1 00:00:02,802 --> 00:00:06,439 Matthew 21 is the coronation of the King. 2 00:00:08,775 --> 00:00:11,678 Matthew 21 3 00:00:11,678 --> 00:00:14,314 is when Jesus 4 00:00:14,314 --> 00:00:17,317 rode into Jerusalem. 5 00:00:18,518 --> 00:00:21,521 To forever settle 6 00:00:22,255 --> 00:00:24,824 the issue of his kingship. 7 00:00:24,824 --> 00:00:27,827 It was his coronation. 8 00:00:27,994 --> 00:00:31,131 It was unlike any coronation the world's ever seen. 9 00:00:31,431 --> 00:00:37,103 It was not full of the pomp and circumstance of rulers 10 00:00:37,103 --> 00:00:40,106 and royalties of the world. 11 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:43,710 It was a coronation, but it was a coronation of a king who came 12 00:00:44,077 --> 00:00:46,813 on a baby donkey. 13 00:00:46,813 --> 00:00:49,015 It was a coronation of a king 14 00:00:49,015 --> 00:00:52,018 who came riding on. 15 00:00:52,185 --> 00:00:55,121 Date. Palm branches. 16 00:00:55,121 --> 00:00:58,158 Signs of worship and praise, no doubt. 17 00:00:59,225 --> 00:01:02,095 It was a king who came trotting on the clothes, 18 00:01:02,095 --> 00:01:05,098 the used clothes of people who threw down their robes 19 00:01:06,099 --> 00:01:07,700 in symbolic gesture. 20 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:09,669 That you have authority over all of my life. 21 00:01:09,669 --> 00:01:12,906 It was a coronation, but it was not a coronation of military power. 22 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:16,342 It was not a coronation of governmental authority. 23 00:01:18,111 --> 00:01:21,281 It was the coronation of the day that had been proclaimed 24 00:01:21,281 --> 00:01:24,250 to pronounce from generations long before. 25 00:01:25,351 --> 00:01:27,854 In Psalm chapter 18, verse 24. 26 00:01:27,854 --> 00:01:30,323 The Bible says, this is the day that the Lord has made. 27 00:01:30,323 --> 00:01:34,461 Let us rejoice and be glad in it that Psalm is about this day. 28 00:01:35,428 --> 00:01:38,898 That Psalm is not a proclamation that every day the Lord has made, 29 00:01:38,898 --> 00:01:40,800 which is in fact the truth. 30 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:46,639 But that Psalm is a proclamation of this day, that the day Jesus rode 31 00:01:46,639 --> 00:01:52,278 into Jerusalem at coronation as King is the day that the Lord had made. 32 00:01:52,412 --> 00:01:55,882 And because this is that day, let us rejoice 33 00:01:55,882 --> 00:01:58,985 and be glad in that day the coronation of the King. 34 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:04,157 It was seven days before or a week before his crucifixion and resurrection. 35 00:02:04,691 --> 00:02:09,095 He was going into Jerusalem for this one purpose, to give his 36 00:02:09,095 --> 00:02:13,199 who set the stage to set the dominoes begin falling 37 00:02:13,233 --> 00:02:16,669 that would lead to his crucifixion, that would result in his resurrection. 38 00:02:16,703 --> 00:02:18,571 It was this day. 39 00:02:18,571 --> 00:02:20,740 It was the same day that the angel 40 00:02:20,740 --> 00:02:23,743 Gabriel spoke to the prophet Daniel, 41 00:02:23,810 --> 00:02:27,614 as recorded for us in Daniel chapter nine, that this day would come. 42 00:02:27,914 --> 00:02:30,783 On this exact day, 43 00:02:30,783 --> 00:02:35,155 one of the greatest, most profound prophecies in all of Scripture 44 00:02:35,321 --> 00:02:39,592 is in Daniel chapter nine, I think verses 24 through 27. 45 00:02:40,193 --> 00:02:44,998 And in Daniel's worship, the angel Gabriel came to him and said, Daniel. 46 00:02:45,031 --> 00:02:49,903 On a day, though, one day the king will come into Jerusalem. 47 00:02:49,903 --> 00:02:53,006 This was the day. And here was the prophecy. 48 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:55,575 This is what it sounded like. 49 00:02:55,575 --> 00:02:56,943 No. Understand this. 50 00:02:56,943 --> 00:02:58,545 This is Gabriel speaking to Daniel. 51 00:02:58,545 --> 00:03:02,749 From the time that the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem 52 00:03:02,749 --> 00:03:07,720 until the Anointed One, the king who rules comes. 53 00:03:07,754 --> 00:03:11,157 There will be seven sevens and 62 sevens. 54 00:03:11,191 --> 00:03:13,226 Let me explain to you what that prophecy means. 55 00:03:13,226 --> 00:03:19,465 That means there will be 69 sets of seven, 69 sets of seven years. 56 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:21,201 And so if 57 00:03:21,201 --> 00:03:25,672 you take the Babylonian calendar, which was a 360 day year, 58 00:03:25,838 --> 00:03:29,776 and you multiply 69 seven times 360, 59 00:03:29,842 --> 00:03:34,747 you come up with 1000 173,880 days. 60 00:03:35,081 --> 00:03:38,851 The prophecy in Daniel nine said that in essence, 61 00:03:38,918 --> 00:03:42,589 after 173,880 days 62 00:03:42,922 --> 00:03:47,760 from the time King ATA sees gives permission for the Hebrews 63 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,198 to leave Babylon and rebuild Jerusalem, count forward 64 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:56,302 173,880 days will be the day 65 00:03:57,103 --> 00:03:59,639 that the Anointed one, the one who rules, will 66 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:02,909 right into the city of Jerusalem. 67 00:04:04,310 --> 00:04:06,813 And through many different scholars, 68 00:04:06,813 --> 00:04:11,384 it has been proven that, in fact, this happened historically. 69 00:04:11,384 --> 00:04:13,219 We know when King Arthur 70 00:04:13,219 --> 00:04:16,356 gave permission to the Jews to leave Babylon and rebuild the city. 71 00:04:16,389 --> 00:04:19,592 You count forward 170,880 days. 72 00:04:19,592 --> 00:04:22,262 It is this day 73 00:04:22,262 --> 00:04:25,265 that Jesus came into Jerusalem. 74 00:04:25,465 --> 00:04:27,533 This was a coronation unlike any other. 75 00:04:28,668 --> 00:04:29,469 This exact 76 00:04:29,469 --> 00:04:32,639 day have been prophesied for generations. 77 00:04:33,373 --> 00:04:35,141 They knew it was coming. 78 00:04:35,141 --> 00:04:40,280 They were anxiously waiting for this day and it finally came. 79 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,483 This was Matthew 21 is the high point. 80 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:45,652 It's the high point of. 81 00:04:45,652 --> 00:04:49,222 This was the culmination of 33 years of Jesus life, 82 00:04:49,255 --> 00:04:51,758 30 years in obscurity and anonymity. 83 00:04:51,758 --> 00:04:55,228 Three years of public ministry culminates now on this day 84 00:04:55,261 --> 00:04:58,831 leading to this week, to the crucifixion and the resurrection. 85 00:04:58,831 --> 00:05:01,868 This is the day that the Lord had made. 86 00:05:05,171 --> 00:05:05,905 Will rejoice 87 00:05:05,905 --> 00:05:08,908 and be glad because of what this day means. 88 00:05:09,876 --> 00:05:10,910 This was the day. 89 00:05:10,910 --> 00:05:14,981 This was the day that the King was coronation, and this was the day 90 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:17,984 that humanity was put on notice. 91 00:05:21,020 --> 00:05:23,323 I go into great detail on this prophecy 92 00:05:23,323 --> 00:05:26,793 in Daniel nine, in my Wednesday night Bible study called The Forge. 93 00:05:26,793 --> 00:05:30,063 And if you're interested in that, there's resources out there. 