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 Thanks for listening.

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 Hey, well, good morning, Willow Ridge Church.

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 If you've got your Bibles with you this morning, I hope you do.

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 We're going to open them up to Matthew 21, and then we'll jump over to Matthew 23 this

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 morning as we continue in our series on the fruit of the Spirit.

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 Well, it is good to be back with you guys this morning.

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 I missed last Sunday.

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 I had the privilege and opportunity to be with our high school team who left out last week

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 to go serve with Hope Valley Church in West Jordan, Utah, and it was a wonderful, wonderful

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 experience.

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 West Jordan is one of the cities that make up the region of the valley in Salt Lake,

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 the Salt Lake Valley.

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 I did not realize, relatively speaking, how small Salt Lake City itself is and all of the

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 cities around it that go in to make up the valley area where we were, but we had a wonderful,

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 wonderful week of ministry that was there.

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 I do want to share a little bit about some of the things that we did and some of the people

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 that we met, and so you can continue to pray for the work that's being done there.

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 We as a church partnered with Hope Valley Church with Dustin and Sarah Stockman.

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 Two years ago, they left their home church in Oklahoma as God called them to plant a church

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 in Salt Lake City area in the valley that's there.

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 Now, a lot of people think in the United States, they think reached people groups, right?

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 We talk about unreached people groups, and that's supposed to be places like Syria and Afghanistan,

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 but yet one of the most unreached places in the world is Salt Lake City.

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 In fact, percentage-wise, there's more believers in Iran and Afghanistan than there are in Salt

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 Lake City, and so that gives you some perspective of the lostness that was there.

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 So we as a church have been partnering with them.

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 This is our second trip that we've gone out there to work with Dustin and Sarah, and we

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 also provide for them, for their church, through the tithes and offerings that you give.

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 We budget for them each week.

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 Now, the types of people that are in Utah, when we look at different people groups that

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 are there and the ones that we have the opportunity to minister to, would largely fall into one

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 of two classifications.

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 Now, evangelical Christians make up less than 2% of the population.

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 So roughly about 96% of the rest of the population of the Salt Lake City Valley area would fall

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 into one of two classifications.

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 The first being Mormons, Latter-day Saints, right, who are an unreached people group and

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 who were there.

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 And then another group of people who would just consider themselves non-religious, meaning

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 they would say they do not have beliefs about God, but yet they do have a very core belief

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 about God, whether it is an atheistic belief or an agnostic belief.

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 And so as our high schoolers went out to minister, right, these were the groups that they were

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 largely ministering to.

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 And so the work that we did was to help engage them with the gospel or at a base level, engage

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 them with Christians and engage them with Hope Valley Church so that maybe the Lord will begin

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 to do a work in their heart and draw people to himself and use the ministry of Hope Valley

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 Church in order to do that.

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 So we started off the week, we walked around several neighborhoods just simply handing out

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 a card, inviting families and individuals to either the VBS that we were going to be doing

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 at Antelope Elementary that was right across from the neighborhoods, which was named appropriately

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 as there was always antelopes in the field right beside it, which was pretty cool for us from

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 South Carolina, right, to be able to see that, or to invite them to Hope Valley Church.

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 And so we started off the week with doing that.

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 And then as the week got going in the morning, we would do park ministry, which meant our group

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 was wired perfectly for this.

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 We would go out into the parks, form relationships by doing crafts or playing games.

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 So there was a lot of kickball, there was a lot of red light, green light, a lot of games

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 that we could do with the kids, and about 30,000 bracelets were made by our craft team out there

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 doing that.

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 And in that, we'd begin to have conversations.

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 And I want to share one of the conversations.

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 I didn't have a privilege to have an opportunity to talk to this family, but some of our students

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 did.

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 So what would happen is we'd get to the park and we'd scatter these teenagers all over

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 the park, and we would tell them, like, don't go up to the kids, go up to the parents,

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 right?

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 We want to give the parents the opportunity.

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 We don't want to be the creepos that go in, like, just for their kids, right?

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 So we go and we talk with the parents, and one of our students, I believe it was Micah

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 Hood, walked up to this lady who was there, and he said, hey, we're with Hope Valley.

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 I'm going to hand him a card.

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 We're at Hope Valley Church.

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 We're doing this park ministry this morning.

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 We've got some crafts and some games going on.

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 We would just love the opportunity if you wanted to come over and your kids want to come

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 over and just be a part of this.

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 And her response was not a response that we're typically used to.

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 She said no, which we were used to know.

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 There was a lot of people who weren't comfortable with that.

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 We want to be respectful of that.

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 And so she said no.

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 And she said, I'm so against any form of religion because I believe that all religions are destructive

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 at their core.

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 So for me to allow my kids to come over there and be a part of that would be something that

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 I feel like would be detrimental to them, and I disagree with what you're doing.

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 So he said, well, thank you.

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 And went back.

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 We're there for a couple hours.

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 More and more and more coming up and coming up and coming up.

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 And finally, toward the end of it, what we noticed as I looked over and saw were her two

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 kids sitting down making a bracelet, and she was over engaged in a conversation with the

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 pastor of the church.

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 Now, whether they woke up this morning and decided to go to church or not, we don't know.

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 But we had a moment where over the course of an hour, a lady looked, observed, and saw what

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 was happening and taking place, and her heart was at least softened to the point to where she decided

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 to let her kids go and have the opportunity to engage with Christians and to see what it was

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 about.

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 So that was one of the cool stories.

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 And then we had our VBS.

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 Now, in the South, right, we're used to VBSs with hundreds of people in full-blown productions.

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 Well, that's not the case in Utah.

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 In fact, most of the people that we talked to, we would say VBS.

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 And people around here know VBS, and they know the abbreviations, they know what.

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 In fact, a lot of people, like, they plan their summer calendar, right?

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 Like, this week, this church gets my kids, this church gets my kids, this church gets

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 my kids, so they can work their way through the VBS circuit around the greater Lexington

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 area, right?

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 But that's not the case there.

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 And so we'd have to explain what VBS was.

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 And so our VBS was small.

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 We started out with 12 kids on the first night, and then we fluctuated somewhere between

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 six and eight different kids throughout the course of the week.

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 Now, a couple of the dynamics of that.

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 One of the kids who came was the, were two of the kids, were the pastors of Hope Valley

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 Church.

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 Their daughters came.

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 And I want to kind of get you guys in just a mindset of the world in which they live in

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 is not the world in which we live in.

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 Their oldest daughter was a little girl named Ellie.

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 And Ellie was going into the sixth grade, I believe.

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 And I want you to know, they've been living there for two years.

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 Coming from Oklahoma, that's a lot like South Carolina, where whether you're saved or

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 not, there's a lot of people that just go to church.

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 It's a very church culture.

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 And they go from a church, evangelical church culture into Salt Lake City area that is not

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 an evangelical church area.

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 And for two years, every time her church does something, every time her family does something,

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 Ellie invites her friends to come and be a part of it.

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 We talked about a lot of this with our students while we were there.

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 Because for two years, no one has shown up.

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 I said, imagine that, kids, to our students.

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 Imagine for two years, the kids who invite you to their birthday parties, the kids who invite

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 you over to their homes, the kids that invite you into their activities, right?

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 You're going to theirs.

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 You're building relationships for them.

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 And this time for comfort for you.

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 And nothing.

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 Nothing.

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 And then on the first night, Ellie got so excited and her parents got so excited because her best

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 friend at school, who's a Mormon family, right, came walking through the doors.

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 And then the mom, who had been standoffish for years, stayed the entire time and sat down

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 with the pastor's wife, with Ellie's mom, and talked the entire time about just life and

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 having the opportunity to do that.

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 And so it's just a wonderful blessing to be able to see the men to build and form those

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 relationships and have that.

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 Then we got nervous because they didn't come back for night two and night three.

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 We're like, uh, they didn't dig it, right?

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 And then night four, they came back and had that opportunity.

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 But I want to introduce you to, uh, we got some pictures of, of two of the other people

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 that were there and I don't know what order we're going to have them in.

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 And so, all right, so, uh, this right here to, to the, to my left right there eating her

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 bag of Cheetos is Delilah.

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 All right.

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 And, and go ahead and jump to the next picture.

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 Right.

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 And this fella in the middle, this is Daniel.

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 All right.

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 So we got Delilah and, and Daniel, uh, one of the cute things, they're friends.

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 Um, and, and on the first night where they were both there together, we, we did a lot

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 like we did here where we moved to our stations.

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 And Delilah looked at Daniel and said, we have to go to a different area now.

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 Would you like to hold my hand?

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 Um, and he said, yeah.

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 And they, they moved to theirs.

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 But, uh, here's the cool thing.

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 So Delilah and Daniel got invited, uh, because they were one of the homes or Delilah's home

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 was one of the homes where we dropped off one of the invitations.

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 And so we didn't get to speak with them.

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 We just, we just, we just went and set it on there.

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 And night number one, Delilah and her mom shows up and her mom drops them, drops Delilah

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 off.

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 Uh, they are a non, uh, churched family.

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 And then night number two, Delilah shows up and she had brought her friend Daniel with

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 her.

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 And so they were there all week.

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 A family that has no concept of, of Christianity, that has no concept of, of, of, of who Christ

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 is, uh, they, they are a lost family.

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 And so by the end of the week, I was overheard a conversation that Dustin and Sarah were having

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 about talking about how cool that it was and what had happened over the course of the week

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 of us doing ministry and partnering with them there is both of them had been reached out

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 to by their families, wanting to know more about their church for an opportunity for them

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 to come and worship with them where they can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 And so just thought about the, just the different dynamics of, of what the Lord is doing and

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 want to just really to affirm within our students and affirm within, within you guys of being

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 a church that, that thinks enough about the gospel that sins where all we're doing is,

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 is, is planting seeds in God's water and in God's harvesting and God's using places like

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 Hope Valley church and Willow Ridge church who are on the other sides of the country to join

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 together so that people have an opportunity to see, hear and respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 Right?

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 Just a wonderful, wonderful privilege and a wonderful, wonderful opportunity.

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 It was really interesting.

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 I was talking with, with my kids about it yesterday, just kind of working through some more about what

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 this all means.

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 And Grayson said something that I think was, was really interesting.

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 Uh, he and I were talking and his experiences and mission trips before.

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 And he said, dad, you know, he said, this mission trip was, was just really cool because it was

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 different.

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 And I said, how is it different?

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 He says, you know, sometimes we go and we do these mission trips and when we're done,

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 we can see the work that's finished.

