1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:03,333 We're going to jump into this 2 00:00:03,333 --> 00:00:07,900 Easter story, beginning with what we call Palm Sunday. 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,700 The Bible references it maybe in your notes as the triumphal entry 4 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:14,633 of Jesus. 5 00:00:14,633 --> 00:00:16,966 This week 6 00:00:16,966 --> 00:00:20,766 in biblical history, this week in world 7 00:00:20,766 --> 00:00:25,200 history is the most important week that the world's ever seen, honestly. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,466 And it is the week that the Gospels speak most about. 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,166 In the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. 10 00:00:34,166 --> 00:00:37,166 There's 89 chapters in all. 11 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,800 Four of those chapters deal with Jesus's life. 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,800 In the first 30 years, only four chapters. 13 00:00:45,333 --> 00:00:48,000 85 of the 89 deal 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,100 with the last three and a half years of Jesus's life. 15 00:00:52,266 --> 00:00:55,766 And of those 29, deal with the last week. 16 00:00:57,133 --> 00:00:59,700 And so it appears to me 17 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:02,866 as if God says, listen, I want you to pay attention to this. 18 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:07,533 For whatever reason, God, so 19 00:01:07,533 --> 00:01:10,533 that you don't need to know a lot about Jesus early life. 20 00:01:11,333 --> 00:01:13,900 We don't know anything about his teenage years. 21 00:01:13,900 --> 00:01:18,333 Those young adult years, you know, like like in God, in his sovereignty. 22 00:01:18,333 --> 00:01:20,200 Just figured you don't need to know that. 23 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,200 But I do want you to pay attention to 24 00:01:23,466 --> 00:01:26,466 is the last years and especially the last week, 25 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,000 the most important week 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 in history, those important week and humanity. 27 00:01:33,433 --> 00:01:36,000 This week, 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,700 we call it Palm Sunday. 29 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:41,300 The Bible might reference it as the triumphal entry, but it's very, 30 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,200 very important. 31 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,200 This week. 32 00:01:47,866 --> 00:01:50,566 Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry happened. 33 00:01:50,566 --> 00:01:54,200 We know historically on the 10th of this, on 34 00:01:54,933 --> 00:01:57,333 they didn't have names for months like January, February, March. 35 00:01:57,333 --> 00:01:59,133 We understand that right. 36 00:01:59,133 --> 00:02:03,133 So this month that this happened was called the month of Nissan, 37 00:02:03,166 --> 00:02:06,233 not the car, but the month. 38 00:02:07,266 --> 00:02:10,066 And it happened on the 10th of Nissan. 39 00:02:10,066 --> 00:02:13,766 That's important because in Israel's history, 40 00:02:13,766 --> 00:02:16,766 the 10th of Nissan was significant. 41 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:19,000 The 10th of Nissan is when Israel 42 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 crossed the Jordan River and entered the Promised Land. 43 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:23,500 Okay. 44 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:28,800 Same day the 10th of Nissan is when the Hebrew people 45 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,466 would select a lamb to be sacrificed at the Passover meal. 46 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:37,500 It was on this day. 47 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:38,600 It was on this day 48 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,600 when Jesus rode into Jerusalem, 49 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:43,866 fulfilling John's word. 50 00:02:43,866 --> 00:02:46,866 John the Baptist, behold the Lamb of God 51 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:49,500 that takes away the sin of the world. 52 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:51,933 Was on this day 53 00:02:51,933 --> 00:02:55,066 that Jesus rides in Jerusalem, the 10th of Nissan, the 54 00:02:55,066 --> 00:02:58,666 the day that held special meeting for all of God's 55 00:02:58,666 --> 00:03:01,666 people. 56 00:03:01,766 --> 00:03:03,766 Such a significant time. 57 00:03:03,766 --> 00:03:07,666 This was in Jerusalem, as all these lambs are being brought 58 00:03:07,666 --> 00:03:12,700 into the city to be selected by families to be their Passover lamb. 59 00:03:13,633 --> 00:03:15,700 Upon selecting the lamb, they would take the lamb 60 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:18,700 home, and the lamb would live with them in their house 61 00:03:18,866 --> 00:03:22,400 for the next few days before it would be killed 62 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,233 and prepared and 63 00:03:26,233 --> 00:03:28,033 eaten. 64 00:03:28,033 --> 00:03:29,133 It was it was this day. 65 00:03:29,133 --> 00:03:33,200 And so so this was such a high day. 66 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,733 There were three feasts that every able bodied male Jew 67 00:03:38,833 --> 00:03:42,300 must travel to Jerusalem to celebrate each year. 68 00:03:42,866 --> 00:03:45,866 This, the Passover, 69 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:48,766 the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths. 70 00:03:48,766 --> 00:03:52,500 So this is one of the three kind of high holy days. 71 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:57,066 And Jerusalem is so overrun with people. 72 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,833 Traditionally, and according to rabbinic law, 73 00:04:01,833 --> 00:04:06,100 one lamb could feed up to but not more than ten people. 74 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:09,733 So let's just assume 75 00:04:09,733 --> 00:04:12,733 that there's one lamb for every ten people. 76 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:16,766 There's an estimate of 250,000 lamb 77 00:04:16,866 --> 00:04:19,833 that are being brought into the city, 78 00:04:19,833 --> 00:04:21,533 which means there's 2.5 79 00:04:21,533 --> 00:04:24,533 million at least people. 80 00:04:25,866 --> 00:04:28,866 It's overrun because this is what they do. 81 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,633 And it's on this day, the 10th of Nissan, that Jesus comes into Jerusalem. 82 00:04:36,533 --> 00:04:37,633 One of the things 83 00:04:37,633 --> 00:04:40,766 that I want to, as we go through John chapter 12, 84 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,800 if you have a Bible, you follow along with this John chapter 12. 85 00:04:44,633 --> 00:04:46,533 One of the things I want us to realize, 86 00:04:46,533 --> 00:04:49,500 there's three things we'll pick up from this triumphal entry. 87 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:51,333 One of them, this first one is this. 88 00:04:51,333 --> 00:04:54,166 And I think we all understand this, 89 00:04:54,166 --> 00:04:57,166 that Jesus is more appealing than religion. 90 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,766 Jesus is much more appealing than. 91 00:05:00,766 --> 00:05:02,300 Have you ever heard anybody say, you know what? 92 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:05,300 I don't like organized religion, but I'm intrigued by Jesus 93 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,600 ever that that might be you. 94 00:05:08,833 --> 00:05:12,666 Because we have at some level, we know that Jesus 95 00:05:13,033 --> 00:05:15,866 is more appealing than religion. 