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Allen Jackson - When Jesus Came To Town (Part 2)

May 5, 2025 | S25:E128

Allen Jackson - When Jesus Came To Town (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When Jesus Came To Town (Part 2) | May 5, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you again.
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  • You know, we're walking through a season of some pretty
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  • Unprecedented turmoil.
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  • There are cars burning and car dealerships burning, and there
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  • Are judges.
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  • There's just a lot of stuff.
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  • Well, i'm really excited about our offer this month.
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  • In fact, we chose it because i think it will bring you a
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  • Pathway of stability in the midst of all the turmoil driven
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  • By a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is
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  • My shepherd."
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  • And it seems to me we need to know the tranquility that comes
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  • From a shepherd who is marking a path for us and then standing
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  • Watch over us when we know there's predators about.
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  • We're living in a predatory season, we need to know the lord
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  • Is a shepherd, and i believe this offer can make a real
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  • Difference in your life.
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  • In fact, it's important enough that we'll make it available for
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  • A gift of any amount.
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  • I think it's far more important that you have it in your hand
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  • Than the cost attached to it.
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  • God is moving in the earth and we wanna move with him.
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  • Our shepherd will lead us through.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, people often ask me, do i believe in
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  • Medicine and doctors or healing?
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  • Yes. yes.
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  • I believe god brings healing to our lives in many ways.
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  • He has brought healing to me supernaturally.
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  • He's brought healing to me through medical practitioners in
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  • The healthcare community.
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  • I'm most interested in being well and that's my prayer for
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  • You tonight, amen.
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  • How about if we just turn our hands to the lord to receive
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  • From him?
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  • Can you do that?
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  • It's an expression of belief.
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  • You have to receive what god has from you.
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  • We'll receive a diagnosis.
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  • We also wanna receive the lord's health and his life into
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  • Our bodies.
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  • Father, i thank you for your word.
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  • For the reminder that our lord is a healer, that he cared for
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  • The sick, that he was concerned about our physical well-being.
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  • And i thank you that on the cross, he not only--he exhausted
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  • The curse of sin, taking not only the punishment for our sin,
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  • But that by his stripes we might have health.
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  • And we stand in your presence tonight to acknowledge our need.
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  • I'm grateful for all those who can provide care and assistance,
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  • But lord, we ask you to bring life to our bodies, health
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  • And strength.
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  • If there is something that needs to be made clear or revealed or
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  • Uncovered that we might walk in that health, let it be so.
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  • Lord, we ask for your touch to bring life to us and wholeness
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  • To us in the name of jesus.
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  • Through the power of his shed blood, may your life be ours.
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  • We thank you for it.
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  • We give you glory and honor and praise that you are still
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  • Walking in the midst of your people in the earth today.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Why don't you give the lord a hand?
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  • All right, you can have it.
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  • I'm not done, please.
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  • This is the first time matthew introduces us to the antagonist,
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  • The chief priest and the teachers of the law.
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  • When they saw the wonderful things that jesus was doing and
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  • The children shouting, they were grumpy.
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  • That's messed up.
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  • You understand if jesus came to town today physically, not
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  • Everybody would celebrate?
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  • We've had a misguided understanding of revival or a
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  • Move of god or an outpouring of the spirit of god.
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  • We think the response will be universal acceptance.
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  • There's nothing in scripture that suggests that.
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  • There's a couple of isolated places where there was that kind
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  • Of a broad, widespread acceptance of a message of
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  • Repentance, but the overwhelming majority of the times it's very
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  • Much a divided house.
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  • The responses to jesus in this scene, if you can see it, are
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  • The children excited and praising god and the chief
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  • Priest and the teachers of the law and their indignation.
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  • Which seat are we gonna sit in?
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  • I'd rather have a childlike celebration of the arrival of
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  • The presence of god than the indignation of the powerful that
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  • See jesus as a threat.
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  • Same chapter, luke 19.
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  • I'm sorry, it's a different chapter, it's a
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  • Different gospel.
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  • I want to go to luke's perspective, but it's the
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  • Same narrative.
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  • We looked at matthew's report.
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  • We're gonna step into luke's report.
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  • "when he came near the place where the road goes down the
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  • Mount of olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to joyfully
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  • Praise god in loud voices for all the miracles they'd seen.
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  • 'blessed is the king who comes in the name of the lord.