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 You know, if we go to build something, we go to, to, to finish, to complete.

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 And at the end of that week, right, you, you see what was built, you see what was done.

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 He said, but this one, we, we don't get to see right now the end work.

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 We don't get to see the end result.

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 And so I just want to encourage you.

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 It just really struck me because I feel like a lot of you right now, where you may be seated

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 at as you've got an unreached, uh, you've got a lost person at work in your neighborhood

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 or maybe in your home and you're not seeing the fruit that you want to see.

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 And it was just the reminder for me that's like, no one came up to us at any point in time

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 during the week that we were there or at VBS and said, I want Jesus Christ to be my savior.

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 No one, but they heard the gospel.

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 They formed relationships with believers and we just were faithful and we're just going

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 to trust that God's doing the work that he's doing, right?

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 Amen.

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 So thank you guys for your faithfulness for this.

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 Uh, it's continuing on.

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 Uh, we've got 47, uh, mostly middle schoolers.

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 So pray for the adults, right?

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 That I'm going to be leaving and go up to Black Mountain Children's Home today where they

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 will continue in, in helping them with the work that they're doing as they help to reach,

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 uh, these kids that are in this foster care system up there.

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 And so we're just, uh, praying for them as well as they go.

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 But I don't want to jump into the message and I'm going to talk real fast this morning.

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 Um, but I don't want to jump into the message this morning without thanking Ty Lockridge,

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 uh, for stepping up last week and for being faithful to God's word and continuing on.

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 Um, been so busy, brother.

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 I haven't had time to listen to it yet, but I will tell you this, a group of our ladies

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 while we were in Utah, they got on the back porch of our house that morning.

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 And while I was trying to wake up with my cup of coffee, they were engaged and loved every

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 single minute of it.

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 So Ty, thank you for being faithful.

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 We thank you for the Lord sending you, uh, to us to be able to step in in times like that.

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 So thank you so much.

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 Well, let's go to the Lord in prayer.

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 And then we're going to jump in to our message this morning.

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 Lord, we thank you so much for this opportunity to gather here today.

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 Lord, we thank you for your word.

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 Lord, we thank you for your spirit.

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 Lord, I pray that as we study this morning, Lord, our hearts will be drawn to you or that

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 we will be convicted of the sin that's in our life.

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 Lord, for those who do not know you, that maybe today will be the day of relationship with you.

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 Maybe today will be the day of their salvation.

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 Lord, we pray for the families of Delilah and Daniel.

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 Lord, we pray that this morning as they decide what they are going to do with their day, Lord,

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 that they find themselves, Lord, at Hope Valley Church.

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 Lord, we know that they will hear the gospel.

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 Lord, we pray that they will respond.

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 Lord, we pray for all the church planners and missionaries and pastors who are all over

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 the Salt Lake City Valley.

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 Lord, may they be encouraged and blessed.

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 And Lord, may they continue to remain faithful in some of the most difficult areas to do that.

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 And it's in your name we pray.

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 Amen.

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 So as we've been doing, we're going to start off with looking at Galatians 5, 22 through 23,

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 where Paul gives us the fruit of the Spirit.

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 He writes and he says,

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 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

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 gentleness, self-control.

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 Against such things there is no law.

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 So what we've been looking at for a couple months now is each aspect of the fruit of the Spirit.

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 And recognizing that Paul says that we are believers, that we are to have this.

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 This is to be a part of our life as the Spirit of the Lord has filled us in which we live our lives.

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 And so this morning what we're going to look at is gentleness.

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 Now, when we think of gentleness, I want us to understand one of the commentaries that I wrote said this.

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 It says,

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 This gentleness is probably the most difficult word of all the fruit of the Spirit to clearly define.

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 Because we come with gentleness, we come with these preconceived notions about what this means.

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 And in a lot of cases in our world, just like it was during the time of Christ and during the time of Paul,

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 gentleness can be seen as a weakness.

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 Maybe there's times to be gentle, but there's times to not be gentle.

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 But we're seeing from here that this would be the fruit of who we are.

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 And that we are to always be gentle.

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 And that's going to be difficult sometimes.

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 So what I want us to understand is that when we think of gentleness,

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 and we're going to look at this where Christ says this,

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 that gentleness is meekness, not weakness.

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 It's to embrace the concept of being meek,

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 and it does not mean that we are weak at all.

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 A definition of the word that is used in Greek for the word gentle means

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 not being overly impressed by a sense of one's self-importance.

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 So what we gain from this as we look at what it understands to be gentle,

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 to embrace the quality of gentleness in our life,

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 we see directly there's a sense of humility.

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 Knowing who we are in light of the gospel.

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 There's nothing about you or me in and of ourselves that is impressive.

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 If anything is, it's us understanding that it's Christ.

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 And it's him in us with this.

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 And so when we think about gentleness,

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 I want us to kind of think about it in twofold.

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 In our relationship with the Lord, in our relationship with others.

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 And so gentleness for us as we work through this,

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 we're going to think of humility, thankfulness, and obedience toward God.

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 That when we look at gentleness in the life of a believer,

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 what that means is there's an attitude,

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 there's a posturing of humility, of thankfulness, and obedience toward God.

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 That is who we are in understanding in our relationship with him.

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 That I'm humble before him, I am thankful to him, and I'm obedient to him.

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 And that's how we live our lives.

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 But then also with the gentleness when it comes to others is this polite and restrained behavior toward others,

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 which brings a freedom from malice and freedom from a vengeful spirit.

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 And what we're going to look at this morning in Matthew 21 and in Matthew 23

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 is how Jesus fully lives out this gentleness in who he is.

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 Even in areas where we see on the surface, we're like,

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 I don't know that Jesus was very gentle there.

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 But he was.

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 He was.

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 Jesus sets this early on in his ministry in Matthew 5, 5,

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 as he does a sermon on the mountain.

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 He says, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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 And so what Jesus says is,

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 you are blessed if you are gentle or if you are meek,

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 and it comes with a promise.

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 Inheritance into the messianic kingdom.

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 So there's this promise that very early on,

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 as Jesus looks out to a crowd that is suffering,

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 that feels oppressed,

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 that feels they have no power,

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 and he says, blessed are the meek.

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 Blessed are the gentle.

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 All that you see around will be destroyed.

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 All that you see around will fall.

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 It will fail.

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 But blessed are the meek,

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 for they shall inherit the earth.

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 So look at Matthew 21.

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 Matthew 21 through Matthew 20,

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 really all of it,

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 but this morning we're going to see

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 that the gentleness of Jesus,

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 the gentleness of Jesus,

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 the Jesus who draws the kids to him.

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 That's one of the stories that we looked at

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 in one of our times this past week,

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 was the disciples are saying,

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 no, no, no, keep the kids away,

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 keep the kids away,

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 keep the kids away.

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 And Jesus is like, no, no, no,

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 let them come to me,

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 unless you come to me like a child, right?

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 Faith like a child.

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 There's this picture of gentleness.

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 And this is what we see.

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 I'm going to read verses one through 11.

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 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem

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 and came to Bethpage,

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 to the Mount of Olives,

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 then Jesus sent two disciples,

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 saying to them,

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 go into the village in front of you,

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 and immediately you will find a donkey

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 tied in a colt with her.

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 Untie them and bring them to me.

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 If anyone says anything to you,

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 you shall say,

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 the Lord needs them,

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 and he will send them at once.

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 And this took place to fulfill

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 what was spoken by the prophet,

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 saying,

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 say to the daughter of Zion,

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 behold, your king is coming to you,

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 humble,

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 and mounted on a donkey,

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 on a colt,

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 the foal of a beast of burden.

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 The disciples went and did

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 just as Jesus had directed them.

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 They brought the donkey and the colt

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 and put them on their cloaks,

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 and he sat on them.

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 And most of the crowd

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 spread their cloaks on the road,

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 and others cut branches from trees

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 and spread them on the road,

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 and the crowds that went

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 before him and that followed him

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 were shouting,

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 Hosanna to the son of David.

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 Blessed is he who comes

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 in the name of the Lord.

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 Hosanna in the highest.

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 And when he entered Jerusalem,

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 the whole city was stirred up,

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 saying,

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 who is this?

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 And the crowd said,

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 this is the prophet Jesus

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 from Nazareth of Galilee.

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 And so as we look at

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 these first 11 verses,

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 what we see right here

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 is we get this picture

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 of the gentle Messiah.

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 We get this picture of Jesus.

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 And Matthew 21 begins

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 what we know

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 as Jesus' triumphal entry, right?

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 It's his journey to the cross

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 is speeding up in this moment.

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 And in Matthew 21,

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 Jesus takes a pretty strong shift

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 in his ministry model

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 of what we see.

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 Up until this moment, right,

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 Jesus isn't necessarily

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 overly drawing attention to himself.

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 Most of his ministry

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 is taking place

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 out in the countryside.

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 Like Jesus did not have

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 a very urban ministry

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 in the cities.

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 Jesus was mostly

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 out in the suburbs,

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 out in the country,

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 out on the outsides

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 of the cities.

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 And oftentimes,

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 you can even see this, right?

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 When Jesus does something,

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 Jesus heals,

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 Jesus does these things.

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 Oftentimes,

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 not always,

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 but a lot of times,

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 Jesus is like,

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 hey, don't tell anyone

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 about this, right?

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 Like, keep this quiet.

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 But what we see here

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 in this moment

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 is Jesus has been avoiding,

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 but now Jesus is entering

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 into this city

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 that at this time

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 would have had

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 about two million people

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 of both residents

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 and visitors

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 for the Passover

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 to come in,

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 about two million people.

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 And Jesus is proclaiming,

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 this is who I am.

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 I've come here

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 not to fulfill

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 some earthly expectations

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 of a king,

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 but I've come here

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 as your gentle Messiah

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 to fulfill the prophecy

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 of Zechariah as king.

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 And as he comes in,

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 and we see this,

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 even for those

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 as close to Jesus

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 as the disciples,

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 there was all

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 of these expectations

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 about who he would be

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 for them

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 in an earthly rule.

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 But Jesus says,

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 no, no,

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 this is going to be

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 differently.

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 As Jesus comes into,

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 as he's being led into,

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 Jesus isn't being led in

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 by an army

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 who will invade

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 and take over,

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 but he's led

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 by a few disciples,

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 scraggly castoffs

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 from everyone else

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 that escort him in.

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 He came in

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 not on a parade

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 of chariots

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 and royal horses,

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 but yet on the back

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 of a donkey

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 as he journeys in.

