1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,000 For our good King, who comes not during the night to attack or to punish, but He comes in the daylight to rescue and to save. 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:21,000 And so like those people on the first Palm Sunday, will you lift our hearts in praise that we would call out in praise of your Son. 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,000 We just thank you so much for Jesus and for grace. It's in your Son's name we pray. Amen. 4 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:37,000 If you would, stand with me. We're going to read from the 118th Psalm, verses 19 through 21 together. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:54,000 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. 6 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:06,000 This is the gate of the Lord. The righteous shall enter through it. I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. 7 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:14,000 This is the word of the Lord. And our kids are going to lead us in just a moment in a Palm Sunday processional. 8 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:21,000 You may not know the song, but be welcome to try to pick it up. Let's get some palm branches waving for them. 9 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Go ahead, Derek. 10 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Here we go! 11 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:39,000 Jumping up and down. Jumping up and down. Jumping up and down. Shout Hosanna! Hosanna! 12 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Jumping up and down. Jumping up and down. Jumping up and down. Shout Hosanna! Hosanna! 13 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Here comes Jesus, riding on a donkey. Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna to the King! 14 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:04,000 With the branches of the trees before Him, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna to the King! 15 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Jesus is alive! Jesus is alive! Jesus is alive! 16 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Hosanna, Hosanna! Jesus is alive! Jesus is alive! 17 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Hosanna, Hosanna! Here comes Jesus, rising up in glory! Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna to the King! 18 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:37,000 He is alive! Let's tell the worldly story! Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna to the King! 19 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Jumping up and down, jumping up and down, jumping up and down, jumping up and down, shall Hosanna, Hosanna! 20 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Jumping up and down, jumping up and down, jumping up and down, shall Hosanna, Hosanna! 21 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Very good! 22 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Thank you. 23 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:44,000 Thank you. 24 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:36,000 We turn to you. Hope is stirring. Hearts are yearning for you. We long for you. 'Cause when we see you, we find strength. 25 00:04:37,000 --> 00:05:06,980 You face the dread. And in your presence, the loud fields are washed away. Washed away. Hosanna. Hosanna. You are the God who saves us. We're the evil of God. 26 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:36,980 Praise us. Oh, hear the sound of hearts returning to you. We turn to you. In your kingdom, broken lives are made. 27 00:05:37,000 --> 00:06:06,980 You make all things new. 'Cause when we see you, we find strength to face the day. And in your presence, all our fears are washed away, washed away, frozen. 28 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:36,980 Hosanna, Hosanna. You are the God who saves us. Worthy of all our praises. Hosanna, Hosanna. Come every way among us. We welcome you here. 29 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Hear you, Lord Jesus. 30 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:36,980 I set my hope on Jesus. When the questions come and doubts remain, I set my hope on Jesus. For the deepest wounds the time won't heal. There's a joy that runs still deeper. There's a truth that's more than all I have. 31 00:07:37,000 --> 00:08:02,000 I set my hope on Jesus. I set my hope on Jesus. My rock, my only trust. Who set His heart upon me first? I set my hope on Jesus. 32 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Though I falter in this war with sin, I set my hope on Jesus. When I feel the fight and sink within, I set my hope on Jesus. 33 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Though the shame would drown me in its sea, and I dread the wave of justice, I will cast my life on Calvary. I set my hope on Jesus. I set my hope on Jesus. 34 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:11,000 My God, my only trust. You set His heart upon me first. I set my hope on Jesus. 35 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Though the world call me to leave, my Lord, I set my hope on Jesus. Though it offer all its vain rewards, I set my hope on Jesus. 36 00:09:46,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Though this heart of mine is prone to stray, give me grace enough to fill in. Rushing on that final day, I set my hope on Jesus. 37 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:36,000 I set my hope on Jesus. My rock, my only trust. Who set his heart upon me first? I set my hope on Jesus. I set my hope on Jesus. My rock, my only trust. 38 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:50,000 Who set his heart upon me first? I set my hope on Jesus. I set my hope on Jesus. 39 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:17,000 As we prepare to come around the table in just a few minutes from now, we'll spend some time talking about Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and then on Monday, his cleansing of the temple. 40 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:26,000 And one of the things that we don't think about much, because in our church most of us can go anywhere in the church that we would like to go, 41 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:37,000 that in the first century and in the temple, and the series of courtyards that surround the holy place and the holy of holies were very restricted. 42 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:45,000 So if you were a Gentile, you could only go so far. If you were a woman, you could only go so far. If you were a Jewish man, you could only go so far. 43 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:56,000 In fact, they have uncovered several stones. Josephus records them that as you would go from the court of the Gentiles into the court of the women, 44 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:03,000 there would be a stone that was essentially a death threat. That if you were a foreigner, if you were unclean, 45 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:14,000 to go any further into the temple for you would be death. In fact, historically we found a couple of these stones. They're now in museums. 