257 00:14:42,781 --> 00:14:43,315 He sent them. 258 00:14:43,315 --> 00:14:45,584 Have you not read what David did when he was hungry? 259 00:14:45,584 --> 00:14:48,520 And those who were with him, how he entered the house of God, 260 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,523 and ate the bread of the presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat 261 00:14:51,757 --> 00:14:54,793 for the or for those who were with him, but only for the priests. 262 00:14:55,928 --> 00:14:58,464 He says, listen, 263 00:14:58,464 --> 00:14:59,899 do you guys not know 264 00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:02,902 your own history of King David? 265 00:15:03,602 --> 00:15:05,337 Now? The story that Jesus, 266 00:15:05,337 --> 00:15:08,340 the historical account that Jesus is referring to, 267 00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:12,811 takes place way back in first Samuel 21 and the first chapter 21. 268 00:15:13,579 --> 00:15:15,881 The first king of Israel was King Saul. 269 00:15:15,881 --> 00:15:17,917 Everybody say King Saul. 270 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:19,351 And so God said, you know what? 271 00:15:19,351 --> 00:15:21,620 My hand is off you now, Saul 272 00:15:21,620 --> 00:15:24,990 and I put my hand on David because Saul was just out of control. 273 00:15:25,524 --> 00:15:27,927 And so God anointed David. 274 00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:31,230 Everybody see King David, you know, King David to be the king. 275 00:15:31,563 --> 00:15:34,366 So God already chosen king to he was the anointed one. 276 00:15:34,366 --> 00:15:37,069 Okay, but Saul is still alive. 277 00:15:37,069 --> 00:15:39,171 And so Saul is chasing David. 278 00:15:39,171 --> 00:15:42,174 So David's running around and Saul is trying to hunt him down to kill him. 279 00:15:42,408 --> 00:15:45,577 Okay, so David and his men are starving. 280 00:15:45,978 --> 00:15:49,081 So they go to where the high priest is. 281 00:15:49,081 --> 00:15:51,917 Abimelech is his name. Say Abimelech. 282 00:15:51,917 --> 00:15:54,720 And and David says, listen, Abimelech, here's the deal. 283 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,856 My me and my guys are so like, we need some, we need food. 284 00:15:58,223 --> 00:16:01,827 And a bullock says, the only food I have is the showbread, 285 00:16:01,827 --> 00:16:03,095 or the bread of the presence. 286 00:16:03,095 --> 00:16:05,731 And what they did, the high priest did every Sabbath. 287 00:16:05,731 --> 00:16:08,867 They baked 12 loaves of bread and said 288 00:16:08,867 --> 00:16:13,305 on the table as their memory, on reference in honor of God, 289 00:16:13,305 --> 00:16:16,675 that God is the provider for the tribes of for his people. 290 00:16:17,142 --> 00:16:20,546 So every tribe had their own bread as symbolic that God, 291 00:16:20,546 --> 00:16:23,582 your provider, you're our sustainer and we honor you. 292 00:16:23,582 --> 00:16:26,819 And then they we take the 12 bread, the 12 other loaves that have been 293 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:30,756 make the week before, and the priest could eat them, but only the priest. 294 00:16:31,123 --> 00:16:33,492 So David comes in and says, we're starving. 295 00:16:34,526 --> 00:16:36,028 Give us the old bread. 296 00:16:36,028 --> 00:16:38,897 And Obama says, I can't do that, man. It's against the law. 297 00:16:38,897 --> 00:16:41,533 And David says, what's more important, 298 00:16:41,533 --> 00:16:44,970 the bread or us or people who are starving? 299 00:16:45,704 --> 00:16:47,639 And the man was like, yeah, okay, I get it. 300 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:48,774 And so give day. And they did. 301 00:16:48,774 --> 00:16:49,842 David took some of the loaves 302 00:16:49,842 --> 00:16:53,579 and he and as many Dave said, don't you realize that this has already happened? 303 00:16:54,346 --> 00:16:57,216 Now here's why this is so important. 304 00:16:57,216 --> 00:17:00,519 Before that, in first Samuel 21, there was first Samuel 16, 305 00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:04,523 and the first Samuel 16 is when God anointed David as the king. 306 00:17:05,224 --> 00:17:07,593 The prophet Sam became a new head with oil. 307 00:17:07,593 --> 00:17:09,895 He is the king but is rejected. 308 00:17:09,895 --> 00:17:13,365 He hasn't been accepted as the king by the people yet. 309 00:17:13,899 --> 00:17:15,067 So you see what Jesus is doing. 310 00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:19,471 He's comparing himself to David. 311 00:17:19,471 --> 00:17:23,342 He said, not only did David eat this grain on the Sabbath, 312 00:17:24,343 --> 00:17:28,213 but David was anointed by God and rejected by you people. 313 00:17:28,213 --> 00:17:30,482 Guess who I am? 314 00:17:30,482 --> 00:17:32,718 I'm the anointed one. 315 00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:36,155 I'm the king, and you're rejecting me. 316 00:17:37,022 --> 00:17:39,291 You see what he's doing? 317 00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:43,195 David was the greatest king that the nation had ever had. 318 00:17:44,430 --> 00:17:47,433 And Jesus is saying 319 00:17:47,499 --> 00:17:50,169 I'm greater. 320 00:17:50,169 --> 00:17:53,172 Do you see? 321 00:17:53,472 --> 00:17:56,141 That doesn't set well 322 00:17:56,141 --> 00:17:59,144 what Jesus is saying to every one of us. 323 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:02,614 I'm greater. 324 00:18:02,614 --> 00:18:05,617 I'm greater than anything you've known. 325 00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:08,320 I'm greater than anything 326 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,789 that you're given your time and your allegiance and your life to. 327 00:18:10,789 --> 00:18:13,792 I'm greater. 