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  • Peace in heaven and glory in the highest.'
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  • Some of the pharisees in the crowd said to jesus, 'teacher,
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  • Rebuke your disciples.'
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  • 'and i tell you, if they keep quiet, the stones will
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  • Cry out.'"
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  • Luke adds a layer to this.
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  • In matthew's report, the children were worshiping.
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  • He particularly points out that the children raised their voices
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  • When jesus was in the temple.
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  • Luke gives us a little added layer as jesus is descending the
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  • Mount of olives.
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  • The men and women are lifting their voices giving glory to god
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  • In the highest and again, the pharisees are offended.
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  • And jesus makes this very interesting statement.
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  • He said, "if the people hush, the rocks will say it."
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  • Jesus affirms his supporters and he responds to his critics.
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  • He's still doing that in the earth.
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  • You got to decide which camp you wanna be in.
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  • It's not hard to be critical of the people of god.
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  • We're a bunch of crackpots.
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  • And i don't say that to encourage or to give license
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  • To sloppiness.
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  • I'm just telling you, don't make your decisions about god because
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  • Of people that you have seen.
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  • There is a god and he can be known and you have that
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  • Awareness in your heart.
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  • Choose him with your whole heart.
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  • I've seen people do some horrific things in the name of
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  • The lord.
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  • It doesn't diminish the glory and the wonder and the majesty
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  • Of god and i'm determined that it will not diminish my
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  • Intensity in serving him.
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  • And then the tone changes.
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  • Luke is the only gospel that gives us this next statement.
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  • Says, "as jesus approached jerusalem and he saw the city,
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  • He wept over it."
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  • Now this is a bit odd, it's a little out of tone.
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  • There's this crowd of people lifting their voices, worshiping
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  • The lord with so much enthusiasm that jesus's antagonists
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  • Are critical.
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  • And jesus pauses as he's descending this hill, and he
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  • Begins to weep.
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  • And luke tells us what he had to say.
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  • "if you had only known on this day what would bring you peace,
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  • But now it's hidden from your eyes.
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  • The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an
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  • Embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on
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  • Every side.
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  • They will dash you to the ground, you and the children
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  • Within your walls.
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  • They will not leave one stone on another because you didn't
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  • Recognize the time of god's coming to you."
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  • You know, already in luke's account jesus has affirmed his
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  • Supporters and rebuked his critics, but now he's weeping
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  • Over the city of jerusalem.
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  • It's another part of this triumphal entry, and it's an
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  • Important part of the narrative.
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  • In the midst of this most celebratory event, jesus is
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  • Weeping over the city.
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  • Did you hear what he said?
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  • "your enemies will build an embankment against you."
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  • In modern day language, your enemies will launch missiles
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  • Against you.
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  • In the first century, the most common form of warfare was to
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  • Build a siege around the city.
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  • You would literally encircle the city with your armies and you
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  • Wouldn't let anyone come in or go out.
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  • You could starve a group of people into submission.
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  • It sometimes took a great period of time, but it was a very
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  • Effective means of warfare.
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  • And as the people grew weak and hungry, then the surrounding
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  • Army would build ramps up against the walls of the gates
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  • Of the city where they could batter the walls with a
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  • Battering ram or breach the walls.
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  • And jesus is a prophet, the greatest of the hebrew prophets
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  • Is weeping this day in the midst of the celebration and he said,
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  • "your enemies are going to build an embankment against you."
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  • If i could take you to jerusalem as i mentioned a moment ago, and
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  • We stood on the mount of olives this evening, you would see
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  • There today the remains of an embankment.
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  • It was within a few years of jesus walking down that hill
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  • When the roman legions came and they encircled the city of
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  • Jerusalem and they built that earthen embankment up against
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  • The city.
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  • They would destroy the city of jerusalem in 70.
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  • And jesus saw it that day.
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  • It's an intriguing, it's a very sobering perspective.
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  • The people in the city don't have the ability to discern who
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  • Their true friends are and who their true enemies are.
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  • It's a divided city.
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  • It's a confusing time.
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  • I encourage you frequently to read your bibles, to spend time
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  • With your discretionary time with people of faith.
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  • We live in a confusing season.
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  • A season of turmoil.
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  • A season of dissenting opinions, conflicting opinions,
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  • Conflicting definitions of right and wrong, good and evil.