46 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:21,000 But I want you to imagine for a moment that kind of separation where you go to worship and to bring your sacrifice 47 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:31,000 and to go before the most holy God only to be stopped by a threat that says, "If you go any farther, you will die." 48 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:37,000 The good news of the Gospel and the hope that we just sang about is this: 49 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:46,000 is that we, Hebrews says, have a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul. A hope that enters into the inner place 50 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:57,000 behind the curtain where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 51 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:04,000 And the picture in this is that Jesus goes to the place in the temple where we could not go 52 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:15,000 because of our brokenness and our sinfulness, but because of his sacrifice, we are now allowed to draw close. 53 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Therefore, God's people, there is no longer the separation of courtyards and of nationalities and of service in the temple, but that through Jesus all of us may draw near by grace. 54 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Let's pray. Father, as we eat this meal this morning, may you nourish our souls. May you, through your presence, remind us of the grace that has been poured out 55 00:13:44,000 --> 00:14:00,000 among us, that you have sent your Son to go where we could not go, to do what we could not do, so that we could be welcomed into those places from where we were excluded. 56 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:13,000 We thank you that you have done this for us. We thank you for the death and the burial and the resurrection of your Son. And as we consider our lives this morning, may you bring us to repentance. 57 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:25,000 May you strengthen us in the midst of our struggles. May you give us courage in our fears. Most of all, may you overwhelm our lives by the grace that you have poured out upon us. 58 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:42,000 It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. If you would partake of the bread with me as Jesus shares with his disciples at the Last Supper, doing this in remembrance of Jesus. 59 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Will you take the cup with me? Jesus also shares with his disciples, and let's remember Jesus. 60 00:14:49,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Father in heaven, we thank you for this bread and this cup that is so deep and so wonderful. May you fill our hearts with hope and strength that we would see you and we would see your grace. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 61 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 At this point, we're going to dismiss the... 62 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 We'll be right back. 63 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:40,980 We'll be right back. 64 00:16:41,000 --> 00:17:10,980 We'll be right back. 65 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:40,980 Let's pray. 66 00:17:41,000 --> 00:18:10,980 Let's pray. 67 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:40,980 Let's pray. 68 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:40,980 For more information, visit www.fema.org. 69 00:19:41,000 --> 00:20:10,980 For more information, visit www.fema.org. 70 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:40,980 For more information, visit www.fema.org. 71 00:30:41,000 --> 00:31:10,980 God bless you, Lord. Oh, your mercy never fails me. All my days I've been held in your hands. From the moment that I wake up, until I lay my head, I will sing of the goodness of God. 72 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:40,980 All my life You have been faithful. All my life You have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able, I will sing of the goodness of God. 73 00:31:40,980 --> 00:32:10,960 I love Your voice. You have led me through the fire. In the darkest nights, You are close like no other. I've known You as a Father. I've known You as a friend. I have lived in the goodness of God. 74 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:40,940 All my life, You have been faithful. All my life, You have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able, I will sing of the goodness of God. 75 00:32:40,940 --> 00:33:10,920 Your goodness is running after, it's running after me. Your goodness is running after, it's running after me. With my life laid down, I'm surrendered now. I give You everything. Your goodness is running after, it's running after me. 76 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:40,900 All my life, You have been faithful. All my life, You have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able, I will sing of the goodness of God. 77 00:33:40,900 --> 00:34:10,880 All my life, You have been faithful. All my life, You have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able, I will sing of the goodness of God. 78 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:40,860 All my life, I will sing of the goodness of God. 79 00:34:40,860 --> 00:34:49,860 That there is good news about the King who has come to rescue us. I thank you for Jesus and for grace, and it's in His name we pray. Amen. 80 00:34:49,860 --> 00:35:02,860 So we're going to pick up, before we get to Matthew, we want to go back about a thousand years, and to do that we're going to go back to 2 Samuel chapter 5. 81 00:35:02,860 --> 00:35:10,840 And what we're going to do is begin with a midnight raid, a military operation that occurs in the middle of the night. 82 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:18,840 Now, we began with a king who wasn't always a king. He was the smallest and least important of all of his brothers. 83 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:27,840 And he's now become a king, but his path to ruling the nation has not been easy or simple or without heartbreak or struggle. 84 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:40,820 But he is finally almost to the place where his kingdom is complete. He has reigned for seven and a half years over the southern part of this country, the nation of Israel. 85 00:35:40,820 --> 00:35:48,820 And recently the country has been united and he now reigns over the northern half, reigning over the entire country. 86 00:35:48,820 --> 00:36:02,820 And so it is time for this king to find a capital city. And this is a decision that is a bit fraught because the two halves of the country, the north and the south, don't always see eye to eye. 87 00:36:02,820 --> 00:36:10,800 Sometimes they struggle a little bit with inferiority. If the north is sort of too prominent, the south feels insecure. 88 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:18,800 The same is true when the situation is reversed. And so this king, David, needs to find a capital city. 89 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:29,800 And so he goes just a little bit into the northern part of the kingdom, just a few miles from the border with the southern part of the kingdom. 90 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,800 And it's a perfect location for a capital of the nation of Israel. 91 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:43,800 The part of the problem is that the city that he seeks to make his capital city does not belong to Israel. 92 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:53,800 It's occupied by the Jebusites, who in all reality should have been removed from this city when Israel enters the land under Joshua. 93 00:36:53,800 --> 00:37:00,800 But in Israel's disobedience and half-heartedness, they have never dealt with the Jebusites. 94 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:08,800 And so David not only is going to work to complete the mission that God gave his people as they come into the land, 95 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:16,800 he's seeking to unite his people with a new capital city. And unfortunately, this city does not want to be conquered. 