328 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:21,100 In verse five he says. 329 00:18:21,533 --> 00:18:24,103 Have you read in the law how on the Sabbath 330 00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:26,672 the priest in the temple profane the Sabbath on are guiltless? 331 00:18:30,075 --> 00:18:32,511 He said, the 332 00:18:32,511 --> 00:18:34,980 when the priests do their work on the Sabbath, 333 00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:37,349 they're breaking the Sabbath laws. 334 00:18:37,349 --> 00:18:39,718 And you guys don't have a problem with them, 335 00:18:39,718 --> 00:18:42,121 is that they're breaking the law because you can't work on the Sabbath 336 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:43,522 according to your law. 337 00:18:43,522 --> 00:18:46,458 Yeah, they're they're going and catching the animal. 338 00:18:46,458 --> 00:18:48,393 They're sacrificing the animal. 339 00:18:48,393 --> 00:18:49,862 They're butchering the animal. 340 00:18:49,862 --> 00:18:51,363 They're processing the animal. 341 00:18:51,363 --> 00:18:53,999 They build a fire to roast it. 342 00:18:53,999 --> 00:18:55,467 They're breaking the law over the bush. 343 00:18:55,467 --> 00:18:56,768 I'm problem with them. 344 00:18:56,768 --> 00:18:59,671 And then he says this, and this is what gets him. 345 00:18:59,671 --> 00:19:02,541 So he sets us up and he says, verse six, I tell you something 346 00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:04,143 greater than the temple is here. 347 00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:08,480 What, like in their minds, like you did you just say you're greater than the 348 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,284 temple, you've already claimed equality or you're greater than King David? 349 00:19:12,284 --> 00:19:14,019 That's ridiculous. 350 00:19:14,019 --> 00:19:17,022 Now you're saying your greater than the temple. 351 00:19:17,055 --> 00:19:18,190 Here's why that's so important. 352 00:19:19,358 --> 00:19:22,861 When he says I am greater than the temple, 353 00:19:24,263 --> 00:19:28,800 what the temple meant to the New Testament Jews and to the Pharisees was this 354 00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:33,005 the temple in their minds was the dwelling place of God. 355 00:19:33,572 --> 00:19:36,575 It's where God abided at the temple. 356 00:19:37,242 --> 00:19:41,313 And Jesus is saying, I'm greater than the temple. Why? 357 00:19:41,413 --> 00:19:44,416 Because he would say, I and the father are one. 358 00:19:45,050 --> 00:19:46,818 You think God lives in the temple? Guess what? 359 00:19:46,818 --> 00:19:48,921 I am him. 360 00:19:48,921 --> 00:19:51,657 I'm greater than your temple. 361 00:19:51,657 --> 00:19:52,958 The temple was the place. 362 00:19:52,958 --> 00:19:55,794 It was the center of forgiveness. They would go to the temple 363 00:19:55,794 --> 00:19:58,664 to get forgiveness by the sacrifice of the animals. 364 00:19:58,664 --> 00:20:01,667 And Jesus is saying, listen, this is love. 365 00:20:02,301 --> 00:20:05,737 Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent His Son. 366 00:20:05,938 --> 00:20:09,608 This is what John is saying about him as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 367 00:20:10,175 --> 00:20:12,311 We don't go to the temple for forgiveness. 368 00:20:14,713 --> 00:20:17,149 The lamb has been slain for our forgiveness. 369 00:20:17,149 --> 00:20:20,152 Already he's greater than the temple. 370 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:23,222 He's greater. 371 00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:27,092 The temple was the center for all religious authority. 372 00:20:27,092 --> 00:20:30,662 And Jesus, knowing Jesus, will say in Matthew 28, 373 00:20:30,796 --> 00:20:32,898 all authority in heaven on earth is given. 374 00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:34,299 Given to me is not in the temple. 375 00:20:34,299 --> 00:20:37,302 I'm greater than the temple. 376 00:20:39,671 --> 00:20:41,807 The temple was the place that was sacred. 377 00:20:41,807 --> 00:20:42,507 It was holy. 378 00:20:42,507 --> 00:20:45,510 It was the most holy place in all of Judaism. 379 00:20:48,213 --> 00:20:50,182 Three 380 00:20:50,182 --> 00:20:53,585 the demons will say, it's not the temple that's holy 381 00:20:54,653 --> 00:20:57,656 Jesus, you are the Holy One of God. 382 00:20:57,956 --> 00:21:00,959 The very demons will acknowledge his holiness. 383 00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:04,429 Well, man wouldn't miss it. 384 00:21:04,463 --> 00:21:05,597 He was 726, for 385 00:21:05,597 --> 00:21:09,501 it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest. 386 00:21:09,501 --> 00:21:15,173 Holy innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 387 00:21:15,173 --> 00:21:17,075 He's saying, I'm greater than your temple. 388 00:21:18,076 --> 00:21:20,512 I'm the God abides in. 389 00:21:20,512 --> 00:21:22,681 I am God in the flesh. 390 00:21:22,681 --> 00:21:24,516 I am where you go for forgiveness. 391 00:21:24,516 --> 00:21:25,851 I am the Holy One. 392 00:21:25,851 --> 00:21:27,552 I am the one with all authority. 393 00:21:27,552 --> 00:21:29,388 I'm greater than everything in the world. 394 00:21:29,388 --> 00:21:30,822 I'm greater than everything in your life. 395 00:21:30,822 --> 00:21:32,924 I'm greater than everything that you're giving your life to. 396 00:21:32,924 --> 00:21:35,927 And you have to deal with me. 397 00:21:36,028 --> 00:21:39,031 This is the hinge point. 398 00:21:41,233 --> 00:21:42,801 And he forces a decision. 399 00:21:42,801 --> 00:21:45,804 There's no middle ground, 400 00:21:45,871 --> 00:21:47,773 and he is speaking blasphemy. 401 00:21:47,773 --> 00:21:49,007 Then he deserves death. 402 00:21:49,007 --> 00:21:52,010 But if he is God, then he deserves a worship. 403 00:21:54,046 --> 00:21:55,881 And he said, I'm greater than everything in her world. 404 00:21:55,881 --> 00:21:57,482 I'm greater than every desire you have. 405 00:21:57,482 --> 00:21:58,750 You've been chasing shadows. 