WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.260 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.880 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.420 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:31.260 the latest message. 00:00:31.580 --> 00:00:32.460 Thanks for listening. 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:47.580 Good morning, everyone, and happy Palm Sunday. 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:50.780 If you've got your Bibles, go ahead and open up to Matthew 21. 00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:52.720 In just a moment, we're going to start reading in verse 1. 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:57.360 As we enter into this Easter season, the passage of Scripture that we're going to look at, 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:00.980 I want us to look at it in a way that maybe you've never looked at it before. 00:01:01.420 --> 00:01:06.440 You know, when we study Scripture, what we try to do is we try to hear what the author wants 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:07.980 us to hear as we read it. 00:01:08.060 --> 00:01:12.520 So, like, we've been in Galatians, and so when Paul communicates to the church at Galatia, 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.240 what we hear is the freedom that we have in Christ and the challenge to live in that. 00:01:17.240 --> 00:01:22.480 When you look at Jesus, when he says the Sermon on the Mount, what we begin to understand is 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.980 we hear his words of what it means to be blessed. 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:30.700 When we read Revelation, when we hear the account of John, what we hear about is the rule and 00:01:30.700 --> 00:01:32.820 reign of Christ in that moment. 00:01:33.260 --> 00:01:36.260 And so in Matthew 21, we are going to hear the words of Christ. 00:01:36.360 --> 00:01:38.340 We're going to look at the words of Christ. 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:46.200 But I also want us to look at and to visualize and see what Jesus does in these instances. 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:51.220 Because, you know, when you think about it, you can learn a lot from a person simply by 00:01:51.220 --> 00:01:51.840 watching them. 00:01:51.900 --> 00:01:55.440 So imagine you're going to spend an entire day with someone who you don't know. 00:01:55.780 --> 00:01:58.660 And the rule is that you can't speak to each other. 00:01:58.660 --> 00:02:02.520 You can just watch each other and learn from each other. 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.860 So if you think about it on surface level, things that you can learn about a person. 00:02:05.860 --> 00:02:08.060 You can learn what they like to eat and what they don't like to eat. 00:02:08.320 --> 00:02:13.000 You can learn if they're hot-natured or cold-natured, what kind of driver they are, their sense of 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:15.600 humor as they respond to certain things. 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:20.960 You can even learn just by watching someone what makes them happy and what makes them sad. 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:26.600 And so as we look at Matthew 21, as we look at what Jesus does, Jesus is going to reveal 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:29.480 some great truths about who he is. 00:02:29.740 --> 00:02:35.500 And he's going to proclaim that not only is he king, but through looking at what he does 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:39.840 in Matthew 21, we also learn what type of king he is. 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:45.400 And so this morning, I want to just challenge you as you listen to me, maybe don't listen 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:46.260 to me as much. 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:51.540 Don't focus in on the words that I'm saying through listening, but try to picture and try 00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:55.560 to visualize what Jesus is as he does these. 00:02:55.880 --> 00:02:57.900 So let's begin reading in verse 1. 00:02:58.680 --> 00:02:59.680 It says this, 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:04.540 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethpage, to the Mount of Olives, then 00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:10.160 Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, Go into the village in front of you, and immediately 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:13.200 you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:15.540 Untie them and bring them to me. 00:03:15.820 --> 00:03:21.280 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, The Lord needs them, and he will send them 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:27.040 at once, and this took place to what was spoken by the prophet, saying, Say to the daughter 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:33.700 of Zion, Behold, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the 00:03:33.700 --> 00:03:35.320 foal of a beast of burden. 00:03:35.720 --> 00:03:38.860 And the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.160 They brought the donkey and the colt and put them on their cloaks, and he sat on them. 00:03:43.420 --> 00:03:47.820 And most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the 00:03:47.820 --> 00:03:49.540 trees and spread them on the road. 00:03:49.540 --> 00:03:55.000 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, Hosanna to the 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:55.820 son of David. 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.520 Bless is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 00:03:58.860 --> 00:04:00.280 Hosanna in the highest. 