96 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,800 And so as David prepares to go against the city, this is what it says: 97 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,800 "And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, 98 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:35,800 who said to David, 'You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off,' thinking David cannot come in here." 99 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:43,800 And so the picture of this part of the city, it's on a hill on three sides. There's very steep hills, almost cliffs. 100 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:52,800 There's walls. And the Jebusites are very firm in their idea that nobody can come and nobody can take the city. 101 00:37:52,800 --> 00:38:01,800 In fact, they're so sure they say, "You know what? If we put our blind and our lame on the walls, you won't even be able to get by our blind guys, right? 102 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,800 You're not even going to be able to sneak past the guys who cannot see." 103 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:11,800 And there are some who think this is just maybe an insult toward David and his military might. 104 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:19,800 And there's other commentators who think that this is a literal insult played out by them actually putting their blind and the lame on the walls and going, 105 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:24,800 "Look, you can't even beat these guys." Look what happens. 106 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:32,800 "And nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David, and David said on that day, 107 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:41,800 "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind who are hated by David's soul. 108 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,800 Therefore, it is said, the blind and the lame shall not come into the house." 109 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:53,800 And so in the first part, we find in verse 7 that David goes ahead and takes the city anyway. 110 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:58,800 Verse 8 tells us how. That there is a water shaft that goes down to the spring, 111 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,800 and part of this city's defense is that they have this spring of water. 112 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:11,800 There's a cave on the mountain that leads into that, and they have drilled the shaft 49 feet down through solid rock. 113 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:19,800 It's not a large shaft, and so David sends some men up through that shaft who secure that area, who open the gates of the city, 114 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:25,800 and David ends up conquering this city in the middle of the night. 115 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:33,800 And so David comes to the city of Jerusalem in the middle of the night to conquer the city, to make it the capital city, 116 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,800 the city that eventually would house the temple of God. 117 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:46,800 Now I want to direct you toward his words, where he talks about to let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind who are hated by David's soul. 118 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:51,800 This is not David literally saying, "I hate people who are blind, and I hate people who are lame." 119 00:39:51,800 --> 00:40:01,800 In fact, in 2 Samuel 9, he welcomes a lame man into his palace. This is a word of judgment against the pride of the Jebusites, right? 120 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:10,800 Those who thought that they were so secure. The problem is, over time, people will make things mean what they want to mean. 121 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:18,800 And we often times believe what we want it to believe, and so we end with this little note from the author of Samuel, who says this, 122 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:25,800 "Therefore it is said, the blind and lame shall not come into this house." 123 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:35,800 And it becomes a saying as part of God's people, regardless of the meaning that David had for it in direction to the Jebusites. 124 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:42,800 And it seems that these words, that have become a common saying among the people in the priestly restrictions in Leviticus 21, 125 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:55,800 have become a "you are not welcome here" sign for the temple of God in later years, including up to the first century when Jesus comes. 126 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:06,800 And so I want you to hold on to that idea of the blind and the lame being unwelcome, and I want us to fast forward a thousand years to a time when another king comes to Jerusalem, 127 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:18,800 not in darkness or in secrecy, not to conquer, but to save. And this king comes to the same city. It's much bigger now, much more important. 128 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:29,800 It's been the heart of God's people for generation after generation. And the man who comes is not that much younger than David when he comes to Jerusalem. 129 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:41,800 He is a descendant of David, and he is about to enter this city. Now this is a very different visit to Jerusalem. It's daylight, the gates are open, 130 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:54,800 and Jesus is welcomed as the son of David. And one of the things I want us to understand as we go into this last week of Jesus's life is that it is filled with purpose and intentionality. 131 00:41:54,800 --> 00:42:06,800 The things that Jesus says and that Jesus does are with purpose and intention. And the purpose and the point of that is so that when we see his sacrifice on the cross, 132 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:13,800 we understand that this was not accidental. This is not something that happened as a result of being in the wrong place or the wrong time, 133 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:24,800 but that Jesus intentionally gives himself for us. And in fact, Matthew's account, we see this in two different ways. 134 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:31,800 One is in Jesus as he prepares to enter the city. And we read this in Matthew chapter 21. 135 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:39,800 "Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, and it came to Bethpage, the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent his two disciples, saying to them, 136 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:46,800 'Go to the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a colt with you. Untie them and bring them to me. 137 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:53,800 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.'" 138 00:42:53,800 --> 00:43:02,800 And so you see Jesus' entry into Jerusalem is very intentional. But Matthew gives us a little bit of a deeper view. 139 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:08,800 As he quotes from Zechariah, and he says, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, 140 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:15,800 humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.'" 