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  • And unfortunately many of those conflicting opinions come forth
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  • From the pulpits of churches so simply having a sign out in
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  • Front that says the church doesn't guarantee any longer
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  • That we will hear the truth.
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  • You need to read your bible.
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  • You need a community of people that are doing their best to
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  • Follow the lord so that you can talk about what you're reading
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  • And what you're seeing and what you're hearing.
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  • And finally, jesus makes perhaps the most
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  • Unsettling announcement.
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  • He said, "your enemies will build an embankment against you
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  • And they're gonna dash the heads of your children against the
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  • Stones of this city.
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  • They'll literally tear it apart block by block."
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  • It's precisely what happened within a few short years.
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  • What's startling is with the son of god, the triumphant king
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  • Coming down the mount of olives within a few hours, quite
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  • Literally of golgotha and the sacrifice for the forgiveness of
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  • Our sins, jesus says to the people of the city, there's no
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  • More forgiveness for you.
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  • Judgment is coming.
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  • We've lost the notion of judgment in the church.
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  • We're much more comfortable with the notion of the triumphant
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  • Celebration and i would rather celebrate, but the real fuel for
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  • The celebration is understanding we have been delivered.
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  • We've been set free.
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  • It's not a license or a liberty to pursue ungodliness and to
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  • Point at our religious pedigree and what we did several years
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  • Ago in a profession of faith or a journey through a swimming
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  • Pool, the question is, are we honoring god with our
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  • Life today?
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  • God's evaluation of our life is a real thing.
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  • Luke goes on in the same 19th chapter.
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  • He says, "he entered the temple area and began driving out those
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  • Who were selling.
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  • 'it is written,' he said, 'my house will be a house of prayer,
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  • But you've made it a den of robbers.'
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  • And each day he was teaching at the temple, but the chief priest
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  • And the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people
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  • Were trying to kill him."
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  • Looks a bit more plainspoken than matthew.
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  • They're not just trying to interrogate him or trick him,
  • 00:11:55.096 --> 00:11:58.266
  • They're trying to kill him.
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  • If they couldn't find any way to do it because all of the people
  • 00:12:00.068 --> 00:12:03.037
  • Hung on his words.
  • 00:12:03.037 --> 00:12:04.873
  • Again, there's these three groups, the disciples, the
  • 00:12:04.873 --> 00:12:07.408
  • Crowds, and these very determined antagonists.
  • 00:12:07.408 --> 00:12:10.779
  • They're still on the earth today.
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  • Which group do you fit in?
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  • Are you a disciple?
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  • Are you publicly aligned with jesus?
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  • The people who know you understand you're under his
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  • Authority, that you've reoriented your life and
  • 00:12:23.258 --> 00:12:25.293
  • Rearranged your life to be a part of the people who are
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  • Following him.
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  • Are you a part of the larger crowd, the more nameless,
  • 00:12:30.465 --> 00:12:32.834
  • Faceless group of people who prefer anonymity, and you're
  • 00:12:32.834 --> 00:12:36.037
  • Gonna go with the present public sentiment.
  • 00:12:36.037 --> 00:12:39.174
  • If celebrating jesus on a triumphal day is to your
  • 00:12:39.174 --> 00:12:41.876
  • Advantage you'll celebrate.
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  • If screaming, "crucify him" is to your advantage, you'll find
  • 00:12:43.711 --> 00:12:47.315
  • The words for that.
  • 00:12:47.315 --> 00:12:49.951
  • Or are you an antagonist?
  • 00:12:49.951 --> 00:12:53.688
  • Do you look for the flaws and the weaknesses?
  • 00:12:53.688 --> 00:12:55.824
  • Do you occupy the seat of the skeptic?
  • 00:12:55.824 --> 00:12:58.793
  • I never did trust those people.
  • 00:12:58.793 --> 00:13:01.763
  • They're not new postures, folks.
  • 00:13:01.763 --> 00:13:03.965
  • They've been around since the beginning of time.
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  • This particular day in jesus's story that matthew's recorded
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  • And luke has shown us, it's a day of opportunity, it's a
  • 00:13:10.672 --> 00:13:13.441
  • Joyful time.
  • 00:13:13.441 --> 00:13:14.776
  • Something remarkable about these moments in time.