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 Jesus came

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 not greeted

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 by dignitaries

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 and politicians,

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 but by the common people

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 of the town.

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 Jesus came

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 not for their approval,

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 but they were shouting,

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 Hosanna,

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 Hosanna,

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 Hosanna,

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 but yet just a few days later

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 would shout,

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 crucify,

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 crucify,

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 crucify.

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 Jesus came

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 for his throne

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 not by taking life,

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 but yet by offering

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 his lives

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 for those

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 who were guilty.

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 Jesus came

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 in gentleness,

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 in humility,

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 in thankfulness,

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 in obedience

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 to the Father.

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 Jesus came

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 in humility

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 of the thoughts

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 and the actions

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 and what he would do

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 for others.

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 This is the gentle Messiah

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 that we see.

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 Now as we read through

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 and we're going to look

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 at some of these,

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 in fact just one verse later

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 in verse 12 here

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 in just a moment

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 we'll start this

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 and you're going to say

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 but Bo,

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 that doesn't look like

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 Jesus being very gentle.

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 And you're right

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 if we define gentleness

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 the way that we see it.

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 But even in the acts

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 of what Jesus

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 is going to do

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 we see humility,

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 thankfulness,

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 and obedience

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 toward the Father

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 and polite

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 and restrained

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 in thinking of others

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 in his behavior.

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 We get verse 12 and 13

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 in Matthew 21.

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 Jesus entered the temple

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 and drove out

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 all who sold

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 and bought

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 in the temple.

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 And he overturned

00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:27.460
 the tables

00:25:27.460 --> 00:25:29.340
 of the money changers

00:25:29.340 --> 00:25:31.180
 and the seats

00:25:31.180 --> 00:25:31.780
 of those

00:25:31.780 --> 00:25:32.980
 who sold pigeons.

00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:35.920
 He said to them

00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.220
 it is written

00:25:37.220 --> 00:25:38.520
 my house

00:25:38.520 --> 00:25:39.960
 shall be called

00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:41.560
 a house of prayer

00:25:41.560 --> 00:25:43.000
 but you make it

00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:44.620
 a den of robbers.

00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:46.360
 And what we see here

00:25:46.360 --> 00:25:47.360
 is the obedient servant.

00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:49.120
 The obedient servant.

00:25:49.280 --> 00:25:49.420
 Now

00:25:49.420 --> 00:25:51.040
 there's been a lot

00:25:51.040 --> 00:25:51.520
 of speculation

00:25:51.520 --> 00:25:52.440
 about what Jesus

00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:53.000
 looks like.

00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:54.580
 Right?

00:25:55.540 --> 00:25:56.740
 From the color

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:57.520
 of his skin

00:25:57.520 --> 00:25:59.340
 to the color

00:25:59.340 --> 00:25:59.920
 of his hair.

00:26:01.100 --> 00:26:02.100
 And I'll be honest

00:26:02.100 --> 00:26:02.280
 with you

00:26:02.280 --> 00:26:03.380
 I don't know.

00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:05.540
 I don't know

00:26:05.540 --> 00:26:06.580
 in those physical

00:26:06.580 --> 00:26:07.460
 contexts

00:26:07.460 --> 00:26:08.060
 what Jesus

00:26:08.060 --> 00:26:09.560
 exactly looked like.

00:26:10.520 --> 00:26:11.840
 But I believe

00:26:11.840 --> 00:26:12.740
 Jesus in his

00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:13.980
 physical presence

00:26:13.980 --> 00:26:15.160
 was a large enough

00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:16.140
 man that when he

00:26:16.140 --> 00:26:17.220
 walked in the room

00:26:17.220 --> 00:26:18.180
 you took notice.

00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:20.240
 Why do I believe that?

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:21.100
 Because of this.

00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:23.060
 Now

00:26:23.060 --> 00:26:24.260
 think about this.

00:26:25.300 --> 00:26:26.420
 Go to the mall

00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:26.900
 today

00:26:26.900 --> 00:26:28.940
 and go start

00:26:28.940 --> 00:26:29.820
 turning over tables.

00:26:31.520 --> 00:26:32.760
 Go try to chase

00:26:32.760 --> 00:26:33.520
 everybody out.

00:26:34.420 --> 00:26:35.140
 There's some big

00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:36.040
 people in here.

00:26:37.100 --> 00:26:37.880
 I don't know

00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:38.680
 if that one

00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:39.700
 we could do that.

00:26:40.660 --> 00:26:41.860
 But Jesus did.

00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:43.280
 Jesus

00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:43.880
 in his

00:26:43.880 --> 00:26:45.320
 physical presence

00:26:45.320 --> 00:26:46.540
 was dominating

00:26:46.540 --> 00:26:47.340
 enough

00:26:47.340 --> 00:26:48.260
 that he came

00:26:48.260 --> 00:26:48.640
 in

00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:49.400
 and people

00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:50.060
 fled

00:26:50.060 --> 00:26:50.960
 when he

00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:51.500
 showed

00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:52.020
 what he was

00:26:52.020 --> 00:26:52.660
 going to do.

00:26:54.060 --> 00:26:55.060
 but being the

00:26:55.060 --> 00:26:55.740
 obedient servant.

00:26:57.180 --> 00:26:57.760
 He's the area

00:26:57.760 --> 00:26:58.400
 of the temple

00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:59.560
 that Jesus

00:26:59.560 --> 00:27:00.140
 entered

00:27:00.140 --> 00:27:01.480
 was the area

00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:02.000
 of the temple

00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:02.620
 where people

00:27:02.620 --> 00:27:03.680
 would purchase

00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:04.880
 what they needed

00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:05.780
 in order

00:27:05.780 --> 00:27:06.640
 to offer

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.540
 their sacrifice

00:27:07.540 --> 00:27:08.200
 to God

00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:09.360
 which was required

00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:10.340
 that they bring

00:27:10.340 --> 00:27:11.100
 their sacrifice.

00:27:11.540 --> 00:27:12.240
 But the manner

00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:13.100
 in which it

00:27:13.100 --> 00:27:13.700
 happened

00:27:13.700 --> 00:27:14.900
 was not.

00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:16.480
 What had

00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:17.280
 happened was

00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:17.860
 the place

00:27:17.860 --> 00:27:18.600
 that should have

00:27:18.600 --> 00:27:19.800
 been for worship

00:27:19.800 --> 00:27:20.680
 and prayer

00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:21.500
 was turned

00:27:21.500 --> 00:27:22.740
 into a place

00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:23.560
 of business

00:27:23.560 --> 00:27:24.260
 and a lot

00:27:24.260 --> 00:27:24.600
 of people

00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:25.160
 believe

00:27:25.160 --> 00:27:25.920
 a place

00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:26.520
 of deep

00:27:26.520 --> 00:27:27.320
 corruption

00:27:27.320 --> 00:27:28.640
 and a place

00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:29.340
 where some

00:27:29.340 --> 00:27:29.860
 of those

00:27:29.860 --> 00:27:30.500
 who weren't

00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:31.540
 from this

00:27:31.540 --> 00:27:31.880
 part

00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:32.260
 who weren't

00:27:32.260 --> 00:27:33.100
 from Jerusalem

00:27:33.100 --> 00:27:33.840
 were being

00:27:33.840 --> 00:27:34.720
 taken advantage

00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:35.060
 of

00:27:35.060 --> 00:27:35.680
 even they

00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:36.600
 were required

00:27:36.600 --> 00:27:37.500
 to be

00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:38.560
 in Jerusalem

00:27:38.560 --> 00:27:39.660
 for Passover.

00:27:40.040 --> 00:27:40.800
 Matthew's account

00:27:40.800 --> 00:27:41.540
 says that

00:27:41.540 --> 00:27:42.880
 Jesus claims

00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:43.520
 this is a house

00:27:43.520 --> 00:27:44.220
 of prayer

00:27:44.220 --> 00:27:45.260
 but Mark

00:27:45.260 --> 00:27:46.020
 says that

00:27:46.020 --> 00:27:46.480
 this was a

00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:47.180
 house of prayer

00:27:47.180 --> 00:27:48.160
 for all

00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:49.060
 nations

00:27:49.060 --> 00:27:50.860
 which leads

00:27:50.860 --> 00:27:51.500
 us to believe

00:27:51.500 --> 00:27:51.860
 that there were

00:27:51.860 --> 00:27:52.540
 people also

00:27:52.540 --> 00:27:53.400
 being excluded.

00:27:54.560 --> 00:27:54.800
 And as

00:27:54.800 --> 00:27:55.380
 Jesus came

00:27:55.380 --> 00:27:56.060
 in to

00:27:56.060 --> 00:27:56.620
 establish

00:27:56.620 --> 00:27:57.780
 here's the

00:27:57.780 --> 00:27:58.080
 point

00:27:58.080 --> 00:28:00.300
 the temple

00:28:00.300 --> 00:28:01.600
 had become

00:28:01.600 --> 00:28:02.380
 more about

00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:02.860
 Jewish

00:28:02.860 --> 00:28:03.860
 nationalism

00:28:03.860 --> 00:28:05.300
 and business

00:28:05.300 --> 00:28:06.720
 than it had

00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:07.300
 about worship

00:28:07.300 --> 00:28:07.760
 and prayer

00:28:07.760 --> 00:28:07.800
 here.

00:28:08.740 --> 00:28:09.200
 And Jesus

00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:09.700
 says this

00:28:09.700 --> 00:28:11.000
 is unacceptable

00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:12.620
 unacceptable.

00:28:13.620 --> 00:28:14.160
 And what

00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:14.700
 our culture

00:28:14.700 --> 00:28:15.340
 would say

00:28:15.340 --> 00:28:16.740
 is him

00:28:16.740 --> 00:28:17.220
 not being

00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:17.660
 gentle

00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:19.120
 I would

00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:19.500
 argue

00:28:19.500 --> 00:28:20.840
 as Jesus

00:28:20.840 --> 00:28:21.180
 is being

00:28:21.180 --> 00:28:21.940
 very gentle

00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:23.440
 as he

00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:24.080
 tosses over

00:28:24.080 --> 00:28:24.700
 the tables

00:28:24.700 --> 00:28:26.100
 and as he

00:28:26.100 --> 00:28:26.880
 runs them

00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:28.060
 out of the

00:28:28.060 --> 00:28:28.700
 temple courtyard

00:28:28.700 --> 00:28:29.260
 that's there

00:28:29.260 --> 00:28:31.140
 because he

00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:31.600
 did it

00:28:31.600 --> 00:28:32.740
 in humility

00:28:32.740 --> 00:28:34.120
 and thankfulness

00:28:34.120 --> 00:28:35.280
 and obedience

00:28:35.280 --> 00:28:36.020
 to the

00:28:36.020 --> 00:28:36.240
 Lord.

