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 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church Podcast. If you are seeking a closer relationship with

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 Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. Thank you for joining us today.

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 This is Passion Week, right? This is Passion Week and we're gonna be tapping into that today. If

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 you could turn your Bibles to Luke chapter 19. Wow, that was such great worship. Wow, I mean,

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 I love being up here here and all of you sing. There's something just so raw and passionate about

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 hearing people crying out in like a kind of a combination of gratitude, of desperation, whatever

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 is happening in you here today, you could just cry out and sing out to the Lord and He wants to

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 meet your needs. He really does. I mean, wouldn't you attest to that? How many needs has He attended

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 to you and have redeemed them completely? And He always wants to be doing that. I just, those

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 songs really just resonated even about what the message is about today. Praise the Lord. And

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 so we're gonna, we're gonna pray and thank the Lord for speaking today through the Spirit

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 and the Word of God and that He would do around about anything I would say that wasn't what He intended.

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 And I believe that the Lord is gonna use His Word to really pierce all of our hearts

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 and get in deep to what needs to be taken out. That's wrong thinking, wrong belief systems,

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 or even just an overall attitude that isn't from Him, but more importantly infuse what is meant

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 to be in us, you know, because really, you know, when we read the Word in the Holy Spirit,

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 man, magnificent things happen, don't they? We are transformed. So praise the Lord. I did want to

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 mention our dear brother, the Indiana Jones of the Gospel, Bill Devlin, PB is in the house.

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 We're gonna have to have him come out and tell us what's going on lately, but he just came

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 back from Nigeria. So make sure if you know, Bill, he's gonna be here for the celebration,

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 aren't you? Afterwards? Sure. Yeah. Sure. And then he's gonna stick around all day long and pray for

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 every needs that yet, right? No, okay. But anyway, now make sure you say hello to PB Pastor

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 Bill Devlin. He's just a wonderful man of God, has an adventurous life and very inspiration

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 on the things that he has experienced and where he has gone to bring the Gospel. And it's exciting.

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 So make sure you meet PB Pastor Bill. And so let's pray, Father God, we thank you that you are here,

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 you are in our midst, Lord God. And we believe something special is gonna happen in this place

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 today because your word is here, your spirit is here, your saints are here, everything, the

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 conditions are perfect, Lord God, for you to move powerfully within us to transform us. And Lord,

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 we want to walk out of here better than we walked in, Lord God. We want to walk out here of here

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 more transformed in your likeness so that we would just glow and radiate your glory to

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 everywhere we go. And people say, what is the joy? What is that all over you? It's the glory of God.

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 So Father God, we ask you to do amazing things here in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So it's Palm Sunday

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 and it's the beginning of Passion Week. And when we look at the triumphal entry, which we're

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 going to be looking at and the day after as well, some of it. But it's really the beginning of

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 a very, very passion filled emotional week for Jesus Christ. I mean, if you think of every

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 possible range of emotions that he's going to go through, this roller coaster of emotions,

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 it's just unfathomable that he's going to go through all of this, but stay the course knowing

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 what his mission and purpose is to die for us, to become our sins on the cross. So all of our

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 sins die with him and then he can rise again and give us new life. He can ascend to heaven

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 and pour down his Holy Spirit upon every believer that we can be renewed and walk

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 as a new creation, something that the world has never seen, a hybrid in a sense of Godliness

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 and yet still flesh and bones. It's just amazing, isn't it? So Jesus had that on his mind when he

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 was going through this entire week. He wasn't going to be thwarted or diverted from what he was

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 here to do. And there's going to be a lot of things trying to tempt him away from his

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 mission to die for us and rise from the dead and to give us new life. And as we look at this,

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 we can really connect to it ourselves, because we were made in God's image. We were made in his

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 image. When he made us, he made us like him, creative. He's a creator. He made us in his

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 image. We are creative. He made us relational. He made us with a will, which always fights his

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 in the flesh, doesn't it? But he also made us with emotions, because he has emotions. He made

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 us like him. He has all the same emotions except ones that are of course bad, but he's

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 even jealous. You're reading the word. He's jealous for us, a good jealous. He's really,

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 the word is zealous. He is zealous for us. He's passionate about you. He loves you. He had love

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 before we had love. We only love because he first loved us, right? I mean, he is loving. What we

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 have is because he has it. And even good in us is because he gave it to us. So we can

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 really connect with the emotions of Christ, because he went through it for us, as us in a sense, right?