141 00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:21,800 And it's in accordance with prophecy and with intention that Jesus goes to save this crowd. 142 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:31,800 And this crowd is massive. And so the ways I like to think about this is how busy Winchester gets during Apple Blossom. 143 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:37,800 And according to the most recent statistic that I saw, over the course of the days of this festival, 144 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:46,800 it draws something like 200,000 or 250,000 people to Winchester. And that's just from sort of our local, regional area. 145 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:53,800 When you come to Passover, you are having people not just regionally come to Passover, 146 00:43:53,800 --> 00:44:00,800 but you are having people who have traveled across the world to come and to celebrate Passover 147 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:07,800 and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in Jerusalem. And so in a couple weeks when you're driving through traffic, 148 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,800 you're annoyed that there's a bunch of out-of-towners in your town, right? 149 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:19,800 A small picture of what Jesus is going through that's happening in Jerusalem as Jesus comes into town. 150 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:24,800 And the crowd that gathers to welcome Jesus, there's all different kinds of people. 151 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:29,800 It's easy for us to sort of put them all in one box and say, "Oh, they're all excited about Jesus," 152 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:36,800 but the reality is there are some who are so excited to see Jesus. 153 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,800 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road. 154 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,800 Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 155 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:50,800 And the crowds that went before him and then followed him were shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! 156 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,800 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" 157 00:44:54,800 --> 00:45:01,800 And you see this sort of overwhelming enthusiasm, unchecked enthusiasm. 158 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:06,800 And they're pulling their outer garments, their coats off, and they're throwing them on the road before Jesus. 159 00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:11,800 They're setting palm branches on the road. They're waving palm branches in joyous procession. 160 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,800 And you have to understand a little bit of what's happening here, 161 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,800 is they're saying that Jesus is so wonderful and so important and so glorious 162 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:25,800 that even the hooves of the animal that he rides should not be soiled by walking on this dirt road. 163 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,800 And so some of these people are taking the only outer garment, the only coat they have, 164 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:35,800 and they're throwing it on the ground for Jesus to ride on as he enters Jerusalem. 165 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:43,800 And they are absolutely joyous about it. 166 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,800 Then there are those who are curious. 167 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:52,800 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up saying, "Who is this?" 168 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:58,800 And the crowd said, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee." 169 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:04,800 And so you have people who may have heard of Jesus, 170 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,800 but they don't know maybe a lot about him. 171 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,800 We've experienced this, right? 172 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,800 The excitement and the wonder, and we hear something going on, and we say, "Hey, what's going on?" 173 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,800 So there's a group of people who are just absolutely unchecked in their excitement. 174 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:24,800 There's another group who are curious, and they don't know what's happening, but they would like to know. 175 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,800 And part of this, in John chapter 12, 176 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,800 we learn that the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb 177 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,800 and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 178 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,800 The reason why this crowd comes out of Jerusalem to meet him 179 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,800 was they had heard he had done this sign. 180 00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,800 And so there are people talking about Jesus, people asking about Jesus. 181 00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:50,800 Almost every conversation in Jerusalem this week will likely center 182 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,800 or refer to or at some point reference Jesus. 183 00:46:54,800 --> 00:47:00,800 But not everybody is curious or excited about Jesus. 184 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,800 There are some who are very openly opposed to Jesus. 185 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:09,800 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples." 186 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:14,800 And he answered, "I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out." 187 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,800 And you have to imagine that's the Pharisees' worst nightmare, right? 188 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,800 The crowd stopped singing, and the crowd stopped chanting, 189 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,800 and the rocks start singing, and the rocks start chanting. 190 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,800 That's the opposite of what they want to happen. 191 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,800 In John 12, so the Pharisees said to one another, 192 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:39,800 "You see that we are gaining, you are gaining nothing. Look, the whole world has gone out after him." 193 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:44,800 Their response to Jesus and their opposition is not necessarily rooted in unbelief. 194 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:49,800 John 12 tells us they knew Jesus raised Lazarus. They wanted to kill him anyway. 195 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:51,800 Kill him again! 196 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:56,800 Their response was that they are losing their influence. 197 00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:01,800 And as we look at those who are around Jesus today, 198 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,800 I think we see some of the same kinds of groups. 199 00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,800 There are people who are joyful and excited and willing to share about Jesus. 