96 00:05:15,866 --> 00:05:19,433 And so in this triumphal entry story, this Palm Sunday, 97 00:05:19,633 --> 00:05:22,633 the next day, the large crowd, really large, 98 00:05:22,966 --> 00:05:26,866 that had come to the feast, heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 99 00:05:27,133 --> 00:05:32,700 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, Hosanna! 100 00:05:32,966 --> 00:05:35,166 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 101 00:05:35,166 --> 00:05:36,300 Even the King of Israel. 102 00:05:38,933 --> 00:05:41,933 As part of the mandatory feasts 103 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,600 that the people had to participate in. 104 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,066 They had traveled 105 00:05:49,066 --> 00:05:52,066 the same roads year after year. 106 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:56,066 They had gone through the same religious practices 107 00:05:56,066 --> 00:05:59,066 year after year as part of this feast. 108 00:05:59,433 --> 00:06:02,600 They see the same people year after year. 109 00:06:03,766 --> 00:06:06,766 There's nothing new about this. 110 00:06:06,866 --> 00:06:08,266 They did it. 111 00:06:08,266 --> 00:06:09,600 Their parents did it. 112 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,100 Their grandparents did it. 113 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:12,800 Their great grandparents did it. 114 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,166 They grew up talking about they grew up doing it. 115 00:06:15,166 --> 00:06:17,766 It's just what you did. 116 00:06:17,766 --> 00:06:18,833 They got there. 117 00:06:18,833 --> 00:06:21,833 They sat in the same seats. 118 00:06:23,266 --> 00:06:24,900 And if someone was in their seat, 119 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:27,900 there's a little bit of an issue. 120 00:06:29,833 --> 00:06:32,833 Because it's just what you did. 121 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,600 Right. 122 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:39,900 It was a part of their religious practice, 123 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:43,333 and the good ones were there every time. 124 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,200 Right. 125 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:54,500 And into this system, 126 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,200 this stale, stagnant 127 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,433 system of religious burdens and whoops, 128 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:05,300 Jesus is a breath of fresh air. 129 00:07:06,966 --> 00:07:08,400 It's been said that people 130 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,400 who are nothing like Jesus, like Jesus. 131 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:14,633 And Jesus like people 132 00:07:14,633 --> 00:07:17,633 who are nothing like him. 133 00:07:18,433 --> 00:07:21,100 And in this system, 134 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:24,100 the people cry out. 135 00:07:24,333 --> 00:07:26,700 Hosanna! 136 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:29,400 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 137 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:30,533 I want you to know something. 138 00:07:30,533 --> 00:07:33,700 I was reading this and praying over this just this morning 139 00:07:33,700 --> 00:07:35,033 and this stuck out to me. 140 00:07:35,033 --> 00:07:38,033 I underlined it in my Bible and I wrote down just this morning, 141 00:07:38,766 --> 00:07:41,766 I want you to know verse 13, 142 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,000 well, let me go to 12. 143 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 This large crowd had come. 144 00:07:47,033 --> 00:07:50,233 They heard Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 145 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:54,133 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying, Hosanna! 146 00:07:54,133 --> 00:07:55,700 Blessed are you in the name of Lord. 147 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:57,600 I notice this this morning. 148 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,400 Jesus hadn't showed up yet. 149 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:03,500 They heard that he might be there, 150 00:08:03,766 --> 00:08:06,900 and because of the possibility that he might be there. 151 00:08:09,166 --> 00:08:11,800 Okay. 152 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,100 The possibility 153 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:16,433 of Jesus's presence prompted a prepared response. 154 00:08:16,933 --> 00:08:20,400 To get this, the possibility 155 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,300 of Jesus's presence prompted a prepared response. 156 00:08:24,566 --> 00:08:30,700 Jesus might show up, and if he does, I've already got one in the chain. 157 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:32,266 But like, I'm going to like this. 158 00:08:32,266 --> 00:08:34,966 Mean something, you know what I'm saying? 159 00:08:34,966 --> 00:08:37,133 Like, I'm not going to miss my shot. 160 00:08:37,133 --> 00:08:40,566 To meet him, to greet him, to worship him. 161 00:08:41,366 --> 00:08:46,600 I don't want to miss this. But. 162 00:08:49,533 --> 00:08:50,533 They already. 163 00:08:50,533 --> 00:08:52,500 They came ready. 164 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,833 They came prepared. 165 00:08:54,833 --> 00:08:57,600 They heard he was on his way. 166 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,233 And so they prepared a response ahead of time. 167 00:09:02,866 --> 00:09:05,566 Let me ask this. 168 00:09:05,566 --> 00:09:08,700 What response have you already prepared 169 00:09:10,066 --> 00:09:13,000 while you were getting ready this morning, 170 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,833 while you were driving over this morning, while you're walking through the doors 171 00:09:17,833 --> 00:09:20,833 this morning before I opened up the Bible, 172 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:24,433 what was your already prepared response? 173 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,800 Because Jesus might show up 174 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,600 or have we fallen into the set? 175 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,600 This what we do? This where I sit, 176 00:09:36,233 --> 00:09:37,700 we're going to do this many songs. 177 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:38,733 I was going to do a little thing. 178 00:09:38,733 --> 00:09:39,666 He'll talk a little bit. 179 00:09:39,666 --> 00:09:42,666 We'll do a song, walk out. 180 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,600 Right. 181 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,800 As I'm looking at this this week, it's 182 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,100 I've been so burdened by it and I just, I'm feeling of myself. 183 00:09:56,266 --> 00:09:59,266 How religious have I become? 184 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,400 God, I don't want a religious church. 185 00:10:12,166 --> 00:10:14,066 Knowing he might show up, 186 00:10:14,066 --> 00:10:17,700 it prompted a prepared response ahead of time. 187 00:10:18,166 --> 00:10:20,700 I'm not going to wait to see how I feel 188 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:23,700 when it's done. 189 00:10:24,666 --> 00:10:27,600 To determine what I do give 190 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,600 and how I respond. 191 00:10:31,966 --> 00:10:34,966 Do we realize 192 00:10:35,166 --> 00:10:38,166 who might be showing up? 193 00:10:39,733 --> 00:10:42,233 Yeah. 194 00:10:42,233 --> 00:10:45,233 Good. 195 00:10:45,266 --> 00:10:48,266 And they shout. 196 00:10:48,533 --> 00:10:49,533 Hosanna! 197 00:10:49,533 --> 00:10:51,900 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 198 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,700 What they're doing is they're quoting a psalm. 199 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:01,066 Psalm 118 200 00:11:01,066 --> 00:11:03,966 I want you to understand what is their saying. 201 00:11:03,966 --> 00:11:07,500 Psalm 118, verses 2324 through 26. 