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 In fact, we read in Hebrews 4.15, we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our

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 weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin. So, you know,

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 he was tempted in every possible way. Things we probably don't even read about, seduction and

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 other things. He went through it all, because he has those emotions. And not only that, but he went

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 through it as one of us. In other words, leaving some of his glory behind, some of his imperviousness

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 to sin. He made himself vulnerable to sin and yet didn't sinless. Isn't that amazing? He came in

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 the form of as you or I to do it on our behalf because we can't. He went through all of it.

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 on our behalf, so that when we go through things, because now we have his spirit living in us,

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 when we go through the ups and downs of life, the victorious times, the pleasant and happy

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 times, when we go through all of those times, we can go through those things as him, because he

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 lives in us. I love this verse 2 Corinthians 4, 7 and 19, but we have this treasure in earth and

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 vessels, speaking of this power and passion and spirit of God, that the excellence of the power

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 may be of God and not of us. We are hard pressed on every side. This is such an anthem kind of

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 when you're going into a battle, you just remember these verses. We are hard pressed on

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 every side, yet not crushed. We're not going to be crushed, right? We live in the power of Jesus

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 Christ. Nothing is going to crush us. In fact, the word says we crush the head of Satan beneath

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 our feet, right? Nothing's going to crush us because the power of God is in this earthen

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 vessel of yours, right? We are perplexed but not in despair. I mean, I'm not going to be puzzled

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 by this. Of course, these things will happen. Jesus even promised, in this world you will have

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 tribulations but take heart for I have overcome the world. He has overcome the world in you.

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 Isn't that awesome? Persecuted but not forsaken. I will never leave you nor forsake you.

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 He is always with you, right? Even when you're going through things, wait a minute, I have the power of

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 God upon me and in me. I'm going to get through this and I'm going to get through this better than I

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 went into it. Isn't that amazing, right? Struck down but nothing can destroy us, right? Nothing

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 is carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus. In other words, all of the sins, all the

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 ways we would react to every up and down in life, all those things in the flesh that start frothing,

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 there's the word frothing like the ocean does, frothing up, right? The ways we would act

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 towards those things died with Christ, right? That the life of Jesus also may be manifested in your

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 body, right? So Jesus went through all of these things as us but without sin so that we can go

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 through all those same things as him. Isn't that amazing? So we're entering into this passion

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 three emotions that Christ must have had going through these things and yet he responded and

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 carried himself in such a way of keeping the eye on the prize. Augusta, is that you back there?

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 Praise God. I don't know if many of you know this but the Lord just protected Augusta from a very

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 tragic car accident and she's actually here with us today. I hope that was okay to say.

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 It's too late but praise the Lord, yes. Thank you Jesus, right? Amen. I'm like that can't

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 be her. That's her. Wow. I mean the angels of the Lord just encamped themselves around her and said,

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 you ain't touching my precious, precious daughter Augusta Allen and she went through that accident

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 and the angels are like, nope, not today. Praise God. Hallelujah man. I'm sure you have

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 stories of your own like that, right? Isn't it amazing? God is so good. He knows each day

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 that he has planned for us before they were ever lived, right? And he knows what he wants to do

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 through our lives. We are his workmanship creating Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared

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 in advance for us to walk in them, right? So praise God. Thanks for coming Augusta.

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 Wow, you're an inspiration. You really are. Praise God. So you ready? Let's dive in. We're

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 of the Lord and the anger of the Lord. So let's take a look. Luke 19 verse 28.

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 When he had said this, he went on ahead going up to Jerusalem and it came to pass when he drew

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 near to Bethphage and Bethany at the mountain called Olivet that he sent two of his disciples

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 saying, go into the village opposite you. Whereas you enter, you will find a cult tied

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 on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you,

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 why are you loosing in it? Thus you shall say to him because the Lord has need of it. Now,

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 Matthew mentions that there was actually a donkey and the cult and so that's a little

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 difference version of that gospel. When you read it, don't be puzzled.

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 The gospels really compliment one another. They don't work against one another.

