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Speaker 1: You're listening to kfi Am six forty on demand. It

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Speaker 1: is Palm Sunday. And for those of you who don't

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Speaker 1: know that, Palm Sunday is the mark of my entrance

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Speaker 1: into Jerusalem and essentially starts the last week of my life.

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Speaker 1: And this is an interesting day. And I titled this

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Speaker 1: as Expectation is the mother of disappointment. And it's interesting

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Speaker 1: that you see that interwoven in life every day. And

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Speaker 1: that might sound confusing when Palm Sunday wasn't everybody was excited.

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Speaker 1: Weren't they excited that you were arriving? Absolutely so where

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Speaker 1: was the false expectation? Well, think of it this way.

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Speaker 1: Today would be the you know, the mark of my

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Speaker 1: entrance into Jerusalem, the beginning of the last week of

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Speaker 1: attitudes of those that were there and witnessed this were

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Speaker 1: such that the animal in which I wrote in on

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Speaker 1: they didn't even want the bottoms of his hoofs to

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Speaker 1: touch the ground. They laid the palm fronds down. That's

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Speaker 1: where you get Palm Sunday. And this was an act

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Speaker 1: of triumph in their eyes. It's often called the triumphal entry.

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Speaker 1: So it starts with deep faith in conviction Luke nineteen

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Speaker 1: thirty eight. You hear the hosannas and the King who

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Speaker 1: and cried out by the people that were in audience

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Speaker 1: of this. They recognized I was the chosen One, the Messiah,

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Speaker 1: And they stood on the beauty and intensity of that

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Speaker 1: was the entrance of the Messiah. But this changes, obviously

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Speaker 1: one week later, I'm on a cross. One week later,

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Speaker 1: the chance of joy and praise turned to chance of execution.

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Speaker 1: What causes this It's expectation. It's false expectation. You do

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Speaker 1: this all the time with God, and partly your view

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Speaker 1: and where you're standing is right, but your timing or

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Speaker 1: the fulfillment, the way God's going to fulfill that request

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Speaker 1: or that idea or that belief becomes different, and then

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Speaker 1: all your faith goes out the door. False expectation changed

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Speaker 1: that praise and worship in the chance of anger and disappointment.

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Speaker 1: One week later, and that was crucified. So what were

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Speaker 1: those expectations. Well, it was believed that I would enter

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Speaker 1: Jerusalem in power, into authority, that I would take my

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Speaker 1: throne and free Israel from Rome. The common belief was

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Speaker 1: almost one of military. The common belief is that the Messiah,

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Speaker 1: the chosen One, the anointed One, would rise up from

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Speaker 1: power of the day. It wasn't even about God in that.

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Speaker 1: In that sense it was it was more about the individuals.

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Speaker 1: Is more about you, you standing there and waiting for

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Speaker 1: God to do what you want God to do, rather

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Speaker 1: than what God must do. See, that was the plan

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Speaker 1: in the eyes of man, not in the eyes of God.

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Speaker 1: My throne would be taken, But not when I overthrowed

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Speaker 1: a government, a power, a principality on earth. My throne

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Speaker 1: would be taken when I suffered, died, and resurrected, conquering

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Speaker 1: the power of Sin, not just the power of Rome.

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Speaker 1: And this is seen and understood later after the fact

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Speaker 1: Acts two twenty x two thirty two through thirty three.

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Speaker 1: This Jesus God raised up, and of that we are

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Speaker 1: all witness. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God,

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Speaker 1: understood God's plan, but many were left scattered about because

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Speaker 1: they had their own vision of what God should be doing.

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Speaker 1: And you're probably in that same place today. That expectation

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Speaker 1: ends up bringing disappointment. You sit and you wait for

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Speaker 1: based on your wishes. The key here is to get

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Speaker 1: these expectations in everyday life, every part of your life,

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Speaker 1: what you thought. It's not what you expected. And the

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Speaker 1: righteous plan, that is the plan, that is God's plan.

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Speaker 1: Palm Sunday, the marking of my entrance into Jerusalem, what

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Speaker 1: and conviction. Luke nineteen thirty eight shows that people called out,

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Speaker 1: they cried out that I was the king who comes

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Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord. So it's not that

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Speaker 1: they have it completely wrong, but they were missing, They

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Speaker 1: were missing the most important part. They were missing the

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Speaker 1: going to do, and not understanding that missing that was

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Speaker 1: due to expectation. The expectations were set incorrectly. How often

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Speaker 1: does this happen to you, that an expectation exkews you

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Speaker 1: many problems and relationships as well, and that's absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: the lay people that were there. I pointed it out

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Speaker 1: It's not just left up to the people. So I

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Speaker 1: say these things today that you understandout expectations and how

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Speaker 1: God wants to remove a plethora of problems or concerns,

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Speaker 1: God has a bigger plan. And your relationships as well.

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Speaker 1: You're focused on this little thing, and that expectation ends

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Speaker 1: Palm Sunday marking my entrance into Jerusalem and the last

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Speaker 1: And I want you to take that away with you

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Speaker 1: whether it be at work, in relationships with your faith.

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Speaker 1: How many times have you heard people that are praising

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Speaker 1: are some expectations that are written in stone, and still

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Speaker 1: that this would happen later on. In Luke nineteen forty

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Speaker 1: I said, if you had known in this day, even

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Speaker 1: have been hidden from your eyes. I'm telling them if

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Speaker 1: this desire for, made it to conquer Rome. See, that

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Speaker 1: who I wasn't. In Luke nineteen thirty eight, the crowds

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Speaker 1: the crowd said to me, teacher, rebuke your disciples. Why

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Speaker 1: wanted me to rebuke those that said, Hosannah, blessed is

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Speaker 1: They didn't see me as the Messiah, and almost everyone

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Speaker 1: having a soul mate, although beautiful and whimsical and sounds

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jesus, I would appreciate your comments on a question

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Speaker 3: Of false messiahs, and in fact, probably went out of

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, a lot of people misunderstand

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Speaker 1: And they had every ability to do that, and those

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