  • 00:13:14.776 --> 00:13:17.812
  • The son of god coming into his city, it's the city of the king.
  • 00:13:17.812 --> 00:13:21.916
  • Jesus will rule and reign from a new jerusalem.
  • 00:13:21.916 --> 00:13:26.154
  • This is very much a portrayal of a triumphal arrival of the
  • 00:13:26.154 --> 00:13:30.158
  • Kingdom of god.
  • 00:13:30.158 --> 00:13:32.427
  • But on a far more practical level, it's a day when decisions
  • 00:13:32.427 --> 00:13:35.129
  • Are being made, crowds are being gathered, accounts of god in
  • 00:13:35.129 --> 00:13:40.902
  • Motion are being shared.
  • 00:13:40.902 --> 00:13:42.270
  • There's healing stories rippling through the crowd.
  • 00:13:42.270 --> 00:13:45.406
  • Many of these people know lazarus.
  • 00:13:45.406 --> 00:13:48.343
  • They've seen him in the markets.
  • 00:13:48.343 --> 00:13:49.711
  • They've heard the account.
  • 00:13:49.711 --> 00:13:51.079
  • He was dead and buried for days.
  • 00:13:51.079 --> 00:13:54.382
  • And in the midst of all of that, there are these powerful voices
  • 00:13:54.382 --> 00:13:57.352
  • Of opposition.
  • 00:13:57.352 --> 00:13:58.720
  • It strikes me that our world hasn't changed a great deal.
  • 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:02.690
  • So i have a question for you.
  • 00:14:02.690 --> 00:14:04.659
  • It's a private question.
  • 00:14:04.659 --> 00:14:05.994
  • It's not what i want you to answer out loud, but who do you
  • 00:14:05.994 --> 00:14:08.396
  • Say that jesus is?
  • 00:14:08.396 --> 00:14:13.001
  • Allen: and the question i'm asked most often is how do i
  • 00:14:17.171 --> 00:14:19.674
  • Know what god wants me to do?
  • 00:14:19.674 --> 00:14:21.009
  • If i just knew what god wanted me to do, i would do it,
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  • Whatever it is.
  • 00:14:23.745 --> 00:14:25.079
  • Well, our offer this month i think will help.
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  • It's by a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is
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  • My shepherd."
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  • His comfort.
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  • Inspiration, power, and peace found in psalm 23.
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  • In today's culture, it's essential to know god is leading
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  • Us, charting our path, and watching over us.
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  • Allen: i would submit to you that ultimately we can't really
  • 00:15:17.365 --> 00:15:19.500
  • Separate jesus from his followers.
  • 00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:23.137
  • It's tempting to say, "i love jesus.
  • 00:15:23.137 --> 00:15:25.006
  • I just don't like jesus's people."
  • 00:15:25.006 --> 00:15:29.911
  • Why is it we'll overlook the behavior of the ungodly?
  • 00:15:29.911 --> 00:15:33.915
  • Why would we be more tolerant of the pagan?
  • 00:15:33.915 --> 00:15:37.185
  • Why would we dismiss the inconsistencies of the ungodly,
  • 00:15:37.185 --> 00:15:41.189
  • While we tend to be highly critical of those who are
  • 00:15:41.189 --> 00:15:43.825
  • Seeking the lord?
  • 00:15:43.825 --> 00:15:46.961
  • Now, jesus said something sobering to us.
  • 00:15:46.961 --> 00:15:48.763
  • He said, "not everyone who says, lord, lord, is a part of
  • 00:15:48.763 --> 00:15:51.899
  • My tribe.
  • 00:15:51.899 --> 00:15:53.868
  • In fact, i'm gonna dismiss many who come and say, 'we did
  • 00:15:53.868 --> 00:15:57.005
  • Miracles in your name.'
  • 00:15:57.005 --> 00:15:58.339
  • I'm not looking for some pretense, some
  • 00:15:58.339 --> 00:16:00.842
  • Perfunctory faith."
  • 00:16:00.842 --> 00:16:03.511
  • Well, i really--what i'm really asking, i suppose, are you
  • 00:16:03.511 --> 00:16:06.581
  • Willing to be an advocate for jesus's entry into our culture?
  • 00:16:06.581 --> 00:16:11.252
  • Are you willing to welcome him into the city?