00:28:37.260 --> 00:28:37.620
 And he

00:28:37.620 --> 00:28:38.420
 did it

00:28:38.420 --> 00:28:39.740
 in polite

00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:41.340
 stick with me

00:28:41.340 --> 00:28:42.600
 restrained

00:28:42.600 --> 00:28:43.180
 behavior

00:28:43.180 --> 00:28:44.180
 toward others.

00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:46.300
 He could

00:28:46.300 --> 00:28:47.540
 have condemned

00:28:47.540 --> 00:28:47.920
 them

00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:50.220
 and instead

00:28:50.220 --> 00:28:51.420
 just like he

00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:52.020
 took mine

00:28:52.020 --> 00:28:52.980
 and just like

00:28:52.980 --> 00:28:53.580
 he took yours

00:28:53.580 --> 00:28:54.580
 he took their

00:28:54.580 --> 00:28:55.020
 sins

00:28:55.020 --> 00:28:55.520
 and he

00:28:55.520 --> 00:28:55.760
 took him

00:28:55.760 --> 00:28:55.960
 to the

00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:56.240
 cross.

00:28:57.400 --> 00:28:57.900
 In that

00:28:57.900 --> 00:28:58.120
 moment.

00:28:58.200 --> 00:28:58.700
 So what we

00:28:58.700 --> 00:28:59.960
 see here

00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:00.760
 is the

00:29:00.760 --> 00:29:01.400
 obedient

00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:02.200
 servant

00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:02.700
 of Christ.

00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:03.340
 Now jump

00:29:03.340 --> 00:29:03.700
 over to

00:29:03.700 --> 00:29:04.580
 chapter 23.

00:29:07.780 --> 00:29:08.620
 During the

00:29:08.620 --> 00:29:09.020
 rest of

00:29:09.020 --> 00:29:09.700
 21 and

00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:10.000
 22

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:10.540
 Jesus does

00:29:10.540 --> 00:29:10.740
 some

00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:11.280
 wonderful

00:29:11.280 --> 00:29:12.080
 teaching

00:29:12.080 --> 00:29:13.700
 and then

00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:14.240
 in 23

00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:14.780
 we're going

00:29:14.780 --> 00:29:14.900
 to see

00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:15.260
 another

00:29:15.260 --> 00:29:15.740
 moment

00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:16.280
 of conflict.

00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:16.420
 Let's

00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:16.560
 look at

00:29:16.560 --> 00:29:16.840
 the first

00:29:16.840 --> 00:29:17.340
 three

00:29:17.340 --> 00:29:17.680
 verses.

00:29:19.820 --> 00:29:20.060
 It says

00:29:20.060 --> 00:29:20.640
 then Jesus

00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:21.320
 said to

00:29:21.320 --> 00:29:21.940
 the crowds

00:29:21.940 --> 00:29:22.880
 and to

00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:23.160
 his

00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:23.740
 disciples

00:29:23.740 --> 00:29:25.920
 the

00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:26.560
 scribes

00:29:26.560 --> 00:29:26.920
 and the

00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:27.560
 Pharisees

00:29:27.560 --> 00:29:28.280
 sit on

00:29:28.280 --> 00:29:28.680
 Moses'

00:29:28.980 --> 00:29:29.240
 seat

00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:30.100
 so do

00:29:30.100 --> 00:29:30.700
 and observe

00:29:30.700 --> 00:29:31.280
 whatever they

00:29:31.280 --> 00:29:31.880
 tell you

00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:33.060
 but not

00:29:33.060 --> 00:29:33.600
 the works

00:29:33.600 --> 00:29:34.120
 they do

00:29:34.120 --> 00:29:36.060
 for they

00:29:36.060 --> 00:29:36.840
 preach

00:29:36.840 --> 00:29:38.140
 but they

00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:38.720
 do not

00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:39.500
 practice.

00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:41.040
 Now

00:29:41.040 --> 00:29:41.720
 this

00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:42.880
 few words

00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:43.440
 of Jesus

00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:44.180
 and he

00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:44.700
 continues

00:29:44.700 --> 00:29:45.340
 on

00:29:45.340 --> 00:29:45.780
 with

00:29:45.780 --> 00:29:46.620
 describing

00:29:46.620 --> 00:29:47.480
 what this

00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:48.160
 looks like

00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:48.740
 in their

00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:49.100
 life

00:29:49.100 --> 00:29:50.280
 but what

00:29:50.280 --> 00:29:50.900
 Jesus is

00:29:50.900 --> 00:29:51.760
 doing here

00:29:51.760 --> 00:29:52.480
 in this

00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:53.020
 moment

00:29:53.020 --> 00:29:53.440
 we

00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:53.940
 understand

00:29:53.940 --> 00:29:54.660
 as the

00:29:54.660 --> 00:29:55.140
 gentle

00:29:55.140 --> 00:29:55.700
 messiah

00:29:55.700 --> 00:29:56.080
 he is

00:29:56.080 --> 00:29:56.520
 also

00:29:56.520 --> 00:29:56.880
 the

00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:57.300
 confronter

00:29:57.300 --> 00:29:57.740
 of sin.

00:29:58.960 --> 00:29:59.320
 Jesus

00:29:59.320 --> 00:30:00.060
 is addressing

00:30:00.060 --> 00:30:01.040
 the religious

00:30:01.040 --> 00:30:01.760
 elite

00:30:01.760 --> 00:30:02.480
 those who

00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:02.740
 think

00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:02.980
 they've

00:30:02.980 --> 00:30:03.200
 got it

00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:03.460
 all

00:30:03.460 --> 00:30:03.840
 figured

00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:04.160
 out

00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:04.620
 and what

00:30:04.620 --> 00:30:04.880
 he's

00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:05.240
 bringing

00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:05.800
 before

00:30:05.800 --> 00:30:06.160
 them

00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:06.720
 is the

00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:07.380
 acknowledgement

00:30:07.380 --> 00:30:08.060
 of the

00:30:08.060 --> 00:30:08.360
 depth

00:30:08.360 --> 00:30:08.680
 of their

00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:09.340
 depravity

00:30:09.340 --> 00:30:09.920
 and the

00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:10.140
 sin

00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:10.440
 in which

00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:10.620
 they

00:30:10.620 --> 00:30:10.920
 live.