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:05.700 And when he had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, Who is this? 00:04:05.820 --> 00:04:11.100 And the crowd said, This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee. 00:04:11.420 --> 00:04:16.840 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he 00:04:16.840 --> 00:04:21.520 overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:27.500 And he said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:29.160 it a den of robbers. 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:33.440 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 00:04:33.660 --> 00:04:38.220 But when the chief priest and scribe saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children 00:04:38.220 --> 00:04:41.580 crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the son of David, they were indignant. 00:04:41.700 --> 00:04:44.620 And they said to him, Do you hear what these are saying? 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:47.860 And Jesus said to them, Yes, have you never read? 00:04:48.220 --> 00:04:52.580 Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise. 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:57.460 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. 00:04:57.860 --> 00:05:02.520 And so we see these interactions with Jesus, stories that we've heard before. 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:08.380 But what we see in them is so powerful and so strong in what Jesus is communicating. 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:12.020 His entrance into Jerusalem is proclaiming that he is king. 00:05:12.220 --> 00:05:17.020 But what he does as he enters in proclaims what type of king he is. 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:20.820 And the first thing that we're going to see and that we're going to understand is that Jesus 00:05:20.820 --> 00:05:22.240 is a humble king. 00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:26.380 Scripture tells us that Jesus sent two disciples into the village to get a donkey. 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:27.620 Now, why would he do this? 00:05:27.960 --> 00:05:29.180 Why not a chariot? 00:05:29.460 --> 00:05:30.620 Why not a parade? 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:35.000 Why not a powerful, mighty stallion that's going to bring him in? 00:05:35.460 --> 00:05:37.560 Instead, he goes with a donkey. 00:05:38.220 --> 00:05:44.280 Well, Matthew tells us that Jesus is quoting and fulfilling Zechariah 9.9, where he says, 00:05:44.320 --> 00:06:05.620 Jesus wants them to know that he's not like any other king. 00:06:05.820 --> 00:06:07.640 He's not like a king like David. 00:06:07.740 --> 00:06:09.360 He's not a king like Saul. 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.160 He's not a king in what they've experienced with Rome. 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:16.500 That Jesus is different in who he is. 00:06:16.640 --> 00:06:23.540 You see, Jesus is not entering in as the warrior king that comes to slay you and defeat you. 00:06:23.620 --> 00:06:29.020 But he is instead coming as the king who is sent to save you. 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.220 Now, there's an interesting dynamic that is going on here. 00:06:32.640 --> 00:06:37.960 Later on in Revelation, we'll see a different picture of Jesus in Revelation 19. 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:39.380 I want to read starting in verse 11. 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:41.140 John writes, he says, 00:06:41.220 --> 00:06:47.420 Then I saw heaven open, and behold, a white horse, the one sitting on it called Faithful and True. 00:06:47.420 --> 00:06:52.500 And in righteousness, get this, in righteousness, he judges and makes war. 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:57.720 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems. 00:06:58.060 --> 00:07:02.160 And he has a name written that no one knows but himself. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:08.820 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the word of God. 00:07:08.820 --> 00:07:15.740 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:20.780 And from his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.860 And he will rule them with a rod of iron. 00:07:23.860 --> 00:07:29.420 He will tread on the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.520 On his robe and on his thigh he has written, 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:35.460 The King of kings, the Lord of lords. 00:07:35.640 --> 00:07:43.880 You see, church, there is a time coming where this warrior king of what we see in Christ coming to defeat sin is going to happen and take place. 00:07:43.880 --> 00:07:51.320 But as Jesus is entering into Jerusalem, as he has taken his journey from the roads of Jerusalem to the cross of Calvary, 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:56.380 the picture that he wants to paint for us is that he has come, as Zechariah has said, 00:07:56.580 --> 00:08:02.580 as a savior king, humble and on a donkey in the spirit that comes to save. 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:06.620 And so Jesus wants us to see that he's the humble king. 00:08:07.080 --> 00:08:11.080 But there's also another part that we begin to see as it continues to unfold. 00:08:11.400 --> 00:08:14.720 And it's that Jesus is an all nations king. 00:08:15.100 --> 00:08:18.620 You know, when we think of a king, we think that the king rules his nation. 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.440 But Jesus is a king that rules the nations. 00:08:22.440 --> 00:08:25.800 That through the power and through the work of the cross, 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:30.120 that salvation is going to be for every tribe and every tongue. 