406 00:21:58,750 --> 00:22:00,519 I'm the reality. 407 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:03,388 And you have to deal with me now. 408 00:22:03,388 --> 00:22:05,190 He forces them to make a decision. 409 00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:08,994 See, the temple was the place people went to find God. 410 00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:09,961 Jesus is God. 411 00:22:09,961 --> 00:22:11,196 Come into to come in. 412 00:22:11,196 --> 00:22:13,699 Two people. 413 00:22:13,699 --> 00:22:15,901 And he would say the same thing to every one of us. 414 00:22:15,901 --> 00:22:17,703 He's greater 415 00:22:17,703 --> 00:22:20,672 than everything else in your world, than every desire that you have, 416 00:22:20,806 --> 00:22:22,207 than everything that you're chasing. 417 00:22:22,207 --> 00:22:23,041 You're chasing shadow. 418 00:22:23,041 --> 00:22:26,044 He would tell us you're chasing shadows, 419 00:22:26,278 --> 00:22:29,281 and the time for your excuses and time for your games is done. 420 00:22:30,048 --> 00:22:33,051 I'm greater than it all. 421 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,755 And I demand your worship. 422 00:22:36,755 --> 00:22:37,723 This is the hinge point. 423 00:22:37,723 --> 00:22:40,058 You got to make a decision. 424 00:22:40,058 --> 00:22:42,394 And he's forcing these religious people to make a decision. 425 00:22:42,394 --> 00:22:45,397 See, they knew the rules, but they didn't know the ruler. 426 00:22:46,098 --> 00:22:47,699 And so many of us know the rules, 427 00:22:47,699 --> 00:22:50,702 and we try to follow the rules, but we don't know the ruler. 428 00:22:50,969 --> 00:22:54,039 And we fool ourselves because when you know the rules 429 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:56,274 and not the ruler, you try to be good and you can't be. 430 00:22:56,274 --> 00:22:57,809 And you know that 431 00:22:57,809 --> 00:23:00,045 when you know the rules and not the ruler, you have the rules 432 00:23:00,045 --> 00:23:01,346 to everything else, to your life because you hope 433 00:23:01,346 --> 00:23:03,348 the rules will make everything else your life better. In Jesus. 434 00:23:03,348 --> 00:23:04,850 I'm bigger than that. You've missed me. 435 00:23:08,420 --> 00:23:11,423 It's the hinge point of it all. 436 00:23:11,556 --> 00:23:12,491 And then look what he says. 437 00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:13,558 He just keeps pushing. 438 00:23:13,558 --> 00:23:14,459 Because here's the thing. 439 00:23:14,459 --> 00:23:16,862 Jesus knows this, and we see it all through scripture 440 00:23:16,862 --> 00:23:19,030 that he's he's on mission from God. 441 00:23:19,030 --> 00:23:22,401 He's God, and he knows that this mission is going to lead him to the cross. 442 00:23:22,434 --> 00:23:24,903 It's going to lead him to a grave that's going to lead him to a resurrection. 443 00:23:24,903 --> 00:23:25,737 He knows it. 444 00:23:25,737 --> 00:23:28,106 And so he knows he's invincible. Until that time comes. 445 00:23:28,106 --> 00:23:29,441 Now he's not chasing death, 446 00:23:29,441 --> 00:23:32,477 but he's not afraid of it because he knows until that time comes he's invincible. 447 00:23:32,477 --> 00:23:35,480 So he just keeps pushing. 448 00:23:35,947 --> 00:23:38,950 And look at what he says in verses seven and eight. 449 00:23:38,984 --> 00:23:41,987 And if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice. 450 00:23:42,053 --> 00:23:43,688 You would not have condemned the guiltless. 451 00:23:43,688 --> 00:23:45,457 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. 452 00:23:45,457 --> 00:23:47,793 And at this point they're like, I don't even know what to do with this guy. 453 00:23:47,793 --> 00:23:49,227 What do you mean? You're the Lord of the Sabbath? 454 00:23:50,262 --> 00:23:51,863 See, for them, 455 00:23:51,863 --> 00:23:55,500 the Sabbath was of utmost importance, because this was one of the signs 456 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:57,602 of the covenant that God made with his people, 457 00:23:57,602 --> 00:23:59,337 that he was their God, and they were his people. 458 00:23:59,337 --> 00:24:01,673 There was no other culture than what their society, 459 00:24:01,673 --> 00:24:04,543 no other religion in the world that had this Sabbath idea. 460 00:24:04,543 --> 00:24:06,578 This was new to Judaism. 461 00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:10,115 It was new to God's people and this was their thing. 462 00:24:10,982 --> 00:24:13,952 And now you're going to claim your Lord over the Sabbath. 463 00:24:16,188 --> 00:24:17,255 It's ridiculous. 464 00:24:17,255 --> 00:24:20,659 He says, no, no, no, I am greater than any of your Sabbath rules. 465 00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:21,393 You've missed it. 466 00:24:21,393 --> 00:24:24,362 You try to obey the rules and you missed the ruler. 467 00:24:25,030 --> 00:24:27,466 I'm lord of it all. 468 00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:29,234 I'm authority over it all. 469 00:24:29,234 --> 00:24:31,102 You don't play games with me. 470 00:24:31,102 --> 00:24:32,737 So what are you saying? 471 00:24:32,737 --> 00:24:33,939 There's no more excuses. 472 00:24:33,939 --> 00:24:36,708 You don't live in the shadows anymore. It's either me or it's not. 473 00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:42,180 He says you look at this. 474 00:24:42,180 --> 00:24:44,516 You look at the Sabbath as the sign of your covenant. 475 00:24:44,516 --> 00:24:45,250 I got news for you. 476 00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:47,752 There's a new covenant coming 477 00:24:47,752 --> 00:24:51,756 in in Jeremiah 3131 eight, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord. 478 00:24:51,756 --> 00:24:53,458 One I will make a new covenant. 