00:30:11.740 --> 00:30:11.960
 You see

00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:12.660
 being

00:30:12.660 --> 00:30:13.260
 gentle

00:30:13.260 --> 00:30:14.240
 does not

00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:14.700
 mean

00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:15.300
 that you

00:30:15.300 --> 00:30:15.800
 don't deal

00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:16.360
 with sin

00:30:16.360 --> 00:30:17.100
 your sin

00:30:17.100 --> 00:30:17.320
 and the

00:30:17.320 --> 00:30:17.580
 sin of

00:30:17.580 --> 00:30:17.800
 others

00:30:17.800 --> 00:30:18.540
 the exact

00:30:18.540 --> 00:30:18.980
 opposite

00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:19.460
 being

00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:19.880
 gentle

00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:20.240
 means

00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:20.960
 you deal

00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:21.300
 with it

00:30:21.300 --> 00:30:21.720
 and look

00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:21.920
 at what

00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:22.160
 Jesus

00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:22.520
 does

00:30:22.520 --> 00:30:22.900
 here

00:30:22.900 --> 00:30:23.240
 scripture

00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:23.700
 tells us

00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:24.160
 that Jesus

00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:24.840
 gives the

00:30:24.840 --> 00:30:25.720
 seven woes

00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:26.220
 to the

00:30:26.220 --> 00:30:26.720
 scribes

00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:27.060
 and the

00:30:27.060 --> 00:30:27.640
 Pharisees

00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:28.580
 now the

00:30:28.580 --> 00:30:29.120
 woe here

00:30:29.120 --> 00:30:29.520
 means that

00:30:29.520 --> 00:30:30.020
 Jesus

00:30:30.020 --> 00:30:31.420
 is pronouncing

00:30:31.420 --> 00:30:32.200
 judgment

00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:33.920
 this is a

00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:34.700
 heavy word

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:36.220
 this is a

00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:36.700
 word that

00:30:36.700 --> 00:30:37.100
 would be

00:30:37.100 --> 00:30:38.240
 used in

00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:38.860
 a judicial

00:30:38.860 --> 00:30:39.800
 court to

00:30:39.800 --> 00:30:41.000
 pronounce a

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:42.180
 guilty judgment

00:30:42.180 --> 00:30:42.940
 on them

00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:43.760
 and Jesus

00:30:43.760 --> 00:30:44.700
 looks at

00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:45.400
 them and

00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:46.440
 seven different

00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:47.360
 times he

00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:48.480
 says woe

00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:49.320
 to them

00:30:49.320 --> 00:30:50.080
 you are

00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:50.560
 guilty

00:30:50.560 --> 00:30:51.380
 a group of

00:30:51.380 --> 00:30:52.260
 individuals who

00:30:52.260 --> 00:30:52.780
 feel like they

00:30:52.780 --> 00:30:53.380
 are not guilty

00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:54.080
 of anything at

00:30:54.080 --> 00:30:54.300
 all

00:30:54.300 --> 00:30:55.940
 a group of

00:30:55.940 --> 00:30:56.380
 people who

00:30:56.380 --> 00:30:57.080
 feel like in

00:30:57.080 --> 00:30:57.420
 and of

00:30:57.420 --> 00:30:57.960
 themselves

00:30:57.960 --> 00:30:58.760
 they are

00:30:58.760 --> 00:30:59.760
 achieving and

00:30:59.760 --> 00:31:00.580
 have achieved

00:31:00.580 --> 00:31:01.640
 perfection that

00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:02.360
 God requires

00:31:02.360 --> 00:31:02.840
 from them

00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:04.780
 Jesus brings

00:31:04.780 --> 00:31:05.240
 some harsh

00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:05.740
 words to

00:31:05.740 --> 00:31:06.380
 them in

00:31:06.380 --> 00:31:07.420
 verse 13

00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:09.220
 he calls

00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:10.020
 them hypocrites

00:31:10.020 --> 00:31:12.420
 and goes on

00:31:12.420 --> 00:31:13.080
 to tell them

00:31:13.080 --> 00:31:13.480
 that through

00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:14.080
 their teachings

00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:14.440
 and through

00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:15.040
 their actions

00:31:15.040 --> 00:31:15.360
 and what

00:31:15.360 --> 00:31:15.760
 they do

00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:16.680
 not only do

00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:17.240
 they condemn

00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:18.260
 themselves but

00:31:18.260 --> 00:31:18.780
 they condemn

00:31:18.780 --> 00:31:19.300
 others to

00:31:19.300 --> 00:31:19.860
 hell as well

00:31:19.860 --> 00:31:22.300
 in verse 15

00:31:22.300 --> 00:31:23.520
 he refers to

00:31:23.520 --> 00:31:24.140
 them as

00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:24.780
 hypocrites

00:31:24.780 --> 00:31:25.660
 and children

00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:26.220
 of hell

00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:27.940
 in verse 16

00:31:27.940 --> 00:31:28.900
 Jesus says

00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:29.300
 that they are

00:31:29.300 --> 00:31:29.860
 fools

00:31:29.860 --> 00:31:31.200
 in verse 23

00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:31.820
 he says

00:31:31.820 --> 00:31:32.380
 not only

00:31:32.380 --> 00:31:33.180
 are they

00:31:33.180 --> 00:31:34.020
 in rebellion

00:31:34.020 --> 00:31:34.340
 of this

00:31:34.340 --> 00:31:34.640
 but they

00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:35.160
 neglect

00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:35.800
 justice

00:31:35.800 --> 00:31:37.120
 in verse 25

00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:37.900
 he refers

00:31:37.900 --> 00:31:38.300
 to them

00:31:38.300 --> 00:31:39.180
 as greedy

00:31:39.180 --> 00:31:40.380
 in verse 27

00:31:40.380 --> 00:31:41.020
 he says

00:31:41.020 --> 00:31:41.300
 that they

00:31:41.300 --> 00:31:42.240
 are whitewashed

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:42.680
 tombs

00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:43.940
 spiritually dead

00:31:43.940 --> 00:31:45.540
 in verse 29

00:31:45.540 --> 00:31:47.100
 he refers to

00:31:47.100 --> 00:31:47.300
 them as

00:31:47.300 --> 00:31:48.580
 murderers

00:31:48.580 --> 00:31:50.020
 murderers

00:31:50.020 --> 00:31:51.760
 Jesus

00:31:51.760 --> 00:31:53.040
 does not

00:31:53.040 --> 00:31:54.020
 hold

00:31:54.020 --> 00:31:54.820
 back

00:31:54.820 --> 00:31:56.900
 Jesus

00:31:56.900 --> 00:31:57.360
 is the

00:31:57.360 --> 00:31:58.120
 confronter

00:31:58.120 --> 00:31:58.860
 of the

00:31:58.860 --> 00:31:59.140
 sin

00:31:59.140 --> 00:32:00.580
 so how

00:32:00.580 --> 00:32:00.920
 is this

00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:01.200
 gentle

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:03.160
 how is

00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:03.300
 this

00:32:03.300 --> 00:32:03.780
 continued

00:32:03.780 --> 00:32:04.480
 evidence

00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:05.640
 of the

00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:06.020
 gentleness

00:32:06.020 --> 00:32:06.620
 of Christ

00:32:06.620 --> 00:32:08.720
 because of

00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:09.600
 their air

00:32:09.600 --> 00:32:10.340
 that still

00:32:10.340 --> 00:32:11.140
 fills their

00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:11.920
 lungs

00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:12.700
 and their

00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:13.400
 moment

00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:14.460
 and opportunity

00:32:14.460 --> 00:32:15.760
 to understand

00:32:15.760 --> 00:32:16.260
 Jesus

00:32:16.260 --> 00:32:17.180
 as the

00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:17.720
 Messiah

00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:19.100
 and repent

00:32:19.100 --> 00:32:21.100
 and in

00:32:21.100 --> 00:32:22.220
 verse 37

00:32:22.220 --> 00:32:22.660
 we look

00:32:22.660 --> 00:32:22.960
 back

00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:23.700
 at the

00:32:23.700 --> 00:32:23.940
 end of

00:32:23.940 --> 00:32:24.540
 chapter 23

00:32:24.540 --> 00:32:27.000
 he looks

00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:27.560
 over

00:32:27.560 --> 00:32:28.900
 all of

00:32:28.900 --> 00:32:29.400
 Jerusalem

00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.280
 and the

00:32:31.280 --> 00:32:31.780
 scripture tells

00:32:31.780 --> 00:32:32.140
 us that he

00:32:32.140 --> 00:32:32.960
 laments

00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:33.760
 over

00:32:33.760 --> 00:32:34.320
 Jerusalem

00:32:34.320 --> 00:32:36.120
 and Jesus

00:32:36.120 --> 00:32:36.920
 grieves

00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:38.520
 verse 37

00:32:38.520 --> 00:32:39.220
 through 39

00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:40.900
 oh

00:32:40.900 --> 00:32:41.680
 Jerusalem

00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:43.560
 Jerusalem

00:32:43.560 --> 00:32:45.500
 the city

00:32:45.500 --> 00:32:46.160
 that kills

00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:47.020
 the prophets

00:32:47.020 --> 00:32:48.720
 and stones

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:49.300
 those who

00:32:49.300 --> 00:32:49.660
 are sent

00:32:49.660 --> 00:32:50.040
 to it

00:32:50.040 --> 00:32:51.620
 how often

00:32:51.620 --> 00:32:51.860
 would I

00:32:51.860 --> 00:32:52.340
 have gathered

00:32:52.340 --> 00:32:52.920
 your children

00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:53.480
 together

00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:54.720
 as a

00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:55.040
 hen

00:32:55.040 --> 00:32:55.440
 gathers

00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:56.140
 her brood

00:32:56.140 --> 00:32:56.660
 under her

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:57.120
 wings

00:32:57.120 --> 00:32:58.140
 and you

00:32:58.140 --> 00:32:58.520
 are not

00:32:58.520 --> 00:32:58.920
 willing

00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:00.480
 see your

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:00.960
 house

00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:01.600
 is left

00:33:01.600 --> 00:33:02.080
 to you

00:33:02.080 --> 00:33:02.880
 desolate

00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:04.180
 for I

00:33:04.180 --> 00:33:04.680
 tell you

00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:05.060
 you will

00:33:05.060 --> 00:33:05.600
 not see

00:33:05.600 --> 00:33:06.280
 me again

00:33:06.280 --> 00:33:06.860
 until you

00:33:06.860 --> 00:33:07.220
 say

00:33:07.220 --> 00:33:08.320
 blessed

00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:09.400
 is he

00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:10.020
 who

00:33:10.020 --> 00:33:10.660
 comes

00:33:10.660 --> 00:33:11.480
 in the

00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:11.920
 name

00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:12.460
 of the

00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:12.780
 Lord

00:33:12.780 --> 00:33:14.000
 and so

00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:14.640
 Jesus

00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.220
 in the

00:33:16.220 --> 00:33:16.580
 journey

00:33:16.580 --> 00:33:16.940
 that he

00:33:16.940 --> 00:33:17.440
 knows

00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:18.180
 will lead

00:33:18.180 --> 00:33:18.400
 him to

00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:19.060
 the cross

00:33:19.060 --> 00:33:20.640
 looks

00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:21.240
 over

00:33:21.240 --> 00:33:22.720
 the city

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:24.460
 and he

00:33:24.460 --> 00:33:24.900
 grieves

00:33:24.900 --> 00:33:27.140
 one

00:33:27.140 --> 00:33:27.160
 one

00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:27.320
 of the

00:33:27.320 --> 00:33:27.560
 things

00:33:27.560 --> 00:33:27.800
 that we

00:33:27.800 --> 00:33:28.140
 had the

00:33:28.140 --> 00:33:28.620
 opportunity

00:33:28.620 --> 00:33:29.320
 to do

00:33:29.320 --> 00:33:31.120
 while we

00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:31.340
 were on

00:33:31.340 --> 00:33:31.780
 our trip

00:33:31.780 --> 00:33:33.240
 was go

00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:33.540
 up to

00:33:33.540 --> 00:33:34.240
 some tops

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:34.520
 of some

00:33:34.520 --> 00:33:34.900
 mountains

00:33:34.900 --> 00:33:36.880
 and I

00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:37.180
 want to be

00:33:37.180 --> 00:33:37.680
 honest with you

00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:38.020
 it was one

00:33:38.020 --> 00:33:38.440
 of the most

00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:40.120
 beautiful in both

00:33:40.120 --> 00:33:40.780
 of the settings

00:33:40.780 --> 00:33:41.340
 one of the most

00:33:41.340 --> 00:33:42.860
 beautiful pictures

00:33:42.860 --> 00:33:44.380
 that I'd ever had

00:33:44.380 --> 00:33:45.000
 the privilege and the

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:45.840
 opportunity to see

00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:46.940
 in person with my own

00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:47.200
 eyes

00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:49.080
 one of the places

00:33:49.080 --> 00:33:50.560
 we went

00:33:50.560 --> 00:33:51.300
 I believe the name

00:33:51.300 --> 00:33:51.840
 of it was

00:33:51.840 --> 00:33:52.760
 was Ensign

00:33:52.760 --> 00:33:53.100
 Mount

00:33:53.100 --> 00:33:53.760
 it was the

00:33:53.760 --> 00:33:55.300
 the top of the

00:33:55.300 --> 00:33:56.120
 mountain that it is

00:33:56.120 --> 00:33:57.320
 believed that when

00:33:57.320 --> 00:33:58.680
 the Mormon

00:33:58.680 --> 00:33:59.460
 pioneers

00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:00.720
 came to Salt

00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:01.840
 Lake area

00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:02.140
 right

00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:02.940
 because it was not

00:34:02.940 --> 00:34:03.720
 anything at that

00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:04.560
 point it was all

00:34:04.560 --> 00:34:05.980
 wilderness and desert

00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:07.200
 that they came over