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 But anyway, I just want to show you a little map so you can get your mind

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 around what, where Jesus was traveling and what was going on. So this is the first map we'll

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 look at. This is Bethany. So Jesus was coming up and he came to Bethany, right? And this is

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 where Lazarus, Mary and Martha lived, right? Not long before that, probably weeks, Jesus raised

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 Lazarus from the dead. He said, Lazarus, come out. Take those grave clothes off of him, right?

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 And so he went by and he probably picked them up on the way, you know, let's go. We're going

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 to Jerusalem, you know? And it's funny because not only were the Pharisees looking for an

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 opportunity to kill Jesus, but they were looking for an opportunity to kill Lazarus

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 because they wanted to destroy the evidence that Jesus could actually raise the dead, right?

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 And then they're coming along. And this whole thing, by the way, is called the Mount of Olives.

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 That's the west, I mean, that's the east side. That's the west side, right? And so he's coming

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 up along here and then he pulls up and he's coming towards here. And we have another map

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 too just to beat a dead horse. There's another map, okay? And he's coming along. And down

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 along here is actually the Garden of Gethsemane. We're not going to talk about that today,

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 but Jesus would actually go right past the very garden that he would be praying to his father

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 and says, you know, take this cup away if at all possible, but not my will, but yours be done.

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 That's the Garden of Gethsemane, which means olive press because this whole mountain was filled

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 with olive trees, right? Still is to a degree. So Jesus is approaching and he tells them,

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 go into the town, get me this colt and the mother and bring them back up here because I need to

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 ride and we're not going to get into the whole symbolism of this and Zechariah and other

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 places in the word that talks about this, but he sends them in, okay? And I have another slide

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 that just could kind of picture what it must have looked like when Jesus was talking, okay?

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 And there he is and he's looking out over the city of Jerusalem, okay? And he's telling them,

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 go down, get the colt and then come back and they're probably all like, we're really going

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 into town now, you know? And they could probably see it before the city in the valley, probably

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 people accumulating, perhaps hearing who's coming, who's this guy that raises people from the dead

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 that cleanses the lepers, that gives sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, the one that

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 cures the lame that they can walk and he's coming, but also the very guy that he rose

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 from the dead is coming, right? So they're all like probably already starting to hear ahead of

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 time, right? And he's telling them about this. And then the next slide, we just have the modern day,

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 what it looks like now. As you can see right in the middle is the golden dome of the rock, right?

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 And this is a mosque, we've been there, maybe you have too, but there's no longer a temple,

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 as you know. The temple mount is now temple-less, okay? Because it was destroyed in 70 AD,

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 which we're going to talk about in a minute. So that's kind of the lay of the land. I love

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 picturing the geography of things, because my brain can kind of get around it a little more,

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 picturing how the flow is, you know? So he's looking up, he's looking over,

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 and he's seeing Jerusalem and the valley there, you know? And he's going to walk right past

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 the Garden of Gethsemane. And then verse 32, so those who were sent went their way and found it,

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 just as he had said to them. But as they were loosing the cult, the owners of it said to them,

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 why are you loosing the cult? And they said, the Lord has need of it. Then they brought him to

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 Jesus, and they threw their own clothes on the cult, and they set Jesus on him. And as he

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 went, many spread their clothes on the road. And then as he was now drawing near to the descent

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 of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God,

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 with a loud voice of all the mighty works that they had seen him do, saying,

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 blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory to the highest. They're

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 quoting Psalm 118, 26 there. And some of the Pharisees called to him from the crowd, teacher,

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 rebuke your disciples. But he answered and said to them, I tell you, that if these should be

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 silent, the stones would immediately cry out. The Lord has orchestration even over nature to do

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 unnatural things. And so here they are. People are just rejoicing, rejoicing. And if you were

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 Jesus, even back when he was first tempted, Satan said, if you worship me, I will give you

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 all the kingdoms of the earth, if you just worship me. And Jesus said, get behind me, Satan.

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 The word says to worship the Lord only and serve him, right? Him only shall you serve.

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 the emperor's power if he wanted to. He could do whatever he wanted, right?

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 But there was a kingdom he was bringing that was not of this world, right?

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 thank God for all of us, I'm not, I would have been like, wow, this is a lot of fame.

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 This is a lot of accolades. This is a lot of praise. You wonder how so many people even

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 in ministry of these mega churches, how they fall. We were talking about that a few days ago with

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 someone and it's really this whole celebrity, this whole glory that suddenly they start thinking the

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 glory is about them. And then they fall horribly. Well, Jesus wasn't going to fail, right? Because

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 he knew what was before. He knew what true joy was. You know, there's a difference between

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 happiness and joy because happiness has to do with what's happening. Did you ever hear that before?