  • 00:16:11.252 --> 00:16:14.322
  • Are you willing to take off your cloak and lay it down
  • 00:16:14.322 --> 00:16:16.824
  • Before him?
  • 00:16:16.824 --> 00:16:18.192
  • Are you willing to use your voice?
  • 00:16:18.192 --> 00:16:19.594
  • Are you willing to be identified as one of his disciples?
  • 00:16:19.594 --> 00:16:23.197
  • Are you willing to stand in the face of the opposition, the
  • 00:16:23.197 --> 00:16:25.700
  • People who will do everything in their power to shut it down, to
  • 00:16:25.700 --> 00:16:29.871
  • Say it's illegitimate.
  • 00:16:29.871 --> 00:16:32.273
  • Are we willing to be jesus people or will we remain
  • 00:16:32.273 --> 00:16:36.711
  • Skeptics, ambivalent, filled with indifference.
  • 00:16:36.711 --> 00:16:41.983
  • We're busy with things after all.
  • 00:16:41.983 --> 00:16:44.452
  • We don't want to deny the lord, but we've got a life and things
  • 00:16:44.452 --> 00:16:46.988
  • To do and a busy calendar and we're interested in
  • 00:16:46.988 --> 00:16:49.624
  • Other agendas.
  • 00:16:49.624 --> 00:16:52.326
  • Or perhaps some of us are just adversaries.
  • 00:16:52.326 --> 00:16:56.164
  • Adversaries primarily because we imagine that jesus is disruptive
  • 00:16:56.164 --> 00:17:00.068
  • To our self-designed initiatives.
  • 00:17:00.068 --> 00:17:03.204
  • I believe the primary reason the power brokers in jerusalem
  • 00:17:03.204 --> 00:17:05.973
  • Opposed jesus was he thought they would disrupt what
  • 00:17:05.973 --> 00:17:08.910
  • They had.
  • 00:17:08.910 --> 00:17:10.645
  • And they thought they had momentum in their lives.
  • 00:17:10.645 --> 00:17:13.448
  • They had momentum in achieving their objectives and pursuing
  • 00:17:13.448 --> 00:17:16.084
  • Their goals and they saw jesus as an interloper that he would
  • 00:17:16.084 --> 00:17:19.954
  • Take something from them.
  • 00:17:19.954 --> 00:17:23.624
  • I think we often reject jesus for very similar ways.
  • 00:17:23.624 --> 00:17:28.229
  • It's worth noting it's not a unified response.
  • 00:17:28.229 --> 00:17:30.398
  • It's a very divided crowd.
  • 00:17:30.398 --> 00:17:32.967
  • Some worshiping jesus weeping from time, children celebrating.
  • 00:17:32.967 --> 00:17:38.940
  • The world hasn't changed much in two millennia.
  • 00:17:38.940 --> 00:17:43.511
  • But on this palm sunday weekend, i wanna invite you to a choice.
  • 00:17:43.511 --> 00:17:47.715
  • I want to invite you to an intentional decision.
  • 00:17:47.715 --> 00:17:51.285
  • One last perspective in john's gospel chapter 12.
  • 00:17:51.285 --> 00:17:54.956
  • Same event, "the next day the great crowd that had come for
  • 00:17:54.956 --> 00:17:57.358
  • The feast heard that jesus was on his way to jerusalem.
  • 00:17:57.358 --> 00:18:01.295
  • And they took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
  • 00:18:01.295 --> 00:18:04.499
  • 'hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord.'
  • 00:18:04.499 --> 00:18:08.336
  • 'blessed is the king of israel.'
  • 00:18:08.336 --> 00:18:10.771
  • And jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it."
  • 00:18:10.771 --> 00:18:14.208
  • John doesn't bother with the rest of the drama of the
  • 00:18:14.208 --> 00:18:16.777
  • Disciples that had to go find the donkey.
  • 00:18:16.777 --> 00:18:19.614
  • John simply says there was a donkey there and jesus rode it
  • 00:18:19.614 --> 00:18:22.049
  • Into town.
  • 00:18:22.049 --> 00:18:23.484
  • John has a slightly different vantage point in his account.
  • 00:18:23.484 --> 00:18:29.891
  • "as it is written," john's gonna quote the prophet.
  • 00:18:29.891 --> 00:18:32.727
  • "don't be afraid, o daughter of zion.