202 00:11:08,433 --> 00:11:12,066 The psalm says, this is the day the Lord has made. 203 00:11:12,466 --> 00:11:15,100 Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 204 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:19,000 Save us we pray, oh Lord, oh Lord, we pray. 205 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,866 Give us success. 206 00:11:20,866 --> 00:11:24,033 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 207 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,200 We bless you from the house of the Lord. 208 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:30,433 This is the psalm they're quoting. 209 00:11:30,433 --> 00:11:32,733 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 210 00:11:32,733 --> 00:11:34,300 That Psalm begins in verse two. 211 00:11:34,300 --> 00:11:37,300 I mean, this portion of that begins with this. 212 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,333 This is the day the Lord has made. 213 00:11:39,333 --> 00:11:43,566 It was this day, this very day 214 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:47,133 that God had prepared. 215 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:53,100 It was this very day 216 00:11:53,433 --> 00:11:55,366 God had prepared this day 217 00:11:55,366 --> 00:11:59,133 from the foundations of the world, that this would be the day 218 00:12:00,233 --> 00:12:03,300 that the Messiah would come into Jerusalem. 219 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,200 That's what this 220 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:07,533 Psalm means. 221 00:12:07,533 --> 00:12:08,500 This is the day. 222 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:11,500 It doesn't mean every day is this day. 223 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:14,033 You know, I mean, we kind of understand. 224 00:12:14,033 --> 00:12:17,000 Oh, today's the day Lord's made us. Thank you for giving me another day. 225 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,566 There was this was a prophetic psalm that there would be a day. 226 00:12:22,166 --> 00:12:24,700 And I will rejoice in this day. 227 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:28,166 And when they say, save us, that is the word 228 00:12:28,166 --> 00:12:30,933 hosanna that's used here in John 12. 229 00:12:30,933 --> 00:12:34,000 Save us. This is your day. 230 00:12:34,533 --> 00:12:37,566 Blessed is you who come in the name of the Lord, 231 00:12:37,566 --> 00:12:43,033 like they're realizing who this is, and because they're realizing who it is, 232 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,200 it prompts him for a prepared response 233 00:12:46,466 --> 00:12:49,366 because they know that Jesus is special. 234 00:12:49,366 --> 00:12:51,533 He's so much more appealing than religion. 235 00:12:55,133 --> 00:12:57,433 This is the day. 236 00:12:57,433 --> 00:13:00,433 See, they knew the grind of religion 237 00:13:01,133 --> 00:13:04,133 and the new Jesus was different. 238 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:06,300 They understood that it was grace over 239 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:09,300 grind and 240 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:12,300 grace over grind. 241 00:13:12,666 --> 00:13:15,666 You know, the grind of religion. 242 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,600 Galatians chapter two, verse 16. 243 00:13:23,033 --> 00:13:26,200 Yet we know that a person is not justified, made 244 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:30,700 right with the father by works of the law, by the grind, 245 00:13:32,133 --> 00:13:34,500 but through faith in Jesus Christ. 246 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,500 So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified, in 247 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:42,600 order to be made right with the father by faith in Christ, 248 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,166 and not by the grind of the law of religion, 249 00:13:47,233 --> 00:13:51,600 because by the grind no one's justified. 250 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,500 That's why Jesus is so much more appealing than religion, 251 00:13:58,033 --> 00:14:01,033 because it's grace over grind. 252 00:14:04,166 --> 00:14:06,300 Religion is pro grind. 253 00:14:08,366 --> 00:14:11,366 Jesus is grace. 254 00:14:12,233 --> 00:14:13,666 Listen, some of us have tried 255 00:14:13,666 --> 00:14:16,666 and you can continue trying to hustle your way to holiness. 256 00:14:18,133 --> 00:14:20,966 Where you can learn to walk with Jesus. You. 257 00:14:20,966 --> 00:14:22,400 One of them is going to lead to burnout. 258 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,400 The other is going to lead a life. 259 00:14:25,533 --> 00:14:27,766 Religion says do more, 260 00:14:27,766 --> 00:14:30,766 do better, right? 261 00:14:31,466 --> 00:14:34,466 And at some level, we fall into that trap. 262 00:14:35,366 --> 00:14:36,500 I gotta do better. 263 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:37,566 I gotta do more. 264 00:14:37,566 --> 00:14:40,433 Here's the problem with that. 265 00:14:40,433 --> 00:14:43,500 You can do a lot and you can do a lot of good. 266 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,500 But how do you know you've done enough? 267 00:14:46,566 --> 00:14:50,300 You might do more and do better than the person sitting on your right, but 268 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:53,366 you might not do more and do better than the person sitting on your left. 269 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:55,066 And so where's the standard? 270 00:14:56,033 --> 00:14:58,500 Who determines what's enough? 271 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:01,133 And religion keeps shouting to you do more, 272 00:15:01,133 --> 00:15:04,266 do better, do more, do better, do more, do better. 273 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,366 And Jesus says, I've done it 274 00:15:07,366 --> 00:15:10,366 and it's finished. 275 00:15:12,233 --> 00:15:13,733 What I know. 276 00:15:13,733 --> 00:15:16,733 And you know this two 277 00:15:16,966 --> 00:15:19,200 is that Jesus didn't die to make us religious. 278 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:22,200 He died to make us alive. Yes. 279 00:15:25,666 --> 00:15:26,600 Amen. 280 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,733 And what I know for me and what you know for you, 281 00:15:30,666 --> 00:15:33,533 is that rules in our hands don't fix rebellion 282 00:15:33,533 --> 00:15:36,533 in our hearts. 283 00:15:38,833 --> 00:15:41,833 The grace of God does that. 284 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:43,833 And this is why we know. 285 00:15:43,833 --> 00:15:47,633 We realize that Jesus is so much more 286 00:15:47,633 --> 00:15:50,633 appealing than religion. 287 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:54,600 This is the day, 288 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,700 the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem. 289 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:59,700 That was the day that God had made 290 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:03,133 to tell the world. 291 00:16:03,133 --> 00:16:04,133 There is a way 292 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:08,500 that is so much more appealing 293 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,433 than the religious system that you're living in. 294 00:16:11,433 --> 00:16:13,733 There's a way to be right with God. 295 00:16:13,733 --> 00:16:18,400 That's the first thing that I look at when I look at this triumphal entry story. 296 00:16:18,466 --> 00:16:21,166 This account, this historical account. 297 00:16:21,166 --> 00:16:23,033 The second thing is this. 298 00:16:23,033 --> 00:16:26,033 And this is really important for us to understand 299 00:16:26,566 --> 00:16:29,566 that Scripture is more reliable than opinion. 300 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,200 Scripture is more reliable than opinion. 301 00:16:35,633 --> 00:16:38,633 Look at verses 14, 15 and 16. 302 00:16:39,433 --> 00:16:41,700 And Jesus found a young donkey 303 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:44,700 and sat on it just as it is written. 