00:08:30.220 --> 00:08:34.620 That the proclamation of the gospel will know no borders. 00:08:34.620 --> 00:08:37.780 And so we begin to see Jesus in a different light. 00:08:38.060 --> 00:08:40.080 And this is when he enters into the temple. 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.620 So Jesus enters into the temple and he chases those who are selling animals. 00:08:45.300 --> 00:08:46.080 They're selling birds. 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:47.400 They're selling them for sacrifice. 00:08:47.400 --> 00:08:51.840 And he turns over the tables of those that are exchanging money. 00:08:52.140 --> 00:08:54.980 So let me explain what's happening here in this moment. 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:59.400 You see, people from all over the world would come to Jerusalem. 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:02.340 And they would come to Jerusalem and they would come to the temple. 00:09:02.620 --> 00:09:05.000 The very temple that Jesus enters into. 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:07.880 The very temple that Jesus clears out. 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.380 And they would want to bring an acceptable sacrifice. 00:09:11.900 --> 00:09:16.420 They would want to bring an acceptable offering that would be pleasing to God. 00:09:16.420 --> 00:09:23.900 And so in order for this to happen, they would have to buy the goods that were being sold in the temple. 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:34.100 You know, in order to bring an offering, it was required during that time the rulers had put in place that your offering be in Tyrrhenian currency. 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:40.320 So instead of a fair currency exchange rate, so imagine you got somebody coming from a different country with a different currency. 00:09:40.700 --> 00:09:47.700 And so instead of coming in and finding an exchange rate that is fair, instead they would scam the foreigners who came in. 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:52.840 They would give them less value than what is correct because this is the money that they had to have. 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:59.840 And then also if they had brought their sacrifice with them, they weren't allowed to bring their sacrifice in. 00:10:00.220 --> 00:10:05.120 And instead they had to buy their sacrifice before they made it. 00:10:05.280 --> 00:10:06.500 Not what they had brought. 00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:08.720 Not what they wanted to sacrifice. 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.020 But was forced on them. 00:10:11.460 --> 00:10:15.480 And so when Christ walks into this moment and he sees what is taking place, 00:10:15.780 --> 00:10:19.980 Jesus sees what was supposed to be a place of prayer for all nations. 00:10:19.980 --> 00:10:22.140 A place of prayer for all people. 00:10:22.540 --> 00:10:29.960 Instead, it was turned into a money-making venue and it greatly angered him. 00:10:30.280 --> 00:10:33.280 You see, it wasn't just that a scam was taking place. 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:39.140 But it was where it was happening that mattered so much to Jesus. 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:42.320 So let me explain to you how the temple was built. 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:48.500 On the very inside of the temple was the most inner court called the Holy of Holies. 00:10:48.500 --> 00:10:53.060 And then you begin to work out from the Holy of Holies to the other parts of the temple. 00:10:53.400 --> 00:10:56.880 And then the next part was the section where the priest would come. 00:10:57.020 --> 00:11:01.460 And then outside of that was the section where the Jewish men could worship. 00:11:01.860 --> 00:11:06.900 And then outside of that would be the section where the Jewish women could come to worship. 00:11:07.220 --> 00:11:11.980 And then even farther outside of that, in the very last temple court, 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:17.420 was the place where the Gentiles, where the non-Jews, could come into worship. 00:11:17.420 --> 00:11:24.040 And so Jesus went into that temple where the Gentiles had come to pray, 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.660 where the Gentiles had come to worship God. 00:11:26.800 --> 00:11:34.340 And they could not do the things that their heart longed for and desire because of the trade that was taking place. 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:38.760 And so Jesus walks in and establishes that this is not acceptable. 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:44.580 That salvation is not just for the Jews, but it is for the Jews and the Gentiles. 00:11:44.920 --> 00:11:51.140 And in doing this, Jesus is again fulfilling the scripture of the prophets that was promised. 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:58.120 And Jesus even speaks to and references one of these in Isaiah 56, starting in verse 6. 00:11:58.400 --> 00:12:08.240 And the foreigners who joined themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants. 00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:13.420 Everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it and holds fast my covenant. 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:19.480 These I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. 00:12:19.780 --> 00:12:25.300 Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. 00:12:25.300 --> 00:12:29.500 For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:34.780 The Lord God who gathers the outcast of Israel declares, 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.720 I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered. 