94 00:05:30,063 --> 00:05:32,332 You can research that, but I've done a lot of teaching on that. 95 00:05:32,332 --> 00:05:36,269 You can follow that up on our website and on our app to get more teaching 96 00:05:36,269 --> 00:05:37,904 of the details of this day. 97 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:40,473 But for 98 00:05:40,473 --> 00:05:43,476 now, going through Matthew 21, I want to give you the big idea. 99 00:05:43,576 --> 00:05:45,111 This is the day. 100 00:05:45,111 --> 00:05:48,114 And here's the big idea for this day. 101 00:05:48,381 --> 00:05:51,718 Because Jesus is King, he's going to be correlated as the king 102 00:05:51,718 --> 00:05:53,419 because he is the king. 103 00:05:53,419 --> 00:05:56,356 He fulfills God's mission. 104 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:58,958 He exercises God's authority. 105 00:05:58,958 --> 00:06:02,428 He restores God's worship according to God's Word. 106 00:06:03,596 --> 00:06:06,833 And as the King, he sings God's compassion. 107 00:06:08,801 --> 00:06:09,702 Matthew 21. 108 00:06:09,702 --> 00:06:12,905 The week before the crucifixion, the Passover, Jerusalem has swelled 109 00:06:12,905 --> 00:06:15,908 with millions of people. 110 00:06:15,942 --> 00:06:20,279 We don't know how many people exactly came to Jerusalem for this Passover. 111 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,783 We know we can guess it was probably over 2 million. 112 00:06:23,816 --> 00:06:27,620 The reason why we know that a few years after this very day, 113 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:32,825 there was another Passover, as it was yearly the custom in Israel. 114 00:06:33,459 --> 00:06:36,295 And during that day, records show 115 00:06:36,295 --> 00:06:41,200 that some 260,000 lambs were slaughtered as sacrifice. 116 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:47,173 And we know by Jewish law that they only allowed 1 or 10 people per one lamb. 117 00:06:47,173 --> 00:06:51,277 So there could have been 2.6 million people in Jerusalem at this day. 118 00:06:51,744 --> 00:06:56,549 It was so large that the city boundaries could not contain all the people. 119 00:06:56,549 --> 00:06:59,552 And the law in Israel at the time was that only those in the city 120 00:06:59,585 --> 00:07:00,753 could celebrate Passover. 121 00:07:00,753 --> 00:07:03,990 So they temporarily extended the boundaries of the city of Jerusalem 122 00:07:03,990 --> 00:07:07,560 to incorporate all these 200 or 2 million 123 00:07:07,593 --> 00:07:11,030 plus people that had come to Jerusalem on this day. 124 00:07:13,099 --> 00:07:16,102 There was no small day. 125 00:07:17,904 --> 00:07:20,106 Passover commemorated the freeing 126 00:07:20,106 --> 00:07:23,576 of God's people from Egyptian rule. 127 00:07:24,076 --> 00:07:27,947 It was the high point of their calendar that they remembered God's hand 128 00:07:27,947 --> 00:07:32,552 extending on their behalf to free them from oppression to free them from death. 129 00:07:32,552 --> 00:07:34,220 And so every Passover 130 00:07:34,220 --> 00:07:37,623 was the expectation that God, would you do it again in our day? 131 00:07:38,090 --> 00:07:40,593 Would you finally send the Messiah? 132 00:07:40,593 --> 00:07:44,664 What are you prefigured in in the in Moses and out of Egypt? 133 00:07:44,664 --> 00:07:48,100 Would you do it in our day and free us finally, from the oppression 134 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:50,536 of this world? 135 00:07:50,536 --> 00:07:52,572 There was great anticipation. 136 00:07:52,572 --> 00:07:55,541 This day might be the day that the King would come. 137 00:07:55,541 --> 00:07:59,512 They looked for freedom from Rome as their oppressor. 138 00:07:59,812 --> 00:08:03,883 Would this day be the day that the King would come and free us, as he, 139 00:08:03,916 --> 00:08:06,986 as Moses did from the oppressors in Egypt? 140 00:08:07,019 --> 00:08:10,056 Would you allow the King to come to free us 141 00:08:10,056 --> 00:08:13,693 from the oppression of Rome and finally give us life? 142 00:08:14,427 --> 00:08:15,695 This was the day 143 00:08:16,762 --> 00:08:17,797 they had something 144 00:08:17,797 --> 00:08:20,900 different in mind than what Jesus came to do. 145 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:23,836 But they were looking for him. 146 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:25,738 They wanted Jesus to come and free them 147 00:08:25,738 --> 00:08:28,741 from all the earthly ills that they were suffering. 148 00:08:29,041 --> 00:08:32,011 Jesus came to set them free 149 00:08:32,411 --> 00:08:35,414 from the ills of sin. 150 00:08:35,414 --> 00:08:37,750 One of the things I know as I look at this day is 151 00:08:37,750 --> 00:08:40,753 you and I have to accept Jesus for who he is. 152 00:08:41,988 --> 00:08:45,024 We want Jesus to come and free us from all our ills. 153 00:08:46,025 --> 00:08:49,028 Jesus must first come and set us right with God. 154 00:08:50,830 --> 00:08:51,797 We have to accept him 155 00:08:51,797 --> 00:08:54,800 on his terms as the King. 156 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,102 Let's lung pack this. 157 00:08:56,102 --> 00:08:58,571 Let's unpack this first part of Matthew 21. 158 00:08:58,571 --> 00:09:01,240 As the King, Jesus fulfills God's mission. 159 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,442 He was on a mission. 160 00:09:03,442 --> 00:09:06,746 I want to read to you the first 11 verses 161 00:09:06,913 --> 00:09:10,383 of what is known in the church world as the Triumphal entry. 162 00:09:13,019 --> 00:09:13,619 Now when they 163 00:09:13,619 --> 00:09:16,656 drew near to Jerusalem and came to Beth 164 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:21,661 to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 165 00:09:21,661 --> 00:09:25,631 saying to them, go into the village in front of you, and immediately 166 00:09:25,631 --> 00:09:28,634 you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. 167 00:09:28,701 --> 00:09:30,503 Untie them and bring them to me. 168 00:09:30,503 --> 00:09:34,974 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, the Lord needs them, 169 00:09:34,974 --> 00:09:39,078 and he will send them at once under underline this part. 170 00:09:39,111 --> 00:09:42,014 This took place to fulfill. That's important. 171 00:09:42,014 --> 00:09:42,615 We're talking about in 172 00:09:42,615 --> 00:09:46,919 just a minute that took place to fulfill what was spoken of by the prophet, saying, 173 00:09:46,953 --> 00:09:50,856 say to the daughter of Zion, behold, your King is coming to you, humble 174 00:09:50,856 --> 00:09:54,560 and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the fall of a beast of burden. 175 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:58,331 Then the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 176 00:09:58,331 --> 00:10:02,335 They brought the donkey and the colt, and put them put on them their cloaks, 177 00:10:02,335 --> 00:10:03,336 and he sat on them. 178 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:05,871 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, 179 00:10:05,871 --> 00:10:08,874 and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 180 00:10:08,874 --> 00:10:12,912 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, 181 00:10:12,912 --> 00:10:14,547 Hosanna to the Son of David! 182 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:16,515 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 183 00:10:16,515 --> 00:10:18,351 Hosanna in the highest! 