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Matthew 21 is the coronation of the King.
Matthew 21
is when Jesus
rode into Jerusalem.
To forever settle
the issue of his kingship.
It was his coronation.
It was unlike any coronation
the world's ever seen.
It was not full of the pomp
and circumstance of rulers
and royalties of the world.
It was a coronation,
but it was a coronation of a king who came
on a baby donkey.
It was a coronation of a king
who came riding on.
Date. Palm branches.
Signs of worship and praise, no doubt.
It was a king
who came trotting on the clothes,
the used clothes of people
who threw down their robes
in symbolic gesture.
That you have authority
over all of my life.
It was a coronation, but
it was not a coronation of military power.
It was not a coronation
of governmental authority.
It was the coronation of the day
that had been proclaimed
to pronounce from generations long before.
In Psalm chapter 18, verse 24.
The Bible says,
this is the day that the Lord has made.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it
that Psalm is about this day.
That Psalm is not a proclamation
that every day the Lord has made,
which is in fact the truth.
But that Psalm is a proclamation
of this day, that the day Jesus rode
into Jerusalem at coronation
as King is the day that the Lord had made.
And because this is that day,
let us rejoice
and be glad in that day
the coronation of the King.
It was seven days before or a week
before his crucifixion and resurrection.
He was going into Jerusalem
for this one purpose, to give his
who set the stage to set the dominoes
begin falling
that would lead to his crucifixion,
that would result in his resurrection.
It was this day.
It was the same day that the angel
Gabriel spoke to the prophet Daniel,
as recorded for us in Daniel chapter nine,
that this day would come.
On this exact day,
one of the greatest, most profound
prophecies in all of Scripture
is in Daniel chapter nine,
I think verses 24 through 27.
And in Daniel's worship, the angel
Gabriel came to him and said, Daniel.
On a day, though,
one day the king will come into Jerusalem.
This was the day.
And here was the prophecy.
This is what it sounded like.
No. Understand this.
This is Gabriel speaking to Daniel.
From the time that the word goes out
to restore and rebuild Jerusalem
until the Anointed One,
the king who rules comes.
There will be seven sevens and 62 sevens.
Let me explain to you
what that prophecy means.
That means there will be 69
sets of seven, 69 sets of seven years.
And so if
you take the Babylonian calendar,
which was a 360 day year,
and you multiply 69 seven times 360,
you come up with 1000 173,880 days.
The prophecy in Daniel
nine said that in essence,
after 173,880 days
from the time King
ATA sees gives permission for the Hebrews
to leave Babylon
and rebuild Jerusalem, count forward
173,880 days will be the day
that the Anointed one,
the one who rules, will
right into the city of Jerusalem.
And through many different scholars,
it has been proven that, in fact,
this happened historically.
We know when King Arthur
gave permission to the Jews
to leave Babylon and rebuild the city.
You count forward 170,880 days.
It is this day
that Jesus came into Jerusalem.
This was a coronation unlike any other.
This exact
day have been prophesied for generations.
They knew it was coming.
They were anxiously waiting for this day
and it finally came.
This was Matthew 21 is the high point.
It's the high point of.
This was the culmination of 33 years
of Jesus life,
30 years in obscurity and anonymity.
Three years of public ministry culminates
now on this day
leading to this week, to the crucifixion
and the resurrection.
This is the day that the Lord had made.
Will rejoice
and be glad
because of what this day means.
This was the day.
This was the day that the King
was coronation, and this was the day
that humanity was put on notice.
I go into great detail on this prophecy
in Daniel nine, in my Wednesday night
Bible study called The Forge.
And if you're interested in that,
there's resources out there.
You can research that,
but I've done a lot of teaching on that.
You can follow that up on our website
and on our app to get more teaching
of the details of this day.
But for
now, going through Matthew 21,
I want to give you the big idea.
This is the day.
And here's the big idea for this day.
Because Jesus is King, he's
going to be correlated as the king
because he is the king.
He fulfills God's mission.
He exercises God's authority.
He restores God's worship
according to God's Word.
And as the King,
he sings God's compassion.
Matthew 21.
The week before the crucifixion,
the Passover, Jerusalem has swelled
with millions of people.
We don't know how many people exactly came
to Jerusalem for this Passover.
We know we can guess
it was probably over 2 million.
The reason why we know that a few years
after this very day,
there was another Passover,
as it was yearly the custom in Israel.
And during that day, records show
that some 260,000 lambs
were slaughtered as sacrifice.