479 00:24:53,458 --> 00:24:57,162 And Jesus fulfills that in Matthew 2628, when the in communion 480 00:24:57,329 --> 00:25:01,032 he says, for this is my blood of the covenant, the new covenant 481 00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:04,169 which is poured out for the many, for this forgiveness of true 482 00:25:04,569 --> 00:25:06,771 forgiveness of sins, 483 00:25:06,771 --> 00:25:09,708 he said, I'm greater like I'm Lord over the Sabbath. 484 00:25:09,708 --> 00:25:12,711 The whole thing points to me, and I'm put to your rules. 485 00:25:14,779 --> 00:25:17,582 I am the Sabbath. 486 00:25:17,582 --> 00:25:20,585 And that's exactly what Hebrews four will say. 487 00:25:20,752 --> 00:25:22,587 He said, do you think the Sabbath is about a day? 488 00:25:22,587 --> 00:25:23,822 The Sabbath is about a person. 489 00:25:23,822 --> 00:25:24,723 The person is me. 490 00:25:24,723 --> 00:25:27,692 This whole thing points to me you got to deal with me. 491 00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:30,028 You've been dodging me for too long. 492 00:25:30,028 --> 00:25:31,563 You were making excuses for too long. 493 00:25:31,563 --> 00:25:33,198 You sat on the fence for too long. 494 00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:35,600 You played your rhythms, rules and your games for too long. 495 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,537 You try to know the rules and you missed the ruler for too long. 496 00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:39,838 You got to do with me now. 497 00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:44,075 What are you saying? 498 00:25:44,075 --> 00:25:47,078 To understand this or 499 00:25:47,145 --> 00:25:50,148 do you hear me? 500 00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:01,693 Look at verses 9 to 13. 501 00:26:01,693 --> 00:26:04,129 Look at this. 502 00:26:04,129 --> 00:26:05,163 He went on from there and entered 503 00:26:05,163 --> 00:26:08,166 the synagogue in a mound there it was there with a withered hand. 504 00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:11,269 And they asked him, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? 505 00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,538 They asked him that so they might accuse him. 506 00:26:13,538 --> 00:26:17,309 And he said, which of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on 507 00:26:17,309 --> 00:26:20,312 the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? 508 00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:23,582 How much more value is a man than a sheep? 509 00:26:23,848 --> 00:26:25,817 So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. 510 00:26:25,817 --> 00:26:28,987 Then he said to the man, stretch out your hand, and the man stretch it out. 511 00:26:28,987 --> 00:26:31,990 And it was restored, healthy like the other. 512 00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:36,061 When the Bible says his hand was withered, it means literally, completely 513 00:26:36,061 --> 00:26:37,862 dried up and dead. 514 00:26:37,862 --> 00:26:39,164 That's what the withered means. 515 00:26:39,164 --> 00:26:42,167 The it is completely like there's no there's no 516 00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:43,868 there's no elasticity in the flesh. 517 00:26:43,868 --> 00:26:48,707 There's no there's no the you know, it's completely there like it's done. 518 00:26:48,974 --> 00:26:49,474 It's dead. 519 00:26:50,609 --> 00:26:52,344 And so 520 00:26:52,344 --> 00:26:55,347 Jesus is going to address this, 521 00:26:55,747 --> 00:26:57,882 but where does it where does all this happened? 522 00:26:57,882 --> 00:27:00,885 Where is he when all this happens? 523 00:27:01,252 --> 00:27:02,220 Don't look at me. Look at your Bible. 524 00:27:02,220 --> 00:27:03,054 Where is he? 525 00:27:03,054 --> 00:27:03,855 He's no synagogue. 526 00:27:03,855 --> 00:27:06,224 Thank you. God, he's in the city. He's a church. 527 00:27:06,224 --> 00:27:07,258 Think for a minute. 528 00:27:07,258 --> 00:27:10,261 What did Jesus have to learn at church? 529 00:27:11,763 --> 00:27:14,432 It's. 530 00:27:14,432 --> 00:27:16,735 You never thought about that? 531 00:27:16,735 --> 00:27:18,370 Like Mark four will say, as 532 00:27:18,370 --> 00:27:22,140 was his custom, it was his custom every Sunday to go to church. 533 00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:24,542 Well, it wasn't Sunday for them. Yeah, because that happened of the resurrection. 534 00:27:24,542 --> 00:27:27,545 But on church day, they was at church. 535 00:27:27,545 --> 00:27:29,014 What did he have to learn? 536 00:27:29,014 --> 00:27:32,617 Do you think Jesus ever sat in the synagogue and listened to some preacher 537 00:27:32,784 --> 00:27:35,887 preach about the law and think, that was brilliant? 538 00:27:36,721 --> 00:27:38,923 Do you think he ever said that? 539 00:27:38,923 --> 00:27:40,925 What did he have to learn? 540 00:27:40,925 --> 00:27:42,060 Nothing. 541 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:45,063 Yet he was 542 00:27:45,063 --> 00:27:49,801 there every Sabbath at the place of worship and the place of the word. 543 00:27:50,602 --> 00:27:53,371 If Jesus was there every Sunday 544 00:27:53,371 --> 00:27:56,675 who had nothing to learn from it, what is our excuse? 545 00:27:56,908 --> 00:27:59,477 What's our culture excuse? No, not you, because you all are here. 546 00:27:59,477 --> 00:28:02,480 You're better than everybody else. But 547 00:28:02,580 --> 00:28:05,583 do you ever think about that? No. 548 00:28:06,718 --> 00:28:09,354 He's at the place of worship and word. 549 00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:11,322 Because that's just what we do. 550 00:28:11,322 --> 00:28:13,725 So when I shall and I. 551 00:28:13,725 --> 00:28:16,628 Well, you know, you're do 552 00:28:16,628 --> 00:28:19,631 you guys do all this church stuff because you have to and 553 00:28:20,665 --> 00:28:23,501 and you have your kids there all the time because, you know, you have to do that. 554 00:28:23,501 --> 00:28:25,203 You're the pastor. 