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:42.500 Do we see all the way back from the prophet Isaiah? 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.020 God says, I want not yours that you give them. 00:12:47.260 --> 00:12:48.980 Not what they trade for you. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:50.800 I want their offerings. 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:52.760 I want their sacrifices. 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:56.260 I want the nations to come to me. 00:12:56.520 --> 00:13:02.060 And so Jesus walks into that tomb and he breaks down every moment of sin 00:13:02.060 --> 00:13:07.440 as people are trying to keep the others out as God draws them to himself. 00:13:08.280 --> 00:13:10.280 And so we've seen that Jesus is the humble king. 00:13:10.560 --> 00:13:13.160 We see that Jesus is the all nations king. 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:18.800 But the next thing that we're going to see is that Jesus is the healing king. 00:13:19.880 --> 00:13:22.680 It says that when Jesus, after all of these, 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:28.820 it says that the blind and the paralyzed came to him and he healed them. 00:13:29.420 --> 00:13:30.120 He healed them. 00:13:30.300 --> 00:13:34.120 I mean, can you imagine the desperation of these individuals? 00:13:34.800 --> 00:13:39.040 Those because of things in their life that have been social outcast. 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:42.240 Those who had been considered dirty and unworthy. 00:13:42.820 --> 00:13:50.020 Those who hadn't been allowed to approach into the temple are now being brought to Christ 00:13:50.020 --> 00:14:00.840 so that he can heal them, so that he can place his hand on them and take away that which they cannot force off of themselves. 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:08.500 And we see Jesus in that moment displaying something about himself for everyone who is there to see. 00:14:08.920 --> 00:14:12.320 In this moment, Jesus has come in on a donkey. 00:14:12.700 --> 00:14:15.760 Jesus has entered into the temple and clears it out. 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:26.440 And now in the power of God himself, Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man, begins to heal those who are brought to him. 00:14:26.920 --> 00:14:31.640 You see, Jesus isn't adjusting what they're struggling with. 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:37.000 He's not coming to manipulate, but he's coming to do more. 00:14:37.520 --> 00:14:43.600 He's coming not to simply fix, but Jesus is coming to restore that which was broken. 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:47.220 I want to ask you some questions with obvious answers. 00:14:47.940 --> 00:14:49.500 Could the blind man heal himself? 00:14:50.100 --> 00:14:50.460 No. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:55.780 Could the paralyzed man get up and walk again in his own power? 00:14:56.420 --> 00:14:56.820 No. 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:01.480 It had to come from Christ and Christ alone. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:09.340 That which made them broken could only be restored through Jesus, and it's what he does. 00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:14.840 If they would have done it for themselves, if they could have done it for themselves, then they would have. 00:15:14.900 --> 00:15:22.180 They would have already healed themselves, but they had to come to the one and the one only who could heal them. 00:15:22.780 --> 00:15:24.920 And Jesus continues to fulfill the scripture. 00:15:25.580 --> 00:15:29.820 Jesus continues to show who he is as the healing king. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.960 Isaiah 35, starting in verse 4, says this. 00:15:33.800 --> 00:15:38.100 Say to those who have an anxious heart, be strong, fear not. 00:15:38.640 --> 00:15:41.200 Behold, your God will come with vengeance. 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:45.700 With recompense of God, he will come and he will save you. 00:15:45.900 --> 00:15:47.940 Get this, he will save you. 00:15:48.700 --> 00:15:54.700 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped. 00:15:54.700 --> 00:16:01.980 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy. 00:16:02.180 --> 00:16:08.160 Do you see what is connected as the prophet Isaiah explains what is happening when Jesus heals? 00:16:08.460 --> 00:16:11.640 He says that's the foretelling of the one who can save. 00:16:11.900 --> 00:16:18.540 That's the prophecy being fulfilled of the one and the only one who can bring salvation. 00:16:18.940 --> 00:16:21.860 The one who heals is the one who saves. 00:16:21.860 --> 00:16:28.560 And when you are saved in the gospel, we are made, spiritually speaking, whole again. 00:16:28.940 --> 00:16:34.280 You see, in our life, what we do is we know that we have the brokenness that's in our life. 00:16:34.460 --> 00:16:41.140 And what we try to run toward and what we try to do in and of ourselves is we try to fix. 00:16:41.740 --> 00:16:45.340 But what we try to fix is we try to fix symptoms. 00:16:46.140 --> 00:16:47.740 We try to fix the cough. 00:16:47.860 --> 00:16:49.280 We try to fix the rash. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:50.800 We try to fix the headache. 00:16:50.800 --> 00:16:58.940 But what Jesus comes in to do is to not fix the symptom, but he cures the cause of sin. 00:16:59.740 --> 00:17:02.640 And so when the blind comes, Jesus fully heals. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.420 When the lame comes, Jesus fully heals. 00:17:07.040 --> 00:17:17.780 And in doing so, what he communicates, in doing so, what he shows is that when we come to him, he fully heals us of our brokenness. 