304 00:16:45,033 --> 00:16:46,233 This is scripture. 305 00:16:46,233 --> 00:16:48,133 Fear not, daughter of Zion. 306 00:16:48,133 --> 00:16:51,200 Behold, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. 307 00:16:51,966 --> 00:16:54,300 His disciples did not understand these things at first. 308 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:56,100 Have you ever read the Bible? Not understanding the first? 309 00:16:57,066 --> 00:17:00,066 Yeah, we're in good company. 310 00:17:01,566 --> 00:17:05,500 But when Jesus was glorified, then they remember that 311 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:09,300 these things had been written about him and it'd be done to him. 312 00:17:10,100 --> 00:17:12,566 So here's the thing. 313 00:17:12,566 --> 00:17:15,800 Scripture is more reliable than our opinion. 314 00:17:15,833 --> 00:17:17,933 Everybody has an opinion about who Jesus is. 315 00:17:17,933 --> 00:17:19,800 Everybody has an opinion about God. 316 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,333 Everybody has a opinion about how to be right. 317 00:17:21,333 --> 00:17:24,333 Everybody has a opinion about religion. 318 00:17:24,333 --> 00:17:26,166 Scripture is more reliable. 319 00:17:26,166 --> 00:17:29,166 We can't trust our opinions because our opinions change all the time. 320 00:17:31,133 --> 00:17:34,700 See, culture has an opinion about who Jesus is. 321 00:17:35,033 --> 00:17:36,833 Culture has an opinion about being. 322 00:17:36,833 --> 00:17:39,933 What about what being right means? 323 00:17:41,300 --> 00:17:44,300 Culture has an opinion about what truth is. 324 00:17:45,666 --> 00:17:47,666 Culture says this. 325 00:17:47,666 --> 00:17:50,400 You can find and determine your truth. 326 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,600 Jesus says, I am the truth. You know, 327 00:17:54,633 --> 00:17:57,633 and Scripture is much more reliable than opinion. 328 00:17:58,033 --> 00:18:00,533 I want you to understand something. 329 00:18:00,533 --> 00:18:02,533 All through Scripture, people 330 00:18:02,533 --> 00:18:05,533 spouting out their opinions about Jesus. 331 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:08,466 In Mark chapter eight, 332 00:18:08,466 --> 00:18:11,466 people had opinions and some thought he was a good prophet. 333 00:18:11,733 --> 00:18:12,900 He's a good teacher. 334 00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:15,866 He's a good prophet. Is good religious man. 335 00:18:15,866 --> 00:18:18,666 Well, he was, but he was a lot more than that. 336 00:18:18,666 --> 00:18:21,033 Your opinions were wrong. 337 00:18:21,033 --> 00:18:25,300 In John chapter nine, they had an opinion about Jesus and their. 338 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:26,733 Their opinion was just. 339 00:18:26,733 --> 00:18:28,900 I don't know who he is, but we know he's not from God. 340 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:31,000 Can you imagine? 341 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,433 That was their opinion 342 00:18:33,433 --> 00:18:36,166 when reliable, but it was their opinion. 343 00:18:36,166 --> 00:18:38,800 In John chapter ten. 344 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,466 And so we're not exactly sure who he is, but we think he's possessed by a demon. 345 00:18:45,266 --> 00:18:46,800 Others said we're not quite sure. 346 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,900 We think he's insane. 347 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:50,700 That was their opinion. 348 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:53,700 And in our culture we say, oh, you got a right to your opinion. 349 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:57,533 Your truth is your truth. 350 00:18:57,533 --> 00:19:00,533 And Scripture would say, well, no, you're just 351 00:19:01,033 --> 00:19:02,800 you're just wrong. 352 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,166 I don't care for your opinion. 353 00:19:05,166 --> 00:19:07,533 Your opinion is not right. 354 00:19:07,533 --> 00:19:10,100 And that's what I love about the Bible. 355 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:13,100 Like it's it's. 356 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 It's pretty blunt and pretty honest. 357 00:19:18,066 --> 00:19:20,266 We can have opinions. 358 00:19:20,266 --> 00:19:20,866 Most of them. 359 00:19:20,866 --> 00:19:22,933 We're going to be wrong here. 360 00:19:22,933 --> 00:19:25,933 Scripture is more reliable than our opinion. 361 00:19:26,666 --> 00:19:29,100 And what I see in John 12 362 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:32,866 is this quote from Zechariah nine, verse 15 of John 12. 363 00:19:34,766 --> 00:19:37,266 Fear not, daughter of Zion, behold, 364 00:19:37,266 --> 00:19:41,400 your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. Now. 365 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,900 Everybody had an opinion about who Jesus was. 366 00:19:46,966 --> 00:19:49,266 Scriptures more reliable than opinion. 367 00:19:49,266 --> 00:19:55,400 And Scripture has determined the truth of who Jesus is by the fact 368 00:19:55,900 --> 00:20:00,600 that prophetically in Zechariah nine nine, I think I have that up there, don't I? 369 00:20:01,066 --> 00:20:05,633 Yep. In Zachariah nine nine, there's this prophecy 100 years 370 00:20:05,633 --> 00:20:08,633 before Jesus ever, ever sat on that donkey. 371 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,600 Prophecy says, oh, daughter of Zion, 372 00:20:12,633 --> 00:20:16,900 shout our Jerusalem, your King is coming to you. 373 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,366 Righteous having salvation. 374 00:20:18,366 --> 00:20:21,833 Is he humble and mounted on a donkey called the fall of a donkey? 375 00:20:22,033 --> 00:20:26,666 Everybody had a part of who Jesus is, but prophetically, scripturally, 376 00:20:26,833 --> 00:20:29,833 biblically it told us who he is. 377 00:20:29,833 --> 00:20:33,033 Doesn't matter your opinion and what the prophet Zechariah said 378 00:20:33,233 --> 00:20:38,966 and what Jesus fulfilled and John records is this he's a king on a donkey. 379 00:20:39,066 --> 00:20:41,666 That should tell us everything we need to know about who Jesus is. 380 00:20:41,666 --> 00:20:44,100 Doesn't matter your opinion. Here's what I mean. 381 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:47,700 Kings road donkeys in times of peace. 382 00:20:49,766 --> 00:20:52,766 And they rode horses in times of war. 383 00:20:53,933 --> 00:20:58,766 Jesus is coming into this is the day the Lord has made. 384 00:20:58,933 --> 00:21:01,433 Let us rejoice and be glad in this day. 385 00:21:01,433 --> 00:21:04,733 Your King comes to you riding on a donkey. 386 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,800 He's offering us terms of peace. 387 00:21:10,733 --> 00:21:12,800 It's what he's doing 388 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:13,500 in Scripture. 389 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:16,733 Time and time and time and time again says, yes, he is the King. 390 00:21:16,866 --> 00:21:18,200 Yes, he is Almighty. 391 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,333 And yes, he is the way to peace with the father. 392 00:21:23,033 --> 00:21:26,433 Him riding on a donkey was in the fulfillment of Scripture 393 00:21:26,566 --> 00:21:31,100 to drive home the point that this is his peace. 394 00:21:31,466 --> 00:21:34,466 He is the peace treaty with us 395 00:21:35,566 --> 00:21:37,633 to understand 396 00:21:37,633 --> 00:21:40,633 that he will come back. 397 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:44,300 And the book of revelation says he's not riding the donkey, 398 00:21:45,266 --> 00:21:47,400 he's riding a horse 399 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,766 because the time for the peace treaty is done, 400 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,033 and then it will be for war, 401 00:21:55,033 --> 00:21:59,033 and he will destroy evil and destroy sin once and for all. 402 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,966 And by that time, if you've not come to the father 403 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,666 by the peace treaty of the sun, it's too late, 404 00:22:08,366 --> 00:22:11,366 and you will have missed it. 405 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 Scripture is more reliable than opinion. 