Ed Young - Journey to Jerusalem

April 6, 2025 | S25:E82

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Journey to Jerusalem | April 6, 2025

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Pastor ed young: "after he," jesus, "had said these things,
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He was going on ahead, going up to jerusalem."
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Does anybody--did you ever memorize those four words,
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"going up to jerusalem"?
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Is it marked, anybody's bible, underscored, underlined,
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Anybody's bible?
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Going up to jerusalem.
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I mean, what is that?
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Let me tell you something.
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Those four little words were
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Anticipated, prophesied about,
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Looked forward to all the way back to the garden of eden.
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And most of us have just flipped through them.
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We didn't think about it.
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Who would think about, "going up to jerusalem"?
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Man, perhaps it's the most neglected passage in all
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The bible.
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Goes back to the garden of eden.
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Adam and eve, when they sinned, they realized they were naked
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And ashamed, and they hid themselves, and god killed an
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Animal, probably a lamb, to cover their sin.
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Innocent blood of an animal shed for the covering of sin.
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And that began what is called the trail of blood all the way
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Through the bible.
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Like hebrews said, "there is no forgiveness of sin without the
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Shedding of blood."
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And we see it goes all the way through to the passover when the
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Lamb was killed and the blood was put on the doorpost and the
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Death angel would pass by and spare this family of faith.
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It goes all the way through the minor prophets, the major
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Prophets, isaiah 53, the suffering servant that would be
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Slain for the remission of sin, for the redemption of the world.
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This little phrase is all the way built and built and built
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And built until finally you go to the book of daniel.
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Daniel is an interesting book.
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You go back there when the children of israel, many of the
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Jews were taken captivity into babylon between the tigris and
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Euphrates river, and they were held there until king artaxerxes
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Of babylon, bam, began the clock
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Of god and sent nehemiah back to
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Jerusalem to rebuild the wall, to reestablish the city.
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And so, we--here we have an early palm sunday type
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Celebration of jews leaving babylon, going all the way back
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To jerusalem, and then daniel prophesies, "messiah, the parade
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Would go into jerusalem."
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Amazing.
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The garden of eden, the lamb that was slain, the passover
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Lamb, the prophecy in isaiah, daniel, those years that would
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Take place before once again it would be april this time in that
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Day, in the second century, when the jews would go marching all
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The way into zion, all the way into zion.
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What a moment.
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We call it the triumphal entry.
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We call it palm sunday.
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But it all began with those four little words, going all the way
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Back to the beginning of history, all the way through the
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Sacrificial system, ladies and gentlemen, established there in
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Jerusalem for god's people.
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It hinges on, "going up to jerusalem."
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Do you see the significance of that little phrase?
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From the beginning of time all the way through the exact number
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Of years, between 483, 490
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Years, bang, exactly jesus,
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Jesus, marching back to zion.
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God planning all of this, and we just sort
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Of overlook, "going up," ascending, "to jerusalem."
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But the setting here in luke is absolutely fabulous.
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After the scene is set, you've got verses all the way from
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Verse 25 to verse 35.
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There is the arrangement to get a donkey in the act.
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Isn't that the silliest thing?
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A donkey in the act, and jesus sends two of his disciples to go
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To bethany, right around the mount of olives there, "and you
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Would find a donkey," they said, "attached up, and when you go
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And get that donkey that had never been ridden on, a colt,
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And bring that donkey to me," as he is going all the way from
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Jericho in a procession all the way up to jerusalem, "and bring
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That donkey."
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And he said, "if somebody asked you, you know, 'why are you
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Untying the donkey?'
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You tell them, 'the master has need of it.'"
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Preparation.
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The master has need of it.
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And so, they took that donkey, and then look what happened.
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Why a donkey, by the way?
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Ezekiel 9:9.
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Riding on a donkey when you would go in the city would tell
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Everybody you come and peace, you come as king, a king
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Of peace.
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Emperors, generals would ride into town on a white stallion or
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Pulling a golden chariot to say, "i've come as a conqueror, or a
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Would be conqueror."
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But riding on a donkey, can you picture that?
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I've thought about that.
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Here comes jesus, king jesus of peace, riding on a donkey,
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Riding on a donkey.
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I've asked people years ago about what it'd be like to jump
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On the back of a donkey that had never been ridden.
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They said, "you'd better hold on.
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You're not gonna make it.
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Very few rodeo cowboys could handle that."
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Brand new donkey.
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A colt.
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And someone else said, "if as he rode that donkey, jesus must
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Have had great hands, great hands."