And we know by Jewish law that they only
allowed 1 or 10 people per one lamb.
So there could have been 2.6
million people in Jerusalem at this day.
It was so large that the city boundaries
could not contain all the people.
And the law in Israel at the time
was that only those in the city
could celebrate Passover.
So they temporarily extended
the boundaries of the city of Jerusalem
to incorporate all these 200 or 2 million
plus people that had come
to Jerusalem on this day.
There was no small day.
Passover commemorated the freeing
of God's people from Egyptian rule.
It was the high point of their calendar
that they remembered God's hand
extending on their behalf to free them
from oppression to free them from death.
And so every Passover
was the expectation that God,
would you do it again in our day?
Would you finally send the Messiah?
What are you prefigured in in the in Moses
and out of Egypt?
Would you do it in our day
and free us finally, from the oppression
of this world?
There was great anticipation.
This day might be the day
that the King would come.
They looked for freedom
from Rome as their oppressor.
Would this day be the day that the King
would come and free us, as he,
as Moses did from the oppressors in Egypt?
Would you allow the King to come
to free us
from the oppression of Rome
and finally give us life?
This was the day
they had something
different in mind
than what Jesus came to do.
But they were looking for him.
They wanted Jesus to come and free them
from all the earthly
ills that they were suffering.
Jesus came to set them free
from the ills of sin.
One of the things I know
as I look at this day is
you and I have to accept
Jesus for who he is.
We want Jesus to come and free us
from all our ills.
Jesus must first
come and set us right with God.
We have to accept him
on his terms as the King.
Let's lung pack this.
Let's unpack
this first part of Matthew 21.
As the King, Jesus fulfills God's mission.
He was on a mission.
I want to read to you the first 11 verses
of what is known in the church
world as the Triumphal entry.
Now when they
drew near to Jerusalem and came to Beth
to the Mount of Olives,
then Jesus sent two disciples,
saying to them, go into the village
in front of you, and immediately
you will find a donkey tied
and a colt with her.
Untie them and bring them to me.
If anyone says anything to you,
you shall say, the Lord needs them,
and he will send them at once
under underline this part.
This took place to fulfill.
That's important.
We're talking about in
just a minute that took place to fulfill
what was spoken of by the prophet, saying,
say to the daughter of Zion, behold,
your King is coming to you, humble
and mounted on a donkey, on a colt,
the fall of a beast of burden.
Then the disciples went
and did as Jesus had directed them.
They brought the donkey and the colt,
and put them put on them their cloaks,
and he sat on them.
Most of the crowd
spread their cloaks on the road,
and others cut branches from the trees
and spread them on the road.
And the crowds that went before him
and that followed him were shouting,
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is he
who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!
And when he entered Jerusalem,
the whole city was stirred up, saying,
who is this?
And the crowd said, this is the prophet
Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee.
In John
18, verse four of this same account,
it says, knowing
all that would happen to him.
What was being orchestrated
here was not a surprise.
It wasn't a swell of emotion
that propelled Jesus into this moment.
This was God's four ordained, planned
coronation.
And Jesus knew full
well what he was walking into
and what he was walking towards.
In acts chapter two, verse 23,
this man, Jesus, was handed
over to you by what?
God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge.
This was not a surprise.
This was nothing forced.
He was not a victim.
He was not subjugated to the hands
or whim of man.
This was God's for ordained, planned.
And you, with the help of wicked men,
put him to death
by knowing him to the cross.
But it wasn't a surprise.
In revelation 13 he.
The lamb who was slain
from when not
not a few days before the resurrection,
was slain, when
from the creation of the world.
This was God's plan.
Jesus was on God's mission
and he set the entire stage
to complete it.
The entire stage.
He orchestrated this whole thing.
None of this was by accident.
This was by his choice, by his plan.
He wanted to create a spectacle.
He had to because he had to set in motion
the dominoes that would fall,
that would lead to his crucifixion,
so that his resurrection could happen
here, to this entire event.
Verse four is important.
This took place to fulfill.
All this took place to fulfill
what God had planned.
None of it was by accident.
Matthew draws a direct line from.
Isaiah and Zechariah to Jesus.
What?
Matthew draws the line.
All of this took place to fulfill.
And then he quotes say
to the daughter of Zion, behold your King.
If you have a Bible and your following
on, circle that word king.
Behold, your king is coming to you,
humble and mountain on donkey, on a cold,
the fall of a donkey.
What Matthew is doing,
and drawing this line
from the Old Testament
prophecy down to this day.