  • 00:18:32.727 --> 00:18:34.829
  • Your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt.
  • 00:18:34.829 --> 00:18:38.733
  • At first his disciples didn't understand all of this.
  • 00:18:38.733 --> 00:18:42.403
  • Only after jesus was glorified did they realize that these
  • 00:18:42.403 --> 00:18:45.173
  • Things had been written about him and that he had done these
  • 00:18:45.173 --> 00:18:47.175
  • Things to them.
  • 00:18:47.175 --> 00:18:49.010
  • Now the crowd that was with him when he called lazarus from the
  • 00:18:49.010 --> 00:18:51.512
  • Tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread
  • 00:18:51.512 --> 00:18:54.282
  • The word.
  • 00:18:54.282 --> 00:18:55.783
  • Many people because they'd heard that he'd given this miraculous
  • 00:18:55.783 --> 00:18:58.386
  • Sign, went out to meet him.
  • 00:18:58.386 --> 00:19:00.288
  • So the pharisees said to one another, 'see, this is getting
  • 00:19:00.288 --> 00:19:03.591
  • Us nowhere.
  • 00:19:03.591 --> 00:19:05.993
  • Look how the whole world has gone after him.'"
  • 00:19:05.993 --> 00:19:09.664
  • John gave us another critical piece of the puzzle.
  • 00:19:09.664 --> 00:19:12.533
  • Did you catch it?
  • 00:19:12.533 --> 00:19:14.168
  • John said at first his disciples didn't understand all of this.
  • 00:19:14.168 --> 00:19:18.873
  • In real time while these events were unfolding, the disciples
  • 00:19:18.873 --> 00:19:23.110
  • Struggled to put it together.
  • 00:19:23.110 --> 00:19:26.347
  • Would you allow me to suggest that it's not always easy to
  • 00:19:26.347 --> 00:19:30.051
  • Understand what god is doing in the earth?
  • 00:19:30.051 --> 00:19:33.821
  • I'm always a bit skeptical of people that say, "let me
  • 00:19:33.821 --> 00:19:36.657
  • Explain everything."
  • 00:19:36.657 --> 00:19:38.926
  • I'm like, wow.
  • 00:19:38.926 --> 00:19:41.696
  • 'cause i don't typically feel like i look at everything that's
  • 00:19:41.696 --> 00:19:44.665
  • Happening and i understand completely where each puzzle
  • 00:19:44.665 --> 00:19:47.668
  • Fits, piece of the puzzle fits.
  • 00:19:47.668 --> 00:19:50.671
  • Many times in real time, it's why we need the word of god.
  • 00:19:50.671 --> 00:19:55.309
  • It's why we need to know how to pray.
  • 00:19:55.309 --> 00:19:57.378
  • We need to recognize the voice of the spirit of god.
  • 00:19:57.378 --> 00:20:01.415
  • His disciples stood with him.
  • 00:20:01.415 --> 00:20:03.618
  • Their hearts were filled with questions and uncertainty.
  • 00:20:03.618 --> 00:20:06.587
  • I wanna suggest to you that you can follow jesus when you don't
  • 00:20:06.587 --> 00:20:09.991
  • Understand everything.
  • 00:20:09.991 --> 00:20:12.193
  • When it's hard to explain every event that's happening.
  • 00:20:12.193 --> 00:20:15.563
  • When certainty just doesn't seem to be immediately at hand.
  • 00:20:15.563 --> 00:20:19.800
  • The opposition in john's account is unrelenting.
  • 00:20:19.800 --> 00:20:23.804
  • Evidence is not relevant.
  • 00:20:23.804 --> 00:20:25.940
  • When you read the narrative, you think that can't be right.
  • 00:20:25.940 --> 00:20:28.943
  • Lazarus was in the tomb for multiple days to the point that
  • 00:20:28.943 --> 00:20:32.313
  • The decomposition was creating a bad odor and jesus called him
  • 00:20:32.313 --> 00:20:36.784
  • Out of the tomb.
  • 00:20:36.784 --> 00:20:38.152
  • And here stands lazarus alive.
  • 00:20:38.152 --> 00:20:42.056
  • Now, i would believe that the religious leaders would embrace
  • 00:20:42.056 --> 00:20:45.793
  • Someone that had that kind of a god connection.
  • 00:20:45.793 --> 00:20:49.930
  • But they didn't. they're offended by it.