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So, read that they took a coat and threw it over the donkey and
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Put jesus up on the donkey, verse 35, and then you have
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A celebration.
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Verse 36, "as he was going, they were spreading their coats on
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The ground.
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And as soon he was approaching near the descent of the mount
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Of olives."
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By the way, the other--matthew, mark, luke, and john all tell of
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Palm sunday, the triumphal entry.
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And they began to take off their coats, and for most of them,
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This was all that they had.
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It was their prized possession.
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They would tell by their coats their profession, tell by their
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Coats who they were, their place in society, and they took their
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Coats off, and they made a carpet, and maybe they didn't
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Have enough coats, they went and got palm branches, and they made
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A total carpet there for jesus to come riding into jerusalem.
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The son of god, god man, riding on a donkey, riding on a donkey.
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You wonder, well, how many people were there in this
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Triumphal entry?
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A few years later they took a survey, and they discovered that
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On a typical passover, remember, this is when jews from all the
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World came to jerusalem to celebrate the passover, to
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Celebrate the most important feast of the year, and they
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Counted one year, and they said 250,000 lambs were killed in
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One passover.
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And usually a lamb would provide a passover meal for a minimum of
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10 people in a family, and therefore, you have 1.5 million
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To 1.6 million visitors in jerusalem and all the
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Surrounding territories to celebrate the passover.
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Because i can tell you, this was some kind of crowd following
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Jesus up from jericho.
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They've just seen a fabulous thing.
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They saw that zacchaeus, his whole family was converted, and
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They saw miracles take place, and they were following him from
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Jericho as he was going up to jerusalem.
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And you can be sure some of those who were already in
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Jerusalem, they were coming down to meet him.
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And so, we have people literally from all over the world, and
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Many gentiles went just because it was such a moment
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Of celebration.
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Like some of you go to the super bowl, and you know a football
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From a basketball.
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They didn't know, they didn't understand, but boy, this is
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Where the action was, so just imagine lining the roads, paved
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Way, their coats they've taken off.
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What a moment.
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And then look at the story, it just stands alone.
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That's the reason i wanted you to have your bibles open.
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It said as soon as he--"nearing the descent on the mount of
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Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began to praise god
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Joyfully and with a loud voice for all the miracles they
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Had seen.
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'blessed is the king who comes in the name of the lord; peace
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In heaven and glory on earth.'"
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Let me tell you something.
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They began to praise god.
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They praised him with a loud voice.
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They weren't timid about it.
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They weren't overwhelmed at the moment as jesus was going up
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To jerusalem.
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All their life, this has been the moment of revelation and
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Consummation of the kingdom of god going up to jerusalem.
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But in that crowd, there were three kinds of people there, not
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Unlike what would be in a service of worship.
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There will be those who genuinely worshiped, they really
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Worshipped the lord.
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It was kind of spontaneous.
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Have you had those moments in your life?
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Have you?
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When you were so overwhelmed with sadness or joy or
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Exaltation, you just fall down, you cried, you shouted, you got
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Out of character, you just worshipped him.
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I've had those times, just spontaneous worship.
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Nothing else you could do but to praise or to cry or to shout or
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To fall on your face.
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I fall on my face and i dug a hole in the dirt to try to get
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Lower down.
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Have you had those moments? have you had those moments?
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Joyful praise with a loud voice, overwhelmed with god's presence,
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Overwhelmed with what was going on all around you, what you
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Were facing.
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Whether a mountaintop or a valley, praise,
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Praise, hallelujah.
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Blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord.
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There were genuine worshippers there who were overwhelmed with
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That moment in time that they were experiencing.
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But also there were misguided worshippers.
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The misguided worshipers, they thought that jesus was coming,
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And by the way, you couldn't tell the difference from who
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Took off their coat, who put palm branches down, who were
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Shouting and praying.
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You can't tell the difference from the misguided worshippers
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From the genuine worshippers.
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They did all the same things that genuine worshippers did.
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What was the difference?
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The misguided worship thought jesus was coming to establish a
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Political kingdom.
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Oh, yes, that was a stream of prophecy that said that a
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Kingdom would be established and the romans would be eliminated.
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A lot of people go to church, that's your primary deal.
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Man, let's save america.
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I'm for it, but salvation america is not going to come
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When we get all that we want, me, me, me, my, my, mine, this
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Is the way i like it.
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That's what those who didn't understand worship were
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All about.
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That's what they didn't get.
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They thought jesus was coming to set a political kingdom.
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Some of his own apostles were misguided like that.
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Remember james and john got their mother to go see jesus,
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Said, you know, "what position are my boy's gonna have when you
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Set up your kingdom?"