This King is he saying this.
He draws on Isaiah 6211
and he quotes Zechariah nine nine
and when he says,
your king is coming to you,
he uses the word yes,
which is another rendering of Yeshua,
which is Jesus's name, way back
in Isaiah, way back in Zechariah,
the Holy Spirit through those men
said, Yeshua is coming to you
on a colt the full of a donkey.
Jesus is coming to you.
They knew it.
They were looking forward to it,
but they missed it.
But Matthew says, look,
there is a direct line from the promise
of God to this man on this day,
Yeshua, Yeshua Jesus.
It's foretold in scriptures from long ago.
This is the day that the Lord has made
for this King
to enter the city of Jerusalem.
And they missed it.
Riding
on the full occult,
the full of the beast of burden.
Why on a baby donkey?
Kings
did not were not correlated on donkeys.
When King Solomon took the throne,
he initiated the
the practice that kings rode horses.
That all happened under King Solomon.
So for generations, when kings
either from from
from Israel or from around the world,
they were all right on horses.
So this king comes not on a horse,
but on a donkey.
Why not even on a donkey,
but a baby donkey? Why?
Because it was the lowest form
he could take
to tell the people I am the king.
But I come at humility.
And I come a great gentleness.
He couldn't get lower.
Oh, he'll come again on a horse.
There will be another inauguration.
There'll be another coronation
when he comes in his glory
with his angels on a white horse.
As the conquering warrior.
That day will come.
But this day
is his coronation as the king.
That comes from a very different purpose
than his next inauguration.
This is the day.
And he orchestrated orchestrates
this entire event.
There could be upwards of 2.5
million people in Jerusalem.
And the Bible says here in verse nine,
the crowds that went before him
and that followed him,
there were this, this swell, this tidal
wave of humanity that was surrounding
Jesus as the inner Jerusalem.
All those who are traveling with him see,
he had come from Jericho, and in Jericho
he had an interaction with a little short
man named Zacchaeus.
And Zacchaeus
followed him with his whole entourage.
And he goes through Beth and Bethany,
and he heals to blinding along the way.
One of them is named Timaeus.
We talked about him last week,
and he stops at Mary
and Martha, Martha's and Lazarus house.
Along the way, everybody knew Lazarus.
He was the one who was raised
from the grave, from the dead,
had this whole entourage
that were following him.
They were realizing who he was.
And he's walking into Jerusalem
through this tidal wave of humanity,
and he orchestrates it at this very time
so that people will proclaim
with their mouths,
Hosanna to the Son of David!
Hosanna means save us, save us now!
And they use this title, Son of David
that's only used in preparation
and looking forward to the Messiah.
So they're saying,
we believe that you are the Messiah
and you have come to save us.
Do it now.
That's the proclamation.
That's the setting.
That's the tidal wave of humanity
that is proclaiming
Jesus to be the King at his coronation.
This is not by accident.
They knew what they were saying.
They knew that Jesus has
the power and the authority to save.
They were crying out for him to say,
And Jesus orchestrates
this groundswell of humanity
and proclamation for his coronation
for one reason, so that they would hold
their very condemnation
or salvation in their own mouth.
They knew who he was.
They proclaimed who he was,
and if they rejected him
now, their condemnation
came from their own lips.
Do you understand?
And he does the same to us today.
You know who I am, he says.
And if you choose to live in unrepentant
and denial of me, your condemnation
comes from your own mouth.
This is why
I say this was the day of his coronation,
and this was the day
he put humanity on notice.
You know,
we use Romans ten nine
to talk about becoming a Christian,
and it's a great verse.
I've used it a ton,
and most of us have heard what it says
at some form or another.
If you confess with your mouth
that Jesus is Lord, unbelieving
your heart, that God raised him from
the dead, you will be saved.
And most people believe that.
That means that I can say
this little private prayer and it's,
you know, I believe in my heart, and Jesus
come into my life and make me Christian.
I accept you, and then we're good.
That's not what this scripture means.
That's not why Paul wrote it.
This is the king.
And when Paul wrote those words,
he wrote them.
They wrote it to the church in Rome.
And the church in Rome
was under severe persecution
by seized the Caesar of Rome.
Every year all the people of Rome
had to pay a tax to Caesar
and make proclamation with their mouth.
Caesar is Lord.
Caesar is curious.
And that was the proclamation.
It had to be me.
So when Paul says,
if you confess with your mouth that what?
Yes, you.