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.920 He fully heals us of our sin. 00:17:21.420 --> 00:17:25.820 And so we see that Jesus is the humble king riding in on the donkey. 00:17:25.820 --> 00:17:34.840 We see that Jesus is the all-nations king, clearing the temple out so that every tribe and every tongue can approach their God. 00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:40.820 We see that Jesus is the healing king who comes to restore the broken. 00:17:41.740 --> 00:17:47.920 But the last that we'll see is Jesus is the accessible king, the king that we can come to. 00:17:48.620 --> 00:17:51.980 So the Bible tells us that the religious leaders, they see what's happening. 00:17:52.380 --> 00:17:53.500 They see what's taking place. 00:17:53.500 --> 00:17:56.440 You see, these are trained men in the word. 00:17:56.900 --> 00:17:58.280 They would have read Zechariah. 00:17:58.420 --> 00:17:59.960 They would have read Isaiah. 00:18:00.260 --> 00:18:03.000 They would have known what is taking place before them. 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.840 They would have known what Jesus is doing. 00:18:06.040 --> 00:18:08.760 But then they also begin to hear something. 00:18:09.140 --> 00:18:14.660 And they hear the people, and especially the children at this point, crying out to him, 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.380 Hosanna to the son of David. 00:18:17.380 --> 00:18:21.300 And what they're proclaiming is Jesus had first entered into Jerusalem. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.160 And what they're still proclaiming now is this. 00:18:24.500 --> 00:18:26.020 The king is here. 00:18:26.360 --> 00:18:27.760 The king is here. 00:18:28.020 --> 00:18:29.820 The man who rode in on the donkey. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:31.800 The man who cleared the temple. 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.620 The man who touched the dirty, sick people. 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:38.040 He is the king. 00:18:38.280 --> 00:18:40.700 And so the leaders, they go to Jesus and they say, 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:42.700 Do you hear what they are saying? 00:18:43.660 --> 00:18:44.860 And Jesus says, yes. 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:47.120 Yes, I hear what they're saying. 00:18:47.740 --> 00:18:51.660 And Jesus doesn't correct the people who proclaim him to be king. 00:18:52.080 --> 00:18:54.860 But instead, he looks at the religious leaders. 00:18:55.320 --> 00:18:57.720 And he references them back to the Psalms. 00:18:58.340 --> 00:19:00.080 In Psalm 8, verse 1 and 2. 00:19:00.600 --> 00:19:01.260 Where he says, 00:19:01.420 --> 00:19:06.040 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth. 00:19:06.360 --> 00:19:09.100 You have set your glory above the heavens. 00:19:09.420 --> 00:19:16.200 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes. 00:19:16.420 --> 00:19:19.800 To the enemy and the avenger. 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:22.040 And so Jesus comes in this moment. 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.640 And churches, he is establishing of who he is. 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:34.340 And the reason why next Sunday we will celebrate that our Savior King died on the cross for our sins and is resurrected from the grave. 00:19:34.540 --> 00:19:41.100 We'll celebrate that Jesus is the humble king who was sent here to bring salvation to save us. 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:45.680 Jesus did not come to punish, but Jesus came to save and set free. 00:19:46.040 --> 00:19:52.740 We will celebrate that Jesus is the all-nations king that is here for every tribe, every nation, and every tongue. 00:19:53.140 --> 00:19:55.580 Spreading the gospel across the globe. 00:19:55.580 --> 00:20:06.380 We will see that Jesus is the healing king that seeks in the middle of the depth of your depravity and your sin to restore you and to set you free. 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:09.740 And we see that Jesus is the accessible king. 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:11.400 The one we can come to. 00:20:11.820 --> 00:20:14.780 Because it says in Romans 10, 13, very simply, 00:20:15.380 --> 00:20:20.180 For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 00:20:20.700 --> 00:20:23.260 Church, have you called upon the name of the Lord? 00:20:23.820 --> 00:20:25.680 Is he your king? 00:20:26.260 --> 00:20:31.440 If so, today, would you allow him to be your king? 00:20:31.980 --> 00:20:34.400 Would you allow him to be your savior? 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:38.780 So you can celebrate his reign in your life. 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:39.960 Let's pray. 00:20:41.220 --> 00:20:44.400 God, we thank you so much for this morning that we could gather here together. 00:20:44.980 --> 00:20:48.680 Lord, as we wrestle with your word, Lord, as we see what you've done, 00:20:49.300 --> 00:20:52.200 Lord, we pray that you would do what only you can do in our lives. 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:55.000 Jesus, save those who need to be saved. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:57.280 Strengthen those who need to be strengthened. 00:20:57.940 --> 00:20:59.020 Lord, and we'll praise you for it. 00:20:59.500 --> 00:21:00.520 And it's in Jesus' name we pray. 00:21:00.940 --> 00:21:01.200 Amen. 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:01.280 Amen. 00:21:01.280 --> 00:21:01.340 Amen. 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:19.020 Thanks again for listening to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:21:19.340 --> 00:21:21.640 We hope that you enjoyed listening to this week's message. 00:21:21.860 --> 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