555 00:28:25,203 --> 00:28:28,873 And we tell people all the time has nothing to do with my role. 556 00:28:28,873 --> 00:28:30,442 This is just what we do. 557 00:28:31,743 --> 00:28:32,610 Well, my parents did. 558 00:28:32,610 --> 00:28:35,380 They were never pastors. 559 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:38,583 It's just what we do has nothing to do with our role. 560 00:28:39,617 --> 00:28:42,487 Do you understand that 561 00:28:42,487 --> 00:28:44,422 you parents 562 00:28:44,422 --> 00:28:47,892 who drug your kids to church every Sunday, good for you? 563 00:28:49,060 --> 00:28:52,063 That's what you should do 100%. 564 00:28:52,297 --> 00:28:55,166 If they want to move out of your house and do their own thing and be dumb, 565 00:28:55,166 --> 00:28:56,034 then that's on them. 566 00:28:56,034 --> 00:28:57,902 But at least you drug them to church. 567 00:28:57,902 --> 00:29:00,872 Well, you had them. 568 00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:04,309 Just like Jesus did. 569 00:29:04,309 --> 00:29:05,276 And he's he's that church. 570 00:29:05,276 --> 00:29:08,012 She's got a withered hand. He says, stretch it out. 571 00:29:08,012 --> 00:29:11,015 Listen, Jesus, it doesn't work. 572 00:29:12,650 --> 00:29:14,152 Right. 573 00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:17,155 How do you tell someone who's a hand doesn't work to make your hand work? 574 00:29:17,956 --> 00:29:19,758 That seems cruel. 575 00:29:19,758 --> 00:29:22,560 But here's what we have to understand. 576 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,163 God's command is God's enablement. 577 00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:25,797 The moment 578 00:29:25,797 --> 00:29:29,234 God commands you to do something, he enables you with the ability to do it. 579 00:29:29,934 --> 00:29:32,270 But you don't get the ability to do it before you do it, you got to do it. 580 00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:33,204 They don't have the ability to do it. 581 00:29:33,204 --> 00:29:36,174 When God says do it, then he's enabled you to do it, but you got to do it 582 00:29:37,208 --> 00:29:39,811 to follow everything. 583 00:29:39,811 --> 00:29:43,581 The moment he says, this is what I want, he has it just enabled you to do. 584 00:29:43,581 --> 00:29:44,783 It is shown. Here's the deal. 585 00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:47,786 God will never ask you to do that which he doesn't enable you to do. 586 00:29:49,020 --> 00:29:50,789 He will never ask you to do that which he does 587 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:53,792 not enable you to do. 588 00:29:54,058 --> 00:29:54,993 The issue is one's 589 00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:57,996 willingness to trust and do before you're able to. 590 00:29:58,696 --> 00:30:00,265 There are so many people. 591 00:30:00,265 --> 00:30:03,201 I just feel like God's lead me to asking me do blah blah blah. 592 00:30:03,201 --> 00:30:04,402 I just don't know if I can. 593 00:30:04,402 --> 00:30:07,405 And you come up with all these excuses 594 00:30:08,206 --> 00:30:11,209 and God says, look, all you have to do is do what I said 595 00:30:11,609 --> 00:30:12,677 and then you'll be able to. 596 00:30:12,677 --> 00:30:15,680 But right now you can't because you haven't done it yet. 597 00:30:15,847 --> 00:30:17,682 But if I'm asking you to, you'll be able to. 598 00:30:17,682 --> 00:30:18,683 So just do it. 599 00:30:20,552 --> 00:30:23,822 See, in the doing of what God 600 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,791 commands is the ability for what God commands. 601 00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:32,230 To many of you has told God no, 602 00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:35,233 because you don't think you can, 603 00:30:35,366 --> 00:30:38,369 and you can't until you say yes. 604 00:30:38,703 --> 00:30:40,538 Then you can. 605 00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:42,407 Do you understand? 606 00:30:42,407 --> 00:30:44,509 So he tells us where they stretch it out. 607 00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:48,413 Because in the moment he commanded that that that made this work, 608 00:30:49,447 --> 00:30:52,450 you stretch it out, it's fine. 609 00:30:54,319 --> 00:30:57,322 And at this point. 610 00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,557 At this point, 611 00:30:59,557 --> 00:31:01,826 verse 14, 612 00:31:01,826 --> 00:31:04,262 but the Pharisees went out and conspired against him. 613 00:31:04,262 --> 00:31:06,898 How to destroy him? That was it. They'd had enough. 614 00:31:06,898 --> 00:31:09,500 You're going to claim you're greater than everything, 615 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,169 than the greatest king we've ever known. 616 00:31:11,169 --> 00:31:12,537 You're greater than him. 617 00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:15,340 The Sabbath, the thing that sets us apart from everybody else. 618 00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:16,674 Are you going to say it's about you 619 00:31:17,642 --> 00:31:18,576 and not about the rules? 620 00:31:18,576 --> 00:31:21,446 Are you kidding me? 621 00:31:21,446 --> 00:31:23,548 You're going to demand allegiance to you 622 00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:26,551 and you alone. 623 00:31:27,285 --> 00:31:30,288 And at this point, they had had enough. 624 00:31:31,856 --> 00:31:34,859 To every one of us, Jesus is demanding. 625 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,563 I am above all other things in your life. 626 00:31:41,399 --> 00:31:42,600 I'm the king. 627 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,303 I'm the ruler. I'm not to be trifled with. 628 00:31:45,303 --> 00:31:46,638 I'm not to be played with you. 629 00:31:46,638 --> 00:31:48,306 Don't add me to your stuff. 630 00:31:48,306 --> 00:31:48,673 Hope so. 631 00:31:48,673 --> 00:31:51,676 I'm going to make your stuff better. 