200 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:14,800 There are those with questions, and there are those who oppose not necessarily because of unbelief, 201 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:21,800 but because Jesus would require them to deeply change their life. 202 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:29,800 And in the midst of this, we see Jesus who is intentionally riding a donkey through this crowd. 203 00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:35,800 And what I want us to look at this morning is I want you to see King Jesus, 204 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:41,800 who comes not sneaking in in the middle of the night, but comes openly through the gates. 205 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:48,800 And He comes in the assurance of His identity as the Son of God, His love for the crowds, 206 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,800 not just for the joyful or the curious, but even for those who oppose Him. 207 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,800 He doesn't boast or threaten, kill, or curse. 208 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,800 But He comes to lay down His life, and He turns the tables 209 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:06,800 on our expectations, our priorities, our fears, and our brokenness. 210 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,800 And He comes to Jerusalem to save His people. 211 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:16,800 But He also comes very different, not just than how people have come to Jerusalem in the past, 212 00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,800 He comes very different from how the Romans would come to a city. 213 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,800 If the Romans were coming to besiege and attack, 214 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:28,800 the leader would ride on a mighty war horse to demonstrate His power. 215 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:34,800 If they were coming into a conquered city, He would ride in elegance in a chariot. 216 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,800 And here comes Jesus. 217 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,800 And look at what it says, and what it says to us. 218 00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:44,800 "Behold, your King is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, 219 00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:49,800 on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden." 220 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:55,800 And this morning, I want you to see that Jesus is the King who loves deeply. 221 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:59,800 If you think about what the attitude would be of someone 222 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,800 who is in the middle of a parade in their honor, 223 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,800 everyone is shouting, everyone is excited. 224 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:10,800 We might be, for example, happy or triumphant, 225 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,800 walking tall because we've just put those who have opposed us in our place. 226 00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:21,800 We've shown through our popularity that we are great, but I want you to see Jesus. 227 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:27,800 Because he has a very different response to all of this. 228 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:32,800 And when he drew near and saw, and so the picture of Jesus is coming down the Mount of Olives, 229 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:38,800 there's a place as you come down over the top where all of Jerusalem is spread out in front of you. 230 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:43,800 And people are singing, and people are in front and behind. 231 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,800 And Jesus, it says, "When he drew near and saw the city, 232 00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:52,800 he wept over it saying, 'Would that you, even you, had known on this day 233 00:50:52,800 --> 00:51:01,800 the things that made for peace, but now they are hidden from your eyes.'" 234 00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:09,800 And you have this picture of Jesus not just coming into Jerusalem, 235 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:14,800 but he looks at the city that his heart loves, and his heart melts. 236 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,800 And maybe you haven't thought about this very long or very much, 237 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:23,800 but Jesus, God in the flesh, cries. It's not just a tear. 238 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:30,800 The word here, the idea of weeping, is that Jesus' eyes are filled and overflowing with tears. 239 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:38,800 Here the Son of God, with all his power and glory, looks on this city of sinful men that are about to reject him, 240 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:44,800 and there's no thunder, there's no lightning, there's no earthquakes of destruction, 241 00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:49,800 and instead tears flow down the Savior's face. 242 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:57,800 He weeps for the city. He weeps because what he has come to bring they have not seen. 243 00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:06,800 And this king is not like many who are in power today, who love those who love them and elevate those who have elevated them. 244 00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:12,800 This king loves even his enemies, and he loves them deeply. 245 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:19,800 Matthew, with the excitement of all the circumstances, is telling us sort of all of these things at once. 246 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:24,800 And we learn from the other accounts in Matthew and Mark and John, or in Mark and Luke and John, 247 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:30,800 that Jesus, in between what happens next in Matthew, will go back to Bethany, spend the night, 248 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:36,800 and what we're about to look at in regards to our king happens on Monday morning. 249 00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:42,800 And I want you to know that our king, not only, but also he boldly and unmistakably confronts our sin. 250 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:50,800 And we may think, especially in the world in which we live in today, that how can the confrontation of sin be loving? 251 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:57,800 Shouldn't we support people doing what they choose to do? 252 00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,800 We have young kids. We have young dogs. 253 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:09,800 Both of those things oftentimes are focused on what they want to do without regard for their well-being. 254 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:16,800 So when the puppy says, "I want to run into the middle of the road, and I desire it with all my might," and I stop the puppy. 255 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:21,800 And he's whining and crying and wanting to go into the middle of the road with all his might. 