00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:07.860
 this mount

00:34:07.860 --> 00:34:08.520
 they were able to

00:34:08.520 --> 00:34:09.080
 look out

00:34:09.080 --> 00:34:10.320
 and see down

00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:11.740
 into this valley

00:34:11.740 --> 00:34:12.540
 and it was

00:34:12.540 --> 00:34:13.720
 decided that this

00:34:13.720 --> 00:34:14.600
 is where

00:34:14.600 --> 00:34:15.860
 Mormonism's home

00:34:15.860 --> 00:34:16.360
 would be

00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:17.780
 and that this is

00:34:17.780 --> 00:34:18.180
 where they would

00:34:18.180 --> 00:34:18.740
 settle and they

00:34:18.740 --> 00:34:18.960
 did

00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:21.600
 and as we

00:34:21.600 --> 00:34:22.440
 hike to the

00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:23.380
 top of this

00:34:23.380 --> 00:34:24.100
 point

00:34:24.100 --> 00:34:25.740
 the first thing

00:34:25.740 --> 00:34:26.360
 that came through

00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:27.220
 my mind is

00:34:27.220 --> 00:34:28.540
 boy I'm out of

00:34:28.540 --> 00:34:29.100
 shape right

00:34:29.100 --> 00:34:31.160
 still feeling it

00:34:31.160 --> 00:34:31.960
 right through here

00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:32.300
 right

00:34:32.300 --> 00:34:34.580
 but then the

00:34:34.580 --> 00:34:35.220
 second thing

00:34:35.220 --> 00:34:38.000
 when you look

00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:38.960
 past the beauty

00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:41.260
 was the depth

00:34:41.260 --> 00:34:42.100
 of the lostness

00:34:42.100 --> 00:34:44.660
 and the men

00:34:44.660 --> 00:34:45.500
 and the women

00:34:45.500 --> 00:34:46.680
 and the children

00:34:46.680 --> 00:34:47.720
 who were there

00:34:47.720 --> 00:34:49.260
 without

00:34:49.260 --> 00:34:50.860
 the hope

00:34:50.860 --> 00:34:52.080
 of Christ

00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:54.560
 and so Jesus

00:34:54.560 --> 00:34:55.420
 goes over

00:34:55.420 --> 00:34:58.060
 and he laments

00:34:58.060 --> 00:34:59.940
 over Jerusalem

00:34:59.940 --> 00:35:02.380
 he laments

00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:02.600
 because

00:35:02.600 --> 00:35:04.160
 the opportunity

00:35:04.160 --> 00:35:05.700
 for salvation

00:35:05.700 --> 00:35:07.100
 that have passed

00:35:07.100 --> 00:35:07.840
 those who have

00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:08.660
 rejected

00:35:08.660 --> 00:35:11.080
 the people

00:35:11.080 --> 00:35:11.440
 that have

00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.060
 rejected

00:35:12.060 --> 00:35:13.000
 God's

00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:13.800
 messengers

00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:14.400
 the people

00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:15.040
 who have

00:35:15.040 --> 00:35:16.000
 rejected him

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:16.720
 and the

00:35:16.720 --> 00:35:17.360
 consequence

00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:18.180
 for that

00:35:18.180 --> 00:35:19.780
 you see

00:35:19.780 --> 00:35:20.220
 Jesus

00:35:20.220 --> 00:35:20.900
 in all

00:35:20.900 --> 00:35:21.400
 of this

00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:22.660
 what we're

00:35:22.660 --> 00:35:23.200
 continuing

00:35:23.200 --> 00:35:24.120
 to see

00:35:24.120 --> 00:35:25.580
 is the

00:35:25.580 --> 00:35:26.080
 beautiful

00:35:26.080 --> 00:35:26.600
 picture

00:35:26.600 --> 00:35:27.220
 of his

00:35:27.220 --> 00:35:28.320
 gentleness

00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.280
 this week

00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:33.560
 what I learned

00:35:33.560 --> 00:35:34.480
 about myself

00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:36.400
 as we walked

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:36.860
 around

00:35:36.860 --> 00:35:37.480
 and as we

00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:38.280
 looked

00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:39.860
 is sometimes

00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:40.560
 even in my

00:35:40.560 --> 00:35:40.860
 heart

00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:42.380
 there's a

00:35:42.380 --> 00:35:43.000
 propensity

00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:44.560
 for me to

00:35:44.560 --> 00:35:44.940
 get a little

00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:45.660
 happy

00:35:45.660 --> 00:35:47.640
 when someone

00:35:47.640 --> 00:35:48.240
 gets what they

00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:48.620
 deserve

00:35:48.620 --> 00:35:50.740
 when someone

00:35:50.740 --> 00:35:51.280
 gets what they

00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:51.600
 deserve

00:35:51.600 --> 00:35:53.000
 well

00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:54.380
 that's you

00:35:54.380 --> 00:35:55.960
 you got it

00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:58.220
 they had

00:35:58.220 --> 00:35:59.000
 rejected him

00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:01.100
 they had

00:36:01.100 --> 00:36:01.740
 mocked him

00:36:01.740 --> 00:36:03.820
 they would

00:36:03.820 --> 00:36:04.440
 beat him

00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:06.160
 they would

00:36:06.160 --> 00:36:07.300
 crucify him

00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:09.760
 and Jesus

00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:12.040
 his response

00:36:12.040 --> 00:36:13.240
 was to

00:36:13.240 --> 00:36:13.540
 grieve

00:36:13.540 --> 00:36:15.340
 not for

00:36:15.340 --> 00:36:15.920
 himself

00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:18.940
 but for them

00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:21.700
 so what does

00:36:21.700 --> 00:36:22.240
 it mean

00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:23.880
 as we wrap

00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:24.060
 up

00:36:24.060 --> 00:36:24.340
 what does

00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:24.780
 it mean

00:36:24.780 --> 00:36:26.240
 to be

00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:26.520
 gentle

00:36:26.520 --> 00:36:27.160
 like Jesus

00:36:27.160 --> 00:36:28.920
 because it's

00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:29.280
 not just

00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:29.840
 enough for us

00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:30.240
 to point

00:36:30.240 --> 00:36:30.540
 to a

00:36:30.540 --> 00:36:30.680
 gentle

00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:31.040
 savior

00:36:31.040 --> 00:36:33.260
 Paul

00:36:33.260 --> 00:36:33.880
 calls us

00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:34.220
 Jesus

00:36:34.220 --> 00:36:34.980
 calls us

00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:36.020
 to be

00:36:36.020 --> 00:36:36.400
 gentle

00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:37.640
 to be

00:36:37.640 --> 00:36:37.980
 meek

00:36:37.980 --> 00:36:39.660
 so in light

00:36:39.660 --> 00:36:39.920
 of these

00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:40.440
 two chapters

00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:41.000
 what does

00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:41.380
 that look

00:36:41.380 --> 00:36:41.700
 like

00:36:41.700 --> 00:36:43.060
 for us

00:36:43.060 --> 00:36:45.020
 I got

00:36:45.020 --> 00:36:45.480
 away from

00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:45.960
 the house

00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:46.480
 this week

00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:47.820
 for a few

00:36:47.820 --> 00:36:48.240
 hours

00:36:48.240 --> 00:36:49.080
 to get

00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:49.740
 some quiet

00:36:49.740 --> 00:36:50.900
 and I'll

00:36:50.900 --> 00:36:51.360
 be honest

00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:52.080
 a cup

00:36:52.080 --> 00:36:52.560
 of Starbucks

00:36:52.560 --> 00:36:53.080
 coffee

00:36:53.080 --> 00:36:53.640
 alright

00:36:53.640 --> 00:36:55.680
 as we studied

00:36:55.680 --> 00:36:56.440
 through this

00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:57.320
 and reading

00:36:57.320 --> 00:36:57.760
 over it

00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:58.140
 God laid

00:36:58.140 --> 00:36:58.560
 these three

00:36:58.560 --> 00:36:58.900
 things

00:36:58.900 --> 00:36:59.100
 and we'll

00:36:59.100 --> 00:36:59.420
 close with

00:36:59.420 --> 00:36:59.660
 these on

00:36:59.660 --> 00:37:00.040
 my heart

00:37:00.040 --> 00:37:00.880
 we'll close

00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:01.160
 with these

00:37:01.160 --> 00:37:01.400
 he laid

00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:01.700
 these on

00:37:01.700 --> 00:37:02.060
 my heart

00:37:02.060 --> 00:37:02.920
 number one

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:03.180
 it means

00:37:03.180 --> 00:37:03.600
 taking up

00:37:03.600 --> 00:37:04.000
 your cross

00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:05.540
 taking up

00:37:05.540 --> 00:37:05.960
 your cross

00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:08.020
 and Jesus

00:37:08.020 --> 00:37:08.660
 journey to

00:37:08.660 --> 00:37:09.120
 the cross

00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:09.500
 did not

00:37:09.500 --> 00:37:09.920
 begin on

00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:10.200
 the road

00:37:10.200 --> 00:37:10.780
 to Jerusalem

00:37:10.780 --> 00:37:12.480
 it began

00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:12.980
 in a manger

00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:13.580
 in Bethlehem

00:37:13.580 --> 00:37:15.080
 from his

00:37:15.080 --> 00:37:15.380
 birth

00:37:15.380 --> 00:37:15.780
 this is

00:37:15.780 --> 00:37:16.380
 his journey

00:37:16.380 --> 00:37:16.940
 he would

00:37:16.940 --> 00:37:17.160
 go

00:37:17.160 --> 00:37:18.660
 and from

00:37:18.660 --> 00:37:19.440
 our birth

00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:20.160
 our new

00:37:20.160 --> 00:37:20.560
 life

00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:21.160
 in Christ

00:37:21.160 --> 00:37:22.320
 our rebirth

00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:22.840
 that we are

00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:23.800
 given by him

00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:24.200
 comes with

00:37:24.200 --> 00:37:25.120
 very clean

00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:26.020
 expectations

00:37:26.020 --> 00:37:26.440
 from the

00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:26.660
 Lord

00:37:26.660 --> 00:37:28.440
 daily

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:30.200
 daily

00:37:30.200 --> 00:37:31.420
 take up

00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:32.020
 our cross

00:37:32.020 --> 00:37:33.080
 and follow

00:37:33.080 --> 00:37:33.340
 him

00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:34.960
 and that

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:35.400
 means is

00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:36.040
 what we see

00:37:36.040 --> 00:37:36.520
 of Jesus

00:37:36.520 --> 00:37:37.100
 in obedience

00:37:37.100 --> 00:37:37.460
 to the

00:37:37.460 --> 00:37:37.780
 father

00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:38.120
 is the

00:37:38.120 --> 00:37:38.360
 level

00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:39.180
 of obedience

00:37:39.180 --> 00:37:39.980
 for us

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:41.560