406 00:22:26,566 --> 00:22:29,566 In Luke's account of this, 407 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:32,900 of this event. 408 00:22:33,333 --> 00:22:35,033 When Jesus is as it 409 00:22:35,033 --> 00:22:38,333 is, is approaching Jerusalem on the donkey. 410 00:22:38,333 --> 00:22:40,233 This is what 411 00:22:40,233 --> 00:22:43,133 this is what Luke tells us. 412 00:22:43,133 --> 00:22:46,133 And when he drew near and saw the city seize Jerusalem, 413 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:49,500 he wept over it, saying, 414 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:52,000 would that you, 415 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,800 even you would had known on this day 416 00:22:56,700 --> 00:22:59,700 the things that make for peace. 417 00:23:00,533 --> 00:23:03,533 But now they're hidden from your eyes. 418 00:23:04,366 --> 00:23:08,533 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade 419 00:23:08,533 --> 00:23:11,700 around you and surround you and him, you in on every side 420 00:23:11,700 --> 00:23:15,900 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. 421 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,400 And they will not leave 422 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,100 one stone upon another in you, because you did not get this, 423 00:23:21,666 --> 00:23:24,666 but you did not know 424 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,933 the time of your visitation. And 425 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:31,700 so you missed it. 426 00:23:32,733 --> 00:23:36,066 This is the day the Lord has made you see. 427 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,200 I am offering you peace. 428 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:44,966 And you missed 429 00:23:44,966 --> 00:23:47,966 the day of your visitation. 430 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,500 And the grand, eternal cosmic sense. 431 00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:59,500 This was the day. 432 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:00,900 Of our visitation. 433 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,900 But I believe. 434 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:07,200 That each one of us has a day of visitation. 435 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,766 When Jesus comes to us and says. 436 00:24:10,766 --> 00:24:13,033 This is who I am. 437 00:24:13,033 --> 00:24:16,033 And it's very clear 438 00:24:16,133 --> 00:24:19,166 you can choose to be at peace 439 00:24:19,166 --> 00:24:22,166 with the father through me, or you can choose to reject it. 440 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,600 Friends, I don't want you to miss 441 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,600 your day of visitation. 442 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:35,733 When Jesus 443 00:24:35,733 --> 00:24:39,366 wept over the city and pronounced these words, he says, you've missed it. 444 00:24:39,533 --> 00:24:42,533 And now your eyes have been darkened. 445 00:24:44,433 --> 00:24:46,000 I don't want you to miss this day. 446 00:24:50,266 --> 00:24:53,266 God is merciful and gracious 447 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:56,300 to time and time again. 448 00:24:56,900 --> 00:24:59,900 Present us with a day of visitation. 449 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,100 Don't reject it and deny it 450 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:07,100 so long that your eyes grow dark to it. 451 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:12,733 How did they miss it? 452 00:25:12,733 --> 00:25:14,333 How did they miss this day? 453 00:25:14,333 --> 00:25:15,900 The day the Lord has made? 454 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:17,700 Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 455 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:19,900 What problem? Why did they miss? 456 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:23,366 Why does Jesus then say, but you missed it. 457 00:25:24,366 --> 00:25:25,566 They should have known it. 458 00:25:25,566 --> 00:25:27,333 They should have seen it, 459 00:25:27,333 --> 00:25:31,133 because God has been talking to them from time immemorial. 460 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,200 That this is the this day is coming. 461 00:25:35,266 --> 00:25:38,133 How did they miss it? 462 00:25:38,133 --> 00:25:40,966 This day? 463 00:25:40,966 --> 00:25:43,233 They should have no, 464 00:25:43,233 --> 00:25:46,233 because this day was prophesied over 465 00:25:46,633 --> 00:25:51,333 483 years earlier, almost 500 years earlier. 466 00:25:51,433 --> 00:25:54,233 This day was prophesied to the day 467 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,666 500 years 468 00:25:56,666 --> 00:25:59,666 earlier through the prophet Daniel. 469 00:26:00,233 --> 00:26:02,800 Daniel was one of the was one of the Hebrews 470 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,800 that was taken into captivity into Babylon. 471 00:26:07,466 --> 00:26:10,466 And he served many different kings and regimes. 472 00:26:10,466 --> 00:26:13,600 And he was he was he he was a man above men. 473 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:17,400 And he was a godly man. 474 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,400 He was a great prophet. 475 00:26:21,033 --> 00:26:22,533 And Daniel was reading 476 00:26:22,533 --> 00:26:26,333 the ancient texts of the earlier prophets 477 00:26:27,166 --> 00:26:30,566 who had prophesied over Israel, that they would be 478 00:26:30,566 --> 00:26:33,566 taken into captivity for 70 years. 479 00:26:34,933 --> 00:26:36,866 And he's at the end of that 70 year 480 00:26:36,866 --> 00:26:39,866 period, is realizing that that 70 year period is coming to an end. 481 00:26:39,966 --> 00:26:43,200 And he's reading Scripture because Scripture is more reliable than opinion. 482 00:26:44,633 --> 00:26:47,600 And in that moment, he's praying to God, saying, God, what? 483 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,200 What are what is next? 484 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,200 Where are you? 485 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,366 Speak to me, and God gives him this prophecy 486 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,166 about this day 487 00:26:57,166 --> 00:27:00,066 that the Lord has made. 488 00:27:00,066 --> 00:27:03,066 And in Daniel chapter nine, verse 25. 489 00:27:05,433 --> 00:27:08,433 The prophecy says this know and understand this 490 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,233 from the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem 491 00:27:13,233 --> 00:27:16,700 until the Anointed One, the Messiah, the ruler comes. 492 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:20,433 There will be seven sevens and 62 sevens. 493 00:27:20,766 --> 00:27:25,400 It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 494 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,400 So make sense? You get it. 495 00:27:29,066 --> 00:27:30,666 Remember how the disciples read the first time 496 00:27:30,666 --> 00:27:32,033 they understand it, but later they did. 497 00:27:32,033 --> 00:27:35,266 Yeah, this is that time for us right now. 498 00:27:35,266 --> 00:27:37,600 Listen, this is what he's saying. 499 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,966 Jerusalem after the captivity, the Babylonian captivity. 500 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,600 First difference is here in the captivity, the northern ten tribes. 501 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,466 And then Babylon took over Syria and came down 502 00:27:47,466 --> 00:27:51,266 and got the the, the southern two tribes after the Babylonian captivity. 503 00:27:51,266 --> 00:27:54,100 During that time, all of Jerusalem was just in shambles. 