184 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:21,787 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, 185 00:10:21,787 --> 00:10:22,989 who is this? 186 00:10:22,989 --> 00:10:26,292 And the crowd said, this is the prophet 187 00:10:26,292 --> 00:10:29,629 Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee. 188 00:10:31,497 --> 00:10:32,398 In John 189 00:10:32,398 --> 00:10:35,935 18, verse four of this same account, 190 00:10:36,135 --> 00:10:39,839 it says, knowing all that would happen to him. 191 00:10:42,942 --> 00:10:44,610 What was being orchestrated 192 00:10:44,610 --> 00:10:47,613 here was not a surprise. 193 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:53,352 It wasn't a swell of emotion that propelled Jesus into this moment. 194 00:10:53,386 --> 00:10:56,789 This was God's four ordained, planned 195 00:10:57,757 --> 00:10:59,892 coronation. 196 00:10:59,892 --> 00:11:04,263 And Jesus knew full well what he was walking into 197 00:11:04,296 --> 00:11:07,299 and what he was walking towards. 198 00:11:08,234 --> 00:11:11,237 In acts chapter two, verse 23, 199 00:11:11,237 --> 00:11:14,373 this man, Jesus, was handed 200 00:11:14,373 --> 00:11:17,376 over to you by what? 201 00:11:17,743 --> 00:11:20,746 God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge. 202 00:11:21,580 --> 00:11:23,683 This was not a surprise. 203 00:11:23,683 --> 00:11:25,351 This was nothing forced. 204 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:27,586 He was not a victim. 205 00:11:27,586 --> 00:11:30,756 He was not subjugated to the hands or whim of man. 206 00:11:30,756 --> 00:11:34,160 This was God's for ordained, planned. 207 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:39,198 And you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death 208 00:11:39,198 --> 00:11:41,333 by knowing him to the cross. 209 00:11:41,333 --> 00:11:42,935 But it wasn't a surprise. 210 00:11:44,336 --> 00:11:47,339 In revelation 13 he. 211 00:11:49,175 --> 00:11:51,811 The lamb who was slain 212 00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:54,814 from when not 213 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:58,718 not a few days before the resurrection, 214 00:11:58,718 --> 00:12:01,320 was slain, when 215 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,123 from the creation of the world. 216 00:12:04,123 --> 00:12:06,258 This was God's plan. 217 00:12:06,258 --> 00:12:09,261 Jesus was on God's mission 218 00:12:10,763 --> 00:12:13,532 and he set the entire stage to complete it. 219 00:12:13,532 --> 00:12:14,433 The entire stage. 220 00:12:14,433 --> 00:12:17,436 He orchestrated this whole thing. 221 00:12:17,636 --> 00:12:19,071 None of this was by accident. 222 00:12:19,071 --> 00:12:21,173 This was by his choice, by his plan. 223 00:12:21,173 --> 00:12:24,176 He wanted to create a spectacle. 224 00:12:25,077 --> 00:12:30,316 He had to because he had to set in motion the dominoes that would fall, 225 00:12:30,583 --> 00:12:34,820 that would lead to his crucifixion, so that his resurrection could happen 226 00:12:35,855 --> 00:12:38,858 here, to this entire event. 227 00:12:42,261 --> 00:12:43,596 Verse four is important. 228 00:12:43,596 --> 00:12:45,331 This took place to fulfill. 229 00:12:45,331 --> 00:12:50,302 All this took place to fulfill what God had planned. 230 00:12:50,870 --> 00:12:52,671 None of it was by accident. 231 00:12:56,976 --> 00:13:00,946 Matthew draws a direct line from. 232 00:13:04,150 --> 00:13:08,387 Isaiah and Zechariah to Jesus. 233 00:13:09,355 --> 00:13:09,789 What? 234 00:13:09,789 --> 00:13:11,157 Matthew draws the line. 235 00:13:11,157 --> 00:13:13,092 All of this took place to fulfill. 236 00:13:13,092 --> 00:13:17,630 And then he quotes say to the daughter of Zion, behold your King. 237 00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:20,866 If you have a Bible and your following on, circle that word king. 238 00:13:23,302 --> 00:13:25,070 Behold, your king is coming to you, 239 00:13:25,070 --> 00:13:28,307 humble and mountain on donkey, on a cold, the fall of a donkey. 240 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,377 What Matthew is doing, and drawing this line 241 00:13:31,377 --> 00:13:34,146 from the Old Testament prophecy down to this day. 242 00:13:34,146 --> 00:13:36,015 This King is he saying this. 243 00:13:36,015 --> 00:13:39,318 He draws on Isaiah 6211 244 00:13:39,418 --> 00:13:44,657 and he quotes Zechariah nine nine and when he says, 245 00:13:44,990 --> 00:13:49,662 your king is coming to you, he uses the word yes, 246 00:13:50,496 --> 00:13:54,033 which is another rendering of Yeshua, 247 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,136 which is Jesus's name, way back 248 00:13:57,136 --> 00:14:00,472 in Isaiah, way back in Zechariah, 249 00:14:02,174 --> 00:14:04,276 the Holy Spirit through those men 250 00:14:04,276 --> 00:14:07,279 said, Yeshua is coming to you 251 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,082 on a colt the full of a donkey. 252 00:14:10,082 --> 00:14:13,052 Jesus is coming to you. 253 00:14:13,586 --> 00:14:15,588 They knew it. 254 00:14:15,588 --> 00:14:18,591 They were looking forward to it, but they missed it. 255 00:14:20,426 --> 00:14:23,696 But Matthew says, look, there is a direct line from the promise 256 00:14:23,696 --> 00:14:26,699 of God to this man on this day, 257 00:14:26,932 --> 00:14:29,935 Yeshua, Yeshua Jesus. 258 00:14:30,469 --> 00:14:33,672 It's foretold in scriptures from long ago. 259 00:14:34,273 --> 00:14:38,410 This is the day that the Lord has made for this King 260 00:14:38,477 --> 00:14:41,513 to enter the city of Jerusalem. 261 00:14:43,582 --> 00:14:46,585 And they missed it. 262 00:14:47,519 --> 00:14:48,020 Riding 263 00:14:48,020 --> 00:14:53,058 on the full occult, the full of the beast of burden. 264 00:14:53,592 --> 00:14:55,995 Why on a baby donkey? 265 00:14:55,995 --> 00:14:59,431 Kings did not were not correlated on donkeys. 266 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:04,670 When King Solomon took the throne, he initiated the 267 00:15:04,670 --> 00:15:07,873 the practice that kings rode horses. 268 00:15:08,274 --> 00:15:09,975 That all happened under King Solomon. 269 00:15:09,975 --> 00:15:12,077 So for generations, when kings 270 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:14,280 either from from 271 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,383 from Israel or from around the world, they were all right on horses. 272 00:15:17,383 --> 00:15:20,152 So this king comes not on a horse, but on a donkey. 273 00:15:20,152 --> 00:15:23,756 Why not even on a donkey, but a baby donkey? Why? 274 00:15:23,789 --> 00:15:27,593 Because it was the lowest form he could take 275 00:15:28,794 --> 00:15:31,030 to tell the people I am the king. 276 00:15:31,030 --> 00:15:34,033 But I come at humility. 277 00:15:35,467 --> 00:15:38,470 And I come a great gentleness. 278 00:15:38,504 --> 00:15:41,473 He couldn't get lower. 279 00:15:41,473 --> 00:15:44,476 Oh, he'll come again on a horse. 280 00:15:44,543 --> 00:15:46,512 There will be another inauguration. 281 00:15:46,512 --> 00:15:48,180 There'll be another coronation 282 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:51,617 when he comes in his glory with his angels on a white horse. 283 00:15:52,351 --> 00:15:53,953 As the conquering warrior. 284 00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:54,987 That day will come. 285 00:15:54,987 --> 00:15:57,723 But this day 286 00:15:57,723 --> 00:16:00,192 is his coronation as the king. 287 00:16:00,192 --> 00:16:05,297 That comes from a very different purpose than his next inauguration. 