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Misguided worship.
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Now, certainly we in america hope there'll be revival, and we
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Hope we'll have a government that will allow us to preach and
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Proclaim the name of jesus as our freedom of liberty, but by
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The same token that's not going to bring in the kingdom of god.
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We could take and have george washington and abraham lincoln
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And billy graham brought back and all that type of people
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Could hold every office in our land, and that would not be
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The answer.
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The answer comes through jesus christ, our lord, so don't be
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Misguided here.
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They thought the kingdom was gonna come.
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We're gonna get rid of these romans, and fill in the blanks,
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We're gonna get rid of the blank.
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You can fill it in.
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That's not it.
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They were misguided in their understanding of the church,
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Understanding of christ, understanding what is coming.
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And therefore there were genuine worshipers, they got it, they
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Knew the death, the sacrifice, the cross, the atonement.
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They knew that was a price on his head and he was marching to
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Zion, but it meant only his death.
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Some of them got that.
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Most of them were misguided, saying, "oh boy, the son of god
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Has come, messiah.
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We're gonna get rid of all these undesirables.
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We're gonna change our government.
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We're gonna go back once again to be a
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Thoroughgoing theocracy."
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And then there's a third group of worshippers, and they're
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Really not worshippers.
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There are non-worshipers, they're not really worshiping.
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I'm sure they were there in the crowd.
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I hope there are none like that here.
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But it tells us about them.
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Verse 39, "some of the pharisees--" why, the pharisees,
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That's the most religious people that anybody will ever know.
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Their religiosity was outside.
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"and the pharisees in the crowd said to him, 'teacher, rebuke
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Your disciples.'"
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In other words, they were saying, "they're treating you as
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If you were the messiah, as if you were god.
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My, jesus, rebuke these people."
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And jesus said, "i tell you, if these become
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Silent, the stones will cry out!"
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What's he saying?
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If these with all the worship, the celebration, the coats, the
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Palm branches, they were not shouting and praying and singing
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Songs to god and zion at this moment when i'm going up to
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Jerusalem, he said, "these stones would praise.
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These stones would cry out and sing."
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And i said, there must have been a big old rock over there, and
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They said, "oh, that stone's a bass, and there's a little
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Stones over here, and shiny, and they're the sopranos.
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There are some stones over here that are multicolored, and
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They're the altos."
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And he looked and said, "these very rocks would shout."
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Listen, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes nature gives more
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Praise than some of us who don't get it, who are non-worshippers.
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The trees clap their hands, the brooks sing songs, and all of
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Creation, inanimate and animate, sometimes it gets ahead of us
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When we don't realize and capture the moment of worship,
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I.e., palm sunday here.
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Jesus said, "the stones would cry out if this praise wasn't
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Here" to those non-worshippers.
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And then he elaborates in this chapter in a fabulous thing.
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And he says, when he approached jerusalem, he wept over it.
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Now, jesus was not a weeper.
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He cried one other time when lazarus died, we went over that.
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Jesus didn't weep when he was in a storm, and he wasn't afraid.
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He went to sleep.
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He didn't weep in times of embarrassment, in times of
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Shame, in times of pain, he didn't weep.
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But he looked at jerusalem from that fabulous view, and he wept.
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He wept because--and he tells us right in the scripture, hope
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You're following it with me.
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"he saw the city, and he wept, saying, 'if you had known this
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Day,'" "going up to jerusalem," "'even you, the things which
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Made for peace now and peace forever!
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And now they have been hidden from your eyes.
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And for the days will come when your enemies will throw up a
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Barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in, and
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They will level you to the ground and your children within
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You, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another.'"
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What's he saying?
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He's saying to that crowd that was there, "i'm weeping over
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Jerusalem because of what it should be, because of what it
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Should have become, and i'm weeping because all of you have
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Basically missed it."
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And he said, "you didn't know, you didn't know."
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And he said, "you didn't see."
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And he said, "did you get it?
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Judgment is going to come," and it did 70 years later.
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We know that happens.
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The romans came under titus, and they leveled jerusalem, and not
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A stone was left on top of another stone, and it basically
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Was a pile of rocks, and jesus wept because they didn't see and
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They didn't know and they didn't understand judgment is going to
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Come, especially to those who have been especially blessed,
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Those jews.
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Do you realize how pious they are?
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How pious they were?
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From birth all the way through life they were taught at home
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Every day.
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Their mother and dad would pray over them at night.
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They would pray over in the morning.
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They would pray over them as they go out.
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They wore on their body phylacteries, that means they
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Had on their forehead tied their scripture, they had on their
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Arms and their hands tied to scripture.