632 00:31:53,912 --> 00:31:55,713 You honor me as the king. 633 00:31:55,713 --> 00:31:57,415 As the ruler of your life. 634 00:31:57,415 --> 00:31:59,584 That's what he's saying. 635 00:31:59,584 --> 00:32:01,653 Quit making excuses. Get off the fans! 636 00:32:01,653 --> 00:32:02,787 Come out of the shadows. 637 00:32:02,787 --> 00:32:05,790 All whatever however you want to say it. 638 00:32:07,292 --> 00:32:07,558 Quit. 639 00:32:07,558 --> 00:32:08,593 Excuse in your sin. 640 00:32:08,593 --> 00:32:11,596 Quit excusing your missed all the stuff. 641 00:32:14,732 --> 00:32:15,500 That's what he's saying. 642 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:17,535 And this is why they're so put off. 643 00:32:17,535 --> 00:32:18,536 Because here's the thing. 644 00:32:19,904 --> 00:32:22,307 If you don't want to put Jesus on the throne, 645 00:32:22,307 --> 00:32:25,310 you will expel him from it. 646 00:32:35,019 --> 00:32:37,689 Verse 15 Jesus is aware of this and knew they wanted to kill him, 647 00:32:37,689 --> 00:32:38,523 withdrew from there. 648 00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:41,025 I mean, it's not like Jesus has a death wish at this point. 649 00:32:41,025 --> 00:32:43,695 You know what I'm saying? He knows it's coming, but he's not chasing it. 650 00:32:43,695 --> 00:32:45,163 He knows he's invincible till it comes. 651 00:32:45,163 --> 00:32:47,765 He was not chasing it down. You know. 652 00:32:47,765 --> 00:32:51,202 And so he withdrew and many followed him, and he healed them all 653 00:32:51,202 --> 00:32:52,837 and ordered them not to make him known. 654 00:32:52,837 --> 00:32:57,742 So was, this was to fulfill what was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah. 655 00:32:57,742 --> 00:32:59,677 Behold my servant whom I have chosen. 656 00:32:59,677 --> 00:33:02,780 Behold, my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased, 657 00:33:02,914 --> 00:33:06,918 I will put my spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. 658 00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:11,356 He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets, 659 00:33:11,522 --> 00:33:13,992 a bruised reed. He will not break in a smoldering wick. 660 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:16,661 He will not quench until he brings justice to victory. 661 00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:18,930 And in his name the Gentiles will hope. He's like, listen, 662 00:33:20,431 --> 00:33:23,968 I demand to be honored as the ruler, 663 00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:28,673 but I will let you deny me and walk away from me, if that's what you choose. 664 00:33:29,807 --> 00:33:32,210 That's what he says to all who came to him. 665 00:33:32,210 --> 00:33:35,213 He healed him just like he will do for us. 666 00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:37,582 And the Scripture says, 667 00:33:37,582 --> 00:33:39,150 God has put His Spirit on him. 668 00:33:39,150 --> 00:33:41,452 He is the anointing of God. 669 00:33:41,452 --> 00:33:43,154 He'll bring justice to the Gentiles. 670 00:33:43,154 --> 00:33:46,157 But look what he says in verse 19, he will not quarrel 671 00:33:46,157 --> 00:33:49,160 or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets. 672 00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:49,927 He's not. 673 00:33:49,927 --> 00:33:52,930 He's not banging his own drum. 674 00:33:53,097 --> 00:33:56,234 He's not demanding in a in an abusive way. 675 00:33:57,969 --> 00:34:00,571 It is a you're not, he says, you're not going to see me. 676 00:34:00,571 --> 00:34:02,306 You know, 677 00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:05,777 on the on the street corners holding up signs and on overpasses, you know, 678 00:34:07,412 --> 00:34:10,415 that's not what this is about. 679 00:34:10,548 --> 00:34:12,450 Am I the ruler? Yes. I'm the king. Yes. 680 00:34:12,450 --> 00:34:14,318 Do I demand religious? Absolutely. 681 00:34:14,318 --> 00:34:17,755 But I'm not going to holler at you and twist your arms and make you. 682 00:34:18,790 --> 00:34:21,793 You have to decide. 683 00:34:22,827 --> 00:34:23,661 The bruise read. 684 00:34:23,661 --> 00:34:25,263 He will not crush. 685 00:34:25,263 --> 00:34:28,633 If any of you felt just beat up by religion, beat up 686 00:34:28,633 --> 00:34:31,636 by this world, bruised and abused, 687 00:34:31,803 --> 00:34:34,272 he says, I get it. 688 00:34:34,272 --> 00:34:36,541 And if you feel like you're broken, I'm not going to. 689 00:34:36,541 --> 00:34:39,077 I'm not going to further break you. 690 00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:41,679 I will restore you 691 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:43,281 a smoldering wick you will not put out. 692 00:34:43,281 --> 00:34:46,284 The Bible says there are times, 693 00:34:46,384 --> 00:34:49,220 even for the best of Christians, 694 00:34:49,220 --> 00:34:52,557 if you want to use that term, you know you just got no fire left. 695 00:34:53,324 --> 00:34:58,362 You're just cold to or indifferent to it all, barely even smoldering anymore. 696 00:34:59,730 --> 00:35:01,332 And Jesus says, no, I get that. 697 00:35:01,332 --> 00:35:01,799 I'm not going to. 698 00:35:01,799 --> 00:35:04,702 I'm not going to snuff you out, man. 699 00:35:04,702 --> 00:35:06,771 I'll restore you. 700 00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:08,072 I'll build you back. 701 00:35:08,072 --> 00:35:10,842 I will reignite the flame. 702 00:35:10,842 --> 00:35:13,845 But you have to honor me as the king. 703 00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:17,648 I'm not going to force you into it. 704 00:35:17,648 --> 00:35:20,651 It's got to be your decision. 705 00:35:22,053 --> 00:35:23,121 He says in his name 706 00:35:23,121 --> 00:35:26,124 the Gentiles will hope that's finally happened 707 00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:29,460 at the triumphal entry. 