  • 00:20:49.930 --> 00:20:55.269
  • They're saying we've got to raise the opposition.
  • 00:20:55.269 --> 00:20:59.006
  • Whatever we've been doing is inadequate.
  • 00:20:59.006 --> 00:21:01.008
  • We've got to do more.
  • 00:21:01.008 --> 00:21:03.377
  • You understand, i hope that lawfare is not new.
  • 00:21:03.377 --> 00:21:08.549
  • That when the truth is pushed into the public square, however
  • 00:21:08.549 --> 00:21:11.852
  • It's presented, there is frequently a division that
  • 00:21:11.852 --> 00:21:14.789
  • It brings.
  • 00:21:14.789 --> 00:21:16.857
  • We have to become better at understanding the truth,
  • 00:21:16.857 --> 00:21:20.594
  • Recognizing the source of truth.
  • 00:21:20.594 --> 00:21:23.197
  • The bible gives us presentations on good and evil, right
  • 00:21:23.197 --> 00:21:25.900
  • And wrong.
  • 00:21:25.900 --> 00:21:27.535
  • Not all truth is subjective.
  • 00:21:27.535 --> 00:21:30.171
  • Not all truth is left to individual decisions.
  • 00:21:30.171 --> 00:21:33.274
  • Relativism is not a biblical notion.
  • 00:21:33.274 --> 00:21:36.877
  • There is objective truth, good and evil, right and wrong.
  • 00:21:36.877 --> 00:21:42.316
  • I wanna bring this session to a close by giving you
  • 00:21:42.316 --> 00:21:44.819
  • An invitation.
  • 00:21:44.819 --> 00:21:47.955
  • I wanna give you an opportunity to give jesus first place in
  • 00:21:47.955 --> 00:21:50.825
  • Your life.
  • 00:21:50.825 --> 00:21:52.693
  • I'm not recruiting you to church.
  • 00:21:52.693 --> 00:21:54.028
  • I'm not asking you to volunteer for something.
  • 00:21:54.028 --> 00:21:56.931
  • I wanna invite you to an attitude with jesus that will
  • 00:21:56.931 --> 00:21:59.367
  • Write a different future for you.
  • 00:21:59.367 --> 00:22:02.103
  • You know, my family attended church for many years and we
  • 00:22:02.103 --> 00:22:04.605
  • Weren't christ followers.
  • 00:22:04.605 --> 00:22:07.341
  • My parents even had leadership roles in the church.
  • 00:22:07.341 --> 00:22:10.745
  • So sitting in a church doesn't necessarily mean you're a
  • 00:22:10.745 --> 00:22:13.013
  • Christ follower.
  • 00:22:13.013 --> 00:22:15.015
  • There's even an ebb and a flow to our own spiritual formation
  • 00:22:15.015 --> 00:22:17.852
  • And our own determination to be obedient.
  • 00:22:17.852 --> 00:22:20.955
  • And this palm sunday weekend, i wanna give you an invitation to
  • 00:22:20.955 --> 00:22:23.657
  • Make jesus first in your life.
  • 00:22:23.657 --> 00:22:27.194
  • I'm gonna lead us all in a little prayer and in a moment
  • 00:22:27.194 --> 00:22:30.164
  • I'm gonna ask us all to stand.
  • 00:22:30.164 --> 00:22:31.599
  • I'm not gonna ask you to stand individually.
  • 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:34.435
  • I wouldn't apologize that at all all.
  • 00:22:34.435 --> 00:22:37.538
  • But i think there are many layers and many levels at which
  • 00:22:37.538 --> 00:22:40.274
  • We wanna say, yes to the lord with a more complete
  • 00:22:40.274 --> 00:22:43.144
  • Heart tonight.
  • 00:22:43.144 --> 00:22:45.012
  • If there's anything that you've held back, any attitude, if
  • 00:22:45.012 --> 00:22:48.582
  • You've compartmentalized your life and said, well, you know,
  • 00:22:48.582 --> 00:22:51.685
  • I'll go to church, but that part of my life, that's off limits.
  • 00:22:51.685 --> 00:22:57.224
  • I want to invite you to deconstruct that.
  • 00:22:57.224 --> 00:22:59.927
  • I don't believe we live in a season where you can afford that
  • 00:22:59.927 --> 00:23:02.530
  • Any longer.