288 00:16:06,732 --> 00:16:09,735 This is the day. 289 00:16:09,735 --> 00:16:11,937 And he orchestrated orchestrates 290 00:16:11,937 --> 00:16:14,940 this entire event. 291 00:16:15,074 --> 00:16:17,109 There could be upwards of 2.5 292 00:16:17,109 --> 00:16:20,112 million people in Jerusalem. 293 00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:25,351 And the Bible says here in verse nine, 294 00:16:25,384 --> 00:16:29,121 the crowds that went before him and that followed him, 295 00:16:30,255 --> 00:16:32,791 there were this, this swell, this tidal 296 00:16:32,791 --> 00:16:36,795 wave of humanity that was surrounding Jesus as the inner Jerusalem. 297 00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:42,001 All those who are traveling with him see, he had come from Jericho, and in Jericho 298 00:16:42,034 --> 00:16:45,504 he had an interaction with a little short man named Zacchaeus. 299 00:16:45,537 --> 00:16:48,874 And Zacchaeus followed him with his whole entourage. 300 00:16:48,874 --> 00:16:54,513 And he goes through Beth and Bethany, and he heals to blinding along the way. 301 00:16:54,513 --> 00:16:55,948 One of them is named Timaeus. 302 00:16:55,948 --> 00:16:58,250 We talked about him last week, 303 00:16:58,250 --> 00:17:01,854 and he stops at Mary and Martha, Martha's and Lazarus house. 304 00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:04,056 Along the way, everybody knew Lazarus. 305 00:17:04,056 --> 00:17:06,825 He was the one who was raised from the grave, from the dead, 306 00:17:06,825 --> 00:17:09,294 had this whole entourage that were following him. 307 00:17:09,294 --> 00:17:10,863 They were realizing who he was. 308 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:15,067 And he's walking into Jerusalem through this tidal wave of humanity, 309 00:17:15,667 --> 00:17:20,906 and he orchestrates it at this very time so that people will proclaim 310 00:17:20,906 --> 00:17:24,977 with their mouths, Hosanna to the Son of David! 311 00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:28,881 Hosanna means save us, save us now! 312 00:17:29,314 --> 00:17:32,518 And they use this title, Son of David 313 00:17:32,551 --> 00:17:37,156 that's only used in preparation and looking forward to the Messiah. 314 00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:38,090 So they're saying, 315 00:17:38,090 --> 00:17:41,627 we believe that you are the Messiah and you have come to save us. 316 00:17:41,627 --> 00:17:42,628 Do it now. 317 00:17:43,762 --> 00:17:45,330 That's the proclamation. 318 00:17:45,330 --> 00:17:46,932 That's the setting. 319 00:17:46,932 --> 00:17:50,235 That's the tidal wave of humanity that is proclaiming 320 00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:53,672 Jesus to be the King at his coronation. 321 00:17:54,373 --> 00:17:57,376 This is not by accident. 322 00:17:58,310 --> 00:18:01,313 They knew what they were saying. 323 00:18:02,347 --> 00:18:03,816 They knew that Jesus has 324 00:18:03,816 --> 00:18:06,819 the power and the authority to save. 325 00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:10,989 They were crying out for him to say, And Jesus orchestrates 326 00:18:10,989 --> 00:18:16,795 this groundswell of humanity and proclamation for his coronation 327 00:18:16,795 --> 00:18:20,632 for one reason, so that they would hold their very condemnation 328 00:18:20,632 --> 00:18:23,635 or salvation in their own mouth. 329 00:18:24,002 --> 00:18:26,972 They knew who he was. 330 00:18:29,041 --> 00:18:32,478 They proclaimed who he was, and if they rejected him 331 00:18:32,478 --> 00:18:35,481 now, their condemnation came from their own lips. 332 00:18:38,050 --> 00:18:41,053 Do you understand? 333 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,123 And he does the same to us today. 334 00:18:45,057 --> 00:18:48,060 You know who I am, he says. 335 00:18:48,894 --> 00:18:51,730 And if you choose to live in unrepentant 336 00:18:51,730 --> 00:18:54,867 and denial of me, your condemnation comes from your own mouth. 337 00:18:56,935 --> 00:18:59,905 This is why I say this was the day of his coronation, 338 00:18:59,905 --> 00:19:02,975 and this was the day he put humanity on notice. 339 00:19:07,779 --> 00:19:08,180 You know, 340 00:19:08,180 --> 00:19:12,718 we use Romans ten nine to talk about becoming a Christian, 341 00:19:12,718 --> 00:19:14,119 and it's a great verse. 342 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,623 I've used it a ton, and most of us have heard what it says 343 00:19:17,623 --> 00:19:19,224 at some form or another. 344 00:19:19,224 --> 00:19:22,361 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, unbelieving 345 00:19:22,361 --> 00:19:24,930 your heart, that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 346 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:27,499 And most people believe that. 347 00:19:27,499 --> 00:19:30,536 That means that I can say this little private prayer and it's, 348 00:19:30,602 --> 00:19:35,507 you know, I believe in my heart, and Jesus come into my life and make me Christian. 349 00:19:35,507 --> 00:19:37,643 I accept you, and then we're good. 350 00:19:37,643 --> 00:19:40,379 That's not what this scripture means. 351 00:19:40,379 --> 00:19:42,581 That's not why Paul wrote it. 352 00:19:45,584 --> 00:19:48,453 This is the king. 353 00:19:48,453 --> 00:19:51,023 And when Paul wrote those words, he wrote them. 354 00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:54,026 They wrote it to the church in Rome. 355 00:19:54,493 --> 00:19:59,031 And the church in Rome was under severe persecution 356 00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:02,034 by seized the Caesar of Rome. 357 00:20:04,269 --> 00:20:06,471 Every year all the people of Rome 358 00:20:06,471 --> 00:20:12,077 had to pay a tax to Caesar and make proclamation with their mouth. 359 00:20:12,110 --> 00:20:15,113 Caesar is Lord. 360 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,250 Caesar is curious. 361 00:20:19,585 --> 00:20:21,453 And that was the proclamation. 362 00:20:21,453 --> 00:20:22,120 It had to be me. 363 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:26,058 So when Paul says, if you confess with your mouth that what? 364 00:20:26,792 --> 00:20:27,492 Yes, you. 365 00:20:27,492 --> 00:20:29,761 What is Kyrios? 366 00:20:29,761 --> 00:20:32,130 Jesus is Lord. 367 00:20:32,130 --> 00:20:34,666 It's not a private thing. 368 00:20:34,666 --> 00:20:37,703 And it is a very costly thing, because here's why. 369 00:20:40,472 --> 00:20:41,907 The teaching in Romans 370 00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:44,910 that Caesar was the Lord, 371 00:20:45,210 --> 00:20:46,678 there was no one higher. 372 00:20:46,678 --> 00:20:49,281 There was no greater God than Caesar. 373 00:20:50,616 --> 00:20:52,551 To proclaim with your mouth 374 00:20:52,551 --> 00:20:56,622 that Caesar is Lord is to say, you are above all. 375 00:20:57,189 --> 00:21:01,093 So for a person to say Jesus is Lord 376 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,430 puts him in complete conflict with Caesar, 377 00:21:05,998 --> 00:21:08,600 and as a result, 378 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,570 at best imprisonment, at worst death. 379 00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:15,440 To confess with your mouth that Jesus is 380 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,410 Lord was no small thing. 