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 You know, if something good is happening, then you're happy, okay? But those things will pass.

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 for a deeper and long lasting joy, right? And Jesus realized I'm not getting sucked into any of

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 this. You're not diverting me. You're not thwarting my purpose, right? And we can really see this

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 who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at

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 the right hand of the throne of God. He knew what true joy was. He wasn't going to be distracted

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 with happiness because he knew what joy was, you know? And we believers can take note to this

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 that sometimes there's going to be distractions, things that, oh, that looks, and that will want to

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 pull us away from true joy, from true purpose. And deferment of those things, or we're just

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 casting them off saying, I don't have time for this. There's true joy I'm after and that's

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 saying these things, and then he says, but Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit. When he was hearing them

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 the way they're talking. And yet, you know what? It's fun. It's great. I mean, he could

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 raise him from the dead and blow all their minds, right? But like he still was caught up in our sadness.

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 and if we allow him what will be, right? And so he weeps over the sitting and he says,

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 potential that was there and yet was just lost, you know, and he just was so burdened and so,

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 he was and is the Messiah and they were rejecting him and he was just burdened with that, you know,

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 stoic and robotic God and always mean and always, you know, that's not our God. He's emotional,

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 when your kingdom come and what did Jesus say? Truly I say to you, today you will be with me

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 in paradise, right? And you know, you know, that man could do nothing else. It's never too late

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 and praise the name of the Lord, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you and my people

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 shall never be put to shame. You know, this idea of swarming, you know, I was thinking

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 to my chimney and they're starting to crawl, okay? And then they start to go in. And before I knew

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 devour and devour the life right from me. Well, God says, no, no, no, no. It's not over.

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 he's working it for your good and his good. Isn't that amazing? I mean, what a great,

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 let's give him a round of applause. Praise God. Hallelujah. Let's give out a holy shout. Ready?

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 I don't know what you want to shout, but we'll count to three. One, two, three, Jesus!

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 that's what he does, right? That's, he's in the business of restoration, redemption, new life.

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 to oversee you, right? To lead you out of your wayward idolatry and

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 the holy, one true bishop, right? And that's the idea of visitation. I just felt that a

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 to care for, to oversee. So the Lord there is saying, you know what? Just because your parents

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 have dealt you some bad cards, guess what? I want to be your bishop. I want to set you free from that.

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 they're in heaven. Isn't that amazing? You're not rooted in the soil or the earth. You're rooted

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 in heaven, right? Yes. Anchored in heaven behind the veil where our forerunner Jesus Christ is.

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 love that? Praise the Lord. So let's finish up. And then finally, then he went into the temple

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 know, that's what was going on there. They were, they were, they were really just

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 so corrupt that they were trying to think of a word that is appropriate stealing,

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 stealing from people, right? They're, they're embezzling. They're embezzling. People that

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 are coming into worship God and they were just making it profitable for them, right?

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 But you know what's interesting? I just thought of something right now. Imagine this,

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 someone is so dark and criminal like, and suddenly Jesus comes in and he's casting him out

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 and the spirit within this person just says, is probably thinking in his mind,

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 I'm not leaving. Who's this guy? I think he is. Suddenly he gets up and he's like,

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 why am I leaving right now? I don't want to leave, but the spirit within him is obeying

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 the Holy spirit in Jesus Christ, right? And that's the same thing with us.

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 Crazy things happen when we know who we are and by what power and authority we are sent.

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 Suddenly we could say things to people, really dangerous people and suddenly they're,

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 okay, I'll do that. Like they don't even know why they're submitting to you

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 because the spirit within them is obeying the Holy spirit who is in you because you are the

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 temple of the Holy spirit, right? And so he goes in, he casts them out and we see this like anger.

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 Now he would have been angry, right? But you notice he didn't hurt anybody. No matter how he managed

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 that, navigated that, you know, but he chased them away. He turned over the tables and he's like,

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 get out. This anger of the Lord. You know what was interesting while I was thinking about this

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 because the anger of man never produces the righteousness of God, right? You can think you

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 have righteous anger. Yeah, I would like pray a lot before you respond to that righteous anger.