708 00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:31,662 Finally, this is the prophecy. 709 00:35:31,662 --> 00:35:32,630 This is what was coming. 710 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:35,633 This section sets up the crucifixion. 711 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,269 But before that is this triumphal entry. 712 00:35:38,269 --> 00:35:41,973 And finally he comes to Jerusalem. 713 00:35:42,773 --> 00:35:44,642 This is going to happen in just a little bit. 714 00:35:44,642 --> 00:35:48,846 Finally, in, in, in Jesus the Gentiles, the people will have hope, 715 00:35:49,113 --> 00:35:52,116 hope for salvation, hope for rescue, hope for healing. 716 00:35:52,383 --> 00:35:57,188 That will finally happen at the triumphal entry when Jesus rides into Jerusalem 717 00:35:57,188 --> 00:36:01,492 on a, on a little baby donkey, one that had never been written before. 718 00:36:01,592 --> 00:36:06,063 He didn't write in on a war horse to claim, you know, war over people. 719 00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:07,565 He came in a donkey. Why? 720 00:36:07,565 --> 00:36:10,568 Because donkeys is what kings rode. 721 00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:13,638 So he rides into Jerusalem on a donkey. Why? 722 00:36:13,638 --> 00:36:15,706 Because he is the king. 723 00:36:15,706 --> 00:36:20,044 He's announced it here in Matthew 12, and he writes in As the King. 724 00:36:20,244 --> 00:36:23,147 And to his entry, the people 725 00:36:23,147 --> 00:36:26,951 finally respond appropriately as the to the king. 726 00:36:27,118 --> 00:36:28,653 Hosanna, Hosanna! 727 00:36:28,653 --> 00:36:31,322 When they say the word hosanna, it means save. 728 00:36:31,322 --> 00:36:33,925 Now save us now you're the king. 729 00:36:33,925 --> 00:36:35,026 You're our rescuer. 730 00:36:35,026 --> 00:36:36,260 We give our allegiance to. 731 00:36:36,260 --> 00:36:38,629 You're the only one worthy of worship. Save us now. 732 00:36:38,629 --> 00:36:40,598 And they cry out, save us now. 733 00:36:40,598 --> 00:36:43,601 When you understand who you are, we recognize who you are. 734 00:36:43,668 --> 00:36:45,036 We affirm who you are. 735 00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:45,536 Saved. 736 00:36:45,536 --> 00:36:49,240 Now, all of this allegiance that he's crying for here in Matthew 12 737 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:54,011 finally is realized in this very brief moment on Palm Sunday. 738 00:36:56,347 --> 00:36:59,016 But five days later, 739 00:36:59,016 --> 00:37:01,285 those voices who shouted Hosanna! 740 00:37:01,285 --> 00:37:03,988 Save! Now! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 741 00:37:03,988 --> 00:37:06,991 Five days later we'll shout, Crucify him! 742 00:37:10,094 --> 00:37:13,097 Friends, be warned. 743 00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:17,969 There are times in our lives of faith that we cry out, Hosanna! 744 00:37:17,969 --> 00:37:20,805 Blessed are you, Jesus! 745 00:37:20,805 --> 00:37:24,775 And then the next breath and the next act, we with those same voice is cry, 746 00:37:24,775 --> 00:37:25,910 crucify him! Why? 747 00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:27,044 Because of our sin. 748 00:37:27,044 --> 00:37:31,382 He was crucified every time that we choose selfishness, every time that we choose 749 00:37:31,382 --> 00:37:35,786 sin over allegiance to Christ, we shout out with the cross, crucify him, 750 00:37:37,588 --> 00:37:40,591 crucify! 751 00:37:42,126 --> 00:37:43,761 Jesus knew 752 00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:46,130 that those who in one breath were crying, Hosanna! 753 00:37:46,130 --> 00:37:49,900 Praise God in the next breath are going to say crucify! Why? 754 00:37:49,934 --> 00:37:50,835 Because of sin. 755 00:37:50,835 --> 00:37:54,972 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin 756 00:37:54,972 --> 00:37:57,508 and live to righteousness by his wounds we've been healed. 757 00:37:57,508 --> 00:37:58,809 It's because of me. 758 00:37:59,944 --> 00:38:02,413 It's because of you 759 00:38:02,413 --> 00:38:06,150 that he was crucified, because my sin and your sin 760 00:38:06,150 --> 00:38:09,153 shouted, crucify him! 761 00:38:11,756 --> 00:38:14,025 For Christ also suffered once for sins, 762 00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:17,828 the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God. 763 00:38:18,262 --> 00:38:22,833 Being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in his spirit because of my sin. 764 00:38:22,833 --> 00:38:25,836 Because of your sin. You cried, crucify him! 765 00:38:26,570 --> 00:38:29,573 And he was. 766 00:38:31,042 --> 00:38:33,210 Jesus, who was delivered up 767 00:38:33,210 --> 00:38:38,082 for your sin, my sin, our trespasses. 768 00:38:38,516 --> 00:38:41,185 It was raised for our justification. 769 00:38:41,185 --> 00:38:44,021 We're the ones who cry, Crucify him! 770 00:38:44,021 --> 00:38:47,792 It's so easy in situations like this to be like, oh my God, I love you. 771 00:38:47,792 --> 00:38:50,895 I had to ask you about, And then we walk right out the door. 772 00:38:51,362 --> 00:38:54,365 Crucify him. 773 00:38:57,868 --> 00:39:00,871 Knowing that Jesus rides into Jerusalem, 774 00:39:01,305 --> 00:39:04,108 knowing that that ride into Jerusalem was going to lead to a cross, 775 00:39:05,443 --> 00:39:06,210 but knowing that that 776 00:39:06,210 --> 00:39:09,213 cross was going to lead to an end to grave. 777 00:39:09,313 --> 00:39:12,483 And Matthew 12 is what sets the whole thing in motion, 778 00:39:13,918 --> 00:39:17,054 because in Matthew 12 he demands our allegiance. 779 00:39:18,255 --> 00:39:20,858 He's greater than at all. 780 00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:23,761 You understand? 781 00:39:23,761 --> 00:39:26,731 God's word to you individually. 