381 00:21:19,811 --> 00:21:22,814 It was a public proclamation 382 00:21:22,981 --> 00:21:25,617 that says, my faith will cost 383 00:21:25,617 --> 00:21:28,620 me and I will pay it. 384 00:21:29,721 --> 00:21:31,556 Do you understand? 385 00:21:31,556 --> 00:21:35,761 And it's worth paying because Jesus is the King. 386 00:21:38,096 --> 00:21:41,633 If you confess with your mouth is not a private thing, 387 00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:45,304 it's it's it's not a thing to enrich your earthly life. 388 00:21:46,171 --> 00:21:49,641 It's a public proclamation that I am willing 389 00:21:49,675 --> 00:21:53,478 to suffer for the proclamation that Jesus is the King of my life. 390 00:21:53,745 --> 00:21:56,548 And the reason Paul says, and believe in God. 391 00:21:56,548 --> 00:21:58,450 God raised him from the dead, because in Rome, once 392 00:21:58,450 --> 00:22:02,187 you made that confess with your mouth, you may actually experience eternity. 393 00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:04,423 So you better believe in the resurrection. 394 00:22:06,391 --> 00:22:09,061 Jesus is coming in this coronation. 395 00:22:09,061 --> 00:22:12,064 Say I am the King. 396 00:22:16,301 --> 00:22:18,937 And if you follow me, 397 00:22:18,937 --> 00:22:20,972 it's going to require a commitment. 398 00:22:20,972 --> 00:22:24,042 It's all confession of faith 399 00:22:24,743 --> 00:22:28,380 is always preceded by and followed 400 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:31,783 by remorse for sin and repentance of sin. 401 00:22:32,551 --> 00:22:38,757 I cannot make confession of faith biblically and remain 402 00:22:38,757 --> 00:22:43,095 unchanged, unrepentant, and in the sin that has always dogged my life, 403 00:22:43,395 --> 00:22:46,398 the two do not coexist. 404 00:22:49,634 --> 00:22:52,537 When I have given myself to be a disciple of Christ, 405 00:22:52,537 --> 00:22:56,341 the Holy Spirit gives me the power and the desire to repent of sin 406 00:22:56,341 --> 00:22:59,344 and walk away from the sin that has always dogged me. 407 00:23:00,812 --> 00:23:04,416 And if that has not been the case of your life, 408 00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:08,787 I want to, in gentleness, ask you to question your salvation. 409 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:13,158 Light and darkness cannot coexist. 410 00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:16,061 There has to be a hatred and 411 00:23:16,061 --> 00:23:19,431 a remorse over sin and a repentance of it, 412 00:23:20,932 --> 00:23:23,402 because this king 413 00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:26,371 will not share a room with anything. 414 00:23:27,906 --> 00:23:30,909 This king. 415 00:23:34,946 --> 00:23:37,949 See, Christianity means that we get to choose death. 416 00:23:38,517 --> 00:23:40,786 For the Christian, it means we choose death daily. 417 00:23:40,786 --> 00:23:42,521 Die to yourself, daily, the Bible says. 418 00:23:42,521 --> 00:23:45,490 And some it will mean physical death. 419 00:23:46,024 --> 00:23:48,560 But Christianity also means that those who don't choose 420 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,563 Christ choose death eternally. 421 00:23:53,498 --> 00:23:56,101 This is the King 422 00:23:56,101 --> 00:23:58,503 and this is what really happened on Palm Sunday. 423 00:23:58,503 --> 00:23:59,738 This was the statement of all. 424 00:23:59,738 --> 00:24:04,142 It's so much more than a little Happy Sunday with the children's choir singing. 425 00:24:05,310 --> 00:24:08,013 It's so much more. 426 00:24:08,013 --> 00:24:10,949 It's the coronation, it's a proclamation and it's a confrontation 427 00:24:10,949 --> 00:24:13,952 all rolled into one. 428 00:24:17,756 --> 00:24:19,658 Was thinking about this this week and I thought, well, 429 00:24:19,658 --> 00:24:20,792 Jesus, this was your mission. 430 00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:22,794 This isn't our mission, right? And I thought of this. 431 00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:26,832 None of us carry Christ's mission, but all of us carry the mission of Christ 432 00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:29,835 to be on mission in this 433 00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:33,839 world, on God's mission in this world, regardless of the cost. 434 00:24:33,972 --> 00:24:36,875 John Wesley said this you must be willing to preach, pray, 435 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:39,878 or die at any moment 436 00:24:40,345 --> 00:24:43,348 for this King. 437 00:24:44,282 --> 00:24:46,218 Any of us who are to consider ourselves 438 00:24:46,218 --> 00:24:49,554 disciples of Jesus, subjects of this King. 439 00:24:49,554 --> 00:24:52,757 We must be willing to preach prayer, die at any moment. 440 00:24:54,426 --> 00:24:56,261 We don't carry his mission, but we carry 441 00:24:56,261 --> 00:24:59,264 his mission. 442 00:25:00,398 --> 00:25:01,399 He's the King. 443 00:25:01,399 --> 00:25:06,771 And because he's the King, he is on mission and he will complete it. 444 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:10,075 And because he's the King, he exercises 445 00:25:10,075 --> 00:25:13,078 God's authority. 446 00:25:13,111 --> 00:25:14,746 Matthew 2112 447 00:25:14,746 --> 00:25:16,982 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all 448 00:25:16,982 --> 00:25:19,251 who sold him, bought in the temple, and overturned the tables 449 00:25:19,251 --> 00:25:22,554 and of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons, 450 00:25:23,321 --> 00:25:26,358 they had just shouted, Hosanna! 451 00:25:26,391 --> 00:25:27,092 Save us! 452 00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:28,627 They were looking for salvation. 453 00:25:28,627 --> 00:25:30,595 They were looking for his intervention. 454 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:34,599 And so as he enters, they think, here he comes. 455 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:38,537 He's going to save us and rid the world of all the ills that have oppressed us. 456 00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:41,540 And the first place Jesus goes is to where? 457 00:25:44,442 --> 00:25:46,878 Say it where your mouth open. 458 00:25:46,878 --> 00:25:49,881 The first place he goes is the temple. 459 00:25:49,881 --> 00:25:52,651 They wanted him to go to the Antonio 460 00:25:52,651 --> 00:25:57,455 fortress and overthrow the Roman oppression. 461 00:25:58,256 --> 00:26:01,259 They want him to go to the seats of power. 462 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,463 They want him to go to the Capitol, or to Congress, 463 00:26:05,497 --> 00:26:08,500 or to the Senate or to the white House. 464 00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:12,504 They wanted he should have gone to Hollywood, right? 465 00:26:12,504 --> 00:26:15,507 Or to Wall Street or the Supreme Court. 466 00:26:16,975 --> 00:26:20,912 They want him to go to the Republican National Convention or the Democratic 467 00:26:20,912 --> 00:26:25,550 National Convention of the Democratic Democratic Socialists of America. 468 00:26:26,184 --> 00:26:28,320 God, that's where we need you go there. 469 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:29,421 Fix that. 470 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:33,258 Save us from all those evil things. 471 00:26:33,258 --> 00:26:36,261 All those evil people. 