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It would be deuteronomy 6, it'd be exodus 13.
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Deuteronomy 6 says exactly who god is.
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Exodus 13 says you're to love the lord thy god with your
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Heart, soul, mind, and body, and talked about the firstborn is so
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Sacred to god, all in the prophetic stream, and they
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Didn't get it.
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He said, "when you go out the door, when you come in the door,
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You go to sleep, you wake up, you eat your meals," all of this
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In anticipation, ladies and gentlemen, of those four little
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Words, "going up to jerusalem."
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And jesus wept, and the word weep there is he cried almost
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Uncontrollably, because though they had it all, they were to be
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The evangelists of the world, they were to be the unique place
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Where god did business, and though we went from the
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Triumphal entry, he went right into the temple, and what did
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He do?
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He cleaned house of those who were using god's house for
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Exploitation, for money, and for profit.
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And where did they have all these money changers in
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The temple?
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You know something about the temple, they had the court of
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The gentiles, and the court of the gentiles where people were
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Non-jews, court of women, court of the rest of the jews in the
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Synagogue, but they had the court of the gentiles, and
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That's where gentiles could come and watch all of
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Israel worshiping.
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And that's where many gentiles saw the genuineness of their
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Praise and their prayer and their brokenness and their
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Morality and the principles that god had built into israel, and
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When these gentiles came, many of them said, "i want to know
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This god, this true god."
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It was a moment of evangelism, but the jews had gone, and they
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Had written out all the gentiles, and they had totally
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Lost the thrust of the purpose that god had sent the jews in
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The world to do was to bring salvation and god's truth
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To everybody.
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And they turned it into a business, a profit center, where
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Nobody could come who weren't jews and see the worship of
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His people.
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Oh yeah, there were three groups of people there.
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The genuine worshippers who knew that sacrifice, that death was
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To come.
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A few.
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Those who misguided, thank you, boy, jesus is gonna come and sit
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And run these romans out.
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We're gonna have a whole kingdom to ourselves.
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Everything's gonna be wonderful.
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And then the non-worshippers, somehow they didn't see it, they
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Didn't know, they didn't realize judgment was to come.
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And then he summarizes this.
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Hope you have your bibles open.
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With a final little phrase.
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He said, "why did all this happen?"
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He said, "you did not recognize the time of your visitation."
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Now, stay with that a little bit.
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Here these jews, here's all of them by a million plus, they
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Missed, though all of prophecy, all their history, everything
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Had been pointed to this moment in history when jesus would go
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Up into jerusalem, they missed that, and he said, "this took
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Place because you didn't know what was happening.
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You missed the time of visitation."
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Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps the greatest fear in my life is
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To miss when the holy spirit would say something to me, would
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Speak to me, would lead me to move, would lead me to confess,
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Would lead me to pray, would lead me to do whatever, miss the
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Time of visitation.
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For some here, this palm sunday, i can tell you one thing i know.
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For some here the holy spirit comes and speaks to your heart
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In your life right now.
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Don't miss your day of visitation.
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Male announcer: trials are woven into the very fabric of life.
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When we least expect it, storms can come and turn our lives
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Upside down, they can come crashing like waves on our
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Finances, our health, and our relationships.
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So how do we weather these storms and turn the trials
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Of life into triumphs?
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In his booklet, "hope in the storms of life,"
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Robbed and shipwrecked, found great joy in life, a joy that
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Our heavenly father wants to fill your life.
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Pastor ed: many walked with jesus in jerusalem that first
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Palm sunday, but they didn't know what was going on.
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They missed the significance of it.
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Remember jesus wept over jerusalem because so many
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Misunderstood the meaning of his triumphal entry into the city.
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And what will occur during that momentous passion week?
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He knew that many of those shouting hosannas would soon be
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In the crowd, crying, "crucify him."
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They would miss this moment in history.
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Don't you miss it.
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The very heart of the life of christ and ministry is his
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Sacrificial death and his bodily resurrection.
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That bodily resurrection is a prototype of the body you and i
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Will have when we leave this earth, and therefore the
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Greatest decision anybody will ever make is how we respond to
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The invitation of jesus to come into him and have that new life.
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If this is the moment the holy spirit is calling you to make
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That kind of lifetime commitment to christ, let me encourage you,
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Don't miss it.
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The number on your screen, we'd love to have you call
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That number.
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We'd pray with you, encourage you as you take that fabulous
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Step on a winning walk with jesus christ.
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Ed Young - Journey to Jerusalem

April 6, 2025 | S25:E82

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