782 00:39:26,797 --> 00:39:29,800 I want you to hear this as an individual, 783 00:39:29,934 --> 00:39:32,169 not as a collective you, but as a personal you. 784 00:39:32,169 --> 00:39:35,172 God's word to you. 785 00:39:35,473 --> 00:39:37,641 Is that he's greater 786 00:39:37,641 --> 00:39:40,644 than everything else in your life. 787 00:39:41,612 --> 00:39:44,615 And he demands to be honored as such. 788 00:39:46,450 --> 00:39:49,453 He won't do it in an abusive way, 789 00:39:49,687 --> 00:39:52,690 but he will make it clear that you have to choose. 790 00:39:55,292 --> 00:39:58,295 That your sin cried out, crucify! 791 00:39:58,662 --> 00:40:01,365 And he was 792 00:40:01,365 --> 00:40:04,368 so that he could be resurrected 793 00:40:04,769 --> 00:40:07,772 so you could be forgiven. 794 00:40:08,439 --> 00:40:10,141 You understand, 795 00:40:10,141 --> 00:40:11,375 friends, it's the hinge point. 796 00:40:13,010 --> 00:40:16,013 Everything turns on this right now. 797 00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:18,349 Into your birthday, father. 798 00:40:18,349 --> 00:40:20,050 Thank you. 799 00:40:20,050 --> 00:40:22,420 Thank you that you love us. 800 00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,889 Thank you that you've loved us with an everlasting love. 801 00:40:24,889 --> 00:40:27,458 Thank you that there's nothing we could do 802 00:40:27,458 --> 00:40:30,127 that would make us or make you love us more. 803 00:40:30,127 --> 00:40:32,630 Or make you love us less. 804 00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:34,465 Your love is constant. 805 00:40:34,465 --> 00:40:37,034 It's secure and it's unchanging. 806 00:40:37,034 --> 00:40:38,536 Thank you. 807 00:40:38,536 --> 00:40:40,738 Have mercy on us now. 808 00:40:40,738 --> 00:40:43,474 In light of your love. 809 00:40:43,474 --> 00:40:46,477 For when we have in our lives 810 00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:50,815 cried out, crucify, crucify! 811 00:40:52,917 --> 00:40:55,920 Forgive us. 812 00:40:57,388 --> 00:40:58,122 Friends of end, 813 00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:02,960 if you have not accepted the forgiveness offered to you by Christ 814 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,963 and His sacrifice on the cross, would you do that now? 815 00:41:06,697 --> 00:41:10,067 Would you just simply say, father, I'm sorry for my sin. 816 00:41:11,268 --> 00:41:13,737 I was the one who cried out, crucify! 817 00:41:15,573 --> 00:41:17,141 I confess that to you, I 818 00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:20,478 admit it, and I accept your forgiveness over me. 819 00:41:21,278 --> 00:41:23,547 Thank you. 820 00:41:23,547 --> 00:41:27,151 Would you tell him today I pledge my allegiance to you and you alone. 821 00:41:28,752 --> 00:41:29,720 You're the ruler. 822 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,256 I don't want to know the rules. I want to know you as the ruler. 823 00:41:32,256 --> 00:41:35,259 And I give myself to you fully and completely. 824 00:41:37,094 --> 00:41:39,330 I don't want to live in the shadows of faith anymore. 825 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:41,866 I want to come down for the fence. I don't want to walk a line. 826 00:41:41,866 --> 00:41:44,301 I want to be yours completely and fully. 827 00:41:44,301 --> 00:41:46,103 I accept you as the leader of my life. 828 00:41:46,103 --> 00:41:49,106 I give my allegiance to you. I'm yours. 829 00:41:49,373 --> 00:41:52,843 You don't got to stop, man religiously, and I just. 830 00:41:52,843 --> 00:41:55,212 I need to be restored. Would you restore me? 831 00:41:56,614 --> 00:41:58,849 God, I feel like there's not much left in my tank. 832 00:41:58,849 --> 00:41:59,216 I'm just. 833 00:41:59,216 --> 00:42:01,752 I don't have much fire left anymore for this whole facing. 834 00:42:01,752 --> 00:42:03,020 I need it again. 835 00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:06,023 Would you give it to me? 836 00:42:07,658 --> 00:42:08,092 Jesus. 837 00:42:08,092 --> 00:42:09,693 Thank you that you rode into Jerusalem. 838 00:42:09,693 --> 00:42:12,429 Honored as king. We honor you today as king. 839 00:42:12,429 --> 00:42:14,865 Forgive us for our shouts later of crucify. 840 00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:17,868 Thank you for your resurrection. 841 00:42:19,203 --> 00:42:20,804 Holy spirit, I ask that you would come over. 842 00:42:20,804 --> 00:42:24,642 These are giving themselves to you with with fire, with power, 843 00:42:25,075 --> 00:42:26,644 that they would know the power of the cross, 844 00:42:26,644 --> 00:42:28,512 the power of the resurrection, the power of your presence. 845 00:42:28,512 --> 00:42:30,748 Oh Holy Spirit, 846 00:42:30,748 --> 00:42:32,416 we love you. 847 00:42:32,416 --> 00:42:33,050 In your name I pray. 848 00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:35,719 Amen. 849 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,154 This in I love you. 850 00:42:37,154 --> 00:42:38,155 Good job. 851 00:42:38,155 --> 00:42:41,158 Matthew 12 stuff 852 00:42:41,225 --> 00:42:43,294 It's tough, it's good, but it's tough. 853 00:42:44,361 --> 00:42:45,596 We're going to look at, 854 00:42:45,596 --> 00:42:48,032 the huge part of it next week on Resurrection Sunday. 855 00:42:48,032 --> 00:42:50,267 And she's going to talk about his death in his resurrection. 856 00:42:50,267 --> 00:42:53,103 First time he ever mentions it is in Matthew 12 857 00:42:53,103 --> 00:42:56,273 where we look at what that means to truly be his. 858 00:42:57,541 --> 00:42:58,042 Get those. 859 00:42:58,042 --> 00:43:00,277 I'm telling you, friend, get those in, invite cars 860 00:43:00,277 --> 00:43:02,846 and get on mission with God and start inviting people next Sunday. 861 00:43:02,846 --> 00:43:03,981 You understand that? 862 00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:05,215 You understand that? 863 00:43:05,215 --> 00:43:08,218 Yeah. 864 00:43:09,153 --> 00:43:10,487 I need to quit talking, listening.