256 00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:28,800 That's not an unkindness to confront that. It's a protection. 257 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:35,800 And the confrontation of sin is not meant to be mean. It's meant to protect you. It's meant to save you. 258 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:39,800 And it's not always easy because you and I are pretty hard-headed, right? 259 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:45,800 And sometimes the only way to be a little soft-headed is sort of have your heads crack together. 260 00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:52,800 And so what Jesus does in his love, as he boldly and unmistakably confronts our sins, 261 00:53:52,800 --> 00:54:00,800 is this drastic moment in Matthew chapter 21 beginning in verse 12. 262 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:06,800 "And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, 263 00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:11,800 and he overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of all who sold pigeons, 264 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:19,800 and he said to them, 'It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.'" 265 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:25,800 Temple complexes is so large, like 35 different acres, and there's different areas. 266 00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,800 This would have been the biggest area where people would have gathered. 267 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:35,800 Any visits to the temple would require a sacrifice, and so if you come with a sacrifice, maybe from nearby, 268 00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:40,800 you're bringing a pigeon to sacrifice, you would come into the temple, you would bring it to one of these vendors, 269 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:47,800 they would inspect it for ritual cleanliness, you would fail because your pigeon wasn't good enough, 270 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,800 you'd have to buy a, they'll be like, "Well, we'll give you a trade in on your old junky pigeon, 271 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:57,800 we'll give you a new pigeon that's been cleared by the priest for sacrifice, it's going to cost you." 272 00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:03,800 So you would exchange the pigeon that you had brought for a sacrifice for another pigeon, 273 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:08,800 and they would immediately sell your pigeon to the guy behind you at an inflated rate. 274 00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:13,800 This is not just a provision of sacrifices for those who need them. 275 00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:20,800 This is literally taking advantage of the poorest people, those who bring pigeons to offer and to worship. 276 00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:25,800 But also the money changers, right? Your Roman currency is no good here. 277 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,800 In order to come and to buy that pigeon that you now have to upgrade, 278 00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:34,800 what's going to have to happen is you're going to have to change in these Roman coins for temple coins, 279 00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:39,800 and, surprisingly, the exchange rate is never good, right? 280 00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,800 So you're getting ripped off from the moment you come to worship. 281 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,800 And so what does Jesus do? 282 00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,800 He comes in and He turns it all upside down. 283 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:55,800 And imagine the chaos and the noise as the pigeons are flapping, 284 00:55:55,800 --> 00:56:00,800 the animals are squawking, and the coins are falling all over the ground, right? 285 00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,800 Everybody hears coins drop, and all of a sudden we're all looking, 286 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,800 especially if it's all your coins from your little bank that you've been running on the side, 287 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,800 and you're trying to get all your money, and you're scrambling. 288 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,800 This is absolute chaos. 289 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:19,800 And in this, what Jesus is doing, two things: one of them showing them what their hearts are fixed on, 290 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:24,800 what they're willing to chase after, what they're willing to scramble for. 291 00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:33,800 And actually Mark will talk about how Jesus is actually teaching them with these words. 292 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:41,800 And He turns the tables on the moneylenders and the bird sellers, but He also does so for us. 293 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:46,800 He calls us in our hearts for those things we've been chasing and scrambling for, 294 00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,800 and He calls us to fix our eyes on Him. 295 00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:55,800 And so we come to a king who loves deeply, who corrects honestly, 296 00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:02,800 but He also boldly welcomes those who are often left outside to worship. 297 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,800 You may say, "Well, how do you see that in this text?" 298 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:10,800 We talked earlier about how the temple courts are sort of made up of a circuit of courts. 299 00:57:10,800 --> 00:57:16,800 They get ever more exclusionary the closer you get to the temple. 300 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:21,800 The particular court where Jesus is at during the cleansing of the court is the court of the Gentiles. 301 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:30,800 And if you were a Gentile, or a proselyte, or a God-fearing Gentile, this was as close as you could get to worshiping God. 302 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:38,800 In the midst of the chaos of selling pigeons, of changing money, this was about where you could get to. 303 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:44,800 But more than that, this part of the temple was a shortcut to get through town. 304 00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:50,800 Have you ever cut through the mall to get over to Lowe's? Right? It's our Winchester roundabout. 305 00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,800 Same kind of thing happens. People are like, "I gotta get to the other side of town, quickest way." 306 00:57:54,800 --> 00:58:00,800 Right through the middle of the court of the Gentiles, and in Mark chapter 11, it says this: 307 00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:05,800 "And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple." 308 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:07,800 You say, "Why?" 309 00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:19,800 So that those who normally would be worshipping in the chaos of the selling, and the buying, and the truck traffic going through the middle, 310 00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:27,800 would at least have a moment of peace and of quiet to worship. 