472 00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:40,432 And Jesus didn't go to any of those places. 473 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,868 He went to the temple. 474 00:26:43,868 --> 00:26:46,871 He went to church. 475 00:26:48,306 --> 00:26:48,840 Jesus 476 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,077 didn't come to set things right with Rome. 477 00:26:52,077 --> 00:26:58,016 He came to set things right with his father on people's behalf. 478 00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:01,386 First Peter 417 for 479 00:27:01,386 --> 00:27:04,389 it is time for judgment to begin where 480 00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:08,660 the household of God. 481 00:27:10,061 --> 00:27:12,897 And it begins with us. 482 00:27:12,897 --> 00:27:13,665 See here. 483 00:27:13,665 --> 00:27:15,500 Here we follow the same problem they did. 484 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:18,870 We want Jesus to change the world around us. 485 00:27:18,870 --> 00:27:22,140 While he intends to change the worship within us. 486 00:27:24,843 --> 00:27:27,812 That's who this king is. 487 00:27:28,513 --> 00:27:31,516 That's who this king is. 488 00:27:32,784 --> 00:27:34,986 Jesus comes as the king 489 00:27:34,986 --> 00:27:39,290 to fulfill God's mission, and he comes to exercise God's authority. 490 00:27:39,290 --> 00:27:43,561 And he also comes to uphold God's Word and restore proper worship. 491 00:27:43,561 --> 00:27:44,963 This is why he came. 492 00:27:46,064 --> 00:27:49,067 This is why he went to the temple. 493 00:27:50,402 --> 00:27:53,538 Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought, 494 00:27:54,172 --> 00:27:56,908 bought in the temple and overturned the tables of the money 495 00:27:56,908 --> 00:27:57,942 changers of the seats of those. 496 00:27:57,942 --> 00:28:01,780 This whole pigeons, he said to them, it is written, you know, underline 497 00:28:01,780 --> 00:28:04,783 that in your Bible my house shall be called the house of prayer. 498 00:28:04,783 --> 00:28:06,985 But you make it a den of robbers. Verse 15. 499 00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:10,255 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, 500 00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:13,058 and the children crying out in the temple, Hosanna to the son! David! 501 00:28:13,058 --> 00:28:13,958 They were indignant. 502 00:28:13,958 --> 00:28:16,428 They were bitter, they were jealous, they were enraged. 503 00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:19,497 And they said, do you hear what these are saying? 504 00:28:19,497 --> 00:28:21,800 That Jesus said, yeah. Have you never read your Bible 505 00:28:23,101 --> 00:28:23,902 out of the mouths of 506 00:28:23,902 --> 00:28:26,905 incense and infants and nursing babies, 507 00:28:27,072 --> 00:28:30,075 you've prepared praise. 508 00:28:30,675 --> 00:28:33,511 He restores by the authority God's Word. 509 00:28:33,511 --> 00:28:38,216 What proper worship is just goes to the temple to proclaim God's word, 510 00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:42,120 to overturn and overthrow the tables, and to address 511 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,123 what proper worship is. 512 00:28:45,123 --> 00:28:47,459 See, their church and their worship have become something 513 00:28:47,459 --> 00:28:48,993 that God never intended it to be. 514 00:28:48,993 --> 00:28:52,030 It was about all things other than God, and other than his kingdom. 515 00:28:52,697 --> 00:28:54,899 It was a business. 516 00:28:54,899 --> 00:28:57,836 They had stopped praying and they started conducting business. 517 00:28:57,836 --> 00:29:02,674 And in the culture of that day, as people would make their way to Jerusalem on this 518 00:29:02,707 --> 00:29:06,311 yearly pilgrimage for the Passover, they would come from other lands. 519 00:29:06,311 --> 00:29:11,082 And as they came to Jerusalem, they had to offer an offering to temple tax. 520 00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:13,384 And so their money had to be exchanged. 521 00:29:13,384 --> 00:29:16,421 And so the money changers exorbitantly 522 00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:20,158 raise the exchange rate for them so they can make money off their worship. 523 00:29:20,658 --> 00:29:23,762 Those who sold pigeons and doves, the offering of the poor 524 00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:27,098 as an animal sacrificed at the temple, charged four times 525 00:29:27,098 --> 00:29:28,233 what they would normally charge 526 00:29:28,233 --> 00:29:29,801 because they knew that the people were desperate 527 00:29:29,801 --> 00:29:32,036 and desperate people would give their money, 528 00:29:33,238 --> 00:29:34,372 and the church became something 529 00:29:34,372 --> 00:29:37,375 very different than what God intended. 530 00:29:38,276 --> 00:29:41,146 As a while back, I visited a church 531 00:29:41,146 --> 00:29:44,149 and they had a beautiful coffee shop. 532 00:29:46,317 --> 00:29:48,787 And they felt called by God to charge 533 00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:51,823 Starbucks prices at their coffee shop. 534 00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:58,296 I don't want to talk about coffee shops, but I always end up going there. 535 00:29:59,097 --> 00:30:01,699 This in this sin, 536 00:30:01,699 --> 00:30:04,702 the world doesn't need Christian coffee 537 00:30:05,837 --> 00:30:07,105 and the world doesn't need 538 00:30:07,105 --> 00:30:10,108 another church coffee shop. 539 00:30:10,942 --> 00:30:13,945 It's time to start overturning some stuff. 540 00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:18,583 And if Jesus is king, has the right to overturn tables, even in my life as well, 541 00:30:19,617 --> 00:30:22,620 because he's the king. 542 00:30:22,854 --> 00:30:25,790 So he goes to the temple first. 543 00:30:25,790 --> 00:30:28,359 They want him to go fix all the problems in this world. 544 00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:32,897 He said, listen, I want to start fixing you and how you worship my father. 545 00:30:34,065 --> 00:30:35,066 Yeah, judgment will 546 00:30:35,066 --> 00:30:38,069 come, but it's going to start in the house of God, 547 00:30:38,136 --> 00:30:41,306 because you've come to this house for many different reasons and purposes, 548 00:30:41,306 --> 00:30:44,709 and very few of them have to do with the honor of my father. 549 00:30:46,611 --> 00:30:48,980 Do you want me to go to Congress, or you want me to go to your government? 550 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:50,815 And you want me to go to your economics? 551 00:30:50,815 --> 00:30:51,950 I'm not going to any of those places. 552 00:30:51,950 --> 00:30:54,519 I'm going to go to your heart. 553 00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:57,055 I did not come to fix America. 554 00:30:57,055 --> 00:31:00,158 I came so your heart would be right with my father. 555 00:31:02,427 --> 00:31:04,696 I didn't come to fix your politics. 556 00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:07,098 I didn't come to fix your neighborhoods. 557 00:31:07,098 --> 00:31:10,101 I came to fix your heart. 