504 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:55,700 It was torn to the walls are broken down. 505 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:57,900 The the the the buildings were destroyed. 506 00:27:57,900 --> 00:27:59,400 It was in complete shambles. 507 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:02,700 And the prophecy. 508 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:03,333 Prophecy. 509 00:28:03,333 --> 00:28:06,666 And Daniel says there's going to be a time when an edict 510 00:28:06,666 --> 00:28:09,666 is going to be given to go back and rebuild that city. 511 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:15,366 And from the moment that that edict is given until the appearing of the Messiah, 512 00:28:15,833 --> 00:28:18,833 there's going to be seven sevens and 62 sevens. 513 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,733 They should have no right. 514 00:28:21,733 --> 00:28:24,733 I mean, it's obvious, right? 515 00:28:25,566 --> 00:28:27,966 Here's what's going on. 516 00:28:27,966 --> 00:28:30,666 We know 517 00:28:30,666 --> 00:28:33,600 that when the Bible uses that word sevens, 518 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,600 it's a seven year period. 519 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:37,366 Okay. 520 00:28:37,366 --> 00:28:40,366 So that we're talking about a seven year period. 521 00:28:41,133 --> 00:28:43,800 And what Daniel it said there'll be 69 522 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,766 seven year periods 523 00:28:46,766 --> 00:28:48,766 okay. So seven years is one cycle. 524 00:28:48,766 --> 00:28:51,266 Another seven is two cycles. No sevens, three sales. 525 00:28:51,266 --> 00:28:52,800 There'll be 69 of those cycles. 526 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,600 Those 69 seven year periods 527 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,366 from the command to rebuild Jerusalem till the Messiah shows up. 528 00:29:00,433 --> 00:29:03,266 So now we have a timetable. 529 00:29:03,266 --> 00:29:05,633 Now our difficulty in 530 00:29:05,633 --> 00:29:08,633 this is we don't understand the Babylonian calendar. 531 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,700 Our calendar a year is 100 532 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:15,166 and or 365 and a third days in our calendar year. 533 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,000 Their calendar year was 360 days. 534 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000 It was a lunar calendar, not a solar calendar. 535 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,400 And so all you have to do 69 seven year 536 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,000 cycles times 360 days per year. 537 00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:34,766 What you come up with is 173,880 days. 538 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,933 So all you have to do is determine the day the edict was made. 539 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,233 Count forward 173,880 days. 540 00:29:43,366 --> 00:29:46,933 And you should know that the Messiah showing up, you follow. 541 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,200 That's the prophecy in Daniel 925. 542 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:56,200 Okay, so understanding history, biblical and 543 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:59,300 and and Babylonian history. 544 00:30:00,166 --> 00:30:03,166 King ATA Xerxes gave the command 545 00:30:03,566 --> 00:30:06,433 to go back and rebuild Jerusalem. 546 00:30:07,766 --> 00:30:10,000 And he did that 547 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,300 on April, 548 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:15,766 that he did that on March 14th, 445 BC. 549 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,200 On March 14th, our calendar. 550 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,200 March 14th, 445 BC, 551 00:30:22,366 --> 00:30:24,133 ATA Xerxes gave the command to go back. 552 00:30:24,133 --> 00:30:27,900 And so you fast forward 173,800 days. 553 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:30,900 Guess what I say. You come to. 554 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:34,500 Palm Sunday. 555 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,933 The 10th of Nissan, 556 00:30:37,933 --> 00:30:40,500 which translates on our calendar April 6th. 557 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:43,500 That's why I wanted to preach this last week. 558 00:30:49,633 --> 00:30:52,633 Is this wild or what? Am. 559 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:54,633 And Jesus weeps and 560 00:30:54,633 --> 00:30:57,633 he says, guys, you missed it. 561 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,000 This should be so apparent to you. 562 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,033 You're either incredibly ignorant 563 00:31:04,033 --> 00:31:07,033 or you're incredibly negligent. 564 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,100 You missed the day. 565 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:15,866 And it has been in front of your eyes in vivid detail for five, 566 00:31:16,133 --> 00:31:19,133 nearly 500 years. 567 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000 Don't miss your day. 568 00:31:27,766 --> 00:31:31,433 Do you see how precise Scripture is? 569 00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:35,100 How precise God is, how detailed God is? 570 00:31:35,100 --> 00:31:35,766 Do you see it? 571 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:37,700 If he's 572 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:41,400 that precise in details, don't you think he can handle the details of your life? 573 00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:44,333 Yeah. 574 00:31:44,333 --> 00:31:47,333 And your kids life. 575 00:31:49,033 --> 00:31:52,033 Yes, yes, yes. 576 00:31:57,766 --> 00:32:00,766 So if he can handle it, 577 00:32:01,066 --> 00:32:04,066 why don't we trust him? 578 00:32:04,533 --> 00:32:07,533 All the time. All. 579 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,033 He sees, though. 580 00:32:11,033 --> 00:32:14,033 Everybody had an opinion about who Jesus was, 581 00:32:14,866 --> 00:32:17,866 and they knew he was more appealing than religion. 582 00:32:18,933 --> 00:32:21,066 They didn't realize that Scripture 583 00:32:21,066 --> 00:32:24,066 is more reliable than their opinion. 584 00:32:26,833 --> 00:32:28,800 Listen, everybody in your world has a platform, 585 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,800 but not everybody has the truth. 586 00:32:37,833 --> 00:32:40,733 Jesus is more appealing than religion. 587 00:32:40,733 --> 00:32:42,866 Scripture is more reliable than your opinion. 588 00:32:42,866 --> 00:32:45,266 And here's the third thing. 589 00:32:45,266 --> 00:32:48,600 Following is more important than debating. 590 00:32:51,766 --> 00:32:54,300 Well, that's light up all along. 591 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:56,066 Look at this. 592 00:32:56,066 --> 00:32:58,733 Please understand 593 00:32:58,733 --> 00:33:02,400 that following is so much more important than debating. 594 00:33:04,033 --> 00:33:06,300 You had four groups of people 595 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:09,300 in this passage starting verse. 596 00:33:09,833 --> 00:33:11,466 Start in verse 16. 597 00:33:11,466 --> 00:33:12,666 His disciples. 598 00:33:12,666 --> 00:33:15,000 That's one group did not understand these things at first. 599 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,866 But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things 600 00:33:18,866 --> 00:33:21,533 had been written about him and had been done to him. 601 00:33:21,533 --> 00:33:22,400 The crowd. 602 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,500 That's the second group 603 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:27,266 that had been with them when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, like they saw it 604 00:33:27,566 --> 00:33:30,566 and raised him from the dead, continue to bear witness. 