What is Kyrios?
Jesus is Lord.
It's not a private thing.
And it is a very costly thing,
because here's why.
The teaching in Romans
that Caesar was the Lord,
there was no one higher.
There was no greater God than Caesar.
To proclaim with your mouth
that Caesar is Lord is to say,
you are above all.
So for a person to say Jesus is Lord
puts him in complete conflict with Caesar,
and as a result,
at best imprisonment, at worst death.
To confess with your mouth that Jesus is
Lord was no small thing.
It was a public proclamation
that says, my faith will cost
me and I will pay it.
Do you understand?
And it's worth paying
because Jesus is the King.
If you confess with your mouth
is not a private thing,
it's it's it's
not a thing to enrich your earthly life.
It's a public proclamation
that I am willing
to suffer for the proclamation
that Jesus is the King of my life.
And the reason Paul
says, and believe in God.
God raised him from the dead,
because in Rome, once
you made that confess with your mouth,
you may actually experience eternity.
So you better believe in the resurrection.
Jesus is coming in this coronation.
Say I am the King.
And if you follow me,
it's going to require a commitment.
It's all confession of faith
is always preceded by and followed
by remorse for sin and repentance of sin.
I cannot make confession of faith
biblically and remain
unchanged, unrepentant, and in the sin
that has always dogged my life,
the two do not coexist.
When I have given myself
to be a disciple of Christ,
the Holy Spirit gives me the power
and the desire to repent of sin
and walk away from the sin
that has always dogged me.
And if that has not been
the case of your life,
I want to, in gentleness,
ask you to question your salvation.
Light and darkness cannot coexist.
There has to be a hatred and
a remorse over sin and a repentance of it,
because this king
will not share a room with anything.
This king.
See, Christianity
means that we get to choose death.
For the Christian,
it means we choose death daily.
Die to yourself, daily, the Bible says.
And some it will mean physical death.
But Christianity
also means that those who don't choose
Christ choose death eternally.
This is the King
and this is what really happened on
Palm Sunday.
This was the statement of all.
It's so much more than a little Happy
Sunday with the children's choir singing.
It's so much more.
It's the coronation, it's a proclamation
and it's a confrontation
all rolled into one.
Was thinking about this this week
and I thought, well,
Jesus, this was your mission.
This isn't our mission, right?
And I thought of this.
None of us carry Christ's mission,
but all of us carry the mission of Christ
to be on mission in this
world, on God's mission in this world,
regardless of the cost.
John Wesley said this
you must be willing to preach, pray,
or die at any moment
for this King.
Any of us who are to consider ourselves
disciples of Jesus, subjects of this King.
We must be willing to preach
prayer, die at any moment.
We don't carry his mission, but we carry
his mission.
He's the King.
And because he's the King,
he is on mission and he will complete it.
And because he's the King, he exercises
God's authority.
Matthew 2112
And Jesus entered the temple
and drove out all
who sold him, bought in the temple,
and overturned the tables
and of the money changers
and the seats of those who sold pigeons,
they had just shouted, Hosanna!
Save us!
They were looking for salvation.
They were looking for his intervention.
And so as he enters, they think, here
he comes.
He's going to save us and rid the world
of all the ills that have oppressed us.
And the first place Jesus goes
is to where?
Say it where your mouth open.
The first place he goes is the temple.
They wanted him to go to the Antonio
fortress
and overthrow the Roman oppression.
They want him to go to the seats of power.
They want him to go to the Capitol,
or to Congress,
or to the Senate or to the white House.
They wanted
he should have gone to Hollywood, right?
Or to Wall Street or the Supreme Court.
They want him to go to the Republican
National Convention or the Democratic
National Convention of the Democratic
Democratic Socialists of America.
God, that's where we need you go there.
Fix that.
Save us from all those evil things.
All those evil people.
And Jesus didn't
go to any of those places.
He went to the temple.
He went to church.
Jesus
didn't come to set things right with Rome.
He came to set things right
with his father on people's behalf.
First Peter 417 for
it is time for judgment to begin where
the household of God.
And it begins with us.
See here.
Here we follow the same problem they did.
We want Jesus to change the world
around us.
While he intends to change the worship
within us.
That's who this king is.
That's who this king is.
Jesus comes as the king
to fulfill God's mission,
and he comes to exercise God's authority.
And he also comes to uphold
God's Word and restore proper worship.
This is why he came.
This is why he went to the temple.