 that I lay

00:37:41.560 --> 00:37:41.940
 down my

00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:42.300
 rights

00:37:42.300 --> 00:37:42.560
 I lay

00:37:42.560 --> 00:37:42.900
 down my

00:37:42.900 --> 00:37:43.300
 privileges

00:37:43.300 --> 00:37:43.740
 I lay

00:37:43.740 --> 00:37:44.320
 down my

00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:45.320
 preferences

00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:46.680
 I lay

00:37:46.680 --> 00:37:47.000
 down my

00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:47.700
 disagreements

00:37:47.700 --> 00:37:48.020
 I lay

00:37:48.020 --> 00:37:48.500
 down my

00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:49.920
 actions

00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:50.260
 I lay

00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:50.780
 down your

00:37:50.780 --> 00:37:51.160
 actions

00:37:51.160 --> 00:37:51.440
 I lay

00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:52.420
 all these

00:37:52.420 --> 00:37:52.800
 down

00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:53.500
 and I

00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:54.120
 take up

00:37:54.120 --> 00:37:54.900
 my cross

00:37:54.900 --> 00:37:55.460
 not to

00:37:55.460 --> 00:37:56.380
 follow my

00:37:56.380 --> 00:37:56.880
 agenda

00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:57.780
 my goals

00:37:57.780 --> 00:37:58.460
 my will

00:37:58.460 --> 00:37:58.760
 but to

00:37:58.760 --> 00:37:59.600
 follow his

00:37:59.600 --> 00:38:00.760
 and it's

00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:01.420
 what we see

00:38:01.420 --> 00:38:01.920
 in the life

00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:02.380
 of Christ

00:38:02.380 --> 00:38:03.240
 of everything

00:38:03.240 --> 00:38:03.680
 that the

00:38:03.680 --> 00:38:04.200
 father had

00:38:04.200 --> 00:38:04.600
 laid out

00:38:04.600 --> 00:38:04.920
 for him

00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:05.520
 the son

00:38:05.520 --> 00:38:06.200
 took on

00:38:06.200 --> 00:38:06.620
 and walked

00:38:06.620 --> 00:38:06.860
 with

00:38:06.860 --> 00:38:07.320
 and then

00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:07.660
 Jesus

00:38:07.660 --> 00:38:08.260
 in our

00:38:08.260 --> 00:38:08.780
 salvation

00:38:08.780 --> 00:38:09.620
 he gives

00:38:09.620 --> 00:38:10.280
 us his

00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:10.640
 spirit

00:38:10.640 --> 00:38:11.240
 the holy

00:38:11.240 --> 00:38:11.840
 spirit

00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.380
 in trinity

00:38:12.380 --> 00:38:12.920
 the godhead

00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:13.380
 that lives

00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:14.100
 in us

00:38:14.100 --> 00:38:14.300
 that we

00:38:14.300 --> 00:38:14.880
 would follow

00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:15.820
 after him

00:38:15.820 --> 00:38:16.160
 that we

00:38:16.160 --> 00:38:16.580
 would take

00:38:16.580 --> 00:38:17.040
 up our

00:38:17.040 --> 00:38:17.400
 cross

00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:17.820
 that we

00:38:17.820 --> 00:38:18.060
 would be

00:38:18.060 --> 00:38:18.540
 willing to

00:38:18.540 --> 00:38:18.940
 suffer

00:38:18.940 --> 00:38:19.360
 that we

00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:19.520
 would be

00:38:19.520 --> 00:38:19.860
 willing to

00:38:19.860 --> 00:38:20.760
 lay aside

00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:21.340
 that in the

00:38:21.340 --> 00:38:21.900
 moment of

00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:22.280
 gentleness

00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:23.180
 is found in

00:38:23.180 --> 00:38:23.720
 servanthood to

00:38:23.720 --> 00:38:24.100
 the king

00:38:24.100 --> 00:38:26.300
 and we would

00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:26.540
 take up

00:38:26.540 --> 00:38:27.060
 after him

00:38:27.060 --> 00:38:29.280
 so gentleness

00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:30.000
 begins by

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:30.520
 taking up your

00:38:30.520 --> 00:38:30.980
 cross

00:38:30.980 --> 00:38:32.640
 and then the

00:38:32.640 --> 00:38:32.940
 second

00:38:32.940 --> 00:38:34.800
 taking up your

00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:35.480
 cross before you

00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:35.960
 turn over a

00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:36.220
 table

00:38:36.220 --> 00:38:39.120
 some of us

00:38:39.120 --> 00:38:39.440
 man we

00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:39.740
 love to

00:38:39.740 --> 00:38:40.040
 turn over

00:38:40.040 --> 00:38:40.440
 tables

00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:42.120
 table

00:38:42.120 --> 00:38:43.180
 table

00:38:43.180 --> 00:38:44.240
 table

00:38:44.240 --> 00:38:45.240
 table

00:38:45.240 --> 00:38:46.960
 but I

00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:47.180
 want to

00:38:47.180 --> 00:38:47.540
 ask you

00:38:47.540 --> 00:38:47.900
 this

00:38:47.900 --> 00:38:49.860
 sometimes

00:38:49.860 --> 00:38:50.980
 man there's

00:38:50.980 --> 00:38:51.380
 some tables

00:38:51.380 --> 00:38:51.800
 we need to

00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:52.260
 turn over

00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:53.920
 in fact the

00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:54.740
 sin that most

00:38:54.740 --> 00:38:55.440
 of us probably

00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:56.180
 suffer from

00:38:56.180 --> 00:38:56.920
 is not being

00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:57.300
 willing to

00:38:57.300 --> 00:38:57.760
 turn over a

00:38:57.760 --> 00:38:57.980
 table

00:38:57.980 --> 00:38:59.480
 that's probably

00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:00.660
 most of us

00:39:00.660 --> 00:39:01.880
 that we'll

00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:02.600
 become blind

00:39:02.600 --> 00:39:02.940
 to it

00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:03.760
 we'll ignore

00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:04.240
 it we won't

00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:04.880
 we won't do

00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:05.400
 what God's

00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:05.900
 called us

00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:06.180
 too

00:39:06.180 --> 00:39:07.800
 but if

00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:08.380
 your will

00:39:08.380 --> 00:39:09.180
 if kind of

00:39:09.180 --> 00:39:09.920
 who you are

00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:10.440
 is that

00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:11.000
 I want to

00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:11.440
 just ask you

00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:12.040
 this question

00:39:12.040 --> 00:39:13.080
 Jesus turned

00:39:13.080 --> 00:39:13.420
 over the

00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:13.960
 tables as

00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:14.220
 he was

00:39:14.220 --> 00:39:14.620
 headed to

00:39:14.620 --> 00:39:14.840
 get on

00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:15.300
 the cross

00:39:15.300 --> 00:39:17.060
 and are

00:39:17.060 --> 00:39:17.560
 you as

00:39:17.560 --> 00:39:18.080
 you take

00:39:18.080 --> 00:39:18.500
 up your

00:39:18.500 --> 00:39:18.920
 cross

00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:20.220
 every single

00:39:20.220 --> 00:39:20.900
 day

00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:21.640
 are you

00:39:21.640 --> 00:39:22.580
 doing that

00:39:22.580 --> 00:39:23.100
 in the

00:39:23.100 --> 00:39:23.480
 posture

00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:23.880
 where you're

00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:24.280
 turning over

00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:24.660
 the table

00:39:24.660 --> 00:39:25.720
 I'm not

00:39:25.720 --> 00:39:26.240
 saying don't

00:39:26.240 --> 00:39:26.680
 call out

00:39:26.680 --> 00:39:26.980
 sin

00:39:26.980 --> 00:39:28.220
 I'm not

00:39:28.220 --> 00:39:28.640
 saying don't

00:39:28.640 --> 00:39:29.100
 address it

00:39:29.100 --> 00:39:29.600
 in fact I'm

00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:30.240
 saying I

00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:30.740
 am

00:39:30.740 --> 00:39:32.380
 I am

00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:32.940
 do it

00:39:32.940 --> 00:39:34.260
 for the

00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:34.680
 glory of

00:39:34.680 --> 00:39:35.040
 the Lord

00:39:35.040 --> 00:39:37.020
 but in

00:39:37.020 --> 00:39:37.380
 that

00:39:37.380 --> 00:39:38.620
 are we

00:39:38.620 --> 00:39:39.260
 doing it

00:39:39.260 --> 00:39:39.700
 in our

00:39:39.700 --> 00:39:40.420
 servanthood to

00:39:40.420 --> 00:39:40.900
 the Lord

00:39:40.900 --> 00:39:42.140
 or are we

00:39:42.140 --> 00:39:42.740
 doing it as

00:39:42.740 --> 00:39:43.120
 we're serving

00:39:43.120 --> 00:39:43.600
 ourself

00:39:43.600 --> 00:39:45.540
 and then the

00:39:45.540 --> 00:39:46.120
 last thing

00:39:46.120 --> 00:39:48.420
 grieve over

00:39:48.420 --> 00:39:48.840
 sin

00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:50.840
 grieve over

00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:51.200
 sin

00:39:51.200 --> 00:39:53.000
 grieve over

00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:53.740
 your sin

00:39:53.740 --> 00:39:55.700
 and grieve

00:39:55.700 --> 00:39:56.320
 over the sin

00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:56.800
 of others

00:39:56.800 --> 00:39:58.900
 sin

00:39:58.900 --> 00:39:58.920
 sin

00:39:58.920 --> 00:39:59.560
 breaks

00:39:59.560 --> 00:40:00.900
 the heart

00:40:00.900 --> 00:40:01.960
 of God

00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:04.620
 our sin

00:40:04.620 --> 00:40:05.800
 that Jesus

00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:06.220
 came to

00:40:06.220 --> 00:40:06.660
 die for

00:40:06.660 --> 00:40:08.480
 would we

00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:09.240
 be willing

00:40:09.240 --> 00:40:10.260
 to grieve

00:40:10.260 --> 00:40:10.720
 over it as

00:40:10.720 --> 00:40:10.940
 well

00:40:10.940 --> 00:40:13.080
 before anger

00:40:13.080 --> 00:40:14.920
 filtrates

00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:16.280
 grieve

00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:18.460
 before your

00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:19.240
 wrath wants

00:40:19.240 --> 00:40:20.060
 to take over

00:40:20.060 --> 00:40:21.720
 grieve

00:40:21.720 --> 00:40:23.520
 because we

00:40:23.520 --> 00:40:24.060
 lived

00:40:24.060 --> 00:40:25.480
 we live

00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:27.160
 in a lost

00:40:27.160 --> 00:40:28.260
 and broken

00:40:28.260 --> 00:40:28.740
 world

00:40:28.740 --> 00:40:30.700
 let's let

00:40:30.700 --> 00:40:31.220
 God be the

00:40:31.220 --> 00:40:31.560
 judge

00:40:31.560 --> 00:40:33.440
 and let's

00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:33.740
 let us

00:40:33.740 --> 00:40:34.280
 just grieve

00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:35.720
 would you

00:40:35.720 --> 00:40:37.060
 pray with me

00:40:37.060 --> 00:40:43.560
 Lord we

00:40:43.560 --> 00:40:43.880
 come to you

00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:44.440
 this morning

00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:48.500
 Lord again we

00:40:48.500 --> 00:40:49.140
 thank you for the