605 00:33:31,566 --> 00:33:34,400 The reason why the crowd went to meet, 606 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,600 him was that they had heard he had done these things, the signs. 607 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,566 So there was a third group there that that that they didn't see 608 00:33:41,566 --> 00:33:44,366 Lazarus being right. They just heard the talk about it. 609 00:33:44,366 --> 00:33:45,066 The third group, 610 00:33:46,266 --> 00:33:47,600 so the Pharisees, the 611 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,400 fourth group, said to one another, you see that you're getting nothing. 612 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,333 Look, the world's gone after him. 613 00:33:54,333 --> 00:33:56,433 There's four groups, 614 00:33:56,433 --> 00:33:59,200 and all four had an opinion about him, 615 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,233 and all four debated the reality 616 00:34:02,233 --> 00:34:05,633 and the truth of what they had seen and what they had heard. 617 00:34:06,133 --> 00:34:09,900 And though all four groups debated about, there was only one small group 618 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:12,900 that actually followed. 619 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,466 And following is so much more important 620 00:34:15,466 --> 00:34:18,466 than debating. 621 00:34:19,733 --> 00:34:21,133 The blessing is in the doing, 622 00:34:21,133 --> 00:34:24,133 not the debating. 623 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,600 I want us to understand this 624 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,600 that inspection without action is deception. 625 00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,100 And this is this is my concern for us. 626 00:34:35,666 --> 00:34:36,800 Because we can 627 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,033 we can follow along the Easter devotionals and read through the Gospels. 628 00:34:40,033 --> 00:34:41,900 About this week. 629 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:46,633 And we can come and we can read and study and listen and inspect all we want. 630 00:34:47,633 --> 00:34:50,633 But inspection without action is deception. 631 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:53,333 We think we're growing. 632 00:34:53,333 --> 00:34:56,866 We think we're being made into the image of Christ 633 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000 because we've inspected. 634 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,433 But inspection without action. 635 00:35:01,433 --> 00:35:02,666 We're just being deceived. 636 00:35:02,666 --> 00:35:05,966 James says the same thing be doers of the word 637 00:35:05,966 --> 00:35:09,800 and not just hearers inspecting and so deceive yourselves. 638 00:35:11,366 --> 00:35:12,833 My concern for 639 00:35:12,833 --> 00:35:16,466 people like us is that there's a lot of inspection 640 00:35:16,466 --> 00:35:19,566 with very little action, so results in a whole bunch of deception. 641 00:35:21,966 --> 00:35:26,900 And. See, religion is often 642 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000 made up of a whole bunch of religious spectators. 643 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:32,633 Who like to debate 644 00:35:32,633 --> 00:35:35,633 but don't like to follow. You. 645 00:35:36,766 --> 00:35:38,200 And what Jesus has invited 646 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,200 us to is not spectatorship. 647 00:35:42,033 --> 00:35:45,300 There's not debate, but apprenticeship. 648 00:35:45,833 --> 00:35:46,766 Yeah. 649 00:35:46,766 --> 00:35:49,766 He says, I want you to apprentice after me. 650 00:35:49,866 --> 00:35:53,233 Say the things I said, do the things I do. 651 00:35:56,533 --> 00:35:58,133 We want to know what he knows. 652 00:35:58,133 --> 00:36:00,500 He wants us to do what he's done. 653 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:03,500 So make sense. 654 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,800 See, observation is good. 655 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,566 No doubt. 656 00:36:08,566 --> 00:36:11,566 But it must lead to conclusion, resulting in devotion. 657 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:15,466 It's good for us to observe. 658 00:36:15,466 --> 00:36:18,233 It's good for us to inspect. 659 00:36:18,233 --> 00:36:20,666 But until it leads to a conclusion 660 00:36:20,666 --> 00:36:23,666 that results in devotion. 661 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:25,433 Devotion that says. 662 00:36:25,433 --> 00:36:27,900 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. 663 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:33,900 This is the day I am coming with the previously prepared response, 664 00:36:34,300 --> 00:36:37,500 because I know, I know 665 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:40,500 the one in whom I'm going to encounter, 666 00:36:41,766 --> 00:36:44,766 and I'm willing to follow 667 00:36:45,566 --> 00:36:47,233 to apprentice after. 668 00:36:47,233 --> 00:36:50,333 Not just know about him. 669 00:36:52,366 --> 00:36:53,466 To understand. 670 00:36:53,466 --> 00:36:55,933 Understand. 671 00:36:55,933 --> 00:36:57,933 And Jesus comes into Jerusalem 672 00:36:57,933 --> 00:37:00,933 with this offer of peace 673 00:37:00,933 --> 00:37:03,466 and weeps. 674 00:37:03,466 --> 00:37:05,733 Because though they saw, 675 00:37:05,733 --> 00:37:09,233 and though they heard, and though they should have known better, 676 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000 they weren't going to do, 677 00:37:16,966 --> 00:37:19,966 And he wept. 678 00:37:25,066 --> 00:37:28,066 You and I don't need more rules. 679 00:37:28,366 --> 00:37:31,366 And we don't need louder voices. 680 00:37:31,966 --> 00:37:35,033 You and I need to believe and receive 681 00:37:35,033 --> 00:37:38,033 the king who came offering peace with the father. Yes. 682 00:37:40,233 --> 00:37:42,433 Involves two things. 683 00:37:42,433 --> 00:37:44,700 Repentance 684 00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:46,666 and following 685 00:37:46,666 --> 00:37:48,933 repentance 686 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:51,700 and apprenticeship. 687 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:54,600 Repentance means 688 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,600 I'm headed in the wrong direction. 689 00:37:59,366 --> 00:38:02,366 And I'm going to agree with God that it is the wrong direction. 690 00:38:02,666 --> 00:38:05,666 And I'm going to go the opposite direction. 691 00:38:06,533 --> 00:38:09,300 And when repentance has happened, 692 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:12,300 apprenticeship is the result. 693 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:15,300 This is what Jesus invited us into. 694 00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:18,733 He did invite us into simply praying a prayer. 695 00:38:18,733 --> 00:38:21,400 He didn't invite us into walking down an aisle. 696 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,166 He didn't invite us into anything other than repentance 697 00:38:25,166 --> 00:38:28,166 is an apprenticeship. 698 00:38:30,066 --> 00:38:30,733 Religion 699 00:38:30,733 --> 00:38:34,066 says I'll try to apprentice without repentance. 700 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,000 Jesus invited us to repent. 701 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,200 And the change of direction 702 00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:46,166 looks like apprenticeship. 703 00:38:46,166 --> 00:38:49,166 Do you follow? 704 00:38:49,933 --> 00:38:52,800 Well, let's not get so comfortable 705 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,800 with our religious repetition. 706 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,900 That we refuse to repent 707 00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:03,400 and never learn the lifestyle 708 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,400 of an apprentice. 709 00:39:09,533 --> 00:39:12,533 This is Palm Sunday. 