Jesus entered the temple and drove out all
who sold and bought,
bought in the temple
and overturned the tables of the money
changers of the seats of those.
This whole pigeons, he said to them,
it is written, you know, underline
that in your Bible my house shall be
called the house of prayer.
But you make it a den of robbers.
Verse 15.
But when the chief priests and the scribes
saw the wonderful things that he did,
and the children crying out in the temple,
Hosanna to the son! David!
They were indignant.
They were bitter,
they were jealous, they were enraged.
And they said,
do you hear what these are saying?
That Jesus said,
yeah. Have you never read your Bible
out of the mouths of
incense and infants and nursing babies,
you've prepared praise.
He restores by the authority God's Word.
What proper worship is just goes
to the temple to proclaim God's word,
to overturn and overthrow the tables,
and to address
what proper worship is.
See, their church
and their worship have become something
that God never intended it to be.
It was about all things other than God,
and other than his kingdom.
It was a business.
They had stopped praying
and they started conducting business.
And in the culture of that day, as people
would make their way to Jerusalem on this
yearly pilgrimage for the Passover,
they would come from other lands.
And as they came to Jerusalem, they had to
offer an offering to temple tax.
And so their money had to be exchanged.
And so the money changers exorbitantly
raise the exchange rate for them
so they can make money off their worship.
Those who sold pigeons
and doves, the offering of the poor
as an animal sacrificed
at the temple, charged four times
what they would normally charge
because they knew that the people
were desperate
and desperate
people would give their money,
and the church became something
very different than what God intended.
As a while back, I visited a church
and they had a beautiful coffee shop.
And they felt called by God to charge
Starbucks prices at their coffee shop.
I don't want to talk about coffee shops,
but I always end up going there.
This in this sin,
the world doesn't need Christian coffee
and the world doesn't need
another church coffee shop.
It's time to start overturning some stuff.
And if Jesus is king, has the right to
overturn tables, even in my life as well,
because he's the king.
So he goes to the temple first.
They want him to go fix
all the problems in this world.
He said, listen, I want to start fixing
you and how you worship my father.
Yeah, judgment will
come, but
it's going to start in the house of God,
because you've come to this house
for many different reasons and purposes,
and very few of them
have to do with the honor of my father.
Do you want me to go to Congress,
or you want me to go to your government?
And you want me to go to your economics?
I'm not going to any of those places.
I'm going to go to your heart.
I did not come to fix America.
I came so your heart would be right
with my father.
I didn't come to fix your politics.
I didn't come to fix your neighborhoods.
I came to fix your heart.
Because Jesus knows
that if the people of the temple, if his.
The people who claim
his name, would simply worship the father
rightly, there would be no need
for judicial, civil,
or political reform because there would be
no injustice and corruption
if the world just worshiped his father.
So Jesus did not target Caesar's house.
He targeted his father's house.
You know how the church becomes
a house of prayer?
Was that Billy?
By praying
we don't become a house of prayer.
By believing in prayer,
we become a house of prayer, by praying
one with another.
And Jesus's
authority resides as he upholds Scripture.
I want you to understand what he says
it is written.
Who goes right back to the Bible?
The authority of Christ
resides in the authority of Scripture
because he is God and this is His Word.
And as we stand on the foundation
of the Word of God, we stand in
great authority.
What the Bible says
will always be our foundation.
I've said it many times
are we stand under the word.
We don't stand over it.
One of the greatest prayers we can pray
over our lives and over this church
is this old.
My God, bend us under
the authority of your word.
Bend me under the authority of your word.
The foundation
of this whole thing,
this worship that Jesus came to restore
the propriety of has to do with two things
Scripture and prayer.
He starts with,
it is written and he says, you will pray.
That's worship.
When we hear the Word of God,
our response is to pray.
That's worship.
When you come to flip side
every week, you will hear not opinion.
You will hear not thoughts and ideas.
You will not hear other peoples.
You will hear the Word of God.
It is the foundation of all we believe
is the foundation of all we do.
And we stand on the authority of it.
And our proper response after hearing
the Word of God is to respond in prayer.
Just as Jesus said,
prayer is worship.
And then this Matthew, there's
this quote here of Psalm
eight to through the praise of children
and inference, you have established
stronghold against your enemies
to silence the foe and the avenger.
He says,
my house will be your browser prayer.
Haven't you heard that through children,
praise and prayer will go up to me?
The interesting thing about this verse
right here is it's preceded by verse one
and but verse one says, O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name,
and all the earth.