558 00:31:13,171 --> 00:31:14,906 Because Jesus knows 559 00:31:14,906 --> 00:31:18,443 that if the people of the temple, if his. 560 00:31:18,676 --> 00:31:21,779 The people who claim his name, would simply worship the father 561 00:31:21,779 --> 00:31:25,183 rightly, there would be no need for judicial, civil, 562 00:31:25,183 --> 00:31:29,220 or political reform because there would be no injustice and corruption 563 00:31:30,755 --> 00:31:33,758 if the world just worshiped his father. 564 00:31:39,797 --> 00:31:43,434 So Jesus did not target Caesar's house. 565 00:31:43,434 --> 00:31:46,437 He targeted his father's house. 566 00:31:54,212 --> 00:31:55,480 You know how the church becomes 567 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,483 a house of prayer? 568 00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:01,319 Was that Billy? 569 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:04,355 By praying we don't become a house of prayer. 570 00:32:04,355 --> 00:32:06,557 By believing in prayer, 571 00:32:06,557 --> 00:32:09,560 we become a house of prayer, by praying 572 00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:10,795 one with another. 573 00:32:10,795 --> 00:32:13,865 And Jesus's authority resides as he upholds Scripture. 574 00:32:13,865 --> 00:32:16,868 I want you to understand what he says it is written. 575 00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:20,104 Who goes right back to the Bible? 576 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,374 The authority of Christ 577 00:32:23,374 --> 00:32:27,145 resides in the authority of Scripture because he is God and this is His Word. 578 00:32:27,478 --> 00:32:31,382 And as we stand on the foundation of the Word of God, we stand in 579 00:32:31,382 --> 00:32:34,385 great authority. 580 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:38,323 What the Bible says will always be our foundation. 581 00:32:38,323 --> 00:32:41,092 I've said it many times are we stand under the word. 582 00:32:41,092 --> 00:32:43,094 We don't stand over it. 583 00:32:43,094 --> 00:32:47,031 One of the greatest prayers we can pray over our lives and over this church 584 00:32:47,065 --> 00:32:48,032 is this old. 585 00:32:48,032 --> 00:32:51,836 My God, bend us under the authority of your word. 586 00:32:53,538 --> 00:32:56,541 Bend me under the authority of your word. 587 00:33:00,411 --> 00:33:01,512 The foundation 588 00:33:01,512 --> 00:33:05,149 of this whole thing, this worship that Jesus came to restore 589 00:33:05,149 --> 00:33:09,354 the propriety of has to do with two things Scripture and prayer. 590 00:33:10,154 --> 00:33:14,659 He starts with, it is written and he says, you will pray. 591 00:33:14,892 --> 00:33:17,428 That's worship. 592 00:33:17,428 --> 00:33:19,864 When we hear the Word of God, 593 00:33:19,864 --> 00:33:22,867 our response is to pray. 594 00:33:22,867 --> 00:33:25,837 That's worship. 595 00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:28,106 When you come to flip side 596 00:33:28,106 --> 00:33:32,710 every week, you will hear not opinion. 597 00:33:33,111 --> 00:33:36,748 You will hear not thoughts and ideas. 598 00:33:37,081 --> 00:33:40,651 You will not hear other peoples. 599 00:33:40,651 --> 00:33:43,654 You will hear the Word of God. 600 00:33:43,721 --> 00:33:47,892 It is the foundation of all we believe is the foundation of all we do. 601 00:33:47,892 --> 00:33:50,895 And we stand on the authority of it. 602 00:33:51,396 --> 00:33:56,300 And our proper response after hearing the Word of God is to respond in prayer. 603 00:33:59,337 --> 00:34:02,340 Just as Jesus said, 604 00:34:02,740 --> 00:34:05,743 prayer is worship. 605 00:34:05,910 --> 00:34:09,113 And then this Matthew, there's this quote here of Psalm 606 00:34:09,147 --> 00:34:12,583 eight to through the praise of children and inference, you have established 607 00:34:12,583 --> 00:34:16,454 stronghold against your enemies to silence the foe and the avenger. 608 00:34:16,454 --> 00:34:18,389 He says, my house will be your browser prayer. 609 00:34:18,389 --> 00:34:21,392 Haven't you heard that through children, 610 00:34:22,093 --> 00:34:24,095 praise and prayer will go up to me? 611 00:34:24,095 --> 00:34:28,332 The interesting thing about this verse right here is it's preceded by verse one 612 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,903 and but verse one says, O Lord, our Lord, 613 00:34:31,936 --> 00:34:34,939 how majestic is your name, and all the earth. 614 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,476 Through the praise of children and infants, you've established 615 00:34:38,476 --> 00:34:42,346 a stronghold, O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name 616 00:34:42,346 --> 00:34:45,349 and all the earth. 617 00:34:45,516 --> 00:34:47,919 Our response and worship is to say, 618 00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,955 oh Lord, our Lord, your name is great. 619 00:34:50,988 --> 00:34:54,992 You are the King, and we will praise you, because you are. 620 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,829 And it's it's a child like faith. 621 00:34:57,829 --> 00:35:00,932 It's a child like exuberance as a childlike expression. 622 00:35:00,932 --> 00:35:03,267 Because with children there's no pretense, 623 00:35:03,267 --> 00:35:07,238 there's no pretending, there's no show, there's no smoking mirrors. 624 00:35:07,238 --> 00:35:09,774 It's not about their emotion in the moment. 625 00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:11,042 It's about who God is. 626 00:35:11,042 --> 00:35:13,277 Old Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name. 627 00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:17,415 Like a child, I praise you with that much expectation, 628 00:35:17,882 --> 00:35:20,051 unconcerned about who's around. 629 00:35:20,051 --> 00:35:23,187 Because I confess with my mouth that you are Lord. 630 00:35:30,361 --> 00:35:31,462 Band, you need to come up here 631 00:35:31,462 --> 00:35:34,465 because I'm just going to keep going as long as you stand in the back. 632 00:35:35,933 --> 00:35:38,202 And I love this whole 633 00:35:38,202 --> 00:35:41,239 you see what's going on here on this Palm Sunday? 634 00:35:44,242 --> 00:35:45,943 Yes, yes, sometimes. 635 00:35:45,943 --> 00:35:49,080 Seriously, I love you, but sometimes I preach a lot 636 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,083 better than what you listen. 637 00:35:54,018 --> 00:35:55,720 Do you understand the power 638 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,723 and what's going on here on this Palm Sunday? 639 00:35:59,390 --> 00:36:03,961 And what I love about this is, though, the authority of Almighty 640 00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:07,698 God is on display through the person of Christ, the Messiah, the King. 641 00:36:08,799 --> 00:36:11,802 He doesn't leave his people without compassion. 642 00:36:12,703 --> 00:36:15,673 And it may seem as though a king is royal 643 00:36:15,673 --> 00:36:18,709 as he is with all this authority would just say just balance. 644 00:36:18,709 --> 00:36:21,379 Submit right now. And he doesn't do that. 645 00:36:23,314 --> 00:36:26,317 There's one piece here, 646 00:36:26,384 --> 00:36:30,354 and the blind and the lame came to him in the temple and he healed him. 647 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:33,157 He casts out the money changers. 648 00:36:33,157 --> 00:36:35,226 He casts out all these religious people. 649 00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:36,661 All these animals are fleeing. 650 00:36:36,661 --> 00:36:40,064 It had been just complete and utter chaos. 