  • 00:23:02.530 --> 00:23:04.632
  • You see, jesus's most vocal determined opponents were very
  • 00:23:04.632 --> 00:23:08.235
  • Religious people.
  • 00:23:08.235 --> 00:23:10.004
  • They were experts in the scripture.
  • 00:23:10.004 --> 00:23:12.673
  • They tithed off the most minute portions of what they had.
  • 00:23:12.673 --> 00:23:17.745
  • They were expert on religious rules.
  • 00:23:17.745 --> 00:23:21.515
  • They were the covenant people of god and they were opposing the
  • 00:23:21.515 --> 00:23:25.920
  • Purposes of god.
  • 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:28.756
  • I don't want any one of us to be in that category.
  • 00:23:28.756 --> 00:23:32.259
  • I want to invite you tonight in humility to say, "jesus, i wanna
  • 00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:36.397
  • Give you first place.
  • 00:23:36.397 --> 00:23:38.299
  • I wanna follow you.
  • 00:23:38.299 --> 00:23:40.267
  • I want to honor you with everything i am and everything
  • 00:23:40.267 --> 00:23:43.571
  • I have.
  • 00:23:43.571 --> 00:23:45.339
  • If there's pressure and opposition, i wanna use my voice
  • 00:23:45.339 --> 00:23:48.242
  • To stand on your behalf.
  • 00:23:48.242 --> 00:23:50.511
  • If there are those who oppose your truth, i'll use my voice to
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  • Be an advocate for your truth.
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  • Forgive me.
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  • Forgive me, when i have failed to do so."
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  • Just stand with me, i'm gonna lead you in a little prayer.
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  • You've got a copy in your notes.
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  • You can have it for later.
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  • That just saves me time monday.
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  • If i don't give it to you.
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  • There'll be 100 requests.
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  • That prayer we prayed.
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  • Yeah, i know it's the one we prayed 100 times, but what was
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  • It again?
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  • Take a picture of it with your phone.
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  • Keep it with you.
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  • Share it with a friend.
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  • I'm gonna ask you to repeat it with me out loud.
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  • You don't need to read it, you can just say it with me phrase
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  • After phrase.
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  • I probably won't stick to the notes exactly.
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  • Are you ready?
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  • I don't want any person leaving here without having the
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  • Opportunity to say, "jesus, i want you to be lord of my life."
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  • I'm not recruiting you to world outreach, folks.
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  • A laminated tag from woc will make a hood of difference.
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  • I wish it were that simple.
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  • I'm asking you to give jesus first place in your life.
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  • I'm asking you to celebrate what jesus celebrates and turn away
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  • From the things that grieve him.
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  • I'm asking you to forgive where you know you need to forgive and
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  • To acknowledge that you need to be forgiven in those places
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  • Where you know you need to be forgiven.
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  • We wanna to stop the bluff.
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  • You're ready to pray?
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  • You can pray with me at home.
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  • Just repeat this prayer, "almighty god, i'm a sinner and
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  • I need a savior.
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  • I believe jesus is your son and that he died on a cross and that
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  • You raised him to life again.
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  • Forgive me of my sins.
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  • I forgive all those who have sinned against me.
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  • Jesus be lord of my life.
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  • All that i am, all that i have, all that i'll ever be, i want to
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  • Honor you.
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  • I will live in obedience to you as my savior, my lord, and
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  • My king, amen."
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: before our congregation even existed, my family used to
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  • Distribute christian literature.
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  • We found that sharing books changed lives and so we spent a
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  • Lot of time and energy and resources, honestly, sharing
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  • Books around our community.
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  • Well, our offer this month is a book by a good friend of mine,
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  • Rob morgan.
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  • The title is "the lord is my shepherd."
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  • It's a book about god's abiding presence, his guidance in our
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  • Lives, and the fact that he charts a course for us.
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  • It's a book i believe will change your life, but it's also
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  • A really easy book to share with a friend.
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  • So i wanna give you an invitation.
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  • Let's not just enjoy the word of god and what god does for us.
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  • Let's decide to be a light in our families, in our community,
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  • In your sunday school class, wherever that may be.
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  • I believe this book is a wonderful tool not only for you,
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  • But for the people you care about.
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  • The lord is my shepherd, that's the message we need now.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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