Through the praise of children
and infants, you've established
a stronghold, O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name
and all the earth.
Our response and worship is to say,
oh Lord, our Lord, your name is great.
You are the King,
and we will praise you, because you are.
And it's it's a child like faith.
It's a child
like exuberance as a childlike expression.
Because with children there's no pretense,
there's no pretending, there's
no show, there's no smoking mirrors.
It's not about their emotion
in the moment.
It's about who God is.
Old Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name.
Like a child,
I praise you with that much expectation,
unconcerned about who's around.
Because I confess with
my mouth that you are Lord.
Band, you need to come up here
because I'm just going to keep going
as long as you stand in the back.
And I love this whole
you see what's going on here on this Palm
Sunday?
Yes, yes, sometimes.
Seriously, I love you,
but sometimes I preach a lot
better than what you listen.
Do you understand the power
and what's going on here
on this Palm Sunday?
And what I love about this is, though,
the authority of Almighty
God is on display through the person
of Christ, the Messiah, the King.
He doesn't leave his people
without compassion.
And it may seem as though a king is royal
as he is with all this authority
would just say just balance.
Submit right now. And he doesn't do that.
There's one piece here,
and the blind and the lame came to him
in the temple and he healed him.
He casts out the money changers.
He casts out all these religious people.
All these animals are fleeing.
It had been just complete and utter chaos.
He was ruining their whole system.
And yet there was a few who remained.
Who were they?
They didn't leave. Who were they?
The blind.
Well,
the lame couldn't go anywhere, right?
I mean.
Everybody ran away
because this king came
with such a confront them.
And they were convicted and they fled.
Except those who were in need.
The blind and the lame.
They said, oh, no, we know who you are,
and we need your compassion.
And I love the fact.
Please understand this,
my friends, that Jesus, in the extension
of God's compassion,
this is the truth we have to understand
that lies behind that.
God's authority is never detached
from his compassion, ever.
His authority is never detached
from his compassion.
So you may be hearing today
that he is the King.
He deserves all submission. Absolutely.
But that doesn't come detached
from the compassion
that he wants to bestow upon you.
In your blindness.
Inability to have compassion.
Here's why
Jesus heals not to display his power.
Jesus heals to display his compassion,
his powers never in question,
even for us.
I believe in the power of God,
but sometimes I doubt his compassion
for my need.
Jesus heals not to display his power,
but to display his compassion,
and it is available for all of us,
lame and blind, who would seek him?
Every one of us.
He is the King,
and he has the authority of a king.
And although he came
with the authority of heaven
to chase out corruption,
and those who claimed his name,
he also came with the authority of heaven
to administer compassion.
If you need the compassion of God.
If you and I are willing to admit God,
I am blind,
I am lame, I cannot save myself.
There are things in my life
that have victory over me
that I need to be released from.
If you need the compassion of God,
he is available.
You just must first admit
you are blind and lame.
And this king who came to be coroner
will have compassion
because that's who this king is.
Acknowledge his authority over your life
without apology, without compromise,
and according to the truth of Scripture.
Repent.
There ought to be remorse
over your sin and repentance
and the turning away from it,
and then worship him as the king
and receive the compassion to Christ.
Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you
that you are the King, Lord Jesus.
Thank you that all authority resides
in you and yet you don't lord it over us.
You come to us
humble writing on a baby donkey.
You demand to be worshiped,
but you offer also offer compassion.
So in this moment, father, hear
and see and acknowledge those of us
who worship you as King,
and then touch us with your compassion.
Heal our blindness, heal our brokenness.
There are things that we need in our lives
from your compassion
and that only you are capable of.
Oh God, would you cause these people?
Would you cause us in this moment
to worship you in response,
in prayer,
seeking the hand of the compassion of God?
Who is the King?
As we seek you in prayer, would you move?
Do it if you don't move.
God, this is a waste of time.
If you don't do something,
this is a waste of energy.
God, you have to.
We implore you by the name of Jesus
that those who would come
and would seek you,
that you would move on their behalf
as they acknowledge
you as King and your neighbor.
Pray. Amen.
Francis, what we're going to do, I'm
going to invite you to stand
up, and I have some of my prayer people
who are going to be down front here.
And if this is one of those times
where you said, I need to acknowledge
who he is,
and I need his compassion on my life in
whatever area that is, would it
the prayers will be down there.
Would you just approach it
even while we're seeing it?
You can do it after you.
But even while we're seeing it,
and go to
God with somebody
and receive the compassion of God.
Let's see.