00:40:49.140 --> 00:40:49.920
 wonderful privilege

00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:50.560
 that you give

00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:50.980
 us

00:40:50.980 --> 00:40:52.760
 to send

00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:53.380
 missionaries

00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:53.940
 and to go

00:40:53.940 --> 00:40:56.680
 but when we

00:40:56.680 --> 00:40:57.280
 come back

00:40:57.280 --> 00:40:57.720
 from the

00:40:57.720 --> 00:40:58.080
 trip

00:40:58.080 --> 00:41:00.440
 Lord we're

00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:00.980
 called

00:41:00.980 --> 00:41:02.040
 to be

00:41:02.040 --> 00:41:02.740
 missionaries

00:41:02.740 --> 00:41:03.760
 here as

00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:04.040
 well

00:41:04.040 --> 00:41:06.300
 and so

00:41:06.300 --> 00:41:06.760
 Lord this

00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:07.440
 morning what we

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:08.040
 have gathered

00:41:08.040 --> 00:41:09.080
 in this place

00:41:09.080 --> 00:41:10.260
 is a group

00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:10.660
 of men

00:41:10.660 --> 00:41:11.200
 women and

00:41:11.200 --> 00:41:11.720
 children who

00:41:11.720 --> 00:41:12.440
 were called

00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:13.220
 to go to

00:41:13.220 --> 00:41:14.200
 carry the

00:41:14.200 --> 00:41:14.780
 message of

00:41:14.780 --> 00:41:15.620
 Jesus where

00:41:15.620 --> 00:41:16.100
 they live

00:41:16.100 --> 00:41:16.380
 where they

00:41:16.380 --> 00:41:16.840
 work where

00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:17.660
 they play

00:41:17.660 --> 00:41:19.900
 and Lord may

00:41:19.900 --> 00:41:20.340
 we take

00:41:20.340 --> 00:41:20.680
 that

00:41:20.680 --> 00:41:22.480
 Jesus we

00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:23.300
 thank you

00:41:23.300 --> 00:41:25.180
 for embodying

00:41:25.180 --> 00:41:26.280
 the gentle

00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:27.040
 servant

00:41:27.040 --> 00:41:27.700
 the gentle

00:41:27.700 --> 00:41:28.320
 Messiah

00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.680
 Lord because

00:41:30.680 --> 00:41:31.520
 we are here

00:41:31.520 --> 00:41:31.880
 with an

00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:32.840
 opportunity to

00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:33.960
 worship you

00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:35.640
 because of

00:41:35.640 --> 00:41:36.380
 your obedience

00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:37.820
 to the

00:41:37.820 --> 00:41:38.240
 father

00:41:38.240 --> 00:41:39.340
 who sent

00:41:39.340 --> 00:41:39.600
 you

00:41:39.600 --> 00:41:41.480
 so Lord we

00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:42.240
 thank you for

00:41:42.240 --> 00:41:42.740
 being that

00:41:42.740 --> 00:41:43.500
 gentle Messiah

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:45.600
 who came

00:41:45.600 --> 00:41:45.960
 on the

00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:46.440
 back

00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:49.560
 of a

00:41:49.560 --> 00:41:49.960
 donkey

00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:53.500
 who came

00:41:53.500 --> 00:41:53.980
 before a

00:41:53.980 --> 00:41:54.560
 crowd that

00:41:54.560 --> 00:41:55.020
 would one

00:41:55.020 --> 00:41:56.540
 day shout

00:41:56.540 --> 00:41:57.180
 Hosanna

00:41:57.180 --> 00:41:59.860
 and one

00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:00.420
 day shout

00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:01.180
 crucify

00:42:01.180 --> 00:42:04.520
 you kept

00:42:04.520 --> 00:42:05.180
 your eyes

00:42:05.180 --> 00:42:06.500
 on the

00:42:06.500 --> 00:42:06.820
 father

00:42:06.820 --> 00:42:09.140
 we thank

00:42:09.140 --> 00:42:09.400
 you for

00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:09.940
 being the

00:42:09.940 --> 00:42:10.400
 obedient

00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:11.040
 servant

00:42:11.040 --> 00:42:14.380
 Lord I

00:42:14.380 --> 00:42:14.820
 know that

00:42:14.820 --> 00:42:15.160
 in my

00:42:15.160 --> 00:42:15.620
 life on

00:42:15.620 --> 00:42:16.120
 the day

00:42:16.120 --> 00:42:16.520
 of my

00:42:16.520 --> 00:42:17.040
 salvation

00:42:17.040 --> 00:42:17.960
 until today

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 Lord you're

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 turning over

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 tables in

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 my heart

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 and in

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 my life

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 confronting

00:42:24.860 --> 00:42:26.280
 me over

00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:27.080
 the sin

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 that's in

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:28.700
 my life

00:42:28.700 --> 00:42:30.900
 Lord I

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 pray that

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 we would

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 continue to

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 repent of

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 our actions

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 that are not

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 of you

00:42:35.740 --> 00:42:36.800
 that do not

00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:37.840
 glorify you

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 and Lord we

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 would be

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 willing to be

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 those same

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 obedient servants

00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:46.240
 in our own

00:42:46.240 --> 00:42:47.820
 homes in our

00:42:47.820 --> 00:42:48.600
 lives as you've

00:42:48.600 --> 00:42:49.560
 called us as

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 you've placed us

00:42:50.340 --> 00:42:51.240
 as you've led

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 us Lord

00:42:52.060 --> 00:42:53.320
 confronting sin

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 and bringing in

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 hope bringing

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 in joy and

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 bringing in

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 love and

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 kindness and

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 compassion

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 and Lord may

00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:07.880
 we be

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 gentle like

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 you

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 daily taking

00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:13.260
 up our

00:43:13.260 --> 00:43:13.740
 cross

00:43:13.740 --> 00:43:16.120
 daily

00:43:16.120 --> 00:43:17.140
 spreading

00:43:17.140 --> 00:43:17.640
 hope

00:43:17.640 --> 00:43:19.900
 daily

00:43:19.900 --> 00:43:20.340
 forming

00:43:20.340 --> 00:43:21.160
 relationships

00:43:21.160 --> 00:43:22.740
 with men

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 and women

00:43:23.080 --> 00:43:23.540
 and children

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 who don't

00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:24.480
 know you

00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:26.820
 daily sharing

00:43:26.820 --> 00:43:27.540
 the gospel

00:43:27.540 --> 00:43:32.240
 Lord we

00:43:32.240 --> 00:43:32.760
 thank you for

00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:33.260
 the wonderful

00:43:33.260 --> 00:43:33.960
 privilege

00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:35.700
 of what it

00:43:35.700 --> 00:43:36.480
 means to do

00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:36.780
 that

00:43:36.780 --> 00:43:39.560
 Lord as we

00:43:39.560 --> 00:43:40.040
 are here

00:43:40.040 --> 00:43:40.720
 this morning

00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:43.140
 I pray if

00:43:43.140 --> 00:43:43.720
 there's anyone

00:43:43.720 --> 00:43:44.280
 here who

00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:44.620
 doesn't

00:43:44.620 --> 00:43:46.160
 know you

00:43:46.160 --> 00:43:48.800
 that today

00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:49.300
 would be the

00:43:49.300 --> 00:43:49.880
 day of their

00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:50.440
 salvation

00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:52.900
 I pray that

00:43:52.900 --> 00:43:53.600
 today would be

00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:54.240
 the day where

00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:55.080
 they admit that

00:43:55.080 --> 00:43:56.080
 they are a

00:43:56.080 --> 00:43:57.760
 sinner and

00:43:57.760 --> 00:43:58.020
 they would

00:43:58.020 --> 00:43:58.900
 acknowledge within

00:43:58.900 --> 00:43:59.780
 themselves Lord

00:43:59.780 --> 00:44:00.540
 that you died on

00:44:00.540 --> 00:44:01.220
 the cross for

00:44:01.220 --> 00:44:01.720
 their sin

00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:04.600
 Lord I pray that

00:44:04.600 --> 00:44:05.180
 they would place

00:44:05.180 --> 00:44:06.100
 their belief their

00:44:06.100 --> 00:44:07.500
 hope their trust in

00:44:07.500 --> 00:44:08.180
 you and in you

00:44:08.180 --> 00:44:09.940
 alone that you

00:44:09.940 --> 00:44:11.140
 are the one true

00:44:11.140 --> 00:44:13.000
 God that you are

00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:14.920
 their savior that

00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:15.660
 they would not

00:44:15.660 --> 00:44:16.580
 place their faith

00:44:16.580 --> 00:44:17.440
 hope and trust in

00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:18.500
 themselves or in

00:44:18.500 --> 00:44:19.520
 others but in

00:44:19.520 --> 00:44:20.700
 you that they

00:44:20.700 --> 00:44:21.500
 would confess with

00:44:21.500 --> 00:44:22.280
 their mouth that

00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:23.880
 Jesus is Lord and

00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:25.120
 that today would be

00:44:25.120 --> 00:44:26.240
 the day of their

00:44:26.240 --> 00:44:26.800
 salvation

00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:30.920
 and we'll celebrate

00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:31.940
 you for it

00:44:31.940 --> 00:44:34.020
 and it's in Jesus

00:44:34.020 --> 00:44:34.600
 name we pray

00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:47.940
 thanks again for

00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:48.620
 listening to the

00:44:48.620 --> 00:44:49.400
 Willow Ridge Church

00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:50.940
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00:44:50.940 --> 00:44:51.700
 hope that you enjoyed

00:44:51.700 --> 00:44:52.400
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00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:53.720
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00:44:53.720 --> 00:44:54.320
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00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:55.160
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