311 00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:33,800 And what's interesting is that Jesus, when He quotes, and while He teaches, 312 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:41,800 He quotes from Isaiah 56:7, He says, "These I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer." 313 00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:48,800 And Jesus will critique the religious leaders by saying, "You have made my house, instead of being a house of prayer, a house of robbers." 314 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:53,800 Now, Jesus doesn't quote this part, but it would have been on the Pharisees' mind. 315 00:58:53,800 --> 00:59:01,800 For my house shall be called a house of prayer for what? All peoples. 316 00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,800 There's another exclusion that Jesus turns upside down. 317 00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:11,800 It's not just those who are on the outside, looking in, seeking to know the God of Israel. 318 00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,800 The temple has courts that come a little closer. 319 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:19,800 But if you are blind, and if you are lame, 320 00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:24,800 you are allowed to go just a little farther, but not any more than that. 321 00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:29,800 And what's interesting is Jesus doesn't just welcome the outsider. 322 00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,800 I want you to see what he does in Matthew 21:24. 323 00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,800 It's a verse we maybe don't think about in the cleansing of the temple. 324 00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:44,800 "And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them." 325 00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,800 So you can't see, you can't walk, you're excluded from worship. 326 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:54,800 In part, from a misinterpretation of what David says in 2 Samuel 5, 327 00:59:54,800 --> 01:00:01,800 in part from a tightening of the restrictions that were meant for priests only in Leviticus. 328 01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:06,800 And so there are those who are blind and who are lame, who aren't able to come near to the house of God. 329 01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:10,800 And so what does Jesus do in the middle of all this chaos? He heals all the blind people. 330 01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:16,800 He heals all the lame. And they are able to go in and worship God. 331 01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:23,800 Those who were excluded are welcomed in. And that's the beauty of the Gospel. 332 01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:30,800 That we who are excluded because of our brokenness and sin, who are set and limited on where we could go, 333 01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,800 through Jesus can come close. 334 01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:40,800 Remember when we talked about David and his insults to the Jebusites and their insults to him? 335 01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,800 And then everybody takes this seriously, misinterpreting David, beginning to say this. 336 01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:48,800 Do you know that Jesus only does two types of miracles in Jerusalem? 337 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:52,800 He does two individual miracles that are recorded in these miracles here. 338 01:00:52,800 --> 01:01:00,800 The only two types of miracles that Jesus does in Jerusalem is he heals the blind and he heals the lame. 339 01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:08,800 The very people that through a misinterpretation of both Scripture and the words of David who had been sidelined, 340 01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:14,800 Jesus comes in and the only recorded miracles he does is the healing of the blind and the healing of the lame. 341 01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:20,800 You see, Jesus is making a statement about how he can turn brokenness upside down, 342 01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:29,800 how he can turn the tables in our life. And what we see is that Jesus welcomes the small and the seemingly unimportant, 343 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:37,800 and I say seemingly because we're talking about two different perspectives. One from our perspective and one from God's perspective, 344 01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:42,800 and he isn't just welcoming, he's correcting. Listen to what happens in Matthew chapter 21. 345 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:48,800 "When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, 346 01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:56,800 Hosanna to the son of David." And they were indignant, and they were saying to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" 347 01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:05,800 And Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you ever read out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise?" 348 01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:12,800 And so these people are mad. And they're mad about a lot of stuff. They're mad that Jesus has cleansed the temple. 349 01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:20,800 They're mad that he has healed the blind and the lame. But what really seems to push them over the edge is a group of kids. 350 01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:27,800 And if you've been around kids, you know exactly what's happened. They saw, the day before, this parade in Jerusalem with palm branches 351 01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:35,800 crying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" And so what do these kids do when they see Jesus? And they pick up all the leftover palm branches, 352 01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:42,800 and they're following him around in the midst of all of this chaos, in the temple, saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" 353 01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:52,800 acting out what they had just seen happen the day before. And this is what sends the religious leaders over the edge. 354 01:02:52,800 --> 01:03:01,800 Maybe they're even doing this as Jesus cleanses the temple. But I love this picture of Jesus surrounded by literally a mob of children 355 01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:10,800 just shouting His praises. And Jesus, He's not bothered by it. He loves it. He sees it as a fulfillment of Scripture. 356 01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:21,800 And here comes the religious leaders. They say, "Make those kids be quiet." And Jesus responds with the 8th Psalm, but He's not nice about it. 357 01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:30,800 Listen to what He says, "Have you ever read?" So you guys are the religious leaders. You're the Bible scholars, the Bible teachers. 358 01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:44,800 Have you ever read the book you purport to preach? And then He quotes in the book of Psalms, "Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise." 359 01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:55,800 And what Jesus is doing is He's rearranging our standards by welcoming the small and those that everybody else around Him views as an annoyance or as unimportant. 