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 And suddenly, as you're pointing at that person, how many fingers are pointing back at you? At

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 least three, right? So all of a sudden you realize, you know, maybe I got to settle down here

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 and just let the Lord speak and act through me, you know? Whenever we start to get too

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 angry, we know, wait a minute, this is not of the Lord. But what I was thinking of is the Lord

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 had righteous anger. But you know what? You know how many times you see the anger of the Lord

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 spoken about in the Bible? Guess how many in the Old Testament? 30 times the anger of the Lord.

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 And it broke out on where devastating things happened to people, but also even at Moses,

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 he was the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, the anger of the Lord. And we see it in 30 verses

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 in the Old Testament. You know how many times we see it in the New Testament? Zero. Zero.

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 I just found that, like, what? Not even the anger of God. You can't find it. And I'm thinking,

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 like, yeah, but the Lord still has anger towards sin. He still has anger towards the

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 principalities, powers and spirits of wickedness in heavenly places and the rulers of the darkness,

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 you know, spiritual realms that are evil, that are possessing and oppressing and causing mankind

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 to do all kinds of wickedness. He still hates all of that, right? But he's not angry against

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 people he wants to save. And neither should we be, by the way, right? But there's no

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 anger of the Lord. Why? Because it was all poured out on Jesus Christ. All of our dark, nasty sins

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 were laid upon Jesus Christ. He died for the humanity of all the world, even the people

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 who lived before him and everyone who has lived after him. He died for the sins of the world.

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 You almost just picture this, like, while he was on the cross, no wonder it was all dark

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 for three hours because it was probably like a black hole. All the sin was just going, boom,

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 right into Christ because he became sin for us, that we could become his righteousness of God,

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 right? As the worship team comes up, you know, I just want to say today,

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 the Lord went through a thing or two for you. We didn't even tap into the betrayal

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 of his dear friend Judas, you know. Judas, Jesus wasn't a friend of Judas, but Judas was a friend

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 of Jesus. He gave him all the same opportunities he gave all of them. He even washed his feet,

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 right? I mean, he wanted Judas to know him. He understood, yeah, but he's the son of

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 Purdue. He's the son of damnation. He foreknew that, but he didn't cause it.

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 And I'm sure he didn't want it. He would have had to find somebody else.

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 But he always knew it. He knows these things. You know, it's like predestination. It's his

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 knowledge that he always knew it, you know. But the Lord even guide for Judas, he just didn't

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 receive it. And today I just want to say, maybe you're sitting here realizing, you know, I've

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 just let those swarming locusts swarm, crawl, chew, devour. How can I ever be restored?

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 The Lord says, let me in. Give your life to me today. It's really that simple. Yes,

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 you know, it really is. Reckon yourself dead today. Realize you have no power

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 over whatever those locusts are doing in your life. You can't do a thing to stop it or reverse it.

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 It's over for you. You're done. Why not today you say, Lord, I am done with this.

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 Today I want to just let the locusts do whatever they want. I'm going to die right here.

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 I'm going to die because all those sins were already nailed to the cross.

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 Today, say, Lord, I give you my life. I surrender my life to you.

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 I no longer want to live the old life. I want your life.

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 Today, I give you my dead life. And I ask you to give me your living life.

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 Lord, that you would give me new life. Lord, I believe you are the Son of God.

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 And I believe that you died on the cross for my sins. And I believe that you paid and you said,

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 when it is finished, my sins were finished. So today, Lord, I give you my life. And I

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 ask you to give me yours. Father God, give me a new life. Make me a new creation

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 so that I can walk in the newness of life. Father God, send your Holy Spirit in me right now.

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 I want to receive your life right now. Save me. That's what Hosanna means. Save now.

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 Hosanna, save me now in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. If you did that today,

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 if you're bold enough, if you're bolder than I was when I got saved, I want to invite you to just,

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 why don't we all do this? Let's all close our eyes and bow our heads to take away the pressure.

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 But today, if you did that, if you gave your life to Jesus, please lift up your hand and give a

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 testimony to what God has done for you today. For the rest of us,

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 Father God, we thank you for everything you went through to give us freedom.

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 Lord God, as we go into Passion Week, we want to just honor you through this week.

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 And remember, Resurrection Day is coming in Jesus' name. Amen.

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 Thank you so much for joining us for worship live Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube.

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 Be blessed and have a great day.