710 00:39:14,633 --> 00:39:17,633 This is the day that the Lord has made. 711 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:20,500 Let's rejoice 712 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,500 in the day of his visitation. 713 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:28,700 To come in repentance 714 00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:32,033 to peace with the father. 715 00:39:33,233 --> 00:39:34,500 And follow hard 716 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,966 after him as apprentices of Jesus. 717 00:39:41,866 --> 00:39:44,866 I want you to pray with me. 718 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:49,133 Father. 719 00:39:49,133 --> 00:39:50,166 Thank you. 720 00:39:50,166 --> 00:39:52,500 Thank you that you love us. 721 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:57,466 And you loved us so much that you sent your son into this world, 722 00:39:57,466 --> 00:40:03,633 to go to the cross and to be the sacrificial payment for my sin 723 00:40:05,166 --> 00:40:08,100 and for our sin. 724 00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:10,500 Thank you that you've made that offer 725 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:15,100 available, that you have established terms of peace. 726 00:40:19,066 --> 00:40:21,433 Father, forgive me, for when I have missed 727 00:40:21,433 --> 00:40:24,433 your day of visitation in my life. You. 728 00:40:28,466 --> 00:40:31,466 Forgive us. 729 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:37,700 Father, I repent. 730 00:40:38,466 --> 00:40:38,833 Of when? 731 00:40:38,833 --> 00:40:41,833 I've made this about ritual and duty. 732 00:40:45,633 --> 00:40:48,633 And I've missed your heart. 733 00:40:51,733 --> 00:40:53,966 Friends, I want to give you the opportunity 734 00:40:53,966 --> 00:40:56,966 to do what Jesus has invited you to do. 735 00:40:58,633 --> 00:41:00,433 Repent 736 00:41:00,433 --> 00:41:03,433 and apprentice. 737 00:41:04,066 --> 00:41:07,066 And in this moment, I invite you. 738 00:41:07,266 --> 00:41:09,433 The first step of that 739 00:41:09,433 --> 00:41:12,433 to say, father, I repent. 740 00:41:12,733 --> 00:41:15,733 I know the way I have gone. 741 00:41:17,066 --> 00:41:19,833 And I repent. 742 00:41:19,833 --> 00:41:22,833 I repent of my apathy. 743 00:41:23,066 --> 00:41:26,066 I repent of my worry. 744 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,800 I repent of my lethargy. 745 00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:33,300 I repent of my anger. 746 00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:36,500 I repent of my alcoholism. 747 00:41:37,133 --> 00:41:40,133 I repent of my pornography. 748 00:41:40,566 --> 00:41:43,566 I repent. 749 00:41:45,933 --> 00:41:48,933 You fill in the blank. You. 750 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,300 I repent of the hurts 751 00:41:55,300 --> 00:42:00,166 that I've carried year after year and chosen not to forgive. 752 00:42:00,166 --> 00:42:01,133 I repent. 753 00:42:04,266 --> 00:42:07,266 Of my anxiety that I carry because I truly don't 754 00:42:07,300 --> 00:42:10,300 trust your hand. Oh. 755 00:42:15,966 --> 00:42:17,100 I repent 756 00:42:17,100 --> 00:42:19,800 because I think that I am the one 757 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,800 who doles out justice. 758 00:42:28,833 --> 00:42:31,833 I repent. 759 00:42:32,633 --> 00:42:36,300 And this day, the day that you have made. 760 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,100 I choose to be your apprentice. 761 00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:41,700 Jesus. 762 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:44,700 I choose to be your apprentice. 763 00:42:45,033 --> 00:42:47,766 I want to talk like you. 764 00:42:47,766 --> 00:42:50,766 I want to walk like you. 765 00:42:53,066 --> 00:42:56,066 I want to do the things that you've done. 766 00:42:56,966 --> 00:42:59,966 I want to be your apprentice. 767 00:43:00,166 --> 00:43:03,166 This is the day. 768 00:43:03,766 --> 00:43:04,500 God, I pray 769 00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:07,500 we not miss our day of visitation. 770 00:43:10,166 --> 00:43:10,666 I pray 771 00:43:10,666 --> 00:43:13,666 that we're not playing around with religion anymore, 772 00:43:14,866 --> 00:43:17,866 that we realize who it is 773 00:43:18,266 --> 00:43:21,266 that has visited us. 774 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:24,300 And we respond to you 775 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:27,033 in appropriate measure. 776 00:43:27,033 --> 00:43:30,033 You've given us, all of you. 777 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,100 We give you all of ourselves. 778 00:43:33,633 --> 00:43:36,066 This is the day. 779 00:43:36,066 --> 00:43:37,933 In your name I pray. Amen. 780 00:43:37,933 --> 00:43:38,733 Amen. 781 00:43:38,733 --> 00:43:41,733 Listen, it's a good day 782 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:43,700 because it's a day he has made. 783 00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:46,333 Let us rejoice and be glad in it. 784 00:43:46,333 --> 00:43:49,333 But this day leads to Friday, 785 00:43:50,433 --> 00:43:51,633 and then we call Friday. 786 00:43:51,633 --> 00:43:53,666 Good Friday. 787 00:43:53,666 --> 00:43:56,666 The events of Friday were not good, but the outcome was 788 00:43:58,133 --> 00:44:01,133 because the events of Friday led to the events of Sunday. 789 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,233 And so I want to invite you back on Friday 790 00:44:05,233 --> 00:44:08,233 night at 6:00, 791 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,000 as we look from the Gospel of John 792 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,000 about what we call Good Friday, 793 00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:18,966 the reality of what happened in that time with Jesus and his disciples, 794 00:44:18,966 --> 00:44:21,966 and the rear, which actually happened on Thursday. 795 00:44:23,733 --> 00:44:26,366 Didn't happen on Friday. 796 00:44:26,366 --> 00:44:29,366 And then the crucifixion that happened Friday. 797 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:32,533 So we're going to look on Friday about what happened Thursday. 798 00:44:32,533 --> 00:44:34,033 That set the stage for Friday. 799 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:36,900 I invite you back for that. 800 00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:39,900 And then on Sunday. 801 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,400 The resurrection. 802 00:44:44,133 --> 00:44:45,566 I would love to talk 803 00:44:45,566 --> 00:44:48,566 with any of you who are making this 804 00:44:48,666 --> 00:44:51,866 this decision to repent and to apprentice any of us here. 805 00:44:51,866 --> 00:44:53,300 Would. 806 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:54,166 And it was start here. 807 00:44:54,166 --> 00:44:55,566 But the welcome center me here. 808 00:44:55,566 --> 00:44:59,400 I mean, we're just here's the thing I don't know or I truly don't know a lot, 809 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,066 but I do know this, that you can't Lone Ranger yourself through this phase, right? 810 00:45:03,633 --> 00:45:05,600 You can't. 811 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,433 And so I would love the opportunity to talk with you. 812 00:45:07,433 --> 00:45:08,666 You want to talk personally. That's great. 813 00:45:08,666 --> 00:45:10,933 You want to fill out one of those cards in front of you? Felt it. 814 00:45:10,933 --> 00:45:13,033 Put it in a little bucket out there. 815 00:45:13,033 --> 00:45:13,466 Start here. 816 00:45:13,466 --> 00:45:13,866 Something. 817 00:45:13,866 --> 00:45:16,800 Just communicate with us so we can walk with you through this. 818 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,600 Don't try to do this alone, 819 00:45:19,866 --> 00:45:21,500 you understand? 820 00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:22,200 Yeah. 821 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,900 Hey, it's a good day, I love you. 822 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:25,733 Let's sing together.