360 01:03:55,800 --> 01:04:02,800 Jesus says, "They are mine and they are proclaiming the goodness of God." 361 01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:13,800 So I want to direct you this morning to King Jesus. We've walked through a lot of events, but more than anything, I want you to see your King. 362 01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:20,800 Who doesn't come to conquer, but He comes to save. He comes to transform your heart, to heal your brokenness. 363 01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:29,800 And He delights in the praise of the small and the lowly. The King who confronts the emptiness of all those things you've been scrambling after. 364 01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:41,800 And He calls you to quiet worship. I want you to see the King who turns everything around, even the thousand years of history, by healing. 365 01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:49,800 That is our King. And He is the one that we must proclaim, not just with our words, but with our lives. 366 01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:55,800 The triumphant entry of Jesus saves, it confronts, it loves, cares, shows us how we live. 367 01:04:55,800 --> 01:05:04,800 And we are called not just to say this with our words, but as Christians we are called to live this with our lives. 368 01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:14,800 And it's convicting because we, like the people who heard David's original words in 2 Samuel, we can be hard-hearted. 369 01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:19,800 And so Jesus comes to soften our hearts. 370 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:23,800 This triumphant entry points us to another triumphant entry. 371 01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:27,800 There's another day, not like David's day a thousand years before, 372 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:34,800 not even like this day where Jesus comes as a donkey, on a donkey. 373 01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:41,800 But a day of Revelation says, "And I saw the heaven opened, and behold a white horse, 374 01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:47,800 the one sitting upon it called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war." 375 01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:57,800 And in verse 16, "On his robe and on his thigh he has the name written: King of Kings and Lord of Lords." 376 01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:08,800 The King who has come in love, and he comes to correct us in the midst of all of our scrambling in life, 377 01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:15,800 the one who comes to quiet for worship, to bring in the outsider, to heal the broken, 378 01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:20,800 the one who desires and delights in the praise of the little. 379 01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:28,800 One day he's coming back, and he's coming back as a king to both rescue his people, 380 01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:35,800 but also to judge those who have rejected him. Let us pray. 381 01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:43,800 Father in heaven, help us to examine our hearts. 382 01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:49,800 It's easy to become callous. It's easy to become stuck in our own opinions and our own ideas. 383 01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:54,800 It's easy to take things and to miss the heart of what is happening, 384 01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:59,800 and help us, as we see Jesus our King, to not be like that. 385 01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:07,800 May our hearts be softened for this world that is in need of the Prince of Peace. 386 01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:14,800 Help us to be willing to stand for what's right, calling for correction, not in anger, but in love. 387 01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:19,800 Teaching, even if sometimes it requires flipping some tables. 388 01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:28,800 Help us to seek to bring those to your kingdom that are often overlooked and seen as too small. 389 01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:34,800 Help us to see our King Jesus and to follow Him. In His name we pray. Amen. 390 01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:39,800 We're going to stand and sing and look forward to that day when Jesus returns. 391 01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,800 So, if you would stand with me. 392 01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:12,800 I believe in Christ, risen from the dead. He now reigns victorious. His kingdom knows no end. 393 01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:26,800 Through this resurrection, death has lost its hope. I know on that final day I'll rise as Jesus rose. 394 01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:54,800 On that day, we will see you shining brighter than the sun. On that day, we will know you as we lift our voices one. Till that day, we will praise you for your never-ending grace. And we will keep on singing on that glorious day. 395 01:08:54,800 --> 01:09:22,800 What a blessed hope, though now tired and warm. We will spend eternity around our sayiest thorns. Though we grieve our losses, we grieve not in vain. For we know our crown of glory and glory. 396 01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:50,800 We are beyond the grave. On that day, we will see you shining brighter than the sun. On that day, we will know you as we lift our voices one. Till that day, we will praise you for your never-ending grace. And we will keep on singing on the chorus. 397 01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:54,800 On that glorious day. 398 01:09:54,800 --> 01:10:18,800 Hallelujah, what a day it will be. For at home with you, my joy is going to be. 399 01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:46,800 As I roll you to your arms open wide, I will see. My Father who is waiting for me. Hallelujah, what a day it will be. For at home with you, my joy is going to be. 400 01:10:46,800 --> 01:11:14,800 As I roll you to your arms open wide, I will see. My Father who is waiting for me. My Father who is waiting for me. On that day, you shining brighter than the sun. 401 01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:42,800 On that day, we will know you as we lift our voices one. Till that day, we will praise you for your never-ending grace. And we will keep on singing on that glorious day. On that day, we will see you shining brighter than the sun. 402 01:11:42,800 --> 01:12:10,800 On that day, we will know you as we lift our voices one. Till that day, we will praise you for your never-ending grace. And we will keep on singing on that glorious day. And we will keep on singing on that glorious day. 403 01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:12,800 Let's pray. 404 01:12:40,800 --> 01:13:10,780 Let's pray. 405 01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:40,780 Let's pray. 406 01:14:40,800 --> 01:15:09,320 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him, above ye heavenly hosts. 407 01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:14,960 Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 408 01:15:39,320 --> 01:16:09,300 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 409 01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:39,300 Father, Son, Holy Ghost. 410 01:16:39,320 --> 01:17:09,300 Jesus said, "Follow me." Let's pray. 411 01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:17,320 Jesus said, "Follow me." Let's pray. 412 01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:22,300 Jesus said, "Follow me." Let's pray.