651 00:36:40,064 --> 00:36:42,099 He was ruining their whole system. 652 00:36:42,099 --> 00:36:44,435 And yet there was a few who remained. 653 00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:45,636 Who were they? 654 00:36:45,636 --> 00:36:48,105 They didn't leave. Who were they? 655 00:36:48,105 --> 00:36:48,573 The blind. 656 00:36:48,573 --> 00:36:50,374 Well, the lame couldn't go anywhere, right? 657 00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:53,377 I mean. 658 00:36:55,613 --> 00:36:58,149 Everybody ran away 659 00:36:58,149 --> 00:37:01,519 because this king came with such a confront them. 660 00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:03,221 And they were convicted and they fled. 661 00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:06,224 Except those who were in need. 662 00:37:06,591 --> 00:37:09,227 The blind and the lame. 663 00:37:09,227 --> 00:37:11,362 They said, oh, no, we know who you are, 664 00:37:11,362 --> 00:37:14,332 and we need your compassion. 665 00:37:14,799 --> 00:37:16,400 And I love the fact. 666 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,268 Please understand this, 667 00:37:17,268 --> 00:37:21,305 my friends, that Jesus, in the extension of God's compassion, 668 00:37:21,305 --> 00:37:23,975 this is the truth we have to understand that lies behind that. 669 00:37:23,975 --> 00:37:28,279 God's authority is never detached from his compassion, ever. 670 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,949 His authority is never detached from his compassion. 671 00:37:31,949 --> 00:37:35,119 So you may be hearing today that he is the King. 672 00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:37,221 He deserves all submission. Absolutely. 673 00:37:37,221 --> 00:37:39,690 But that doesn't come detached from the compassion 674 00:37:39,690 --> 00:37:42,693 that he wants to bestow upon you. 675 00:37:43,594 --> 00:37:45,596 In your blindness. 676 00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:48,399 Inability to have compassion. 677 00:37:48,399 --> 00:37:52,970 Here's why Jesus heals not to display his power. 678 00:37:53,471 --> 00:37:56,474 Jesus heals to display his compassion, 679 00:37:57,141 --> 00:38:00,144 his powers never in question, 680 00:38:00,945 --> 00:38:02,513 even for us. 681 00:38:02,513 --> 00:38:05,616 I believe in the power of God, but sometimes I doubt his compassion 682 00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:07,852 for my need. 683 00:38:07,852 --> 00:38:11,188 Jesus heals not to display his power, but to display his compassion, 684 00:38:11,188 --> 00:38:15,259 and it is available for all of us, lame and blind, who would seek him? 685 00:38:15,893 --> 00:38:18,396 Every one of us. 686 00:38:18,396 --> 00:38:23,434 He is the King, and he has the authority of a king. 687 00:38:24,101 --> 00:38:27,171 And although he came with the authority of heaven 688 00:38:28,339 --> 00:38:31,342 to chase out corruption, 689 00:38:32,276 --> 00:38:35,179 and those who claimed his name, 690 00:38:35,179 --> 00:38:38,516 he also came with the authority of heaven to administer compassion. 691 00:38:39,350 --> 00:38:42,353 If you need the compassion of God. 692 00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:45,122 If you and I are willing to admit God, 693 00:38:45,122 --> 00:38:50,761 I am blind, I am lame, I cannot save myself. 694 00:38:52,063 --> 00:38:54,999 There are things in my life that have victory over me 695 00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:58,002 that I need to be released from. 696 00:38:58,002 --> 00:39:00,504 If you need the compassion of God, 697 00:39:00,504 --> 00:39:03,507 he is available. 698 00:39:04,075 --> 00:39:05,643 You just must first admit 699 00:39:05,643 --> 00:39:08,612 you are blind and lame. 700 00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:13,317 And this king who came to be coroner 701 00:39:14,452 --> 00:39:18,589 will have compassion because that's who this king is. 702 00:39:20,157 --> 00:39:23,060 Acknowledge his authority over your life 703 00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:29,667 without apology, without compromise, and according to the truth of Scripture. 704 00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:32,636 Repent. 705 00:39:32,636 --> 00:39:34,038 There ought to be remorse 706 00:39:34,038 --> 00:39:37,041 over your sin and repentance and the turning away from it, 707 00:39:37,441 --> 00:39:40,378 and then worship him as the king 708 00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,747 and receive the compassion to Christ. 709 00:39:45,116 --> 00:39:48,119 Father, thank you for this day. 710 00:39:50,020 --> 00:39:53,023 Thank you that you are the King, Lord Jesus. 711 00:39:53,958 --> 00:39:57,995 Thank you that all authority resides in you and yet you don't lord it over us. 712 00:39:57,995 --> 00:40:02,233 You come to us humble writing on a baby donkey. 713 00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:08,239 You demand to be worshiped, but you offer also offer compassion. 714 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:12,276 So in this moment, father, hear and see and acknowledge those of us 715 00:40:12,276 --> 00:40:15,279 who worship you as King, 716 00:40:15,513 --> 00:40:18,516 and then touch us with your compassion. 717 00:40:19,950 --> 00:40:22,953 Heal our blindness, heal our brokenness. 718 00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:25,322 There are things that we need in our lives 719 00:40:25,322 --> 00:40:28,292 from your compassion and that only you are capable of. 720 00:40:29,059 --> 00:40:32,229 Oh God, would you cause these people? 721 00:40:32,229 --> 00:40:35,299 Would you cause us in this moment to worship you in response, 722 00:40:35,299 --> 00:40:38,936 in prayer, seeking the hand of the compassion of God? 723 00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:40,037 Who is the King? 724 00:40:41,305 --> 00:40:44,308 As we seek you in prayer, would you move? 725 00:40:44,675 --> 00:40:46,544 Do it if you don't move. 726 00:40:46,544 --> 00:40:49,547 God, this is a waste of time. 727 00:40:49,947 --> 00:40:51,482 If you don't do something, 728 00:40:51,482 --> 00:40:54,452 this is a waste of energy. 729 00:40:54,618 --> 00:40:57,188 God, you have to. 730 00:40:57,188 --> 00:41:00,224 We implore you by the name of Jesus that those who would come 731 00:41:00,224 --> 00:41:03,227 and would seek you, that you would move on their behalf 732 00:41:04,028 --> 00:41:06,697 as they acknowledge you as King and your neighbor. 733 00:41:06,697 --> 00:41:07,531 Pray. Amen. 734 00:41:07,531 --> 00:41:09,700 Francis, what we're going to do, I'm going to invite you to stand 735 00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:13,671 up, and I have some of my prayer people who are going to be down front here. 736 00:41:13,671 --> 00:41:17,508 And if this is one of those times where you said, I need to acknowledge 737 00:41:17,508 --> 00:41:20,678 who he is, and I need his compassion on my life in 738 00:41:20,678 --> 00:41:23,948 whatever area that is, would it the prayers will be down there. 739 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:25,950 Would you just approach it even while we're seeing it? 740 00:41:25,950 --> 00:41:28,185 You can do it after you. But even while we're seeing it, 741 00:41:29,453 --> 00:41:30,421 and go to 742 00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:34,859 God with somebody and receive the compassion of God. 743 00:41:35,259 --> 00:41:36,026 Let's see.